Re: slow speech with sending to itunes as a spoken track

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What is the value of this service if you have Alex to read text. Is this the way we got the Leopard podcast on VO read in the voice of Alex? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Facebook is the name of the app. /Krister 22 apr 2011 kl. 00.14 skrev KliphSharrie: What is the exact name of the face book ap? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Thursday, April 21,

Re: Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-22 Thread Chinyoka on Macbook
Thanks Krister, I updated to the latest version due to your post. i had totally lost hope in the Facebook app and had tried some other apps which unfortunately did not provide me with enough satisfaction. I hope they won't revert to the old interface once again. Thanks for bringing the good

Can't update ipod through itunes

2011-04-22 Thread Nickus de Vos
Hi all I got a ipod from someone, it's not completely new but they didn't like it so now I have it, I don't know ipods that well so don't know exactly what moddel it is I just know that it is kind of small almost like a smallish phone and its capasity is 7.33 GB or something like that. Anyway I'm

RE: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Tony Hernandez
Hey, Great. Thank you. Thanks to everyone who responds to my queries. This is the friendliest list I've ever been on. I've heard talk in the past about how tight-knit the apple community can be. It seems to be true at least on this forum. Tony Hernandez http://dutyofman.net/ Let us hear the

Re: Reminder for how to set a mail rule

2011-04-22 Thread matthew dyer on my icon
atthew Marli8na, Go9 into the mail prefrences and select the mail roles tab and you can select new role and follow the props. Matthew On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:47:49 -0700, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: I am temporarily using my Mac Book Pro, and cannot remember how to set a rule in email. Could

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Colin M
Hi Tony! I think that growl comes along with Skype 5 now! If you do not like Skype 5point something or other! Some people have gone back to Skype 2.8 And if you go that route you'll have to download Growl as suggested! Colin! I'm far too bad for Heaven! The Devil is afraid I'll take his place!

File handling on the Mac, somewhat techy

2011-04-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks. I was deleting files from my beloved digital recorder today and had my virtual machine up. It's a vmware virtual machine running Windows XP. I decided to do some experimenting so i looked on my recorder from the PC side of things and in the root of the memory was some files that the

Re: How to rout system audio through an application

2011-04-22 Thread Goldfinga Productions
try audio highjack and sound flower. GF On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote: Hi! How can I rout the system audio through an application such as Skype? I have tried wired tab but found it inaccessible at first. Does anyone know of a better way to do this? Best

M-A podcast number 5

2011-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi folks, in episode 5 of the mobile access podcast, we talk about converting to a Mac and the expectations one should have in doing so. We also have a special guest Nik, joining us from Denmark. Remember, there is adult language used. You can listen at http://goo.gl/X9pXt hth Ricardo

RE: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Tony Hernandez
Hi. I couldn't find anything that mentioned notifications in the version of skype I downloaded right from the official web site. Is it actually there and I'm just missing it? Tony Hernandez http://dutyofman.net/ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments,

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Just press vopluscoma to open the prefs. Interact with the tool bar. You will notice a number of tabs from left to right. Notifications is there. HTH Sent from my iPhone On Apr 22, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Tony Hernandez tonyhspe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I couldn't find anything that mentioned

Re: How to rout system audio through an application

2011-04-22 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hello GF! How can i use Soundflour? I'm using Audio hijack pro to record audio, but I want to let the audio come through my mac to another application such as skype. Have you any other suggestions? Best regards Thomas Den 22/04/2011 kl. 17.15 skrev Goldfinga Productions: try audio highjack

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Tony Hernandez
Hi. There doesn't seem to be a way to get the actual messages to speak. Is this correct? On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Just press vopluscoma to open the prefs. Interact with the tool bar. You will notice a number of tabs from left to right. Notifications is there. HTH

Re: How to rout system audio through an application

2011-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Keep in mind the latest version of audio hijack pro doesn't use soundflower. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote: Hello GF! How can i use Soundflour? I'm using Audio

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Tony: It's the nature of things mac that we do tend to share a lot. Glad you're enjoying the list and your Mac. On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Tony Hernandez wrote: Hey, Great. Thank you. Thanks to everyone who responds to my queries. This is the friendliest list I've ever been on.

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Tony: I think you can set those Skype notifications in preferences, (command comma). Also, you can read conversations by interacting with their window. One simple rule I teach is when using the Mac, if something appears not to be working, don't give up unless you've tried interacting with

Re: a few questions about my new Mac

2011-04-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Quite wrong. IF you just VO+right for each notification you land on, you will find the check box for speaking or not speaking the notifications. Don't be afraid to explore all the areas to find what's there. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
We talked about the pop up ad possibility a while back, now it seems apple is gathering data on your whereabouts? here is the story. TVBizwire Researchers Say Apple Is Tracking Locations of Mobile Device Users betanews A team of researchers says Apple is secretly obtaining the locations of

making a pronunciation change for Alex

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, I'm a keyboard player and I often write the word synthesizer as simply synth. Unfortunately, I can't come up with a combination of letters that Alex will pronounce as s, short i, n, th. I've tried s, i, n th, to no avail. Does anyone have a clue? Thanks, Kevin -- You received this

Re: making a pronunciation change for Alex

2011-04-22 Thread Jeff Berwick
How about: sinthe Hth, Jeff On 2011-04-22, at 4:03 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, I'm a keyboard player and I often write the word synthesizer as simply synth. Unfortunately, I can't come up with a combination of letters that Alex will pronounce as s, short i, n, th. I've tried s, i, n

Re: making a pronunciation change for Alex

2011-04-22 Thread Colin M
Hi Kevin! Try s i n t h e! sinthe! sinthe So if you can put that in your pronunciations table! You can spell it [ sinth ] and it announced as sinthe! hth Colin Qapla! Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak On 22 Apr 2011, at 21:03, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, I'm a keyboard player and I often write the

Re: making a pronunciation change for Alex

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Jeff and Colin, You're geniuses. S y n t h e worked perfectly. Thanks, Kevin -- 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

Re: making a pronunciation change for Alex

2011-04-22 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
c i n t h or c y n t h does the trick for me. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Huckabay
Hi I'm kerius if anny one knows if the late 2009 macbook's sport eight GB of ram in them or not. It's the first jen of the eluminam MacBooks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Kimberly thurman
My 13 inch Macbook had only 2. It now has 8. I don't think any of them come with 8, but maybe you could upgrade if you bought online. Mine is a late 2009 Macbook Pro 13 inch. On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Mike Huckabay wrote: Hi I'm kerius if anny one knows if the late 2009 macbook's sport

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Huckabay
Thanks ya when I bought my 13 inch mac book in late 2009 I upgraded it to 4 gb but I am hoping to take out the 2 gb sticks and put in to 4 gb sticks so I would have eight gb of ddr2 ram in my mac I just was kerius if it was sported. Thats all. On 2011-04-22, at 5:34 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:

oppinion: Apple Tracking

2011-04-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Oh, great! So, just don't go where you don't belong, and what's the big scare here? Maybe I'm overly Apple loyal. But, really, do we all have so many secret places we go? What about onstar? That lovely service that can respond in minutes to your emergency with the push of a button. Quite

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Kimberly thurman
The ram in mine is DDR3. On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Mike Huckabay wrote: Thanks ya when I bought my 13 inch mac book in late 2009 I upgraded it to 4 gb but I am hoping to take out the 2 gb sticks and put in to 4 gb sticks so I would have eight gb of ddr2 ram in my mac I just was kerius

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Chuck Reichel
Hi Karen, May be Apple is cooperating with the attempted take over of the USA by the Socialist in DC. Lets tell Apple not to sell the info to the GOV! Talk soon Chuck On Apr 22, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: We talked about the pop up ad possibility a while back, now it seems

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Mike: I looked in mine under about this mac, and the only mention of memory says two gig plus. I'm not sure I understand this accurately, or if I'm even talking about the same memory you are. But I think this one could be upgraded to eight. Carolyn On Apr 22, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Mike

Re: oppinion: Apple Tracking

2011-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
On the contrary, there are programs written to remove this feature, because of course it is none of apple's business where someone goes. Let's say they are using that data to create those forced ads we read about a few months ago, the ones attached t o programs that will require you to respond

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
lol! Seriously though what is this business about your phone sending a message to an apple server if you connect to a wireless network? Apple will not have to corporate with any government well post reasonable Obama that is, they will just take the servers. Karen On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Chuck

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Aman Singer
Hi, Karen and all. This has been extensively discussed on the iPhone lists. Here is a message I sent to those lists with some methods to disable the saving of the information. You may want to note a few things. First, there is, as yet, no evidence that this file ever leavves the phone or computer

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Mike -- According to Other World Computing the first generation aluminum unibody macbook does indeed support 8 gb of RAM. Note that this is in reference to a macbook, not a macbook pro. You can get more details at OWC's website, macsales.com . I suggest looking at the hardware tav in your

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread James Mannion
Yes, but if they are collecting the information, obviously they have intentions for it. They may be implementing their intent in steps. This honestly really ticks me off. Apple needs to be slammed with a law suit and lose big if they are doing this secretly. Think about it. Collecting this

Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Tony Hernandez
HI everyone. I can't seem to get the bookmark to work. I added it, but when I click show all bookmarks in the bookmark menu and navigate to the table containing the bookmarks, then navigate to the bookmark itself, nothing I do activates it. VO-Space, up and down arrow together in quicknav

Re: Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Kimberly thurman
I have no idea why, but you have to VO/shift/M and choose open to activate a bookmark. On Apr 22, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote: HI everyone. I can't seem to get the bookmark to work. I added it, but when I click show all bookmarks in the bookmark menu and navigate to the table

Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, I just got the Spanish voice from assistiveware for my Mac, and I love it. I was wondering though if there was something for the phone? I was in the WordReference app, and had clicked the pronunciation of something, and the voice turned to Spanish somehow. But I'm not sure how to

Re: Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Jane
You can add extra voices to the language rotar. There's a pretty female Spanish voice I use when I need to. Of course, there's the male voice that works by default, too, but I prefer the more human-sounding voice. Jane On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: Hi, I just

Re: Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
is there a way to remove languages from the router? On 2011-04-22, at 10:09 PM, Jane wrote: You can add extra voices to the language rotar. There's a pretty female Spanish voice I use when I need to. Of course, there's the male voice that works by default, too, but I prefer the more

Re: Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Jane
I belive so but I've never tried, so I'm not sure how to do it. Jane On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: is there a way to remove languages from the router? On 2011-04-22, at 10:09 PM, Jane wrote: You can add extra voices to the language rotar. There's a pretty female

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
I agree, again since apple has already expressed interest n connecting ads to programs, as in you could not use the program until you responded to the ad, the file would not need to go anywhere to be used by advertisers. The article on the ads was posted here a few months back. its a privacy

Re: Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Tony Hernandez
Hi Kimberly. Thank you for this. perhaps they will fix it in future releases. Tony On Apr 22, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: I have no idea why, but you have to VO/shift/M and choose open to activate a bookmark. On Apr 22, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote: HI

Re: Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Kimberly thurman
I hope so. It would be nice to use VO space or command O to open a bookmark. On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote: Hi Kimberly. Thank you for this. perhaps they will fix it in future releases. Tony On Apr 22, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: I have no idea why,

Re: MikeH: Hardware questions for late 2009 macbook.

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Huckabay
Thanks bryan I'll look at that sight. It can't be to hard to upgrade the ram doing it myself besides my apple care will be up come october of this year so once that happens I should hope to upgrade thanks. On 2011-04-22, at 6:42 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: Hi Mike -- According to Other World

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, . Don't go pulling out the lawsuits yet. I have heard more than one report that this issue may simply be an undetected iOS bug, involving some improperly written code. If so, it's perhaps unusual in its effect, but not necessarily a cause for alarm. I believe that if anybody reads

Re: apple tracking yyou?

2011-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
Then why did apple not respond to the researchers who specifically requested information on this process? As I shared, Apple is taking other steps to indicate their desire to gather data from everyone. Granted there are many lawyers on this list, but my memory of contract class did not

Re: Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Tony, My admittedly limited experience with bookmarks has only dealt with bookmarks in the bookmarks menu, not the specific circumstances you describe. However, in that case, all you need to do is select the bookmark from the menu in the usual way, and it will open properly. THe Show all

Re: Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
I don't think yu can remove them but you can change the order in which they appear as you flick up and down so that you needn't flick through all the languages to find your preferred ons. On 23 Apr 2011, at 03:11, Matt Dierckens wrote: is there a way to remove languages from the router? On

Re: Activating a bookmark in safari

2011-04-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Nothing to fix. to activate the book mark you select, just use command+down arrow. YOu guys are making much too much work for yourselves. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Apr