Re: Quickly Accessing Websites with Shortcut Keys

2012-10-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Harry, To put a new item in the Bookmarks bar, just do the usual Cmd-d but select Bookmarks bar in the pop up menu. As you add an item, it shunts the last one out of the Bookmarks bar. You can see which is where by going to the Bookmarks menu and looking under Bookmarks bar. Cheers, Ann

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Jacob Schmude
Plenty of rumors along that line, but I can't really credit them. They've been flying around ever since NLS made their position and their support for specialized devices clear. I personally don't use them even though I'm in the US. There are plenty of other sources for books that work on far mor

Quickly Accessing Websites with Shortcut Keys

2012-10-16 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi everyone, I need to be able to quickly access various online dictionaries and translation resources, and I know there is probably a way to do this. I know, for example, that you can press cmd+1, cmd+2, cmd+3, etc. to access things like Wikipedia, Youtube, etc. How can I either add to this

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Well, forget about getting it on the Mac, what about the iPhone? Anybody heard anything about that? For me, I'd rather have it on the iPhone anyway. Gigi r Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: > i hate to agree, but the els had their chance to use co

Best braille display

2012-10-16 Thread Emrah
Hi folks, What is your recommendation for a braille display that is well suited to mobility, offers excellent warrantee, is discrete and has good battery life? I guess I am looking at something under 20 characters, and I don't need braille input / typing on the display. Along with your recommen

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Maxwell Ivey
i hate to agree, but the els had their chance to use commercially available products in the beginning and went with a proprietary system instead. they spent millions in development they didn't need to, and now they are married to their system. take care, max On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Ray F

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Forget it. It aint' ever gonna happen. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Quick question: how, if at all, can NLS books be read on the mac? I know > there's n

Re: problem specifying criteria for smart playlist in iTunes

2012-10-16 Thread Esther
Hi Andrew, What's happening is that you have created two rules for your smart playlist, and there are two possible ways to apply them: by matching "any" of the rules or by matching "all" of the rules. By default, when you create the second rule, which might be "Artist is " and avoid the artif

Battery announcing script

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi all. I was wondering, i just purchased a macbook air. I really enjoy the machine and it is very speedy. I have taken the script that somebody gave me to announce the battery but i am having the strangest problem. I have looked up at the status bar and the percentage is much greater then the s

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Alex since this is sort of off-topic now, since there is nothing for the Mac yet, where the iPhone either, if you don't have a lot of money, you might want to contact your regional library so that you can get a player. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Alex Hall wrote:

Re: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Agent086b
Thanks, another job for my sited wife. Max. On 17/10/2012, at 8:55 AM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > If you go into classic view this is possible. The mail grid becomes a > table. I got my sighted wife to drag the columns into my preferred order, > but I'm guessing with a bit of work it could be d

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Gerard Doody
Hi Alex, At present there is no way to read nls bood on any computer, that I know of. You need a player such as a victor stream. you can download books from the mac to an sd card. or, a card from nls or a thumb drive and then play them with the player. hdh Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 20

NLS on the mac?

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Quick question: how, if at all, can NLS books be read on the mac? I know there's no iOS solution yet, but I'm hoping there's something out there for the mac. I'm not an NLS user (yet), but am asking on behalf of a couple people who have/may soon switch to the mac. Thanks. Have a great

Re: I Am Not Alone and Resolution To Mail Problem Discovered

2012-10-16 Thread Steve Holmes
Humm, that's strange. I have two gmail controled accounts here and I just looked in my Mail setting preferences and I keep all messages on the server. When I send messages, they normally will be kept in the Sent folder on gmail and that is mapped to my Sent box in Apple mail. I also have filt

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
I find that vo says "fram 0" and in there you will find the video controls. It's right before the comment link. On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: > I probably shouldn't publicly display my ineptness, but you are doing better > than I. I can't find the embedded video! > > On

Re: i message on iphone was: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello! here was the problem: I was not connected to wifi. will test that! thank you, Mauricio On 10/16/12, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi > My understanding is that you just send a message as if it were a text > message. If you are connected to wifi, and your friend has an iPhone, it > will send

RE: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Bill Holton
If you can get some sighted help, it can be done, though. 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:macvi

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
I probably shouldn't publicly display my ineptness, but you are doing better than I. I can't find the embedded video! On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Alex Hall wrote: Here's a link: http://features.slashdot.org/story/12/10/16/1919237/jonathan-coulton-re-records-code-monkey-for-us?utm_source=slashdot&ut

Re: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I just tried with drag and drop, i personally didn't have any luck. On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:55 PM, "Bill Holton" wrote: > Hi. > If you go into classic view this is possible. The mail grid becomes a > table. I got my sighted wife to drag the columns into my preferred order, > but I'm guessing wit

RE: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. If you go into classic view this is possible. The mail grid becomes a table. I got my sighted wife to drag the columns into my preferred order, but I'm guessing with a bit of work it could be done with voiceover. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct:

Re: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
I've never found a way to accomplish this. They can be sorted by subject, but the from line is still read first. HtH, Teresa On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hello, I asked this question a week or so ago. I am writing encase I used > the reply. > I would like to when moving d

Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-16 Thread Agent086b
Hello, I asked this question a week or so ago. I am writing encase I used the reply. I would like to when moving down a list of messages have the subject read before the sender. Is it possible to change the order of these headings? Thanks for any help. Max -- You received this message because

Re: i message on iphone was: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi My understanding is that you just send a message as if it were a text message. If you are connected to wifi, and your friend has an iPhone, it will send as an iMessage automatically. You can't determine it yourself. So just connect to wifi and ensure you are sending to an iPhone and you'll b

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
I did, and there was a system dialog. It was just that annoying speech feedback thing, though, which is present whenever speakable items is on and cannot be closed. On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: > Be sure to check the application chooser as well. Sometimes dialogs show u

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Be sure to check the application chooser as well. Sometimes dialogs show up there that don't show up in the window chooser. On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Alex Hall wrote: I updated it a couple weeks back, when I first emailed the list about hte problem, and nothing changed. The window chooser does n

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
Here's a link: http://features.slashdot.org/story/12/10/16/1919237/jonathan-coulton-re-records-code-monkey-for-us?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter I just tried Youtube, and it does work. As I said, though, I use Mactubes most of the time for straight youtube browsing. I guess, then, that it

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Flash is certainly a possibility. Usually you will notice a warning about that eventually though. If in doubt it doesn't hurt to go to the adobe website and check what the newest version is. On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Maxwell Ivey wrote: i lost my videos for a while until one day my brother notic

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
I didn't see whatever you posted before; I probably wasn't on the list then, so I am sorry if this is repetition for you but can you please tell me the following? What do you mean by the "original player"? Can you please specifically give the name of it and the version. Can you play youtube li

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
I updated it a couple weeks back, when I first emailed the list about hte problem, and nothing changed. The window chooser does not show any alerts, but I'll have someone take a look just the same. Thanks. On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: > i lost my videos for a while until one

Re: really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Maxwell Ivey
i lost my videos for a while until one day my brother noticed a pop up message that said my flash player was out of date. he helped me install the latest version of that and everything has been fine since. my mac now plays videos better than his windows unit. take care, max On Oct 16, 2012, at

really annoyed: videos still not playing in Safari

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm really getting frustrated with Safari. For weeks now, it has refused to play videos, such as ones embedded in articles. I've found the frame with the video in it and tried the original player, the 720p or whatever the highest option is, and nothing ever happens. Is there some magic I

Re: i message on iphone was: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there As far as I know and iMessage is a text message. I have not seen a way to tell the iPhone which one you want because in my case, it doesn't matter. Gigi On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Mauricio Almeida wrote: > hello, > > this will sound kind of random, but how in the world do i use i >

i message on iphone was: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello, this will sound kind of random, but how in the world do i use i message on an iphone? I have someone's number, and i want to I message them, not text them. how would this go? thanks mauricio On 10/16/12, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Thanks for your fast reply. > I saw something called coco

Re: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Thanks for your fast reply. I saw something called cocoon from mac update. Do you think this is insecure? Thanks. Chris -- 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 un

Re: messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi You'd have to do the same thing that you did to get MSN on iChat, namely run it through a jabber gateway. There's still no MSN support, and I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it. Microsoft keeps the MSN (now Windows Live Messenger) protocol tightly closed, and third-party clients only wo

messages question

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi all. since ichat is messages now, is there a way to use msn messenger with it? Thanks. Chris -- 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 grou

problem specifying criteria for smart playlist in iTunes

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I'm trying to create a smart playlist in iTunes. I want to make sure that all of the songs by a prticular particular artist are automatically added to this list. Here is my problem. The artist is not British and I have albums which I purchased from iTunes which in which his name a

Re: looking for an accessible radio app

2012-10-16 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi Sounds like a job for Airfoil from: www.rogueamoeba.com It can take any audio from your Mac and send it to any Airplay device. It actually uses some of the same code as Audio Hijack Pro, so if you already have that installed, you won't need to install the system plugins. Alternatively, if you

Re: Vmware Fusion

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Halton
I'm about to go the VMWare Fusion route myself. I have bootcamp running great, but want to have them both. My question: How does setting four cores affect the Mac side? I have an iMac with an intel I5 4core processor running at 2.5 ghz and 8gb ram. I want to find an optimum for VM and Mac. So, I

Re: looking for an accessible radio app

2012-10-16 Thread Timothy Clark Music
hmmm. that's an interesting way to work things. not sure as i play all my stuff via a flash interface online. you could use VLC. it has radio streams and everything as an application. not sure if that will help but it's worth a try web site http://www.timothyclarkmusic.wordpress.com phone n

Re: fusion upgrade?

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
I don't think I knew there was a basic upgrade and a professional upgrade for vmware fusion. If that's so, I guess I learned my new thing for the day already and I can go back to bed! On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Kliphton wrote: Okay, I don't need the professional upgrade, just version 5 basic. Ho

Re: looking for an accessible radio app

2012-10-16 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hey, what a great hint. Thanks for that. The only issue: Safari doesn't play via Airport Express. Or do you know a way to link Safaris output to an Airport Express? Thanks Jürgen Am 15.10.2012 um 21:42 schrieb Timothy Clark Music : > hello guys. > i use the tune in site on the mac. they don't

fusion upgrade?

2012-10-16 Thread Kliphton
Okay, I don't need the professional upgrade, just version 5 basic. How do I tell VMware, or where do I go on the website to just buy the basic upgrade, not the professional version? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: Changing pages in Weather App on iPhone 3GS

2012-10-16 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi, interestingly, that works, but only when I flip my phone sideways and do it that way. And to move forward I still have to tap on the page area. It isn't the most convenient, is it? Still, better than where I was before, which was stuck completely. Thanks very much. Harry El oct 15, 201

Re: iOS6 alarm sounds very quiet

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Hall
You know, I think that was the problem. I haven't tried an alarm yet, but the volume was set to 12%. Oddly, I had change with buttons on, but the volume was still that low even though I used the buttons to turn the volume up to well past 12%. Oh well, hopefully this fixes it. I'll check my siste

Re: Please teach me how to... legally!... copy a DVD

2012-10-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This isn't necessarily true. Yes, it is illegal to make copies for mass distribution and profit. but, make a copy for ones personal use might not necessary be illegal. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Sh

Re: Vmware Fusion

2012-10-16 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Yes, i have to say that I am pleased also with vmware fusion. I was frustrated when I was running xp on Fusion 4 just because it seemed slow but I think part of that was because I had been running it on my mac mini and should have changed more settings when I transfered it to the new Macbook Pro

Re: Please teach me how to... legally!... copy a DVD

2012-10-16 Thread Shen
I'm a bit surprised the moderator of the list has not piped up yet. The simple act of copying in itself makes it illegal. There is no such thing as making a legal copy. That's why they have copy encryption, to prevent people from making copies. Having said that, there are lots of ways of getting

Re: Removing VIPs

2012-10-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. If you have an I phone, go into your mail. Not the inbox but in the list where all your boxes are displayed such as sent items, drafts etc. If you move through the list of boxes, VIP will be displayed. Press enter on it or double tap using your I phone. then you will find the option to a

Deleting messages in mail on iPhone

2012-10-16 Thread Beefcakes
Hi everyone, why is it that there are some messages in my email program that came with my iPhone for S that I cannot delete certain messages. I've tried different places to delete the messages and they don't go away! Any ideas for this? Thanks a lot, John Cakes -- You received this message be

Vmware Fusion

2012-10-16 Thread Chris
I want to tell you all that I finally bit the bullet and purchased Vmware Fusion over the weekend after contemplating whether to go down the Bootcamp root or not. I felt unsafe doing it on my own and not having sighted assistance all the time that I decided against it and went down the Fusion r

Vmware Fusion

2012-10-16 Thread Chris
I want to tell you all that I finally bit the bullet and purchased Vmware Fusion over the weekend after contemplating whether to go down the Bootcamp root or not. I felt unsafe doing it on my own and not having sighted assistance all the time that I decided against it and went down the Fusion r