How do you know When Your Mac is Sick?

2014-07-04 Thread Martin G. McCormick
This sounds like the opening of a bad joke, but I am serious. My wife's Mac is running snowleopard and she reports that recently, she gets the spinning beach ball of death while running various applications. Are there any logs one can look at that are apt to be useful in figuring out whethe

Re: How do you know When Your Mac is Sick?

2014-07-04 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Well, her mac is way way way out of date and probably about 4-7 years old. but if you really want to look to see if it is hardware which I'm betting go to utilities with cmd shift u in the finder and go to console log. Take care. On Jul 4, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: >

Re: How do you know When Your Mac is Sick?

2014-07-04 Thread John Gunn
Hello, I would try a couple of things, zap the PRAM and reset SMC. With out knowing which Mac she has look on the Apple site how to reset the SMC. For PRAM, while the mac is off holdd down at the same time command, option, p and r keys. Hit the power button, let it chimes, let Let it chime a

VO Announcing Page Numbers in Pages When Reading A Document

2014-07-04 Thread Eleanor Martha Burke
Is there a setting where I can get VO to announce page numbers, for example if it is a 30 page document, I would just like to know it was moving from page one to two etc. - Original Message - From: "Matthew Carello" To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 5:47 PM

Re: VO Announcing Page Numbers in Pages When Reading A Document

2014-07-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eleanor, If you navigate through a Pages document by sentence or paragraph, VO wil announce the page number as you go on to a new page. If you use VO-a to read continuously, you’ll hear the page change sound but no page number will be announce. However, if you pause the reading, VO-F3 wil