making iCloud email aliases?

2014-02-12 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm trying to create an alias so I can start switching all my mailing list subscriptions to my iCloud account. The problem is that the web interface for this just has a bunch of "text" items and an unlabeled button. I have no idea where to enter anything or what information the site need

Mail setup

2014-02-12 Thread Robert C
Hi all, Tonight or tomorrow I will attempt to setup my 3 mail accounts on the Mac (Mountain Lion). I do not want to have them check mail right away. Is this setting on by default, and if so, can it be changed during the setup? Probably simple but I am still learning how to work in ML so

Re: getting out of threads in Mail

2014-02-12 Thread Jessica D
Try command w Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: > >I changed Mail to Classic view but now have one question. When in a > conversation or thread of messages, how do you get out of it? I end up > deleting the entire thread before I can get back to the

getting out of threads in Mail

2014-02-12 Thread Jenine Stanley
I changed Mail to Classic view but now have one question. When in a conversation or thread of messages, how do you get out of it? I end up deleting the entire thread before I can get back to the main list of messages. I know I'm not doing something right here. I like the classic view but

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for this, I just checked there is not a check mark next to open iTunes upon launch, ,and I toggled it off and on just to make sure, not sure if there was prior to removing the other way, but this tip is definitely handy. Now if I could only figure out why all my folders in the dock keep r

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Yes, so I can get the same response of they are ware of the problem but can't tell me when there might be a fix. Pretty useless reporting problems when they still haven't fixed issues I reported in Mountain Lion. On Feb 12, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Jessica D wrote: > you can report those to the access

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Nope don’t have anything attached. I am thinking my experience with Mavericks has just been bloody awful all around. I would role back, but numbers was unusable for me in mountain lion and I have gotten used to using it again in Mavericks. Hoping a clean install will take care of some of my prob

Re: how to delete ann iTunes library

2014-02-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Scott, it works the other way round: create a new library by holding the option key down while you are starting iTunes. Now you can choose wether to create a new one or to choose from another source. I didn't get waht you ment by the second question. All the best Jürgen Am 11.02.2014 um 13

Re: boocamp and mavericks?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris H
I have created a guide over at www.applevis.com I should imagine however this will not work simply because there's no sound by default unless you install the Bootcamp drivers and tools. Regards Chris On 12/02/2014 19:58, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, I am hoping to try and install windows 7

boocamp and mavericks?

2014-02-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I am hoping to try and install windows 7 (with bryan smarts talking environment) during the weekend on my last gen macbook air with mavericks. I tried this before with a friend on mountain lion but then it did not work. I hope the upgrade to mavericks and the use of a dvd instead off

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread BBS
Hey Bryan. What you could also do is go to iTunes on your dock and press VO+Shift+M to bring up the contextual menus for that item. Under options, is there a check mark when under open at login? If there is, press return and it will uncheck it. As for Isaac saying that it's a bug in Mavericks, I

Re: Text to Audio File Conversion, with Multiple Voices?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Hadn't noticed any followup on this. Why would you need to append the audio file? Could you not, instead, combine the source text files? Because the say command is just a standard terminal app you can concat multiple input files together and piple all of them in a batch to the say command. If y

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Jessica D
you can report those to the accessibility. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Isaac Hebert wrote: > > It is probably a bug in mavericks. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> for some odd annoying reason iTunes

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread John Panarese
It should be, https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/ Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STO

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Isaac Hebert
It is probably a bug in mavericks. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey all, > > for some odd annoying reason iTunes opens every time I restart my computer or > awake my computer from sleep. I can't seem to find where to control what > programs op

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm, I used to have that in mine but I think I got rid of it at some point when I was trying to diagnose performance problems and it didn't seem to do anything useful. Just out of curiosity, you don't happen to have an idevice hooked up that would be triggering the iTunes launch? There is a che

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Isaac Hebert
I can't find that either. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey all, > > for some odd annoying reason iTunes opens every time I restart my computer or > awake my computer from sleep. I can't seem to find where to control what > programs open when y

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Chris, Thanks. No iTunes, but something called iTunes Helper was in there, no clue what that is, but if that is what was causing iTunes to launch it definitely wasn’t helping things. On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > You should be able to configure what launches in the Sys

Re: Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Blouch
You should be able to configure what launches in the System Preferences under Users and Groups and then the Login Items tab. CB On 2/12/14 1:01 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: Hey all, for some odd annoying reason iTunes opens every time I restart my computer or awake my computer from sleep. I can

Controlling What Programs Open at Start Up

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, for some odd annoying reason iTunes opens every time I restart my computer or awake my computer from sleep. I can't seem to find where to control what programs open when your computer starts up, and am thinking that is the problem as iTunes must be selected. If not than here's another

Re: OT: New Twitter and Bible.is for iPhone

2014-02-12 Thread Pamela Francis
Hi folks, With reference to a Bible, tried Touch Bible loaded. It is an excellent Bible app which senses whether or not Voiceover is being used, and will operate accordingly. I got it when I first got my iPhone. They also have a website which is www.TouchBible.com In order to get the version th

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread Donna Goodin
I have. And when I go to the website, the old Apple ID is nowhere to be found. Thanks for the suggestion though. Best, Donna Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:27 AM, John Panarese wrote: > > Did you try going to applied.apple.com > and see if you can delete the old ID there? > >

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi John: The link in your message below brings up "can't find the server". -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread John Panarese
Did you try going to applied.apple.com and see if you can delete the old ID there? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED

Re: 6 or 8 dot braille for brf files

2014-02-12 Thread David Chittenden
No, 8 dot braille means computer braille. 6 dot braille actually means grade I braille. This is still braille with conversions, just not grade II contractions. A .brf or .brl file is a file which uses ASCII computer symbols to represent grade II braille. Performing any literary braille conversio

Re: Exporting stuff as midi?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Blouch
From what I've found searching the web, it seems that Garage Band has no ability to export songs as MIDI. All the comments said the only real way is to open the GB file in Logic and then export as MIDI from there. CB On 2/12/14 12:10 AM, Sarah Sackville McLauchlan wrote: Hi all! Does anyone

Re: Reading Text By Paragraph

2014-02-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Barry, I'm glad you've sorted out your problem. Interestingly, Wrap to window matters if you want to use the arrow keys without the VO keys for navigation in TextEdit after the first page. It's a very strange bug that's tripped quite a few people up. Cheers, Anne On 12 Feb 2014, at 16

Re: Reading Text By Paragraph

2014-02-12 Thread Barry Hadder
Hello again anne. The problem was that I wasn't letting text rap naturally, but was putting hard line breaks. When I let things work on their own, it seems to work as expected. Wrapping to page or window doesn't seem to make a difference however. Thanks again for taking the time to respond tho

Re: Reading Text By Paragraph

2014-02-12 Thread Barry Hadder
Hey Anne, Thanks for the advice, but it still doesn't seem to work. They only seem to read by line. My understanding is that next and prior paragraph are suppose to jump to the next or prior text separated by blank lines. I have also tried indentations. All vo-p does is read the current line

Re: Moving an iTunes library

2014-02-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Actually, it's easy. YOu just go in to the ITunes preferences menu, go to advanced, and, from there, you can designate exactly where you want the new location of your library to be. HTH. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Const

Moving an iTunes library

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ring
I would like this to be a straight forward process, but I'm sure it probably isn't. I am using a 2 TB external hard drive which I have partitioned into 2 volumes. One volume I will use as a back up disk, the other I would like to use for music. How can I get iTunes to recognize a new location fo

Re: OT: New Twitter and Bible.is for iPhone

2014-02-12 Thread Jamie Pauls
I would recommend using either tweet list or Twitterrific as your Twitter client on the iPhone. Both were great. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Daniel C wrote: > > Just as I figured in regards to Twitter. Just wanted to be sure it wasn't me. > I hope they fix that. > > --

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Tim, I tried what you suggested, but when I go into prefes, for the Apple ID, it shows both this old ID, and my current iCloud email address. I don't seem to be able to delete the old email address. thanks, Donna On Feb 11, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > That usually happ

Re: Installing windows 7 home premium into vm fision from an iso

2014-02-12 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Funny, I"ve had success installing win 7 from an ISO into fusion 6.x. You have to use narrater for the speech after win 7 is installed if you want speech before you install some other screen reader, though. this has been where the problems happen for me. I get stuck at the windows log on scre

Re: Installing windows 7 home premium into vm fision from an iso

2014-02-12 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi. I have not messed too much with windows 7 and vmware. but i know that on the xp installation i use i install windows under fusion. when it boots i get narrator up and run, and starts nvda from a usb key. Works perfectly. If needed i ought to be able too help you through Skype if that would help