Using Book Port Plus with a Mac and HCSD cards and card readers.
Hi guys, I am looking to buy the book port plus from APH here rather soon. It seems to be a very good device and I'm really looking forward to using it. I've a few questions about it and the Mac. How would you put NLS DTBs on it? Would you just hook it up to the Mac and the Mac would just treat it as a mass storage device as it does my thumbdrives currently? Would I be better off getting a card reader and just accessing the card via that? I haven't access to a windows computer, but as far as I understand you must have windows to regester the BPP with audible. Does anyone do this? I just figured I might skip that step as I read all my audible books via the iPhone app so this wouldn't be a must have. According to APH website I can use a 32GB HC card. How much are those and what ones are best? How much is a card reader and what ones are good that work with Mac. Is there anything additional I need to know about the BPP and Mac? Do they play nice together or are there some tricks I need to know so I can get thse two bits of tech working hand in hand? Thanks much for any help smile Jenny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
iDisk not in sync? Need help please.
Hi guys,mobileme In July I broke down and got a mobileme account. It works good save for one thing. I've uploaded some files to it and they don't show up on the iDisk app on my iPhone. When I open the idisk on my MacBook it says I've used 2 GB worth of space and then it says iDisk not in sync When I go up to the sync menu in the menubar it says it has synced my iDisk and gives the last sync date/time. When I click sync now it syncs but still says iDisk not in sync and the app on my iPhone still doesn't show the files or anything. What do I do? I am confused and for 100 dollars a year I want my service to work as it is ment too. Love everything else about the mobile account but this iDisk thing just seems to not be working. It has worked in the past but isn't any more. Any help with this would be most welcome. Thanks to anyone who can answer this. Best regards, Jenny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
DTB players and thumb drives again.
Hi guys, Hope everyone is doing great. I have a question, I know somebody a while ago sort of answered this. Okay here's the deal. I bought a new 4GB thumb drive. I put DTBs on it but when I put it in the DTB player it shows only 3 books and only one of them plays. The other two are book errors. Is this due to the fact I'm on a mac? The DTB will play 4GB drives as I had one, it has crashed out, thus the reason for the new one. Someone said something about upgrading software? Is this for the thumb drive or the DTB player? I've got the DTBM update from November for the player but is there something else I need to be doing in configuring the thumb drive? Thanks much Jenny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?
Good morning everyone, Thanks for the suggestion of the kingston data traveler I plan to obtain one as soon as I am able. What size is best? Also why will the two flash drives I currently have format and work fine in the dtb player if they are formated on a windows computer but give me cartrage errors galore if done on a Mac? And Jesssica I have the same weird problem you spoke to. I'll remove books off a flash drive but the flash drive still is full even tho there are no dtbs on it. What's up with that? And apart from reformatting the silly thing is there anything to be done for it? Sorry so full of questions... I am very thankful for the help :-) Ms. Jenny Kennedy Kansas City, Ks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?
It works!!! Thankfully I didn't reformat my 2GB drive and was able to mount it and empty the trash. So I have one thumb drive that works. Our library said the same thing, the smaller gb the better chance it has of working. It had never even crossed my mind to empty the trash but it is good to know it works. Happy days for sure, now I don't have to scramble for a windows computer. LOL Was going to walk my aunt through formatting the 4GB on her windows computer... She's in her sixties and claims to be stupid in regards to computers. LOL She's not stupid, but computers are kind of a new thing for her I'm guessing. LOL She said when she hears the word computer she has stress. Now I don't have to stress her. LOL Thanks again guys this is awesome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?
Here's my trick for sticking flash drives down the front of the dtbm. Get drives that have a cap that has a hole that you can put a will one of those straps around your neck. I just get one of the thinner hair ties and thread it through the hole on the cap of the flash drive. Some drives have a cap that flips around and it is always attached but the 2gb I have the cap is removible or it was until I taped it to the body of the flash drive. You have to fish around and poke a bit to get the drive to go into the slot but it isn't bad. When you want to remove it just pull on the hair tie and there you are. COuld use the port on the side but I dislike the drive sticking way out to the side... HTH. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?
Hi all, Could somebody please tell me how to format the usb flash drives on my Mac so the NLS DTB player will read them? All I get is Cartrage error and I don't know what to do about it. I do not have access to a windows PC and would like to read some books. can anybody help me? I've gone to disk utilities and eraced the drive, formated it to fat ms dos and still it won't work. At one point about a month ago I could format drives on here and they'd work just fine, however, now it isn't working again. so any help would be most welcome. Thanks... Ps. the drives I'm working with are 4 gb and 2 gb and will work if I format them on windows... Tho like I said I haven't access to a windows computer so I'm kind of stuck. Thanks much -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?
Hi guys, My iPod has failed to speak again. I get nothing. I've restored it and restored it and nothing. The enable spoken menus is checked in iTunes but is not anywhere on the iPod at all. No matter how many times I restore it. It simply is not an option in the settings or anywhere on the iPod its self. I don't understand and am frustrated at it. I've restored it and restored it and this option, spoken menus, is simply just gone off the settings. I'm about to give up. I am frustrated beyond beleif. Can somebody please help me? I thought there was some thing involving disk utility or something? I wish I could just pack the MacBook up and the iPod and go to the apple store and have them look at it but that is now a long and complex thing to do plus I haven't any money to have them look at it. So gotta try and sort this here at home. LOL Okay thanks for any help you can give. Hopefully it isn't broken. ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
To Alex or anyone who can help: Text to speach/audio workflow
Hi there guys, Just a quick question for Alex or anyone out there that can help. Alex you earlier in the summer put me on to a workflow that opened a textedit document saved on the computer and transformed it into a computer voiced audio file for the iPod. Well it doesn't seem to work with snow leopard. It gets as far as you pick the file and it opens it then it stops. Is there something to do to make it work with SL? I hope so as I need something to convert text into audiofiles for something I'm working on. Can you or anybody help me out? Thanks in advance. :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Text to audio workflow solved :-)
Hi all, Just wanted to post that I have my text to audio file workflow problem sorted. Alex was able to help me out so all is grand here. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Syrinx and Twitter podcast?
Hi, Has anybody done a tutorial on using Syrinx and Twitter? I installed Syrinx but am a lil lot confused on using it. The Friends list for example isn't speaking. Any info on this would be most welcome. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Syrinx and Twitter podcast?
Anna, Awe awesome! This is wonderful. As I really haven't a clue what I'm doing on either twitter or Syrinx. I can only tweet. LOL But there is more. What time will this be on? 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Syrinx and Twitter podcast?
Oh Marie! You're a doll. :-) I'll take as much help as I can get. Like I already said I don't know how to do much more than tweet on twitter but I see ppl RTing and this and that and some ppl even have their tweets showing up on FB. LOL I'm ready to get all social mediaed but feel sort of lost. Look forward to hearing what ya have to say. Much 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Victor Reader and really really need help with iPod
Hi Randy, I'm sorry you are having such a time with your iPod. I can only answer one of your questions. This is changing the voice. 1. Go to system prefrences. 2. In the System section go to speech 3. go to the text to speech tab 4. The first thing under that is system voice there will be a pop up menu where you can pick the system voice. This will be the voice iTunes uses to make the little TTS files that go on the iPod. I wish I could help you out with more. Oh hang on. iPod update. I just did this. When you connect the iPod to the computer it will show up in devices right? Well highlight the iPod and then VO over to the right where you can choose all the settings for music videos ect. There should be a thing right there on the screen, it isn't in a menu or anything just right there it should tell you about your iPod software and you can check for updates. You may have to resort to resetting the iPod which may mean losing whatever it is you have on there. I've heard of programs that will extract stuff off an iPod through something other than iTunes but am clueless on all that. HTH and good luck. :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Victor Reader and really really need help with iPod
Hi again Randy :-) Yep thereis a way to see what is on your iPod. Okay I hope I can explain this. Right in the sorces table in iTunes highlight your iPod. It might have one of those triangle things and if it says colapsed you'll have to do a Control option backslash to open the iPod. downarrow and you should hear such things as Music, Movies, Podcasts and the like. These are the little sections in your ipod. If you want to look at music, high light it and VO over to the right to the table and interact with it it should show all the music songs you have. If ou know the name of the song you want gone, highlight the music in the sorces table under your ipod and then go to the search box at the top right and put in the song name and it should only show that song, or group of songs, this is best if you have many songs with a comon thing like artist or if it is a multi part audiobook or something. you can slect all and make it go off your iPod or you can go through one song at a time without entering search text and clean out stuff that way.. Hope I was clear and HTH ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Speaking iPod Nano no longer Speaks after firmwear upgrade!
The subject pretty much says it all folks. My iPod nano 8GB no longer speaks to me. In iTunes enable spoken menus is checked. There are a lot of other files on te iPod that I'd assume to be speach files but there is no talking. At all. I even stuck it under the CCTV and looked at both Extras and Settings also settings playback and general but no where did I see a thing to turn spoken menus on or off. help? This sucks? ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
A response from Accessibility at apple. Re: firm wear upgrade killing speech. Umm? Okay weird.
Hi guys, Thanks everyone for the fix ideas for my sick iPod. Haven't got to try them yet, but at least I have some clue as to what to do. I contacted the accessibility department at Apple thinking this was the right place to go. After all, the new iPod software upgrade killed speech thus taking away access. I got a response back from a robot telling me to contact Apple tech support and telling me to take my iPod to an apple store or I could call a number if my iPod was less than 90 days old. It's much older. total uselessness in the form of an Email. Don't people read the things sent to the access department or are things done with robots? Did I err in sending a queiry? Is this more a tech support matter? Their stupid upgrade stopped my talking iPod talking I thought this was an accessibility issue. Help? Don't really want anyone else to have the same problem as me. Am I jus t having bad luck? LOL Sorry. just a bit perplexed and frustrated... Thanks for reading. ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
sorting bookmarks in Safari
Hi guys, I have noticed that my bookmarks menu has become crazy with all the bookmarks for the past year and some month's worth of surffing I've done sense getting this mac. Is there any way to sort them into catagories like crime would have all the crime websites or food all the food and cooking and all? Is there a program to do this because it truly is getting silly and would be more manageable to be able to sort things every so often. Notice I'm not talking about this new pages most visited page in Safari I'm meaning the bookmarks list in the menus. Thanks much. :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: sorting bookmarks in Safari
Hi there, thanks much. I'll give that a try. I have a crazy amount of bookmarks so it may take a while to sort them all -) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Strange problem with external hard drive
Hi, You may want to check your cables. Sometimes if they are loose or are faulty they could cause this. I had this trouble with my HD and it turned out changing out the cable helped. Also if you have a USB hub check that it is turned on and working. I'm not sure but it might well if you've a MacBook it may make a difference which USB port on the MB you've pluged your A. hub or B. HD into. I forget what one but one is wired slightly differently can cause issues with some devices. They talked about it on TWIT's Mac podcast. But I forget exactly what they said. HTH ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
This may be a very stupid question, but... was Re: Adding buddies in iChat
Hi, Okay in iChat I sign in with my iChat account which is blueskyes9112...@mac.com . This is my account I set up through iChat the other day. Do I also need an AIM account? I don't have any iChat buddies or aim buddies as I have forgoten my AIM account information. and was under the idea that an iChat account would cover all. I signed in in iChat but most of the buddy list menu is dimmed out including th e add a buddy option. So I dunno. Aside from Adium, are there any other MSN-ish clients that work with VO and give access to MSN msgr? Sorry for being so clearly silly about this. Chat on the mac has been something I've not toyed with much. ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: This may be a very stupid question, but... was Re: Adding buddies in iChat
Hi Dan, Sure I could use any help in setting up Adium. Okay for one thing I couldn't figure out how to jump back and forth to read the last line of a convo. Then to reply like I could with JAWS and MSN messenger. Secondly it seemed like any ongoing convos, say for example a friend msged me and we chatted for a while and then went away. Well the next time we'd chat it would just get stuck to the end of the last chat and by the time I got fed up with the program we had some chats going back for ages and ages which made the first problem worse. Wasn't so bad to have to read from a few lines back, very draining to go back through days and days of a chat. :-) Maybe I'm just dumb about the program so if you can help me please do so. Also how to manage things like status and away and all this. Is it one master username that uses all your chat programs as in aim and msn ect or do you have to set each status and I forget but are all your friends on one big buddylist MSN and AIM all on one big list or what? Like I said I got frustrated and just quit chatting. On the windows computer I never toyed much with the multi-messenger programs. I just had AIM open and MSN open and that was it. Ok that's all I can think of for now. Any help would be very very welcome. Thank you. :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: duplicates in Itunes library
Hi Mark, I have this same problem. In iTunes, I forget where in the menus, the iTunes menu or file menu there are options for show duplicates. it will list all the repeat files and you can go in and manually dell them. If there is an automatic way I'm sorry but I dont know that. HTH ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: duplicates in Itunes library
Yes! Thank you. I'm going to venture into apple script world to try this. I accidently made some copies of some files in my library. And I bought Ben Fold's latest album last September. It downloaded and played jus fine but about a month or two later I was getting a notice and two of everything on the album because iTunes re did something with the files because some peloe couldn't play it and the new fiels could play... Kind of confusing but have been far too lazy to fix it. LOL But these scripts sound great. Thank you. :-) ~~~*~~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: new facebook podcast
Michael, Oh thank you thank you thank you! This is awesome! Yay! I'm going to go download and listen right now. What a nice happy thing to find in my in-box. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
iTunes tracks out of order was Re: itunes something very annoying
Hey, This sounds like a problem I have noticed. I got Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years I had this on tape when I was a kid and I knew what songs were meant to be there but on the iTunes version if you pull up just that album, track 2 or what is meant to be track 2 on the old version is missing but when I search that track directly it shows up... Also have this problem with Ben Folds iTunes Orignials. It shows up twice as one is all ben folds but there is one he did with William Shatner and it shows up apart from the rest. Also can somebody explain why some tracks don't number right? Okay this is on the same Ben Folds album I was just talking about. If you all don't know what an iTunes Orignal is. It is a person or band commenting on a hand full of songs and explaining how they did the song or came up with the shong or whatever. Well Ben goes for a track talking then the matching song goes, then Ben goes again and then a matching song. It goes on like this til near the end. Then the tracks get all messed up and you've got Ben going about songs but the songs don't go, it just goes to the next Ben talking track. then a whole glob of songs after, the ones he was talking about. Is rather annoying. I know what order the tracks are meant to go in by context plus when you look it up on the iTunes store it shows the proper order. So what gives? ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
OverDrive Audiobooks come to the Mac
Hi guys, I was listening to a podcast episode of the assistive technology show and the thing being talked about were audiobooks and where to find them. I have access to audible and NLS not bookshare though. I have known about overdrive audiobooks for two years but haven't listened to any sense getting my Mac because at that time they weren't playable. Well on the podcast it was said that overdrive offers Mp3 audiobooks and some of these are useable with the mac. Well I went to our state of kansas state library page where these books are at and filled in my account information, I used my Olathe Public Library card, but you can use a state of kansas library card if your local library isn't in the pull down menu thing... Well anyway your state library may be different... Anyway the point of all this is that yes you can play MP3 and some WMA, or so I'm guessing files on a Mac and or iPod. I found the site to be quite accessable, even the little graphics that say what will and will not play the files are accessable. The Overdrive media console for Mac is quite accessable and so far, even though there isn't the huge range of books you can get as a PC user there are still quite a number of books. Most of which I want to read I have to be waitlisted for... :-) But you can put your name on a wait list and you'll get an Email letting you know when you can check out the book. Our library lets you take out ten titles at a go and the checkout is defalted to seven days but you can change it to two or three weeks if you need to. I am glad Overdrive is on the Mac and iPod/iPhone now because like I've been saying one can never have too many books. :-) As long as my iPod has juice or I've access to batteries and or electric power, I'll never stop reading. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: vodafone have the i phone
Well here I am late to the party yet again. *smile* I just looked on BlindCoolTech and didn't find anything recent that had anything to do with the iPhone. Where is this review? ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: vodafone have the i phone
Hi, Thanks. I forgot about the feeds site. Have once again subscribed to the podcast *smile*. I guess the feeds site is updated before the bct main site which would explain why I couldn't find it at first. Review is good and the reviewer is correct at the end. YOu have to work with an iPhone in person to really get the idea of it. I can not wait 'til I get the chance. ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?
Hi, I hope I can ask this clearly... I have several spoken word type audio files. m4a. I use audio recorder to get them. Right now they go on my iPod as a big bunch of audio files. I was playing around with the tag editor in iTunes and got them to go from my music list to my audiobooks list by classing them as audio books. I would like to know how one might smoosh all those audio book files into one big audiobook. For example, let's say the book I'm working with has 32 tracks making up the whole book. Presently the iPod and iTunes sees this as 32 audiobooks or 32 files. I want to make it one single file. Is this possible? Not too interested in setting nav points just yet. I do have save playback spot enabled though. I have a feeling this will require a digital talking book making program? If so well regardless of what it takes is it awfully hard and are there howtoos in how to do it? Am I clear as mud? These btw are not computer read audio files it is real live people... ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?
Oooo! Hi Alex! Thanks much. This looks just like what I was looking for. Oh and the program workflow thing you directed me to that makes text files into audio files is so awesome! Totally perfect! :-) Thank you very much! This makes me happy. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: jumping on the itunes store
Mark, I'll have to give software update a go. LOL! Ms. Chokes on disks. LOL That's great! I nearly spit out the mouth full of tea all over the place when I read that :-) That's really good! Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Drunk with power. or buying from iTunes store all on my own was Re: iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
Oh dear, LOL when the Beetles do finally come to iTunes, please please sometime soon, that's just it. I'm going to make Apple, Inc. really really rich. *smile* I love them and have been very frustrated they are not on iTunes. Really want Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band album, is perhaps my favourite or one of my top favourites. :-) Okay so this drunkenness with power doesn't go away. Good 'cuz y'know I LOVE IT! Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Contacting NLS was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
Hi there, I don't know a direct E-mail address but the NLS website should be able to point you in the right direction... The web address is: http://www.loc.gov/nls HTH Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Greg, your program. Some questions?
Hi Greg, I went and checked out your public offerings on your site. I love it! I downloaded a dictionary of Australian words and some other stories and have enjoyed them very much. I've a question though. I found some things that weren't yet in audio format and wanted to make a request, but it looks like it asks for credit card information? I live in Kansas and so am not interested in having anything shipped all the way over here *smile* but would be interested in having requests downloadable. Is the request service world wide or for people in your geographic area? If so that's fine, I just was wondering. I think what you're doing is very commendable and for someone who can't get enough books and think there can never be such a thing as too many books, this is wonderful! It would be awesome if your library could open up for world wide use. I wonder with everything so global if someday there could be an international talking book program where countries could join as one and make all their offerings open to registered members? That would be very cool. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
I understand why NLS and RFB and D feel they must incript their books. I get that. But why they couldn't of picked a form like Audible is beyond me. I think a few groups out there, Bookshare and Greg's Beyond Books program shows clearly that you can put your offerings out there in a mainstream format playable on mainstream devices and still maintain the rules/laws covering copyright laws. The NLS for example has said they are suffering under the tight budgets everyone else is. I think if they'd offer their stuff in an audible-ish format it would wind up saving them money in the longrun. Each NLS patron could tell his or her reagonal/subreagonal library that rather than be issued a player they'd like to receive service digitally and here are the computers/players they have. It would be much like how a device has to be audible ready? Then the library could send them a file to put on their computer to authorise their iTunes/iPod for example, or if windows users their version of iTunes and you know list of compatible mp3 type players. Then it would just work like Audible books. On the Mac for example, the library would send a file that would install in iTunes thus authorising your computer and iPod/iPhone or whatever MP3 player you have to work with your NLS account. Just like the webopac online book ordering system used by many NLS service centres, you'd put in username and password to access the books... This way they wouldn't have to send out as many specialised players, service them, pay for mailing containers, cartridges and fixing this stuff or replacing it when it breaks. These options would of corse be open to those who wanted a player or who didn't have access to computers/internet/mp3 players but that number would be smaller than having to provide all this to every member nation wide. See what I'm trying to say? It could be done, I just wonder if people thought about it at the time. Perhaps when they were picking how things would be passed out all the mainstream built in access being offered by Apple wasn't as wide spread as it is now. Maybe if Apple becomes explosively popular within the blind community NLS and RFB and D will change their mind? I'm not meaning to leave windows people out of the picture, I'm sure something very much like how audible on the mac say can be done for them. Well I know is being done for them but I'm coming at this from a mac users point of view. I hope I'm making my thoughts understood. no hard feelings right? Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Accessibility fix in iTunes 8.2.1
Hi, Speaking of iTunes v 8.x. When I upgraded to the iTunes 8 or whatever the most recent big leap was, I started having a problem with the sources table. If I was below the list section under iTunes store, like say my iPod or the playlists and arrowed up, once I hit anything in the iTunes section of the list like purchase, shopping cart, itunes store, ect. it would jump me up to the player controls and it was, still is very hard to get to the settings under library like music, audio books podcasts ect. Also is there a way to get LBC out of London to play on iTunes? I find their little flash player thing to be inaccessible. And I like to switch back and forth between the 97.3 talk station and 1152 all news station. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Drunk with power. or buying from iTunes store all on my own was Re: iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
Hi Scott, LOL That would be cool. *smile* I spend way way way way way too much money at iTunes . Well Not to the point my family has to go without... But a majority of all my fun money goes to iTunes. I don't know I guess I'm drunk with power. I've never been able to browse music or movies or TV shows on my own before so never did it. It was frustrating to have to know exactly what I wanted when often times I hade no idea and people didn't want to stand around reading off every album by the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and Ben Folds and whoever I was in the mood for or go through every movie/TV show in a given catagory. Now that I can do this I sometimes go a little nuts. *smile* eventually the WOW factor will go away and I'll give it no more thought than I give ordering an audible book or NLS book or whatever but damn it's great and besides that there are some musical likes I will not admit to another soul. Okay I admitted Simon and Garfunkel but that is all you are getting from the likes of me! LOL Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Contacting NLS was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
Yes, you've got it. I'm not so much complaining about NLS or their service. It is just. Well the streem is nice and all but it is so so darn expensive. I'd get one if it were not so much. I don't really care about any of the other features it has other than you can download DTBs on it and get them straight away. You can't I don't think, do this with the new NLS players. Maybe you can? I don't know. I do know I most likely won't get one any time soon just because of the cost... If NLS would make their files work like they do on the streem, on other less expensive devices that would be wonderful. If they made their stuff iTunes, iPod, iPhone useable then I could streamline all the potential devices I would need/want into the iPhone. And you know they do say less is more. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
New Mail sound
Hi there, I am wondering if there is a way to change that bonkey little squeltchey sound that plays when new mail is received. If so what file format must the sound file be in? Thanks :-) Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: New Mail sound
Hi there, I got *.wav files to work. Right now I have just one sound but think I'll go look through the wonderful internet for more. *smile* Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Obtaining sound effects files was Re: New Mail sound
Hi there, Thomas, Did you get your sound effects files from random places from the web or did you go to one place for them? There used to be a website I got sounds from, for wav files but I don't remember the URL. It had a whole big bunch of all kinds of effects, snips from Movies and TV and everything. Was just wondering where you collected all yours. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 tutorials for mac programs?
Hi guys, Does anyone know if there are tutorials out there, audio tutorials, for different mac programs? OSx, Mail, particularly interested in Mail, and safari? combined with voice over? Thanks Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
Hi guys, Well it looks as if the NLS here in the U.S. is going to be rolling out their long awaited digital talkingbooks and players in a few months program wide. For a while there have been beta testers that have used assorted aspects of the program's hardware and software. The digital talking books are going to be put on flash memory and people who have the victor reader stream have been able to download digital files of the books to play on their players for a while. You have to register for the service and receive a special file that you load onto the stream from what I understand and it pinpoints you as a registered NLS user and allows you to use the download-able files. Well I am wondering if it would be possible for Apple to team up with NLS like they've done with Audible and allow iTunes, future iPods and or the iPhone to play the NLS DTBs? I am thinking it would be the best thing in the world if I could put NLS books in iTunes and on my iPod. This can be done but it is against the law and cumbersome and time consuming. LOL and it would be just better in my way of thinking if NLS DTBs would just go on the iPod all on their own without much fuss or muss. Do you all think this could be done and is it something anyone else would like to see? How would people e go about telling Apple to look into this or like I said is it even possible? Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join The Blind Parents of FaceBook group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Thanks. Was disclosure triangles.
Hi To Jessie and everyone who helped me with te triangles thing. Thanks! VO backslash works wonderfully! also love the VO shift M command. I love figuring out and learning new things to do with this Mac and VO. :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
making a signiture in apple mail
Hi everyone, Well I'm managing my google mail through apple mail now, uh. again. LOL Okay, this might seem very stupid not to know this, but how do you make a signiture in mail? I found the signitures section in the mail | Preffrences | toolbar. But I don't very well see where you write what you want the signiture to be. Thanks for any help. This list is awesome. Jenny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Mae, iMac, Macbooks and other Apple computers.
Hi Mae, The iMac is the apple version of a full featured desktop computer. They have another desktop that lots of people use as a home entertainment hub called the Mac Mini. It's all the features of a CPU but you provide things like speakers, keyboard/mouse monitor. Then there are the notebook computers the macbook, macbook pro which has more power and some different options than the macbook and the macbook air which is a smaller lighter sort of notebook, I think they call them sub-notebooks? But not as small as these netbook things that seem to be all the rage. HTH Jenny Olathe, Kansas Usa --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Mae, iMac, Macbooks and other Apple computers.
Hi Mae, The really short answer is the MBA hasn't any sort of optical drive. Not quite sure how that works other than you're supposed to be able to network with another computer, say your desktop that has such a drive, CD/DVD drive in other words and somehow use that as, I'm guessing an external drive. Seems kinda strange to me. *shrugs* The MacBook Pro has a bit more power, larger built in HD and some other things for well. LOL uber techy folks. Anyone else who can jump in with a better explanation, feel free. HTH Jenny Olathe, Kansas --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
disclosure triangles? How to open/close them?
Hi my mac using friends, all right. I've gone for two, or two and a half weeks not using the screen at all . Its pretty nice. I have one tiny little trouble though. That is those disclosure triangles. Namely in iTunes. In my podcast lists. How the heck do you open them? I tried the VO shif M thing but I can't figure it out. I did it a few times on the macbook keyboard but its kind of broken so using wireless full size keyboard. It is driving me batty and I can't figure out how to open those little darlings. Help? Mucho thanks. :-) Jenny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
need help removing defuncted dot mac account from mail.
Hi all I'm having some trouble with the mail program. Last spring when I got the macbook I did a trial of the mobile me service. I did not end up buying a subscription to the service and have tried and tried but can not get mail to remove the account. I've gone to mail then to prefrences then to the thing that has the accounts. I've tried removing the account and disabling the account and everything but banging on and swaring at the account. Okay so I swore at the stupid thing and none of it worked. I'm tiredof getting the thing that prompts for a password that is always rejected to an account that is defunct. I've a mind to remove mail altogether from the doc and quit using it altogether. Only thing is I like the RSS reader thing. So can anyone help me out? Like I've said I've unchecked everything in advanced and hit remove all in mail prefrences and this darling account simply will not go away! Please help. Many many thanks in advance.-- Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy Olathe, Kansas USA E-mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com My FaceBook Page is: http://www.facebook.com/blueskyes Follow me on Twitter, Username is: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: need help removing defuncted dot mac account from mail.
Ah Alex, thanks very much. I will delv into this tomorrow. :-) If it dammages teh RSS I can always resubscribe to the feeds. Sounds a little tricky so will get a good night's sleep behind me and give it a go tomorrow Jenny On 11/07/2009, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Genny: I am sorry to hear you have had trouble. I just did this today. I took the account offline from the Mailbox menu, wento to accounts, selected the accounts in the table, pressed remove account and then entered cancel at the password loging dialog and closed preferences. To remove this, though you may damage your RSS, so try at your own risk. Delete com.apple.mail.plist from ~/library/preferences/ . Also remove any pertaining files from ~/library/mail/ and from the mail downloads folder in the same ~/library/ folder. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jul-09, at 8:05 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Hi all I'm having some trouble with the mail program. Last spring when I got the macbook I did a trial of the mobile me service. I did not end up buying a subscription to the service and have tried and tried but can not get mail to remove the account. I've gone to mail then to prefrences then to the thing that has the accounts. I've tried removing the account and disabling the account and everything but banging on and swaring at the account. Okay so I swore at the stupid thing and none of it worked. I'm tiredof getting the thing that prompts for a password that is always rejected to an account that is defunct. I've a mind to remove mail altogether from the doc and quit using it altogether. Only thing is I like the RSS reader thing. So can anyone help me out? Like I've said I've unchecked everything in advanced and hit remove all in mail prefrences and this darling account simply will not go away! Please help. Many many thanks in advance.-- Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy Olathe, Kansas USA E-mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com My FaceBook Page is: http://www.facebook.com/blueskyes Follow me on Twitter, Username is: ben_folds_fan -- Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy Olathe, Kansas USA E-mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com My FaceBook Page is: http://www.facebook.com/blueskyes Follow me on Twitter, Username is: ben_folds_fan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: SPEECH PROGRAM FOR MAC?
Hi Darcy, Thanks much. I've been wanting to do a phone answer message using vo. LOL Nerdy? Yah more than likely but was never sure how to do it. : smile : thanks. On 7/8/09, Darcy Burnard darcyburn...@sympatico.ca wrote: I think you can accomplish what you want with the say command. Open up the terminal, type say, followed by a space, and then the phrase you want spoken. Be sure to put your phrase in quotes. Darcy On 7-Jul-09, at 11:49 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Well? Um maybe you want to make a quick recording like a voicemail answer message or some other quick thing? Or just to fool around with? Or I don't know. Just cuz. LOL If they can make an i fart app for the iPhone that farts they can make anything. LOL Best wishes. Jenny On 7/7/09, gene gene5...@austin.rr.com wrote: Hi Arthor: Why do that when you have something called voice over and I think you turn it on with command f5 or hold down the fn key and do command f5 if you have a laptop/notebook. Gene - Original Message - From: Arthur Pirika a...@andrelouis.com To: MACvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:29 PM Subject: SPEECH PROGRAM FOR MAC? HI, ALL. i CAME ACROSS A PROGRAM ON WINDOWS CALLED J TALK, THAT SIMPLY ECHOED LINES OF TEXT TO A SAPI SYNTH. i GUESS A PROGRAM LIKE THIS WOULD BE EASY TO WRITE ON THE MAC? YOU WOULD JUST HAVE A TEXT BOX WHERE YOU TYPE A MESSAGE TO BE SPOKEN, AND MAYBE SOME BUTTONS WITH PRE-DEFINED PHRASES SUCH AS YES, NO, THANK YOU, ETC. THANKS, aRTHUR. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Voice Over in Snow Leopard
Hi Alex. Ooo nice. :-) I love my little MacBook but it needs more USBs. Although I'm afraid I'd be giving up my firewire port and I use that a lot too. I am going to look into getting a new keyboard. Had to get this wireless one as one of the VO keys on macbook's keyboard stopped working a few weeks ago. Thanks for the info. : smile : Best Wishes. Jenny On 7/9/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Genny, I have the BT Apple one without numpad, but there is also stand alone numpads that may come in bt versions. For USB hubs, I have a bus powered four-port hub that is about three inches by three inches if that. Cost: Apple BT keyboard: CAD $80; BT numpad: CAD $70-150; USB hub: CAD $1.00-4.00; Regards, Alex, On 9-Jul-09, at 4:09 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Oh goodness. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to cause confusion. No. I thought I had read someplace on this list that soneone had thought num pad commander was getting scrapped. It isn't. Thank goodness because that's what I use now that I have a wireless keyboard connected to the macbook... This leads me to a question though. If SL is going to support bluetooth braille displays, would they or is there even, a bluetooth keyboard to buy? I'm thinking something along the lines of a small desktop sort of bluetooth keyboard. I like the wireless one but it takes up one of my two USB ports and my t-drive takes up the other when I'm in the bedroom... I need more usb ports and if I could scruntch my USB requirements I wouldn't have to look for such a large usb hub. Best wishes Jenny On 7/9/09, James Nash james.austin1...@googlemail.com wrote: Ah ok i understand now tahnk you James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard HI, No. The older Macbooks used to have a built-in Numpad overlay. The external numpads and esktop keyboard number pads still work in Leopard. Regards, Alex, On 9-Jul-09, at 7:06 AM, James Nash wrote: Hi Alex, are you saying that if I were to buy an ordinary MacBook and i attached a desktop keyboard to it, I would be unable to use the numpad commander. Is this also the case for MacBook Pro? Thanks James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard HI, They scrapped the number pad on the Macbooks,, but as far as anythingelse, I have not heard anyting. Regards, Alex, On 9-Jul-09, at 2:39 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Jenny, what gave you the idea they would scrap the Numpad Commander. There is nothing that indicates there was any such plan. Did you read this somewhere or did someone tell you this? On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Okay hi. If I remember correctly the num pad commander was going to be in SL. I thought I read in this thred that it was getting scrapped. But I don't think it is. I know we have to wait 'til September. But that doesn't make it easy. I think we shoould have demos of the accessibility features just like the sighted people get a peak at stuff. But good points have been made that WWDC is for developers. Although the keynote and demos there in are made public. So I think it would be nice to have access demos. But understand they may not have enough people to do this or unaware the interest is out there. The windows access providers offer demos because that is their main thing. To move windows access. So of corse they will have demos. Apple has all sorts of stuff going on. I'm not mad about it or feel put in a lower class of users or anything. I think it is so awesome Apple has not only built in access but done such a steller job with what they have. It seems that they listen to us when we have trouble as do the developers of many software offerings for the mac. So I'm going to cut them a little slack. Best wishes. Jenny On 7/8/09, Marshall Scott sc...@cvrti.utah.edu wrote: Another thing to remember is that WWDC is not intended for the general public. You have to pay to get into the meeting and it's primarily intended for developers. Also, I believe that most of the rest of WWDC is under NDA. I've heard you can actually buy videos of the other sessions but I don't think they're inexpensive. Marsh On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Scott Howell wrote: I don't believe there is any problem putting your finger on it. I won't disagree that perhaps some demonstration of some features would not hurt and I encourage you to contact accessibil...@apple.com and make the suggestion. It is possible they simply have not considered this or it is also possible that do to ongoing efforts to improve and insure the enhancements are functioning properly, it may not be time
Re: Macbook Pro Crisis
Alex, Everyone has already suggested what I was going to suggest. I was going to say put something on the end of the tweezers so they don't scratch the CD but that would make the whole point of using them in the first place kind of dumb. No offence, but that library sounds crazy! 200 dollars? Yikes! I hope the book or whatever it is is good. I hope as it was the library who put the lable on the disk which I have always been told not to do just because of cases like this, will either forgive you the 200 or pay for any damages their dumb lable has caused. Let us know how it comes out. Best wishes Jenny On 7/8/09, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: Try grabbing the CD as it is ejected with a pair of tweezers. SOmetimes you can even angle the machine, which sometimes helps. Good luck, I think with a little patients, you can snag and extract it. On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:21 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: I think this is going to be more of a hardware issue since the drive is actually trying but failing to eject. Is the computer covered under apple care? My adventureus side wants to tell you to try ejecting it when the optical drive is facing downwards - ie: the mbp is stood sideways vertically. You may find that even though the disk is not fully ejected you will be able to get enough of a grasp on it to be rather stubbon when pulling it out. Having said this, if the machine is still covered, its probably best for its user to spend some qualitty time with her boyfriend untill the machine can be scene to incase you inadvertently make the issue worse. On 08/07/2009, Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, Try force quit and relaunch finder. Or, try ejecting the cd as the computer is booting. If that doesn't work, open terminal and type lsof -n|grep /Volumes/ volumename. After the grep you could also just copy the ikon of the drive in question from the desktop and paste it into the terminal window. This will tell you what if any programms are using the disk. Or try this: in terminal type hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/ volumename And if that doesn't work: reboot into command mode. I can't remember off hand how to do that but I think emediately after the start sound press command-option-o-f but I would look that up if I were you. Then type eject cd ret reboot-mac ret. And if that doesn't work: throwing up hands On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: very sorry, i thought the subject was macbook pro prices... sorry again. mike On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: um, right, what are you asking? Just curious are you looking for pricing information for the new macbook pro's? On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, My Girlfriend's Macbook Pro was chugging along nicely until today. We put in a Library disk with one of those raised Barcode labels on it and now the disk won't come out. The MBP tries to eject it, it gets stuck, and goes back in. Note: It doesn't come far enough out that we can catch it before it goes back in. As her boyfriend, I have my hands tied at the moment seeing as how I can't get a tech support agent from our support centre out here until Saturday, and this is a critical problem as her Mac won't boot. I should add, we are both legally blind VO users. Thanks in advace and I appreciate any help. Regards, Alex, Michael Babcock GW Hosting, Your Dedicated Home On The Web Phone: +1-888-272-3555, ext 54121 email: michael.babc...@gwhosting.net administrative e-mail: ad...@gwhosting.net url: http://gwhosting.net Michael Babcock GW Hosting, Your Dedicated Home On The Web Phone: +1-888-272-3555, ext 54121 email: michael.babc...@gwhosting.net administrative e-mail: ad...@gwhosting.net url: http://gwhosting.net -- Kind regards, BEN. email: bmustillr...@gmail.com msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Voice Over in Snow Leopard
- it may have been Voice Over - was localized in about 40 different languages. But I'm not sure about Braille support. However, if you can some way implement BRLTTY or ask Apple to do so we may get native foreign language Braille support. I think Apple is Linux based, so this should not be too difficult. Take care James - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard is there a complete list of new features? i.e. .do we get new language voices i wonder . new braille support in other alnguages? etc i guess we will not know these details really until the product is out On 7 Jul 2009, at 11:29, James Nash wrote: Hi, It sounds like Snow Leopard is an upgrade. Is this the case? Fortunately, I have a copy of 10.5 which I bought last year so if so then there shouldn't be any problem. Take care James - Original Message - From: Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:25 AM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard Maybe so, but it will be worth upgrading and the cost is so unreal, it doesn't make much since to skip this upgrade. There are other reasons beyond accessibility to upgrade. I can guarantee you that $30 is a very small price to pay for the improvements and many of which you may not have considered or realized. On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:47 AM, william lomas wrote: i doubt we get new voices except maybe the ones found in the i phone. I am going to wait to upgrade i think, what I have now works fine. UPgrading won't give us for example, access to flash content so no point in me upgrading since a lot of sites I use, require flash navigation which adobe have not yet incorporated into the safari or other web browsers On 7 Jul 2009, at 02:53, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Yay! I'm very very glad to hear this wonderful news. A little bummed I don't have a fancy trackpad. I have heard some of the iPhone demos and gestures just sound so cool and fun. I guess I'll just put up with old tech. LOL I hope to get an iPhone in the future and will be happy to wait 'til then to try gestures. Unless my getting a new macbook happens first. But as this one is still fairly newish I'll wait. Who know by the time it comes time for me to get a new macbook they'll of come up with many more new and cool things. : smiley : Can't wait 'til SL comes out. I know it's not too far off but. It sounds so awesome. Am keen to hear any new voices. Have always liked the UK voices. The best thing would be a UK version of Alex, with the breths and all. I still think that's uber cool how Alex voice does that. Jenny On 7/6/09, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: Jenny, first only the Aluminum MacBooks contain the multi- touch trackpad unless Apple upgrades the MacBook line- Remember the aluminum models are now referred to as the MacBook Pro line. Yes SL will work fine on your model. The most significant requirement is it must be an Intel processor since the Power PC chips, such as found in the G4/G5 machines will not be supported by SL. I'd recommend you have at least 2Gb ram, but 1Gb will get the job done. The commands, which are issued from the trackpad are the same commands you can issue currently with VO. It is another means to interact with the os using VO and it is hard to say what the future holds for such a trackpad and VO. The point is that if you have heard the iPhone demos, you can get an idea of how the trackpad could behave and a little imagination might lead you to speculate what Apple could possibly do in the future. So, have no fear and prepare to upgrade, it will be well worth it. On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Okay. So am I to understand that the macbook pro line is the only line that has this fancy mousepad thing? I got my macbook in April of 08 and it is the little white one. I adore it and have been waiting for SL to come out. Will SL even work at all on this sort of macbook? Oh I'm sure the os will work but will VO function if I don't have that fancy mousepad thing? Are there keyboard shortcuts to do whatever is doable with the mousepad? Sorry to be so abrupt gotta run. thanks for any answers best wishes Jenny On 7/6/09, Claude Renaud cldren...@gmail.com wrote: Hello James, Sunday, July 5, 2009, 12:31:19 PM, you wrote: JN Hi everyone, JN I've been reading the new VO features in Snow Leopard. Where di you read this please ? Regards, -- Claude Renaud --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
Re: Crossposted. My first look at the iPhone 3gs. Thoughts and obsurvations.
nods. Yah I can very well understand that. I just wish I knew what if any other service providers were going to have iPhone. Like I said I'm with T-mobile now, contract up in February and not sure what I'm going to do from there. Sooner or later I will wind up getting either the iPhone or iPod Touch. I just got the new iPod nano that speaks for valentine's day this year so can't go asking for another one so soon. LOL But one day... One day ah yes an i something will be mine. :-) On 7/9/09, william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi yes the ipod touch is in general, the IPhone, minus the phone but I don't want 2 devices On 9 Jul 2009, at 07:42, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Kevin, I like your report. Sounds like the iPhone sounds pretty good. I wonder if iPhone is going to be let out to other cell providers? Currently I'm with T-mobile and my contract is up in February. I don't know if I should just stay with t-mobile or switch to a whole new provider. If they do come out with the iPod touch and it can do everything, save for the phone functions, maybe that would be the best rout. But then There is the whole thing about text msgs and everything. So much to ponder... I am not sure I want to have service via ATT and wonder what if any other cell providers would have iPhone. Do any of you think T-mobile would ever get the iPhone or are they not popular enough? And the iPod touch is it like the iPhone without the whole phone bit of things. Perplexing... Very big choices to be made Any help most welcome Best regards Jenny On 7/9/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, By using the Volume control while VO is pseaking your volume for VO can get quite loud. I had the same experance and was glad I remembered this trick. Regards, Alex, On 8-Jul-09, at 9:37 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: I just got back from the Green Hills Apple Store in Nashville Tn. My intention was to go and look at the iPhone, and probably walk out with one if I liked what I saw. However, due to the lengthy process of making a purchase, the apple store stopped selling iPhones about an hour and a half before they closed. I showed up 5 minutes after this cutoff time, but was encouraged to look at the display model as long as I liked until close. Upon enquiring about having a sales person turn on Voiceover, they called on another rep who had more experience with Vo. Turns out, he has some form of visual impairment, which causes him to have to use the zoom feature. He knew right where vo was, and turned it on for me. Now, the journey begins. My immediate observation was that of many other people. Vo is too quiet, even with the volume cranked. In a store with a great deal of background noise, I found vo somewhat hard to hear. Should have followed my gut instinct and brought a headset along with me. My first 10 minutes with the phone was met with some uncertainty. I was successfully able to explore the phone and open several apps. However, I found the sensitivity of the touch screen a bit strange. While dragging my finger along the icons, some would open at random. At first, I found myself quite lost inside of the apps I was opening. However, I soon found a consistent pattern to how these apps are laid out. Once I realized this, I was better able to navigate around several apps. I was soon successfully able to dial my own phone number, making my cell phone ring in my pocket. Then, using my cell phone, I was able to call the display model, answering and ending said call. In the iPod app, I was able to choose a playlist and start it playing. I was able to then pause, advance to next track, etc. I even found myself able to locate the transport button I wanted without thinking. I guess that's where muscle memory really starts to come into play. I was not, however, able to bend my head around how to drag a slider, such as the icon that allows you to advance through a song. I think there was a tutor message, which would have given me those instructions, but I accidentally interrupted it, and was unable to get it to tell me again. My cursory glance of mail yielded few results. I saw the messages, was able to open one and sort of read it. However, I was not fully able to bend my head around it's layout. I couldn't find the compose button, and I didn't understand the relationships between the message and the mailboxes. I would assume that the mailbox list would be on the left, and the messages on the right. I thought that's how it would look, but I'm not sure. Safari was a bit interesting as well. I didn't spend but a few minutes looking at it, and was a tad confused because I saw part of a web page, along with bookmarks. I wanted to try and enter in a website to not only look at something familiar, and have an excuse to type. I was not able to find the button to enter a website, however, I did find the Google button
Re: Crossposted. My first look at the iPhone 3gs. Thoughts and obsurvations.
Josh, I think you sold me on the iPhone. :-) I had this t-mobile dash? I think? Huge pain in the neck. I did not like it at all the phone was bulkey as it was like holding a square of tile up to your head. Wasn't all that impressed with mobilespeak and didn't see putting down so much money for a program that at best was only mildly frustrating. Right now I have no accessability on the handset I'm using. I have had ringtones set for different people when they call and at one point I had large pictures of the people too and that helped. But no txting or web surffing or any of the stuff everyone else gets to do. Tell me. If I were to switch providers how much are their rate plans with internet? I pay about $70 a month now. Also do you have to put a big deposit down? I didn't when I started using t-mobile four years ago and have had a good payment record with them over the past several years. This in fact is the reason I'd be reluctent to switch because of the fact there may be a deposit as I've really no credit to speak of and what there is isnt much. Anyone who can answer, thanks much :-) Best Wishes Jenny On 7/9/09, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: I will try to get my Iphone in the beginning of August, since i'm going on vacation and when i get back the Iphone will have been released here in Sweden. I can't wait until the 10th of August. /Krister 9 jul 2009 kl. 09.58 skrev Jenny Kennedy: nods. Yah I can very well understand that. I just wish I knew what if any other service providers were going to have iPhone. Like I said I'm with T-mobile now, contract up in February and not sure what I'm going to do from there. Sooner or later I will wind up getting either the iPhone or iPod Touch. I just got the new iPod nano that speaks for valentine's day this year so can't go asking for another one so soon. LOL But one day... One day ah yes an i something will be mine. :-) On 7/9/09, william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi yes the ipod touch is in general, the IPhone, minus the phone but I don't want 2 devices On 9 Jul 2009, at 07:42, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Kevin, I like your report. Sounds like the iPhone sounds pretty good. I wonder if iPhone is going to be let out to other cell providers? Currently I'm with T-mobile and my contract is up in February. I don't know if I should just stay with t-mobile or switch to a whole new provider. If they do come out with the iPod touch and it can do everything, save for the phone functions, maybe that would be the best rout. But then There is the whole thing about text msgs and everything. So much to ponder... I am not sure I want to have service via ATT and wonder what if any other cell providers would have iPhone. Do any of you think T-mobile would ever get the iPhone or are they not popular enough? And the iPod touch is it like the iPhone without the whole phone bit of things. Perplexing... Very big choices to be made Any help most welcome Best regards Jenny On 7/9/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, By using the Volume control while VO is pseaking your volume for VO can get quite loud. I had the same experance and was glad I remembered this trick. Regards, Alex, On 8-Jul-09, at 9:37 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: I just got back from the Green Hills Apple Store in Nashville Tn. My intention was to go and look at the iPhone, and probably walk out with one if I liked what I saw. However, due to the lengthy process of making a purchase, the apple store stopped selling iPhones about an hour and a half before they closed. I showed up 5 minutes after this cutoff time, but was encouraged to look at the display model as long as I liked until close. Upon enquiring about having a sales person turn on Voiceover, they called on another rep who had more experience with Vo. Turns out, he has some form of visual impairment, which causes him to have to use the zoom feature. He knew right where vo was, and turned it on for me. Now, the journey begins. My immediate observation was that of many other people. Vo is too quiet, even with the volume cranked. In a store with a great deal of background noise, I found vo somewhat hard to hear. Should have followed my gut instinct and brought a headset along with me. My first 10 minutes with the phone was met with some uncertainty. I was successfully able to explore the phone and open several apps. However, I found the sensitivity of the touch screen a bit strange. While dragging my finger along the icons, some would open at random. At first, I found myself quite lost inside of the apps I was opening. However, I soon found a consistent pattern to how these apps are laid out. Once I realized this, I was better able to navigate around several apps. I was soon successfully able to dial my own phone number, making my cell phone ring in my pocket. Then, using my cell phone, I
Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard
Oh goodness. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to cause confusion. No. I thought I had read someplace on this list that soneone had thought num pad commander was getting scrapped. It isn't. Thank goodness because that's what I use now that I have a wireless keyboard connected to the macbook... This leads me to a question though. If SL is going to support bluetooth braille displays, would they or is there even, a bluetooth keyboard to buy? I'm thinking something along the lines of a small desktop sort of bluetooth keyboard. I like the wireless one but it takes up one of my two USB ports and my t-drive takes up the other when I'm in the bedroom... I need more usb ports and if I could scruntch my USB requirements I wouldn't have to look for such a large usb hub. Best wishes Jenny On 7/9/09, James Nash james.austin1...@googlemail.com wrote: Ah ok i understand now tahnk you James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard HI, No. The older Macbooks used to have a built-in Numpad overlay. The external numpads and esktop keyboard number pads still work in Leopard. Regards, Alex, On 9-Jul-09, at 7:06 AM, James Nash wrote: Hi Alex, are you saying that if I were to buy an ordinary MacBook and i attached a desktop keyboard to it, I would be unable to use the numpad commander. Is this also the case for MacBook Pro? Thanks James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard HI, They scrapped the number pad on the Macbooks,, but as far as anythingelse, I have not heard anyting. Regards, Alex, On 9-Jul-09, at 2:39 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Jenny, what gave you the idea they would scrap the Numpad Commander. There is nothing that indicates there was any such plan. Did you read this somewhere or did someone tell you this? On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Okay hi. If I remember correctly the num pad commander was going to be in SL. I thought I read in this thred that it was getting scrapped. But I don't think it is. I know we have to wait 'til September. But that doesn't make it easy. I think we shoould have demos of the accessibility features just like the sighted people get a peak at stuff. But good points have been made that WWDC is for developers. Although the keynote and demos there in are made public. So I think it would be nice to have access demos. But understand they may not have enough people to do this or unaware the interest is out there. The windows access providers offer demos because that is their main thing. To move windows access. So of corse they will have demos. Apple has all sorts of stuff going on. I'm not mad about it or feel put in a lower class of users or anything. I think it is so awesome Apple has not only built in access but done such a steller job with what they have. It seems that they listen to us when we have trouble as do the developers of many software offerings for the mac. So I'm going to cut them a little slack. Best wishes. Jenny On 7/8/09, Marshall Scott sc...@cvrti.utah.edu wrote: Another thing to remember is that WWDC is not intended for the general public. You have to pay to get into the meeting and it's primarily intended for developers. Also, I believe that most of the rest of WWDC is under NDA. I've heard you can actually buy videos of the other sessions but I don't think they're inexpensive. Marsh On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Scott Howell wrote: I don't believe there is any problem putting your finger on it. I won't disagree that perhaps some demonstration of some features would not hurt and I encourage you to contact accessibil...@apple.com and make the suggestion. It is possible they simply have not considered this or it is also possible that do to ongoing efforts to improve and insure the enhancements are functioning properly, it may not be time to offer a demonstration. Also, it could even be there is simply not enough staff to even put a demo together. I don't know exactly the number of folks dedicated to the accessibility of the os and apps, but it may be an issue of resources. I don't disagree it would be nice to see accessibility get a bit more face-time like the other features of the os. Where I have an issue is with statements that indicate an entitlement and therefore that is why I made the comments I did. I can understand and appreciate the desire to have a preview, we all want to know what's coming, but there may very well be reasons for why it has not happen. On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Justin Harford wrote: Hi all I just got a look at this thread. It seems that, once again, I am ignorant of how we, as equal citizens
Re: It's now fixed was Re: Macbook Pro Crisis
Alex, Yay! Very happy you were able to get the CD out. That's good news also glad your library isn't as insane as I had thought : smile : Sometimes walking away and cooling off and regrouping is the best thing to do. Best Wishes Jenny On 7/9/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It is $40 a CD for a 5 disk set because the other four would have useless without #1. But Anywho, It is out. shaking the MBP seems to have done it after all, putting it down and walking away from it was one of the best things to do at the moment. Yay, Alex, On 8-Jul-09, at 11:57 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Alex, Everyone has already suggested what I was going to suggest. I was going to say put something on the end of the tweezers so they don't scratch the CD but that would make the whole point of using them in the first place kind of dumb. No offence, but that library sounds crazy! 200 dollars? Yikes! I hope the book or whatever it is is good. I hope as it was the library who put the lable on the disk which I have always been told not to do just because of cases like this, will either forgive you the 200 or pay for any damages their dumb lable has caused. Let us know how it comes out. Best wishes Jenny On 7/8/09, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: Try grabbing the CD as it is ejected with a pair of tweezers. SOmetimes you can even angle the machine, which sometimes helps. Good luck, I think with a little patients, you can snag and extract it. On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:21 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: I think this is going to be more of a hardware issue since the drive is actually trying but failing to eject. Is the computer covered under apple care? My adventureus side wants to tell you to try ejecting it when the optical drive is facing downwards - ie: the mbp is stood sideways vertically. You may find that even though the disk is not fully ejected you will be able to get enough of a grasp on it to be rather stubbon when pulling it out. Having said this, if the machine is still covered, its probably best for its user to spend some qualitty time with her boyfriend untill the machine can be scene to incase you inadvertently make the issue worse. On 08/07/2009, Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, Try force quit and relaunch finder. Or, try ejecting the cd as the computer is booting. If that doesn't work, open terminal and type lsof -n|grep /Volumes/ volumename. After the grep you could also just copy the ikon of the drive in question from the desktop and paste it into the terminal window. This will tell you what if any programms are using the disk. Or try this: in terminal type hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/ volumename And if that doesn't work: reboot into command mode. I can't remember off hand how to do that but I think emediately after the start sound press command-option-o-f but I would look that up if I were you. Then type eject cd ret reboot-mac ret. And if that doesn't work: throwing up hands On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: very sorry, i thought the subject was macbook pro prices... sorry again. mike On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: um, right, what are you asking? Just curious are you looking for pricing information for the new macbook pro's? On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, My Girlfriend's Macbook Pro was chugging along nicely until today. We put in a Library disk with one of those raised Barcode labels on it and now the disk won't come out. The MBP tries to eject it, it gets stuck, and goes back in. Note: It doesn't come far enough out that we can catch it before it goes back in. As her boyfriend, I have my hands tied at the moment seeing as how I can't get a tech support agent from our support centre out here until Saturday, and this is a critical problem as her Mac won't boot. I should add, we are both legally blind VO users. Thanks in advace and I appreciate any help. Regards, Alex, Michael Babcock GW Hosting, Your Dedicated Home On The Web Phone: +1-888-272-3555, ext 54121 email: michael.babc...@gwhosting.net administrative e-mail: ad...@gwhosting.net url: http://gwhosting.net Michael Babcock GW Hosting, Your Dedicated Home On The Web Phone: +1-888-272-3555, ext 54121 email: michael.babc...@gwhosting.net administrative e-mail: ad...@gwhosting.net url: http://gwhosting.net -- Kind regards, BEN. email: bmustillr...@gmail.com msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
FaceBook and VoiceOver
Hi there everyone, I am wondering if anyone has had luck using FaceBook and VoiceOver. I use it quite a lot. Only I point Safari to the m.facebook.com site. I can update my status, check my friends' status, read and write notes and wall posts. But there are some things that either do not work on the m.facebook.com site or aren't an obvious option. Example I follow our local Fox station WDAF Fox 4 out of Kansas City. I also fallow Showbiz Tonight and Nancy Grace both of HLN network. When any of these three post a story and get a heap of comments it will show. that tey have x number of comments. Normally you can click on that and read the comments then leave your own. But I'm finding if there are more then like ten when you click the add comment button on the status page, rather than taking you to the list of comments it will take you to a page that just has the person's status, then leave a comment, and a text box and all. If you click on the comments from this page you are taken to a page not found thing. Same if you click on someone's profile that is just fans. However if you use the normal full featured fb page www.facebook.com with a bit of stuborness on the part of VO you can somewhat get through the pages. I seem to have a lot of trouble getting around the normal FB page as VO seems to jump over whole bits of page. Just doesn't see them or something. What I want to know is if any of you use the normal FB site how do you do it? How do you have VO set? I really would like to know because I feel I am missing out on much that FB has to offer. Thaks for taking the time to read and for any help you may have. Best wishes Jenny p.s. if anyone is interested I welcome new friends. my fb profile is www.facebook.com/blueskyes or just search my email addy which is blueskyes9112...@gmail.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: Voice Over in Snow Leopard
Okay. So am I to understand that the macbook pro line is the only line that has this fancy mousepad thing? I got my macbook in April of 08 and it is the little white one. I adore it and have been waiting for SL to come out. Will SL even work at all on this sort of macbook? Oh I'm sure the os will work but will VO function if I don't have that fancy mousepad thing? Are there keyboard shortcuts to do whatever is doable with the mousepad? Sorry to be so abrupt gotta run. thanks for any answers best wishes Jenny On 7/6/09, Claude Renaud cldren...@gmail.com wrote: Hello James, Sunday, July 5, 2009, 12:31:19 PM, you wrote: JN Hi everyone, JN I've been reading the new VO features in Snow Leopard. Where di you read this please ? Regards, -- Claude Renaud --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Voice Over in Snow Leopard
Yay! I'm very very glad to hear this wonderful news. A little bummed I don't have a fancy trackpad. I have heard some of the iPhone demos and gestures just sound so cool and fun. I guess I'll just put up with old tech. LOL I hope to get an iPhone in the future and will be happy to wait 'til then to try gestures. Unless my getting a new macbook happens first. But as this one is still fairly newish I'll wait. Who know by the time it comes time for me to get a new macbook they'll of come up with many more new and cool things. : smiley : Can't wait 'til SL comes out. I know it's not too far off but. It sounds so awesome. Am keen to hear any new voices. Have always liked the UK voices. The best thing would be a UK version of Alex, with the breths and all. I still think that's uber cool how Alex voice does that. Jenny On 7/6/09, Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net wrote: Jenny, first only the Aluminum MacBooks contain the multi-touch trackpad unless Apple upgrades the MacBook line-Remember the aluminum models are now referred to as the MacBook Pro line. Yes SL will work fine on your model. The most significant requirement is it must be an Intel processor since the Power PC chips, such as found in the G4/G5 machines will not be supported by SL. I'd recommend you have at least 2Gb ram, but 1Gb will get the job done. The commands, which are issued from the trackpad are the same commands you can issue currently with VO. It is another means to interact with the os using VO and it is hard to say what the future holds for such a trackpad and VO. The point is that if you have heard the iPhone demos, you can get an idea of how the trackpad could behave and a little imagination might lead you to speculate what Apple could possibly do in the future. So, have no fear and prepare to upgrade, it will be well worth it. On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Okay. So am I to understand that the macbook pro line is the only line that has this fancy mousepad thing? I got my macbook in April of 08 and it is the little white one. I adore it and have been waiting for SL to come out. Will SL even work at all on this sort of macbook? Oh I'm sure the os will work but will VO function if I don't have that fancy mousepad thing? Are there keyboard shortcuts to do whatever is doable with the mousepad? Sorry to be so abrupt gotta run. thanks for any answers best wishes Jenny On 7/6/09, Claude Renaud cldren...@gmail.com wrote: Hello James, Sunday, July 5, 2009, 12:31:19 PM, you wrote: JN Hi everyone, JN I've been reading the new VO features in Snow Leopard. Where di you read this please ? Regards, -- Claude Renaud --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: brf reader
Ah Eric, I think I see your point? It looks as if the CNIB has what the NLS calls web braille. You just want to grab the books that come in the web braille brf format and read them in braille from your mac like people do when they put them on something like a braille note? That's fair enough, some people like reading braille over listening to spoken word. Pointless or not, brf seems to be the file of choice by groups who provide electronic access to their libries for braille content. There's nothing wrong with wanting to read a book in braille via a braille display, note taker or whatever. Having said this though, I've gotta say I'm with Josh and find it faster and just more enjoyable to have whatever it is read to me and wish that the different programs who offer etexts to us would offer a HTML or TXT version along with the BRF version. But then you run into all that copyright stuff so I guess you deal with things as they are. : smile : Am I kind of right? Or have I missed the mark altogether? Best regards Jenny On 7/4/09, Josh de Lioncourt overl...@lioncourt.com wrote: With the advent of grade 2 translation in screen readers for English, the point of BRF files is basically non-existent. They only were ever there because, initially, screen readers didn't translate into grade 2, so BRF files were a convenient way to read books without the painful necessity of reading them in computer Braille, (AKA Grade 0). These days, BRF is convenient on some note taking devices, though hardlya necessity. It serves now, or so it seems to me, as a sort of quasi-DRM. They figure sighted users who might get hold of such files won't know how to read them, and therefore will not pirate them. If I was so fortunate to be able to afford a ridiculously overpriced Braille display, (LOL), I wouldn't bother with BRF at all. I think they are far more trouble than they are worth. I have always, and expect I always will, back translate BRF files to read them, regardless of them method. The only other use for BRF files, really, is if you plan on printing to a Braille hard copy. But really, who is going to do that? LOL. On Jul 4, 2009, at 7:11 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: OK ppl. Here's what I'm reading. If I want to grab a fantasy novel from CNIB library in BRF format and read the thing, I first have to back translate it. But if Louis will back translate the thing, won't it just open up nicely and allow me to read without any palaver? And if you have to back translate to ge access to a brf file, then what is the point of having brf files in the first place? Maybe I should just stick to doing this on my phone, but I saw a friend of mine using his braille display on his mac and it looked very inspiring. Especially given that snowleppard will support bluetooth conectivity for braille displays. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 3-Jul-09, at 8:19 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: Back translating is really the best way to go. I mean, if you're reading with a braille display, TextEdit or any other text editing program should do the trick for you. If you want the TTS to read it, then what you're looking for is an app to do back translation on the fly. Either way, it amounts to the same. Personally, I'd prefer to just back translate it and get on with the business of reading it normally. That will also allow for easy searching of the text with standard find functions, and such. Louis works great for back translating. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:06 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Well, no, I just want to hit command O on a brf file that I download from CNIB and read it. Does anything do that? I guess if I had to I would back translate them but that seems like a wasted step. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 3-Jul-09, at 6:58 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: Do you want to back translate brf files to text? If so Louis will do that for you. Greg Kearney On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:37 AM, erik burggraafe...@erik- burggraaf.com wrote: Hi friends, I've just sifted a few pages of google results, but I haven't been able to find a brf reader for Mac OS. Can some one point me to it please? Thanks, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com -- Gregory Kearney Manager Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Ave. Victoria Park 6100 Western Australia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
Re: brf reader
Hi Eric, Scott and all, Eric, I got ya. Understand totally. I'm not good with Braille but I like it well enough. Sometimes I wish I had a display at hand just incase I didn't hear VO properly. Plus if I am reading with VO and following along with a display I can see how stuff is spelled. No earth shattering news but my spelling is aweful! I wonder if Apple would ever make a braille display? That Braille connect sounds real interesting. Displays are too expensive for me to afford but if Apple made one or O I don't know if one came out that wasn't hundreds and hundreds of dollars I'd look into getting one. On 7/4/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just wait for SL. Apple stated recently in a public anouncement that SL will support nice little Bluetooth displays. Regards, Alex, On 4-Jul-09, at 12:25 PM, Scott Howell wrote: You know Eric you got a good point. I want a braille display very badly. I have a long commute, but headphones on the train is not an option and I'd love to have a small and compact display I could use to do some reading. Actually f anyone knows of a good display that would of course work with Leopard and is reasonably priced (subjective I know), please advise or at least let me know what you have used. I might just dig into my pocket and stimulate some ones economy. :) A really big question for me is I think there are some very small displays out there and how do folks handle reading with these. I think they are wide enough to have maybe two or three words displayed at a time? I assume you just learn to scroll right and read with one hand? I know it sounds like a silly question, but I have only read braille books and the like, so a display is kind of foreign to me. tnx, On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:04 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: No, you're dead on, smiles. I'm a lazy boy myself, and generally speaking I'm just as happy to be read to. There's something about braille though. Listening is fine, especially if you have a good book with a really great narrater. Reading with a speech engine is OK. It would let me take care of odd chores while I'm listening and still get access to that book that I can't find in audiobook format. I like reading a book in braille once in a while though, and I'm especially going to like it if I don't have to be tied down to my computer by a usb cable to do it. Reading complements listening and helps keep spelling and grammer skills sharp as well as just providing an alternative to listening to cheesie speech synthesizers. I can't stand the thought of paper braille but there's definitely an attraction for me in pulling out my braille connect and going to town on a book. I have to run around the city all the time for work and the transit system takes a while to get anywhere. So, I can plan to be on the road anywere from one hour to 2 or three to get where I need to be on any given day. Braille books are really handy for that. I can take my braille display and read my book and still pay strict attention to stop announcements and such. I can even stand on a bus or a train with my arm around a pole and the other hand scrubbing the display. Kind'a makes me feel like any other guy with a paperback or a news paper. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 4-Jul-09, at 1:15 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Ah Eric, I think I see your point? It looks as if the CNIB has what the NLS calls web braille. You just want to grab the books that come in the web braille brf format and read them in braille from your mac like people do when they put them on something like a braille note? That's fair enough, some people like reading braille over listening to spoken word. Pointless or not, brf seems to be the file of choice by groups who provide electronic access to their libries for braille content. There's nothing wrong with wanting to read a book in braille via a braille display, note taker or whatever. Having said this though, I've gotta say I'm with Josh and find it faster and just more enjoyable to have whatever it is read to me and wish that the different programs who offer etexts to us would offer a HTML or TXT version along with the BRF version. But then you run into all that copyright stuff so I guess you deal with things as they are. : smile : Am I kind of right? Or have I missed the mark altogether? Best regards Jenny On 7/4/09, Josh de Lioncourt overl...@lioncourt.com wrote: With the advent of grade 2 translation in screen readers for English, the point of BRF files is basically non-existent. They only were ever there because, initially, screen readers didn't translate into grade 2, so BRF files were a convenient way to read books without the painful necessity of reading them in computer Braille, (AKA Grade 0). These days, BRF is convenient on some note taking devices
Re: brf reader
Oh this is good. Back translation from BRF files to text files was going to be my next big thing to tackel. Glad there is a program that does this and it's on the same site as one of the daisy book programs. LOL How cool is that? Thanks On 7/3/09, Josh de Lioncourt overl...@lioncourt.com wrote: Back translating is really the best way to go. I mean, if you're reading with a braille display, TextEdit or any other text editing program should do the trick for you. If you want the TTS to read it, then what you're looking for is an app to do back translation on the fly. Either way, it amounts to the same. Personally, I'd prefer to just back translate it and get on with the business of reading it normally. That will also allow for easy searching of the text with standard find functions, and such. Louis works great for back translating. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:06 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Well, no, I just want to hit command O on a brf file that I download from CNIB and read it. Does anything do that? I guess if I had to I would back translate them but that seems like a wasted step. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 3-Jul-09, at 6:58 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: Do you want to back translate brf files to text? If so Louis will do that for you. Greg Kearney On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:37 AM, erik burggraafe...@erik- burggraaf.com wrote: Hi friends, I've just sifted a few pages of google results, but I haven't been able to find a brf reader for Mac OS. Can some one point me to it please? Thanks, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com -- Gregory Kearney Manager Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Ave. Victoria Park 6100 Western Australia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach Audiobook files
Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone has done or could do an audio howto on the following... Using DAISY books and their assorted players on the mac. I'm sorry but the whole consept of these cutting edge books goes over my head. How do they work? Why are there so many confusing files? What is this DNA file thing and how to use it? How do you unpack a massive lot of daisy files and put them all back together? What software is best to use with VO? Just stuff like that. And secondly, I know Darcy and Holly covered it on screenless switchers how to make a text file into an audio book for iPod but I got sort of lost so is there an easy way to do it or could someone explain it again? If not it is alright. orry to cut this short. Skye and Benjamin are wanting ther inner. Quick and much thanks Jenny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Audio howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach Audiobook files
Hi Alex and Brent, Thanks for responding. The daisy books I want to use aren't from RFB. They are just daisy format. I obtained access to them via my online corse via handiham.org as part of my online ham radio classes. I'd like to sort out how this form of digital audio book is used as I heard either in the handi ham weekly news letter or the rain report podcast that h.h. are looking to provide more of their learning resources through the daisy format in the near future and have posted 2 or 3 books on their site. According to their site they provide links to an open source program that reads the files and links to an unpacking tool that reconfigures the files in the book without fuss so the player can use them. I need to sort out a non-windows way of using these files on the mac but haven't a clue where to start. I looked on the cucat web pages, you know that site that has all the VO friendly mac programs and found a book player. I just don't know how to use it as the user's guide is in daisy which is is about as useful to me as a print guide to reading braille. : smile : I need to know if we need a secondary program like this windows unpacking tool to get all the files in the correct order or do you just download all the files of a given daisy book to a folder and then just leave them in the folder and open whatever it is you're meant to open via the player? I'm sorry for being so thick about all this. I guess this is how some older people must feel when trying to master the computer at first. I'm sure once I understand daisy conventions for saving, ordering and accessing files I'll be like Oh duh this is really easy how could it ever of been hard? As for the text to audio stuff. Alex what is this program of which you speak? Where can I get it? It isn't as massively complex as all this daisy stuff is it? : grin :. On Screenless switchers Darcy did a really good presentation of doing this via automater but I got quite hopelessly lost. I don't really understand automater or how to use it. I know it's meant to make things easy like doing repetive actions on the computer like macros but I'm shy about fiddling with it as too many blue screens of death and the like have left me uneasy about doing anything that could cause the system to crash. I know that is a bad windows mindset. But I'm just a year off windows and spent 12 or 13 years as a windows user so some habbits are hard to overcome. Okay well Benjamin my baby son is trying to eat my iPod ear buds again! and Skye is being too quiet so I have to dash off for now. If anyone can help me out that would be very lovely. Best regards. Jenny On 7/2/09, Brent Harding bhard...@doorpi.net wrote: I don't think there's a way to play RFB on it, is there? I thought there was something called Katieplayer back when, but I heard they went out of business. - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:25 PM Subject: Re: Audio howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach Audiobook files Hi, I don't know what Holly and Darcy used for conversion, but my free tool does the trick. Regards, Alex, On 2-Jul-09, at 4:55 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone has done or could do an audio howto on the following... Using DAISY books and their assorted players on the mac. I'm sorry but the whole consept of these cutting edge books goes over my head. How do they work? Why are there so many confusing files? What is this DNA file thing and how to use it? How do you unpack a massive lot of daisy files and put them all back together? What software is best to use with VO? Just stuff like that. And secondly, I know Darcy and Holly covered it on screenless switchers how to make a text file into an audio book for iPod but I got sort of lost so is there an easy way to do it or could someone explain it again? If not it is alright. orry to cut this short. Skye and Benjamin are wanting ther inner. Quick and much thanks Jenny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Audio howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach Audiobook files
Greg, thank you very much. : smile : That first one with the really long name is what I have now. I'm going to check out all the other programs as well to see what one fits me best. I like that cucat site quite a lot as I've found all sorts of useful things. All the best. Jenny On 7/2/09, Greg Kearney gkear...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a bit some informationi on digital talking books on the Mac. There are two players for the Mac under development. Olearia - developed by Curtin University and teh ABQWA in Australia it is a Mac native application which will eventually come to the iPhone and iPod Touch as well. It is open source and can be found in early beta form at http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ Emerson - under development at the Swedish talking book library, Emerson is a cross platform Java based product which runs on all major OSs. It can be downlaoded from: http://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/ Digital talking books can be loaded to most, but not all hardware devices using teh MacOS finder with USB. Hope this is a help. Greg Kearney Association for the Blind of western Australia On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Jenny Kennedyblueskyes9112...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex and Brent, Thanks for responding. The daisy books I want to use aren't from RFB. They are just daisy format. I obtained access to them via my online corse via handiham.org as part of my online ham radio classes. I'd like to sort out how this form of digital audio book is used as I heard either in the handi ham weekly news letter or the rain report podcast that h.h. are looking to provide more of their learning resources through the daisy format in the near future and have posted 2 or 3 books on their site. According to their site they provide links to an open source program that reads the files and links to an unpacking tool that reconfigures the files in the book without fuss so the player can use them. I need to sort out a non-windows way of using these files on the mac but haven't a clue where to start. I looked on the cucat web pages, you know that site that has all the VO friendly mac programs and found a book player. I just don't know how to use it as the user's guide is in daisy which is is about as useful to me as a print guide to reading braille. : smile : I need to know if we need a secondary program like this windows unpacking tool to get all the files in the correct order or do you just download all the files of a given daisy book to a folder and then just leave them in the folder and open whatever it is you're meant to open via the player? I'm sorry for being so thick about all this. I guess this is how some older people must feel when trying to master the computer at first. I'm sure once I understand daisy conventions for saving, ordering and accessing files I'll be like Oh duh this is really easy how could it ever of been hard? As for the text to audio stuff. Alex what is this program of which you speak? Where can I get it? It isn't as massively complex as all this daisy stuff is it? : grin :. On Screenless switchers Darcy did a really good presentation of doing this via automater but I got quite hopelessly lost. I don't really understand automater or how to use it. I know it's meant to make things easy like doing repetive actions on the computer like macros but I'm shy about fiddling with it as too many blue screens of death and the like have left me uneasy about doing anything that could cause the system to crash. I know that is a bad windows mindset. But I'm just a year off windows and spent 12 or 13 years as a windows user so some habbits are hard to overcome. Okay well Benjamin my baby son is trying to eat my iPod ear buds again! and Skye is being too quiet so I have to dash off for now. If anyone can help me out that would be very lovely. Best regards. Jenny On 7/2/09, Brent Harding bhard...@doorpi.net wrote: I don't think there's a way to play RFB on it, is there? I thought there was something called Katieplayer back when, but I heard they went out of business. - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:25 PM Subject: Re: Audio howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach Audiobook files Hi, I don't know what Holly and Darcy used for conversion, but my free tool does the trick. Regards, Alex, On 2-Jul-09, at 4:55 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone has done or could do an audio howto on the following... Using DAISY books and their assorted players on the mac. I'm sorry but the whole consept of these cutting edge books goes over my head. How do they work? Why are there so many confusing files? What is this DNA file thing and how to use it? How do you unpack a massive lot of daisy files and put them all back together? What software is best to use with VO
Re: VO accessible FTP Client
Thanks guys, I've been needing an FTP program and couldn't remember what the name of the one I've heard blind mac users talking about. Had thought it was transmition or some other automotive sounding name. It is called Transmit though? Very good to know. Thank you Jenny On 6/30/09, erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote: Hi, I expect you will soon be berried in recomendations for transmit b Panic software. It is marvelous, and will handle all types of secure ftp transfers, as well as syncing your idiscs and .mac accounts and manual folders. It's your full featured, fully accessible off the shelf ftp client. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 29-Jun-09, at 6:41 PM, Mike wrote: Hi all: Anyone knwo of an accessible VO FTP client? Tried Cyber Duck, don't like it. As well, when I try connecting to the web site I'm working on, I receive the notification that I don't have permission to access the server. Any tips on that one? Thanks: Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: macbook fan
Hi. This may seem like a really stupid question, but on the white plastic MacBooks where are the vents? I am not sure so thought I'd ask. I didn't think they'd be on the underside that sits on the table, more like in the spine, if you held the macbook like a book book. Also how do you clean the vents? I keep the macbook either atop my dresser in the bedroom, glossy wood, or on my glass computer desk or on top of the kitchen table. Rare for it to sit directly on my lap any more...Okay well that's all. Thanks in advance for any answers. All have a good evening. Jenny On 6/28/09, Scott Bresnahan b...@apple2.com wrote: Hi, Probably. Macbooks run quite hot especially the white plastic ones, and I've seen the white ones run on full fan throttle with just Safari and Mail open if they are not on a good conductive surface. I've also seen a lot of dust build up in the cooling slots of the white ones, and on one, I've seen a bad battery cause extra heat when connected via AC adapter. If you have a friend with the same computer, try swapping batteries for a day to see if that makes any difference. But in general, I'd say it's common. --Scott hi is it normal for the fan on my macbook 2.4 core 2 duo machine to spin occasionally for ten or so minutes before going quiet?? All i have running are adium, skype and safari I think at the most, and maybe mail, and even after bootup after around ten minutes the fan kicks in as though i am running an extremely process intensive task What is going on? do I, I wonder, have faulty hardware after eighteen months? Should I be concerned, is the query I am wondering I suppose. WIll -- --Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!!
Sorry, just read this. for some reason some list messages go in the inbox and some gmail thinks is spam please disregard my last post about the snowleopard podcast sorry please don't kick me off the list. regards Jenny On 6/14/09, Cara Quinn caraqu...@caraquinn.com wrote: Hi All, unfortunately, as you know, there has been a link posted to a podcast of VO in Snow Leopard. The lister who posted this is now banned. -And, if anyone else tries this little stunt, they will be banned as well!… Now, I do not currently know of the extent of this person's involvement in this illegal activity, however posting this sort of illegal material here is strictly forbidden, and furthermore, will be pursued to the fullest degree possible under American law. Apple has been notified, and I'll be closing this topic, so I'd encourage you all to simply leave off with it in short order. Those who insist on continuing this thread will simply be banned. (no questions asked) this list is NOT a place for illegal activity and this will ABSOLUTELY not be tolerated. Thanks very much for your consideration / cooperation. Have a great day and let's get on with other topics, shall we?… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard
Good point Mark, As I said earlier, nevermind I don't want the podcast. Would be nice to listen to it as I'm just as curious as the next person who is looking forward to VO. If it is not lawful though... I don't mind paying the prices set by Apple Inc. for their products because their products are good and all. I'll just wait like veeryone else. Didn't quite catch on to the fact the whole podcast thing was unlawful til after I posted my request for podcast. request withdrawn. On 6/15/09, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: People! What part of Piracy don't you understand? Apple's doing an honorable thing by including VO and putting so much into it. While I'm the first one to advocate the law be broken when it serves no purpose and promotes dishonorable price gouging and unfair advantage, in this case, this is *NOT* the case! Don't support people who pirate Snow Leopard! Mark BurningHawk 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: Pricing on Snow Leopard was Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard
Alex, Agreed! I couldn't beleive it when they said to upgrade from OSX 10.5 to the next OS Was only $29. This is the OS plus the screen reader plus the screen enlargement. All for $29. Already have the money set aside to buy it the day it comes out. Tell me. Where could you get all that on Windows? I think the OS upgrade alone is several hundred dollars. Nevermind if you have to by a new screen reader, at best that would be several hundred bucks as well at worst nearly 1,000 and same for screen enlarger. Apple should be comended for how fair and good they are doing. Not costing us an arm and a leg and a leg for their products and ten more for bolt-on access software. Quite pleased and don't mind a bit to buy their products. Not so when I was on Windows. Oh how I grumped about that. well have a good day Jenny On 6/15/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, List, Thirty bucks over Leopard. Please purchase it instead of torrenting it or anything. Regards, Alex, To add to this, Snow Leopard is only On 15-Jun-09, at 2:41 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: People! What part of Piracy don't you understand? Apple's doing an honorable thing by including VO and putting so much into it. While I'm the first one to advocate the law be broken when it serves no purpose and promotes dishonorable price gouging and unfair advantage, in this case, this is *NOT* the case! Don't support people who pirate Snow Leopard! Mark BurningHawk 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Ham Radio, VoiceOver and the Mac
Hi everyone, Quite recently I joined the group handihams and am waiting to hear from them in regards to access to the corses of study, lectures and other ham radio related stuff on their site. I am going to start studies so I can obtain my tech class lisense probily next summer. I would like to know if there are any programs for the mac related to ham radio. Study suplments, testing, equipment control or whatever. I know there are hoards of tis stuff out there for windows, but surely there are Mac using hams out there. What do they use? Does it work with VO and where do you look to find the programs if they're out there? If anyone knows that would be most awesome if you all could share. Thanks much Jenny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 voiceover in braille monitor
I didn't like this article for the most part. I didn't think it was quite fair. In fact I thought it was pretty negitive. One thing I tell other blind people about Mac and VoiceOver is to keep firm in their mind it is not Windows and JAWS or WindowEyes. Compairing Apples and Microsofts is like compairing Apples and Orenges. They're both fruite. They'll provide you with food, but past that... I have been using my MacBook for about 15 months now and love it! I didn't think VO had any more key commands than JAWS. One of the VO keys shorted out on my Mac Sunday so I went out and bought a wireless windows keyboard. The only problem I've found is that the option and command keys have switched places on the wireless. Other than that it's been fine. I just found the numpad commander and totally love it! I have keys programed to do all the arrow functions plus a key to bring up the vo interface so I can change between DOM and Group nav. in web settings, I've got keys set to interact and stop interacting with things, a preform function key and several others. I do not remember having this freedom in JAWS. If they had it you had to be massively techy minded, or more techy minded than I was. I have found the MacBook and Leopard and voice over to be the most enjoyable and accessable computer/OS/Screen access package ever! I also got one of the new speaking iPod Nanos for Valentine's day. I love that product too! It isn't perfect but it is better than what I had, way better. I am looking forward to the new OS in September. Which brings up another point. Normally I'd hate it when Windows would upgrade because that meant I'd have to stick with the same old windows while my sighted pals got all the newest bells and wistles. I couldn't afford a new version of windows plus an upgrade of JAWS... With this new SnowLeopard, I don't have to fret if the screen reader is going to function. I may not be able to use stuff like Spaces, but that is one bell I can do without. Also it is only going to cost me $29. I thought I had missheard but no. for just under $30 I am going to have the newest OS plus a screen reader plus a screen enlarger. Now you tell me in Windows where I can get the same amount of accessability and an OS for $30. It just isn't done. Well maybe now people are making free screen readers it isn't so bad but still. Even the $129 off the shelf non-upgrade price is way better. I love the ease I have for the mostpart with iTunes. People may complain on the windows side that iTunes doesn't work very well. Well it's an Apple program and I've heard it can work. They even point out WindowEyes right there on the Apple website. Don't know what JAWS users are meant to do. But iTunes on the Mac is perhaps the best media player next to the iPod I've used. Also I'm excited about the iPhone. I see a lot of possibilities if aps for OCR and speaking GPS are made. Also ebook reading. There is just so much possibility and I fear that people will look at the Monitor Article or AccessWorld or whatever and think they have no other choice. I'd rather my money go to support Apple who has shown time and time again they're not just making access for their products just to look good. It seams they really are commited... -Jenny blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA On 6/9/09, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: They also did not mention the numpad commander, which makes navigation 10 times easier. Granted, you can't do that on a laptop, but when using a desktop keyboard, it's a great help. On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:54 PM, James Dietz wrote: Nearly everything they point out is negative. It's almost as if they're deliberately skipping over what the screenreader does well so that they can get right to the bad stuff. My favorite has to be the section where they discuss using voiceover with the internet - while there are some legitimate problems with group mode and ajax pages (which I would've agreed with if they'd been mentioned), it does present info in a logical form to me anyway. That's subjective, but they they go on to say that commands to move between different elements of a page were not readily apparent and had to be learned. Commands need to be learned for every program, including JAWS and Window-Eyes. Yeesh! They also mentioned the fact that vo+arrowing through elements was tedius. This is tricky, but that's pretty much how JFW handles it - with the exception that you can pgdn through a page to skip bigger chunks. They didn't mention that, so not sure if they're being entirely fair. The article raised some good points - training would help explain things like the infamous double-sided cursor (which they didn't quite realize existed - for the record VO was not mis-speaking characters) and use of the mac itself in combination with voiceover. Once Apple can sell a mac to blind users with some vo-specific training, they might be able to tap into the market a little better. Of course it's
Re: My iPhone
Hi, I totally am with ya there. The only bad thing is they don't have the iPhone on Tmobile and I'm not sure I can switch to ATT. I hope that perhaps they can get the iPhone to work with Tmobile. At any rate I was so thrilled. The possibility is endless now. Just think. Maybe they can come out with an app that lets you use the camera to take a picture of a document and it can then read it to you, like the knfb reader but not so much money? Or a speaking GPS program. Or a color ID or money ID It is just thrilling and I can't wait to see how this happens, how this turns out. On 6/9/09, Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I can't believe it. My first day back on the job as an accessibility consultant after nearly a year is next Wednsday, the same day the iPhone firmware is released. I work in an environment where just about every employee has an iPhone, so I am sure I'll be able to borrow one of my fellow workers to try the new Voiceoverl. I don't have one because I am part-time so they don't give me one. I'll write about my findings. I am so excited. Regards, Alex, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: wonderful news about apple care
Hi Ben, Jese and all, I know exactly where you all are coming from. I love my Mac! I love it so much I have been known to cheer when the Mac adverts come on TV. I have even been known to shush people when they come on. Likewise I've been known to boo the PC adverts My feeance Larry thinks I'm a bit demented for this. He says it is just an expensive computer. He even pointed at the $300 junkey laptop he bought earlier in the year and said it had the same stuff on it as my macbook and was a lot less money. I pointed up that it didn't have a built-in web cam, like my macbook. I pointed up that it's joke of a screen reader is a major suckfest as is their screen enlargement program. I pointed up I haven't had popups, spam, spyware, malware and none of the other agravations I had with my PC. Also pointed up the biggest reason MY macbook is way better than his junkey laptop pc. It doesn't have Vista! Or blue screens o death. I tell everyone about my loverly Mac. Even tried to win my dad over to the Mac side now he's loosing vision. It is expensive right off when you buy it. But you don't have to keep on buying updates to screen readers every time there is an upgrade in the OS or whatever. I used to be frightfully anoyed when I found out an upgrade in Windows was on the way because it meant my JAWS was soon going to be outdated. Now I don't have to worry. If and when they do move on to the next mac OS I know that I'll be covered. I might have to pay $150 ish or so but that beats the heck out of first buing a new OS then a new screen reader then everything else like anti-malware and stuff. I catch myself actually feeling bad for people who have to only use a PC or those of us who are blind not knowing how much better their lives could be all because of a mac. I'm sure nonmac people think me off my head but when something just works right out of the box and keeps working with very little glitches then yah I'm going to be off my head about 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Jpeg to text converter? Google? / Kurtzwiel 3000 question
Hi there, Hopefully somebody out there can help me. I've 2 somewhat related things. First. I have documents, PDFs, and others that are text but it is the kind of text that is just an image of text. I can not access them and need to for a project I'm working on. I thought I heard someplace that google had a tool that would convert say Jpg files or PDFs that are images of pages with text into accessable documents. Is this true? or is there software that can convert scanned images into text? If so where? Secondly I want to try the Kurtzwiel 3000 software for the Mac as it seems as if it would do the above task. However when I go to download the demo I get a file not found message. Have tried downloading directly from K.E.S. inc's webpage and via third parties like download.comish type places and nothing I try gets me the download. Anyone know where I can find a trial copy? I've contacted Kurtzwiel and still waiting on what they are going to say. Thought I'd check here as well. Thank you for any help you can offer. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
