Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project

2010-09-28 Thread Tyler Spivey
Hello, I have started a new project, the Historical Access Preservation Project, or HAPP. The website is at: http://allinaccess.com/happ The goal of this project is to preserve the software needed to access older systems that are no longer in wide mainstream use, such as DOS, Macintosh pre-OSX

Re: transferring large files

2010-02-24 Thread Tyler Spivey
e between our macs. I'd like any ideas on how best to do > this. We used Hamachi a couple of times but it doesn't seem to > work any longer. Thanks, Jim > > - Find me on facebook or: Skype: jimintexas Yahoo or > Aim/Ichat: jgatteys Msn: jgatt...@gmail.com &

Re: voiceover words per minute

2011-05-03 Thread Tyler Spivey
In all these thread replies, I don't think anyone has answered the author's question. While I don't have a mac, the same thing should apply here. To get an approximate value for words per minute, you should be able to do something like this: 1. Select a portion of text, for example out of a book, w

Re: more on safari problem

2013-11-22 Thread Tyler Spivey
Please go into system preferences, then to date and time. From your email, your date is behind by over a year. Once you fix that, check the box that tells it to set automaticly. Try opening your ssl sites again and things might work a little better. On 1/1/2012 12:55 PM, jean parker wrote: Hi

Re: Mobi to epub or HTML.

2012-04-24 Thread Tyler Spivey
None of you found ebook-convert which comes with calibre? I don't have a mac, but this should work: go to your terminal, cd to the right place, and do: ebook-convert file.mobi .epub If your shell can't find it, just specify its path. Once done, it'll put an epub in the same place you ran it from. O

Re: Mobi to epub or HTML.

2012-04-25 Thread Tyler Spivey
t;> Trimming u'images/00016.jpg' from manifest >>> Trimming u'images/00015.jpg' from manifest >>> Creating OEB Output... >>> 67% Creating OEB Output >>> The cover image has an id != "cover". Renaming to work around bug in Nook >>

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread Tyler Spivey
I just found a potential solution. The slider only goes up to a max of 350 wpm, but the setting is stored in: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist To see it, run from terminal: defaults read com.apple.speech.voice.prefs VoiceRateDataArray I get something like this: ( (

Re: apostrophe versus right single quotation?

2014-07-29 Thread Tyler Spivey
It might be smart quotes. Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you want to turn them off. For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark (’), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either “ or ” depending on which end of the quotation