Re: My PC died

2012-02-10 Thread Jonathan Tyrer
Kristeen If you have a Pc and a screen reader you know how to use, together with some apps you need to use, then there is no advantage at all in replaceing your PC with a Mac. There is nothing you can do on a Mac that you can't do on a PC. Addedd to this is the time it will take to learn a new op

Re: My PC died

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, the current minis no longer have this, I think apple removed it too soon, should have waited another year or 2 On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > If I'm remembering correctly, the minis that are out there now do not have a > cd/dvd drive. Is this true? I bought my mimi a l

Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Acutally I round the work around maybe. I left the dialogue there for about half an hour and came back and the full 30 page document showed up as an m4a file. If I have to do this every time tha'ts rediculous but Im willing to be patient. On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:25 PM, David Griffith wrote: > I t

Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi David and all, There are also third-party utilities designed to do this sort of thing, such as SayIt, which is available in the Mac App Store. I've used this to convert large texts before, without any of these strange issues. I'm not sure why they should be happening, but wanted to share my t

RE: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread David Griffith
I think this may be a limitation. I am also using Lion and when I tried to do this with a 30 page text document last week it completely failed. As you say small clips are fine but anything substantial and I-tunes does not appear able to cope . I guess I could split the file up into smaller seg

a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello to all. I want to convert a 30 or 40 page rtf document to speach using the workflow. that ships with lion. I'm running os 10.7.3 and I noticed that it will convert a 30 second clip fine but it stops 8 or sometimes even 20 seconds in to the selected 30 page document. I made sure all tex

Re: Putting things on the doc

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
In snow leopard cmd shift to n the app in question, or file if you want to do that as well. Ibn leopard you open the app or file, navigate to it in the doc, vo shift m and I think under options hit keep in dock. Take care. On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > I can't rememb

Putting things on the doc

2012-02-10 Thread Kristeen Hughes
I can't remember how to do this and would like to add a couple of apps. Kristeen Kristeen Hughes khwi...@gmail.com <--- 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 t

Re: podcast.

2012-02-10 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi thanks I went to update podcast and it worked. Ian McNamara <--- 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 Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated

Re: podcast.

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Or control click the first ep and hit enter on download. If you cannot that means it broke and you have to contact the podcast owner. On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > What cast is it? Perhaps go up to the group name of the podcast, v o shift m > and click show all episodes,

Re: oddities in dates

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
What language do you have it set to. Dates are often set and spoken differently in different parts of the usa and uk. On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:22 AM, william lomas wrote: > hi for 10th may 2012 my mac is now saying a membership i put on hold > will start october 5th why is it doing this? > i

Re: help with Skype and analogue mic. update

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
If it is that kind of mic you need to plug one ned in to the headphone jack snd one end in to the mic jack. Did you set the max in your input tab le to 100 percent as you will need that as line levels are extremly low by nature. On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Maria Chapman wrote: > Hi. got the li

Re: DAISY for the Mac

2012-02-10 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi, I downloaded the Olearia app. Anyone know how to get bookshare or NFB newsline publications to work with the app? Trying to open both types of files produced an error. Marc On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Griffith wrote: > Try Googlin Olearia > David Griffith > d.griff...@btinternet.com

Re: DAISY for the Mac

2012-02-10 Thread David Griffith
Try Googlin Olearia David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com On 10 Feb 2012, at 08:26, Christo Thiardt wrote: > Dear All > > is there a DAISY software program available for the Mac? And if so, where > can I find it? > > Thanks for help > > Christo > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --

Re: help with Skype and analogue mic. update

2012-02-10 Thread Maria Chapman
Hi. got the line in app, and the mic doesn't appear to be working. the line in port on a mac mini is supposed to be for a mic right? got someone sighted to have a look and everything appears to be fine with the volume settings etc. Can a normal headset mic be used ok with a mac mini or do i

oddities in dates

2012-02-10 Thread william lomas
hi for 10th may 2012 my mac is now saying a membership i put on hold will start october 5th why is it doing this? i using lion <--- 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 messag

Re: podcast.

2012-02-10 Thread Thomas McMahan
What cast is it? Perhaps go up to the group name of the podcast, v o shift m and click show all episodes, then again v o shift m and download all available episodes. If it doesn't download, then perhaps it is no longer at the source anymore. On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Ian McNamara wrote:

podcast.

2012-02-10 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi just subscribed to a podcast which has downloaded the second eppasoad and when i go to try for the first one it says dimmd uncheck checkbox undownloaded epppasoad one is there anyway i can still get the first eppasoad to download. Ian McNamara <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To re