Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Cavendish
I don't think such inpage links have ever worked. I don't get them to work and have given up on them, instead I use intensely item chooser menu if I know the page and roughly what I'm looking for. Best wishes, Simon On 21 Mar 2011, at 05:51, Victor Tsaran wrote: Hello all, Am I missing

Re: New Mac user -- question about function keys

2011-03-21 Thread gerry cook
and as i understand comand 1 is imige view and command 2 is what you want list view as i've been told for that to work successfully. - Original Message - From: carolyn Haas chaas0...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 12:37 PM Subject: Re: New Mac

RE: MouseOver and VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Soren. Thanks so much for your reply. Yes, the vo command f5 did the trick. Thanks so much. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Søren Jensen Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 12:28 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: One more question.

2011-03-21 Thread Ashley Cox
No, It doesn't come pre-installed on the mac. If you have vmware fusion, it's in the installer selection, if not go here: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ for a commercial product, paragon ntfs for mac is here: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ HTH! Ash On 20/03/2011 21:30, Scott

Apple ipad keyboard and dock or Apple Bluetooth keyboard which one to purchase

2011-03-21 Thread Dean Adams
Hey Everyone, I am in the throws in purchasing either the Ipad keyboard and dock or the apple bluetooth keyboard for my Iphone 3GS soon to be Iphone 4 in july and was wondering what others thought that have used either I came accross info that stated that the Ipad keyboard and doc

Re: hotspots again, might be doing something wrong

2011-03-21 Thread Jes Smith
No, there is not a specific key to press to reactivate the hotspots. The hot spots have to be predictable to voiceover. In other words, they must be at the same place, at the same time, under all circumstances. I don't think what you are trying to do will work. On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:18 PM,

Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools

2011-03-21 Thread Jes Smith
One thing I would like to know is what kind of licensing scheme DigiDesign uses for Pro Tools, the effects Plugins, etc. On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: Hi Kevin, got a 404 error when trying to access. On 2011-03-19, at 3:00 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. While

Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools

2011-03-21 Thread Kevin Reeves
Pro Tools uses something called iLok. It's a dongle that licenses are downloaded to. As long as the iLok is plugged in, everything will run. Go to http://www.ilok.com to learn more. Hope that helps. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Anne Robertson
I can't think of a site I use with in-page links at the moment, but I know that in the past they've worked for me. After clicking on the link, just press VO-Shift-F5 to move the VO cursor to the mouse and you should be in the right place. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because

Re: One more question.

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Howell
Ah, ok now I recall where I had seen this. Funny, I just checked my employer's Mac and it does have this installed. SO, if they have it installed, I can be assured it works perfectly because they are incredibly careful about what goes on these machines. :) On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:23 AM, Ashley

Tips on Voiceover and Facebook

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I have recently started using Facebook, and I find it very confusing. Are there any tips that any of you on the list could offer me as far as moving around the complex pages of Facebook goes? For instance, how do you get to write on your wall? How do you find your wall quickly and, more

Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Krister On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi there. One thing that would be very useful to know is just how much power it needs, i.e what are the system requirements to even get off the ground? I suppose a 2 year old IMac with 2 gig ram, a 4.66 gig Intel core duo

Re: hotspots again, might be doing something wrong

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Yuma I think what you want is to make marks in preview. I don't know how you do this. Hopefully that points you in the right direction. I believe it's part of the annotating. HTH --FC On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Jes Smith wrote: No, there is not a specific key to press to reactivate

Re: Apple ipad keyboard and dock or Apple Bluetooth keyboard which one to purchase

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Dean The question makes you sound confused or maybe I'm confused. There are docks for the iphone that have a keyboard. These kind of make the phone become a flip phone. The ipad and a dock with keyboard is a whole other thing. If you get the apple bluetooth keyboard you can use it with

RE: Tips on Voiceover and Facebook

2011-03-21 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Instead of logging into facebook.com, go to m.facebook.com, the mobile version of the site. It's much more navigable with VO. Rafael Bejarano From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Simon Cavendish

Re: hotspots again, might be doing something wrong

2011-03-21 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, Actually, i am trying to keep hotspots relevant for certain applications like garage band so that i don't have to redo them each time i reboot or close the day. Is that actually not possible to do? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

monitoring internet trafic

2011-03-21 Thread William Windels
He all, I have my iphone, macbook and sometimes my windowslaptop connected to my internet. I do the following on the internet: browsing the web, skype-conversations, dropbox and gmail and sometimes, I download a song or program. Since 1 march, I see some traffic on my data-counter of more then

Re: hotspots again, might be doing something wrong

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Yuma Some folks are able to save hotspots across reboots and others aren't. It would be good if we could figure out what it is that causes this difference. If you are looking for garageband hotspots than get quickkeys and Brian Smart's voxkeys. He's got good stuff in there for

Re: monitoring internet trafic

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello William You didn't mention anything about your network typology. What kind of internet provider do you have? Cable dsl fiber? What kind of router do you have between your devices and that provider? You will want to measure the traffic going through that router. The tool that you use

Re: monitoring internet trafic

2011-03-21 Thread William Windels
Hi Frank, Sorry, I have forgotten some information: I use a linksys router with a cable connection. In Belgium, the data-trafic is limited, for my to 15GB/month by default. I don't know if I can setup that router to log the traffic. It's also not that accessible. I know, this should be the best

Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi list: Any of you out there date back to the days of using Outspoken? What I'm wondering is this: How different was the Outspoken experience vs. VoiceOver? Was it very similar? If not, can you comment on how different it was? You can reply off-list, as I don't want a lot of clutter.

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Esther
Hello Victor, Can you give an example of a page where in-page links do not work? Like Ann, who replied separately, these instances have worked for me. I just checked some Wikipedia listings, which were one of the classic examples we used to give of in-page links not working, and this works

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Joseph Norton
What about the NOAA web site? After you enter your zip code, there's a link that says jump to detailed text forecast. That one I had to do the VO-shift-f5 to get the VO cursor over there. On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Esther wrote: Hello Victor, Can you give an example of a page where

Re: Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I'd also be quite interested in the answer to this question. I never did have the chance to use Outspoken, though I recall having an old copy of it at school at one point. I don't think this would qualify as list clutter, as it is mac and Apple related, though of course that's for the

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Esther
Hi Joseph, I did a VO-Space on that link, and was taken to Today: and the forecast on that web page. What navigation settings are you using for your VoiceOver cursor tracking? (I currently have Mouse Cursor Ignores VoiceOver Cursor, but since I was fooling around with navigation experiments

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Pete Nalda
AFAIK should work fine. Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, mates! Louie P. Pete Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda/ http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda twitter @lpnalda Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hello Victor, Can you give an example of a page where

Re: Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Ashley Cox
I'd love to use outspoken. Been looking for it everywhere. ash On 21/03/2011 20:32, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I'd also be quite interested in the answer to this question. I never did have the chance to use Outspoken, though I recall having an old copy of it at school at one point. I don't

credit card reader apps for the iPhone?

2011-03-21 Thread Christy Schulte
Hi all, Apologies if this is off topic, I've been mostly inactive for a while so can't remember if iPhone app discussion is normal here. I'm trying to get a home business going, one that shows quite a lot of promise. Part of this business involves going to various places, and I may have a

OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello listers, I just updated to osx 10.6.7, and I already see voiceover being a little snappier, I don't know if this is a fix in the update or just a flook... Just wnated to get it out there that the update is out now. ED -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: In-page links with Voiceover in Snow Leopard

2011-03-21 Thread Joseph Norton
Well, I think I have tracking on, and, it worked for me this time. Maybe I tweaked something here too. On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Joseph, I did a VO-Space on that link, and was taken to Today: and the forecast on that web page. What navigation settings are you using

mod reminder about one-line pointless input

2011-03-21 Thread carolyn Haas
Pete: Excuse me? What should work fine for what purpose. This is just the kind of thing that makes for pointless traffic. Please take the time to think about whether all the folks here or any of them will understand what AFAIK means or is refering to. And does it impart any useful

10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Yuma Decaux
Been opening editing and checking applications in general, and the snappiness is definetely felt here. Mailboxes appear much faster in mail, switching from window to window in finder, using music applications and opening system preferences or voice over preferences all make a major

Re: Apple ipad keyboard and dock or Apple Bluetooth keyboard which one to purchase

2011-03-21 Thread Cheree
Cheree Heppe here: It depends on whether you want to be mostly stationary with your IPad or IPhone, or mostly mobile. If you have been used to sitting in one spot with a desktop computer in front of you, the mobile possibilities may not seem readily beneficial. But, once you try

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread ShamelessFanGirl
Definitely keep us up-dated on your progress. While I'm a qualifying wanna be switcher at the moment, this interests me very much. Thanks Twitter: @IndigoCellist Sent from my iPhone On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com wrote: Been opening editing and checking

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Cheree
Cheree Heppe here: What's X Slimmer and Cocktail? Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone On 21/03/2011, at 14:55, Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com wrote: Been opening editing and checking applications in general, and the snappiness is definetely felt here. Mailboxes appear much faster

RE: Apple ipad keyboard and dock or Apple Bluetooth keyboard which one to purchase

2011-03-21 Thread Cameron
There is also the zag mate case, which has a built in bluetooth keyboard. That may be worth looking into. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheree Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:56 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Cheree, X slimmer and cocktail are used to get rid of unused files in applications, system preferences, or others. Such as universal binaries with ppc compatible code, localizations and other files packaged in the bundles for wide compatibility. Saves up hundred megs here and there, and

Re: skype again

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
Thanks, Interacting with contacts makes all the difference. Antonio On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Make sure your interacting with the list of contacs. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Mar

Re: OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hi! Great, I tried to install it and it failed. I have rebooted and downloaded the update from the Apple support website, and there is still an error. Does anyone have a magic trick? Can't wait for this update, if this does some good to VOiceover. Best regards Thomas Den 21/03/2011 kl. 22.09

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, glad it works fine for you; but as for me, once I installed 10.6.7, I had to reformat my Time Machine backup disk because upon restart, my Mac could not see it. Even using the DVD as the controling drive, merely repairing the backup disk with Utilities was not the answer because

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Yuma Decaux
I've already had problems with a time machine drive not working upon reinstall of my OS, but it was on a time capsule. What i do know is that the backup quote unquote volume is a parser bundle which is something similar to a disk image, so basically you can open the parser bundle if you have

Re: OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, can you be more specific? What's the error message you are experiencing? Yuma -- 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

RE: Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
I used to use Outspoken with Mac OS9. It was more intuitive than VO, in my opinion, but it also didn't give you as much accessibility as VO does (e.g., you couldn't navigate by paragraph vs. sentence with Outspoken). That said, I wish Outspoken were still available. There are many APPs that are

Re: Nuance - PDF Converter for Mac with omnipage ocr

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Howell
Well I grabbed this and oh boy it is not very pretty. Lots of unlabeled buttons with no help tags. Well ok, that is not the worst of it. The most significant problem is you cannot get access to the pdf content. So, hopefully I can find someone who will talk to me about this because as is the

Re: OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread Esther
Hello, You can always get downloads from the Apple Support downloads page: http://support.apple.com/downloads/ but it's often easier to use a page that links the specific downloads for a system update. Here's the MacFixIt page article with links to both incremental and combo downloads:

voice over list?

2011-03-21 Thread KliphSharrie
Hello, is there a list out there strictly for the voice over screen reader? Just asking since I don't see much on here about the key strokes and such. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
I used outspoken in college, for the time, in some ways, it was actually more advanced than the windows screen readers were. I will mention what I remember. Like voiceover, you did a lot of navigation, and the mouse pointer was the outspoken cursor. So, there were commands for moving up, down,

Re: 10.6.7 definetely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
How exactly would CHMod help? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Mar 21, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: I've already had problems with a time machine drive not working

RE: 10.6.7 definitely smoother

2011-03-21 Thread KliphSharrie
So is it true that fire fox is faster and more secure than safari? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 4:55 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: 10.6.7 definetely

Firefox versus Safari [Was, Re: 10.6.7 definitely smoother]

2011-03-21 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello KliphSharrie, I've changed the subject line to reflect your actual question. I believe Firefox, including the new Firefox 4, does not work with VoiceOver. I'll let others speak to your questions regarding speed and security. HTH, Bryan On Mar 21, 2011, at 8:47 PM, KliphSharrie wrote:

Re: OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I've upgraded without a hitch. Just finished my permissions repair. I'm wondering what improvements I should look for... • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You

Re: OSX 10.6.7 is out

2011-03-21 Thread May McDonald
I just did the update and safari doesn't seem to work well. Seems sluggish to me. May On 2011-03-21, at 9:08 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: I've upgraded without a hitch. Just finished my permissions repair. I'm wondering what improvements I should look for... • Mark BurningHawk

Re: mod reminder about one-line pointless input

2011-03-21 Thread Pete Nalda
OMG!!! I'm so sorry, I *think* I replied to the wrong forum! I'm not sure how that happened. I'll blame it on my Android's screenreader. I was replying to someone wanting to know if their 3rd generation iPod Nano would work with the latest Mac Machines. Again I do apologize, and will try

Re: voice over list?

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello This is pretty much the list. If you have questions feel free to ask. ---FC On Mar 21, 2011, at 8:07 PM, KliphSharrie wrote: Hello, is there a list out there strictly for the voice over screen reader? Just asking since I don’t see much on here about the key strokes and such. --

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2011-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi You can get high quality tracks from http://hdtracks.com. Enjoy --FC On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: ok the problem is where do you buy higher resolution music? sacd is dead as is dvda because the playback equipment was so overpriced so what's better than cd that I

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2011-03-21 Thread Pete Nalda
For my part I really prefer CD's, as It gives me an automatic backup of my music. If I buy a CD then rip into my computer then I have a backup that's always there. It's also a means of distribution still for a lot of people. And, I think People still rely on DVD's to watch movies on their

RE: cd drives going out of style:

2011-03-21 Thread KliphSharrie
I use to enjoy having backups, but over the years I have built a collection that is far too large to keep backups of everything, right now as I look in my iTunes library, there are ten thousand 8 hundred and 32 songs. So I keep them on an external hard drive, as well as a NAS server drive. As

Re: credit card reader apps for the iPhone?

2011-03-21 Thread Kevin Reeves
Go to www.squareup.com and sign up. It's a company called Square who allows you to take credit card payments via your i Device. They offer a free credit card reader that plugs into the phone's headphone jack. There are some known voiceover issues with the app itself, which is free as well, but

Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools

2011-03-21 Thread Kevin Reeves
You mean running Pro Tools on this Speak and Spell isn't gonna cut it? I'm using 2 apple II E's and a tandy 1000 as dsp processors. Is this enough? Was looking at an atari 2600 and leapfrog playschool laptop as my editing suite in another studio. Your thoughts? Lolol. On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:52