Re: A work around for the vo shift m issue in the doc

It works Kliph. I have used this work around since the first time you mentioned it in one of our sessions. Thank you. Lh Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com > On Feb 1, 2021, at 9:01 AM, 'Stur It Up Productions' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Can’t say if this wor

Re: iBooks question

Good idea; thanks. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Jan 8, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Dennis Westphal > wrote: > > After the Text you want to copy is read press VO+Shift+c. That will copy the &

iBooks question

Is there a way to copy pieces of text from a purchased book in the iBooks App? I can understand the principle of not being able to copy the entire book; however, if you are studying material you are trying to learn, copying small sections would be most helpful. Any thoughts out there. Larry W

Re: Sorting a Numbers spreadsheet

Thanks Kerry. That sequence was very helpful. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Jan 8, 2021, at 12:31 PM, Kerryann Ifill wrote: > > Hi Larry: > > Well let’s see. If you go to the toolbar

Sorting a Numbers spreadsheet

Can someone explain a bit about the sort on a Numbers spreadsheet? Just a simple sort between two columns. Any info appreciated. Thanks. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) -- The following information is

Numbers Question

I am not able to edit it. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: confused with pages

I believe the book is still on the Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> website. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Dec 31, 2020, at 5:16 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries > wrote:

Re: A couple of data locations

Thanks Jonathan. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Dec 24, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > Hello, > First, move to your home directory in Finder. > Now, press command-J t

A couple of data locations

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Re: an update on my Big Sur experience

serious bug issues, but I do believe we have to try and move forward and just keep pressure on Apple to fix the problems. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Dec 23, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Mike Arrigo wr

Dock issue in Big Sur

access options and other choices usually displayed thru the VO+Shift+m menu. Again, not perfect but it has worked fairly reliably for me so far. Hope this helps anyone else dealing with this issue. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path

Re: Daisy Reader on the Mac?

Thanks! I can find it. I appreciate the info. Kindly yours, Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Dec 17, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > > Dolphin EasyReader for Mac. >

Daisy Reader on the Mac?

Is anyone using a good Daisy Reader on the Mac? This would be for Daisy audio and Daisy text files. Any info appreciated. Most cordially, Larry Honaker kc8...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Commander gets all turned around

This may or may not be common knowledge, but it was a strange enough thing I thought it worth sharing. I have a Windows keyboard attached through a KVM switch to a Mini. I finally decided it would be helpful to switch the functions of the Command and Option keys so that they match a Mac keyboa

Re: Apple TV and sound systems revisited

I gave your configuration a try to see if it made things any better. It does, but there’s still a tendency to clip off the first bit of sound after a pause in navigation. My wife likes the system so I may make due with it. Running everything through the TV at least seems to have cured the uni

Apple TV and sound systems revisited

This has come up before, but it has been a few months, so I’ll ask again in case something new and beter has come up. As we know, some sound systems do not work well with Voiceover because of the way they process HDMI input. I have been putting up with such a system for a while now. I bought

Re: Voiceover doesn't announce presence of comments in Numbers

Unless you have since resolved the issue, I advise reporting it. My experience trying to get spreadsheet questions answered suggests we don’t have a lot of people using them so your confirmation may not be forthcoming. When I eventually upgrade I will have to remember to try this and see what

Re: Reorganizing inside playlist

I’ve never tried using the drag and drop to do it, but command-x/v works fine, at least in the latest iTunes under Sierra . > On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’m having trouble moving songs around inside a playlist. I thought I use to > be able to delete the

Re: Upgrading my Mini

AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Larry, don’t upgrade through apple, go to local shop or do it yourself. > Check out www.crucial.com <http://www.crucial.com/>, put in the model Mac you > have and it will tell you what parts to buy. Prices are a fraction of what > Apple charg

Upgrading my Mini

I have a late ’14 Mac Mini. It is serving me well, but I notice that the 1TB Fusion drive I bought it with is filling up faster than I expected. I could go into iTunes and get rid of some videos and that would probably help a lot, but I may have need to install Windows and thus more disk space

Re: Mac Mail threads stop expanding

is. If you > interact with the thread itself, and use VO-right a few times, it'll say > “ message conversation, collapsed”. If you VO-space on that, it'll > expand. Just stop interacting before moving down into the thread. It's worked > for me every time. > >

Mac Mail threads stop expanding

This happens every so often and I have yet to detect a pattern. I become unable to expand collapsed message threads in Mail. I try quitting Mail and Voiceover and restarting but that usually doesn’t work. As a last resort I will restart the Mac. That’s not quite the pain it would be in Window

Re: Voiceover is loaded, can it be detoxed?

e is more accessible, but I haven't tried > using it in a while. > > Are you on current Safari version? > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > >> On Jul 31, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Larry Thacker Jr. > <mailto:larry.thacker...@gmail.com>&

Voiceover is loaded, can it be detoxed?

I’ve seen this before on Amazon, but in the past it eventually settles down. Not today. I was not even on a shopping page, but trying to clean up old devices from my account. VO kept interrupting with “loaded.” Even if I switched tabs or applications, it kept saying, “loaded.” I agree! It’

Re: bluetooth keyboard for iPhone

I have the K480 as well as two Amazon Basics keyboards. They are simple keyboards and easy to take along in a small bag. I sometimes have a little trouble with complex key commands using these keyboards, but they work well enough and are very inexpensive. The Logitech K480 is nice and connect

Re: FaceBook Info.

My first advice would be avoid it if you have an alternative, but it is usable in Safari with patience. Navigating by various heading levels will help you get around. As with many sites, overlays can be a problem, but they can usually be located at the very beginning or very end of a page. Th

Re: iRobot iPhone app

I’ve been wondering about the usability of these. Is everything controllable with the apps? My vision is good enough to avoid bumping into things most of the time but not good enough to read anything that isn’t at least 24 point. I’ve seen demos of both vacuums online and the Neato made more

Re: Seeing AI app from Microsoft

play with it. There may not be a reason for me to bother with KNFB going forward. > On Jul 15, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > > You can actually save it if you use the document channel instead of short > text. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 15, 2017, at 8

Re: Seeing AI app from Microsoft

It is awesome for quick reading. If you don’t need to save the text, it walks all over KNFB. > On Jul 15, 2017, at 6:44 PM, David & his pack of dogs > wrote: > > They must work on its accuracy. It had me 18 years older then I really am > and my wife 6 years older. I am listed as a 76 years

Re: Ranges in Formulas in Numbers

I should probably just wait for someone who actually knows to answer, but based on my fiddling with the same template, Numbers seems to automatically make a range out of any row or column you assign a header to.The range is anything in the column that has the named heading. > On Jul 2, 2017

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

There might be a better way, but all I can think of would require a friend with Windows willing to help. Windows 7 retains this scheme and I think Windows 10 does as well but I didn’t use that for long so I am not completely certain. If the favorites were copied to a subfolder under the favori

Re: IMovie with voiceover

I asked the same question a while back, and the answer was not encouraging. I am sorry I don’t remember the details anymore, but I was able to do some simple editing by using menu commands. From within the clip you can use menu commands to split a single clip and then a trim from beginning (I

Re: Connect your iCloud account to Alexa if you can

I did get it to work. As you mentioned, there’s no way to select the text, so I copied group by group from memory into a note and then used that to paste into the app.. Even then it did not work because somehow an extra character got included. By this time I had been over it so many times tha

Re: Moving notes from one folder to another

lso Drag and drop may work better if you first turn off cursor tracking. I had a similar problem and someone here made that suggestion. otherwise focus changes when you move to the folder list and the item is no longer on the screen to drag. > On Jun 9, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Re: Some apps for my work

This costs a little but works very well. I have used it both to capture video and to make Mp3 of video, all in one download step. Despite the name, it works on more sites than just Youtube. https://softorino.com/youtube-converter > On Jun 6, 2017,

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

It doesn’t always work though. The fallback is to do something that causes VO to interrupt itself. I usually turn caps lock on and off. > On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hello Donna, > The way the control key works for speech is, when you press it once it will > paus

Re: Does anyone know how I can link my Twitter and Facebook accounts so I can simultaneously post to both?

It has been so long i don’t remember the details, but if you search out Facebook Connect, you should find it. This is done through Twitter, requires no special hashtags. > On May 12, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Des Delgadillo wrote: > > Install the Selective Tweets app through Facebook: > https://apps.

Re: Items marked as junk

Command-shift-J will do the same thing in less keystrokes. It works either to mark a message as junk or set it back to normal, moving the message as appropriate. > On May 8, 2017, at 2:12 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > Hi, > > Focus on the message in question in the list of messages, and inv

Outgoing mail questions

I just discovered that all my sent email from when I got my Mac last year was sitting in the various sent mail folders for my accounts. I should have foreseen this, but I’m so used to the way I had Outlook working that I didn’t think about it. Thus the question. I had a rule in Outlook that w

Re: Word 2016 accessibility?

It helps. The reason being that when it is on, Word has a tendency to jump back to the top of the document in certain situations. I’ve seen it happen when moving from page to page, switching back to Word from another application, and sometimes when performing other tasks within Word. With cur

Re: Microsoft word 2016 accessibility

Word works pretty well. You may run into a little difficulty with complex editing tasks, but most things will work fine. I found tables a little inconsistent. I use custom bullets in one of the documents I create, and there’s no way to identify with VO which one I’m selecting. I’ve also disc

Re: File transfer for mac and Voiceover.

; 13 apr. 2017 kl. 15:34 skrev Larry Thacker Jr. : >> >> If VO is doing what it seems to be doing and simulating an actual drag and >> drop, then both locations would have to be visually accessible for the >> operation to complete. My suspicion would be that the win

Re: File transfer for mac and Voiceover.

If VO is doing what it seems to be doing and simulating an actual drag and drop, then both locations would have to be visually accessible for the operation to complete. My suspicion would be that the windows are overlapping and thus the source and destination are not visible at the same time.

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Oh and yes the office installer will allow you to install only the programs you want. I don’t know if they sell the programs themselves separately anymore and suspect that may not be the most economical solution if available. Could be wrong on that though. > On Apr 9, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Donna

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

I use Word on the Mac just because I’m more familiar with it, having used it on Windows for nearly 20 years. You have to make some adjustments for apple keystrokes, but it is usable. Item chooser is a good way to get to the ribbon controls. Some of them you work with by VO-shift-M and other’s

Re: iMovie and Voiceover

ote: > > Larry, > > While I have never used iMovie in Mac OS, I use it semi regularly on iOS and > I can tell you that there are several options that are simply not VoiceOver > accessible. As I have enough residual vision to work around this > accessibility limitation, I ca

iMovie and Voiceover

This may seem like a strange request, but I have the need to do some very basic video editing. All I really need to do is cut pieces of the video out. I’ve figured out how to trim off the front, but selecting sections in the middle to cut out or even splitting the clip so that I can cut off th

Re: contacting Uber?

I believe you can do it through the web site, but I don’t think you will get anywhere. Part of Uber’s appeal and business model is that there is no need for cash. Though they have had to make allowances in some markets, they even discourage tipping. Lyft does allow for tipping, but again the

Re: Saving Files in Text Edit

Move through until you hear “Disclosure.” Activate that and the dialog will expand to the full panel where you can navigate the folder structure. > On Mar 14, 2017, at 8:02 PM, Kat DeNicola wrote: > > There is probably a simple answer to this that I knew at one time, but my > brain is fried,

Re: Navigating Finder

ace click mouse at current mouse location. > > > > If you are in a finder window with list view active and hit page up even > > if VoiceOver follows mouse is enabled, you will notice with vo-F5 vs > > vo-F3 that the mouse and VO cursor are not in the same place. >

Navigating Finder

I did my homework, but I haven’t found the answer to this one. If I want to move quickly through a list of files in Windows, I can simply press Page down. The focus will move with me. Not so in Finder. Focus stays where I left it at last arrow press. Is there any way to make focus travel wi

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

I am not a heavy user, but I have both apps. It may come down to how you want to use the app. If you are comfortable with one of the free options for turn-by-turn navigation such as Google or Apple Maps, BlindSquare may do just fine. That would be my choice on a budget. It may come down to p

Re: Possible new FTP client for Mac

It doesn’t have natively the one thing I really needed, but it does appear to be a very capable dual pain file manager and the developers are very accommodating. If I had not already purchased Transmit, I would probably be using it as my FTP client. > On Feb 28, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Alex Hall wr

Help with spreadsheets

preferences panel was rather sparse and didn’t offer any hope. Larry Thacker Jr. http://www.lionsrealm.net <http://www.lionsrealm.net/> http://twitter.com/lthackerjr <http://twitter.com/lthackerjr> http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr <http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr> -- The fol

Re: We are getting Lyft

LYft does a couple of nice things that Uber doesn’t. You can set an additional destination when you first set up the ride. Of course with either you can work with the driver, but it is nice to have that laid out to begin with. Also, it tells you the color of the car as well as the make. That

Re: Firefox

> paid option, but it's not necessary. And with the softorino one, you get > either a week demo or a 2-week demo, I can't remember offhand. > I hope this helps. > Moop > > Moop > > On Feb 14, 2017, at 6:05 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. <mailto:larry.thacker.

Re: Firefox

ibility know-how with macs. >> On 15 Feb 2017, at 4:52 am, Larry Thacker Jr. >> wrote: >> >> I use firefox basically for one plugin I need on occasion and as a fall-back >> when something doesn’t work in Safari. However, lately I can’t get >> Voiceover to g

Firefox

I use firefox basically for one plugin I need on occasion and as a fall-back when something doesn’t work in Safari. However, lately I can’t get Voiceover to go into the web content in Firefox. Can’t say if Apple or Mozilla broke it. Anyone else see this and have a way around it? -- The foll

Re: Reading tables in pdf documents with Voiceover

Yes, they are generally much better in Windows. This is one place where Apple has really fallen short. The topic of PDF reading comes up here from time to time, but I have not seen a good solution to this. Simple documents are somewhat manageable, but I too have the issue with statements. >

Re: Cross Posting Ubuntu info

If you don’t already know about it, Vinux may be an option here. I don’t think they use the server version but there’s lots of expertise there to help. I had a system up and running briefly but never learned enough to be really competent with it. http://vinuxproject.org > On Feb 13, 2017, a

Re: Sinology router accessibility

t; MSN; mmus...@bigpond.net.au <mailto:mmus...@bigpond.net.au> > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 11 Feb 2017, at 2:16 am, Larry Thacker Jr. <mailto:larry.thacker...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> I recently came across a glowing review for a Synology router. According to

Sinology router accessibility

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Re: Quickly Identifying the Currently Playing Track In iTunes

I don’t remember the source, but a friend sent me a collection of Voiceover scripts, among which was one that does just that. With Keyboard commander on I can hit option-i and hear the currently playing track. I’ll bet someone on here knows the origin of those scripts. I believe they were wri

Re: Web site help text overload

dom or group, one has to interact with > the article to read the contents. Have you tried an interact command and if > so what difference does that provide? > > Best Wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:26 AM Larry Thacker Jr. > mailto:larry.th

Web site help text overload

rearranging the order so that the menu item comes first. Am I missing it somewhere? Larry Thacker Jr. http://www.lionsrealm.net <http://www.lionsrealm.net/> http://twitter.com/lthackerjr <http://twitter.com/lthackerjr> http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr <http://facebook.com/l

Re: Small email problem

Until or unless they fix the root cause, I believe your only option is to turn off mail notifications. More than one of us have written to Apple regarding the issue of VO interrupting reading to deliver notifications, which would not be so bad if it would resume where it left off afterwards. P

Re: Microsoft office

The single most annoying problem with Word is that when you move from page to page or perform some other functions it will sometimes jump back to the very top of the document. That is super annoying if it’s a big document. I’m not sure that’s entirely a Microsoft bug though, as I have had othe

Re: Gesture in zoom?

It’s under Zoom in the accessibility panel. Click the options button near the bottom right. I do not recommend the center tracking. That would be my preference, but when I tried it, the response became extremely sluggish. I have a 2014 Mini with a Core i7 and it became unusable with that set

Re: ChronoSync 4.7.2

I presume from it being shared here that it is accessible. This is exactly what I have been looking for. There is nothing good about Goodsync, which I have been trying to use. Thanks for sharing. > On Jan 2, 2017, at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > >> http://tidbits.com/article/16969?rss

Re: itunes help, please!

Mine also stopped after some time. However, it resumed again when I plugged my iPhone into power. I have wifi sync turned on. Still no indication from iTunes other than the chiming that it’s doing anything, but that may at least explain where the activity is being generated. It chimed severa

Re: itunes help, please!

Mine is doing the same thing. The first thing I did was try to search for an explanation, but none of the terms I tried yielded anything useful. I don’t have time to chase the problem any further, so I just closed it down for fear it was doing something i really would not like. > On Dec 16, 2

Re: Key Features of GoodSync

I have GoodSync. It’s accessible, and at first it worked pretty well, but then something went wrong and it doesn’t seem to be working at all. Setup was overly complicated, and you can’t bypass any part of it or the program won’t work properly. It doesn’t make that clear while you’re setting i

Re: fonts in text edit and sharing documents with iPhone

Those commands adjust the size respective to the existing size, so everything would stay proportionally the same, just smaller or larger. To make it all uniform you will want to open the font dialog with Command-T. Or at least that’s a way I know that would do it. However it will also probab

Re: Notify me but stop interrupting!

> ding at me, but does not announce anything. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Dec 7, 2016, at 11:57, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > I’m wondering if I have missed a setting somewhere. I don’t remember this > happeni

Notify me but stop interrupting!

I’m wondering if I have missed a setting somewhere. I don’t remember this happening before the last Sierra update. I don’t want to turn off notifications, but I am getting really tired of having them interrupt what Voiceover is currently reading and making me restart or in the case of newly o

Re: How To Generate a Randomly Sorted Playlist In the Latest iTunes

I was hoping someone with a little more experience would answer you, but I’ll give it a try. I am not aware of any process to randomize the actual playlist, but one can always use the shuffle feature to achieve the same thing. I resigned myself to that when I first moved to iTunes. As for qui

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

That worked. thanks. > On Nov 26, 2016, at 8:51 PM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Option-tab will insert a tab in the find dialog. Ctrl-enter will insert a > line separator. Option-enter will insert a newline. >> On Nov 26, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. >&g

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

d most likely >> option return or perhaps shift return or some combination thereof will >> insert the line separator character. I know you can get linefeed with option >> return. >> >> Sent from my IPhone >> >> >>> On Nov 26, 2016, at 5:1

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

IPhone > > >> On Nov 26, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. >> wrote: >> >> I need to be able to find formatting characters in a text document and >> change or remove them. I’ve found that I can copy them to the clipboard and >> then paste them into

Finding special characters in Text Edit

I need to be able to find formatting characters in a text document and change or remove them. I’ve found that I can copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into the search and replace fields, but I wonder if there’s a better way. For example, I frequently want to change something Voiceo

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

I have the same issue with my AV receiver. In my case, I know it’s because of the sound “sleeping” when there’s no input. Voiceover doesn’t generate enough sound to keep it alive. If there’s a setting to change this behavior there’s nothing in the manual to indicate it. I doubt there’s enoug

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

i get a serious headache and in my not so humble > opinion the sound quality just isn’t fit for music with only midrange and no > bass or treble at all. > That’s me though and the mileage may vary. > /Krister > >> 18 nov. 2016 kl. 00:50 skrev Larry Thacker Jr. : >&g

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

There are plenty of ready-made solutions for publishing your audio file as a podcast. You should not have to generate the XML for yourself unless you’re planning to write all your own software for publishing. A web search on the topic will turn up all kinds of solutions, but accessibility is a

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

ppe wrote: > > How do those differ and why are they more durable? > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 16, 2016, at 16:27, Larry Thacker Jr. >> wrote: >> >> Same here. I recommend spending the extra to get the Trekz Titanium. The >> Blues I

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

Same here. I recommend spending the extra to get the Trekz Titanium. The Blues I have had all broke or stopped working. Aftershokz was good about replacing them, but that gets old. The Titaniums are made differently and are much more durable. I wear mine around the house and leave them on m

Re: How to research a problem after forced shutdown

:59 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi Larry. I think I may be of help but I need a little more information > first. First, how old is your Mac? Are you using the latest version of macOS? > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook > Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk > Twitter Han

How to research a problem after forced shutdown

upgrading itself in the past week or so. Larry Thacker Jr. http://www.lionsrealm.net <http://www.lionsrealm.net/> http://twitter.com/lthackerjr <http://twitter.com/lthackerjr> http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr <http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr> -- The following informatio

Re: interesting observation, potentially a voiceover bug

I can replicate this. I did not see it before Sierra. VO will just say how many rows are selected without saying what’s in them. The good news is this is easy to overcome. I think the bug may be in Voiceover focus not always properly tracking where you are. If you use the VO keys to make sur

Re: iTunes update issue

I re-enabled it after, but who knows what happens with the next update. I am on Sierra so that could be a difference. > On Nov 1, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > The odd thing is, that widget doesn't seem to be in my widgets area under > extensions in the first place.

Re: iTunes update issue

Thanks. “Extension” should have been the key. Still learning my way around. I found it in the “today” section and once unchecked I was able to install. > On Nov 1, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Blee Blat wrote: > > Did you check the "extensions" pane in system preferences to see if the > iTunes widget

iTunes update issue

New problem today and I am having no luck with a Google search to turn up the answer. Either nobody else is seeing this or it’s too new I guess. When I try to update iTunes, I get the message "“iTunes.app” can not be updated because its extensions are in use by “Notification Center.app”. Click

Re: Strange behaviour when loging-in in OS Sierra

I have had this happen. It does not happen every time. I do not have my computer lock upon sleeping, so it has only been 1 or two times when restarting. Unfortunately because it has not been often I can’t point to a particular condition that existed at the time. I would think though that a r

Re: Issue with iOS Messages app: Is anyone else also seeing this problem?

I have not tried that, but I have had the same thing happen on the setup for the notification screen. It wasn’t consistent though. Next time I got to that section it worked fine and it was fine just now. Maybe it has something to do with first use? > On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Christopher

Re: Facebook question

I think there is a way, but I’ve been using this custom URL for years and so far it still works. I keep expecting them to break it. https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf > On Oct 18, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > > Hi all, > I’m using

Re: an Uber question

I’ve never tried something that elaborate but the drivers will work with you. As long as they are willing you can adapt the trip as needed. Of course as already noted this is going to make it hard to predict your final fair. I thought I read something a while back about Lyft providing this op

Re: Selecting text from web pages in Safari

Thanks. I’ve used the 3rd approach for small bits of text in other situations but didn’t think of the first two. Still learning the finer points of Voiceover. > On Oct 7, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Larry, > > I use various strategies for selecting

Selecting text from web pages in Safari

yield any speech from Voiceover. I started to ask this once before and all of a sudden it worked so I abandoned the question. But it was just that once. I haven’t been able to do it since. Can anyone tell me why and how to get around the problem? Larry Thacker Jr. http://www.lionsrealm.net

Re: Selecting photos from albums in iMovie?

You may have better luck using the photos app itself to create the slideshow and then you can export that to a video. Now if you want something you can stick into a DVD player and have it run, that’s where I also got stuck and eventually gave up. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote

An observation

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Re: Duxbury for Mac and Embossers

Choose write to printer rather than write to port. > On Sep 8, 2016, at 5:52 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Larry, > I have gotten as far as setting things up in DBT Global settings. Even > though I added the embosser in system prefs, DBT does not see it in the write > to port dial

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