VPN

2015-01-19 Thread Kliph
So, what does everyone use that is secure and accessible? I am on wifi 85 percent of the time, and want to make sure my info is private. Free or paid, and for both iPhone and mac. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: How do I ad a folder to the Doc?

2015-01-19 Thread Faisal ali
I should probably add that folders seem to act a bit strangely when they are accessed from the dock. When I added my dropbox for instance, the navigation was a bit off and sluggish. It was so bad that I eventually went back to accessing dropbox the conventional way. On Jan 19, 2015, at 2:08

VO Friendly games from the App Store?

2015-01-19 Thread Joseph
Hello List, Does anyone know of any VoiceOver friendly apps that can be obtained from the App Store for my MBP? Thanks. -- 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

Re: VO Friendly games from the App Store?

2015-01-19 Thread Joseph
Hello Jessica, Thanks a bunch. I’ll take a look at both of them. On Jan 19, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: The only one I've seen as of yet is one called silverdollar,, and change reaction, but I don't remember right off how much either of them cost. I've

Re: Dropbox alias was How do I ad a folder to the Doc?

2015-01-19 Thread Colin Matthews
Hi! Someone suggested a while ago to make a dropbox alias and put it on the desktop I’ve done this and use dropbox from there! Maybe putting the folder on the desktop might work well, if convenient. HTH Colin On 19 Jan 2015, at 23:41, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: I should probably

Re: VO Friendly games from the App Store?

2015-01-19 Thread Jessica Moss
The only one I've seen as of yet is one called silverdollar,, and change reaction, but I don't remember right off how much either of them cost. I've been trying to find a spider solitare game as well as a pinball game that may be accessible, but haven't come up with anything yet. On Jan 19,

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Donna, You have to highlight each piece of text and use command + and command - to adjust it so that they are all the same size. If you highlight the whole thing at once then all the fonts will simply adjust themselves in proportion to each other. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf On Jan

RE: Unlocking OS X Disk Utility’s hidden secrets

2015-01-19 Thread Debbie April Yuille
Hello Can you please re-send this, as there is no link to the article. Thanks Debbie Sent from my PC -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2015 5:44 AM To:

Re: Unlocking OS X Disk Utility’s hidden secrets

2015-01-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
A little googling turned up: http://www.macworld.com/article/2871803/unlocking-disk-utility-s-hidden-secrets.html CB On 1/19/15 1:44 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote: Unlocking OS X Disk Utility’s hidden secrets by MacDailyNews [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]One of OS X’s most versatile utilities

RE: Amadeus Pro keystrokes.

2015-01-19 Thread Esubalew Johnston
Hi, can you send those keystroke commands again please? I think you so much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Fleger Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 1:27 AM To: Mac Visionaries Visionaries Subject: Re:

IOS 8.1.2 question.

2015-01-19 Thread Jessica Moss
I recently tried to update to IOS 8.1.2, which I tried to do over wifi, only for it to do this crazy thing where the progress bar got stuck, just kept saying in progress, and my phone became unusable. Then when I tried connecting to itunes and tried to finish the update there, it not only

How to explain to Apple store that a credit card that Apple thinks has expired is perfectly valid

2015-01-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello folks. I have a strange problem here. It started with a message from Apple that there was something wrong with my payment information. I checked it and indeed i had forgotten to change the information about when the card was about to expire and its CVV code. I changed the necessary

Re: Problem with Speech category of VoiceOver Utility.

2015-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, The commands for changing speech attributes on the fly have always only worked on the default voice. As a bilingual Mac user, I always set the Content voice to Default so that I can read in either French or English and switch the voice rapidly. Perhaps when looking in the VoiceOver

Re: VPN

2015-01-19 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I've tried several over the years, and am really pleased with Hide My Ass, or HMA for short. It's not free, but there is both a Mac and iOS app. The iOS app is excellent, the mac app is a bit of a mess but of course in both cases, you can configure all the VPN connections you want to use

Re: Any disadvantages with file volt?

2015-01-19 Thread Jonathan Mosen
On my Macbook Air, I've not seen any degradation of performance with File Vault running. At least on this machine, I now need to press command-F5 to get speech at the log-in screen, and it only comes through the speaker, not headphones. But I don't really need speech to log in, and I'm happy to

Re: Amadeus Pro keystrokes.

2015-01-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Am 20.01.2015 um 00:17 schrieb Esubalew Johnston esubale...@gmail.com: Hi, can you send those keystroke commands again please? I think you so much. Here you are. I copy a Google translation at first and the list in german below. Of course there are a lot of mistakes in the translation but

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread David Griffith
Personally if I have text in multiple formats and sizes I find it much quicker to simply cut and paste it into TextEdit temporarily. In TextEdit press command shift T to force the copied text into plain text , removing all the various formatting attributes. Then you can, of course, just copy

How do I ad a folder to the Doc?

2015-01-19 Thread Joseph
The subject says it all. How do I ad a folder to the Doc? TIA. -- 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

How long to encrypt drive

2015-01-19 Thread Agent086b
Hi, I have switched on File Volt. The Mac is behaving like a dog. Things are slow to load. This is ok except when I look it says 305 days to encrypt drive! This must be wrong surely. Problem is I can’t turn off file volt until it finishes encrypting the drive. Any pointers about this? Thanks

Re: pdf

2015-01-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
One way to do it, if you are in preview, is to select all the text with command a. Then do come and see to copy the text to the clipboard. Then do command V when you get to the place where you want to paste it.I know that sometimes you can make a PDF file into text files, but the last time I

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, use vo-t. I don't know if this works on where the furor is, or on highlighted text, but it should give you the information you need. Be sure to be interacting with the field holding the text when you do this. On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Trying to

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread erik
Yes, its control option t. The text doesn't have to be selected in order for this to work, but if text is selected, this will be reported. Best, Erik Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon,

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Thank you, Alex!!! Best, Donna On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Yes, use vo-t. I don't know if this works on where the furor is, or on highlighted text, but it should give you the information you need. Be sure to be interacting with the field holding the

Re: How do I ad a folder to the Doc?

2015-01-19 Thread Alex Hall
If I recall correctly, the command you want is cmd-ctrl-shift-t, while focused on the folder. On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: The subject says it all. How do I ad a folder to the Doc? TIA. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Erik. I have an email that is composed of text cut and pasted from different sources. How do I change the font so that the whole message is one font? thanks, Donna On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:03 PM, e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote: Yes, its control option t. The text doesn't have to be

How long to encrypt drive

2015-01-19 Thread Agent086b
Hi, I have switched on File Vol -- 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 to this group, send email

RE: How to explain to Apple store that a credit card that Apple thinks has expired is perfectly valid

2015-01-19 Thread george b
Call my apple and ask for custermer service and they will fix it for you -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 00:24 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: How to

Re: Windows 7 CTRL-right and left arrow Function Problem

2015-01-19 Thread Juliette Swiler
I am having this same problem with System Access and running Windows 7 on a Mac Book with VMware Fusion when trying to edit text in Duxbury. Any ideas? On Jan 18, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Emilio Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am using VMWare Fusion 7 running

Re: Any disadvantages with file volt?

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Doesn't file vault slow down significantly the computer? There have been posts on this list implying that. It may have an effect on the way voiceover performs? Or am I mistaken? Andrew On 18 Jan 2015, at 20:30, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, Personally, I recommend using

Re: Keyboard Commander issue

2015-01-19 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Not sure but i have the same problem. I have set right command v to mute speech but sometimes it doesn’t work. /A 18 jan 2015 kl. 02:07 skrev Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com: Hey all, Long time user of keyboard commander and can’t for the life of me figure out when you have mail

Re: Any disadvantages with file volt?

2015-01-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In theory, File Vault shouldn’t affect performance of your computer or VO. In the initial encryption process, performance both of the System and VO could be slowed but after the encryption process has completed, there should be no adverse performance. Users will notice that the Login

Re: Problem with Speech category of VoiceOver Utility.

2015-01-19 Thread Phil Halton
Nope! it was always set to default in the content category, as with all the other categories as well. I didn’t change anything in the various categories. What is interesting to me is the fact that the Speech attribute hotkeys were saying the category name along with the attribute name, example

Re: Problem with Speech category of VoiceOver Utility.

2015-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, By changing all the categories except Default and Content to a different voice, I’ve made the VO-Cmd-Arrow keys say Default every time. However, the changes work for Content as well. Changes also work when I switch to a different voice. I think this must be a change with Yosemite

Re: Running Loops in Live Performance off of an iPad or Macbook

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin Shaw
Thank you CJ. Do you,or does anyone else on list, know of something that works similar to Main Stage for iPad? I’ll send Apple a note on the accessibility of Main Stage. Shame on them. Kevin On Jan 18, 2015, at 9:19 PM, CJ Daniel cj.bear.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin, Don’t know about

How do I set a different font for an email message in Apple Mail?

2015-01-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I see the format button in the toolbar, but it’s not behaving in a way that I expected. Can someone tell me how to do this? TIA, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Keyboard Commander issue

2015-01-19 Thread Brian Fischler
It must John. Thankfully someone pointed out to me that there is a preset command I was unaware of to toggle on and off numpad commander and it is VO and the clear button on the numpad. On Jan 17, 2015, at 11:26 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if Mail has the

Unlocking OS X Disk Utility’s hidden secrets

2015-01-19 Thread christopher hallsworth
Unlocking OS X Disk Utility’s hidden secrets by MacDailyNews [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility — a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the

Re: Keyboard Commander issue

2015-01-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I do know that option and numbers in an edit field produce characters, some of which are special characters. Whether this relates to your problem in mail I don't know. -- 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

Is there a shortcut key to make VO speak the font or other attributes of selected text?

2015-01-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Trying to figure out how to do this in the mail app. appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Donna -- 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

grammar and spelling with mail

2015-01-19 Thread Rebecca A Sabo
Hi all, How do you check spelling and grammar in sending a email on the mack? Becky Sabo -- 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

pdf

2015-01-19 Thread Rebecca A Sabo
Dear all, I have a bunch of pdf and there are some items that i need to copy to text edit or pages how do I do that ? Becky Sabo -- 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,