Re: A Dilemma

2012-08-29 Thread Chris G
Hi, All the tech shows I listen to are saying September 12 is the announcement date and shipping 9 days later. If it were me, I'd wait 3 weeks if you can. - Original Message - From: Desi Noller desiandca...@q.com To: mac-access@mac-access.net Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:56:55 -0700

Re: Adobe suspends work on accessible Flash Player for the Mac.

2012-07-13 Thread Chris G
Lets all thank Steve Jobs and Apple for the demise of flash. Apple didn't want it on IOS and if you are a web site that wants to reach the widest group of people, you don't use flash. Using flash makes it so everyone with an iOS device can't view your site. It is my understanding while

Re: my fleksy podcast

2012-07-13 Thread Chris G
tffp is the name of her podcast. - Original Message - From: Arthur Barney abar...@personainternet.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:24:55 -0400 Subject: Re: my fleksy podcast Hi Sarah, that isn't going to work. It should be ftp,

Re: rdio music service accessibility question.

2012-07-06 Thread Chris G
The last time I used it on IOS it seemed to work just fine. On 7/5/2012 10:06 AM, Jim Noseworthy wrote: Hi Folks: Has anyone had any experience with the rdio music program with voiceover? If so, how so? Thanks all over the place. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to

Re: external gps receivers and the i-phone

2012-06-27 Thread Chris G
I understand sighted people have their phones and tablets out anyway so you'd look no different. On 6/27/2012 9:33 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I always carry my iPhone with me on the bus. it really does not matter as 'm always listening to something whilst on the bus and have my headphones on.

Re: external gps receivers and the i-phone

2012-06-27 Thread Chris G
You are right, they are getting the number of sats from the receiver. They can also calculate the number of feet based on the hdop and vdop values. The smaller the hdop and vdop the better accuracy you will have. End users normally don't have access to these values. - Original Message

Re: IOS podcatchers - was Apple's standalone Podcasts app for iOS is out

2012-06-26 Thread Chris G
Hi, I have podcaster, iCatcher and Downcast. I abandoned podcaster. Downcast and iCatcher are both pretty good aps IMHO. I have contacted both developers and both times had great results. I perfer iCatcher over downcast, because I don't care for the layout of downcast on the iPad. Again,

Re: iPad Third Generation

2012-06-20 Thread Chris G
Hi, Support is different then offering software upgrades. When a company supports a product, they will offer technical assistance when you run into problems. supporting a product again has nothing to do with a company choosing not to upgrade the software. I'm sure Apple has its reasons why

Re: iPad Third Generation

2012-06-18 Thread Chris G
Hi, I really like the dictation feature on the iPad 3. I don't have that on the iPhone 4 and miss it. On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:09:49 +0100 Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody Is there anybody on list who previously owned an iPad 1 and has now upgraded

Re: iPad Third Generation

2012-06-18 Thread Chris G
...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Chris That's certainly a compelling reason. I guess we could do that with the iPhone 4S using Siri; but it doesn't work that well with non-US English which really irritates me. Lynne On 18 Jun 2012, at 12:16, Chris G ch...@mysticplace.info wrote: Hi, I

Re: downcast issues

2012-06-07 Thread Chris G
Hi, Here are three tweets from the developer. about 6 days ago, Downcast posted Please let me know if you are or are not having trouble with subscribing to podcasts via search. about 6 days ago, Downcast posted Upon further investigation, it looks like subscribing from any of the Top Podcasts

Re: Reinstalling OSX Lion

2012-04-21 Thread Chris G
of WICS Radio America. Check us out on the web at http://wics.cc and thanks for tuning in. On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Chris G wrote: Hi, I'd report it. I have seen this too. I let it sit there for 4 hours till I finally pulled out my sl dvd and installed sl then upgraded right away to Lion

Re: Reinstalling OSX Lion

2012-04-21 Thread Chris G
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Chris G Sent: 21 April 2012 12:57 To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Reinstalling OSX Lion I just wrote to them about this issue. On 4/20/2012 7:52 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I'll do my best. but I will need a bit

Re: Podcasts and iCloud

2012-04-09 Thread Chris G
Hi, icatcher and downcast both support this functionality. On 4/8/2012 10:55 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Or at best an opml file back up. Maybe those who are devs can write to apple using the bug tracker or what not and suggest it. Take care. On Apr 8, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Re: List Recorder Sneak Peek of New Update

2012-04-05 Thread Chris G
It is now approved, I just bought it this morning. On 4/3/2012 5:27 PM, Eric Caron wrote: Hello listers, and specifically List Recorder users, We are still waiting for Apple to approve the new List Recorder application. Because I have the beta I did a brief podcast on the largest

Re: Submitting podcast in iTunes

2012-03-31 Thread Chris G
settings like catagory and stuff are right as you cannot change them. Take care. On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Chris G wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to submit my podcast to iTunes. I am not having any luck. I did as apple suggests and varified the feed works in iTunes, but after

Re: Submitting podcast in iTunes

2012-03-31 Thread Chris G
How weird, fired up iTunes on windows and went right to it. For some reason on my mac the podcast button is not there. Music, movies, books, etc are there but podcasts isn't. - Original Message - From: Chris G ch...@mysticplace.info To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac

Re: apple tv

2012-03-31 Thread Chris G
Hi, I am speaking with experience of the 2nd generation Apple TV. I don't see why apple would go backwards so it should work. When you power on your apple TV and the cables are connected, you are informed by the Apple TV how to turn VoiceOver on. Basically you click the bottom right

Re: Submitting podcast in iTunes

2012-03-31 Thread Chris G
to the itunes store from the mac and do it that way. I did a horabally done youtube video on it. On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Chris G wrote: How weird, fired up iTunes on windows and went right to it. For some reason on my mac the podcast button is not there. Music, movies, books, etc

Submitting podcast in iTunes

2012-03-30 Thread Chris G
Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to submit my podcast to iTunes. I am not having any luck. I did as apple suggests and varified the feed works in iTunes, but after that I am stuck. Here is text I got from the apple page. Submitting Your Podcast to the iTunes Store. If you can

Re: official app to block unwanted calls on Iphone?

2012-03-01 Thread Chris G
Hi, Verizon has a service that one can activate to block blocked, restricted and unwanted calls. The advantage to this is your phone never rings so your never bothered. ATT and sprint probably have the same service. - Original Message - From: Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: Mac

Re: SFT question.

2012-02-29 Thread Chris G
Are you sure your ISP allows hosting servers? Some ISP's do not allow hosting servers on residential accounts and block the ports from incoming connections. You might need a business account in order to host servers. You do have the mac mini ip address reserved in the router? For example

Re: Carbonite vs other online back up solutions

2011-11-24 Thread Chris G
Check out livedrive from livedrive.com I use the windows version. They have a Mac version, just haven't installed it yet. I wrote a short blog post about it on my site. - Original Message - From: Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net

Re: iPhone 4S; is it really worthwhile?

2011-11-17 Thread Chris G
Hi, Check out this demonstration of Siri. You are correct, it does not run on anything other then the 4S. http://audioboo.fm/boos/544034-a-comprehensive-audio-demonstration-of-siri.mp3 On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:56:36 + Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Bubba;

Re: new mac store requirements

2011-11-17 Thread Chris G
You will be able to use them, you just won't be able to get them from the app store. On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:16:14 +1100 krystal watson krystalwat...@bluebottle.com wrote: that is not fair we payed all the money for these apps like transmit and audio hijack pro and now we will not be able to

Re: accessibility of time machine

2011-10-31 Thread Chris G
Hi, I have a netgear readynas that has time machine support. A couple months ago I used that time machine to completely restore my mac. It was pretty cool to boot into the recovery partition and load the time machine restore from the nas. I started the recovery process and walked away. When I

Re: iBackuper - your iPod assistant. Backup iPod, copy from iPod, copy to iPod

2011-10-20 Thread Chris G
It is for windows. On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:57:46 +1100 Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi! Has anyone tried this software? I received a Tweet about it a few minutes ago and am now looking at the web page so I'm not sure whether its for Mac or Windows, how accessible it is

Re: Installing Lion

2011-10-17 Thread Chris G
Hi, Doesn't it matter how one is installing Lion? If one is using a DVD it would not take as long as another person that is installing from a download. Then it also might depend on how fast the connection is from your machine to the apple servers. Thanks Chris On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:37:57

Re: Podcast on Lion OS

2011-09-29 Thread Chris G
Normally you'll go to the site in question and browse from there. IE www.blindcooltech.com for that podcast. On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:19:55 -0400 Marcia Yale dragonca...@gmail.com wrote: What about other sites--how can I get past episodes to download when I subscribe? -Original

Re: New Member Welcome

2011-09-26 Thread Chris G
Hi, I have had messages bounce over the past week. The message was all cerkets were closed. On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:46:14 +0100 Gordon Lynne supp...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody I tried to send this a second ago but it bounced for some reason. It is traditional when new

Re: What's the point of 1Password?

2011-09-23 Thread Chris G
Hi, You could also give lastpass a try from www.lastpass.com Chris On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:32:47 +0100 Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Dane, long time no speak. I'll have to check that preference then because Lynne is telling me she did set all that up. But it's entirely

Re: firmware update?

2011-09-18 Thread Chris G
I have an early 2009 mac mini and the firmware apparently didn't apply. Hope this helps. Chris - The home of the Mystic Place blog and podcast. http://www.mysticplace.info --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net

Re: is there a device

2011-09-14 Thread Chris G
Hi, The apple TV should work fine in this situation. They would have access to their local media as they wish, but would also have access to netflix podcasts in the Apple TV and also loads of internet streaming radio stations. When I bought my Apple TV I bought it to stream my local media

Re: IPhone appfor either xM or Serious

2011-09-09 Thread Chris G
You get the same number of channels. 127. There are some that you don't get like live sports. I also will put my vote in for Music Doc. On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:00:52 -0700 Candie Stiles candiesti...@me.com wrote: I have music doc and it works well with Sirius. It is very accessible with vo

Re: program that can backup specific folders

2011-09-08 Thread Chris G
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:42:52 +0100 Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Chris Nothing whatever wrong with that. :) Did it work for you Yep, it did work. had the machine off last night and turned it on. It missed my 6:30 am backup, so it ran the backup when the machine booted.

program that can backup specific folders

2011-09-07 Thread Chris G
Hi all, I'm looking for a backup program that can backup specific folders to a share at specific times of the day. For example, I want one folder to backup daily at 6 am and perhaps another one to backup once a month. Is this possible? Thanks Chris - The home of the Mystic Place blog and

Re: program that can backup specific folders

2011-09-07 Thread Chris G
memory, was it not you who asked the question in the first place? :) Gordon On 7 Sep 2011, at 11:36, Chris G wrote: Seems like getbackup might foot the bill. http://www.belightsoft.com/products/getbackup/proversion.php --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post

Re: apple tv needing info please

2011-09-04 Thread Chris G
Hi, The only video service I can't access without the tv turned on is netflix. On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:56:37 -0700 Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't have a tv, I don't see any value in purchasing an apple tv, since in order to enjoy services like netflix, you do need to have

Re: On-Screen Content, let's all bug Apple!

2011-08-30 Thread Chris G
Maybe we should go after the true problem, and that is the text to speech writers. It isn't just apple and apple voices. My windows voices from ivona and the Kate and Paul voices that come with Kurzweil 1000 do this too. If there is a generic string that the screen reader can send to the

Re: On-Screen Content, let's all bug Apple!

2011-08-30 Thread Chris G
Acapela™ and Nuance are not apple voices. On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:50:15 +0100 Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Chris Alex, Fred, Albert etc., are Apple voices. Thus you approach Apple. Would you not agree? Gordon On 30 Aug 2011, at 16:32, Chris G wrote: Maybe we

Re: airplay

2011-08-27 Thread Chris G
The apple TV will work in the same way. I play music from my iPhone to the apple tv using airplay. On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:04:21 -0400 Eric Caron eric_ca...@mac-access.net wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:30 PM, joe quinn wrote: what devices/apps are compatible with the airplay

Re: airplay

2011-08-27 Thread Chris G
think? - Original Message - From: Chris G ch...@mysticplace.info To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:27 AM Subject: Re: airplay The apple TV will work in the same way. I play music from my iPhone to the apple tv using

TV shows

2011-08-26 Thread Chris G
Hi all, This morning I purchased a TV show through my apple TV. I am now wondering how do I find the show through iTunes on the mac so I can download it to the Mac or possibly play on the iPhone? Thanks - The home of the Mystic Place blog and podcast. http://www.mysticplace.info --- Mac

Re: Wing FTP Server; Glad we didn't go that route!

2011-08-03 Thread Chris G
though of Windows-based stuff and I guess that's the excuse for the high price. Heavens above; you could buy a computer for that, running OS X Server! Lynne On 3 Aug 2011, at 13:43, Chris G wrote: $699.00 USD for the enterprise version. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net

Re: Wing FTP Server; Glad we didn't go that route!

2011-08-03 Thread Chris G
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:22:18 +0100 Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Chris On 3 Aug 2011, at 13:55, Chris G wrote: • He did ask for accessible, he didn't say cheep. Jim said something which won't break the bank. Does not that imply reasonably priced

Re: FTP Server software.

2011-08-02 Thread Chris G
Hi, You can try wing ftp server from www.wftpserver.com The admin is web based so it works fine with VoiceOver. I am currently running it on my windows machine. It is cross platform. On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 14:30:50 -0300 Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com wrote: Hi Gang: Any

Re: Mac Mini Server question.

2011-07-28 Thread Chris G
Hi, I wonder how the lion server add on you can buy in the AP store gets around the serial number. In the AP store there are two options, lion for $29USD and Lion server for $49.00 USD. You cannot purchase the Lion server from the AP store without having Lion installed on the machine. On