Odd behaviour with arrow keys.

2014-08-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I sometimes find that when i have my braille display (papenmeier els-40) connected to my mac mini mid 2011 i get odd behaviours when using voiceover to navigate. I can sit and navigate through a dialogue or table and suddenly the mac gets crazy and arrows through the table on its own. Its

Re: a question with regard to ClamXav and scanning e-mails

2014-08-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
FWIW, Sophos AV for Mac is also free and mostly accessible. Of course, it has a commercial counterpart in the Windows world, and Sophos are eager that you should be dependent on them. I used it with success to clear up my virus collection from my Windows days. My personal recommendation is

Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Aha! Thanks Jonathan, I thought that performance bug with activities was just me, but evidently not. Yes, very annoying; put a complete damper on Nuance for me, since I have Safari automatically initiate my web activity, and of course Safari is almost always open which means simply pressing

final cur pro and other programs

2014-08-21 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i am ust browsing the spec on my computer, it said i do have final cut pro and Aperture, but when i check my computer i haven't installed it. how can i install those? when i go to apps store i need to buy it, but why do i have to but it if it already pack on my computer? -- You received this

Re: DVD Player for the Mac

2014-08-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I tried VLC for the Mac, and honestly, I could not figure it out, the interface just did not seem to make any sense to me at all. I’ve been trying to access the titles in 3 ways from the built in DVD player. . 1. Going to the Go menu, arrrowing down to titles, using right arrow, selecting

Re: Odd behaviour with arrow keys.

2014-08-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Never yet. That's one I never heard of. My first thought is that there is something wrong with your display. Gigi On Aug 21, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! I sometimes find that when i have my braille display (papenmeier els-40) connected to

with some explnations please, how can i share my hard disks with mavericks?

2014-08-21 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: sorry for asking this question again but really i can not do it, i have my pc that runs windows 7, and i need to see teh contents that are on my hd, i need to see them from my mavericks, because on mac i don't have enough space on my hd, with step by step, how can i do this through

Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread Phil Halton
I understand that FLV is the preferred format for many online video sites such as YouTube, and that most of these sites convert uploaded videos into FLV format. I want to do the conversion myself and upload the FLV video to avoid crappy conversion results. Is there a good app that will let me

RE: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-21 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Are there instructions on how you can use both without conflicts? When I used the Mac version, it always kept the remaps in my VM Window. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Caron Sent: Wednesday, August

Re: Searching in a large table with voiceover

2014-08-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you know the title of your Podcast, you can type the first few letters of it to move directly to that Podcast. This works best when in List view and when focused on the Table but not Interacting with it. Otherwise, Item Chooser like suggested earlier. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
FLV or Flash Video is a container which can hold any number of video formats. The older ones used the Sorenson or On2 codecs while the newer ones now support h.264 (MPEG4). So FLV in of itself may or may not have the old junky video formats. One quick way to tell is to just rename the .flv to

To Chris B the moderator.

2014-08-21 Thread Kliphton Senior
Chris B, could you email me off list? m.kliph...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Re: with some explnations please, how can i share my hard disks with mavericks?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If your windows box is already set up for sharing then you should be able to connect to it from your Mac using Connect to Server (command-K) from the finder. You type in the URL like this: SMB://servername_or_IP_address/share Obviously you need to change what I have above to the actual IP

Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Christina C.
How do I know if it's a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely noticed that when I want to change voices it is a very sluggish process. I usually just stick to Ava. I want to try activities. If I use the same

Re: final cur pro and other programs

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What spec are you checking? Final Cut and Aperture usually aren't included on a machine unless you made special arrangements. CB On 8/21/14, 6:59 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: i am ust browsing the spec on my computer, it said i do have final cut pro and Aperture, but when i check my

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Alex Hall
Most every voice is Nuance, yes. Alex is not, and the older voices (Fred, and the other old-style synthesizers) are not, but any you have to download are. Yes, the bug is present even if the activity does not change the voice in use. No, there is no workaround I know of; keep emailing

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I wonder if this has something to do with announcements. When using the voice Alex, if you switch in or out of the app that you have an Activity applied to, VO announces VoiceOver Settings Activity along with a view other App notes. If you use a different voice, non-Apple, then this

Re: Searching in a large table with voiceover

2014-08-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Tim and others, thanks for the tips for how to search in a large table of podcasts. I am afraid they haven't worked. I have no idea why. The list of podcasts has over 4 thousand rows. It is a Spanish learning series of podcasts and comes as a feed. The podcasts in iTunes are presented in

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread Phil Halton
I know practically nothing about video. All I want to do is to convert my iMovie stuff.M4 V format, into an FLV format for upload to an online musical instruction site. I don't really even know if it's necessary. I'm not all that concerned about the video graininess etc., but I want the audio

Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Yes please do. I wrote to them and they asked to see my VoiceOver settings etc, as if no one had told them about it before. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 21/08/2014, at 8:05 pm, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote:

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sorry, I had read it backwards. I wasn't aware that FLV was still supported much out in the wild as most places have gone to MPEG, so I thought you were trying to convert FLV to MPEG before uploading it. If your source video is m4v format then most sites should be happy with it. What site are

Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-21 Thread ronald smith
Your email was read to me using Voice on the Go. Go to www.voiceonthego.com Original Message: - From: Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com Sent: August 21, 2014 1:08:08 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Activity bug and Nuance voices was Re:

Re: final cur pro and other programs

2014-08-21 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
sorry was wrong On 21 Aug 2014, at 06:29 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: What spec are you checking? Final Cut and Aperture usually aren't included on a machine unless you made special arrangements. CB On 8/21/14, 6:59 AM, Dionipher Presas

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 12 topics

2014-08-21 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2014, at 13:25, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Google Groups Topic digest View all topics advanced voice over? - 6 Updates final cur pro and other programs - 2 Updates with some explnations

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread Phil Halton
oh, it takes m4v, but I heard that there is a lot of quality degradation in the conversion/compression process, visually anyway, not so much aurally, which is all I really care about. It’s a great video exchange teaching site for Bluegrass instruments - among others called

Re: Odd behaviour with arrow keys.

2014-08-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes i begin to think that too. Have to check this out. /A 21 aug 2014 kl. 15:23 skrev Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com: Hi there Never yet. That's one I never heard of. My first thought is that there is something wrong with your display. Gigi On Aug 21, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Anders

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread Eric Oyen
iMovie can do that easily enough. I sometimes use Handbrake. its about as accessible a video source converter as you are going to find. -eric On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Phil Halton wrote: I know practically nothing about video. All I want to do is to convert my iMovie stuff.M4 V format,

Re: DVD Player for the Mac

2014-08-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Just to double check: you did launch a title before navigating using the menu? You presumably already know that you can't navigate to a title until you're past the root and title menus, so slap enter a couple of times first and try again. -- You received this message because you are

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Ah, yes. Gregg Keizer writing for Computerworld and the disgraceful end of Apple as we know it. If it bleeds, it reads, eh? But I'll believe it when I see it. FWIW, my first plastic Mac will likely fall due to Apple's obsolescence, in which case it should run either Snow Leopard or Windows

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-21 Thread Kevin Barry
Apple's standard policy is to support the current OS and one version back. All else before is cut off with some very rare exceptions. At 08:22 PM 8/21/2014, you wrote: Ah, yes. Gregg Keizer writing for Computerworld and the disgraceful end of Apple as we know it. If it bleeds, it reads, eh?

Re: Searching in a large table with voiceover

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Hadder
First of all, I assume that you are using iTunes 11 in Mavericks. I suggest that you make sure that the list radio button is selected in the podcast radio group. To clarify, this group contains my podcasts, my stations, and list. The table will now be like the classic podcast list where the