Re: Mid 2010 MacBOok Pro and Win 7

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Kawal, How did you do that, exactly? Perhaps I'm doing something obvious wrong? I just insertinser the OS X DVD, run the setup file in the Bootcamp folder, and immediately get an error saying the installer quit. It's times like this I miss Unix, at least when it gave errors it generally sa

exporting a feed from itunes

2011-06-26 Thread Denise Avant
hello all, i want to export some feeds from itunes so i can e-mail them to myself to put into podcaster on my iphone. can someone explain how this is done? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send em

Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Shannon Dyer
Good morning, all. I have installed growl. I'm wondering how to set it up and customize it to work with specific applications in specific ways. I've heard, for example, that it's very useful for dropbox, but I can't seem to get it to work. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Shannon Are you

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Shannon Dyer wrote: I have installed growl. I'm wondering how to set it up and customize it to work with specific applications in specific ways. All of Growl's stuff is in System Preferences. You can set up how it acts by default and how it works with specific applicatio

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Shannon Dyer
For somr reason, it only shows me one application, which is the twitter client I use. It doesn't allow me to set what notifications i'd like though. It just makes random sounds at me. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Col

Apple Wireless Keyboard With iMac MC508.

2011-06-26 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hello! This iMac came with a wireless keyboard and it worked like a charm when setting up Mac OS X. I am wondering can I use same keyboard when doing windows7 setup before installing bootcamp drivers and pairing it with the machine? If not, can I at least use it to eject windows cd holding

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Georges Zaynoun
From where do one get growl? Original message: For somr reason, it only shows me one application, which is the twitter client I use. It doesn't allow me to set what notifications i'd like though. It just makes random sounds at me. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each T

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Shannon, Me thinks that either you have an old version, or something got fubared during the install process. As Geoff said, all growlable apps automatically register. On my system this list includes: Adium, Growl, moveAddict, Skype, and Pulsar. The fact that Growl is not on your list is t

Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I was just thinking... I don't recall there being a way to make this happen, but it would be absolutely awesome! if Apple would, provided there isn't already a long roundabout way to do this, give us the option in voiceover to have individualized settings rather than just global settings. This

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Georges Zaynoun wrote: From where do one get growl? growl.info Geoff. -- 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 grou

Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Chris, You're in luck. Lion is out soon, and the new "Activities" feature allows you to do exactly this. Best, Zack. On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I was just thinking... I don't recall there being a way to make this happen, > but it would be absolutely aweso

app has no window

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear list members, Is it a known problem to you that sometimes an app that you download, only shows as something without a window open? For example, I have a program called audio recorder. It's a very simple tool that just records. But if I fire it up, voice over will say: audio recorder has no w

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Shannon Dyer
I now see growl, the twitter client (sorry, but I can not spell its name), and dropbox in the application menu under growl in system preferences. I still do not see either skype or adium. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Erkens
There is something called forgetful. It does what you want. You can input audio notes, you can input written text, or even a short video containing your reminder. Set the time and it becomes pending, meaning that it shows in the pending tab. When it is due, in other words when the date and time

Re: app has no window

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Paul, WHile I can't help with Audio Recorder, DropBox is a somewhat special case. There was a howto posted not so long ago on Maccessibility about it. Find that at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/maccessibility-news/~3/-MTMKfChwgs/ As for the more general problem, I've rarely if ever encounte

What on *earth* is going on with my iTunes download?

2011-06-26 Thread Christine Grassman
About a half hours ago, I rented a movie on iTunes and hit "download now". The movie is 1.34 gb. of which 674 mb has downloaded. When I rented a movie last week, it took about twenty minutes. Today, despite an excellent signal on my network, it went from saying "two hours remaining" to "3 hours

Re: What on *earth* is going on with my iTunes download?

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Dear Christine, I would strongly suggest just letting the download finish in its own time. Time remaining estimates are, by their very nature, inaccurate at best. It's quite possible the iTunes server, or a computer on the path between your machine and the server, is experiencing high network

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, in dropbox preferences, there is actually a setting to use it with growl. Bad part is, dropbox preferences is completely inaccessible with voiceover. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Shannon Dyer wrot

Re: exporting a feed from itunes

2011-06-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Interact with the podcast table, arrow down to the podcast you want the information for then press VO shift M. Then choose copy podcast URL in the context menu. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jun 26, 2011, at 10:12 AM, D

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Shannon Dyer wrote: I now see growl, the twitter client (sorry, but I can not spell its name), That'd be YoruFukurou. and dropbox in the application menu under growl in system preferences. I still do not see either skype or adium. They should be there, though Skype and

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Also of note, in Skype's case at least, is that if you don't select in its preferences window to use Growl for notifications it won't appear in the applications table. Best, Zack. On Jun 26, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Shannon Dyer wrote: > >> I now see grow

Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Craig J Dunlop
when using itunes on my macbook I am having a hard time. when adding songs. after hitting command o and then trying to brows to the folder sometimes a dialog box comes up wanting a username and password for Idisk. I don't have one that I know of and it won't let me cancel ore quit Am I missing s

Re: Mid 2010 MacBOok Pro and Win 7

2011-06-26 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I just put the os CD in and turned the volume as loud as possible and then followed the instructions that jaws read as windows was loaded in Fusion. It was hard and it took a few goes. On 26 Jun 2011, at 12:08, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Kawal, > How did you do that, exactly? Perhaps I'm doi

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Shannon Dyer
Yes. I have restarted. Do I have to launch an application before it will show up in Growl? Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Collection: a Celebration of Women In Music. Point your media player to: http://mojoradio.us/lis

ripping DVD movies to iTunes format

2011-06-26 Thread Christina
Hello, Is there a mac app that is voiceover friendly that will allow me to turn the DVD's that I own into a format I can put on my iPad or iPhone for travel. I would like to be able to play them on my iPad and use the adapter to play the movie on a larger screen or the screen in the car. We a

Re: Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, It sounds like your using the side bar table when in the file browser. I avoid this at all costs. Just use the typical finder commands while inside the browser. For example, command shift H to go to your home folder and command shift C to view the drives on your Mac. hth Ricardo Walker

Re: Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Craig J Dunlop
thanks I will give it a try! I need to find a list of keyboard commands that make sense to me. is there a equivalent of the applications key on a mac? thanks On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > It sounds like your using the side bar table when in the file browser. I >

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Doug Lawlor
I think that is for the iPhone and iPad. I am looking for something for the mac. On 2011-06-26, at 2:28 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > There is something called forgetful. It does what you want. You can input > audio notes, you can input written text, or even a short video containing > your reminder.

Re: Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, you can press VO shift M which brings up the context menu. This is also achieved if using a trackpad or mouse with a control click. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jun 26, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Craig J Dunlop wrote: > thanks I wi

Re: Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Craig J Dunlop
thanks that command shift c fixed it for me! On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > It sounds like your using the side bar table when in the file browser. I > avoid this at all costs. Just use the typical finder commands while inside > the browser. For example, command

Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Jes Smith
That will kick some butt there! Jes On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Chris, > You're in luck. Lion is out soon, and the new "Activities" feature allows > you to do exactly this. > Best, > Zack. > On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> I was ju

Voiceover Randomly Turns Off on the iPhone

2011-06-26 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, My fiance has an iPhone, just as I do. However, twice now in about a week, Voiceover has just randomly turned off when she was doing something else. She has to wait until she can get sighted assistance to get it back on. Does anyone know why this would happen? Is she inadvertently doing som

Re: Voiceover Randomly Turns Off on the iPhone

2011-06-26 Thread Christine Grassman
This has happened to me a few times for no apparent reason. First: 1. Try clicking the power button about four or five times in quick succession and wait a few seconds. This usually works. 2. Also ensure in Settings that she has triple-click-home set to toggle Voice-Over on and off. Go into Sett

Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
When you say activities feature, is that something that's gonna be in my Voiceover Utility, etc. I know with Lion not being out yet most people are on NDA, so I'm obviously not going to ask for great detail, but generally, I guess I'm not understanding why it's called activities. Sounds like i

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Are you absolutely sure that this is in the app store? I've looked several times, and cannot find it. Remember, we're speaking the mac app store, not the ITunes I O S app store... right? Chris. - Original Message - From: "Paul Erkens" To: Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:58 PM Subj

Re: ripping DVD movies to iTunes format

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Well, I don't know the answer to all your questions, by any stretch, in fact, I've been wonderring the same thing as you with most of this. I will! however say, I think for ripping your DVD's Handbreak I think it's called, will do that part. Now, past that, I'm sorry, I'm clueless. Chris. -

google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi folks, For some reason, every time I type the location google.com into Safari, it says the following: 404. That’s an error. The requested URL /ap_index was not found on this server. That’s all we know. If I go to the tool bar and type a search into the google search field, it does work. Anyo

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Charlie Doremus
I found "forgetful" in the iTunes store using my iPad with no difficulty. There versions for both iPad and iPhone for free. HTH Aloha, Charlie Our new book "YOU MIGHT BE A MORON" is on sale at www.giantdolphin.com click the off the bookshelf link On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:21 PM, "Christopher-

dvd ripping and deregioning

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Snyder
Hello again, I just bought a dvd from the UK because it has video description. My macbook pro's dvd player wants me to change my dvd player region, and says that I can change it up to five times. Since I live in the states, I do not wish to do this. Does anyone know of any software that will rip

Re: google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Charlie Doremus
Chris, That's very strange, when I clicked the lick you provided I was taken right into my personalized iGooge page. Aloha, Charlie Our new book "YOU MIGHT BE A MORON" is on sale at www.giantdolphin.com click the off the bookshelf link On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: >

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, that's what I thought. I think what was originally asked was a simple app for the Mac, not for I O S devices. Someone correct me, please, should I be wrong. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Charlie Doremus" To: Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Simple reminde

Re: google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Snyder
Yep, it's odd, but I'd really really like to figure out why that's happening. Friendly, Chris On Jun 26, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote: > Chris, > That's very strange, when I clicked the lick you provided I was taken right > into my personalized iGooge page. > > Aloha, > > Charlie

Re: google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Snyder
Yep, it's odd. But I'd really really like to figure out why that's happening. Friendly, Chris On Jun 26, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote: > Chris, > That's very strange, when I clicked the lick you provided I was taken right > into my personalized iGooge page. > > Aloha, > > Charlie

Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Chris, Yes, it is in VO Utility. The name probably derives from the idea that you'll change VO settings based on whatever "activity" you're doing at any given time, like reading email or editing text. Activities can be switched either automatically, based on current application, or manually

weird problem with airport extreme

2011-06-26 Thread Mary Otten
Hi all, I've been using this airport extreme for a while with no problems. Then our cable went out today and I had to reset the modem and the router, per cable company instructions. Things began to work again, and now I'm getting a problem report from airport utility saying I have a double nat

Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I have a question for the list owners, but I cannot for the life a me figure out on the googlegroups page wher3e to go to write you guys. It used to be fairly straight forward, but all a sudden, I dono what Google's done to their web site, but frankly, it's now a mess! Obviously, unlike with

Re: Mid 2010 MacBOok Pro and Win 7

2011-06-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Kawal, That sounds, well, precisely like what I tried to do. How strange and frustrating that it worked for you and not for me. I recall reading something on this list about boot camp and OS X versions over 10.6.4, but cannot for the life of me remember what it was. Might anybody be able to

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Someone else suggested this app! On the other list! I hope it's the kind of thing your looking for! www.rememberthemilk.com It does work on the Mac! hth Colin On 27 Jun 2011, at 01:07, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > OK, that's what I thought. I think what was originally asked was a

Re: ripping DVD movies to iTunes format

2011-06-26 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! I do not know if this will do what you want! But some people have talked about [ sorry no link] DVD remaster pro! You have to buy it I think! If it is available where you are! hth Colin On 27 Jun 2011, at 00:24, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Well, I don't know the answer to all your

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Nice! I'll give it a look! Chris. - Original Message - From: Red.Falcon To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Simple reminder app? Hi there! Someone else suggested this app! On the other list! I hope it's the kind of thi

Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences

2011-06-26 Thread Dan Roy
It's coming in Lion. On Jun 26, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I was just thinking... I don't recall there being a way to make this happen, > but it would be absolutely awesome! if Apple would, provided there isn't > already a long roundabout way to do this, give us the

Re: google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Chinyoka on Macbook
Hi, this could be the problem with either your ISP or your DNS with the way it is mapping names. but I also wonder what could be going on. well, my suggestion is to go the terminal way in order to map Google's IP address to the www.google.com name. 1. open the terminal in any of the many ways.

piano pub?

2011-06-26 Thread
So has anyone used this app? Seems pretty cool, you can search for stations, and even go forward in the list. But what I can't figure out is how to switch stations without having to set it to start up in a different station, then close it, and open again. Also how to go back a song. There is

Re: piano pub?

2011-06-26 Thread Greg Aikens
I don't believe Pandora lets you move back a song, so you won't be able to do that. As far as picking a new station, make sure to turn off the VO trackpad commander and then click the trackpad once you have highlighted the new station name with VO. This assumes that your mouse cursor follows

Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread carolyn Haas
Hello Chris: I recently listed the owner and mods. I'll do this again, in case anyone else has concerns or questions: List owner: Cara quinn: email: modelc...@gmail.com Moderators: Carolyn Haas: Email: chaas0...@gmail.com Mark taylor: email: mk...@ucla.edu Carolyn On Jun 26, 2011, at 7:3

Re: ripping DVD movies to iTunes format

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Huckabay
You could use a free program called hand brake. This will rip your dvd's onto the mac and then you can tell it to convert it to M$A format for iTunes. If yo u have further questions about this or hand brake send them off list to me at mikehucka...@me.com and I'll be grateful to help. On 2011-06-

Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Carolyn already listed the mods, but a more generic answer for GoogleGroups is listname+ow...@googlegroups.com, so you almost had it right except for the missing plus sign between the list name and the word owner. HTH. Geoff On Jun 26, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I have

Re: google page error

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Snyder
Well, I updated to OS10.6.8, and it fixed the problem. I wonder if that means I got some kind of virus. Friendly, Chris On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > Hi folks, > For some reason, every time I type the location google.com into Safari, it > says the following: > > 404. That

Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Thanks much. I wrote you, and corboned the other mods as well. Chris. - Original Message - From: "carolyn Haas" To: Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:49 PM Subject: Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner Hello Chris: I recently listed the owner and mods. I'll do this again, in case anyone else

Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Geoff, I tried your suggestion but it didn't work. The e-mails always get returned to me. this is the case both with this list, as well as any other Googlegroup that I try this technique with. It's ok though, I got ahold of them. Thanks for the help. Chris. - Original Message -

Re: Idisk

2011-06-26 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hi Craig, In the finder do the following: Press command-comma to open the preferences window. Navigate to the toolbar at the top of the window, interact with it , and select sidebar, and press that button. In this window you get a list of devices, shared locations, places, and searches for the p