Re: podcasts

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
Mine is a table actually. just switch to list view, no it's the first view. I forgot what it was. sorry. On Jul 20, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Sarai, Hmm, what Sarah told you might work better than. How many podcasts do you have in Itunes? I have Sarah's podcast the Marrie

Re: quickly erasing individual markers in amadeus Pro

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'll have to play with that then. Thanks. On Jul 20, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Ray, Yup that's where it is, sorry about the markers menu before oops. Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

Re: podcasts

2010-07-21 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Just to clarify. If you switch to Grid View you will get the scroll area which shows all the podcasts you currently have, listing the number of episodes as you scroll through your list. TO bring up a list of podcast episodes for that particular podcast, simply VO-space on the button for

Re: USB drives in VM Fusion

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Snyder
Ah ha! I figured this out. So one thing that you might have to do in Fusion at least if you're running XP is to go to the add new hardware wizard in control panel and add your USB host controller. This will make the drives pop up quite nicely. Then you can deal with those obnoxious NTFS

Re: usb mixer and vm fusion

2010-07-21 Thread Scott Howell
You should be able to do so. I can easily go into the virtual machine menu and select the devices I wish to connect/disconnect. There are also options to do this from the main screen, but the menu just makes it a little easier getting back into the VM. On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:35 PM, joseph wrote:

MY MAC BOOK PRO WOES!

2010-07-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello all. I thought i'd share this with you all! Last evening, after reading all my mail and replying to some, I went to download my podcasts using itunes. I got a message saying that Itunes needed updating. I was promted to put in my pass word! I got a message saying that my password was

Re: MY MAC BOOK PRO WOES!

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Moore
Did you do the obvious things and try and repair permissions with disk utility? And a very common fault of entering incorrect passwords on the Mac is having the CAPS LOCK on. Passwords on the Mac are case sensitive, so if your password was created in lower case and you have the caps lock on

Re: MY MAC BOOK PRO WOES!

2010-07-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
My capslock was off, I did try and repair it with disk utility as that was the first thing we did! But all is fine and i just restore from my Time capsule. On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00 +0100, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Did you do the obvious things and try and repair permissions

Re: Excell on the mac?

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Shaw
You can use OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet function which will open and read Excel files with no hassles. As said before, try Numbers which comes with iwork. It will import XLS files as well. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: podcasts

2010-07-21 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Nic, I wonder if that is the problem. I didn't know that about grid view and the songs table. That is just what Itunes did for me. I learn something new every day. Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi,

RE: DVD ripper

2010-07-21 Thread Kliphton.A.M
I use it on windows, but I have friends who use it on macks, I will ask them what they do. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Snyder Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Accessible TV Tuner Software?

2010-07-21 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I have been looking for the same, but I have not found anything at all. What about contacting elgato to get them to know about our needs. Maybe they would make some accessibility improvements over time, the eyetv application is getting better and better. Best regards Annie. On Jul 21,

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, As someone said, when working in threaded view and you reply to a message, after you send the reply, you are left at the bottom of all of the unread messages. How is the easiest way to find your place again. In other words, when you are left at the bottom of all of the unread messages, how

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: When I switch to thread view, I can't read the contents of the messages. Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, As someone said, when working in threaded view and you reply to a message, after

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You've got it in one that is exactly what I was asking. How would I get back to my place again! On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:49 -0500, Robert Carter nc5rn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As someone said, when working in threaded view and you reply to a message, after you send the reply, you are left at

Re: converting music from M4a to mp3

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
If the tracks are already in iTunes you should be able to just change your Import Settings in iTunes Preferences to mp3 and then use Create MP3 Version from the Advanced menu. Of course you'd select all the tracks you want to convert before choosing that command. CB Donna Goodin wrote: Hi

Re: converting music from M4a to mp3

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Moore
Can you not wait until the end of September? There is something big coming.. can't say anymore On 21 Jul 2010, at 16:39, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, My husband and I want to be on the same cell provider, and for reasons related to reception, we'll probably go with his provider,

Re: converting music from M4a to mp3

2010-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, great! I was afraid it'd be a lot more complicated than that. :) thanks, Chris. Donna On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: If the tracks are already in iTunes you should be able to just change your Import Settings in iTunes Preferences to mp3 and then use Create MP3 Version

Re: Friendly Hello And Introduction

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Welcome aboard. It's been years (over 10) since I did work on ProTools so all my information is stale but I know lots of folks on this list use it and questions pop up here every so often. Hope you'll find the QA here useful and it sounds like you hold some secret sauce that ProTools users

Re: Question about webkit

2010-07-21 Thread Carolyn
Ricardo: I simply downloaded webkit and opened it. Then ran safarias normal. My apple trainer said WK appeared to be doing it's thing from what he could tell. And things appear to be working better. I did set the Safari preferences to default to webkit. HTH Carolyn - Original Message

Re: converting music from M4a to mp3

2010-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, good deal. thanks! Donna On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni wrote: Hi Donna, Most android phones iwll play M4A tracks. I just switched to an android phone and found this works just fine. Ronit On Jul 21, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, My husband

Re: vmware player files in fusion?

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
I move images between VMWare Player on Windows and Fusion on the Mac all the time so I don't see why it wouldn't work for other VMWare platforms. CB erik burggraaf wrote: Hi friends, Does any one know if it is possible to bring vmware player files .vmx into vmware fusion? I'd like to try

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Didn't see an answer to your first question. The Windows Skype Setup program isn't the whole program. It's an installer which then goes to the internet to download the rest. The Mac version doesn't need an installer since, as you found out, all you do is copy the single Skype application to

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly I do not think there is a way of sending the labels from my Voice Over, I had to get sighted assistance to label them. I did write to Skype asking them to consider labelling them in future and did get a nice email back. So let's hope this is included in future updates. I think the

filters in mail

2010-07-21 Thread John Lipsey
Hello, I'm new to the list, and am getting a mac tomorrow hopefully. It's in the mail on its way to my house as we speak. My first in a probable series of questions is about filters for mail. When I used outlook express on my windows laptop I had filters so my VIPhone and MacVisionaries mail

Re: using a hard drive for multiple back ups?

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
I didn't see any replies to this yet. I haven't used carbon copy cloner. Does it make it's backup into a single file? If so you could probably store that on the 1TB drive. That said, Time Machine's backup folder simply stores incremental backups until it fills up the volume and then starts

Re: loading websites in webkit

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Blouch
I didn't notice a reply for this. Are you saying 90-100 kilobits (little b) per second or kilobytes (big B) per second? kilobits would be pretty slow by today's standards. The site itself is really fat with about 1.6MB of data so even if you're running at 100KB/s it would take 16 seconds just

Re: filters in mail

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh yeah it's doable, getter then IE in my opinion. In fact I have a podcast on the mac and what you can do with it at http://marrie.podbean.com. Just look for the mac podcasts or the category of mac reviews and you can listen to all of them. One of them is about apple mail. Take care and have

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
In my case I'm left at the same spot I left off at so all I need to do is go up one. Take care. Maybe it's something I set and don't remember? S On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, As someone said, when working in threaded view and you reply to a message, after you send

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello you should be able to. if you are getting scroll; area then go to prefs with cmd ca-ma then go to view and set the headers to none. you can change them at will with cmd shift h from any message and have it effect only that one message. S On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
I just did a recording of me reading threaded view in mail. I could not reproduce the issue. Here it is. it should be live by now. lol! Basically what I do is open the thread 1 message at a time. That's how I avoid beeing stuck at the bottom.

Re: Accessible TV Tuner Software?

2010-07-21 Thread Doug Lawlor
Does this program only support analog cable boxes, or does it support digital cable as well? I haven't had any kind of cable tv in years. Doug Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-21, at 12:27 PM, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I have emailed them asking if they would consider adding

Re: Accessible TV Tuner Software?

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Moore
EyeTV supports digital and analog. On 21 Jul 2010, at 20:12, Doug Lawlor wrote: Does this program only support analog cable boxes, or does it support digital cable as well? I haven't had any kind of cable tv in years. Doug Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-21, at 12:27 PM, Chris Moore

Re: Accessible TV Tuner Software?

2010-07-21 Thread Doug Lawlor
Oh wow! so all you do with this program is connect your cable connection to your tv tuner device and you are ready to go? If that's the case that is so cool! Doug Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-21, at 5:34 PM, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: EyeTV supports digital and analog.

Time machine and NAS

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi guys and gals, I am interested in setting up a 2-bay NAS box for backup over a home network. Will time Machine see that drive as a suitable backup drive? Or, do I need something connected to USB or Firewire. Thanks, Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: filters in mail

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Shaw
From my experience, smart mailboxes keep the original message in your main mailbox, whereas rules will move the physical message. This is with a POP3 account. Your mileage may vary. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

applications folder

2010-07-21 Thread joseph
hi list members i hear people talking about the applications folder but can not locate mine. can anyone tell me where it is please? thank you in advance best -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Question about webkit

2010-07-21 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, The best idea really is to use the Webkit icon. That way, you are also sure that it is actually using the right engine, and that it is being updated. Retards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger:

RE: applications folder

2010-07-21 Thread Cameron
Hi. It's in your macintosh hd. if it's not displayed on the desktop, then go into finder preferences and select display hard disks. Command shift A will bring you to it. or you can choose it from the go menu. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: applications folder

2010-07-21 Thread Scott Howell
You also can press command-shift-a, which will immediately take you to the Applications folder. In addition, command-shift-h will take you to home, and command-shift-u (press right arrow after issuing command to expand), which takes you to the Utilities folder. There are a number of keyboard

introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello everyone, I am brand new to the list. I am looking at getting a new computer and have been thinking for a while about getting a mac. I am starting an M.Ed. at Vanderbilt University in Education of the Visually Impaired this fall and my biggest concern is being able to do my schoolwork on the

deleting widgets

2010-07-21 Thread May McDonald
How do you delete a widget from the dash board? I finally found out how to see which ones I have. -- 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

Re: filters in mail

2010-07-21 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah I still get a copy in my all mail folder as well as my rules filter folder that moves the message from my inbox to the folder. sorry if that did not make sence. I'm half asleep. lol! On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: From my experience, smart mailboxes keep the original

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-21 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Greg, There is a definite learning curve associated with moving from Windows to a Mac. there are some podcasts at www.blindcooltech.com, done by Mike Arrigo that may help you get a basic understanding of the Mac and voiceover. there are definitely accessible chat applications, and surfing

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-21 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Greg, I'm Allison and I'd like to welcome you to the Mac Visionaries list. I just switched after being a Windows and Window-Eyes user in April. THe learning curve is not too bad. THe Mac comes with the usual setup rocedure. You can enact VoiceOver by pressing command F5 during setup. THis

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Shaw
HI there, For someone who has just finished a Master's degree, I can honestly say that a Mac was well worth the money and investment. I just wrote my 31-page Master's thesis in Pages and had few issues with creating a table of contents, pagination and document markup. iWork and OpenOffice.org

Re: IBraille

2010-07-21 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Mary, I've never heard of I Braille. Is it a printer or Braille software? I'm still looking for a Bluetooth adapter to enable the BrailleNote to print to the Juliet. Yes, the Juliet, it's old I know. But I din't use it all that much only when I need to update my setlist. I won't take the

Re: IBraille

2010-07-21 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Allison, IBraille is the braille translation program for Index embossers that works on Macs. Its the mac equivalent to their WinBraille, if you've heard of that. It came out when tiger was out and has not been updated since so far as I can tell. Looks like they put out the product and just