Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Vic
It is, as someone correctly pointed out, great to use both. Trackpad is great for browsing and exploring the screen whereas the keyboard is great for typing and performing action while you are typing. One great thing about Trackpad is that you can define your own custom gestures. MacOS has its own

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, I'm sure, once she gets used to it, your wife will prefer the Magic Trackpad over a mouse. You can easily turn off the Trackpad Commander for her to use the trackpad in the normal way. My sighted husband loves the trackpad on his MBP. Cheers, Anne On 30 May 2011, at 02:38, agent086b

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Max, just chipping in my own two pence worth here. I have now since making the switch, or as I prefer to say, Mac-ing the switch, get it! :) bought an iMac, MacBook Air and an MacBook Pro. the first thing to say about your observation is, unless things are done differently where you are,

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread agent086b
Now hear we have the option of switching the Trackpad instead of the Magic mouse for the same cost. I might do that and if my wife would rather a mouse I will just buy one for her. Mostly she will use my Win XP till I can afford to get her a a Mac. Thanks all for the info. Max.

Voice Over and Pages

2011-05-30 Thread Sonnia
Hi all. I hope everyone is enjoying this lovely long weekend we are having. I have a question regarding Voice Over and documents in Pages. I don't know where i am supposed to edit or type text in pages. I open pages, select a template (usi want to use the blank template.) After choosing a

Re: Voice Over and Pages

2011-05-30 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Sonnia, THe layout area contains a group for each page of your document, which in the case of your blank template will be just one. Interact with that group and you should, in turn, find areas for a header, footer and body. These are where you do your actual editing. Best, and hope this

Re: Adding titles in iMovie

2011-05-30 Thread Ashley Cox
No, the timeline is in the project browser group. On 30/05/2011 03:42, Vic wrote: Hi Ash, So, I was able to copy the title I want, however, I am not sure where exactly I should be pasting it. If I VO-interact with event panel and then go to where my clips are, pressing CMD+V only produces beep

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I still use the keyboard for the most part. Its just faster. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 29, 2011, at 6:52 PM, agent086b wrote: Hello all, after having really good experiences since moving to an iPhone I am

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
I say get the trackpad. You can get a mouse from anywhere. Just plug in the one your wife is currently using. :) Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 29, 2011, at 8:38 PM, agent086b wrote: Thanks for the info. What advantages

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Since the refresh of the iMacs last month, they are offering a choice at purchase of the magic trackpad or, a magic mouse. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 30, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:

RE: Questions from a Potential New Mac User

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I use Duxbury on my Mac Mini. Duxbury is not supported on the Mac platform so I use it with Windows 7 running on the Mac in VMFusion. VMFusion allows me to set up Virtual Machines so that I can run different operating systems side by side. Right now, I'm answering you on my Mac

itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Denise Avant
hello all, i recently ripped five complete cds with itunes. i see the individual songs in my music list. but how are they suppose to come out as albums which is what i wanted. i do not want to have to build a playlist for one of michael jackson's albums. thanks. -- You received this message

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Howard Dupuis
Denise Avant wrote: hello all, i recently ripped five complete cds with itunes. i see the individual songs in my music list. but how are they suppose to come out as albums which is what i wanted. i do not want to have to build a playlist for one of michael jackson's albums. thanks. --

Re: Voice Over and Pages

2011-05-30 Thread Matt Dierckens
Honestly, I like textedit better than pages only because its a quick and easy to use wordprocessor. On 2011-05-30, at 4:06 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Sonnia, THe layout area contains a group for each page of your document, which in the case of your blank template will be just one.

Re: game

2011-05-30 Thread Søren Jensen
Yep. On my virtual Windows, lol. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den 29/05/2011 kl. 20.42 skrev Craig J Dunlop: on my p.c. I Sometime played the entombed game. do any of you play this on the mac? thanks -- You

adjusting server time-outs in Mail?

2011-05-30 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, does anyone know how to do this? I looked in the Edit SMtp server settings, but that option isn't there. Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: A growl tip

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
Go in to your home folder and open the library folder. Look in folders such as preferences and application support, and delete anything that refers to skype. On May 30, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: I might have just gotten it to work. If it doesn't work, how would I delete and

Document navigation issues in pages and text edit

2011-05-30 Thread Max
Hi All I’ve recently switched to Mac and i’m finding it quite hard to work in pages or text edit. I’d appreciate any advice on the following: I’m used to reading paragraph by paragraph in windows. Jaws has the simple control plus up or down for this. I cannot find something similar for Mac. I know

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I'm not really sure what you want to do here. So you've ripped the CD's to iTunes so now there in the iTunes music library with all your other music. If you want to just search for an album, just type in the album title into the search field and only songs under that album will appear

text editor for coding, and a good anti malware app?

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I'm asking on behalf of a friend. anyone knows of a text-editor that would be useful for coding? An example of such for Windows would be Textpad or Notepad Plus. Also, any recommendations for an anti-malware app? TIA Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM:

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, First command-b to show the column browser. Then view/column browser and choose albums. Now, in the playlist you can interact with the playlist browser and brows your tracks by album title. On May 30, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Denise Avant wrote: hello all, i recently ripped five complete cds

Re: Document navigation issues in pages and text edit

2011-05-30 Thread Brandon Olivares
It's not a VO command, but a simple option+down arrow goes to the next paragraph. Brandon www.christs-light-ministries.org Spiritual growth and healing for a better life Twitter: http://twitter.com/christs_light On May 30, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Max wrote: Hi All I’ve recently switched to Mac

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Colin M
Hi there! I've also got mine set in grid view! command+option+5 You can set album list with command+option+4 and just list with command+option+3! hth Colin On 30 May 2011, at 17:05, Barry Hadder wrote: Hi, First command-b to show the column browser. Then view/column browser and choose

Re: Document navigation issues in pages and text edit

2011-05-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Max, To be able to use the VO commands in TextEdit or Pages, you have to interact with the text input area. Once you do that, the Read commands work fine. You can find all the VO commands by pressing VO-H-H. Take some time to go through them and you'll be surprised at what you find.

VizWiz

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello listers, just wanted to send a message to all, and say that VizWiz is now up in the US app store. I have played with it a little and my first impression is it is a neat app, but a little slow. Very and simple though, which is nice. ED -- You received this message because you are

Re: Adding titles in iMovie

2011-05-30 Thread Vic
Hi Ash, This is really helpful. Thanks a lot! One more question: when you paste your title on the timeline, does it appear where the playhead is located or at the very beginning of the timeline? Looking at it with Voiceover , it appears that all the titles are stashed at the start and then have to

Re: VizWiz

2011-05-30 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks Ed for bringing this to our attention. Is the app itself slow, or just the answers to your queries. The latter would be expected since it's bound to always involve human intervention (presumably from a volunteer staff). How long does it take on average to get an answer, or does that

Re: text editor for coding, and a good anti malware app?

2011-05-30 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. For the anti malware app, I'd go and get Virus Barrier plus off the app store. It's under $10 and it's almost entirely accessible. On 2011-05-30, at 11:54 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, I'm asking on behalf of a friend. anyone knows of a text-editor that would be useful for coding? An

Re: text editor for coding, and a good anti malware app?

2011-05-30 Thread Dan
Hello Matthew, Just curious. What parts of Virus Barrier plus are not accessible? TIA, Dan On May 30, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: Hi. For the anti malware app, I'd go and get Virus Barrier plus off the app store. It's under $10 and it's almost entirely accessible. On

Re: daisy books on the mac

2011-05-30 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Iain, at first: Great that you developed a daisy player for the Mac. That makes the Mac even more interesting. In my opinion it's not absolutely necessary that it remains free. More important is that it's a little bit easier and more reliable in its functions. For me it is always a bit

Re: Adding titles in iMovie

2011-05-30 Thread Ashley Cox
Hi, No, the title is pasted where the vo curser is located. For example, if your vo curser is on 'clip 2', the title will be before clip 2 starts. ash On 30/05/2011 20:24, Vic wrote: Hi Ash, This is really helpful. Thanks a lot! One more question: when you paste your title on the timeline,

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Geoff Waaler
I suspect Denise was already aware of this prior to posting. The problem is that I have yet to determine how to play an album in it's intended order. This could really matter for instance in the case of a comedy that was broken into tracks. When listing album contents as you and Ricardo

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Denise Avant
hi all, thanks. this does help some. what i was expecting was for itunes to create a playlist with all of the tracks from the cd in it, - the way other music players create a folder. when i arrowed up and down the column where the playlist i had created were in the list with music, podcasts

Re: text editor for coding, and a good anti malware app?

2011-05-30 Thread Dan
Hello Matthew, No problem at all. I was considering this app, but I was also considering the Virus Barrier X 6 application as well. I downloaded and ran Virus Barrier X6 as a trial and in many ways I was rather unhappy with it. The only thing that bothers me about Virus Barrier Plus is that it

Re: VizWiz

2011-05-30 Thread joseph
any idea when it is going to be available in the uk stores? best On 30 May 2011, at 20:07, Ed Worrell wrote: Hello listers, just wanted to send a message to all, and say that VizWiz is now up in the US app store. I have played with it a little and my first impression is it is a neat app,

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Geoff, In iTunes press command j to bring up the view options window to choose what columns you wish to add or subtract from the music table. In here, check the track number checkbox. Now after you've found the album, interact with the music table and VO over to your track number column

Details on URL and web pages for VizWiz [was Re: VizWiz]

2011-05-30 Thread Esther
Hi Joseph, VizWiz is already in the UK Stores, as well. I haven't tried to search exhaustively, since I'd have to go through the process of resetting my iTunes store location to every country in order to check. You should just try the link for the U.S. iTunes store. This is a free app:

Album order playlists for tracks ripped in iTunes [was Re: itunes and cds]

2011-05-30 Thread Esther
Hi Geoff, Ricardo, Denise, and Others, I've never had trouble playing tracks that were ripped with iTunes or purchased from the iTunes Store in album order. You don't need to check track number in the View Options menu in order to sort tracks by number, although it doesn't hurt. Just move to

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-05-30 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. I, too, hardly ever use my trackpad. I find it too hard to use. Although I've pretty much mastered the touch screen on my 6th gen Nano but the Mac is a different story. The keyboard is easier. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups