Hi all using yosanity on a MacBook Pro, using voiceover, previous versions of
iTunes i was able to copy songs out of the library, and paste them, on to the
iPhone having tried today without success, it seems not possible with this
latest iTunes. Any help would be appreciated
cheers gerry have
, unfortunately, I cannot seem to find this feature. I turned on enhanced
dictation, but no luck.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
Sent from my macbook pro
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Hi John,
I've heard a lot of good things about the take control series. If you cancer,
please explain why the arrow key functionality within spotlight was taken away.
As far as search criteria, if I enter a file name, or name of an artist within
spotlight, I get everything but either of what
Hi!
Can you access your airport from your i device.
I seldom use airport utility on the mac but on my iphone.
/A
20 okt 2014 kl. 18:45 skrev Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com:
Hello,
Hello Tim,
Here's the situation thus far.
I used command shift o to log into the airport, it displayed 10.0.1.1
Hello Ray,
The unread tag is working perfectly in Mail on both of my Macs, via Standard
view.
Mark
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:12 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
Hello Anders,
You are referring to the server certificate verification dialog box that
appears when opening Mail. I have several comments on this:
1.
The dialog box appears when you attempt to use an unrecognized server or a
server with an unrecognized certificate.
2.
This occurs in
This is for those who encounter the Unknown Server Certificate Verification
dialog box when opening the Mail application in Yosemite.
1.
The dialog box appears when you attempt to use an unrecognized server or a
server with an unrecognized certificate.
2.
This occurs in Yosemite, more than it
Hello Michael,
Try this method of positioning an image.
copy the image file to the clipboard and paste it into the appropriate place in
your document. Press VO-j to jump to the Formatter. Click on Arrange. Interact
with the Arrange formatter scroll area and navigate to Text wrap which should
Some one may give you a better answer but I will tell you what I know
I download Audible Books using Audible Download manager on the Windows platform
but I do not know if that is accessible / available on Mac OS.
However it is possible to
1. Play and download Audible books through iTunes
Yes.
Use shift VO C to copy last phrase spoken to pasteboard.
David Griffith
On 21 Oct 2014, at 01:16, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible under Yosemite to copy some text from an iBook? I am thinking
about cookbooks in particular, where I might want to copy a recipe,
If I am not mistaken, the radio buttons which control whether you have songs or
album view are now to the left of the main types of library view. Could be
mistaken as I'm still getting used to the new ITunes view which, I must say, I
rather like.
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray,
Hi all,
I'm having no problem with standard text dictation in a document, but can't
seem to get enhanced dictation to work, i.e. can't run the computer using voice
commands. Enhanced dictation has been checked and downloaded. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Donna
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Hi all,
Since my upgrade, I am being prompted to enter the password for an old Apple ID
that is no longer active. I'm also getting messages that my Mac can't connect
to iCloud because it doesn't have that password. I've tried going into iCloud
prefs, but I don't see anyway to change from
Okay.
For the most part, I reckon I can get used to Yosemite fairly well. I tend to
like the way that Mail operates now in the standard view. I love that messages
are now tagged as read or not as the first thing one here's while navigating
through the table. Big plus that. The
Join the club, that would be amazing, now if they could get all the bugs worked
out of IOS8, especially the one that makes it reboot every 2 seconds, that
would be great. I just got a new 5C, which hasn't been updated yet, and have
held of for that verry reason.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:08 AM,
Hi everyone, I'm really enjoying all the new goodness in Yosemite, and at least
on my system, it's magnitudes better than the first release of mavericks was.
Plenty to enjoy.
There's one efficiency hit I've taken that I've not seen commented on here,
although with so many messages of late, it's
Got my sounds back. Forgot that I muted my sounds.
Would like other thoughts though. Oh, Got albums in iTunes organized right
too. That's some new view to get used to: but, I reckon I can see the logic
behind it and actually, I think I'm starting to like it.
Sincerely,
the Constantly
One of the things I miss about Outlook, and love about the Mac, is that it
tells you how many messages are in a thread. Does this still happening in
Yosemite? If so, is the message count given before any other information?
On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote:
Yes, it is. Just select, copy, and paste as usual.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible under Yosemite to copy some text from an iBook? I am thinking
about cookbooks in particular, where I might want to copy a recipe,
Yes, you get informed how many messages are in a thread. Just press right
arrow alone to expand a thread. Thing is, I have noticed that when a thread is
expanded, you don't get informed about whether or not individual messages
inside that thread are read or not. When you close it back up
Hello,
Yes. Download the airport app from the app store and it's completely accessible
when using VoiceOver.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote:
Hi!
Can you access your airport from your i device.
I seldom use airport utility on the mac but on my
I don’t believe that anyone should be slammed because something isn’t working
for them, however, I just did 3 spotlight searches, and each time what I looked
for was located. I don’t know why this is not working for other people, I can
only document my personal experiences. I am not noticing
According to documentation, performing a search term is Spotlight should bring
up Wikipedia entries, map data, possible dictionary definitions, and a host of
results.
I was able to verify that typing in the term Starbucks into Spotlight brought
no results, and the message appeared visually on
Hi guys
I like Yosemite so far. My Finder is behaving better, etc. However, I had to
call that 877 number again, no choice. It seems that FileVault got me in
trouble when my battery went dead because yours truly let it go down too far.
Then I had trouble, can't remember all the steps, getting
Hi,
Another method is to VO-space on the Compose button within the Messages window,
then enter the recipient’s contact info in the To field.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Pablo Sandoval paulsandova...@gmail.com wrote:
To start a new message from
Hi,
Try going into system Preferences, Internet Accounts. Select the offending
iCloud account then press on the Delete This Account. If you're unable to
remove it for various reasons, try going to www.icloud.com
http://www.icloud.com/ and resetting the password for that iCloud account.
For one thing, not all keyboards appear to be supported by file vault. If you
get stuck, that'seven a choice you will be given. I know hindsight is always
20/20 but if you had rebooted your computer when the password wasn'taccepted,
if that is what happened, one of the choices would have been
Hi,
Did you try going into the Accessibility pane of system Prefs, pressing the
Dictation Commands button then checking the box to Enable Advanced Dictation
commands?
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote:
Hi all,
Hi,
Spotlight appears to work as it should for me as well. Initially, the default
for the Search location appeared to be in the folder location that I was in,
so, it wasn’t finding what I wanted it to find. Once I changed it to “this
Mac”, the search results populated fine. I was able to
If I had a choice for unencrypting, I never found it. My computer was asleep
when the battery went down, or at least it didn't have enough power when I
opened it back up again. I consider myself fairly computer literate, but I
guess at some point I did the wrong thing somewhere and got myself
Hi,
Hmmm. I did the same as you entering “Starbucks” into my Entry field. The
first result was your message, then I could arrow down through various other
references to Starbucks that it found. Interestingly enough, I had more than a
dozen references to Starbucks in various eMails and no
Hey Tim,
Thanks, that did the trick. One more question, do you know if there's any way
to get some kind of audible or spoken feedback when the command is implemented?
That used to happen with speakable commands, but doesn't seem to happen now.
Cheers,
Donna
On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Tim
Yeah, it's hard to know all the ins and outs of that I think. I hadn't realized
until I had trouble entering my password or even doing cmd-f5 to get the beeps
at login that I realized the keyboard could be a problem. Worked fine with one
keyboard and not with another. I wonder if there's a take
Here is a link to an Audible Support article on Downloading Audible content
to a MAC:
http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3845/~/downloading-audib
le-content-to-a-mac
That link takes up two lines and will no doubt break in this plain text
email so here's a TinyURL link to the
Hi,
I haven't played with it very much but have found it to be inconsistent with
it's announcements or responses. If I say Open Selected Document, then tap
the cmd key, it will repeat my command and sometimes complete the task,
sometimes complete it quietly without me realizing that it
Hi Tim,
Thanks, for the info. It does seem to work much better than speakable items
did, once you figure out that you need to check to get confirmation that it did
what you wanted. :)
Cheers,
Donna
On Oct 21, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote:
Hi,
I haven't played
Hi!
SO far so good with Yosemite on my mac.
However its still spinning up the fan while running safari and another
aplication at the same time.
This is not a big deal but i guess its because my mac is a mid 2011.
Note that i've reset the smc.
No go with that though.
/A
21 okt 2014 kl. 16:31
Yeah and I had a bad moment when it asked me if I wanted unencrypt and restart.
I knew I wanted to unencrypt and restart, so I said yes. I thought it was to
unencrypt first, but no. Then I thought I would get unlucky and get that screen
again demanding my password. That's what got me in trouble
Mine is a Mac Book Pro early 2011, and it hasn't done that fan thing since
Yosemite finished its installation. However, I had my memory upgraded to 8
gigabytes. Do you have 8 or 4? When I got my computer in July, 2011, it had 4
gigabytes.
Gigi
On Oct 21, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Anders Holmberg
Another completely strange occurrence, I now just updated a 2014 Macbook Air to
Yosemite, and spotlight searches for Starbucks turns up everything, Bing,
Wikipedia, map results, everything you would expect.
The computer on which there were no results whatsoever was a 2012 Mac Mini.
Very
Hello folks,
Is there any way to stop the rather annoying echoing of search fields and
Safari address and search fields?
I hope this can be stopped because it's really a bother. Previously, I was able
to type a space before typing and things went just fine. But now it keeps
repeating what I
Hi all. For years My computer name has been Barry's iMac. For some reason it
now shows up as Barry's iMac (7)
I have no ideas as to why or how this happened but just noticed the change
today. I can't seem to change it back.
I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite last week.
Any ideas?
For a
Hi,
Under Mavericks, Mail retained my place in the message list more often than not
when new messages arrived.
However, under Yosemite, I am jumped to the top of the message list when I
receive new mail. I can obviously use the command to jump to the bottom of the
list, but this still means
Hi,
This sort of thing happens when your Mac detects another computer on your local
network with the same local host name. Of course, in your case, there probably
wasn't another computer with exactly the same local host name, so, it was
likely a holdover somewhere else. When this happens,
Hi Pam,
The Take Control series of books are really good reads. They cover a wide
range of topics and you can't go wrong with those books.
The results for spotlight now appear to show in a table. You can use table
navigation to read them. However, what I tend to do is use more specific
Hi All,
I was running fusion 5 on my macbook pro, and I upgraded to yosemite. I had to
upgrade my fusion to version 7. How can I add my bootcamp to fusion so I can
access it from with in the mac?
One question I have is the guide on AppleVis, when it said to import my
bootcamp partition into
Did you ever get your chess question solved? Perhaps try a fresh game?
On Oct 19, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com
wrote:
alex, can you message me on my skype so that i can show you the problem, my
skype is dionipher, thanks. i don't change the setting of my
Ordinarily, I'd tell you to switch to Classic View, in which you can sort the
headers of the table manually. I did this in Mavericks, and while you do lose
the message preview from Standard View, you *can* set the subject to be read
first if you want.
In 10.10.0, however, there's a bug where
Alright All,
never mind my below questions.
In fusion 7, the process to access the bootcamp volume as a virtual machine has
changed.
I will try and add a comment note to the current guide on apple vis in the next
few days.
Best,
On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Juan Hernandez
On my mid 2012 Macbook Air, doing a Spotlight search for Starbucks tells me
about a local Starbucks, plus the web results and all the rest, for what that's
worth.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:48 PM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote:
Another completely
This doesn't happen to me. I'm curious if you interact with the messages table
or not. I don', so if you do, it might be worth trying it without interacting.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Under Mavericks, Mail retained my place in the message
Hi All.
Does anybody know where i might obtain a DMG of fusion 6?
I can't seem to figure out their website. :)Thanks much.
Vivianna
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I just love this list! I learn so many things here, even after five years on a
Mac. I never knew you could search that way. Thanks, John!
Cheers,
Donna
On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Pam,
The Take Control series of books are really good reads.
if you could it would be appreciated can't figure out how to do this myself
On 10/21/2014 12:53 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
Alright All,
never mind my below questions.
In fusion 7, the process to access the bootcamp volume as a virtual machine has
changed.
I will try and add a comment note
nope, i don't know why i can't do a lot moves on chess. and by the way alex is
mixing when the computer moves. how can i fix this? i don't want to just press
what was the last move of the computer. thanks
Il giorno 21/ott/2014, alle ore 09:41 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com ha
scritto:
Did
Personally I have just turned off threaded conversations in standard view.
Actually I am quite enjoying the change. Although I have lost the threaded
conversation I find that my efficiency has increased as preview is available on
all messages which used not to be the case in conversation
I'm confused now. Alex will say the move the computer makes, unless you
selected a game type of computer versus computer. There is a checkbox that
controls whether the Mac says the move you make, but even then, it will only
say the move after you make it, not move for you. Again, this assumes
If the applications folder is empty, it can be safely removed. If it is not
empty, I would recommend removing all the apps from within the iTunes UI first,
otherwise all those apps will still show up in your library but iTunes will not
be able to locate them.
As for synchronization and
I have it, I can transfer it to you using skype in the evening. Yes,
the vmware site is very difficult to navigate to say the least.
Original message:
Hi All.
Does anybody know where i might obtain a DMG of fusion 6?
I can't seem to figure out their website. :)Thanks much.
Vivianna
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Hi all,
I have iTunes Match, and have downloaded some, but not all Match copies of
songs to my library. Does anyone know if there's a way to tell whether the
copy on my Mac is my imported CD copy or the Match copy?
TIA,
Donna
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Hello all, can someone who has put yosemity on their Mac give me step-by-step
instructions on how to install. I am a new Mac owner with a Mac Mini, and
though I have done updates to Mavericks I am extremely nervous about installing
Yosemity. Some say it should be done with a clean install, but
Maybe because fusion 7 is out they won't have fusion 6? I have a dmg of fusion
7 pro, the free trial if you want I can send you a dropbox link
. If you can't find it let me know.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Vivianna irish...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All.
Does anybody know where i might
Hi there
When you say you are a new Mac user, how new? If you're super new, then you may
not want to take remote instructions on how to do this. This is because it
takes a very, very, long time. When I got my Mac, I had had it for three days
when we went from Lyon to Mountain lion. I got very
That’s what I tried originally, but it wasn’t working. I wasn’t finding the
person whom I was trying to message. It kept bringing up someone from my
Facebook contacts and couldn’t find a way to go through the search results with
contacts with the same name.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Tim
Hello all,
When I am on a web page or reading something VO announces when an email
arrives. I hear the subject and sender. I suspect that something flashes up on
the screen. Anybody else have this since installing Yosemite? If so how can I
stop this?
Thanks for any help.
Max
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Hi Max, I am running Mavericks and have the same thing happening. I believe it
has something to do with notifications, and if you go into system prefs you can
change this behavior.
Jeff
On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Agent086b agent0...@internode.on.net wrote:
Hello all,
When I am on a web
Hi all
Wondered if anyone could help me with these 2 quick questions.
Firstly, could anyone remind me how to perform a secure empty trash on my
MacBook please? I've done it once before but have forgotten.
Secondly, I've just upgraded to IOS8.1, and wanted to look at the different
voices I
Hi,
I have been using the new os for several days and have no problems here. I
have one question though and it has been on my mind for a while. When I boot
up and come to the login screen and vo comes up it fades in and so it sounds
kind of strange as if core audio has not fully loaded and
Johnathan,
So after reading this thread I see that nobody has an answer for you. I am
sorry to say that neither do I I would be very interested in finding a solution
to this issue as well. Its so damned time consuming that I find myself blowing
away all the messages in the mailbox after the
Hi,
as I think somebody suggested turn off group messages by conversation.
I have done this now. At least I can read the messages.
Max
On 22 Oct 2014, at 9:21 am, Keith Watson tkwatso...@gmail.com wrote:
Johnathan,
So after reading this thread I see that nobody has an answer for you. I
When you have a lot of mail, that's a very unacceptable solution I'm
afraid. I'm going to be sending in a suggestion to apple regarding
this because I don't want to give up reading by conversation.
On 10/21/14, Agent086b agent0...@internode.on.net wrote:
Hi,
as I think somebody suggested turn
Hi,
The issue with that is that in order to find the answer to a question posed is
that you then have to wade through god knows how many emails to find any
replies. Again, not very efficient. By grouping a conversation you can quickly
get to any responses that may or may not be relevant. I
Hi Keith, I hope you'll join me in dropping Apple Accessibility a friendly note
about this. It's certainly suboptimal from an efficiency perspective, and
turning off group by conversation is not the answer. It needs to work
efficiently.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology
Hi all.
I am glad to tell you that finereader works again, there is an update out at
least on the app store version, I guess that it is also out for the version
bought from their own site.
Best regards Annie.
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Ok, I’m not a VoiceOver user, as I have some vision, and so, could put the
screen close enough to me to see what was going on. I can tell you, that It
takes about an hour and a half, the first half hour which downloading from the
app store, then the next hour is split between installing on the
Hi,
Yes it does and it works well. I have always loved mail from day one and would
never look for another client as I think it is the best one I have ever used.
Matthew
matthew dyer
sent from my 27 inch iMac.
facebook, facetime and iMessage: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com
Skype:
Hello again
Let me see how much of this I can remember because I can't go back and look
since I have already done it. That's the problem with some of us remembering
the step-by-step procedure.
You first have to go to the app store. However, before you do that, you want to
doupdates on
I’m having trouble opening pdf files in iBooks. When ever I try opening a pdf
file in ibooks, it launches preview. I can’t get it to open in iBooks. what am
I doing wrong here?
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I would be really surprised if the differences in what people are finding in
their spotlight searches is a function of the model of computer they have,
though I suppose it's possible.
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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
Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks.
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user!
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus!
On Oct 21, 2014, at
how does one get VO tok begin talking at the login screen? I have to keep
turning it on at the screen. If Iknow how to make it startup, I can
confirm/deny what you are reporting.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:16 PM, matthew Dyer matthew.dy...@icloud.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been using the new os
Hi All,
Have anyone noticed that the notes search does not work at all? I cannot
perform a search in the notes edit box. nothing allows me to write text into
it.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciate ed.
Best,
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Ahh okay, I thought that iBooks was able to open pdf files.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote:
Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks.
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user!
Sent from
i just updated my iPhone this evening, and I can finally get it to work. So
far, I am not as fast as I was with mBraille, but I am getting better. I am
brailling this email, and I must say I am as quick as using the on-screen
keyboard. I did try grade 2 and it sort of worked. H any of you
Jonathan,
Without a doubt. That was actually the next thing I did after posting my rant.
They must hate me there as I bombard them with every little thing I find that I
think needs fixing.
Keith
On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote:
Hi Keith, I hope you'll
Thanks. So, to be sure I have the process right:
1. Move the entire library to somewhere iTunes can write to (by copying it out
of the Time Machine location).
2. Open iTunes with the Option key held down, and browse to my newly copied
library folder.
3. Locate the apps folder from within iTunes
If it's anything like Mail, as you type, suggestions will pop up. Down arrow
(no VO keys, and with Quick Nav off) from right within the text field, and
press enter when you hear the one you want.
On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Faisal newyorkyank...@gmail.com wrote:
That’s what I tried
Hi All,
I wanted to know if there is a way to setup fusion so any of the windows
commands are passed into the vm, not into the host mac computer? At times I
switch into full screen, but if I alt+tab, or what ever it’ll flip mac windows.
I wish I could have it while i full screen that all
Have you tried select ting a PDF file then pressing command iwhich gives you
information about the file but you can also choose to associate the file with
an app and continue tabbing to apply the change to all PDF files. For example,
I have docuscan plus open my PDF files. I'm going to see if I
hello is it possible to have continuous read and if so please
let me know thanks in advance
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Well, I decided to attempt to open a Take Control PDF Book. Using Command i I
first selected the file then pressed command+I changed my default choice from
Docuscan Plus to iBooks and applied the changes to all PDF files. Yes, iBooks
opens and Preview opens in the background. The actual file
Hi,
When viewing the Table of music, you can tell iTunes what columns you want
visible in the Table. Press cmd-j to bring up the View Options pop-over then
VO-right to the pop-up menu just after the Sort by pop-up menu. In this menu
you'll be able to check or uncheck the columns you wish
Hi,
I've just updated to Yosemite and am having a bit of trouble with iTunes.
How do you see songs in your playlists? I can select the playlist in the table,
but can't find the actual songs.
I'm not finding these iTunes changes particularly wonderful, as it's slower to
navigate around, but I
Yes, contracted braille works as well as 6 dot braille.
I always use 6 dot braille because I am now philosophically apposed to
contracted braille being the default. Now that we have electronic braille,
braille is the same size as print in electronic form. And, blind people who
have always used
Hi list,
I am using a 16GB iPhone 4S. I updated to iOs 8 and had a lot of
issues so had to downgrade back to 7.1. My phone got a lot slower,
apps like whatsapp and messenger kept constantly crashing and VO
randomly restarts it self. i had many accidental touches, accidental
calls, etc. I wish to
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