Re: Additional help needed with Reading line by line

2010-02-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Linda, As I pointed out, it's not a complete solution. It can still be improved, so it's certainly not the preferred method of navigation just yet. You might as well get used to how VoiceOver handles things as opposed to Windows screen readers until it improves somewhat. :) Regards, Nic Sky

Re: editing playlists in Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
Thanks, Ricardo. I went about it backwards. I went to the playlist and brought up the context menu looking for an add to play list choice but didn't find one.But I experimented with selecting songs and then doing the context menu and it is as you described it, add to playlist is there with the s

Re: editing playlists in Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, To add songs to and existing regular playlist find the song or songs you want to add, interact with the playlist, press VO shift M to bring up the context menu. In the context menu, arrow down to "add songs to playlist". Open this sub menu then press enter on the playlist you want to add

editing playlists in Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
Is there a way to add to an existing playlist that is not a smart play list? I just made a play list that has all the songs I've bought from the itunes store in the jazz genre. I'd like to add to that if and when I buy more songs in this same genre. My first idea was to use a smart play list, bu

Additional help needed with Reading line by line

2010-02-04 Thread Linda Adams
Thanks to Nic, Chantel and Anne for their comments on this question but I still haven't had success. My question deals with web pages and I have a Mac Book 10.6 When I began working on this, , like Nic says, I could advance through a web page with just pressing the down arrow but it would comple

RE: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Linda Adams
Thanks! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:24 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

Re: slightly OT: A call to action!

2010-02-04 Thread Jess
I will take a look at it. Thank you very much. Jes On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Jess: > I was reading a Syndicated Columnists Weekly, and ran across an article I > think would interest you. > It is entitled "Justice Department Settles Kindle On-Campus Cases," > It is by Associate

Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Been a while since I changed my commonly used bookmarks bar. New bookmarks are added to the beginning so it shift everything over by one. That means your #1 slot becomes the most recently bookmarked item and you'll find your old #1 is now in the #2 slot. Easiest way I've found to rearrange is t

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
MaryHi Ricardo, My itunes library is not saving to an external drive, although given the amount of things being accumulated in there, that was probably shortsighted on my part. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to th

RE: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Linda Adams
Chris, I've used this method and it is quite nice. I have a question. if I add another web page to the bookmark bar, will it take the first position and move the others down a number? If so, is there a way I can reposition the bookmarks so the one I use the most keeps the short cut command 1? T

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Well, I just tried checking the Open files automatically box, and that didn't seem to make any difference. Best, Donna On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > It has never imported into my audiobook section automatically without the > open downloads box being checked in Safa

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, It has never imported into my audiobook section automatically without the open downloads box being checked in Safari. I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark but, could it be related to the drive in which you have your iTunes media folder? My iTunes content is save on an external drive.

Re: working with docx files on a Mac

2010-02-04 Thread James & Nash
Numbers is also supposed to be quite accessible. I've played a little with Pages, and it seems extremely good so far. TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 4 Feb 2010, at 17:40, Chris Blouch wrote: > I was hunting for something that did tables in a wordprocessor and worked > well with voiceover. Tabl

iphone update avaliable

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, In case you haven't seen this, there's a new software update available for the iphone. Best, Donna -- 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

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Robert, You know, this has always worked for me in the past, but this afternoon, after seeing Mary's post, I tried it, and it didn't work. I experienced the same thing Mary described, the book downloaded, but did not import into ITunes. I wonder if this has something to do with version 10.

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Robert, Yes, I am quite sure that books don't show up in my itunes library after download. I checked the audio books section after downloading and found nothing. Importing them makes them show up there. And prior to that, they are in the download folder, where I would expect downloads to go n

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, I do have Safari set to open the download. I doubt that this is the setting that makes the difference but I don't know for sure. I haven't tested it. Mary, are you sure that after the books download they don't automatically appear in your iTunes library? Robert Carter On Feb 4, 2010, at 1

Re: slightly OT: A call to action!

2010-02-04 Thread Carolyn
Jess: I was reading a Syndicated Columnists Weekly, and ran across an article I think would interest you. It is entitled "Justice Department Settles Kindle On-Campus Cases," It is by Associated Press. It ran in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2010. It discusses the use of Ebooks in class

further to locating radio streams in iTunes

2010-02-04 Thread Daniel Rowe
Hi all. I'm subscribed to "Mac OS X hints" RSS feed and today they posted a great hint that is helpful for deleting radio streams you no longer listen to. I found that when I created a smart playlist of all the streams I imported I couldn't delete any of them from the library from there. So aft

Re: apple and adobe zeitgeist fallout

2010-02-04 Thread James
Well I can do this without using the accessibility settings in Adobe Reader and I am not building a screen reader, I can make standard PDF files accessible so all you need is a free screen reader to read and interact with the content. It also works with JAWS, Window Eyes and Zoom Text. I do not

Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Oooh that's cool! Thanks, Chris. Donna On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Another handy bit is that any bookmarks you store in the bookmarks bar can be > fired up just by hitting command-# where the number is the order which the > bookmark is in the bar list. So my most commonly

Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Another handy bit is that any bookmarks you store in the bookmarks bar can be fired up just by hitting command-# where the number is the order which the bookmark is in the bar list. So my most commonly used sites are in the bookmark bar slots 1-5. To get to the first item at any time in Safari

Re: DVD CD copy

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. Maybe I didn't set things up correctly. That said I tried rip it and it worked fine. All it does is dump the DVD to your hard drive, no fussing around. That's all I wanted. CB Kieren wrote: Just to clarify MTR does not re-encode it only removes the protection that is on the disc so you c

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello all, I just finished purchasing Stephen Coont's "Sea Of Terror", and I read the thank you page. It does say the download is suppose to go directly into your audiobook folder on your Mac. I know mine doesn't like Mary and Donna's unless I have the auto open set in safari. Its a mystery t

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Mary, I just checked. I have the Open Downloaded Files automatically option unchecked, so that shouldn't be your problem. Best, Donna On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Matt, > According to what I read on audible's site, there is no audible manager > software for the Mac, sepa

Re: working with docx files on a Mac

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I was hunting for something that did tables in a wordprocessor and worked well with voiceover. Tables, as a spreadsheet, is supposed to be quite accessible although I haven't tried it myself. CB James & Nash wrote: That's' an interesting work around. What about numbers? I am going to install

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Same here. You know, Mary, it might be worth a call to Audible. I understand why you see it as a Mac issue, but once when I was having trouble getting books to import, I called them and they were really helpful. Good luck, Donna On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Robert Carter wrote: > Hi Mary, > >

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Robert, Do you have Safari set so trusted files automatically open once downloaded? That could certainly account for their automatic entry into Itunes. If you don't have that set, then its a great mystery to me what the difference could be. Perhaps there was some little glitch when I activat

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Mary, My audible books go in to my download folder just like you describe but iTunes automatically enters them in to the audio books section of its library. I don't understand why it is a two step process for you. Robert Carter On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Matt, > Ac

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Matt, According to what I read on audible's site, there is no audible manager software for the Mac, separate from Itunes. I've been using audible manager on the pc for a long time, so when I got the Mac, I checked out what Audible had to say and they don't seem to have any separate software.

Re: pronunciation

2010-02-04 Thread James & Nash
Hi Carolyn You might be able to change this in the Pronunciation Dictionary. I've never used this myself, but perhaps others on this list have. TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 4 Feb 2010, at 03:10, ch...@q.com wrote: > Hi Mac Family: > I have a strange question. I suddenly notice that VO is p

Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Hofstader
How does one keep the top sites bar from showing up? I can usually get it to go away but it seems to return randomly. On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I think that you can move bookmarks and/or folders with copy and paste, or > even cut and paste. As far as I can tel

Re: Read from cursor to end of document or web page...

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Roberts
On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > How do I get VO to read from the cursor to the end of the pag?DD. The equal > command in Jaws would be insert-down arrow. > Control-Option-A Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: GMail and IPod TouCH?

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Roberts
On Jan 30, 2010, at 9:53 PM, joe quinn wrote: > I'm sure this has cropped up b4, but I wanna know, why can't I put in my > Gmail info on the IPod touch? I do everything right, I think, but it says it > can't connect... is it me? or are the fields not labeled right... I'm using > pop with Gmail

Re: downloading audible books into Itunes

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Roberts
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Caroline,If you are referring to setting where downloads go in Safari > preferences, I have done that, but I have it set to the downloads folder, > since I do want things other than audiobooks from Audible going there. I > don't see any sort

Re: "mac speech has no windows"?

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Roberts
On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:39 PM, trahern culver wrote: > 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 Did you configure your microphone? > Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com -- You received this message b