Re: database for i phone

2011-11-14 Thread krystal watson
thanks i made my data bass but can't name it? there is no way to name it on the i phone? like dvd cattalog or what ever it just calls it blank it says to double click it to name it on the mac but don't know how to do this using v o any help would be awesome thanks On 14/11/2011, at 3:50 AM, Bry

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread krystal watson
hi the bento on i phone is easier to use but i can't seem to be able to name my template on both mac and i o s version of the app i for some reason find the i o s version easier to navagate around On 15/11/2011, at 10:51 AM, Justin Mann wrote: > Hi listers, > I am creating a database in bento a

Re: New Support Person Added To Mac Access

2011-11-14 Thread krystal watson
congratulations tracey wish you well in helping all of us On 15/11/2011, at 4:22 AM, Gordon, Lynne & Tracy wrote: > Hello everybody > > It is with the greatest of pleasure that I am able to tell the group that a > new member has now joined the Mac Access support team. Tracy Thompson, the > bes

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
There is a talking dialler application built-in to the JamBox although I've never tried it. My understanding was always that the iPhone handled the contacts side of it once you gave the name. Lynne On 15 Nov 2011, at 05:30, Dane Trethowan wrote: I've used the Jambox in cars hence my comments o

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! No, the Jambox won't work with Skype. I'm not sure whether this is a fault of Skype or a limitation of the IOS device. At least you can use the Microphone of your IOS device and the speaker of same as a "Speakerphone" so that's something, sounds very nice on the iPad I have to admit. I'v

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
I've used the Jambox in cars hence my comments on muting, noise cancellation etc and I've deliberately tested the Jambox with people I talk to on the phone to get their reaction to the audio they're hearing from me as well as the audio that I'm hearing from them. Yes, the Jambox as a speaker fo

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I could never get the mic feature on the jambox to work with the iPod touch 4 or the iPad 2 and Skype, is it supposed to work that way? Thanks, Courtney On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello Esther & Dane > > Esther; yes, on reflection I think you're right

Re: Jawbone® JamBox & Apple Hardware

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Esther Gordon and I use the JamBox every day, without exception, as both an audio listening device and also a speaker phone with our Apple hardware. It works fine. I do not believe, and I hope nobody else does either, that I mislead anybody in my review. I honestly have and do use the thi

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Justin Mann
I'd take it where I could get it. I just don't know anything about building this sort of a database. I've never used php/mysql. On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > Does this database have to be on a local machine? > I.E. would a php driven mysql database on an internet host d

Re: JamBox Discussion Re-Located

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I have moved the Jambox discussion to our sister list. If it would be helpful to sufficient people I will investigate the possibility of making the apps accessible but only if it justifies my time. If you're interested, contact me off list, or via Techno-Chat. Lynne <--- Mac A

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Esther
Hello Lynne, I've used the Jambox in limited fashion as a speaker phone. I don't usually do phone calls under noisy circumstances, so the performance of the Jawbone Jambox was fine, the few instances where I used this. One use I have made of the Jambox in cars is as a speaker that will also le

Re: remote another mac

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Annie The only way I know would be to screen-share with iChat or, although I think it's less effective, Skype. I'm not sure whether that would give you full remote control; but Apple Remote Desktop is not accessible so don't spend your money on that unless you have sufficient vision to us

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yep, its possible that apps may solve the noise cancelling problems that the Jambox suffers from, I'll look into that but the fact is - as is when you purchase the Jambox - it doesn't have any noise cancelling abilities and mutes the other end of a conversation when you're talking. This can be

remote another mac

2011-11-14 Thread Jørgen Skov Nielsen
Hello All I use Lion, and sometimes i help friends and family with lion questions. is it possible to remote a mac with lion. I want a program, i can use with VoiceOver. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Jorgen <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Esther & Dane Esther; yes, on reflection I think you're right on that one, I didn't read that message in the right context. So I retract what I said regarding Dane's post being off topic. Actually though, transferring contacts isn't possible as far as I know at least not without an add-o

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Does this database have to be on a local machine? I.E. would a php driven mysql database on an internet host do the trick? I know you'd like to get bento to work, I would too in your place, but if a web alternative is doable (may obviate the need to export it, since they could just access it f

Re: Registering your Apple Products for a permanent record of serial numbers [was Re: What Type of Mac goes with this hardware address?]

2011-11-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Adding to the confusion, the numbers you listed aren't actual hardware addresses of the machines, but what's commonly referred to as the mac address of the devices in question. And, since it's possible to clone mac addresses (I.E. my wireless router can clone the mac adress of the modem my

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Justin Mann
Hi there, I'll try to describe in how this database is supposed to be laid out, I"ll give field name, type, and description Vehicle is from:choice Provides a drop-down of three possible choices upsbrown/upsfreight/upssupplychain receive date: unsure of field typefield used to enter

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I think Justin's referring to the "Choice" type of field you can create with Bento, you can certainly define the choices - whether they be "Yes", "No" or anything else in the creation process but you cannot access the choice list it seems with Voiceover when you're adding a record. You can

Re: anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Justin, I'd like to help but need a little clarification first, if you don't mind: 1. Regarding the popup: Are you using what bento calls a "Choice" field? 2. When you say you're unable to make the popups behave as they should, can you give some exact details of how you think they should be

Deleting a document

2011-11-14 Thread Catherine Golding
I can't find anywhere where it tells me how to delete a document. I'm sure it's very simple, but how do I do it? Catherine Golding Olympia, Washington <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an a

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Thanks for that tip, I'll give it a go and no, I didn't think of using iSync in that way , if I can get the system working then it will be a huge bonus as the "speakerphone" will then be truly hands free. I'll repeat what I said in my original message, I'd love to give details of the ""speakerp

Re: Remove the Time Machine backup file in your Trash with a terminal command [was Re: Trash refuses to empty]

2011-11-14 Thread Eric Caron
Hello Esther and others, Wow! Esther, I feel like I've learned a ton of information from this problem. Thanks to your post I've now used terminal and am less intimidated by it. In some ways it does bring back memories of a time when I was a pretty good DOS user. I followed your comma

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Esther
Hi Lynne and Dane, Lynne, my reading of this section of Dane's post is that he is writing about the device he bought to use as a speakerphone with his iPhone in place of the Jambox. I don't have enough knowledge of that device (which isn't specified) to know whether his statement about problem

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I refer specifically to the below quoted text as the rest of this was way off topic. :) You clearly haven't investigated this very thoroughly. You're entitled to your opinions, of course. On 14 Nov 2011, at 22:12, Dane Trethowan wrote: Unfortunately it would appear that this "speakerphone" sys

Important; Control Personnel Change

2011-11-14 Thread Gordon, Lynne & Tracy
Hello everybody It is with regret that I must inform the group that James Austin has now opted to rescind his position as an assistant list controller of Mac Access Dot Net's flagship email forum, mac-access. We would like to thank James for his efforts, and to wish him the very best in his fut

Registering your Apple Products for a permanent record of serial numbers [was Re: What Type of Mac goes with this hardware address?]

2011-11-14 Thread Esther
Hi Martin, As far as I know, there's no way to track down the specific model of a Mac computer based on the MAC address. You can track down the manufacturer of the computer from the first few code groups of the MAC address if you look it up, e.g., at: http://coffer.com/mac_find/ But you alread

anybody have any bento experience?

2011-11-14 Thread Justin Mann
Hi listers, I am creating a database in bento and the process seems straight forward. However, I'm not able to affectively make the pop-ups behave like they should. I'm also trying to figure out what field to use where. Do you use a number field to store a number that is used to look up infor

Re: How to turn off voice activation in iPod Touch

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! Excuse me for sounding picky here but can we actually give the right name for a device in a message please so that we don't get confused. An iTouch is a mouse so I assuming the original sender of the message is having trouble with his iPod Touch . On 15/11/2011, at 10:38 AM, Niamh wrote:

How to turn off voice activation in I-touch

2011-11-14 Thread Niamh
I have the very latest I-touch, and it keeps sliding into voice activation, not voice over, but voice activation. Can I kill it permanently? Niamh going mad with it. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can

Favourite alarm sounds

2011-11-14 Thread chris hallsworth
I like the sound simply called alarm. They have sampled the alarm used in Star Wars and on a recent commercial on ITV here in the UK. Wakes me up every time. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find

Re: Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
One thing I would add to any comments on the Jambox. Whilst this is an excellent sounding speaker system - no point denying that - is not the best speakerphone out there so if you're planning to use this device primarely as a speakerphone then you'd do much better to look at other alternatives

Re: New Support Person Added To Mac Access

2011-11-14 Thread Matthew Chao
Way to go, Lynne! That's what makes this list so great. Now, if only I could work on my Mac more often. Keep up the good work! Matthew Chao At 12:22 PM 11/14/2011, you wrote: Hello everybody It is with the greatest of pleasure that I am able to tell the group that a new member has now joi

What Type of Mac goes with this hardware address?

2011-11-14 Thread Martin McCormick
I run our DHCP servers here at Oklahoma State University and we help the police look for stolen equipment by running a script every few minutes that looks for any hardware address that we need to locate. If it shows up, we page people and anybody logged in to our unix work station sees mes

Re: VoiceOver and visual appearance

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Chris No, it does not change the visual attributes of what you see on screen. It isn't like Windows; where you get a vertical sheet which totally misrepresents a website. Lynne On 14 Nov 2011, at 19:39, chris hallsworth wrote: Does VoiceOver change anything visual on the screen? A support wor

Jawbone® JamBox

2011-11-14 Thread Tracy Thompson
hello group I am learning fast I think. I have just posted Lynne's review, with a few Tracy-like edits, of the JamBox on the Mac Access blog. http://blog.maciosaccess.net is where you can find it. We might update it because lynne wants to add some comments to the review. But this is now done a

Problems pairing in IOS5.01 - was Re: jambox and web site?

2011-11-14 Thread Thejazzden
is anyone else having problems pairing with IPhone since upgrading to IOS 5? I too would like an accessible way of updating the JawBone. :) Dennis Freedman The best aromatherapy in the UK - www.e-nat.co.uk Sent from my iPhone On 14 Nov 2011, at 20:27, Esther wrote: > Hello Joe, > > There ar

Re: jambox and web site?

2011-11-14 Thread Esther
Hello Joe, There are discussions of problems with the Jawbone MyTalk web site's accessibility in the archives, but not a good solution about downloading the Updater. There are also discussions in the archives about the Jambox itself, the earliest being in the old archives from 2010, such as my

Re: Posting Lynne's Review to our blog; [was Lynne's Review of the Jawbone Jambox

2011-11-14 Thread Tracy Thompson
Hello Esther Lynne has been meaning to do this but with everything that's been going on it hasn't been possible. We will try and get this done today. Tracy On 14 Nov 2011, at 04:48, Esther wrote: Hi Dane, Joe, and Others, I'll just add that you can read Lynne's review of the Jawbone Jambox a

Re: VoiceOver and visual appearance

2011-11-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Voice over does not change the screen at all. It dooes change the gestures used to control the phone, but that's all. hth. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted

Re: Audio Review/Demo of the Jawbone Jambox

2011-11-14 Thread Tracy Thompson
What does this have to do with Mac OS? oOr are you covering it from that angle? Tracy On 14 Nov 2011, at 00:48, Dane Trethowan wrote: For those who are either thinking of purchasing or who own one of these devices then I'm sure they'll find the review from the page at

VoiceOver and visual appearance

2011-11-14 Thread chris hallsworth
Does VoiceOver change anything visual on the screen? A support worker I have was curious to how the keyboard was laid out. She thought it was smaller than the keyboard on her phone. I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1 and the support worker has some kind of Samsung touch screen phone. Thanks!

Re: jambox and web site?

2011-11-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Joe I never said the review was in the archive. Where did you get that from? I said that there was a discussion of the Jambox in there in relation to Mac OS. Lynne On 13 Nov 2011, at 20:20, joe quinn wrote: despite Lynn's saying so, her review of the jambox, isn't in the archives, either

Re: Problem with activating voicemail tab, please help!

2011-11-14 Thread chris hallsworth
Ar right! Now, I have seen this with Nokias. So are you saying this works for the iPhone as well? Thanks! On 14/11/2011 17:39, Sarah Alawami wrote: so you're saying nothing happens/ Ok try this. If this works in the UK. double tap and hold the 1 key. This should put you in the voicemail phon

Re: Problem with activating voicemail tab, please help!

2011-11-14 Thread Sarah Alawami
so you're saying nothing happens/ Ok try this. If this works in the UK. double tap and hold the 1 key. This should put you in the voicemail phone number thing. Now see if you can access it from there.. Once you have the pin set up and your greeting set up as well you should be able to access t

New Support Person Added To Mac Access

2011-11-14 Thread Gordon, Lynne & Tracy
Hello everybody It is with the greatest of pleasure that I am able to tell the group that a new member has now joined the Mac Access support team. Tracy Thompson, the best nurse ever to have it planet earth, has now turned her hand to a new and, thus far, untested skill which she has been devel

Re: Problem Accessing Mail boxes in Lion

2011-11-14 Thread David Griffith
Brilliant. I might have slipped a finger when pressing control shift N to get new mail. I may have hidden this then. Then again I could just blame my wife. thanks again. I can see all the Mailboxes I need to again. David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com On 14 Nov 2011, at 17:05, Bryan Jo

Re: Problem Accessing Mail boxes in Lion

2011-11-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello David, Perhaps your mailbox list has been hidden. I also use the tab and shift+tab to move between my mailbox list and message list in the new mail view, and when I hide the mailbox list I experience the same thing you mentioned. You can press Command+Shift+M to toggle the displaying of t

Problem with activating voicemail tab, please help!

2011-11-14 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello all. I realize you may not be able to answer the below, but this is worth a shot anyway. Please can I have your help? My friend Gary Price has an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. He is having a problem activating the voicemail part of the phone app. Here is what he does: 1. Double tap phone.

go to shell (was Trash refuses to empty)

2011-11-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Esther, you're a jewel. I've often wondered why apple doesn't provide the functionality of this go to shell app. I've often thought about building such an app for myself, and now I see it's done. Great work here, I'll definitely be adding this one to my toolbox. <--- Mac Access At Mac

Re: database for i phone

2011-11-14 Thread krystal watson
thanks do u know how to name your library what you want to call it it says in the guide to double click it and i not sure if there is a way to double click using vo if there is i don't know how i am finding the i phone version much easier to use but have the mac vverssion on the mac and i sink i

Re: Trash refuses to empty

2011-11-14 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, Travis, and Others, How about the following way of checking whether Eric's problem file is still in the .Trashes folder on his Time Machine volume? Terminal's command line interface lets you do a lot more work with your system with precision, but many people aren't comfortable with it,