Re: Handling Tables

2012-02-03 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christo, On 3 Feb 2012, at 10:19, Christo Thiardt wrote: I have a number of Word documents with numerous tables filled with text. I also have to complete some of these with ticks in the appropriate places. Is there anyway of doing this using my MacBook with VO? TextEdit will read

odd thing.

2012-02-03 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi all, when i go in to my home folder when trying to choose a itunes library in the store menu when i want to view an app, I can see it in the home folder on the finder in itunes but if i go in to the side bar menu on the finder and go to ianandriggs witch is my home folder i don't see the

Sound dock recommendations

2012-02-03 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello all. First of all, I must stress I live in the UK. So UK availability would be of importance. Now onto the question. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding a sound dock for an iPhone 3GS? It must also charge the phone as well. Thanks in advance for any recommendations. --- Mac

Re: NTFS external hard drive

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
I use NTFS for Mac by Paragone (note: spelled with an e at the end not a g). They gave me good technical support over the phone a couple years ago. Chris Johnson Assistive Technology Specialist expressABLE Loveland, CO ch...@eable.org On 1/31/12 1:54 PM, Margaret Booth wrote: I'm trying to

Re: NTFS external hard drive

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
Ha! my bad; there's no e at the end either. Here's the number: 1-888-347-5462. Chris Johnson Assistive Technology Specialist expressABLE Loveland, CO ch...@eable.org On 1/31/12 1:54 PM, Margaret Booth wrote: I'm trying to use my NTFS external hard drive on my mac. I downloaded a trial of

Re: itunes movies

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Probably not yet. I'd contact apple about this and see if they are willing to sign deals with the various discription studios out there and get those out there to us. On Feb 3, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Ian Harrison wrote: Hi again, Can anyone tell me whether you can download films from itunes

Re: editing playlists

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
go to the lcd section and hit show next view until you get to the name of the track view. then go to current song button and hit it and you will be placed there. I've used this many times on a 70 track playlist while I'm on air. Take care, On Feb 3, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Ian Harrison wrote: Hello

Re: itunes movies

2012-02-03 Thread Jane
You can get the movie Up from the iTunes store for $14.99 Just put Up in the search field and you'll see two versions. Jane On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Probably not yet. I'd contact apple about this and see if they are willing to sign deals with the various

extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Jane
How can I get audio from .m4v files I have that includes audio description? Have a few DVDs ripped with audio description included, but I can't seem to get that track to export along with the main movie if I use QuickTime to Export as audio. Anyone know how I can do this? Yes, I know I can

Re: Help with voiceover shortcut or gesture

2012-02-03 Thread Steve Holmes
I think this may vary depending on what the link is or goes to. I ran into this similar situation this morning. I originally started up Safari and went into the search box from the tool bar to look something up in Google. As I arrowed down the list of probable items to link to, I opened up the

Re: Navigating in Preview.

2012-02-03 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks to all who responded. I may buy Skim though its primary function seems to be features I don't care about. Travis stated that its not hard to get where you want to go, and that is a reasonable expectation. After hiding the tool bar it seemed to work better, but now when I quit

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Use mpeg stream clip to save them as something. I use a batch convertion to do that. I save them as aif and then use amadeus to convert them to mp3. Take care. On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Jane wrote: How can I get audio from .m4v files I have that includes audio description? Have a few

Re: itunes movies

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh is that the only movie that has DVS? I'm just curious. Take care all. On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Jane wrote: You can get the movie Up from the iTunes store for $14.99 Just put Up in the search field and you'll see two versions. Jane On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: itunes movies

2012-02-03 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah and Ian, I thought there were considerably more audio described movies in the UK iTunes Store than in the US, where there are only a few or maybe one right now. Try doing a search of movies with the term dvs. (In the US iTunes store, only Up will appear in a version for blind

Re: Navigating in Preview.

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello Geoff, When I want to read a long PDF file I interact wit the test area and then press command+a to select all the text and then use the services option of preview to move the selected text into a new textedit window. I then save the textedit document as an RTF file which is then easy to

Re: itunes movies

2012-02-03 Thread Jane
I saw Up and I think one of the Happy Feet movies, but I haven't seen more It's a shame, because I'd be happy to buy the movies if they had audio description from the iTunes store. Instead I end up buying the DVDs. Jane On Feb 3, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Oh is that the

Re: voice over question.

2012-02-03 Thread Steve Holmes
Count this to be sort of a mini victory... In a follow-up call I received earlier this week from the senior tech support person at Apple, she acknoleged that their engineers were able to reproduce my problem when they attempted to run a mac without a monitor yes! Furthermore, she told me they

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Jane
I have Mpeg STream Clip. I am able to get to the main track, but not the languages. How do I do that so I can get the movie playing with the right track to export? Also, what are the unlabeled buttons? I can sort of figure out the Play button, but not sure. I want to lable them if I can.

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
just go to file and then export audio. you should be good to go from there. It will export the whole thing to what ever format you choose. I used handbreak to rip the dve in to the approprate language then mpeg stream clip to extract the audio. On Feb 3, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jane wrote: I have

Re: voice over question.

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh good! tha'ts very good news to hear. On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: Count this to be sort of a mini victory... In a follow-up call I received earlier this week from the senior tech support person at Apple, she acknoleged that their engineers were able to reproduce my

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Jane
Oh I could never manage that. I could only manage to get all tracks so all the languages are there. Hmmm. Jane On Feb 3, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: just go to file and then export audio. you should be good to go from there. It will export the whole thing to what ever format

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oops? Ok. use handbreak to extract from the dvd if you still have it. you should be able to extract your language you want. I hope that somewhat helps. Take care. On Feb 3, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Jane wrote: Oh I could never manage that. I could only manage to get all tracks so all the languages

Re: extracting audio from video files

2012-02-03 Thread Travis Siegel
If you have the program dvd remaster, it allows you to extract just the audio track from a dvd, so you don't have to extract the whole movie, then pull the sound out of that. It works pretty well. It isn't real cheap, but for it's feature set, it's well worth the 60 or so bucks they're