Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, Regarding speaking the attributes of the text you are reading, press control+shift+v and you will find yourself in the dialogue box where yo you can adjust various values for Voiceover. One of them is speak text attributes. There are other useful functions of Voiceover you can

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, You'll need a serial adapter to get your romeo running on the mac, but then louis will support it for translating and embossing braille. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi, or you could use a free word processor called Bean. It is regularly updated as well and through it you can check your word count which is why I was looking for an alternative to text edit which didn't provide the word count feature. Just google Bean and it should be the 1st result. I don't

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
And, if you wish an anti virus app, you might give Clamxav a go. Use the version on the site: www.clamxav.com because the version in the app store does not offer the century feature. Microsoft office wil not work on the Mac, but, text edit is a nice and full featured app. Can't ansewr your

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Or, perhaps one could look in the ITunes app store; which, as you may know, features some apps not to be found in the Mac app store. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Jul 9, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Daniel McGee wrote:

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Scott. I have a PacMate. It will not work as a direct braille display on the Mac, unless you take the braille display off the PacMate part. This is not true of some note takers where you have different modes. Just take the braille display off, and VoiceOver should immediately recognize it

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of the backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes the oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that if you don't keep it on its own partition time machine will eventually use up the

partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-09 Thread Angie Giltinan
Good morning all, I have a drive, and it already has my Time machine back up, and some other stuff on it, can I partision it with all that stuff on it, or do I need to remove it all first? Any help would be greatly apreciated! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Configuring Shure Mic for Garage Band

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
What are you using for the USB interface? I picked up an ART USB Dual Pre and found that I had to crank the gain all the way up with my Shure SM58 to get a reasonable signal level. Of course I was trying spoken word and not loud singing so maybe it's just my particular application. CB On

RE: partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, I believe it erases everything on the drive, and then particians it. I could be wrong, though, so asking for a second opinion would be helpful. *smiles* -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Angie Giltinan

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Harry, You can find text attributes by pressing VO-t. However, in Pages, you can't detect the highlighting of text by colour, also known as shading, but you can do this in TextEdit. I doubt that anyone is going to do an in-depth podcast on pages as it would take much too long. Training

Re: partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, nah. She can add another partition without erasing the drive. The problem is, setting the size of the newly add partition is a bit of a pain. The last time I checked, this wasn't accessible with Voiceover. There is a splitter you need to move like that found in mail for example. To

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
How do I partition a drive with vo On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of the backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes the oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that

Re: Configuring Shure Mic for Garage Band

2012-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, did you also try turning up the volume of the track? I'm assuming you were using Garageband? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: What are you using for the USB

RE: partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Miller
Ok, I forgot about that resize control. Yes, that's not accessible with VoiceOver, unfortunately. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:10 AM To:

Re: How is the accessibility of Voiceover with Openoffice.org?

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup. Used to be pretty good. Dunno if this is a voiceover issue or an OpenOffice issue. Since none of my other apps had this kind of regression when I upgraded to 10.7 I'm assuming this is something to do with OpenOffice. That said, they keep putting out releases and getting things working

how to partition a drive

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, How do you partition a drive? Can someone give me step by step instruction using vo. -- 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

Re: how to partition a drive

2012-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, If you want to just add a partition, your going to run into problems because resizing the new partition is not accessible with VO. You might want to erase the drive and partition from the beginning so you can set the sizes. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info

Re: Configuring Shure Mic for Garage Band

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I can turn it up in Garage Band but I was expecting the signal to be 'hotter' coming out of the USB box. So I can work around it, just wasn't the same as my old setup with a Mackie mixer. That was borrowed and had to go back to its owner. The pre-amps on that seemed to crank up a lot more than

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Short answer is with a utility called Disk Utility which is in your Utilities folder (command-shift-u to get there from finder). There have been detailed descriptions on this list on exactly how to use it so if you can't figure things out just ping back and I'll try to dig one of those up,

Re: how to partition a drive

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
I understand that but how do I do this. On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, If you want to just add a partition, your going to run into problems because resizing the new partition is not accessible with VO. You might want to erase the drive and partition from the

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
Chris, a longer answer with instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Short answer is with a utility called Disk Utility which is in your Utilities folder (command-shift-u to get there from finder). There have been detailed

Re: partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-09 Thread Angie Giltinan
as for the size thing, the sizes are ok, and i'm happy with the results of my partition. On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Ok, I forgot about that resize control. Yes, that's not accessible with VoiceOver, unfortunately. -Original Message- From:

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-09 Thread Scott Berry
Where do I obtain Louis. I have heard of it but don't remember what web site it's on. On 7/9/2012 06:32, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, You'll need a serial adapter to get your romeo running on the mac, but then louis will support it for translating and embossing braille. Best, Erik Burggraaf

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Found some stuff on Mac For The Blind here: http://macfortheblind.com/how-to-for-the-Mac-and-OS-X which is a reproduction of a MacVisionaries email from Scott Bresnahan. CB On 7/9/12 11:50 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: Chris, a longer answer with instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Re: No Skype option in Audio Hijack Pro

2012-07-09 Thread Blinkin
Brandon, Yeah I tried that out last night and it worked great. i completely missed the options there. thank you for helping. I love it when a problem has a simple easy fix! Mike On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:37 AM, Brandon Olivares wrote: Hi Mike, Have you created a new

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-09 Thread Harry Hogue
Anne, Thank you very much for this Skype resource on Pages training. I may take that up, since I am about to become a certified Spanish/English translator, so things like formatting will be important for the look of the documents. And, as an aside, it sounds like Text Edit is a bit more

Learning Ally Audio iOS app currently free in the U.S. App Store

2012-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi All, Those of you in the U.S. who have a membership with Learning Ally (which used to be named Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic) can currently download the Learning Ally Audio app for free. It's normally $19.99, and is used to download and play DAISY books from Learning Ally. You must

safari and tables in other apps

2012-07-09 Thread Angie Giltinan
All, sorry about the confusing subject, here's my question. 1. I am in Safari, then, I switch back to Syrinx or mail, or anything else that has tables. 2. I attemppt to use up arrow to move up a row in the table with quick nav on, I can't do it. 3. if I use the left arrow to move, I can do it

What is the most accessible version of Adium that people use with Lion 7.4 with Voiceover?

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, subject explains it all. a few days ago I was on Adim chatting to at least two friends and it got to the point where they were sending not in long duration of each other. The issue I had was that I'd be doing something on Safari and focus would drag me back to adium without my consent

Re: safari and tables in other apps

2012-07-09 Thread Rachel Feinberg
I would suggest turning quick nav off. It works great in Safari, but needs to be off if you want to navigate tables in other apps. Good luck, Rachel On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Angie Giltinan wrote: All, sorry about the confusing subject, here's my question. 1. I am in Safari, then, I

Fwd: Partition your hard drive with data still on it | Macworld

2012-07-09 Thread agent086b
Not sure if this will help as I still don't have my Mac yet. I saved this message from the list some months a go. Max. Original Message Hi all! This was posted on another list! And I thought it would interest some of you! You

OCR with iOS devices with the VueScan app and wireless scanner

2012-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi All, I use the Prizmo app with my iPhone 4's camera to OCR text. However, recently I've been using a wireless scanner on my network that I control with an iOS app named VueScan Mobile to send scans to the camera roll on my iPhone or iPad, and then using OCR apps like Prizmo or TextGrabber

Can I make a contact us form on wordpress.com

2012-07-09 Thread Blinkin
All, I am using wordpress.com and I want to find out if it is possible to add one of those contact us form to it. If my terminology is wrong what I am aiming for is a link that will take the user to a page where they type in their email address and then the message and then can

Re: New from TidBITS: Prep for Mountain Lion with New Take Control Ebook from Joe Kissell

2012-07-09 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Gerry, This book is one you have to pay for but in saying that is sounds full of very good information. Regards Dean Sent from Dean Adams Macbook Pro breezepa...@gmail.com Voip phone: +6124307 9248 landline Phone: +61243892195 Mobile: +61428133758 Skype : deanadams9 On 07/07/2012,

Unity Mode in VMWARE

2012-07-09 Thread tealgreen83
I seem to have gotten myself stuck in unity mode with Windows and Mac. Can someone please tell me how to exit out of unity mode so that I can use just Mac or Windows? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this