Re: [Bulk] Facing the Reality about my Mac

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Chris, Your Macbook will be fine to get started with Pro tools. However here are some things you'll want to know. 1. Pro Tools is not currently supported with Lion, so if you've got Lion, you'll need to go back to snow leopard for the time being. 2. I'd recommend getting an MBox 2 which is

Re: Audio Production, was: Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
ay. On 25 Jul 2011, at 18:36, anouk radix wrote: > Op 13-7-2011 21:50, Gary Readfern-Gray schreef: >> Hi Chris, >> >> just my short take on using a Mac and audio production. >> >> Well, I bought my mac to get an accessible version of Pro tools and found >>

Re: garageband 6 vs pro tools 9 for ablind person

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Anouk,, Well, the easiest way for me to explain is like this. Garage Band is very accessible, probably more fun and free, however it is less professional than Pro Tools, so if you're looking for Album quality, you need Pro Tools. Pro Tools is also very accessible. I've played with Garage Ban

Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Kari, Well, like you, this has been bugging me but here's what I'm doing at the moment. In 3-column layout, you've got your mailbox table on the left, Your messages table in the middle and a table containing all the messages in a conversation on the right. 1. find the mailboxes table. I no

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
he VmWare FUsion menu, though I'm surprised > automatic updates haven't already asked you about 3.1.3. Did you perhaps > turn those off? I don't myself, so updated when it first came out. > Hope this helps, > Zack. > On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: &

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
#x27;t know why your USB drives should be acting up. Mine haven't since the > upgrade, and I've used them successfully with both my mac and VM. > Best, > Zack. > On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:53 AM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > >> Does Anyone know why I'm not getting the usu

Re: moving from the top to the bottom of inbox in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Ahmed, you can press control+option with home to go to the first item in the table and end to go to the last option. If you're using a MacBook, you'll need to use fn+left arrow for home and fn+right arrow for end. On 23 Jul 2011, at 13:51, Ahmed Alomran wrote: > Hi all > before I upgrade to

Re: lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Go to the mac app store, not the app store in iTunes. then do a search for osx lion, that's what I did. You'll need to have snow leopard 10.6.8 downloaded before you can get get it, so make sure you do a software update before you install it. On 23 Jul 2011, at 13:56, Hayri Tulumcu wrote: > ho

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Does Anyone know why I'm not getting the usual "connect to windows or mac" message when I connect an external drive to fusion under lion? does this work for anyone else? whenever I connect an external drive via usb, it automatically connects to my mac. I'm not sure if that's because fusion has

Re: Audio Production, was: Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
OH yes, You need at least the Mini, the Micro is cheaper but doesn't allow you to record, so don't get that. On 7/14/11, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > Oh, well, an MBox is a high quality sound card. Normally, if you > record through the sound card in your Mac you won't get t

Re: Audio Production, was: Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
are and the serial number, otherwise you won't be able to run PT on your system. Gazza On 7/14/11, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > When you say an MBox, what is that? > > Chris. > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Readfern-Gray" > To: > Sent: Wed

Re: Audio Production, was: Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-13 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Chris, just my short take on using a Mac and audio production. Well, I bought my mac to get an accessible version of Pro tools and found that I just wasn't using my Windows machine at home at all after that. Whilst I still use Jaws every day at work, I now prefer the Mac environment and nev

Re: Hello from a new member.

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Ben, welcome to the list and to the world of all things Mac. I've had my mac for around 18 months now and have learned a ton of stuff from the list so you're in the right place. In Christ Gazza On 14 Jun 2011, at 20:54, Ben J. Bloomgren wrote: > Hello all, > > My name is Ben J Bloomgren. I

Re: fusion or bootcamp on a macbook air

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Well, i was running fusion with 2gb of ram and windows 64-bit on my mbp and it was a bit sluggish. If performance is your main priority, you should run boot camp wich will mean that Windows gets the whole 4gb and will run more smoothly. If you want the ease of flipping between the 2 operating sy

Re: internet explorer on the mac?

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
I would just do yourself a faviour and just use safari especially if you're new to voiceover. Chrome is getting better but safari is just more accessible and is still pritty quick and a lot faster than ie on windows, well ie8 anyhow. just my take. Gazza On 11 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Kliph&Sharrie w

Re: itunes sources?

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Yes, you can delete the original folders, itunes will import these files into its own media folder. however I would recommend deleting the folders, checking that itunes plays the files ok before you empty the trash - just to be on the safe side, but i do this all the time so you should be good t

Re: Copying text from Safari

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
urn at the beginning of the section you wish to copy, and >> VO-Return at the end. Command-C should then copy the selected text. >> >> Another way is to make VO speak the text you want then press VO-Shift-C to >> copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard. >> &g

Copying text from Safari

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Can anyone tell me how to copy a line of text from Safari into the clipboard? I keep having this problem, today, I was on Google code and wanted to copy just my generated password from the page. If I interact with the element, I don't seem to be able to select and copy text like you can with ja

Re: reading all in pages

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
OK, so I have a different but related problem. I just bought pages the other day. When I try to read all, it always seems to start from the beginning of the file not from where the cursor is. Anyone got any thoughts on that one? I've only tried it with .doc file that I've opened which were orig

Re: Some stuff I did with pro tools.

2010-10-16 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Kevin, just seen this thread, Blabber's tight, good job. I have PT 8 but haven't done much with it because I've been using Logic I'll deffinately take another look now having heard that. Can you edit MIDI accessibly in PT or at least quantize it? from the jingles sounds like you can. On 26

Re: Episode: Mark Visits The House Of Usher With An Apple In His Hand

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hey Mark and the world who are reading this thread, listen to the podcast and even if you're an atheist, I wanna hear the amen resound around the planet!! I got IOS 4 and feel exactly the same way as you do Mark. So, now the Kindle croud have got no argument now. Nice work dude! Courtney, IBooks d

Re: [bcab] End of Freedom?

2010-06-07 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
ility and they get paid, that's what I call a win win. On 6/7/10, Chris G wrote: > > > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:27:10 +0100 > Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > >> have one? Which of us was not prevented from accessing the web until >> Jfw invented the concept of

Re: [bcab] End of Freedom?

2010-06-07 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
While I agree with many of the Sentiments expressed in this thread and, for the record, am a proud iMac owner, if this is true this has got to be a sad sad day hasn't it? Which of us didn't start off on a pc with windows using a pro screenreader such as Jaws or Windoweyes or Hal? Which of us have

Re: any news on pro tools?

2010-05-28 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Slau have you had >>>> a chance to try PT with a braille display? If so how easy is it to get >>>> a quick look at what tracks are armed? >>>> >>>> Take care >>>> --FC >>>> >>>> On May 28, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Slau Hal

Re: any news on pro tools?

2010-05-28 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi does anyone know if the accessibility includes selecting a given track and then changing settings on that track such as arming mute solo etc? I'm assuming that these basics are covered. I'm asking because in Sonar/Logic you first focus the track you want to adjust and then there are keys for adj

Re: an Imac and voiceover?

2010-05-18 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
New to the list, thanks for the logic link. On 5/18/10, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > To the person asking about logic. > It's been posted before on the list, but essentially, the link where > you can download the scripts is > http://www.sendspace.com/file/3wcqpv > Hth. > > On 18/05/2010, Ben Mustill

Re: an Imac and voiceover?

2010-05-18 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
I too bought an IMac recently so that I could get up to speed with Voiceover between now and when PT becomes accessible. But Logic access? is this available now? anyone got a link to point me in that direction? thanks. On 5/18/10, Karen Lewellen wrote: > lol. > now now, technology is only doorsto

Re: EBook reader

2010-05-18 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Edward , The books you buy through Itunes are to my knowledge are audio books from audible. They get put in your audio books folder and cannot be read by Alex but are usually broken into chapters. Hth Gary On 5/18/10, Edward wrote: > Hello all, > > I am somewhat confused. How does one tak