Re: need help

2010-01-28 Thread May McDonald
Yes I did that but it wasn't that. I figured out how to fix it. I somehow hit the left and right arrow at the same time sometime today and screwed it up. I have it back to normal now, smile. On 2010-01-28, at 5:18 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hmmm this is a strange one. Sometimes VO does this and i

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-28 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
I second Chris here, I think that if flash files aren't refferable on the web, we're pretty much stuck with trying to get info from it. That's why all metas are in the html/php which the swf is embedded in. But hey, there always might be something out there. When my devver finishes his first ip

Re: "mac speech has no windows"?

2010-01-28 Thread James & Nash
Hi trahern This announcement means that you need to open a window i.e. Command + N as some applications are set not to display any windows by default and some can be set to not display any windows. But why ould you need to open windows on a dictation program? HTH TC James On 29 Jan 2010, at

Re: need help

2010-01-28 Thread James & Nash
Hmmm this is a strange one. Sometimes VO does this and i don't think it's anything you've done. This is going to sound like a dumb question, but have you tried restarting VO? TC James On 28 Jan 2010, at 23:50, May McDonald wrote: > Ok I've managed to get my mac stuck again and don't know how I

"mac speech has no windows"?

2010-01-28 Thread trahern culver
hey guys i have just baught the latest verssion of mac speech dictate but when i oppen it voice over sais "dictate has no windows" please can some one help with this problem? your help would be most welcom!! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

need help

2010-01-28 Thread May McDonald
Ok I've managed to get my mac stuck again and don't know how I did it. It doesn't automatically interact with anything like it shoud. I have to make sure I'm in the area I want and then interact with it which is rather annoying. I know there was a key combination to make it switch between this a

Hands on with the iPad | Laptop | iPhone Central | Macworld

2010-01-28 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello list. thought you might enjoy this little article. I'm going to email this the the iphone list too so my apologies if you get this twice. Matt. http://www.macworld.com/article/145988/2010/01/ipad_hands_on.html?lsrc=top_1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: A good TV tuner that can be networked.

2010-01-28 Thread Michael Huckabay
OH all right thanks. I was meaning if the tv Tuner was pluged into the PVR and then into my network that's the type of tuner I was looking for. Not sure if sling box would do this and let you record stuff or not. Mike. On 2010-01-28, at 4:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > There has been on and off dis

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Blouch
The point of my test program was to show how even a very simple flash swf became nearly indecipherable once compiled and I suspect a complex flash would be even more difficult. Sometimes you just cant take the sauce back off the spaghetti. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Perhaps you can get control

Re: A good TV tuner that can be networked.

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Blouch
There has been on and off discussion on this list about eyetv which seems to have some usability. Once recorded it offers some options to share your video archive to other devices. I'm assuming that the Mac itself could just fileshare the video content so you could access it from anything else

Re: new unison version accessibility with voiceover

2010-01-28 Thread anouk radix
Hello scott, yes i cced hte original message to them. Greetings, Anouk, On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Anouk, > > Please send them a note as well. I think they need to hear this since I don't > know if they realize how many visually impaired users are/would use Unison. I >

Re: Apple, Adobe and Flash

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Apple made it's own Youtube player which launches. I assume this player uses the native video hardware decoder rather than software to play back the video. Note that even if you opt-in for HTML5 video you still get shunted to the youtube player. Vimeo bumps you to the QuickTime player. I didn't

Re: Apple, Adobe and Flash

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Hofstader
Just curious, what software is running when you view a YouTube video on the iPhone? I assumed it had to be some variety of Flash. On Jan 28, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Interesting read about the lack of love between Apple and Adobe in relation > to Flash and why you'll never see fl

Re: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread May McDonald
Ok, it looks like my epson works with VueScan but I'm not sure how to use it. Is there a user guide someplace? On 2010-01-28, at 12:17 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello May, > > I would strongly advise against ReadIris. The setting to correct page > orientation has to be reset every time you l

Apple, Adobe and Flash

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Interesting read about the lack of love between Apple and Adobe in relation to Flash and why you'll never see flash on the ipod/iphone/ipad. http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash CB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gro

Re: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread Mary Otten
According to the abbyy website, it works with scanners that don't use emulated drivers. Now just how is an end user suppose to be able to tell which scannersdo not use emulated drivers? Finding scanners that work with the Mac and are fast and durable seems enough of a challenge. My favorite opti

Re: Somewhat OT: Real quick IPod touch Question

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Are either of these features well supported in general? Can I actually send someone an email and pre-mark it as high priority? Seems ripe for spam abuse. Remote read notification also seems to be weak. If I opened somebody's email and it prompted me to send read notification I would cancel it.

RE: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread Larry Wanger
Hi, Related to this software discussion is the issue of finding the best scanner. I have been trying to connect an HP PSC1315 to my Mac with no success. Apparently Snow Leopard is the problem somehow. I can make it print as its an all-in-one unit but scanning isn't happening. I've had this for yea

Re: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mary, Abbyy FineReader does work directly with some scanners but I don't know which ones. I do know that my Canon scanners need VueScan. Cheers, Anne On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Anne, > In your message on this topic, you said, if your scanner is not supported by

Re: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Anne, In your message on this topic, you said, if your scanner is not supported by abby fine reader you can use view scan. I had been under the impression that the version of FR available for the Mac didn't support any scanners, that it was simply an image conversion app, such that you'd have

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

2010-01-28 Thread Kaare Dehard
Thanks Howard, simple is the best policy and iI am happy to hear that there really is a simple method to address this. Cheers. On 2010-01-27, at 11:00 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > There's a *very simple* solution to this. If you wish to make this > difficult beyond belief, look elsewhere, but if

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-28 Thread Charlie Doremus
We're just going to have to wait kiddies. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > What would be interesting now is to know how VO on the Ipad differs from > say the iphones VO. After all, there are quite a number of new features, and > VO must have a way to work with the

Re: Ipad has VoiceOver

2010-01-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What would be interesting now is to know how VO on the Ipad differs from say the iphones VO. After all, there are quite a number of new features, and VO must have a way to work with them. Wonder for example if the book reader is usable, it should be since it's a built-in app. So many questio

Re: new unison version accessibility with voiceover

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Howell
Contact them since they will have that answer. Now of course if you explain the accessibility issues, they might sell you the older version and maybe at a lower price; can't hurt to ask. On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:22 AM, william lomas wrote: > I was going to buy unison but doubt i can use the older v

Re: new unison version accessibility with voiceover

2010-01-28 Thread william lomas
I was going to buy unison but doubt i can use the older version or can I if I wish to buy it? On 28 Jan 2010, at 09:20, Scott Howell wrote: Anouk, Please send them a note as well. I think they need to hear this since I don't know if they realize how many visually impaired users are/would

Re: new unison version accessibility with voiceover

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Howell
Anouk, Please send them a note as well. I think they need to hear this since I don't know if they realize how many visually impaired users are/would use Unison. I certainly have brought this to their attention, but more voices would not hurt. THanks, On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:16 AM, anouk radix wro

Re: Somewhat OT: Real quick IPod touch Question

2010-01-28 Thread Matt Roberts
On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Christopher Gilland wrote: > Hey, does, anyone know in the Mail app on the Touch, or IPhone, Preferably > Touch, if there is a way to specify low, normal, or high priority, when > sending an msg? Also, there is no way is there, to request a read receipt? > If not,

Re: scanner software

2010-01-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello May, I would strongly advise against ReadIris. The setting to correct page orientation has to be reset every time you launch the application. If you scan the left-hand and right-hand pages at the time, it regularly gets them the wrong way round, making nonsense of the text. It also has a