Hi,
I wouldn't worry about it.
It might be some app running in the background like dropbox for example. Or,
it might be a function of iCloud. I'm really not sure. But I don't think its
anything to be alarmed about.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
I use a Mac myself, and, framkly, was wondering the same thing. Take a look at
the seller form the way it is now and you'll quickly see that things are not
very well labeled.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
On
Hi all,
I downloaded Mountain Lion just a couple of days ago.
It seems to be pretty good, but I'm having some trouble with Mail.
I can't figure out how to read messages.
For most messages, it says something like 'No subject, no sender'.
What does that mean?
Also, I can't find the folders that I
Garage sale was pretty accessible when I used it, but that was quite some time
ago.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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It also happens quite a lot at the beginning when you just opened Mail and it
is updating and fetching from the IMAP server. Just best to sit and wait a bit
when you start up Mail.
On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I believe that this has to do with
Thanks, this worked perfectly. A side effect is that focus no longer moves in
the direction I arrow when I delete messages, which is a Mountain Lion feature
I had come to enjoy very much. Oh well, I guess the mac is keeping me healthy -
not letting me have my cake and eat it, too. Wow, that was
As far as I'm concerned, setting up the rules / filters on gmail is the only
way to go because I use IMAP and want the same configuration available on all
computers and mail clients that I use. Mail works fine with the separate
folders and I'm not finding a bunch of duplicate messages or any
Okay,
Anybody here ever heard of Wine? It's supposed to be a windows imulater that
lets you run windows software on a Mac without actually installing windows. I
believe that part of it involves Terminal work; but, not sure. anybody know
what I'm refering to; and, how accessible it is?
I have at minimum, two events on my calendar; one is in December 2011 and one
today in August of 2012. On my iPod, the event list shows these two and I
think some others left over. On the Mac in Day view, these do not appear in a
single list. I only see events for today. I believe the
I'm not sure what setup you used to have before upgrading to mountain lion but
I will tell you how i've sold my problems which were similar to yours.
Firstly, in Mail preferences, I chose to view my messages in classic view.
Secondly, in order to see all your
mailboxes, interact with the list
I haven't used it but that is supposed to be the gist of it. It emulates
the windows APIs (application programming interfaces) so that windows
apps can run without actually having windows installed. This is the idea
behind Crossover
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/
which is based on
Listers,
I know I have reminders present as I have made a few over the past
weeks/months. I can't seem to find a way of viewing them in Mountain Lion. In
Lion, I used to be able to tab to a list of reminders where I could interact
with the table and arrow up an down all the reminders. Any
I've been trying to customise my favourites bar in ML. I've succeeded in
dragging and dropping one of my mailboxes there but when trying to remove
send mailbox and one other mailbox which I had dragged into it previously
under Lion, I've received the following error message: Mac Voiceover is
Ok, one of my notorious just wondering questions.
I've heard many discussions about whether screen curtain saves battery life in
laptops and the smaller devices. I'm wondering if screen curtain works by
modifying information that's already been passed to the display, or whether it
bypasses the
Ah, but what about screen readers such as NVDA or System access to go? I
figured that there might be some VO issues; but, if one could get NVDA
running…oops, that would depend on windows API's too would it not? Same issue
would crop up I reckon.
Thoughts?
Okay, maybe I'd just better say
I tried launching NVDA on my Mac using Wine. I heard the tone indicating NVDA
heh started but nothing else after that. I had a large follower base on twitter
before sacking an old account. I asked if anyone had used Wine successfully.
The general consensus seemed to be that it wasn't usable.
Hello, Andrew,
When you go into reminders, you will have to interact with the reminders card
to go to the lists of reminders. You may have several lists in addition to the
reminder card. Use VO-right and -left to navigate the window. You can also hide
the reminder lists, (i.e. Google to-do,
Hi,
First, the Copy that you're finding in the Contextual menu is just a Copy/Paste
sort of thing so it will not do what you're hoping. Check on both machines
that you have Home Sharing turned on. Home Sharing is under the Advanced menu.
Home Sharing is different than the Sharing you see in
Hi,
It means that VO's Drag and Drop will not work on that kind of item. To remove
things, I've just routed my mouse to the location by pressing VO-cmd-f5 then
using the Trackpad to press down and drag my finger to the bottom of the
Trackpad then letting go. This effectively removes the item
Well, since I aint installing windows on this Mac, I guess I'm out of luck aint
I?
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Rose Waagan r...@chicksdigmacs.net wrote:
I tried launching NVDA on
Not sure on devices but for laptops it just sets the pixels to black, so
the backlight is still running. If you want to save battery you need to
use F1 and turn the screen all the way down. All the way down turns the
backlight off. Likewise using F5 to turn the keyboard backlight all the
way
I have chosen to hide my all day events. in day view the last item is the
event list, it will show your current event, but if you use the arrow keys up
and down without using the the VO keys you can then move between the items of
the list.
I noticed in advanced preferences that there is the
Dear tim,
It's amazing: it works! Just removed two items.
Thank you.
Andrew
On 15 Aug 2012, at 16:37, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It means that VO's Drag and Drop will not work on that kind of item. To
remove things, I've just routed my mouse to the location by pressing
Hello List,
My name is Damashe Thomas and I am fairly new to the macvisionaries group. I
live in the great state of Georgia. I have been a very happy iOS user for the
past four years and am preparing to make the move to the mac.
I have two quick questions to get started.
Does anyone have
its a linux app that is used in linux and jaws or nvda won't work with it.
didn't know they did a mac port of it.
On 8/15/2012 5:57 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Okay,
Anybody here ever heard of Wine? It's supposed to be a windows
imulater that lets you run windows software on a Mac without
Hi there!
I cannot answer about using windows stuff [never have used it] but I do know
that parallels is not accessible so do not let anyone sell you it!
Hth Colin
On 15 Aug 2012, at 17:39, Damashe Thomas wrote:
Hello List,
My name is Damashe Thomas and I am fairly new to the
HOw do you use the trackpad to do this?
DO you have to turn trackpad commander off? I have tha majic trackpad no
buttons.
Best,
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online
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On Aug 15, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com
Hi,
Thanks, I had a choice of a free copy of parallels or fileMaker Pro. I had
heard a few years ago that parallels wasn't accessible, but didn't know about
any recent updates.
- Original Message -
From: Red.Falcon
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August
I tried crossover and Winonx, a $5 app that does the same thing. It failed to
run nvda as well as the audio game (which was my primary purpose for trying
it). I have given up and will be investigating virtualbox soon instead of
bootcamp as I rely increasingly on the mac for day-to-day
Thanks,
I just set up home sharing DId not know there were 2 types of sharing.
THiss brings up an other question:
When one computer connected to to other one it started transfering all my
music into it. SO far as I can tell mine did not do the same. HOw can I control
what is being
hello,
I run Kurzweil 1000 version 11.03 (I haven't updated that particular software
in a while) under Windows 7 in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine and have no
problems. I need to update to version four of VMWare Fusion for it all to run
under Mountain Lion, but from what I hear others have
Hi,
I have a macbook pro. I am writing to ask if anyone has any helpful
materials that I can sort through to make sense of this beast.
I planned on selling it but since I had no buyers I might as well learn the
darn thing haha.
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I think it does save battery power. On IOS devices, the light on the
display is turned off, or at least on a very low setting. On the mac, I
don't use the screen curtain, instead I turn the brightness down to 0
Original message:
Ok, one of my notorious just wondering questions.
I've heard
hello; i'm sorry to hear you are struggling with it. which mac is it lion
mountain lion leopard snow leopard? i'm sure someone on here will forward you
a tutorial. the thing you should know is that it seams windows is moving to
make their computers more like the mac. just curious as to how
Hey Missy and Shawn,
Thanks for the responses. I guess first off I just have to play around
with Growl a little more to get used to it. I just installed Trillion
but haven't used it as I found it to be a little inaccessible. Just
installed Meny Tab for Facebook, again need to play around with it.
Hi guys
I have had a little time to mess around with speakable items, and I have run
into a little weird thing. I thought I would change my key from the escape key
to something else. However, when I want to do this I can't getting into
dashboard or something because I can't getting references
You shouldn't need to tur the commander off although I usually have it off as I
accidentally make it do things with my wrists. For the Magic Trackpad, simply
push on the Trackpad itself and you'll notice a click. Make sure it is pressed
down when dragging.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort
Check in the Settings buttons and you'll learn what's going to copy where.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-08-15, at 12:27 PM, Ioana Gandrabur igandra...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks,
I just set up home sharing DId not know there were 2 types of sharing.
THiss brings up
I have a feeling that is what is wrong. I just used Spotlight to bring up Java
preferences and agreed to install the new certificate. Hopefully, once it does
its thing, I will not have any issues doing whatever else is required, and can
try the banking site again. If anyone has run into this,
Dear Theresa,
Thanks for your tips. I think I am slowly getting there. Once I interact with
the reminder card, I made a mistake of interacting with the list table. I just
needed to use up and down arrow keys to review my reminders. Once I've found
the reminder I wanted to review/have a look
Went into Java preferences, and there appear to be some edit boxes which I have
no clue how to handle. I've tried checking and unchecking enabling plug-ins,
etc., but have the same result on the banking site. I have no idea what else to
do except call Apple. I suspect I'll have to bring it in
Hi.
I run Open Book the latest version under VMWare 4 whatever the latest one is
using Mountain Lion. I use a Pearl and have no problems with it at all.
Kawal.
On 15 Aug 2012, at 19:41, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
I run Kurzweil 1000 version 11.03 (I haven't updated
Hi again,
Sorry but I get no click pressing down on the trackpad with commander turned
on or off. DOes the click always happen or only on certain items?
Do you click anywhere on the trackpad? A bit stumped.
THanks for all your help!
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on
Hello Damashe,
First, if you are wanting to exicute the installation and full
operation of Windows on the Mac, I would highly recommend VMware
Fusion.
Reviewing the archives will provide a thorough set of directions that
will help you learn how to install Windows, as should the product web
site.
I used the accent ,key that one uses with command to change windows.
Best,
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online
stores.
On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hi guys
I have had a little time to mess around with
Hello,
My thanks to Kawal, Emilio and others for the answers. I will buy fusion and
take the free copy of file maker pro when I buy my macBook. I appreciate the
advice and comments.
- Original Message -
From: Emilio emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com
To: MacVisionaries
Hi all,
Ever since getting the mac, I was told Chrome would serve me better; it was
faster, easier, and vo would not be busy as much. Now, though, I have decided
to make Safari my default browser, and here's why.
* Reader: the reader feature is amazing. I opened an article from twitter and
was
HI,
In view preferences of mail. Set list preview to none. NOt sure if this will
solve your problem but worth a try.
Best,
Ioaana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online
stores.
pain to none.
On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Jeff Berwick
ONe thing I'd like to mention before you put money into VMWare. There is an
alternative called Virtualbox. It's interface is not accessible, but it has
full terminal support, so you can set things up that way and never need to
touch the interface. As far as I know, it is free, and works just
Hi Christine,
I think that you have to log out and log back in again after making
your changes to Java Preferences in order for the changes to take
effect. I assume you mean that you checked the check box for Enable
applet plug-in and Web Start applications on the General tab of Java
I should say that turning down the brightness on the Mac does make its
battery last longer, but that turning it off is the best and that screen
curtain seems to have no or minimal impact on battery life.
CB
On 8/15/12 2:55 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
I think it does save battery power. On IOS
I'm a little confused about your example with the address bar with command l.
Can you give me step by step something to try in Chrome, then have me try it
again in Safari so I can specifically interactively see the difference in what
you mean? Sorry, I'm just more a hands on person.
Chris.
Is there a way to literally turn the display off? I don't mean set
brightness to 0 or turn on the curtain. I literally mean turn off the
display completely.
This is a mid 2010 stocked 13 inch white macbook.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com
To:
I meant it literally: cmd-l in Chrome loads a page, cmd-l in Safari
does not. VO focuses on that page, so Safari not focusing is a
consequence of Safari not loading that page.
On 8/15/12, Christopher-Mark gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a little confused about your example with the
I'm sorry,but now I'm totally lost.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: I just switched back to Safari from Chrome, here's why
I meant it literally: cmd-l in Chrome
Hello Damash. I have been using fusion for two years. In general it works fine
but peformance is much better with bootcamp especially with Open Book.
On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Damashe Thomas damashe.tho...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello List,
My name is Damashe Thomas and I am fairly new to
Evening list members ok I now have installed mountain lion and VM Ware
running windows 7 64 bit and window eyes. I have a few questions and prefer
not to crowd the list with these questions. If anyone on the list is a power
user of VM ware and can answer about five questions can you please contact
Alex,
What is this reader option in safari and will it work with facebook?
On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all,
Ever since getting the mac, I was told Chrome would serve me better; it was
faster, easier, and vo would not be busy as much. Now, though, I have
decided to make
Thanks, Esther. Nothing seems to be working -- it is so odd; I have absolutely
never experienced anything remotely like this before.
Christine
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote:
Hi Christine,
I think that you have to log out and log back in again after making
your
Christine, I'm probably being insulting, and I don't mean to, but have you
tried hitting refresh, command R, in here somewhere? Refreshing a page may
not be a wise thing to do when sending a form, but it may clear away any
auto-fill or other hold-overs from cache.
• Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi,
This is the same on IOS devices. The backlight is still on.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 15, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote:
Not sure on devices but for laptops it just sets the pixels to black, so
But of course. :) Still haven't found how to empty the darned cache or clear
cookies, though. Nowhere cn I locate this.
Christine
On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com
wrote:
Christine, I'm probably being insulting, and I don't mean to, but have you
Turning brightness to 0 does turn off the display.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Christopher-Mark gilland clgillan...@gmail.com
wrote:
Is there a way to literally turn the display off? I don't mean set
Hi,
First thing, open Safari and press command comma to open preferences. in the
toolbar, select the advanced tab, and check Show Develop menu in menu bar.
Now, to empty the cash, press command option E.
To clear cookies. Go back into Safari preferences and choose security from the
Chris and others: when I hit cmd-l in chrome, I get put in the edit field as
you'd expect. I then hear the html load ouns and am focused on some new page
that alwasy loads when I hit cmd-l. I must then move back to the text field and
interact again before I can type.
Stacey: it is a feature
You are correct Alex, I think it loads some kind of default tab content.
This is the one thing that has been bugging me with Chrome... Otherwise it's
pretty good.
On the other hand, I love Chrome on iOS. I was so surprised to see how
accessible it was.
Best,
Emrah
--
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“In theory, theory
Hello,
Thanks for the notice Alex, I will take a look at virtualbox also.
Paul, is performance terrible with openbook?
Thanks
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hunt
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Two questions about
Voice over help
http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.7/English.lproj/index.html
Switch 101 apple
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
David woodbrige has done some great pod cast on Lion and Mountain Lion.
Apple and other accessible technology pod cast
Awesome pod cast found in
I still don't like the fact that you can't navigate to elements contained in
tables with the rotor, item chooser or, navigation keystrokes.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Emrah li...@kavun.ch wrote:
You
Hello Alex. I'm using Windows 7 in VM Fusion. Yes, In many instances it can
take a minute or two to recognize pages. On the other hand, my wife has
Windows XP running in Bootcamp and pages are recognized in a matter of
seconds. There are a couple of other things you should know. Focus Braille
Hi Alex and others,
I know of the Chrome problem which you describe regarding the address bar. Only
for me, it happens in Safari instead of chrome. At any rate, what build of
chrome are you guys running? I make it a point to always run the latest dev
build. I have chrome set to update
Ok, thanks Paul. I appreciate the input, especially the information about
losing keys on jaws.
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hunt
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: Two questions about virtual machines and a brief
One word: NVDA. Go to http://www.nvda-project.org to find out more and download
this program, but it's basically a free screen reader that is updated
regularly, has no licensing or driver problems, and... well, it's free! After
all, do you really need to pay hundreds for a screen reader on an
is virtual box vo friendly?
last I used it it wasnt
On 8/15/2012 7:04 PM, Damashe Thomas wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for the notice Alex, I will take a look at virtualbox also.
Paul, is performance terrible with openbook?
Thanks
- Original Message -
*From:* Paul Hunt
Hi all,
I have now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it was
painful. Vo couldn't properly interact with the text (I had no arrow key
reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or skipped
entirely. I was hoping textedit could help, but no luck.
As I said, it is not. However, AI hear it has extensive command line options,
so controlling it through terminal should be possible. I am investigating now
and will report back once I know more.
On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Hank Smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net wrote:
is virtual box vo friendly?
Hi,
I use Stanza to read PDFs
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it was
painful. Vo couldn't
I am very familiar with NVDA. I have used it as well as Serotek's SATOGO also.
But since I expect my windows use to be very light, I will be chosing a much
cheaper or even free option once my license for jaws runs out.
Let me know about how virtualbox works out.
- Original Message -
Hi Ricardo,
I think Stanza is an improvement over Preview from the limited experience I've
had with Stanza before writing this message.
Les
On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I use Stanza to read PDFs
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
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