Re: Backing up Bootcamp partition

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Zack I have been participating in, and watching this thread and I have a query. My understanding is that, if you want to backup a BC partition from the mac you'd have to use a sector-level backup utility. I don't think either Super Duper! or CCC will allow you to do that because as I

Subject Lines

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Lynne Smith
Hello everybody I hate to keep harping on about this; but it's quite an important issue and we seem to be becoming a bit lax again. Time for another gentle reminder. Please keep subject lines relevant. We're all guilty, including yours truly. But can we all try a little harder please. It's

Re: Backing up Bootcamp partition

2011-09-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Lynn, You're quite correct. CCC or SuperDuper would not back up any bootcamp partition, you'd need another backup utility to do that. I'm not sure what programs are available for such tasks, as I find CCC adequate for my needs. This is probably a good argument in favor of single-file VM

Re: Backing up Bootcamp partition

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Zack And the point I was trying to make here, but neglected too was that even if you used Fusion and ran your instance of Windows from that using your BC partition which, I am sure, is perfectly possible, that wouldn't enable you to back up the Windows install any more easily. So you'd

Re: iSync under Lion?

2011-09-03 Thread David Griffith
I was looking for this utility as well and could not find it. searching under Google it appears that anybody who has Lion will have had this utility deleted. This is because Apple are assuming I-Phone usage rather than old Nokia type phones. This seems a bit peremptory. The advice on the

Re: Apple TV isn't accessible for blind people

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I'm surprised you even bothered to give this pile of junk a second reading. Lynne On 3 Sep 2011, at 12:26, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi all! Yep, I know the subject line of this message is an absolute falsehood however there's an email doing the rounds which claims that those who have managed to

Re: Apple TV isn't accessible for blind people

2011-09-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
I think it best that one tries to understand how the other half live rather than being up ourselves, at least we can all have a good laugh if nothing else. On 3/09/2011 9:31 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: I'm surprised you even bothered to give this pile of junk a second reading.

Re: Apple TV isn't accessible for blind people

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane Yes; but the problem here is that this is just another example, sadly, of people being too quick to judge when they honestly don't know what they're talking about. We have an AppleTV here and my other half can use it just as well as I can. In fact the only real problem in terms of

Re: Apple TV isn't accessible for blind people

2011-09-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Some of the points in the message may be ballid, those concerning another Screen Reader for example. Too quick to judge? Yep perhaps but there's a a load of miss-information included here so a very bad source somewhere is being consulted. On 3/09/2011 9:51 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith

Jawbone Jambox Website, could somebody test please?

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all Before I file a bug on this with Apple could somebody possibly test for me please to see if they find that Safari gets stuck on various links. I don't know whether or not you need to sign into the site for this to happen, because I'm auto-logged in. The site is

Re: Backing up Bootcamp partition

2011-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi All, I don't use Windows through BootCamp or VMWare Fusion, but I thought I would quote the results of a Google search from the Carbon Copy Cloner FAQ: http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/can-ccc-back-up-my-bootcamp-windows-partition begin quote Home → Knowledge Base → Frequently Asked

Re: Jawbone Jambox Website, could somebody test please?

2011-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Gordon, I find the Mytalk Jawbone site always presents problems for screen readers. I'm not getting the constant Safari busy messages, since I haven't upgraded to Safari 5.1, but this is just not a good site to try to navigate. Incidentally, I think that the issue with your browsing

Re: distortion

2011-09-03 Thread william lomas
happening with my interal speaker with voiceover On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello William That's often how it happens; these thins just suddenly go. Is the cord that you get on restart also distorted? Are you getting the same distortion on everything

Re: Jawbone Jambox Website, could somebody test please?

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Esther yes, I think I'm going to have to get Lynne to give me a hand here. And yes, I appreciate that the busy problems are related to Safari 5.1.x rather than the OS. But the reason I am toying with the idea of a downgrade are that Safari 5.1 is native to Lion, and you can't downgrade

Re: Mac Audio distortion

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Smith
This sounds like a hardware fault but did you follow the suggestions and see if they made any difference? On 3 Sep 2011, at 15:00, william lomas wrote: happening with my interal speaker with voiceover --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message

itunes and flac?

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
any way, any way at all, can ITunes play flac files? I've got apple lossless files, that won't work in staiton playlist studio cause there's no winamp plugin for them, and i wanna convert them to flac so they'll work, but i'm not keeping 2 copies of the same files around. help! :) unless aiff?

unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
anyone found an easy way to independently install windows using bootcamp? i'm not dragging the rents in here thank you. :) or, is it even possible to do an unattended install of windows using bootcamp? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message

Re: Signing into skype account on iPod Touch

2011-09-03 Thread Kevin Barry
You have to enter in your user id and password. As all your contact info is stored on Skype servers, nothing else is required. At 11:53 PM 9/1/2011, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I just got skype from the App store for my iPod Touch and synced it with my iMac. I discovered that the sign in button

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
You might be able to do it if you memorize the keystrokes, bt that's risky. A much better option is to use vmware fusion, this will allow you to install windows without sighted help. I did this with windows 7 a few weeks ago and it works great. On Sep 3, 2011, at 9:55 AM, joe quinn wrote:

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You can use unattended installations just fine, as long as you tell it to use the right partition. The partition will always be named Bootcamp, so running the Automated Installation Kit won't be an issue at all if you configure the right parameters in advance. Regards, Nic On Sep 3, 2011,

Re: itunes and flac?

2011-09-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Why not convert them to mp3 vbr high quality? the listeners won't hear a difference and if you do ever broadcast on a mac, iTunes will definitely play those. On Sep 3, 2011, at 7:54 AM, joe quinn wrote: any way, any way at all, can ITunes play flac files? I've got apple lossless files, that

Implicit Destinations; please read

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Lynne Smith
Hello everybody We are still encountering situations where people are trying to CC, BCC or add multiple destinations to the To field in messages they're posting to the groups we run. So let me remind the group again of policy, and the reason for it. None of the groups we run will accept any

Re: itunes and flac?

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Joe We have a plug-in somewhere but we never got it to work. You're welcome to it if you want it; contact us off list and I'll try and find it. We use FLAC album files although the same format for individual tracks is wasteful we think. Lynne On 3 Sep 2011, at 15:54, joe quinn wrote: any

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
i love VMWare, but it's slow as syrup on my early 09 mini! :) - Original Message - From: Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 12:01 PM Subject: Re: unatteneded windows installations You might be able

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
was this a blank message? :) - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 12:18 PM Subject: Re: unatteneded windows installations --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Mike, I have just about decided to purchase VM fusion and try to instal Win 7. I've been watching all threads about this topic carefully. Recently one lister noted that VM tools can't be installed without sighted help. In your experience if I get the program is there any part I

Re: Signing into skype account on iPod Touch

2011-09-03 Thread Desi Noller
Thanks so much! I finally got it figured out, and made my first successful Skype call last night. Desi On Sep 3, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Kevin Barry wrote: You have to enter in your user id and password. As all your contact info is stored on Skype servers, nothing else is required. At 11:53

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Dear Eric, I must have missed the message to which you refer, but in my experience VmWare Tools does not need sighted help to install. I did it myself by following the procedure in the VmWare help files, and it installed successfully without any trouble. This, combined with the ability to

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Nope! Some email clients can't deal with security certificates, but here is what I said unencrypted. Hi! You can use unattended installations just fine, as long as you tell it to use the right partition. The partition will always be named Bootcamp, so running the Automated Installation

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
well where can i get one from? :) - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 1:46 PM Subject: Re: unatteneded windows installations Hi, Nope! Some email clients can't

Off Topic; Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Lynne Smith
All: Could we please stay away from Windows stuff on this list, we're here for Mac. I know it's a grey area where BC is concerned but we need to be strict otherwise we're going to be inundated. Lynne -- Gordon Lynne Smith, supp...@mac-access.net Are you an iOS

Please stop talking Windows; we are a Mac group

2011-09-03 Thread Gordon Lynne Smith
Again, please close this thread. We are here for Mac and this Windows topic is developing too far. I let it go for a little while in the hope it would fizzle out. But it isn't. So please discontinue the discussion of Windows. If you wish to discuss Windows by all means join our other group.

Re: Off Topic; Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread joe quinn
sorry... anyone, contact me off list about this... i was just mentioning it cause i wanted to install it on the Mac, with bootcamp, that is all. sorry for any rules i may've squished. - Original Message - From: Gordon Lynne Smith supp...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility

Re: Off Topic; Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
For future reference, we make it very clear in the list description that the configuration of Boot Camp, or of Fusion and the VM itself is fine. But the configuration of Windows itself is off topic. That configuration includes things like unattended installation and, for that matter, using

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
I did not have a problem with vmware tools. I used the vmware fusion easy install, windows 7 32 bit professional, it did the install and installed the vmware tools, and I ended up on the windows desktop. I have heard that user account control can get in the way of vmware tools installing, the

Re: Implicit Destinations; please read

2011-09-03 Thread Roger Woolgrove
Lynne and all, Thanks for the reminder, not that it should directly affect me personally. If anyone aggressively tries to get this feature stopped, this will be a big mistake. I have dropped lots of groups over the years due to spam overloads and as I'm still working my way through the take