Re: Sonos collecting personal information

2018-08-16 Thread Grant Hardy
That said, the HomePod really is a terrific speaker and I’m very happy with how it performs. Thanks, Grant > On Sunday, Jul 15, 2018, at 11:08:44 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > That's my feeling, too. I figured there will be people who don'

Re: Question about making phone calls through FaceTime

2018-04-21 Thread Grant Hardy
This doesn’t work on Windows. It’s limited to iDevices and Macs. Cheers, Grant > On Apr 21, 2018, at 12:37 PM, The wolf wrote: > > any idea if this will work on windows as well as mac? > > > On 4/21/2018 10:37 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries wrote: >&

Re: Question about making phone calls through FaceTime

2018-04-21 Thread Grant Hardy
Brian—this works perfectly. Many thanks. Cheers, Grant > On Apr 20, 2018, at 10:05 PM, Brian Hansen wrote: > > Once you’ve connected to your bank, hit VO-Shift-Space. This seems to get > focus, and then you can enter the numbers like normal. > > Blessings, > >

Question about making phone calls through FaceTime

2018-04-20 Thread Grant Hardy
this no longer works. Thanks for any assistance. Cheers, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contac

Re: Changing iTunes Audio Output

2018-03-16 Thread Grant Hardy
specific app’s audio that you want to capture, then re-route it through the device of your choosing. Grant Hardy On Mar 16, 2018, at 10:14 AM, Anders Holmberg mailto:and...@pipkrokodil.se>> wrote: Hi! You can’t do it. I have tried my self with no luck. /A 15 mars 2018 kl. 22:25 skre

Re: No problem with File Vault

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
it’s unchecked and dimmed, activate the “click the lock to make changes” button, and enter your password. Then try again. 4. Reboot the computer and test again. Does this help at all Donna? Thanks, Grant On Sunday, Oct 1, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Donna Goodin mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote:

Re: VMware Fusion 8

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
Hello E.T., It was an upgrade over Sierra. Hopefully we’ll hear some reports from others who have tried using 8.5.8 after a clean install. Thanks, Grant > On Oct 1, 2017, at 4:09 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Grant, > Did you do a clean install or upgrade over Sierra? I did a clean in

Re: No problem with File Vault

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Alex, I find the FileVault speech volume is usually the same as my system volume, so if it is set low when I reboot the Mac, then the speech feedback I hear sounds quiet. Thanks, Grant On Oct 1, 2017, at 3:46 PM, Alex Hall mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: Just for the

Re: No problem with File Vault

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
. That said, I am not sure how this works on newer Macs lacking function keys. I know you can hold down Cmd and triple-tap the power button to toggle VoiceOver, but I don’t remember if this works in the FileVault login window. Grant Hardy Sent from my iPhone On Oct 1, 2017, at 1:20 PM, Kawal

Re: watchOS 4: How to customize and use the new Siri face on Apple Watch

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
travel, look under the clock settings in the watch app on your phone, of all places. Thanks, Grant > On Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017, at 3:07 AM, Donna Goodin > wrote: > > I've never understood the whole timeline thing, either. I seem to engage it > at odd times when I'm no

Re: VMware Fusion 8

2017-10-01 Thread Grant Hardy
Hello E.T., I am currently running MacOS High Sierra with VMWare Fusion Pro 8.5.8 on two Macs. I’m not having any problems with my Windows 10 virtual machines. You could try rebooting your Mac to see if that clears up the issue? Thanks, Grant > On Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017, at 8:13 PM,

Re: 1Password Subscription

2017-09-26 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi E.t., 1Password for Mac always stores a local copy of your data, so no matter if you sync with a 1Password account, Dropbox, or iCloud, you’ll still be able to access your data when you’re offline. Thanks, Grant On Sep 26, 2017, at 9:40 AM, E.T. mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>>

Re: 1Password Subscription

2017-09-26 Thread Grant Hardy
advantage is that you can use the Pro versions of 1Password on all platforms during your subscription, but since I already purchased 1Password for Windows and Mac, that wasn’t necessary. Thanks, Grant On Sep 24, 2017, at 9:52 AM, E.T. mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>> wrote: Beli

Re: getting rid of the annoying Do Not Disturb driving prompt?

2017-09-25 Thread Grant Hardy
, I haven’t seen it again. If the notification comes up again for you, you could try this. Thanks, Grant On Sep 25, 2017, at 3:18 AM, Donna Goodin mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks Mark. But that is how it is currently set, and I'm still getting the prompt. Cheer

A Trillian question

2017-04-08 Thread Grant Hardy
my status, but can’t figure out how to change it. Do any experienced Trillian users know the answer to this? Thanks! Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: has anyone found a way to Connect to a wireless network in recovery using voiceover?

2017-02-25 Thread Grant
connect to the same network you’ve been using with MacOS (that even includes when you use Cmd-Option-R for internet recovery mode). However, on the off chance that you want to access Wi-Fi settings or the info has been erased, I know of no way to access Wi-Fi settings without sighted help. Gran

Re: iCloud Documents and Data that are hidden

2016-10-26 Thread Grant
essages but the folder is not deleted. Even running this command with root privileges produces the same result. Cheers, Grant > On Oct 26, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Usually, if you create the alias, then place it on the Desktop, you can then > access the

Re: iCloud Documents and Data that are hidden

2016-10-25 Thread Grant
apps I’ve maybe only used once or twice, years ago. It would be great if there was a solution for this, but if not, I’ll move on *smile*. Cheers, Grant > On Monday October 24, 2016, at 8:38:51 AM, Tim Kilburn > wrote: > > Hi, > > I suspect that they're hidden so that

Re: Time Machine Encryption

2016-10-23 Thread Grant
transparent, so you can access files from your backups just as you did before. Grant > On Sunday October 23, 2016, at 4:34:49 PM, E.T. > wrote: > > I am considering taking this step which means wiping the current TM drive. > So before I do this, I wish to know if one can still

iCloud Documents and Data that are hidden

2016-10-23 Thread Grant
. What do you think? Cheers, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moder

Re: Word to pages batch converter?

2016-09-27 Thread Grant
documents have never been saved before? I hope a solution is found. Grant > On Sep 27, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Grant, > > Good thought, but the idea here is that we're trying to open a Word document > and save it to Pages format. So, if one has a Word

Re: Word to pages batch converter?

2016-09-26 Thread Grant
Hi Tim, This is just a guess on my part, but Pages of course doesn't "save" to Word format; it "exports" to Word. Do you think that could be why your app doesn't function as expected? It actually causes features like auto-save to work differently, too. Grant

Re: AccessNote

2016-09-26 Thread Grant
eed to do this every time you want your notes to be updated. Try this out and see if that works. Meanwhile I'm sure regular users of this app can provide additional clarification. Grant > On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:50 PM, E.T. wrote: > > I installed this to make it possible

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
Hi Kawal, Correct, VO-Left and VO-Right work fine in the mail app. It’s just the tab order which is not working correctly. Since tabbing can interact automatically, it’s often a very efficient way to navigate through a MacOS application. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 5:29:55

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
website, there is info that you can read through to learn how to build the configuration files. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 5:13:02 PM, Traci Duncan > wrote: > > Hi, would this manual remapping work to remap the right command key into > right control? > > Than

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
Hello Kawal, The bug is that you cannot locate the mailboxes table while navigating through the window with Shift-Tab. If you’re using the Tab key, you’ll be able to see it without any problem. Again, this only applies to MacOS Sierra. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 4:18:36

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
. Again, thanks guys! Has anyone tried doing VO-End, that’s VO-FN-Right arrow, while interacting with the mailboxes table? On my machines, this causes the mail app to lock up. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 2:40:52 PM, Agent086b > wrote: > > Hi, > I use the jump comma

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 2:34:47 PM, Scott Granados > wrote: > > Why wouldn’t you just use sharp keys? Is that not effective for the changes > you mention? > >> On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Megan Bening > <mailto:meben...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant
ner-Elements> Until it’s released, I’ve gone back to using the accent key as my screen reading key as E.T. has suggested. But I really do miss having the caps lock key working as the screen reading key. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 10:34:59 AM, Megan Bening > wrote: &g

Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

2016-09-21 Thread Grant
utton locking” method that used to work. 4. Unless you hide the favourites bar, each folder in the favourites bar now appears in the tab order. I’ll admit this is more of a “change in behaviour” than a bug. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks! Grant -- The following information is importan

Re: Seil is not Sierra Compatible at this point

2016-09-20 Thread Grant
to Sierra. Grant Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2016, at 1:25 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: Hi folks, the Mosen Consulting blog has a post on this, but for those who haven't seen it, many VMWare Fusion users enjoy the use of an app called Seil, which allows you to use the Caps Lock key as

Re: I hate Microsoft, VM fusion installation fails

2016-08-12 Thread Grant
Hi Scott, I’ve never seen that error message before. I would recommend starting with fresh installation media (i.e. re-download the ISO file) and a freshly created virtual machine. Again, what you’re describing definitely doesn’t sound normal. Thanks, Grant > On Friday August 12, 2016, a

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-05 Thread Grant
makes sense due to how specific the issue is. Still, at this point I’m running the Anniversary Update on two machines and all is running fine. I’ve essentially done a reinstall of Windows, but my data is intact so all's well that ends well. Best, Grant > On Thursday August 4, 2016, at

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-04 Thread Grant
I have now managed to complete the upgrade by uninstalling the VMWare tools, mounting the ISO image, and running Windows setup. I was not prompted to re-enter a product key, and the upgrade finished smoothly. I have reinstalled VMWare Tools and everything seems to be in order. Best, Grant

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-03 Thread Grant
on a device that’s already been activated using a Digital entitlement (even if the drive is freshly formatted) is to skip entry of the product key during setup. Best, Grant > On Wednesday August 3, 2016, at 11:12:40 AM, Scott Granados > wrote: > > Hi, let me say up front when

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-03 Thread Grant
have to admit, I don’t see and can’t locate the article you’ve found on installing the anniversary update in Fusion. Grant > On Wednesday August 3, 2016, at 10:38:57 AM, Scott Granados > wrote: > > So my problem is when I run the setup it wants a key code. I have a windows >

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-03 Thread Grant
Hi Scott, What happens when you try those steps? Where is it getting hung up? Thanks, Grant > On Wednesday August 3, 2016, at 4:44:27 AM, Scott Granados > wrote: > > So the official VMWare position is to > Shutdown your VM > Change the type from windows 7 or 8 to wi

Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

2016-08-02 Thread Grant
During the process a compatibility check of my PC (i.e. virtual machine) was done and it was at that point that I received the error). I’d love to hear thoughts and suggestions if folks have them. Thanks! Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Re: Problems importing Feed into Readkit

2016-07-10 Thread Grant
all the detail I could. Once you get ReadKit set up the way you like it you should find it a dream to navigate and use. Hope that helped, Grant > On Sunday July 10, 2016, at 10:26:45 AM, David Griffith > wrote: > > After hearing some good reports on Readkit RSS Reader on the Mac

Re: Update on my issueRe: Urgent Help! Voiceover on my Mac got muted!!!

2016-06-19 Thread Grant
section, choose the keyboard commander tab, and assign it to a hotkey. Grant > On Sunday June 19, 2016, at 1:25:31 AM, Simon Fogarty > wrote: > > Hi, > Either use the mute key which should be the F10 key on the function key row > of your keyboard, > > Or on your touc

Re: Update on my issueRe: Urgent Help! Voiceover on my Mac got muted!!!

2016-06-18 Thread Grant
sure why this occurs, and it may be that it only occurs on some Macs but not others. Would love to hear from others on this. Grant > On Saturday June 18, 2016, at 4:51:25 PM, Helga Schreiber > wrote: > > Hi All!!How are you again? I just want to give you an update on my issue. I

Re: Microsoft Exchange settings for Outlook.com in Apple Mail?

2016-06-05 Thread Grant
of syncing contacts, calendars, notes and reminders in addition to mail. Plus, it’s a very stable protocol. Hope this is of some use. Grant > On Saturday April 2, 2016, at 6:07:46 PM, Simon Fogarty > wrote: > > Hi Grant, > > I use office 365 and have a exchange server c

Re: renaming photos again

2016-05-25 Thread Grant
nd, in iOS, the name field is announced. I'm not in front of my Mac right now so I may have that backwards, but if you want a consistent name to be spoken across all of your devices I have figured out that you need to fill in both the title and description with identical text. Hope this helps!

Reorder playlists in iTunes

2016-05-23 Thread Grant
Hi all, Does anybody know how best to reorder tracks in a playlist in iTunes? Not sure if there are keyboard commands to move tracks up or down, but VO’s drag and drop features do not appear to work. Thanks! Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Saving to Suvfolders

2016-05-22 Thread Grant
pick, let’s say, a subfolder of the documents folder. Hope this is of some use. Thanks! Grant > On Sunday May 22, 2016, at 4:06:36 PM, Devin Prater wrote: > > A small but useful tip, if you press command+S, it will activate the save > button in any save document. Command+delete

Re: RSS Reader

2016-05-21 Thread Grant
apps. If Vienna is working, and if you don’t rely heavily on a read later service, there’s probably no reason to switch. Grant > On Friday May 20, 2016, at 8:47:37 PM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Thanks. I just downloaded Vienna. What do you like about Readkit over Vienna?

Re: RSS Reader

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
be viewed in the mail apps on a Mac or iOS device. But of course, you need an instance of Outlook open for the updates to happen. Grant > On Friday May 20, 2016, at 6:47:44 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Wo! Outlook has a build in RSS reader? Since when! Come? aga

Re: RSS Reader

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
. If you’ve used another feed reader in the past, there’s a good chance you can export your subscriptions to this format from that program. Sorry this answer is a bit unclear, but I hope it helps somewhat. Let me know if you’d like me to clarify any of this. Grant > On Friday May 20, 2016, at

Re: RSS Reader

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
Store: http://www.vienna-rss.org Cheers, Grant > On Friday May 20, 2016, at 12:46:15 PM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Thanks. But looking in the App Store, it has horrible reviews. For the > current version, most of the reviews say it crashes a lot. >> On May 20, 20

Re: OS X 10.11.5 and CAPS LOCK KEY

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
configuration in Karabiner and Seil, third-party keyboard remapping tools which I use. I think a few others probably use these utilities so I’d love to hear from them. Is anybody else noticing the same behaviour? Thanks! Grant > On Friday May 20, 2016, at 3:57:12 PM, John Panarese >

OS X 10.11.5 and CAPS LOCK KEY

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
with the 10.11.5 update. Thanks so much, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owne

Re: RSS Reader

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/readkit/id588726889?mt=12 Hope this helps, Grant On May 20, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Brandon A. Olivares wrote: Hi, I’m looking for a good, accessible RSS reader. Any suggestions? Brandon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

iCloud Drive changes?

2016-05-20 Thread Grant
that’s much more limited than using the Finder. Folders I create myself are showing up just fine. Are others noticing the same behaviour, and is there any workaround besides always showing all hidden files and folders? Thanks! Grant -- The following information is important for all members of

App to monitor battery health

2016-05-13 Thread Grant
see below. Battery Life: check internal battery statistics by Robert Tkotzyk https://appsto.re/ca/zeBBab.i Grant Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this lis

Re: Formatting a USB drive from a virtual machine

2016-04-29 Thread Grant
now work as expected and the bug seems to be fully resolved. Thanks! Grant On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Grant wrote: Hello all, In a VMWare virtual machine, I’m trying to use the diskpart utility to format a USB drive so I can use it to install Windows. When I try to do this, Diskpart

Formatting a USB drive from a virtual machine

2016-04-24 Thread Grant
from a virtual machine? If not, is there a reason why it cannot be done? The device is, of course, set to “connect to Windows” rather than “connect to Mac”. Thanks for any advice. Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Left Control Conflict

2016-04-05 Thread Grant
another lister will point one out that I haven’t thought of. Cheers, Grant > On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > > On my VMware, when using the left control and errows, they move me to > another Mac window and do not what I need inside windows 7, is there > a wa

Microsoft Exchange settings for Outlook.com in Apple Mail?

2016-04-02 Thread Grant
so, what settings I’d need to use? Thanks so much. Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contac

Re: Some Vmware questions, reading hard disks etc

2016-03-26 Thread Grant
You cannot remap the caps lock key using SharpKeys alone. Here are some directions I wrote about this topic a while back: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/macvisionaries/EO_nu0uIy70 Best, Grant Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Hello I remap the

Re: Problem with imap gmail on Mac OS

2016-03-26 Thread Grant
saved to Gmail. Cheers, Grant > On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > > Hello, > I am using VoiceOver on my 2008 iMac with El Capitan 10.11.4 and Apple mail > to create a new Email for my gmail account which is set up as imap. Note that > the below problem has

Re: filtering emails

2016-03-19 Thread Grant
want filtered out, plus the filters will apply across all of your devices. I used to subscribe to dozens of mailing lists with my personal Gmail account and had tons of filters that made managing the mail a breeze. Grant > On Mar 16, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Jean wrote: > > Hello All: &g

Re: figured out how to add a title to a photo or vid

2016-03-14 Thread Grant
Hey Donna, Are you able to read these labels on your iPhone? I too use the OS X Photos app, but none of the labels carry over to my iPhone so I'm only able to tell which album I'm browsing. It's becoming a significant issue for me. Cheers, Grant Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14

Re: Entering passwords for 1 password on Mac

2016-03-13 Thread Grant
but I believe you click on a “report a problem” link and that will begin the process. Best, Grant > On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:23 PM, gs wrote: > > Well, we've been peppered with propaganda on this list about how wonderful > and absolutely perfect is 1Password until we go and spe

Re: creating shortcuts

2016-03-13 Thread Grant
this feature, and I believe the instructions are still applicable. Here is the link: http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-apps-mac-os-x-voiceover/macs-mail-app-explained Hope this helps. Grant On Mar 13, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Jenine Stanley wrote: I’m fairly sure you can do this on the Mac but can

Re: Lost VoiceOver in Recovery Manager Not Sure If MacBook Air Is Doing a Cold Reboot from Scratch

2016-03-12 Thread Grant
could potentially use trial and error to guess the order of Wi-Fi networks in the list. Cheers, Grant On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I was just about to say. How would one do this, if either, you had no ethernet cable on hand, or had no way of connecting via

Re: Lost VoiceOver in Recovery Manager Not Sure If MacBook Air Is Doing a Cold Reboot from Scratch

2016-03-12 Thread Grant
have an Ethernet port, would be to connect directly to your router with an Ethernet cable which will eliminate the need to select a network and enter your password. Hope this helps. Grant > On Mar 11, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Mika Pyyhkala wrote: > > So once I get the network chosen, and

Re: deleting individual items from trash

2016-03-12 Thread Grant
, use VO+SHIFT+M to open the context menu, and select “delete immediately”. Hope this helps. Cheers, Grant > On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:42 AM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > > On the PC side you could select an item or a group of items while in the > trash folder and delete just those ite

Re: Follow up to my one password issue. I'm definitely making major progress.

2016-03-05 Thread Grant
focus on all the controls. Unfortunately however, things didn’t improve for me once I turned on rich icons, so I’m not sure what could be going on here. Grant > On Mar 5, 2016, at 6:40 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > OK, just got with a guy on Twitter over DM who uses 1P

Re: Follow up to my one password issue. I'm definitely making major progress.

2016-03-05 Thread Grant
already present. Cheers. Grant > On Mar 5, 2016, at 6:40 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > OK, just got with a guy on Twitter over DM who uses 1Password with Voiceover. > I think we found out a huge part of my problem. > > Don't! and I repeat, don't! dis

Re: Trillian 3.4 has been released

2016-02-28 Thread Grant
You do, alas, need a Trillian account. But you can sign up from within the app, and if you have multiple devices it’ll sync your accounts between them; so it does have some usefulness. Grant On Feb 28, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I'm trying to remember. I act

Trillian 3.4 has been released

2016-02-28 Thread Grant
thought I’d throw it out there! Here’s a direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/trillian/id412056820?mt=12 Looks like this is one of the few accessible apps left for using Facebook Chat. Best, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: one password for mac

2016-02-27 Thread Grant
about your accounts and 1Password allows you to sync these across desktop and mobile devices. iCloud Keychain allows you to enter notes, but you can’t view or update them on an iOS device. And of course, 1Password is cross platform. Grant On Feb 27, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland

Re: What to do when cmd-f5 just dings?

2016-02-21 Thread Grant
password and hit ENTER. I suspect this is a bug in OS X. Grant > On Feb 21, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > In that situation, I would shut down the computer and reinitialise the PRAM > as something is clearly very wrong. > > Cheers, >

Re: Keyboard Commands

2016-01-31 Thread Grant
. As Alex mentioned, holding down an ARROW KEY will at least move you through a list or text field at a pretty good clip. Grant > On Jan 30, 2016, at 9:11 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Alex, > The arrow keys do their thing, as do th4 Option up and down arrows. > > In Windows you can

Re: I found a accessible fb client for the Mac.

2016-01-30 Thread Grant
You can’t—unless you already have it. For example, if you’ve used Trillian before, you may have a Time Machine backup where the older version lives. If that’s the case you can simply copy that into your Applications folder and it should work. Grant On Jan 30, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Walter Harper

Re: I found a accessible fb client for the Mac.

2016-01-30 Thread Grant
I’m sure it’ll eventually break with changes to Facebook’s API. It certainly would be nice if the developers would maintain accessibility in Trillian. Cheers, Grant > On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:04 AM, BBS wrote: > > Hi Adrian. Does this app use a web interface or does it just pull up

Re: The Martian Released on iTunes, Audio Described

2016-01-26 Thread Grant
losed captioning while AD stands for audio description. So it looks like when a movie is described, it’ll be tagged with AD. I’m totally open to corrections if this is wrong. I’m not sure how to tell for TV episodes, though, if in fact there are any described TV episodes on iTunes. Cheers,

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

2016-01-24 Thread Grant
anges. Regardless of who uses Karabiner, they need to grant those permissions in order for the app to work correctly. -Dropbox also requests access to these controls. I’m not sure what it uses them for, but you can find much discussion about this on Dropbox’s forums. Here’s a slightly outdated

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

2016-01-23 Thread Grant
bout the Learning Alley Book Manager app, but do you think that’s maybe the place where you need to go to give it permission? I believe this authorizes apps to control your Mac using certain scripts and commands. Cheers, Grant > On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wr

Re: Karabiner

2016-01-23 Thread Grant
and in fact doesn’t require Karabiner, as VMWare supports what you’re doing right out of the box. Cheers, Grant > On Jan 17, 2016, at 8:18 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Took a while until I could work on this. Ended up being simple. Using > VMware Preferences to remap the insert key to t

iCloud backup can't be turned on

2016-01-23 Thread Grant
that category so nothing can be deleted. Does anybody have any ideas as to how this issue can be resolved? Thanks so much, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or i

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

2016-01-20 Thread Grant
there’s a subdomain he could block instead that might not be so drastic. It certainly would be nice to have a way of turning off automatic downloads of iOS updates. Cheers, Grant > On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:44 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Grant, > > With all due respect, r

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

2016-01-19 Thread Grant
e finishes downloading it should show up under settings, general, storage and I cloud usage where it can be deleted. Once it is removed, it should not re-download. I hope this helps somewhat! Grant Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > H

Ad blocking extensions for OS X El Capitan

2016-01-18 Thread Grant
what else they might be installing? Is there somewhere I can read up on how the new content blockers for OS X work and what they’re permitted to do? Thanks so much, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: Karabiner

2016-01-09 Thread Grant
Hello E.T., Check out this thread from a while back for one great use of Karabiner: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/macvisionaries/EO_nu0uIy70 Best, Grant Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2016, at 7:14 PM, E.T. wrote: > > The other way around. At least a couple keys ar

Re: Installing braille embosser

2016-01-04 Thread Grant
should be required. Best, Grant Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2016, at 1:20 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Yes, have a Dell laptop. I don't have the space in here to keep both it and > the Mac running. I have been thinking about this and keep coming back to > going full time with

Macbook Pro and external HDD

2015-12-29 Thread Grant
is undesirable as there is the chance of data loss or corruption, but I wanted to check if others have experienced this and if there’s anything you guys would recommend checking—for example, to rule out a hardware issue. Thanks. Grant -- The following information is important for all members

Re: Getting to the dock

2015-12-28 Thread Grant
happens if you press VO+K to turn on keyboard help, then press VO+D to hear the description of the command? Cheers, Grant > On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:53 PM, george b wrote: > > You can because it is control option d not v o d > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionarie

Re: messages app not connecting to Facebook anymore.

2015-12-27 Thread Grant
Hi Matthew, Yep, it appears that we won’t be able to use Facebook Chat from within the Messages App as XMPP support is being deprecated. I finally removed my account the other day. This is extremely unfortunate as it is by far the most accessible experience I’ve ever found for chatting with Fac

Re: does a mac need both VM Ware and bootcamp to run windows

2015-12-27 Thread Grant
Hi Matt, One example would be PDF files. I use JAWS which allows me to move through the PDF with arrows or other quick navigation commands, select and copy chunks of text, and often see how the PDF file is marked up (e.g. headings). One can also fill out accessible PDF forms in the same way tha

Time Machine backups and permissions

2015-12-21 Thread Grant
issue. After researching this a bit on the internet, I decided that for a “quick fix” I would simply grant myself read and write permissions to the entire Time Machine directory via the Finder’s get info dialog under the sharing and permissions section. I added read/write permissions for myself

Re: Switching between VoiceOver and NVDA

2015-12-15 Thread Grant
it’s in the boot camp control panel under the startup tab. This will avoid your having to memorize a key sequence that doesn’t speak as you described. Cheers, Grant > On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote: > > Ok, I understand you have to restart and then decide which OS

Re: Files Question.

2015-12-12 Thread Grant
would not worry about copying over your stuff and you should be able to safely delete the files. Your iTunes media folder should copy over just fine if you decide to transfer it. Cheers, Grant > On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Eileen Scrivani wrote: > > > I’ve never seen them o

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

2015-12-10 Thread Grant
Installing from the recovery partition (CMD+R upon rebooting) should install the same version of OS X that’s currently installed on the computer. Installing from internet recovery (CMD+OPTION+R) should install the version of OS X that originally shipped with the computer. Grant > On Dec

Re: secret folders for passwords

2015-11-26 Thread Grant
;ll let you manually enter and review passwords and secure notes, either locally or using iCloud Keychain. Grant > On Nov 24, 2015, at 5:56 PM, E.T. wrote: > > 1Password is a great choice for a password manager. Windows, OS X and iOS > are supported and kept in sync. If you also

Re: time-machine problem

2015-11-26 Thread Grant
corruption when using a NAS not manufactured by Apple. Grant > On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:53 PM, William Windels > wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a nas from qnap to make time-machine backups and mostly it works fine > But Since I use this nas for Time-machine since january 2015, it

Focus issues in Pages

2015-11-14 Thread Grant
sure if these are accessibility issues or if I’m missing something obvious. Thanks for any info! Cheers. Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Re: El Capitan - Upgrade or Clean Install

2015-11-14 Thread Grant
Store when it comes out, install over-top, and have no issues. Cheers, Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, p

Re: how to setup facebook to work with Imessage

2015-11-14 Thread Grant
”. You would then use this app password rather than your Facebook password when adding the account as described above. These instructions were written quickly so I know they’re pretty brief. Let me know if there are any problems. Cheers, Grant > On Nov 12, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Walter Harper wr

Re: transferring folders revisitied

2015-11-08 Thread Grant
Hello, My bad; I appreciate the correction! Cheers, Grant Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2015, at 3:59 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Apple Mail will open .eml files. Right click (VO shift m), select Open With > and select Mail. Just confirmed this works. > > Fr

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