Re: VO+main Facebook accessibility Re: Having trouble sharing a link on FB

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I use the mobile sight and it has in my opinion gotten worse. We are having a discussion on the blind facebook list and on othe rforums as well. s On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Israel wrote: > Hi Listers, > > Has anyone else noticed that since about a month ago or around the time FB > unveiled

Re: a fabulous experience with my MacBook Air

2011-01-05 Thread Scott Granados
Seriously! Great observation. It almost feels unreal. On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Cheree wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > Doesn't it make you feel as though you've stepped into living science fiction? > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > SENT FROM MY IPHONE > > > > On Jan 3, 2011, at 16:31,

VO+main Facebook accessibility Re: Having trouble sharing a link on FB

2011-01-05 Thread Israel
Hi Listers, Has anyone else noticed that since about a month ago or around the time FB unveiled their new profile option, posting status updates or on friends wall using the main FB seems easier as VO now recognizes and reads the labels of the edit boxes such as "What's On Your Mind" and "Write

Re: a fabulous experience with my MacBook Air

2011-01-05 Thread Scott Granados
Congratulations, nice to see another IP in the sky user. We had Internet installed in the plane sometime ago and it really helps the time go by / improves the productivity. Even just being able to file flight plans and pick up airtraffic data. My ATT cell phone did not work at all from

Re: screwed up the documents folder

2011-01-05 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
If you do a Spotlight search (command space bar) for "no.*" you will come to the alias file that you inadvertently made; delete that file itself. This is just a theory, and I don't know if it'll work or not. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burnin

Re: screwed up the documents folder

2011-01-05 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I tried changing the name of the no folder in the finder to documents; it told me there was already one called documents and I could not rename no. So, I copied all the contents of no to documents and moved documents to the dock. I sent no to the trash and emptied the trash. I went to the doc

Bookmarks command?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What's the keyboard command to go from, say, the HTML content area directly to the bookmarks bar in Safari? -- 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 fr

Re: Having trouble sharing a link on FB

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I was really hoping for a response on this one. Anybody out there? -- 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 macvisiona

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Just as a side note turning off the sounds that way also turns off the password clicks. I did not know this until just a few minutes ago. Take care all. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Oh but of course. lol. > > After having that happen to me once, I learned my lesson. >

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Oh but of course. lol. After having that happen to me once, I learned my lesson. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > then export your prefs so you don't' loos them when voice o

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
then export your prefs so you don't' loos them when voice over decides to reset itself. On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yup, > > I find setting verbosity to medium, then going in and customizing individual > elements by expanding details and messing around with the options f

Re: Out of box experience with apple TV

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I hear though that when an update comes out, that updating is a chore. It is easy but the progress never reads. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Chris G wrote: > Hello, > > If you purchase an apple TV and the firmware is upgraded to support > VoiceOver, something really nice happens. > 1. Conne

Out of box experience with apple TV

2011-01-05 Thread Chris G
Hello, If you purchase an apple TV and the firmware is upgraded to support VoiceOver, something really nice happens. 1. Connect HDMI to TV. 2. Connect Power to Apple TV. 3. Wait. You will hear Welcome to apple TV, if you require VoiceOver, press : then it gives you the location of the button to

Re: Duration of mp3 files

2011-01-05 Thread Colin M
Hi Daniel! Ok when your on the folder of mp3's in finder! If you do vo+shift+m you should have a burn to disc option! If not do vo+m and under file menu there also should be a burn to disc option! As far as finding out the total time I could not see how to find out! If the same list is in Itunes or

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, I find setting verbosity to medium, then going in and customizing individual elements by expanding details and messing around with the options found in the verbosity table, the best way to really customize the voiceover experience. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AI

Re: Facebook and Adium contacts not showing up

2011-01-05 Thread John Panarese
I am having an interesting problem with this. I have a facebook user name and created the Jabber account using the instructions for FB chat. However, I keep getting prompted for my password every time I try to log in. I enter my FB password, but I get the same prompt. Am I missing a ste

Re: vmware problem?

2011-01-05 Thread Blake Hardin
Hi, could someone tell me how to mount it? On 1/5/11, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > You'll need to mount the ISO as a CD on your machine. It been a long time > since I did it but it definitely can be done. > > As for selecting all the messages, you can do a command-A and it should > select all your me

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
NOpe I have that disabled I think. It has never read page contents to me. lol! S On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Just move around. I mean, how long does the average page take to load. > Plus, voiceover will start reading the contents of the page on most sites. > > hth > >

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Carolyn Haas
HHey guys: Remember the song "there's a hole in the bucket?" This sort of reminds me of that. Guess it's no mistake that the corporate address for Apple is on Infinite Loop Boulevard.:) carolyn On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Fine, but if I do that, how can I tell when a web

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I personally scale my VO verbosity back pretty far. I've found that the single most effective way to speed VO up is to have it announce "nothing when typing. This has the disadvantage that the spellcheck while you type feature isn't s useful, but spell-checking solves that well enough. • Ma

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Bearfooted Ray: I'm probably not telling you anything new. But, try monkeying around with verbosity, hints, and also you can change from announcing typed characters to words. I find when set to characters, VO often just skips a letter I've typed, leaving me to wondr if it actually got there

Duration of mp3 files

2011-01-05 Thread Daniel Montalvo Charameli
Hi all: First of all, a happy new year for everybody! The thing is I am starting a new radio show next Monday. I am preparing the files I will be streaming and I have a question. How can I know the total duration of several mp3 files that I have stored in a particular folder? Yeah, I could go

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Just move around. I mean, how long does the average page take to load. Plus, voiceover will start reading the contents of the page on most sites. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Ray Foret Jr

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Huh, It mutes the navigational sound effects you would normally here. Its the equivalent to the mute switch on the iPhone. But on the Mac, it plays the sound before the command is done unlike the iPhone that does both at the same time. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, an

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
How is it faster than column view? It is pretty much the same thing. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Using list view always. That lets me get to a file faster. > > > Since

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I just wait for a while. I'm not yet sure what it does and does not mute. I'm trying it now and it feel a bit wired. lol! S On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Fine, but if I do that, how can I tell when a web page is fully loaded? > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Nope just using good ole list view. I just interact wiht the table and I can just skim down folder names and what not. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Are you using column view in the finder? I ask because I noticed in list > view voiceover reads a bunch of infor

Re: phone not staying on speaker mode when not in a call

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
It starts out in speaker mode and as soon as I flick it goes back to hand set mode. I just received a call and it appeard to fix the problem I think. It was and is very very odd. I have no running apps open and the only thing I di dlast night was play papa sangre. I don't think it has anything t

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Fine, but if I do that, how can I tell when a web page is fully loaded? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > One more thing. You can also mute sound effec

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Using list view always. That lets me get to a file faster. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Are you using column view in the finder? I ask because I

Re: phone not staying on speaker mode when not in a call

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Shaw
Sarah, What happens when you do a full reboot? Kevin -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, One more thing. You can also mute sound effects in VO utilities under sounds. This will speed up navigation. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Are you using column view in the finder? I ask because I noticed in list view voiceover reads a bunch of information but not in column view. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrot

Re: phone not staying on speaker mode when not in a call

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
but I dunno if it is a hardware issue or not. I will try and clean out the headset jack first as I have tools to do that someware in the house. I really am heasitating getting a new phone as I won't want to reenvite all of my heytell contacts and reenter in any other info and I can't find the c

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I find no lag when I'm typing or anything Yeah vo hangs but tha'ts been a ong standing bug. Take care. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > YOu can get yourself an SSd. It'll run as fast as your commands > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: phone not staying on speaker mode when not in a call

2011-01-05 Thread Justin Thornton
hay sence ya have apple care you can have a phone over nighted no charge because of damage, and keep your old phone until the new one arrives I believe then send the old one so check in to that with apple care On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello to all. Last night my phone st

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Yuma Decaux
YOu can get yourself an SSd. It'll run as fast as your commands -- 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 macvisionari

phone not staying on speaker mode when not in a call

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello to all. Last night my phone started going in to handset mode randomly and now I cannot get it out. I'm not in a call and I"m not running apps. It's as if the headphone jack were still in use I think but I don't know what's going on. Last night I was playing papa sangre and this morning my

Re: A dropbox issue.

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. try this. 1. go to your status menu and hit vo cmd f5 2. Lock your vo keys 3. Now while pressing f5 run your finger along the top of the mouse pad until you hear dropbox. You need to press f5 a lot so you can here what's being echoed. 4. Once you here dropbox hit vo shift space on the men

Re: following these directions to speed up apple mail, except I can't get past the first step

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
so the code would do something like this: try tell application "Mail" to quit tell application terminal: type sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum; tell application "Mail" to run end try Sorry. I'm just learning. I've coded in other languages so cannot figure out why I cannot grasp this

Re: winmail.dat files and the Mac

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
VCArd files work the best. and the next time you have an attachment vo left and you should find an attachments section. If that does not show up hit cmd shift h to get to the longer headers. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hello listers, > > At work, I have to deal wit

Re: help needed in turning off Skype AGC

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
If you unchecked the let skype adjust the volume, or am I thinking of another platform it should work if not you might need to edit a prefence file by hand but I cannot remember the line of code as that was about 6 years ago. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi there, > > C

Re: an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Just turn off hints all togather and you should be fine. Also you can change the verbosity settings. Ihave it say nothing when it enters a table and stuch. S On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that, as I become faster with my Mac, Voice OVer seems to lagg >

an improvment I'd like to see

2011-01-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi, I've noticed that, as I become faster with my Mac, Voice OVer seems to lagg behind my key presses. Sure, I could use the control key to silence speech, but, to me, that's not quite good enough. I'd like Voice Over to be much more reactive to other key presses rather than trying to tell me

help needed in turning off Skype AGC

2011-01-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi there, Can anybody who knows how to do it advise me how to turn off Skype AGC? I know the file I need is in: Home/Library/Applications Support/Skype/Shared but I don't know how to adjust it. Thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!!

Re: Forwarding Text Messages Using The I Phone.

2011-01-05 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks so much for that explanation. On 5 Jan 2011, at 17:01, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hi Kawal, > > 1. While in the message thread, double-tap the "Edit" button in the top right > corner of the screen. > 2. Swipe through the messages in the thread and next to each message you will > hear, "Select,

winmail.dat files and the Mac

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello listers, At work, I have to deal with large lists of email recipients whom I wish to contact on a more or less regular basis. One of the partners with whom I work sent me a list of e-mail contacts which she apparently managed through Microsoft's Outlook program. I had asked her to send

Re: Forwarding Text Messages Using The I Phone.

2011-01-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Kawal, 1. While in the message thread, double-tap the "Edit" button in the top right corner of the screen. 2. Swipe through the messages in the thread and next to each message you will hear, "Select, switch button off." 3. Double-tap to toggle the switch button on. You can select as many mess

Forwarding Text Messages Using The I Phone.

2011-01-05 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. Can someone tell me how to forward text messages using an I phone 4 please? Sent From My I Phone -- 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 thi

Re: Itunes: Track Info on Radio Stations?

2011-01-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Has anybody tried putting a hotspot watch on the LCD title area is it the appropriate level of verbosity? Jon On 2 January 2011 10:23, Jane wrote: > You have to interact where it says LCD and sometimes hou have to switch > views, but you can see tracks. > > Jane > > > On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:01 A

Re: Pairing a Phonak Icom hearing device with a Macbook Pro via Bluetooth?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Oh wow, I had no idea. I hope you're getting better from whatever landed you there in the first place. I've managed to pair the Icom with the Macbook successfully, sort of. It doesn't *stay* paired; whenever nothing is being transmitted, after three seconds the Icom goes inactive and then com

Re: following these directions to speed up apple mail, except I can't get past the first step

2011-01-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, the automation is doing three things, and one could write it in apple script just as easily. For a one time use... 1. quit mail 2. start terminal 3. Enter the following command at the terminal prompt sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum; On 3 January 2011 17:44, Sarah Alawami wro

Re: vmware problem?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Mattingly
You'll need to mount the ISO as a CD on your machine. It been a long time since I did it but it definitely can be done. As for selecting all the messages, you can do a command-A and it should select all your messages. Working with mail isn't really all that bad. you just need to make sure you'

Re: A dropbox issue.

2011-01-05 Thread louie
The icon is there but you can't get to it using voice over. On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:38 AM, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > Hi all, > > What if the Dropbox icon isn't in the status menus? > > Thanks, > > Nick > On 30 Dec 2010, at 06:07, James Malone wrote: > >> Ah ok, thanks heaps. >> On 30/12/2010,

RE: locking the iPhone screen in horizontal layout?

2011-01-05 Thread Robert Hooper
This may be the case with the latest IOS software--I do believe there are three pages. In which case, let me correct myself--perform a single three-finger flick left, as you are on page 3 by default. I hope this offers some clarification. Robert Hooper hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu The Ohio Sta

Re: A dropbox issue.

2011-01-05 Thread James Malone
Good question. I don't get it in the menu. On 05/01/2011, at 11:38 PM, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > Hi all, > > What if the Dropbox icon isn't in the status menus? > > Thanks, > > Nick > On 30 Dec 2010, at 06:07, James Malone wrote: > >> Ah ok, thanks heaps. >> On 30/12/2010, at 4:03 PM, Ricar

Re: A dropbox issue.

2011-01-05 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
Hi all, What if the Dropbox icon isn't in the status menus? Thanks, Nick On 30 Dec 2010, at 06:07, James Malone wrote: > Ah ok, thanks heaps. > On 30/12/2010, at 4:03 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Yup, this has always happened to me. There is nothing you can do about it. >> If

Re: locking the iPhone screen in horizontal layout?

2011-01-05 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
Hmm, weirdly enough the lock orientation changes button is on page 2 of the app switcher on my iPhone... Nick On 28 Dec 2010, at 19:37, Robert Hooper wrote: > Portrait layout is the only layout in which you can lock the phone--there > isn't an option to lock the phone in landscape layout. If yo

re-garage band question

2011-01-05 Thread chad
hi james it only takes sf2 format but i'm having trouble they are muffled i purchased from a company called digial sound factory just go to the soundfont link -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Eye TV again

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Fettgather
The particular unit that I have has a place to connect a coaxial cable. This can be iether from an over the air antenna, or in my case, the coaxial cable it's coming right from a cable box. Hope this helps. On 1/4/11, Mary Otten wrote: > Jim, > Are you using the eye tv that gets signals from an

Ultra Edit

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, Several years ago, I used a product called Ultra Edit that for sure ran under Windows, but might have even had a MS DOS life as well. I recall liking the program a lot and found out that a version has now been written for the Mac. The company also has a Unix version. Does any

Re: quick garage band question

2011-01-05 Thread James Malone
That's cool. I didn't know Garage Band could play soundfonts. Is it a special format? or could it load something like a .SF2 extension On 05/01/2011, at 8:12 PM, chad wrote: > hi i purchased soundfonts for garage band and they sound muffled. > i searched everywhere and i e mailed the company i bo

quick garage band question

2011-01-05 Thread chad
hi i purchased soundfonts for garage band and they sound muffled. i searched everywhere and i e mailed the company i bought them from and he had the same issue and can't figure out what's up. i'm guessing its a bug with the dls music device i tried repairing disc permissions and still the same is

vmware problem?

2011-01-05 Thread Blake Hardin
Hi, when i try to create a vurtual xp machine with vmware and i hit continue it says no bootable device found. Im trying to use a .iso file because i believe you can do that. any ideas? Also, im about to go to collge in a few days and im really hoping the mac works out. I feel like im so much faste

Format conversion software again?

2011-01-05 Thread James Malone
Hi guys. I sent this message last night, but I have been having problems lately will emails reported as being sent, but not actually been sent. If I posted this twice, sorry. Hi guys. I have some stuff to convert from avi to an audio format, most probably ogg. I've tried to use switch, but it do

Re: Signatures with Apple Mail

2011-01-05 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Great, I hope it's resolved soon. On 4 Jan 2011, at 22:56, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi, > > Yes. They told me they were still working on the problem. I hope they get > it resaulved soon. > > Matthew > > > On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> No it's a bug in the sigs tab. I l