Re: Ichat

HI Peter,m ichat is very accessible with voiceover. Aim works great with it!! I have it and I love it. On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:29 PM, peter apgar wrote: > Good evening all, > > is i chat accessible? is it worth setting up an AIM account for? > > Thanks in advance, > > Pete > > -- > > Y

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Sandisk cruisers are yes. I have 4 of them. From: Rich Ring [mailto:richr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:25 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users Are the Sandisk drives U3 enabled? If so, that c

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

That drive you can't copy to, it's not one with a read only tag on it? That's a switch that you can change to read only or write From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:23 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Formatting thumb driv

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Is the memory stick formattd with fat or ntfs? If ntfs that will be your problem. Mac can read from it but not write to it. From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 8:32 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Formatting thumb drives

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Since they are U3, they do show up as two drives on PC. What do they show up on Mac as? -Original Message- From: Ryan Mann [mailto:rmann0...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use

Re: Mounting ISO images

What happens if you hit command+o on the .iso image? On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm curious to know if anyone knows of mounting ISO images on the Mac without > having to burn them? I know this is possible in Windows, and I'm sure it's > possible to do

ebay problem spreading

Hello, i just did a software update but I am not sure if this changed anything to safari. Anyway now i cant even visit the dutch ebay site anymore. Safari just totally crashes and I am returned into finder. This is so frustrating! Greetings, Anouk -- You received this message because you are su

Re: Mounting ISO images

HEllo, I would be very interested in this answer as well. Greetings, Anouk On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm curious to know if anyone knows of mounting ISO images on the Mac without > having to burn them? I know this is possible in Windows, and I'm sure i

ignore previous post: formulas in numbers

Sorry all was having some dificulty with vo and numbers. all is good now. Happy Thanksgiving! Pete, Begin forwarded message: > From: peter apgar > Date: November 24, 2009 9:05:35 PM EST > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: formulas in numbers > > Good evening all, > us

- Re: -- Re: -- Mac Mini problem

Yup. I bought it from Apple and I bought the mini adapter made for the new mac. The old one wouldn't have fit anyway. The bottom line is it doesn't work. If someone on this list has a new mac mini and has found an adapter that would allow it to work without a monitor I'd like to hear it though be

formulas in numbers

Good evening all, using numbers I am having a hard time with composition of formulas. for example in excel one would rite =b3-b7 and it would calculate. how does one reference columns and cell locations? Thanks in advance, Pete -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: -- Re: -- Mac Mini problem

I bought my Mac Mini in late 2007, and I ordered an adapter for it this year and it works like a charm. Did you order it from the Apple Store directly? That's where I got mine. Did you get the one for the newer Mac Mini machines? They have ones that work with the newer Mac Minis. Call

Re: -- Re: -- Mac Mini problem

Do you have one of the newer machines made after March 2009? I do and I bought the adapter that was recommended on this list. It didn't work for me so if someone has found one that does work I'd love to know which one it is. On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote: > The Mac Mini

Re: -- Re: -- Mac Mini problem

The Mac Mini is a great machine, and with regard to a monitor, I bought an adapter that, when connected, makes the Mac Mini think it has a monitor interfaced to it and I can play most video content, including DVD's and software from Apple that has video content. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorag

Re: Ichat

iChat is very accessible with VoiceOver and you can use it to set up an AIM account, or other instant message service to which you might be subscribed. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:29 PM, peter apgar wrote: Good evening all, is i chat accessible? is

Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

I'm going to make inquiries for you and let you know what I find out. I don't want to quote you a price and find out it's higher or lower than I quoted you; the external drive may be your only option, but I would wait till you hear from your Mac store technician. Richie Gardenhire, Anchor

-- Re: -- Mac Mini problem

Actually the mini is a great machine with the exception that it needs a monitor. Pretty minor for me although I wish the mini adapter did work because it would increase the portability of the machine a bit. On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > I guess that's what I'll do. Wish I ha

Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

can you boot from a external drive if so how? - Original Message - From: Scott Howell To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:23 PM Subject: Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent He might find a thi

Re: Ichat

Hello; In my opinion ichat is accessible, however, that isn't the main concern with it. YOu can only imput AIM or .mac addresses which severely limits its usefulness. I personally use adium as do many others on this list. It is free and pretty accessible. Good luck, Max On Nov 24, 2009,

Ichat

Good evening all, is i chat accessible? is it worth setting up an AIM account for? Thanks in advance, Pete -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To uns

Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

He might find a third-party option for a bit less money, but you'll have to contact an authorized service facility since Apple of course won't stock/install third-party drives as far as I know. Don't quote me, but I think when I looked into this a few years ago for an iMac, I got a quote of $250

Printer Compatibility Question

Hi, I'm considering purchasing a Cannon S40 photo printer and I talked to a Best Buy sales person to find out if it was Mac-compatible, but the person didn't know if it was or not. I did a Google search and found information on the printer and according to the latest information I found, i

Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

Hi, Well, it's probably hard to give an accurate estimate. The best idea, really, is to call Apple and ask them, I would think. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:49 AM, han

Re: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

what will this cost me to replace? this is not under apple warinty - Original Message - From: Frank Ventura To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:21 PM Subject: RE: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

Mounting ISO images

Hi guys, I'm curious to know if anyone knows of mounting ISO images on the Mac without having to burn them? I know this is possible in Windows, and I'm sure it's possible to do on the Mac as well. Does anyone know if any third-party software is required to do this? Or am I just missing somethi

Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

If these drives are U3, they may show up as two drives. One drive is read-only, and the other can be read and written to like normal. On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Kevin, > > If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows and your > wife can read, bu

trying to restore a Vista partition

My MBP15 is running Leopard. Originally, it came with Vista on a Bootcamp partition. I backed up the partition to an external hard drive, then erased it. Recently, I used Bootcamp to make a 32G partition, and then tried to place the disk image from my backup drive onto this partition. E

Re: -- Mac Mini problem

I'll let you know soon, but you'll get a good deal. - Original Message - From: "chris polk" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:22 PM Subject: Re: -- Mac Mini problem how much do you want? very interested On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > Anybody want to buy a very s

Re: -- Mac Mini problem

how much do you want? very interested On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > Anybody want to buy a very slightly used Mac Mini? > I only bought it on August 29 of this year, It's the best of the two models, > at this point, I have had enough of the thing. > - Original Message -

Re: -- Mac Mini problem

Anybody want to buy a very slightly used Mac Mini? I only bought it on August 29 of this year, It's the best of the two models, at this point, I have had enough of the thing. - Original Message - From: "David McLean" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:58 PM Subject: -- Mac Mini prob

Re: Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

I'm finding the same thing. When I create a group in the address book, I'd like to name it something that's more useful than untitled group. On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi Ester, > > I tried out your instructions as well to double-check, but that didn't seem > to

Re: Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

Hi, Yeah, that doesn't work either. I've tried all the obvious things. It's really bizarre. I just tried this method when you suggested it. No go. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 24, 200

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Some are and some are not. Like I said, it's been a very long while, I mean years, since I tested this theory. This entire discussion could be for nothing. Kevin -Original Message- From: Rich Ring [mailto:richr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:25 PM To: macvisionaries@go

ProTools Beta

Ladies and gents, There is a ProTools public beta out right now. Does this one include any of the accessibility features previously discussed on the Maccessibility podcast? Or will that be a later release? Ginny Owens Official site: http://www.ginnyowens.com My

Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

That is really odd since I've swapped thumb drives, flash cards, and so forth without any issues. Good luck, I'm not sure, but hopefully someone else will have some ideas. On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my oldest

Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

MessageAre the Sandisk drives U3 enabled? If so, that could make a difference. - Original Message - From: Kevin Gibbs To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:22 PM Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users None of

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

None of these drives was formatted away from whatever they were when they were bought. The drive marked simply FAT, as distinct from FAT32, is a Lexar. The others are Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB drives. Like I said, I'll have to test again to see whether Pam can write to one of these FAT32 drives.

Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Kevin, My experience parallels Scott's: any thumb drive that I've bought (and not tried to reformat) has worked on the Mac for both reading and writing. Cheers, Esther Kevin Gibbs wrote: > I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my > oldest thumb drives simply says

RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my oldest thumb drives simply says FAT, not FAT32 for a format. Some of my others, say FAT32 and I will have to test with Pam and see if she can, in fact, write to one of these. However, as far as I know, she can't. None of my drives

Re: -- Mac Mini problem

I guess that's what I'll do. Wish I had never wasted my money on this computer, I should have held out and bought a Mac Book, but who knewA? - Original Message - From: "David McLean" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:58 PM Subject: -- Mac Mini problem Well I had exactly the same

Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Kevin, If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows and your wife can read, but can't write to them? That is very strange unless they are formatted for NTFS. If you reformatted the drives from the format they initially were when you purchased them, you may want to consid

-- Mac Mini problem

Well I had exactly the same problem last week. My only recommendation is to buy a cheap monitor just for the mini which is what I did. Of course you can also do what I did and buy yourself an early Christmas present (an imac). On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > Hello: > I have fi

Mac Mini problem

Hello: I have finally gotten around to purchasing the mini to dvi adapter that many folks told me would solve the problems I am having with my Mac Mini's poor performance on the web, and its inability to play DVDS. I have been very busy because of a change in my job description, so I've kind of

Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users

Dear All, I don't own a Mac yet. I have several thumb drives I've formatted on my XP laptop. The fundamental problem with this is that when I bring one of my thumb drives to my wife's Mac, she can copy a file from it to her computer, but not from her computer to the drive. In essence, she can

Re: safari and google search results

This happens to me sometimes and so I just interact with the heading and then it works for me. I can then click on the link. Christina On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:53 AM, John G. Heim wrote: > I have a problem with safari and google. When google search results > are > displayed, the H3 headings for

Re: Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

Hi Nic, Yes, I was afraid that this was a long shot since it sounded as though you tried all the obvious things. The one thing I would have thought most promising was using NumPad Commander and pressing "5" on a numeric keypad or else using the trackpad button (on a laptop) or a mouse to

safari and google search results

I have a problem with safari and google. When google search results are displayed, the H3 headings for each result item are supposed to be links. But they are not and I can't click on them. This problem began maybe 3 weeks ago. What I have been doing is click the cache link. Google provides a

Re: Solution for WMV convert

Good call! I've downloaded Easy WMA and will report on it later. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries

Re: Can I get skype to announce incoming chat's

Hi, I never really played with Growl, so I'd like to figure this one out. I usually hate Growl because it makes VoiceOver continuously say "System has new dialog". That's probably because I never bothered to mess with it, though. I wasn't aware it could play with speech as well, though I guess

Re: Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

Hi Ester, I tried out your instructions as well to double-check, but that didn't seem to do anything at all. I guess it's a good thing I reported it to Apple, then. I'm definitely having major problems with it. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster ya

Re: Can I get skype to announce incoming chat's

In growl, there's a way to get this set up. On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Dean Adams wrote: > Hey All, > I have not posted for a will but I updated my skype to the latest > version and hoped that it would announce chats as I type and send messages > with my friends but have to use the us

Re: Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

Hello; as the problem is with snow lepard is there a chance someone on this list would know how to get to the correct subfolder in address book so the people needing to do this would have a working solution until apple fixes the problem in snow lepard. good luck, Max On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:21

Instructions for creating groups [was Re: creating groupes in adressbook]

Hi Tony and Nic, Tony wrote: >>> How on earth can I create groups in adressbook? The problem I have >>> is when I created the group from the file menu the name is >>> untitled and I can not get it to change to for example Work. >>> Any Idea? I don't know whether there are new problems with cr

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

glad to hear it, am happy with the way its working in lepard. wouldn't want them to try to fix something that isn't broken. lol good luck, Max On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > I told them exactly which version I was running at the time, so that > should be alr

Re: macbook pro, turning off the screen?

On Nov 22, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, you have to use F1 in conjunction with holding down the > Function key if the checkbox "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard > function keys" is checked in System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard > tab.. Yes, you're correct

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Hi, I told them exactly which version I was running at the time, so that should be alright. Yep, none of that works in Snowy at all for me, and that's exactly what I used to be able to do. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368

RE: powerpoint on the mac?

Hi Christina, My work machine's a windows PC, so I just use that. Cheers, Dónal -Original Message- From: Christina [mailto:blindmaclo...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 November 2009 19:55 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: powerpoint on the mac? Hi, How do you convert the power po

RE: urgent urgent help getting a cd that is jammed in my mac mini!!! verry urgent

Earlier Mac Minis seem to have a fairly high rate of drive failures. As soon as you press the eject button try tilting the mini forward so the slot faces downwards and at the same time smack the back of te Mini with the palm of your hand. I suspect the drive will need to be replaced. Frank

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Ok, so that explains why i'm not having this problem. I'm not running snow lepard. I'm still running lepard. And either using the menu or typing the shortcut i just enter a name and press enter. If i want to rename i just press enter on that group name type the new name and press enter

Re: Can I get skype to announce incoming chat's

I don't know a way to automate incoming chat announcement, but turning off cursor tracking with VO+Shift+F3 will let VoiceOver keep your position in each chat window so VO+Right is all you need to read the next message, once you have placed the VO cursor in the message area for that window. On Tue

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Speaking of groups, has anyone ever been able to get the popup that allows you to change friend, spouse, etc. to stick? I know these tags let you do some additional sorting and creating of smart lists, but seems they just don't stay set and revert back to friend. On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Ton

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Hi, A couple of people suggested things you can try, but I don't remember them. They didn't work for me, but might work for someone else. I still went ahead and reported the issues to Apple, though, since nothing worked on my end and I'd like to properly use Address Book. Apple said they would

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Hi Nic. Many thanks for your answer. Then I don't have to scratch my head over this. We hope it going to be fixed. Regards Tony 24 nov 2009 kl. 11.03 skrev Nicolai Svendsen: > Hi, > > I think everyone is having this problem. I haven't heard of any way around > it, but if there is a way to wor

Re: creating groupes in adressbook

Hi, I think everyone is having this problem. I haven't heard of any way around it, but if there is a way to work around this, I'd be glad to hear it. At any rate, though, Apple knows about it. I was hoping it'd been fixed in 10.6.1, since I wrote to them when Snowy had just been released. Rega

creating groupes in adressbook

Hi all How on earth can I create groups in adressbook? The problem I have is when I created the group from the file menu the name is untitled and I can not get it to change to for example Work. Any Idea? Regards Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

A question about streaming audio in vlc media player

Hi all, Whenever I stream audio in Vlc through an m3u playlist, the player skips ahead to the next track in the playlist before the current one finishes playing. What's going on here, and how can I fix this? Thanks. Jes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Skype

Hello Mark and Mark, On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:19 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > I am sure there is a way to create a custom shortcut key command > sequence to do this Unfortunately, this is not possible as there is no menu command for Answer. There is a menu command for Hang Up, so a shortcut can be config