Hello Mohamed, I am also pretty much a beginner with the mac, even after owning mine for 5 months.
Here are a couple of things I've learned which may be of some help: First off, when in finder you can view the contents of your computer with Command-Shift-C. View applications with control-shift-A. View documents with Control-Shift-o. View home with Control-Shift-H. This is all available from the go menu in finder. To expand a folder you'd press Command-down arrow. To collapse a folder press Command-up arrow. I just now realized you can also expand and collapse folders with the right and left arrow keys as you did in Windows, and prefer this method. Once you find a file you wish to open, use command o to open it. Here is how you can use folder naviagation commands to find your ring tones folder for iTunes: 1. Press Command-Shift-C for computer. 2. Down arrow till you hear "users" and press right arrow. 3. Download to your computer user name, and expand with right arrow. I am not sure how your specific folder name will display in this step, but for me it is my first and last name. 4. Down arrow to "music" and again expand this folder. 5. Now down to your specific iTunes "library name" folder and expand. I named mine Antonio's Library, so this is the folder name for me. 6. Down arrow to iTunes media, then expand the folder. 7. Download and expand the "ring tones" folder. It is necessary to expand the folder to reveal the files contained here. Pressing tab to view files will not work as it does in windows. The folder may be empty if you have no added ring tones since purchasing your phone. If you have ring tone-ready files, you would paste them into this folder we just navigated to. Creating ring tones is another animal altogether, but just know that ring tones should be in the correct format, .m4r. It will be handy to know you can bring up a context menu of sorts when you press Control-Option-Shift-m. This works well when you want to know what you can do with a file, skype contact, and so on. I hope this is helpful and accurate coming from a newbe. Antonio Guimaraes On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Mohammed Al-shara wrote: > Hi Colin! > > thanks alot for your answers, that's exactly what I was looking for. about > the applications, I successfully browsed them, but is there another place > that shows my applications? asking because I didn't see things like the > terminal in there. also, how do I browse my disks and there contents? > something like my computer in windows? I also heard that there were other > utilities like a partition utility, didn't see it. > > and finally for now, is there something like a context menu in the mac? if > not, how do you operate on a file, like open it / zip it / see its > properties, etc, etc? > > thanks again for the very complete answer that you sent already. > > best, > Mohammed Al-shara. > > On 2/8/2011 6:11 PM, Colin M wrote: >> Hi Mohammed! >> A quick way to open applications is to use the command [command+shift+a ] >> That will put you in the app's! >> For the navigation of web you can turn quick nav on by pressing the left and >> right arrows down at the same time [vo will say either quick nav on or off] >> Other methods include opening the web rota with the command [vo+u ] and in >> there you can move from left to right or right to left through headings, >> links, visited links,form controls, frames and others! >> Then when your on something you want like headers you can down arrow to get >> to what you want! >> Or if you know what your heading your looking for just type the first few >> letters and the list of headers will narrow down! >> Or links or form controls which ever your on! >> So you get to your header in the list just press vo+space and it will put >> you right there! >> And if it is a link you want to open just vo+space again! >> You can also open Item chooser with the command [ vo+i ] and down arrow >> through items there as well that option will or should also show you things >> like the close button and other stuff! >> So I hope this is of some help to you! >> Colin >> Qapla! >> >> Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak >> >> On 8 Feb 2011, at 15:02, Mohammed Al-shara wrote: >> >>> hi group. >>> >>> first, I am a new user of mac, and I have recently joined the list. I do >>> own an iphone from some time, so I am familiar with voiceover with IOS. I >>> have few questions: >>> >>> 1. how do I browse webpages with the errow keys? I set navigation to DOM, >>> then I use vo+right errow key to move through the page bit by bit, like I >>> would use the errow keys alone with windows screen readers. I appreciate >>> that the mac works differently, however, I think there exists an easier way >>> that I am not aware of. >>> >>> 2, how do I open my applications menu? if I go to the doc and then navigate >>> to applications, then press that using vo+space, nothing happens and vo >>> doesn't read my applications. a sighted friend confirmed that the >>> application list does open. >>> >>> 3. what resources exist about voiceover for the mac apart from the >>> excellent getting started guide on apple website, and the builtin help, >>> this group, and perhaps bits here and there from macaccessibilities? is >>> there something like www.applevis.com but this time for the mac? >>> >>> thanks alot. >>> >>> Mohammed Al-shara. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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