Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

Hello Paul, I probably spent about an hour learning how to use Prizmo. However, I recently had a client who learned how to use it in ten minutes and he had no sight at all, either! You need a steady hand or something to rest the phone on while taking the picture. I use the voice command to min

Re: highlighting text in pages?

Hello Maria, To highlight the passages in Pages, you could select the section and change the colour. Press Cmd-Shift-c to open the colour window where you can choose your colour. The same command closes it again. Cheers, Anne On 19 Jun 2012, at 02:10, Maria Chapman wrote: > HI. > > I am sc

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

for lion you need 2gb of ram. if you check the section in the about this mac item, it should tell you how much ram you have. On Jun 18, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > This was in the Apple keynote that Tim Cook gave last week at WWDC. > > Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates > Lou

Re: few questions about osx mail

Hi Jacob, You can select a specific MailBox, then go up to the View menu and deselect the Organize by Conversation option. This will have all the messages within the given MailBox listed in whatever style you've chosen but not affect the other MailBoxes you've set up. Hope that was what you w

RE: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

Hello Anne. I have tried Prismo a few times and haven't been very successful even with the aid of Light Detector. How much practice did it take for you to become proficient? This is my signature -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroup

question for developers

Developers or anyone who does programming I am getting ready to get out of the military and have the opportunity to choose a new career. I am considering getting into computers on the nerd level instead of just the user level. I love mac and Apple obviously so that is what I am t

Re: remote access for macs?

The only way I know of is using screen sharing through iChat. The thing is, the person has to have the volume loud enough to hear for VoiceOver on their end because you will have to listen to it through the connection. You could use SSH in terminal, but you would have to know your way aro

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

This was in the Apple keynote that Tim Cook gave last week at WWDC. Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/lpnalda Http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter @lpnalda On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Ricardo Walker wr

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

Kimberly, how much memory do you have? On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > You can upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I already tried the > upgrade from SL to Lion and hated it. I went back to SL and don't know if > I'll give ML a shot or not. > On Jun 18, 2012, at

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

Thanks Ricardo. I didn't want to try an upgrade without knowing for sure. SL is working well for me at the moment. On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > No way. 1GB is pretty under powered. It might run but, I don't think it > would be very stable. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

Well this was a pleasant response. I an not totally sure if you can I am not that knowledgeable about it, however I don't see why you couldn't? And maybe just say that upgrade is not possible or something instead of this smart remark? Jason LeFevers State of Maryland Registered massage practiti

Re: remote access for macs?

as far as I know this doesn't ixist. On 6/18/2012 1:33 PM, May and Noah wrote: Hey there. I was wondering if the macs have remote access like with jaws? i need to help someone fix their mac and we're in two different locations of course. Do we have that capability? If so, can someone send me th

Re: Mudder?

Hi list, In mudder, I can get the muds to load perfectly fine, but I can't control voice over. It will start reading the output on the screen and I can't get it to stop so I can type in info such as user name and pass word or read line by line. Or just read output that is incoming for that matter

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

You can upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I already tried the upgrade from SL to Lion and hated it. I went back to SL and don't know if I'll give ML a shot or not. On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Who's to say you can update from snow leopard straight to Mountain

highlighting text in pages?

HI. I am scanning a text book for my course. My tutor wants me to highlight any text that either won't read properly or any diagrams as I come across them. In ms word I was shading the text. Is there an equivalent way to do this in pages? If not, can anyone suggest how i can mark the sectio

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

No way. 1GB is pretty under powered. It might run but, I don't think it would be very stable. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, > I'm thinking of upgrading to Lion from snow leop

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

Who's to say you can update from snow leopard straight to Mountain Lion to start with? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:06 PM, "Jasonlefevers.massage" wrote: > Why not just wait a few weeks and update to mountain l

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

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Re: Checking Mountain Lion Update Capability?

Here's a page on upgrade info: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/ HTH, Teresa On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote: > Evening list members I know there is a way to check if my machine is capable > of updating to Mountain Lion when it is released. I know this is in the about > t

Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading to Lion from snow leopard. My macbook white from 2009 which I got on sale has one gb of ram is this enough to upgrade to lion and still have good voiceover performance or do I need more ram? Can I just download lion from the app store and let it install? Thanks, Stac

Re: VO support for FireFox.

Yes, I consider it an experiment and adventure at this point. Let's hope for accessibility more often than not. Teresa "Visualize whirled peas." On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Yup, just tried it and they broke something. All I could reach was the full > screen button, clos

Checking Mountain Lion Update Capability?

Evening list members I know there is a way to check if my machine is capable of updating to Mountain Lion when it is released. I know this is in the about this Mac menu, but I cannot seem to find it. I am fairly certain my mac pro will run Mountain lion, but I would like to be certain. thanks for

RE: automatically importing audible books iTunes possible?

And if this answer can go to the list I too would appreciated. Jesus Garcia From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ioana Gandrabur Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 17:46 To: MacVisionaries Subject: automatically importing audible books iTunes pos

Re: speaking of training...apple store?

...hang a second. they will train you for a year in person? and for only $99? mercy! Thanks, Karen On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Les Kriegler wrote: It's $99 for 1 year of training. Les On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, How much does it cost there? I long ago decided, especia

Re: speaking of training...apple store?

It's $99 for 1 year of training. Les On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > How much does it cost there? > I long ago decided, especially after I had a macbook as a loan for a while, > that when the time came, I am going to the store for voiceover work. first, > its ter

Re: question about iPhone training

Hi Gigi, there is another Google group called VIPhone that deals strictly with voice over issues on the iPhone ,iPad, and iPod Touch. There is a lot of very helpful and friendly advice there. here is a link: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/viphone You may also want to look aro

Voiceover speak clipboard?

Hi all, Is there a way to get Voiceover to speak the clipboard content on my Mac Mini? When I want to read something on my PC I select the text, copy it then have Zoom Text read the clipboard. I would like to be able to do this on my Mini. Thanks Chuck -- You received this message because you

speaking of training...apple store?

Hi all, How much does it cost there? I long ago decided, especially after I had a macbook as a loan for a while, that when the time came, I am going to the store for voiceover work. first, its terrific Apple offers this, and second they should be rewarded with people to make use of that option

few questions about osx mail

Hi list! I have written into this list only one or two times before. that was the time I didn't have a mac. Today I am happy to say, that I've got my first mac, the mac book air (wich I currently am typing on, so excuse please if I messed something up). I've had time to play with it only few hour

Re: question about iPhone training

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automatically importing audible books iTunes possible?

Hi all, When I I started downloading audiobooks to the mac they used to automatically download after purchasing and then I am pretty sure they would automatically start playing in iTunes. I disabled that at the time but have absolutely no idea how to access this kind of preferences. Any help is

question for app writers?

Greetings, sharing the below for a former computer professional of mine based on long island. If anyone is writing using this code, reach out to him will you? I feel sure Peter will be a sensational contributor to the cause. Thanks, Karen -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 14 J

Re: question about iPhone training

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Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

Hello Lisette, I have an iPhone 4 and have been using Prizmo successfully in both English and French for over a year now. I'm totally blind, no light perception, and yet it still works for me, often at the first attempt! Cheers, Anne On 18 Jun 2012, at 22:24, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > My u

Re: solved problem installing overdrive thanks for help!

HI, Mistery solved. I must have opened the dmg file but for some reason focus was not brought to it so I ended up with multiple mounted drives. FOund them when I looked in my computer. Thought I'd share in case anyone runs into similar problems. Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioa

remote access for macs?

Hey there. I was wondering if the macs have remote access like with jaws? i need to help someone fix their mac and we're in two different locations of course. Do we have that capability? If so, can someone send me the steps on how to do so or where I should go look for that? Thanks, May and Pri

Re: VO support for FireFox.

Yup, just tried it and they broke something. All I could reach was the full screen button, close button etc. in the window chrome and none of the actual browser controls or content. That's part of the fun in playing with nightly builds. Some days you get the latest hot new features and other da

Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

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Re: VO support for FireFox.

Hi. This is exactly the same issue I brought up over the weekend. Not entirely sure what's going on here. On 2012-06-18, at 3:07 PM, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, I've downloaded the latest nightly build of firefox which in my case > is 16.0a1 but for reasons unknown it doesn't contain the voice

Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

Hello Mary, On 18 Jun 2012, at 21:54, Mary Scott wrote: > So does this maake it possible to take a picture of printed material and it > will read it back on the iPhone? Not exactly. Once Prizmo is set up correctly, you select Text, take the picture of the page, tap Use and wait for the OCR to

problem installing overdrive thanks for help!

HI all, Hoe you are enjoying summer wherever you are. I tried to install overdrive to make use of the great info Esther shared about those free audiobooks for the summer but am having the following problem: I downloaded the odmediaconsolesetup.dmg it shows it is 5 mb. I go to finder and try to o

Re: question about iPhone training

I offer iOS training via skype for a reasonable price. If that's a route she may be interested in, please have her drop me an e mail. My e mail address is came...@cameronstrife.com Thanks, Cameron. On 6/18/12, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Thanks Scott. I will let her know. She is not yet ready, b

Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

So does this maake it possible to take a picture of printed material and it will read it back on the iPhone? On Jun 10, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Most people find Prizmo to be the best OCR app for iPhone. Here is a link to > the Prizmo guide on Applevis: >

Re: question about iPhone training

Thanks Scott. I will let her know. She is not yet ready, but I wanted to check on it before I mentioned it to her. Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Scott Rumery wrote: > Hello Eugene, > If your friend is interested in getting some training or I would

Re: VO support for FireFox.

Hi all, I've downloaded the latest nightly build of firefox which in my case is 16.0a1 but for reasons unknown it doesn't contain the voiceover support. My point that I'm trying to make is that I red somewhere from the firefox nightly that had support for VO was meant to be included by default f

Re: Mudder?

hmm, well in my menus there are no buttons at all. for example, there is connection but, it's not a button, no matter what i do it won't open. and, yes, of course i tried to interact with everything, tab, open, use track pad, everything. i can not get this app to do a thing. anybody who wish

Re: Upgrading a macbook pro from late 2010

David, I, recently, upgraded the RAM in my 2008 MBP by myself, with a little sighted assistant from my 17-year-old. I went from 2GB to 4GB & really noticed a difference in VoiceOver's performance. Mind you, it's not as if I went from a VolksWagon to a Formula 1 race car. But, VO doesn't lag

Re: question about iPhone training

I completely agree Les. That is why our firm specializes in One To One training, and we also offer group training for those clients that would like to have 3 to 10 people trained at the same time. This group training takes up a full 8 hour day in a specific location that we and our clients agr

Re: Mudder?

HI. in the connections group, there is a button that will open a list of muds you can connect to. hth. regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.powerradio104.us where we play lots of great music On 19/06/2012, at 1:42 AM, jason lefevers wr

Re: Mudder?

Hi I downloaded this att and I get connection apptions. Does someone have experience with using this app or playing MUD RPG games in general this seems very cool but I am not sure how to get started. When I got the Mudder app and open it it askes for ip address and other things. I am no

Re: question about iPhone training

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Screen Curtain in Lion fixed?

Hey everyone. I did not notice a post on this so... FYI: Looks like Apple fixed the screen curtain in one of the more recent Lion updates. When I toggle the screen curtain on the screen no longer goes completely bright. It goes dark like it is supposed to. Keystroke Vo/shift f11. Or three finger

Re: The Apple Key Note

I thought they said something to that effect - that pedestrian, biking, hiking and public transportation stuff was being left to 3rd party apps for now. CB On 6/16/12 6:38 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, in this instance, I don't know if telling us the destination is on the left or right side

Re: VO support for FireFox.

For real information I suggest you keep tabs on the developer's blog here: http://www.marcozehe.de/ although there hasn't been much since his April 30 post about VO being in the nightly builds of Firefox: http://www.marcozehe.de/2012/04/30/initial-voiceover-support-now-in-firefox-nightly-buil

Re: Mudder?

Hi. I am not getting the unknown. I get a connection group and other options did you try interacting with the unknown? Blessings! Maria Joe and loving guide Karly. Email/ I Message: &fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl skype: bubbygirl1972 bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 18/06/20

Re: Why can't I delete .band file?

Every now and then I get a 'phantom' file on my desktop that can't be deleted and it only goes away after a reboot. Give it a whirl, can't hurt much :) CB On 6/17/12 5:44 PM, Blinkin wrote: No it's closed On Jun 17, 2012, at 1:02 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, are you trying to delete the

Re: question about iPhone training

Hi guys Thanks for the comments. It just so happens, that one of the gentleman at the North Park Apple store, is now beginning to consider himself the voiceover person. This is because he is working with myself and another blind friend. Then, a couple more people walk it. As for the noise, what

reading Notifications.

Hello All. I have formatted my I phone 4S a couple of times in the hope my notifications will read when the screen is locked. It's not happening and wish to know if any one else is having this problem? It started after the last update. Kawal. -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: question about iPhone training

Yes I found in my store to be to noisy I wonder why Apple stores have a quiet room[s] for this use! Colin On 18 Jun 2012, at 13:54, Les Kriegler wrote: > There are 2 issues to consider about one on one training at an Apple store. > First, while the reps have heard of VoiceOver, it doesn't mean

Re: question about iPhone training

There are 2 issues to consider about one on one training at an Apple store. First, while the reps have heard of VoiceOver, it doesn't mean they really know it. She would have to find someone at the store with whom she could work on a regular basis. When I purchased our first Mac, this is what

question about iPhone training

Hi guys. I have a blind friend who is considering getting an iPhone down the line. She's not ready yet because she's getting a new computer. I couldn't talk her into switching to a Mac, unfortunately. The big reason she won't switch is because she believes she will need pdf files and the ability

Re: mail

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