Identifying posters to mailing lists in Mac Mail

Hi, I am running the latest version of Yosemite and Apple Mail on a Macbook Pro. I am a member of some NFB lists, and whenever I receive emails from those lists, the list is announced as the sender rather than the poster. This doesn’t happen in Outlook 2013 under Windows. Does anyone have

Re: RNIB Overdrive syncing question

Hi Daniel, Do you mean being able to resume playback on the Mac from where you left off on your iDevice? If so, this is a limitation in the Mac Overdrive program - you can’t do it. Cheers, Ed On 28 Jul 2015, at 12:21, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@icloud.com wrote: Dear all, since last

Re: RNIB Overdrive syncing question

book sellers who also use the Overdrive platform. Cheers, Ed On 28 Jul 2015, at 20:48, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Edward yes, that's exactly what I meant but I'm glad to know that it's a limatation that I wasn't going mad trying to get it to sync from iPhone to Mac

Re: RNIB Overdrive syncing question

No worries, hopefully Overdrive will fix the Mac software at some point. Cheers, Ed On 28 Jul 2015, at 21:23, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Edward, thanks for your straight to the point answer. At least I know that PC is out of the question then. I wouldn't meet

Re: RNIB Overdrive syncing question

...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i’ve closed the app from the app switcher but for me the book is still there. On 28 Jul 2015, at 20:48, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Edward yes, that's exactly what I meant but I'm glad to know that it's a limatation that I wasn't going mad trying

Expanding a Twitter conversation in Yorufukuru

Hi, When using yorufukuru, is there a way of reading the replies to someone’s Tweet in the app without having to go to the Twitter site? I’m talking about replies to tweets of people I follow rather than replies to me. Cheers, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Introduction and some questions

Hi Dewald, Good to have you on the list. The Mac often displays warning messages in what Voiceover describes as System Dialogs. These can range from backups not having been performed for a few days, through to low battery notifications. In short, they’re worth dealing with. In order to get

Error when streaming NFB convention

Hi, I get the following error on both my Macs when trying to stream the NFB Convention using the iTunes feed at https://nfb.org/convention-streaming-schedule: This webpage has content that requires an Internet plugin This page contains content of “audio/x-scpls” type. You do not have the

Re: Error when streaming NFB convention

Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com mailto:ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I get

Siri identifying songs and Apple Music

Hi, Given that Siri can identify playing songs, I was wondering whether iOS 8.4 would let you instruct Siri to add a playing song to your Apple Music library once you’d asked her to identify it, without having to go into Apple Music later and search for it. I haven’t been anywhere I can test

Re: Apple Music Offline Listening

, sorting my music library by date and downloading each of the tracks separately Sent from my iPhone On 04-Jul-2015, at 12:46 am, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It sounds as though you’re in the right view. Maybe try opening the action menu, then arrow down and back up

Re: Is There An Easier Way of Interacting With Apple Music?

Hi Shawn, Further to Chris’s post, I’d recommend using VO+end to move directly to the HTML content rather than repeated presses of VO right arrow. Cheers, Ed On 4 Jul 2015, at 07:42, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: Don't tab; use the vo keys to navigate to the HTML

Re: Apple Music Offline Listening

from specific view? That is, the new, radio, or for you views? Sent from my iPhone On 03-Jul-2015, at 11:30 am, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For me, it’s the top option in the action menu on albums. Cheers, Ed On 3 Jul 2015, at 06:40, venky...@gmail.com wrote

Most efficient way to jump to search results in iTunes

Hi, This is a bit of a basic question, but what’s the quickest way to jump from the search field to the search results in iTunes on the Mac? Currently I type in my search query and press enter, use VO+shift+up arrow to stop interacting, use VO+End to jump to the bottom of the screen which

Re: here is an extremely! in depth walkthrough of Apple Music on the Mac with ITunes

Hi Chris, I’d be very surprised if they removed Internet Radio because they’d introduced iTunes Radio. Bear in mind that Internet Radio is a means by which you can access thousands of different radio stations, many of which don’t play music. Still, I guess you never know though. Cheers, Ed

Question about Apple Music/For You on the Mac

Hi, When I go to the ‘For You’ tab of Apple Music on iOS, I’m presented with a list of things that Apple Music presumably thinks that I might want to listen to. However, when I click the equivalent radio button on the Mac, the Apple Music HTML content remains empty until I search for

Re: Apple Music Offline Listening

on show action menu, I just have add to and share as the options Add to shows up in the playlists in my library Sent from my iPhone On 03-Jul-2015, at 4:45 am, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again Chris, I have just discovered you can shortcut the steps around

Re: Apple Music Offline Listening

Hi again Chris, I have just discovered you can shortcut the steps around interacting with the table and selecting the track. Instead of clicking on the track, there is an unlabelled button above the name, which is a play button. Just hit that, and the LCD section populates. Cheers, Ed On

Re: Apple Music Offline Listening

Hi Chris, Apologies if someone else has already answered. I’ve managed to add individual tracks to my music. I’m not sure if there’s an easier way than the one I found, but this is what I did. Your steps 1 to 8 match mine. I then play the song. If the song is playing, you can navigate up to

Facebook on OS X, seeing comments on stories

Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before. I’m using Facebook.com on my Mac running Yosemite/Safari. I can use Facebook’s keyboard shortcuts to navigate between stories on my newsfeed. However, I don’t seem to be able to read other people’s comments on stories. If I interact with a

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

Hi Kawal, Just tried it on the Mac and it’s working fine here. I’m running Yosemite and using Safari. Cheers, Ed On 24 May 2015, at 20:29, Kawal Gucukoglu kgli...@icloud.com wrote: Hi. Can anyone tell me if anyone has tried playing their audible books on the Mac by going into their

Re: Macbook Air suddenly slow to boot up

to perform this several times until you are successful. It can be tricky. Good luck, Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward Green Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:23 AM To: macvisionaries

Macbook Air suddenly slow to boot up

Hi, My 2012 Macbook Air has suddenly become slow to boot up. I am running Yosemite and have the hard drive encrypted. I used to be able to enter the password a couple of seconds after the startup sound, but since last week, I have had to wait around half a minute before the password box

Automatically enabling and disabling Quick Nav when apps gain focus

Hi, I want to set up my Mac so that the state of the quick nav toggle is changed automatically when apps gain focus. I want it to be on in Safari, and off in Mail. I tried to create an activity associated with the Mail program, in which I disabled quick nav. However, when Mail gains focus,

Annoying problem with IMAP account in Apple Mail

Hi, I’m having an annoying problem with an IMAP account in Apple Mail on a 2013 MacBook Pro with retina display running Yosemite. It used to work fine, but all of a sudden, it stopped sending and receiving messages. What’s more, if I delete messages from a folder they appear to be gone, but

Re: Message rules problem

Hi Daniel, Not sure if it’s relevant, but lots of people on lists I’m on are having horrendous problems with BT effectively classifying list mail they receive as junk and moving it to their spam folders. If the same thing is happening to you, I wonder if the rule is being prevented from

Re: off topic speak on

I can find is the manual so if you find the download link I would be gratful if you could post it please From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward

Re: off topic speak on

http://www.speakon.org.uk On 9 Mar 2015, at 18:20, wayne coles wayne...@gmail.com wrote: hello list sorry for the off topic post but can any one please send me the link for speak on radio and media player for the windows only I cant find it -- You received this message because you are

Re: Vario Ultra (wasRe: Mario Ultra braille display

Hi all, I really liked the feel of the Vario Ultra, but on principle I refuse to buy something released in 2014 that is based on Windows C. Cheers, Ed On 4 Mar 2015, at 16:37, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Thanks for this, Doug, it's good to know. One question, it wasn't clear

Re: Vario Ultra (wasRe: Mario Ultra braille display

was disappointed to see that. As much as anything, I figured that since I was going to be at CSUN anyway, I'd take a look. However, based on our current snowstorm, I may not be going anywhere after all. :( Cheers, Donna On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all

Re: Preview pane

Hi Anne, Many thanks for posting this. Could I just check what you mean by ‘bring the mouse’? Do you mean VO Command f5? Cheers, Ed On 22 Feb 2015, at 07:51, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Stacey, This has been discussed a great deal recently, but here are the

Searching hashtags on Yorufukuru/Nightowl

Hi, I was wanting to read tweets that used a particular hash tags using the above program. How do I do this? I wasn’t sure reading the Yorufukuru menus, but I chose the search (command f) feature. This just appeared to show the instances of the hashtags in my timeline, when I wanted to see

Re: Google docs mobile claims better accessibility

Hi matt, You can just about use VO and Safari to compose and read Google Docs. There are some fairly annoying issues (at least on my system), E.G. when you navigate by whatever textual unit, you get the sound you get when you try to navigate passed the top or bottom of a web page. By

RE: Google docs mobile claims better accessibility

://www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 work email: matt...@blindaccesstraining.com mailto:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@me.com mailto:matt.dierck...@me.com On Jan 23, 2015, at 17:41, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com mailto:ergreen1

Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

Hi, I have an external hard drive that I’d like to read and write to on both Mac and Windows. I found an oldish article (from 2012) suggesting that I could use either NTFS software on Mac or HFS+ software on Windows to accomplish this, rather than dealing with the drawbacks of using FAT32.

Following a user with Yorufukuru

Hi, Please could someone give me step-by-step instructions for following a user with Yorufukuru? I have found the user I wish to follow with command u, and have pressed the Drawer button on the toolbar. However, when I select a tweet from the table, I can’t seem to find a user actions menu.

Re: Following a user with Yorufukuru

and right arrow to open it, and choose Follow. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2014, at 08:12, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Please could someone give me step-by-step instructions for following a user with Yorufukuru? I have found the user I wish to follow with command u

Re: question about Qcast

Hi Juliet, Command S should let you search for podcasts. It may be worth restarting to see if you get any more contents as I’m fairly sure it should have some windows even before you’ve downloaded or subscribed to something. Cheers, Ed On 15 Nov 2014, at 11:17, Juliette Swiler

Outlook for Mac

Hi, I saw a thread earlier in the week suggesting that the latest version of Outlook was accessible using Voiceover under OSX. However, I can’t find any references online to anything more recent than Outlook 2011, and when I search for Outlook in the App Store, I can’t find it. Is Outlook

Re: question about QCast

Hi, Allowing apps from anywhere to be installed should fix this. Cheers, Ed On 12 Nov 2014, at 17:09, Juliette Swiler jmswi...@samobile.net wrote: I was just trying to download the podcast application for the Mac from q-continuum.net. But every time I download, and then try to install

Boundary sounds in Yosemite

Hi, Sometimes when I command tab between applications or hit command r to refresh in Safari, I get the same sound I hear if I try to move beyond a boundary such as the top of the message list in Mail. Are keys sticking or is something else going on? I didn’t notice this under Mavericks.

Re: Jumping to the top of the message list in Mail/Yosemite

Hi Mark, Alex and Gigi, Thanks for your experiences/suggestions. Interestingly the issue doesn’t occur when I’m not interacting with the message table. Ed On 22 Oct 2014, at 09:22, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote: Hello Edward, After countless hours of using Yosemite Mail, on two Macs

Jumping to the top of the message list in Mail/Yosemite

Hi, Under Mavericks, Mail retained my place in the message list more often than not when new messages arrived. However, under Yosemite, I am jumped to the top of the message list when I receive new mail. I can obviously use the command to jump to the bottom of the list, but this still means

Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

Hi, Apologies if this has been posted before, I’ve tried to check but the Yosemite traffic has obviously been fairly busy. I’ve enabled file vault after installing Yosemite, meaning that I need to enter a password when I turn on my Macbook. However, Voiceover isn’t speaking on the login

Re: Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

, VO will probably start talking once the system is booted. On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Apologies if this has been posted before, I’ve tried to check but the Yosemite traffic has obviously been fairly busy. I’ve enabled file vault after

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

Hi Joseph, When you arrow or VO down Below where iPhone says call using iPhone is dimmed, do you see the number? If so, press enter on the number and the call will connect. Does that work? Cheers, Ed On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:42, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, Disconnected

Downloaded Yosemite

Hi, I'm currently going through the very slow process of downloading Yosemite. Is there any way I can use the version I'm downloading to update multiple Macs or do I need to download it on each one? If the download is stored somewhere, please could you tell me where so I can transfer it? We

Re: Downloaded Yosemite

and copy/paste it to another location. You can use the original to install it on the computer that is currently downloading it and use the pasted copy to install Yosemite on your other machines. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Edward

Downloading entire TV seasons/series in iTunes

Hi all, Further to the thread about sorting TV season episodes in order, is it possible to download an entire series from the iTunes store rather than doing it episode-by-episode? I've tried to do this on the iPhone, but can only see download buttons for individual episodes. Cheers, Ed --

Re: NFB Resolution

Hi Terje, The resolution is certainly very important, as it is likely to be actively damaging to the accessibility cause, put off developers for engaging with the blind community and setting us back significantly. Ridiculous rhetoric from the NFB yet again. Cheers, Ed On 12 Jul 2014, at

RE: Speaking TV guides -Offcom consultation

Hi Adrienne, Many thanks for posting this. I do find it more than a little ironic (as well as slightly frustrating) that Ofcom require you to solve a capcha before you submit the online response to what is essentially a consultation on accessibility. Cheers, Ed From:

Re: Access: DropBox VoiceOver (VO)

Hi Jerry, Have you successfully managed to change Dropbox preferences on the Mac? I haven't been able to do this as I seem to get a blank Window whenever I open the client, though I am able to upload files using the Dropbox folder. If you have managed this, please could you let me know what

Macsome Audio Recorder

Hi, Does anyone know whether the above audio recorder is accessible on the Mac using Voiceover? Cheers, Ed -- 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: Where do I go to read system dialogues?

Hi Jenine, It should appear in the list if you press VO F1 twice quickly. If it doesn't, try VO F2 twice quickly. Cheers, Ed On 5 Jun 2014, at 20:25, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: My MBP says I have 1 system dialogue but I don't know where to go to read it. Any help would

Dropbox preferences

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to get into preferences in the Dropbox app? I tried ctrl comma but not much seemed to happen, and I can't find anything in the application's window. Cheers, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Latest Pages for College/Professional Work

Hi Alex, This question may be slightly complicated by the fact that JAWS includes features to make use of MS Word more productive that aren't strictly speaking to do with accessibility. For instance, you can search for changes in text attribute and skim read documents, including pulling out

Re: Is There a Slacker Radio equivalent for European listeners?

Hi Mike, You can get access to iTunes Radio in Europe. You just need an iTunes account in the US store. You have to be slightly careful how you associate your mobile devices with it as you might inadvertently lock yourself out of your primary account but it is doable. You could probably

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Hi, Does anyone know if there is a program on the Mac that will enable you to sign into TuneIn radio and play its streams? TuneIn itself only seems to have an iOS app and the website is a bit awkward. I've tried Radium as an alternative but some of the international stations I want to listen

Re: Quick way to get the time

Hi Jenine, It's right option t, but there are a couple of things you may need to do first. Go into VoiceOver Utility with control option f8, choose Commanders from the table, and make sure Keyboard Commander is enabled. There you'll be able to see whether it is set to use right option for

Overdrive Media Console not behaving as expected

Hi, I'm using Overdrive Media Console on the Mac to play a purchased title, and am not finding that it behaves as I expect. I thought that command p should toggle play/pause. However, if I press it when a book is playing, it acts as a play key and starts playback from the beginning of the

Re: Can I listen to the BBC from my Apple TV

Extra in comedy and radio 2 in adult contemporary. I was going to use my free view box but 4 extra isn’t available. Well at least it’s fun exploring all the opportunities available to us now. Thanks. Gena On 3 Jan 2014, at 17:05, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gena

Re: Can I listen to the BBC from my Apple TV

Hi Gena, You can certainly get some BBC radio stations on the Apple TV, but I’m not convinced it’s the most straight forward way to listen to them. Essentially, when you click on a category of radio station, you are presented with a list of stations in that category in alphabetical order.

RE: moving between 2 documents in pages?

Hi Andrew, Does command grave accent work for you once you're in the Pages window? Cheers, Ed -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Head Sent: 07 December 2013 07:21 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Adding contacts from the CC field of a message

Hi, Is there a quick way in Mail to add people in the CC list of a message that I’ve received to contacts? Cheers, Ed -- 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

Viewing source coe using Mavericks/Safari

Hi, I’m not sure if it has to do with the change from Mountain Lion to Mavericks or the latest version of Safari, but I don’t seem to be able to view source code any more using Voiceover from the Developer menu. I get information about the URL, document type etc, but I can’t see the code

Getting to system dialogs

Hi, Is there an easy way to get to an open system dialog? Sometimes Voiceover reports them as being open, but if I’ve missed them pop up, they don’t appear to be in the command tab cycle. Thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: Getting to system dialogs

, Edward Green wrote: Hi, Is there an easy way to get to an open system dialog? Sometimes Voiceover reports them as being open, but if I’ve missed them pop up, they don’t appear to be in the command tab cycle. Thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Software DAISY players that support streaming

Hi, Are there any software DAISY players for the Mac that support the streaming of DAISY content? Thanks, Ed -- 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

Offline dictation available in Mavericks

Hi all, I’ve just stumbled across the ability to be able to dictate offline using Mavericks, as long as you’re prepared to spare 500MB of disc space. Under Mountain Lion as with iOS, you needed an Internet connection and it was done over Apple’s servers. Apologies if this has already been

Re: Offline dictation available in Mavericks

...@gmail.com On 25/10/2013 17:20, Edward Green wrote: Hi all, I’ve just stumbled across the ability to be able to dictate offline using Mavericks, as long as you’re prepared to spare 500MB of disc space. Under Mountain Lion as with iOS, you needed an Internet connection and it was done

Re: Offline dictation available in Mavericks

or could you explain how to do this? All the best Jürgen Am 25.10.2013 um 18:20 schrieb Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com: Hi all, I’ve just stumbled across the ability to be able to dictate offline using Mavericks, as long as you’re prepared to spare 500MB of disc space. Under

Re: email problems

Hi Alia, Go into System Preferences, interact with the preference pains scroll area, choose Notification Centre, interact with the table and choose mail. Then set the alert style to none by clicking on the relevant radio button. This should fix it. Cheers, Ed On 24 Oct 2013, at 19:02, alia

Re: how to save attachments on a Mack

Hi Becky, If you definitely want to save them, go into the file menu and choose save attachments. If you just need to access them from the message, command y may be enough for you. Cheers, Ed On 24 Oct 2013, at 19:01, Becky Sabo beckyas...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: email problems

. alia On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alia, Go into System Preferences, interact with the preference pains scroll area, choose Notification Centre, interact with the table and choose mail. Then set the alert style to none by clicking on the relevant

Change to quick key behaviour in Safari in Mavericks

Hi, I use quick keys to navigate web elements in Safari. In Mountain Lion, when I pressed b to move between buttons, it would cycle through what I traditionally think of as buttons which might be search, go, submit etc. However, using b now seems also to bring in pop up buttons (what Windows

Mavericks available now

Subject line says it all. -- 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 to

Re: Mavericks available now

It's free. Ed On 22 Oct 2013, at 21:19, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Is it a free or paid upgrade? I will be curious to know how it works, but think I will wait until at least the first update in case there are any major bugs. Original message: Subject line says it all. -- You

Re: Mavericks available now

, at 6:07 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Subject line says it all. -- 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

Strange problems with fonts and text attributes in Text Edit

Hi, I having problems changing fonts and adding text attributes in tExt Edit. I'm not sure whether Voiceover is incorrectly reporting what I'm trying to do or whether I'm doing something wrong (probably the latter!). When I select text and bold it, whether that's a word or a line, Voiceover

Streaming MP3s in Safari

Hi, I'm having a problem whereby some MP3 files won't stream in Safari on my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion. Some stream without any problem, such as podcasts on Applevis, but some won't, such as files on CAVI. However, I can stream them all on my MacBook Air without any problems. Do you

Re: navigating pop up menus with first letter?

Hi Mary, Once you've activated the pop up menu, press left and right arrows together to turn quicknav off. First letter navigation should work now, I've just tried it on Amazon. Cheers, Ed On 5 Oct 2013, at 01:48, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new Mac mini with Mountain

No sound when playing podcast in QCast

Hi, I've just installed QCast on my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion. I have subscribed to a couple of podcasts and downloaded some episodes. However, I get no sound when I try to play them. The volume is reportedly set to 70% and the podcast position slider moves suggesting that the

Re: Accessible FTP clients.

Hi Daniel, I like Cyberduck though I'd recommend getting it from the developer website rather than the Appstore as it is a paid-for app in the store whereas you can choose to donate if you download it from the website. You can get it from http://cyberduck.ch Cheers, Ed On 22 Sep 2013, at

Re: AirDrop in iOS 7?

Hi Mark, Airdrop lets you transfer things between Apple devices. The version for iOS will only let you transfer between other Airdrop-enabled iOS devices. If you have enabled Airdrop, you can transfer data from some of the apps that have sharing ability such as Contacts and Safari. Cheers,

Re: Accessible FTP clients.

that have no help tags. Did you do any work on labeling them? Please email me off list if so. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I like Cyberduck though I'd recommend getting it from the developer website rather than

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

Hi Brian, YOu may want to try and experiment with background refresh. YOu can control whether individual apps refresh in the background or not. I believe the idea of this feature is to save you time when opening apps, and the phone will learn your routines for doing this so that the apps

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

be draining the battery. Cheers, Ed On 21 Sep 2013, at 19:52, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah Ed I think that might be the problem, as I do have a lot of apps. I just turned it off, so will see how that affects the battery. Thanks again On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Edward Green

Re: New IOS and Apple Bluetooth Keyboard

Hi David, It's a bug apparently. Jonathan Mosen mentions it in his iOS 7 without the Eye book. Cheers, Ed On 19 Sep 2013, at 14:57, David Eagle onlineea...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, is anyone else finding that with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, the control key no longer shuts voice over

Re: Word processor

Hi Anne, Thanks for the hints you send David on Pages. How do I bring up the contextual menu on the paragraph style in Pages? I tried VO shift m but it didn't seem to work even though it works elsewhere in Pages. Many thanks, Ed On 17 Sep 2013, at 22:04, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk

Re: Lost my mail sounds

Hi Alison, Have you gone into your Mail preferences, General, and checked what you have Mail sounds set to? Cheers, Ed On 14 Sep 2013, at 12:43, Allison Manzino Vàzquez gwennac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen? I lost my mail sounds. I am

Using Airdrop with Voiceover

Hi, I have just got a new Macbook Pro, and want to transfer files onto it from my Macbook Air. I have clicked on Airdrop on both machines and each can see the other. I then go to the folder I want to transfer on the Air, and press VO comma to mark it. However, when I locate the image for my

Re: Using Airdrop with Voiceover

to transfer, do a [VO] [shift] [m] on the file (bringing up a context menu) and then choose Airdrop from the Share menu. You will then be asked to confirm the action on the destination machine. Hth, Jeff On 2013-09-08, at 8:37 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have

Re: Using Airdrop with Voiceover

this will be fixed in an update, but until then, the share menu is your only option. On Sep 8, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks Jeff, I'll give that a try. Cheers, Ed On 8 Sep 2013, at 14:01, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I don't know

Re: FTP

Hi, I like Cyberduck, though as Alex says, you're better off finding it online rather than paying for it in the app store. The online version of the program encourages you to donate when you quit, but obviously you can either ignore this or choose how much you donate. Cheers, Ed On 5 Sep

Re: uploading to an ftp server using ciberduck.

Hi Jessica, Option up arrow is the Cyberduck shortcut for uploading files. You'll see the standard open dialog when you invoke this command, from where you will choose the file(s) you want to upload. I take it you've already discovered the list of files/folders on the server where you'll be

Reading Kindle books in the iOS app using a braille display

Hi, Please could someone tell me how to navigate to the next page using a braille display in the Kindle iOS app? I can read the contents of the currently visible page but don't seem to be able to move it on. I've seen a couple of posts on the net about the command not always working, but I

Re: Reading Kindle books in the iOS app using a braille display

Brilliant Lisette, that works. Many thanks, Ed On 25 Aug 2013, at 19:49, Lisette lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Try o and ow with space. Works on the braille sense. Lisette Sent from my iPhone On 26/08/2013, at 5:51 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Please

Livedrive

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone had any experience of using Livedrive Briefcase from www.livedrive.com Specifically, I can upload files as the briefcase appears as a drive like Dropbox, but I can't find a way of getting to the icon I need to click on in order to change the settings, which

Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials

Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't

Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials

thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered

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