Introducing myself, questions from a new mac user

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Head
Hi all, My name is Andrew. I am 23 and from Australia. I have recently switched from windows to the mac. I have had an IPhone for 2 years now, and liked the idea of the built in screen reader and having the same access as sighted people out of the box, without the need to buy or install any

Re: Introducing myself, questions from a new mac user

2013-10-30 Thread Ray Foret Jr
1. Welcome. 2. copying is done within a Mac drive from one location to another in the same way you already know how to do it. Next. Attach files to e-mail message either with Shift+CMD+a or else you can do it via cutting and pasting the way I do. To get attachments from an e-mail, I use the

Re: Introducing myself

2012-09-02 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hello newbies. Yes this is an awesome list, I've learned a heck of a lot of stuff on here. Yeah I've used pretty much all the screen readers on Windows, and I must say that nothing can top Voiceover. I remember when I got my Mac 2 years ago, I was pretty excited. I don't know how I figured out

Re: Introducing myself

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
Welcome to the list, yes the mac is great, I use it for almost everything, I only have to use windows for one or two things, I don't have any pcs anymore, just macs. On Sep 1, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Christine Olivares wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Christine. My membership slipped through the

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2012-09-02 Thread Marianne Denning
Hello, My name is Marianne and I was also recently approved on the list. I am a teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired and I am also blind. I need to know how to use both OS 10 and the PC in my job. I am just beginning to learn voiceover on a Mac but I have used an IPhone for

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2012-09-02 Thread Chris
Welcome to the list! I have a Macbook Pro and so far it has been the best investment. The mac is so much better in many ways than the other OS. Anyway, welcome again. Sent from my Windows laptop. On 01/09/2012 23:10, Joanna West wrote: Hi all, My name is joanna. I just got approved to be on

Introducing myself

2012-09-01 Thread Christine Olivares
Hello everyone, My name is Christine. My membership slipped through the cracks, and I was finally approved. I got a mac in december of 2011, and my husband told me about this group. Since then, I have been waiting for my membership to be approved. I want to thank Cara for figuring everything

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2012-09-01 Thread Joanna West
Hi all, My name is joanna. I just got approved to be on this mailing list. My husband and I are both macbook air users. We have had them since last march. We consider then one of the best investments we have yet made. We both love the mac much better than jaws. Anyway, a friend of line told me

RE: Introducing myself

2012-09-01 Thread wayne coles
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself Hi all, My name is joanna. I just got approved to be on this mailing list. My husband and I are both macbook air users. We have had them since last march. We consider then one of the best investments

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2012-09-01 Thread Rachel Feinberg
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself Hi all, My name is joanna. I just got approved to be on this mailing list. My husband and I are both macbook air users. We have had them since last march. We consider then one of the best investments we have yet made. We both

Re: Introducing myself

2012-09-01 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
welcome to the list. this is a wonderful rich source of help and information. Laura Ann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Introducing myself

2012-09-01 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
Glad all the new members have found this awesome list. I have had my mac since november of last year and love it. I changed from Jaws and windows and love using a mac and apple products. Laura Ann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group.

Re: Just re-introducing myself with more questions.

2011-04-21 Thread Pete Nalda
Johnny about the Calendar and Contacts, OSX already comes with very nice apps for Personal information management. I find both iCal and Address book to work well with VoiceOver, and easy to use at that. I believe the Database program people have referred to is called Bento, and I've heard it

Just re-introducing myself with more questions.

2011-04-20 Thread Johchi
Hi everyone, Well, I don't wish to be pesty, or redundent, but I understand that some of my messages to this wonderful list did not get through to you guys, so I wanted to re-introduce myself just one more time to you. My name is Johnny Chilelli from Erie PA. Firstly, I just wanna say thanks

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2011-04-20 Thread CJ Daniel
Johnny, I, recently, made the switch from Windows to a MBP, myself. I love it VoiceOver will never go back. One of the considerations for me was the availability of bible study software that would work with VoiceOver. I found Eloquent, formerly MacSword, have found it to be quite

Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-30 Thread Ashley Cox
! It has a rubber material on the bottom, if that helps any. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:33 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself

Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-29 Thread Ashley Cox
I can answer the last 2 questions. It is possible to upgrade the ram and the hdd; they are both laptop components. The harddrive is a 5400 rpm sata laptop harddrive. how to get inside? depends what mac mini you have. If you have the 2007-2009 mac mini (or a power pc mac mini), not one of the

RE: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-29 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Subject: Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions Hi Gail, Welcome to the List! Some Mac Minis are harder than others to upgrade. Can you tell us what model of Mini you have, the processor, RAM and hard drive size / interface? You can find all of this info in the System Profiler

Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-29 Thread Bryan Jones
] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:33 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions Hi Gail, Welcome to the List! Some Mac Minis are harder than others to upgrade. Can you tell us what model of Mini you have

Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
a rubber material on the bottom, if that helps any. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:33 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself

Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-28 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi List. I just joined over the weekend. Thanks to Mike Arrigo's excellent podcasts, I'm trying, and switching to the mac, once I'm a bit more comfortable with it. I have a mac mini running Leopard.I've been a windows user since 1998, but it's kind of fun learning the mac and voice over. Now

Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions

2011-03-28 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Gail, Welcome to the List! Some Mac Minis are harder than others to upgrade. Can you tell us what model of Mini you have, the processor, RAM and hard drive size / interface? You can find all of this info in the System Profiler application found in your Applications / Utilities folder. Also

Re: Introducing myself and a question

2010-11-21 Thread f10r14n
Hello Brandt, You will want to check out Nicecast by rogue amoeba. This program is, to my knowledge, the easiest solution for basic broadcasting on the mac. If you want more features though, like cart machines and such, I think you're better off using something like station playlist studio in

Introducing myself and a question

2010-11-20 Thread brandt
Hi there folks, I am a totally blind South African bloke with English as a second language. Getting my first ever Mac hopefully before the end of the year. Have had my iPod touch for just over 6 months now, and love it! I would seriously appreciate help over the next couple months switching

Re: Introducing myself and a question

2010-11-20 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
Hello and welkom op die lyst. You'll automatically get the getting started thing when you start using the mac. This gives a really good overview and will help you a lot as it covers interacting with form fields, webpages, etc. So, I expect you'll have no problem with that whatsoever, except