Games for the MacDesktop?

2011-08-05 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hello, all, One thing I do miss on Windows is the availability of games with rich audio settings in first-person shooting and arcade games. I've even played an auto-racing game or two in Windows, and I still think Terraformers is one of the most rewarding games out there, for one example. Are

Okay, what happened? VoiceOVer and the new mail

2011-08-05 Thread Jes Smith
Okay, list. This is really getting on my nerve. Before I hop on my soapbox, I want y'all to know that I did find the classic view, and checked that at one point. But whatever happened to the ability to interact with the messages table and just look at one particular thing, such as subject? In ot

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Scott Howell
I hope that perhaps the dev will look at making the iOS version accessible as well. I gather it is not currently very accessible, but maybe my information is incorrect. On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Max, > >> Has anyone had extensive experience with Scrivner 2? I really

need assistance

2011-08-05 Thread May McDonald
Good morning everyone. I'm trying to select my books for the school year online but the problem I'm having is that anytime I go to select my books it's selecting everything. Is there a way to get around this so that I can go through the list without it selecting each book I pass? May and Prince

Re: need assistance

2011-08-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, you might want to try browsing the list with the trackpad commander. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:20 AM, May McDonald wrote: Good morning everyone. I'm trying to select my books for the school year online but the

Re: need assistance

2011-08-05 Thread May McDonald
And that works how? Thanks. May and Prince Noah On 2011-08-05, at 7:34 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > you might want to try browsing the list with the trackpad commander. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 5, 2011, at

Re: Okay, what happened? VoiceOVer and the new mail

2011-08-05 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi, You still can. I am using classic view and can easily interact with the table just fine. Sent from my macbook pro On 2011-08-05, at 4:48 AM, Jes Smith wrote: > Okay, list. This is really getting on my nerve. > Before I hop on my soapbox, I want y'all to know that I did find the classic > vi

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Max
Thanks. I'll try the trial and report back on my experience with it. Scott Howell wrote: > I hope that perhaps the dev will look at making the iOS version accessible as > well. I gather it is not currently very accessible, but maybe my information > is incorrect. > > On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:47 AM

Resizing BootCamp Partition.

2011-08-05 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi! I wonder if it is possible after windows install to resize the bootcamp partition to be either smaller or larger, I know this should affect the macintosh hd partition consequently as well but this is what I am thinking of at the time, resizing after installation is done, thanks. -- Georg

Re: Resizing BootCamp Partition.

2011-08-05 Thread Cody
Hi, I recently covered this in an article I wrote and also posted to the mac visionaries list, and if you go here, you may find some use in this guide depending on what version of OSX you are using http://www.hurstaudioproductions.com/guides/bootcamping-with-vista-on-lion.htm HTH Cody - O

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Joel Zimba
Hi, I don't have the most up-to-date version of the application, but it works fine for me. It's been a great product for breaking down story ideas and outlining, etc. Good Luck, Joel On 8/5/2011 8:55 AM, Max wrote: Thanks. I'll try the trial and report back on my experience with it. S

Getting Busy in Safari

2011-08-05 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hi Everybody, I am at the genius bar right this mount. They saw the problem and suggested that when you get the Safari busy, that you hit return. This seemed to work. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

back to previous version of itunes

2011-08-05 Thread Denise Avant
Hello all, i was wondering if there is a way to go back to the previous version of itunes under snow leopard. i am not too happy with this one. so far i have found it to be cumbersome and not work as well with voiceover. thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

favorites bar in lion mail

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, In the favorites bar that Teresa wrote about in Lion mail, there are checkboxes in front of the mailboxes I see there. What do these do? Also, am I correct in assuming that the favorites bar is there, so that one can switch mailboxes, even though the list of mailboxes is not opened?

Re: favorites bar in lion mail

2011-08-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Paul, Whichever mailbox is reported as "checked" is the mailbox you will find when you navigate to your message list. I believe the checkboxes on Mail's Favorites bar would actually be better described as radio buttons because you can only have one selected at a time. You'll notice if you

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

2011-08-05 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Anne, Is Prismo for the Mac a separate scanning program like vuescan or Abbyy Or is it an add on? Showing my ignorance here, and thanks for the additional info. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" g

lion mail: draft

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, While attempting to work with Lion mail efficiently throughout the past week, I still have a few questions about lion mail. Question 1. Once you start typing a new message and then close it with command plus w, and then telling mail to save it as a draft, the message does indeed appear

Re: Okay, what happened? VoiceOVer and the new mail

2011-08-05 Thread Mary Otten
Hi thought the classic view was still suppose to let you do exactly what you want, i.e. view just one column such as subject as you arrow through your list. When I raised that question some days back, the response was that classic view will let you do that. Is it possible you have thread viewing

Re: favorites bar in lion mail

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Brian, Thanks for the quick and clear answer. That helps. Paul. On Aug 5, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Whichever mailbox is reported as "checked" is the mailbox you will find when > you navigate to your message list. I believe the checkboxes on Mail's > Favorites b

Re: lion mail: draft

2011-08-05 Thread Brett C.
I believe once you select the draft you wish to continue composing, hit enter on it to edit. Brett C. On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi list, > While attempting to work with Lion mail efficiently throughout the past week, > I still have a few questions about lion mail. > Que

Re: favorites bar in lion mail

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Brian and list, I managed to drag my private inbox to the favorites bar, so that it is easily reachable. I learned how to do that on this list. It is very useful, given the command 1 etc options. But now, is it possible to remove an item present in the favorites bar? There is an aggregate in

Need help setting up a trial of DVD Remaster

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, Guys. I want to play with a trial of DVD Remaster, but I have a question or two. I see a DVD remaster app and a fairmount app along with a fair mount folder. What do I do with the fair mount stuff? do I copy both to the applications folder along with the DVD Remaster app? I can't find any ho

Re: favorites bar in lion mail

2011-08-05 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Paul, The favorites bar contains shortcuts or "aliases" to the actual mailboxes. What you will want to do is use VO drag-and drop. Move the item from the favorites bar to the mailbox list with VO-comma and VO-period to drag and drop respectively. HTH, Teresa On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Pa

Re: Getting to the top or bottom of a list

2011-08-05 Thread Shen
I wish Apple didn't remove the Jump command. This might be more of a convenience than usability. But I would have preferred the Jump command. If you are on the sender column, using the jump command takes you to the top or bottom of the table without leaving that column. Using VO-Shift-Home or End

tip: drag and drop with voiceover

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Erkens
For those of you who haven't come across it yet: drag and drop is now a whole lot easier than it used to be in sl. We used to do the mouse movement manually, but that is no longer necessary. Just put the vo cursor on the item to drag, a mailbox for example, press vo comma to mark the item for dr

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

2011-08-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mary, Prizmo for the Mac is an application you can buy through the Mac Appstore. It handles both scanning and OCR, and it is more or less usable with VoiceOver, but way too complicated to be worth the effort for a VoiceOver user. Cheers, Anne On 5 Aug 2011, at 18:06, Mary Otten wrote:

Re: Getting to the top or bottom of a list

2011-08-05 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Does the jump command vo+shift+j no longer work in Lion? And I've set up a keyboard shortcut for me! All I have to press is right option and either 1 or 2 to go from bottom to top and vice versor! You could set up either a trackpad or numpad version, which ever you prefer! Colin On 5 Au

Re: Looking for an accessible DVD ripper

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Blouch
Sorry for the delay, had to find a DVD to try this with as it's been a while. Generally the buttons you need appear in the window after a DVD has been inserted and mounted. The first thing will be the name of the folder which is usually the name of the DVD. You can rename this to anything you w

seeking a mod please?

2011-08-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, Would one of you be so kind as to write me privately? Thanks in advance, Karen -- 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

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, it's worth it to give the newest version a try. I was in contact with the author and he was quite open to make Scrivener more accessible. I think it works fine and you can even write complete novels in it. Greets Jürgen Am 05.08.2011 um 16:33 schrieb Joel Zimba: > Hi, > > I don't have th

RE: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Missy Hoppe
Is there a web site for checking out this software? Does it work with.doc or .rtf files? If there's a free demo, I'd be very tempted to give it a try. Text edit is OK, but I'm still not liking pages very much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionarie

Re: back to previous version of itunes

2011-08-05 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Denise I found this post from Esther! hth Colin Have you tried going to Apple's software downloads site? Assuming you are looking for laptop distributions, this would be: http://support.apple.com/downloads/#portablecomputers Use the web item rotor shortcut VO-U and set the rotor (pressing Up

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Adie
Hello I too had an exchange of emails with the author. He said that the version which was about to come out was probably going to be better, I think it was.2. Haven't checked the site for couple of weeks to see if it's up there yet, but you can reach it by googling Scrivener. The author did say h

Re: tip: drag and drop with voiceover

2011-08-05 Thread Adie
I am really keen on drag and drop, but find it sometimes doesn't work and it says something like "the item may be hidden," for no obvious reason. On Aug 5, 6:18 pm, Paul Erkens wrote: > For those of you who haven't come across it yet: drag and drop is now a whole > lot easier than it used to be

help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Cody
Hi listers, I'm hoping someone like Ricardo or maybe Mike Arigo might be able to skype me at some point and give me some one on one training with garage band. Ricardo has made some awesome tutorials, but I find I learn better by actually working with another person... If I can provide more det

Re: tip: drag and drop with voiceover

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I have seen that occasionally as well. In those cases, you often can still use the VO-shift-cmd toggle for mouse down then mouse up and the drag will work as it should. Later… On 2011-08-05, at 5:24 PM, Adie wrote: > I am really keen on drag and drop, but find it sometimes doesn't work >

Thank You To All, from Moderator Mark

2011-08-05 Thread M. Taylor
+Hello Family, As the subject suggest, this post is to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of you for your supportive, thoughtful and kind messages to the list. The combined knowledge base of both the V iPhone and MacVisionaries list is extraordinary and I am proud to be a member. Have a wo

Re: help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Denise Barajas
I too would be interested in learning all about it. Reading these manuals isn't really of big help to me. If anybody's interested in helping, feel free to add me to skype by adding denise9522. Just don't midn the period at the end of the name. everything else stays the same. Thanks in advance an

Need headers on some pages but not others in same Pages document

2011-08-05 Thread Kevin Gibbs
the subject says it all. My wife, who is sighted, is trying to create a document in Pages that has headers on some of the pages but not all. The idea is that she will eventually want to put this entire document into PDF. Since we don't have Acrobat, creating multiple documents in Pages, some wit

Re: more than 1 library

2011-08-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, Yes, you will have to setup another iTunes library. Lol. It shouldn't be too painful. When you launch iTunes, hold down the option key. You will be asked to choose or create an iTunes library. Here you create one for yourself. Once you've created this library, you and Kliph will ne

RE: more than 1 library

2011-08-05 Thread
What about on the windows side? JESUS is LORD! Sharrie Miller -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:53 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: viph...@googlegroups.co

Re: help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I will be around on skype around 1 pm eastern. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Cody wrote: Hi listers, I'm hoping someone like Ricardo or maybe Mike Arigo might be able to skype me at some point and give me

Re: help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Cody
if someone would like to add me to Skype as well it's cdog2005 On Aug 5, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Denise Barajas wrote: > I too would be interested in learning all about it. Reading these manuals > isn't really of big help to me. If anybody's interested in helping, feel free > to add me to skype by add

Re: help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Cody
Awesome, thanks Ricardo…I added you to Skype... On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I will be around on skype around 1 pm eastern. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Cody wrote:

Re: help with garage band...

2011-08-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ok cool. I guess anyone else who wants to join for some quick GB pointers is welcomed. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Cody wrote: Awesome, thanks Ricardo…I added you to Skype... On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Ricar

Re: Choosing a Mac Book Air

2011-08-05 Thread Richard Ring
I am extremely happy with my Mac Book Air, I did choose the model with 4 gigs of ram, and it seems to run wonderfully. On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:37 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > first, I would recommend getting at least 4GB of RAM. Lion requires at least > 2GB of RAM. I would want some wigg

Re: voiceover bug

2011-08-05 Thread Richard Ring
The slow typing I have noticed, but I have never had a problem going to menu bars. My machine behaves as expected. On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:36 AM, chad baker wrote: > hi has anyone experienced vo not going to menu bars > it will read just apple and nothing else > i tried turning vo off and on > als

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

2011-08-05 Thread David Tanner
Mary, Frankly, I think for most blind users the best choice right now is probably Docu Scan Plus. I have also used Eye-Pal, and there is too little that you can actually do with it considering the price. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 12

Re: scrivner

2011-08-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Please don't confuse it with a normal text editor. Scrivener is much more complex. Pages or Textedit is fine to write simple textes like letters or maybe a Poem. But in Scrivener you are able to have a whole book project including research, your character sketch, scene sketch and so forth. And a

Re: Need headers on some pages but not others in same Pages document

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'll let Apple do the explaining for this one. It will save typing. • When in Pages, go up to the Help menu and choose Pages Help. • Type Header into the Search field. • Of the 13 items that will appear, click on the using Headers and Footers. • She can read that and within that section, the

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

2011-08-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, On 6 Aug 2011, at 05:50, David Tanner wrote: > > > Frankly, I think for most blind users the best choice right now is probably > Docu Scan Plus. What makes you say that? VueScan and ABBYY FineReader work seamlessly together once they are set up correctly. Also, DocuScan only hand

Vuescan and Lion

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Listers, I've recently joined the list but I've been following its invaluable resource for some time now. Many thanks to you all for sharing your knowledge. I was wondering whether Vuescan is accessible with Voiceover under Lion? Best wishes Andrew -- You received this message because y

Re: back to previous version of itunes

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Roy
Well, I am pushing my luck here, but, I have 3 backups of my system. Unfortunately, with Lion, Apple doesn't let you delete the iTunes.app file. However, since I do have 3 backups, i decided to take a chance. I booted up from 1 of my external backups and then deleted the iTunes.app file and th

Re: Resizing BootCamp Partition.

2011-08-05 Thread Georges Zaynoun
From where to get the winclone utility? Is it possible to whipe the entire hard disk, make a windows unattended install on the mac then clone with winclone, reinstall lion on the entire hd deleting all what is windows, create a bootcamp partition in the size we want and finally use winclone to

Re: [Bulk] Vuescan and Lion

2011-08-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
In a word, yes it very certainly is. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Aug 6, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I've recently joined the list but