Re: A time machine question

2010-04-22 Thread louie
There are two status bars. One press of VO + m will get you to the first one. Press VO + m again to get to the next status bar. On this status bar is where you will find the time machine drop down menu. On Apr 22, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: The only problem is, I can never figur

Re: A time machine question

2010-04-22 Thread Courtney Curran
The only problem is, I can never figure out exactly how to get to the status bar. I've been using a Mack for a little more than a month, just so you know. Thanks On 22/04/2010, at 11:11 in the Afternoon, louie wrote: > Why yes you can. In the time machine preferences turn back up off. Check the

Re: A time machine question

2010-04-22 Thread louie
Why yes you can. In the time machine preferences turn back up off. Check the show time machine on the status bar. Now when you go to the time machine menu on the status bar you will find a item called back up now. A click of this item will do a back up. On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Courtney

Re: A mobile Me question

2010-04-22 Thread olivia norman
I got mine from apple for $69 because I purchased it with my iMac. I think it's $99/year after that, but is well worth it! I love my mobile me! Olivia On Apr 22, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Dyer matthew wrote: > No your rite. You can get it from different dealers I guess. I think that > is what I am und

A time machine question

2010-04-22 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I was wondering if I can back stuff up with time machine manually instead of the scheduled backups? If so, how can this be done? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@go

Re: accessible rss readers

2010-04-22 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Mail works with RSS feeds. On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:14 PM, chad baker wrote: > Hi what's a good accessible rss news reader? > I'm knew to the mac not sure what's out there that's works good with voice > over. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "M

Keyboard Shortcuts for Manipulating Windows

2010-04-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, I can successfully zoom and minimize windows with the keyboard. Once they're minimized, I go to the menu bar and choose the "diamond" option to bring the window back to its standard size. Is there a way to do this a keyboard shortcut? Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because yo

iphone tap interval question

2010-04-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
On the iphone 3gs is there a way to lengthen the tap interval on the phone so that a user has a little more time to do a double tap or tripple tap? If this doesn't yet exist, including a feature like this would enable people with cerebral palsy to use this model of phone better. -- You receiv

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
thanks Pete I will keep an eye on it to see what happens in the coming days. As I said, I suspect I just didn't click a button, or close a window or something daft. Cheers Dónal On 22 Apr 2010, at 22:53, Pete Nalda wrote: > Well for what it's worth, I also run a macbook pro, sometimes using V

RE: A mobile Me question

2010-04-22 Thread Dyer matthew
No your rite. You can get it from different dealers I guess. I think that is what I am understanding it anyhow. Matthew Contact info. MSN/ e-mail: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com aim: mattdy1 yahoo: md1...@yahoo.com skype contact graduater2004 podcast site: http://www.bavis.co.uk/p

RE: A mobile Me question

2010-04-22 Thread Dyer matthew
Its $99 a year. It is very good. I use it to keep my mac and pc syncrinized as well as my ipod tuch when and if I get one. Matthew Contact info. MSN/ e-mail: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com aim: mattdy1 yahoo: md1...@yahoo.com skype contact graduater2004 podcast site: http://www.bav

hurry up macbook pro!

2010-04-22 Thread Josh
Hi Ok I wish voc rehab would hurry up and could somehow magically get my 13 inch macbook pro to me tomorrow! I want to play with the mac too and feel like I'm missing out on all the mac, tech, fun fun fun! Josh Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net -- You received th

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Pete Nalda
Well for what it's worth, I also run a macbook pro, sometimes using VO, mostly just using Zoom, but I've never seen the reserve power dialog come up on mine when plugged in. On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > this was the truly weird thing. Cables were all connected perfec

Re: Help with audacity

2010-04-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
what I don't understand is why also wont' it export to ogg as well when that opeionos clearly there? Hmm odd. On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: > Sarah et al, I am a little busy the next day or so but I should have > some free time on Saturday and I promise I will record a quickie

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
this was the truly weird thing. Cables were all connected perfectly. Ah it's not important at all I was just curious to find out if anyone else had seen this. On 22 Apr 2010, at 22:36, Pete Nalda wrote: > It almost sounds like you weren't plugged into an outlet on the other end. > It's the

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Esther this is exactly the way I have been giving Keynote presentations. Skim has been a lifesaver. This was never more true than at CSUN a few weeks ago when one of my Ph.D. students had a presentation on a laptop that wouldn't work with their portable projector. So we simply exported as P

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Pete Nalda
It almost sounds like you weren't plugged into an outlet on the other end. It's the only thing I can think of. On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > HI all, > > Just encountered something rather strange. My macbook pro was running on AC > current however VO kept telling me

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Esther
Hi Dónal, In Keynote there is an Export option under the File Menu that will let you save your presentations as PDF files, among the other formats. If you use this mode, you can give your presentations the same way you do for the PDF files generated from LaTeX, I think. This is especially

RE: Help with audacity

2010-04-22 Thread Frank Ventura
Sarah et al, I am a little busy the next day or so but I should have some free time on Saturday and I promise I will record a quickie demonstration about geting audacity to export in .Mp3. Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.co

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread olivia norman
Keynote works very well. I did actually complete my part with out ruining everyone else's :) It's great that I can use keynote and save the file as a .ppt, which means that everyone else using windows machines in my group can open and read the file. Olivia "Innovation distinguishes between a le

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Yep battery was charging (actually charged). Never thought of the system dialog though, good tip. I rebooted to get rid of it, but I was just curious. On 22 Apr 2010, at 22:17, marie Howarth wrote: > what did it say in your status bar? if it says it was charging try hitting > VO-F1 twice quick

Re: a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread marie Howarth
what did it say in your status bar? if it says it was charging try hitting VO-F1 twice quickly to pull up your app chooser and see if your system dialogue is open. If it is and the window is there, hit CMD-w to close it. To check battery hit VO-M twice to pull up status bar and find battery, it

a rather odd bug (maybe)

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
HI all, Just encountered something rather strange. My macbook pro was running on AC current however VO kept telling me that I was running on reserve battery power. Now the only thing I can assume is that at some point (obviously prior to plugging in) I had been running on reserve power and had

Re: accessible rss readers

2010-04-22 Thread James & Nash
There is also an app called Vienna. You can get it from: http://www.opensourcemac.org TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 22 Apr 2010, at 21:34, William Windels wrote: > Hi Chad, > I use netnewswire for rss reading. > It's perhaps not perfect accessible but, after some configurations, I find it >

Re: accessible rss readers

2010-04-22 Thread marie Howarth
I thought it had been discontinued, net news wire, I know the feeds had been trangressed but anyway. I use mail for all of my RSS feeds, works great for me at least. Others may have other suggestions. On 22 Apr 2010, at 21:34, William Windels wrote: > Hi Chad, > I use netnewswire for rss readin

Re: accessible rss readers

2010-04-22 Thread William Windels
Hi Chad, I use netnewswire for rss reading. It's perhaps not perfect accessible but, after some configurations, I find it comfortable. It's also free. Alternatively, the mail program has also rss-functionality but I have no experiences with that and I think it has not that much possibilities. I

Re: Can a mini be connected to a TV and work with VoiceOver?

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Blouch
VGA is an analog signal so it will lose something in translation. Depending on the model of mini there should be a DVI and/or display-port video connection. So you just need a cable that has DVI on one end and HDMI oon the other. I didn't try it with a mini but the a MacBook Pro there is a DVI

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Scott Howell
You got to be kidding. Well now I am going to play with Keynote and such. I am also taking courses where Powerpoint is used, but I tend to trade tasks with team mates because I can't touch a Powerpoint file without trashing it. So, I am glad to hear this as well. I am not quite sure what to ask,

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Yep preparing presentations with Keynote is not bad at all. I haven't quite figured out how to navigate each individual slide when full-screen mode is enabled. Vo reads the entire contents of each slide, (which is ok) but if, for example, I want to navigate to a specific bullet point on a slid

accessible rss readers

2010-04-22 Thread chad baker
Hi what's a good accessible rss news reader? I'm knew to the mac not sure what's out there that's works good with voice over. -- 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: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Olivia Norman
Keynote works really well for me. I just finished creating my portion of a powerpoint presentation for a group project using it. If you'd like some pointers with numbers, email me and I can try to help. :) Olivia "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs On Apr 22, 2

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Scott Howell
Olivia, That is really incredible your using Numbers for a statistics course. I am very impressed and I really need to find more time to work with Numbers and Pages myself. I wish I had more hours in a day, but I am going to try working with Keynote to modify an existing powerpoint file someone

Re: Can a mini be connected to a TV and work with VoiceOver?

2010-04-22 Thread Brett Campbell
As I stated earlier, I'm a novice when it comes to cables. My early research shows that one can purchase a mini DVI to HDMI cable. For the sighted people in the household, the HDMI is supposed to provide better picture quality over the VGA connection. Rumors state that future Macs will move t

Re: HTML5 and youtube

2010-04-22 Thread Christina
How do you change your u-tube viewing to html five? Do you have to sign in and change some settings? I often follow links to videos that take me to utube. I do not want to have to log into u-tube every time I need to listen to a video though. Thanks for any info. On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:15 PM,

Re: Are Hp Photosmart printer/copier/scanners with Touch screens a no go?

2010-04-22 Thread Christina
Hi I have a lexmark all in one and I believe it has all kinds of buttons on the printer to use the copy or scan functions. However, I can open the utility application on my mac and do not need to use all of the buttons on the actual printer. I just added the utility to my doc and I open it whe

SV: RE: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Fact is, though, that even if you have it in Cocoa, no one said it would show everything you need like JAWS does. JAWS is scripted to the core, VoiceOver is not. For me, Numberrs and Tables have been working great. VoiceOver might lag a bit sometimes, but that's barable. I still get the inf

figured out how to assign your own sounds to keys in garageband

2010-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I have heard people asking if it was possible to trigger your own audio files with a midi keyboard, or via musical typing. Well yes, it is possible. The problem is you will need a bit of sighted assistance to set it up. Step 1: If you don't already have one, create a software instrume

newsgroup issues

2010-04-22 Thread william lomas
hi has anyone had problems getting unison to connect to newsgroups william lomas follow me on twitter: billbow_baggins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@goog

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread olivia norman
I am able to use numbers to enter data, do functions like sums, and read spreadsheets. I don't really know much about excel and jaws, but I'm not willing to pay the $1000 to get jaws, when numbers works well. I use it for my personal budgett, as well as a statistics class I'm taking this semes

Re: itunes

2010-04-22 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, If you have a Mac, we'd be happy to answer your questions here I'm sure. If you are using Windows, however, feel free to message me privately. I do not use Windows myself, but I always have a virtual machine ready for such occasions as these. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: K

itunes

2010-04-22 Thread denise avant
Hello, Is there an itunes list? I'm having some trouble and needed to ask questions. 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 gro

Will someone be demoing the Mac at Sight City in Frankfurt

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, Next week, Sight City will be held in Frankfurt, Germany from April 28-30. Since I will be there, I was hoping to see what kind of presence the Apple folk have in the European arena. Does anyone know if any of the adaptive tech companies will be demoing Apple products with V

Free (today only) Accessible Lonely Planet Travel Guide apps for 13 cities for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad

2010-04-22 Thread Esther
Hi all, Lonely Planet is making their travel guide apps for 13 cities free for download at the iTunes App Store through today (April 22, 2010). This is meant for all the travelers who have been stranded in cities due to flight restrictions on air traffic as a consequence of the volcanic

Re: Can a mini be connected to a TV and work with VoiceOver?

2010-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
I'm a bit confused, I could be wrong but, to my knowledge, Macs don't even support HDMI. On a mac mini, all you need is a VGA connector. On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: > Thanks Wes and Charlie. Forgive my ignorance, obviously I require a HDMI > cable, how do I connect it

Survey for Abisee readers for the Mac

2010-04-22 Thread Jess
Thought this would interest some of you. Abisee makes the IPal and IPal solo products. This was forwarded to me on another list I am on. Please take our survey. We want to know what you think of ABiSee (www.abisee.com) instant reading solutions for the Mac. As the leading worldwide developer

RE: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread Joe Plummer
Yes, could not agree more. Memory and processer is a factor in running VM. If you have a low end Mac that does not have but 1 or 2 gb of memory I suggest using Boot camp. This does away with the memory problem and processer problem. Just some thoughts. Sign, JP ( Joe Plummer) joeplum...@tds.net

Re: Can a mini be connected to a TV and work with VoiceOver?

2010-04-22 Thread Courtney Curran
I use mine without a screen and it works okay. I do this so I can sit on my bed and go on the computer. On 21/04/2010, at 10:38 in the Afternoon, Wes wrote: > Yes.that's how I do it now. HTH > > On 4/21/2010 7:36 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: >> Is it possible to connect a Mac mini to a HD TV,

RE: the apple user?

2010-04-22 Thread peter Apgar
I would have to agree. Mac's spread sheath software doesn't hold a candle to excel. I have problems similar to ones previously listed in this thread with searches.As for formulas I have had issues with complex reference formulas. I will also note that many of my problems with the Mac are a r