RE: Migration assistant question

Hello Lisette, I have never made nor used any time machine backups so cannot speak to how it works. However, when I purchased my new Mac, a couple of months ago, I simply connected it to my old Mac and the migration assistant worked perfectly, the first time. Since then I have used the Mi

Re: question about Yofukoru

Hey Chris. I've used Growl ever since Snow Leopard. It works great on Yosemite. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Christopher Hallsworth > wrote: > > Hi all, > Does Growl work even under Yosemite? Since the Notification Centre was > introduced in Mountain Lion I h

Re: question about Yofukoru

Hi all, Does Growl work even under Yosemite? Since the Notification Centre was introduced in Mountain Lion I haven't bothered with Growl since and at the time I don't think it met my needs, but then I was a new mac user at the time. On 01/12/2014 22:14, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Hi Juliet. There

Re: some more questions

David, Thanks for this. I suspected that that was how adding/removing apps worked but when i was googling, i saw some post that said something like you needed to get an uninstall link or something Either way thanks! > On Dec 1, 2014, at 11:03 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > 1. To uninstall an

Re: item chooser in safari

No Mavericks did not behave like this. If you listen to some of my Maverick Safari Podcast you will hear how this is actually an invaluable feature of item chooser whereby you can quickly access parts of the Safari Toolbar which are otherwise awkward to access. However what I think you may have

Re: some more questions

1. To uninstall an app you generally just have to delete it from our application folder. There are utilities like clean my Mac or App Delete which offer a more system wide delete service if you require but in general deleting most apps will be fine. 2. Similarly to install a downloaded app simpl

hermes

I’m wondering if anyone knows how to stop it’s notifications every time it starts a new song. Normally i wouldn’t care but when working it’s rather annoying. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: item chooser in safari

Hi, so are you not able to just make safari show items on the webpage as appose to the entire web browser? Although I cannot be sure, but I swear under mavericks, the item chooser menu behaved differently than this. > On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > I think you want the web rot

some more questions

I have a really major question of sorts, well 2. How do i uninstall apps from the mac store that i do not want? I’m not seeing uninstall buttons from it anywhere that i can find. Also i’ve got apps that have downloaded to my downloads folder. I’m assuming i need to actually move them to the ap

Migration assistant question

Hi folks, Just wondering which method of copying data from one mac to another is most efficient or most likely to get everything across properly? I have a time machine back up, with everything checked. Is it best to use this time machine back up with migration assistant, or try to do it by conne

Re: Running Audio Games on the Mac Without Windows

You can try any game you like, the process is always the same. Have fun! > On Dec 1, 2014, at 11:32 PM, Dionipher Herrera wrote: > > can you try the game vamped on this.. >> Il giorno 01/dic/2014, alle ore 01:13, Alex Hall > > ha scritto: >> >> Hi all, >> I just posted

Re: Running Audio Games on the Mac Without Windows

can you try the game vamped on this.. > Il giorno 01/dic/2014, alle ore 01:13, Alex Hall ha > scritto: > > Hi all, > I just posted this guide to AppleVis, and thought some of you might find it > useful. Using Wine, you can run audio games right on your Mac, no need to > virtualize Windows or u

FS:Lifeproof waterproof iPad mini case...

Hi everybody. I bought a Lifeproof nuud case for my iPad mini but I've decided that while it's an amazing case, it's not exactly what I'm looking for. The case makes your iPad mini dust proof, rain proof, snow proof, drop proof, shock proof, and waterproof in the sense that it can actually be in u

google docs

hello group; i am in the process of doing an interview for my blog. the site owner wants to use google docs. she says it allows continued collaboration throughout the process. just visited the page. i turned accessibility on but it didn't do much. it allowed me to read the questions but they wer

Clean Install

Wayne, after wiping the MacHD drive with the disk utilities program from within recovery partition, you then can install the OS by selecting that option in the table where you found disk utilities. You’ll need WiFi for that as it downloads the OS from Apple Servers, but that’s okay, I’ve done it

Re: item chooser in safari

I think you want the web rotor. Press vo-shift-u on the page, then use left/right arrows to get to the category you want. Once there, up/down arrow, or start typing the name of the item you want. > On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi all, > when I load item chooser in safari, t

RE: clean install

Thanks phill,if that is right and I format,how do I get the os on the mac then .and will I have to then do cmd r and then choose disc utilitys,and then choose install os sorry for being thick here so again,thanks for the help -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mail

Re: question about Yofukoru

Hi Juliet. There's an app called Growl you can purchase from the Mac App store that will read tweets automatically without interruptions. You can purchase it for $1.99. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Juliette Swiler wrote: > > I use Yufukoru as my twitter

item chooser in safari

Hi all, when I load item chooser in safari, the list shows everything from the sidebar, to favourites and all my bookmarks and tool bar. When I load item chooser, I am only interested in seeing items on the current website I’m on. Is there a way to do this? Thanks -- You received this message

Re: firefox

well, looks like it's safari for me then. thanks. On 12/1/2014 2:36 AM, Michael Marshall wrote: hey, Firefox does indeed exist for the Mac however the accessibility is zero. Voice-over cannot access menus nor does it even tell you there is a window. I spoke to a developer from the Firefox acce

Re: Problems saving attachments

Ah, I thought maybe that might be your trouble. WRong way to do it. IF you press return to open the message with attachments, you will find, just to the left of the text area, unlabeled buttons. The right most of those will be an attachment menu button. From this point, you can do exactly wh

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

I can reproduce it here. Sounds like voiceover focus is cycling between two locations. Might be an OSX 10.10 bug as 10.9 didn't do this. CB On 12/1/14, 12:56 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: I have the standard 5G of storage in iCloud, and see this information as well. Then, just to the right of that, i

Re: clean install

Then after that, how do you install OSX from a thumb drive? On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > I’m not too clear on your question, but you do this reformat from the > recovery partition. To get there, you restart your computer, and when you > hear the chime sound, immediately pre

Re: Problems saving attachments

Hi Ray. No, this is from the actual file menu, and save attachments dialog box. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com > On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:45,

Re: clean install

I’m not too clear on your question, but you do this reformat from the recovery partition. To get there, you restart your computer, and when you hear the chime sound, immediately press and hold Command + R for about ten seconds. Wait another 20 seconds or so and then turn on VO with command F5. Y

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

I have the standard 5G of storage in iCloud, and see this information as well. Then, just to the right of that, is this area of the screen which seems to act sticky in terms of the cursor, and it makes that very odd noise. I ought to record the noise somehow and attach an MP3 of it. To the rig

Pages - auto page numbering in footer

I’ve inserted a page number in the footer of the first page of my document, and then proceeded to write many more pages. Looking things over now, I see that each footer has a page number alright, but they don’t correspond to the actual page order. For example, page 2 will have “4” in the page

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

Hmmm. Very interesting. I cannot duplicate this. When I VO navigate around the iCloud pane, everything reads out normally. If I interact with the Services group, VO-right or VO-left around within this group, everything still reads out normally. Just to the left of the Manage button, in my c

Re: Airdrop: Mac1 sees Mac2, Mac2 can't see Mac1

Hi! Here is the link. dokterdok/Continuity-Activation-Tool · GitHub

Re: Wanting to totally empty my macbook airs harddrive before trying to sell it.

It’s a mid 2011. Am unsure of the exact specs of it but can get hold of them. I can’t do shipping abroad, simply because i don’t know how best to do it. I live in Sweden. Am about to figure out a price for it but i’ll get to that as well. Since i haven’t asked for permission from the mods to pos

question about Yofukoru

I use Yufukoru as my twitter client on the Mac. It works great as far as accessibility is concerned, but I have one question. If Twitter is particularly active, and VoiceOver continuously says how many rows are being added every time new tweets come in, this seems to prevent me from reading the

Waltr

Hi all, Just purchased Waltr. Put it simply it takes the hassle of adding music and videos to your iTunes library then syncing that to your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Totally accessible. Google for Waltr. Enjoy! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisi

Re: Problems saving attachments

Would I be correct in assuming that you are trying this from the attachment menu just to the left of the actual message text? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the

RE: Wanting to totally empty my macbook airs harddrive before trying to sell it.

Why you selling the mac book air and how much and which model -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 07:12 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Wanting to totall

clean install

hello,phil thanks for the information but ,how do i format the drive is it with command c and then start vo and pick your choice and then use the time machine to restore my files if this is wrong please help ,me with the right way. thanks in advance -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Airdrop: Mac1 sees Mac2, Mac2 can't see Mac1

That was my first thought, but one's 2012, the other is 2013, and I've Airdropped with both before. > On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:23 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Which mac is the oldest and how old is it? > I had problems with airdrop on my mid 2011 to my ios devices. > But i found something ca

Problems saving attachments

Hi all. I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this bug. I'm running the latest update to Yosemite, running an early 2011 macbook pro I am trying to save both multiple and individual attachments. If I have multiple attachments and want to save them in one go, hitting save attachments and selecting

Wanting to totally empty my macbook airs harddrive before trying to sell it.

Hi, i know this topic has recently been up for discussion but i missed the thread for it and so i’m afraid i’ll have to ask again. I want to sell my macbook Air but before i do, i want to clear out the contents of my hard drive and install the latest operating system. How do i go ahead doing tha

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

Yeah, I was able to jostle the cursor out of that weird screen zone, and I”m glad someone else has encountered it. Still want to know what it means—does it represent a data stream? is it a weird icon that has a fancy visual glitzy thing? Is that supposed to be what it sounds like inside a clo

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

Hi, Tim. Yes, I did consider an American civil-religious-calendar marketing ploy or conspiracy when I heard that noise, but rejected the notion after the realization that the aliens in charge of the Earth would never allow it. :) The gobble-gobble noise comes from whatever element is just to t

Re: How to locate and save any and all emails from a particular sender

Hi, You could do the Select All command, then press cmd-shift-s (or File, Save As) and save the messages to your Desktop. The messages will save in a TextEdit rtf document with each message starting on a new page. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Dec 1, 2014, at 06:18

iCloud credit card changes

Hi: I'm still running ML. I canot find under iCloud preferences where to change my credit card info for iCloud storage plan. I even tried in IOS 8.11, and the account section of iCloud won't let me edit the settings. My credit card is different under the iTunes account, so changing it there didn

RE: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

Hello Mark. After reading your post, I went into iCloud services and, to my surprise, I got the weird worborling sing you described. VoiceOver does not exactly crash but, if you cannot see the screen, it might as well, eh? (Smile). When you get this sound, wait a few second, and then press

Re: How to locate and save any and all emails from a particular sender

Thanks, Tim. Is there any way for me to copy and paste the messages, with all included information, including headers, date and time, etc., anywhere other than in a mail folder? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: A TuneIn Radio for the Mac

Hi, Actually, XBMC is accessible on the Mac. You have to get the TTS add on first, and put it in the add ons folder, but then it does work. Cheers Dave On 1 Dec 2014, at 11:09 am, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Wow! > Whats the name of that addon? > I actually tried xbmc for windows at a time

Re: Fujitsu ScanSnap | Accessibility of ScanSnap Manager with VoiceOver

Hi! Just a small question here. Is this scansnap only for files or can you scan from a scanner with it to? /A > 30 nov 2014 kl. 20:31 skrev Emilio : > > Hello Nick and others, > > In response to this thread, I have to agree that the Fujitsu ScanSnap product > line is a good method for scanning d

Re: Airdrop: Mac1 sees Mac2, Mac2 can't see Mac1

Anders, where did you find the continuity activation tool? I want to see if the airdrop problem i have on my mid 2011 IMac can be solved that way. Thanks. /Krister > 1 dec 2014 kl. 12:23 skrev Anders Holmberg : > > Hi! > Which mac is the oldest and how old is it? > I had problems with airdrop on

Re: Airdrop: Mac1 sees Mac2, Mac2 can't see Mac1

Hi! Which mac is the oldest and how old is it? I had problems with airdrop on my mid 2011 to my ios devices. But i found something called continuity activation tool and that solved the issue. / > 30 nov 2014 kl. 15:40 skrev Alex Hall : > > Hi all, > We have two Macbook Airs on the same network, b

Re: back to the Mac

Hi! I use transmission which i really like. But i seldom using it. I have been caught by the swedish police in 2010 and that was a one of my worst days ever. So i only use it if there are something i can’t get any other way. / > 30 nov 2014 kl. 13:24 skrev Ray Foret Jr : > > VLC is an alternativ

Re: A TuneIn Radio for the Mac

Hi! Wow! Whats the name of that addon? I actually tried xbmc for windows at a time but it wasn’t accessible. So i registered on the xbmc forums and asked them if they could implement accessibility. The answer was a direct no-no. But they also told me i could remotly handle it from my iphone. So i

Re: videos on wd mycloud with IOS?

Hi! Vlc can do it for you. I have it on my iphone and ipad mini. /A29 nov 2014 kl. 22:16 skrev erik burggraaf : > > Nop, Not really. I’m really asking if there is a workaround such as > installing a compatible player, upgrading to ios 8 to get shared video > codeks, or plans to put more video

Re: firefox

hey, Firefox does indeed exist for the Mac however the accessibility is zero. Voice-over cannot access menus nor does it even tell you there is a window. I spoke to a developer from the Firefox accessibility department who told me that Windows was its main focus in terms of accessibility. Google