Re: Downloads Location

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Zack Right, I take the point. Thanks. Kind regards gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia:

Official Assistant List Controllers Now In Place

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon, Lynne Tracy
I have great pleasure in being able to announce that Zachary Cline and Roger Firman are now assistant list controllers of this group. Roger and Zach very kindly offered a couple of weeks ago but this has been the first free day I've had to do anything about it. I hope that one other will

Re: secure solutions for going paperless using the mac

2013-04-24 Thread Isaac Hebert
paperless is a good application for scanning documents. yep_ is another application you might want to consider. On 4/23/13, stuart young stuartyo...@samobile.net wrote: Hi all. I have a lot of paper work that i would like to OCR and save in to a digital format like PDF i have docuscann+ but i

MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all For about a week or so now I have been using the new MacBook Air computer which Lynne bought for me when we paid our first visit to our local Apple store. The machine itself is pure gold! It's light, easy to use and has the most fantastic keyboard action I've ever seen on a MacBook of

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Actually a friend of mien has a pro with a clunky ld hard drive, but his is one of the last models with such. it is one of the newer models from this year. lol! I would get an air but I do so much sound work that it's not worth it. Plus I type so hard I've gone through 2 key boar panels already

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Isaac Hebert
Yes the mac book air is very cool. On 4/24/13, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Actually a friend of mien has a pro with a clunky ld hard drive, but his is one of the last models with such. it is one of the newer models from this year. lol! I would get an air but I do so much sound

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Harmony Neil
I type pretty hard and rather fast at times, and I've seen a macbook air this year, and honestly those things look so flimsy ... I've got a macbook air from last year which is nice. It's got a nice sized hard drive as well in terms of the storage space. I can barely hear either of my macs

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon Smith
This machine, Sarah, is quiet, absolutely and totally silent! Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Devin Prater
My Mac mini is the same. I named it Angelique. Sent from my iPod On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: This machine, Sarah, is quiet, absolutely and totally silent! Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, How do you find the volume output on the headphone jack? This is one of the reasons I am scared to ditch my trusty 5 year old iMac, as the volume output is so nice and loud, and worry the Air might not match. Otherwise, I think my iMac will end up being replaced with an Air. On 24

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Jamie Coady
i like the macbook pro. it is very good and was an exellent christmas present. i can't believe my foster parents bought 3 macbooks at the same time. -Original Message- From: Devin Prater Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:29 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: MacBook Air:

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon Smith
The volume levels are just fine. The air produces better audio than my MBP. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Harmony Neil
The only disadvantage about the iMac of this year, is that it has no cd drive, and given that the air doesn't either, the macbook pro is now the only one with a cd/dvd drive. Mind you, I hear the newer macbook pros have no cd drive either. On 24 Apr 2013, at 18:39, Chris Moore

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi all, My gf has a mac book air and she lloves it for what she does on it. I had a chance to look at it and I am very empressed with the machine and hope to get one at some point. Matthew On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Harmony Neil wrote: I type pretty hard and rather fast at times, and

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Jamie Coady
our macbook pro does. it is good but very different to use. it took me a while to get used to it. -Original Message- From: Harmony Neil Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:18 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful! The only

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Terry clasper
HI. The output from the headphones is terrific and very good quality. On 24 Apr 2013, at 18:39, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Gordon, How do you find the volume output on the headphone jack? This is one of the reasons I am scared to ditch my trusty 5 year old iMac, as the

a question about fineder

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Marshall
hello listers, i have a question regarding fineder on the mac. let me set the seen, i have lots of files to move from an exturnal drive to folders in documents witch requires a lot of going back and forward between windows. if i'm in a folder on my exturnal drive i coppy the file, hit VO d for

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, I brefere the Macboo, Pro, because some hardware can be replaced without problems. For example I've replaced the hard disk by a flash drive from Samsung, which was much cheeper then the flash drive Apple puts into the Macbook. With an Air no manual hardware replacement is possible. But

Re: a question about fineder

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, thanks for getting back to me. i tryed VO f2 twice and this time it worked but it hardly does. On 25/04/2013, at 6:53 AM, Lovette Yewchan lyewc...@telus.net wrote: Would control f3 work? I just learned yesterday that you can go from open window to open window this way. On 2013-04-24,

Re: a question about fineder

2013-04-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Michael, Here's a couple tips. cmd-n, on your desktop, will open a new Finder window. cmd-grave-accent, the key next to the number 1, will move between Windows in the same app. If you keep the windows open between copies, you can use this to be pretty efficient. What's happening for you is

Re: a question about fineder

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, thanks for these tips, they will make life on the mac much better. thanks for your help Michael On 25/04/2013, at 7:29 AM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: Hi Michael, Here's a couple tips. cmd-n, on your desktop, will open a new Finder window. cmd-grave-accent, the key next to

Filling Out PDF's On The Mac

2013-04-24 Thread Earle
Can anyone recommend a good app for filling out pdf forms on the Mac or on an iPhone? I know this has been brought up before but I never had to do this on the Mac, so never paid attention. Is this even possible on the Mac or iPhone? Any info would be appreciated. -- Earle Msn:

Re: a question about fineder

2013-04-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
Heha. That waw one of the fitst keystrokes I was taught 3 years ago as part of the basic training I got from a friend of mine. Cmd n is your best friend in the finder. I have had up to 10 windows at a time and it gets confusing but it works On Apr 24, 2013, at 16:13, Michael Marshall

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
llol. maybe my ear still work as that hd they have in my 2009 model has always been loud even when I first hit the power button, but then again I guess I'm used to regular sata hard drives not flash drives. Take care. On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:46, Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Filling Out PDF's On The Mac

2013-04-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Dear Earl, Regrettably, I don't know of a suitable way to do this. PDF support on the Mac is kind of lackluster at the moment, at least with voiceover, and it is a failing I hope Apple will address. In the meantime, I am unfortunately forced to use another operating system to fill them out.

Question about new mac book pro and accounts

2013-04-24 Thread Matthew C
Hello all. I just got my refurbed mac book pro today. I am just happy I was able to get it on my network. Ok here is the question. When I got it it didn't have me set anything up and it is set as admin. How do I put in my apple ID and password so that it will know what account to use? For instance

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Gordon Smith
Apple is moving away from obsolete technologies. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209

Re: Sonos app experiences?

2013-04-24 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Geoff. I have a sonos system. It is accessible enough on the IPhone app, I will not claim about that. My only problem is that the mac version is not that accessible, some of it is, but you can not control your music sources, and find music in your music library with the mac app. But the IOS

Re: MacBook Air: Light, flexible and simply beautiful!

2013-04-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
lol. Yeah maybe, but I can still use a dynamic coil to her flash. A friend did it and knew when flash was being written to my flash card in my recorded. I like to know when drive are failing and you can hear that. You cannot I don't think can hear flash. unless the beeps in the pattern of the