Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Chris G
I think it's 192.168.0.1 to access dlink routers. Netgear routers are pretty cool, you go to routerlogin.net and it takes you there. Chris On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 05:07:23 -0400 Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: Simon, I have to concur, I would go for the Linksys or an Apple router over a

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread James Malone
Hi. Once in Adium, hit VO f2 twice, and it will bring up a menu of windows. Then just arow down, and press enter on the window you want. It could be a chat message, or Growl could be sending in pop up notifications. If the window says something about a system alert, then Growl is probably set

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Howell
Simon, I have to concur, I would go for the Linksys or an Apple router over a DLink any day of the week. On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:04 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: Donna, Have a look at your router or gateway ip address and use that to log on to the device. But I'd say tak ethe the d-link device

Re: Washington Post articles?

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Jonathan! Here I am in little UK! I opened the Washington post link from your part of this message! Then clicked metro, Vinginer polictics and got to the page ok! But when I clicked the link that starts voices of... it took me to the Washington post site and said something about that page was

Re: any way to certufy mail using Apple Mail?

2010-10-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Thanks very much Nicolia. That is exactly what I was looking for. Exacatly!!! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! You can

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
This usually happens when you are not in the application that opened a new window. If you use VO-F1 (twice) and then select Adium you should hfind a window with a (new) appended to the end. There might be a possibility that the window is a transient window that disapears after a couple of

Re: any way to certufy mail using Apple Mail?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Granados
Ray look for a plug in for something like PGP or GPP and you can add that functionality. There may be a way to do this natively but PGP is very commonl used across many mail clients. Thanks Scott On Oct 3, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: I mean to incript e-mail Using e-mail

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Sarah: Can you actually get to and read the ads? (only if you want to continue the challenge of course:) Thanks Carolyn On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I'm having no problems thus far. There is a long jpeg labeled button you need to hit after you hit the zipcode or

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Granados
Donna, D-Link uses http://192.168.0.1 as the default. try that if not do the following from your command prompt do an ipconfig /all | more read down until you see your specific device that's connected and look for the gateway address, should be 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x. Then browse to that

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello Patricia! This is usually due to Growl. You can choose to either change Growl to the Speech display style in System PreferencesGrowlDisplay Tab, then find the popup for the default style and select Speech. If you do not want all those events to speak as it does get quite chatty, you can

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Patricia! I haven't had this on adium yet myself! But in Skype when I go from the main page to the chat window I get the message [ Skype has new window ] So could this be the same for you, I'm guessing but it might be you are already in that new window! Does this happen after you've selected

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Carolyn, This website looks pretty straightforward to me. I use Groups mode and make extensive use of the Web Rotor and the Item Chooser. Cheers, Anne On 4 Oct 2010, at 04:23, Carolyn Haas wrote: I've been trying to work with a website, to sign in, view weekly ads, etc. I am

to nicolai

2010-10-04 Thread ISAAC OBIE
Nicolai, Your messages are not opening for me. This has occurred several times this am. thanks. Isaac -- 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: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Donna, Have a look at your router or gateway ip address and use that to log on to the device. But I'd say tak ethe the d-link device back and get a new Linksys device. Ive never found d-link to be much good for anything and their interface was never overly great. -Original Message-

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! I'm unfortunately in the Uk! I'm using dom mode and can navigate that site ok! But as you can imagine my local store might be a little further than 50 miles :] I can get to the account set up page, and when I clicked on weekly ads that's when I got asked for my address to find my

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Granados
Do * not * buy anything linksys! They are knock off cisco products and have al the problems inharent in that. They do not forward at line rate, do not have stable radios and have serious under processing problems. They also have squirrely results when left on for a long period of time.

Re: jumping to next line of text with voiceover?

2010-10-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Have you tried using Groups mode? Links tend to be grouped together, so you can skip a bunch of them at once by doing VO-Down arrow or just down arrow with Quick Nav on. I use Groups mode most of the time, in fact, I only use DOM mode when I want to read through a fairly long article without

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Colin: and Anne Well, thank you for trying anyhow. I'll experiment more with this today after a little more coffee:) Can;t get to my Apple training today due to an ear infection. So, perhaps I'm whimping out early here:) Take care carolynOn Oct 4, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Colin M wrote: Hi

Re: java in safari on or off for different sites

2010-10-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Claus, I think you must have some serious corruption on one or more files relating to Safari. My best suggestion would be to apply the combo update to OS X 10.6.4. Using the combo update can often fixe a lot of spurious problems. Here's a link to the download:

Orders to my Mac in Spanish? ...

2010-10-04 Thread marcelo
Can I dictate orders to my Mac OS X in Spanish? ... 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, send email to

Re: to nicolai

2010-10-04 Thread Esther
Hi Isaac, It sounds as though you can't read the messages that Nic started sending with certification. These show up in my mailbox with an extra heading after Reply to: for his security certificate that says Signed with his email address. If I read his mail on my iPod Touch of iPad I'm

Re: java in safari on or off for different sites

2010-10-04 Thread Claus Thøgersen
Hi, Yes I mean Java, that is turning Java off solved the problem I have on these 2 danish sites www.dr.dk www.jp.dk With Java enabled the pages never really load, but when it is turned off I have no problems. For other users it works fine, so it is a similar situation to google.com that I

Re: to nicolai

2010-10-04 Thread Isaac Obie
Hi Ester, When I open the mail, all I see is a blank line and a cursor. I am not reading this with the Mac! I am reading it with Outlook Express windows xp. So what do I do? Thanks. Isaac - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday,

Re: to nicolai

2010-10-04 Thread Isaac Obie
Hi Ester, I saw the message security help then I tabbed once and the message eventually showed up after all that jazz about digitally signed messages. Thanks! Isaac who'd never seen this! - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday,

Re: XCode compile.

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Did you buy Snow Leopard as an upgrade, or did it come with yuour computer? When upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, the DVD install does not install the Developer package including XCode and App Builder. But if you insert the DVD in the slot after upgrading, then you will find an installer

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Howell
Really, that is interesting. I have an old Linksys I keep here as a backup and it served me well until I switched to Apple routers. Cisco must have sold off or farmed out development for their routers lately. DLink was not the recommended router a few years ago. Funny how manufacturers swap

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Granados
It's true. I think the Cisco take over of Linksys adversely impacted the quality of the products. Cisco tends to offer products that don't offer wire rate speeds and end up having some forwarding rate that's a fraction of the available bandwidth. Cheap processors and bad code. The devices,

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! I see from your last message you are having lessons! So just in case you do not know about the web rotor, you access it with the command vo+u If you already know about it! You can ignore this next bit! When the rotor is open it might be on links, if it is you can left arrow to the

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Nic! No a fence to others but I think you might be the list's authority on Growl! You've helped me with this thank's! Colin On 4 Oct 2010, at 14:31, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hello Patricia! This is usually due to Growl. You can choose to either change Growl to the Speech display style in

Re: Safari frusterations!

2010-10-04 Thread carlene knight
Well, it opens ok, but when you put a search quarry in and hit return or Vo/spacebar on the search button, the problem begins. Vo will constantly restart. Yes, I am using Safari. On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Let me guess, you're not using Webkit. That'd

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
I don't know, I've heard the exact same thing about Linksys. And I will say that the download speed with the dlink seems noticeably faster. Donna On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Simon, I have to concur, I would go for the Linksys or an Apple router over a DLink any day of the

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, wow, the netgear thing sounds cool. And yes, that is the link for the dlink router, found out from a friend who also has that router. Best, Donna On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Chris G wrote: I think it's 192.168.0.1 to access dlink routers. Netgear routers are pretty cool, you go to

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Scott. Haven't had a chance to try it yet, will do this afternoon. Donna On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Scott Granados wrote: Donna, D-Link uses http://192.168.0.1 as the default. try that if not do the following from your command prompt do an ipconfig /all | more read down

Re: help with a website please

2010-10-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
No as there are no stores in my area but it looks pretty easy to use. S On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Sarah: Can you actually get to and read the ads? (only if you want to continue the challenge of course:) Thanks Carolyn On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Granados
Donna, your DLink does the same thing. I forget what the default name is it's either dlink or dlink-gw or dlinkrouter something like that. Since the router provides your DNS for you they just inject a name with the routers IP in to your dns requests that the device proxies. You can set this

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, cool! thanks, Scott. Donna On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Scott Granados wrote: Donna, your DLink does the same thing. I forget what the default name is it's either dlink or dlink-gw or dlinkrouter something like that. Since the router provides your DNS for you they just inject a name

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
That's interesting. At first my husband and I both thought we were imagining it because the router was new. So we actually sat around downloading videos and stuff, to see if it was really true. Good to know we weren't hallucinating. :) Donna On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Scott Granados wrote:

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
You will know as you will hear the sound of a new event. what ever your sound skeem is set to. S On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:33 AM, patricia solis wrote: Hi, I tried vof2 twice and that didn't work. Adium keeps saying the same thing. I also went to system preferences and speech is selected as

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Too bad, I thought perhaps I would go and by a D-Link and see a whole new world through my very slow and firewall blocked hotel's Internet connections. Not only do they block IMAP, they also block the chat protocol that Google and facebook use. That's OK, my neighbor has file sharing turned

Re: Safari frusterations!

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am regularily switching between webkit and safari, often use google and have never seen these problems. Though I have to admit generally, for doing searchs on my Mac, I type command-l and then hit tab and enter my search terms. This avoids opening a web page to just fill in a form. Best

Re: Safari frusterations!

2010-10-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You may consider hitting Option-Command-F to go to the search field. This applies to other applications with search fields such as iTunes or Mail. Regards, Nic On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: I am regularily switching between webkit and safari, often use google and have

Re: Washington Post articles?

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
The link I put in here is broken. To fix it remember the last word in the link is distribution and you'll get there okay.On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Colin M wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html?hpid=distrib ution Hi Jonathan! Here I am in little UK! I opened the

Navigating mail and Safari

2010-10-04 Thread Linda Adams
Hello, everyone. I am Linda Adams, a very new and inexperienced user of an Apple Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been a Windoes user for ten years, and now I am experimenting to see if the Apple Snow Leopard will be comfortably accessible. My computer technician friend has been worried for a

Re: Not able to sign into itunes

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Don't hit enter, hit tab onto okay field then hit space and see if that works. Why itunes should be going into busy mode like that even under these circumstances though for me is a puzzle. If you can get to a local mac users group meeting you may get lots more support there. Have you got a

Re: XCode compile.

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once you install the xcode and the appbuilder packages from your snow leopard disk, start looking inside the /developer/ tree.On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, GEOFF WAALER wrote: Greetings, I wanted to compile a helloWorld program in either objective C or C++ and apparently am not looking in the right

Re: Navigating mail and Safari

2010-10-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Sorry. Unless I'm wrong all of your answers will be no. vo does lay out the webpage the way a sighted user sees it on the screen making it easy for explanations if possible. You can always use the track pad if you have one and flick and double tap thus sort of freeing up a hand. Good luck.

Re: jumping to next line of text with voiceover?

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
One way to get past this is to go to the next heading, I always try that first, and if that doesn't work, try VO command n to go to the next auto web spot. On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Blake Hardin wrote: Hi, yeah im just talking about being on the web. Say for example i want to skip past all

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That way, both the mac and windows can read and write to it, without introducing any extra software on either platform. On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: Hello allJ I recently acquired an

Mouse cursor\vo cursor

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi all! I'm wondering why people do not have the mouse cursor automatically follow the vo cursor? I've heard on a few occasions that people move the mouse cursor to the vo cursor! There is a setting to make this happen, and would remove the need to route the mouse to vo! Or is there an

Re: Navigating mail and Safari

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi Linda, though it may be a bit difficult for you to get used to at first voice over and the mac do things a bit differently than the windows screen readers, so you will find that things do not work exactly the same. For example, on the web, you move item by item rather than line by line.

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
but you only have a4 gig limit per file transfer. Most of my progects I do are about 4 to 8 gigs so that won't do at all. Take care. S On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That way, both the mac and windows can

Re: Mouse cursor\vo cursor

2010-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
hi, There are some web-pages and a few apps that behave strangely when the mouse follows the VO cursor. This happened more in the past before VO went through so many upgrades but still is there occasionally. What is happening in these cases most likely is that when the mouse is over a

Re: Mouse cursor\vo cursor

2010-10-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
I know when snow leopard first came out, having the mouse follow VO would cause some very buggy behavior. Especially when navigating the menubar. Personally, I have my mouse cursor following VO. I don't notice much bad behaior because of it. At least not anymore using OSX 10.64. hth On Oct

Re: Mouse cursor\vo cursor

2010-10-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Most of the time, I don't find it necessary to move the mouse cursor to the VO cursor. Generally, I just find one needs to be just interacting when in a table or list. On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: hi, There are some web-pages and a few apps that behave strangely when

exchange account

2010-10-04 Thread Robert Hooper
Hello All:) As I may have passingly mentioned in a previous post, The Ohio State University email system is set up and run from an exchange server. My question regards the synchronization of information. On my PC, all my contacts and calendar schedule is nicely synchronized. When I set up the

Re: exchange account

2010-10-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Robert! I know that other listers will give you more! But what I understand is things are tried on webkit and then make it to a later safari so using webkit means it can be a little more advanced than safari and might do somethings a bit better! I'm sure someone will put you right if I got

track pads

2010-10-04 Thread carlene knight
How do you click and double tap with a track pad? I have the Magic Track Pad, and sometimes when links are highlighted, they tend to activate whether I want them to or not. I can't seem to double tap on anything, nothing happens. I am so frustrated with the thing that it is just sitting here

Re: track pads

2010-10-04 Thread heather kd5cbl
I have not received my mac yet but I had the same problem in the store. Can you change how sensitive the track pad will be? Just wondering. Heather -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

using track changes and comments in pages

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Aikens
Hey people, I asked this question before but got no response. I'm still trying to figure out how to make use of the track changes and comment features in pages. I have a document which my professor has marked up with corrections and I need to figure out where each correction goes. Any help is

Re: Not able to sign into itunes

2010-10-04 Thread carlene knight
I've got a Magic Mousepad. I'm still having some busy signals as usual when I go down the sources table as the app store always tries to load, I think. I discovered that somehow the hide Ping sidebar had become unchecked, and I think it was searching for a Ping playlist. It still doesn't act

Re: Not able to sign into itunes

2010-10-04 Thread carlene knight
Oh, I didn't look at the original message as I posted a similar problem with busy signals the other day. Sorry. Incidentally Antonio, my sighted husband is having trouble playing videos since the last update, and I have been having mouse problems and busy signals also.. On Oct 4, 2010, at

ntfs 3g

2010-10-04 Thread Robert Hooper
Hello once again:) How do I install and use NTFS 3g? Sorry for my lack of knowledge regarding these matters. Robert Hooper -- 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: Navigating mail and Safari

2010-10-04 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Linda, What flavor of Mac do you have? Does it have a trackpad? If so would you be willing to consider that interface as an alternative to the keyboard? Personally I became extremely disgusted with the fact that all VO commands required anywhere from three to five keys which often had no

Re: exchange account

2010-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Robert, When it comes to Exchange and Apple Mail, AddressBook just simply syncs. That is, all the contacts available on the Exchange server are synced behind the scenes. Therefore, even though you don't see these directly in your AddressBook, if you enter the first few characters of an

Re: using track changes and comments in pages

2010-10-04 Thread Braille
Track change requires that the focus can be monitored real time. If you click on edit, track change, track change bar appears under the regular menu bar. While you can accept, reject, and or ignore any changes made on the document, you cannot tell which word or sentence or letter is being

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! The Mac already has native ways to write to NTFS, anyway, without introducing software just by enabling it through Terminal. Apparently, that solution works for some people but not everyone, unless they are missing some steps. Also, the downside to doing this is you have to enable it on a

RE: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Linksys is a subsiddery of cisco. Linksys is the name that cisco put on their residential or retail devices where as on their commercial devices they put the cisco name. They also don't give Linksys devices the same level of configuration as cisco devices are given. However some Linksys

mac mini server with no keyboard but the bluetooth one

2010-10-04 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi list, In preparation for my IT pro certification i've purchased a mac mini server late 2010. AFter having sussed the hardware plug locations and taking the lid off to feel how easy it is to upgrade it, i've decided to start it up. I have one problem here. I have no wired keyboard, but i do

Re: using track changes and comments in pages

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Aikens
Thanks for the response. I was wondering if unlinking the VO cursor and the keyboard cursor (think that's what it is called) might allow me to look at both at once. I'm not proficient with my cursors yet and am not sure how I might do this. Any idea if this can be done using open office? I

Mod note -was- RE: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi All; This is just a friendly reminder that unless a topic has to do with Mac / Apple, it's really not on-topic here. so please let's move the discussion of routers elsewhere unless we want to keep this related to Apple products, K? thanks so much and I wish y'all a lovely day / evening!…