Re: NAS questions

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't know about the NAS part but weird noises isn't always a for sure indicator. My old Mac tower has three hard drives in it and they have made all kinds of weird noises but they keep on going. Depending on your enclosure, it could just be the fan. For internal drives you can check the SMAR

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Are you talking about the weather widget when you hit F12? If so, mine gives a 6-day forecast in a group. When I interact with that I can step though each of the days to get the basic high/low partly cloudy type stuff. CB On 4/3/15 11:21 AM, ted phillips wrote: Hi all. I am wondering if ther

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
and how to set it up so I can read it. Thanks On Apr 3, 2015, at 11:55 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Are you talking about the weather widget when you hit F12? If so, mine gives a 6-day forecast in a group. When I interact with that I can step though each of the d

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
nted to be sure that people don't get themselves confused if they try bringing up the dashboard like Chris said with F12, and nothing happens. Chris. - Original Message - From: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" To: Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 1:55 PM Subject:

Re: Bying a new mac.

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I know the older minis required a video connection or the machine would bog down. I suspected it was some hardware issue in which the video subsystem was trying to detect the resolution of the attached device. The workaround at the time was various VGA dongle tricks that made the mini think the

Re: how to message someone offsets here not by asking his/her email address here?

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think they meant they were trying to recall the actual keys from memory and didn't check them. Gena was close but the key combo is actually command option U to Show Page Source which is also available under the Develop menu in Safari. If you don't have the Develop menu I'm not sure if the key

Re: chargers?

2015-04-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Generally all Apple's chargers are will take pretty much any voltage or frequency you'll find in the developed world. The main thing you'll need is an adapter to get the plugs to physically connect. Spain is on the 230v 50hz standard. So if you have one of those adapters you should be all set.

Re: Bying a new mac.

2015-04-07 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I suspect it's the CompuLab Display Emulator which is US$15 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulator/dp/B00FLZXGJ6/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428442208&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=hdmi+headless+devices I haven't tried this myself so I don't know if it makes a Mini hap

Re: Need app to shrink DVD's

2015-04-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Do you already have the video files off the DVD onto your computer? If so it seems like the free handbrake video encoder should be able to do what you want. Tricky part will be deciding what you want thrown away. If you're going to burn it to another DVD you'll have to keep the frame rate and r

Re: IoS 8.3, strange behavior

2015-04-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In case you're not familiar with some of this philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good "Watson-Watt, who developed early warning radar in Britain to counter the rapid growth of the Luftwaffe, propounded a "cult of the imperfect", which he stated as "Give them the t

Re: App Store Preferences WasRe: Wow! Now how cool is that! of a discovery!

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
That is correct. The App Store app itself has no preference settings. Instead you have to go to System Preferences and then find App Store in there to access the automatic update settings. That's not confusing at all :) Even though I've had automatic updates on for a while it does require reboo

Re: question about power point

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What are you opening it with? MS Office, last I checked, was not accessible but you should be able to read it with Keynote. CB On 4/14/15 7:56 AM, Rebecca A Sabo wrote: Hi all, I am trying to read a power point on my mack using voice over . It just reads the slide and the number but no text

Re: Um... OK, why is my mac running so slow all of a sudden?

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like you hit all the usual suspects. I know my MacBook was sluggish for about three days after I upgraded but I didn't disable spotlight. Now it seems to be pretty much back to normal. I also noticed that my next time machine backup was huge. I think it said 180GB so the update apparentl

Re: How to print from my router

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't have one of these but what I could find says that you have to download and install the DLink SharePort Plus software, then set up the printer on your Mac to make sure you have all the drivers for it installed, then plug your printer into the DLink and use the SharePort software to make

iOS 8.3 Accessibility bugfix list

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In case you haven't taken the plunge yet, here is what Apple says is fixed for accessibility in the iOS 8.3 update: •Fixes an issue where using the back button in Safari causes VoiceOver gestures to not respond •Fixes an issue where VoiceOver focus becomes unreliable in draft M

Re: something to push adobe to make their applications accessible

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm, usually the web lawsuits I've read revolve around lack of access to a particular service or product and not around a particular technology. So if the Target or United Airlines web site was inaccessible because of using Flash, that would put those companies on the hook for choosing their in

Re: Thinking of buying Pages

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I thought Pages was now free if you're on OSX 10.10. I actually paid for my copy so I can't be 100% sure. Check the Mac app store and make sure you can't just download them. CB On 4/14/15 11:54 PM, Agent086b wrote: Hello all, I have been using Textedit since I got my Mac. I have a document th

Re: something to push adobe to make their applications accessible

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
a screen reader user, you can’t access the updater through it’s application? On 15/04/2015, at 1:41 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hmm, usually the web lawsuits I've read revolve around lack of access to a particular service or product and not around a particu

Re: Maybe a stupid question, but does a web site service like this exist?

2015-04-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
l-mail's prices are here: https://l-mail.com/scripts/static/pricing.php So in the US it's $1.47 for credit and $2.08 for debit cards for a three-page letter. There is also a $3.74 surcharge if you don't open an account with a deposit, which implies that you can use their service without setti

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This comes up every now and then. Short answer is that the list is what folks make of it. Long answer is that the name is probably a bit of an anachronisim at this point. The list was founded years before iPhone OS became iOS and then became accessible with VoiceOver. So as more and more folks

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Good to know. My parents just got fooled. They say that there was some popup that said their flash was out of date and to download an updater. Well, they went ahead and did that but it wasn't the real Flash updater. So now every time they click a link it opens a new browser tab to some other ma

VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
For those still on the 6.x version VMWare released an update on April 23. From their web site: Fixed a rare issue where a virtual machine could freeze when reading or writing data to a shared folder. A virtual machine connected to the network with NAT and running many concurrent DNS requests c

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
2015, at 5:50 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: For those still on the 6.x version VMWare released an update on April 23. From their web site: Fixed a rare issue where a virtual machine could freeze when reading or writing data to a shared folder. A virtual machine conn

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
rking. or do i have to ask someone to click it for me, since the first thing to lick was the timezone i think. On 28 Apr 2015, at 6:15 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Yes, but for many folks version 6 still works just fine. I would assume that there was also a point rel

Re: Open office for the Mac.

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Last I checked it was still pretty weak but, as a free app, you can give it a try. Maybe they fixed things up since I last poked at it. CB On 4/27/15 3:17 PM, sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am wondering how accessible the current Version of open Office is for the Mac? Thanks in

Re: Problems with Safari

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like you got the same infection my parents did. I still haven't rooted it all out but whatever you do, don't call the number or give them your credit card. CB On 4/27/15 2:48 PM, KristeenHughes wrote: Jonathan, I tried your fix, but when I went back into Safari after turning my WIFI ba

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
for file sharing between osx and windows? Is McAfee equally slow as in the end of 90’s and start of the year 2000 or so? Is there a «best virus/malware scanner» that work both in osx and virtual windows? Take care 28. apr. 2015 kl. 17:50 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries : F

Re: Which DVD software is it people are using?

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm, that seems like the correct address: http://cdn.macdvdripperpro.com/MDRP_v504.zip At least it downloaded just fine for me. CDN standards for Content Distribution Network where you pay somebody to distribute your big files by having the DNS lookup serve an IP of a server geographically clo

Re: changing my subscription to digestMode

2015-05-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
When you are in groups.google.com and have MacVisionaies open, it should take you here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/macvisionaries About 15 tab stops from the top of the page is a button called My Settings. Hit the space bar to pop this open and then down arrow to find "My members

Re: How Do You Format A USB Drive

2015-05-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You'll want to use Disk Utility which is found in the Utilities folder. You can get there quickly when in the Finder by doing command-option-U. Basically you'll have to navigate to your USB drive then navigate to the Erase tab where you'll find options for what format to use and the name to cal

Fwd: Deviation Request Form for 26453886 – Christopher Blouch

2015-05-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
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Re: Deviation Request Form for 26453886 – Christopher Blouch

2015-05-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Doh. How did I end up sending it here? Sorry everyone. Was supposed to go to the grandparents. CB On 5/13/15 11:47 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: The post may have been misdirected, but now I want to go on a cruise. Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2015, at 10:11 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacV

Re: ot: subscribe to group digest

2015-05-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
It's in the My Settings popup which is about nine tab stops from the Search field at the top of the page. Once there hit space to activate the menu then down arrow to Membership and Email Settings. In that dialog the 4th tab stop is email delivery preferences. If you hit space on that you can d

Re: subscribing to the list

2015-05-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Not a big deal. Gary had asked to join on a Friday and that happened to be the Friday I was leading a team of volunteers to work at a thrift store to support some local homeless shelters. Throw in some kid event on the same weekend and I didn't get back to Gary until Monday. It all worked out.

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think he was saying it was the last time they would do an event in that particular space. They can, and probably will, have other events in other venues. He seemed be waxing nostalgic over the number of major announcements that had been made there over the years. CB On 3/22/16 9:25 AM, Basi

Re: siri and iphone

2016-03-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I'm guessing SE stands for Special Edition. Of course Apple hasn't said so everyone is left guessing or making stuff up. CB On 3/22/16 11:53 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: The new phone is the iPhone SE. Speech will pronounce ce Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.c

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got one of the very first iPhones and I couldn't figure out why. It was a battery hog, heavy and my little folding phone made calls just as well. Who knew t

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
to Apple. How can a product be developed without a demand? Vaughn On 3/22/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got one of the very first iP

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
eveloped without a demand? Vaughn On 3/22/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got one of the very first iPhones and I couldn't figure

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Not sure I would call it a Mac issue. The rate of growth of Mac sales have slowed from last year in Q4 (2.8% up) but that's better than the overall PC market which shrank (8.3% down). Might just be an indication of overall market trends. That said, PCs (in the generic sense) tend to be more dur

Re: pdf documents

2016-03-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
PDFs aren't compressed on their own. You can zip a PDF by selecting it and then going to the file menu to choose Compress "filename" or use the contextual menu on the PDF. That will make a .zip file of the PDF which will upload/download faster. CB On 3/26/16 1:02 AM, John Weir wrote: There is

Re: Some Vmware questions, reading hard disks etc

2016-03-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
On the USB thing, it's actually VMWare that asks if you want the drive connected to the Mac or to the VMWare machine. Once you exit VMWare or reboot I guess the thumb drive get handed back to OSX so if you start vmware again the thumb drive is now mounted on the OSX side. So you would need to m

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

2016-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Airport modems support SNMP network management protocol and you have a handy tool to interrogate that in terminal. You need to know the internal IP address of your airport. So if mine were 192.168.130.1 then I could run the terminal command: snmptable -v 2c -c public 192.168.130.1 ipNetToMedia

Re: comparing: Openbook vs K1000

2016-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Yup, I found a press release on the FS site talking about the merger: http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/120 and everything else on the AbiSee web site seems to still be there but purchasing sends you to the F S dealer locator. That said, the zoom-ex page: http://www.abisee.c

Re: FBI drop case against apple

2016-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Security is simply levels of difficulty in being cracked and usually is a tradeoff with usability. In this case Apple had a self-destruct mechanism so the FBI couldn't brute force the password before all the encrypted content went poof. So the FBI was not trying to break the encrypted data dire

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

2016-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
. /Krister 31 mars 2016 kl. 04:43 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>>: Airport modems support SNMP network management protocol and you have a handy tool to interrogate that in terminal. You need to know the intern

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

2016-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. I just tried it on two different Airports, the older mini-pizza shaped one allowed me to do the SNMP trick but the newer small tower shaped one did not. I wonder why it was taken out? Maybe another attack vector for bad guys? CB On 3/31/16 3:06 AM, Saba

Re: Excluding iTunes Library

2016-04-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I'm assuming you can just got into the Time Machine Preferences, tab a couple times to Options which will take you to the exclusions table. Tab once to land on the "add items to do not backup list" button. Actioning that button will bring up a standard file picker to select which files/folders

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

2016-04-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
It's also probably a demographic thing. If your product "just works" and customers expect the access point to be an appliance to be plugged in with minimal fuss or setup than most won't don't care about SNMP or the lack of insight into wired devices. I also miss my Archie and Veronica tools alo

Apple's 2015 Q4 PC business stats from Gartner

2016-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This came up before but I wanted to cite a source in case anyone was curious what the stats were as far as the overall market and Apple. Note that sales/shipments does not equal installed base. There are a couple tables in the report and they are not marked up correctly so you'll have to rememb

Re: recovering lost files

2016-04-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Back in the day some studios I knew always had a separate DAT recorder or the like running just in case the big Protools rig went down. It was kind of a safety net so you at least had "something" instead of nothing. Of course the system would always have an issue on the take where the voiceover

Re: web arkive files

2016-04-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't know much about the downloading portion but a web archive is supposed to be all the stuff needed to load up a web page in Safari without an internet connection. So you can save a page as a web archive and then peruse it when you're offline later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchiv

Re: Two iTunes questions

2016-04-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Interesting. I hunted around for a while and it seems that iTunes won't let you speed up playback. Odd to have such a feature missing. All the things I found said to use an another app by picking the podcast, revealing in the finder and then opening it with quicktime player, which does allow sp

Re: benefits of lightning over headphone jack was Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

2016-04-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
While a USB-C headphone/power/data jack might allow slimmer devices or more internal space for other stuff, it also means your headphones could do much more than play audio. There have been hacks over the years such as the square credit card reader plugging into the current jack but what if you

Re: Hiding Info in Numbers

2016-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You could Hide the column or row that has the data in it using the hide command from the Table menu. I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for it. Once hidden it will still function as data for your formulas and will be visually gone but you will notice the column letter or row number is s

Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

2016-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This is basically a transformer. Those little wall warts you use power up low voltage devices like radios, phones, CD players usually run on just a few volts (5 to 12), just like batteries. The power coming out of your outlet is usually 120 volts (US) or 220 (Europe). Years ago somebody figured

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

2016-05-07 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I suspect you have this right. I have a Mac Mini hooked to a surround sound receiver via the digital optical out and it always takes a moment for the receiver to figure out what kind of signal is being sent before it wakes up and starts putting sound out the speakers. Maybe newer decoders are f

Apple store now stocking accessibility items

2016-05-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Maybe I missed this in another thread but you can now buy braille displays, switch interfaces and eye gaze trackers from the Apple store: http://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories/accessibility Selection is kinda thin at the moment but I'm sure they will keep adding stuff over time

Re: Viewing Source in Safari

2016-05-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Weird. I can reproduce the issue. I even tried opening the inspector up as a separate window, but that just let me get a bit further down before focus moved away from the source. Seems like a bug. CB On 5/10/16 4:16 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: Hi all, I have the developer menu turned on in Safar

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

2016-05-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
of needing to reset it from scratch and see what happens theren *From:*'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] *Sent:* Sunday, 8 May 2016 4:29 PM *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* Re: Chop

Re: Using SSH to find a computer

2016-05-26 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Terminal on osx opens up a full bash environment where you can run commands, write scripts and other things all through text. Apple has some nice documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduction/Introduction.html So fro

Re: Apple car, anyone?

2015-09-21 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Who says you need to own the thing yourself? If you could summon one in 10 minutes at will using an app from a fleet stored somewhere close by, wouldn't that suffice? Most cars sit most of the time so they should be a shared resource. The trouble is usually the last mile getting a taxi to your

Re: Is there any way to save a Word or pages doc as RTF in Pages?

2015-09-22 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I think you are correct. Could you skip Pages and open your document in TextEdit and then export to RTF from there? CB On 9/22/15 9:26 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: It is not possible to either directly save a file in RTF format or export a file in RTF format. If this has changed in a later version

Re: Is there any way to save a Word or pages doc as RTF in Pages?

2015-09-22 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
ts in question are either Word or pages docs. I didn't think you could open those in Text Edit. Can you? Cheers, Donna On Sep 22, 2015, at 8:41 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: I think you are correct. Could you skip Pages and open your document in TextEdit and the

Re: talking dashboard: the say ram script

2015-09-28 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
from what I've read memory is very hard to measure in the new system. Not only do you have the usual virtual memory/swap but there is also now compressed memory so what's free and used is even more murky. About Tech has a brief explainer on compressed memory: http://macs.about.com/od/macoperat

Re: Sorry for cross posting but i thought you'd might like to know this

2015-09-29 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Over time shouldn't the UI for the internet of things simply coalesce into a pile of apps for your iPhone? Stop making custom UI controllers/remotes and just make apps. Then accessibility would be more possible and you wouldn't need to find one of the 20 little remotes. For example, the Honeywe

Re: Any good lyrics apps?

2015-09-29 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Hmmm. I thought lyrics were another one of those copyright mires that you can't really share without a whole lot of lawyers getting involved. Sure there are lyrics sites around the internet but I'm not clear that those are legit to begin with. CB On 9/29/15 12:00 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland

Re: Any good lyrics apps?

2015-09-29 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Most churches purchase something called a CCLI (Church Copyright License - ccli.com) which covers projection, song sheets, recording the service etc. So an iPhone app would need to pay some kind of fees to the copyright holder for the music and lyrics. That seems like a facet of the app which w

Re: Running windows programs on the mac.

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
You could also try Crossover which tries to run Windows apps without Windows by mapping all the Windows APIs to Mac APIs. It's built on Wine. I don't know how accessible it is but they have a free trial so you could give it a whirl. https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-mac/ A bit ab

Re: Upgrading to the released version of El Capitin.

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I wouldn't trust installing my OS from bittorrent. How can you be sure it's not just legit but unmodified? I think Apple is taking the right approach. Sure things bog down once a year for a bit when a new release comes out but I wouldn't re architect the distribution model for that one anomaly

Re: OSX 10.11

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
In terminal, do a "man say" find out all about the say command. You can just type "say bob" and it will speak "bob" with the default voice. The man page has options to have say take input from a text file and output to an audio file. CB On 10/1/15 10:29 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, You c

Re: Alex choppiness, has any fix been found?

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Yes, if you check the mailing list archives there were quite a few threads about this. Up until recently if you didn't have a monitor attached the Mini would would probe endlessly for attributes of that non-existant hardware, causing all kinds of performance issues. If this mini is of that vint

Re: OSX 10.11

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
If you go the "say" route you can embed commands in the text to change the speech. For example say "Hello [[pbas 60]]World" -o test.aac adjusts the base pitch up for World and writes it all out to a file called test.aac. Say doesn't appear to support directly writing mp3 but you can convert y

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

2015-10-01 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Safari 9 under osx 10.10? I'm on 10.10 and my Safari is still 8.x while checking the App Store for updates shows everything is current other than not having installed 10.11. Is this something I need to manually install or should the automatic updated be picking this up? CB On 10/1/15 6:21 PM,

Re: Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-05 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I think one of the main advantages is supposed to be speed. Spotlight keeps an index of all your documents so search results come up quickly. The unix find command only searches file meta-data like its name, modification date, size etc. Spotlight searches inside your files so if you have a docu

Re: Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-07 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
nd arrow, just arrows. What is the easiest way to navigate search results. Thanks, On Oct 5, 2015, at 5:24 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: I think one of the main advantages is supposed to be speed. Spotlight keeps an index of all your documents so search results com

Re: Bying a new computer.

2015-10-08 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Dropping the quad-core mini, making the newest models slower than the old ones, was a misstep by Apple. I can only assume this was to prevent cannibalization of their other lines by a fast, cheaper, lower-margin box. Rather poor showing and goes against Apple's tradition of cannibalizing it's o

Re: Mixer and Mike recommendations for podcasting.

2015-10-13 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Seems like most Thunderbolt devices I've run across only have one port, making daisy chaining not possible. The Resident Audio box only has one. For USB and Firewire you could get a hub to get around the lack of two ports for daisy chaining. Does such a box exist for Thunderbolt? CB On 10/13/

Re: Mixer and Mike recommendations for podcasting.

2015-10-13 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
ocusrite. USB should really be the last choice though for reliable multi track audio... Cameron. On 10/13/15, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Seems like most Thunderbolt devices I've run across only have one port, making daisy chaining not possible. The Resident

Speech as the next GUI

2015-10-22 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Found this article from Wired interesting. Apparently there was a second PARC team working on a speech-based UI. The article posits that speech will be the next generation of how everyone interacts with devices and computers. Mentions of Siri, Nuance, Apple, Amazon, Google and the other usual p

Re: 2011 Mac Mini hard drives?

2015-10-23 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
+2011+Hard+Drive+Replacement/6422 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 07:23 To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries Subject: 2011 Mac Mini hard drives? Hi all,

Re: From Yosemite to El Capitan and Back: One New User's Story

2015-10-23 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Just checked and Parallels 10 at least is still fully inaccessible. I can reach the drop-down menus but most everything else is unusable. For example, the Configure window where memory and CPUs are allocated just comes up as "You are currently on an unknown". It goes down hill from there. Not s

Facebook app update addresses battery drain

2015-10-23 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Apparently somebody documented how much the FB app was sucking down the battery on iOS. They supposedly have patched that and maybe another energy wasting bug in the new version. http://www.macworld.com/article/2997074/social-media/facebook-has-figured-out-why-it-s-draining-your-iphone-battery.

MacKeeper class action suit garners refunds

2015-10-23 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Missed this in the news somewhere. Apparently the owners of MacKeeper have settled a class action suit and are close to getting approval for their $1.25M settlement fund. If you bought it you might be eligible. Details are here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2996814/security/mackeeper-buyers

Re: Voiceover Crashes on Large Tables

2015-10-27 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I noticed it slows down quite a bit as I navigate further down an HTML table. On one tool I had a table with 1000 rows and there was a checkbox in the first column which I needed to action starting on the rows around 600 or 700. By the time I slogged down that far it kept getting more and more

Re: does any one know of a way i can have my mac serve as a personal hot spot for my i pad minni?

2015-11-02 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
You mean share it's wired ethernet connection so you can create a your own wifi network? You just need to set up and turn on Internet Sharing in the System Preferences. Of course the place you are getting internet from might not be too excited about your doing that. CB On 11/2/15 3:56 PM, Adr

Re: Problem with a website, seeking advice and help

2015-11-03 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
They seem to be doing some weird stuff under the hood to make the text unselectable. I guess they don't want anyone copying the track lists off the web page? I suspect that's interfering with voiceover being able to access the table data? They do have a Mac and iOS app which might work better.

Re: good speakers for iPhone

2015-11-16 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
If you're thinking about a large room and your budget will allow it you might try going with some pro gear like the mipro ma-505. It's a speaker with a built in amp and all the usual goodies but it starts at about $1K. It has a 145watt amp, bluetooth receiver, USB or SD card audio recording, va

Re: how do i delete the web archive

2015-11-17 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Like any other file. Select the file you want to delete and then hit command+delete. I'm always forgetting that it's not just the single delete key when I go back and forth between Mac and Windows. CB On 11/17/15 8:18 PM, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: Hey guys you try to learn one thing and something e

Re: Mac Air and Windows

2015-11-30 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Yes, and you'll find lots of comments in the mailing list archives about it. There are two main ways - BootCamp and VMWare. Bootcamp lets you divide up your hard drive into a mac and Windows partition then you install Windows on its partition and then boot windows. It turns out Macs make pretty

iOS 9.2 Updates to accessibility

2015-12-09 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Here is what Apple says was fixed: • Accessibility improvements ◦Fixing issues with VoiceOver when using Camera face detection ◦Adding support for VoiceOver to wake up the screen ◦Adding support for VoiceOver to invoke app switcher with 3D Touch gesture

Re: Apple music conspiracy.

2015-12-09 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I was surprised to find Target carries about 50 different record players. What's up with that? You can get a USB record player for about $80 which comes in its own suitcase. Time to get all that vinyl into iTunes before it wears away. CB On 12/9/15 3:10 PM, Vaughn Brown wrote: Scott, Readin

Re: Apple music conspiracy.

2015-12-09 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
ink the NFB got that solved though, didn't they? Chris. On Dec 9, 2015, at 1:31 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: I was surprised to find Target carries about 50 different record players. What's up with that? You can get a USB record player for about $80 which come

Re: Smart TVs

2015-12-14 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
So one question is where do you want your smarts? If you're going with an AppleTV, do you really need anything but a dumb display? Unless there is something that you're itching for on the TV itself then you might want to save your money and let AppleTV be your TV's brain. That said, AppleTV doe

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

2015-12-14 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
I'd just compress it first and then segment it afterwards. You can compress the folder or file in the finder without too much trouble. To break it into chunks I'd do that in terminal. Launch terminal and cd to wherever the zip file is. If it was on your desktop you would do "cd ~/Desktop". Then

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

2015-12-15 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Chris. That was not what I expected as a solution but I like it. I will certainly try that. Although, It would be a lot easier if I had a graphical user interface to deal with this problem. Thanks again. Nektarios. On 15 Dec 2015, at 00:03, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

2015-12-15 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
t I have done, I found a great utility that does exactly what I need and more that is voice over frienndly and free from the mac Appstore. The name of this application is Ipackr and as I said it has a great graphical GUI. Regards. Nektarios. On 15 Dec 2015, at 16:51, 'Chris Blouch'

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

2015-12-16 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
My understanding is that it will create the splits to contain whole files. So if you are compressing a folder full of little files then zipsplit can work well. If you are trying to split a single large file, like a video file, then zipsplit won't be able to break it up. It's also limited to 2GB

Re: suggestions for securely copying 6tb of files?

2015-12-19 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
Interesting. I never noticed that the "native" rsync is only version 2.6.9 from 2006. I use macports and the latest there is 3.1.1 from 2014. CB On 12/19/15 4:48 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Finder corrupts your data? Really? You’re certainly not the first to say that. Apple and quality

Re: suggestions for securely copying 6tb of files?

2015-12-21 Thread &#x27;Chris Blouch&#x27; via MacVisionaries
to me. Take with a grain of salt. but that seemed to be the case last time I installed. On Dec 19, 2015, at 10:25 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Interesting. I never noticed that the "native" rsync is only version 2.6.9 from 2006. I use macports and the l

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