RE: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-27 Thread Kliphton
Yes I have, even created a couple of new contacts. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hunt Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager Hello. Did you

Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
How about mycharge Peak power bank from Amazon.com this charger talks and tells you what percentage it is, whether the battery is full or not, and switches off straight away when you pull out the device. Kawal. On 27 Sep 2013, at 03:20 AM, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello ,list can

Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-27 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello. My wife has an IPhone 5. I'll try it on hers and see what happens. I'll let everyone know. On Sep 27, 2013, at 1:26 AM, Kliphton kliph...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I have, even created a couple of new contacts. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Update

2013-09-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there It says on there that it fixes the security thing about the lock screen. It's supposed to make your phone most more secure. That's all I know. Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I haven't seen

Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have a charger that I bought from Apple that works fine for USB devices. I charge my headphones with it, and it works just fine. Some people think it's too big, but I got it because it has more power than some up. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:20 PM,

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Jessica Moss
Cool, I like this video, still sounds a tad complicated to set up, but maybe after I play the video enough I may be able to get them up and running. I'm a bit confused about these though, do you need to turn VO off when you play these? I would guess you would, but like they say never assume.

airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi, We just got an extreme and I have a few questions. We currently have one of those modem/router boxes from our internet provider. We want to replace the router in that box with the extreme. How is this done? Do I deactivate the router in the modem box, then attach the extreme to the box

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Alex Hall
No, VO can be on. The emulator grabs most keystrokes, but you can actually use the vo keys for the usual tasks, including accessing the menu bar. On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, I like this video, still sounds a tad complicated to set up, but

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Babcock
you don't have to;; vo will still talk for a few seconds threw out the startup of the emulator; but a three finger double tap if you have track pad commander on, will fix this; or you can disable voiceover… there is a keystroke to quit the emulator; of which i've forgotten and forgot in the

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Alex Hall
The keystroke is function-delete, then escape. I use a USB keyboard, though, so have no function key and must use the menu instead. On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: you don't have to;; vo will still talk for a few seconds threw out the startup

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kliphton
It would help to kno who your provider is. Also, if you can, exchange the router/modem combo, to just a modem, that way all you have to do is plug the modem from your ISP to your extreme Kliphton iMessage kliph...@icloud.com - E-Mail kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,Instagram,FourSquareSkype)

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Cait. All you do is connect your AirPort Extreme to your Mac and the other end in to your provider's modem if that's the type of ISP you use. In other words, take away the provider's router. then on your Mac go to Airport Utility, after pressing on the image with VO space. find edit

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Babcock
thanks is the deleate key the same as the backspace key on the macbook the one above the \ key and to the right of the equals key or is there another delete, and this one that i'm thinking of is called backspace? Michael Babcock Blogger for the site, empowering the blind… google me, i'm real!

Re: An apple IIE Emulator video demo

2013-09-27 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! Yes the key you mentioned is the delete key! On mine when using keyboard help [VO+K] when pressing that key it calls it the Delete key! HTH Colin On 27 Sep 2013, at 14:46, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: thanks is the delete key the same as the backspace key on the

Controlling a Mac remotely with VO

2013-09-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, With the latest updates to TeamViewer, it's now possible to pilot another Mac remotely. You need something like Skype as well to hear the sounds, but it works. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

RE: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread wayne17a
Hello Kawal do you have this charger and if yes could you tell me more or have you the direct link for it thanks in advance From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 4:37 AM To:

RE: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread wayne17a
Hello gigi could you please send me a link so I can read more about the charger thanks in advance From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugenia Firth Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:14 AM To:

Kawal Gucukoglu wants you to see this item at Amazon.com

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
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Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I do have this charger and have sent you a link. I hope it works. Kawal. On 27 Sep 2013, at 04:06 PM, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Kawal do you have this charger and if yes could you tell me more or have you the direct link for it thanks in advance From:

Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I can't send you a link because I got mine from Apple Store. I went to the store directly. I would suspect that it's on the Apple store website. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2013, at 10:08 AM, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello gigi could you please

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Wow, that's a lot of usage through the day. Were you actually on it for the close to 9 hours or is that likely stuff happening in the background? Mine's down to 21% this morning but I can't get the Usage numbers as I restarted it yesterday. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada

Taking Apps out of the App Switcher question for my sighted husband

2013-09-27 Thread Desi Noller
Hi Everyone, I have learned the various ways to clear the App Switcher with iOS 7 using VoiceOver, but we can't figure out how to do it for my sighted husband, who doesn't use VoiceOver. Can anyone tell us? Much thanks in advance! Desi -- You received this message because you are

portable battery

2013-09-27 Thread jean parker
I have Anker 8400 and can get almost three i phone 5 charges out of it. It has two usb ports so you can charge all kinds of devices either at the same time or separately. Naturally, the more things you charge the mor often you will have to charge the battery itself. It does not talk but is

Re: Taking Apps out of the App Switcher question for my sighted husband

2013-09-27 Thread Alex Hall
Just do a one-finger swipe up. Whenever Voiceover requires three fingers to swipe, the non-Vo equivalent is to swipe one finger. On Sep 27, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Desi Noller desi.nol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I have learned the various ways to clear the App Switcher with iOS 7 using

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-27 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, Ah I am understanding the usage stats more now, so it is claiming that my iPhone was in use for 9 hours since last charge. It has to be something that is running in the background which could very well be what is taking up most of my battery, as for most of the day it was just sitting

Re: portable battery

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I had one of those batteries, but they died after three or four charges, they never charged again. Kawal.On 27 Sep 2013, at 05:42 PM, jean parker radiofore...@gmail.com wrote: I have Anker 8400 and can get almost three i phone 5 charges out of it. It has two usb ports so you can charge all

Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Scott Davert
Hi Wayne. My questions to you are: 1. how much do you want to spend? 2. How many charges do you wish to get out of the external battery? TO charge an iPad once, it requires a 2.1 amp output port. Scott On 9/27/13, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I can't send you a link because I

Looking for a voiceover friendly soundboard

2013-09-27 Thread Mike
Hey everybody, I'm looking for a Mac app that will let me a sign sound effects and music to different physical keys on the keyboard. I want to be able to just press one button and have it play the sound back to me. Does anybody know of an app like this? Thanks for the help. Mike m How to be

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think the easiest way is to Either turn of the broadcast function of the cable modem/router or, put your extreme into bridge mode. This is actually what I did since Verizon FIos forces these combo modem/routers on you. If you decide to use your extreme in bridge mode, you can do this

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You may wish to take a look at the amounts of data being used by various system Services. Go to Settings/Cellular, That should tell you what apps are using data and down near the bottom of the list, there is one called System Services that will give you detail about how much cellular data

Re: gmail help?

2013-09-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Kliphton, • Did it work properly when you first set things up? • It sounds to me like one of your accounts is still using POP. Just turning on iMap at the Google end does not ensure that the accounts are using iMap on your various devices. Check in your Mail Preferences on your Mac to

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Years ago (1998?) I had been renting a wifi router box from my cable provider for a while and then decided to keep the money to myself and buy my own unit. I purposly purchased two separate boxes - the cable modem and the wifi/router. Over the years I've upgraded my wifi a couple times as the

RE: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread wayne17a
Hello Kawal thanks I will read it later the quick look I had makes it sound quite good thanks in advance From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:17 AM To:

RE: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread wayne17a
Hello scott the price is not the problem at the moment and I am never away from a wall outlet more then a day so again that is not a big problem I just want a good charger for the money so hope this helps -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
My word, Ants in a Wifi router. What next! On 27 Sep 2013, at 21:05, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Years ago (1998?) I had been renting a wifi router box from my cable provider for a while and then decided to keep the money to myself and buy my own unit. I purposly purchased two

Apple 2E Emulator: my impressions

2013-09-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
I really am liking it. I briefly learned the apple 2e in college, then was forced to switch to IBM, which wasn't accessible at the time. I especially recognize the beep as the disk boots up. Very nice job, Darcy et al. I'm paging through the Echo tutorial at the moment. I tried playing

Re: Looking for a voiceover friendly soundboard

2013-09-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno if it's accessible but SoundBoard sounds like what you want: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/soundboard-mac/ CB On 9/27/13 2:16 PM, Mike wrote: Hey everybody, I'm looking for a Mac app that will let me a sign sound effects and music to different physical keys on the keyboard. I

Re: PORTABLE CHARGERS

2013-09-27 Thread Jessica Moss
Not sure if you've ever used one of these, but what's the difference between the one you mentioned and the heavy-duty version of the newTrent version? I think that's the version I have, but not 100% sure, sense it was given to me as a Christmas gift and I've never seen either of them, but it's

Re: Taking Apps out of the App Switcher question for my sighted husband

2013-09-27 Thread Desi Noller
Hi Alex, Thanks so much! This really helps us out a lot, and I knew someone here would know! Desi On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Just do a one-finger swipe up. Whenever Voiceover requires three fingers to swipe, the non-Vo equivalent is to swipe one

Google question

2013-09-27 Thread chenelle hancock
Sent from my iPad Hello everyone at information hi my friend has a tablet that she just barked and she wants to know can you download Bard Mobile using Google? Thank you so much On 27 Sep 2013, at 2:13 pm, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Today's Topic Summary Group:

Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-27 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Clifton. I just tried to edit a contact on my wife's IPhone 5 and the sane behavior occurred. When I tried to edit first names I could not move around in the field. The only way to edit the field is to delete the text one chacter at a time. The edit item in the rotor doesn't work either.

VoiceOver stopped working on Facebook

2013-09-27 Thread N2KPV
hi everyone, I have been a mac user for a couple of years now and suddenly voiceover has stopped working on Facebook. Has anyone had this problem and does anyone know of some settings that I can change in VoiceOver to fix this ? Or is there another accessible app that I can use ? Any

Re: Reading Text Documents

2013-09-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes
I totally agree. The professor needs to make it accessible as they assign it not make you jump through extra hoops to read what your assigned. Laura Ann On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:36 PM, David Tanner david.tanner...@gmail.com wrote: You will need to get the picture file run through an optical

Re: Text documents on Mac

2013-09-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes
Docuscan plus works on the mac its by serotek and can work with a scanner. Laura Ann On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Helena Fehr helena.torch.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is this abbey Fine Reader on the Mac app-store? Also, is there a good scanning app at a reasonable price that will work to scan

404 error messages on blindcooltech.com

2013-09-27 Thread Jessica Moss
I have no idea why this is happening, but on every podcast I've clicked on, which has been about 5 of them, I've gotten some kind of a 404 error message, which of course, takes me back to the original url, and it's really starting to annoy me, considering the fact that I'd really like to hear

Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Halton
I've noticed the same behavior and edit fields in the contacts app. Thought I was crazy. Glad to know I'm not the only one who sees it. Sent from my IPhone On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Paul Hunt prhu...@att.net wrote: Hello Clifton. I just tried to edit a contact on my wife's IPhone 5 and

Re: 404 error messages on blindcooltech.com

2013-09-27 Thread Lisette Wesseling
I understand the blindcooltech site is no longer being maintained. Lisette On 28/09/2013, at 1:56 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea why this is happening, but on every podcast I've clicked on, which has been about 5 of them, I've gotten some kind of a 404

iTunes constantly restarting itself after quit with iPhone plugged in.

2013-09-27 Thread eric oyen
I started having this issue after the latest update of iTunes on my macbook. I am running Lion (and it is not possible to upgrade to mountain lion on this machine, so we won't go there). As soon as I plug in the iPhone on the USB port, I get asked if I want to update to iOS 7. I click the later