Thanks much. I'll take a look at this when I can.
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I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
This I call to mind,
and therefore I
I haven't got as far as getting icons on to the desk top; please enlighten
me of that bit at least.
Thanks, Rh.
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From: The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com
To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:49 AM
Subject:
A double-tap is to use A single finger to tap twice,
a 2finger double tap is to use 2 fingers, spaced apart ideally so iOs knows
there's two, and tap twice.
Double-tap-and-hold means you use 1 finger to tap twice, and keep your
finger down on the second tap; it makes a difference.
Rh.
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We all got it, and if we do nothing long enough, it'll eventually go away.
Yes, folks got shirty and offended at this intrusion of our space, the
device is our space, not there's we're renting.
Ok, iCloud might be an exception or moot point.
RobH, thinking too hard again.
- Original
In the app store, you can remove previous apps from your listing to prevent
that. Might be Hide, but they can be filtered out.
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From: John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 1:48 AM
Subject: question
I appreciate what you're saying, I'm a novice getting to grips with this,
not always got answers to some of the basics one needs to get going, so a
pointer to a book or better, an online text to get head round these would
help all us newbies no end.
I pass on what I learn as I learn it since
The one thing I'd suggest, and would do if using a laptop/netbook; find out
if we can get a real full size keyboard to use it with, even a bluetooth one
if necessary. Don't know if those MBA's will accept a usb keyboard or not.
But a full size keyboard helps no end, too.
JMO, RobH.
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If it is called pages.zip, it sounds like the application plus maybe all its
folders. Command O opens and unzips folders. Then you should have two folders,
the zipped and the unzipped versions.
Gigi
On Sep 14, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Angus MacKinnon thedog...@gmail.com wrote:
I got an email with
I got it and the way I feel is be grateful nothing in life is free except the
air we breath and even that's not good
Krysti Power
Skype: krysti.power
On Sep 15, 2014, at 4:23 AM, BobH. long.c...@virgin.net wrote:
We all got it, and if we do nothing long enough, it'll eventually go away.
Copy and paste. And Finder preferences if you want to put the Mac
hard drive on the desktop.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 9/15/2014 12:16 AM, BobH. wrote:
I haven't got as far as getting icons on to the desk top; please enlighten
me of
The NBA doesn't deed except the USB full-sized keyboard. I use the USB keyboard
from my iMac occasionally on the air to do work in the infusion one remapping
keys for screen readers.
Sent from my IPhone
On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:35 AM, BobH. long.c...@virgin.net wrote:
The one thing I'd
Hi List,
i've forgotten if there are podcasts on learning Apple products such as
the MacBook, and how to subscribe to them? Is there a podcast catcher/client
built into Mac computers? How does VoiceOver handle graphics? Can they be
toggled on and off? is recording in stereo an option? Does
This is an extremely serious matter, this invasion of our privacy
and our space. We should all protest by sending our iDevices back to
Apple with demands for full refunds and an apology.
Good grief but some people take nonsnese too seriously. Leave the
offending iDevices in a drawer for
Did they charge us for it though? That's what's I'm confused about.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Krysti Power happypuppy...@gmail.com wrote:
I got it and the way I feel is be grateful nothing in life is free except the
air we breath and even that's not good
Krysti
Everyone knows this was bad advertising. I almost felt as though apple didn't
have anything left to show so they tried wooing the crowd with this u2 stunt. I
don't listen to u2 since the 90s. I don't listen to 50 to 60 year olds trying
to get young again. I don't like apple pushing their album
No it was free and for those complaining just be greatful for what Apple
has done to us past, present and future.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 15/09/2014 15:53, Jessica Moss wrote:
Did they charge us for it though? That's what's I'm
I have a student using a Mac who needs to use either the Daisy text or
Daisy text with pictures. Does anyone know of an app that will allow
him to follow the print words on the screen as he reads? He might
also like other features like white print on black background,
enlarging text...
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No, they didn't charge.
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
This I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love
I myself asked bookshare the same question. They have no readers for the Mac.
They do have a browser based plugin, but hat, I doubt, will help your student.
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For listening to podcasts on the Mac, many of us like an app called Downcast.
I, for my part, use two things. The Podcast app on my iPhone and iTunes on my
Mac. As for searching for a podcast for learning Apple stuff with Voice OVer,
I believe that if you do a search for Applevis you will
It is frustrating because they have programs for people with learning
disabilities.
On 9/15/14, Daniel topdog2...@gmail.com wrote:
I myself asked bookshare the same question. They have no readers for the
Mac. They do have a browser based plugin, but hat, I doubt, will help your
student.
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Apple and go with Android or Windows.
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ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 9/15/2014 8:01 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
Everyone knows this was bad advertising. I almost felt as
Couldn't agree more. Students should come first when Bookshare thinks of
developing these programs, and, while Windows is pretty easy to develop on, Mac
surely can't be to difficult.
Sure Windows is more used, in the relm of programs being written for it, and on
some websites, but just like
hi,
If VoiceOver jus says graphic, without there being a text label, how is
that handled?
Anita
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From: Ray Foret Jr
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Podcast Questions.
For listening to
For some reason I've gotten this email, assuming it's the same one, three times.
This is very nice, but I think people are looking for a Bible program with
built-in study aids and note-taking capabilities and access to different
versions, etc. It isn't that hard to find various versions of the
Hi, I have just joined this group and I'm planning on switching to a Mac. You
are discussing book share and that was one of my questions. Although I download
books to my phone I also download books from Book share to my stream. I wrote
humanware if the companion was compatible to the Mac. To
You can tell it to ignore unlabeled graphics, I believe. If you're thinking of
the way Jaws constantly speaks random graphics with numbers in dialogs, though,
VoiceOver doesn't do that.
As to help, here's an article about all the ways to get help on the Mac itself.
I don't know that braille is
Dear Listers,
Somebody once posted to the list on how one could paste text from TextEdit into
Numbers spreadsheet.
I have a number of lines with series of values in TextEdit which I would like
to turn into a numbers table. How can I do this? I've tried to separate the
number values with
Hello,
Have you tried the Bookshare web reader? It will open up the book in an HTML
browser window, and there's buttons for previous and next, a table of contents,
and basic navigation to get through the book.
As far as contrast, I can't speak to that offering, but perhaps the web reader
may
Thank you. I figured it out. The Pages.zip attachment was just a repeat of the
email by my friend to see if I could read an attached file. My friend is
sighted and using Pages on an iPad Air.
Angus MacKinnon
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Hi there is no need for a travel agent just book the flight over the phone
and then ask them to book the help youe need I often travel to the uk and
that is all I do and have had know travel problems yet even with my guide
dog so hope this helps
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From:
No, TG! there would have been a lot more flack for outright robbery if they
tried that. Struth, even I'd have got up on my hind legs at that.
RobH.
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From: Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014
Hi Andrew
You want to separate each column with tabs and then each row with a return.
Commas won't work as far as I know. I've done this several times, and it works
fine. Be sure to check, though, and make certain you didn't any tabs or cariage
returns.
Gigi
On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:06 PM,
Hi,
Separate each value with tabs in order to have them appear in different cells.
This is accomplished reasonably quick and easy in TextEdit by using the
Find/Replace functionality. For example, if you had previously place a comma
between the values, then enter the comma in the Find field
One advantage of SSD is speed, especially compared to low-power laptop
spinning drives. I was once working with a guy who went from launching
vmware to working in windows in about 3 seconds on a MacBook Air with
SSD. Not sure if that is typical but it was impressive. I think hard
drives just
Hi,
I'm not sure why there's all this noise about privacy. The album showed up in
your Purchased section of your iTunes account. If you didn't want the album,
you simply ignored it, didn't bother downloading it and life goes on. There's
thousands of free apps out there, songs of the week
I do the admin work for the list. Generally every join request gets an
email from me just asking a bit about how they found the list and such.
It's a basic spam filter to make sure the person wanting to join is a
real person. I wait up to 30 days and if I don't hear anything back I
reject the
Easiest way is to subscribe with your new address and, once that's
working, unsubscribe the old one. If you get stuck give me a ping.
CB
On 9/13/14, 11:31 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote:
How does a subscriber change his email address from thedog...@gmail.com to
floda...@gmx.com? Thank you.
Angus
Shouldn't take all that long. I'm generally on email every day although
it's a bit spotty on weekends.
CB
On 9/14/14, 1:15 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote:
The following is proof of not going the unsubscribe and subscribe route.
Your subscription request to macvisionaries
I was thinking in terms of an external. Deciding on an sSD for an internal for
the system is a different thought process all together.
My thoughts are that if I can afford a 512 GB internal, then I would go for it
without hesitation. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable with anything less
The trick is that any response tells them the have a live working
account, that their message got through the spam filter, that a user
actually read the message and took the time to reply. That's like gold
in a spammer's list, which they can now sell as a top quality email
address to the
Great, thanks. I've only talked to this guy on Twitter,so I don't know what
email address he used, but his first name is Gavin. I just tad him to watch for
your email.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:26 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote:
I do the admin work for
Jessica,
Apple paid the amazing U2 for the right to gift the new album to their
customer base. Your wanting to remove it made me laugh, because
Band members fully anticipated that some would rather put the album in
their junk folder.
Apple and U2 have a long standing relationship, so in some
Hi,
I could be mistaken, but on the Bookshare.org site, when one is downloading a
book, there is an HTML file that one can open that will allow one to read a
book through one's browser. I haven't downloaded a book in a month or so, so I
would need to go on my PC side and check it out. HTH.
I've just received this tweet from the BBC thought it may help some
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
From: William Mutch wmmu...@icloud.com
Date: 15 September 2014 20:06:23 BST
To: William Mutch wmmu...@icloud.com
Subject: U2 remove tool
@BBCTech tweeted:
Apple releases U2
Hello,
The Humanware Companion is not compatible with the Mac OS environment. Using
the Bookshare Reader that was just recently suggested would be the best method
to read a book. I usually read my books either on my iPhone through Voice Dream
reader or on either my Victor Reader Stream NG or
Hard discs: since they are mechanical, they hadn't the scope to keep up;
think how small and fast they would have to be by now to compair.
There are 10krpm ones, at a price, and as stated, shock, movement and other
physical disturbences still limit the reliable precision of moving parts;
Gee, that sounds like something that really was not necessary. I mean really.
All one need do is locate the album in their iTunes library and delete it and
send all asociated files to the trash. Why a special tool just for that for
goodness sake?
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray,
and people are acting like it was some sort of stunt because of the bad
stream, um, no!! this was set up months ago.
Alia
On Sep 15, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Christopher Hallsworth
challswor...@icloud.com wrote:
No it was free and for those complaining just be greatful for what Apple has
done
Can you email me off list? Google Groups is complaining that your email
address is bouncing. Tried to contact you off-list but, well, I assume
the message bounced :)
CB
On 8/31/14, 12:14 AM, trahern culver wrote:
hey all is firefox now accessable on mac os10? if it is please could
some one
The web address raises the hairs on my neck.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 9/15/2014 12:52 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Gee, that sounds like something that really was not necessary. I mean really.
All one need do is locate the album in their
Web address is Columbai.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 9/15/2014 12:52 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Gee, that sounds like something that really was not necessary. I mean really.
All one need do is locate the album in their iTunes library and
Does anyone know if YoruFukurou works in Yosemite now? I know it kept on
crashing a few months go. If it is, are there any other twitter clients which
is a reasonable alternative?
Thanks
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Hi, I usually use Kayak, or expedia, travelosity, or sometimes the quickest way
is to just call the airline.
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Blind Access Training
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Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com
Hi!
What about Online Bible.
I've tried it but can't remember how accessible it was.
/A
15 sep 2014 kl. 01:33 skrev CJ Daniel cj.bear.dan...@gmail.com:
Keith,
Sadly, the info I can share is not good. MacSword, as found by your friend,
is out of date. In fact, it changed it's name to
Tried to contact you off list but, the email bounced. Please drop me an
email so I can get this resolved.
CB
On 2/6/14, 3:30 PM, Hai Nguyen Ly wrote:
Good afternoon Helena:
Removing the files
com.apple.internetaccounts.plist and
com.apple.mail-shared.plist
from ~/Library/Preferences should
Yes, the Victor stream does last a lot longer. Well, when I get my Mac I
will have to keep my PC for Book share if I want to read books on the
stream. Thanks for the info.
Kathy and Seeing Eye dog Wilda
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hi,
you don't need the software to put books onto your stream. I just put the SD
card in, navigate to the audio book folder and put the book there using finder.
No software required.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Kathy Brack kmbr...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Yes, the Victor stream does last a lot
Tried to contact you off list but the email bounced. Please drop me an
email so I can get this resolved.
CB
On 8/28/14, 8:57 PM, trahern culver wrote:
hey all, i have the latest 64gb ipod touch with the latest o s i'm
running mavrix on the mac side. i know how itunes works but i'm at my
wits
Hi all,
I'm wondering if there is an app that can display sports scores and schedules?
Thanks
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i do have the pdf version of the old testament and new testament of the King
JamesBible, i you want
On 15 Sep 2014, at 05:55 pm, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote:
For some reason I've gotten this email, assuming it's the same one, three
times.
This is very nice, but I think people
I've only seen that on my phone, and haven't seen a delete option anyplace,
which I find off, but will check my library on my computer again though and
see if it shows up there.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 4:04 PM, The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com wrote:
The web address raises the hairs on my
Hi!
There was a daisy reader for mac but i am not sure its developped any more.
Sadly this is one of the down things when it comes to mac.
/A
15 sep 2014 kl. 17:07 skrev Marianne Denning maria...@denningweb.com:
I have a student using a Mac who needs to use either the Daisy text or
Daisy text
Dear Tim,
This is greatly helpful. Thank you so much!
Andrew
On 15 Sep 2014, at 18:48, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote:
Hi,
Separate each value with tabs in order to have them appear in different
cells. This is accomplished reasonably quick and easy in TextEdit by using
the
Gigi, as usual, many thanks for a useful tip/. Fantastic!
Andrew
On 15 Sep 2014, at 18:34, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hi Andrew
You want to separate each column with tabs and then each row with a return.
Commas won't work as far as I know. I've done this several times, and it
What frustrates me is that their read2go app hasn't been updated in years.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:19, Marianne Denning maria...@denningweb.com wrote:
It is frustrating because they have programs for people with learning
disabilities.
On 9/15/14, Daniel topdog2...@gmail.com wrote:
I
Hi!
Sadly yes.
You could check with the voice dream reader team if they're willing to do a
version for the mac.
Maybe i have to learn python or xcode and write a daisy app.
/A
15 sep 2014 kl. 23:27 skrev Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com:
What frustrates me is that their read2go app hasn't been
Chris
Would you know why the MacVisionaries list is still using thedog...@gmail.com
and not floda...@gmx.com? Everytime I send something to
macvisionaries@googlegroups.com with the from field of floda...@gmx.com and not
thedog...@gmail.com, I get a message from Googlegroups that I am not
Hello is
Parallels vo friendly?
it allows virtual machines on mac as well
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Hi Hank,
As far as I know, it's not VO friendly, ut VMWare fusion is. It's around $60.
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On Sep 15, 2014, at
No one can really say if an app works or doesn't work on Yosemite since it's
still in beta and we're covered by an NDA. All I can really say is that if
you're really concerned about the app not working on Yosemite, there's
another client out there called TWBlue and it's quite good with
I hate to burst your bubble about TW Blue for mac, but from what the developer
told me, he's not sure if he's going to continue work on the mac version, since
he doesn't have a mac himself, and runs OS X in a virtual machine under
windows, which impacts performance.
As far as the YoruFukurou
any one know if they anounced a release date for osx 10.10?
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No, they haven’t.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:12 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
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any one know if they anounced a release date for osx 10.10?
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Now, whenever I try to send to that list, the +subscribe is always added to the
to field and I can't figure out how to get rid of it permanently. It's
probably something very simple, but I sure can't find it.
Thanks,
Hi, I was trying to use Kayak on the Mac earlier today. How do you enter your
departure return date? I could never get into an edit box.
Thanks,
Traci
On Sep 15, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I usually use Kayak, or expedia, travelosity, or sometimes
Hello:
In response to the thread on accessible air tickets, I downloaded and tried the
skyscanner app. All went well until I went to book the flight and I was taken
to an external site that was just as flaky as the one's I wanted to avoid. So
I tried again entering a different flight
Hello all,
I am running Mavericks, and have just downloaded and installed TC conference,
which is a talking communities software. When I go to enter the conference
room, rather than allowing me to enter the room, an instance of vmware fusion
is launched, and windows 7, which I have here starts
All,
I'm using the Podcasts app on my iPhone. Is there a way that iTunes on my Mac
and podcast on my iPhone can sync together? Right now when I listen to a
podcast on my Mac and delete it it does not delete from my phone. Is there a
way for these two apps to sync together?
Thanks for the help,
You will be very happy to know that the answer is yes. All you have to do a new
iPhone, is this. Go to settings, and from there, you want to go to Podcasts.
Then, double tap it.
This will open up everything that you can set up in Podcasts on the universal
bases on your iPhone. What do you want
In Mail, go to the Window menu, then the Previous Recipients item. In there is
a search field and a list of addresses; find the one you want gone and hit
delete. There's no confirmation, it's just gone.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Donald Bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote:
I recently subscribed
I know I saw the option to set how long to keep messages in Mail but
cannot locate that option now. Can someone point me in the right
direction? Thanks.
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my favorite site is; cheaptickets.com
Vivianna
On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I was trying to use Kayak on the Mac earlier today. How do you enter
your departure return date? I could never get into an edit box.
Thanks,
Traci
On Sep 15, 2014,
Alex, Thanks, that did the trick. I never would have thought of looking under
window.
Don
On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote:
In Mail, go to the Window menu, then the Previous Recipients item. In there
is a search field and a list of addresses; find the
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