RE: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-28 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi Johnny, if you go to Http://www.blindcooltech.com there is a series of podcasts on the Mac. If you listen to those, I think you will see that the Mac is very accessible! I bought my mac after listening to those podcasts, and I'm using them as a basic training course, learning how to use the Ma

Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-28 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi List. I just joined over the weekend. Thanks to Mike Arrigo's excellent podcasts, I'm trying, and switching to the mac, once I'm a bit more comfortable with it. I have a mac mini running Leopard.I've been a windows user since 1998, but it's kind of fun learning the mac and voice over. Now for

RE: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-29 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
System Profiler application found in your Applications / Utilities folder. Also tell us what exact version of OSX you are running. You can find this by choosing the Apple menu and selecting "About this Mac." Cheers, Bryan On Mar 28, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > 2. I'd l

Questions for mark, was Getting used to the screen on a Macbook pro

2011-03-31 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi Mark, I'm a newbie with the mac, but I read some things in the below e-mail to Charlie, that sparked questions. You talked about Braille embossers. I'm assuming you're using them on the Mac. Is this correct? What about Braille translation software? Also I see you mention VMWare fusion, for r

RE: Hotspots

2011-03-31 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Where can I find your podcast? Thanks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jes Smith Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hotspots Ah, thank you. On Mar 31, 2011

RE: Introduction & a Question

2011-04-02 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
I've never heard of this site. What is the URL for I can use this thing? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CJ Daniel Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 11:29 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Introductio

RE: Introduction & a Question

2011-04-02 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
n fact, I Can Work This Thing @ icanworkthisthing.com. Please, forgive my haste. Hope this helps, CJ On Apr 2, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > I've never heard of this site. What is the URL for I can use this thing? > > -Original Message- > From: m

RE: Introduction & a Question

2011-04-03 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
n & a Question Gail, It's a pretty interesting site with quite a bit of helpful info for blind user's of technology. I hope you get a chance to check it out. CJ On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > LOL! I hadn't heard of the correct one either, except

RE: looking for an external hard drive compatable for both mac and pc

2011-04-06 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
I just love my Western digital drives, and they work just fine, with all the devices you want. I have a my passport portable USB drive, which is 500 GB, doesn't use a wall outlet, and is fairly affordable. I got mine for under $100. Just format it FAT32, and that will work with all your devices,

RE: Voiceover improvements when updating OS

2011-04-12 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi, Yes, the upgrade is well worth it! There is more help, and a lot of features you don't get in your leopard version of the OS. If you go to http://www.blindcooltech.com there are thirteen podcasts done by Mike Arrigo on the mac. These are an invaluable source of information. -Original Me

RE: Addictiv games for iPhone...

2011-04-17 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
I used to play chess ages ago, and see it on my mac. How do you go about selecting a piece, and moving it? And, any other info would be cool! I like playing games, and I have messages about more, but I'll get into those later. Thanks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups

any tutorials on how to set up e-mail on the mac?

2011-05-16 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi List, I'm a relative newbie to the mac. I'm wanting to set up my mail, like I have it in windows. With e-mails from groups going into separate folders. I use Gmail. I've looked at "mailboxes" in mail. I see mailboxes, and smart mailboxes. What's the difference? Any help will be greatly appre

RE: any tutorials on how to set up e-mail on the mac?

2011-05-16 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
alker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 16, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > Hi List, > I'm a relative newbie to the mac. I'm wanting to set up my mail, like I > have it in windows. With e-mails from groups going into s

RE: any tutorials on how to set up e-mail on the mac?

2011-05-16 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
ail on the server. Any action like creating a folder or deleting a message is executed remotely so you have always the same state on all clients. But that's only the short story, Wikipedia might help you for the rest :-) Greetings, Pierre Am 16.05.2011 um 20:40 schrieb Gail the U. S. Male: >

FW: Live coverage of the WWDC keynote

2011-06-06 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
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RE: is a paid screenreader for the mac a option?

2012-06-25 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Bravo Mark! I heartily agree! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark BurningHawk Baxter Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:39 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: is a paid screenreader for the mac a o

Re: Barcode scanner?

2012-11-04 Thread Gail the U. S. male
Hi Gigi! a blast from your past! Welcome to the list! Sent from my iPhone On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi again Mel > > I forgot to mention that those labels believe it or not, can go on things in > the freezer. I have never been able to label successfully anything in

Newbie needing help, how to set up my Wireless networkHello, I've just purchased a Macbook, May 2009, running Lion off of ebay. I've owned a mac mini, for a couple of months but consider myself a new

2012-11-12 Thread Gail the U. S. male
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