Confusion about Drives for Macs

Hi, Someone mentioned drives, about booting and not needing to boot. Are we referring to CD/DVD drives or just an external drive for storage? As far as USB devices like these go, do macs install drivers within minutes like they do in Windows and no need to boot/reboot? Thanks, Sharon H.

VO answer to insert minus in JaWS or insert plus in Window-Eyes

The subject line says it all. I still have not found a VoiceOver equivalent to insert minus in JAWS or insert plus in Window-Eyes. What does one do in VO in those situations where those keys are useful for reading something? Sandy -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: VO answer to insert minus in JaWS or insert plus in Window-Eyes

VO+command+f5 will route the mouse to the VoiceOver cursor, though often the mouse is already configure to follow it. You can turn on speak mouse after delay in the VoiceOver options. I don't think this will work as well for you as the Windows Sr. do since they use an intercept into the

Re: Smart TVs

Hi Phil, we have a Panasonic TV which is very good. We can navigate the program guide and hear what's on. When we change input, for example to the WII, the Apple TV or the Blu-Ray player, the voice output speaks the output we're on. And when we select a channel, we're told the channel name,

Re: Apple music on the Mac

Did you get this figured out Mary? > On Dec 1, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Does anyone know of documentation or even a podcast, if push comes to shove, > that explains using Apple music on the Mac? I have no problem with it on my > phone or my iPad. But I am

Re: Showing all volumes on external drive on desktop

I have an external USB hard drive which is partitioned into four volumes, and when I plug it in to the Mac all four volumes appear on the desktop. Sent from my IPhone > On Dec 14, 2015, at 3:11 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > Hi, > > If I connect an external drive which has

Re: Smart TVs

So one question is where do you want your smarts? If you're going with an AppleTV, do you really need anything but a dumb display? Unless there is something that you're itching for on the TV itself then you might want to save your money and let AppleTV be your TV's brain. That said, AppleTV

Re: Help witth apple script

It might be better to use expect I am not sure if this is provided with macOS also I did not get to look at the scripting dictionary for Terminal, it might have expect and send commands like expect does. I also remember a terminal like program that was more functional than trrminal. Jonathan

Re: my impressions of OSX 10.11.2 so far

Hi jeff, I've noticed some strange things also. When this happens I just go to doc and back to desk top and it corrects itself for a while! Not sure why yet but this kicks it in the focus pants! :) YMMV Chuck CHUCK REICHEL soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com www.SoundPictureRecording.com

Re: my impressions of OSX 10.11.2 so far

Hi Chuck, Thanks! I'll give that a try. Jeff On 12/14/15, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: > Hi jeff, > I've noticed some strange things also. > When this happens I just go to doc and back to desk top and it corrects > itself for a while! > Not sure why yet but this kicks

my impressions of OSX 10.11.2 so far

Hi, Well its been like 4 days since I upgraded from Yosemite to 10.11.2. Everything seems to be working fine... Except, I have a couple of mac app store apps that seem to freeze at times. I figured the apps I downloaded from other locations would be the trouble makers, but I'm finding that's not

Re: Smart TVs

I would check in to what Samsung has to offer. The Apple TV is a good add on to any TV for the spoken functionality and or you an go the Nexus Player route or chrome cast and go via droid. Keeping it on topic for here though Apple TV is very good you might just go with that and buy a decent

Re: Partition an external drive

Hello: I’m sorry, I should have been more specific. I know about disc Utility and choosing my drive and the partition tab under the tool bar. I don’t understand the new lay out and can’t find where to choose how many partitions I want. All I see is partition pie chart view group

Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

Hi, Since the latest upgrade to El Capitan 10.11.2, when I launch Safari or Chrome, or when changing pages in either browser, VoiceOver repeats ad infinitum the percentage of the page loading. So it will keep on repeating 90% or 78 % and it's like this. It doesn't happen on each page I go to

Re: Partition an external drive

Hello Patricia, If you would bear with me till some time tomorrow. I' will be partitioning a new disc tomorrow for the first time on El Capitan. Hopefully I will be able to give you some tips if I succeed. Best wishes Andrew > On 14 Dec 2015, at 17:21, Patricia Solis

Showing all volumes on external drive on desktop

Hi, If I connect an external drive which has several partitions, will all these partitions show up on the desktop? Is there a way of making sure that they do show up? I would like to partition an external drive into at least two, so that one of them could be my back up volume for

Re: Showing all volumes on external drive on desktop

Hi Andrew, Make sure external disks show up by using Finder Preferences, and all the partitions should become visible. I personally like to show all disks, i.e. check all the drives in Preferences. This makes it easier to find them and verify they’re connected. Time Machine doesn’t show

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

I'd just compress it first and then segment it afterwards. You can compress the folder or file in the finder without too much trouble. To break it into chunks I'd do that in terminal. Launch terminal and cd to wherever the zip file is. If it was on your desktop you would do "cd ~/Desktop".

Re: Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

it's on the configuration of your voice over setting. go to voice over preferences then web, the web page loading, then you can change this what ever you want. > Il giorno 14 dic 2015, alle ore 5:59 PM, Andrew Lamanche ha > scritto: > > Hi, > > Since the latest upgrade to El

How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

Hi guys. Well, the subject says it all, I think. I need an application that will allow me to create compressed files and be able to specify a certain file size. For those of you who use windows something like winrar or similar. Any help is very much appreciated. Nektarios. -- The following

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

Hay Chris. That was not what I expected as a solution but I like it. I will certainly try that. Although, It would be a lot easier if I had a graphical user interface to deal with this problem. Thanks again. Nektarios. > On 15 Dec 2015, at 00:03, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >