Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread olivia norman
I just love my iPad, but I'm a total sucker for the latest apple products! :) Now that they've made everything accessible I think that there will be those of us who want the latest apple stuff, just like our sighted peers who are also apple fanatics. :) Does anyone really "need" an iPad? perhaps

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread carlene knight
If you don't want to change settings, you can press option up or down arrows in the messages window to jump to the next message in a particular thread. It works most of the time. On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:45 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, It's always done this on my mac, and it does on my roomm

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
Karen, Can you contact me off list...I believe you were the one who knows that audio person who works with the blind here in portland. Sorry to get off topic - Original Message - From: "Karen Lewellen" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Used an iPad today It d

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread mani
Hello all: How does Mail determine that a message belongs to a specific thread? I don't get a lot of mail and I don't subscribe to the mail from this list. But when I changed to the threaded view it seems to have threaded the messages on the domain name, which could be behavior uncalled for. I wis

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Karen Lewellen
It does seem like a fine deal. But, what can you now do with an ipad that you could not do with any other apple tool you already own? That is for those who own many. Not being provocative, just wondering. When I consider investing in a new technical tool it is because there is something I wis

Re: importing loops in garage band

2010-04-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yes it is very accessible once you get the hang of it. You can use AIFF, WAV, MP3, MID, and AAC. It might support others but I don't know. You got to use iTunes to import your own files into garageband. On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:49 PM, chad baker wrote: > Hi not sure if its accessible to us i

importing loops in garage band

2010-04-06 Thread chad baker
Hi not sure if its accessible to us is there a way to import loops in garage band and what file types are supported? -- 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 unsu

RE: Help with audacity

2010-04-06 Thread Frank Ventura
Yes I got the accessible version. Thank you very much for the link to the manual. Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com S

RE: Ipad and Bluetooth Keyboard

2010-04-06 Thread Frank Ventura
Has anyone gotten a Bluetooth Braille keyboard (like the Easylink or Humanware Braille keyboard) to work on the Ipad or Iphone? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:59 P

a safari question

2010-04-06 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hey there all. let's say someone gives me a direct link in a skype chat to a file. I right click and tell skype to copy the link to my clipboard. Now I go in to safari and paste the link in to the command l address bar and the thing instead of downloading streams instead. is there a way around t

Re: Ipad and Bluetooth Keyboard

2010-04-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This is the way it was meant to work. On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:16 PM, David McLean wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has used a bluetooth keyboard with the > ipad? > I bought one and paired it today but it only seems to work with edit fields > and others where the onscreen keyboard

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread Sarah Alawami
I personally find right arrowing a lot easier then vo space on that triangle. eather method works though. On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:56 PM, matthew dyer wrote: > Hi, To work with threads, just interact with the table and make sure that > you are in the first colom in the row and vo space to expand o

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Howell
And do you have evidence that Apple will "rape" you at the App Counter? I think offering the iWork suite for the iPad at $10 per app is a very fair price. I am not sure what developers will charge for their apps exactly, but I gather the prices will not be substantially different than what is c

Re: originator of the my mac mini thread

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Howell
Yeah, I am considering a Mini at some point as a media center as well. I first have to rip every DVD we own to a central storage location to make this really work. Yeah, all the DVDs go into storage and I gain space and instant access to all the movies. So, when we're all bored and want to watch

Ipad and Bluetooth Keyboard

2010-04-06 Thread David McLean
Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has used a bluetooth keyboard with the ipad? I bought one and paired it today but it only seems to work with edit fields and others where the onscreen keyboard would be used. It doesn't seem to work with any of the standard VO commands. This may well be as

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
Not ATT, I'm talking about Apple. the price is so low that they need to make up for it some how. you can't justify the price difference between the macbook air and the iPad. They have intentions, just wait and we'll see - Original Message - From: "Joe Plummer" To: Sent: Tuesday, April

RE: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Joe Plummer
Why you say ATT is going to rip you at the counter. As I understand it you can get it with or without a data plan and the data plan does not as of now have to be a contract. I understand it will be able to have two plans one for 30 bucks and one for 15 bucks either can be cancelled at any time. I a

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
I enver said it was over priced. what I did say was even though the iPad is inexpensive at $499, they plan to rape you at the app counter, so you'll suffer the prices for the apps - Original Message - From: "Robert Carter" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Used an

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, I am surprised that you feel that the iPad is over priced. It seems to me that Apple has really made a place for themselves in the lower priced devices with the introduction of the iPad. I personally think the price is impressive. Robert Carter On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Cody wrote: > I

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, To work with threads, just interact with the table and make sure that you are in the first colom in the row and vo space to expand or colaps the thread. HTH. Matthew At 11:55 AM 4/6/2010, you wrote: Hi All, I would like to start working with having my email messages sorted by thread

Re: -- snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
This is true, but my point stands, if they're going to make these gui tools, why not make them accessible, regardless of the fact that it can be done with the cli - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:31 PM

Re: -- snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Back in the early days it was all command line (terminal) driven anyway so there really isn't much that can't be done that way. It's just going to be easier to click the start button next to Websharing in the gui than to bring up the terminal and type /usr/sbin/apachectl stop. Similar things f

Re: -- snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
The idea does not sit with me that apple would produce an application or set of utilities for network management that were not accessible my guess is that they are. If this is the case, could you imagine what implications that could have on blindness network administration? - Original Mess

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread Esther
Hello Robert, Krister, Erik, and Others, Erik has used the "View" menu option to select "Organize by thread". He's talking about information in the Message Viewer table. I find that the only high volume mail I get is from this list and from the viphone list, and if I want to view my mail i

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
Also consider how often wifi will be available. networks might be all over the place, but most of them nowadays are secured, sow aht si the use? 3G is ok, but you've got an iPhone for that, so again, it's a mistake for the consumer side. - Original Message - From: "Olivia Norman" To:

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Cody
I think the idea is awesome in terms of accessibility and apple will certainly get praises for that which they deserve, however I think the product itself is a rip off. sure, it's $499, but then they plan to rape you at the app counter, so yeah it's accessible alright, but is it worth a place i

Re: Hi have a networking question

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
The exact steps vary depending on which OSX you're running. On 10.5 you need to go into the sharing Preferences, turn on File Sharing, go into Options and turn on Share files and folders using SMB (that's the Windows file sharing). Below that will be all the accounts on your computer with check

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Olivia Norman
Interesting. I find portrait mode works better I considered the 3g version, but thought I didn't need both that and an iPhone. Olivia Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: I'd ordered the 3G model, so will be waiting a few more weeks yet, but I had some time

Re: Help with audacity

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, As far as one track editing goes, what would you say is a better choice as an audio editor: is that amadeus pro, or the accessible version of audacity? My problem with amadeus pro that I installed last week is still, that the spacebar just won't even start or pause playback. Command y

Used an iPad today

2010-04-06 Thread Bryan Smart
I'd ordered the 3G model, so will be waiting a few more weeks yet, but I had some time to play with a WiFi model today. Generally, it's an iPhone. However, besides the screen size being increased, the interface has increased in complexity, also. Apple is certainly using the extra space to expan

Re: originator of the my mac mini thread

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Nice thing with the Minis as a media center is they supposedly self-identify lots of displays correctly without a lot of fiddling. In the past I've read about folks on the Windows side have had to do all kinds of crazy config tweaks to get HD DVI or HDMI to recognize their big screens and work

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, It's always done this on my mac, and it does on my roommate's as well. I don't know any one else who uses threading. Most of my mac wielding clients don't get enough email to need to worry about it. You should get an indicater from mail to show that a message has a thread. Unless for som

Re: -- snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
From what I've read in the past the main differences with server are some nice GUI configuration tools and more services turned on by default. That means that with regular OSX you can do pretty much the same thing if you don't mind playing around in terminal a bit and are good with search engin

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread mani
Ben: Thanks a lot. Your suggestion worked. I had tried to extract the r00 file earlier but I was using the traditional way of browsing he file and extracting it in UnRarX, This wasn't working because UnRarX was looking specifically for a .rar file. I googled around and found out that you can dra

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
6 apr 2010 kl. 18.42 skrev erik burggraaf: > As you read through your mail vo will tell you if a message has a thread and > whether it is expanded or collapsed. How on Gods green earth do you do to get it to tell you that? I have worked with threaded mail ever since Leopard and it has never to

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Robert, I use threaded mail all the time and it saves me a lot of work. As you read through your mail vo will tell you if a message has a thread and whether it is expanded or collapsed. Acting on an entry in the messages table acts on the whole thread. IE, Deleting the entry deletes the who

Re: Issue after uploading with SS Wizard

2010-04-06 Thread James & Nash
Hi Sarah, I have set the SS Wizard to remove them when they are complete. This is very off. They seem to be there in the Wizard itself. Thanks for your suggestion. TC James Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:22, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hve not rtried uploading but have you made sure that

Re: Issue after uploading with SS Wizard

2010-04-06 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hve not rtried uploading but have you made sure that the upload is complete before removing them from the queue? Take care. On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:38 AM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi list, > > I have just spent the past four days uploading some things to SS. However, > although all the files appear

Re: Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread Sarah Alawami
What I do and if there is a better way let me know, is collapse all threads and if the thread is too long or if I want to read the newest ones I open the thread with right arrow and go until I say x rows selected. Than I arrow down to the first thread thing I see and select with shift down arrow

Working with Apple Threaded Mail

2010-04-06 Thread Robert Carter
Hi All, I would like to start working with having my email messages sorted by threads. I see the option in the view menu to check or uncheck threading. How does one work with threads with VoiceOver? Thanks, Robert Carter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
I've scene things split into multi part archives twice. eg. it gets rar'd into the usual 15mb parts by someone in the scene and then when someone uploads it to a file hosting site, they split the directory of parts into a few more larger parts. In answer to your question, try running UnRarX on the

Issue after uploading with SS Wizard

2010-04-06 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, I have just spent the past four days uploading some things to SS. However, although all the files appear in the Wizard, they do not appear on the website? Has anyone experienced this on the Mac before please? Thanks TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny -- You received this message because

Re: vlingo demo

2010-04-06 Thread william lomas
danish does not work at the moment i don't think -- 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...@go

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread erik burggraaf
Oh yuk. So what you have is not a multi part archive. It's a multi-part disc image. What a horrible way to go about things. Best, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 Visit my all new website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Email:

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread mani
Erik, That is how I found UnRarX. Maybe I should try another RAR expander. The instructions tell me to a) UnRAR the file b) Burn/Mount the files and c) Enjoy!. It is the second step that I am having a problem with. Thanks, mani On Apr 6, 8:27 am, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi Mani, ssounds like you

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread mani
Ben, This is not a movie per se, but a technical movie where I wanted to listen to the technical stuff and leave the visual part. The first four 'parts' are approximately 100 MB and the last part is approximately 32 MB. UnRarX expands them fine without errors but then I do not know what to do with

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread mani
Simon, I tried clicking on each one of them and they are demanding an application to open with. QuickTime isn't one of them. Thanks, mani On Apr 6, 2:47 am, "Simon Fogarty" wrote: > Mani, > >  Try clicking on the 00 file or if one has a .rar extension,  then click on > that. And it should unzip

RE: originator of the my mac mini thread

2010-04-06 Thread Bryan Smart
Nothing. I've accidentally blown away OSX while installing Windows before on my Macbook, and it was just a Windows machine until I re-installed OSX. If you want a small media box, though. The Mini is probably too expensive. If you're going to run Windows anyway, you might as well get one of the

Re: Hi have a networking question

2010-04-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Also, if your only interest is in iTunes, then you can turn on the iTunes home sharing featues. With this feature, you have the iTunes software syncronize between the computers if you want, or just see your remote somngs list. No need for mounts for this. On 06/04/2010, Simon Fogarty wrote: > I

Re: getting out of find mode; how

2010-04-06 Thread olivia norman
It makes trouble shooting fun, though and apple products are certainly easier to work with than windows machines IMO. On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Well, Apple products in general have been known to work differently for a lot > of people. I still believe this is

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Mani, ssounds like you need to google rar expander. It does a very good job of handling multipart archives. Best, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 Visit my all new website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Email: e...@erik-burg

-- snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread David McLean
According to Gordon Smith on the Mac access list it is not very accessible and you'd be better off sticking with Snow Leopard. On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I've just been looking at the mac mini server machine that is being > advertised on the apple website.

Re: snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
I'd wait until someone else comes along who has more experience before you make a purchase, but my understanding is that it runs an ssh server by default so you can just ssh in there by nigating the need for vo. On 06/04/2010, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I've just been looking at the

Re: Don't know what to do with extracted RAR files

2010-04-06 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Perhaps you could try deleeting all the files and buy the movie instead of pirating it? The files you speak of are parts of a multi part archive that will contain your treasure, are they 14.3mb by any chance? On 06/04/2010, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Mani, > > Try clicking on the 00 file or if one

snow leopard server

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Listers, I've just been looking at the mac mini server machine that is being advertised on the apple website. A mac mini 2.53 processor with 4gig ram and runningt the snow leopard server os. Has anyone used this OS and how usable is it with voice over? Simon -- You received this messag

Re: getting out of find mode; how

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Well, Apple products in general have been known to work differently for a lot of people. I still believe this is due to the magic upon which Apple stores are built. I say that because most bugs other people have, whether it is iPhone or Mac, seem to elude me completely. Either that, or som