Re: scanner software

2010-01-27 Thread May McDonald
Thanks very much. I will give it a try as soon as I have someone that can help set it up. skype: CanadianLynx2010 aim: CanadianLynx2010 windows messenger: mcdonald@gmail.com On 2010-01-27, at 7:11 PM, Mike Pedersen wrote: > Hello May, >> Ok, I finally have a scanner to use and can't rememb

new unison version accessibility with voiceover

2010-01-27 Thread anouk radix
Hello, sadly i will have to agree with the person who posted here before. This verison of unison,while it has more features that are essential for a modern newsreader on any platform (although I am not sure if it is yet up to scratch forjust reading newsgroups instead of downloading contents) se

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
So come to Hawaii and buy one. Fun in the sun and an ipad, what a deal. And think of the taxes you'll save Aloha, Charlie On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:24 PM, "Simon Fogarty" wrote: Dude, that blader control must be a problem. But 90 days, hell, NZ may have to wait till june / july before it g

RE: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Fogarty
That you can / will be able to make phone calls on. That to me means it's an IPhone on steroids! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of william lomas Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2010 10:34 a.m. To: macvisionaries@google

RE: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Fogarty
Dude, that blader control must be a problem. But 90 days, hell, NZ may have to wait till june / july before it gets here. Unless we buy ex USA. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Charlie Doremus Sent: Thursda

RE: trouble installing latest version of open office under snow lepard.

2010-01-27 Thread Cameron
Hi. Okay, thanks, I'll try downloading it again and see if I have better results. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Pedersen Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:13 AM To: macvisionaries@googleg

Re: trouble installing latest version of open office under snow lepard.

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Cameron, my guess is a corrupted download. I just installed the latest Openoffice download on my Macbook pro with Snow leopard and everything went as expected. Note that you will hear the word "text before each new paragraph in a Writer document. This seems to be a bug in Voiceover tha

trouble installing latest version of open office under snow lepard.

2010-01-27 Thread Cameron
Hi all. I don't have my new mac book pro yet. However, I purchased a second hand white mac book for a student of mine and it came with sl installed. He has never used a mac before so I'm installing some useful software for him before he comes for his first lesson. I Installed adium, skype, stuf

Re: scanner software

2010-01-27 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi May! I've used Abbey FineReader on the mac with some success. I've never gotten it to work directly with my scanner but did use the imaging utility to scan and then dropped the image file into abbey and it did a nice ocr job on it. I had some problems getting the software to run but I know of

Re: scanner software

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello May, > Ok, I finally have a scanner to use and can't remember for the life of me > what people suggested to use for scanning with the mac that works with VO. > Any help right now would be greatly appreciated. You could give readiris a try. I don't know how well it works with whole books

scanner software

2010-01-27 Thread May McDonald
Ok, I finally have a scanner to use and can't remember for the life of me what people suggested to use for scanning with the mac that works with VO. Any help right now would be greatly appreciated. I have a nice big text book for school that's calling my name that needs to be scanned, lol. skyp

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread ben king
Dear mac fronds I m excited about this for us Sent from my iPod On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:44 PM, "James & Nash" > wrote: You can sync the IPhone and IPad so presumably, you can do other things too. On 27 Jan 2010, at 21:40, Charlie Doremus wrote: Who said ibooks won't work on iphone On Wed,

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
The ipad is an ipod on roids. From what was presented today it appears in looks and feel to be Apple's answer to net books with other features thrown in for good measure. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, James & Nash < james.austin1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > You can sync the IPhone and IPad so

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread James & Nash
You can sync the IPhone and IPad so presumably, you can do other things too. On 27 Jan 2010, at 21:40, Charlie Doremus wrote: > Who said ibooks won't work on iphone > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:33 AM, william lomas > wrote: > shame ibooks won't work on iphone it is just an ipod really just bi

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread James & Nash
I have E Mailed Apple Accessibility to ask them the current state of play regarding the IBook store and VO and if it can be accessed by other devices such as MacBooks. I have also asked them if the books (assuming that we can access them without an IPad) are accessible to us or if we are left wi

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
Who said ibooks won't work on iphone On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:33 AM, william lomas wrote: > shame ibooks won't work on iphone it is just an ipod really just bigger > > > On 27 Jan 2010, at 20:20, Matthew Campbell wrote: > > Hello list members. >> Just thought I'd send a quick message to tell

A good TV tuner that can be networked.

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Huckabay
? dus enny one know of a good excessible tv tuner that can be skeduled for recording dvr stuff for the mac but can be plugged into a home network? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to ma

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread william lomas
shame ibooks won't work on iphone it is just an ipod really just bigger On 27 Jan 2010, at 20:20, Matthew Campbell wrote: Hello list members. Just thought I'd send a quick message to tell you all that the ipad does indeed have VoiceOver. You can verify this by going to the tech specs link whe

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
Can't wait for 3G Ipad 90 days seems like forever it's an iPod on E.G.H. (electronic growth hormones). I think I just wet my pants. Just kidding. Aloha, Charlie On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Matthew Campbell > wrote: Hello list members. Just thought I'd send a quick message to tell you al

Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-27 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello list members. Just thought I'd send a quick message to tell you all that the ipad does indeed have VoiceOver. You can verify this by going to the tech specs link when you click on any of the ipad links and going to a level 3 heading called accessibility. Thanks. Matthew Campbell -- You

Live audio feed of Apple introduction

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Listen to it here: http://live.twit.tv/ CB -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@google

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Hofstader
Perhaps you can get control text using your little test program and, if so, we can probably extract location and force a mouse click? You could run the program using gdb in emacs and dump the data in a nice, easy way to both dissect and save. On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >

Re: A quick follow up to ebay and safari with vo

2010-01-27 Thread Howard Dupuis
There's a *very simple* solution to this. If you wish to make this difficult beyond belief, look elsewhere, but if you just want to go to eBay and take care of business using VO and Safari, just go to: http://hub.shop.ebay.com/ and all will be well. -- Howard On Jan 26, 10:00 pm, Kaare Dehard wrot

Re: Adding a Signature to Messages in Mail

2010-01-27 Thread Esther
Hi Jeffrey, Anne recently described adding signatures to E-Mail messages with VoiceOver's drag and drop. You can read her post in the Mail Archive for this list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg15805.html (Re: Signatures preferences accessible?) The Voi

Re: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Blouch
I wouldn't mind a larger layout. Having to flick to find some of the tiny icons and getting the wrong letter on the keyboard because the keys are so small are problems I can live without. I'm sure for visual users more real estate means less time spent scrolling, which would be a similar gain f

Re: Keynote Speech

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
Apple will hold a product event on Wednesday, January 27 at 10 a.m. PT in San Francisco to unveil what the company is billing as its "latest creation." And Macworld is on hand with blow-by-blow coverage of the big unveiling. That's 1 p.m. for the time challanged. Aloha, Charlie On Jan 27

Re: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Blouch
It's a double edged sword. In the Android world there has been a bunch of issues with junky buggy software. There is no gatekeeper so you get all the wheat and the chaff. For a substantial part of the population this works well and there are only a few sheep that want out of the pen. CB Ben M

RE: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread Joe Plummer
Yes, and also have more Bluetooth capability and possible USB usage. I will be very interested in it when it comes out. I will be wanting to see what all they offer on it. I also think they might offer some kind of boot camp so you can run windows or other OS on it. This could be very interesting.

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Blouch
On the unix side you can dump a file to the terminal with the more command. So the dump was simply the result of saying more md.swf. I believe that binary values that map to an ASCII character are simply output while other hex values are output with <> around the hex value. The results obtained

Keynote Speech

2010-01-27 Thread Jane Jordan (GMail)
When is the keynote address from Apple today in Eastern time? I lost the time. Jane -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send e

Re: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
I think you hit the nail on the head really, you can't see the point. As we told you before, the main attraction is going to be the larger screen. Think of it this way, is it easier to type on something the size of a netbook or the size of an iPhone? On 27/01/2010, william lomas wrote: > again i

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Hofstader
Even though they are compiled, has anyone opened such a file with a hex editor and poked around looking for human readable text? Dumping it as ASCII will almost always give gibberish because of odd compilation artifacts. But a hex editor in a debugger will translate text information into ASCII n

Re: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread william lomas
again i don't see the point. an iphone and or ipod can do almost anything so why waste money and efforts having a tablet. getting the iphone to multitask and work like a normal phone i.e. alowing me to do several things at once is preferable On 27 Jan 2010, at 11:32, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

Re: Tidbits on tablet leaked by McGraw Hill chairman

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Thanks for this. The iPhone os though. gr. Since its probably going to cost a fair bit more than the iPhone, surely I should be able to put what I want on it? On 27/01/2010, Chris Blouch wrote: > In a CNBC interview about earning with Terry McGraw. Video is here: > > http://www.cnbc.com/id/15

Re: Apple's conference call discussing Q1 - 2010

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Apple themselves don't usually stream there keynotes; its usually sites like mac roomers that have someone there reporting so admitidly with out looking at the page, I'm pretty sure this isn't what it seems. On 27/01/2010, Simon Fogarty wrote: > It’s called a tablet, > > > > Apple have seemingly