Favorites in All Recipes

2013-01-10 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I have a perplexing problem. My husband bought me an Iphone 5 for Christmas. I tried to restore my Iphone from a previous backup. Everything restored beautifully except my favorites from the app All Recipes. It seems that every time I restore, I have this problem and I have to try and

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread William Windels
Hello Nicholas, I work also with a macbook air and I have the same problem. I think that your problem is the case for most MacBooks. What you can do is: configure the trackpad that you can activate the functions of voiceover that you should normally do with the right voiceover keys. Since you ca

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-10 Thread Kliphton A M
The one thing that someone told me helped the most. Forget everything you know about windows! The 2 systems are as different as night and day, so open your mind, and learn the new OS, because even though your not a knew computer user, the system is new to you. Once you do this, everything wil

Re: Favorites in All Recipes

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
I would use a different app. I love Pepperplate, because it is a website as well as an app. I can add recipes on the website, where it's easier to type anyway, then they sync to the iOS app when I open it. It has other features, like a shopping list and menu planner, but I don't use those. I mad

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
I can't recommend remapping your caps lock key highly enough. The only disadvantage is that you can't use that key for the normal caps lock functionality, but I rarely type in all caps anyway so don't miss it. After doing the remap, I have never needed to touch the control and option keys on th

Getting vo-keys on both sides of the keyboard: offshoot of: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If you use keyremap4macbook, you can get modifiers on both sides of the keyboard. What I do is change return to be return when pressed by itself but control when placed in combination. So on the right side of the keyboard, I have command and option and by reaching just a little and adding return

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I've done the caps lock remap but I still like having vo-keys on the right side also and in this case it's possible for me to have my cake and eat it too! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Here's a post of Tim Kilburn's on this subject; it helped me when nothing else completely did. "Try the following. 1. Removing the Preview Pane in Classic layout: • Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter that is to the right of the Messages table. • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if needed). This wi

Re: Getting vo-keys on both sides of the keyboard: offshoot of: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
That's a great idea! I might see if I can map option-shift or something. Thanks for the tip. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:51, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > If you use keyremap4macbook, you can get modifiers on both sides of the > keyboard. What I do is change return to be return when pr

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, When you say double click do you mean tap? I only ask as I don't thiink the track pad has a click does it? Thanks. matthew Dyer matthew Dyer Sent from my mac mini. e-mail/msn: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com Skype: graduater 2004 Follow me on twitter at mdyer1. Facebook: ilovecountrym

Re: Apple TV to stereo receiver

2013-01-10 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Chris. If you choose automatically in the sounds settings, it mirrors the sound to both the toslink and the HDMI connection. If you choose optical output, it switches off the sound in the HDMI connection and only send sound out in the optical output. Someone asked to clear up any confusion

Re: Apple TV to stereo receiver

2013-01-10 Thread Larry Skutchan
I am using one with a digital audio cable to the receiver, and it works well--you get the full 5.1. Note, I have tried using HDMI to the TV. I have TV audio going into the stereo, but the audio from Apple TV does not get passed on to the receiver from the TV. Also note, I cannot get HDMI input f

How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Hey all, Okay so the subject line makes it sound like these two things are very random but they aren't so please read on. I downloaded a couple of apps from the app store and want to add them to the doc -- I have found them in finder so they're there... but how do I go about doing this? I tried l

Re: unarchiver program

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
The Archive Utility that comes with OSX (located in System/Library/CoreServices for some reason) will uncompress a dozen or so file formats including zip, bzip2, gz, tar, tgz, jar, compress (.Z) uuencode and others. So for most people it's all you'll need. Stuffit is a pretty old format which i

All Recipes app

2013-01-10 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Alex and all, Thank you for the suggestion of Pepperplate. I've never heard of that app before. I will check out your podcast on Applevis. All Recipes.com is a website too which is why I don't really understand why my favorites keep disappearing. Thanks again. Allison Life is not measured

Re: AppleVis You Got Some Balls When It Comes to Password Strength

2013-01-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I guess I should have stated in my post/rant that I am a big fan of the AppleVis site all of its content, staff, and all of us who contribute there. I think they have created and maintained one of the most useful sites for the blind community, and my rant wasn't about the site, but the pas

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, There are no dumb questions if you don't ask them. You won't know until you do ask. To add an app to the Dock, press cmd+shift+T when you are focused on the name of the app. As for Google and Safari, make sure you are clicking on the link and not the "result button." I'm not sure wha

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Generally you should store your apps in the Applications folder at the top level of your hard drive, not on your desktop. Most apps probably won't care but some will and updaters and such tend to assume the Applications folder as well. Most people tend to use the desktop like a 'work in process

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, thanks so much for all the great info. Nic, sounds like we both think alike as I started looking into the mac air for exactly what you are using it for. I am fortunate though as I have the same bluetooth keyboard for my Imac that comes with the mac air, so it will be virtually the same exp

Re: question about downloading files

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Problem is that some of the tricks in my bag are so old I've forgotten where I put them. CB On 1/9/13 5:26 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Yeah, I learned in linux that the bigger your bag of tricks is, the better off you are :-) -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I've noticed with GOogle and Safari, they don't always get a long. You will have to turn voiceover off and back on at times. On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Generally you should store your apps in the Applications folder at the top > level of your hard drive, not on your desk

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
I've never noticed this. I just move by heading, pressing enter or vo-space or space on the item I want. You could also bring up the web rotor with vo-u, arrow left or right to headings, then up and down arrow. Since each result is a heading, you will basically have a list of results here. Press

Re: question about downloading files

2013-01-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey
all i know is most days i feel like bullwinkle when he used to try to pull a rabbit out of his hat. I need a new hat too. smile take care, max On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Problem is that some of the tricks in my bag are so old I've forgotten where > I put them. > > CB

Re: question about downloading files

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh yeah, that is so true! And then I put them in files on my computer and can't remember what files I put them in! But i know they are there somewhere! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Thanks for all the help, I assume all apps downloaded from the app store automatically go into the applications folder? Also, I'll try using the web rotor menu but while using quick nav and navigating through headings that way, pressing VO + space on the result's link still brings up the weird page

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Phil Halton
Also, you can add an app to the dock by first opening the app, then go to the dock, locate the app, and from the context menu, go into the options submenu and press "keep in dock". I must admit, Harry's answer was a much more elagant solution, but its helpful to know all the ways of dooing a t

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Wen you get the weird page, have you tried uninteracting with the html area and then interacting with it again. I sometimes get this and this works. It's something about Safari not refreshing properly. It's a bit annoying but quite doable. Hth Lisette On 11/01/2013, at 7:08 AM, Marc Rochele

Re: How to add apps to the doc and searching on google with safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup. AppStore apps should land in the Applications folder with no further work on your part. I tend to have my browsers set to download to the desktop so non-AppStore apps tend to land there first and then I move them after uncompressing/mounting. CB On 1/10/13 1:08 PM, Marc Rocheleau wrote:

Bad accessibility time these days

2013-01-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Some of you may remember that I talked about using the tax act website and had a few questions about it. Wow, I have had some trying times with that same, and I would like to briefly talk about it because It brings up some interesting things about what is and is not easy to use these day

Re: Bad accessibility time these days

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
I don't remember where it is, but there's a "navigate images" setting. If set to captions, it onlhy goes to images with descriptions and skips any unlabeled images completely. I know I have some terms wrong, sorry about that. On Jan 10, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys > Some of

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread John Sanfilippo
I find your second explanation seems much simpler and clearer than all the trackpad stuff you mentioned. The key commands seem simpler and more precise. js - Original Message - From: Cheryl Homiak To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:29 AM

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
First of all, these aren't my suggestions; as I explained they are a previous post by Tim Kilburn. Secondly, different things work better for different people, depending on your experience and what your computer is doing. The reason for the comments about using fn if necessary is that you can h

Re: messages with a phone number

2013-01-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Go into Preferences within the Messages app, select your Apple ID account then navigate over to the Table with the addresses attached to your Apple ID. Make sure that your iPhone number is in there as well as that it is checked. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013

Re: messages with a phone number

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Thanks Tim. I eventually had tore-sync my ID. On Jan 10, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Go into Preferences within the Messages app, select your Apple ID account > then navigate over to the Table with the addresses attached to your Apple ID. > Make sure that your iPhone numb

Re: Apple TV to stereo receiver

2013-01-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmm, your second note is odd. I have my Apple TV going to my receiver using HDMI, then from the receiver to the TV using HDMI as well and the video goes to the TV just fine. That's the method I've used both for the 1st and 2nd Gen Apple TVs. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Thanks Cheryl for re-posting this. You found it quicker than I could have myself. Regarding double-tap vs double-click, I mean exactly what I wrote.If you depress firmly on the Trackpad, you'll feel a click sort of thing. Simply tapping on the Trackpad will not perform the actions we

Re: Windows Live! Messenger on Mac?

2013-01-10 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Quick question: If I decide not to use adium after installing it, how do I go about removing it? Where is the program installed to by default on the computer and how do you get all the install files off the desktop? (Or is that actually where the program gets installed? This is the first non-app st

Re: Apple TV to stereo receiver

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Maybe his receiver is not HDCP compliant and is blocking the DRM so the signal to the TV is broken. CB On 1/10/13 3:16 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hmm, your second note is odd. I have my Apple TV going to my receiver using HDMI, then from the receiver to the TV using HDMI as well and the video go

Re: Windows Live! Messenger on Mac?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Marc. To uninstall the app, go to your applications folder, just press command backspace. It will be gone from there, then you can empty your trash. On Jan 10, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Marc Rocheleau wrote: > Quick question: If I decide not to use adium after installing it, how > do I go about rem

Re: Windows Live! Messenger on Mac?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris H
Or you can get a free app called Appcleaner to remove the app and all its entries. It is not in the Mac App store. Christopher Hallsworth On 10/01/2013 21:04, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: Hi Marc. To uninstall the app, go to your applications folder, just press command backspace. It will be gone

Re: Windows Live! Messenger on Mac?

2013-01-10 Thread Marc Rocheleau
And where do I find the app if I downloaded it through safari? Thanks! -Marc On 1/10/13, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Hi Marc. > To uninstall the app, go to your applications folder, just press command > backspace. > It will be gone from there, then you can empty your trash. > > On Jan 10, 2013, a

Re: Bad accessibility time these days

2013-01-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Thanks Alex. Let me see if I can find it. I crashed Internet Exslorer and JAWS more than once running this web site. It's my husband's Vista computer. I got desperate and wanted to find out if it was a screen reader thing or something else. I figured it was a screen reader thing because normally

Re: Windows Live! Messenger on Mac?

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
All Safari downloads go to the Download folder by default unless you changed it in preferences. You can jump there by doing a command+option+L. Not very memorable but I guess D was already taken for Desktop. CB On 1/10/13 4:25 PM, Marc Rocheleau wrote: And where do I find the app if I downlo

spell-checking in Safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I've tried before to spellcheck in a Safari text field with cmd-semicolon, but it doesn't work. The cursor seems stuck on the last word in the page (the page, not the edit field) and refuses to move, no matter how much I interact, route cursors around, or yell at the computer. Is this do

Re: spell-checking in Safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, when you say safari, are you referring to the address/search field in the toolbar? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I've tried before to spellcheck in a Safari text field wit

Re: spell-checking in Safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You want to use command+colon when you want to spell check in Safari. Heck, it's the way I do it all the time anyhow. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 10, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I've tried before to spel

bad accessibility these days

2013-01-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again guys. I made the change to navigate by images in the Vo utility. Unfortunately, that resulted in Safari kicking out of the web site three times. Anybothy got any other ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post

Re: spell-checking in Safari?

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
I'll give that a try, I just find it more convenient to jump to the few misspelled words I end up with and fix them or tell the mac to learn them. It's a preference more than anything, so I'll just get used to the full spellcheck dialog method. Ricardo, I was talking about things I type on websi

Re: Caliber on the Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Mary. I would be so happy if calibre on the mac could be a little more accessible. I would be glad, if you would try contacting the developer. It is a bit complicated. I tried a while ago, it was a little difficult to go into the contact forum. They did not seem very interested to our needs.

Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI. Thanks for those suggestions. I might try and add William and Cheryl's tips to my bag of tricks. I tried capslock as VO keys but this didn't help me at all. I already have perfectly good VO keys on the left of the MacBook keyboard. I don't need extra VO keys on the left, I just need VO keys

asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Reinhard Stebner
How does one ask VoiceOver for the current time and is it possible to see the title of the focused window? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Annie Skov Nielsen Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:47 PM To: macvisio

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread cait furness
You can do vo mm and then arrow over to the right until you hear the time. the other way involves the use of apple script, which I don't know if you have that enabled on your mac and I also don't know if this works in mountain lion. If you have speakable items turned on, you can hold down esca

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Babcock
To obtain the current time, press Control, option, M twice quickly. And then use control option left and right arrow to find the time. To find the current title of the window, press control option F2. If however you are on a MacBook, it may be necessary to press FN, Control, option, F2, to hear

Re: Caliber on the Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Mary Otten
No, unfortunately, even after the plug in for converting whatever form of drm protected books, such as azw, is installed, the actual process is not vo-accessible. Or if it is, I'd love somebody to explain how you're doing it. I gather that there is a way to do this if you want to use the termina

Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, guys! You guys are brilliant! I followed Tim's instructions as reposted by Cheryl and they worked exactly as stated. So simple and easy, I guess I should've thought of it myself. I'm just so not used to being able to use the mouse/trackpad so accessibly as I haven't quite been on the Ma

Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
P.S. When dragging using the Trackpad I find the easiest method to be clicking (that is, holding down the trackpad) with one finger and dragging with another finger. Otherwise it can be a bit tricky to drag while pressing down the trackpad and to be accurate. At least it is on my big stand alone

RE: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Jesus Garcia
A very nice explination, thanks been using a mac book pro for a year and I did not know those key strokes again thanks for the information. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Babcock Sent: Thursday, January

Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I still tend to use mouse-keys a lot but for some things that doesn't work. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Thanks, guys! You gu

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh good idea! I should use keyboard commander more than I do! Will do some experimenting with that. There are just so many tools that one has to be reminded of them sometimes. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
As stated, you can use a script for this. I have mine set to option-t. 1. Open the vo utility with vo-f8 (you may need to add function to that). 2. Select the general category from the table, then find and check the "allow Voiceover to be controlled by Apple scripts" checkbox. 3. Back in the table

Re: Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Scott Davert
Hi Les. Well, I was able to do this at one time, but I'm missing a step in the process now as well. I'll have to contact someone I know off list and get this info for you. Sorry about that. I know it's possible, because I sat at a table a few months ago and went through the process with someone, bu

Re: Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Scott, Okay, thanks for the assist on this one. I'll look forward to hearing the resolution. Les On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:57 PM, Scott Davert wrote: > Hi Les. > Well, I was able to do this at one time, but I'm missing a step in the > process now as well. I'll have to contact someone I know of

Re: Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Mary Otten
Scott, Please put the answer to this question on list, and I'm sure it will help others as well. Vo J is such a useful command for those of us who like to use the preview pane in mail. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

My initial experience with Launch Bar

2013-01-10 Thread Traci
Hi all, thought I'd share my initial thoughts on Launch Bar. There is still so much more about the program I haven't explored. First, I'm really enjoying it! Secondly, it isn't fully voFriendly. It is so far quite doable, and I have emailed the developers about accessibility improvements. T

go to meeting webinar software

2013-01-10 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi I attended a webinar this morning which used this software. Very easy to use and much of it was accessible. The only thing I couldn't do was find the text box to type questions into. Has anybody used this and if so, were you able to find the text box? Lisette -- You received this message b

Re: Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
So, I haven't tested this or followed this thread too closely. I just had a look in the commands menus and I think the command you guys want is in the navigation menu, called "go to linked item". At least, if you press vo-h and go to commands, then navigation, it says that vo-j is assigned to th

RE: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Reinhard Stebner
Thank you very much for all of your help, this was what I was looking for. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: as

Re: go to meeting webinar software

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Babcock
I would also like to let the List know that this software is accessible on iOS. There are three tabs across the bottom, and the middle tab in the bottom is the questions tab. Just in case someone has to attend another GoToMeeting that webinar. http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind,

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Michael and Alex. If he uses a MacBook, he doesn't have to use the function keys to perform Voiceover commands if he follows these steps: 1. Open System Preferences. 2. Go to keyboard. Make sure that the keyboard tab is selected. 3. Check the checkbox that says "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as sta

Re: My initial experience with Launch Bar

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Babcock
Tracy; This sounds like an application that may be very useful for me. Could you provide us with a link to the developers website? Thank you Michael http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Traci wrote: > Hi all, thought I'd share my

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Babcock
Thanks, I neglected to recall where to change the settings http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi Michael and Alex. If he uses a MacBook, he doesn't have to use the > function keys to perform Voiceover co

Re: Caliber on the Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Mary. I hope that then the developers have heard from a lot of us, they will figure out that we need to use calibre as well as sighted people. Best regards Annie. Den Jan 11, 2013 kl. 12:56 AM skrev Mary Otten : > No, unfortunately, even after the plug in for converting whatever form of drm

Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, I managed to get dropbox up and running, only for it to start right back up again with the same behavior. It worked perfectly when I first installed and ran it, but considering the fact that I wasn't going to be running it or my computer forever, I was going to have to close it eventually.

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hello. Dropbox is always going to say, has no windows. The only way to access the dropbox menu is, naturally, through the menu bar. HTH. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-01-10, at 8:04 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > Ok, I managed to get dropbox up and running, only for it to start righ

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
What's your current OS? I ask because if you are running Lion and have an oder version of Drop Box, you aint gonna have no luck. You need to make sure you are running 10.8-ML-and have the latest Drop box: The latest is Version 1.6.10. HTH. Oh, forgot to mention, access Drop box via the menu

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Jessica Moss
I'm currently running Lion, and downloaded the latest yesterday, which worked perfectly the first time around, so have no idea why this is happening again. On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:16 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > What's your current OS? I ask because if you are running Lion and have an > oder versio

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Jessica Moss
As for accessing it through the menu bar, I tried that, and it didn't even show up, so have no idea what to make of that either. On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hello. > Dropbox is always going to say, has no windows. The only way to access the > dropbox menu is, naturally,

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Matt Dierckens
IT WON'T SHOW UP UNLESS YOU HAVE MOUNTAIN LION. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-01-10, at 8:21 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > As for accessing it through the menu bar, I tried that, and it didn't even > show up, so have no idea what to make of that either. > On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:08

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Now one thing you could try at least from what i remember when i had lion is do everything from the context menu. Go to the home directory and dropbox, find the folder or file you want to share, and press vo+shift+m to go to the context menu. Then look and see if there is a dropbox menu to share.

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, that's why then. You really do need to be running ML to get access to Drop Box menus. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > I'm currently running Lion, and downloaded the latest yester

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually I think that is not correct. I ran dropbox in Lion; the install was not as accessible then but I was able to access my Dropbox folder just fine once it was installed. I apologize if this has changed and I just didn't know it. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
He's right: and, furthermore, if there's no Drop Box menu, you ain't synching. That's the reason why you can't share I'd bet. I stress again, however, I'd really switch over to ML were I you. Doing this will give you access to a lot more things then Lion will-Drop Box access among them. Si

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Once it's installed, you mainly need to access your Dropbox folder and that's accessible right in your home directory in finder. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:20

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I suspect we may not be talking about quite the same thing. Yes, in Lion, you should be able to access the Drop Box submenu from the short cut menu off any file or folder in your Drop Box: But, for full access to all of Drop Box's menus, you really should consider ML. Sincerely, The Constant

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, it won't show up in the menus unless you have Mountain Lion but you can still access your folder; at least I could. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Matt

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I agree. I used to run it just fine under Lion as well. It is much nicer on mountain lion though. On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Actually I think that is not correct. I ran dropbox in Lion; the install was > not as accessible then but I was able to access my Dropbox folder

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, how would I go about upgrading/installing to that, and how much would that cost me? I know next to nothing about that, so would love some info on that. On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > He's right: and, furthermore, if there's no Drop Box menu, you ain't > synching. That

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, this is what i did in Lion. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Now one thing you could try at least from what i remember when

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
It costs $20. It's incredibly easy to upgrade. Just search for it in the app store. On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > Ok, how would I go about upgrading/installing to that, and how much would > that cost me? I know next to nothing about that, so would love some info on > that

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. Cost will be $19.95 if I remember correctly. Go to the app store, then, type "Mountain Lion" That should bring it up right away. Some say you can just overinstall and that should work: But, if you ask me, I'd go for a clean install. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a ve

Re: Dropbox acting up again.

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I second that. I Did an update and it was such a pain in the neck. It's easier to just start over clean. :) On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Okay. Cost will be $19.95 if I remember correctly. Go to the app store, > then, type "Mountain Lion" That should bring it up right aw

Re: bad accessibility these days

2013-01-10 Thread Steve Holmes
This news about TaxAct is very disconcerting. I used it last tax year with Firefox on my Linux box and it worked pretty well. If a11y has gotten this bad, I may have to move my records elsewhere. On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi again guys. > I made the change to naviga

Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window

2013-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Just to add, one can toggle the keyboard commander on/off with VO shift K. And to answer the question about reading the title of the window in which voiceover is currently focused, its VO F2. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On

Re: bad accessibility these days

2013-01-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh no, I really wanted to do my income tax myself this year and not have to take it to our VITA site. There was a supervising change there last year and they would have messed things up if I hadn't been very vigilant. I always work everything out by hand anyway before I even go to the VITA site.

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-10 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: >From what has been recently posted about learning how to use an MBA and Mac >computers, and based on my very abbreviated experience with the MAC, and about >three years using IOS, I agree with the majority of thoughts and suggestions. Where I disagree concerns the way the sk

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
My private suspicion is this. With perhaps the next release of the Mac OS, we may see the elimination of having to interact with things. I forsee this coming because of a wish on Apple's part to unify the IOS completely with the Mac OS. Indeed, I'm kind of shocked it hasn't happened already.

Re: Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac

2013-01-10 Thread Les Kriegler
Alex, nice catch! I assigned space with j to the go to linked item command, and it works from within the messages list. Thank you, it's easier on my hands to press the braille key combination, and I'll be using this keystroke all of the time now. Les On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:32 PM, Alex Hall w

Re: Mac Air Users Question

2013-01-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I make use of keyboard commanders and would suggest to anyone using voiceover to set commanders to launch all of their favorite programs. I have set commanders for mail, safari, newsrack, night owl, sorry can't spell the real name of it, RS Games, and so on. I have all set activities for

go to linked item command (was Question and Comment on Using a Braille Display with a Mac)

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
No problem, but why is it so useful? I understand how it works in the mail app, but aside from that I can't see how or when I would want to use it. How do I know where it will go? What item is linked to what? Must I interact with something first? Can there be chains of links? Perhaps if I had a