Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread agent086b
Thanks, that sounds the way to go then. Max. Original Message Subject: Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more From: Gavin Grundlingh To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:03:03 +0200 Hi Max, Control-Option-Tab will ignore the next key pressed and send it di

GarageBand's Being a Royal Pain In The Butt

2012-08-28 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi all, OK, yet another GarageBand question. I'm trying to record on multiple tracks at the same time, but GarageBand seems to behave as though I only want to record on a single track at a time. I've enable multitrack recording in the project, and set each track up to use a different input devi

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi Max, Control-Option-Tab will ignore the next key pressed and send it directly to the operating system. Using caps lock, you would press caps lock-Tab to do the same thing. Regards, Gavin Grundlingh Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 Emai

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread agent086b
Hi, is there a keystroke in VO that will pass the next key pressed to the computer by passing VO? There is such a keystroke in some PC screen readers. This would mean you could bypass VO and use the caps lock. Thanks. Max. Original Message Subject: Re: Caps Lock to VO keys an

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Mary, If you follow my podcast you will no longer have a caps lock key but rather a very convenient Voice Over key. If you want your caps lock back you can either go to the extras menu in Mountain Lion for KeyRemaper4Macbook and press the preferences button and then you can either

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
I have googled this and I've had no real luck. I found in a discussion group somewhere where they suggest highlighting the e-mail address then clicking the reply button. HOwever, I could not get this to do a reply to sender. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4193429?start=0&tstart=0 Sent

Gmail Problem Resolved

2012-08-28 Thread Jesus Garcia
Evening list members thanks to those who suggested thunderbird I downloaded and installed it and just deleted all my gmail messages. Again thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Oh! Yes. I see what your saying now. My bad. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:59 PM, "Christina C." wrote: > that method does not work because it opens a brand new blank e-mail. I know > this is fussy, but I did

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
that method does not work because it opens a brand new blank e-mail. I know this is fussy, but I did not want a blank message, I wanted it to have the prior message info. So, either way, it requires copying and pasting. I either need to copy and paste the body of the message or paste the send

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Right. The message that she replied to gave directions to do just that. Open the message, press VO right arrow to go to headings, navigate to the portion with the persons e-mail address and interact. Press VO shift M to bring up the context menu, and select new message. Only that indivi

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Red.Falcon
Hey Ricardo! And I do not mean to speak for Christina! But she means if she'd like to reply to you directly and not the whole list! Colin On 29 Aug 2012, at 00:23, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I don't understand. You replied to an e-mail that just described how to > reply to sender. Are yo

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I don't understand. You replied to an e-mail that just described how to reply to sender. Are you saying these steps did not work for you? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 28, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Christina C. wrote: > H, I

Re: Tune In Radio for Mac?

2012-08-28 Thread Dan Roy
if you go to tunein.com, you will find everything there in a web interface, works for me. If you have it set up on your iOS device and use the same login as you have on that device, all your preferences will work as well. On Aug 26, 2012, at 5:23 PM, agent086b wrote: > Thanks, am I correct i

Re: Do Apple Make a DSL modem & Router

2012-08-28 Thread agent086b
Thanks, that is a pity. I now have a Billion DSL modem and wireless router. When it dies was hoping to replace with an Apple product. I don't want to purchase a new separate modem as well as a router. Max. Original Message Subject: Re: Do Apple Make a DSL modem & Router From: Ch

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
H, I guess there is no real "reply to sender" anymore. :( I thought I'd use reply to all and then just delete the macvisionaries from the to but that doesn't work for me because it still does not add the sender's address to the to field or the cc field. I guess the only thing is to copy t

Re: moving folders behaves inconsistently

2012-08-28 Thread Brandon Olivares
As far as I know, if you are focused on a folder, then the pasted item will go within that folder. However, when you first open a directory, nothing is selected, so you should usually be safe. Brandon On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I have noticed something odd and an

Re: ML .1 changed Mail again.

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, You ask if anyone can think of a good reason not to turn quick nap on automatically in Safari. I think I have one. It really annoys me when I'm trying to edit a form fields on the page and quick knob is interfering with my editing. I find I have quick nap turned off most of the time and us

Re: Gmail Delete

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, How about just selecting all messages with command a and then pressing delete? Hope this helps, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote: > Okay folks sorry if this has been covered before, but

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I have figured it out. 1. go to all headers 2. go to the address of the sender, not the header but the exact address. 3. go to the VO shift M shortcut menu. 4. the option is now called "send new email". It replaced the option "reply to sender". hth, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Christina, In the message content area, VO to the headers group and interact with it. Go to the header text and interact with it, also. Find the "from" address and VO left to the beginning of it. Bring up the contextual menu with VO-shift-M and choose "copy address". At this point you can p

Re: Lastpass Accessibility

2012-08-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Steve, LastPass is pretty accessible, though VO doesn't let you know when you have messages from the app. Any time you deal with forms or passwords, you'll have to use VO-command-f to find the LastPass frame, then read the choices it offers for saving passwords. I've just gotten into the ha

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Brett C.
I've been seeking this answer myself. Please post if you figure it out. Thanks, Brett C. On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Christina C. wrote: > How do you do this in mountain lion? I used to hit command, shift, h to see > the headers, then vo to the sender, then mouse click the name, then I woul

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
:) because, sometimes I need to reply to the sender of the message directly. If I just use the regular reply command I will reply to the entire group, for example the entire macvisionaries group. :) Sometimes it's just more appropriate to send the email directly to the one person instead of

Re: reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Hall
Why not just use cmd-r to reply? What does the reply to sender do that cmd-r does not? On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:06 PM, "Christina C." wrote: > How do you do this in mountain lion? I used to hit command, shift, h to see > the headers, then vo to the sender, then mouse click the name, then I would

moving folders behaves inconsistently

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have noticed something odd and annoying when moving items around. Sometimes, I paste and the item goes in the same location as where I am, but sometimes it is placed inside a folder to which I am pointing. Fo instance, I copy a folder called books with cmd-c and open the ~ folder (home

reply to sender

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
How do you do this in mountain lion? I used to hit command, shift, h to see the headers, then vo to the sender, then mouse click the name, then I would click the reply to sender. I do not see this option anymore. Thanks, Sent from Christina's iMac :) -- You received this message because you a

Lastpass Accessibility

2012-08-28 Thread Steve Holmes
How accessible is lastpass on the mac and IOS devices? Have people on the list here tried it at all? So far, I found the website to be a bit tricky to deal with from Firefox on a yucky windows machine. I won't be back to my mac until this evening. Any ideas or comments? -- You received this mes

safari and page loading results Re: ML .1, first look.

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
HI, Both those linkes worked fine for me. I would only think to doublecheck the settings in the web cattegory of the VO utility. THanks for indirectly reminding me of the option for the page sumary at start of page. I have it now turned on and it works great. HOpe you get this fixed. Ioana P

is it safe and accessible to resize the mac partition?

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, The subject says it all. Can I safely (no data loss) and accessibly resize my mac partition? Right now windows has 200gb and mac os has 300gb, but I'm considering switching it to be 400 and 100 since I want to move all my data (including my 85gb of media) to the mac partition. If I can d

Re: favorites bar in apple mail

2012-08-28 Thread Christina C.
That worked perfectly as long as I was in full screen mode. Thanks. I was going to reply to sender but I could not get it to work. Then I decided to send to entire list to note that I could only get this to work if I was in full screen mode. I thought some of you might find that helpful.

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Hall
As I said, I could use the same utilities we used to remap the vo keys to remap the caps lock key. I might use a delete key on my full-sized usb keyboard since the mac seems to only need one delete key. On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Mary Scott wrote: > So what does happen when you need the caps

Re: Installing OS X on a Target Disk

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't see why not. In target mode their machine acts just like an expensive external hard drive. You should be able to install and boot off of it just fine. Once installed you should also be able to boot that machine up in the normal way as well. CB On 8/28/12 11:30 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote:

Re: sorting mail headers does not work for me

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
As far as I can see this only changes the order of messages not the order of spoken info by VO. Best, Ioaan Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Ioana, > > I'm wondering if this might wor

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-28 Thread Emrah
Thanks a million Lisette, will try and revert back to you. On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi > I had this the first time I loaded the app on my iPad. I removed it from the > app switcher, opened the app again and now it is full size. Sometimes, the > orientation of the

Re: dictation success!

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
You can say "show me what to say". Also if speakable items is on there is a speech feedback window and there is a menu where you can go to speech comandslist. IT is kind of a table with expandable items. hth, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online st

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Mary Scott
So what does happen when you need the caps lock? On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hello listers, > > I have long wanted the VO keys "Control Option" to be available as the caps > lock key. this would allow one finger to hold down the keys. Also, the > location of the Caps Lo

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Hall
I'd like to add my thanks for this hack. I just got it working and I think it'll be a massive help in using the mac. Of course, I no longer have a caps lock key, but I rarely use it anyway and I could always map another key to it. Thanks again! On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Bill Holton wrote: >

Re: Tagging imported audiobooks in iTunes

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
FOr them to show up as audiobooks you need to go to the options tab in your info window and then check the kind: audio book hth, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I'

Re: Creating New Folders in Mail

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
I think you are best served with rules for this, since smart mailboxes don't actually move the messages. They just indexed them. So look into creating rules that accomplish what you need Hope this helps, Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Au

Installing OS X on a Target Disk

2012-08-28 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi list, I have a friend whose CD drive is toast. She can't afford to get it fixed and I'm wondering if it's possible to install OS X (any version) on her computer when it's in target disk mode. Any experience with this would help greatly. Kevin -- You received this message because yo

Re: safari

2012-08-28 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
You have 2 options. It appears from testing I have done that the command does not work if there are no downloads in the list. In other words, if you have nothing downloading and you have your settings set that you clear the list after successful download then it would be empty and the command wo

boot camp

2012-08-28 Thread Kimsan
Hi, So, I would like to set up my windows screen reader and the mac on one machine so I don't have to grab different machines through out the day. Can someone email me off list and help me get started? I believe boot camp was recommended for me to use to do this. -- You received this message b

Evernote

2012-08-28 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, Did not find any mention of this app in the archives, but does anyone use evernote? The iOS version is accessible, but having some difficulty logging into the Mac client. Any suggestions from those who maybe using this file management program? Thanks. :) -- You received this m

Re: Do Apple Make a DSL modem & Router

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think so. A lot of that stuff is specific to the service provider. So you get xyz cable in and ethernet out. Then you run the Ethernet to the Airport. That gets Apple out of making a jillion variations of their device. CB On 8/28/12 1:51 AM, agent086b wrote: Hi all, Do Apple make a D

New Tech Doctor podcast entitled iPod Touch A Gateway Drug

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, This podcast features Amy Mason who is an access technology specialist with the International Braille and Technology Center for the Blind in Baltimore, Maryland. We explore Amy's job duties, discuss her Braille Monitor article about the accessibility of ebooks and talk about how Amy has gr

RE: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. No need to send. I found the post. Thanks. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionarie

RE: PC keyboard with ML

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Can you send the post, or a link to the post and the podcast? Thanks. Bill BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegro

RE: update on sort headers in mail

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. When I contacted apple accessibility they researched it and discovered there was no way to change the order the columns appeared in the window except by using the classic view. They said they would add it to the list, but the more people who ask for this, I’m guessing the higher it will get

Yorufukurou and Twitmarker

2012-08-28 Thread Steve Holmes
The latest version of this fine twitter client now sports tweet marker support which essentially bookmarks your last read tweet so that other twitter clients can pick up at that point. This feature works beautifully when I leave my spot in yorufukurou and get on my iPod with tweet list. Tweetl

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-08-28 Thread Garth Humphreys
Wow - This is awesome Eric. I, like you have wanted this ability - it just makes so much sense. I can't wait to listen to your podcast and to get the time to install the needed tools. Thank-you Garth www.iblindtech.com/ Search for iBlindTech in iTunes or your favourite pod catcher to subscr

Re: safari

2012-08-28 Thread Chris
Then what should I do, because it does not seem to work, and I cannot find it in the view menu either. Sent from my Windows laptop. On 27/08/2012 23:04, Lisette Wesseling wrote: Hi Command option works for me in Safari, and I am using ML. So it's not been removed. On 28/08/2012, at 9:47 AM, c

Re: Creating New Folders in Mail

2012-08-28 Thread Chris
Wow so can I use this to move e-mails sent to my address to go to a specific folder? Thanks! Sent from my Windows laptop. On 27/08/2012 23:11, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: A smart mailbox is as far as I know kind of a virtual mailbox that sorts messages that meet criterii you specify. Kid of like a

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Iona and Christer, I just found a shortcut key in the user's guide that is worth knowing about. Instead of finding your toolbar, interacting, finding the 1password button and hitting it, it's quicker to just hit option command backslash. Remember that command backslash fills your login? Addi

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I used to be able to do that, but since a couple versions back i can't and i don't understand why. This is the primary reason for me to use 1password. If i can't fill out the credit card details, i might as well quit using it. /Krister 28 aug 2012 kl. 00:55 skrev Ioana Gandrabur : > This is all

Re: Using markers in GarageBand

2012-08-28 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Ricardo Walker has a couple of Podcast's using Garage band! You might find them useful and can find them here at this page! rica...@appletothecore.info hth Colin On 28 Aug 2012, at 09:20, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if this has already been brought up here, but

Using markers in GarageBand

2012-08-28 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi all, I'm not sure if this has already been brought up here, but is there a way of using markers accessibly in GarageBand? I found the "Add Marker" item on the "Edit" menu, but it always seems to be dimmed. Also, can I move between inserted markers, select from one marker to another, etc.? Th

Re: Accidentally selecting windows

2012-08-28 Thread Robert
Thanks Gigi, I will certainly keep trying - I think they price Macs to ensure that you can't abandon it after a few gos! When using the screen visually I have "white on black" turned on, and use full screen magnification to zoom in a fair way. I have tried trawling the various settings, both

A missing box in Skype.

2012-08-28 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello All. Last evening, I wanted to change my caller Id in skype so if I called a mobile or land line, my mobile number would show up. But I could not locate that bit of information and was wondering if that had been taken away. Does anyone know? Kawal. -- You received this message because y

Re: BBC Radio Player

2012-08-28 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I could never use it with my Mac book Pro since 2010. Kawal. On 28 Aug 2012, at 01:26 AM, Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers wrote: > Hi > > Can't get Radio Player to work on either my iMac or my MBP, both running > latest version of ML. Has the BBC been improving accessibility again by > making it

Tagging imported audiobooks in iTunes

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I've imported a couple of audiobooks into iTunes. They are actually recordings of classic series dramas from BBC radio4. I've gone into "get info" and have spent a couple of hours trying to tag the episodes so that I can find them under books categories in the source list of iTune