RE: transfering documents through iTunes?

2010-04-10 Thread Joe Plummer
You suppose to be able to use notes on your iphone and sync them. I don't remember right where in iTunes but notes are in there and all you have to do is check the note box. I don't know about ipad but willing to say there is and probley better than in the iphone. Sign, Joe Plummer ( JP ) joepl

Re: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
Not advertising. but I heard the kingston datatravelers work well. I have one and so far have had no problems with it. Except one. I don't know why but it will not update its amount of bytes being used when I delete stuff off of it. I have seen this oddity before and I realy don't know how to f

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Kimberly thurman
It's free and you're entitled to it. It's just another entertainment and educational piece of technology to add to your electronic arsinal. (Smilie!) On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:36 PM, olivia norman wrote: > Thanks so much! I don't have much experience with NLS, though I m a member. > I just could

transfering documents through iTunes?

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
Has anyone successfully transfered text files to their iPhone, or iPad using iTunes? If so, how is this done? Thanks, Olivia -- 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.

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
I had no idea they were free! Wow, I'll get on it. Olivia On Apr 10, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > The NLS players are pretty cool. They are about the size of a hard backed > book, run for 35 hours on a single charge, and have a kick butt speaker on > them. If you want to listen

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
Thanks so much! I don't have much experience with NLS, though I m a member. I just couldn't justify buying an adaptive player and an iPad, so I opted for the iPad because it's good mainstream technology, and because it affords me more productivity options for my money. Olivia On Apr 10, 2010, a

Re: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

2010-04-10 Thread Kimberly thurman
I had this problem also with two Sandisk drives, which had U3 capability on them. I even tried using the U3 removal tool on them and they wouldn't work. I believe that if there is any extraneous software at all on the drive it will not work in the player. I bought an HP trouble free drive. I

NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

2010-04-10 Thread Ms. Jenny Kennedy
Hi all, Could somebody please tell me how to format the usb flash drives on my Mac so the NLS DTB player will read them? All I get is "Cartrage error and I don't know what to do about it. I do not have access to a windows PC and would like to read some books. can anybody help me? I've gone t

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Kimberly thurman
If you get one that will fit, you can stick a regular flash drive into the NLS player where the cartridges go. Mine is a little short though, so I have to insert a butter knife under it and gently pry up when I want to get it out, because there isn't enough sticking out of the cartridge compart

RE: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread M. Taylor
It's interesting that this subject has recently come up as I received the advanced model of the NLS digital reader this past week and only a few days ago signed up for the download site. I used my Mac to download a book a few hours ago. Now, if only there was a convenient way to read NFB newsli

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Kimberly thurman
If you are an NLS patron, call and request a digital player. You can use your Mac to download the material which you can then transfer to a thumb drive to play in the digital player. The NLS players are not as small as the VRS or the Book Sense, but the NLS players do sound great without headp

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Kimberly thurman
The NLS players are pretty cool. They are about the size of a hard backed book, run for 35 hours on a single charge, and have a kick butt speaker on them. If you want to listen while you do things around the room, you can turn it up loud and it sounds great. You download the books to your com

RE: considering an iPad but have questions

2010-04-10 Thread Bryan Smart
Wow. Do you realize that you are spending more than 28% of your income on just different ways for you to access the Internet? I spend less than 20% of my income on my mortgage, and that is my largest liability. I have broadband at home, a good calling package+unlimited data on my phone, and wil

iTunes server and iPod touch

2010-04-10 Thread Chris G
Hi, I have a netgear nas with 3TB in it. The nas has the ability to be used as an iTunes server. All of my media is on the nas. When I go into iTunes on the Mac I can see the iTunes server and play the files on the server. Now heres the 64000 dollar question. Can I synk the media from the iTu

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
This is really odd. I am getting about 390 to 410 kb per sec on this end. I don't know why you others are getting slower readings. Anyway. yeah the nls downloads are slow. I do not know if it is the fact that a bunch of people are downloading stuff at the same time or if nls has restricted thei

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
sorry if this was already addressed. Yes the usb thumb / flash drives show up in the finder just like any usb thing generally would unless it is linked like the iphone or other device to a particular program. I do not know about the cartridges. But I am assuming so because basically all those ar

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
hmmm that is unusual. Maybe it was just an extremely high volume of people downloading from nls. Or maybe your connection at the time was odd. Hope it goes better next time. I can guarantee it isn't the mac. At least I am pretty sure it isn't. Unless network settings got goofed or something. Je

Getting encrypted DVD content

2010-04-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi guys, I usually use DVDRemaster for my DVDs, but sadly, it does not have the ability to extract encrypted content. Unfortunately, this DVD is encrypted. Metakine has software for taking care of this as well. Something called Fairmount. It seems as if you need to use VLC, which I did install.

Re: IPhone 4, and IAds

2010-04-10 Thread Marshall Scott
Hi Jes, Earlier this week, I expressed the same concerns. Since then, I've read enough to convince me that iAd won't interfere with apps running on the iPhone. I'm still concerned about security. I'm also concerned about the cost (to me) of these ads. I've expressed my concerns to accessibil

Re: using Adium - viewing respnses

2010-04-10 Thread phil stephenson
Hi Sarah, thanks for that, I did spot the Unknown field but didn't think to interact with it - maybe someone should tell the developers so they can look at fixing this in an update but thanks for the info anyway. cheers, Phil On 10 Apr 2010, at 19:57, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello. vo left to

Re: using Adium - viewing respnses

2010-04-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. vo left to the unknown and interact with it. it is actually an html view thingy but vo can't for some reason recognise it. Take care. On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:54 AM, phil stephenson wrote: > Hi, > > Prompted by recent discussion on using Adium to do Facebook chat I've > downloaded it and

using Adium - viewing respnses

2010-04-10 Thread phil stephenson
Hi, Prompted by recent discussion on using Adium to do Facebook chat I've downloaded it and run it. it asked me if I wanted to use Growl and I said yes. Logged in yesterday and it found my friends who were online with FB at the time. i started chatting to someone and they could see my message

Re: Sudo periodic daily maintenance tasks [was Re: 3 am]

2010-04-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Thanks for the widget. I jsut used it and hope it will make soem differents. Take care. S On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Esther wrote: > Hello Louie, > > You can run these from terminal at any time, either individually or all > together at once: > sudo periodic daily weekly monthly > You'll be

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
actually 've seen about 40 to 50 on my 1.1mbps connection and only on nls download site. Take care. S On Apr 10, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Carolyn wrote: > Gesica: > No, it seems I'm only getting a speed of 39 kb per second. The download for > a 13 hour book took 55 minutes or so. I have high speed

Sudo periodic daily maintenance tasks [was Re: 3 am]

2010-04-10 Thread Esther
Hello Louie, You can run these from terminal at any time, either individually or all together at once: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly You'll be prompted for your admin password at the first sudo command. You won't need to give it again unless it has been some time between your first a

exporting emails to a user using windows machine

2010-04-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. i luckelly kept 2 years of emails a person lost due to the hacking of there email account. How do I exzport these from apple mail to a form they canread I don't want to do rich text I want to export them to eml so she can open them. i hope she has somethign tht will open them. I believe s

Re: 3 am

2010-04-10 Thread Slau Halatyn
Do a search for Onyx. It's a free application that allows you to do tons of maintenance stuff like running scripts and customizing the system. HTH On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:11 PM, louie wrote: > Hi all, > I know that are scripts run at 3 AM every night on our Macs. These scripts > are maintenance

3 am

2010-04-10 Thread louie
Hi all, I know that are scripts run at 3 AM every night on our Macs. These scripts are maintenance scripts. Is there some way to run these scripts manually for those that do not leave our Macs on? louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
Do the adapters show up in the finder? I am wondering what the advantages of these books are if I have an iPad? I asume that the NLS players don't offer it's portability and easy access to materials? As I said, I considered a stream or something similar, but opted for the iPad instead for a nu

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Carolyn
Gesica: No, it seems I'm only getting a speed of 39 kb per second. The download for a 13 hour book took 55 minutes or so. I have high speed internet, and will be moving that book to an sd card for the VRS. But, that was an amazingly bad download time compared with my Dell (excuse the expressi

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
You could call you state/local library and see if you are a patron. If you are you can ask to have a digital advanced player sent to you. You can either use a thumb drive in the player that it will not fuss at. I hear the kingston datatravelers are good and have a 4 gig. cost me 14 dollars. Tha

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
Thanks so much! I thought about getting one of the specialized players, but opted for the iPad instead (good choice for me) Do the library players work with the mac? I have seen someone's player, but don't have one myself. I am pretty sure I have an NLS membership, but will check. Olivia On Apr

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
Hi. do you have the digital player from the library? Oops. are you a patron of nls? If you are you can get a digital player form the library. Or if you have a booksense or victor reader stream those will work too. But no it wouldn't work just on your mac alone. nlsbard.loc.gov is the web site u

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
How do you work with NLS books? I don't have a specialized player, just my mac and iPad, so I am assuming that I won't be able to use them, correct? Olivia On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:42 AM, ch...@q.com wrote: > Hi Mac Family: > I'm finally downloading my first ever NLS talking book into "downloads" o

Re: Used an iPad today

2010-04-10 Thread olivia norman
I completely agree! No other company has implemented accessibility in the same way that apple has, and I love the fact that I pay the same price for my products as everyone else does. I don't feel like my iPad is a rip off because of the added productivity it allows me. I love being able to ta

iTunes changing mp3 bitrate

2010-04-10 Thread Shen
Hello, For some strange reason, I cannot seem to change the mp3 bitrate for importing settings in iTunes. If I change it, VoiceOver will say the bitrate I had changed it to, but when I select OK, and go back, the change does not stick. Has anyone encountered this problem before? If so, how can this

virtualbox

2010-04-10 Thread chad baker
Hi is virtualbox accessible? I downloaded it and there is no installer. thanks -- 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

Re: Downloading nls books

2010-04-10 Thread Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
Hi Carolyn. Finally something I can help on or at least somewhat. I download nls books all the time. I have high speed here and it downloads at usually 396kb per second. It depends really on your internet speed. But generally I think nls bard also may have some kind of speed restriction as well.