Hello all,
I was looking for a function in pages 09 to set the typing method to overwrite
instead off insert (the default).
I haven't found a menu-item / shortcut in the menu's or context-menu.
Any help should be very welcome.
best regards,
William Windels
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Hi,
I only know the price in swedish crowns from the app store so i'm afraid i
can't be of much help there. The price in Swedish crowns are 295 sek and an us
dollar is about 6.75 swedish crowns.
I just checked with the currency convertion widget available in Dashboard and i
would think now that
Hello Trahern,
There isn't much you can do directly from a PDF document, But if you can select
text and copy it into a TextEdit document, you can use the command Add to
iTunes as a spoken track.
You need to make sure that this service is available by selecting text in a
TextEdit document,
Hello William,
I'm not sure what you mean by Overwrite mode.
In Pages, you can select a model which contains fake Latin in the areas where
you can enter your own text. As soon as you start typing, the fake Latin
disappears.
Alternatively, if you have a document you wish to change while still
Hello Geoff ,
Check your DNS configuration.
Did you set it manually? If so, change it to DHCP and see if it helps.
Also, what happens if you do a telnet to the webkit address from the
terminal?
HTH,
André
On 18-01-2011 18:23, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Okay, I am officially replying to my own
Wow, that's probably a little pricey for me. I don't intend to do a lot of
this, I just want to be able to update a few things on my site without
pestering my web geek.
Thanks,
Donna
On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hi,
I only know the price in swedish crowns from the app
Hi Anne,
Thx for the information.
I am not the pages expert like you are ;)
I mean non of both I think but I'll keep in mind.
What I mean:
If you have a file with something like:
name: ...
address: .
It's mostly the meaning that , when the document
Hi all,
I have just installed moveaddict from the app store on the mac to cut files and
folders with command+x.
I have just installed the program, I answered some questions of the setup and
it should work normally.
If it shouldn't , they advices me to restart the system.
I have done so but,
this is probably late as i am way behindbut adiumis great now i havfinaly
replaced my windows machine evenfor irc
On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:06 AM, trahern culver wrote:
hey all does any one know how acsesabel the latest verssion of adium
is? in past versions voice over wouldn't read past the
if they do that i don't want an I phone
On Jan 17, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
Saw this story and thought I'd pass it along. This could spell trouble for
some of the accessibility features on the iPhone, for example,
triple-clicking the home button to toggle VO on and off.
Lol,
You would make such a decision without even using one to know if its better, or
comparable to an iPhone with a home button? Don't you think that is a bit,
well, impulsive?
Ricardo Walker
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On Jan 19,
Here we go again! much ado about absolutely nothing, let's wait until the next
Iphone is released before making a big noise about possibly nothing which may
concern us.
On 20/01/2011, at 2:16 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Lol,
You would make such a decision without even using one to know if
Hmm,
I just bought this app after reading your post and it works just as advertised
for me. I'm able to cut and paste with no problems. I didn't even need to do
a restart.
Ricardo Walker
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Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197
On Jan 19, 2011,
Is it necessary to have this app running any time you want to perform a cut
and paste? I can't tell from the description.
Seems like a useful app, but one that creates functionality that probably
should have been there to begin with.
Marc
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From: Ricardo Walker
Hi,
I think the app just runs in the background on start up. I do think it needs
to be on though but I'm not sure. I agree that this function should be in the
OS natively but, its not. So people have filled the void.
Ricardo Walker
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That's just ridiculous.
Talk about making a snap decision based on nothing.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Michael Thurman wrote:
if they do that i don't want an I phone
On Jan 17, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
Saw this story and thought I'd pass it along. This could spell trouble
Hi Ricardo,
Yes it can run in the background.
The way I use it is to launch it from the doc when I need it then go
back to the doc and un check start up at log in.
It's kind of clunky but it works!
What I do not like about it is when you cut something per-say it jumps
back in to the
Hello Mac users.
For anyone in IT or anyone who is nurdy, try coco packet analyzer.
It is a wireshark alternative that seems to be accessible.
This piece of software analyzes network traffic.
Enjoy.
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Matthew, this is a great find!
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I've been looking for one.
Thanks
Scott
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Hello Mac users.
For anyone in IT or anyone who is nurdy, try coco packet analyzer.
It is a wireshark alternative that seems
Yeah no problem.
I needed something for my TCPIP Applications class at college and wire shark on
mac and windows isn't at all accessible much to my annoyance.
On 2011-01-19, at 1:54 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Matthew, this is a great find!
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I've been
There's always ethereal on Unix Platforms as well.
TCPIP applications class, very exciting. Good eal.
I'm a network engineer and needed a good solution so this is a huge help.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Yeah no problem.
I needed something for my TCPIP
Hmm,
I haven't had that behavior happen with me. I alos just went into its settings
via the icon in the status bar. The app had load on start up unchecked by
default.
hth
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On Jan 19, 2011,
Hello Matthew,
Just in case you weren't aware, tcpdump comes bundled with SnowLeopard.
HTH,
André
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Yeah no problem.
I needed something for my TCPIP Applications class at college and wire shark
on mac and windows isn't at all accessible
Hello my name is Ed,
I got a macbook pro not to long ago. I was wondering if you guys could help me
find some good accessible games for the Mac. I came from a windowsbackground
and I can't seem to find any blind accessible games for the mac in searches.
Thank in advance ED
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Hi:
I have a related question. I have a book someone turned from a PDF into a text
edit. It is an excellent book. But, all the apostrophes, quotation marks, and
some other weird markings make it kind rough reading. I went through actually
word by word, I'm embarrassed to say, and fixed most
Hi Ed:
Welcome. You may want to check out maccessibility.net, and I think another
possibility is applevis.com
HTH
Carolyn H
On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Ed Worrell wrote:
Hello my name is Ed,
I got a macbook pro not to long ago. I was wondering if you guys could help
me find some good
How fast will the voice speak if you use the Add Track to iTunes option, or can
you set that with the brackets at the top of your text document?
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Agree with Scott G. That doesn't even make sense
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Scott Granados scott.grana...@gmail.com wrote:
That's just ridiculous.
Talk about making a snap decision based on nothing.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Michael Thurman wrote:
if they do
I admit I am a bit scared as well but if I can do somethign with 1 hand that
does not involve pushing a button or what not I'll try it out.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Lol,
You would make such a decision without even using one to know if its better,
or comparable to
I'm still having issues wiht it actually and have sent th dev a screen shot
movie of what happens with wht voice over says and sometimes does not say. HOpe
he responds. they usually are very good at responding so we'll see.
S
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Michael Thurman wrote:
this is
Hi Carolyn,
This sounds distinctly like a character set conversion problem. Unfortunately,
i'm unfamiliar with the specifics of character sets on the Mac and the process
the person used to convert your book. The most I can do is recommend that they
run the conversion again, paying attention
Hi Zack:
Thanks. At least you didn't holler at me to just go buy the book and deal with
it.:) Actually, probably that's what I'll do.
Thanks
Carolyn H
On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:
Hi Carolyn,
This sounds distinctly like a character set conversion problem.
Wow the joke possibilities in that comment alone are priceless.:)
On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I admit I am a bit scared as well but if I can do somethign with 1 hand that
does not involve pushing a button or what not I'll try it out.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Ricardo
Thanks much for the suggestion Andre,
I reset my DLink 655 to factory defaults and confirmed that it is indeed set to
DHCP. When I attempt to telnet to
http://nightly.webkit.org;, it times out Trying: 208.68.139.89
Needless to say nothing happens when I click on the download the latest
I am missing a crucial step here; I have text loaded into TextEdit and I have
seected it all, but when I look under Services I don't see a Add Spoken Track
to iTunes. Am I missing a script that i need first?
Jane
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I found the option to add a spoken track to iTunes; had to search for it under
keyboard shortcuts and check it. It ought to be working nicely now.
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Hello William,
I've never used Windows or JAWS and don't know MS Office, but in Pages, in the
Insert menu, there is Sender Field which has a submenu. The submenu contains
options such as Name, Address, E-mail, Phone, etc. And these too have their
submenus. Is this what you're looking for?
You
Hello Carolyn,
The conversion was almost certainly done using a PC, but you can fix the
problem fairly easily by using the Replace All function of the Find command.
Work out what each wrong character should be, then select the first occurrence
of that character, press Cmd-F, paste it into the
Now now Scott, can't hav you offending people again :)
The more i think about it, the more I want a iPhone without a home
button actually.
On 19/01/2011, Scott Granados scott.grana...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow the joke possibilities in that comment alone are priceless.:)
On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:10
Wow, I am glad to see there is so much interest even if I currently do not
have a need. lease though, if there are major changes in accessability keep
those of us on the MacVisionaries a heads up.
Thanks,
Jon
On 17 January 2011 22:00, Vinny Pedulla vinnypedu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
If you go to system prefs and select login items tab you can check the checbox
to hide moveaddict and after restart voiceover probably will not announce that
moveaddict has no windows. At least that is what happens here.
Hth,
Randy Stegall
kc4...@aol.com
Sent from my Mac Mini.
On Jan 19,
Hello all,
it's fixed after doing some permission repair.
For me , it works like it should work.
It fixes also another (bug) in macosx:
When you cut a folder and put them on another place where a folder with the
same name is stored, by default , macosx will replace the destination folder
with
Hello Anne,
No, it's not that what I mean.
I'll try to give a example:
If I type mailliw , it's me first name spelled reversed,
Then I put the program in overwrite-mode, I set the cursor on the m and I type
william.
The letters of mailliw are replaced with the word william, without deleting any
Hi Ricardo,
hou do you reach that element in the statusbar?
I think this is the statusbar: vo+m+m ?
I can only see the menubar with Apple, sync, timemachine... clock...
I tought also that the full statusbar is inaccessible with voiceover at this
moment.
So, as blind user, It seems impossible to
Hi there!
Ricardo was probably using a track pad if you have one thats how some people
find stuff that vo cannot normally find!
I think you can also do this with a mouse!
but you need a steady hand!
I could be wrong :]
Colin
Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
On 19 Jan 2011, at 23:00, William Windels
Right.
You can't access it with voiceover but, it can be accessed with a mouse or your
track pad. If using a track pad, make sure trackpad commander is off. Now
open up VO utilities. Go down to navigation and set your mouse to move the
voiceover cursor. Now your all set. Voiceover will
Your 100% correct.
Ricardo Walker
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On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Colin M wrote:
Hi there!
Ricardo was probably using a track pad if you have one thats how some people
find stuff that vo cannot normally
No actuall it is not. i posted a work around that actually I think came from
ester a few weeks ago on how to get to the full status bar.
Take care.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:00 PM, William Windels wrote:
Hi Ricardo,
hou do you reach that element in the statusbar?
I think this is the statusbar:
Hi,
As a avid reader, I must say I'm pretty annoyed that Amazon has given us the
short end of the stick as Apple device users once again. I just wondered if
you guys thing this accessibility will find its way on to the Mac now that
Amazon has shown blind windows users some love. I'm
I got a e-mail from Amazon and they said that they were working on it for the
Mac.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
As a avid reader, I must say I'm pretty annoyed that Amazon has given us the
short end of the stick as Apple device users once again. I just wondered
Will this hurt att at all? read more:
http://bit.ly/ghcqBJ
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If you look at what they did on smart phones, Amazon clearly prefers to sell as
many ebooks to as many people as they can, instead of pushing a specific
hardware, even when it's their own.
This and the fact they only need to make the Kindle for Mac VoiceOver
compatible, that is, no need to
You need to put an 80 after the telnet so something like
telnet mycompany.org 80
the 80 gives you the correct port number.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Thanks much for the suggestion Andre,
I reset my DLink 655 to factory defaults and confirmed that it is indeed set
Seriously, a definite thin skinned bunch over here. That's why I left the
jokes to the reader to come up with.:)
On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Now now Scott, can't hav you offending people again :)
The more i think about it, the more I want a iPhone without a home
Also remember, if Amazon uses good coding practices the Apple version should
just work.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:44 PM, louie wrote:
I got a e-mail from Amazon and they said that they were working on it for the
Mac.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
As a avid reader,
Hi Ann,
Where does the audio end up in Itunes?
I did it and I end up in a window that says;;
Automaker runner has no windows?
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Trahern,
There isn't much you can do directly from a PDF document, But if you
I think it's a goo didea. I don't know yet how it will work but I guess we'll
see when the iphone 5 and or 6 comes out eh?
Take care.
S
On Jan 19, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Seriously, a definite thin skinned bunch over here. That's why I left the
jokes to the reader to come
would the program called ghost reader do the trick?? kind regards
trahern.
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Hi Anne:
Thanks. I'm ging to try this for the sake of learning it. But, I did go buy
the book.:)
Still good to know.
Carolyn HOn Jan 19, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Carolyn,
The conversion was almost certainly done using a PC, but you can fix the
problem fairly easily
Hi Ricardo:
H must have missed something here. Pardon, but what're you talking about?:)
Carolyn H
On Jan 19, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
As a avid reader, I must say I'm pretty annoyed that Amazon has given us the
short end of the stick as Apple device users once again.
Ricardo,
The Kindle accessibility plug in application was designed using something
called the qt graphics package. I haven't a clue what that is. But given that
they went out of their way to use something that doesn't let you actually use
the app with your screen reader, using the screen
Not fair, but here's a solution; access would only be enabled if VoiceOver is
turned on. If not, you're screwed.
Jane
On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Ricardo,
The Kindle accessibility plug in application was designed using something
called the qt graphics package. I
If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see that
they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts feature.
that's why they can let us have access to all the books, even those that are
tts disabled on the Kindle hardware. Sighted people generally
You know, NVDA is one of the screenreaders that will work with the Kindle App
for PC and enable TTS on all Kinle books. Theoretically, anybody could
download and use NVDA since it is open source and free, thus giving the masses
access to TTS on the PC Kindle App. I bet most sighted people are
Another point. How do you chage the voice and speed that results?
Got the convertion to work but caint work out how to change the voice.
According to what I've read, you do it in the system prefs window under the
Text to speech tab under the speech prefs window. Thing is, that doesn't
Just think: if there were no home button on these devices, it would be easier
for that wonderful tactile film from Senseg to be implemented.
Teresa, speculating entirely of the deep end :)
On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Now now Scott, can't hav you offending people again
Can one use stanza to make the book more accessibil? I'm hving a play with it
but just wondering.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
You know, NVDA is one of the screenreaders that will work with the Kindle App
for PC and enable TTS on all Kinle books. Theoretically,
Hi, all,
This question regards the game for IOS4. Tilting my ITouch has really become an
issue for various purposes during the game. Getting started is no problem, but
for some of the activities, things don't go the way I expect them to at all.
I've tried tilting sharply or tilting at a
Thanks,
Adding the port number results in a connection, but how does this info help me
trouble shoot? Apparently my DLink isn't blocking access, yet I can check for
updates when I connect directly to the modem?
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
You need to put an 80 after
Hi,
it said it was working but where did the files go.
I had a selection in textedit went to services and did all the steps
but no files in itunes !
any help?
Chuck
On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Another point. How do you chage the voice and speed that results?
Got the
Intellectual property issues are a pain. I understand that the artist or author
needs to be compensated for their work, but I'm really tired of the extremes
that companies go to. It's ridiculous that anyone could consider TTS voices as
an actual audio book. As someone who produces actual audio
heres a stupid question but since I jut came int this discussion late what does
logic do?
On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
Wow, I am glad to see there is so much interest even if I currently do not
have a need. lease though, if there are major changes in accessability keep
amazon could not care less about us or they would have demanded text to speech
be working on any book
On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
As a avid reader, I must say I'm pretty annoyed that Amazon has given us the
short end of the stick as Apple device users once again.
exactly if you don't offend someone you are jus tnot living and everyone
seems to hav eno sense of humor these days, that applies to most of our society
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Seriously, a definite thin skinned bunch over here. That's why I left the
jokes to
amazon there shows how much disregard they have for us and how much they want
to crawl and lick the boots ad other less savory parts of th ebig dogs they
cower to i for one am sick of being 3rd class in society and why doesn't the
nfb sue for crap like that the nfb can't even get us
and why the hell do they care! publishers suck if its their choice
On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see
that they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts
feature. that's why they can
exactly and why I don't read tts books anyway it's just a slap in the face
for tem tell me that i can BUY not scan but BUY a book and stil not be able to
accesit in anyw ay if the publisher decides to block tts when i already bought
their book
greedy peopl eake me wat to be sick and all of
No. Stanza has nothing to do with Kindle books.
Mary Otten
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Yeah I know. I've had to do some spoken word and you have to work very very
very hard at it. TTS is *not* a human voice!
On Jan 19, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Chris Snyder wrote:
Intellectual property issues are a pain. I understand that the artist or
author needs to be compensated for their work, but
Oh darn! just a suggestion. I know someone wh I believe did it with stanza but
not sure. Actually they are able to convert a kindle book using the command
line and convert it to epub.
S
On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
No. Stanza has nothing to do with Kindle books.
Mary
Hello Trahern,
GhostReader will certainly do the trick. I didn't suggest it at first because I
wanted to suggest a cost-free solution. For myself, I really like GhostReader
and it's easy to select the voice or voices you want it to use.
Cheers,
Anne
On 20 Jan 2011, at 02:47, trahern culver
Hello Theresa.
I have been in contact with the makers of Aurifi and have confirmed that there
are some slight bugs in the current version of the game.
They expect to be releasing a new version in the near future; so, hang in there.
Mark
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Hi,
Hello Chuck,
You can find the item in iTunes by going to the Sources table, selecting
Recently Added and looking in the table for Text to Speech. The file itself
will be in/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown
Album/Text to Speech.m4a
Once you've found it in iTunes,
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