Re: a little stuck updating Infovox

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No the greyed-out stuff is because you are in a preliminary window which gives you a link to the website and explains something about the voice manager. I think if you uncheck open at startup you won't get that window the next time you open the voice manager. But for now, close that window and y

Re: a little stuck updating Infovox

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The reason it worked for you without any problem was that you didn't have that one optional window open that can open at startup but doesn't have to be. I was a little puzzled when I first saw it myself but now I have that box unchecked. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation o

Re: all well with Infovox update.

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, this is kind of strange. I downloaded Ella and started the demo. I was promptly warned that the demo voices require an Internet connection and to make sure I'm connected to the internet when the voice is being used. That's all very good and well! But what if your Internet goes down, unbekn

Re: New Voices Giving Me Demo Messages

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you reboot after installing? When i first installed Ella and Will, when I tried to change to their voices in voiceover utility, they would speak their introduction and then revert to Alex, whom I don't have set to do anything. i decided I had to reboot and since doing that I can change to ei

Re: mac restarted again, despite all the fixes

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The only thing is: if you want to do a restore instead of a clean install, even of just the Mac side, you want to be sure that whatever is causing the problem just doesn't get reinstalled or set again. So if it were me, I would lean to erasing the Mac partition and clean installing instead of an

infovox nag messages and new voices

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I just got a nag message. They must be occasional reminders. I like Ella but she can't keep up with my typing like Heather and Ryan can and she sounds like she's kind of going to have throat strain from trying to enunciate clearly. It's something in her pitch; I may have to play with it a littl

Re: infovox nag messages and new voices

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
t; > Traci, Lol, and none of them can pronounce Traci. > Sent by Macbook Air Mail > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> I just got a nag message. They must be occasional reminders. >> >> I like Ella but she can't keep up with my typing like Hea

Warning about infovox demos

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
i just had a real bout of the nag message. When I would command-tab it would give the nag message every other tab and the window I was in on alternate ones. the rest of the time i got the nag message. I got it to stop by turning vo on and off. But I've uninstalled Ella and I will soon decide whe

Re: Warning about infovox demos

2012-11-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I sent them an email also. I also mentioned that having the demo require an internet connection could cause problem's if an Internet connection fails unexpectedly. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psal

Re: Finder's oddities causing problems for a new user

2012-11-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Why are you using cmd-shift-g and typing? Just open the window the books are coming from and open the window they are going to. Then Do cmd-c to copy and cmd-accent to go to the other window and cmd-v to paste. And i suspect if your view is changing, there's a reason; I could be wrong but I don'

Re: Finder's oddities causing problems for a new user

2012-11-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Why are you using cmd-shift-g and typing? Just open the window the books are > coming from and open the window they are going to. Then Do cmd-c to copy and > cmd-accent to go to t

Re: Finder's oddities causing problems for a new user

2012-11-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Alex Hall wrote: > I find cmd-shift-g easier for me, but this guy would not like that solution > so I'm hoping for a simpler one. I forgot that volumes appear on the desktop > once mounted, that's something to look into. > On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote

Re: An Update From Assistiveware Regarding Infovox Ivox Demo Voices

2012-11-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, I had the same problem and wrote them about it too and they told me the same thing. I ended up uninstalling Ella but I bought Will since I already have a lot of the English U.S. and English British voices and Spanish voices and know that I like them. Their customer service is usally very hel

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
There's a "take Control" book on using terminal in Mac. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: > It really depends on what you want to kno

Re: Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

2012-11-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I got this too and i wrote back and told them that didn't make sense. You can't just use a voice in isolation with voiceover. They wrote back and said they meant an application such as Visiovoice but I emailed back and told them I had not opened visiovoice at all while using the demo. -- Chery

Re: Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

2012-11-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ure the Mac in system preferences to automatically speak the time > or to speak alerts after a delay. Basically, anything else that tries to use > the voice on it's own while voiceover is running will apparently cause that > problem with the demo. > > I hope this explanation

Re: Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

2012-11-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ically, anything else that tries to use >> the voice on it's own while voiceover is running will apparently cause that >> problem with the demo. >> >> I hope this explanation makes sense. >> >> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >>&

Re: Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

2012-11-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
ing ttrouble when onthe website. > Matt > Sent from my mac > Twitter: matt692 > > On 2012-11-08, at 7:34 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> Where are you having trouble figuring out how to buy? Are you having trouble >> after you go to www.assistiveware.com >> - >

Re: Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

2012-11-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
HCSB) On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Having trouelbe purchasing credits and activating. > Matt > Sent from my mac > Twitter: matt692 > > On 2012-11-08, at 1:27 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> Well, please be more specific if possible. What trouble

Purchasing Infovox

2012-11-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
y mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 8, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > These are my first purchases, and I have the 30 day demo > Matt > Sent from my mac > Twitter: matt692 > > On 2012-11-08,

Re: What gives with Spotlight and opening documents with the new software update?

2012-11-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It may be that somehow your keyboard focus has gotten messed up. Try turning voiceover off and on again. Also, are you opening from spotlight with vo-keys or just with return. I always open items from spotlight with return only; to use vo-keys-space requires that both your voiceover cursor and y

vo not showing web pages properly

2012-11-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Has anybody written to accessibility about this and gotten an answer? I am getting really tired of loading pages in safari and getting the word "text" instead of the names of links. I know I can fix this by going to the tab which is already selected and doing vo-space on it again but it is happe

Re: changing the genre of iTunes Albums?

2012-11-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I think cmd-i gets you to the same place. Unless you've set it not to ask you, you will be asked if you want to edit multiple items or something like that. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.

2012-11-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through

Re: Downloading a file when Pressing on the file opens said file in safari

2012-11-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes. Try option-return. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi, > I know that's a long subject title, but I was wondering if anyone kn

Re: delete characters right to the cursor with one key

2012-11-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, you can look through keyremap4macbookpro for options to do this. However, I will say that at first I thought I couldn't get along without a forward delete key but now I'm so used to doing the back delete that I rarely need the forward delete. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the m

Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes

2012-11-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the

Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes

2012-11-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
wrote: > Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not > importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a > few albums. > Max. > On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> First of all, you should

Re: finding mp3 imports in iTunes

2012-11-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If they were imported they would be harder to find without an artist and album. If you arrange your library according to the date added the most recently added files will be either at the bottom or the top in your music library. You do this by getting on the date added column and doing vokeys-c

Re: finding mp3 imports in iTunes

2012-11-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh yeah, that's true. I had forgotten this because sometimes when i did this the items were not recently added. Sorry for making it complicated! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 2

Re: Mactubes

2012-11-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, I can't confirm that because I am downloading using MacTubes right this minute as I have been doing since I got this app. I do my search, start my song playing, then do vokeys-shift-m on the player menu and arrow down to download and choose my option; usually hd and mp4 are available. Hth.

Re: Mactubes

2012-11-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Wow, thanks for not confirming my worst fears. I just downloaded something. > Thanks for your help. I had tried to use vo shift m but not in the right > place. > Cool. Thanks a million. > > Lisette > > On 27/11/2012, at 6:07 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> No, I ca

Re: Mactubes

2012-11-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, it really doesn't have to be that complicated. First of all, read the help tags for your buttons and label them. Secondly, there is no need to put the url in unless you don't want to do a search. Just search and start playing. when you find the one you want to download, do vo-shift-m on the

backing up files from my Mac to dvds

2012-11-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It has been quite a while since i did backups to dvd of a lot of my media files and also various document files so I have decided to do a complete new set. In the past I have kept the text and document files separate from the media files and have figured out which files can fit for each dvd and

Re: backing up files from my Mac to dvds

2012-11-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
e > for $50: > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/836243-REG/Hitachi_0S03452_500GB_Touro_Mobile_USB.html > > That starts encroaching on the media cost of a few spindles of DVDs, not to > mention avoiding a lot of hassle. > > CB > > On 11/28/12 11:19 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >&g

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh, that will be wonderful! I will be looking forward to this! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > I just had a nice exchange with the lea

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, you could always play directly from the finder but if I understandit correctly that added them to your library. You play files from the finder by doing vo-space on them and if they are a type of file that is set to play in iTunes by default, they will play. The same is true with other play

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, if you really don't want to use iTunes, set your files to play in something else. Most of my files play in vlc by default so they only play in iTunes if I want them to do that on purpose. Most of the files in my iTunes library are ones I purchased from iTunes. it is not really that I don't

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
That sounds nice! Of course you could sort of do that with playlists but I realize that isn't really the same thing as queueing up what you want on the fly. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I guess I never thought of it as not intuitive. I guess intuitive or not depends partly on what you are expecting. Probably if it was changed now to what you consider intuitive, I'd pull my hair out for the first ten minutes or so and then I'd eventually forget the switch and come to say that wa

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
First of all, we are trying to help each other and none of us has any idea what the rest of us know and don't know so you are always going to get some advice you've already tried. secondly, if it doesn't work, one of two things is true (1) you haven't figured out how to implement it; or (2) it's

fixing music tags for iTunes: was: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'd like some referrals on apps to fix tags. Most of what I have heard of requires one to do a lot of information input which is just what I don't really have the time for but if there's something out there I haven't tried, I'd be interested. Thanks. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and t

Re: Moving a Folder in Mac Mail

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I wonder why people have to do such different things to get this to work. For instance, the new drag and drop usually works for me in mail now but I have a friend who got it to work once and never again. There has to be some reason why some people have to use full screen mode and some don't and

vlc: adding to media library

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Does anybody know if there's a keyboard shortcut or accessible method for adding to the media library in vlc. I am sure it's enabled because the window comes up when I open vlc and I've apparently accidentally added a couple of songs to it but I have no idea when or how that happened. I have no

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I would almost be willing to bet there's a way to change that, maybe something in the view options but I can't check it out since I don't have any tv shows. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

Re: VO Hints

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes. Open voiceover utility with vo-f8. In categories go to verbbosity. Hints is the fifth and last tab; select it with vo-space. There's a checkbox for speaking the instructions for the item in the voiceover cursor; there's a pop-up for handling items with help tags, and there's a table to set

Re: VO Hints and VLC

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Cheryl, > Thanks, I'll save this. > Where do you get VLC? > > On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> Yes. Ope

Re: vlc: adding to media library solved

2012-11-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
w how to do it, I can play with it. Now I'm going to bed!!! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Does anybody know if there's

Re: vlc: adding to media library solved

2012-11-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
> Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac user! > > On Nov 30, 2012, at 2:31 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> This was driving me crazy because I managed to add a playlist accidentally >> to the vlc media library but still didn&

Re: please kindly disregard my last message about scanners

2012-11-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I've never found the ocr done directly in vuescan to be as good as that done by Abbyy or Readiris but it won't hurt for you to try and see what you think. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

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