Re: good old good old question, MBP or MBA

2012-06-18 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Joanne, As I write to you, I'm using a brand new iMac, 3.4Ghz i7 quad core processor, 16Gb RAM, enhanced graphics card, 256Gb SSD and 2Tb SATA drive. This is as loaded as you can make an iMac, it cannot be speced any higher. In contrast, I have an 11in MBA for use when at the office or out and

Re: mail

2012-06-18 Thread erik burggraaf
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question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Les Kriegler
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Red.Falcon
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

reading Notifications.

2012-06-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Gigi
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

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

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
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 rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, are you

Re: Mudder?

2012-06-18 Thread Maria Chapman
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

Re: VO support for FireFox.

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
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:

Re: The Apple Key Note

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
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

Screen Curtain in Lion fixed?

2012-06-18 Thread Rodney Haynie
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Rumery
Hello Eugene, If your friend is interested in getting some training or I would rather call it teaching help with an iPhone or for that matter anything to do with assistive technology, I would like to offer my services. I am part of a new firm here in Georgia that offers low cost

Re: Mudder?

2012-06-18 Thread jason lefevers
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

Re: Mudder?

2012-06-18 Thread Maria Chapman
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Rumery
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

Re: Upgrading a macbook pro from late 2010

2012-06-18 Thread CJ Daniel
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: Mudder?

2012-06-18 Thread Vivianna
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

Re: VO support for FireFox.

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel McGee
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
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: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

2012-06-18 Thread Mary Scott
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

2012-06-18 Thread Cameron Strife
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 gigifi...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Thanks Scott. I will let her know.

problem installing overdrive thanks for help!

2012-06-18 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
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

Re: VO support for FireFox.

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Campbell
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

Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

2012-06-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
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Re: VO support for FireFox.

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
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

remote access for macs?

2012-06-18 Thread May and Noah
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

Re: solved problem installing overdrive thanks for help!

2012-06-18 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
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

Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

2012-06-18 Thread Anne Robertson
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread erik burggraaf
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question for app writers?

2012-06-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

automatically importing audible books iTunes possible?

2012-06-18 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
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few questions about osx mail

2012-06-18 Thread Jakob Rosin
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

speaking of training...apple store?

2012-06-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

Voiceover speak clipboard?

2012-06-18 Thread Chuck
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

Re: question about iPhone training

2012-06-18 Thread Chuck
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

Re: speaking of training...apple store?

2012-06-18 Thread Les Kriegler
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

Re: speaking of training...apple store?

2012-06-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
...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,

RE: automatically importing audible books iTunes possible?

2012-06-18 Thread Jesus Garcia
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

Checking Mountain Lion Update Capability?

2012-06-18 Thread Jesus Garcia
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: VO support for FireFox.

2012-06-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
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, close

Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Stacey Robinson
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,

Re: Checking Mountain Lion Update Capability?

2012-06-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
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

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Jasonlefevers.massage
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Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
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 jasonlefevers.mass...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just wait a few

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
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 stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading

highlighting text in pages?

2012-06-18 Thread Maria Chapman
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

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Kimberly thurman
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

Re: Mudder?

2012-06-18 Thread Tamesha Tate
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

Re: remote access for macs?

2012-06-18 Thread Hank Smith
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

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Jasonlefevers.massage
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Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Stacey Robinson
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

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Stacey Robinson
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

2012-06-18 Thread Pete Nalda
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

Re: remote access for macs?

2012-06-18 Thread John Panarese
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

question for developers

2012-06-18 Thread Blinkin
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

RE: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Hunt
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

Re: few questions about osx mail

2012-06-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
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

Re: Upgrading to lion from snow leopard

2012-06-18 Thread Brandon Misch
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 Louie