It's also easy and quite helpful to set up hotspots to automatically say which
tab your in and how many characters are left when writing tweets. Well, it was
last time I played with it. I don't seem to have time for twitter any more. Dam
RealWorld.
Danny:
On 16/06/2013, at 1:24 PM, Alex Hal
Not a problem.
chris.
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Thanks very much Chris.
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Thanks very much Chris.
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I have another choice to offer. Your friend could use something called
Wondershare Mobile go for IOS. That will cost $39.95 or so but it will let you
get music on to and off from the Iphone nice and easy.
Just go to:
www.wondershare.com
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessib
1) no, they won't help you with bootcamp
2) Hold down the option key for around 10 seconds more or less after the
boot sound
3) Yes, burn the windows7 iso so you can insert the disk when asked by
bootcamp utility.
4) I have a website address that has the steps (screens) involved in
installing w
1. This costs money, if that's an issue.
2. I haven't tried it.
3. It only works on windows.
4. I assume it can put media on, but like I said, I haven't tried it.
http://www.techhive.com/article/260613/iexplorer_puts_you_in_control_of_your_ios_device.html
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You enable developer settings in preferences, then go to the developer menu and
choose your desired browser from the "user agent" submenu. Unfortunately, it
does not work, for this site at least - I tried both Firefox versions (Mac and
Windows). I might have to just go to Windows to do this...
O
How is this done?
On Jun 17, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> It might not just simply be an Apple problem. It might be the way the rich
> text areas are coded. But yes, many do seem to have problems with VoiceOver.
> Often the same rich text areas work fine with Windows screen read
I faced these the other day on a web site, which uses rich text edit areas for
all of their posting areas. I was able to type into the edit area, but then
when I attempted to post, VO was not behaving properly and I could not figure
out where the post button was. Also, when I tried to get back i
It might not just simply be an Apple problem. It might be the way the rich text
areas are coded. But yes, many do seem to have problems with VoiceOver. Often
the same rich text areas work fine with Windows screen readers. I'd suggest
getting Safari to emulate Firefox. This makes the rich text ar
Well, your friend could buy music or other media from the iTunes Store on their
iOS device, then it would be downloaded directly to their device. They can get
audiobooks from audible, books from BookShare etcetera.
They could also use Dropbox or some other cloud syncing app to get media on to
t
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if there were another way to import music onto your i phone
5 other than using I Tunes?
I have a friend that is a new I phone user and they own a windows computer.
They also use jaws but have never used Itunes before. They wanted to transfer
their music
I'll try it. However, I was unable even to paste, which seems very odd. I
wonder if this is a browser problem or a Voiceover problem? Either way, Apple
needs to know about it, or at least be reminded.
On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Harry Hogue wrote:
> Hello alex,
>
> Rich edit areas are notorio
Hello alex,
Rich edit areas are notoriously bad with VO. The work-around I have found is
to type your text in TextEdit or another word processor and then paste it into
the rich text edit area after interacting with the area. If you turn QuickNav
off and arrow up and down you can see that your
Hi all,
I am trying to fill out a form, and one part is some kind of rich text edit
area. I can interact with it, but Voiceover does nothing - I cannot type, no
commands like cmd-v seem to work, nothing. Is there a trick to using these edit
controls? Thanks.
Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent fr
Hi all,
I thought I'd report on Launch Bar's further development and support with
voiceover. Voiceover will now speak items instead of depending on mac's spoken
feedback. Here is the link and more details via the release notes.
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/releasenotes5.html
Enjoy!
Hello Guys,
As regards VMWare Fusion vs. Bookcamp, here are my thoughts:
I am running 4gb of ram with VMWare Fusion (Windows 7 and JAWS 13), and despite
the fact that it works okay, not counting the problems I wrote about most
recently on this list, I am going to switch to Bootcamp for the foll
Hi:
I had to resend it. He received it on the second go around.
On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hmmm. I've only did the Gift Certificate thing once or twice and don't
> remember exactly how long it took for the recipient to receive it. I thought
> that it was more or less i
I ordered this. After I upgraded to ML, my version 3 of Fusion no longer
worked. I downloaded version 5 and used a 30-day trial, but just never paid to
upgrade. I'm glad I saw this before I paid for the upgrade. I suppose this
will come with the codes necessary to authorize Fusion version 5?
Seems it's only possible to get PDFs into iBooks Author by copying and pasting
the text. As the books I'm talking about are thousands of pages long this
wouldn't really be feasible. Word and Pages documents can be imported into
iBooks Author with each file becoming a new chapter. This is exactly
Hello Nick,
Pages can create epub documents with a table of contents readable by iBooks.
You'd need to copy the text from the PDFs into Pages then set all the headings
to the correct levels. Pages can then create a table of contents and you can
export the file to EPUB format.
Cheers,
Anne
O
It's certainly worth looking into. Thanks, Tim! I guess for now that would mean
I could only read them on an iPad, which I don't yet have, but when Mavericks
comes out I'll be able to read them on my Mac too. Woot!
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I've not tried this, but I wonder if iBooks Author would do this for you?
Later...
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Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-17, at 11:13 AM, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> Dear listers,
>
> Does anyone know whether it's possible, and if so how, to do any of the
> following?
>
> 1. C
Hi,
I did some testing using this kind of scenario. Your simple answer isn't
exactly the right answer. True, when you go to Software Update when running
from the external, it only seems to want to update apps, but not the actual OS.
What I did to get around this, was, while running from MacO
Dear listers,
Does anyone know whether it's possible, and if so how, to do any of the
following?
1. Create an active table of contents for a PDF that works with iBooks? That
is, the PDF already has a table of contents, but it doesn't seem to work with
iBooks. Anyway to fix this?
2. Create an
Thanks all for the responses. Using the function keys works perfectly, so
thanks for that. Not sure what was going on in the display preferences. I've
known screen brightness to have unusual effects on seemingly unrelated things
before, so thought it might be something like that. Anyway, here's
HI Jean,
Ahh, well, maybe that's where I have been going wrong then. If you find out the
procedure for disconnecting it properly as you say, can you please let me know?
Many thanks,
Nic
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Thank you so much for the detailed instructions, I'm saving the messages to
reference back. So then desision made twenty seven inch base imac with
upgraded ram with fusion regardless if I use bootcamp or not. Sounds good
to me.
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Hi,
What happens when you try to update?
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On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Mark Furness wrote:
> I have Lion on my internal drive and "mountain Lion" on an external.
> I can go to properties and my I Mac to s
Definitely more RAM or SSD storage.
Honestly, I don’t think most people would notice a difference between an I5 or
I3 processor. Especially on a Macbook air. After all, the air selling point
is extreme portability and battery life in an attractive package. Raw power is
secondary for most air
Hi Nick:
Assuming that bluetooth is already turned on, as soon as you connect the
earpiece voiceover and all other audio come through the earpiece. It is
necessary to disconnect it properly to get voiceover to resume coming through
the speakers of the computer. Otherwise you get a bluetooth er
The Air is from early this year, so it is not the newest. It is the
lowest-powered model, with 4gb ram and a 64-gb ssd. No, I doubt an OS would run
well from a card, but you could easily dump all your media on the card and save
the room for your operating system. Personally, I'd go with 8gb of r
Hi Phil,
Yes you did say no cd/dvd drive on the iMac. I didn't look at the hard drive
spec for all flavors of iMac. I looked at the cheapest 21-inch model, and in
the configuration section, it is listed as 5400 rpm, and then there are upgrade
choices, including a fusion drive and various sizes o
Alex,
I'm interested in your MBA that you're going to put two oses on. Is it one of
the new ones? How much storage and how much ram did you get or will you be
getting? I'm trying to decide which upgrades to a 13-inch air would be the most
bang for the buck, processor, ram or more ssd storage. I'
I have Lion on my internal drive and "mountain Lion" on an external.
I can go to properties and my I Mac to start in either OS and it does.
My question is why can I not update my mountain Lion but can the Lion?
A simple answer is you can not on a external.
i will be purchasing Maverick. Should all
How does one configure VMWare to run optimally? Does the help system go into
detail about this? I'm mean cores, memory, etc - all the settings that
affect how the virtual machine will run etc.
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Subject: Re
On 6/17/2013 9:12 AM, Phil Halton wrote:
I'd be interested to know how windows via fusion runs on a Mac Book
Air. I'm wondering if its a little under powered for the job, or what
upgrade specs on the air would be needed to do the job right.
BTW: I don't know why you'd be "sad to say" to have J
I'll like having the option to run a dual boot system with full resources
available for each, but also being able to just run an occasional windows
program from the MAC side when needed.
What is the best resource for learning how to operate VMWare? Is the help
system sufficient?
?,
- Orig
I don't know where I read the review, but it was more concerning components
such as processor etc rather than screen size. It would require a look at
the specs of each to make a realistic determination.
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I think I said that the hardware that was eliminated in the latest iMac
configuration was "CD Drives", not "Hard Drives". That is really surprising
about the 5400 drive speed
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To:
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: Fusion boot ca
I'd be interested to know how windows via fusion runs on a Mac Book Air. I'm
wondering if its a little under powered for the job, or what upgrade specs
on the air would be needed to do the job right.
BTW: I don't know why you'd be "sad to say" to have JAWs, In my opinion, its
one of the very b
Hi Nick,
Using the slider in Display Prefs, VO does hesitate a little on my MBP Late
2011 but does not behave as badly as you've outlined. Using the F1/F2 though
causes no hesitation at all. Actually, this is the first time I've ever used
the slider in Display Prefs so wanted to check on your
I didn't clame to be a good vocalest. So, yeah...
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: A Look at ProTools Part 1 has been uploaded
Hi, Chris. Thanks for posting these podcasts about learning ProTools using
Voiceover
As others have said, I have not had these issues with any of my Macs either.
On 6/17/13, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> certainly do not have the issue on any of the Mac's I've owned or the ones I
> do own now.
>
> I use the F1 / F2 keys though to change the brightness.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
Try command shift c, I think that opens the computer window.
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Hi listers. What's the Mac equivalent of the windows 'my computer', and
how do I get to it from desktop? Thanks.
Shane
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sure. You can select the destination for downloads. Open Safari then press
command comma to open Safari preferences. In the toolbar, make sure general is
selected. Now, navigate to the Save downloaded files to: pop up button. By
default, this should be set to downloads. VO spacebar on
Nick is correct, but if you have 8gb or more of ram you should be fine. Also,
the Mac will only have less power while the VM is running; once you get used to
the Mac and don't use Windows as much, you can close the vm while not in use
and free up those resources.
On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Nic
I plan to do the same on my Mini, but start fresh on my business Air. The Mini
will have NVDA and all my programs, while the Air will (I'm sad to say) have
Jaws, plus assorted programs for demonstrating to clients. This will be a good
way to see the differences between the two methods.
On Jun 16
Hi folks. Using safari, is there a way to have it ask you where you want things
saved every time you click a download link on a web page, instead of files
being saved at a specific location? I know that i e on the pc, and firefox for
the pc used to do this, but I can find no option for this in s
certainly do not have the issue on any of the Mac's I've owned or the ones I do
own now.
I use the F1 / F2 keys though to change the brightness.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather
TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Ap
Hi,
I’m assuming your talking about on the Mac right?
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On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:52 PM, shane christenson wrote:
> Hi folks. Is there any way to tell safari to put downloads in another folder
> instead of th
Yup,
I would just like to add to this, when in the finder, bringing up preferences
with command comma and under general, you can have your hard drives, external
drives, connected iPods/CD’s etc shown in the finders desktop.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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Hi,
try to lower screen brightness by pressing F1 or, FN F1. To raise brightness
press F2 or FN F2.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> After contemplating the sad news that scr
Gi,
The applevis site has their apps categorized very well. Unfortunately, there
are not as many free apps that are accessible for mac as is the case for IOS.
What specifically are you looking for?
Pam Francis
On Jun 16, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Rebecca Sabo wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering where I co
Hello,
I have used screen curtain on my Idevices, while reading a book. I have also
adjusted screen brightness on my computer if I am using it to access a podcast
or the like which doesn't require me to be in front of it. I have not had any
kind of issues with voiceover finding its way around th
After contemplating the sad news that screen curtain does not conserve battery
power, I decided today to try and lower my mid 2011 MacBook Air's screen
brightneess in order to conserve battery power. I did this in the display pane
of system preferences. When I tried adjusting the screen brightne
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