Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
I don't believe Alex is going anywhere. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 17, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Is Alex going away? I definitely don't want him to. > > Teresa > On May 17, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Shawn Krasniu

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
What supposed changes? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 17, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Johchi wrote: > Hi! > > This may be a silly question, but, because of recent concerns about the > supposed changes with Alex, I'm wondering if the

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Well, The way Apple seems to be going I would think it would be available in the Mac app store. They already have iLife and iWorks up there so, it wouldn't be much of a stretch. At least in the U.S. and U.K. where broad band isn't as much of a concern. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twi

HEre's how to access the documentation for Louis

2011-05-17 Thread Jes Smith
1. Hilight louis.app. 2. PRess vo-shift-m and go down to show package contents. Press enter. 3. You will find a single folder named contents. Press command-O to open it. 4. Locate the resources folder, and press command-O. 5. Go down until you get to Louis.pdf. Press command-O and that will open th

Re: Excel to Numbers?

2011-05-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In most cases, Excel to Numbers works great. I haven't had any problems doing this myself although most have not been complicated spreadsheets. Later... On 2011-05-17, at 8:03 PM, Johchi wrote: > Hi folks, > > Well it looks like I will be soon getting a 15" MBP with a 500mgb hard drive

Excel to Numbers?

2011-05-17 Thread Johchi
Hi folks, Well it looks like I will be soon getting a 15" MBP with a 500mgb hard drive and an i5 processor. My question is business related. I have hundreds of customers in Excel in a windows 7 environment. Will I be able to fairly easily import this database into Numbers on the Mac using v

Re: Running Parallels with voiceover

2011-05-17 Thread Jenny Wood
Thanks, Mike. I will definitely look into getting Fusion as soon as possible. Now it's just a matter of working it into the infamous budget. :-) Good podcast on running windows on the mac, btw. It's much appreciated. -- Jenny Wood Phone: (972) 989-3894 Email: kc5...@gmail.com Facebook/T

changing list email

2011-05-17 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
All: I want to change the email that I use to subscribe to this list. I cannot figure out how to do this. -- 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 fro

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
I'm looking forward to playing with the nuance voices, I have no preference between male or female, as long as I like the voice in general, that's what matters. On May 17, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: > Personally, I'm sort of excited about the Irish and Scottish voices on > offer

Re: Very odd problem with certain Web sites

2011-05-17 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Christine, I've occasionally ran into the issue of text not being entered into forms properly. It seems to be very site-specific, and only happens when using the VO cursor to move around from field to field. I can't pin anything down, but what I usually try and do in this case is tab and sh

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Well, before I heard about there being real sounding voices out there, my favorite voice for Eloquence was Rocko and for DecTalk it was Paul. Then I played around with the Neospeech voices, which I think should be one of the voices that comes here to Mac. Then after I heard that Tom was the voic

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
I think Alex will still be there, speech is a subjective thing, though I would not base my upgrade decision on whether or not a single voice was included. On May 17, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are > supposedly going to be par

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Is Alex going away? I definitely don't want him to. Teresa On May 17, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi. Didn't someone post to this list that Alex sounded different in lion? A > little robotic even? I still got to wonder what this person said. I hope that > they didn't take out the

Re: Running Parallels with voiceover

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, parallels is not accessible with voiceover, fusion from vmware is a much better choice. On May 17, 2011, at 12:58 AM, Jenny Wood wrote: > Good day all. So basically, I am just now toying with running windows inside > of OS X. We already happen to have a copy of Parallels, so we decided to

Very odd problem with certain Web sites

2011-05-17 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello all. I am having issues with certain commercial web sites when trying to register and refine search results. On more than one site, when signing up, when the secure edit text comes up to choose and then verify a password, the clicks do not always sound, and I am constantly getting a "passw

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Johchi
Hi! This may be a silly question, but, because of recent concerns about the supposed changes with Alex, I'm wondering if the current Alex speech program in Snow can be extracted from the os and saved separately for future use? Thanks, Johnny C. On 5/17/2011 7:24 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
So I got a question. Do you all think that the new Mac OS will still be shipped in a DVD or will it ship in a thumb drive? Or, like someone said, will it be digitally distributed in the App Store? I hope it'll be the 2 above the one I just asked because the people that don't have credit cards li

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. Didn't someone post to this list that Alex sounded different in lion? A little robotic even? I still got to wonder what this person said. I hope that they didn't take out the whole breathing thing, I thought that was cool. And I for one am glad that Samantha's coming to Mac, I wish she could

RE: Mod note: was digital distribution

2011-05-17 Thread
Sorry, had a lot of messages and didn't see this before I replied. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carolyn Haas Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:17 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Mod note: was digi

RE: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread
Most cars are being made with iPod connections, and you can buy little lcd screen's to put on the back of seats when you travel. Who wants to limit themselves to just six discs, when you can have your whole library with you? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto

RE: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread
Well, it would be even cheaper to just down load everything from the internet. I have 2000 movies, and 15 thousand songs, all on a nas server connected to my router, and I can stream it all to my TV, or PC. So yes I think physical CD's and DVD's are on their way out. As for my movies, I get equa

VO friendly DTV boxes?

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, To quote Shameless, the subject says it all. I'm considering acquiring a tv receiver box. I got one several years ago before the US switch over to the digital frequencies, but the required companion software was marginally usable with JFW. I therefore thought it wouldn't hur

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Esther
Hi Matt, Caroline, Erik, Jon, and Others, Tim Kilburn answered this question a couple of months ago, but at the time someone was looking for a command line tool. The message was short, so I'll just paste it in: From: Tim Kilburn Subject:Re: converting pdf with the co

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Kestrell
I have always chosen male voices also, even before I developed the hearing impairment I now have--the mid-range male voices are definitely easier to hear. I also choose a Brit voice whenever possible. Kestrell - Original Message - From: "carolyn Haas" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 201

Help with references in Pages 09

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hi! If this is kind of topic, then please e-mail me privately and I do apologize in advance. I'm writing an educational report, which has to contain some references to other publications according to the APA-standard. Is it possible to create these things in Pages? I know it is doable in othe

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread joseph
it would be nice to have jaws's ellequence on the mack. best On 17 May 2011, at 19:14, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up > and gets all clicky. I've found that speeding Fred up is helpful while > speeding many of the oth

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Quite honestly, I can hear the guys better, I mean, the guy voices.:) But, then again, it may be selective hearing. The women voices almost always seem too soft, though the Samantha demo was pretty good quality. On May 17, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: > Personally, I'm sort of

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Matt: Ok, I'm definitely outdated, because I was picturing the old ductal express voices from the 90's and what they would be like on a Mac. I believe those voices are still used by Noaa all hazards radio, which is available as an iPhone app. Carolyn On May 17, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Matt wrot

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
I think having a number of voice options is a very good thing, though I do like Alex very much. Personally, I have trouble hearing certain voice timbres, such as high female voices, so baritone and bass males are my preferences. Teresa On May 17, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: > Per

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Having a hearing problem, I think, contributes to the style and speed of voice I use. I speed up and add testosterone to the Fred voice because I find I can listen to long strings of it and comprehend it. However, I would prefer that all my devices spoke in sexy female voices, just cause ... w

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Shameless FanGirl
Personally, I'm sort of excited about the Irish and Scottish voices on offer...Not voices you see routinely, so for that reason, I'm intrigued. Can't recall their names at the moment however. On another note, how do all of you prefer your voices? For instance, I know someone who is almost obses

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
When I speed him up past 60%, he sounds very choppy, super-fast and all clicky. *shrug* may be my MBP. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message becau

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I'm running alex at 80 per sent with no click to be heard. How fast do you have to be going? Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-05-17, at 2:14 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
its the hig quality tom, no the one that ships with jfw. On 2011-05-17, at 11:35 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > I heard the Tom demo and think it sounds pretty good. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > > > On May 17, 2011, at

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Jon Cohn
There is a half off special from mac update today for a PDF converter. Haven't had time to look at it, but perhaps there is a free demo version, and then if it does what you need then you could purchas it. On May 17, 2011, at 12:38 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Erik: > With all due respect, I don't

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Brent Harding
Wonder if there is Eloquence for the Mac? Yes, Nuance makes that too now, but it works good. - Original Message - From: "Matt" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:25 PM Subject: Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion The new DecTalk is terrible. I love the DecTalk that was with access

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Matt
Yeah definitely, serena is nice. I can't wait until we get these voices with lion in the summer hopefully. Sent from my iPhone On 17/05/2011, at 14:14, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up > and gets all clicky. I've foun

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Matt
The new DecTalk is terrible. I love the DecTalk that was with access 32 and the express in the 90's. Sent from my iPhone On 17/05/2011, at 11:47, Terry Klarich wrote: > It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk > for the past 20 years or so. In my opinion, t

Productive Macs App Bundle

2011-05-17 Thread Marc Workman
Hi all, I came across a pretty good app bundle from Apparent Software. Purchased individually, the eight apps are valued at $221 total, but you can get them all for $29 through the bundle. I was planning on picking up Text Expander anyway, which is normally $35, so this app alone makes it wor

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up and gets all clicky. I've found that speeding Fred up is helpful while speeding many of the others in SL up just distort them more. I'm hoping I can speed Serena up a tad and that she won't go all clicky on me. • Mar

Re: any tutorials on how to set up e-mail on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Pierre Heim
Where is you problem? Pierre Am 17.05.2011 um 06:21 schrieb Gail the U. S. Male: > Ok, maybe I'm dense! This didn't really make sense to me! Anyone willing to > talk me through this! Thanks. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googleg

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Ashley Cox
Yes, i agree. I've never been a fan of the nuance voices. now if they could come to some agreement, and include iVox... On 17/05/2011 17:55, carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Erik: I like Samantha ok if she's fancied up enough. But, I agree. Wonder who has the patent on eloquence? Even the old Dectalk

Moderator note Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, Sadly it seems that a reminder is in order that the number of subscribers and volume of list traffic is not conducive to off topic chat group messages. The discussion of recordings in computer readable format and/or distribution of media playable on the MacOS and IOS platforms are c

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
One of my favourite natural voices is Ivona Eric. The Keynote SA was also a great synth, just a pity that Keynote gold multimedia is not available any more. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in to my show, "an Eclectic mes

Converting files to Itunes

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hi there, I was trying to do a right-click to bring up the menu to convert music files to play in Itunes. It was working, but when I tried to do it the other day, nothing would happen. If I do Command I, I'm asked if I want to E-Mail the page which is one of the choices. If there are some fi

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Terry: I didn't catch the dectalk in your message because Alex spelled out the first half. But, I'm glad to know who owns those voices.:) I, too wish they could come over as an option. Carolyn . On May 17, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Terry Klarich wrote: > It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Erik: With all due respect, I don't think I have enough know how to do that. I'm just a fledgling geek with big ideas.:) Or, perhaps I have my hands full enough with things as they are.:) On May 17, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi. > What's preventing you from building pdf2txt from s

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Erik: I like Samantha ok if she's fancied up enough. But, I agree. Wonder who has the patent on eloquence? Even the old Dectalk voice would be preferable to some of the nonsense that's in snowleopard now, (excluding Alex, of course.) I wonder if there's any point in giving feedback to acce

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
chat forum anyone? On May 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Isaac Obie wrote: > Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren? > > Isaac > - Original Message - From: "Kimberly thurman" > > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:12 AM > Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, wa

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Gotchya, but I don't have $300 at the moment.:) Was hoping for something more immediate.:( Thanks anyhow. Carolyn On May 17, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > Sertek Docuscan Plus? > On 17 May 2011, at 15:57, carolyn Haas wrote: > >> Hi Matt and others: >> I believe you can do this with p

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm really got to disagree here, great voices at the time, but Betty? You'll be asking for the inclusion of the speak and spell voice next. On 17 May 2011, at 16:47, Terry Klarich wrote: > It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk > for the past 20 years or so.

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Terry Klarich
It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk for the past 20 years or so. In my opinion, there are no better than Paul and Betty. If Fonix would provide them for Mac OS, I'd purchase them. Terry On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:10:58 -0700 (PDT)you write: >Just read about

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Well voices are really subjective and everyone will have there preferences, but I think it's a serious step backward implementing nuance voices in lion. Nuance has outrageously bad pronunciation. It falls to pieces when you speed up the rate, and the cadence is nowhere near as nice as alex or e

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I've never understood why you would want to convert pdf to txt, since there are often good reason's why something is a pdf, but as long as it's not some useless embedded image, why couldn't you just open it in preview and then save as text? Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
I heard the Tom demo and think it sounds pretty good. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 17, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > hey howard, don't worry. Alex is here to stay. The nuance voices are decent, > but I don't t

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Oh I loved 8 track! and I still miss record scratching on my Technics. I best shut up, as I will have the MOD telling me off again :) On 17 May 2011, at 16:28, Isaac Obie wrote: > Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren? > > Isaac > - Original Message -

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Its funny, I have only used pdf2txt in Linux based systems, so smiled at the windows reference. Others here will provide the applications. Still you can use a wonderful convert service via e-mail regardless of platform. gives me a chance to share this with the list. writing to: conv...@robobra

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Erik Heil
Hi. What's preventing you from building pdf2txt from source? I'm pretty sure it'll build cleanly under OSS. Thanks to gnu autoconf and friends. If you're not comfortable with building from sources, the fink project may have what you want. By default, it installs stuff under /opt/sw. So if you e

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
So it is only a matter of time before we switch to digital distribution. This reality has become more possible with the introduction of the Mac App Store too. It is not uncommon for Apple to be bold and make the first step to ditch legacy peripherals. For example when they introduced the iMac

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Isaac Obie
Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren? Isaac - Original Message - From: "Kimberly thurman" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:12 AM Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? Our car stereo has a USB port. I transfer mu

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
That price is off set by the price of the optical drives installed in every computer, not the price of the DVD the os would be on. And the purchase and installation of a optical drive is more than a thumb drive. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobilea

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Kimberly thurman
Our car stereo has a USB port. I transfer music to a thumb drive, plug it into the stereo, and I have 16 gigs of music blasting away. I'm just waiting for the 32 gig USB drives to come down in price a little bit more and I'll have twice the amount of music on a tiny little device I can hold in

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Well, for my part, I think Serena's kinda sexy, and would use her over Samantha. I use Alex as the system message and alert voice, figuring I'll need to understand it the first time if there's a message, but would switch from a surgically altered Fred (speeded up and lowered in pitch until he s

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Sertek Docuscan Plus? On 17 May 2011, at 15:57, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Matt and others: > I believe you can do this with pages, and possibly with Stanza, though > someone with more experience can verify this. I have a related question: > If someone sends a mail attachmentthat appears as pdf i

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Matt and others: I believe you can do this with pages, and possibly with Stanza, though someone with more experience can verify this. I have a related question: If someone sends a mail attachmentthat appears as pdf images, and I don't have Abbyy, is there any way to access it's contents othe

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi: Seems like Samantha's gotten a little face lift (or higher nitrate.:) She sounds pretty good on the Mac. But, I'm with you guys. I would definitely not take her over Alex, even on her best day.:) Carolyn On May 17, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > hey howard, don't worry. Alex i

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Peppel
Yes, I just listened to Samantha and Serena. They do sound a little more artificial then Alex. They have a little burbling sound to them. Not bad, but I too, like Alex better. On May 17, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are >

HEre's how to access the documentation for Louis

2011-05-17 Thread Jes Smith
1. Hilight louis.app. 2. PRess vo-shift-m and go down to show package contents. Press enter. 3. You will find a single folder named contents. Press command-O to open it. 4. Locate the resources folder, and press command-O. 5. Go down until you get to Louis.pdf. Press command-O and that will open th

something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi list, I was wondering if there is an app that will convert pdf files to text files like pdf2txt on windows. Thanks. Matt -- 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.

Re: Louis for the mac.

2011-05-17 Thread Jes Smith
Thanks Eric for that, I've ben wondering about how to get Louis to work myself. To open up a .app extention, hilight the app and press vo-shift-m. Then go down to show package contents. You'll find a folder which says contents, and then press command-o to open it. On May 17, 2011, at 9:07 AM, eri

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
hey howard, don't worry. Alex is here to stay. The nuance voices are decent, but I don't think any voice will go over alex. On 2011-05-17, at 10:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are > supposedly going to be part of Lion. > http://www.macrumo

about mac book air and mac book pro

2011-05-17 Thread banu.bc
hello there I want to buy a new lab top. I'm not sure to buy mac. I've got many questions 1. how do you copy cd's. for instance I'm using nero... how do you copy them? 2. I'm using fine reader for scanning. what do you use and is it free? 3. I heard that office sweet doesnt work wit voice over. h

Mod note: was digital distribution

2011-05-17 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Guys: I think we've sort of lost track of our purpose here in favor of a chat about costs. This really doesn't have anything to do with accessibility or voiceover. But, rather to speculation. Please close the thread down now. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Carolyn On M

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Don't panic, these are additional voices you can download as they are quite large. Alex is going no where, and like you I prefer him. I am really not a fan of Nuance voices. On 17 May 2011, at 15:10, Howard Dupuis wrote: > Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are > suppos

New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Howard Dupuis
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are supposedly going to be part of Lion. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/16/listen-to-the-nuance-text-to-speech-voices-found-in-mac-os-x-lion/ If this means that Alex will be gone, then I'll not be upgrading. These voices, at least to my ea

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Well the future is heading your way, sounds like it may take up to 5 years or so, but you best look after your CDs in the meantime. Over here music downloads out sell physical CDs and once Apple add the ability to re-download music you have already bought, the same way you can with apps, then

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
Yes, but the access is shabby, mostly still GPRS. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info Contact me: Skype: brandt.st

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Right, 4G is wireless mobile broadband for your phone etc. Do you have 3G mobile network? On 17 May 2011, at 14:29, brandt wrote: > Never even heard of 4g, let alone seen any plans. The fastest available > broadband here is 4 mB. They are currently bringing in 10 MB some places. > > Warm reg

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
Never even heard of 4g, let alone seen any plans. The fastest available broadband here is 4 mB. They are currently bringing in 10 MB some places. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wed

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Wrong, I am British :) I am sure South Africa will catch up in time. After all it was not so long ago that all those CD devices you were talking about were cassette. In the UK broadband speeds are up to 100mb via cable and they are currently testing 200mb. It is nothing compared to South Kor

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
I can see you are an american, thus thinking like an american with high spead, uncapped broadband internet access. Places like South Africa whare I live and even New Zealand still implements data caps. Thus downloading a 3 or 4 gig file on a whim ain't gonna happen. Warm regards, Brandt Steen

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo systems for home audio, home theatre and car that enable you to drop your ioS device into them? The likes of Sony and Microsoft are looking at the possibilities of ditching there internal drives and provide content down t

Re: Louis for the mac.

2011-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Annie, There should be two apps, one is the louis braille translator and the other is the emboss utility. I actually abandoned this in disgust at one point because well, I need a test embosser and they haven't added usb support to the thing yet which makes it tough. also, they've berried

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
Ok, let's agree to disagree on this point. I won't even bring up the non computer devices sutch as my CD player on my bedside cabinet, the stereo in the lounge, the PS 3 in my little brothers room, the 2 DVD players in the house, the 2 6 disk CD changers in the 2 cars owned by the family, the 7

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Savings are also made by no longer having to provide a laptop or desktop with a internal DVD drive, this results in the device being able to be made smaller and lighter, saving on materials and manufacturing. Accept it, the spinning disc is dead. On 17 May 2011, at 13:27, brandt wrote: > Well,

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
Well, you're still thinking small business. Shipping 5 CDs verses 20 USB thumb drives doesn't save on anything. Do the research and find out what it costs to produce 100 thumb drives, pack them in the stupid packaging usually used for thumb drives and shipping them, verses the same f

Re: Audio extraction from CD via the Mac.

2011-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi fangirl. I like max for my ripping needs. It does a good job, will integrate with your itunes library, supports a stupid huge array of file formats, rips to two formats at the same time, and really rocks in every way except for the way it handles ripping a cd to one file. I'm not really ha

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
The reason why you can't stick a thumb drive in your iPhone is because the card slot would take up valuable space, and of course if you could supply your own memory, then you may not buy the more expensive higher memory models of phone or be in a hurry to upgrade your phone. And yes you have to

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
As the thumb drive is much smaller than the retail boxers previously used for Mac OS X, money will be saved on packaging as the thumb drive is much smaller, this will also result in more copies being able to be transported at a time, saving on delivery costs too. So maybe it would be not as exp

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
No, maybe you don't stick a disc in an iPhone, but neither do you stick a thumb drive in your iPhone. You can't back up your phone without using a computer, thus your comparison is irelivant. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tu

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread brandt
True, but look at it from the big corporation's point of view, what's cheeper, 100 copys of whatever OS on CD, or 100 copys of the same OS on thumb drives, or SD cards, or what have you. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
I have a pile of blank CDs, to be honest I can't see me using them, I do not even create MP3 or Audio CDs anymore. The only thing I have on Disc are DVD or Blu-ray, but with my Apple TV I can see them being boxed up and placed in storage soon. Can anyone remember how expensive blank CD and DVD

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Isaac Obie
Hello Brandt, I have two computers on my desk and one has no floppy drive. there's a n occassional need to transfer a single file between the two units. I use a thumbdrive for this. I use the same thumbdrive to transfer files between my pc and macbook. So I am already using jthis format.. I do