Re: adjusting text attributes

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Actually, as far as I’m aware, VO-T simply describes the attributes under the VO cursor. HtH, Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Dec 5, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi! You can also just hit VO+T to toggle them on and

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I experience the new finereader as very accessible. If you have a supported scanner, you can scan directly from a supported scanner without vuescan, this is a major step forward. There could be unlabled buttons but the helptags works, but most of the buttons are labled correct. In my

Re: adjusting text attributes

2013-12-06 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! My Bad you are right *smile* On 6 Dec 2013, at 08:43, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, as far as I’m aware, VO-T simply describes the attributes under the VO cursor. HtH, Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Dec 5, 2013,

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Do you know if Finereader Pro supports wireless scanning? The Express version didn’t but if the pro version does, then i’ll have to go grab it. /Krister 6 dec 2013 kl. 10:09 skrev Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com: Hi. I experience the new finereader as very accessible. If

Abby Finereder and VuScan

2013-12-06 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi Excuse my ignorance, but i can`t quite understand why you need Vuescan in use with Abby Finereader, so, if you can explain step by step for a dummy i will appriciate it. Take care -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Annie, Which scanner do you have that is not supported by find reader? I was doing some looking, and it appears they don't support any of the Plustek scanners. I also found that there is apparently a driver for the plustek 3800 that works Onamac, but I guess it is only with plustek

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Mary.. I have an opticbook 4800, I can not find a driver that works on the mac exept for vuescan, but it is very slow, and I get terrible scanning results with vuescan I do not know why. I also love book edge scanners, and there are not many of them on the market. If you have a plustek

Re: Abby Finereder and VuScan

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Terje. I do not think many of us need vuescan anymore with the new finereader. The old one only let you scan 1 page at a time, so therefore many people made a tif file with vuescan, and recognized it with finereader afterwards. I still wonder how people gets good results that way, I tried

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Where do you get onformation about which scanners is supported. Best regards Annie. Den 06 Dec 2013 kl. 14:47 skrev Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com: Hi Mary.. I have an opticbook 4800, I can not find a driver that works on the mac exept for vuescan, but it is very slow,

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Mary Otten
I found a link on that Abby site but took me to the Apple Store. And there was an extensive list of supported scanners. Plus tech was not in there. I'm on an iPhone right now, so I don't have that link. But you can probably find it by going to the bbyy.com site. Mary Sent from my iPhone On

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Halton
I followed the links to the abbyy website from the app store. on the page for the pro version of abbyy finer reader, under the tab for tech specs in the hardware section is a link to the apple website for supported ICA scanners. I think this is it. see the list on the Apple web-site On Dec

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Annie, I do not have an optic book 3800. I have a 3600, which I have been using a long time with Kurzweil 1000 on Windows. But I would like to move to the Mac if I can find a scanner I like with this new find reader. I saw a knowledgebase article on the plus tech website which had a link to

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Can anybody tell me what the difference is between Finereader Express and finereader pro? Since I already paid for the Express version before it was in the app store, I would like to know what added benefits I am getting before I pay for the Pro version. I don't object to paying something; I

Macbook Air Help

2013-12-06 Thread Lee Jones
Deer List, got my enhanced voices installed. what is the best way to update with voice over? When you go to software update on IOS it says you have IOS 7.04 your software is up to date but on the mac it takes you to the ap store. Do you have to get all your OSX Updates through the ap store? If

Re: Abby Finereder and VuScan

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I did troubleshooting with somebody using vuescan a few weeks ago. The problem was that media was not in text. I suspect you do have a setting wrong somewhere if you are not getting good results when you scan with vuescan but you are with Abbyy; there are several incorrect settings that could

Facebook Site; Finding Comments on a story?

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’ve noticed recently that the regular Facebook site doesn’t show comments on the newsfeed. I get email notifications of them, but don’t find them on my wall. Is there something to click on to expand the comments with the story? Thanks, Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2013-12-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there This is one of the things I mentioned earlier. It used to be that if you pressed command option i it would imply say Inspector and you could do formatting that way. I've been told it comes up, but VoiceOver does not say it and I haven't yet figured out how to get to the Inspector

Re: Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ok Tim. If the Inspector doesn't work the same way, how do you do it? It's confusing because VoiceOver, if I remember right, says Hide Inspector or Show Inspector when you press command option i. Regards, Gigi On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, To

Re: Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The inspector is visible by default. In fact, I'm not sure if it can be hidden. There is an option to hide/show Inspector in View Inspector, command-option-i, but this doesn't seem to have any effect for VoiceOver at least. You can, however, choose to toggle between the format inspector or the

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2013-12-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Gigi, I can get to the format inspector fine and I have no problems formatting a cell as a popup menu. What I'm having difficulty with is activating the popup menu and setting it to a particular value. If I VO-Space on the popup menu it simply allows me to edit the text. Option-return seems

Mars Edit Got Me Blacklisted

2013-12-06 Thread Mike M
Hey fellow Mars Edit Users, When I got a little free time a few hours ago I opened Mars Edit to make a change to one of my pages at malarsie.com. When I finished the changes I hit send and got an alert saying my password was wrong for some odd reason. I typed it in and hit send. It

Budgeting Software

2013-12-06 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, I need to find some budgeting software. I was trying to use Mint, but it is rather inaccessible. I'm also looking at Quicken, but afraid to pay the $49 for it without knowing if it will be accessible. Any recommendations? Thanks, Brandon Shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated hosting at

Where To find Address for a Bluetooh Device?

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I want to use my Bluetooth Braille display on a virtual machine (Linux) and I have to know the device address, which is some sort of hexadecimal value. where on the Mac can I find this? i looked in system Information and Bluetooth preferences, but I can’t locate it. thanks, Teresa

Re: Budgeting Software

2013-12-06 Thread Les Kriegler
I cannot give you specific recommendations. However, I would stay away from Quicken. I use that software package for over 20 years on the Windows side. Their budgeting software is an accessible, at least it was the last time I tried to use it. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 6, 2013, at 2:33 PM,

Re: Where To find Address for a Bluetooh Device?

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I know this because I needed it to use brltty on my Mac with bluetooth for my braille edge. Correction: I knew how to find bluetooth addresses on Mountain Lion, and this might just be the last straw if I can't find them with Mavericks! In Mountain Lion, I opened System Preferences Bluetooth

Re: Where To find Address for a Bluetooth Device?

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Cheryl, Yep, I got exactly the same results for Mavericks. I saw a way to do it on the linux CLI, so maybe I can try it on the Mac, though the Unix vs. Linux commands may be slightly different. anyhow, I’ll keep digging and see what I come up with. thanks, Teresa The Golden Age of

fusion, caps lock and vinux

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I want to run vinux in a vm. I have a apple wireless keyboard and need access to the caps lock key to use orca. On the windows side people are using sharp keys to remap the caps lock key. Is there a comparable solution for linux? I could plug in a full sized USB keyboard but was

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. You can scan multipage documents directly from finereader pro, and you can convert to a wide range of formats, and the quality is exelent. You can also split double sided scannings automatic, and it works quite good. Best regards Annie. Den 06 Dec 2013 kl. 17:04 skrev Cheryl Homiak

Re: Abby Finereder and VuScan

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Cheryl. I have followed Annes guidelines for setting vuescan up. I am happy that vuescan works for anybody else, but I am sad that it does not work for me. I have checked the text setting and a lot of other things, nothing works. Best regards Annie. Den 06 Dec 2013 kl. 17:54 skrev Cheryl

Will Imported CD;s Go Directly Into iTunes Match?

2013-12-06 Thread Desi Noller
Good Afternoon, I just got two new Christmas CD’s and realized that this is the first music I’ll be importing since I signed up for iTunes Match. Will the new music I add in this way go directly to iTunes Match? Or, is there something I need to do to make sure that it does? Thanks in

Re: fusion, caps lock and vinux

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
You will have to disable global Mac keystrokes in the machine settings, command E. this way, any modifier key should work. You can still command-tab out of Fusion and load vO in order to suspend the virtual machine if you need to. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Dec 6,

Re: Will Imported CD;s Go Directly Into iTunes Match?

2013-12-06 Thread Aser Tolentino
there's an option to update iTunes Match in the store menu as I recall, which I assume forces an update. Otherwise, I think updates of your library occur periodically. Sent from my iPad On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Desi Noller desi.nol...@gmail.com wrote: Good Afternoon, I just got two

Re: Where To find Address for a Bluetooth Device?

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Well, I haven’t found out much about how to use command line to scan for and display bluetooth Mac addresses. Most Linux distros use hcitool, but Free bsD uses hccontrol, which I haven’t even found man page info on yet. I did get the braille display working, because I found the address via

file conversion question

2013-12-06 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi, I had what I thought was an insight about how to handle a bunch of movies I have. I want to add some movies to my i tunes library. right now, they are mp3 files. they are described movies, though. I don’t want them playing with all my other music. If I just rename them to m4r, and then

Re: file conversion question

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Caitlyn, This is what I’ve done for my DVS movies. I put them in their own playlist in ITunes and called it “DVS movies”. It ends up in the music folder, but they stay together as a playlist. Hth, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Caitlyn

focusing in Windows using Fusion?

2013-12-06 Thread Alex Hall
Hello list, How do you set focus to windows when using Fusion? So far, the only method I have found that works reliably is to physically click the mouse, hoping that my mouse pointer is focused somewhere inside of the Windows window. Is there a trick I'm missing? Control-command and coomand-g

anyone having trouble with column view in mavericks.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. My finder is going busy all the time when i column view, does anyone have the same problem, and is there a solution for that problem, it is driving me crazzy? Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: VMWare questions

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Halton
unity view won't affect anything. However, moving the VM from one machine to another can be tricky. when I moved my VM from my iMac to my MBA, I was asked by fusion if I wanted to copy or move the VM. Not knowing what to do, I selected copy. This caused all my keys to be invalidated - windows,

Re: Mars Edit Got Me Blacklisted

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Halton
no problems here yet with Marsedit, I'm using ML and not mavericks Hey fellow Mars Edit Users, When I got a little free time a few hours ago I opened Mars Edit to make a change to one of my pages at malarsie.com. When I finished the changes I hit send and got an alert saying my

Re: anyone having trouble with column view in mavericks.

2013-12-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
It’s a bug. The only easy solution is to switch to list view. I’ve actually gotten used to list view. If i want to locate myself inside a folder, I just use command-down-arrow to open it and command-up-arrow to go back up to the parent folder. Hopefully this will be fixed soon, as there’s been

Re: focusing in Windows using Fusion?

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Halton
I usually run in full-screen mode and when I command tab into fusion, I use the tab key or jaws read current line command to get windows awake and responding. sometimes focus gets screwed up and in those cases I use command control F to switch screen modes which usually shakes things up and

Re: anyone having trouble with column view in mavericks.

2013-12-06 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Teresa. Ok I will try to get used to list view. Best regards Annie. Den 07 Dec 2013 kl. 01:51 skrev Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com: It’s a bug. The only easy solution is to switch to list view. I’ve actually gotten used to list view. If i want to locate myself inside a folder,

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Halton
You know, Epson scanners are supported and work quite well in my opinion. Also, you can pick one up for around $120 or so. There are many other supported and cheap scanners that will do a good job. Basically any scanner that apple sells will work for you. On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Mary

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Phil, Yes, I know that a lot of scanners are supported. But when I scan a book on a flat-bed the old-fashioned way, i.e. pressing the book down so as to get a good view of both pages, I pay for it with all kinds of muscle pain in the shoulders and arms. Too much typing for too many years and

Re: file conversion question

2013-12-06 Thread Brett C.
You can leave the files in their current format if you want to. You can place them in a playlist, or not. Simply select your DVS tracks and then select get info. In the options tab you can check a box that says skip when shuffling. You can also choose to check the box to remember your place if

Re: anyone having trouble with column view in mavericks.

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I usually change to icon view or at least I often do this. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.

xcode mavericks and busy

2013-12-06 Thread Nick Allan
Hi all Is anyone else having problems in xcode 5 with mavericks, where when navigating through either the inspector or library groups constantly produces the busy indicator and forces you to wait a second or two. I've gone to the extent of wiping the hdd and reinstalling everything to resolve

Re: xcode mavericks and busy

2013-12-06 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
hi. I am adding up to Nick's problem. Xcode quits when I try to expand elements in the document outline view of a storyboard file in interface builder. The same happens when I try to go to the inspector section for some UI objects, A TableViewController in my case. Any suggestions and workarounds

Re: xcode mavericks and busy

2013-12-06 Thread Jessica D
u cannot go back to mountain lion. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:50 PM, Venkatesh Potluri venky...@gmail.com wrote: hi. I am adding up to Nick's problem. Xcode quits when I try to expand elements in the document outline view of a storyboard file in interface builder. The same

Re: xcode mavericks and busy

2013-12-06 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I've seen this on mountain lion as well, good luck. Command tabbing out and back in usually fixes the issue for me. On 12/6/2013 10:19 PM, Nick Allan wrote: Hi all Is anyone else having problems in xcode 5 with mavericks, where when navigating through either the inspector or library groups

Re: xcode mavericks and busy

2013-12-06 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Nick, I have had this same problem from the first beta release. I’ve submitted a bug report back in the summer and updated my findings, but have not gotten any response. Feel free to file a duplicate. As far as I can tell, the problem is with the movement of the keyboard focus around the

do any of you use DLNA software to stream content from your Macs to your home TV or stereo?

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Gibbs
guys, Here's the deal. I have a Sony Blue Ray player, I don't recall the model, and it came with software called Eye Connect. that's e y e connect. anyway, the folks who make that will stop supporting it at the end of this year. Frankly, I haven't gotten any real support. the curious

moving between 2 documents in pages?

2013-12-06 Thread Andrew Head
Hi all, Just wondering what is the keystroke for moving between 2 open documents in pages? when I command tab to the pages app, I see the last document I had open, but I have two documents. How can I view the other doc and move back and forth between the 2? Kind regards, Andrew Sent from my 11

Re: do any of you use DLNA software to stream content from your Macs to your home TV or stereo?

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Gibbs
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 12:45:24 AM UTC-6, Kevin Gibbs wrote: guys, Here's the deal. I have a Sony Blue Ray player, I don't recall the model, and it came with software called Eye Connect. that's e y e connect. anyway, the folks who make that will stop supporting it at the end

Re: do any of you use DLNA software to stream content from your Macs to your home TV or stereo?

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Sorry for the dual reply. I just realized that one of the requirements I have for a DLNA server is that it must stream DRM content I've purchased from iTunes. Again, thanks for any ideas. Best, Kevin On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: On Saturday, December 7, 2013

Re: Budgeting Software

2013-12-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The best thing I've found is the Personal Budget template in the new Numbers. It works really well, is very accessible on both Mac and iPad and of course syncs seamlessly between devices with iCloud. Another app for the iPhone is TrackMySpend (though I can't remember if it's one word or