secondary sound card and voice over

2009-11-11 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Gang, Has anyone tried adding a secondary video card or some usb or firewire extension which would allow me to separate the voice over channel to another audio output, so that i can record podcasts without vo talking over the music and my own voice? I would like to figure this on a laptop.

anyone else having trouble with ebay and safari?

2009-11-11 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Lately, whenever I go to www.ebay.com safari immediately crashes. Is anybody else experiencing this? Thanks, John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Question about adding folder to dock with command shift T

2009-11-11 Thread Blindinnovator
Hi Ryan, Use VO shift space bar to bring up a menu and arrow to open. Brett On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > > It's good that you can add a folder to the dock, but then, how does > one view it? I just added a folder to the dock, but I can't view it > like I normally would

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread hank smith
okay thanks fore letting me know I wasn't sure if it was time to buy a new one I will either way start saving up now incase when it dies do you recommend any hp all in one units that work with mac that you suggest? - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Wednesday, Novem

sound gone

2009-11-11 Thread william lomas
hi all, with 10.6.2, my sound had completely disappeared when i installed it. Has anyone on a macbook 2.4 core 2 duo machine from 2008 noted this issue? Now where can I get 6.1 as I had to reinstall Snowleopard from my DVD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

RE: Trash questions

2009-11-11 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Until you empty the trash, the space on the card isn't reclaimed. Same on the Mac. Everything behaved the way it was supposed to. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of louie Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:2

Number issue fixed with latest update

2009-11-11 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi all, I loaded the latest 10.6.2 update and was pleased to see that VoiceOver now pronounces numbers with decimals correctly. Previously, VO would pronounce 123.456.789 as 123 point 4 point 6 point 789. Thanks, Blake --~--~-~--~~-

equalizing sound on macbook pro

2009-11-11 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Gang, I wanted to know what is the best way of equalizing my sound output on the system, as in change bass or treble on my internal speakers? I don't know if you guys have this problem, but i get some odd sounds when typing on voice over in general. Especially with the infovox french voices

Re: Trash questions

2009-11-11 Thread louie
Hi Christina, There is a trash folder on your SD card. When you delete some thing on the card while it is in a card reader connected to your Mac the deleted items go's to the trash folder on the card not the trash on the Mac. If this card is used in your victor stream do your deletes from

Trash questions

2009-11-11 Thread Christina
Hello Listers, I'm very confused and frustrated about file management on the mac. I deleted some files off of my sd card and I could not get the space remaining on the sd card to change and I therefore could not add any files to the sd card. The only thing that worked was to empty the t

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
NOT NECESSARILY, BUT SQUEALING IS NOT A GOOD SIGN. AT THE VERY LEAST, IT IS ANNOYING ESPECIALLY OVER LONG PERIODS OF SCANNING, AND IF YOU ARE LISTENING WHILE YOU SCAN TO RELIEVE THE BORDUM. WORST CASE SENAREO YOUR UNIT IS ON THE WAY OUT. I HAD ONE THAT SQUEELED OFF ANDD ON FOR YEARS.

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
HI, IT IS IN FACT FREE. BEST, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2009-11-11, at 3:24 PM, Christina wrote: > > Hi, > > I went and checked it out at http://sbooth.org/Max/ > > Is this the correct program? Is

Re: Itunes and Tiger

2009-11-11 Thread Christopher Gilland
OK, you know, I too use Tiger actually. The search filed I dono, I can't get to it either. A friend suggested doing vo+J to sump from the sources outline, the search field, and the songs table. I've not tried it yet, but supposedly, he thought that may work. As for the store, apparently it'

Itunes and Tiger

2009-11-11 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, all, I am having trouble with the newest version of Itunes, which I have installed on an iBook g4 running Tiger. When I go to the Itunes store, I can't find the search field or the store pages. Is anyone else on this list using Itunes with this hardware and software configuration, and i

Paragraphs in Pages

2009-11-11 Thread Howard Dupuis
Just now learned that the paragraphs in a Pages document I'd thought were indented are not, in fact, indented. Under tabs in text in the document inspector, I've got 0.5 in indent for the first line of each paragraph, but my sweetie tells me that there are no indents visible. This comes after I sp

Re: Syrinx: An accessible free client twitter for Mac

2009-11-11 Thread Christopher Gilland
Yeah, I kind a figured as much. I've still not gotten any answers on my questions about Twitterrific that I can see. Maybe my e-mail messed up, but from what I can tell, no one has yet replied, at least, not that I've yet seen. I love Twitterrific, but there are some major annoiances to it.

Re: Question about adding folder to dock with command shift T

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Mann
It's good that you can add a folder to the dock, but then, how does one view it? I just added a folder to the dock, but I can't view it like I normally would view a folder. After I hit vo+space to open the folder, I'm still on the dock. On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Bret

adem, and msn, ipodtuch?

2009-11-11 Thread Maurice Mines
HI ALL I AM TRAYING TO USE ADEM WITH MY FREND WHO IS A WINDOWS USER AND I CAN'T READ THE CHAT WINDOW HOW USEE THIS APP, WHIN USING VO? TWO I HAVE A IPOD TUCH AND I AM TRAYING TO FIGER OUT JUST HOW TO GO DOWN THE LIST OF ALBEMS, AND HOW TO LOOK AT ALL OF THE EMAIL'S THAT ARE IN THE LEST.ENY THOU

Re: Question about adding folder to dock with command shift T

2009-11-11 Thread Brett Campbell
Thank you Esther, this is a great link. I can relax for now. I recently purchased Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network (1.6) based on your recommendation. I'll be looking at other books in the series after I master the concepts of this one. With best regards, Brett On Nov 11, 2009

Re: Read text by letter.

2009-11-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Jesse, > > There are several possible answers to this. > > 1) Using the VO keys, VO-Shift-Right or Left arrow will read by letter. > 2) With Quick Nav on, press the left and up arrows together and select > "Characters", then the up and down arrows will read by letter

Re: Syrinx: An accessible free client twitter for Mac

2009-11-11 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, The Apple web pages for the accessible Twitter client, Syrinx, say that it requires Leopard or later -- at least for the latest release: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/syrinx.html Cheers, Esther Christopher Gilland wrote: > > By chance, do you know if th

Re: Syrinx: An accessible free client twitter for Mac

2009-11-11 Thread Christopher Gilland
By chance, do you know if this will work on Tiger? I know it works on Leopard, but... My friend said he's not honestly sure. I suppose it's worth a try though. Chris. ? ? t?? Te?? µe sa?. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Chacón" To: "MacVoiceOver" ; "MacVisionaries" Sen

Re: Question about adding folder to dock with command shift T

2009-11-11 Thread Esther
Hi Brett, I found the Command-Shift-T "Add to Dock" shortcut listed among new Finder commands for Snow Leopard discussed here: http://mactipster.wordpress.com/category/snow-leopard/ The is typically the kind of thing I find in the "Take Control" books, but I haven't checked out the ones for

Question about adding folder to dock with command shift T

2009-11-11 Thread Brett Campbell
I quite like the add folder to the dock with command, shift, T. I learned the command from this list. I started wondering what other commands I might be missing out on. I found all kinds of keyboard shortcuts with a google search, but I can't find the command, shift, T command. I also sear

Re: Firefox with VO?

2009-11-11 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Firefox is inaccessible with vo. On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > > Hi there, > > Has anybody tried Firefox with VO? If so, what were the results? > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Soon to be a Mac user! > Phone or fax: > +1 (985) 360-3614 > e-mail: > rforet

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread Esther
Thanks, Louie. I'm not upgraded yet to SL. Nice that the program uses LAME 3.97 to rip. I'm using a program called iTunes-LAME-3.98.2-x86 for the MP3 ripping. Probably not as simple as NMP3 Ripper, but works OK for me. I'm not sure whether the link to the executable version of the app

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Howell
I've also seen this and you can bet Apple will address it. Unfortunately sometimes all the bugs don't get addressed in the update, but they do get to them. On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: > > Hello Yuma, > > I just want to let you know I am experiencing the same issues. I

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread louie
Howdy Esther, 1 You will need to check and find out if it works using SL. I am on a Power P C so can not run SL. 2 Audio CD only. On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Louie, > > I found the link to NMP3 Ripper at macupdate: > > http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7396 > > Intere

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-11 Thread Christina
Hi, I went and checked it out at http://sbooth.org/Max/ Is this the correct program? Is it free? It appears to be free but am I missing something? :) Is it VO compatible? Is it SL compatible, I'm running the latest version of SL. One more question for now, is the program somewhat dummy

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread Esther
Hi Louie, I found the link to NMP3 Ripper at macupdate: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7396 Interesting that this uses LAME 3.97 to rip. However, two questios: (1) do you know whether this program works under Snow Leopard? (2) The OP asked about ripping the audio from video (don't k

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread James & Nash
Hi, I thought Jessie wanted to rip video from DVD - if so, then AHP will be no good anyway. Sorry for the mistaken post. TC James - Original Message - From: "louie" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:46 PM Subject: Re: Audio ripper? > > I just checked out MAX, it is very co

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread louie
I just checked out MAX, it is very cool. For just ripping to mp3 I feel that nmp3ripper is the east to use. To use audio hijack you will have to play the CD. This would take a lot of time. On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:24 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > What about Audio Hijack Pro? It's very reasonably

Re: NCAM and Apple Publish "Creating Accessible iTunes U Content" (fwd)

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Howell
THank you for sharing this, I had not seen this before and something I'll file away. On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > did not see this here, but if it was posted already I apologize. > something to share broadly including to those who produce radio and > other media

Re: Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread James & Nash
What about Audio Hijack Pro? It's very reasonably priced and is fully accessible - at least for what I use it for. TC James - Original Message - From: "Jesse Bollinger" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:34 PM Subject: Audio ripper? > > Hi, > > Does anyone know a good progra

NCAM and Apple Publish "Creating Accessible iTunes U Content" (fwd)

2009-11-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, did not see this here, but if it was posted already I apologize. something to share broadly including to those who produce radio and other media that may benefit. Karen -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:06 -0500 From: Mary Watkins To: mag_n...@mail4.wgbh

Re: Read text by letter.

2009-11-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jesse, There are several possible answers to this. 1) Using the VO keys, VO-Shift-Right or Left arrow will read by letter. 2) With Quick Nav on, press the left and up arrows together and select "Characters", then the up and down arrows will read by letter. 3) Without the VO keys, right a

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I have the same issues. In fact, I can't even rename regardless of what I do, not name it what I want when I create. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Brett Camp

Re: keyboard

2009-11-11 Thread May McDonald
So just any USB keyboard or should I look for a certain kind? On 2009-11-11, at 9:53 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > I run an external USB keyboard when using my laptop at my desk so I > don't have to deal with some of the oddities of laptop layout. So I just > plug in the USB keyboard and use it

Read text by letter.

2009-11-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi all, I know there is a simple answer for this but I can't find it. When I hit right arrow when interacting with text, it reads by word. How do I change it back to letter? I forgit how I did it. Jesse --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-11 Thread Brett Campbell
Hello Yuma, I just want to let you know I am experiencing the same issues. I first encountered them when I updated to Snow Leopard. I contacted Apple and they confirmed that it is a bug. I was hoping for a fix with 10.6.2, but not for me. This is a VoiceOver issue. With sighted assistance

Syrinx: An accessible free client twitter for Mac

2009-11-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello, I found an accessible client Twitter for Mac. It is Syrinx. It's free and it works very well and easily You can find it here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/36554 regards Jonathan Chacón --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: Firefox with VO?

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Short answer is that Firefox is not accessible with voiceover. There is a really nice mail search engine which you can see past discussions of this topic here: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg07438.html CB Ray Foret jr wrote: > Hi there, > > Has anybody tried Fi

Very basic questions about Twitterific

2009-11-11 Thread Christopher Gilland
1. If I am sitting on a tweet in the tweets table, is there a way I can copy that particular tweet to the clipboard, say, if I wanted to past it into another program like Tesxt Edit etc? 2. Why is it, when I am sitting on a tweet, if I hit command+Delete, it won't delete the tweet as the doc

Re: is the busy, ready, busy, ready, bug gone?

2009-11-11 Thread Christina
The issue I'm having with Text edit is that VO just decides to stop telling me what I'm typing. It's frustrating. Well, I have figured if I turn VO off and then on again it will often work properly but not always. It's weird. On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-11 Thread Christina
Thanks that sounds like what I need. :) I'll check it out. much thanks, Christina On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:49 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > HI CHRISTINA, DITCH ITUNES AND GET MAX. IF YOU GOOGLE MAX DOWNLOAD > IT WILL BE RIGHT ON THE TOP OF THE RESULTS. THIS WILL SAVE YOU > ENDLESS HASSEL. > >

Re: keyboard

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Blouch
I run an external USB keyboard when using my laptop at my desk so I don't have to deal with some of the oddities of laptop layout. So I just plug in the USB keyboard and use it from then on. The Mac and Fusion all seem to not care where the keystrokes are coming from. CB May McDonald wrote: >

Firefox with VO?

2009-11-11 Thread Ray Foret jr
Hi there, Has anybody tried Firefox with VO? If so, what were the results? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Soon to be a Mac user! Phone or fax: +1 (985) 360-3614 e-mail: rforetjrATcomcastDOTnet Skype name: barefootedray --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Did you try the Zenographics driver? Discussion thread here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004061623340681 CB Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > I know the printer i own, a HP Laserjet 1000 isn't Mac compatible. Almost > every other Laserjet model is but not this one, unless ofcours

Audio ripper?

2009-11-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi, Does anyone know a good program that works with VO to rip audio from video files? Jesse --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Re: I've done it.

2009-11-11 Thread Les Kriegler
Peter, if you use the VO Command Left Arrow command, I think it's twice, you'll land on the rate setting. Then you can use VO command up and down arrow to raise or lower the rate. I don't know of a way to adjust the rate for a single command however. Les --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread hank smith
mine is starting to squeel does that mean mine is dieing? - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Abbyy FineReader works well > > SOME DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE S CAREFUL. SOME OF THOSE HAVE REALLY > RANCID COMPONANTS

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread hank smith
have you tried software updates also googling? there are also drivers that aren't spasific to the printer that may work. just a idea - Original Message - From: "Krister Ekstrom" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Abbyy FineReader works well Hi, I know the pr

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
SOME DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE S CAREFUL. SOME OF THOSE HAVE REALLY RANCID COMPONANTS IN THEM. BAD MOTORS ON THE SCANNER HEAD, AND SO ON. I TRY TO AVOID ALL IN ONES PERSONALLY, THOUGH I HAVE SEEN ONE OR TWO THAT I DIDN'T MIND. IT'S ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT MANY OF THE LEXMARK ALL IN ONE

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
HIM, I DON'T SCAN THAT OFTEN, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER HAVING TROUBLE WITH SCANGEAR ON MY CANNON LIKE9-. CANNON TENDS TO MAKE REASONBLY GOOD SOFTWARE IMHO, SO IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH IT MAYBE I CAN HELP. BEST, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone:

OPEN OFFICE AND SPREADSHEETS?

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
GROWLS. OPEN OFFICE WON'T LET ME FILL SIMPLE DATA INTO A SPREADSHEET. IT'S ACCESSIBLE ALL RIGHT, BUT IT CRASHES EVERY TIME I MOVE FROM ONE SELL TO THE NEXT. ANYBODY ELSE SEEING THIS? I'M RUNNING THE LATEST VERSION AS OF A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND I'M RUNNING SL. MAYBE IT'S NOT FULLY SL

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-11 Thread erik burggraaf
HI CHRISTINA, DITCH ITUNES AND GET MAX. IF YOU GOOGLE MAX DOWNLOAD IT WILL BE RIGHT ON THE TOP OF THE RESULTS. THIS WILL SAVE YOU ENDLESS HASSEL. IT WILL GIVE YOU TOTAL CONTROL OF THE ENCODING AND NAMING OF YOUR FILES. WHEN YOU RIP AN AUDIOBOOK, USE THE SERIES FEATURE IN THE MAIN MAX

Re: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Howell
Well Frank, if you happen to find any servers or Mac Pros lying around, let me know. :) Sometimes I wish I could go down in the basement of our building and just poke around. I bet they got all sorts of toys down there just needing to be played with. :) On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Frank Ventur

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I know the printer i own, a HP Laserjet 1000 isn't Mac compatible. Almost every other Laserjet model is but not this one, unless ofcourse i've missed something that would make this printer work, which would be wonderful. Any tips? /Krister 10 nov 2009 kl. 23.05 skrev hank smith: > > that

keyboard

2009-11-11 Thread May McDonald
Hi everyone. For those of you that are using fusion and windows, does it work if another keyboard is connected instead of trying to use the mac keyboard? If so, what kind should I get that would work? So far, I'm more confused with using windows on my mac than I've ever been since switching

Re: is the busy, ready, busy, ready, bug gone?

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Actually, now that you mention Text Edit. Every time I type in Text Edit, I hear "Busy" until I'm done typing. Editing works fine, just not typing. I hope it'll fix itself. I've had some things on this Mac that have fixed themselves over time. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nic

Re: frustrated

2009-11-11 Thread May McDonald
Um, I don't know. Where do I go to check that? I've never played with that section so I couldn't say for sure. On 2009-11-10, at 11:20 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > What have you got your network setup for? > > Relay, nat or host. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionari