Re: help with updating flash player?

2014-08-16 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. thanks it's worked now. Didn't think of other apps that use html style interfaces. thanks again. regards Maria and crew from australia bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 16 Aug 2014, at 3:55 pm, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: Hi, You will also have to close anything

facetime on mavericks setup question

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Is facetime for Mavericks on the mac an app that we have to buy these days? It used to be free. Here's what happens on my machine. I am running the latest version of mavericks. I open facetime, and it gives me a button to turn facetime on, so I clicked that. Next, I was asked for

RE: facetime on mavericks setup question

2014-08-16 Thread Kliphton Senior
It might be contingent to your country. Might want to google it, or contact your iTunes support in your area. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where

Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Pamela Francis
Hello list, I have an issue with an installation or lack of with dropbox on my Mac. I'm signed up correctly on their website. It says I have not installed the application. However it shows up in my applications folder. When I try to open it, I get no screen of any kind. I thought about

RE: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Kliphton Senior
Try going through the extras menu, and see if it is in your status bar. This is the area where Wi-Fi, time machine, aclock, and notifications center is. To get there push voice over keys and M twice from finder. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Deb Lewis
Dropbox does not do anything when you open the app except start the app. If you are not signed in, you will have to do this from the context menu. As I recall the only way you can open that context menu is using the real mouse. When it's finally set up there will be a folder in your home

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Actually i do not like the support of braille that much. Its quite limited and sadly they seem to not understand this on the accessibility team. /A 15 aug 2014 kl. 15:07 skrev Jack and Becky ican...@jackzee.org: Greeting Folks! I am a brand spanking new Mac user. Just starting hfind my

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Without knowing any details, i suspect that this has to do in different ways of working with Braille. We europeans are used to a mor independent braille cursor, so to speak. We like to work with braille as a should we call it free entity for lack of a better word. The Americans however are

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Pamela Francis
Thanks Deb, At least I know I'm not crazy. The question I would have if I can't open the app or control its menus without a real mouse, how do I determine what I can and can't share or who can can't share files or folders with me? Pam Francis On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Deb Lewis

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Um.. Can you explain this more? I think you should be able to go anywhere a sighted preson can go on the screen, etc. I also think that navigating with the display, if it has an input keyboard, should be possible with as little interaction with the print keyboard as possible, so that you can

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread The Believer
This is exactly how I view the use of a braille display connected to OS X, iOS or Windows. Its fine to take one's hands off the braille keyboard to interact directly with the connected system but in my limited experience to date, I can do it all from my braille display. For some of us

Looking for resources to learn how to create scripts

2014-08-16 Thread Mike M
The subject line pretty much says it all. I want to start trying to learn how to create my own scripts but I'm not sure of any useful resources out there. I've got a few script examples but they don't explain what it all means. There are a few specific ones I'd like to create.

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Pamela, Activate the menu extra by either pressing vo+m twice or control+f8. Then use vo+arrow keys to move along the menu until you hear Dropbox. This is your Dropbox icon which you need to click but unfortunately using vo+spacebar or just pressing down arrow as it is the case with most

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Pamela, Dropbox won't show you anything useful when you launch the app from your applications folder, as someone else already wrote. A way to determine if dropbox is currently running, is to check your finder status menu, using VO plus m, as in mike, twice in succession as you hold the VO

Re: Looking for resources to learn how to create scripts

2014-08-16 Thread Barry Hadder
So, what kind of scripts are we talking about? For Apple script, launch the apple script editor in the utilities folder and select language guide from the help menu. There are shell scripting resources all over the web. Two that I know of are http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ and

Re: Slow startup.

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Maybe i should empty my downloads folder. Its quite full actually. /A 15 aug 2014 kl. 19:36 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: You can also make sure your startup disk isn't too full, and that apps aren't auto-starting. Apple lets you re-open apps automatically, so your Mac essentially

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Pamela Francis
Hello, Now I know why I belong to this list. There are those of you on here who are very helpful, detailed, and willing to give useful instruction freely. I am most grateful thank you Pam Francis On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pamela, Dropbox won't

how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already. This

Re: Slow startup.

2014-08-16 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Does your Mac go straight to the Desktop or are you required to login? Having too many items on your Desktop will slow down your Mac but if your computer also goes straight to your Desktop, this will make it take even longer when there are a lot of items on the Desktop. Later... Tim

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Your english is better than mine and you're better to describe than me. But you're totally right. /A 16 aug 2014 kl. 19:07 skrev Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com: Hi, Without knowing any details, i suspect that this has to do in different ways of working with Braille. We

Re: Slow startup.

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Not that much items. 5 i think. /A 16 aug 2014 kl. 21:20 skrev Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com: Hi, Does your Mac go straight to the Desktop or are you required to login? Having too many items on your Desktop will slow down your Mac but if your computer also goes straight to your

Re: how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-16 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Paul, Yes you can. What you need to do. Go to your app store on the ML machine. Download Mavericks and when the installer starts, press cancel. Then you can provide a command line to write it to a USB stick greater than 7.9 Gb. Many of us did this when Mavericks first came out and

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Pam, You are very welcome. Through your response, you have given much more than you've received. Andrew On 16 Aug 2014, at 20:05, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Now I know why I belong to this list. There are those of you on here who are very helpful, detailed, and

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Pamela Francis
Hello, I consider myself to have an average to above knowledge of current tech. However, dropbox is an app I have never had the need to use until I was asked to work with an Internet Radio station handling their public relations. I have had friends who make good use of dropbox. Therefore,

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with brltty in linux and in terminal on the Mac for years, admittedly mostly command-line as I never got much into Orca or other linux guy screenreader, I would rather the braille didn't just echo the speech. I frankly

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Devin Prater
Oh, you can use brailletty in the terminal? How can that be done? On Aug 16, 2014, at 17:52, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with brltty in linux and in terminal on the Mac for years, admittedly mostly

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I would rather be able to use the braille display only but this isn't always possible. for instance, there is no double-tap-and-hold equivalent for the braille display as far as I know. Also, sometimes if I lose my place as to where my cursor is, doing a quick arrow with my bluetooth keyboard

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You can and I keep promising to put out an update but never get around to it. Also, when a new OS comes out, something usually breaks. For instance, in Mavericks I can use my braille edge but input from the keyboard and some other things don't work. On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Devin Prater

Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-16 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I am trying to remap the caps lock and insert keys without using sharp keys. I can get to the fusion remapping section, I can interact with the combo box with the additional keys. But when I cursor down to caps lock, or the insert key, no matter how I try to activate it, I get a cap A.

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. Couldn't you put an alias to all the apps you need in a folder and leave that on your desktop? Say you call the folder Go. Then all you have to do is go to the desktop in finder (command-shift-D) then type Go to select the folder, then press command-O to open it, command-A to select all

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-16 Thread Kliphton Senior
I had the same issue. That's why I chose sharp keys. Much easier to use. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questions are always answered, and we are

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread Alex Hall
For the record, Quicksilver is not very accessible, or wasn't when I tried it some months ago. I asked about it, and it didn't seem like a priority. It's open-source, and one or two developers had tried to improve accessibility, but it's hard when new commits from other debs chane the UI you

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread Kliphton Senior
What about opening more than one folder at a time? There will be a time when I want to copy multiple files to one folder, from another, but have to close each folder to get to the next. How does one accomplish keeping multiple folders open? Questions, concerns, suggestions? Contact us, list

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread Kliphton Senior
oops wrong signiture. Kliphton ~iMessageEmail~ m.kliph...@gmail.com mailto:m.kliph...@gmail.com ~TwitterSkype~ kliphton72 “Personal blog-read at your own risk!” http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com On Aug 17, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@gmail.com wrote: What about opening

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread David Chittenden
Open multiple instances of finder. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 17 Aug 2014, at 16:37, Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@gmail.com wrote: What about opening more than one folder at a time? There will be a time when I