Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-10-07 Thread CJ Daniel
Ricardo, Thanks for the pointer. I'll check out Big Fish soon. CJ On Oct 6, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Well, pretty much any audio file will do so its not a question of > compatibility really. You might want to take a look at the offerings from > Big fish audio at >

Re: Lion Growl no longer free

2011-10-07 Thread Vítor Oliveira
Hi: I have growl installed. In skype, it announces that there is an incoming message but it doesn't speak anything about. Is it the case I am doing wrong with any parameter? Vítor Oliveira vitoroliveira2...@gmail.com A 07/10/2011, às 18:06, Chris Blouch escreveu: > I guess I'm looking at it

Re: new growl 1.3 usage

2011-10-07 Thread Oriol Gómez
speaking of dropbox, are we able to set up dropbox accssibly yet? I have to reinstall mac OSX and I need dropbox heh On 10/7/11, Jeff Bishop wrote: > Relaunch the app to get to them. This is how I found them. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mac

Re: Open office

2011-10-07 Thread Oriol Gómez
Hm, why x86? I am running lion on a mid 2010 macbook pro. Should I get a 64 bit version instead? On 10/7/11, Chris Blouch wrote: > Where are you downloading it from? Openoffice site should be taking you to > > http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_x86_install_

Re: Have trouble with adding mailbox to favorites

2011-10-07 Thread Traci
That makes sense. Lol, wonder what I was doing wrong. I decided to remove sent, flag, and drafts, I then could add another mailbox. Traci - Original Message - From: Red.Falcon To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Have tro

Re: unzip programs

2011-10-07 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Thanks both ofyou, Ezzie and ricardo, for answering my questions about this. Caitlyn Caitlyn Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:49 PM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hi Caitlyn, > > The Unarchiver can handle RAR files, as well as other types. It is VERY > accessible. > > Ezzie

Re: Have trouble with adding mailbox to favorites

2011-10-07 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Traci! I'm only guessing but going by the posts I've red! The favourites can be accessed with command and one of the numbers so I would think you can only set nine! And I do not know if 0 can be used, if not then nine it will be! hth Colin Qapla! Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak On 7 Oct 2011, at

Re: download and installing dropbox

2011-10-07 Thread Traci
Hello, The Mac Accessibility network has a great detailed description on how to install dropbox. http://www.lioncourt.com/category/apple-inc/ For podcasts on all things mac check out, blindCoolTech, mobileAccess, Vision Australia, just to name a few. There is such a wealth of helpful inform

Re: Have trouble with adding mailbox to favorites

2011-10-07 Thread Traci
To add to this question... Is there a limit of mailbox favorites one can have? I had a heck of a time adding a mailbox, then decided to remove a couple, I then could successfully add the mailbox. Just curious, Traci - Original Message - From: "Paul Erkens" To: Sent: Friday, Octo

RE: new growl 1.3 usage

2011-10-07 Thread Jeff Bishop
Relaunch the app to get to them. This is how I found them. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:19 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: new growl 1.3 usage De

new growl 1.3 usage

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I just got growl 1.3 from the mac app store. I have been using 1.2.2 for a while, and I removed it using a script provided on the growl.info site. Then, I rebooted and installed 1.3 from the store and rebooted again to give growl a chance to load its new preferences pain, and dete

Re: Have trouble with adding mailbox to favorites

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Iona, If you have Lion: 1. In mail, go to the mailboxes table and interact with it. 2. Go to the mailbox name you want to drag over to favorites and hit vo comma to tell voiceover what you want to drag. 3. Stop interacting with the mailboxes table, move over to the favorites bar and interact with

Re: Lion Growl no longer free

2011-10-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Even without self-voicing, I find apps like Adium and Skype quite accessible. It might be less convenient but I wouldn't call it less accessible. On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I guess I'm looking at it as an equal access question. If I want a chat > communications app t

Re: Open office

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Where are you downloading it from? Openoffice site should be taking you to http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg CB On 10/7/11 1:04 PM, Christopher Harrington wrote: Hi everyone, I've tried several times to download open office for the

Re: No Typing Echo in Open Office

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, I'm still on Snow Leopard. So maybe something broke or there you need to turn up verbosity? At least on the VoiceOver utility on 10.6 in the Verbosity section under the Text tab the third item is "While typing speak" and I have mine set to "Words" while other options are "Characters", both

Re: Lion Growl no longer free

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
I guess I'm looking at it as an equal access question. If I want a chat communications app to be 'accessible' then it wasn't unreasonable to download and configure Growl to make that happen. Not quite equal but quite doable, like adding a screen reader. So do we cross some line when a chat app

Open office

2011-10-07 Thread Christopher Harrington
Hi everyone, I've tried several times to download open office for the mac and have had no luck thus far. Does anyone know of any ways or places to go to get it? Thanks, Chris Harrington -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post

Re: No Typing Echo in Open Office

2011-10-07 Thread David Griffith
Are you using Lion? I am not able to even get word echo when I press the space bar. Ideally I would like the letters and words echo that voiceover normally provides but word typing echo would be a start. However I cannot even get this. regards On 7 Oct 2011, at 17:57, Chris Blouch wrote: > So

Re: No Typing Echo in Open Office

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
So when typing in a Open Office Writer document I get the word echoed each time I hit the space. Are you saying you would like every keypress echoed? It is true that accessibility in Open Office has issues, but I didn't think this was one of them. CB On 10/6/11 10:32 PM, David Griffith wrote:

Re: lion and safari really irritating me

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
William, Cody and others, Same issue here. After upgrading from sl to lion, I got a lot of busies in safari. Now after a lion clean install, that is almost entirely solved. Paul. On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Cody wrote: > Ok guys, > > I've been using Safari on my mac pro with lion 10.7.1. Browsin

Re: using mac book pro and mobile me

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Banu, Don't be frustrated. There is ample stuff to get you started. If you go to www.blindcooltech.com, you will find 13 wonderful podcasts about the mac. These are so well done, that I felt sort of at home on a mac even before mine arrived. Look for the search term "Mike Arrigo" and, among a

Re: exporting subscribed podcasts list

2011-10-07 Thread John André Netland
Hi, Yes, you can export a podcast list if you open iTunes and interact with the Source list, focus on Podcasts and press control-option-shift-M. In the menu that appear, you will find Export as an option. In the Save dialog that appear when you choose Export, you will find a pop-up menu with se

Re: exporting subscribed podcasts from itunes

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Yes if you go to podcasts inside the iTunes source list, then you can perform a control click so that a menu pops op where you can choose to export. Set the file type to opal and you can share it with another iTunes user, or even a windows user running the juice pod catcher. Hth, Paul. On Oct 7,

Re: This is more fun, was Steve Jobs introducing the Macantosh in 1984

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
This link will give you the article without page breaks: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-birth-of-the-mac-rolling-stones-1984-feature-on-steve-jobs-and-his-whiz-kids-20111006?print=true CB On 10/6/11 11:08 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Not to frown at mister. walker's youtube video...but

Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes

2011-10-07 Thread David Griffith
Do you mean play a folder? I just press command O. Navigate to the pop up button which selects the drive I want. Then I GO along to browser then interact. Navigate to the folder I want and then uninteract. Then simply tab along to open. I am not sure that what you mean though. Regards David Gr

Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes

2011-10-07 Thread Christopher Harrington
Hi, Was wondering if anyone knows how to add directories in VLC? I've never been able to get that to work. Thanks for any help, Chris Harrington On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:02 AM, David Griffith wrote: > Well maybe this is a guide by an idiot so it may suffice. > I am a fairly new Mac user but one of t

Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes

2011-10-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hello, Martin, First of all, once you connect your drive, go to Itunes and press command-o to add items to your library. You can browse in that dialog for your drive. Import your files. Then, in the sources list, go to "recently added". Your files should be there. Turn cursor tracking off with

Re: exporting subscribed podcasts from itunes

2011-10-07 Thread Jon Cohn
I would be suprised if there was not a way to get a list of the URL's via AppleScript. On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, sorry if this gets posted double but this kept staying in my drafts > folder. > Is it possible to export your list of subscribed podcasts from itunes to a

Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes

2011-10-07 Thread David Griffith
Well maybe this is a guide by an idiot so it may suffice. I am a fairly new Mac user but one of the most difficult and unintuitive programs so far is ITunes. Luckily for me all my important needs are met by the much sleeker and intuitive free VLC media player. This has the bonus of inbuilt suppo

exporting subscribed podcasts from itunes

2011-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, sorry if this gets posted double but this kept staying in my drafts folder. Is it possible to export your list of subscribed podcasts from itunes to a file so that you can share themwith another itunes user? thanks? Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: using mac book pro and mobile me

2011-10-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Banu. I know you asked about Podcasts, but have you also gone to the VO help with the VO and the h key. Then press down arrow until you get the online VoiceOver User Guide. This does have information on using VO with Safari, TextEdit, and the programs that come with the Mac. I found using th

Finally got my MacBook Pro!

2011-10-07 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi guys, Thanks for all the feedback regarding my questions about the Mac. My MacBook Pro finally arrived on Wednesday and I couldn't be happier with it. It's one of the 2011 models with an Intel core I5 processor, 4GB of RAM, and all the other bells and whistles Apple computers come with. I was q

using mac book pro and mobile me

2011-10-07 Thread banu.bc
hello again I've bought mac for two weeks and I learnt so few things in this period. I'm frastrated a lot.I never thought that using mac is such difficult thing. as far as I understood in Lion most of the basic programmes doesn't work well with vo. I hope they will ix it quickly. my question are

Re: Typing echo

2011-10-07 Thread Rahul Bajaj
I would be extremely grateful if any of you would be kind enough to help me. On 06/10/2011, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > Hi all, > > I use VoiceOver on my Mac. > So, the problem is that VoiceOver doesn't read anything as I type. > I can read the entire sentence after I've finished typing, but it > does

download and installing dropbox

2011-10-07 Thread banu.bc
hello I tried to download dropbox, however I didn't figure out I install it or not. I tried to get in downloads folder but it doesn't work. now please someone tell me all the process? how can I understand that I download it? and as far as understand dropbox doesn't accessible with vo. and need

Re: lion and safari really irritating me

2011-10-07 Thread William Windels
Hello all, Safari was also working better on a clean install of lion then the sl ubdate to lion but, when you go with safari in fullscreenmode, it could work better. Just what i have discovered Hope this helps Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 7-okt.-2011 om 11:25 heeft Kawal

Re: installing win7 bootcamp from flash drive?

2011-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, yes i use lion, i will have to check this bootcamp assistant out then. Greetings, Anouk, On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Venkatesh Potluri wrote: > Hi. > Are you using lion? > I recently read a support article about installing win 7 via USB drive along > side lion through bootcamp. > From what

exporting subscribed podcasts list

2011-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to export your list of all your subscribed podcasts so that someone else can import it on their version of itunes? Thanks in advance, Greetings, An -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To po

exporting subscribed podcasts list

2011-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to export your list of all your subscribed podcasts so that someone else can import it on their version of itunes? Thanks in advance, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. T

Re: installing win7 bootcamp from flash drive?

2011-10-07 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi. Are you using lion? I recently read a support article about installing win 7 via USB drive along side lion through bootcamp. >From what I remember, u will find an option to do this in the second screen of >the bootcamp assistant where it will ask you to download the support software. You wi

installing win7 bootcamp from flash drive?

2011-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello everyone, I have a macbook air 11 inch and i would like to run win7 alongside mac os x in bootcamp. I dont have an external dvd drive though. Is it possible to make a bootable flashdrive with the bootcamp stuff and win7 and then install it from this bootable flashdrive onto my ssd? Thanks

Re: lion and safari really irritating me

2011-10-07 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Never had this problem since doing a clean install of Lion and Safari just works so much better than in SL Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 5 Oct 2011, at 06:49 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Cody, > > watch this, I'm having a similar issue, its Safari v5.1 not Lion per say, I'm > in