Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I bought my iPhone, I bought a case with it and haven't had any of these signal loss problems. The signal loss problems can effect any cell phone if it's held wrong without a case from what I understand. So now we get to find out how many people decided not to buy proper cases. Sometimes

Re: A Question Regarding Menu Hotkeys

2010-07-24 Thread Kevin Shaw
If you have a Macbook with a multitouch trackpad, you can create a gesture that will take you right to the menubar. From there, it's first letter navigation which should be straight forward. Might be a little easier than VO-M. Mine is Shift-Swipe Down. Kevin -- You received this message becau

Re: sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Carolyn, Thanks. Truthfully, I was hoping not to have to deal with webkit at this particular juncture. I think for now I'll try the suggestion of just avoiding the homepage. But thanks for the tip, and I will get around to webkit some day. Cheers, Donna On Jul 24, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Carolyn

Re: A Question Regarding Menu Hotkeys

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
Not that I'm aware of. I have not been able to do that but I bet you can set it up under keyboard shortcuts in services but for every single ap? No! On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:43 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > When in an application such as Apple Mail, are there ways to jump directly to

Re: yet another mail question

2010-07-24 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
John, what you need to do is go to the accounts tab under preferences and change your server settings from there. If need be, I can assist you with thia off list over skype. On Jul 24, 2010, at 4:43 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: > Hi again. > > Mail set up my gmail account to be imap. However, I t

A Question Regarding Menu Hotkeys

2010-07-24 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, When in an application such as Apple Mail, are there ways to jump directly to a specific menu such as the File menu or the View menu? In Windows, for example, one can use the key combination ALT+F to activate the application's File menu. Thank you for any suggestions. Mark --

Re: Growl Helper App and Vo?

2010-07-24 Thread Eric Caron
Darcy or other list members, I looked for the setting to make Growl speak the notifications and could not find it in the preferences. Could someone direct me there? Also, is having Growl on really that helpful to anyone? I saw in the Applications tab that it is available for Dropbox a

importing contacts from nokia to iphone

2010-07-24 Thread William Windels
Hi all, I Should buy my first iphone (ios4) on friday july30 , when it's out in Belgium. Is here someone that has bought the newest iphone in the US? If so, are there some hardware-related bugs that apple should fix in a newer hardware-version of the newest Iphone? At the moment, I have a noki

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
I'm sure you will be happy with the switch, I now have 3 macs, and 0 PCs, and while I still need to run windows occasionally, the mac operating system is by far my primary OS On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: > Thanks everyone for your responses. I will check out those podcasts > e

Re: Vm fusion question regarding usb braille displays

2010-07-24 Thread Kevin Mattingly
I didn't have any issues with it. Did you make sure your drivers are up and running for windoes? I had my brailliant 80 working with Windows 7 and ubuntu linux. Kev On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Thierry Renoux wrote: > I've done that. I don't have VoiceOver running at the same time as the > vir

Re: sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread donna goodin
Thank you! I knew there was an easy fix, but since I hadn't planned to install ! upgrade, I didn't pay attention. :) Best, Donna - Original Message - From: Andy Lane To: MacVisionaries Date: Saturday, Jul 24, 2010 16:33:32 Subject: Re: sorry guys, audible again > > > An easier fix w

Re: Vm fusion question regarding usb braille displays

2010-07-24 Thread Thierry Renoux
I've done that. I don't have VoiceOver running at the same time as the virtual machine so I avoid too many keyboard conflicts and the VM runs faster without VoiceOver in the background anyway. I'm in fulscreen mode. When I plug the display in, Windows (7) gives me the error connect sound. Are

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
Uyeah I new you were talking about address book. Anyway hope I don't hve to result to my back up address book. and i I do at least I know it works. S On Jul 24, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > I should be more precise about this. You added the senders from mail by > selecting

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, I should be more precise about this. You added the senders from mail by selecting items in the message viewer. The address panel that gets displayed or hidden in mail with Command-Option-A, or by selecting the "Address Panel" option under the Window menu on the menu bar is an

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh! now you tell me after I spent about 15 minutes cleaning it out! lol! Joking! Well I'll tek a look at that but for now I cleaned it out and exported it in to a back up so I an just start over from scratch with a back up of the thing. Hey it's a plan that might fail but it's a plan. S S On

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, I don't think there's an undo action, but you might be able to find the entries you added by going into the View menu on the menu bar and choosing "Show Last Import". Don't know whether this would help. Cheers, Esther On Jul 24, 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: NOpe cmd z did nto wo

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
NOpe cmd z did nto work in this case. I tried that last time. Look slike I'm gong ot have to clean out my address book again! Growl! On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Rob wrote: > Shouldn't there be an Undo option in the edit menu? > > Sent from my iPod > > On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Rob
Shouldn't there be an Undo option in the edit menu? Sent from my iPod On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello all. I accidentally hit cmd shift y again to add senders to address > book except I once again I added over 100 of them. Is there a way of undoing > that action with

accidently adding senders to address book is there an undo?

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello all. I accidentally hit cmd shift y again to add senders to address book except I once again I added over 100 of them. Is there a way of undoing that action with out cleaning up my address book, again? Thanks a frustrated S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread Carolyn
Hi Donna: Well, lucky you! Download webkit for Mac oos6, and copy that download into your apps. Then go into safari preferences and check webkit as default browser. By a fluke, I managed to do this, which is why my instructions may seem a little vague. But the Apple trainer says webkit appea

Re: yet another mail question

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
I think you have to set those settings yourself but not intirely sure On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:43 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: > Hi again. > > Mail set up my gmail account to be imap. However, I think, as I've used it as > a pop3 account before, I'd like to change this accordingly. I fiddled around

yet another mail question

2010-07-24 Thread John D. Lipsey
Hi again. Mail set up my gmail account to be imap. However, I think, as I've used it as a pop3 account before, I'd like to change this accordingly. I fiddled around with preferences a bit, but still haven't seen a way to do this. Help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread Andy Lane
An easier fix would be just to visit audible.com/mylibrary and navigate the site from there. As long as you don't visit the homepage, there are no issues. Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > The other day, I accidentally upgraded to 10.64. I had not intended to do > this, given the problems everyo

deleting messages in mail

2010-07-24 Thread John D. Lipsey
Hello, I now have my MacBook. Am getting comfortable with it, but I'm confused about something in mail. I know how to interact with the table and delete one message at a time, but if I want to select and delete more than one message at a time, how do I accomplish this without selecting all me

Re: an archiver that will do 7z and other formats

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
WellI found one but it causts $15 which is fine but yeah it is called SArchiver. it compresses to zip, 7z, tar and more. I was hoping to find something that compresses to other formats that you did not have to drag and drop files on to for free but I guess I lose this battle. S On Jul 23, 2010,

Re: Vm fusion question regarding usb braille displays

2010-07-24 Thread Kevin Mattingly
You have to dedicate the braille display to the virtual machine. It doesn't share with the voice over on the Mac. it is a little painful but it will work. Kev On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Thierry Renoux wrote: > Hello, > > I can't connect my Brailliant 80 usb to the VM using Windows 7. It shows

Re: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Bryan Jones
I am having mixed results on my macbook running 10.6.4 with the latest webkit. The first podcast, named "Accessibility out of the box audio presentation" launched and ran OK in webkit after a short delay. The second podcast, names "VoiceOver voices audio samples" did not play directly in webkit.

Re: Another VO question

2010-07-24 Thread Keith Watson
Well like I said, I was experimenting with the keyboard help. The problem with that is that there are so many combinations of key sequences that it was getting a little frustraighting. VO shift hold your pinky this way your foot that way and hope you hit the correct combination. Sort of like the

Vm fusion question regarding usb braille displays

2010-07-24 Thread Thierry Renoux
Hello, I can't connect my Brailliant 80 usb to the VM using Windows 7. It shows as connected and yet nothing happens. Any idea? Thanks a bunch, Thierry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to m

RE: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Hmm, alright. So, looks like we have a caper on our hands. Why is this working for some of us and not for others? Interesting--Al ! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Fettgather Sent: Saturday, July 24, 201

Re: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Fettgather
I am also a bit surprised, I am running Snow Leopard with all software updates applied, and Vision Australia's MP3's don't play in Safari, Safari 5. Other sites, like BlindCoolTech play just fine. Thanks. On 7/24/2010 11:43 AM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Al, I just tried it on Safari and i

Re: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Al, I just tried it on Safari and it worked. I wonder if updating to the newest version of Snow Leopard helps. I updated to the latest version I think. I hope that helps. Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 24, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Hi Allis

accessible screen sharing software

2010-07-24 Thread chad baker
Hi is there any accessible screen sharing apps? Not sure if this has been covered. 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, sen

RE: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Hi Allison, Yep, tried Webkit as well as Safari. Let me know if they still work for you. Once I couldn't get those to work, went over to blindcooltech.com, and was able to play files there without any problems, shrug. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macv

A new mac accessory

2010-07-24 Thread .dan.
"This all sounds good. If you learn apple script you can get the same thing with out putting out any bucks." How so? How can script duplicate universal fine grained control and power of dos screen access? Even when directly controled by keystrokes vo can not do this so how does having a sc

Re: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Al, THis is probably a dumb solution, but have you tried it with Webkit? I can play them fine, or at least I used to be able to. I haven't tried it since Safari 5 came out. I will see if I can get these to play. Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 24, 2010, at

Re: sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread Kimberly thurman
Download and use Webkit from webkit.org. It works great! On Jul 24, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > The other day, I accidentally upgraded to 10.64. I had not intended to do > this, given the problems everyone seems to be having. I had unchecked it in > software update,

sorry guys, audible again

2010-07-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, The other day, I accidentally upgraded to 10.64. I had not intended to do this, given the problems everyone seems to be having. I had unchecked it in software update, but somehow it got re-checked, and I didn't know till it was too late. So, now Audible.com doesn't work. What was th

Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Many of you may already be aware of these, but Vision Australia has posted some very well done Vo Tutorial MP3s at: http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2296 Ironically, I can play these files with no problem whatsoever under Windows, but in Safari, when I click on any of the links, audio

Re: Another VO question

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
the last thing spoken to audio turns in to a mess of a zip file though. lol! it did come in use when I emailed apple with a vo issue. S On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:05 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > See you really do need to experiment with keyboard help. Press VO + SHIFT + > C that will copy to clipboard,

Re: Another VO question

2010-07-24 Thread Chris Moore
See you really do need to experiment with keyboard help. Press VO + SHIFT + C that will copy to clipboard, and if you do the same but press Z, that will copy last phrase to an audio file on your desktop. On 24 Jul 2010, at 14:49, Keith Watson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the keystrokes for labe

Re: Another VO question

2010-07-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
It is vo shift c. but you have to do it quickly or you might copy the wrong thing. Good luck. On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:49 AM, Keith Watson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the keystrokes for labeling things. I had heard that there was a > way to copy the last thing that VO said to the clipboard and th

Another VO question

2010-07-24 Thread Keith Watson
Hi, Thanks for the keystrokes for labeling things. I had heard that there was a way to copy the last thing that VO said to the clipboard and then paste that into a field somewhere. I have used the keyboard help to attempt to find that sequence. But have had no luck. Am I nuts or is there really

Re: Is numbers as good as excel?

2010-07-24 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Iwork is accessible with vo. Numbes is the best spreadsheet ap out there. Hth, Chantel. On Jul 24, 2010, at 5:37 AM, darren westlake wrote: > Hi all > >>> I'm a new member so be gentle >>> >>> I am wanting to buy a mac book pro. It seems ms office for macs is not >>> accessible with vo, doe

Re: IBraille

2010-07-24 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Mary, I quite agree, especially when louis supports more embossers and does all the basics very well. I primarily use it to destroy the hard work of some poor transcriber in CNIB by throwing brf files back to txt. I've got a 32 sell display and the brf's are formatted for a 40, so I dump th

Re: Labeling buttons in an app

2010-07-24 Thread Chris Moore
You press vo + / - if you ever get stuck then press VO + K for keyboard help, that is what I do if I forget a key stroke. Don't forget to press escape to exit keyboard help though. :) On 24 Jul 2010, at 12:06, Keith Watson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have run across an application that needs to h

Labeling buttons in an app

2010-07-24 Thread Keith Watson
Hi all, I have run across an application that needs to have some buttons labeled. I can get the help tag from the button using vo-shift-h ok. But cannot for the life of me remember how to label it. Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Summary of options for typing accented letters on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad (long) [was Re: iPod touch or iPhone iOS4& accented letters]

2010-07-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Rykiel
Dear Esther, I let you copy this message to the list if you think that's necessary. I finally found what my mistake was, thanks to a sighted person who was watching me typing. After double-clicking and holding your finger on the screen, it's not enough to wait for the blip sound before starting t

RE: vm fusion question

2010-07-24 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Joseph. When I also have Windows 7 running in VMFusion. When in Windows, I turn Voice Over off then it's out of the way and doesn't conflict. I'm in Microsoft Outlook now and the arrow keys work just fine. If I need to control the VM then I turn VoiceOver on to get to the Virtual Machine menu

Is numbers as good as excel?

2010-07-24 Thread darren westlake
Hi all >> I'm a new member so be gentle >> >> I am wanting to buy a mac book pro. It seems ms office for macs is not >> accessible with vo, does Iworks work with vo? anyone know if numbers is as >> functional as excel? My job role requires me to be able to use the analysis >> tool pack and wr