I don't usually do it this way. But both kindle drm removal, and zamzar allow
for multiple files at one time.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Thanks, Jamie, this sounds promising.
> Cheers,
> Donna
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Jamie Tachiyama wrote:
>
Just thought I'd also mention that, if you are on the last item in your
mailbox, shift control option command and down arrow will take you back up to
the top item. Obviously the reverse works too.
I know some people find it tricky holding that big a key combination down, but,
if you can manage
Hi Annie,
Thanks, you've obviously spent a lot of time on this. Would you mind telling
me how you do this in Windows? You can write me off-list at doniado...@me.com.
Cheers,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen
wrote:
> Hi Donna.
>
> You can use the converter function. If yo
Thanks, Jamie, this sounds promising.
Cheers,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Jamie Tachiyama wrote:
> It is available for both. Do a search for kindle drm removal.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
>
>> I've never heard of this program from epup
Hi Mary,
Yeah, I know what you mean about the Kindle selection. But I think I'll hold
out for an option that doesn't involve sighted help. Both my husband and I are
feeling sort of overwhelmed these days, so I kind of hate to put that on him
right about now. :)
Cheers,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, a
Hi.
I'm in the UK. I know that you are from Denmark Annie, and I think you are one
hour ahead, as Denmark is the EU.
Kawal.
On 5 Mar 2013, at 12:24 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> What we could do is to make a skype conference sunday evening, maybe late
> evening here, when it wil
It is available for both. Do a search for kindle drm removal.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 4, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
> I've never heard of this program from epup soft. Is it a Mac or a pc program?
>
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Otten
> motte...@gmail.com
>
>
> --
> You received this
I wasn't saying there is. I was saying I don't see anything wrong with
someone putting a suggestion in for an additional customization
setting to control this, but differentiating that from putting it out
there as a huge issue that just completely violates privacy instead of
looking it as manageabl
I've never heard of this program from epup soft. Is it a Mac or a pc program?
Mary
Mary Otten
motte...@gmail.com
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If you have sighted help or don't mind the command line stuff, then it is worth
it. There are so many things out there that you can't get except on Kindle,
unless you want to scan them yourself. You can convert a whole mess of books at
once with the gui interface. I just wish it were vo friendly
Hi Andrew and Lisette,
Lisette is correct: there is an accessibility problem with the latest version
of the Kobo app used on the iPad that is not present when it is used on the
iPhone or iPod Touch. There is a button in the top left corner of the screen
that VoiceOver is not announcing/recogni
Hello,
no. There is no customizable setting to prevent this.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:45 PM, "Moses Choo" wrote:
> Dear all,
> While you are all on the topic of the caller ID anouncement, I have yet
> someth
Oh cool, will have a look at those, how easy do you think those would be to
configure with each emulator, considering the fact that the button layouts
would be slightly different, and some of the games would have more functions,
causing them to have more of them to press?
Sounds like that coul
I agree and although I don't think there is generally anything wrong
with possible customizing options and settings, I think it is a bit
much to put this forth as some huge issue of any sort. There are
absolutely options to us the controls available to eliminate this
speaking if it is such a concer
Hi.
What we could do is to make a skype conference sunday evening, maybe late
evening here, when it will work for you I think. I am from Denmark, I do not
know where you are from.
Christine you are wellcome too.
We could be a few more people on a conference if someone would like it.
I will w
Hi Donna.
You can use the converter function. If you have removed the DRM, you can
convert. My problem is, that I can not figure out how to do a folder of books,
so I am using windows for that, because I have found out how to do it there,
but I wish I could find the correct command for it on th
Hey guys,
I never thought that my question would invoke such a discussion. Thanks for
all of the help and for the suggestions re: keyboard commander. I just got
this macbook and really enjoy it as I'm kinda used to commands that I used on
my mac mini, but there are still some things that I'm
I use kindle drm removal from ePub soft to remove drm. I then use
www.zamzar.com for the conversion.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 4, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi Annie,
>
> That's kind of my take on DRM as well. And I would never share a book that I
> had removed the DRM from
Hi Annie,
That's kind of my take on DRM as well. And I would never share a book that I
had removed the DRM from with others.
So how do you convert books in Caliber without the command line?
Cheers,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> You can convert without
Hmm, sounds like Caliber is more trouble than it's worth. Thanks for telling
me this.
Take care,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
> There are plug ins that will allow caliber to strip drm and then convert the
> books. I have several kindle books in iBooks on my iPad that we
Hello Ricardo,
I must have done something like that. But, whatever I did, it's working now.
Thanks for the response.
Take care,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Good morning Donna,
>
> Your not interacting with the messages table it sounds like.
>
> Ricardo Walker
Dear all,
While you are all on the topic of the caller ID anouncement, I have yet
something more irritating. Not only does the phone anounce when it rings,
even during the conversation it will also anounce the caller or his number.
Besides muting the speech while we are on the line, is there somet
Some forums like this one:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18302459#18302459#18302459
suggest you can actually bluetooth pair a Sony Dualshock 3 wireless game
controller to a Mac. This article lists a number of gamepads that are
compatible with the Mac:
http://www.macgamepads.com/gamep
I do remember however, I did try and assign commands, but the time allowed to
do that was very short and I could not get it to work. Anne, would you
consider a Skype conversation sometime over the weekend if you can make that?
Just that I work full time during the week and when I get home, it
I WAS ACTUALLY WONDERING THE SAME THING AND WAS ABOUT TO POST THE QUESTION. CAN
YOU HELP US BOTH?
KRISTEEN
On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> Thank you very much. I will have a look. In the meantime, take care and get
> well soon.
>
> Kawal.
> On 4 Mar 2013, at 19:19, Ann
Thank you very much. I will have a look. In the meantime, take care and get
well soon.
Kawal.
On 4 Mar 2013, at 19:19, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote:
> Hi Kawal.
>
> I will need to look more into this problem, but I am not feeling well today.
>
> You can change some of the commands under braille
I played around with this a bit and was able to import some generic midi
I found on a random web site just fine. Main problem I had was
re-orchestrating the tracks so the drums were no being played with a
piano etc. That's been the bane of MIDI for a long time.
CB
On 3/1/13 7:40 AM, Annie Sko
Generally Voiceover, like NVDA on Windows or Linux, takes a stricter
approach to reading HTML in that it does not attempt to repair things.
Jaws does try to fix things up but by doing so can guess wrong and/or
obscure faults in the page, leading web developers to a false sense of
security and e
As I had mentioned in previous discussion about flash there are a couple
hurdles, one being the accessibility API being supported by Flash. Adobe
does not support the Apple accessibility API so it is not likely that
Chrome/Chromevox will make this any better. At least I'd be surprised if
Chrome
I don't have garageband connected to my keyboard (yet) so I don't know
how all that works, but you can change the tempo and time signature.
With your project open you'll navigate past a couple major areas like
'layout area' and 'track info group' and eventually you'll go past the
pause/play co
Seriously?
I don't think most sighted people that you come in contact with can even
understand voiceover nor do they even care who is calling you. Again, at
least we have the ability to have caller ID unlike when cell phones first
came out. What if you have a home phone line & a talking caller
Never used a Genesis emulator but found docs on this one:
http://dgen.sourceforge.net
which says the files should just be raw binary or they can be
compressed. Maybe your emulator is different or the files are corrupt.
I've never used torrent so who knows if the files are good.
CB
On 3/4/13
I found this page which would appear to address many of the problems some
people report having with their macs. There is a table of contents at the
top which takes one to the relevant part of the page. Several utilities
are suggested and but for one they are free. I have no idea how speech
Hi folks,
I'm stumped with learning how to start using Garageband. Are there any good
tutorials or podcasts available to help us learn the basics with the latest
version?
Thanks for being patient with me,
john
Not of this world,
I am born of The forty-second generation
A new, powerful race,
You have to first select the, Add, button from the table. Then, you will
be presented with an edit box for the keyboard command. So, for example, you
can use the number 1. Then, VO right to the popup menu and VO space on that.
Next, navigate down to, Navigation,and then go right. You will
I tried to write a commander for it, but how do I locate the item I want to put
the new key combination too?
On 2013-03-04, at 4:14 AM, "Kliphton" wrote:
> You have to inter act with the table of messages first. Then go to
> beginning, and you should get the result you are looking for.
>
> ---
Hi Kawal.
I will need to look more into this problem, but I am not feeling well today.
You can change some of the commands under braille in VOiceOver. Try playing
with it, and I will help you later this week.
Best regards Annie.
On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> Hello All.
There are plug ins that will allow caliber to strip drm and then convert the
books. I have several kindle books in iBooks on my iPad that were converted
using caliber then put into iTunes and from there onto the iPad in iBooks.
However, it required sighted spouse to do the Caliber work, as the g
I've come across 1 or 2 situations where option was required for hot keys but
going into VO utilities and changing to left or right option only takes a few
seconds so I leave commander set on both as well.
Danny.
Sent from my iPhone
On 05/03/2013, at 1:48 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi Andrew,
I've not had as much success with the iPad version of the Kobo app. I can't
seem to get past the log in screne, so I've sort of given up for now. It could
just be me, but I find the iPhone version easier to use.
Lisette
On 4/03/2013, at 9:26 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote:
> Dear Lisett
I downloaded them as a torrent file, so have no idea.
On Mar 4, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> I thought most emulators wanted their files in zip format. So maybe Safari
> already uncompressed these for you and now the emulator won't touch them.
>
> CB
>
> On 3/3/13 8:49 PM, Jessica M
I'm not sure if anyone on here plays this, or if this would be off topic for
this list, but I've managed to get to the rose1 garden of this game, and can't
get any further. I've tried replaying about every level I can think of to get
my curious carrots raised, and can't seem to be able to do it
I thought most emulators wanted their files in zip format. So maybe
Safari already uncompressed these for you and now the emulator won't
touch them.
CB
On 3/3/13 8:49 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
I have one, and had it open at the same time, so thought they would load when I
opened the roms thems
Wouldn't Do not Disturb turn everything else off accept for when someone was
calling? Or you could flip up the Mute switch.
Kawal.
On 4 Mar 2013, at 02:36 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if your in a important meeting, wouldn't you want everything off? Not just
> called ID announcement?
Lol,
I totally agree. $20 to have access to every single regular season, and post
season game? That's a steal in my book. Thats a night out a the movies, or, a
few drinks at Starbucks. Not to mention, you can listen on all Android and IOS
devices, including your computer? I don't know, I t
Good morning Donna,
Your not interacting with the messages table it sounds like.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> When I use Go to Beginning, I am taken to the ToolBar. When I use Go to
Hello,
Although I don't find the option to turn off the announcement of caller ID of
high priority, I do realize that some might. Sure, having caller ID announced
is good, but I don't look at it like Apple has done us a great favor by adding
it, and those who think it can be implemented better
Hi,
I would just like to add to this, unless you are using certain special
character symbols that require the option key, I prefer to set the option key
to both. It lends itself to easier combinations. For example, the right
option key is great, if you combine it with keys on the left side of
Hi,
if your in a important meeting, wouldn't you want everything off? Not just
called ID announcement?
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Mar 3, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> I like Caller ID, I.E. someone being announced
Hi,
How exactly do you think you are being constructive here?
On the same register as your message, don't you think sighted people would have
an issue if their caller ID were flashed on a billboard for everyone to see
every time they get a call?
It goes without saying that it is great we have
Hi.
You can convert without installing the command line. But I have some troubles
with it. I can not figure out how to convert a folder of books.
I am only removing DRM because of accessibility, I do not like to do it, but on
the other hand should I when scan the books, use a lot of time, and n
I use the numPad commander. Three goes to the beginning and decimal goes to the
end. This way only one key executes the command. Also, the three is just above
the decimal key so it makes sense to me three goes to the top decimal to the
bottom.
Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please
Hi Gina,
This is really helpful, thanks. We agree about removing DRM, I think, I have
no qualms about doing that for my own personal use, but also think that if you
don't have to, that would be ideal.
Sounds like the easiest option will be to work with some of the other tools
people have ment
Hello Donna,
I'm affraid I haven't had the sighted support to get the command line
tools installed. The graphical interface is inaccessible. To install the
command line tools requires opening the advanced preferences of the
program. I believe that I'll be able to convert ebooks into different
Hey everyone, this is a follow-up to the other day when I recorded a podcast
explaining to individuals Empowering The Blind, how to jailbreak your iOS
device. I have a jailbroken iOS device, and one of the things I wanted to do is
quickly received the information related to either my notificatio
thanks, Kliphton. This time it did exactly what it was supposed to, I must
have missed a step somewhere last night.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Donna
On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Kliphton wrote:
> You have to inter act with the table of messages first. Then go to
> beginning, and you should get the
You have to inter act with the table of messages first. Then go to
beginning, and you should get the result you are looking for.
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 5:26 AM
Couldn't agree more. To get to listen to any game you want is such great fun.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding
Sent from my Mac Book Pro
richr...@gmail.com
On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:54 AM, "Sean Paul" wrote:
> I personally think 20 bucks for 8 months o
Hi all,
I haven't followed this thread closely, so my apologies in advance if I'm
covering old ground.
What is the current status with Caliber? I've seen posts where people were
having trouble using it. Is it a good accessible resource for converting files
to ebooks? What will it do and not
I personally think 20 bucks for 8 months of intertainment is a steal of a deal.
Most folks pay 5 times that a month for just their cable alone not to mention
any movies they rent, shows they stream, etc...
- Original Message -
From: erik burggraaf
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.
I've talked to MLB about this issue last week. Here's the answer I got. If
you buy or bought from your computer, that's where you get it. If you buy or
bought from your mobile device, you get it on both. This is the way it is &
will not be changed as best I was told. So, for me, I was able to ca
Thanks, John.
Best,
Donna
On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:42 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> They usually come as attachments. You need to navigate to the attachment
> and VO-shift-m for the shortcut menu. From there, you can open it and it
> will open your Calendar app. You can choose to accept or declin
thanks, yeah, Go to Beginning is the one that takes me to the Toolbar. Are you
running Mountain Lion?
Best,
Donna
On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Kliphton wrote:
> My fault, it's go to beginning, and go to end respectively.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [
When I use Go to Beginning, I am taken to the ToolBar. When I use Go to Top of
Window, I'm taken to the Close button. any thoughts what I might be doing
wrong?
thanks,
Donna
On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Kliphton wrote:
> I am using 1 with the option key to go to top, and 2 to go to the end.
>
So, would you complain if it wasn't spoken at all? I'd bet you would. Isn't
it a good thing that we get caller ID at all? I mean? Seriously?
- Original Message -
From: "Ricardo Walker"
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 15:54
Subject: Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important pr
Dear Lisette and Esther,
Thank you very much for the explanations and tips regarding reading drm
protected ebooks on the mac and idevices. Do you know whether I can use the
kobo app with my iPad 2?
Also, I've been having lots of crashes of Voiceover in adobe digital edition
when trying to inte
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