Re: Optical character recognition for iPhone

2009-06-15 Thread Dave Wright
Good evening Cara, You are correct in saying that 3MP is enough resolution for OCR. In fact, at KNFBReading technology, and other such camera based OCR companies, we've determined that 3MP is probably the minimal resolution necessary for accurate text OCR. The issues that KNFBReading

Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread constantlyvaria...@gmail.com
Hi! Now this may just be me not getting a concept right. Probably is. But here goes, anyway. Can somebody please tell me how to recognize a heading which is also a link? Perfect example: Google search results. Google renders them as headings which is beautiful because it lets us navigate between

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Yes, that's what I do here, and if the heading doesn't contain a link, Voiceover will of course not say link. On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:54 AM, constantlyvaria...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Now this may just be me not getting a concept right. Probably is. But here goes, anyway. Can somebody please

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey Felix, yep, you have to interact with the heading, at least that's what I've found. it won't let you click the link unless you interact with the heading first and then you figure out that there's a link there. it's kind of misleading!! however, didn't someone say this would be fixed in

IPhone development

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Lists: How do I obtain the iPhone devloper SDK? Regards, Alex, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To

Re: Attention Syrinx users!

2009-06-15 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, Is this program serinc or how ever you say it built into the mac os or do you have to download it and I assoom it is free. Matthew On 6/13/09, Josh de Lioncourt overl...@lioncourt.com wrote: Twitterific is pretty good, but you ahve to read the documentation to learn the hot keys. You

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Is that the study by the University of Verginia? Regards, Alex, On 15-Jun-09, at 10:46 AM, Gary W. Kelly wrote: Hi, Kara is correct. For those of you attended CSUN in March, and recall the iVisit demonstration of SeeStar and SeeScan--well, you were watching a camera cellphone with

Re: Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #24

2009-06-15 Thread Brandon Misch
now we need the mac to read the status of a contact. On Jun 14, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: If you go to the view menu, and set your contact view to compact contact view, then VO will read mood messages along with the name of the contact. On Jun 14, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Krister

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Howell
Darn Gary, you killed my dreams. :) Actually I couldn't agree more and I think it is a matter of time and you can bet that battery technology is always something being worked on. I imagine there will be a time when batteries can last up to days instead of hours. After all, the new

Re: IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!!

2009-06-15 Thread Jenny Kennedy
Sorry, just read this. for some reason some list messages go in the inbox and some gmail thinks is spam please disregard my last post about the snowleopard podcast sorry please don't kick me off the list. regards Jenny On 6/14/09, Cara Quinn caraqu...@caraquinn.com wrote: Hi All,

Re: Attention Syrinx users!

2009-06-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
You can get Syrins from www.mrrsoftware.com, and it's free. On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:15 PM, matthew dyer wrote: Hi, Is this program serinc or how ever you say it built into the mac os or do you have to download it and I assoom it is free. Matthew On 6/13/09, Josh de Lioncourt

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Brent Harding
Well, the KNFB reader uses only the phone to process and recognize what it scans, and it's still faster than Kurzweil and a conventional scanner. I got the weird idea in my head when my friend had his web cam in the list of choices to scan, but it wouldn't let us use it if you press the scan

Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Baxter
People! What part of Piracy don't you understand? Apple's doing an honorable thing by including VO and putting so much into it. While I'm the first one to advocate the law be broken when it serves no purpose and promotes dishonorable price gouging and unfair advantage, in this case,

ipod nano question

2009-06-15 Thread gene
Hi I just got an ipod nano bundle that was on sale last week and I got the spoken menus enabled, how ever not all of them speak like the time and date, you can get into that menu and choose either set date or set time, after you choose one of those, you do not get any spoken feedback. Same

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Brent Harding
I heard of something that's supposed to come out that uses butane as a fuel for fuel cells on Leo Laporte's show. I thought he said that you would get 16 recharges of a cell phone with it, but I don't know if this stuff is going anywhere. I'm not sure how they turn that into power either, a

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that most people only need or want a couple of those devices to carry around with them. I think the iPhone will definitely serve as a replacement for many devices for a large number of users. Like anything else, it will depend on the needs of the

Pricing on Snow Leopard was Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, List, Thirty bucks over Leopard. Please purchase it instead of torrenting it or anything. Regards, Alex, To add to this, Snow Leopard is only On 15-Jun-09, at 2:41 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: People! What part of Piracy don't you understand? Apple's doing an honorable thing by

Re: IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!!

2009-06-15 Thread James Dietz
Apple didn't have to know. On 6/15/09, Jenny Kennedy blueskyes9112...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, just read this. for some reason some list messages go in the inbox and some gmail thinks is spam please disregard my last post about the snowleopard podcast sorry please don't kick me off the list.

Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Jenny Kennedy
Good point Mark, As I said earlier, nevermind I don't want the podcast. Would be nice to listen to it as I'm just as curious as the next person who is looking forward to VO. If it is not lawful though... I don't mind paying the prices set by Apple Inc. for their products because their products

Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard was Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Jenny Kennedy
Alex, Agreed! I couldn't beleive it when they said to upgrade from OSX 10.5 to the next OS Was only $29. This is the OS plus the screen reader plus the screen enlargement. All for $29. Already have the money set aside to buy it the day it comes out. Tell me. Where could you get all that on

Re: IPhone Dreams

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Remember you can turn the display brightness down. Regards, alex, On 15-Jun-09, at 2:52 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: One thing to keep in mind, though, is that most people only need or want a couple of those devices to carry around with them. I think the iPhone will definitely serve

Ham Radio, VoiceOver and the Mac

2009-06-15 Thread Jenny Kennedy
Hi everyone, Quite recently I joined the group handihams and am waiting to hear from them in regards to access to the corses of study, lectures and other ham radio related stuff on their site. I am going to start studies so I can obtain my tech class lisense probily next summer. I would like to

SF Crash...

2009-06-15 Thread Mike
Hi List: Just experienced my 1ST prob with the latest version of Safari. Funny thing, it crashed accessing the apple store. LOL Oh, if anyone got a cpy of the MP3 of the new VO, I'd like to hear it as well. TNX: Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Baxter
I'd wait until someone who has had time to actually use a legal copy for a while makes a podcast that's worth something and imparts some information in a considered and non-hurried way, rather than relying on someone's pirated copy who doesn't know what he's doing with it. If I want to

Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Brent Harding
I wonder if I'll be able to get it for $30 since I bought my Macbook used from someone? - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: Pricing on Snow Leopard was Re: Podcast about VO in

Re: ipod nano question

2009-06-15 Thread gene
Hi Alex, I tried the main menu again and all it said is view pannel on running my finger around the vertual dial just clicked. - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: Re: ipod nano

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Jessi and Goldina
huh? neither tabbing nor using the links list would show you the link that was inside the heading...well it would, but I'd think it would just be faster to interact with the heading!! lol. silly Alex. I seriously hope this is fixed in snow leopard! On 15-Jun-09, at 6:14 PM, Alex Jurgensen

How do I resize a disk partition?

2009-06-15 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I am having a weird problem with disk utility, and was hoping someone could help me. I have a USB external hard drive that had 2 partitions on it. The first partition was 931 GB originally. When I made the second partition, which was 8 gigs in size, the original was decreased

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Jurgensen
HI, Ms. J. Rathwell and Ms. G. Rathwell: Both do work. I think there is a setting for setting how tabbing works inside the Advanced pain of Safari's preferences. Regards, Alex, On 15-Jun-09, at 6:39 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: huh? neither tabbing nor using the links list would show you

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I think that was the whole problem. he didn't know the links were there, or if he did then he'd wonder how he'd know. and it's true, you don't really know, which is why it really needs to get fixed. I figured that out one day when google search results came up as headings and I was like