Re: Text edit problem

2014-06-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do this by default, but you can press command-n in the dialog to bring up a blank document. HtH, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:52 PM, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: I'm

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Oh cool! So how do you know this? Do you have these voices on your computer or something? Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 21/06/2014 03:12, Blake Sinnett wrote: Hello, The Nuance Vocalizer Expressive voices for Siri are Nicky and Aaron for

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Well yes could do that. But the 4s take a microsim whereas the 5s take a nanosim. So how exactly would this work? Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 20/06/2014 21:28, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: I never upgrade my phone, I just buy the phone out

Re: Access: DropBox VoiceOver (VO)

2014-06-21 Thread Edward Green
Hi Jerry, Have you successfully managed to change Dropbox preferences on the Mac? I haven't been able to do this as I seem to get a blank Window whenever I open the client, though I am able to upload files using the Dropbox folder. If you have managed this, please could you let me know what

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread David Griffith
Yousimply ask your phone provider for a replacement sim. This is what I did when I transferred my Virgin sim from a Nokia to my iPhone. On 21/06/2014 08:41, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: Well yes could do that. But the 4s take a microsim whereas the 5s take a nanosim. So how exactly would

Re: Text edit problem

2014-06-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello all, If you don't want to sink documents with an iCloud account, you can go into System Preferences/Internet accounts and uncheck Documents Data in the iCloud services table. after that, TextEdit should open to a new document automatically as it does for me. I only use iCloud for Find

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I do like Daniel on any given platform, in fact i love the Realspeak or whatever they are called voices simply because it's the only company that provides Swedish voices for IOS if you don't want to go the Acapela route which i don't want to since it's so full of mispronounciations and other

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Sounds good might look into this we see. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 21/06/2014 09:16, David Griffith wrote: Yousimply ask your phone provider for a replacement sim. This is what I did when I transferred my Virgin sim from a Nokia to my

Re: Square payment system

2014-06-21 Thread Doug Lawlor
With this system, does the purchaser enter the card information or does the seller do it?? I think I will contact Square to find out more information about it. Thanks all, Doug Sent from my iPhone On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Rebecca Blaevoet amrywoddyddiauheu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
I'm sorry but that should have gone off list wasn't thinking. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 21/06/2014 11:40, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: Sounds good might look into this we see. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for

more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread alia robinson
I like to research thoroughly before any purchase. I have asked about certain displays etc, and think I am decided on a braille edge. My question is general for those who have opinions pro or con. braille displays are expensive, and have a lot of moving parts. I worry about reliability. Is it

Re: OT can anyone lend any credence to this?

2014-06-21 Thread Jessica D
I became so frustrated that I deleted the app. If I knew how to get rid of my account, I'd do that too. It's becoming inaccessible, and by the looks of things, they do not want to change that. they used to be really accessible. Sent from my iPad On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:57 PM, Rebecca Blaevoet

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
I much prefer Braille for reading over audio. And now, hearing loss has made Braille even more important for me. I wish displays didn't have so many moving parts, but since they do, and Braille is very important to me, the hassle is worth it. Using Braille with OS X and iOS is different from

Re: The new iMovie V10.x

2014-06-21 Thread Phil Halton
I also use V9 instead of V10, which I couldn't really make work for me. I could record a video clip with the FaceTime camera, but I couldn't figure out the how and where of inserting it into a project the way I could in V9. I'm wondering if V9 will still be available in the upcoming yosemite OS

Re: The new iMovie V10.x

2014-06-21 Thread Daniela Rubio
I do use iMovie X and I like it very much for several reasons, but it is true that it is not very friendly in others. Now, I have a lot of troubles pasting sound effects and changing clips duration. iMovie 9 is good for that! Well, hope they work a little further with the accessibility of this

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread alia robinson
I do too, although I am liking audio more lately with the bard app. I just don't know about having an expensive specialized piece of equipment. I am so torn, and I know voiceover isn't supporting braille as much as they do the audio part of voiceover. Alia On Jun 21, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Teresa

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
I read lots of books with my Braille display using Kindle, iBooks, and Bard. I only read audio books when I can't get them in Braille or I don't want to pay. (or can't pay). I'm such a Braille fanatic that I use my Focus 40 Blue with my iPod. I was never sure I wanted to scroll a whole bunch

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread alia robinson
I am still waiting/hoping voiceover will enable auto-scroll. the one I'm looking at has storage capabilities though. I don't travel much, so carrying around something isn't an issue for me. thanks for all the discussion. Alia On Jun 21, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Alia, My frame of reference on this is that while I have read braille for well over 50 years, when speech came along, I used that without braille for quite some time. I view braille as a supplement to speech. I also believe that reading braille on paper is not the same as reading on a

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I can not do without a braille display. For one thing, I can't remember telephone numbers so having information at my fingertips as it were really helps. I am a Braille transcriber and use Braille displays on a daily basis for work and for home. Whilst Braille is not great on the Mac, It's

Daisy player for mac.

2014-06-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I am looking for a good daisy player for my mac. I know there's read hear pro but its rather old and i am not sure if it will continue updating or working on the upcomming osx josemite. /A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

transferring files to my bookSens DM from the Mac

2014-06-21 Thread Jenine Stanley
I am trying to transfer files from the Mac to my booksens DM flash drive and for some reason the BookSens is not recognized when I plug it in via USB to either the mac or the PC. Not sure why but it doesn't show up in the devices list. In fact the devices list doesn't show up at all because

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Anne Robertson
I use a Braille display with my Mac when I'm doing a translation as it saves a lot of time I would otherwise spend checking spellings of names and verifying punctuation and text attributes. I've also just got a Focus 14 Blue 8 days ago and I'm now enjoying reading books with it on my iPhone. I

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi Anne, just my curiosity: which kind of editor are you using while translating and, do you maybe use also some accessible dictionaries, what? Thanks a lot. If you feel your answer could goes off topic, you may sent it privately of course. Gabriel. Il giorno 21/giu/2014, alle ore 21:05, Anne

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Les Kriegler
High-end, I forgot to mention that I enjoy using braille when running GPS apps on my iPhone. It's really nice to have access to a braille display during those times. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: I use a Braille display with my

Re: How to can't be downloaded songs from the Rhapsody app lying your iPhone 5s

2014-06-21 Thread Chris Moore
Hello Chenelle, You can download songs from the rhapsody app onto your iPhone. But you can only listen to them using the rhapsody app. The advantage to downloading is that you don't need a network connection to listen to the songs you've downloaded. Remember that the rhapsody songs are not

Pages and bookmarks. Was: Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Ok Anne, thanks. If you are working on a large document that requires more than one work section to be translated, how did you solved the bookmark problem? Can you use bookmarks on pages? Thanks. Gabriel. Il giorno 21/giu/2014, alle ore 22:43, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk ha scritto:

managing music library with iTunes Match on

2014-06-21 Thread Phil Halton
I just turned on iTunes match and everything went okay, putting my library in the cloud and making it available on all my comps and devices. Now, I'd like to clean out some albums and add some others. How do I 1) remove an artist or album from the library? do I just delete him/her from within

Re: managing music library with iTunes Match on

2014-06-21 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
Good Day: With iTunes Match enabled, you remove an artist or album as normally through iTunes, except that there is an additional checkbox, Also delete these songs from iCloud, which you would check in order to remove the content from iTunes Match. As for adding, you need do nothing

Re: recommendations for headset with i-Phone 5

2014-06-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Another good headset is the marshall major which i also use to listen to a lot of music with. Urban ears has some good headsets too. /A 20 jun 2014 kl. 19:44 skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com: The Bose Quiet Comfort In Ear is very comfortable in ear, not in the ear canal, but

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I totally agree with you. Infact i have the acapella voices installed but never use them becaus they're so bad pronouncing that its not ok for such tts. /A 21 jun 2014 kl. 11:07 skrev Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com: I do like Daniel on any given platform, in fact i love the

Re: more questions about braille displays

2014-06-21 Thread Juliette
I never had a refreshable braille display until I was well into college. Now, I don't know what I ever did without it. I am on my best experience with a braille display currently, a 32-cell Brailliant BI display from HumanWare. It has by far been the easiest display to use, and has the

backing up with iTunes and iCloud together

2014-06-21 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, was wondering is it possible to backup with iTunes as well as iCloud together? So that I have two backup methods in case anything went wrong with the other. If so, how would you do this and insure that both methods are up to date e.g. in sync with each other. Thanks in advance for

Re: The new iMovie V10.x

2014-06-21 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Daniela, I hope so too. I need to make short movies fairly regularly for a video exchange musical instruction course and right now, V9 is my go to movie making app. I'll be watching for updates to iMovie. On Jun 21, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Daniela Rubio mabuha...@gmail.com wrote: I do

backing up a iPhone without iTunes?

2014-06-21 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. Hi list. Am writing this message for a friend. I don't know the answers as I have iTunes and I am using a mac, he is using windows xp and currently doesn't have iTunes installed. ok. 1. We have enabled everything we can find on iCloud, is it possible to back up apps this way without