Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Or you can try the 2 programs I use to read and right to ntfs. it is very fast. I coppied about 8 gigs in about 1 hour. Take care. S On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Andy Baracco wrote: This may be because out of the box, those drives are formatted for Windows. You may need to reformat the

Re: Have an Idea

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Daniel, I feel that Apple can spend its time more efficiently on other things than discussing with us. Sorting through our mail to accessibil...@apple.com is a job on its own I believe, given the large group of folks using accessibility features from Apple, and commenting on them. Filtering

Re: Have an Idea

2010-09-20 Thread Scott Howell
So, what is your point. IF they already participate, you can bet they are already filtering and extracting the useful bits of info. The current way Apple is handling things works well. On Sep 19, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: That's a good idea but we discuss so many things they would

RE: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Simon Fogarty
Jim, I would suggest that you re format the drive before using it on your mac. Try formatting it as a fat 32 or if you only use it on a mac, a mac file structure. I'm assuming that you have a drive formatted as an ntfs file structure. Macs osx will read from ntfs but don't write to them.

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Scott Howell
You could reformat the drive as another option. On Sep 19, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello download ntfs3g and macfuse. You cannot copy and past using ntfs at all unless you get these 2 *free* programs. Take care. S -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: playing videos in facebook

2010-09-20 Thread Colin M
Hi Israel! If you have not already red the other post's the short cuts work on the m.facebook site! All the best! :-] Colin On 19 Sep 2010, at 23:38, Israel wrote: Colin, I tried the list of FB shortcuts you posted and the only one which works consistently is control+2 which takes me from

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Jim Fettgather
On 9/20/2010 4:38 AM, Scott Howell wrote: You could reformat the drive as another option. On Sep 19, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello download ntfs3g and macfuse. You cannot copy and past using ntfs at all unless you get these 2 *free* programs. Take care. S I

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You could have used Terminal to enable native read/write support, but glad you got it working either way. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Villa
I have 3 of those drives in different sizes. They come with software for the Mac and the pc that should be installed. I really like how small and light they are. -- From: Jim Fettgather jimfettgat...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Justin Thornton
sarah I installed macfuse. just fine but am having some trouble figuring out how to grab ntfs-3g and installing it for osx 10.6 could I have some instructions please thanks On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Jim Fettgather wrote: On 9/20/2010 4:38 AM, Scott Howell wrote: You could reformat the drive

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Justin Thornton
ok then this way you can read and right to an ntfs drive or volume then how can I do this in terminal thanks On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! You could have used Terminal to enable native read/write support, but glad you got it working either way. Regards, Nic

bootcamp in Fusion

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi guys, First of all, I want to thank those of you who have responded to my previous posts. I know we're not supposed to send posts for that purpose, so I thought I'd include it here. Now to my question. I am wondering if there is a way to get Fusion to use my bootcamp partition as the virtual

Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
A friend has started developing a website with a good bit of user interaction, and is using the jQuery UI to create Combo boxes and other folrm fields. Are there any elements he should avoid to ensure maximum accessablility? X Thanks, Jon using -- You received this message because you are

iDisk not in sync? Need help please.

2010-09-20 Thread Ms . Jenny Kennedy
Hi guys,mobileme In July I broke down and got a mobileme account. It works good save for one thing. I've uploaded some files to it and they don't show up on the iDisk app on my iPhone. When I open the idisk on my MacBook it says I've used 2 GB worth of space and then it says iDisk not in

RE: Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Erik Heil
Hello. As far as accessible interfaces are concerned you may want to do some testing with bo. Does j query expose any ellements through aria? Also what is the current status of webkit aria support? Remember that their is an abstraction layer used in order to generate the ui. So vo would need

Re: Iphone speaker phone

2010-09-20 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Christy -- I'm assuming you have an iphone 4 and are experiencing the well-known proximity sensor issue. If your phone is a 3GS I don't know if the following information will help. We've had an ongoing discussion about this issue on the viphone list. For some folks the 4.1 update seems to

Last.fm

2010-09-20 Thread Daniel Rowe
Hi all. Have any of you had any luck getting the last.fm scrobbler to work with VO, or are there any 3rd party applications that are more accessible? The iPhone app is completely accessible bar some unlabelled buttons, so it's a shame to find that the Mac version is completely unusable. All

creating an outline from a ppt presentation in keynote

2010-09-20 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there is a way to generate a text outline from a power point presentation using keynote. I loved this feature in microsoft office so I can type notes on the actual slides. It also helps since my prof sends ridiculously long presentations and navigating through 80+

Re: Iphone speaker phone

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
For me I've tried all 3 and it does not work. I don't feel comfortable taking off of my case as I will sweat and maybe drop the phone. I really hope apple gets this resolved but for now I use my headset. lol! On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Bryan Jones wrote: Hi Christy -- I'm assuming you have

Re: bootcamp in Fusion

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. just open up vmware fussionand hit enter on the bootcamp partition. It will find it and ask you for your password. Good luck. S On Sep 20, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Chris Snyder wrote: Hi guys, First of all, I want to thank those of you who have responded to my previous posts. I know we're

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
I just download ntfs 3g and installed it. I forgot where though as I think I cleared my history. but I do have the dmg file. It might be out of date but you can update it in your ystem prefs. Good luck. On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Justin Thornton wrote: sarah I installed macfuse. just fine

Re: Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Blouch
jQueryUI has pretty good accessibility and will be much improved in the 1.9 version. The 5.x series of Safari browsers seems to be doing a better job with ARIA making navigation of web widgets work better. Here is an example which came out of the AEGIS project to improve accessibility of

Re: iDisk not in sync? Need help please.

2010-09-20 Thread Brett Campbell
Hello Jenny, I think I have an answer for you. Go to Mobile Me in your system preferences. Select the sync tab, and look for advanced, and select it. You will see a list of your computers syncing with Mobile Me, and a place to select a percentage of data change to be alerted to. Following

Re: Sendero look around app is now available

2010-09-20 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I've tried the Sendero product, and it keeps saying that the compass is being interfered with. I have to move away or shake the phone in the figure eight. I don't care for shaking the iphone. I'd really like to know how Navagon handles things. I'm loath to buy it as I don't know if it'll

VoiceOver speaking rate in iPad

2010-09-20 Thread mani
Hello: On the iPad I am trying to lower the VoiceOver speaking rate and am unable to do it. Here is what I do, after navigating over to the VO settings: a) Double tap and hold on the slider to initiate the standard VO gesture b) After some tones, I slide left along the slider to lower it. It

Re: VoiceOver speaking rate in iPad

2010-09-20 Thread mani
I figured it out. Tap on the slider and use flick up or down to slide up or down. mani On Sep 20, 3:47 pm, mani mani.g.i...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: On the iPad I am trying to lower the VoiceOver speaking rate and am unable to do it.  Here is what I do, after navigating over to the VO

Re: VoiceOver speaking rate in iPad

2010-09-20 Thread Charlie Doremus
Mani, Adjusting the speech rate can be a bit tricky. Once you locate the slider flick down to decrease and up to increase. There is no tapping associated with changing speech rate. If you still have difficulty give a shout out and someone will come to your aid. Aloha, Charlie Check out

Re: VoiceOver speaking rate in iPad

2010-09-20 Thread mani
Charlie: Thanks. I managed to do it now but the incremental rate and decremental rate is not 1. It goes by 10 or 5 or something else. Does the flick rate determine that? mani On Sep 20, 4:07 pm, Charlie Doremus giantdolp...@gmail.com wrote: Mani, Adjusting the speech rate can be a bit tricky.

RE: Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Erik Heil
Hello Currently I don't have access to safari 5 since I only have an ipad. Any ideas on when version 5 functionality will be backported to ios devices? -Original Message- From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:32 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: VoiceOver speaking rate in iPad

2010-09-20 Thread Charlie Doremus
Mani: I'm not a regular vo user, but I notice that when I turn it on and flick the speech rate slider it jumps in increments of 7. 7,17,27 and so on. Very strange. Aloha, Charlie Check out our website www.giantdolphin.com On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:15 AM, mani mani.g.i...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Blouch
I would guess they would bring Safari up to par on the iPad in the next iOS release (4.2) in November. CB On 9/20/10 4:34 PM, Erik Heil wrote: Hello Currently I don't have access to safari 5 since I only have an ipad. Any ideas on when version 5 functionality will be backported to ios

Re: bootcamp in Fusion

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Sarah, When I hit enter on the dimmed text that says boot camp, it doesn't do anything at all. It also has a dimmed choice for Windows XP Professional. I'm not quite sure what's going on here. Friendly, Chris On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello. just open up vmware

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Sounds like the drive is frmatted with NTFS. Use the disk utility to erase and reformat it as a mac drive. On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Jim Fettgather wrote: Hi to the list. I had purchased a My Passport 500 GB external hard drive, when connecting it to the Mac, a message came up asking if

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
The reason I have mine as ntfs and for me the reason I use ntfs3g and macfuse is I have 2 different machines both of wich need to access the drive. sure I could get macdrive but why pay 50 bucks if I can access the same content for free? S On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:

Re: bootcamp in Fusion

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm I'm stumped as mine just worked right out of the box. Did you see somethigni that said bootcamp or something? I stopped using vmware about 3 months ago. lol! On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: Hi Sarah, When I hit enter on the dimmed text that says boot camp, it doesn't do

how can I copy a cd in itunes

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok I burned a cd but how can I make a copy using itunes? it is for a rehearsal this week. it is probably very simple but I'm drawing a blank. Thanks. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125

Programming for VoiceOver

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Scott, I don't know a lot about this, but essentially any program that uses the COCOA frameworks and also lables components when using the GUI builder should be Voice Over accessable. I expect Chris knows a bit about the way HTML rendering occurs. Also, dialog boxes and other controls that

strange problem with my MPB15

2010-09-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, folks. Just now, after an intense session of playing AudioQuake on line, my MBP running Leopard crashed and wouldn't respond. I shut it down by holding down the power button, which was the only thing that worked. When I turned it back on again, it made three short beeps in a row,

Re: bootcamp in Fusion

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi, I finally got it to work. it was a problem with the windows side of course. It was having a fit, and once I got it sorted out with sighted help, it was fine. The mac side was just fine. Figures. lol I only use it to play a couple of games that I enjoy playing when I'm not working. Also,

Re: strange problem with my MPB15

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
I dunno. Is there a site you can look up with the beep codes are on the mac bios? if the mac even has a bios? lol! I'm taking a stab here btw. S On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: Hi, folks. Just now, after an intense session of playing AudioQuake on line, my MBP

Re: strange problem with my MPB15

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Do a search of firmware updates. My memory is that the triple beep is for an upgrade of firmware where the the installer puts special code on the disk that is read at boot up time to rebuild the firmeware. Sighted folks would just have to wait out the 3-4 minutes required for the firmeware to be

Re: how can I copy a cd in itunes

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oops forgot about that. I alreadyburned my originals but we'll try and out and see. S On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: Hi Sarah, Have you tried Simply Burns? It would be easier I'm thinking. There's a button in it marked 1 to 1 copy. It's a free program as well.

Re: how can I copy a cd in itunes

2010-09-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Well I stuck the cd in that I wanted to copy and hit 1:1 copy and then it copy but I don't know what to do from there. it sort of didn't say at all and the help is no help. lol! On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: Hi Sarah, Have you tried Simply Burns? It would be easier I'm