Customizing the favorites bar

2012-08-19 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello to all. When using the old drag-and-drop method for dragging folders off the favorites bar, I cannot do this. I hear mouse down on folder name and it goes right to the messages table. I tried the new method for drag-and-drop and that also fails. Voiceover says and able to drop a item on w

Using iPhone / iPod to control Yamaha A/V receivers?

2012-08-19 Thread Adrian Beech
G'day all, Has anyone here had experience using the iPhone/iPod apps which can be used to control the network enabled series of Yamaha A/V receivers? I'm primarily wondering how Voice Over friendly these apps are and secondly is all the features/functionality available through this interface?

Re: Separating system audio and Voice Over

2012-08-19 Thread Sarah Alawami
go to voice over utility then to sound and then plug in your speakers and choose what you want vo to come out of. Hope that helps. I don't know if that will in your case as I have never seen the server but there you go. On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Adrian Beech wrote: > G'day all, > > > >

Separating system audio and Voice Over

2012-08-19 Thread Adrian Beech
G'day all, I Have a Mac Mini (Server) which is approximately 2 years old running Mountain Lion. I would like to have Voice Over separate from the main system audio and would like to know if it is possible to connect the Mini to an external receiver, using the jacks on the back, and still hav

Re: Youtube controls in Safari under MountainLion.

2012-08-19 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. I'm using the html5 player and it seems to work just fine when I do decide to listen to youtube videos. The j k l keys don't work for me for some reason but that's probably why. lol! Thanks for the tip and have wonderful day. On Aug 19, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > I found th

Re: Installer freeze question.

2012-08-19 Thread Esther
Hi Danny, Are these GarageBand Jam Packs that you're trying to install under Lion? If so, the problem might be that the installers for these were written for the early PowerPC Macs, and won't run correctly in Lion or Mountain Lion. You can try using the Activity Monitor to kill the application

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Travis, First off I should state here that I've only used the free version of Fleksy and don't really see the need to buy the full version. Before the fanboys jump on the band wagon, this isn't a criticism it's just I really couldn't be bothered paying for something I don't need. Ok in tra

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Andrea Breier
I am sorry. What I tried to explain. is that you do not need to wait to hear the letter. from vo. you are touching. you just type. and go right on to the next letter.If you are going to type the word salad. for example. you would touch where the s is located on the screen. but do not worry ab

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello Travis, with Flleksy you don't have to wait for the characters to be announced, which makes the typing much faster. I use this to respond to text messages and send emails.You can also copy and paste the text into a different app, I have not used this feature. hth Ed On Aug 19, 2012, at

Re: Basic RSS reader

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
On Aug 19, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Marc Sutton wrote: I just tried Newsreader in Mountain Lion and it works fine so far. It would be great if there were a feature to allow the importing of an opml feeds file, making it easier to migrate from another rss reader. I can do that. I had an opal fil

Re: open office?

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
Java is installed by default with osx (only lion came with no java installed by default) all other osx versions have it installed already. If you don't have it, software update should be able to find it, or if that fails, a quick search of the apple site should locate it. I'll dig around h

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
On Aug 19, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Andrea Breier wrote: with fleksy. you touch type without sliding your finger on the screen. then lifting your finger when you hear the letter you want to type. You type on the screen as if you can see the letters on the virtual keyboard. Basically you tap th

Re: Basic RSS reader

2012-08-19 Thread Marc Sutton
I just tried Newsreader in Mountain Lion and it works fine so far. It would be great if there were a feature to allow the importing of an opml feeds file, making it easier to migrate from another rss reader. Marc On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > You can try the softcon news r

Re: open office?

2012-08-19 Thread josh gregory
Where can I get java? Might need it for blackboard, now that you mention it. On 8/19/12, Travis Siegel wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:03 PM, David Griffith wrote: > >> Interesting - I think I might try this. >> Does anybody know are there any downsides, security etc about >> downloading >> and r

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Andrea Breier
with fleksy. you touch type without sliding your finger on the screen. then lifting your finger when you hear the letter you want to type. You type on the screen as if you can see the letters on the virtual keyboard. Basically you tap the pattern of the word on the screen. then swipe your fing

Re: Basic RSS reader

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
You can try the softcon news reader which may or may not work in the latest osx, since I haven't updated past leopard, but it puts your feeds in one table, the articles in another, and has an html window when you highlight a feed article. I like it, because there's no need to click on anyt

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
What's the difference between fleksy and normal apple's touch typing mode? When I use my ipod, Ihave it set to touch typing mode, and I just touch the screen near where the letter is, and just move my finger around until it's on the proper letter, then lift the finger, and poof, letter is t

Re: Safari andMountain Lion questions

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
I don't use tabs, but there is a configuration option in preferences (command-,) that will open new pages in a new tab. I use open new pages in a new window, so I can just command-~ to cycle through all my open windows. I don't like having my screen cluttered, which is why I don't use tabs.

Re: open office?

2012-08-19 Thread Travis Siegel
On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:03 PM, David Griffith wrote: Interesting - I think I might try this. Does anybody know are there any downsides, security etc about downloading and running Java for Mac? Apple has been working very hard lately to get java for mac operational to the point where the of

Re: Signing Up For FaceBook

2012-08-19 Thread Thomas McMahan
Here might be an idea, it is something I used to have to do with their main site back in 2010 when I started with them using the Tiger machine, not sure which version of Safari it was back then. Disable cursor tracking, then any element you deal with then route mouse cursor then fill or activat

Re: Signing Up For FaceBook

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Chris Yes, that's where I logged into. I couldn't get the year box to change, but I'll try again. Gordon On 19 Aug 2012, at 13:19, Chris Moore wrote: Gordon, Try the mobile site http:m.facebook.com Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2012, at 12:53, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi all > > A

Re: Signing Up For FaceBook

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Try the mobile site http:m.facebook.com Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2012, at 12:53, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi all > > Anybody managed to successfully sign up for FaceBook using Safari 6 and > VoiceOver? I ask because, in the section where you're asked to supply a date > and y

Signing Up For FaceBook

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all Anybody managed to successfully sign up for FaceBook using Safari 6 and VoiceOver? I ask because, in the section where you're asked to supply a date and year of birth, I cannot get the pop-up box to change from the default of 1987 no matter what I do. I'd be very interested to know if

Support; [Please Read]; Just another gentle reminder

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon, Lynne & Tracy
Hello everybody First off all, I would like to take this opportunity to bulk welcome the twenty plus new members who have joined this group in the last couple of weeks. Lynne is currently away, and she's the one who generally tries religiously where the information exists to welcome new member

Re: Turning on VoiceOver for the first time

2012-08-19 Thread Chris
That's fine, just don't want to get stuck that is all! Looks like I won't be stuck then. Thanks! On 19/08/2012 11:48, Dan Eickmeier wrote: Well if for some reason, command-f5 doesn't work, I just try command-fn-f5 On 2012-08-18, at 12:56 PM, Chris wrote: Thank you, because I heard in the pas

Re: Turning on VoiceOver for the first time

2012-08-19 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Well if for some reason, command-f5 doesn't work, I just try command-fn-f5 On 2012-08-18, at 12:56 PM, Chris wrote: > Thank you, because I heard in the past that some Macbooks require you to > press FN in conjunction with command-f5. > > On 18/08/2012 13:32, Dan Eickmeier wrote: >> Yes, it'd be