Re: Upgrading to the released version of El Capitin.

I wouldn't trust installing my OS from bittorrent. How can you be sure it's not just legit but unmodified? I think Apple is taking the right approach. Sure things bog down once a year for a bit when a new release comes out but I wouldn't re architect the distribution model for that one anomaly

Re: OSX 10.11

If you go the "say" route you can embed commands in the text to change the speech. For example say "Hello [[pbas 60]]World" -o test.aac adjusts the base pitch up for World and writes it all out to a file called test.aac. Say doesn't appear to support directly writing mp3 but you can convert

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

Safari 9 under osx 10.10? I'm on 10.10 and my Safari is still 8.x while checking the App Store for updates shows everything is current other than not having installed 10.11. Is this something I need to manually install or should the automatic updated be picking this up? CB On 10/1/15 6:21

Re: Sorry for cross posting but i thought you'd might like to know this

Over time shouldn't the UI for the internet of things simply coalesce into a pile of apps for your iPhone? Stop making custom UI controllers/remotes and just make apps. Then accessibility would be more possible and you wouldn't need to find one of the 20 little remotes. For example, the

Re: Any good lyrics apps?

Hmmm. I thought lyrics were another one of those copyright mires that you can't really share without a whole lot of lawyers getting involved. Sure there are lyrics sites around the internet but I'm not clear that those are legit to begin with. CB On 9/29/15 12:00 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland

Re: Any good lyrics apps?

Most churches purchase something called a CCLI (Church Copyright License - ccli.com) which covers projection, song sheets, recording the service etc. So an iPhone app would need to pay some kind of fees to the copyright holder for the music and lyrics. That seems like a facet of the app which

Re: talking dashboard: the say ram script

from what I've read memory is very hard to measure in the new system. Not only do you have the usual virtual memory/swap but there is also now compressed memory so what's free and used is even more murky. About Tech has a brief explainer on compressed memory:

Re: Is there any way to save a Word or pages doc as RTF in Pages?

TF. Cheers, Anne On 22 Sep 2015, at 16:06, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: The documents in question are either Word or pages docs. I didn't think you could open those in Text Edit. Can you? Cheers, Donna On Sep 22, 2015, at 8:41 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macv

Re: Is there any way to save a Word or pages doc as RTF in Pages?

I think you are correct. Could you skip Pages and open your document in TextEdit and then export to RTF from there? CB On 9/22/15 9:26 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: It is not possible to either directly save a file in RTF format or export a file in RTF format. If this has changed in a later version

Re: Apple car, anyone?

Who says you need to own the thing yourself? If you could summon one in 10 minutes at will using an app from a fleet stored somewhere close by, wouldn't that suffice? Most cars sit most of the time so they should be a shared resource. The trouble is usually the last mile getting a taxi to your

Re: Need Unsubscribe and Subscribe Information

Hmmm. If you're on gmail then you "could" access it from multiple email clients as it is just iMap. In that setup if you delete a message on one client, it should go away on another as all the mail transactions are done on the server. It's the same thing if you had Apple Mail on your Mac and

Re: chromevox and google chrome? or reliable firefox?

pe and twitter. http://yourownpay.com/ On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:41 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote: Best version of Firefox is the latest version. It's been getting better but I still keep going back to Safa

Re: chromevox and google chrome? or reliable firefox?

Best version of Firefox is the latest version. It's been getting better but I still keep going back to Safari. I haven't had a need to use Chrome all that much. CB On 9/15/15 12:37 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: Good Day: I hope this message finds each and everyone of you well! I'm writing as

Re: Apple keyboard on ubuntu system not writing correct characters.

On another mailing list they suggested doing Option+7 to type a pipe. I have no way to check that as I'm on a US keyboard. CB On 9/15/15 7:05 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Maybe be. I haven’t thought of that as i am so into swedish layout so i don’t know. But i can absolutely try that.

Re: mac update app bundle?

There's a lot of apps there. Any one in particular you were asking about? CB On 9/15/15 3:11 AM, Maria Chapman wrote: HI. Does anyone know the accessibility of any of the below apps? Just received this email today but Don’t really want to purchase any apps without knowing if they are

Re: iPhone 6S?

+1 Having destroyed two iPhone by swimming with them over the years I would pay extra for a waterproof phone. It doesn't have to be scuba certified, just good enough for a dip in the pool without croaking. Yes, I know there are waterproof cases but they usually make the phone large and

Re: urgent! Thorough and Good back up programs

There should always be an su or sudo command available, even if you are root. To find out who you are logged in as you can do "whoami". The root user account is turned off by default so maybe that is interfering with what you're doing. If your account has admin rights, often times you can do

Re: MODERATOR REQUEST: iPhone 6S?

Short version - Me too Longer version VoiceOver was introduced April 2005, 10 years ago, as part of OSX 10.4. MacVisionaries, the mailing list, was set up around that same month, best as I can tell. It started as a Mac-only list because it predates the introduction of the iPhone (June 2007),

Re: iPhone 6S?

Only major thing would be battery life. Keep all those features rolling for a week on a charge would be nice. Probably some new even faster networks will be coming down the pipe but, yes, they seem to have completed addressing all the major limitations. CB On 9/14/15 8:48 AM, Scott Granados

Re: Apple TV-No Optical Port

sep. 2015 kl. 05:21 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>>: Wooo! I don't have a 7.1 capable receiver, but oh, man that would be awesome, if I did! Chris. - Original Message ----- *From:*'Chris Blouch' via Ma

Re: iPhone 6S?

people used with their note takers. They might be already at a point where we need some kind of breakthrough in batteries to increase the time we get by increasing the power without changing the size. - Original Message - From: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <m

Re: right mouse click

Lowering the tracking speed on the trackpad might also make it less susceptible to moving off target when trying to do a control-click. You can set that in the trackpad preferences. CB On 9/14/15 4:40 PM, george b wrote: Go into system preffs. Go to mouse and track pad Change the right lower

Re: Apple keyboard on ubuntu system not writing correct characters.

Yes it is, at least on US keyboards. So that's the rightmost key in the row above the return key. CB On 9/14/15 3:00 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I thought the virtical bar was shift backslash. Chris - Original Message - From: "Anders Holmberg" To:

Re: Apple TV-No Optical Port

The new Apple TV, which isn't even available to purchase yet, has dropped the optical audio out. So the only option is to get your audio via HDMI or send it to an airport express with optical audio outputs. They did add 7.1 surround sound if you're really into that home theater sound setup.

Re: Numbers Cell Format Help.

That was probably me. Yes, it is "Numeral System" not "Numerical System." Some kind of communications issue between my ears and my fingers :) CB On 9/11/15 1:25 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: For me, it worked with the cell format set to ‘Numeral System’ and the places set to 6. I don’t have an

Re: some i tunes questions

One handy bit is to choose Show Duplicate Items from the view menu. No guarantee that every duplicate is found or that the flagged ones are actually duplicates, but it can reduce the size of the haystack you need to wade through. CB On 9/9/15 12:52 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: Hi, I have

Re: Question about bluetooth

I think on Honda, Ford and some other cars, once you're paired you can still use your phone to do all the controls, it just uses the car's sound and mic for audio. Easy enough to try out. Also many car bluetooth setups have just one mic and it's aimed at the driver so the caller won't be able

Re: Numbers Cell Format Help.

Interesting. It worked here for me. What version of Numbers and OSX? CB On 9/8/15 5:43 PM, Emilio wrote: Hello Chris, Appreciate your reply to my message. I tried your method, but that did not work. However, a solution I did find that does solve my problem is changing the data area to text,

Re: A Question About Purchasing Descriptive Video Service Enabled Movies from iTunes

Last I checked the only titles I found in the iTunes store with DVS were Pixar/Disney ones, and just five at that: Nemo, Monsters, Up, Brave and Cars2. At least those were the only ones that said one way or the other that they had DVS. I sounds like these are special editions as the titles say

Re: Numbers Cell Format Help.

You were close. In the Cell tab you want to change the Data Format to Numerical System. It defaults to Base 10 but you want to change the next input, Places, to six. That should keep your leading zeros. CB On 9/8/15 5:03 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Hello everyone, I thought I would try to

Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions

aired, it can be done while still logged in to the running system. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 2, 2015, at 08:53, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:

Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions

Blouch' via MacVisionaries <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 10:53 AM *Subject:* Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions

Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions

If the OS is up and running you can run disk utility and do a disk permission repair on the running system. Not sure if it is able to fix as many things as when booted from another system but you do have the option. You can't do a disk repair on the currently running system. CB On 9/2/15

Eight terminal utilities every osx command line user should know

Thought this was an interesting article: http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/ CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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

Re: Problems with Mac DVD Ripper Pro

There is also RipIt which will make a playable backup of your DVD onto your hard drive. From there you could probably use handbrake or the like to extract the audio. RipIt is $25. http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/ Handbrake is free https://handbrake.fr CB On 8/31/15 8:38 PM,

WebAIM screen reader survey #6

Noticed this just came out on Friday. It's one of the few bits of field research I know of that tries to measure actual usage of screen readers, platforms and other related demographic data. There were over 2500 respondents from around the world although a bit more than 2/3 came from North

Re: Moves iTunes library

. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 8/30/2015 9:48 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Option held down during launch will tell the app to prompt for the iTunes library location. Some people have

Re: Synching iPhone 5s with new Imac

I don't have an iMac but I think all the ports are on the lower back of the screen. If you are facing the front of the computer the ports would be to the right of the stand and power connector. Moving away from the power connector the first port should be an Ethernet connector followed by one

Re: I discovered a new short cut today.

Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com On Aug 30, 2015, at 11:52 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: It's easy to forget a bunch of the finder "Jump to" commands. If you move to t

Re: I discovered a new short cut today.

It's easy to forget a bunch of the finder Jump to commands. If you move to the menubar (VO-M) and arrow right to the Go menu you'll find a whole pile of them. Command-Option-A for the applications folder and command-option-u for the utilities folder are ones I use all the time. CB On 8/30/15

Re: Moves iTunes library

Option held down during launch will tell the app to prompt for the iTunes library location. Some people have found that when doing a VO-space in the dock to launch iTunes they held control+option a bit too long and accidentally triggered the iTunes library prompt. So that makes it a bit easier

Re: all in 1 pc or I mac that is the question.

Nope, Apple doesn't allow it as per their license but lots of folks have made hackintoshes. The recipies I've read made it sound rather painful and buggy. You have to have pretty decent hardware and OSX assumes certain things so there's lots of driver fiddling to make it all work well. For

Re: Accessible remote login

I tried using Apple's screen sharing and it does not send audio between my two Macs. So while connected to the remote machine I was able to turn on voiceover and do all the usual things but that audio never made it back through. Wish you could send your audio from a Mac to another Apple device

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

guys. On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:20 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: That's not bad at all. There are some hidden things that can take up space. How are you finding the free space count? There are a few hidden things that can still throw off the overall

Re: Trasferring file.

Right. In case you were not already familiar, most firewalls simply block all in-bound traffic unless it's in response to some outbound traffic. So if you make a request via your web browser, the response from the web server is allowed back in. If some random snooper comes knocking they get

Re: Trasferring file.

This makes it difficult because you and they are probably behind a firewall which is going to stop you from directly connecting to each other. You might be better off trying to use some chat app like the built-in messages, Adium or Skype and using their file transfer facilities. Even then,

Re: Trasferring file.

If the other machine has remote login turned on in sharing and it's not behind a firewall then you should be able to use the sftp command from terminal to connect to the other machine and put the file directly. Many of the chat clients also support direct peer to peer file transfers. CB On

Re: Colin Matthews

Went back through the mail archives and he went by a number of various email addresses but the name was always Colin Matthews Last post was July 31. Red.Falcon joined the list on 8/4/2010. He was also a regular poster on mac-acc...@mac-access.net CB On 8/18/15 11:36 AM, Matthew Dierckens

Re: macbook requirements to run osx 10.10?

From Apple's requirements: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475 It sounds like OSX 10.10 Yosemite will run on a MacBook late 2008 or newer so if this is a 2011 model you should be good to go. Apples technical specs don't list a 2011 model but there is a 2010:

Re: pages and text edit question

In the latest Pages, go to the toolbar and then action the last radio button to show the Document settings instead of format settings. Stop interacting and VO-right twice to get to the Formatter group. Interact with that and there are two radio buttons at the top, Document and Section. Make

Re: Yosemite 10.10.5 and IOS 8.4.1 released

When I go to the app store on my osx 10.10.4 machine it says there are no updates available. Maybe they are rolling it out in waves and my n umber hasn't come up yet. CB On 8/14/15 2:47 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: i don't have any updates yet. i am still on the beta 3 on the public

Re: Where are the documents that we save?

Another common location is the Documents folder which you can find in the dock right before the trash. CB On 8/13/15 9:48 AM, Phil Halton wrote: When you save a document, you have the opportunity to specify where on the Mac it should be saved i.e., in what folder. If you don't remember what

Why you shouldn't freak out about scary sounding exploits

Just read this article and found it interesting. The author covers the recent OSX exploits and why folks shouldn't get all worked up about them. http://www.macworld.com/article/2956628/security/why-you-shouldnt-freak-out-about-this-weeks-scary-sounding-mac-exploits.html CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ --

Re: Why you shouldn't freak out about scary sounding exploits

With the complexity of OSX and iOS I think if somebody figures out the right combination of tweaks to bypass security they should tell Apple right away and hold off a bit before telling the world. At least give them a chance to fix it before giving a free hand up to the bad guys. Of course

Re: Why you shouldn't freak out about scary sounding exploits

, Shaf wrote: Why should I tell Apple of exploits if they don't pay me?? They should introduce a bug bounty program. Otherwise I have no interest in keeping their bugs confidential. On 8/13/2015 7:10 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: With the complexity of OSX and iOS I think

Re: one more printer wuersltion

Is that the same as an HP LaserJet 2100 series? If so they have cartridges on Amazon for about $25. Here is one: http://www.amazon.com/HP-LaserJet-2100-Series-C4096A-COM/dp/B001DQDI18 CB On 8/10/15 8:51 AM, Jim Gatteys wrote: Hi all! One more printer question. I Have this laser printer

Re: inaccessible power point on mac

I have run into PowerPoints which were nothing more than slideshows of giant bitmap images of text. Could be you've run into one of those. Are you sure there is actually text and not just a big picture of text on the slides? CB On 8/4/15 4:24 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: Hello, I am trying to

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? CB On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: Hi everyone, I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like. I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space freed up like I expected. Only a

Re: how to get maps from humanware for trekker breeze downloaded

Do you know the URL of the download? I don't have any experience with the device but you should be able to FTP down files from anywhere. CB On 7/30/15 5:52 PM, Scott Berry wrote: Hello there, I was wondering can anyone tell me how to use Safari to get files from an ftp site to download. I

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? CB On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: Hi everyone, I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like. I’ve just deleted several gigs

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

, Libraries is 5.17gb, system folder is 9.81gb, and my users folder is 17.43gb. Total space used should be down around 50gb, any ideas guys/gals? I’m still showing 81gb used. Any ideas? On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:25 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: login on a remote disc

and cmd-k can be used easily for logging into these network connections. Later… On Jul 29, 2015, at 3:02 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Network drives should show up just link physical local drives. You can select them and then eject them

Re: login on a remote disc

, William Windels Op 30-jul.-2015, om 20:36 heeft 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com het volgende geschreven: Hmm. I do network time machine backups to another Mac which shares out a disk image on its external drive so I can control the amount of space time machine

Re: login on a remote disc

-machine as a local folder structure with all the backups, it would be nice to hear of you. Many thanx for all the given reactions already. William Windels Op 30-jul.-2015, om 16:57 heeft 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com het volgende geschreven: Good point. I can't

Re: login on a remote disc

Network drives should show up just link physical local drives. You can select them and then eject them with command-E. After that you can use command-K to connect to another (or the same) server again with the same (or different) credentials. You can't connect to the same server multiple times

Re: Unsuccessful attempt, setting up Mail Account

38.1.0 which I think is the latest. CB On 7/28/15 2:36 PM, Sunshine wrote: what version did you try for the mac? On 7/28/2015 10:33 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: I think thunderbird is built on some shared bits with Firefox so it's not really accessible but hopefully someday

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

While an electrical engineer might find some difference, for most people the audio is the same on all Mac models. Disappointing about the lack of a quad core mini. Didn't realize Apple slipped that in. They are on newer CPUs now which are, per CPU, faster but if you're doing something CPU

Re: Unsuccessful attempt, setting up Mail Account

Can you manually set it up by putting in the incoming and outgoing gateways and such? CB On 7/27/15 4:22 AM, Christopher Gilland wrote: Guys, This is honestly not a terribly big deal, as I practically haven’t used this account in literally probably over a year, but I know it’s still

Re: Unsuccessful attempt, setting up Mail Account

Blouch' via MacVisionaries mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 9:58 AM *Subject:* Re: Unsuccessful attempt, setting up Mail Account Can you manually set it up

Re: how to stop pitures to show up.

I didn't notice a reply to this one. Not sure how you do it on the beta but for the current version of OSX the secret seems to be to use the Image Capture app in your Mac's Applications folder with your phone plugged in. In the app you should find a table which has your iphone selected.

Re: Unsuccessful attempt, setting up Mail Account

9:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: OK, thanks. Chris. - Original Message - *From:* 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 10:49 AM *Subject:* Re

Re: Express or extreme

From Apple's site they describe the headphone jack as analog/optical so that means you'll need a mini TOSlink to regular TOSlink to connect it to your receiver. https://www.apple.com/airport-express/specs/ CB On 7/24/15 9:52 AM, Jesus Garcia wrote: Thank you, that is what I thought, one

Re: Mac and iPhone question

You might want to play with the Automatically include photos from setting for your device on iTunes. I have mine set to Last Year but you might try Last 6 Month or something less to get everything to fit. Then, when you sync, it will remove any photos or videos from your phone that are past

Re: Large Numbers file and VoiceOver

That's pretty big and if you run out of real RAM OSX will try to fake it by swapping pages of memory out to disk. Once that happens your machine will turn to sludge. On OSX 10.9 or later you can go to terminal and type sysctl -a vm | grep vm.mem which will give you the memory pressure. I'm

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

I would modify this to say that recent model iOS devices probably have the CPU to do the job but there is a cost to battery life when CPU load goes up. I'm sure somebody at Apple made the call to say that this capability was not worth the impact to battery life. Without knowing what that

El Capitan's System Integrity Protection

Interesting article talks about the new tighter security which locks down more areas that most apps shouldn't be messing with. This hopefully makes the old Repair Permissions routine less commonly needed and the system will automagically purge stuff that shouldn't be there from certain

Re: Questions about programs

Note that there are a number of these shortcuts under the Go menu, which also lists command-shift-U to bring up the utilities folder. That folder is inside the apps folder and includes less commonly used apps such as disk utility for formatting and partitioning drives. CB On 7/17/15 3:58 PM,

Re: web-based text editors and VoiceOver

Interesting. I'm helping some developers of a webmail system and they are going to give CKEditor a try because it claims to be very accessible. I wonder if the site you are having trouble with is using the latest version? CB On 7/10/15 8:16 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: This sound like a comms

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

Even though I'm in the states I have my voice set to the male UK English just because I find it more intelligible through the little speakers. Ask siri about the three laws or robotics or how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood :) CB On 7/16/15 7:12 AM,

Looking for Gary Robledo

Sorry to spam the list but there is an issue with his account, I've emailed him twice with no response but he is still active in discussions. Gary, please contact me off list as Google has your email address listed as bouncing. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are

VM insert key on OSX tutorial

Marco Zehe from Mozilla wrote up his solution to getting the caps lock key to act as both the VO keys on OSX and the Insert key when running VMWare with Windows and Jaws or NVDA. This seems to come up pretty often so hopefully folks can keep this link around and just paste it into the message

Re: Apple TV Connection Question

The AppleTV box has five connectors across the back. Power, HDMI with a micro-USB just below it, Optical Audio and Ethernet. The optical out is the little square kind you find on most digital receivers. CB On 7/15/15 2:04 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: Hi Tim, what is the setup you have going

Re: Apple TV Connection Question

Just like the old Mac Mini question, will the Apple TV operate without being connected to HDMI? I've never tried that with optical outputs only. CB On 7/14/15 9:28 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: OK, so it looks like if you want a soundbar, your best bet would be to go optical out of the

Re: parallels 10 accessibility

up. CB On 7/13/15 12:15 AM, Juan Hernandez wrote: 3 cores and 16 gb ram. On Jul 12, 2015, at 8:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: How much RAM and CPU have you allocated to your virtual machine? CB On 7/12/15 9:50 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote

Re: another mail client?

Thunderbird lags behind Firefox for accessibility. They are just getting going on making it accessible so some elements are readable but there are empty tables where the message list and folders should be. I'm hoping they will get that working someday soon. CB On 7/13/15 1:57 AM, Sean Murphy

Re: proposal: the macvisionaries bug replication thread

Cara Quinn is the moderator but I don't thing you need her approval. The list is self selecting and people will vote with their feet by participating in a particular discussion thread, or not. I applaud leadership by doing. Worst case is the thread dies of natural causes. CB On 7/12/15 9:47

Re: parallels 10 accessibility

How much RAM and CPU have you allocated to your virtual machine? CB On 7/12/15 9:50 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote: It is really laggy when using jaws, whinnies, or nvda. I need to use visual studio for work a lot, and well it just lags really bad. use of the keyboard feels very sluggish. I know

Re: iMac digital output

This is correct. I use this setup on my MacMini. Apple has had the optical output in the headphone jacks for many years. You'll get full 5.1 surround sound off a DVD playing on your mac this way. The keywords to search for are mini toslink which is the optical connector that is shaped like a

iOS on the MacVisionaries list

Pasting from my post back in April: This comes up every now and then. Short answer is that the list is what folks make of it. Long answer is that the name is probably a bit of an anachronisim at this point. The list was founded years before iPhone OS became iOS and then became accessible

Re: iOS 9 public beta to be released today – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

I suspect that somewhere along the way to getting iOS Beta you agreed to abide by Apple's terms and conditions, including keeping what you find out to yourself. So while moderation of this list is a light touch with only content considered harmful to other members really getting any attention,

Re: Flash Player

stations in my browser. Is there an alternative? I have flip4mac on my macbook pro as well. Will this deliver what I want? Andrew On 8 Jul 2015, at 17:50, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: With Flash only being used in the browser, it might make sense

Re: Flash Player

With Flash only being used in the browser, it might make sense to just disable it in the Security settings of Safari in the Allow Plug-ins Website Settings. It actually allows you block the Adobe Flash Player generally while allowing it to work on certain other sites such as youtube.com. CB

Re: upgrading to osx 10.4

I had the same problem. The 10.10.4 update didn't show up in the app store for either of my machines. I ended up just manually downloading the update installer from the Apple web site here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1819?locale=en_US I updated one machine but not the other yet. Install

Re: One iTunes Library for two computers, can this be done?

So the feature is gone or you're saying you no longer need it? It still seems to be there on 12.1.2. So if all my music was on one machine then I could turn on sharing and be able to access the tracks in that library from any other device on my home network, although I could only add tracks on

Re: apple care

I know in the past I've been able to visit an Apple store and get a phone exchanged for less than the cost of a new device. I had forgotten it was in my pocket and went swimming with it. At the time I think they charged me about $150-200 and I told them exactly what happened. That's been a few

Re: Need Help Switching Email Addresses

I sent you email to verify joining with the new address (always have to check to make sure it's not a spammer). Hadn't heard back from you yet. CB On 7/2/15 10:22 AM, Josh wrote: Hello Everyone, I have set up an email address strictly dedicated to apple to try and lift some of the load

Re: satisfied with the new garageband

I've never played with the pitch correction but I thought all the studios use autotune to get those singers on key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune Some folks even complain when they hear live vocalists now days because they've become so accustom to autotuned perfect pitch. I thought

Re: Building a website, what's the best way?

like a lot, but when you actually start sending data out it ends up that what you thought of as a lot isn't anymore. On 6/24/2015 9:53 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Depends on what kind of pages and amount of traffic you will be serving. If it's mostly text content you won't need

Re: Building a website, what's the best way?

sites are currently hosted with a group called A2 Hosting, but I've been wondering about hosting them myself. Cheers, Donna On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: Remote Control for Mac?

Microsoft Remote Desktop is free but it only lets you connect to Windows boxes from your Mac, not the other way around and not Mac to Mac. CB On 6/22/15 3:40 PM, 'Kevin Cussick' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hello, I am sure on the app store microsofts remote desktop can be bought or maybe

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