Re: Reading text in Pages and TextEdit

2011-04-11 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Sunshine, * When reading text documents in Pages, Voiceover will stop at the end of each physical page in a document. How can I read a long document continuously without VO stopping and me always flicking down two fingers at each stop? I want it to behave like what it does on the iPhone

Re: Writing to an FTP server via the finder

2011-04-11 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Ricardo, you can't use Finder as an ftp client. Try Transmit. For me that's the most accessible ftp client I know on the Mac. All the best Jürgen Am 10.04.2011 um 19:09 schrieb Ricardo Walker: Hi folks, I have a large file I want to share with someone so they gave me the login

word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread KliphSharrie
Well, I've got an awful lot of documents in word format, and it would be very time consuming to convert them from word to pages. So is there a app that will allow me to read word documents with voice over, or do I have to bite the bullet and just run windows on my mac? Kliphton Senior (face

Re: Writing to an FTP server via the finder

2011-04-11 Thread Rose Morales
Transmit is cool, but it costs $30 or so? I forget the exact price. Anyway, Cyberduck is easy to use, accessible, and free. I suggest you try that for your FTP needs. Hth, Rose On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi Ricardo, you can't use Finder as an ftp client. Try

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Ashley Cox
Hi, Text edit (comes witht eh mac), pages, open office, and pretty much any of the other editors will open and save in word format. I use a macbook for school and use word files constantly. ash On 11/04/2011 08:41, KliphSharrie wrote: Well, I've got an awful lot of documents in word

Routing the voiceover sound to DJays pre-cuing channels using Soundflower, how?

2011-04-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, I want to be able to use DJay 3 software with a Vestax spinn that i have to do some mixing and stuff. I don't want voiceover to go out in the main mix but i still want to have control of what i do and so i want voiceover sound to go to say the cuing channels of DJay, how would i go

A growl tip

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Norman
Hiya all, I imagine that most people have already figured this out, but I found something cool this morning regarding growl. If you go to system preferences, to the growl preference pain, and Display preferences, third tab, set the default notification type to anything except smoke, and

Re: [Bulk] A growl tip

2011-04-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Thing is, I just set mine to speech. Speech seems the most logical choice. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Apr 11, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Chris Norman wrote: Hiya all, I imagine

Re: Voiceover Caption and copying to clipboard

2011-04-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
VO-shift-C does not use apple script. I am fairly confident of this as it has always been available in VoiceOver. Also even if it did use the Voce Over scripting functions the visibility of a specific panel would not effect what the script could access. Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net

Re: A growl tip

2011-04-11 Thread Scott Ford
Hi Chris, I would like to mention that this is one of those cases the I must have missed, because I did not know that bit of information. I realize that the one liners are not saposto happen, however I occasionally like to see basic information. I am not calling for a clutter of

Re: Chatty Voiceover with Security Setting

2011-04-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is the computer starting to go to sleep. Some possibilities 1: extend the sleep timer 2. move the mouse around a bit while reading a long document. 3. turn off the sleep timer and go to Utilities / Keychain access. In Keychain access there is a preference option to add a keychain menu

RE: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread KliphSharrie
So break it down for me like I'm a 2 year old. Will I have to convert them first, or the mac will let me open them up and have no issues? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:55 AM To:

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Ashley Cox
the mac will let you open them up and have no issues. On 11/04/2011 13:46, KliphSharrie wrote: So break it down for me like I'm a 2 year old. Will I have to convert them first, or the mac will let me open them up and have no issues? *From:*macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Aha! I know what it is!

2011-04-11 Thread Colin M
Hi there! Yes indeed fn+f1 or f2 does do the brightness! Also the command [vo+command+f10 ] turns the caption panel on or off! And for anyone who might be interested vo+command+f9 turns the braille panel on or off! Colin Qapla! Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak On 10 Apr 2011, at 11:26,

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Moore
If you are only requiring to read the document, you can just hit the space bar and it will open in preview. VoiceOver will then read this document to you. TextEdit lets you edit RTF Word Documents. For Office 2007 and 2010 docx files you will need Pages. A new OS is due in the summer, who

RE: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread KliphSharrie
You mentioned in a previous message that you use word. Why didn't you use Pages on the mac instead? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 8:48 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: word

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Ashley Cox
I've managed to use docx files in text edit. The formatting can get a bit lost sometimes, but other than that it works quite well. ash On 11/04/2011 14:56, Chris Moore wrote: If you are only requiring to read the document, you can just hit the space bar and it will open in preview. VoiceOver

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Ashley Cox
Because the majority of my teachers and schoolfriends don't use macs, and are always giving me word files. I use these regularly on the mac with no problems. To be perfectly honest, i dont' use pages that often. In pages, if you want to save a file as a word file, you have to go through the

deleting messages from my imap account

2011-04-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I have one email account that is an IMAP account. No matter what I do, I can't seem to delete those messages. Anyone know how to do this on a Mac? thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: Writing to an FTP server via the finder

2011-04-11 Thread Brent Harding
I thought Finder kind of worked with the command K option to connect to server, but it loses connection and stuff for me. It's sort of like using Windows Explorer on that platform, sort of but not the best. - Original Message - From: Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net To:

Re: Reading text in Pages and TextEdit

2011-04-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
I would have a detailed look within the Voiceover utility under the verbosity section where you choose the level to which Voiceover helps you by announcing certain things. You can choose the level low, medium and high but you can also customise each level in greater details. There is a table

Re: Tips for importing audiobooks?

2011-04-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I have purchased a small application called audiobook builder which I think is verry helpful I can import multiple CDs into it, and it will join all the tracks into one and convert it into either mp3 or AAC bookmarkable format and you can choose to have it sent into iTunes where

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Do you get chequebook pro from the ap store, or somewhere else, Sarai? thanks, Caitlyn, who is hopelessly behind! On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: The Mac has accessible email, internet, and calendar programs. As for checkbook software, I love Checkbook pro. On Mar

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Esther
Hi Ashley and Others, Earlier this year Yuma asked whether there was an easier way to save to Word document format from Pages without having to use the export feature in Pages each time. I ran a Google search for an AppleScript to batch export from Pages09 to Word format and posted where to

Re: Tips for importing audiobooks?

2011-04-11 Thread carolyn Haas
Hello Zach: I have a very nicely said out description of how to do this with iTunes from a former post from Jane. If you are going to do this with iTunes, I'd ve happy to send you the post. Carolyn On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi All, I have a couple audiobooks for

help with signatures, please

2011-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Can somebody explain how to set up a signature in mail? I've played around with it and can't figure it out. I'm wanting to eventually have one with my contact info in it, like my skype, msn, etc. thanks, Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: help with signatures, please

2011-04-11 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. If You wish to set up a signature, press command comma to get to the preferences. There is a control button on the extreme left. Interact and VO right until you here signatures. Press VO space to select. Stop interacting. Then VO right until you come to a table. The first column is

Re: Writing to an FTP server via the finder

2011-04-11 Thread Jürgen Fleger
I used Cyberduck for a while. It works fine but the status information of up- and downloads are not accessible for VO. That's why I switched to Transmit. But it's true it's not for free. All the best Jürgen Am 11.04.2011 um 10:03 schrieb Rose Morales: Transmit is cool, but it costs $30 or so?

Response from Apple Accessibility RE: Accessibility of the MobileMe website with VoiceOver in Snow Leopard

2011-04-11 Thread Bryan Jones
Begin response from AppleHi, Thank you for your email and feedback. At this time MobileMe is not fully Screen Reader compatible. We are unable to comment on when complete Screen Reader functionality may be added to MobileMe but the MobileMe team is aware of this issue. We do appreciate

Webkit and Safari Troubles. Click to Flash dialog coming up every time I open Safari or Webkit. HELP!!!

2011-04-11 Thread Kimberly thurman
Hi folks: Webkit and Safari seem to have gone bonkers on me. Every time I open either one, I get a dialog that pops up with click to flash release notes, etc., which I have to click the OK button to get out of. I then am put on an HTML page with what looks like preference choices for click

downloading files

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. I have files that I want to download off of safari, but when i hit vo space it opens and plays it, instead of asking me if i wanted to download it. Any way to fix this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: Webkit and Safari Troubles. Click to Flash dialog coming up every time I open Safari or Webkit. HELP!!!

2011-04-11 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Kim, I would suggest that since Click to Flash seems to be misbehaving particularly, you start by removing that and work your way from there. I believe the graying out of items implies some kind of dialog box is open, so I'd also investigate whatever that might be. Take it slowly and

Re: Webkit and Safari Troubles. Click to Flash dialog coming up every time I open Safari or Webkit. HELP!!!

2011-04-11 Thread Kimberly thurman
Any idea how I go about uninstalling plug ins? Where are they installed? Thanks in advance, Kim On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Kim, I would suggest that since Click to Flash seems to be misbehaving particularly, you start by removing that and work your way from

Re: downloading files

2011-04-11 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
Good afternoon Matt, Rather than pressing VO Space on the item you want to download, try pressing Option+Enter. You should have better luck. On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: Hi. I have files that I want to download off of safari, but when i hit vo space it opens and plays

How do I get rid of Click to Flash?

2011-04-11 Thread Kimberly thurman
HI folks. Safari and Webkit have gone crazy. How do I get rid of Click to Flash? All the choices under the Safari and Webkit menus are grayed out. Where is Click to Flash located on the Mac? I am getting a Click to Flash dialog everytime I load Safari or Webkit. When I close this, all the

issues with accepting contacts in adium

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Dierckens
I am having issues accepting someone in adium. I have an authorization request and I want to accept them. The problem is, when I hit authorize button and close it, it comes up again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to

Re: A growl tip

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Norman
Yeah, well, to be honest LOL, I didn't even know there was a speech setting until you just said. But, as it happens, not sure if it's just my machines or what, but speech, if there's VoiceOver running too, gets swallowed up, and I could do with knowing about things like DropBox ETC, but good

Re: A growl tip

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Norman
Hiya mate, Glad you found it useful. I've never before messed about with the settings, just been on a long list of things to do, when there's nothing more interesting to do LOL. I don't know about any central repository for information, I'd say the best way for people to assimilate (for want of a

Re: How do I get rid of Click to Flash?

2011-04-11 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Kim, The removal method will depend on whether you have the clicktoflash plugin or the clicktoflash extension installed. Note that you should not use the two together. I've had better luck using the extension. Safari should be restarted after uninstalling. I did a quick google to find the

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, even text edit will read most word documents, though the formatting may not be perfect. Also, open office will open word documents, and I think pages does as well. On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:41 AM, KliphSharrie wrote: Well, I’ve got an awful lot of documents in word format, and it would be

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Dierckens
yes, pages and text edit open word documents. On 2011-04-11, at 8:28 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Yes, even text edit will read most word documents, though the formatting may not be perfect. Also, open office will open word documents, and I think pages does as well. On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:41 AM,

Re: issues with accepting contacts in adium

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
This stumped me for a while also. Try this, on the authorize button, press control option shift m, this opens the context menu for the item, from this menu you will be able to choose the option you are looking for. On Apr 11, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: I am having issues accepting

Re: Reading text in Pages and TextEdit

2011-04-11 Thread Dan Roy
Well, this is a good suggestion, however I myself have not been able to do anything in verbosity that would stop the speaking of blank lines using the word newline. this is a rather trivial thing, but, does get quite annoying. This isn't only true in text edit, but, just about any type of

last fm apps

2011-04-11 Thread baker420
hi i don't have any portable devices but is there a accessible last fm app i tried sweet fm but it red the buttons but would not activate them thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to