Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Folks, I remember a way to highlight a column at once by moving the cursor to the column head by pressing VO + Shift + Apostrophy (on german keyboards) and choosing columns from the upcomming menue. So far so good. But I can't remember what to press next to highlight the complete column at

Re: Managing Gmail

2014-07-05 Thread Terje Strømberg
That is normal. Let it be. Some day you can't find an important email. Where to look? The Mailbox called all email. Others may tell you how to disable this mailbox. Take care 5. juli 2014 kl. 04:23 skrev Desi Noller desi.nol...@gmail.com: Hi Everyone and Happy Fourth! I have a gmail account

Re: Service to stream only songs I want?

2014-07-05 Thread Terje Strømberg
Have any of you tried the Beats streaming music service? Don't have it in Norway. Not accessible? Curious since Apple bought the company. Looking forward to test the product some time. Take care 5. juli 2014 kl. 01:45 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: I just made a free account to try it

Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Christine Grassman
I am receiving an update notification regarding adobe Flash player, but nothing I do is starting the update. I have tried interacting and hitting vo shift space or enter on download; I have tried interacting with where it says image browser, but I am consistently getting an error noise. I

Re: Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Daniel McGee
I wouldn't worry about it. In any case, I would advise you to download the latest flash player from adobe's main site. Just in case, this update that you try to install puts something bad on your system. I'm not trying to frighten you here but I'd advise you to always get something from the

Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Dawn Benbow
Hi everyone, I've been a lurker on this list for a while now. I've become interested in learning how to program, specifically to build apps for iOS, to start with at least. But, I'm wondering where is a good place to start learning, and where are there good educational resources for

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Free is indeed best. :) I recommend simply googling learn objective-c to start with, and reading the tutorials you find. Some will make more sense than others, but which ones depend on your background, learning style, and so forth. For using Xcode, www.applevis.com has a few guides and forums

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Dawn Benbow
Thanks so much! :) This is the sort of help I was looking for! Thanks for the list recommendation as well as I was looking for one. Dawn Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Free is indeed best. :) I recommend simply googling learn

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi Dawn, One of the best resources is sitting on your Mac in iTunes. iTunes U has several Mac programming courses that will help you conceptually understand what's happening under the hood of your iDevice. some courses come with material to follow along with, but you can also supplement this

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Dawn Benbow
Thanks Kevin! :) Dawn Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Kevin Shaw tvsound...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dawn, One of the best resources is sitting on your Mac in iTunes. iTunes U has several Mac programming courses that will help you conceptually understand what's happening

Re: Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
I am not sure. What I do need to know however, is how to print numbers document on my computer. Yesterday when I tried this, it tried to make me select parts of the document. I wanted to print the entire thing. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:47 AM, Jürgen Fleger

Re: Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Phil Halton
I think the website you want is www.get.Adobe.com Sent from my IPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote: I wouldn't worry about it. In any case, I would advise you to download the latest flash player from adobe's main site. Just in case, this

Re: Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Phil Halton
I think it asks that because spreadsheets, unlike other documents, require a lot of formatting. They can be very large and you don't want to send a huge spreadsheet to your printer. So, it makes you go through some selection process of what you want to print. That's my best guess. At least

Re: Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Phil Halton
Clicking the column header you know, a, B, etc. That will select of the column. Another way to do it is simply to hold the shift key and press command down arrow while you're at the top of the column. That should select the entire column. Sent from my IPhone On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:47 AM,

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica Moss
We've all been looking for those for ages, but not sure if there are that many yet. To my knowledge, unless someone knows something I don't and wants to add to this, I think the only ones that seems to be available, are the ones you mentioned and rsgames. On Jul 4, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Brandon

Re: Service to stream only songs I want?

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica Moss
What's that? I've never heard of it, sounds interesting though. On Jul 5, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote: Have any of you tried the Beats streaming music service? Don't have it in Norway. Not accessible? Curious since Apple bought the company. Looking

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Dawn. The best language to start learning at this point is swift. Objective C is probably going to be fazed out within the next few years. A good place to start is https://developer.apple.com/swift/. Also, all of the sessions from WWDC 2014 are available to the public on

Re: garage band keyboard shortcuts: expanding loops and note editing

2014-07-05 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
hello i don't know about note editing. expanding the loop is you have to go to the tacks contents then interact with it interact again with the loop you selected then interact again with the name called loop. then you have to press right arrow that's it. On 04 Jul 2014, at 06:43 pm,

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
I heard about a new racing game for Mac and PC. It costs and is not available in the Mac AppStore. You must buy it online. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: We've all been looking for those for ages, but not sure if there are that

Re: Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
HI, Flash installers react better when you just use the tab and space keys, no VO keys. So, use the tab key to move between elements and use the spacebar to activate the button. VO should announce which element has focus as it lands on it. This dialog is safe, as you've likely set Flash in

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
While I certainly agree that Swift is the future, just remember that you can't do much with it until Yosemite is released with Xcode 6. To my knowledge, and I hope I'm wrong, there is no way to do anything with Swift right now unless you are also testing the Xcode 6 beta, which itself requires

Re: Urgent - activing popup buttons in safari

2014-07-05 Thread Mark Baxter
If this hasn't already been suggested, often you can just hit the two letter abbreviation for the state (FL, for Florida, for example) and then VO Space to collapse the pop-up menu, and when you cursor back over it, the state will be selected. Hope that's not redundant. * Mark BurningHawk

Re: Urgent - activing popup buttons in safari

2014-07-05 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey mark, I tried that, and no luck. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Introduction to the Macintosh Operating system and voiceover course available now. Spots are limited, sign up here

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
Do you have a link for it? On Jul 5, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I heard about a new racing game for Mac and PC. It costs and is not available in the Mac AppStore. You must buy it online. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Jessica Moss

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
No, I am sure a google search will find it. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Brandon A. Olivares programmer2...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have a link for it? On Jul 5, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I heard about a new racing game for Mac and PC.

Re: Urgent - activing popup buttons in safari

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Some pop-ups are coded oddly and don't respond to regular VO actions. Try just your arrow key then return. Later... Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hey mark, I tried that, and no luck. Matt Dierckens Macintosh

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Devin Prater
There is zoom for mac, which allows for the playing of zCode games and other types of text-based games. There is also Mudder, a game for playing alter-aeon and other such online text-based games. Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Devin Prater
Why just objective c? Why not start out with Swift? Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Free is indeed best. :) I recommend simply googling learn objective-c to start with, and reading the tutorials you find. Some will make more sense

iTunes U

2014-07-05 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all What a fantastic way to do some online studying, I am going to check out iTunes U for my future studies. I am currently taking some at The Hadley School For The Blind but am always looking for ideas. So thank you for the iTunes U idea very much appreciated. -- Christopher Hallsworth

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Again, no one can even use Swift right now; you'll need Xcode 6, or at least a beta of it. Plus, even as Swift takes over, plenty of the tutorials you find will continue to be in Objective-C. Finally, most Cocoa and Cocoa Touch headers will be in Objective-C for quite a while, I imagine, so if

Re: iTunes U

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
I wish they could integrate the 2 of them. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all What a fantastic way to do some online studying, I am going to check out iTunes U for my future studies. I am currently taking some at

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Mark Baxter
My favorite action game for the Mac is Audio Quake. I do not know if it is still in development, but the final version was pretty awesome. It may take some work to set it up, and I don't have the active links to send you to, but Cara Quinn, one of our list moderators, can give you more

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Devin Prater
Oh wow, I didn't know it could even work on the mac. Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: My favorite action game for the Mac is Audio Quake. I do not know if it is still in development, but the final version was pretty awesome.

calendar questions

2014-07-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I had a couple questions: I'm adding a ton of events to one calendar and trying to make this quick. 1) Can I set the default calendar to add events to for a while? 2) Even though I choose the day, for whatever reason every time I add a new event I have to choose the exact day again.

Re: Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
It doesn't work that way as far as I can tell. VoiceOver doesn't anounce anything about highlighting or so, unfortunately. Any other ideas? Thanks Jürgen Am 05.07.2014 um 15:30 schrieb Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com: Clicking the column header you know, a, B, etc. That will select of the

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Devin Prater
I just went to the audio-quake site, and the mac universal app isn't even available now. Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Oh wow, I didn't know it could even work on the mac. Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at

Re: calendar questions

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
My first thought is a Workflow; add the New Calendar item to it, configure it, then just envelope the workflow to add your event. Alternatively, as I know you do some programming, you might want to investigate making an AppleScript for the job, to do everything at once. On Jul 5, 2014, at 3:46

Re: calendar questions

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
How do you make apple scripts? Is it easy? Sent from my iPad On Jul 5, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: My first thought is a Workflow; add the New Calendar item to it, configure it, then just envelope the workflow to add your event. Alternatively, as I know you do

AppleScript (was calendar questions)

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
It's pretty easy, yes. I learned everything from simply googling, starting with basics of AppleScript and moving on from there. It helps to have a goal in mind, such as making some reminders, or pulling data from certain emails, or mass-renaming things in Finder, that kind of thing. In other

Re: AppleScript (was calendar questions)

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
Could I make one to dconvert files to certain formats if necessary? Sent from my iPad On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: It's pretty easy, yes. I learned everything from simply googling, starting with basics of AppleScript and moving on from there. It helps to

messages being delayed?

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I've noticed that, sometimes, my messages get delayed. Sometimes it's only a few minutes, which is fine, but every so often I'll see a reply I sent appear a day or three after it should have. For instance, I replied with a message about Team Viewer when people were asking about an

Re: AppleScript (was calendar questions)

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, though a workflow might be better for that. Check out the Automator app built into every Mac to create workflows. If you get stuck using it, let us know; it is easy to use, but only once you know some tricks that are not apparent going in. On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Jessica D

Re: calendar questions

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
In the general settings there is a default calendar pull down. You can set the date by something like Status Meeting on July 19 @ 1300 I have not tried putting timezones at the end but that might work. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 5, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com

Re: AppleScript (was calendar questions)

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are certainly graphic conversion commands in Apple Script. You can also use the save as directive and I believe in most applications there is a type argument that can be specified. I can look a bit further if you let me know source and destination and if I have a program that can handle

Re: Games

2014-07-05 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. I'd be interested in this if anybody can track it down... Cameron. On 7/5/14, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: I just went to the audio-quake site, and the mac universal app isn't even available now. Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Devin Prater

Re: calendar questions

2014-07-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
hello: I seem to have gotten it set up. there is a default calendar which made my life easier (thanks for that tip). The only hurtle now is that for whatever reason when I choose a date, it still tries to add for today. so I have my day view set to jul 18 and the default day on the calendar

Re: Managing Gmail

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I would recommend against disabling this mail box at this time. Apple only retrieves messages from the All mail box when using GMAIL and then associates them with a more specific label/folder. There is an option in the GMAIL settings to limit the number of messages to allow in any folder and

accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. Can anybody out there recommend vo friendly or otherwise accessible flight simulators or racing games etc for OSX or iOS? Thanks, Cameron. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: NFB store

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I had no real errors when looking at the site. I wonder if somebody is placing a proxy in your connection. I did find the site to use very old web technology and it has absolutely no headers. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 5, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com

Re: NFB store

2014-07-05 Thread Jessica D
Would it be accessible to us then? I do not understand what headers are. But I would like to learn if somebody knows how to explain. Is it the same as a webpage heading? Sent from my iPad On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net wrote: I had no real errors when looking

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Tandom is an implementation of the VNC protocol. I expect as long as sound is transferred too, that you might be able to use VNC clients and servers on the Macintosh to accomplish this. Also, Apple provides Back to my Mac services that allow at least sighted individuals to control a computer

Re: NFB store

2014-07-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The site is usable, but instead of using CSS for layout they use tables. Depending on some settings in VoiceOver you might need to do a bit more interacting then you would with JAWS. VoiceOver tends to not hide as many layout tables as the windows screen readers do. You can still get a list of

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Tristan
Hi, I subscribed to MV-Dev about a month ago, and my request was either not seen or not approved. Just tried again; is there some sort of criteria that I must meet? On 7/5/14, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Again, no one can even use Swift right now; you'll need Xcode 6, or at least a beta

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
There's not, if you have Cara's address you might want to shoot her an email off list or nudge her here, as she's the admin. On 7/5/2014 5:23 PM, Tristan wrote: Hi, I subscribed to MV-Dev about a month ago, and my request was either not seen or not approved. Just tried again; is there some

Re: Highlighting a column in Numbers

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Press VO-shift-back slash, then arrow down once. VO will announce Column, press return. When in the Column Headers, VO-space on the column you wish selected in its entirety. Back out of the headers with VO-shift-back-slash and Stop Interacting with the Table. If you bring focus back to

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi, there is flight gear, it works 100% for mac but the learning curve is massive, cause of its realism. If you are serious about trying it out i will happily send some files and a manual in how too install it , but as i said , it is not like all these blind games for windows, it is a true

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Wait though, is this for VoiceOver? Or does it use some other means of representing the world that is somehow accessible? I just can't imagine such a complex, realistic app being made for VO users, but of course I'd be happy to find out it is. :) On Jul 5, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse

Re: Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Christine Grassman
I got it to the point where it asked if I wanted to open, and I did, but I keep receiving a message that it can't be opened. I went into my applications and downloads folders and deleted the .dmg files, thinking I would redownload, but my finder and desktop are still saying install adobe flash

Making movies without iMovie?

2014-07-05 Thread Phil Halton
Does anyone have experience with a movie making app other than iMovie? I still have and use the older V9 of iMovie, but the new V10 just sucks (oops! can I say that about Apple;-). I'm wondering if there's a friendlier, more accessible app out there that will let me do some rudimentary movie

Re: messages being delayed?

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Alex, Yeah, I get the same thing. My first thought was just that this was part of the vetting process for new subscribers, because I've only recently rejoined here. I don't do this on my Google groups, and as far as I can see all other GG traffic goes to where it needs to be. But you

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Il giorno 06/lug/2014, alle ore 00:02, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com ha scritto: hi, there is flight gear, it works 100% for mac Hi Sandi. You said 100% for mac, but what is matter here is if it works 100% or somehow less, for VoiceOver. Is it so? Thanks. Gabriel. -- Namasté! Sent

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Apple has Apple Remote Desktop, for which the client and server parts are already in the operating system, but for which the user interface is exposed fully by the paid ARD application. BTMM (Back To My Mac) is a specific method for accessing services on a remote Mac with the help of Apple's

Re: Service to stream only songs I want?

2014-07-05 Thread Traci Duncan
Does lastFM do what you want? On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: What's that? I've never heard of it, sounds interesting though. On Jul 5, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote: Have any of you tried the Beats streaming

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi, no you don't exactly use it with voiceover, you use speak, the reason is that speak is faster if you fly a f16 at 800 knots you will want a speech that is … fast. really fast. It is not where you guys are yet trust me. Let me try too explain how it works even it is totally late so please

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I feel a little bit guilty for saying this, as I just *know* there's a clear conflict of interest going on here, but ... It's obvious that Swift is the language Apple want you to use, and I don't want to discourage you from that, because it's clearly designed for efficiency and enjoyment. But

Re: Managing Gmail

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Gmail IMAP is broken to the point that any rational human being would struggle to understand how its designers created it the way they did. Indeed, as you discovered, deletion operations take an extraordinarily long time, during which the messages are still available. Don't worry; eventually

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I have one point to make here: Learning objective c doesn't mean that one inherently knows C. C does not have ARC for example. Just as learning c++ does not really mean one knows C. Swift may be the language they want you to use eventually because it has a higher-level feel to it, but I

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

2014-07-05 Thread Justin Mann
Hi there, Where do you get the app? On Jul 5, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi, no you don't exactly use it with voiceover, you use speak, the reason is that speak is faster if you fly a f16 at 800 knots you will want a speech that is ... fast. really fast.

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Devin Prater
Is this book on swift for beginning programmers though? Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: I feel a little bit guilty for saying this, as I just *know* there's a clear conflict of interest going on here, but ... It's

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I should have been clearer when I said that by learning Objective C one would inherently know how to program in C, because I really meant to emphasise that it's C you should learn, but as it happens it's actually the case, because Objective-C is a proper superset of C, unlike C++. So while you

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Maurice Mines
and what does the task actually called for. Just my two cents worth hope this helps What you're talking about is not all that scary. You can certainly Princeton set up an account for somebody to do a specific thing and then of course delete that account profile demented they're done doing

Re: iCloud and online storage

2014-07-05 Thread Robert C
Alex and Tim, I am not too concerned about actual security but more about losing data. But if one also backs up locally, no worries. But another concern might be inability to retrieve or sync data should one lose Internet access. But thinking back to a recent loss of my cable connection, I

Re: iCloud and online storage

2014-07-05 Thread Robert C
Sabahattin, I hear you about Snowden buti how does anyone know just how secure anything is anymore? I like the idea of being able to sync date with iCloud but not so sure about keeping data online. Quote of the nanosecond . . . The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard.

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I beg to differ. Learning objective c -does not- mean that you know c. As I already said, objective c handles resource allocation and deletion for you via ARC. c also works differently in a lot of cases where objective c does not. Sure you don't have classes, but there are other differences as

Re: iCloud and online storage

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Hall
Losing data is only a real concern if you lose access to your account; big companies like Google, Dropbox, Apple, and so on have so many redundancies in place that data loss on their end is really not a concern over which I lose sleep. Again, though, losing access to your account is a different

Re: Downloading public previews

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If you've signed up as an Apple developer, go to developer.apple.com and sign in with your Apple ID. Visit your Member Centre page, and you should find links to your enrolled programs there. All that is required to begin receiving seed updates is a one-time change to your Software Update

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Justin Mann
Hi there, Yes, but it is not nearly as good. You can use iMessage, and setup a screenshare with the person's User ID, and you can hear the audio from the other computer's speakers. It's slow, but it will work. On Jul 4, 2014, at 6:11 AM, Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com wrote: For those that

Re: iCloud and online storage

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Robert, If you just want the sync part, there is BitTorrent Sync or SyncThing. These tools let you replicate changes across computers, in the fashion of Dropbox, but without a central server. However, dumb clients like iOS devices can't access the data unless one of your machines is

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Barry Hadder
Objective C is a super set of C. It is the objective component of C. If someone learns objc, it is a reasonable assumption that they have a lot of C experience. If they don't' then they are going to have to learn C. You never just right a program in OBJC. You always have C mixed in with

Re: Recommendations for learning to program on a Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
But again, those are simply features of Objective-C. If you simply don't use Objective-C features and therefore Objective-C syntax, your program is valid C source. So if you learn the entire grammar of Objective-C, you also know the entire grammar of C, no matter how incidental it is to your

Re: Frustrations with updating Adobe Flash player

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Is it saying that it can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer, or that it can't run the installer because you need to quit some running Flash app. If it's the former, when you go to open the Install Flash app, use VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu and choose

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Sabahattin, Regarding your comment about running OS X Server headlessly, I'm wondering what problems you're experiencing? I run multiple Mavericks servers headlessly without problems, at least as far as I can tell. Whether using the Server app from another computer, using the Server app

Re: messages being delayed?

2014-07-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yeah, I've had it happen to me as well. Made me feel like I was slow on the uptake. I had answered the question reasonably quick but by the time the message came back to me, numerous others had responded with the same thing. Not sure if it's a Google Groups thing either. When I used to