Re: OT: iOS 6 Disappointment!

2013-02-16 Thread John Panarese
this entire topic, as usual, is coming back to the subjective in nature. What one considers accessible or not differs from another person. I think to make a statement that accessibility is going backwards in iOS is strictly a subjective position based on personal opinion and no real

Changing languages to English in VoiceOver

2013-02-13 Thread John Panarese
Hi folks, I was contacted by someone overseas who needed some help with VoiceOver on the Mac. At the moment, he has Alex, but Alex speaking German. I don't speak German myself, so iI was hoping someone can suggest an easy way that he can switch to an English voice so I cna help him. He

Re: FN key on bluetooth and USB keyboards

2013-02-13 Thread John Panarese
It should work. Make sure it is configured in System Preferences in the Dictation and Speech pane to use the FN key for dictation. You have to press it twice to start and twice to end the dictation. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: FN key on bluetooth and USB keyboards

2013-02-13 Thread John Panarese
a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Feb 13, 2013, at 8:11 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: It should work. Make sure it is configured in System Preferences in the Dictation and Speech pane to use the FN key for dictation. You

Re: Changing languages to English in VoiceOver

2013-02-13 Thread John Panarese
This is what I thought. I'll take a look at this tomorrow. Thank you for the info. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION

Re: to all time capsule owners

2013-02-12 Thread John Panarese
You do it with Airport Utility. You want to edit your time capsule and choose the network tab. There is a table for ports and you have to add new port information. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: to all time capsule owners

2013-02-12 Thread John Panarese
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: to all time capsule owners You do it with Airport Utility. You want to edit your time capsule and choose the network tab

Re: Editing .plist files.

2013-02-10 Thread John Panarese
The PLIST files are usually XML files, so you would just need an XML editor or word processor that can handle XML. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT

Re: Status of busies in Firefox?

2013-02-07 Thread John Panarese
I believe it is available. Firefox is usable with VoiceOver. It is a bit sluggish in some instances, but it is getting there. If you have patience, I would give it a try and encourage the developers to keep improving VoiceOver access. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the

Re: ventral on themac

2013-02-06 Thread John Panarese
It is actually quite accessible. I use it all of the time a couple of nights a week. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION

Re: This is driving me bananas! Breaking Hotspots

2013-02-06 Thread John Panarese
Did you check the box for hotspots when you were creating the activity? This should save any hotspots you create for that activity. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread John Panarese
Hi Sara, Thank you for joining the list and hearing the stories of the blind Mac users. Office is undoubtedly an important productivity application for many people. I have three current clients that could benefit from accessibility to Office, and I sincerely hope that Microsoft intends to

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread John Panarese
It seems to be fairly accessible. The problem is figuring out how the heck you actually scan and OCR a document. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT

Re: Team Viewer

2013-01-30 Thread John Panarese
-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind disc...@macvisionaries.com Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:17 PM Subject: Team Viewer

Team Viewer

2013-01-29 Thread John Panarese
I am hoping it was this list that someone suggested Team Viewer as a method of being able to remote control a Mac over long distances. The claim was that the app is accessible with VoiceOver. I am curious as to how they got this to work. Initial testing has proven this app to have the

Re: Team Viewer

2013-01-29 Thread John Panarese
could keep track! I did not mean to imply that a VO user could control another Mac! Colin On 30 Jan 2013, at 00:17, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping it was this list that someone suggested Team Viewer as a method of being able to remote control a Mac over long distances

Re: Warning about Apple TV Update. Do, not, pannick!

2013-01-28 Thread John Panarese
It might just be a connection issue at that time. It took me about fifteen minutes for both on mine, but I have a friend who had a similar experience as you. It took him almost forty-five minutes, I think. It's a good warning to pass along. Some people might disconnect or restart the

Re: Warning about Apple TV Update. Do, not, pannick!

2013-01-28 Thread John Panarese
http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent

Re: Time Capsule

2013-01-28 Thread John Panarese
The Time Capsule is the Higher end Apple router. It's basically an Extreme Base Station that has a 2 or 3 TB HD built into it. I bought one so I could Time Machine backup my Mac Mini and Mac Book Pro wirelessly onto a single disk. I also have an external 3 TB drive connected to the TC as

Re: Mac mini ram and hd questions

2013-01-23 Thread John Panarese
I don't know if you can buy it up front. I thought there was an option for that. I added a second SSD drive after the fact. However, I thought you could choose a second drive when you are selecting your drive options. Maybe, you have to buy the model with two drives now. Take Care

Re: Mac mini ram and hd questions

2013-01-23 Thread John Panarese
I bought an SSD drive from Crucial and saved about $200 from what it would have cost for 512 GB configured in the Mini. I already had a 500 GB SATI drive, and you can buy a kit for installing the second drive from ifixit.com for about $69. I had a sighted friend do the work, as I was not

Re: VO not saying read or unread

2013-01-22 Thread John Panarese
Yes, because there is no message content area now. So, you will only be jumping between the mailbox table and the message list. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread John Panarese
Are you sure you don't have a system voice turned on or you haven't selected another voice in verbosity settings in the VO Utility? I did that a long time ago and discovered it when I started hearing a Scottish voice every once in a while in background. I must have been messing with

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread John Panarese
Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!? Are you sure you don't

Re: inviting somebody to join the list

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
You see, Chris, there are two ways to approach the situation. You can voice your complaints in a simple and direct manner and state your opinion, as Ray has done below, or you can go on a five message rant implying foul language in your responses to make your points. No one, including

Re: OT- New to List!

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
Hi JP, Glad you made it on the list. I'm glad that got sorted out for you. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE

Re: Formating internal disk revisited

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
Make sure you select the item from the table that has the manufacturer included. In other words, there will be an entry for the physical disk and then the volumes below it. YOu want the physical disk entry. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: Formating internal disk revisited

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
...@gmail.com On Jan 13, 2013, at 11:58 AM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Make sure you select the item from the table that has the manufacturer included. In other words, there will be an entry for the physical disk and then the volumes below it. YOu want the physical disk

Re: EFI

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
Thee is no way to customize the Mountain Lion install through the setup. The only choice you get is to pick a destination for the install. It is not like previous versions of the OS where there were other options. No, the EFI is not technically a partition, though it will appear as

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread John Panarese
You would start the process from the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer or make a copy of the installer to a DVD or thumb drive. There are a few ways you can approach this process. It comes down to what is the most convenient one for you. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-11 Thread John Panarese
You would need to erase the entire partition first. Then, partition the drive with 2 partitions. When you erase the drive, the recovery HD is erased as well. However, when you install the OS on each partition, it will create a new recovery partition. Note that if you got that Mac

Re: Hard drive failure

2013-01-07 Thread John Panarese
I'd love to know if anyone finds any solution to this as well. I am not aware of one. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION

Re: macvisionaries list

2012-12-31 Thread John Panarese
I believe that one of the moderators explained to the list that he'd be traveling over the holidays and would not be able to check his mail often. I'm sure that any issues or list business will be taken care by him when he is able to check his mail/have internet access. How about showing a

Re: macvisionaries list

2012-12-31 Thread John Panarese
. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: Re: macvisionaries list I believe that one

Re: macvisionaries list

2012-12-31 Thread John Panarese
moderating the Macvisionary list? I thought he was just moderating the VI Phone list. I thought that Kara moderated the Macvisionary list unless i'm wrong? Kawal. On 31 Dec 2012, at 07:01 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that one of the moderators explained to the list

Re: time machine basics

2012-12-30 Thread John Panarese
There are two ways to view Time Machine backups. 1. You can open up your backups folder in Finder from the Time Machine Partition you are using. This will show you a chronological list of folders that contain backups for that date and time. It will be like looking at your entire file

Re: time machine basics

2012-12-30 Thread John Panarese
was imported. How can I get it back? Stacey Robinson On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:56 AM, John Panarese wrote: There are two ways to view Time Machine backups. 1. You can open up your backups folder in Finder from the Time Machine Partition you are using. This will show you

Re: Extremely Disappointed

2012-12-25 Thread John Panarese
I had no trouble with gift cards. I bought 3 different amounts and didn't have any difficulties with them. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL

Re: Extremely Disappointed

2012-12-25 Thread John Panarese
I don't think you can put in your own amount. I think the options are $15, $25 or $50 if I am not mistaken. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread John Panarese
I am not having any issues here with it. I'd like to make a friendly suggestion. Instead of looking for refunds right away and such, please wait until things get sorted. It is a great game and worth the money. Like anything else new, there are sometimes problems and issues that were

Re: EBook reader for Mac?

2012-12-12 Thread John Panarese
That's because the iBooks are DRM protected. What they need to do is have a Mac version of iBooks. You can't open the epub files with Stanza or anything else because of the DRM. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com

Re: Time Machine silently excluding some drives from backup

2012-12-11 Thread John Panarese
From what I have read, this is a rare situation and seems to be setup specific. I doubt most users are going to be dealing with the kind of backup setup that could potentially trigger this bug. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: Latest Dropbox on Mountin Lion causes an odd issue with show desktop notifications?

2012-12-09 Thread John Panarese
I've noticed this too. Even though Dropbox is set in the Notification Center as banners, I have to make the alerts go away. I haven't had the chance to investigate the issue in depth yet though. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: ITunes 11 is absolutely perverted! in my opinion!

2012-11-29 Thread John Panarese
If you look in the view menu and hit enter on, show Side bar, you do have a source list visible. You then can use control-option-j to jump from the source list to other areas and back. You can also use the VoiceOver web navigation commands as well, such as VO-command-j or even option-tab.

Re: VoiceOver: Using VoiceOver on a Mac without a display attached may cause applications to be slow or unresponsive

2012-11-16 Thread John Panarese
Unfortunately, the adapter alone doesn't work. I tried that and even a VGA adapter. I had to use the converter box. The box is very small. It's probably the size of a deck of playing cards, maybe a few inches longer. It's tucked under the self on my desk well out of the way. Take

Re: anyone tried Apple Hardware Test?

2012-11-07 Thread John Panarese
To my knowledge, it's not accessible. It's a very old application. However, if it has been fixed, then I stand corrected. As far as I know, though, it can't be used with VO. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com

Picking the brains of you Mac veterans

2012-11-04 Thread John Panarese
Hi guys, For those of you users who remember Leopard and older Macs, I am not remembering something from those days. I got an old iBook G4 back from a friend and the laptop keyboard is stuck so that the numeric keypad seems to be functioning on the right side of the keyboard. Does anyone

Re: Picking the brains of you Mac veterans

2012-11-04 Thread John Panarese
Keys to turn on and off with 5 presses of the Option key that I was able to easily recover. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 4, 2:12 pm, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, For those of you users who remember Leopard and older Macs, I am not remembering something from those

Re: Discovered New Voices For Mac

2012-11-04 Thread John Panarese
If memory serves me right, and this might have changed, but I recall someone saying that these voices do not work well with VoiceOver. If I am thinking of the same developer, there were promises that they were working on it, but I don't recall if this was these voices. Take Care John D.

Re: Picking the brains of you Mac veterans

2012-11-04 Thread John Panarese
the F6 key to toggle the NumPad on those units. Thanks. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 5:11 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, For those of you users who remember Leopard and older Macs, I am not remembering something from those days. I

Re: Picking the brains of you Mac veterans

2012-11-04 Thread John Panarese
that are still running just great. Had to up the RAM to 2GB so that they could handle Adobe CS6 and run a little quicker but they do the job just fine. Have a good one. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 8:59 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tim

Modified keyboard

2012-10-29 Thread John Panarese
Hi guys, Does anyone know if there is any company selling a Mac wireless keyboard designed for low vision individuals? This would be either a keyboard with larger keys or an overlay of some kind for different contrasts? Thanks Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel,

Re: Modified keyboard

2012-10-29 Thread John Panarese
print white on black. You can also try a site like Magnifying Aids: http://www.magnifyingaids.com/ But I didn't find any other products there, and the same keyboard skin was $39.95. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 29, 2012, at 07:50, John Panarese wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone know

Re: moving dock items revisited

2012-10-28 Thread John Panarese
Try option-command-left or right arrows to move itimes on the Dock. You will hear VoiceOver tell you where you moved the icon each time you do it. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com

Re: samnet on a Mac?

2012-10-22 Thread John Panarese
You can also do so using Apple Mail. There are instructions on the Serotek site for setting it up. It's not difficult. I have mine working on both of my Macs. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: Creating A Group In Contacts

2012-10-12 Thread John Panarese
The easiest way is to go to your main contact lists and use non-contiguous selection to pick the people. Do a command-c and then navigate to the group contacts table. Just command-v to past the contacts into it. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479

Re: time capsule access from windows?

2012-10-10 Thread John Panarese
There is an Airport Utility for Windows. This is what I use for accessing mine on my PC the rare time I use it these days. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com Twitter,

Re: remote disk accessible?

2012-10-09 Thread John Panarese
I've never tried the Windows version. With a Mac, you simply see the CD or DVD in the Remote Disk network folder and can access it there. Can you, at least, see the disk? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread John Panarese
Ar the cards formatted in Windows, by chance? If so, what format? I ask because I had a similar problems with SD cards and a reader. Once I reformatted the cards, they suddenly showed up. I had to format them in FAT32 in Windows, but they all worked. Take Care John D. Panarese

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread John Panarese
If you can afford to delete the info from the card, I'd try reformatting it anyway just as an experiment with one of the cards. It definitely could be the reader itself, but I would try to make sure it's that before you throw away the bath water with the baby. Take Care John D. Panarese

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread John Panarese
Can you do it in Windows? I had to do my in Windows. I just did it as FAT32 and all of a sudden, the cards could be read fine on the Mac. I'm not suggesting this will definitely be the solution, but it is what I experienced to fix the issue at the time. Take Care John D. Panarese

Re: system dialog but not there

2012-10-05 Thread John Panarese
With Skype and other apps, the system dialog is sometimes related to if you have Growl installed. So, if there is an event in Skype, such as a contact going on line or off line, you will get a growl notification that visually appears for a few seconds. At least, I've had it happen with a

Re: Finally!: An Audio Action/Adventure Game on the Mac!; BlindSide

2012-10-01 Thread John Panarese
Are you sure this is still available. I went to the link and there is no dmg file to be found. Of course, user error could be afoot, but I can only find info that says the game is not yet avilable for the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479

Re: how to tell if running 64 bit under ML?

2012-09-30 Thread John Panarese
You can run applications in 32 Bit mode if needed from the Get Info Window in Finder with command-i if it is ever necessary. The Get Info window will also tell you if the app happens to be a 32 Bit app as well. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479

Re: Protecting a file with a password

2012-09-29 Thread John Panarese
I don't think you can do this natively in OS X. You can use disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image of a folder. FileVault encrypts the entire system disk. You could lock a file or folder or change it's permissions to grant no access, but I am not aware of a way to place a password

Re: multiple accounts in the new Messages app

2012-09-25 Thread John Panarese
There should be a table next to the list of contacts if you have all of your contacts showing in a single window. At least, for me, if you VO space on any of the accounts, you can change its status separately from one another. I do this all of the time, actually, between my Yahoo and AOL

Math and VoiceOver on the Mac

2012-09-24 Thread John Panarese
Hi guys, I was just asked by someone about using VoiceOver and math. This person also has a Braille display. I'm afraid my days of doing math are long behind me for school. This would be college algebra and the like. Does anyone know of an application they could recomend for the Mac and

Re: Facebook Integration in 10.8.2?

2012-09-24 Thread John Panarese
You need to activate Facebook in System Preferences in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars pane. You will add your Facebook account and enter your account info. Once you do this, there will be a, Post, button next to the, Tweet, button in Notification Center and you will find, Facebook, in

Re: Math and VoiceOver on the Mac

2012-09-24 Thread John Panarese
that some such was being developed at one point. Hopefully others will have more positive news. Harry On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I was just asked by someone about using VoiceOver and math. This person also has a Braille display

Re: Signitures again

2012-09-18 Thread John Panarese
You also have to make sure that the signature is listed with a specific account. The, all signatures, option doesn't seem to work as expected. At least, this is what several reports have indicated. So, be sure your account name has a signature in the names table next to it to the right

Re: Signitures again

2012-09-18 Thread John Panarese
I'm not sure what you mean. When everything meaning you can't do anything at all or a specific app? You can try toggling off and on VoiceOver. If it's an app that just won't stop, you can force quit the application. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631)

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
Hi Rich, Try the following. 1. Open Mail Preferences. 2. Make sure you select, signatures, from the buttons. 3. From the signatures list, choose the account to which you want the signature. 4. Navigate passed the names table and edit area to the Add New, button going right. Vo space on

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
Is it associated with an account already? You need to have it listed with the specific account. It will be available in a popup button when you compose a new message or reply to pick it if it is not the default signature for the outgoing account. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
. Matthew On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:32 PM, John Panarese wrote: Is it associated with an account already? You need to have it listed with the specific account. It will be available in a popup button when you compose a new message or reply to pick it if it is not the default signature

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
Look in the Tab pane of Safari preferences. There is a popup button that seems to default to opening pages in tabs. You have to change that to, never, I believe. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
wrote: I tried that, and nothing happened. On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:00 AM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Look in the Tab pane of Safari preferences. There is a popup button that seems to default to opening pages in tabs. You have to change that to, never, I believe. Take

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
reports the same title, and I see no new windows or tabs when I explore the rest of the Safari window. On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:50 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes, you have to actually navigate after you open the new lonk. In other words, you don't get any indication

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
of the window, thinking that the new page had opened but had not been switched to. When I returned to the html content, it was still the same. On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:41 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. This is strange. If you stop interacting and then interact again, does

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
to see if it worked with vo and links refused to open when they would launch new windows. On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:47 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Unless there is another setting that I am missing, I'm not sure what is going on. Does this happen with all sites or any

Re: safari not opening new windows from links?

2012-09-13 Thread John Panarese
confirmed yesterday that nothing at all happened when I activated the link that was supposed to open a new window. On Sep 13, 2012, at 4:39 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Trying not to miss the obvious, so please forgive me if I'm asking basic questions. Did you try

Re: closing dashboard widgets

2012-09-08 Thread John Panarese
It was changed. Try control-option-command-escape. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS

Re: Using Eclipse on the Mac

2012-09-08 Thread John Panarese
of the Macintosh blind friendly developers list. Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com (703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On Aug 22, 2012, at 3:23 PM, John Panarese wrote: Hi guys, I don't know much about this, but I was asked by someone if anyone knows if the Eclipse program

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-09-03 Thread John Panarese
Thanks again. This was helpful. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS

Re: Save Conversation in Messages

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
Messages saves transcripts in a archive folder in your user library folder in the Messages folder. I believe there is a checkbox in Message preferences in the Messages pane that enables saving transcripts. If I am wrong, I stand corrected, but this is how I recall it being in iChat. Take

Re: In messages, how to select who a message is sent from

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
I would assume that that the easiest way would be to have the buddy list shown in separate windows and just pick the contact from the specific account. I thought there might be a way to do this when you use the compose button, but I don't see anything obvious. Take Care John D. Panarese

VO and eHarmony

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
I think it was this list, but a few months back, someone posted a way of reading the answers matches give in the initial stages of communication using eHarmony. At the time I was using the service, I had no idea how to do it, but a friend of mine was asking me this afternoon and I couldn't

Re: In messages, how to select who a message is sent from

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I would assume that that the easiest way would be to have the buddy list shown in separate windows and just pick the contact from the specific account. I thought there might be a way to do this when you use the compose button, but I don't see

Re: VO and eHarmony

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
up with the posting. Best, ERIK burggraafEbony ConsultingI am currently on the road and staying in touch on my handheld. John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I think it was this list, but a few months back, someone posted a way of reading the answers matches give in the initial

Re: VO and eHarmony

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
burggraafEbony ConsultingI am currently on the road and staying in touch on my handheld. John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I think it was this list, but a few months back, someone posted a way of reading the answers matches give in the initial stages of communication using

Re: VO and eHarmony

2012-09-02 Thread John Panarese
know when I used the service this was not an issue, but my browsers are closer to text anyway, comparative in a round about fashion to the solution here. still, better repaired than covered if that makes sense? Karen On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, John Panarese wrote: Yes, I think

Re: New member

2012-09-01 Thread John Panarese
SSD can be expensive to add, but the advantages I have found is the speed in which the system boots up or returns from sleep. Also, copying or moving files and folders on the system is quite fast as well. I have 512 GB of SSD in my Mac Book Pro, and I find it worth the money. Take Care

Re: New member

2012-09-01 Thread John Panarese
at the Samsung 830 or the crucial m4! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 1, 2012, at 1:18 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: SSD can be expensive to add, but the advantages I have found is the speed in which the system boots up or returns from sleep. Also, copying or moving files

Re: install of iWork's09 on new macbook and new clean os

2012-08-24 Thread John Panarese
Just be aware that if you have the oritinal CD and try to install it, you will have problems. What I had to do was copy the preference files for iWorks from my user library from a time machine backup and copy them onto the clean install. Hopefully, you still have access to an install of

Re: ML .1, first look.

2012-08-23 Thread John Panarese
I missed some of this thread, so if I am misunderstanding the issue, I apologize or if this has been suggested before. Did you hide the tab bar as well? Also, I've had a lot more success having pages open in new windows and not tabs. When a page loads, I can start using the tab key and

Using Eclipse on the Mac

2012-08-22 Thread John Panarese
Hi guys, I don't know much about this, but I was asked by someone if anyone knows if the Eclipse program for the Mac is accessible for VoiceOver. I believe it has to do with Java development, which leads me to believe that it is not. However, I know nothing about it and am hoping someone

Re: are they joking with us

2012-08-20 Thread John Panarese
To simplify things, you can't import VoiceOver Preferences from an earlier version of Mac OS X with ease. What I did was to copy the VO preference folders from my user preferences library and copy them in to my library in Mountain Lion. This maintained settings from all the way back to

Re: cool discovery in mail

2012-08-20 Thread John Panarese
What kind of trouble are you having? Are you going into selection mode first with VO-Command-space and then doing that command for each item you want to select? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: cool discovery in mail

2012-08-20 Thread John Panarese
Actually, the method, as of Lion, works with or without cursing tracking on for non contiguous selecting. You must be interacting, but cursor tracking can be on. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: cool discovery in mail

2012-08-20 Thread John Panarese
, but when I used the method Chris suggested, I got to work. I have not a clue why it doesn't work the way you said. Could it have anything to do with the fact that I have my mouse following the voiceover cursor? On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:06 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What kind

Re: Mountain Lion User Administration

2012-08-19 Thread John Panarese
What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I

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