Hello Erik,
CeciMac Braille provides only grade one Braille in a great many other languages
than English. You select your language in the Braille category of the VoiceOver
Utility.
My husband, Archie, provides this facility because Apple does not, and many
languages have symbols, such as
Hi is there any alternative virtual machine software besides fusion?
I'm finding it real sluggish.
I wish virtualbox was accessible.
I want to try bootcamp but i don't have anyone sighted around.
Is there a work around or no?
thanks
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Hi Simon,
You can purchase a DRM-free, ePub version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard:
The Missing Manual by David Pogue from O'Reilly's eBooks. They sell
their eBooks in multi-format bundles that include PDF files that you
can read in Preview and ePub versions that you can add to your iTunes
I am having problems watching youtube and other videos on the web. Is there
some trouble shooting I should do here? I am running the newest version of
safari.
When I click on the links to watch, nothing happens. I go to the video element
controls, and click play, and nothing happens. Thanks for
Windows machine is windows vista or windows 7. Then go into start menu, all
programs, accessories then scroll down till you find command prompt. Right
click on the command prompt option, and then from the menu, select run as
administrator.
Then try running the command chkdsk /f on your problem
Thanks anne,
I thought this was up and running already and it was something I had missed or
done wrong. It happens often enough. :)
Well I and I'm sure many others have been bugging apple accessibility for grade
two input and I'll find a use for this language pack one way or the other.
i tried parallel desktop. it is not accessible but if you get sighted
help to set it up once, it should not give you any problem.
hth.
Sarah Alawami wrote:
Yu can try vertual box but you use the command line. I'm not an export in the
terminal at all so can't even give you 1 iota of helpful
Ype I got it works. I run everything as admin anyway and it works now. thanks.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Windows machine is windows vista or windows 7. Then go into start menu, all
programs, accessories then scroll down till you find command prompt. Right
click on the
Hi all!
I'm trying to select more than one track from an album to move to a playlist!
The vo commands menu says vo+cmd+space for multi selection on or off!
But this does not seem to do that!
Also am I correct that you can not pick tracks 1,4,7,11,16.
But have to pick 4,5,6,7,8.
Any help welcome!!
Hello everyone,
I get to drop box by opening the mac hd then going down to my user
opening the folder then going to drop box and opening that as well. I then
see my public, and any files and folders that I have created. I am not sure
this is what you all are trying to do, however I
Hello there,
Nike+ works with any treadmill, in fact you don't even need a treadmill as you
can use it outside too. Nike+ software is on your iPhone or iPod Nano, you
purchase some Nike+ ready trainers and a Nike+ sensor into the left trainer
under the inner sole. As an alternative (and much
Hi Michael,
I am not sure how far away the iPhone can be from the sensor in the
sneaker/trainer. My iPhone sits in a docking area on my treadmill, I do not
keep it in my pocket. Nike+ ready footwear has a small pouch located under the
inner sole of the left trainer/sneaker. You lift the
Hi everyone,
Someone recently posted a question about erasing data on a used macbook. Even
though mine is new I got to thinking. Can I rename my Macbook? I read lots of
forums and know I can easily create a new user account as an administrator
under system prefs under accounts. If I change
The Computer name is independent from the administrator User Name. The
computer name really only applies to what the machine will be known as on a
network. The home folder is usually named by default as the user name (If I'm
wrong on this I stand corrected). But yeah the computer name only
Hi all,
I have a way to get the information from dropbox. You can not get a menu from
the dropbox application.
What you can do is go to your dropbox folder and do a VO + shift + m.
This will give you a menu. One of the choices is dropbox there is a submenu.
Check it out.
louie
Hi,
Yes, but can you get information such as current uploads and their rates?
That's what I'm mostly interested in. That's what we're missing for the most
part, I think. That's what shows on the status as well, which we currently
cannot get to I believe.
Regards,
Nid
Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com
Greetings all,
I tend to learn better from poking around and RTFMing rather than podcasts.
I'm into Chapter 3 of the VoiceOver getting started guide (URL:
http://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/ ) and am sure I'm making things
much more complecated and am not interpreting the text
Hi.
When I started this thread, I wasn't thinking of the key click feature.
Actually, I would never use it. However, in order to help the accessibility
people at Apple, would it be fair to say that the key clicks you envisage would
sound like the ones that the Mac gives us when we enter
If you want the fastest windows experience, boot camp is the way to go, since
all of the processor and memory resources are devoted to windows when using it.
VMware fusion currently is the only accessible virtualization package for the
mac, if you give us more details, we might be able to
You can rename the computer itself in the sharing part os system preferences. I
think you can change the name that is displayed, but to actually change the
name of the account, you would need to create a new one, which may be more
trouble than it's worth.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Allison
Ok let's make it simpler Just do vo shift d to get to he finder then hit cmd
shift h to get to your home directory. Forget entirely about the sidebar. There
are keystrokes for changing view in the finder andi usually go cmd 2 on the
numbers ro for list mode.
to get to your computer from wiht
How useable is SL server? I thought it was next to not accessible.
Is this not correct.
simon
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I have compared Parallels and Fusion and have found the latter to be way
faster. I think there must be an issue with his config because mine was very
fast even with its default Ram allocation of 512.
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On 14/08/2010, at 21:11, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote:
If you
Uh, well that's a bit verbose. Here's my version. It's a bit wordy too, but
contains more actual information.
Two ways to get to finder, which as you have observed is always open.
One, hold down the commend key and press tab until you hear finder,
or two, Press control Option D to get to the
I can successfully connect my FOcus 40 BLue via USB however I do not
get any mirroring. It happened once and then never again so the
problem is very duplicatable. I can enter Braille from the keyboard
and use the various buttons, wheels, and rocker bars on the Focus. Has
anyone experienced this
How about no sound at all. Surely you will know when your pressing the keys.
THe sound would become distracting and the entire point is silence not noise.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
No! no! no! that might confused the heck out of me. I would not want it
sounding like
Greetings,
Thanks to Sarah and Erik I'm more comfortable with the finder so I copied
the SKYPE disk image file from downloads to applications and can now open it
from there. I gather these dmg files are executable and there's no
installation process necessary after downloading?
Why was cut
Wo! no no no! don't do that!
1. open the dmg from the downloads folder. another finder window will open.
2. press cmd 2 to get to list mode.
3. copy the skype.app.
4. press cmd shift a to get to applications and paste. Now eject the dmg from
the computer place by
1. going to the computer
Actually in my case some letters don't press if I don't' press hard enough so
in my case I leave keyboard echo on so I know if I mistyped something cause I
though the letter pressed.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
How about no sound at all. Surely you will know when your
OK What I can get the % space left in my dropbox and the % space in each file
in my dropbox.
Thats good for me.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
but you cannot see the files modified, the files status and such.
Take care.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, louie wrote:
Hi Geoff,
DMG viles are disk image files. As Sarah said, you copy the appropriate .app
file out of the .dmg file and paste into your applications folder.
Cut is considered destructive and mac OS won't let you do it to files. This is
one of the few irritating things about the mac operating
Mike are the volume levels the same? I have reverted back to 3.0.0 because the
audio level when even installing from scratch is 30 to 40% lower than the
volume under 3.0.0. In fact under Fusion 3.0.0, the audio levels were equal. I
am now in discussions with VmWare Support and hopefully they
Perhaps so, but I would certainly hope if this were a feature, it also included
a silent option.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Actually in my case some letters don't press if I don't' press hard enough so
in my case I leave keyboard echo on so I know if I mistyped
Another way depending on where you dock is is to go into dock, find
the running application. Arrow right, then VO arrow down to force
quit sometimes that works when the apple menu one doesn't.
On Aug 7, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi Linda,
Try force quitting the app. You
Hi,
Let's make one point clear here, in case no one has done it yet.
It is not necessary to use List mode Command-2. It depends entirely which view
you are comfortable with. For example, I use Icon a lot, which is Command-1,
but mostly Column view which is Command-3. There are of course
Actually I can cut files no problems but 'm not telling how! Mew Hahahahah! I'm
kidding. there is a workflow at http://icanworkthisthing.com that aloows
cutting of files and it works great.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:26 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi Geoff,
DMG viles are disk image files. As
actually list mode should be named table mode as you can view and sort like a
table. Ok that didn't make sence. I've used all 3 and for me to righ taway do
something wiht out interactin is nice.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
Hi,
Let's make one point clear here, in
Oh yeah I'm sure it would. Make it a toggle and we can have the best of both
worlds.
Take care all.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Perhaps so, but I would certainly hope if this were a feature, it also
included a silent option.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Sarah
Hum, I have this script installed. Had forgotten about it actually, mostly
because it doesn't work here. When I press the keyboard command I set up to
move, it asks whether I want to move a folder or a file.
I Choose folder and it asks which folder I want to move.
I navigate to that folder
Not me works just fine here with no issues. for now anyways. lol!
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:38 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hum, I have this script installed. Had forgotten about it actually, mostly
because it doesn't work here. When I press the keyboard command I set up to
move, it asks
Hi Mike i'm running a trial of vm fusion using xp pro.
I have 2 gb of ram and using 512 mb in the vm.
I would love to use boot camp but i'm in a hard position no sighted help
around.
thanks
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Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the instructions. I moved skype.app to the applications folder.
I then went into the computer list and located skype.dmg in my downloads
folder. In the file menu eject (command+e) is dimmed, though move to trash
is available. Is that what I want?
Geoff
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Ok when i tab I get to, subject, customize header but when I vo right I get to,
customize header subject. Huh? How do I make these both the same. is it
something i did with out knowing it?
S and this is the mail client btw.
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You can move it to trash but you skipped a step after you move the skype.app to
the apps folder hit cmd shift c and hit command e on the skype icon there.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the instructions. I moved skype.app to the applications folder. I
Hi Sarah:
I believe you can determine which headings appear in your mail fields by the
view menu. If not there, check in preferences while in Mail.
HTH
Carolyn
On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Ok when i tab I get to, subject, customize header but when I vo right I get
to,
Hi, I'm looking for a video player that will let me creat playlists or
add multiple video files to play at once. When I had a PC, I used
Wimamp and I was wondering if there is something out there that's like
that and can play multiple video files and is accessable. Thank you
for the help.
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Hi, what about vlc from http://www.videolan.org.
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On 2010-08-14, at 8:35 PM, Selena Sang wrote:
Hi, I'm
I thought of that one too, but don't know if it's accessible with VoiceOver.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 7:59 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, what about vlc from http://www.videolan.org.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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Oh it is, except for a few quirks it is fully usable.
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Pete Nalda wrote:
I thought of that one too, but don't know if it's accessible with VoiceOver.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 7:59 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, what about vlc from http://www.videolan.org.
Best,
Hi
I am at a friend's house and he has a bellkin router. My macbook pro refuses to
connect to the bellkin router. It is connected to someone else's linksys router
which is an open network. Can anyone tell me what settings I have to change in
the router to make my macbook pro like it and
Is his ssid set to broadcast cause if it is not you might have to type it in
manually
S
On Aug 14, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
Hi
I am at a friend's house and he has a bellkin router. My macbook pro refuses
to connect to the bellkin router. It is connected to someone else's
Hi Geoff:
Look instead for move to trash in the menu.
You're doing great!!
Carolyn
On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Greetings,
Thanks to Sarah and Erik I'm more comfortable with the finder so I copied the
SKYPE disk image file from downloads to applications and can now
Mine does g as I have a linksys that only does g. Our router is about 5 years
old. lol!
On Aug 14, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Perhaps the router only support 802.11n devices and your 11g mac is
not able to connect to it?
Just a hunch; I haven't really kept ontop of the apple
VLC is pretty good. Not everything is labeled but most of the unlabeled stuff
has tags so you can hear the help tags and label them.
GF
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Hi, I'm looking for a video player that will let me creat playlists or
add multiple video files to play at
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