Re: Weather Underground

2011-12-22 Thread Amber Harmon
Is this app for the mac? On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:23 PM, John Gunn wrote: > Hello: > > Just released, a free app. You can check hourly updates, select a local > weather station near you and to clarify, not talking about NOAA. > > However speaking you can also listen to NOAA. > > Works pretty we

Voice Mail on the iPhone

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I have an iPhone 3GS with the latest IOS 5 version and an Orange pay as you go SIM. How do I use Voice Mail with VoiceOver? When I go to the phone application and then Voice Mail I hear the message from Orange saying that I have Voice Mail and that I need to press 1 to listen to it. Al

Converting PDF to Text

2011-12-22 Thread David Griffith
A few days ago a lister posted a question about converting PDF to Text. i am now back on my mac so am now a able to post the email service I have used to successfully do this. To have PDF files converted to text files free of charge, send an email to conv...@robobraille.org. It is most co

Re: feedback on Mumeric keyboard for the Mac

2011-12-22 Thread Ian Harrison
Hello David, I do have a bluetooth numeric keypad I no longer want. It worked fine with my old pc, but have not yet tried with my mac. If you are interested I can get help to test it on my mac mini to see if it works. If interested. please contact me off list at harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karo

Re: Voice Mail on the iPhone

2011-12-22 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Paul! Well I know it is not perfect but you will find if you put in a pair of headphones you should then hear voiceover telling you the numbers and end call! So if you do not have headphones treat yourself for Christmas! hth Colin On 22 Dec 2011, at 10:12, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hello, > I h

Re: Voice Mail on the iPhone

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Colin, thanks for that. Using headphones did the trick. I will make sure I have some in my pocket in future. Alas the voice mail was not worth listening to! Paul Hopewell On 22 Dec 2011, at 14:05, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Paul! > Well I know it is not perfect but you will find if you put in a

Re: Voice Mail on the iPhone

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. Try double tapping and holding the number 1 key. you will hear a long tone of 1 and then it should connect to your voicemail. I managed to do this with at&t, t mobile and sprint. On Dec 22, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hi Colin, > thanks for that. Using headphones did the tri

Re: Weather Underground

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
I think it's for ios. as he said app store not mac app store, pluss the address looks like it is from the ios app store. Take care. On Dec 22, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Amber Harmon wrote: > Is this app for the mac? > On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:23 PM, John Gunn wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> Just released, a fr

Re: feedback on Mumeric keyboard for the Mac

2011-12-22 Thread Esther
Hello Ian and David, I answered David's query on another list, but I'll just summarize that the issue with both attached USB and Bluetooth numeric keypads is that they lose their ability to perform the full range of modified Numpad Commander definitions when used in connection with an external

Re: Altec Lansing inmotion KICK IMT 520 portable iPhone/iPod Dock

2011-12-22 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, About how heavy is this unit? Also, is the remote easy to use? I'm thinking of getting one of these after Christmas. Courtney Sent from my iPad On 5 Dec 2011, at 12:02 PM, Dane trethowan wrote: > One word sums up this unit, "Beautiful!" in both looks and sound and price, I > bought the p

Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Eric Caron
Hello Listers, Ok, I have a puzzel for iOS 5 users. I've tried to solve this and had no lucy. Here goes. My old 3GS was upgraded to iOS 5 before I purchased my iPhone 4S . I backed up my 3GS to my new phone and all went well. Only one glitch. My old 3GS still announces out loud things I wa

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Eric, I'm not sure what to suggest other than to be sure you look under all the settings categories. In particular, there's an option under General/Accessibility/Voiceover you might have missed. Specifically, it controls whether notifications are announced on the lock screen. Is this the beh

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually a friend of mine is having trouble with the cnn app. It announced the notification under his 4 but will not do it under the 4s. I've made sure all of his notifications are set correctly with no results other then to say that it still will not announce incoming alerts. Take care. On Dec

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Zachary Kline
I don't know why the phone hardware would make a difference in this instance. It's very odd. On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Actually a friend of mine is having trouble with the cnn app. It announced > the notification under his 4 but will not do it under the 4s. I've made su

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
It might be a fluke wiht the 2 phones, yours and his and Im hoping it is. but I'm just making my observations, poor as they might be. lol!~ Take care. On Dec 22, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > I don't know why the phone hardware would make a difference in this instance. > It's very

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Zack, I have that setting set to on but still no luck. Thanks for the suggestion. Eric Caron On Dec 22, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Eric, > I'm not sure what to suggest other than to be sure you look under all the > settings categories. In particular, there's an opt

Re: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Eric, Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you need or what's happening. Are the apps not displaying push notifications properly? Are they being displayed but somehow not spoken? Clarification would be helpful. BEst, Zack. On Dec 22, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Zack, > > I have

Type2Phone Mac app -- use your computer keyboard to type text on your iOS device

2011-12-22 Thread Esther
Hi All, A few weeks ago I read about an app in the Mac App store that lets you use your computer keyboard to type to your iOS device through a Bluetooth connection. It's called Type2Phone ($4.99), and is aimed at letting iOS developers who are writing code on their computers to easily switch o

Re: Type2Phone Mac app -- use your computer keyboard to type text on your iOS device

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
Interesting. Althought I wonder why they made it so quirky. I already have a bt keyboard attached to my phone so would it even make a difference? That same keyboard is also attached to my mac or was last I checked. Take care. and again it sounds interesting.. On Dec 22, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Esthe

Re: Type2Phone Mac app -- use your computer keyboard to type text on your iOS device

2011-12-22 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, The only thing quirky was getting the initial Bluetooth pairing established. That actually worked for me once I understood what I was doing, lol. The ability to do cut and paste of text from your Mac is also very nice. Also, if I want to type in another language, the ability to revi

RE: Notification Center Alert difficulty

2011-12-22 Thread Bubba
Hi, do two things or maybe more! First thing look under settings and notification and find the app that is not working correctly or just go thru all of them and set them like you want. But under push and notification click on the app and it will take you to another screen and set these like you wan

Re: printer help

2011-12-22 Thread Lovette Yewchan
I read somewhere that if I had an eathernet cable it could be connected from the printer to the router and I tried that but it did not work but I don't know whatelse to set up or if it just won't work. Thanks. Lovette On 2011-12-21, at 11:39 PM, Roger Firman wrote: > Hello, > > I have just loo

Re: Type2Phone Mac app -- use your computer keyboard to type text on your iOS device

2011-12-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm nice. I might give myself that app for christmas and see if it works. Take care. On Dec 22, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > The only thing quirky was getting the initial Bluetooth pairing established. > That actually worked for me once I understood what I was doing, lol.

RE: printer help

2011-12-22 Thread Roger Firman
Hello, Nothing I have so far read indicated to me that the printer concerned could be networked. Regards, Roger. <--- 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 postedto the