Re: accessible radio apps

2011-02-23 Thread Charlie Doremus
There is radio in iTunes Aloha, Charlie Our new book "YOU MIGHT BE A MORON" is on sale at www.giantdolphin.com click the off the bookshelf link On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:27 PM, "chad" wrote: > hi i don't have any portable devices is there any accessible to listen to > radio > right now i'm

Mac and PC accessibility: more similar or more different?

2011-02-23 Thread Pommette
Has anyone been systematically comparing how well access works between VO and Windows-based programs like JAWS? Do the same accessibility tests apply to both platforms, or will one be better for some things than the other? I'm not raising this question as a contest - I'm simply trying to understand

accessible radio apps

2011-02-23 Thread chad
hi i don't have any portable devices is there any accessible to listen to radio right now i'm using the demo of radio shift any free ones thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionari

Re: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread David Tanner
You are not going to the right place to setup a Braille display. After turning on bluetooth you go back to the general settings menu then go to the choice for accessability, go in there and then go to the VoiceOver button and click in there, then go to the Braille button and click in there. Un

Re: More Itunes questions.

2011-02-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Movies, TV Shows and such at the top of the Library are not Cut and Pastable. That is, you cannot place items into those areas that are not designated to be Movies, TV Shows etc. Your best bet in this case is to create a Playlist of your own, possibly name it DVS Movies and then place

Bulk?

2011-02-23 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi guys: I'm wondering how a subject line gets the word "bulk" in brackets inserted? And what purpose that serves? Further, I'm wondering why we're still blathering on about the dropbox issue. May I respectfully suggest we agree it smells, and for those who are stuck without they look elsewher

Re: demand for yet another podcast?

2011-02-23 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Erik: I'd say take some time for yourself; take that new macbook, and enjoy your honeymoon. While I'm sure you could turn out some very succinct podcasts, (and it's kind of you to offer), give yourself permission to just enjoy your set-up. That's what I would do. Enjoy. Carolyn H On Feb

Re: TextExpander half off today from MacUpdate

2011-02-23 Thread carolyn Haas
Hey Darcy What's it for, if you don't mind my asking? And btw anyone know of any easier word processing apps for the iPad, other than pages? TIA Carolyn H On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > I could see it being useful for certain situations. If you find yourself > typing t

Re: Response from Dropbox Support regarding my inquiry

2011-02-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You got a smigen more than the rest of us got. Thanks for sharing this. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > I submitted a ticket to

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have the music I want on the phone. I wanted playlists so I could workout to specific music, or create different lists for different moods. On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > You have to create your playlists manually on the iphone. tha;ts why I don't > recomend this metho

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Okay, I know what to do, it's just not cooperating. LOL. Here is what I have. When I hook up my iPhone 4, or Nano 6th gen, I have the following settings: Under iTunes preferences, under devices, I have, prevent ipad, iPhone, ipod from syncing audomatically. On the phone, or iPod section of i

Re: More Itunes questions.

2011-02-23 Thread Phantom.Vader
Uh, oops! Apparently I spoke too soon. Haven't tried adding to playlists yet, but I tried that reclassifying thing you mentioned. I should have done so before my last reply, though, as it didn't work! That is, cmd+i brought up the dialogue, but cmd+5 did nothing. There was a "media type" pop-up

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Jim Barbour
Er, apologies for the reference to the iTunes store. I forgot which list I was writing to. My point stands though. It is not realistic to assume that every Mac application should be voiceover friendly before the developer can make money from it. Jim On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:39:40PM -0800, Ji

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Jim Barbour
Are you suggesting that every developer should make sure that every app is VO accessible before the app store carries it? That wuld be tantamount to saying that every app must be availble in, insert obscure written language here, before it could be sold in the iTunes store. So, I say to pick your

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread louie
Like I said they don't care and they don't have to. Every one that put me down for saying the above what do you have to say now. On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > well honestly I don't think it matters what we do short of a class action > lawsuit because like most things noo

Response from Dropbox Support regarding my inquiry

2011-02-23 Thread Bryan Jones
I submitted a ticket to Dropbox Support using the simple form at this URL: https://www.dropbox.com/ticket#step:2 Pasted below is the initial response I've received. Is this the same response other folks are getting? I'd be interested to know exactly what your response was, what further communica

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
that's what I did as well and they asked me for more details as well and then they said we are aware of it and working tward a fix. that was a year ago and again a few months ago and again last month. I've given up and will take this to CNET news as soon as I have the time to write something up

Re: demand for yet another podcast?

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. that's why I did mine. my way is slow and tedious but for some it works lol! but yeah go head. we all learn in different ways on how to do stuff and we all can give feedback on each other's methods to learn from each other. Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to

Re: demand for yet another podcast?

2011-02-23 Thread Kaare Dehard
sounds great, I like the work mike has done, but there really is a lot of room for alternate perspectives. On 2011-02-23, at 5:45 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sometime in the next few days a new macbook is arriving here. It's a custom > built with 8 gb ram and solid state drive...

Re: Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread Kaare Dehard
try adding @gmail.com to the end of your sender user name. That worked for me. On 2011-02-23, at 9:37 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: > Hello again, folks. I managed to fix incoming mail, but my attempt to > send email from my Apple mail inbox was unsuccessful. I have the > outgoing server set as

Re: 27 inch iMac Firewire chipset question

2011-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Michael, With the newer chipset for the Firewire port, there is more latency in the recording process. This was a big factor in the decision by professional musicians of which computer to get, going all the way back to the initial MacBook Pro releases (pre-Unibody design). Justin, or someo

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Ok I wrote to dropbox yesterday, and I got an answer back, where they asked me if I could give them more details. I think that, if you write a mail to them, and describes the problems, I think they will try to solve it, that's how I understand it. we need to be positive, when we are writin

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
and I'm not willing to go there. I'll probably though ask cnet if I can write up a short post about the inaccessibility of dropbox and point them to my video I did. if htey except it hten yeppy for me. more way of getting the message out there. but firsst I have 3 tests to take for my systems c

Re: 27 inch iMac Firewire chipset question

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
why does the chipset matter? just curious as i have never used firewire On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > I'm thinking about purchasing the 27 inch iMac but had one question before > making the leap. Does anyone have any idea whether the newest models have a > Texas Instrume

Re: itunes and podcasts question

2011-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Denise, ACB Main Menu is in the iTunes Store; just go to "Search" in the File menu on the menu bar to do an iTunes Power Search, navigate to what is normally the HTML area of the Store and change the pop up button (VO-Space) from "All Results" to "Podcasts", then VO-Right arrow and type in y

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
well honestly I don't think it matters what we do short of a class action lawsuit because like most things noone cares unless you bust them over the head with a 2x4 lol most buisness people I uspect are abotu as stubborn as mules On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Sounds ty

Re: video conversion

2011-02-23 Thread Jane
I guess I missed it. Thank you for providing the link for us once again. Jane On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Jane and Others, > > I provided a link to MPEG StreamClip in my earlier answer to Matthew, but > here's the direct link to the developer's web page at Squared 5: > >

demand for yet another podcast?

2011-02-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi guys, Sometime in the next few days a new macbook is arriving here. It's a custom built with 8 gb ram and solid state drive... the works. Is there demand for yet another podcast series? Another person taking a new mac out of the box and demonstrating mac basics, mail, safari, other mac a

Re: video conversion

2011-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Jane and Others, I provided a link to MPEG StreamClip in my earlier answer to Matthew, but here's the direct link to the developer's web page at Squared 5: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html This product will do video format conversions, and separate audio extractions.

Re: Ricardo's garage band podcasts

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Snyder
I have looked through my messages on the list, and I don't even see the links for such podcasts. Friendly, Chris On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote: > Hi, all. > I know that some days ago Ricardo Walker made some garage band > podcasts. Now I'm just beginning to mess with garage ban

Re: More Itunes questions.

2011-02-23 Thread Phantom.Vader
Thanks man! Yes, that was very helpful indeed! Am I getting, then, that it's better to reclassify than to try to copy and paste? Just curious. Thanks again! On Feb 22, 8:38 pm, Kevin Shaw wrote: > HI, > > You can reclassify your audio described movies by pressing command-I and then > pressi

Re: TextExpander half off today from MacUpdate

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ah still not sure if I'll get it but I'm almost tempted lol! the program looked very very good when I saw a review of it on the all with my iphone podcast. Anyway take care and be safe. Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master for more

Re: TextExpander half off today from MacUpdate

2011-02-23 Thread Darcy Burnard
I could see it being useful for certain situations. If you find yourself typing the same bit of text a lot. Or if you often make the same mistakes while typing. I've only just started playing with it, so am not sure of all its capabilities yet. Darcy On 2011-02-23, at 2:53 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: TextExpander half off today from MacUpdate

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
I can see that being used more for iphones then a computer. and since my typing is so bad I don't really see the point lol! I've seen a review for the ios version and love it and may get that one instead. Take care and be blessed Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go t

TextExpander half off today from MacUpdate

2011-02-23 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi. TextExpander is one of those programs I've been wanting to try out for a while now, but thought it was a bit pricey at $34.95. MacUpdate has it for half off for the remainder of today. I've been looking at it, and it looks like it's completely accessible with VoiceOver. The MacUpdate page

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
why does the nfb never get into cases like this yet they destroy our chances for getting discriptive tv programming... wht are these groups like the nfb and the acb doing for us? they probably don't care after all their leadership are all people with PLENTY of money so what do theyc are

Sound flower issue solved

2011-02-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It turns out that I muted the output of Sound Flower 2ch. As a consequence of which, it was not outputing audio it was receiving. At first, I thought maybe my Grifin Imic was not working correctly, so, I fiddled with the inputs and outputs. That was the point at which I messed up the Sound fl

Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
how abotu apple giving accessible aps a higher placement int he ap store? On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > If you were the CEO of apple, they'd be broke. :). I know its hard for us to > sit by and just take but, I think Apple has done all they can as for > accessibility in r

Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
and it sucks thank god I hav the old installer which still worked fine I will definately keep the old version guess i should burn it to multiple discs or whatever at least ntil someone else writes an alternative and this company thinks we will pay for their service? laughs On Feb 22, 2

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
You have to create your playlists manually on the iphone. tha;ts why I don't recomend this method so I would just turn it off and manage through the music section of your iphone when you check themusic radio button. Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.

sound flower routing issues

2011-02-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay, I really don't get this at all. This morning, I was able to use Sound flower to capture my Grifin Imic sound and rout it to Skype just fine. the Imic was set as the input for Audio Hijack Pro and the output of that same Imic session was set to Sound Flower 2ch. Now, after having done d

Re: Fission selection and play head movement?

2011-02-23 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks to an answer from Rogue Amoeba, I can respond to my own post. Any attempt on the part of a voiceOver user to explore or interact with the set play head and time selection dialogs causes focus to move out of the input fields, rendering it impossible to enter anything. Every time field con

Re: Ricardo's garage band podcasts

2011-02-23 Thread Oriol Gómez
thanks man. :) On 2/23/11, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > You can find them here > http://goo.gl/Ox5R0 > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Oriol Gómez wrote: > >> Hi, all. >>

Re: i works

2011-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Steph, iWorks works fine with VoiceOver for the normal use. But of course it depends what you want to do. Regards Jürgen Am 23.02.2011 um 11:26 schrieb Stephanie Mitchell: > Is i works accessi? > If not, what alternatives are there? > Steph > > -- > You received this message because you a

Re: Ricardo's garage band podcasts

2011-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You can find them here http://goo.gl/Ox5R0 hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Oriol Gómez wrote: > Hi, all. > I know that some days ago Ricardo Walker made some garage band > podcasts. Now

Ricardo's garage band podcasts

2011-02-23 Thread Oriol Gómez
Hi, all. I know that some days ago Ricardo Walker made some garage band podcasts. Now I'm just beginning to mess with garage band and I'm a little slow in figuring it out. Does anyone still have the links to these? I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yeah. Its pretty straight forward. First, connect your device and open iTunes. Then navigate in your sources table down to the name of your device. Now press control option until you reach the info tab and select it. Now I recommend using a little shortcut. Instead of pressing control opti

Re: Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread M. Taylor
Christine, There is a very consistent and somewhat logical reason for the delema you're facing Almost all of us Outlook/Windows patriots encounter the same problem on both the Mac and the iPhone. Once you understand why you are encountering this problem, you will think it ever so obvious. In

Re: Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread Christine Grassman
OMG! I cannot believe I did not think of that. I do have it working now, not quite sure what my brother did, but it works. What is the procedure for transferring from the iPhone -- is it merely a straight sync? I'll help my husband with that later. On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Ricardo W

Re: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread Ahmed Alomran
hi all i use my braille focus 40 blue connected to my mac book, iphone 3 G S, Ipod touch and Ipad. I haven't experienced any problems in connecting the focus 40 blue with all these devices. kind regards. Ahmed. On 23 Feb 2011, at 14:45, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > > The reason for it won't wor

RE: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread Tommy Craig
Hi, I use the Braillex Trio with a MacBook pro. It works very well. I use it via bluetooth most of the time but it also works with a usb connection. Tommy -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of William Windels Sen

Re: Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, If you have an iPhone or iPod touch with your e-mail set up on them, you can just transfer your account to your mac. That way you won't have anything to set up. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:37

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Right, After you have those checked, navigate to the table with your playlists and interact. Now check the the playlists you want synced. I can make a quick audio of me doing it if you'd like. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450

Re: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. The reason for it won't work might be because you don't search for the Bluetooth displays from Settings, general, accessibility, VOiceover and Braille. Best regards: Søren Jensen mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den 23/02/2011 kl. 14.55 skrev Willia

Migrating Outlook folders to Apple Mail

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I want to migrate to Apple Mail. I currently have lots of email in outlook folders. Is there an accessible application to do this? If not, have any of you done this successfully and if so how? Thanks so much. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Music is fine, it is playlists that I'm having issues with. So, I'll have to duplicate my playlists? Create 1 set in iTunes, and the other on the phone, or Nano? Yuck! On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:27 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > No you just paste the music you want on the phone device name. it's odd but

Success, then failure . . .

2011-02-23 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello again, folks. I managed to fix incoming mail, but my attempt to send email from my Apple mail inbox was unsuccessful. I have the outgoing server set as "smtp" -- my password is now recognized, but I am receiving a message that the smtp server is rejecting my sender name! I checked to see i

Re: VO Drag and Drop

2011-02-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I don't want to use thismethod, however my playlists will not copy over using copy and paste to my Nano, or my iPhone. I can copy over albums of music without a problem, but not playlists. I have manually manage music checked, and I have sync specific files checked, or what ever that second

Re: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. I use the Eurobraille 40 with my I phone and Mac book Pro and have no difficulties. If you wish to set up a braille display using the I phone it's best to go into settings general and accessability. Once in accessability you need to find the braille option. When found press where it says ad

testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-23 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I have tested some brailledisplays with iphone4 and macbook (last versions of the os). I am interested in one of the following displays: Eurobraille ESYS40 Papenmeier Trio focus 40 blue I was able to connect the esys40 with my macbook with bluetooth and usb. The bluetooth was only w

Re: help activing vuescan

2011-02-23 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I also had a lot of problems with that. Have you tried to use the copy and paste, try to press tab and then shift+tab, it sometimes make a differens. If that does not work, please write again, when I will try to figure out, what I did. Best regards Annie. On 23/02/2011, at 10.21, Stephani

Re: 27 inch iMac Firewire chipset question

2011-02-23 Thread Vince Mistretta
Interesting Anyway it is best to have the audio device at the end of the chain from what I've read from items before. Many Drives are 800 and Audio are still running 400 which would preclude you to put a 800 drive before the audio device since your higher speed device should be at the beginning of

itunes and podcasts question

2011-02-23 Thread Denise Avant
hello all, i want to subscribe to some podcasts using itunes. i'm wanting to subscribe to blindcooltech, accessibleworld tech talk archives, and ACB main menu. these do not appear to be available when i subscribe to them. if this is not true, and someone has subscribed to these podcasts, please

Re: Anti Virus Software

2011-02-23 Thread Ian Robinson
Thanks for all the replies. The strange thing is that I know of Eset and Sophos from using Windows, but just didn't think of them for the Mac. Anyway, I've now got the free Sophos anti virus installed and set to run automatically on startup. Thanks again. Ian On 19 Feb 2011, at 16:24, Bryan

i works

2011-02-23 Thread Stephanie Mitchell
Is i works accessi? If not, what alternatives are there? Steph -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+

Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
I would not know where to begin. I am just a podcaster lol. On 22/02/2011, at 22:51, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Have you tried? You don't know that. And dropbox might care about us but, > they care about bad press. There's a difference. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Sky

Re: my mail new message window looks funny., and another issue.

2011-02-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
I know how to reinstall mail. I hear that is how the window is to look but I find that hard to believe. On 23/02/2011, at 0:09, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Then I'm sorry. Either you boot the Mac from your install disk and try to > repair or you should call Apples users support. Maybe they can hel

Re: help activing vuescan

2011-02-23 Thread Stephanie Mitchell
No, nothing happens. I can't type anything. Steph - Original Message - From: Sarah Alawami What happens if you vo shift space on the field you want to type in? Can you then edit the text therein? I'm just guessing as I don't use vooscan. Take care and good luck. Sarah Alawami If yo

Re: Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Nelson
I don't know from actual experience, but below is a link for web site that provides voices to pronounce the words correctly. I hope this helps. On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. An instructor in training here at the Louisiana Center for the > Blind is from Kurgist

Re: my mail new message window looks funny., and another issue.

2011-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Then I'm sorry. Either you boot the Mac from your install disk and try to repair or you should call Apples users support. Maybe they can help you just to reinstall Mail and not the whole system. Good luck Jürgen Am 23.02.2011 um 03:07 schrieb Sarah Alawami: > What I mean by that is I already