Re: oops

2014-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
> Control+c? Hmmm, that's not what i do in screen and since control-c usually > means cancel I wouldn't think you would do that. I do control-a and then I do > c for a new screen or the number of the window if it's one that is already > open. You can change it from control-a to something else bu

Re: oops

2014-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Just for clarification, as I see it doesn't read very clearly, it's control a. I do control a. Then I do the c for the next or a new screen window or I do the number of the window. > On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> Control+c? Hmmm, that's

Re: terminal, one last question...

2014-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
rote: > > Hi! > Why do you run screen and brltty at the same point? > Is screen a more flexible screen reader than brltty is? > /A >> 9 dec 2014 kl. 18:45 skrev Cheryl Homiak : >> >> Well sure. If I understand you correctly, just do a cmd-n and you'll have a &

Re: my day with yosemite

2014-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I can understand your frustration. I am using yosemite and love it! I really do suggest, without criticizing anybody else's decision, that people look for answers to any problems they encounter if they choose to upgrade and maybe give it a week instead of one day. But I totally can understand a

Re: itunes help

2014-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
When you add to library, iTunes places your music in folders under Music > iTunes > iTunes Media according to artist and that's where you should find them. You can't just move your folders intact the way you have them into iTunes. Also, adding to library doesn't erase the folder and files from t

Re: itunes help

2014-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I use vlc quite a bit and mplayer sometimes. You don't need macports or homebrew to install vlc unless you want to run it from the terminal but can get a Mac version from the website .videolan.org -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus,

Re: itunes help

2014-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Sorry about the extra "w"! http://www.videolan.org -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! > On Dec 10, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Yes, I use vlc quit

adobe reader updae?

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. I only have Adobe Reader on my Mac because once a year my reader helps me do my daughter's homestead form which is a pdf. I have gotten used to the fact that when my sysgtem repeatedly and annoyingly says "system needsd attention" Adobe REader wants to update. However, I am getting this

Re: adobe reader updae?

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thank you so much! Misery really does love company but I hope we can both find a solution - grin! It is comforting to know that I am not alone :-) I would just ignore it and let my reader update it when we need it if I could get rid of that nag message! -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas stor

Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
; I guess what I’m saying is, there are always work arounds as much of an >>>>> inconvenience they are. In my case, it was turning off the track >>>>> commander. I’m sincerely hoping this problem is resolved as using the >>>>> trackpad is a big deal to

Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
nd it won't restore even in > recovery mode, just gives me an error1 message, and in the meantime I'm > having to use Mom's phone, which I can't continuously rely on sense she's not > always going to be here. > On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak &

Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ica Moss wrote: > > Ok, what would you recommend in order for me to fix it then, short of going > to a store to fix it? I've been researching it for hours, and am not getting > very far. > On Dec 11, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Cheryl Homiak <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wr

Re: adobe reader updae?

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Lamanche wrote: > > I just wonder whether it would be worth your while checking your notification > centre in case these messages come from your notification centre. If yes, > then you can switch them off there. >> On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:38, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The terminal is fine if one has a braille display and can use brltty, for which I know I should write a README but honestly I haven't been able to find time to do it! If nobody else does it first, I truly do plan to eventually. But in my opinion, without brltty, the terminal isn't much fun thoug

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
turning off autocorrection. When in an edit field, do vo-m and go over to the edit column. Go down to the spelling and grammar submenu. Arrow right and down to "correct spelling automatically" amd if it is checked press vo-space. It should say" correct spelling automatically unchecked.. But thi

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
t; not fixable. I’m thinking vmware is going to end up being my way to go. I >>>> just don’t want to pay a small fortune for vmware when all i want is 1 >>>> linux vm that’s useable. >>>> >>>> >>>> deedra waters >>>> dee..

Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ed to download from there, but the progress bar on the > phone was still sitting, then it all went to Hell in a handbasket from there. > On Dec 11, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Cheryl Homiak <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wrote: > >> If you haven't been able to do anything with

Re: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hmmm, do you have to buy the dongle? With the Macbook Air I had and one I bought for a friend, a dongle was included and did not have to be purchased in addition to the computer. But I do agree that I would rather have the ethernet port than the dongle if that is what you mean. If you do have to

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm not running vmware right now but I have in the past. It really isn't that annoying once you get used to it. All new things can be a pain, some more so than others. What did you install for your linux vm? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus

Re: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

2014-12-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am not sure how old your iMac is or whether or not this would be a factor, but if I use cmd-r at restart and take the steps to reinstall, it is Yosemite that is indeed shown as the install that will be done, not Mavericks. So I don't think the problem is that Apple has failed to allow a Yosemi

Re: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

2014-12-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ough I will take the approach of if it anin'si not broken do not try to fix it. David Griffithdespite On 15/12/2014 08:01, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am not sure how old your iMac is or whether or not this would be a factor, > but if I use cmd-r at restart and take the steps to reinstal

Re: Adobe Flash Player Not Installing

2014-12-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hmmm, for me that window just opened and was there but maybe it varies from time to time. Also when I did this yesterday to get the buttons to work I had to use vo-shift-space instead of just vo-space so if you seem to be stuck with it saying you have to close safari when it's already closed, tr

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You probably don't have to go back and forth to the Sprint store and Apple store as you are afraid you will have to do. If you call them, the carriers can usually do a huge amount of work remotely and if the sim card is defective could even send you a new sim card. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Ch

Re: Checking battery status

2014-12-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Option t for time is built in if you enable it in voiceover utility > commanders, isn't it? Or are you talking about something else. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 16, 2014, at

Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Some of you may know that Bill Me later is now Paypal Credit. The Bill Me Later site worked fine but shortly after the switch of course that site was closed. Last month I did manage to pay my bill but this month I can't click my payment method no matter what I do on the Mac. I very definitely cl

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
There should be no need to interact with the text field or at least I just tried it now and didn't need to. Do vo-space on "add shortcut" for the item you want to change. Then just do the combination right there. If there is already a combination there, of course you won't be able to press "add

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
V user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On Dec 18, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > Some of you may know that Bill Me later is now Paypal Credit. The Bill Me > Later site worked fi

Re: Which version of ABBYY to purchase?

2014-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't know for sure about this. I do know that even though I bought the full abby finereader I don't really like it, admittedly because I haven't yet taken time to learn all its ins and outs and so I am actually still using vuescan and abbyy finereader express most of the time. I'm not recomme

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh yes, anytime you do an install or update, you really should repair permissions. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 19, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hello: Yes, I

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Your advice is appreciated but if i did that (1) a sighted person would know business I don't need him/her to know and I might as well just go back to having a reader go through my mail and do my checks; and (2) I would never get things done because I usually don't have a sighted person around.

Amazon Cloud Reader

2014-12-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Has anybody found a way to read successfully with Amazon Cloud Reader. I have a friend whose pc Kindle application isn't working correctly and I tried to help her use the Cloud Reader on the Mac with safari. It reads everything slowly and painfully with breaks between the words. If you use full

Re: pressing command option u to activate the web roter does not work in the latest version of google chrome please help!!!

2014-12-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Also, unless one is supposed to use different keyboard combinations for google chrome, it is not command-option but control-option with the letter u that brings up the rotor. However, it is true that this does not appear to work with Yosemite and Google Chrome. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christ

Re: Pdf preview windows

2014-12-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually, I believe it's command accent. This does work to switch between pdf files in preview. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 21, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Terj

Re: strange things spoken

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Have you checked both your application chooser and your window chooser? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 22, 2014, at 12:58 PM, jeffrey greene wrote: Hi, I just copied a webpage i

Re: strange things spoken

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
keystroke for the application chooser menu? Thanks, Jeff > On Dec 22, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Have you checked both your application chooser and your window chooser? > > -- > Cheryl > > > Go beyond the Christmas story this year; > meet Immanu

Re: strange things spoken

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
d drive, I then went back into text edit and moved it to my documents folder on the mac. Maybe I’ll try rebooting to see if it goes away. Thanks, Jeff > On Dec 22, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > ctrl-option-f1 twice. > > -- > Cheryl > > > Go beyond

Re: strange things spoken

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually it isn't strictly new window; it's new document -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 22, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: I've never seen this. But I wo

Re: Strange behaviour in safari

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes. Do cmd-comma for preferences in safari. In the toolbar do vo-space on tabs. Check the box that says "when a new tab or window opens, make it active". I think this may solve your issue. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Sa

Re: I'm stuck.

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You need to log in; that is the screen you are in. Maybe your mini restarted during the night for some reason. Do vo-space on your name after interacting with the users area and you will be in the field to enter your password. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel

Re: I'm stuck.

2014-12-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ndows is there anything I can do besides close it and open it again? Thanks. > On Dec 22, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You need to log in; that is the screen you are in. Maybe your mini restarted > during the night for some reason. Do vo-space on your name after interacting

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It isn't necessarily an awful program! It just may not be voiceover compatible. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: Hi Jeff, Thanks. Yes

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If it shows up in the dock, do fo-shift-m there and find options and make sure start at login is unchecked. Then reboot your computer. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 23, 2014, at

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you get it from the Mac app store? Sorry if you already explained this. I was thinking of getting it and see if I could figure it out at all. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, there is just one review for this app in the app store (the one where this is two words) though admittedly it is not for the current version. The reviewer cites only being able to kill it with activity monitor and though he found the icon in the menu bar he says it was "stuck"; said develo

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
annot beat the price. Should you get it and can get the program to open do let me know what to do. Thanks, On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Did you get it from the Mac app store? Sorry if you already explained this. I > was thinking of getting it and see if I

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
lidays. On Dec 23, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Sorry but it appears that the $0.99 one is AudioSwitcher (wone word); the > $4.99 one is "audio switcher" (two words). In the message below it is written > with a space - two words - but given as the $0.99 one. Reall

Audio Switcher confusion unraveled: was Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
t anywhere except in Activity Monitor and that was the only place where I could kill the process. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 24, 2014, at 7:16 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: I w

Re: Audio Switcher confusion unraveled: was Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 24, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: No wonder this is so confusing. Now I really do wonder if people knew which app they were reviewing! If you buy both apps, when they download, they both show up as

Re: How in the world do you get to a program that is open yet does not appear anywhere

2014-12-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
oiding the whole thing as it sounds like this app used to work but no longer does and is not managed by the developer. On Dec 24, 2014, at 8:16 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I would never have expected this either. But it's actually the more expensive > one that has only one review and

Re: mail problem

2014-12-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually there are two issues here. In most cases it isn't actually necessary to delete one account before adding another though not doing so could cause you some confusion. I know when I was first testing out gmail with imap, I created a separate account on the Mac with the same email address

Re: Audio Book Purchase Not Showing UP Anywhere

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Maybe this is a stupid question but you said this is an audio drama you have been following for years. Are you sure it is classified as an audiobook? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On D

Re: Audio Book Purchase Not Showing UP Anywhere

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Also did you check in your menus uder "store" (using vo-m and going over to store and down" for available downloads? It seems to me that when I bought a tv show the spisodes didn't download automatically. I realize yours is not a tv show but it's possible it isn't downloading automatically for s

Re: Audio Book Purchase Not Showing UP Anywhere

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't think restarting your machine should have anything to do with this, but if all else fails, go for it. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 29, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Ray Foret Jr w

Re: Audio Book Purchase Not Showing UP Anywhere

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
eryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: I don't think restarting your machine should have anything to do with this, but if all else fails, go

Re: Hand off

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, you do not need to pair your iPhone with the Mac. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Agent086b wrote: Hello, do you need to pair your iPhone with the Mac?

Re: Hand off

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
t; I'm just trying to think of as many possibilities as I can. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: No, you do not need to pair your iPh

Re: Audio Book Mystery Solved

2014-12-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I should have known to tell you that but frankly I was thinking of the Mac rather than the iPhone. But I remember that before Audible had a separate app, that was how youhad to find Audible books on your phone. That was a long time ago of course. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this

Re: getting periodic messages about not being able to connect to iCloud

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I get this too and so far I've just ignored it becaus the couple of times I went to System Prefs I was signed in etc. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Scott B

Re: getting periodic messages about not being able to connect to iCloud

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Mine isn't related to iPhoto as far as I know. I just get a periodic message about icloud on my Mac not connecting; don't remember the exact wording at the moment. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LO

Re: using it without a printer

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No. If you are talking about the Index print application, that has nothing to do with creating braille files; it just sends your file to the embosser for printing. If you want to turn files to braille, you either have to have another program to do that, such as louis or Duxbury (though I think t

Re: using it without a printer

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, I see you are talking about Index Direct rather than Index print. But I don't think Index Direct actually installs Louis on your computer or anything. You install the driver upgrade on your Mac and then use your embosser with the upgraded firmware. I think if you want to use Louis independ

Re: using it without a printer

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ry. Thanks and take care. On Dec 30, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Okay, I see you are talking about Index Direct rather than Index print. But I > don't think Index Direct actually installs Louis on your computer or > anything. You install the driver upgrade on yo

Re: headphones

2014-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I can't help you with this but have you investigated why your headphone jack is not working? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! On Dec 30, 2014, at 6:33 PM, wayne coles wrote: Hello,list

Re: having 2 windows open when moving files

2014-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, indeed. Command-accent is quite different from command-tab. On most keyboards the accent is right above the tab that is, the row right above but use ctrl-option-k to go into keyboard help and find out where it is. A tab just tabs; an accent is an actual keyboard character but when used with

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The player that opens will be the one that is the default set for that file type. This can be changed. I use VLC as my default for most music and only use iTunes when I have iTunes itself open or on purpose want to play something in iTunes. So to set vlc as the default for a filetype, I find a f

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Does this automatically play the whole folder? What I suspect is that if you have subfolders all of these will just try to open in finder and either nothing will open in vlc or only files contained in the top level of the folder system will be included. But for a simple folder the cmd-a to selec

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
rea there was preview and sharing and permissions. I can’t find the players listed anywhere. making the playlist in terminal sounds like a good idea but I’ve never done anything in terminal so am not sure how to get there. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > The pla

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
listed anywhere. making the playlist in terminal sounds like a good idea but I’ve never done anything in terminal so am not sure how to get there. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > The player that opens will be the one that is the default set for that file > type. Thi

Re: Setting default apps (was: playing a folder of music)

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
need to do > it for each file type? >> On Jan 2, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Cheryl Homiak > <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> It's important to notice what is said along with "open with". I suspect it >> said: "open with: collapsed di

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
t your description of how to open a folder in vlc. do I open a terminal or go to applications or something else? I don’t mind typing the path to the folder. I just need to get it set up right. Thanks. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > The player that opens will

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
now even though I select all when I’m in that folder and it tells me that they all are selected, it will only play the songs that I used when selecting the filetypes to use. how do I get it to play them all? also, iTunes opens too. is there some way I can go in there and tell it not to open unl

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
in vlc or do u just use the buttons provided and activate them? Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > The reason you are confused is that I and others gave you more than one > alternative and that has to be confusing. > The way that will work for

Re: reading bookshare xml files

2015-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You can go to the file in finder, press return on it and change the .xml to .html and then it will read in safari. Use control to pause and restart speech. This might not be optimal but it can be done. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained p

Putting email lists in contacts

2015-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I finally got fed up with all the chaos with contacts on phone, iPad and computer, with lots of duplicates and outdated information still being mixed with the new. I felt this was way beyond the help of just merging contacts or deleting and adding indivicual ones as I've been trying to ignore th

Re: shutting down a Mac Mini

2015-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Like Sean, I rarely shut down anything. If I have to restart during an update or if I notice something not running right or for a few other reasons, I shut down or restart. I've been doing this for years on various computers with no consequences that I notice except, as I mentioned, that if anyt

Re: Putting email lists in contacts

2015-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ary Jo Partyka choir...@gmail.com <mailto:choir...@gmail.com> > On Jan 3, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Cheryl Homiak <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > I finally got fed up with all the chaos with contacts on phone, iPad and > computer, with lots of duplicates and outdated inf

How do i get my contacts from my computer to icloud

2015-01-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I hope somebody can help me figure out what it is I've neglected to do. I turned off contacts services for icloud in all my devices and computer and deleted all contacts. Then I totally redid my contacts on my computer which is a Mac running Yosemite. But when I turned on contact services again,

Solved!: How do i get my contacts from my computer to icloud

2015-01-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 4, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: I hope somebody can help me figure out what it is I've neglected to do. I turned off contacts services for icloud in all my devices and computer and deleted all contacts. The

Re: reading bookshare xml files

2015-01-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
py new year to all, > > Mike > >> On 3,Jan,2015, at 17:13, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can go to the file in finder, press return on it and change the .xml to >> .html and then it will read in safari. Use control to pause and restart >> speech. This m

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
but it’s pretty large. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: >

Re: Deactivating my MBP's Track Pad

2015-01-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't think you can turn it off completely. It does help if you make sure you have trackpad commander turned off in voiceover utility. Also, if I recall correctly, if you connect a bluetooth trackpad, the built-in one then will not be active as long as the bluetooth one is. But I'm not absolut

Re: Bluetooth Numeric Keypad

2015-01-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I went searching at one time and got a usb one with a kind of retractable cable that kind of worked with my Mac but wasn't really consistent. So I've been interested in this for a while and would also really like a bluetooth one. Because of this thread, I decided to do a little search on Amazon.

Re: Bluetooth Numeric Keypad

2015-01-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
on wrote: For what it's worth the Apple USB keyboard is a full-sized keyboard and it has a numeric keypad on it. I know it's not Bluetooth but it couldn't be any more inconvenient to carry around this keyboard then a Bluetooth numb pad. Sent from my IPhone > On Jan 8, 201

A suggestion for anybody who is losing voiceover speech in Yosemite: switch to classic mail

2015-01-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. Ever since I started using Yosemite on my iMac, I have had intermittent issues with voiceover stopping. I don't think voiceover actually turns off but my arrow keys would do nothing, vo-arrows did nothing at least not with sound feedback, and command-tabbing gave me little clicking soun

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
y big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (n

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ound as I > wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot > of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it > to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? > > TThanks. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ote: ok. sorry. I just saw this. I did have it set on random. I’ll try opening it from the already created playlist and see if that helps any. there were several different ways to save it. I hope I picked the right one. lol. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Hey, t

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5,

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ast night. it started >>>>>> playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to >>>>>> go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t >>>>>> wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty b

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed recently when I read this thread but I went to the website and I see no captcha. I approached this both from the main site and the access site even though I never actually use th

Re: coaching in terminal

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
creen saver settings but I’m still having trouble. the rest is solved though so many thanks to you and David for sticking with me on this. > On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Okay, this does work. Because it says "open file" when you do cmd-o, I didn&#

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
has > now. Go figure. >> On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was >> no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed recently when I read this thread >> but I went to the website

Itunes match stalling checking songs

2015-01-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I subscribed to iTunes match a few hours ago. It has been going through the steps fine but now for some time has been stalled in checking songs at 9924 of 10041. Is there something I should do to get this process going again? Thanks. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got

Re: Itunes match stalling checking songs

2015-01-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
y imported. David Griffith > On 14 Jan 2015, at 08:34, Cheryl Homiak <mailto:cah4...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > I subscribed to iTunes match a few hours ago. It has been going through the > steps fine but now for some time has been stalled in checking songs at 9924 > of 100

Re: Any disadvantages with file volt?

2015-01-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The last time I tried this, I discovered that some bluetooth keyboards apparently are not compatible with file vault. You might wantt to try to determine if you r keyboard works or have a usb one handy. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained pa

Re: Keyboard Commander issue

2015-01-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I do know that option and numbers in an edit field produce characters, some of which are special characters. Whether this relates to your problem in mail I don't know. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God

Re: Copying and printing a long list of filenames into a document

2015-01-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hmmm, I know how to do this using terminal but not in finder. I would be interested in knowing if there's a way to do this also. In case you end up doing it in terminal: Open terminal. cd to the directory whose files you want to copy. Otherwise the whole path to the files will be given instead

Re: Copying and printing a long list of filenames into a document

2015-01-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh, that's nice! I never knew how to do this without the actual files being copied. Since I do text by default, I wouldn't even need to do that step. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart

Re: Copying and printing a long list of filenames into a document

2015-01-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 20, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

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