date:20110905

Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-05 Thread Anne Robertson

Once again, I must point out that DocuScan only handles English. If you use any 
other language, this solution is not for you. Please remember that this list is 
international!

Cheers,

Anne


On 6 Sep 2011, at 06:21, David Tanner wrote:

> Your best and most accessible scanning choice for the price is DocuScan Plus. 
>  You can download a trial version from the App Store and register it for a 7 
> day trial period.  The price is $299 and gives you both the Apple version and 
> the QWindows version too, if you need it.  It works well with VoiceOver, is 
> simple to use, has lots of power features for all kinds of scanning, 
> recognizing PDF files, and converting scanned text to RTF, TXT, create MP3 
> file of the text, saving as a formated Braille file, and turn scaned text 
> into a Daisy book.
> 
> It can be used with a variety of scanners or you can purchase the HoverCam 
> digital camera that can be purchased along with the software from Sero Tech.
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message - From: "Mark Colman" 
> 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 6:07 AM
> Subject: Scanners and OCR
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Would like to get some advice on using scanners with a Mac (running Lion if 
> this is relevant). I occasionally need to scan printed documents to send by 
> email or for archival purposes. Does Mac OS have its own utility or app for 
> working with a scanner or are we reliant upon manufacturer's own 
> drivers/software (which, from past experience on Windows, is very hit and 
> miss as far as accessibility is concerned).
> 
> Also, what experience do people have of scanning a document and using OCR to 
> get VoiceOver (or whatever) to read out the contents of the document?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
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Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Henrichsen

Hi. I was looking for the audio converter called Max in the app store, but I 
don't see it there.
Is this the one which sells for $60 or is Amadeus the one which sells for $60. 
I know that one does, but I can't tell from the below message if he is talking 
about Max or Amadeus when he talks about the $60 and a trial version.
I downloaded Max from their site making sure I had the stable version.
Thanks.

On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:

> Hi Paul Henrichsen,
> As I think it was Eric Caron pointed out, max could be a good choice. Max is 
> free.
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Esther. I thought of Amadeus pro, but $60 is a bit more than I want to 
>> pay since I am just converting files; not editing them.
>> Will Max allow batch conversion?
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Esther wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Paul,
>>> 
>>> If you're looking for simple conversion of ogg to mp3 on the Mac, Erik's 
>>> suggestion of Max will probably work for you:
>>> http://sbooth.org/Max/
>>> Max is donationware.  But Eric Caron is correct that Amadeus Pro or its 
>>> Lite version has a powerful batch processor that will also handle many 
>>> functions besides simple conversions (e.g., fades, adding/trimming silence, 
>>> conversion of sound quality, normalization, and lots more). This shareware 
>>> audio editing program had a recent major upgrade, so the price is now $60.  
>>> If you want to try the trial version, just Google the name together with 
>>> macupdate, which will give you the link to the program and the web site.  
>>> (It's also sold on the Mac App Store, but trial downloads are not supported 
>>> in the App Store).  The Blind Cool Tech podcast on batch processing with 
>>> Amadeus Pro is Dane's podcast from two years earlier. 
>>> 
>>> HTH.  Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Esther
>>> 
>>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 03:51, Eric Caron wrote:
>>> 
 Hi Paul,
 
It is not free but Amadeus Pro or Amadeus Pro lite does a great job 
 with conversions and also is a nice audio editor.  it is at the app store. 
  
 
You can do single or batch conversions.  There is even a tutorial on 
 Blindcool tech on doing large numbers of conversions with Amadeus Pro. 
 
 eRic Caron
 On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
 
> Hi. I'm looking for an accessible audio converter. I need to convert ogg 
> files into mp3 files. I have tunesify, but I find it less than intuitive 
> to use.
> For some reason, even though I have selected the folder with its 
> subfolders, it doesn't seem to want to convert the ogg files. I also 
> can't tell whether it will convert the contents of subfolders in the 
> original folder.
> Anything better out there?
> I'm use to using gold wave or the audio stripper from NCH software.
> However, I don't like the heavy-handedness of NCH when it comes to 
> reinstalling their software or putting it on more than one machine.
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-05 Thread David Tanner

Your best and most accessible scanning choice for the price is DocuScan 
Plus.  You can download a trial version from the App Store and register it 
for a 7 day trial period.  The price is $299 and gives you both the Apple 
version and the QWindows version too, if you need it.  It works well with 
VoiceOver, is simple to use, has lots of power features for all kinds of 
scanning, recognizing PDF files, and converting scanned text to RTF, TXT, 
create MP3 file of the text, saving as a formated Braille file, and turn 
scaned text into a Daisy book.


It can be used with a variety of scanners or you can purchase the HoverCam 
digital camera that can be purchased along with the software from Sero Tech.




- Original Message - 
From: "Mark Colman" 

To: 
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 6:07 AM
Subject: Scanners and OCR


Hello all,

Would like to get some advice on using scanners with a Mac (running Lion if 
this is relevant). I occasionally need to scan printed documents to send by 
email or for archival purposes. Does Mac OS have its own utility or app for 
working with a scanner or are we reliant upon manufacturer's own 
drivers/software (which, from past experience on Windows, is very hit and 
miss as far as accessibility is concerned).


Also, what experience do people have of scanning a document and using OCR to 
get VoiceOver (or whatever) to read out the contents of the document?


Cheers,

Mark

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sluggishness over past few days

2011-09-05 Thread Rosemary Gallagher

hi, ray. I have no answer for you on the problem in email, but I have been 
having it since I did a software update on Itunes 104.1 and log me in and I 
don't know what else. ever since, mail has slowed down radically and I hear 
"misspelled" a heck of a lot more often than I used to. hopefully, someone out 
there knows what happened. It is a bother. joy gallagher

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Re: VM Fusion and missing function keys?

2011-09-05 Thread Braille

Go to vm preference, choose keyboard and mouse, choose mac osx shortcuts, and 
clear the checkbox.

On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Eric Caron wrote:

> Dear helpful VM user listers,
> 
>   Thanks to Paul and others I'm making great progress with VM Fusion.  
> I'll do my best to give back to others in the future!
> 
>   I'm hoping that someone can let me know how to have the Function keys F 
> 10, 11 , and 12 act as expected in Windows with JAWS.  I try to use them to 
> do things like bring up the system menu or tell me the time and instead they 
> are doing things like bringing up the dashboard widget.  this happens 
> regardless if Voice Over is on or off. 
> 
> I have also tried to hold down the function key but this didn't bring the 
> expected behavior.  Any tips would be appreciated.
> 
> Eric Caron 
>
>   
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RE: VM Fusion and missing function keys?

2011-09-05 Thread

Good luck with that one!  I have tried, with no luck.  You can get to those
various things you mentioned by just hitting windows key B.  This will bring
things up in your system tray, and your time and date are in this list also.

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Subject: VM Fusion and missing function keys?

Dear helpful VM user listers,

Thanks to Paul and others I'm making great progress with VM Fusion.
I'll do my best to give back to others in the future!

I'm hoping that someone can let me know how to have the Function
keys F 10, 11 , and 12 act as expected in Windows with JAWS.  I try to use
them to do things like bring up the system menu or tell me the time and
instead they are doing things like bringing up the dashboard widget.  this
happens regardless if Voice Over is on or off. 

I have also tried to hold down the function key but this didn't bring the
expected behavior.  Any tips would be appreciated.

Eric Caron 
 


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VM Fusion and missing function keys?

2011-09-05 Thread Eric Caron

Dear helpful VM user listers,

Thanks to Paul and others I'm making great progress with VM Fusion.  
I'll do my best to give back to others in the future!

I'm hoping that someone can let me know how to have the Function keys F 
10, 11 , and 12 act as expected in Windows with JAWS.  I try to use them to do 
things like bring up the system menu or tell me the time and instead they are 
doing things like bringing up the dashboard widget.  this happens regardless if 
Voice Over is on or off. 

I have also tried to hold down the function key but this didn't bring the 
expected behavior.  Any tips would be appreciated.

Eric Caron 
 


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Re: pdf files to text

2011-09-05 Thread May McDonald

Awesome thanks. I'll give that a shot.

May and Prince Noah
On 2011-09-05, at 1:43 PM, ezzie bueno wrote:

> hi May,
> 
> To have PDF files converted to text files free of charge, send an email to 
> conv...@robobraille.org.  On the subject line, specify the format you want 
> your file in.  Attach your PDF document and your converted file will be 
> emailed to you momentarily.
> 
> HTH,
> Ezzie
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Paul Erkens  To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Date sent: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:45:55 +0200
> Subject: Re: pdf files to text
> 
> Hi May,
> On the mac, if you need this often, then abbyy fine reader is a good 
> solution.  Its interface has a combobox where you input where your image is 
> coming from, so either a scanner or a file, and the next combo box lets you 
> decide what to convert it to.  It is that simple, but it does cost 80 
> dollars.  Otherwise, I would ask a friend running windows to quickly do it 
> for you, using pdf2txt.  That is quick.  On the mac, I don't yet know of a 
> free and easy program to do just that.
> 
> Hth,
> Paul.
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 4:29 PM, May McDonald wrote:
> 
> Good morning.  Is there a way to save pdf files as text files? I thought 
> there was a way, but I cna't seem to find it or remember how.  Having one of 
> those days.  Really think i should go back to bed and if I didn't have loads 
> to do before classes tomorrow, I would, lol.
> 
> May and Prince Noah
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Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?

2011-09-05 Thread Garry Turkington

If you weren't planning to use Fusion I'd say the 2GB new machine is
the best bet.

Unfortunately running Fusion means you need share the 2GB between both
OS X and Windows and with only 2GB you'll run out of memory very
quickly.  At this point the system starts using the hard drive as
virtual memory but this is massively slower.

But I'd also be reticent about the older Mini as the step-up in
processor architecture between the 2009 and current models is very
significant.

If you could budget a memory upgrade in say the next year I'd say go
for the new model with 2GB and accept things may be a little sluggish
at times until the upgrade.  Or use Bootcamp.

Garry


On 9/5/11, Braille  wrote:
> If you run Lion, I would strongly suggest that you would get 4GB or higher.
> Apple quietly moved its default Kernel to 64 bit on Lion and this makes the
> same Kernel on Lion to use more memory when compared to SL. On SL, you had
> to manually make it to boot 64. Other wise, it was  32 bit by default.
>
> On my machine running Lion, right after boot up, about 2.5 GB of ram is
> being utilized. With Safari, Mail, and Ical, it goes to 3.5Gb. Then, page
> ins and outs are frequently occurring when I had only 4GB of ram.  With
> Fusion running, I usually tops out my 8GB and then the system uses virtual
> memory, which significantly slows down the system.
>
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
>> Honestly it will all come down to performance. SOmetimes a slower machine
>> with more ram will out perform a faster machine  but it is also relative.
>> If the slower machine is a 2.3Ghz processor and the faster machine is
>> 3.5Ghz, you may not notice so much. Really it comes down to what you are
>> doing. If you are doing a lot of processor intensive tasks, more speed
>> might be preferred, but then you have to take into consideration a number
>> of factors. You can always upgrade a machine with more ram and at a
>> reasonable price. Purchase what you can afford and look to upgrade as soon
>> as you are able.
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, So would you say that older 4 gig is better than new 2 gig? I
>>> know it would be hard to say unless actually trying it out but thought
>>> I'd ask anyway.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ioana
>>> - Original Message - From: "Scott Howell" 
>>> To: 
>>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:55 AM
>>> Subject: Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?
>>>
>>>
>>> You could manage with 2Gb; however, I think you will find the experience
>>> les than desirable. I highly recommend you get 4Gb of ram as a minimum.
>>> Some will recommend 8Gb, but you will do fine with 4.
>>>
>>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
>>>
 Hi,
 Being somewhat restricted in my budget I am wondering about system
 requirements.
 I am thinking to install windows xp on a mac mini. Preferably fusion
 than bootcamp so I don't have to reboot. Will 2 gig be enough if I get
 the new mini with a faster processor? Should I opt for a 2nd hand late
 2009 with 4 gigs? If 2 gig will do I prefer getting a new one but
 otherwise I wil probably go 2nd hand.

 Thanks for any advice.

 Forgot to add that I might want to try garage band but not much havy
 work.

 Thanks,

 Ioana

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Re: listening to embedded audio streams on mac

2011-09-05 Thread anouk radix

Hi, Nice to see you on this list as well!
No this was not what I was referring to but will check it out.
Greetings, Anouk,
Op 5-9-2011 23:14, Ronald van Rhijn schreef:

Hee Anouk,
Do you perhaps mean ClickToPlugin?
By using this I am able to control streams, podcasts, flash movies etc.
best,
Ronald

Op 5 sep. 2011, om 21:36 heeft Esther het volgende geschreven:

Hi Anouk,

I think you mean Flip4Mac by Telestream, who took over supporting the Windows Media Player plug-in for QuickTime
Player after MicroSoft stopped doing this. Two thoughts: 1) starting with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), QuickTime
Player was no longer part of the default installation. It will be on systems that upgraded from Leopard, but
otherwise requires either installing from the Snow Leopard DVD (for Snow Leopard users), or direct download of a
compatible version. 2) I've heard that the latest version of Flip4Mac, which is dated February 2011 for the
default free version, is not fully Lion compatible. This is based on both reports from sites that report on Lion
compatibility of apps, like and posts on the Apple Support forums that some
previously working web pages for streams no longer work after the upgrade to Lion. There is supposed to be a
version 2.4 that will be released soon, but the last query of how likely "soon" was came at the end of
August. You can try this out for yourself, if you want to check this out, or you can search the Telestream support
forums for more details and links to possible interim beta releases that might work. Note the spelling of
"Flip4Mac" as one word with the number "4" in the middle.

In the meantime, here's the link to the Apple Knowledge Base article on "Installing
QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 or Later":
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678

Another thing you could try is downloading the trial of radium, described in earlier posts, and
check whether the available streams when you type in "nederland" into the search field
contain any of the content you are looking for. Google "radium macupdate" to find a the
link to the web page and trial download. The Mac App Store has this app, but doesn't support
things like free trial downloads, so you could only purchase the app there (for $25).

HTH. Cheers,

Esther

On Sep 5, 2011, at 08:27, anouk radix wrote:

Hi everyone,
Although I have installed flash player there are still some audio streams i
cant listen to on the mac that i can on a windows pc for example nederland.fm
streams (it also has an england.fm sister site).
I ampretty sure I used a program for this 1.5 years ago but i cant remember its
name, it was free though althought here was a paid version and I think it
interfaced with quicktime for some reason although i mostly used it with audio
streams.
Help would be appreciated because I cant remember the name of the program and I
want tolisten to those streams because I know I can and dont want to go install
windows for it.
Thanks in advance
Greetings, Anouk,

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Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-05 Thread William Windels

Hello all,
I had not that good experiences wit xp with vmware 
because xp is so slow on a macbook with 4gb of ram and each os has 2 gb of ram. 
It's also difficult to use usb devices on virtual windows after i have used 
them on the mac like a braille display.
You have to release the device in osx before you can use it on windows. Or 
revers.
Also, after setting windows in suspend mode, the screenreader and other 
usb-devices like described above, are doing so strange.
With version 2.5 of vmware , I discovered more times that the scripts to 
restart the virtual machine where broken so that I couldn't shutdown or restart 
windows properly.

I discovered also that windows on a virtual machine was much mor slower than a 
native boot on a slower laptop.
Again , what's the good memory management between vmware and mac?

Because of all that litle frustrations, I was discouraged to use windows in a 
virtual machine but perhaps no, it's better and I should give it a try again.
 

Mvg
william Windels

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

Op 5-sep.-2011 om 20:08 heeft "Bill Holton"  het volgende 
geschreven:

> Hi.
> I read and replied to your other message before this, so thanks for already
> sending a description on how to swap those keys.
> Bill
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:01 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Running a Mac with Windows on
> 
> Hi Eric Caron,
> 
> Your first question, what to do about a non-existent insert key inside a
> virtual machine, is quite a story if you want to know the ins and outs.
> Along the way, we will get there. Here you go.
> 
> First off, it is true that you have no insert key on the mac, while you
> often do need one in windows. You can create a key mapping for yourself in 1
> of 2 ways. Either using fusion itself, and there is no real down side as far
> as I'm aware, but it is a little trickey to set up because of an interface
> issue in fusion. The other way to get an insert key is to use the sharp keys
> program. Sharp keys lets you remap a few more keys than fusion will allow.
> For example, using sharp keys, you can even remap your right command, or
> your right option key, to the windows insert.
> 
> If you do it via fusion, then all your virtual machines willl get an insert
> key. If you have windows 7 and xp like I do, creating the insert key using
> the fusion keyboard remapper creates it for all virtual machines because
> fusion only allows you to do it inside its global preferences, command
> comma, and not on a per machine basis, command e.
> 
> If you create your insert key using sharp keys, then it is going to be a
> local setting for that windows installation only, because sharp keys
> modifies the windows registry to do the trick. Both methods will give you
> the same result: an insert key that is not just insert, but that can be held
> down as if it were a modifier key for other keys.
> 
> This answers your other issue, where capslock cannot be used inside the
> virtual machine as a modifier. It works as  a caps lock, but you can't hold
> it down and press a letter inside the virtual machine, in order to give
> commands to your screen reader. Sharp keys and fusion itself though, will
> give you an insert key like the one on a normal windows computer. This lets
> you use insert rather than caps lock for your screen reader's commands, so
> let's concentrate on insert, and I will leave caps lock for someone else.
> 
> Now, let's look at the way you can do it inside fusion. I'm using fusion
> 3.1.3, which is the latest version as of today. To update, go to the menu
> bar in fusion, vo m, then once right, then down to check for updates, and
> then follow the instructions.
> 
> First, fire up fusion and, just to be certain, have your virtual machines
> shut down. Then press command comma to open fusion's global preferences.
> 
> At the top of this window is a toolbar. Interact with it and click keyboard
> and mouse. A new window will appear.
> 
> The first thing you will encounter is a pop up button where you choose your
> keyboard and mouse profile. The window itself consists of 4 tab sheets, and
> all those settings together are stored in a keyboard and mouse profile. I
> don't think we will ever need a second profile, but that's what the button
> allows. Leave it at its default.
> 
> The first tab sheet of this dialog,  named, key mappings, is where you can
> swap your windows logo and alt keys. By default, fusion will map your
> command key to the windows logo key, and your option key to the windows alt
> key. This is not very intuitive for those of us who are used to windows and
> its keyboard layout, but it's easy to swap them. See below. In this window,
> you will also be able to create your insert key inside fusion, and if you
> want, give yourself a num lock toggle as well.
> 
> If you look at th

Re: filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-05 Thread Dan

Hello,
I like the full disk Encryption in OS X 7. However, I also wish the end user  
could set it to 256 bit encryption instead of just 128 bit.
Just my thoughts.

Dan

On Sep 5, 2011, at 3:21 PM, anouk radix wrote:

> Hi,
> Normally I let my systems start up automatically with noi password at all but 
> now with my new mac I have indeed setup a startup password AND encryption. 
> After a few minutes of non-use I have to enter that password again. I feel 
> very secure now even takingmy laptop along to other locations and leaving it 
> alone for a while.
> What I like about the boot up process AFTER your drive is encrypted is, that 
> if you enter cmd+f5 you will hear a beep when your computer is ready for 
> input, you then hear a beep if its right and another beep if it is wrong, 
> also this goes for the password. Just experiment with it for yourself its 
> very niftily done.
> I havent heard of anything like this being possible on a windows system and 
> while I did not use it before i got my mba, i like it a lot and it makes me 
> feel a lot more secure.
> Greetings, Anouk,
> Op 5-9-2011 17:59, Paul Erkens schreef:
>> Hi all,
>> Just passing on my experience with Lion's file vault. I thought it'd be 
>> difficult but it's not. Carefully read the dialogs and you're all set. No 
>> complicated setup. Encryption takes a while. Only thing you are going to 
>> sacrifice is a voice over supported log in. With encryption enabled, you 
>> will still get audible feedback though, and it is workable. I thought I'd 
>> give it a shot so I backed up securely and turned it on, but I don't think 
>> I'll revert back to normal. I don't notice any speed degradation, though it 
>> may be present. It just doesn't get in the way. Of course, if your full disk 
>> is encrypted, only avery  small part of the os can be left unencrypted, so 
>> that's why you don't have voiceover at the login prompt. The prompt now 
>> comes very quickly, and the rest of the os is loaded after you enter valid 
>> credentials.
>> Paul.
>> 
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Re: listening to embedded audio streams on mac

2011-09-05 Thread anouk radix

Hey Esther! Glad to see that you are still around these days!
Thank you so much! This was indeed the program I was looking for but
could not get the name anymore. I will try installing quicktime and
flip4mac and hopefully soon there will be a software update that will
make it work again.

Thanks again for the help!
Greetings, Anouk,
Op 5-9-2011 21:36, Esther schreef:

Hi Anouk,

In the meantime, here's the link to the Apple Knowledge Base article on "Installing
QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 or Later":
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678

HTH. Cheers,

Esther

On Sep 5, 2011, at 08:27, anouk radix wrote:

Re: filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-05 Thread anouk radix


Hi,
Normally I let my systems start up automatically with noi password at 
all but now with my new mac I have indeed setup a startup password AND 
encryption. After a few minutes of non-use I have to enter that password 
again. I feel very secure now even takingmy laptop along to other 
locations and leaving it alone for a while.
What I like about the boot up process AFTER your drive is encrypted is, 
that if you enter cmd+f5 you will hear a beep when your computer is 
ready for input, you then hear a beep if its right and another beep if 
it is wrong, also this goes for the password. Just experiment with it 
for yourself its very niftily done.
I havent heard of anything like this being possible on a windows system 
and while I did not use it before i got my mba, i like it a lot and it 
makes me feel a lot more secure.

Greetings, Anouk,
Op 5-9-2011 17:59, Paul Erkens schreef:

Hi all,
Just passing on my experience with Lion's file vault. I thought it'd be 
difficult but it's not. Carefully read the dialogs and you're all set. No 
complicated setup. Encryption takes a while. Only thing you are going to 
sacrifice is a voice over supported log in. With encryption enabled, you will 
still get audible feedback though, and it is workable. I thought I'd give it a 
shot so I backed up securely and turned it on, but I don't think I'll revert 
back to normal. I don't notice any speed degradation, though it may be present. 
It just doesn't get in the way. Of course, if your full disk is encrypted, only 
avery  small part of the os can be left unencrypted, so that's why you don't 
have voiceover at the login prompt. The prompt now comes very quickly, and the 
rest of the os is loaded after you enter valid credentials.
Paul.



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Re: Spellcheck and archives

2011-09-05 Thread Red . Falcon

Oops!
It would help if I added the link!

http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com/feed/

Hi Jennifer!
Firstly and I quote [stop saying sorry hahahahahaha ] people on the list are 
glad to help where they can! :]
Now I'm not sure if your running Lion or snowy kitty but in SL to open a tool 
bar [and I suppose in Lion as well] just interact with it!
and after you chose your selection it will do one of two things!
Either put you into the next window or you might have to stop interacting to 
get to the next window!
Now if you choose to check spelling when you press send, you will be put into 
the spell check window, in there are different options for you to use just 
arrow across to use the option you need for that word, one of the options is a 
table of results this will tell you before opening either no results or if 
there is just one that will be already selected and if it is the right one just 
go back to the change button and press it!
And spell check will go to the next misspelled word if there is one!
If the table of results says no selection then just interact with it and arrow 
down through the choices and find the one you need!
Then whilst on it stop interacting and go to the change button again!
If there is no suggestions at all, go to the field where the misspelled word is 
and interact with it and try another version of the word [even if you do not 
know how it should be spelt] then press enter and stop interacting and see if 
the results table has changed!
After the table of results are other options like add or define! [ just have a 
look around to see what's there ]
And finally when you finish the last word the message will go! :]
Also from another thread here is a link to a podcast from vision Australia 
using the Lion version!
These podcasts are very good!
HTH Colin
PS Just going to spell check after pressing command+shift+D :]

On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Jennifer Perdue wrote:

> Thank you,
> 
> Is there a way that it could give me suggestions of how to spell the 
> misspelled word?  Also I wasn't sure how to get into the toolbar.  I'm sorry 
> to ask so many questions.
> 
> Please forgive me.
> 
> Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks  
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jennifer!
>> Now for your spell check!
>> Open pref's with command+comma and interact with the tool bar, go to the 
>> compose button and vo space on it, if you are taken into the compose window 
>> just arrow across to the spell check menu button and in there you can set it 
>> to check either when typing or when you click send or never!
>> hth Colin
>> 
>> On 5 Sep 2011, at 16:39, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I realise that there are the archives that I could check about the answer I 
>>> was already given about the spellcheck and its suggestions and the checking 
>>> before sending the messages but I just got this mac and I am not the 
>>> greatest on the internet yet.  Could someone please just tell me again.
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
>>> 
>>> Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks
>>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>> 
 Bill,
 Could it be thet you haven't swapped your command and option, or alt and 
 winlogo keys yet?
 Paul.
 On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Bill Holton wrote:

> Hi.
> I am struggling trying to get Fusion to work with Lion.  Is there an 
> expert
> or two on this list who's brain I can pick?
> Currently, I have windows installed and the tools installed, but I keep
> getting that list of devices and even when I'm at the desktop Windows
> doesn't seem to see the Window Eyes install disk I have in the Super 
> drive.
> I tried hitting 
> www.satogo.com
> I got the first spoken message, but when I pressed enter it asked me to
> press alt r, which I did and nothing happens and I can't find my way out 
> of
> this.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 10:07 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Cc: macvoiceo...@freelists.org
> Subject: Re: Windows On A Mac
> 
> There's really only one choice here, go with fusion. Parallels is not
> accessible, for some reason, the developers of parallels chose to use
> nonstandard controls for everything, which makes it completely 
> inaccessible
> to voiceover. Why anyone would choose to use nonstandard controls when 
> there
> are already controls built in to the operating system makes no sense, but
> that's what they did. Fusion works well and is very accessible.
> On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:56 AM, ezzie bueno wrote:
> 
>> Hello List,
>> 
>> I am seriously considering installing Windows into my Mac.  Would it be
> easier to use Fusion or parallels? What would you say are the pros and 
> cons

Re: continuous reading in pages

2011-09-05 Thread Anne Robertson

Hello Ahmed,

Continuous reading is not an option in Pages. If you wish to read an MS Word 
document straight through, you'd be better off using TextEdit.

To force TextEdit to read the document, select the document and press 
VO-Shift-M then VO down to Open With and go right one then type the letteres T 
followed by E which should find TextEdit. Press Return and you'll be in 
TextEdit.

Cheers,

Anne


On 5 Sep 2011, at 19:59, Ahmed Alomran wrote:

> hi all
> when i press vo plus a, voice over does not read until the end of text as the 
> case with safari, it rather choose to read the first page of the documents 
> that i open. I want to use pages to read microsoft docs but I wish if some 
> one can tell me the short cut that enables me to read from top to bottom of 
> files in pages.
> kind regards.
> ahmed
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Re: Spellcheck and archives

2011-09-05 Thread Red.Falcon

Hi Jennifer!
Firstly and I quote [stop saying sorry hahahahahaha ] people on the list are 
glad to help where they can! :]
Now I'm not sure if your running Lion or snowy kitty but in SL to open a tool 
bar [and I suppose in Lion as well] just interact with it!
and after you chose your selection it will do one of two things!
Either put you into the next window or you might have to stop interacting to 
get to the next window!
Now if you choose to check spelling when you press send, you will be put into 
the spell check window, in there are different options for you to use just 
arrow across to use the option you need for that word, one of the options is a 
table of results this will tell you before opening either no results or if 
there is just one that will be already selected and if it is the right one just 
go back to the change button and press it!
And spell check will go to the next misspelled word if there is one!
If the table of results says no selection then just interact with it and arrow 
down through the choices and find the one you need!
Then whilst on it stop interacting and go to the change button again!
If there is no suggestions at all, go to the field where the misspelled word is 
and interact with it and try another version of the word [even if you do not 
know how it should be spelt] then press enter and stop interacting and see if 
the results table has changed!
After the table of results are other options like add or define! [ just have a 
look around to see what's there ]
And finally when you finish the last word the message will go! :]
Also from another thread here is a link to a podcast from vision Australia 
using the Lion version!
These podcasts are very good!
HTH Colin
PS Just going to spell check after pressing command+shift+D :]

On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Jennifer Perdue wrote:

> Thank you,
> 
> Is there a way that it could give me suggestions of how to spell the 
> misspelled word?  Also I wasn't sure how to get into the toolbar.  I'm sorry 
> to ask so many questions.
> 
> Please forgive me.
> 
> Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks  
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jennifer!
>> Now for your spell check!
>> Open pref's with command+comma and interact with the tool bar, go to the 
>> compose button and vo space on it, if you are taken into the compose window 
>> just arrow across to the spell check menu button and in there you can set it 
>> to check either when typing or when you click send or never!
>> hth Colin
>> 
>> On 5 Sep 2011, at 16:39, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I realise that there are the archives that I could check about the answer I 
>>> was already given about the spellcheck and its suggestions and the checking 
>>> before sending the messages but I just got this mac and I am not the 
>>> greatest on the internet yet.  Could someone please just tell me again.
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
>>> 
>>> Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks
>>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>> 
 Bill,
 Could it be thet you haven't swapped your command and option, or alt and 
 winlogo keys yet?
 Paul.
 On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Bill Holton wrote:

> Hi.
> I am struggling trying to get Fusion to work with Lion.  Is there an 
> expert
> or two on this list who's brain I can pick?
> Currently, I have windows installed and the tools installed, but I keep
> getting that list of devices and even when I'm at the desktop Windows
> doesn't seem to see the Window Eyes install disk I have in the Super 
> drive.
> I tried hitting 
> www.satogo.com
> I got the first spoken message, but when I pressed enter it asked me to
> press alt r, which I did and nothing happens and I can't find my way out 
> of
> this.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 10:07 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Cc: macvoiceo...@freelists.org
> Subject: Re: Windows On A Mac
> 
> There's really only one choice here, go with fusion. Parallels is not
> accessible, for some reason, the developers of parallels chose to use
> nonstandard controls for everything, which makes it completely 
> inaccessible
> to voiceover. Why anyone would choose to use nonstandard controls when 
> there
> are already controls built in to the operating system makes no sense, but
> that's what they did. Fusion works well and is very accessible.
> On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:56 AM, ezzie bueno wrote:
> 
>> Hello List,
>> 
>> I am seriously considering installing Windows into my Mac.  Would it be
> easier to use Fusion or parallels? What would you say are the pros and 
> cons
> of each?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ezzie Bueno
>> Sent fro

Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?

2011-09-05 Thread Braille

If you run Lion, I would strongly suggest that you would get 4GB or higher. 
Apple quietly moved its default Kernel to 64 bit on Lion and this makes the 
same Kernel on Lion to use more memory when compared to SL. On SL, you had to 
manually make it to boot 64. Other wise, it was  32 bit by default.

On my machine running Lion, right after boot up, about 2.5 GB of ram is being 
utilized. With Safari, Mail, and Ical, it goes to 3.5Gb. Then, page ins and 
outs are frequently occurring when I had only 4GB of ram.  With Fusion running, 
I usually tops out my 8GB and then the system uses virtual memory, which 
significantly slows down the system.

On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Scott Howell wrote:

> Honestly it will all come down to performance. SOmetimes a slower machine 
> with more ram will out perform a faster machine  but it is also relative. If 
> the slower machine is a 2.3Ghz processor and the faster machine is 3.5Ghz, 
> you may not notice so much. Really it comes down to what you are doing. If 
> you are doing a lot of processor intensive tasks, more speed might be 
> preferred, but then you have to take into consideration a number of factors. 
> You can always upgrade a machine with more ram and at a reasonable price. 
> Purchase what you can afford and look to upgrade as soon as you are able.
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, So would you say that older 4 gig is better than new 2 gig? I know 
>> it would be hard to say unless actually trying it out but thought I'd ask 
>> anyway.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Ioana
>> - Original Message - From: "Scott Howell" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?
>> 
>> 
>> You could manage with 2Gb; however, I think you will find the experience les 
>> than desirable. I highly recommend you get 4Gb of ram as a minimum. Some 
>> will recommend 8Gb, but you will do fine with 4.
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> Being somewhat restricted in my budget I am wondering about system 
>>> requirements.
>>> I am thinking to install windows xp on a mac mini. Preferably fusion than 
>>> bootcamp so I don't have to reboot. Will 2 gig be enough if I get the new 
>>> mini with a faster processor? Should I opt for a 2nd hand late 2009 with 4 
>>> gigs? If 2 gig will do I prefer getting a new one but otherwise I wil 
>>> probably go 2nd hand.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>> 
>>> Forgot to add that I might want to try garage band but not much havy work.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ioana
>>> 
>>> (Sent from my phone)
>>> 
>>> Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes.
>>> 
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Re: listening to embedded audio streams on mac

2011-09-05 Thread Ronald van Rhijn

Hee Anouk,
Do you perhaps mean ClickToPlugin?
By using this I am able to control streams, podcasts, flash movies etc.
best,
Ronald



Op 5 sep. 2011, om 21:36 heeft Esther het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Anouk,
> 
> I think you mean Flip4Mac by Telestream, who took over supporting the Windows 
> Media Player plug-in for QuickTime Player after MicroSoft stopped doing this. 
>  Two thoughts: 1) starting with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), QuickTime Player 
> was no longer part of the default installation.  It will be on systems that 
> upgraded from Leopard, but otherwise requires either installing from the Snow 
> Leopard DVD (for Snow Leopard users), or direct download of a compatible 
> version.  2) I've heard that the latest version of Flip4Mac, which is dated 
> February 2011 for the default free version, is not fully Lion compatible.  
> This is based on both reports from sites that report on Lion compatibility of 
> apps, like   and posts on the Apple Support forums 
> that some previously working web pages for streams no longer work after the 
> upgrade to Lion. There is supposed to be a version 2.4 that will be released 
> soon, but the last query of how likely "soon" was came at the end of August.  
> You can try this out for yourself, if you want to check this out, or you can 
> search the Telestream support forums for more details and links to possible 
> interim beta releases that might work.  Note the spelling of "Flip4Mac" as 
> one word with the number "4" in the middle.
> 
> In the meantime, here's the link to the Apple Knowledge Base article on 
> "Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 or Later":
> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678
> 
> Another thing you could try is downloading the trial of radium, described in 
> earlier posts, and check whether the available streams when you type in 
> "nederland" into the search field contain any of the content you are looking 
> for.  Google "radium macupdate" to find a the link to the web page and trial 
> download.  The Mac App Store has this app, but doesn't support things like 
> free trial downloads, so you could only purchase the app there (for $25).
> 
> HTH.  Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 08:27, anouk radix wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> Although I have installed flash player there are still some audio streams i 
>> cant listen to on the mac that i can on a windows pc for example 
>> nederland.fm streams (it also has an england.fm sister site).
>> I ampretty sure I used a program for this 1.5 years ago but i cant remember 
>> its name, it was free though althought here was a paid version and I think 
>> it interfaced with quicktime for some reason although i mostly used it with 
>> audio streams.
>> Help would be appreciated because I cant remember the name of the program 
>> and I want tolisten to those streams because I know I can and dont want to 
>> go install windows for it.
>> Thanks in advance
>> Greetings, Anouk,
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Re: Accessibility of applications on the menu bar

2011-09-05 Thread louie

It is voice over. I have written set of scripts that move down the menubar and 
you can find dropbox and others.
On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Hello all,
> Some applications ,like Dropbox and a newly-discovered Tunesque, 
> http://tunesque.afkstudio.com/, place themselves in the menu bar. However, 
> they seem to be completely inaccessible to VoiceOver.
> The question is, are these the applications to blame or is it VoiceOver that 
> does not deal with them properly? It is really difficult to assess the level 
> of their accessibility because all you get is "xxx has no windows" message 
> when trying to inspect them.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Vic
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Re: listening to embedded audio streams on mac

2011-09-05 Thread Esther

Hi Anouk,

I think you mean Flip4Mac by Telestream, who took over supporting the Windows 
Media Player plug-in for QuickTime Player after MicroSoft stopped doing this.  
Two thoughts: 1) starting with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), QuickTime Player was 
no longer part of the default installation.  It will be on systems that 
upgraded from Leopard, but otherwise requires either installing from the Snow 
Leopard DVD (for Snow Leopard users), or direct download of a compatible 
version.  2) I've heard that the latest version of Flip4Mac, which is dated 
February 2011 for the default free version, is not fully Lion compatible.  This 
is based on both reports from sites that report on Lion compatibility of apps, 
like   and posts on the Apple Support forums that some 
previously working web pages for streams no longer work after the upgrade to 
Lion. There is supposed to be a version 2.4 that will be released soon, but the 
last query of how likely "soon" was came at the end of August.  You can try 
this out for yourself, if you want to check this out, or you can search the 
Telestream support forums for more details and links to possible interim beta 
releases that might work.  Note the spelling of "Flip4Mac" as one word with the 
number "4" in the middle.

In the meantime, here's the link to the Apple Knowledge Base article on 
"Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 or Later":
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678

Another thing you could try is downloading the trial of radium, described in 
earlier posts, and check whether the available streams when you type in 
"nederland" into the search field contain any of the content you are looking 
for.  Google "radium macupdate" to find a the link to the web page and trial 
download.  The Mac App Store has this app, but doesn't support things like free 
trial downloads, so you could only purchase the app there (for $25).

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther

On Sep 5, 2011, at 08:27, anouk radix wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Although I have installed flash player there are still some audio streams i 
> cant listen to on the mac that i can on a windows pc for example nederland.fm 
> streams (it also has an england.fm sister site).
> I ampretty sure I used a program for this 1.5 years ago but i cant remember 
> its name, it was free though althought here was a paid version and I think it 
> interfaced with quicktime for some reason although i mostly used it with 
> audio streams.
> Help would be appreciated because I cant remember the name of the program and 
> I want tolisten to those streams because I know I can and dont want to go 
> install windows for it.
> Thanks in advance
> Greetings, Anouk,

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Re: jaws loosing activations in VMWare fusion?

2011-09-05 Thread Eric Caron

Hi Chris,

I am new at VM Fusion.  I read some of the documentation recently.  In, 
I believe, the getting started area it mentioned that if you use the bootcamp 
partition and then go back to the VM partition you will need to reactivate 
Windows.  I suspect this may also be the Case for JAWS.  I'm probably about to 
face the same problem you have had as I just used my last license to set up 
bootcamp.  Now I have a virtual machine and it wants me to reauthorize jaws.  I 
fear that if I do that and then start fusion or Bootcamp incorrectly I will 
have the same problem.

I want to ditch my bootcamp partition and just us use the virtual machine but 
I'm not sure how to do that.  I'd rather not re install everything again. 

I hope another user who moved from pot camp to virtual Machine only can help us 
out!  

Eric Caron  
On Sep 5, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Christopher Harrington wrote:

> Hi everyone, 
> I am running VMWare fusion on my bootcamp partition, and every time I restart 
> windows, I have to reactivate jaws… I've activated it twice, running myself 
> out of licenses…
> Anyone know what the heck's going on?
> Thanks,
> Chris Harrington
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Re: jaws loosing activations in VMWare fusion?

2011-09-05 Thread Maurice Mines

 Hello list, here's what has worked for me to solve the activations problem in 
VMware fusion. What I did was I took a snapshot of my currently running virtual 
machine just after I activated it. Now what I have is a perfectly running 
virtual machine that has job activated in it. I have put this in a separate 
place a.k.a. even a separate drive from the running drive would've on my 
machine. So if I happen to have any problems in the future. All I have to do is 
take my backed up image a.k.a. my snapshot file and restore to where the 
virtual machine should be running. I hope this suggestion helps. Note if you 
have to machines, you will have to do an activation per machine and repeat this 
process with each machine. I hope this suggestion helped you out. Note this 
message has been but this text has been dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 
2.5 for Mac. Some words, phrases, or spellings may be incorrect. If there are 
errors in this e-mail, they are the result of either the software, or the 
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Re: Accessibility of applications on the menu bar

2011-09-05 Thread james Walton

this is a problem with both the app and voiceover
i don't really know what to say here but just email apple accessibility and see 
what they say
accessibil...@apple.com

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Accessibility of applications on the menu bar

2011-09-05 Thread Victor Tsaran

Hello all,
Some applications ,like Dropbox and a newly-discovered Tunesque, 
http://tunesque.afkstudio.com/, place themselves in the menu bar. However, they 
seem to be completely inaccessible to VoiceOver.
The question is, are these the applications to blame or is it VoiceOver that 
does not deal with them properly? It is really difficult to assess the level of 
their accessibility because all you get is "xxx has no windows" message when 
trying to inspect them.

Any thoughts?
Vic

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sluggishness over the past few days?

2011-09-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr

You know what?  I've noticed that when typing e-mails, my Mac gets quite 
sluggish and doesn't respond as quickly as I have become accustomed too.  
Anybody got any ideas what I might adjust to relieve the sluggishness I'm 
experiencing?


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Skype name:
barefootedray

Facebook:
facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1



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jaws loosing activations in VMWare fusion?

2011-09-05 Thread Christopher Harrington

Hi everyone, 
I am running VMWare fusion on my bootcamp partition, and every time I restart 
windows, I have to reactivate jaws… I've activated it twice, running myself out 
of licenses…
Anyone know what the heck's going on?
Thanks,
Chris Harrington

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Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?

2011-09-05 Thread Scott Howell

Honestly it will all come down to performance. SOmetimes a slower machine with 
more ram will out perform a faster machine  but it is also relative. If the 
slower machine is a 2.3Ghz processor and the faster machine is 3.5Ghz, you may 
not notice so much. Really it comes down to what you are doing. If you are 
doing a lot of processor intensive tasks, more speed might be preferred, but 
then you have to take into consideration a number of factors. You can always 
upgrade a machine with more ram and at a reasonable price. Purchase what you 
can afford and look to upgrade as soon as you are able.

On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:

> Thanks, So would you say that older 4 gig is better than new 2 gig? I know it 
> would be hard to say unless actually trying it out but thought I'd ask anyway.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ioana
> - Original Message - From: "Scott Howell" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:55 AM
> Subject: Re: 2 or 4 gigs, what should I choose?
> 
> 
> You could manage with 2Gb; however, I think you will find the experience les 
> than desirable. I highly recommend you get 4Gb of ram as a minimum. Some will 
> recommend 8Gb, but you will do fine with 4.
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Being somewhat restricted in my budget I am wondering about system 
>> requirements.
>> I am thinking to install windows xp on a mac mini. Preferably fusion than 
>> bootcamp so I don't have to reboot. Will 2 gig be enough if I get the new 
>> mini with a faster processor? Should I opt for a 2nd hand late 2009 with 4 
>> gigs? If 2 gig will do I prefer getting a new one but otherwise I wil 
>> probably go 2nd hand.
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice.
>> 
>> Forgot to add that I might want to try garage band but not much havy work.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ioana
>> 
>> (Sent from my phone)
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Re: How do I upgrade to Lion?

2011-09-05 Thread Scott Howell

I would recommend that you learn Snow Leopard and then upgrade. However, if you 
really feel the need, you only have to purchase the upgrade (unless you are 
eligible for the free upgrade), and once you have downloaded the app via the 
App store; you just run the program. Make a backup before running it as once 
you upgraded, the installer is deleted.

On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Jennifer Perdue wrote:

> My name is Jenny and I just got a Mac Mini in June.  It came with Snow 
> Leopard and I would like to upgrade to lion.  Could someone give me a really 
> basic and step by step way to do that cause I have no idea what I'm doing 
> with this Mac.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Eric Caron wrote:
> 
>> Dashboard is my friend!
>> 
>>  Once I set up dashboard I really liked it!  there was a earlier thread, 
>> I think on this list that gave many tips.  here are some I remember.
>> 
>> First to clean up some of the frustrating keyboard issues go to system 
>> preferences and to Mission Control Uncheck the first group of check boxes.  
>> This will get rid of the control right arrow bringing up dashboard.   It 
>> does other things that make the dashboard less intrusive. 
>> now when you press f12 the dashboard appears and press it again and it is 
>> really gone.  When in the dashboard use the window chooser to move between 
>> apps, actually called widgets. 
>> 
>>  I am using weather widgets, language translation , ical recent event 
>> widget, and many more useful dashboard widgets  .
>> 
>> One very useful tip was how to delete a widget. First when in dashboard go 
>> to the widget bar by going to the window chooser and select widget bar.  
>> Then when on the widget you want permanently deleted press VO Command 
>> F2.  
>> 
>> I think of these widgets as being like apps on the iPhone.  they are usually 
>> easy to use and preform a specific task quickly.
>> 
>> I hope this helps turn dashboard from evil to friendly!
>> 
>> eric Caron 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have Lion on a Mini.  I thought that ctrl-right, in text, would move me 
>>> around, but it (and other odd keystrokes that I don't remember at the 
>>> moment) just keep bringing up the dashboard.  I can't move around the 
>>> dashboard because it just jumps into the calculator, the first application 
>>> on there.  Worst of all, neither force-quitting, cmd-q, cmd-tab, nor 
>>> anything else I can think of will get rid of it.  My only recourse is to 
>>> enter then quit the vo utility, which seems to get rid of the evil 
>>> dashboard.  How can I fix all this so I can move around text, since no 
>>> arrow key combos seem to do anything, and some bring up the dashboard which 
>>> then refuses to leave? TIA.
>>> 
>>> Have a great day,
>>> Alex (msg sent from BrailleNote
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listening to embedded audio streams on mac

2011-09-05 Thread anouk radix


Hi everyone,
Although I have installed flash player there are still some audio 
streams i cant listen to on the mac that i can on a windows pc for 
example nederland.fm streams (it also has an england.fm sister site).
I ampretty sure I used a program for this 1.5 years ago but i cant 
remember its name, it was free though althought here was a paid version 
and I think it interfaced with quicktime for some reason although i 
mostly used it with audio streams.
Help would be appreciated because I cant remember the name of the 
program and I want tolisten to those streams because I know I can and 
dont want to go install windows for it.

Thanks in advance
Greetings, Anouk,

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