Updating mail and iPod Touch

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, My wife just bought an iPod touch and I got a chance to play with it a little. Amazing. I just have a question. She has her .Mac account pushing to the iPod. She received about 700 messages downloaded to her iPod and deleted many of them because she had already read them on her comput

Re: very very off topic, dec-talk express.

2009-09-28 Thread Scott Rutkowski
You know this is way off toppic but post it anyway. What's wrong with you guys and girls posting offtoppic messages like this one? People must be either just plain stupid or just post offtoppic crap just to piss off all the subscribers to the list. - Original Message - From: "Karen L

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey to turn off quicknav press the left and right arrow keys at the same time. On 2009-09-28, at 7:11 PM, peter apgar wrote: > > Good evening all, > > i have some how turned on quick nav on in mail and for the life of me > can't figure out how to turn it off. is there a hot key for this?

Re: Another Text-to-speech product

2009-09-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
sweet. I hope there are samples there! I'll check it out when I get back from class. On 2009-09-28, at 5:04 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote: > Hi, > > You can get them from http://www.cereproc.com/ and they're around > $47. I must correct one thing however. It appears you need to go to > a Scottish

RE: Sharing folders on my Mac

2009-09-28 Thread Frank Ventura
Anna, thank you very much. I forgot about the SMB check box. It is working great now. Thanks again Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:27 AM To: macvisi

Re: Sharing folders on my Mac

2009-09-28 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Frank, Go to the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, then Sharing. In the Services table, select the File Sharing row and be sure it's checked. Stop interacting with that row and VO-Right Arrow to the Options button. ONe of the options is the "Share files and folders using SMB (Wind

Sharing folders on my Mac

2009-09-28 Thread Frank Ventura
Hi all, I am trying to share my Downloads folder on my Mac Book Pro with the other computers (PCs) on my LAN. In my user folder I pressed command I on my Downloads folder and used VO right arrow until I got to check box for sharing and checked it. I then VO right arrowed again until I got to the t

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread peter apgar
please disregard my previous posting. guess i need some good sleep to shake the cobwebs loose. Thanks all of the help. Pete On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:57 PM, peter Apgar wrote: > > It seams as if there is more going on then I first experienced. > Under the > settings I was previously operatin

very very off topic, dec-talk express.

2009-09-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Looking for one of these, and thought you never know. If you are in Canada so much the better as I am a touch time limited. Will even consider renting one of these as I require it for travel. Thanks in advance, Karen L --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag

RE: quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread peter Apgar
It seams as if there is more going on then I first experienced. Under the settings I was previously operating mail would let you vio keys left after selecting the mail box you were interested in. First it would say vertical splitter. Vio right again, and you would be in the message table. Yo

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
left and right arrow will turn it off. On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:11 PM, peter apgar wrote: > > Good evening all, > > i have some how turned on quick nav on in mail and for the life of me > can't figure out how to turn it off. is there a hot key for this? > Thanks in advance, > > Pete > > >

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread kaare dehard
Hi Pete, toggle it off by pressing the left and right arrows as when you activated. You will hear a message stating " quicknav off" and you should be all set. Cheers. On 2009-09-28, at 10:11 PM, peter apgar wrote: > > Good evening all, > > i have some how turned on quick nav on in mail

quick nav problem

2009-09-28 Thread peter apgar
Good evening all, i have some how turned on quick nav on in mail and for the life of me can't figure out how to turn it off. is there a hot key for this? Thanks in advance, Pete --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

Re: Another Text-to-speech product

2009-09-28 Thread hank smith
do they have demos? - Original Message - From: Blake Sinnett To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:04 PM Subject: RE: Another Text-to-speech product Hi, You can get them from http://www.cereproc.com/ and they're around $47. I must cor

Re: torrents

2009-09-28 Thread kaare dehard
I use utorrent for mac. I did a google search, and found it through the greatness of the search engine. It is accessible with the mac, the only peculiarity that I found was that you download the torrent files to downloads and when you open them up it launches the torrent client. Most stuff

RE: Another Text-to-speech product

2009-09-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi, You can get them from http://www.cereproc.com/ and they're around $47. I must correct one thing however. It appears you need to go to a Scottish school to obtain a free copy of Heather. From: sanginsista3...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Another Text-to-speech product Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009

torrents

2009-09-28 Thread May McDonald
Hey everyone. I know I asked about torrent programs a few days ago and was wondering if someone can tell me if there's a podcast that talks about the best one to use that works with mac and how to set it up? I really need to get that torrent program, smile. --~--~-~--~~---

Re: Another Text-to-speech product

2009-09-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
haha nice!! where can you download them? how much are they? On 2009-09-28, at 4:41 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to tell you all about another text-to-speech company I > just found out about. They're called CereProc. They have a few > decent voices for Mac and Windows. The

Another Text-to-speech product

2009-09-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi all, Just wanted to tell you all about another text-to-speech company I just found out about. They're called CereProc. They have a few decent voices for Mac and Windows. The languages they have are Scottish, Black Country, southern British, Catalan, Spanish and Japanese. They even make s

Re: iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?

2009-09-28 Thread Dean Hudson
WHich model of the iPod Touch do you have? Was it ever working?. What was the last thing you were doing before it stopped talking. On Sep 27, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: > > Hi guys, > > My iPod has failed to speak again. I get nothing. I've restored it > and restored it

another bootcamp question

2009-09-28 Thread hank smith
hello how do you run auto attended windows installations on bootcamp? last I checked in to this this could not be done has this changed? Hank --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To p

Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread James & Nash
I think you can find it at: www.opensourcemac.org Take care James On 28 Sep 2009, at 23:00, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > > Google for "the Unarchiver." Great little program. > > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter > > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > My home

Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Google for "the Unarchiver." Great little program. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Right, so you either need to have sighted assistance to choose Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver on/off. Or, if you have Voiceover turned on when you sync the phone to your Mac it will turn VO on in the phone. Once you have VO turned on, assuming you have or will updated to the

Tip: Creating a Wireless network for your iPhone or iPod Touch with your Airport card

2009-09-28 Thread Esther
Hi all, A week ago, when I was traveling with my MacBook and new iPod Touch, I made use of two features that allowed me to use my iPod Touch with my MacBook, even in the absence of a local Wi-Fi network: • creating an ad hoc network between Mac and iPhone or iPod Touch This lets you use free

Re: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Maurice Mines
hi with you write me off list about blackboard from the studentes poient of vew I am in need of som help. maurice ham call sine kd0iko. On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > > Hi. > I'm using blackboard from a students point of view and it seems to > work fine for me. Sorry I

Re: A basic word processing question

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I haven't noticed a reply to this yet. In Open Office there are three main regions. The toolbars at the top, scroll are which has the document and then a footer with general info at the bottom. In that footer the first item should read page X / Y which tells you you are on page X and that ther

Re: iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?

2009-09-28 Thread Esther
Hi Jenny, I remember that when you posted, Anne Robertson wrote back that the problem seemed connected with the firmware update for the Nano 4G, and that her husband had found a work around by using Disk Utility (which will basically erase the contents and allow you to start again as with

Re: iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?

2009-09-28 Thread Charlie Doremus
If the ipod is under warrenty the guys at the Apple store will look at it for free. How far away are you from an Apple store? On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) < blueskyes9112...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > My iPod has failed to speak again. I get nothing. I've resto

iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?

2009-09-28 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Hi guys, My iPod has failed to speak again. I get nothing. I've restored it and restored it and nothing. The enable spoken menus is checked in iTunes but is not anywhere on the iPod at all. No matter how many times I restore it. It simply is not an option in the settings or anywhere o

Re: Podcasts and resources about VoiceOver on the iPhone and iPod Touch [was Re: touch screens?]

2009-09-28 Thread Esther
Hi Christina, You're welcome. I meant to add and correct a couple of resource entries of the iPhone and iPod Touch. First, I keep a link to the online manual for the iPhone/iPod Touch. (Mark Taylor kindly posted these on his Candleshore blog and to the VIPhone list). The first link is

Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Stuffit expander will unzip rar files. On Sep 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, David McLean wrote: > > Hello, Does anyone know of an application that will extract rar files > on the mac? > > Appreciate any help. > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread David McLean
Thanks. On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > > Hello; i just use stuff it. Hope that helps, Max > On Sep 28, 2009, at 1:32 PM, David McLean wrote: > >> >> Hello, Does anyone know of an application that will extract rar files >> on the mac? >> >> Appreciate any help. >> >>> > >

Re: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Matthew Campbell
I've only began to use it but so far I've just looked at the marks after I complete an assignment/quiz online. On 2009-09-28, at 3:03 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Interesting. So when you look at your grades, you can tell which > grade > corresponds to which assignment? > thanks, > Donna > --

Latest version of iTunes (9.0.1) lets you delete apps with your screen reader [was Re: How to delete iPhone apps from iTunes?]

2009-09-28 Thread Esther
Hi all, I notice that it is now possible to accessibly delete iPhone and iPod Touch applications from your iTunes library in the latest version of iTunes (version 9.0.1 released September 22, 2009), at least on the Mac side. What's different about this version is that you can switch the

Re: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Well, thanks, it's good to know I'm not alone. It's really too bad, because the actual mechanics of grade entry is a *thousand times better than it is under Windows. I've written to Apple Accessibility, so if they have anything interesting to say, I'll share it with the list. Anyway, thanks

Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; i just use stuff it. Hope that helps, Max On Sep 28, 2009, at 1:32 PM, David McLean wrote: > > Hello, Does anyone know of an application that will extract rar files > on the mac? > > Appreciate any help. > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

Re: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Interesting. So when you look at your grades, you can tell which grade corresponds to which assignment? thanks, Donna - Original Message - From: "Matthew Campbell" To: Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:52 PM Subject: Re: using Mac with Blackboard > > Hi. > I'm using blackboard from

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread David McLean
I'll check it out, thanks. On Sep 28, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > > Hi. I really like The Unarchiver. It can open up just about > anything. Find it here. > http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html > Darcy > > On 2009-09-28, at 2:32 PM, David McLean wrote: > >> >> Hello, Does any

RE: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi there, I've also had several problems with this aspect of Blackboard. However, I used it under Leopard. We've moved to Moodle here at my university, and I don't use the testing or grading side of that at all. Not much help I'm afraid, but just wanted to assure you that you weren't alone wit

Re: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. I'm using blackboard from a students point of view and it seems to work fine for me. Sorry I cant give any help from the staff side of it. On 2009-09-28, at 8:42 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hello all, > > I realize this is probably a long-shot, but I'm wondering if there is > anyone on th

Re: .rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi. I really like The Unarchiver. It can open up just about anything. Find it here. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html Darcy On 2009-09-28, at 2:32 PM, David McLean wrote: > > Hello, Does anyone know of an application that will extract rar files > on the mac? > > Appreciate any help

.rar Files on the Mac?

2009-09-28 Thread David McLean
Hello, Does anyone know of an application that will extract rar files on the mac? Appreciate any help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to m

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread John André Netland
That is a VO limitation, you can however do transpose on whole tracks, quantize of whole tracks etc. but the ability to work in regions of tracks or individual notes is not VO compatible yet. Thanks, John André On 28. sep. 2009, at 18.24, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > Won't need external sounds a

RE: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Won't need external sounds as I would only use a controller without sounds. Drag that you can't edit MIDI. Is that a VO limitation, or is it impossible for sighted people to do as well? Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegr

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread John André Netland
No, you have to re-record if something is wrong, or maybe the time correction will help you out. Also, be aware that GB is not designed to do MIDI out. You have MIDI in for recording software instruments using an external keyboard controller, but you are limited to use the internal instrum

Re: Using My 1Tb Hard Disk With My MacBook Pro

2009-09-28 Thread Howard Dupuis
Your MacBook will be able to read the files you have on your drive, and can write to a FAT 32-formatted disc as well, so you shouldn't have any difficulties at all. That said, one could make an argument against continuing to use FAT 32 over the long term -- and in favor of another format -- but I'

RE: Setting up a mac, so that the setup assistant will come up for somebody else that's getting it?

2009-09-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi, The easiest way to do this is to shut the computer down when you hear the mac startup sound after setup reboots for the last time. Otherwise the setup assistant won't play the VoiceOver help message. If this doesn't matter, just quit the setup assistant when it comes up. HTH, Blake

RE: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Definitely count me in. kevj...@gmail.com. As I just asked, if you can't edit MIDI notes with VO, that's another thing that would be really useful. Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine Decaux Se

RE: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Thanks for this overview. Am I to understand that you can't edit a missed or wrong MIDI note in GB? Thanks, Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John André Netland Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:58 AM To:

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread constantlyvaria...@gmail.com
Hello again, I have a few GarageBand-related questions which I hope somebody can clarify: 1. How can I assign names to tracks so that in the mixer I can quickly find the track whose parameters I want to change? 2. How can I punch in so that from the moment I punch in the recording is replaced, and

RE: Using My 1Tb Hard Disk With My MacBook Pro

2009-09-28 Thread Debra Turner
The drive is formatted as Fat 32. It contains about 200Gb of material mostly textbooks, music and podcasts. Thanks for the encouragement. Debra -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Howard Dupuis Sent: Monday, Sep

Setting up a mac, so that the setup assistant will come up for somebody else that's getting it?

2009-09-28 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hey all, a friend of mine who is not on this list, is eventually wanting to give his current macbook that he has to somebody else, since he'll eventually be getting a new one. and He's thinking of doing a clean install of Leopard. Of course after the install, the MAc boots up, and hte

using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello all, I realize this is probably a long-shot, but I'm wondering if there is anyone on this list using Blackboard on their Mac, preferably from the faculty side. The problems I am having are in the gradebook. I can see all the columns for each item needing grading, but can't tell wh

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread John André Netland
Hi Krister, Apple will always create different ways to do things, and even though if you do not have the ability to use the gesture features right now, you will probably do so in the future. By putting your ideas into it now, you will apply to the accessibility innovations. The features by

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, That's all well and good but that excludes us non-trackpad users, who won't be able to get at those features and i for one can't afford a new shiny Macbook pro just to get at those trackpad features. /Krister 28 sep 2009 kl. 10.10 skrev Yuma Antoine Decaux: > > Hi everyone, > > Thanks f

RE: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Esther, Thank you for all this info. It didn't occur to me to try CMD-I because I thought it would just give me title, author, that sort of thing. I wil try the Command-I option and see what it turns up. It seems really unlikely that I am sharing someone else's library, given that we're

Re: Using My 1Tb Hard Disk With My MacBook Pro

2009-09-28 Thread Howard Dupuis
It'll be a piece of cake. Just plug it in, and your MacBook will recognize it. Is it already full of stuff? Do you know how it is formatted? (I made the move from the Windows world to the Mac at the end of last year and have learned a bit along the way, but the thing I've found more than anything

Re: VLC problem sorted

2009-09-28 Thread James & Nash
Hi Eric, Yes it was sorry forgot to mention Cmd O - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:44 AM Subject: Re: VLC problem sorted > > Bully for you, smiles. but what was the solution? Was it command O > for open or something a bit more out

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi everyone, Thanks for the piece of info on accessible/non accessible features in Garage Band. As i said earlier on this list, i believe using certain trackpad gestures such as rotor movements for placing and moving track loops would be a very intuitive way to edit for visual impaired ind

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread John André Netland
Hi, Here is a little overview of what is VO compatible in GB5 with SL: You can do all basic recording, record enable/disable tracks, mute, solo, volume, punch-in, select software instruments, set and edit effects for each track and the master, select input source and monitor setting, use qu

Re: Accessibility of Garage Band

2009-09-28 Thread constantlyvaria...@gmail.com
Hi! On 27 Sep., 22:19, John André Netland wrote: > [...] I advice you to use iLife 9 with   > GarageBand 5 included, and run it with Snow Leopard. You will then   > obtain the best possible level of accessibility currently available in   > GarageBand. This makes me wonder ... where can I actuall