Re: SuperDuper weirdness

2013-01-05 Thread Phil Halton
I don't know why I wrote "fast bundle". I was referring to "sparse bundle". I found out that in order for the sparse bundle backups to show up in the source and destination popup menus, you first have to mount themby pressing command-o on the filename. then SuperDuper will recognize them as pote

Re: Help getting into status and extra menus?

2013-01-05 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! there is 2 ways to get there! 1, VO+MM that is M twice! 2, Or Control+f8 will take you there! Also Control+f2 will take you to the menu bar like VO+M does! hth Colin On 5 Jan 2013, at 23:13, Catherine Turner wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how I get into the status menus? The vo

Re: SuperDuper weirdness

2013-01-05 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Phil, I am not sure what you mean by "fast bundle image files". I cannot find this in my SuperDuper!. I use Time Machine to backup on the same external disk drive as SuperDuper! and can then use SuperDuper! smart update function to speed up backup and restore. If I look at the external dis

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi James, Activity Monitor shows VO using 96.3 MB on my 2011 MBA with 4GB RAM. I'm using US English Alex. -Bryan > On 5 Jan 2013, at 19:49, JAMES AUSTIN wrote: >> I haven't done any research on this yet, but I'm curious. On this 2009 >> MacBook (though I'm sure the hardware is older), VoiceOver

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello James, On my 2010 MacBook air with 4 gb of memory and using Fred, VoiceOver is using 120.0 MB. Cheers, Anne On 5 Jan 2013, at 19:49, JAMES AUSTIN wrote: > Hi folks, > > I haven't done any research on this yet, but I'm curious. On this 2009 > MacBook (though I'm sure the hardware is

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Glenn
Hi Sarah, that is what I meant, compact voice, not "small voice". I figured there is a compact voice for every regular one. Thanks. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 1:41 PM Subject: Re: VoiceOver memory

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Sarah k Alawami
the 154 mb is with tom. have not tried tom compact. His compact voice grates on my already fragile nerves. lol! So not willing to try it. Tc. On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:34 AM, JAMES AUSTIN wrote: > Glen, > > Yes, I'll try that thanks. I usually use Fred, but at the moment, I'm using > Alex. > O

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread JAMES AUSTIN
Glen, Yes, I'll try that thanks. I usually use Fred, but at the moment, I'm using Alex. On 5 Jan 2013, at 19:12, Glenn wrote: James, Maybe you can switch to a smaller voice, like you can on IOS devices. I'm not sure of the difference, it may be like 8 KHZ instead of 48, or whatever the sizes

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Josh Gregory
LOL, :-) that's why I asked what it did, I never had it either. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Devin Prater wrote: > I never had snow leopard. I've just got my mac, and it came with moutainlion. > On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Josh Gregory wrote: > >> For curiosity sake, what

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah it's quite normal. I sometimes just to free some up turn off vo and back on and it works but rarely do I have to do it. Good luck. incidentally mine is using 153.7 MB and i have 4 gigs. lol! but so far it looks to be normal. Again, good luck. On Jan 5, 2013, at 10:49 AM, JAMES AUSTIN wr

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Glenn
James, Maybe you can switch to a smaller voice, like you can on IOS devices. I'm not sure of the difference, it may be like 8 KHZ instead of 48, or whatever the sizes are. I use the smaller one on my iPhone for better performance. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Josh Gregory" To: "Mac

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Josh Gregory
I wouldn't think it would take up that much memory, if any at all. I'm not sure to be honest though. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:49 PM, JAMES AUSTIN wrote: > Hi folks, > > I haven't done any research on this yet, but I'm curious. On this 2009 > MacBook (though I'm sure the hard

VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread JAMES AUSTIN
Hi folks, I haven't done any research on this yet, but I'm curious. On this 2009 MacBook (though I'm sure the hardware is older), VoiceOver is currently using 134+ MB. Baring in mind that I only have 2GB of RAM in this machine, is this normal? For those of you who are curious, you can find out

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Josh Gregory
LOL… I got it to do that with the time last night, but in general that would seem really annoying. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > The voices would read simultaneously. annoying but at least I could > concentrate on 2 things at the same time when I us

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Sarah k Alawami
The voices would read simultaneously. annoying but at least I could concentrate on 2 things at the same time when I used to be able to do that. On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Josh Gregory wrote: > For curiosity sake, what did it do in Snow Leopard? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 5, 2013, at

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Devin Prater
I never had snow leopard. I've just got my mac, and it came with moutainlion. On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Josh Gregory wrote: > For curiosity sake, what did it do in Snow Leopard? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > >> It's a apple issue. I have

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Josh Gregory
For curiosity sake, what did it do in Snow Leopard? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > It's a apple issue. I have the same issue with rs games and stuff. currently > there is no fix I don't think but if you email apple and tell them to put it > back to t

Re: system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Sarah k Alawami
It's a apple issue. I have the same issue with rs games and stuff. currently there is no fix I don't think but if you email apple and tell them to put it back to the way it was in sl, (snow leopard) they might do it, although I doubt it. You could try raising the voice to 100 percent in the sy

Re: Pictures

2013-01-05 Thread Glenn
It may be easiest to take your own, or recruit list members to send in photos of their devices. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 11:07 AM Subject: Pictures Hello everybody Does anybody ha

Pictures

2013-01-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Does anybody happen to know where I can get some quality pictures of Apple's iOS products? By that, I mean the iPad, (current and previous generations), iPhone 5 and 4S, and iPod Touch 5th generation. We want some pictures which we can use for a web project. Thank you in advance

system voice and voiceover

2013-01-05 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all. I have the messages app to read my contact status, but I have it set up with Facebook, google talk, and iMessage. So, whenever I'm reading a book, I will hear "contact is online". with contact being the name of the person. And when its done reading, in the system voice that is, voiceover