Uber's iOS app could have recorded your screen - CNET

2017-10-05 Thread M. Taylor
CNET News - Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 1:14 PM Uber's iOS app could have recorded your screen - CNET Uber's iOS app had permission to record users' screens. Uber Uber's iOS app had the ability to record users' screens, and anything on them, such as passwords or messages, security researchers

iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling in at least 6 different reports - CNET

2017-10-05 Thread M. Taylor
CNET News - Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 1:46 PM iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling in at least 6 different reports - CNET There have been at least six separate reports of iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling to the point of splitting open their enclosures since the phones first went on sale on Sept.

Safari reader navigation not working properly

2017-10-05 Thread jean parker
Hello All: I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but recently, Safari reader opens with the cursor located at the bottom of the page. I haven’t updated anything yet this change had suddenly occured. Someone on Applevis mentioned using vo plus function and left arrow to go to the top of

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-05 Thread Mary Otten
If you don't want to make it and text file, thereby losing formatting I assume, does this app deal with tables and voiceover, such that you can do rows and columns in a table mode? If not, bummer. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:44 PM, -dan d. wrote: >

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-05 Thread -dan d.
In place of preview I use skim which is a free open source pdf reading app. It is being actively developed and updated. It is smaller in size and faster and does a better pdf presentation in my experience then does preview. Once the pdf file is loaded into it; one can use the cmd-a and

Re: Attention, anyone using Text editor for programming code

2017-10-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, To add to Erik's instructions, the file should have a .htm or .html extension and if it is going to be a web-page and you can tell TextEdit to always open those files as code instead of as the web-page itself. In TextEdit Prefs, in the Open/Save tab, make sure that the Display HTML files

The best smartphones that still have a headphone jack

2017-10-05 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, I am posting the following article because it includes Apple products. Enjoy, Mark The best smartphones that still have a headphone jack These are the best phones that still have a headphone jack. By TJ Donegan , Reviewed.com. These are the best phones that still have a

Re: Attention, anyone using Text editor for programming code

2017-10-05 Thread Erik Burggraaf
You press control option shift M (vo shift M) on the file in finder. Choose open with. Choose text edit. While editing, keep both text edit and safari open. If text edit doesn't appear where I said it would, do the following. Press control option shift M (vo shift M) on the file in finder.

translating with Siri

2017-10-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello, am I remember correctly Apple announcing Siris ability to translate words or text in iOS 11 and High Sierra to other languages? Has anyone been successful translated using Siri? I’m not able to find the right syntax as it seems. Thanks and all the best Jürgen -- The following

Attention, anyone using Text editor for programming code

2017-10-05 Thread Sharon Hooley
Hi, I sent a message earlier asking how to open the context menu. I got the menu, but the option I wanted wasn’t there. I’m learning to use html. As you programmers probably know, once you save it and open it in Safari, it is no longer the code you see, but the results. I’m trying to

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Cary, of course it says check document now because that’s what it does. But because VO doesn’t read the highlighted text it seems to you nothing happened. Press VO + F6 after the announcement checking document now and you will hear the highlighted misspelled word. Open context menu and check

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-05 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi, Anders, Yes, Robobraille was definitely the site whose name I was trying to recall. The site has been around for seven or eight years now, and at least back in 2010, it was very good. Thanks so much for that piece of information! Take care, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 21:13, Anders

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I didn't mention that you just need to add the shift key to the combination that you're used to to use the method I was suggesting. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 5, 2017, at 11:20, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, Try using cmd-colon instead of

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try using cmd-colon instead of cmd-semi-colon. The cmd-colon will open a window and progress through the document much the same as cmd-semi-colon but allows for more detailed spell-checking options. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 5, 2017, at 05:30, kary johns

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-05 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Anne, No, I didn’t try that, but I will. Thank you very much, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:38, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > Have you tried just selecting all the text in the PDF document with Cmd-a and > pasting it into a TextEdit document? You can

Re: Sharing a folder between my windows 7 and my mac

2017-10-05 Thread Erik Burggraaf
Your Mac requires that the windows account you are signing in to have a proper username and password. You cannot use guest. You will need to make sure you have a password setup on your Windows 7 user account, and that your Windows 7 user account has full permission to access that shared Drive.

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kary, Have you tried Cmd-Semicolon? That’s my preferred way of spell checking anyhow. Cheers, Anne > On 5 Oct 2017, at 13:30, kary johns wrote: > > Thanks all for this. > Any suggestions on how I could get spell check working again though? > When ever I try it

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread kary johns
Thanks all for this. Any suggestions on how I could get spell check working again though? When ever I try it it just says check document now, and that’s it, even when I’ve deliberately spelt something wrong. Thanks for any thoughts. Kari, On 10/5/17, Anne Robertson wrote:

Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

2017-10-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kary, I reported the selecting text problem to Apple and they say it will be addressed quickly. As for the spell check with Cmd-colon, it’s working normally for me. Cheers, Anne > On 5 Oct 2017, at 02:22, kary johns wrote: > > hi all, > I updated to high

Pixel Buds translates voice, but it's not the first - CNET

2017-10-05 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, I am posting the following article because it includes Apple products. Mark Pixel Buds translates voice, but it's not the first - CNET CNET News - Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 3:02 PM Pixel Buds translates voice, but it's not the first - CNET These suckers look a lot better