Re: accesseries, was re: need for a trackpad?

2013-01-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You can always buy the Amazon Basics keyboard, it works like the Apple Keyboard but it has a switch rather than the power button. There are other differences but you can still use it on the Mac as well as your I Pod. Kawal. On 18 Jan 2013, at 03:44 AM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote:

Re: accesseries, was re: need for a trackpad?

2013-01-18 Thread Devin Prater
Wow! I'll try that, especially the sonar powered one, that'd be pretty cool. Sent from my iPod with iCloud On 18 Jan 2013, at 1:52 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I honestly haven't heard of the keyboard being plagued with issues. Mine has been working for over 2 years

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Scott Davert
If all you are looking to do is basic word processing, I'd say Text Edit should work fine. Although, iText Express is free as far as I can remember, so if you're not getting enough out of Text Edit, you may want to give it a try. Best of luck, Scott On 1/17/13, Becky Knaub

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Darrell Shandrow
Hello Chris and all, My concern about Nisus Writer is the documentation, which seems to be a hard-to-read scanned PDF with no indexed help file. Regards, Darrell On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I am starting to enjoy pages. Nisus writer is also a

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Just fyi, I ended up going with iText Express. I searched for text edit but it didn't come up in the app store. Not sure if it isn't available in Canada or something but I had no luck in finding it. -Marc On 1/18/13, Scott Davert scottslistm...@gmail.com wrote: If all you are looking to do is

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Darrell Shandrow
Hello Marc, Text Edit comes with your Mac. It can be found in your Applications folder, Launchpad, etc. Regards, Darrell On Jan 18, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Marc Rocheleau marcrochel...@gmail.com wrote: Just fyi, I ended up going with iText Express. I searched for text edit but it didn't come up

Re: accesseries, was re: need for a trackpad?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I'd still try a genius appointment to see if they can unstick it. I've had mine for three years now with no problems and that's with kids beating on it and a bunch of trips riding in my backpack. Seems like the stuck power button is a fluke. I also wonder if they can't look the unit up by some

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
TextEdit is part of OS X. HtH, Teresa Visualize whirled peas. On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Scott Davert scottslistm...@gmail.com wrote: If all you are looking to do is basic word processing, I'd say Text Edit should work fine. Although, iText Express is free as far as I can remember, so if

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I couldn't seem to get the columns to sort either but you could always use 'top' from the terminal. Just type (or copy paste) the command like this: top -ncols 3 -l1 -n5 ncols tells it to only give the first three columns which is the processID, process name and %CPU. The l1 means to sample

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Hall
That's a useful command, thanks. I can't seem to get the top processes though, at least not according to processor load or ram usage. The five it showed me were using 0% CPU and I know they don't take up much ram at all... On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: I

Fwd: Mobile Accessibility Survey

2013-01-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Begin forwarded message: From: Kevin Chao kevincha...@gmail.com Date: 18 January 2013 02:42:09 PM GMT To: viphone viph...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mobile Accessibility Survey Reply-To: viph...@googlegroups.com http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/mobile-accessibility-survey/

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, that's right. You were more concerned with RAM than CPU. If you're low on RAM then the system will start swapping memory onto and off of your hard drive which can bring everything to a crawl. Anyway, I first discovered that running top only one time seems to always give 0% for CPU so I

Re: urgent urgent urgent urgent help resetting voice over to factory defaults in osx lion

2013-01-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, It could be working but on it's fastest setting. Gena On 18/01/2013 06:34, hank smith wrote: I am using bootcamp windows 7 to send the email. I am running latest version off the website a imac intel it doesn't talk it says like a sillable. it then sounds like a click or bomg or

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I think I converted the manual to epub file, and when I could search in that file in ibooks on my IPhone. I have tried more wordprocessors. Textedit can be used, if you need to simple text editing. To me it would be enough in most cases. I am using nisus writer pro sometimes, especially

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. I had already looked at top's man page, but navigating it seemed tricky and buggy with vo. Either way, I'll have to keep that command you suggested in a bash script somewhere easily accessible. I know I'm swapping out information all the time, as my hard drive is working more often than

Re: urgent urgent urgent urgent help resetting voice over to factory defaults in osx lion

2013-01-18 Thread hank smith
I had to activate the demos for it to work. am going to try the voices when I get home from work and see if it took. I had to go on each voice and tell it to start demo. Hank On 1/18/2013 8:50 AM, Georgina Joyce wrote: Hello, It could be working but on it's fastest setting. Gena On

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup, with memory that low your probably thrashing memory in and out of your hard drive, which is magnitudes slower than ream RAM. What kind of machine do you have? Can you upgrade the RAM? CB On 1/18/13 10:52 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Thanks. I had already looked at top's man page, but navigating

nvalt problems, some suggestions pls?

2013-01-18 Thread William Windels
Hello, I have seen a interesting editor on the applevis site called nvalt. It's a editor with mark downbut I don't know what this exactly mean. It's interesting for me since you can very easily write notes and find them back and, you can make a link links in a file to other files you have made

Re: Disabling The Internal Superdrive In The Mac's Firmware

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
From this somewhat dated article: http://forum.maccast.com/index.php?/topic/14619-can-i-boot-os-x-off-an-external-usb-dvd-drive/ it sounds like you just have to hold the option key down after the bootup chime and eventually you'll get a menu to choose which drive to boot from. Not sure if VO

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Hall
Mac Mini 2011 with 2gb ram. So yes I can upgrade it, I just don't have much in the way of income at the moment. Long story short, I should be paid sometime soon, and I'd love to use some of the money on more ram. Part of the problem is that I don't know what ram to get; I looked on Newegg.com,

google plus on the mac?

2013-01-18 Thread hank smith
Hello how vo friendly is google plus on the mac platform? it totally sucks on windows but was curious how blind friendly it is on the mac platform? Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Amazon Cloud Player

2013-01-18 Thread Scott Rumery
Hello, Has anyone here had any luck using the Amazon Cloud Player either through Safari or with the Mac client? I would like to be able to import my music up to it so that I can access all of my music using the iPhone app as I like the iPhone app. Every time I try and do this from the

Youtube videos do not play anymore in Webkit

2013-01-18 Thread Kimberly thurman
This has been a recent development. If I click a youtube video link while in Facebook, or anywhere for that matter, I go to the Youtube page, but can't get the video to play. I see no where on the page to make the video play. I end up launching VMware Fusion and opening the video in

Re: Youtube videos do not play anymore in Webkit

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
When you say webkit, you're talking about the nightly builds and not the regular Safari browser? If so, what happens in Safari? Are you opted in on the youtube html5 video trial? If not, goto youtube.com/html5 and opt in to see if that makes things any better. Could be your Flash popping up

Re: seeing which processes or apps are hogging rousources?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Something to look forward to and you can have fun planning now. Here's Apple's specs on the 2011 Mac Mini memory: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4805 So PC3-10600 DDR3 is the kind you'll want. That's commonly used in compact units like laptops iMacs which is probably why they kept coming up.

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Phil Halton
How well does Pages do envelopes? That's one of the things I like most about Word. If Pages will do envelope printing, then I think I'll give it a try. - Original Message - From: Scott Davert scottslistm...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013

Re: google plus on the mac?

2013-01-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Hank I've been able to get into a google hang out and type stuff in the chat box etc. I think that's basically Safari though, but i could be wrong. I've not attempted anything else on the Mac. On 19/01/2013, at 5:57 AM, hank smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net wrote: Hello how vo

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, You don't need a word processor to print envelopes, Contacts (or Address Book on earlier versions of OS x) will do the job. You can also set up label prints with it. However, Pages does offer a choice of envelope templates should you prefer that solution. Cheers, Anne On 18 Jan

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Ah so text edit is on the Mac already! Yikes, could I look any more like a newb? lol thanks for all the help guys! :) On 1/18/13, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Phil, You don't need a word processor to print envelopes, Contacts (or Address Book on earlier versions of OS x)

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hey. No probem :) Sent from my iPhone On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Marc Rocheleau marcrochel...@gmail.com wrote: Ah so text edit is on the Mac already! Yikes, could I look any more like a newb? lol thanks for all the help guys! :) On 1/18/13, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

Re: DVD ripping software

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I didn't notice a reply to this. You do know that ripping a commercial DVD, while trivial to do, breaks the DMCA laws if you are in the US and DMCA trumps fair use as well. Check the archives on this mailing list for more details. CB On 1/11/13 11:20 PM, Chad Rohr wrote: I have ripped a

Re: How to add and remove songs from up next list in iTunes 11?

2013-01-18 Thread Marc Rocheleau
I just tried this today and that's not it -- any other ideas? -Marc On 1/17/13, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: I believe it's command-option-u. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On Jan 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Marc

Need Help Authorizing New Mac in iTunes!

2013-01-18 Thread jshandra72
Hey Guys, I need assistance authorizing a new Mac to my iTunes account. I still have some issues with iTunes 11. Can someone tell me what area in iTunes I need to be to authorize this Mac? Thanks, J. P. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Accessible word processor

2013-01-18 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Ann, I'm probably going to give Pages a try. I've been using Word and am very happy with it, but I want some fluency with word processing on the Mac as well. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday,

Re: Need Help Authorizing New Mac in iTunes!

2013-01-18 Thread J.P.
Thanks Chris- I will give it another look. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/macvisionaries/-/CqZJvQ7JO6wJ. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Need Help Authorizing New Mac in iTunes!

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
No problem. Glad to help, i hope it works out for you. On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:22 PM, J.P. jshandr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Chris- I will give it another look. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To view this discussion on

Sequence of the bottom row of wired keyboard

2013-01-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello All, Could someone tell me of the sequence of keys on the Apple wired keyboard? I have a new Mac Mini and want to set it up independently. Using command F5. Thanks. Gena -- If you want someone who thinks outside the box, hire someone who lives outside the box Barbara Otto -- You

Re: Sequence of the bottom row of wired keyboard

2013-01-18 Thread Danny Noonan
On the full size wired keyboard with arrows, numpad etc, from left its control option command space command option control Sent from my phone On 19/01/2013, at 8:06 AM, Georgina Joyce r...@o2.co.uk wrote: Hello All, Could someone tell me of the sequence of keys on the Apple wired

moving notes into folders

2013-01-18 Thread Traci
Hi all, So I just learned that I can have folders inside notes, however for the life of me, ;) I cannot figure out how to move notes into them. I've tried VO dragdrop, I've tried mouse down, control click… Any suggestions out there? Thank you, Traci 1 step, 2 step, ... 1,311 steps! I can do

Re: Sequence of the bottom row of wired keyboard

2013-01-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Thanks. Gena On 18/01/2013 21:24, Danny Noonan wrote: On the full size wired keyboard with arrows, numpad etc, from left its control option command space command option control Sent from my phone On 19/01/2013, at 8:06 AM, Georgina Joyce r...@o2.co.uk wrote: Hello All, Could

Good scanner and OCR?

2013-01-18 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, all, I need a very good OCR solution and either a scanner or a document camera that will work with it. Money is no object, because I need it for work. I do a lot of reading, especially of scientific journals, so the solution must be very accurate. If any of you have recommendations,

Giving meaningful names to tracks in GarageBand

2013-01-18 Thread Phil Halton
I was in the process of writing out a long boring question to the list on how I could rename a track in GarageBand, when I got an idea, did a little experimenting and found my answer. I'm writing out the steps below for anyone who wants to know. First of all, Software instrument tracks are

pages and iCloud

2013-01-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have the latest iOS and Mac versions of Pages. I'm using Lion. My Pages files are in moble documents folder. They do not show up in Pages on my phone. I can open from iTunes, create new, but now iCloud. Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Skype question and test message.

2013-01-18 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, First off, I'm not sure if all my messages are going through, so getting a reply on this would be awesome. *smile* Secondly, I have a question about Skype. When you command+tab away from the app, it constantly says Skype has new window. How do you get that to stop? Any help would be greatly

Re: Skype question and test message.

2013-01-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay, First, I got this message. With respect to your Skype issue, Are you using Growl? IF so, you might want to go in to your Skype prefs window, from there, click on the notifications tab and from there make sure that Growl is selected. I just use the regular notification display and

Re: Skype question and test message.

2013-01-18 Thread Daniel Miller
I'm not using Growl. I have the show visual notifications checkbox unchecked. On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Okay, First, I got this message. With respect to your Skype issue, Are you using Growl? IF so, you might want to go in to your Skype prefs

Re: Skype question and test message.

2013-01-18 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi your definetly getting through cheers gerry have a great day skype: gerry.cook1 email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au On Jan 19, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Daniel Miller miller...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, First off, I'm not sure if all my messages are going through, so getting a reply on this would be

Deleting bookmarks

2013-01-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi How do you delete a bookmark please? When I do vo m, followed by b, I can see lots of bookmarks but am not sure how to delete these. I can delete the ones in the table but not the ones in my bookmarks menu or bar. Thanks for any help. Lisette -- You received this message because you are

garage band podcasts?

2013-01-18 Thread hank smith
Hello where can I get the garage band podcasts at? I can not find them on apple vis. I am also interested in beat mapping with other tempos. eg matching tempos with other beats so they all go together, can I also get instructions on how to do this? if there is a auto beat mapping feature that

Re: pages and iCloud

2013-01-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Do you have these items within the Documents folder of the com~apple~pages folder? Pages will not see them unless they reside specifically in that folder. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-01-18, at 7:38 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi:

Re: Deleting bookmarks

2013-01-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try going to Show All Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu. Once in that window, you can select Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks menu from the first table, then navigate to the second table which lists the bookmarks from within that category. You should then be able to Interact with the Table