Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac?
how do you control your sattle lite box from your tuner? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:59 AM Subject: Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac? The EyeTV software or the remote control which comes with the tv tuner. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 21/08/2009, at 10.53, hank smith wrote: what does any one suggest that we can use from the tv tuner end to control it? Hank On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:23 AM, a radix wrote: Hello, well I was actually more thinking of watching tv when I am away at home. I too only have a digital settop box only, no tv. Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:11 AM Subject: Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac? I can't find the beginning of this thread and I can't give any info about watching TV on the Mac but for $5 you can buy a cable that allows you to connect a VCR, DVD player, or a digital converter box to the sound input jack of your Mac. I don't have a TV any more. I just have a converter box. But I don't want a picture, just sound. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)
Hello, I went and found my install discs and inserted them to check the instructions. I think what you found is simply that the Apple menu (the first menu on the menu bar when you use VO-M) is dimmed. This is because all those operations reference the system loaded on the hard drive, and you are by-passing the hard drive to boot off the install disc. If you arrow across to any of the other menu options on the menu bar and specifically, if you press u or navigate with your arrow keys to the Utilities menu on the menu bar and arrow down, none of the entries should be dimmed. If you arrow down to the Reset Password option of the Utilities menu I think you will be fine. Just remember that the password you want to reset is for your friend -- if he has Administrator privileges. Do not select System Administrator as the account for the password you want to reset. Also, don't worry or try to set anything about keychains. Chances are that if your friend never knew his password that there are no keychains to worry about. You can quit at any time with Command-Q, or by choosing the option to quit from the Installer menu on the menu bar. HTH Cheers, Esther Dr.Khalid wrote: Thanks for the instruction . I was able to choose English from the list of languages, then I pressed continue. I then searched for utility which I couldn't find . So I pressed VO-M , but all the options were dimmed . I couldn't choose the system preference.. I then pressed continue, and I got the options, to update OS x or to erase and install, or archive and install... I didn't want to mess around , so I didn't choose any of these options .. How can I get to utility to change the password ? Any help is appreciated .. TIA Khalid - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:57 PM Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) Hi, Daniel answered your question that the c key was the letter c. There are various keys that you can hold down while the Mac is booting that determine the boot mode. Most of these stand for modes that are easy to remember. C stands for Boot from inserted CD or DVD; the Shift key stands for Boot into Safe mode (a restricted access mode where you only bring up a subset of the operating system where audio and network connections are disabled -- this mode is not accessible, but certain problems can be fixed by just booting into this mode (without logging in), and then rebooting normally; T stands for boot into target disk mode (when you connect to another Mac via a Firewire cable and use its disk to boot the second machine -- this no longer works with the newest MacBooks that have no Firewire ports; D' stands for boot from the hard drive, etc. For the formal instructions see this Apple help article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11627.html (Mac OS X 10.5 Help: If you forget your Administrator Password) This describes the boot sequence and how to navigate to reset the password. Just make sure to start up VoiceOver as your first action after the Mac boots from the install disc (while you hold down the C key. You may need to use Fn-Command-F5 on the laptop instead of Command-F5. (I don't remember, so you may have to try both to start up VoiceOver). Then select your language, etc. HTH Cheers, Esther Dr.Khalid wrote: --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Blind Ecto users, adding categories and tags to a post, how?
Yes, but Marsedit can't do static pages, which for me is a showstopper, plus there's another interesting quirk in that program. You can add categories, right, but if you don't want some of the categories that you add in the post where you add the categories, the unchecked categories vanish from the list. Don't know why it is like that, only that it is... or is there some place where you can add categories and they don't disappear? /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.03 skrev Maxwell Ivey Jr.: Hello; ecto used to confuse the heck out of me too. I had a devil of a time setting it up. I tried the demo of mars edit loved it so much i switched. Much easier than ecto for me. good luck, Max On Aug 23, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi there. I have put up a wordpress blog and am using, or planning to use both Marsedit and Ecto for posting to it. When i try to add new categories in Ecto i get sorta confused, because there seems to be one edit box and two check boxes, one labeled categories and one labeled tags. Ok, i think to myself and check the one called categories and try adding a new category, but no matter what i do, i wind up adding new tags, not categories. What am i missing? /Krister --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
terminal software: word to txt and pdf to html convertor
Hi all, Before my mactime , I had worked with linux and I made different bash- scripts. I had made also a script to convert multiple msword files and pdf- files to text. I used the consoleprograms wvText (for word) and pdftohtml an lynx (browser onder console) to convert the htmlfile to text. So, this are bash-programs. No, I would like to install this , or similar programs, to run my script. Are there tutorials and sources where to find such programs and ways to install it for the console? As I see, (gnu)make is not available by default so I can't compile the linux-sources of this programs (if this should work). any tips are very welcome thanx in advance, best regards, William Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-requ...@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Logging into Gmail
I was trying to access my gmail account via the web at http://www.gmail.com . Although my password seems to work fine for sending e-mail from Apple Mail, it doesn't seem to allow incoming mail. So, my plan was to access the website and see if Mail was actually appearing on the site, but it won't let me login with the password I have been using for a while. Of course the other problem is I had to get help with the damned visual verification since the spoken bit didn't work as expected. So, is there another way to reset a password without needing the visual verification crap? I did get to a reset page and oddly enough after my wife typed in the letters required, it was to send me an e-mail on how to reset the password, but incredibly, it never showed up. My entire goal was to setup imap instead of pop and maybe I should have just left well enough alone. :) Any thoughts? tnx, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Creating a smart playlist in iTunes - I don't get it
I use smart playlists for most of my music (over 7000 songs) and think they are tremendously interesting. First off, before you set rules, assuming you will have more than one, it is usually best if you switch the combo box that says All to Any as that will resolve a lot of contradictions. Once you have your list of rules in place, you just name it and off you go. For instance, I have one in which filters on Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed and a few others whom I feel work together. With automatic updating, I was able to rip the latest Springsteen album and the playlist automatically contained the songs. My quejstion is how to keep shuffle from grabbing items outside the current playlist? This happens on my MacBook, iMac 24, Nano and iPhone whether I hit the button or shake the handheld devices. Thus, I jumped from a movement in Brahms Fourth to a song by Eminem an experience that nearly knocked me out of my chair. cdh On Aug 23, 2009, at 11:45 AM, rayna424 wrote: Hi everyone, I know I'm asking lots of iTunes/iPod questions, but I get the most useful information from ya'll, so I've just given up searches. I don't understand this smart playlist thing. I click create playlist and it asks me for all these guidlines, but no matter what I pick, it says something like, this will never work, haha. I'd love to just be able to click a button and have an interesting playlist created...does anyone have any tips? Thanks! Randi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Creating a smart playlist in iTunes - I don't get it
Ha! I sympathize, Chris! I have very ecclectic taste in music, so frequently have this experience when using Shuffle. If you find a way to keep it from happening, please do let me know. Take care, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: I use smart playlists for most of my music (over 7000 songs) and think they are tremendously interesting. First off, before you set rules, assuming you will have more than one, it is usually best if you switch the combo box that says All to Any as that will resolve a lot of contradictions. Once you have your list of rules in place, you just name it and off you go. For instance, I have one in which filters on Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed and a few others whom I feel work together. With automatic updating, I was able to rip the latest Springsteen album and the playlist automatically contained the songs. My quejstion is how to keep shuffle from grabbing items outside the current playlist? This happens on my MacBook, iMac 24, Nano and iPhone whether I hit the button or shake the handheld devices. Thus, I jumped from a movement in Brahms Fourth to a song by Eminem an experience that nearly knocked me out of my chair. cdh On Aug 23, 2009, at 11:45 AM, rayna424 wrote: Hi everyone, I know I'm asking lots of iTunes/iPod questions, but I get the most useful information from ya'll, so I've just given up searches. I don't understand this smart playlist thing. I click create playlist and it asks me for all these guidlines, but no matter what I pick, it says something like, this will never work, haha. I'd love to just be able to click a button and have an interesting playlist created...does anyone have any tips? Thanks! Randi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)
I was able to check the account setting, and it asked me to enter old password. Ok so are there any other users listed in the accounts pane? if so do any of them including your friends show the word Admin under them? if this is not the case then you are in for backing up your data and reinstalling the system. With the install DVD you can only change an existing users password not create users or give them admin permissions. I noticed something strange though; under password, there is a field called password hint (or something of this sort) and the first name of my friend in lowercase was written. maybe its a hint that it is their surname in lowercase? IF he didn't find the DVD, is there other way to update his Mac? i.e. can I download from apple website the updates directly, and install them in the machine. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. The short answer is NO. This is not windows so without an administrators password you cannot install/remove most applications or any updates at all. If your friend has been doing this ask them how the have. Alternatively if someone set up the system for them find out the password from them. you can always check which accounts have been setup by looking in the /Users Folder on the root of the HD there will be all the accounts listed as their short names which do not contain spaces and are all lowercase. Worse comes to worse. backup all their data then do an Archive and Install with the original install dvd and DO NOT copy their account when it asks you to but make a new one with admin privileges and a standard one for regular use. make the passwords easy to remember but hard to guess. HTH Kieren --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)
I'm not sure how to reset the password. I have the installer DVD with me, but I'm not sure how to precede. Any help is appreciated .. After the disc has booted and you are presented with the language screen choose your preferred language and then when you get to the start of the install go to the utilities menu and choose reset password. this will present you with a dialog asking for the system disk on which you wish to change the users pw. choose the hd of the mac not the install disk and you will be shown a combo box with a list of users on that system. choose the appropriate one and fill in the fields as stated and hit the reset button (i think it is reset) if all goes well you might now have admin privs normally with a standard user you are presented with an empty password dialog box but when logged in as an admin the short name is already filled in. HTH Kieren --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
audible.com question
Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re-download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Logging into Gmail
Hi Scott. I use gmail and it works fine with the mail app on the iphone through imap. You can get around the captcha problem with solona.net. Once you're into your mail setings you will have to make sure that imap is enabled. Also, I find that the 'basic html' view is better and you can go straight to that with mail.google.com/mail/h/ Hope this helps? Cheers Thuy On 24/08/2009, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: I was trying to access my gmail account via the web at http://www.gmail.com . Although my password seems to work fine for sending e-mail from Apple Mail, it doesn't seem to allow incoming mail. So, my plan was to access the website and see if Mail was actually appearing on the site, but it won't let me login with the password I have been using for a while. Of course the other problem is I had to get help with the damned visual verification since the spoken bit didn't work as expected. So, is there another way to reset a password without needing the visual verification crap? I did get to a reset page and oddly enough after my wife typed in the letters required, it was to send me an e-mail on how to reset the password, but incredibly, it never showed up. My entire goal was to setup imap instead of pop and maybe I should have just left well enough alone. :) Any thoughts? tnx, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
ILif 09
hi all how good is ILife 09? I liked IWork especially pages, but how good is ILife itself --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
I just placed my order for the family pack. Yippie!! On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:34 AM, James Nash wrote: Oooh cool. Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to afford a new Mac yet but i'll get one asap. Hope you're okay. - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind disc...@macvisionaries.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:25 PM Subject: snowleopard shipping friday hi snow leopard is out on friday apple stores have confirmed it --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
Hi. The application will be very accessible if you change to column view in the view menu. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 10.34, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
No. I didn't got any busy messages, but that might be because I have 4 gb ram in my machine. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 03.46, VaShaun Jones wrote: Do you find that it says busy allot? THat is what it's doing for me. Other than that it seems like a powerful app. On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ VaShaun Jones --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Logging into Gmail
Thanks Thuy, I'll keep this for reference, but seems I got screwed here do to the account where they would have sent e-mail isn't what I typed in. Something is messed up, but well this will pass and all will be cleared up by tomorrow. :) On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Thuy wrote: Hi Scott. I use gmail and it works fine with the mail app on the iphone through imap. You can get around the captcha problem with solona.net. Once you're into your mail setings you will have to make sure that imap is enabled. Also, I find that the 'basic html' view is better and you can go straight to that with mail.google.com/mail/h/ Hope this helps? Cheers Thuy On 24/08/2009, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: I was trying to access my gmail account via the web at http://www.gmail.com . Although my password seems to work fine for sending e-mail from Apple Mail, it doesn't seem to allow incoming mail. So, my plan was to access the website and see if Mail was actually appearing on the site, but it won't let me login with the password I have been using for a while. Of course the other problem is I had to get help with the damned visual verification since the spoken bit didn't work as expected. So, is there another way to reset a password without needing the visual verification crap? I did get to a reset page and oddly enough after my wife typed in the letters required, it was to send me an e-mail on how to reset the password, but incredibly, it never showed up. My entire goal was to setup imap instead of pop and maybe I should have just left well enough alone. :) Any thoughts? tnx, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Mac-cessibility News] Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009 After a couple of weeks, during which we saw the rumor mills heat up with speculation of an August 28th release of Apple's latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, the company issued a press release this morning, officially announcing that date. Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-shipping-on-28august2009/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
That! is! awesome!! I! want it! now On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:25 AM, william lomas wrote: hi snow leopard is out on friday apple stores have confirmed it --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Skype problems Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem
What is the version of the new skype? On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: Donna, I am getting that warning every-time I launch the new skype too. I have tried clearing a few things in my Library folder, but the message indicating that Skype is a newly downloaded program continues to appear. I will try a full install after deleting all tell tales from my old Skype later today. Does anybody else run the new Skype and have you encountered similar problems? Jon On Aug 23, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Thanks, Chantel. As it stands right now, I deleted Skype and have not restored it yet. So, I'm getting this message even though skype is not supposed to even exist on my Mac. Does that change anything? Thanks, Donna -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chantel Cuddemi Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem Well, first of all, you need to make sure that skype is sett to not log yoou in when you log into mac os ten. Then, you need to redownload the dmg file. On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, Well, after more fussing, my problems persist. When I start up my Mac, I see the message Core Services UI Agent, Skype was downloaded from the intewrnet, do you want to Open? I press cancel to try and keep it from opening. I have tried everything! I have now deleted Skype from the Applications folder, but I can't delete the dmg file from the downloads folder. I have tried ejecting it according to Dan and Jim's directions, but Command E doesn't work, and the option to eject it shows up as dimmed in the menu. I also cannot delete the alias for Skype that I created for my desktop. Anyone have any other thoughts? anyone know what Core Services UI Agent is? Thanks, Donna No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.65/2322 - Release Date: 08/23/09 18:03:00 louie louiem...@wavecable.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Skype problems Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem
You are right, that is the version that is the latest version. On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi, I'm using Skype 2.8.0.659. I don't know whether that's the new version or not; it's the one I downloaded about a month ago. It logs me in automatically when I start my Mac, which is what I want. I haven't had any problems with it thus far. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Skype problems Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem
OK, a bit more research and things are straight. I am running the same version. I installed it as an admin user, but only ran it in my own account. Once I ran it once in the admin account the message indicating that this software was downloaded from the internet went away. There are also accessable issues with the initial login screen, all fields are accessible via tabs, but the normal VO cursor movements don't work. So: after installing. 1. start the program as an admin user say OK to the question about running an internet downloaded application. 2. accept the user agreement. 3. Login screen appears. Hit tab until you reach the user name combo box and enter your skype login name. 4. Hit tab until you hit the password field and enter your skype password. 5. Hit tab until you find save password and enable the check box. 6. click OK. 7. Accept the request to use the keychain. (Skype uses your system keychain to save the password) 8. Profile window comes up and fill in as you feel appropriate. (VO works great here) 9. Go to contacts menu and make sure you are viewing contact groups (the menu will say hide contact groups if you have it right). 10. Go back into contact menu and find the contact group submenu there is a presets sub-sub-menu where I recommend you click at least Online contacts These are checkboxes. Best of skyping, joncohnfairfax (skype name) Jonahtan Cohn On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi, I'm using Skype 2.8.0.659. I don't know whether that's the new version or not; it's the one I downloaded about a month ago. It logs me in automatically when I start my Mac, which is what I want. I haven't had any problems with it thus far. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to Shuffle within Playlists [was Re: Creating a smart playlist in iTunes - I don't get it]
Hi, The only thing I'd like to add to Esther's great post is that if you choose Shuffle Songs from the iPod's main menu or shake to shuffle, all songs on the iPod are shuffled, regardless of their playlist, unless you have set them not to be included when shuffling as Esther describes. Best, Anna On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Esther wrote: Hi Chris, Shuffle playback uses whatever group you're in at the time you turn it on as its basis for shuffling. So in iTunes on your Mac, if you select your Music playlist in the sources table, turn on the file browser (Command-B), select a genre or artist, and press the Do Not Shuffle button (which describes the current setting) to turn on shuffling (where this becomes the Shuffle button), then start playing music (either by pressing the Play button or by starting from any of the tracks in the resulting songs table and pressing enter), iTunes will shuffle through all the songs in the songs table, playing each exactly once. If you select a playlist, turn shuffle play on, and start playing from that playlist, then iTunes will only play tracks from that playlist (and will leave out any tracks where you have checked the box for Skip when shuffling on the Options pane if you edited the track with Get Info (Command-I)). If you want iTunes to continuously shuffle through the playlist, press the No Repeat button (which describes current setting) to turn on repeat play (this now becomes the Repeat All Songs button) and start playing. Chances are, you turned on shuffle play from your music playlist and never turned it off, which is why you're getting a mixture of Brahms and Eminem. On your Nano or iPhone, navigate to your playlist and then turn on the setting to shuffle songs before you start playing your playlist. Remember that these iPod/iPhone settings stick. If you set your iPod or iPhone to shuffle songs, either from the Settings menu or while playing from a playlist, when you next go to play an Album you'll hear the tracks play in shuffled rather than sequential order. The shuffled setting (on the song level) applies to whatever group of music you're in, and only exempts tracks that were marked as Do not shuffle (such as Audiobook tracks, or any tracks where you checked this setting if you edited the Options tab in iTunes.) Cheers, Esther On Aug 24, 2009, Chris Hofstader wrote: My quejstion is how to keep shuffle from grabbing items outside the current playlist? This happens on my MacBook, iMac 24, Nano and iPhone whether I hit the button or shake the handheld devices. Thus, I jumped from a movement in Brahms Fourth to a song by Eminem an experience that nearly knocked me out of my chair. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: audible.com question
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip to download a book. I had been to the Audible site, and seen that I didn't need to download any software, but wasn't sure what the next step was, as I figured I had to do something to authorize Audible on this computer. I do have one question. On my Windows machine, there was actually a folder called Audible Downloads. There does not seem to be a counterpart on the Mac. So, I guess my question has two parts: 1. Re the book I just downloaded, should I leave it in the downloads folder, or should I move it? If I should move it, where should I move it to? 2. To what folder should I copy the Audible files from my PC? ITunes Music? Thanks, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: Just copying the audible files from your windows machine should work. Download at least one book from audible to your mac so you may authorize your Mac to play audible. On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re-download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
courier delivery?
hi a friend of mine, joe topp, has just with my help ordered snowleopard online. He has opted to pay for the courier service does that mean if it is shipped on friday will he get saturday will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro
Hi Gene. First of all, I recommend you to do the following: 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. 2: Choose the general tab 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find the playback settings. Set the If selection is empty to Play from insertion point. If you change this setting, your playhead will always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion ppoint by pressing the left or right arrow keys. If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the following: 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have found the place where you wanna start your selection. 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to select anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you have selected. 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing the p-key 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the playhead, and then press m to place a marker. If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a second marker. Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first marker you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option left and right arrow. When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can also press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the following way: 1: Find the Loop playback with the VO-cursor, and check the checkbox by pressing VO spacebar. 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the mouse to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the scroll area again. I hope it explains how it works. If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful guides, you are welcome to check the guide for misspelled words and grammatical errors and upload the guide. Please let me know before you upload it. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/01/2009, at 21.23, Gene Richburg wrote: Hi yeah I gota say that I don't understand how you select something either I read that quick start guide on icanwork this thing.com but it gets kind of complecated trying to get the program to select something. I have tried setting the markers but that doesn't work and when I try to either extend the selection either to the next or previous marker the e key still isn't selecting what I thought I had selected. So I tried sound studio but am having a hard time finding any selecting commands in the manual. Can someone try to explain how this works? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro Hi Krister. I forgot to say that I don't find this extremely annoying because you can always press e to check what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. What an awesome feature. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/08/2009, at 21.18, Krister Ekstrom wrote: 23 aug 2009 kl. 19.06 skrev Søren Jensen: I just wish it was possible to move the markers or selection while the audio is playing so you could hear the changes you made. Exactly my centiments too. It would be much easier to precition edit if you could hear what you were doing while doing it. /Krister --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Logging into Gmail
If you can get new email but nothing else works, then the Mac must know your password. You can retreive that password as follows: 1. Open Keychain access from your utilities folder (command-shift-u) 2 Hit tab and enter pop.gmail.com into the search text field. 3. Hit tab a few times, and you should be in a table with just one item. The key for your pop account. 4. Hit command-i to view the key info. 5. Near the bottom is a view password checkbox. 6. You will probably be prompted for your keychain password. If you are reading these instructions, then 99% of the time this will be the same password as your login passowrd. Now you should be able to view what your system things the password is. Best of luck, Jonathan Cohn . On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Scott Howell wrote: I was trying to access my gmail account via the web at http://www.gmail.com . Although my password seems to work fine for sending e-mail from Apple Mail, it doesn't seem to allow incoming mail. So, my plan was to access the website and see if Mail was actually appearing on the site, but it won't let me login with the password I have been using for a while. Of course the other problem is I had to get help with the damned visual verification since the spoken bit didn't work as expected. So, is there another way to reset a password without needing the visual verification crap? I did get to a reset page and oddly enough after my wife typed in the letters required, it was to send me an e-mail on how to reset the password, but incredibly, it never showed up. My entire goal was to setup imap instead of pop and maybe I should have just left well enough alone. :) Any thoughts? tnx, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
snowleopard student discount
Hello all Does anyone know if they will offer a student discount for snowleopard as they did with leopard? Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
Hi, Yes, but then you don't have columns like size, date modified etc or am i wrong? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 16.46 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi. The application will be very accessible if you change to column view in the view menu. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 10.34, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard student discount
Umm. It's only $29 as it is. I expect any discount would be fairly negligible. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Justin Harford wrote: Hello all Does anyone know if they will offer a student discount for snowleopard as they did with leopard? Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: audible.com question
I just put my audible books in to a folder called audible books. Then I import that folder in to my itunes. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip to download a book. I had been to the Audible site, and seen that I didn't need to download any software, but wasn't sure what the next step was, as I figured I had to do something to authorize Audible on this computer. I do have one question. On my Windows machine, there was actually a folder called Audible Downloads. There does not seem to be a counterpart on the Mac. So, I guess my question has two parts: 1. Re the book I just downloaded, should I leave it in the downloads folder, or should I move it? If I should move it, where should I move it to? 2. To what folder should I copy the Audible files from my PC? ITunes Music? Thanks, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: Just copying the audible files from your windows machine should work. Download at least one book from audible to your mac so you may authorize your Mac to play audible. On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re-download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
just buy it from apple direct it will be 29 dollars On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
just wish i could use the touch pad features but ah well my macbook doesn't support it. I would ahve thought all macbooks since the first i phone would ahve had a touchpad On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
hi guys , can i use this up only for cut and paste and then use my finder for all the other things? and is it a paid app or free ? i am just having tough time with the missing cut function. rk Il giorno 24/ago/09, alle ore 18:11, Krister Ekstrom ha scritto: Hi, Yes, but then you don't have columns like size, date modified etc or am i wrong? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 16.46 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi. The application will be very accessible if you change to column view in the view menu. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 10.34, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
Hmm, no. I don't think so. But I assume you can just press command i to bring up the information window if you wanna check these informations. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 18.11, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Yes, but then you don't have columns like size, date modified etc or am i wrong? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 16.46 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi. The application will be very accessible if you change to column view in the view menu. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 10.34, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)
Hello, To set your account so that you can log in without being prompted for a password, you need to make changes in the Accounts menu under System Preferences. 1. VO-M to the menu bar, arrow down in the Apple menu and press s y to go to System Preferences 2. In the Systems Preferences window, navigate to the Accounts menu button (using tab, VO-Right arrow or item chooser menu) and press the button (VO-Space) 3. In the Accounts window, interact and VO-Right arrow to the Accounts and Login Options list. 4. Interact with the Accounts and Login Options list and navigate to Login Options. 5. Stop interacting and VO-Down arrow to where you hear Click the lock to make changes. You will need to unlock the screen using your Administrator password. 6. Press (VO-Space) on the lock, then type in your password in the dialog window that appears. 7. VO-Right arrow past Automatic login: and press (VO-Space) the pop up button to select the account you wish to enable. 8. A dialog window will appear prompting you fort the password to this account. Type in the password and press enter. 9. At this point you could use item chooser menu to navigate to the lock, and press it (VO-Space) to prevent further changes. However, you might first want to create another account to use for test purposes, or to log into if you somehow manage to disable the other account. If so, navigate to the Add User button and press (VO- Space), then fill in the user name and password information and create the account, before locking the settings (VO-Space on the lock button). 10. Command-Q to quite the Accounts menu. HTH. By the way, are you a French speaker? (I don't usually hear the phrase: everything works cent pour cent; in English, this would be everything works 100 per cent). Cheers, Esther Dr.Khalid wrote: Thanks Esther now everything works cent pour cent. I reset the password, and OS X now is up-to-date. I installed updates that are more than 1gb in that MacBook :) .. Now each time I restart the machine, I have to type the password. How can I have Mac log in without asking for a password? All the Best Khalid - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:20 AM Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) Hello, I went and found my install discs and inserted them to check the instructions. I think what you found is simply that the Apple menu (the first menu on the menu bar when you use VO-M) is dimmed. This is because all those operations reference the system loaded on the hard drive, and you are by-passing the hard drive to boot off the install disc. If you arrow across to any of the other menu options on the menu bar and specifically, if you press u or navigate with your arrow keys to the Utilities menu on the menu bar and arrow down, none of the entries should be dimmed. If you arrow down to the Reset Password option of the Utilities menu I think you will be fine. Just remember that the password you want to reset is for your friend -- if he has Administrator privileges. Do not select System Administrator as the account for the password you want to reset. Also, don't worry or try to set anything about keychains. Chances are that if your friend never knew his password that there are no keychains to worry about. You can quit at any time with Command-Q, or by choosing the option to quit from the Installer menu on the menu bar. HTH Cheers, Esther Dr.Khalid wrote: Thanks for the instruction . I was able to choose English from the list of languages, then I pressed continue. I then searched for utility which I couldn't find . So I pressed VO-M , but all the options were dimmed . I couldn't choose the system preference.. I then pressed continue, and I got the options, to update OS x or to erase and install, or archive and install... I didn't want to mess around , so I didn't choose any of these options .. How can I get to utility to change the password ? Any help is appreciated .. TIA Khalid - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:57 PM Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) Hi, Daniel answered your question that the c key was the letter c. There are various keys that you can hold down while the Mac is booting that determine the boot mode. Most of these stand for modes that are easy to remember. C stands for Boot from inserted CD or DVD; the Shift key stands for Boot into Safe mode (a restricted access mode where you only bring up a subset of the operating system where audio and network connections are disabled -- this mode is not accessible, but certain problems can be fixed by just booting intothis mode (without logging in), and then rebooting normally; T stands for boot into target disk mode
Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009
christer see my message i sent from david. the voices will be in beta for snowleopard on friday On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:15, Krister Ekstrom wrote: The question then is will there be non-english voices from Acapela or other companies available or do i have to wait to install SL until such time as they're available? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 17.24 skrev Maccessibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009 After a couple of weeks, during which we saw the rumor mills heat up with speculation of an August 28th release of Apple's latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, the company issued a press release this morning, officially announcing that date. Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-shipping-on-28august2009/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Infovox iVox voices and Snow Leopard
Hi, Infovox iVox 1.3 will not work on Snow Leopard. Infovox iVox 2.0 will be required. This will be a free update. As iVox 2.0 required a major rewrite for compatibility with Snow Leopard and Apple has released Snow Leopard earlier than they had said previously we do not have a final release for iVox 2.0 ready yet. Instead, if our current tests are positive we will make iVox 2.0 available as a public beta by Friday, 28 August. If you rely on Infovox iVox do not upgrade to Snow Leopard until you have upgraded to iVox 2.0. Note that if you rely on the older HD voices (which do not sound as good as the more recent HQ voices) you should not upgrade to Snow Leopard as the change to support 64 bit technology made it impossible to retain the HD voices in Infovox iVox 2.0. For most languages HQ voices are available (several new ones are included in Infovox iVox 2.0). Only Icelandic had to be completely dropped in Infovox iVox 2.0 because there are no HQ voices for that language. With best wishes, david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
i mean multitouch trackpad On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
What new mac? On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: whitch voices will work with the new mac? On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:19 PM, David Niemeijer wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009
what voices? am curious now. On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:56 PM, william lomas wrote: christer see my message i sent from david. the voices will be in beta for snowleopard on friday On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:15, Krister Ekstrom wrote: The question then is will there be non-english voices from Acapela or other companies available or do i have to wait to install SL until such time as they're available? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 17.24 skrev Maccessibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009 After a couple of weeks, during which we saw the rumor mills heat up with speculation of an August 28th release of Apple's latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, the company issued a press release this morning, officially announcing that date. Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-shipping-on-28august2009/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
hellow david , i am using the italian voice , can i upgrade to snow ? rk Il giorno 24/ago/09, alle ore 18:19, David Niemeijer ha scritto: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009
Me too. On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: what voices? am curious now. On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:56 PM, william lomas wrote: christer see my message i sent from david. the voices will be in beta for snowleopard on friday On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:15, Krister Ekstrom wrote: The question then is will there be non-english voices from Acapela or other companies available or do i have to wait to install SL until such time as they're available? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 17.24 skrev Maccessibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009 After a couple of weeks, during which we saw the rumor mills heat up with speculation of an August 28th release of Apple's latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, the company issued a press release this morning, officially announcing that date. Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-shipping-on-28august2009/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: audible.com question
Oh. that kmakes sense. *grin* Thanks. Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Daniel Crone wrote: I just put my audible books in to a folder called audible books. Then I import that folder in to my itunes. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip to download a book. I had been to the Audible site, and seen that I didn't need to download any software, but wasn't sure what the next step was, as I figured I had to do something to authorize Audible on this computer. I do have one question. On my Windows machine, there was actually a folder called Audible Downloads. There does not seem to be a counterpart on the Mac. So, I guess my question has two parts: 1. Re the book I just downloaded, should I leave it in the downloads folder, or should I move it? If I should move it, where should I move it to? 2. To what folder should I copy the Audible files from my PC? ITunes Music? Thanks, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: Just copying the audible files from your windows machine should work. Download at least one book from audible to your mac so you may authorize your Mac to play audible. On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re-download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Infovox iVox voices and Snow Leopard
which new voices are included? just curious? again many thanks will On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:24, David Niemeijer wrote: Hi, Infovox iVox 1.3 will not work on Snow Leopard. Infovox iVox 2.0 will be required. This will be a free update. As iVox 2.0 required a major rewrite for compatibility with Snow Leopard and Apple has released Snow Leopard earlier than they had said previously we do not have a final release for iVox 2.0 ready yet. Instead, if our current tests are positive we will make iVox 2.0 available as a public beta by Friday, 28 August. If you rely on Infovox iVox do not upgrade to Snow Leopard until you have upgraded to iVox 2.0. Note that if you rely on the older HD voices (which do not sound as good as the more recent HQ voices) you should not upgrade to Snow Leopard as the change to support 64 bit technology made it impossible to retain the HD voices in Infovox iVox 2.0. For most languages HQ voices are available (several new ones are included in Infovox iVox 2.0). Only Icelandic had to be completely dropped in Infovox iVox 2.0 because there are no HQ voices for that language. With best wishes, david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: ivox 2?
Thanks for that info, that's great news. /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.22 skrev william lomas: Begin forwarded message: From: AssistiveWare Support supp...@assistiveware.com Date: 24 August 2009 17:17:06 BST To: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: ivox 2? Hi, iVox 1.3 will not work on Snow Leopard. iVox 2.0 will be required. This will be a free update. As iVox 2.0 required a major rewrite for compatibility with Snow Leopard and Apple has released Snow Leopard earlier than they had said previously we do not have a final release for iVox 2.0 ready yet. Instead, if our current tests are positive we will make iVox 2.0 available as a public beta by Friday, 28 August. If you rely on Infovox iVox do not upgrade to Snow Leopard until you have upgraded to iVox 2.0. With best wishes, david. On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:49 PM, william lomas wrote: hi David, as snowleopard is guaranteed to be out Friday, when do your company hope to release ivox 2 for SL compatability? Regards, WIll --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
audio clips
hi does microsoft messenger for mac let us do audio clips etc. as one can do in windows with windows live? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
Hi there, How does one go about obtaining the voices for SL once it's released? I'm interested of the swedish voice pack. /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.19 skrev David Niemeijer: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
the updated accapella ones for english and other foreign languages On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:52, Brandon Misch wrote: whitch voices will work with the new mac? On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:19 PM, David Niemeijer wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
Hi, On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Koumanova Rostislava wrote: hellow david , i am using the italian voice , can i upgrade to snow ? not yet. Wait for iVox 2.0. see my other message today for more info. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
Hi, A kinda speculative question here, i wonder if Apple will release a keyboard with a touch pad instead of a mighty mouse for desktop machines? Or is it even possible there'll be a stand-alone mouse replacement device thingy that's a touchpad? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.25 skrev william lomas: just wish i could use the touch pad features but ah well my macbook doesn't support it. I would ahve thought all macbooks since the first i phone would ahve had a touchpad On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Mac-cessibility News] Infovox iVox Users Should Hold Off Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Infovox iVox Users Should Hold Off Upgrading to Snow Leopard Assistiveware has notified customers that Infovox iVox v1.3 will not work under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due for release this Friday. Users will require Infovox iVox v2.0, which will be a free update to existing users of v1.3. If possible, the company hopes to release a public beta of Infovox iVox v2.0 [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/infovox-ivox-users-should-hold-off-upgrading-to-snow-leopard/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Infovox iVox voices and Snow Leopard
Will, On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:02 PM, william lomas wrote: which new voices are included? just curious? Just wait a few more days and you will see what new languages and voices are available... Patience is supposed to be a virtue :-) david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro
Hi thanks I'll try that later on when I have a chance and let you know how it goes! Gene - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro Hi Gene. First of all, I recommend you to do the following: 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. 2: Choose the general tab 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find the playback settings. Set the If selection is empty to Play from insertion point. If you change this setting, your playhead will always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion ppoint by pressing the left or right arrow keys. If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the following: 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have found the place where you wanna start your selection. 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to select anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you have selected. 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing the p-key 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the playhead, and then press m to place a marker. If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a second marker. Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first marker you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option left and right arrow. When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can also press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the following way: 1: Find the Loop playback with the VO-cursor, and check the checkbox by pressing VO spacebar. 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the mouse to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the scroll area again. I hope it explains how it works. If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful guides, you are welcome to check the guide for misspelled words and grammatical errors and upload the guide. Please let me know before you upload it. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/01/2009, at 21.23, Gene Richburg wrote: Hi yeah I gota say that I don't understand how you select something either I read that quick start guide on icanwork this thing.com but it gets kind of complecated trying to get the program to select something. I have tried setting the markers but that doesn't work and when I try to either extend the selection either to the next or previous marker the e key still isn't selecting what I thought I had selected. So I tried sound studio but am having a hard time finding any selecting commands in the manual. Can someone try to explain how this works? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro Hi Krister. I forgot to say that I don't find this extremely annoying because you can always press e to check what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. What an awesome feature. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/08/2009, at 21.18, Krister Ekstrom wrote: 23 aug 2009 kl. 19.06 skrev Søren Jensen: I just wish it was possible to move the markers or selection while the audio is playing so you could hear the changes you made. Exactly my centiments too. It would be much easier to precition edit if you could hear what you were doing while doing it. /Krister --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder
It's a paid app. If it was free, I would use it all the time. :( Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 18.50, Koumanova Rostislava wrote: hi guys , can i use this up only for cut and paste and then use my finder for all the other things? and is it a paid app or free ? i am just having tough time with the missing cut function. rk Il giorno 24/ago/09, alle ore 18:11, Krister Ekstrom ha scritto: Hi, Yes, but then you don't have columns like size, date modified etc or am i wrong? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 16.46 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi. The application will be very accessible if you change to column view in the view menu. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 10.34, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello, Funny you should mention that program. I checked it out and found that the only view in which it worked was list view i think. In other views it was jampacked with unknowns that VO couldn't act upon. It's possible there has been an update in the month or two since i tested it on my system, and that would be nice. I however dropped the program since i think that if a program forces me to use one view and one view alone, it's not accessible because it doesn't let me have the freedom of choise that sighted people have. /Krister 23 aug 2009 kl. 22.16 skrev Søren Jensen: Hi all. I've just found a very nice application called Path Finder, which is a replacement for the original Finder on the mac. The application have a lot of nice features, and it seems to be fully accessible. You can move or cut files with this application, it can compress files into a lot of filetypes, it can open multiple windows in tabs instead of just new windows, it can sort files and folders like in Windows, where all the folders are shown at the top in alphabetically order, it has some terminal features which I have no idea about what means and a tun of more features. You can find more information at the following link: http://www.cocoatech.com/reviews I'm really sorry if this application has been discussed here before. I've did a quick search for Path finder on the mail archive, but I couldn't find any topics about this application. I remember some Finder replacements which has been discussed here before, but I don't remember what they are called. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: audible.com question
Hi Donna, Just a few additions to Daniel's remarks. You can make things a little more efficient if you copy your Audible files (which can be in an Audible Downloads folder) to your iTunes Music folder, which you'll find in your account under Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. While you don't actually need to download a book, that's a good way to start authorization. Otherwise you would be prompted to authorize your account the first time you tried to play one of the Audible files you transfer to your Mac. If you ever need to de-authorize your Mac's Audible account, for example, if you upgrade your computer or before you send your Computer in for service (in case they replace a logic board or other element that wipes out your authorization record), you can find a Deauthorize Audible account … option in the Advanced menu on the iTunes menu bar. I'm guessing that you used the Audible Downloads Manager on your Windows PC? Here's a link to the Audible Customer help page on Everything iPod and iTunes for Audible Content (Mac) in case you have further questions: http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3458 On the Mac, downloaded files go to your Downloads folder. If you play or open an Audible file it should get added to your iTunes library -- usually, by being copied to that location. Cheers, Esther On Aug 24, 2009, Donna Goodin wrote: Oh. that kmakes sense. *grin* Thanks. Donna On Aug 24, 2009, Daniel Crone wrote: I just put my audible books in to a folder called audible books. Then I import that folder in to my itunes. On Aug 24, 2009, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip to download a book. I had been to the Audible site, and seen that I didn't need to download any software, but wasn't sure what the next step was, as I figured I had to do something to authorize Audible on this computer. I do have one question. On my Windows machine, there was actually a folder called Audible Downloads. There does not seem to be a counterpart on the Mac. So, I guess my question has two parts: 1. Re the book I just downloaded, should I leave it in the downloads folder, or should I move it? If I should move it, where should I move it to? 2. To what folder should I copy the Audible files from my PC? ITunes Music? Thanks, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: Just copying the audible files from your windows machine should work. Download at least one book from audible to your mac so you may authorize your Mac to play audible. On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re-download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
Just order it for $29. The system did not ask me for a serial number of my machine etc. If you have Leopard/an Intel Mac, your good to go. On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009
Yep, i saw that. Interesting times indeed. /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.56 skrev william lomas: christer see my message i sent from david. the voices will be in beta for snowleopard on friday On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:15, Krister Ekstrom wrote: The question then is will there be non-english voices from Acapela or other companies available or do i have to wait to install SL until such time as they're available? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 17.24 skrev Maccessibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping on 28/August/2009 After a couple of weeks, during which we saw the rumor mills heat up with speculation of an August 28th release of Apple's latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, the company issued a press release this morning, officially announcing that date. Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re [...] You can read the rest of this news item at: http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/08/24/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-shipping-on-28august2009/ The Mac-cessibility Network ...it's all within our reach... http://maccessibility.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Checking Download speed in iTunes
Hi Robert, Will has answered your question, but in case you want more details, if you select Downloads in the Sources table (below the iTunes Store and Purchased smart playlist) and then tab to the table, and interact, you'll be able to select and monitor the status of all downloads currently in progress. The sources table Downloads entry also announces the number of downloads currently in progress/pending. In the other table, arrow down in the Name column then VO-Right to the Status column and interact to monitor the progress. There will also be a button to pause individual downloads. You'll hear something like: Status 46.2 MB of 109.1 MB - 2 minutes remaining pause announced. If you stop interacting with the table, there's also a check box to permit multiple simultaneous downloads (checked by default) and buttons that allow you to pause or resume all downloads. HTH. Generally, when you download a song, the process will be complete before you can navigate to the place where you can check on the download status. It's only on the longer files (podcasts, audiobooks, movies, etc.) that you may want to monitor the download. Cheers, Esther On Aug 23, 2009 william lomas wrote: yes go to the downloads playlist and in the table that you will find, it shows the download progress On 23 Aug 2009, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, When downloading podcasts in iTunes is there a way to use VoiceOver to check the speed of the download? Thanks, Robert Carter --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: snowleopard shipping friday
i hope so as i want one!!! a portable trackpad On 24 Aug 2009, at 18:22, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, A kinda speculative question here, i wonder if Apple will release a keyboard with a touch pad instead of a mighty mouse for desktop machines? Or is it even possible there'll be a stand-alone mouse replacement device thingy that's a touchpad? /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.25 skrev william lomas: just wish i could use the touch pad features but ah well my macbook doesn't support it. I would ahve thought all macbooks since the first i phone would ahve had a touchpad On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Mark Baxter wrote: So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan?
Hello, I am wondering, i am thinking this will work with readiris pro but I am wondering if it does with vuescan too? My scanner has a sheetfeeder so it can scan 25-50 pages at once. I always use it this way i never scan loose pages, also my scanner has the capability (albeit not by scanning both sides at once) to scan both sides of a page wihtout you having to manually turn them. I guess readiris supports this (i mean, it seems to be a major ocr package), but i wonder if vuescan can do this as well? Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Hi, Well there are apparently different opinions about this, some say you can't some, (i), say you can. I'm currently using Vuescan, but i can to be honest, not see what difference it makes in scanning quality. I have a canon Lide 90 scanner and before i purchased Vuescan i used it successfully with Readiris but then i heard that the Vuescan/Readiris combo should be better. I don't know about that to be honest. I'm not saying that it isn't only that i haven't noticed any difference in quality. It's much easier to reach the scanning stuff, i.e the button to scan with in Vuescan though so i guess it's up to you to judge what works best. Sorry for the rambling. /Krister 22 aug 2009 kl. 21.37 skrev a radix: Hello, Is it possible to use readiris pro with just your scanners driver or do you have to use vuescan? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: audible.com question
Hi Esther, As always, thanks for this. I did see the De-authorization option that you mentioned, but wasn't sure--before Dan's message--what to do to authorize. I second Chris's earlier post, that your messages have been invaluable. thanks for taking to provide so much great info to us newbies. Cheers, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Donna, Just a few additions to Daniel's remarks. You can make things a little more efficient if you copy your Audible files (which can be in an Audible Downloads folder) to your iTunes Music folder, which you'll find in your account under Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. While you don't actually need to download a book, that's a good way to start authorization. Otherwise you would be prompted to authorize your account the first time you tried to play one of the Audible files you transfer to your Mac. If you ever need to de-authorize your Mac's Audible account, for example, if you upgrade your computer or before you send your Computer in for service (in case they replace a logic board or other element that wipes out your authorization record), you can find a Deauthorize Audible account … option in the Advanced menu on the iTunes menu bar. I'm guessing that you used the Audible Downloads Manager on your Windows PC? Here's a link to the Audible Customer help page on Everything iPod and iTunes for Audible Content (Mac) in case you have further questions: http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3458 On the Mac, downloaded files go to your Downloads folder. If you play or open an Audible file it should get added to your iTunes library -- usually, by being copied to that location. Cheers, Esther On Aug 24, 2009, Donna Goodin wrote: Oh. that kmakes sense. *grin* Thanks. Donna On Aug 24, 2009, Daniel Crone wrote: I just put my audible books in to a folder called audible books. Then I import that folder in to my itunes. On Aug 24, 2009, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip to download a book. I had been to the Audible site, and seen that I didn't need to download any software, but wasn't sure what the next step was, as I figured I had to do something to authorize Audible on this computer. I do have one question. On my Windows machine, there was actually a folder called Audible Downloads. There does not seem to be a counterpart on the Mac. So, I guess my question has two parts: 1. Re the book I just downloaded, should I leave it in the downloads folder, or should I move it? If I should move it, where should I move it to? 2. To what folder should I copy the Audible files from my PC? ITunes Music? Thanks, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: Just copying the audible files from your windows machine should work. Download at least one book from audible to your mac so you may authorize your Mac to play audible. On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good morning all, I'm wondering about moving my audible content over from my PC to my Mac. Is it possible to just copy everything in my Audble downloads folder over to a location on the Mac, or do I have to re- download everything? If I can just copy it, to what location should I copy the files? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: mac mini mic jack
Yeah, I checked all my configuration settings in skype. I am no skype expert but I know enough to get it working on a Windows machine with 2 sound cards. I had jaws speaking via one sound card and skype working through the other. Very nice. But that's on a Windows machine that I really need to get rid of. Anyway, I got smart and asked the google after I posted my question here. So now I'm about as sure as I can be that it's a hardware problem. I guess I can understand that Apple was in a bind. They didn't want to have a mic jack on the Mac mini that is incompatible with all the other Macs out there. But I shouldn't have to buy a new headset to use with my Mac mini either. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:47 PM Subject: Re: mac mini mic jack Hi! Okay, just because the microphone worked with the Windows PC doesn't mean its going to work with the Mac I'm afraid and if my hunch is correct - that you're using a microphone which plugs into the microphone jack of a PC and you're expecting it to work plugged into the Line in jack of your Mac - then you're going to be a little disappointed I think smile. I can't answer your garage Band question I'm afraid so let's deal with Skype then. The first thing you need to do is set the audio preferences in Skype, these are independent o the System Preferences for the Mac and are found by pressing command-, in Skype, go to the Toolbar, interact with it and press vo-space on the Audio button. From here you select your input and output, make sure the input reflects the microphone or whatever you're using. I bypassed a lot of this trouble by using a simple USB microphone, Logitech sell one for about $40.00 which does an excellent job, its the same as the one I use. You may also like to consider a USB headset though be a little careful here, some microphones on some sound as though you have your finger stuck up your nose smile. One final thing, to determine what you sound like on Skype, make a call to Skype Test Call which should be in your contacts table somewhere, if you can't find it then go into the View menu and select Show offline contacts On 22/08/2009, at 12:46 PM, John G. Heim wrote: I am trying to use skype on my mac mini. But the microphone doesn't work. I know the microphone I am using works because I just made a skype call with it on my Windows machine on Monday. I also tried connecting a stereo imput line to the jack and recording something with Garage Band and that didn't work either. I went into system preferences and found the imput tab. I turned the lin-in volume up to 100%. Still no luck. Any ideas? ** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia 0390058589 Phone United States 8159261869 Fax: +61 3 9743 7954x MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net skype:grtdane12 ** --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro
True. I forgot to tell that. Another nice thing is that you can read the selected zoom level with the VO-cursor. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 20.26, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Thanks for the great info, Soren! One thing I can add is that changing the zoom level changes how quickly you can make noticeable changes with A, S, D, and F. Command-G decreases the zoom level and Command- Shift-G increases it. So if those letter commands don't appear to be doing anything, press Command-Shift-G and try them again. Best, Anna On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi Gene. First of all, I recommend you to do the following: 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. 2: Choose the general tab 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find the playback settings. Set the If selection is empty to Play from insertion point. If you change this setting, your playhead will always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion ppoint by pressing the left or right arrow keys. If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the following: 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have found the place where you wanna start your selection. 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to select anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you have selected. 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing the p-key 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the playhead, and then press m to place a marker. If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a second marker. Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first marker you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option left and right arrow. When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can also press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the following way: 1: Find the Loop playback with the VO-cursor, and check the checkbox by pressing VO spacebar. 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the mouse to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the scroll area again. I hope it explains how it works. If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful guides, you are welcome to check the guide for misspelled words and grammatical errors and upload the guide. Please let me know before you upload it. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/01/2009, at 21.23, Gene Richburg wrote: Hi yeah I gota say that I don't understand how you select something either I read that quick start guide on icanwork this thing.com but it gets kind of complecated trying to get the program to select something. I have tried setting the markers but that doesn't work and when I try to either extend the selection either to the next or previous marker the e key still isn't selecting what I thought I had selected. So I tried sound studio but am having a hard time finding any selecting commands in the manual. Can someone try to explain how this works? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro Hi Krister. I forgot to say that I don't find this extremely annoying because you can always press e to check what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. What an awesome feature. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/08/2009, at 21.18, Krister Ekstrom wrote: 23 aug 2009 kl. 19.06 skrev Søren Jensen: I just wish it was possible to move the markers or selection while the audio is playing so you could hear the changes you made. Exactly my centiments too. It
Re: iphone vs pac mate
One more question though... Which GPS app do you use on your phone and is it as good as StreetTalk? I'm afraid that I'll buy an iphonly to discover that I can't find a decent, accessible GPS app. - Original Message - From: John Sanfilippo vze33...@verizon.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 9:40 AM Subject: Re: iphone vs pac mate personal opinion, The pac mate and street talk are both dead animals. The only thing I like about the pac mate now is the braille display and the ability to use it or the pac mate itself if either is not working. The braille display is the better part of the hardware, in my opinion. My experience with the pac mate and street talk, is that: 1, the gps receiver provided with the package can be far too tardy in tracking satelites, or being tracked by them, take your pick. 2, you need a blue tooth card installed in one of the cf slots, and your maps installed in the other, which means you need to do some jiggling around and setting up before you can get going. 3, I found that the entire setup was a hoffible drain on the pm battery. This is true on the cel phone as well, but at least there, I can bring along a spare battery and there is no setup. My two cents. js - Original Message - From: John G. Heim To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: iphone vs pac mate I am thinking of selling my Pac Mate in favor of an iphone. My main question is whether I can get a comperable GPS system to a Pac Mate with StreetTalk. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
The voices from Acapella are great but it's rediculous that Apple keep avoiding the answer on whether or not they will ever include other language voices as they do in the IPhone. If they can do it in the IPhone they can do so in Mac OS X 10.6 +. This is especiallly true considering that they are based in California whre are large percentage of the population are Spanish speaking. The same is true for Braille. Take care - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:15 PM Subject: Re: voices on os x you would download the sweedish pack and get an initial 30 day demo again if apple had basic sweedish as in the i phone that would ahve gotten you started, for now but that's life On 24 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi there, How does one go about obtaining the voices for SL once it's released? I'm interested of the swedish voice pack. /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.19 skrev David Niemeijer: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac?
can you download eyetv lite? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:50 AM Subject: Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac? I don't use a sattle lite box. I only have a usb tv-tuner which I just plug in to my mac, and then connect a small antenna in the other end of the tuner. The following things came with the product: A small USB tv-tuner, a small antenna, a small remote control which works with the tv-tuner and which controls the eyeTv software through the tuner and of course EyeTv on a cd. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 24/08/2009, at 08.53, hank smith wrote: how do you control your sattle lite box from your tuner? - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:59 AM Subject: Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac? The EyeTV software or the remote control which comes with the tv tuner. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 21/08/2009, at 10.53, hank smith wrote: what does any one suggest that we can use from the tv tuner end to control it? Hank On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:23 AM, a radix wrote: Hello, well I was actually more thinking of watching tv when I am away at home. I too only have a digital settop box only, no tv. Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:11 AM Subject: Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac? I can't find the beginning of this thread and I can't give any info about watching TV on the Mac but for $5 you can buy a cable that allows you to connect a VCR, DVD player, or a digital converter box to the sound input jack of your Mac. I don't have a TV any more. I just have a converter box. But I don't want a picture, just sound. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: mac mini mic jack
Right, well before I go any further, I've just changed the subject line as the Mac Mini - nor any other modern day Mac - does not have a microphone jack smile. You're dealing with 2 different beasts here actually, setting Skype up for the PC is somewhat different than setting it up for the Mac and I won't go into the differences here but I do agree, if you can set it up with the PC then ou'll have no trouble whatever in setting it for the Mac, how many sound devices or whatever you have isn't particularly important when it comes to the Mac, all you need to remember is to set your Skype input and output correctly to what you want. I'm not going to enter into the argument as to what you should or shouldn't have to buy, I've never liked those microphones that plug directly into a Sound Card anyway but that's only my opinion and I've only seen cheap one's smile, one thing to be said for a USB Headset is that it works on every computer with just about every operating system, that's the case with my Logitech Headset and my Logitech desktop microphone so for that reason alone, I reckon they're excellent buys. On 25/08/2009, at 4:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: Yeah, I checked all my configuration settings in skype. I am no skype expert but I know enough to get it working on a Windows machine with 2 sound cards. I had jaws speaking via one sound card and skype working through the other. Very nice. But that's on a Windows machine that I really need to get rid of. Anyway, I got smart and asked the google after I posted my question here. So now I'm about as sure as I can be that it's a hardware problem. I guess I can understand that Apple was in a bind. They didn't want to have a mic jack on the Mac mini that is incompatible with all the other Macs out there. But I shouldn't have to buy a new headset to use with my Mac mini either. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:47 PM Subject: Re: mac mini mic jack Hi! Okay, just because the microphone worked with the Windows PC doesn't mean its going to work with the Mac I'm afraid and if my hunch is correct - that you're using a microphone which plugs into the microphone jack of a PC and you're expecting it to work plugged into the Line in jack of your Mac - then you're going to be a little disappointed I think smile. I can't answer your garage Band question I'm afraid so let's deal with Skype then. The first thing you need to do is set the audio preferences in Skype, these are independent o the System Preferences for the Mac and are found by pressing command-, in Skype, go to the Toolbar, interact with it and press vo-space on the Audio button. From here you select your input and output, make sure the input reflects the microphone or whatever you're using. I bypassed a lot of this trouble by using a simple USB microphone, Logitech sell one for about $40.00 which does an excellent job, its the same as the one I use. You may also like to consider a USB headset though be a little careful here, some microphones on some sound as though you have your finger stuck up your nose smile. One final thing, to determine what you sound like on Skype, make a call to Skype Test Call which should be in your contacts table somewhere, if you can't find it then go into the View menu and select Show offline contacts On 22/08/2009, at 12:46 PM, John G. Heim wrote: I am trying to use skype on my mac mini. But the microphone doesn't work. I know the microphone I am using works because I just made a skype call with it on my Windows machine on Monday. I also tried connecting a stereo imput line to the jack and recording something with Garage Band and that didn't work either. I went into system preferences and found the imput tab. I turned the lin-in volume up to 100%. Still no luck. Any ideas? ** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia 0390058589 Phone United States 8159261869 Fax: +61 3 9743 7954x MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net skype:grtdane12 ** ** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia 0390058589 Phone United States 8159261869 Fax: +61 3 9743 7954x MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net skype:grtdane12 ** --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to
curious observation re Cut command
Hello all, I have noticed something that seems odd about the Cut command. It seems never to function. It doesn't matter whether I use Command-X or whether I go into the menus. If I go into the menu, that option simply shows as dimmed, even though I have an item selected. Likewise, if I press Command-X, nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
ilife on 10.6?
Hello my mac will be here by friday (i ordered just too early for 10.6 to be preinstalled) I wonder since I would like to use ilife which will be preinstalled on my mac, will there be a separate cd that contains just ilife? If not how can i install it after i installed 10.6? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to Shuffle within Playlists [was Re: Creating a smart playlist in iTunes - I don't get it]
I agree, thats why I bring my questions here rather than trying to search for answers. Everyone here is so knowledgeable and actually uses it all. I just have to comment on Brahms and MandM haha, that is too funny. As I write this, I'm listening to all my track 4's, and I had Alice and Chains, and then Phantom of the Opera, and now Hooked on a Feeling...going from Think of Me to Hooka chaka hooka hookatee hee. Thanks for all the help everyone!!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: got a message from abbyyFw: questions about finereader for the mac
Anouk, I didn't find the interface to be much of an issue, but I was disappointed in the fact I could not use my scanner because it is a network appliance and not connected directly to the machine. I may contact them again and see if I can push them into making this possible. I was also confused by the fact the preferences was grayed out. My assumption was the software allowed for various preferences to be set, but that menu was not available. Guess I need to try to get in touch with someone who can address the issues better than Tech Support. On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:01 PM, a radix wrote: Hello, I got in contact with someone at abbyy (eva webber product manager, web...@abbyy.com) who tells me that their product should be in compliance with some kind of accessibility law in the united states. I have forwarded the message below to this list because she asked me to contact her if I had further questions. I hope the ones o fyou that have already tried finereader and found it unaccessible would pelase contact her with more detailed information. I have not tried it yet (since my mac is not here yet) but according to her it SHOULD be accessible, it can do more then one page at once if the scanner supports it, and the program supports the recognition o fpages that are put in upside down (i read on this list hat it apparently did not, but she says it does). I think it would be good if abbyy got more feedback from blind users who are trying to use their product. Apparently it is still being updated because she says there will be a new version for os x 10.6, that might be a good point for more accessibility. I personally hope they will port the big brother over to mac os x. Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Eva Weber To: a radix Cc: Katelin Leinweber Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:23 PM Subject: AW: questions about finereader for the mac Hallo Anouk I have checked your requests back with our HQ. ABBYY FineReader Express Edtion has 508 compliance which assurase a good usability for people with sight disabilities. The program is able to recognise if you insert the documents upside down and correct it (you can as well do it maually) as well as proceed documents in batches (if scanner support it) The program supports OS 10.4 and higher (it will be updated to 10.6 once 10.6 is released) I hope I could help you. Pls contact me directly if you have additional questions. Best regards Eva Weber Von: a radix [mailto:anou...@home.nl] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 16:50 An: Eva Weber Betreff: Re: questions about finereader for the mac Hello, no it is not urgent. Thanks for the help, Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Eva Weber To: Katelin Leinweber ; anou...@home.nl Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:15 PM Subject: AW: questions about finereader for the mac Dear Anouk yes, the version supports Mac OS 10.5 It as well should recognise that you put pages upside down but to be sure, I will test it. Pls have a bit patience, I do not have mac computer available this week as I am working from home office on my PC. I hope your request is not urgent. Best regards Eva Weber Von: Katelin Leinweber Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 09:30 An: anou...@home.nl Cc: Eva Weber Betreff: RE: questions about finereader for the mac Hi Anouk, many thanks for your interest in FineReader Express for Mac. I have forwarded your request to our Product Manager Eva Weber who will get in touch with you directly. Unfortunately we cannot offer trial versions for MACs at the moment but may possibly be able to do that shortly. Eva will be able to provide you with more accurate information about that. Kind regards, Katelin From: a radix [mailto:anou...@home.nl] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:13 AM To: ABBYY Sales Subject: questions about finereader for the mac Hello, my name is Anouk Radix and I am blind. I use my scanner + ocr software a lot because I need to scan and ocr books for my university study (i do this using a sheetfeader so books are first cut apart into loose pages) I wonder if the normal version of readiris will be ported to the mac because it seems from other people that I have contacted that the current version is not able to scan multiple pages at once or correct pages that have been put in the scanner upside down (a common thing that happens when you are blind and live alone). Also, I wonder if the current finereader version for the mac was developed for mac os x 10.5 because according to some other blind users it is not entirely accessible with voiceover. The thing is, i would really like to use a good scanning package like finereader on my mac but only if the full version is ported. Thanks for any information, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received
Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan?
Anouk, that is more the function of your scanners driver. Unless the software by-passes the scanners driver, then you should be able to use the feeder. I've used the feeder on my HP all-in-one with great success. On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:25 PM, a radix wrote: Hello, I am wondering, i am thinking this will work with readiris pro but I am wondering if it does with vuescan too? My scanner has a sheetfeeder so it can scan 25-50 pages at once. I always use it this way i never scan loose pages, also my scanner has the capability (albeit not by scanning both sides at once) to scan both sides of a page wihtout you having to manually turn them. I guess readiris supports this (i mean, it seems to be a major ocr package), but i wonder if vuescan can do this as well? Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Hi, Well there are apparently different opinions about this, some say you can't some, (i), say you can. I'm currently using Vuescan, but i can to be honest, not see what difference it makes in scanning quality. I have a canon Lide 90 scanner and before i purchased Vuescan i used it successfully with Readiris but then i heard that the Vuescan/Readiris combo should be better. I don't know about that to be honest. I'm not saying that it isn't only that i haven't noticed any difference in quality. It's much easier to reach the scanning stuff, i.e the button to scan with in Vuescan though so i guess it's up to you to judge what works best. Sorry for the rambling. /Krister 22 aug 2009 kl. 21.37 skrev a radix: Hello, Is it possible to use readiris pro with just your scanners driver or do you have to use vuescan? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro
Hello, I'm not sure whether people will find this useful, but if you've made a selection, and then go to the Selection menu on the Amadeus Pro menu bar to choose Generate Markers and then just press enter (without changing any of the settings in the dialog window that appears), you'll get markers generated at every silence point (that is at least 1 second long) over your selection. This is really helpful if you want to split off or edit sections at gaps. I believe the markers get placed at the middle of silence gaps. So if you've made a selection by manually placing markers at the beginning and end, and you want to get a clean break, you can generate markers over your selected region, then use s to move the starting point of your selection ahead in time (into the part where someone has started talking), and use d to move the ending point of your selection slightly back in time (where the comment is not finished), then use command-right arrow and command-left arrow to push the selection boundaries to match the automatically placed silence markers at the start and end of your selection. (Hope this doesn't sound too confusing!). Another example: If I record a cassette tape of songs with Amadeus Pro, I can use the Generate Markers option, and if I select all (Command-A) after trimming the start and end, and then choose a time for the silence gap of something like 20 seconds, I can use the Split according to markers command in the Sound menu to automatically split the recording up into its component songs. Cheers, Esther Søren Jensen wrote: True. I forgot to tell that. Another nice thing is that you can read the selected zoom level with the VO-cursor. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Thanks for the great info, Soren! One thing I can add is that changing the zoom level changes how quickly you can make noticeable changes with A, S, D, and F. Command-G decreases the zoom level and Command- Shift-G increases it. So if those letter commands don't appear to be doing anything, press Command-Shift-G and try them again. Best, Anna On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi Gene. First of all, I recommend you to do the following: 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. 2: Choose the general tab 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find the playback settings. Set the If selection is empty to Play from insertion point. If you change this setting, your playhead will always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion ppoint by pressing the left or right arrow keys. If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the following: 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have found the place where you wanna start your selection. 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to select anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you have selected. 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing the p-key 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the playhead, and then press m to place a marker. If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a second marker. Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first marker you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option left and right arrow. When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can also press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the following way: 1: Find the Loop playback with the VO-cursor, and check the checkbox by pressing VO spacebar. 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the mouse to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the scroll area again. I hope it explains how it works. If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful guides, you are welcome
Re: voices on os x
if braille is in other languages in snowleopard i'd be interested to see if foreign braille is there On 24 Aug 2009, at 20:04, James Nash wrote: The voices from Acapella are great but it's rediculous that Apple keep avoiding the answer on whether or not they will ever include other language voices as they do in the IPhone. If they can do it in the IPhone they can do so in Mac OS X 10.6 +. This is especiallly true considering that they are based in California whre are large percentage of the population are Spanish speaking. The same is true for Braille. Take care - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:15 PM Subject: Re: voices on os x you would download the sweedish pack and get an initial 30 day demo again if apple had basic sweedish as in the i phone that would ahve gotten you started, for now but that's life On 24 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi there, How does one go about obtaining the voices for SL once it's released? I'm interested of the swedish voice pack. /Krister 24 aug 2009 kl. 18.19 skrev David Niemeijer: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 AM, hank smith wrote: will the latest voices work on the 32 bit mac meaning the new voices that you are working on for snow leapard are they backwards conpatible with 10.5? Yes, most are. Only the older HD voices had to be dropped. david. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
probably dumb itunes question
Hi all, When browsing in the ITunes store, How can one tell whether a track is ITunes Plus or not? I don't want to purchase anything with DRM. Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: probably dumb itunes question
drm is extinct, I believe Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, When browsing in the ITunes store, How can one tell whether a track is ITunes Plus or not? I don't want to purchase anything with DRM. Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: ilife on 10.6?
ILife will be on the DVD shipped with your machine. So, if you do not receive Snow Leopard on the machine, you can simply perform an upgrade if you wish once you have SL. On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:17 PM, a radix wrote: Hello my mac will be here by friday (i ordered just too early for 10.6 to be preinstalled) I wonder since I would like to use ilife which will be preinstalled on my mac, will there be a separate cd that contains just ilife? If not how can i install it after i installed 10.6? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Installing the new cat
I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan?
does your hp all in 1 have a flat bed scanner as well? if so what model? Hank - Original Message - From: Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:34 PM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Anouk, that is more the function of your scanners driver. Unless the software by-passes the scanners driver, then you should be able to use the feeder. I've used the feeder on my HP all-in-one with great success. On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:25 PM, a radix wrote: Hello, I am wondering, i am thinking this will work with readiris pro but I am wondering if it does with vuescan too? My scanner has a sheetfeeder so it can scan 25-50 pages at once. I always use it this way i never scan loose pages, also my scanner has the capability (albeit not by scanning both sides at once) to scan both sides of a page wihtout you having to manually turn them. I guess readiris supports this (i mean, it seems to be a major ocr package), but i wonder if vuescan can do this as well? Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Hi, Well there are apparently different opinions about this, some say you can't some, (i), say you can. I'm currently using Vuescan, but i can to be honest, not see what difference it makes in scanning quality. I have a canon Lide 90 scanner and before i purchased Vuescan i used it successfully with Readiris but then i heard that the Vuescan/Readiris combo should be better. I don't know about that to be honest. I'm not saying that it isn't only that i haven't noticed any difference in quality. It's much easier to reach the scanning stuff, i.e the button to scan with in Vuescan though so i guess it's up to you to judge what works best. Sorry for the rambling. /Krister 22 aug 2009 kl. 21.37 skrev a radix: Hello, Is it possible to use readiris pro with just your scanners driver or do you have to use vuescan? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
trackapd
hi can one buy a bluetooth enabled trackpad i wonder to use the new touchpad features on a macbook or imac that does not have the integrated touchpad? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
when you boot up from the dvd by holding down c at startup as the mac boots, you will hear the drive spin. When it stops spinning press command key f5 and voiceover willc ome up and the first screen, I guess, will b, language chooser WIll On 24 Aug 2009, at 20:59, Marie Howarth wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: say it's not so apple
Hello, From what I've read, you will be able to select the different components of a site to read or scrol through. On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: one feature I just read they have in snow leopard is voice over will now read the whole website to you. I cannot say I'm happy about this, the one thing about VO I love is it does what I want it too not what it thinks I want it too. ugh. apple why listen to them? sorry, but what do others think? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: curious observation re Cut command
Can you give some more details? What application were you in, what did you select and how did you select it? CB Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, I have noticed something that seems odd about the Cut command. It seems never to function. It doesn't matter whether I use Command-X or whether I go into the menus. If I go into the menu, that option simply shows as dimmed, even though I have an item selected. Likewise, if I press Command-X, nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
Hey Marie, Well I guess not many people can say for sure right now what the instalation process will be like in detail, seeing as the only people who will have seen it firsthand so far are beta testers and people who grabbed it off torrent sites, and neither will talk about it publically in case Steve Jobs and his heavies turn up at their house with a big stick. But having said that, it's safe to predict that VO will work during the instalation, and that it'll be easy to do. With Tiger and Leopard, the install was as simple as putting in your OS dvd, booting up with the c key held down, waiting a few minutes until the disc spins down so you know that everything has finished loading from it, and launching VO with f/n-command-f5 on a laptop or just command-f5 on a full keyboard. You land in the language selection table, which is set to some variety of English by default, and from then on it's a pretty standard instalation wizard. There are usually a few different choices, you can repartition and format and suchlike. Archive and install is probably the safest choice if you've got the disc space for that, it'll preserve a copy of your leopard system libraries and such just in case the upgrade goes horribly wrong. VO stays functional throughout the upgrade process, you can get feedback at any point, and I've never yet encountered an error that it won't read during the process. Past that, the only reassurance I can give you is that, having seen your posts on list about other apps, you'll be fine with this. It's a peace of cake as they say. hth Scott On 8/24/09, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan?
Yes it does, it is the OfficeJet Pro L7650 and it is a printer, scanner, and fax machine. On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:13 PM, hank smith wrote: does your hp all in 1 have a flat bed scanner as well? if so what model? Hank - Original Message - From: Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:34 PM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Anouk, that is more the function of your scanners driver. Unless the software by-passes the scanners driver, then you should be able to use the feeder. I've used the feeder on my HP all-in-one with great success. On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:25 PM, a radix wrote: Hello, I am wondering, i am thinking this will work with readiris pro but I am wondering if it does with vuescan too? My scanner has a sheetfeeder so it can scan 25-50 pages at once. I always use it this way i never scan loose pages, also my scanner has the capability (albeit not by scanning both sides at once) to scan both sides of a page wihtout you having to manually turn them. I guess readiris supports this (i mean, it seems to be a major ocr package), but i wonder if vuescan can do this as well? Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: readiris pro, does it require vuescan? Hi, Well there are apparently different opinions about this, some say you can't some, (i), say you can. I'm currently using Vuescan, but i can to be honest, not see what difference it makes in scanning quality. I have a canon Lide 90 scanner and before i purchased Vuescan i used it successfully with Readiris but then i heard that the Vuescan/ Readiris combo should be better. I don't know about that to be honest. I'm not saying that it isn't only that i haven't noticed any difference in quality. It's much easier to reach the scanning stuff, i.e the button to scan with in Vuescan though so i guess it's up to you to judge what works best. Sorry for the rambling. /Krister 22 aug 2009 kl. 21.37 skrev a radix: Hello, Is it possible to use readiris pro with just your scanners driver or do you have to use vuescan? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: curious observation re Cut command
The cut command is not available in read-only boxes and lists. The copy command should be available in this case. Also, I don't think cut is available in file browser, because generally a cut item is only in the paste-board once cut, and if you cut something else that file would be lost. I wonder if any of the multi-cut buffer applications would enable cutting in the finder? I have never tried any of these add-ons. Jonathan On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, I have noticed something that seems odd about the Cut command. It seems never to function. It doesn't matter whether I use Command-X or whether I go into the menus. If I go into the menu, that option simply shows as dimmed, even though I have an item selected. Likewise, if I press Command-X, nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: say it's not so apple
OK, here's an exerpt from apple's accessibility page with snow leopard. VoiceOver will begin reading an entire web page automatically http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/accessibility/ On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Dan wrote: Hello, From what I've read, you will be able to select the different components of a site to read or scrol through. On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: one feature I just read they have in snow leopard is voice over will now read the whole website to you. I cannot say I'm happy about this, the one thing about VO I love is it does what I want it too not what it thinks I want it too. ugh. apple why listen to them? sorry, but what do others think? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
You don't need a guide at all. In fact all you need to do is insert the DVD and either restart the machine and hold down the letter c until you hear the DVD begin being accessed by the Mac, insert the DVD, open System Preferences, select startup disk, and choose the Snow Leopard DVD, select restart, confirm you want to restart by selecting restart, and wait for the chime, and as with my previous steps, you wait for the DVD to stop spinning, you press command-f5 to launch VoiceOver. You also have the option to launch the installer on the DVD, which will basically perform the same steps as I explained and will reboot the machine for you. Basically once the DVD has stopped spinning, you can press command-f5 or function-command-f5 for laptops, and VO will launch. If any of my steps are confusing or you have questions, please let me know. However, once VO is up and running, you'll have no problems at all installing/upgrading the os. On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
thanks for that scott. stupid question maybe, but I'm guessing you put the disc in then shut down then turn on with the disc in the drive, while holding down the c key yes? how much room we talking, I got over a hundred gig here as my music stuff is on an external. :) thanks for any answers. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: Hey Marie, Well I guess not many people can say for sure right now what the instalation process will be like in detail, seeing as the only people who will have seen it firsthand so far are beta testers and people who grabbed it off torrent sites, and neither will talk about it publically in case Steve Jobs and his heavies turn up at their house with a big stick. But having said that, it's safe to predict that VO will work during the instalation, and that it'll be easy to do. With Tiger and Leopard, the install was as simple as putting in your OS dvd, booting up with the c key held down, waiting a few minutes until the disc spins down so you know that everything has finished loading from it, and launching VO with f/n-command-f5 on a laptop or just command-f5 on a full keyboard. You land in the language selection table, which is set to some variety of English by default, and from then on it's a pretty standard instalation wizard. There are usually a few different choices, you can repartition and format and suchlike. Archive and install is probably the safest choice if you've got the disc space for that, it'll preserve a copy of your leopard system libraries and such just in case the upgrade goes horribly wrong. VO stays functional throughout the upgrade process, you can get feedback at any point, and I've never yet encountered an error that it won't read during the process. Past that, the only reassurance I can give you is that, having seen your posts on list about other apps, you'll be fine with this. It's a peace of cake as they say. hth Scott On 8/24/09, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: curious observation re Cut command
Ah, that explains it. thanks, Jonathan. Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: The cut command is not available in read-only boxes and lists. The copy command should be available in this case. Also, I don't think cut is available in file browser, because generally a cut item is only in the paste-board once cut, and if you cut something else that file would be lost. I wonder if any of the multi-cut buffer applications would enable cutting in the finder? I have never tried any of these add-ons. Jonathan On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, I have noticed something that seems odd about the Cut command. It seems never to function. It doesn't matter whether I use Command-X or whether I go into the menus. If I go into the menu, that option simply shows as dimmed, even though I have an item selected. Likewise, if I press Command-X, nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: curious observation re Cut command
The one common thread I can find is that I was working with files, rather than selecting text. So, I was selecting them by moving through the file table. Whenever I went into the menu, I was always able to copy the file, and the file I wanted always showed up as being selected. For any more specifics, I'm going to have to think about it, but let me know if there's more info that would be helpful. Best, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Can you give some more details? What application were you in, what did you select and how did you select it? CB Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, I have noticed something that seems odd about the Cut command. It seems never to function. It doesn't matter whether I use Command-X or whether I go into the menus. If I go into the menu, that option simply shows as dimmed, even though I have an item selected. Likewise, if I press Command-X, nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? Thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
You can start the upgrade the way you just said yep. The other option is to put the disc in, it'll appear in the finder, and there's a file you can launch on there that'll be called something really obvious like install snow leopard that will restart and boot from cd for you. Whichever works for ya. Can't say I've ever checked the size of an archive, but I'd be surprised if it's anything over 10 gb, so you should be fine. Role on Friday, I'll be queueing like a fanboy as per usual, just in the new Westfield store for a change of scenery lol. Scott On 8/24/09, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for that scott. stupid question maybe, but I'm guessing you put the disc in then shut down then turn on with the disc in the drive, while holding down the c key yes? how much room we talking, I got over a hundred gig here as my music stuff is on an external. :) thanks for any answers. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: Hey Marie, Well I guess not many people can say for sure right now what the instalation process will be like in detail, seeing as the only people who will have seen it firsthand so far are beta testers and people who grabbed it off torrent sites, and neither will talk about it publically in case Steve Jobs and his heavies turn up at their house with a big stick. But having said that, it's safe to predict that VO will work during the instalation, and that it'll be easy to do. With Tiger and Leopard, the install was as simple as putting in your OS dvd, booting up with the c key held down, waiting a few minutes until the disc spins down so you know that everything has finished loading from it, and launching VO with f/n-command-f5 on a laptop or just command-f5 on a full keyboard. You land in the language selection table, which is set to some variety of English by default, and from then on it's a pretty standard instalation wizard. There are usually a few different choices, you can repartition and format and suchlike. Archive and install is probably the safest choice if you've got the disc space for that, it'll preserve a copy of your leopard system libraries and such just in case the upgrade goes horribly wrong. VO stays functional throughout the upgrade process, you can get feedback at any point, and I've never yet encountered an error that it won't read during the process. Past that, the only reassurance I can give you is that, having seen your posts on list about other apps, you'll be fine with this. It's a peace of cake as they say. hth Scott On 8/24/09, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: voices on os x
Hi, I notice a lot people are complaining that Apple did not include the voices they now include with the iPhone 3Gs also in Snow Leopard. There may be a lot of reasons why they have not done that. I am not sure it is fair to say it is ridiculous of Apple without knowing the reasons behind it. Maybe the company they are licensing those voice from for the iPhone 3Gs is asking a ridiculously high amount per copy of Snow Leopard Apple will sell. Snow Leopard is sold much cheaper than most updates yet has been worked on for two years by a large team of engineers. I think that is nothing to sneeze at. Also, while people accept the lower quality of those voices for a mobile device, would the majority of Mac users accept it for Mac OS X on a desktop machine? Furthermore, do those voices support all the features needed for Speech Manager compatibility, or would that first require years of work? And, what about the third party voices? For Mac OS X there are multiple third party voices available for a wide range of languages. Should Apple just kill that business and possibly stifle innovation on the Mac platform in the voice area because voices in multiple languages already come free with the OS. For third parties it is hard to compete with free stuff, even if the third party stuff is of better quality. I know it would be bad for our business, but in the long run, it might actually also be bad for end-users. Things are not simply black or white. Anyway, I think there may be plenty of reasons for Apple's decision that we as outsiders do not know about. Some of those reasons you and I might consider good others we might consider bad, but I personally do not think we know enough about the issues involved to call it ridiculous, especially after all Apple has been doing these last couple of years in the accessibility area. Cheers, david. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:04 PM, James Nash wrote: The voices from Acapella are great but it's rediculous that Apple keep avoiding the answer on whether or not they will ever include other language voices as they do in the IPhone. If they can do it in the IPhone they can do so in Mac OS X 10.6 +. This is especiallly true considering that they are based in California whre are large percentage of the population are Spanish speaking. The same is true for Braille. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: say it's not so apple
The following is copied directly from the Apple site.Find information fast with auto web spots. Many web pages are filled with complex design elements or lack useful HTML tags, making them difficult to convey through a screen reader. So Apple invented new technologies to comprehend and interpret the visual design of web pages, then use the information to assign virtual tags called “auto web spots” to mark important locations on the page. If you’re on a newspaper website, for example, there might be an auto web spot for each lead story, another for a box containing weather or sports scores, and so on. You can jump from web spot to web spot with a keystroke or the flick of a finger. And if there’s a particular feature on a site you visit often, you can assign a “sweet spot” on that page so that VoiceOver will go there first when the page opens. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.comwrote: one feature I just read they have in snow leopard is voice over will now read the whole website to you. I cannot say I'm happy about this, the one thing about VO I love is it does what I want it too not what it thinks I want it too. ugh. apple why listen to them? sorry, but what do others think? -- Check out our web site, www.giantdolphin.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: trackapd
No, not at this time. On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:24 PM, william lomas wrote: hi can one buy a bluetooth enabled trackpad i wonder to use the new touchpad features on a macbook or imac that does not have the integrated touchpad? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing the new cat
First yes, if you reboot the machine, you of course will need to insert the DVD prior to booting. In fact in order for the Mac to boot off the DVD it needs to be in there in advance for you to hold down the c key or set it as the boot disk. As far as space required, I am not sure of the exact space, but figure on around 10Gb or less, but no more than 12Gb total if all the languages are installed etc. Either way, it's going to be less than the current version since printer drivers you don't need will not be installed. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of space as long as you have at least 20 or so Gb free if you do the upgrade. Once things are running fine, you can delete the old system, which is backed up prior to the upgrade process. On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: thanks for that scott. stupid question maybe, but I'm guessing you put the disc in then shut down then turn on with the disc in the drive, while holding down the c key yes? how much room we talking, I got over a hundred gig here as my music stuff is on an external. :) thanks for any answers. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: Hey Marie, Well I guess not many people can say for sure right now what the instalation process will be like in detail, seeing as the only people who will have seen it firsthand so far are beta testers and people who grabbed it off torrent sites, and neither will talk about it publically in case Steve Jobs and his heavies turn up at their house with a big stick. But having said that, it's safe to predict that VO will work during the instalation, and that it'll be easy to do. With Tiger and Leopard, the install was as simple as putting in your OS dvd, booting up with the c key held down, waiting a few minutes until the disc spins down so you know that everything has finished loading from it, and launching VO with f/n-command-f5 on a laptop or just command-f5 on a full keyboard. You land in the language selection table, which is set to some variety of English by default, and from then on it's a pretty standard instalation wizard. There are usually a few different choices, you can repartition and format and suchlike. Archive and install is probably the safest choice if you've got the disc space for that, it'll preserve a copy of your leopard system libraries and such just in case the upgrade goes horribly wrong. VO stays functional throughout the upgrade process, you can get feedback at any point, and I've never yet encountered an error that it won't read during the process. Past that, the only reassurance I can give you is that, having seen your posts on list about other apps, you'll be fine with this. It's a peace of cake as they say. hth Scott On 8/24/09, Marie Howarth marie.jane2...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering, as I'm sure everyone's either preordered or is going to pre-order the next big cat, how easy it will be to install with no sighted assistance. would someone maybe be so kind to possibly write a guide. I want to be able to do this but I'm a little apprhensive. obviously never installed an OS before. a little daunting to say the least. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Some questions was Re: snowleopard shipping friday
Yes you will and you just have to have Leopard and someone already provided pricing. On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: Hi everyone, I will not be able to order the new O/S until 1 September. Will the special price still be in effect? Also how do you go about getting the special price? Just order it or do you have to prove you have Leopard? Thanks ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat contact only) Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ben_folds_fan Friend me on FaceBook, my profile is at: http://www.facebook.com/blueskyes or read and subscribe to my blog: http://blueskyes9112006.blogspot.com Join the Blind Parents Of FaceBook BPFB group on FaceBook. A wonderful place for blind parents to join up and network, share and ask questions. I'm the admin goto person. For more information or to join please see Blind Parents of FaceBook in the search box on FB or shoot me a message via FB msg service and I will add you to the group. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
acrobat reader accessible on mac?
Hi all, Is the acrobat reader accessible for reading pdfs? Or do i have to revert to preview for those documents? Thanks, and best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
skype and the chat frame
Hi everyone, I've been using skype on the mac for about a month now, and everything is accessible, or the key paths have been memorized. I have a problem though while chatting. The chat frame doesn't refresh, and i have to close the chat window and reopen it again from the contact list to have an updated conversation. Anyone stumble upon this problem? I have the latest skype release 2.8. Some clarity would be well appreciated best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
