Re: Brailliant-32 not recovering from sleep mode under Mac OS?

2014-02-18 Thread Piotr Machacz
I use a Brailliant BI 40 here (not sure if you have the new generation or not, but I guess it's close enough). It will recover just fine as long as you power the display on first. So if you put your mac to sleep and then turn the display off, turn it on first, then wake your mac and it should

Re: Mail Programs

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Angus, I had purchased MailMate a few months ago. Many of the features of this interesting application are accessible but some - maybe important to some, certainly to me - are still inaccessible to voiceover. Let me say a few things about my experience with MailMate. I have a few iMAP

Re: Closing the preview pane automatically in Mail.

2014-02-18 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Ok, I'm going to sound like a total dweeb, but what do we do with this script? This will be great if it works! Thanks! Cait On Feb 17, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: The attached AppleScript closes all Message viewers and then opens one up without the preview

Re: is there any podcast to use the garage band?

2014-02-18 Thread Mike
What version of GarageBand are you using? Mike Malarsie www.malarsie.com On Feb 17, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com wrote: can somebody help me use the garage abdn, i would like to record my instrument at the same time my voice. or maybe contact me on my

Re: Two problems with OSX Server (10.9.1)

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Frank, I think it was a little too late to be responding to eMails last night as I gave you too much info and somewhat off track. The main thing to note is that when you are logging into the Server, you must use a username that resides on that server. Your local username on your second

Re: attachments disappearing in Mail under Mavericks?

2014-02-18 Thread Jessica D
reinstall mountain lion then. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2014, at 10:59 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, I didn't see any such message. And I never had this problem before the upgrade to mavericks. Cheers, Donna On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn

brailliant won't turn off

2014-02-18 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi, I was reading a pdf file on my mac with the brilliant. Now, I can't get the display to turn off. Any suggestions, other then just letting it run out of battery life? thanks Cait -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Mac Gourmet Update

2014-02-18 Thread Jim Gatteys
I just noticed that there is an update to Mac Gourmet Deluxe on their web site for anybody who uses it. I believe it is 4.0.6. JG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Locking a Mac

2014-02-18 Thread Terje Strømberg
iMac is immediately put to sleep when hit the power up button for a half second. Take care 18. feb. 2014 kl. 08:23 skrev Frank Ventura frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com: Tim, thanks, that is exactally what I needed to know. Frank From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: brailliant won't turn off

2014-02-18 Thread Myrna Votta
I assume that you are holding in the button on the side for awhile? If that doesn't work, then, probably your idea of just letting the battery run down is about the only thing to do. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

Re: brailliant won't turn off

2014-02-18 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
thanks. I feel like a total idiot. I guess I wasn't pressing hard enough. Finally got it to work, though! Cait On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Myrna Votta myrnavo...@gmail.com wrote: I assume that you are holding in the button on the side for awhile? If that doesn't work, then, probably your

RE: brailliant won't turn off

2014-02-18 Thread Myrna Votta
Hey! Don't feel like an idiot because sometimes you really need to hold that button in for a very long time. Glad it is working. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn and Maggie Sent: Tuesday, February

Re: Mac Gourmet Update

2014-02-18 Thread Jessica D
is the update free or does it cost? can i get it through checking for an update from within the program? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Jim Gatteys jgatt...@gmail.com wrote: I just noticed that there is an update to Mac Gourmet Deluxe on their web site for anybody who

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Blouch
One bit of caution is to not starve RAM on the Mac side. Mavericks doing nothing seems to take up about 1GB RAM. So if you are on a 4GB RAM machine and give 2GB to your virtual machine, and VMWare taks abouther 3-400MB of overhead, that leaves just 1.5GB RAM or so for the mac side. Open Safari

Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
So gmail worked in mac mail for a day, and now mac mail is absolutely unusable again as every single time I hit VO and the arrow key I get a busy message and then again and again. I am using mac mail on my laptop to send this, and sure enough gmail isn't working with mac mail here either but

Re: help with audio mini setup

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. I checked a newer mini and the only input was Line In from the audio line-in port and my output shows headphone as I have it connected via that to the speakers. No built-in microphone. CB On 2/18/14 12:05 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: can somebody check there audio mini setup,

Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
So I have one computer where I can't use mammall because of nonstop busy issues, and the other computer has not received one piece of new mail in my gmail account since Friday. So for those of you sick of my bitching about Apple and Gmail, try not being able to work every day because of a new

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread May and Noah
Maybe some are tired of hearing it cause there's nothing we can do about it. I can say gmail is an issue period both on windows and on the mac and on their website. Sometimes I see mail, sometimes I don't. It's probably frustrating to a lot of people, but bitching sadly here won't get it

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Shannon Gerdts
Hello, Thank you guys for the responses! Our laptop we purchased has 8gb of ram so I was thinking of giving 4gb instead of 2 to the windows system for better response times. Take care, Shannon Gerdts -Original Message- From: Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:03 PM

Re: Mail setting

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Tim. Will take a look at this tonight, dealing with mail issues again on a day when I have a lot of work to get done and am up against it. Thanks again. On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:10 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I did a bit of searching on the Net regarding your Logitech

Re: help with audio mini setup

2014-02-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
I have a late 2009 Mini and it doesn’t have a built-in microphone. I use a USB headset instead. Once this is connected, you can choose it from among the devices. HtH, Teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Feb 18, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Chris

Re: Mac Gourmet Update

2014-02-18 Thread Jim Gatteys
you can check from within the program to see if its a free upgrade for you On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: is the update free or does it cost? can i get it through checking for an update from within the program? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2014, at

Re: Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread Pamela Francis
Hi, Why not back up your computer, delete your Gmail account completely. Reinstall it, and try again. It seems to me you're the only one having these issues. I don't care for the way Gmail operates completely, however I can get around it and use it both on my iPhone and my Mac. Pam Francis On

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey May, Actually I have been spending the past weekend moving everything from gmail, but I have 9 years of stuff to go through, so accomplishing this in 3 days is not possible, and then sure enough issues hit. On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:26 PM, May and Noah mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Maybe

Re: braille on the mac

2014-02-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Eric. I think it is: www.brailleblaster.org. I am not sure, but I couldn't open the page you sent. Do you know when the newest brailleblaster has been released. Best regards Annie. Den 18 Feb 2014 kl. 02:11 skrev erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com: Hi, On the subject of braille for

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Memory-wise, that should be fine. Next would be disk performance. Since you're on a laptop it's going to be laggy. For example, my MacBook Pro comes with the Apple Hitachi 750GB drive which is 7200 RPM, which isn't too bad but some machines save power with slower 4800 or 5200 rpm drives. CB

Re: Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread eric oyen
I am still getting all mails from here. THen again, I can't upgrade to mavericks (machine too old). If apple is starting to get lax in their accessibility, then a causes petition or a email/fax campaign is in order. Talking to the developers is all find and good, but they don't make the

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread eric oyen
what email service are you using?? I use gmail here with apple mail.app. I still have to check the spam box about every 2 or 3 days because some of the list mail invariably ends up in there (filter issues?). I have been a long time user of gmail, but their site is getting increasingly

Re: braille on the mac

2014-02-18 Thread Jessica
has anyone heard of or used the following application for writing in Braille? I might purchase it if I cannot find a free program that is safe for the mac. it's called heading level 1 Braille Writer Student It costs $5.99 and is available in the mac appStore. If anyone has used it, what can you

Re: spl with fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi may, I think connecting it to the VM via the VM menu should be enough. Yes, that's correct, it won't work at all on the Mac side. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 14/02/2014, at 9:18 am, May and Noah mcdonald@gmail.com

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi all. I know that for some switching from gmail is not an option, but I am slowly switching over to iCloud as I do not like the way gmail works. If I delete something then it should be deleted from the server not archived some ware and then having the server filled with mail the is old

Re: spl with fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Deb, I went down this exact path when I got my first Mac, because i also use a broadcast console. My Edirol UA1-EX, which I've had for years and is a broadcast quality sound interface with no frills, would not work under a VM. At first I thought they were just saying that because they didn't

Re: Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Brian and All, I don't believe that accessibility is a factor here in this case, especially since many of the Gmail issues in Mavericks are across the board for VO and non-VO users. So some sort of campaign would be unnecessary and misguided in my opinion. I have an idea though for you

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Phil, Thanks for the suggestion. I must be stupid but there's no playlists button once I select music. I see songs, albums, artists, composers, genres and match. There's a my lists button but that's not the one either. Any further suggestions? I know it's there somewhere because people talk

Removing Extra Apple Files From SD Cards Used In Windows Devices

2014-02-18 Thread Desi Noller
Hi Everyone, I am accumulating quite a few of those extra files that Apple puts on SD cards. When I put the SD card into my Braille Edge, I can see these extra files, but when the SD card is in my iMac, these files are not visible to me. I know that each time I put my card into my Mac, the

deleting an account

2014-02-18 Thread Jenine Stanley
how long does it usually take to delete an account from the MBP if using the default option of saving an image of the user account? I'm deleting two accounts and it's taking what seems like a very long time, over 10 minutes now. I'll just let it sit there and do its thing but ... Spoiled by

Re: deleting an account

2014-02-18 Thread eric oyen
it depends. do you have secure delete turned on? if so, it may take rather a long time if there is a lot of data to remove. -eric On Feb 18, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: how long does it usually take to delete an account from the MBP if using the default option of saving an image

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Phil Halton
I don't know what to tell you. I'm using the latest iTunes, and I don't have it set to look like the old iTunes showing the sources table. instead, , I have the popup button set to music. then, when I right arrow, I come to a series of radio buttons labeled radio, songs, artists, albums,

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-02-18 Thread Shannon Gerdts
Hello Chris, Our disc drive is a solid state since it's the new retina versions of macbooks which only come in the ssd option. They only saved one of the older versions of macbook pros in the 13 inch version which has the old style hd's. For whatever reason though even switching it to use

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Phil, I did have iTunes set to look like the old iTunes, so I changed it to have the pop up buttons. Still no luck though, but thanks for trying to help. I see the playlists button and the table of playlists, but there's nothing there which says recently added. It must be a pref I have set

Re: deleting an account

2014-02-18 Thread Jenine Stanley
I don't think I have this on and there's really no data for either of the accounts. They are just for purposes of learning this machine, hence their removal. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:57 PM, eric oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: it depends. do you have

Recently Added playlist sorted

2014-02-18 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Thanks phil for your help. Looks like I'd deleted the smart playlist but a bit of googling told me I how to recreate it. I thought it was an accessibility thing but often these things are just normal user errors. All sorted now. Thanks for your patience. Lisette -- You received this message

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Eric, I am using gmail with mac mail running Mavericks. It took a few hours but is now finally running ok on my mac air. Amazingly 6 hours later and on my desktop still nothing but constant busy busy issues every time you move from one message to the next. Not sure what to do, as I have a

Re: Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, Thanks so much as you are the voice of reason. I think this latest suggestion is exactly what I have to do as I can do it on my laptop where mail is working and then disable gmail on the desktop and go through everything. Thanks for the suggestion. On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Tim

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Phil Halton
look for it in the source table back in the ol iTunes view. its there a few entries down under playlists. On Feb 18, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Phil, I did have iTunes set to look like the old iTunes, so I changed it to have the pop up buttons.

Re: deleting an account

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It all depends on the size of the accounts and the number of files, along with the speed of your HD and the amount of RAM in your machine. It's sort of a combination of all those factors. Creating an image often includes compressing files, so, the amount of time you mentioned is not out

Re: Removing Extra Apple Files From SD Cards Used In Windows Devices

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In Terminal, you can tell your Mac to show hidden files but, in my opinion, it's unnecessary. Those files that you are speaking of are so small that it would take thousands of them to use up any amount of space that matters. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 18, 2014,

Re: Removing Extra Apple Files From SD Cards Used In Windows Devices

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is discussed in several places on the web. The below seems fairly comprehensive: http://superuser.com/questions/105243/prevent-macos-from-making-and-files -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and Apple not claiming to fix a problem in the future when it obviously hasn't been fixed would be nice.

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Did you by any chance hide the All Mail or Archive folder (I have seen it named both ways. from IMAP on the Google settings page? In earlier versions of MacOS I and several other folks recommended a Tidbits article that suggested better performance with GMail when it did not allow this folder

Re: Closing the preview pane automatically in Mail.

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sorry to take 12 hours to reply. You can paste it into AppleScript Editor and then save and run the script. Please let me know at jon.c.c...@gmail.com if you have success. Best wishes, Jonathan On Feb 18, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'm

Re: Mail setting

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Did you try my AppleScript? I want to make sure it works for others. Pasted below for quicker reference. use AppleMail : application id com.apple.mail activate AppleMail repeat with vw in message viewers close vw's window end repeat set mywin to make new message viewer without

Re: Wow Gmail issue is even worse than I thought

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Could be that it is still building an index for those million e-mails. I suggest leaving it alone for a few hours with the screen locked. Best wishes, Jonathan On Feb 18, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Eric, I am using gmail with mac mail running

Is it me or is iCloud one of the worst designed sites to use with VoiceOver

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Ok, so I am making the jump from gmail to iCloud. I was told I would need to use the iCloud website to create my rules if I wanted the messages to follow those rules across devices. First I had to reload the iCloud website three times as VoiceOver wouldn't even allow me to enter my