Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have just tried using iBooks for the first time, so I need to add a couple things to my library. You might want to try trashing all preferences that start with com.apple.ibooks and see if that helps. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 6, 2016, at 04:13, David Griffith wrote: >

Re: does any one know of any cool voice over preferences?

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I really appreciate the flexibility of the NumPad commander. Is there anything you are looking for? > On Feb 11, 2016, at 20:07, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > does any one know of any cool vice over preffences > > -- > The following information is important for all members

Re: Frustrated with Apple Pay

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Did you verify that the credit card was fully authorized? Go back into your wallet and read the details of the offending card. > On Feb 17, 2016, at 20:25, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Hi guys: > I have a new iphone 6s. I bought it for Apple pay. I cannot get it to work! I > went to Sprou

Re: What to do when cmd-f5 just dings?

2016-02-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I believe that when the login screen does this, it means it is really the lock screen and not the login screen. If there switch users is enabled, you might be able to get to the full login screen, though I can’t remember where the button for that is, or if there is a keyboard shortcut.

Re: OT: Applescript refusing to see document object of Pages?

2016-02-23 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Alex, Hopefully this will help… I ran tell application "Pages" set current_window to window 1 set itemList to documents of current_window repeat with anitem in itemList get the class of item 1 of anitem end repeat end tell and received t

Re: Open Private Browsing Safari Window

2016-02-24 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yes there is a new private window item in the jump list of the doc. Try hitting vo-shift-M while focused on the Safari dock item. > On Feb 24, 2016, at 13:59, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, I have been Googling this with no answers so far. :) > > I’m wondering, is it possible to open a Safa

Re:

2016-02-27 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Actually sudo is not useful here. sudo allows you to kill any process not just your processes. But Mail and VOiceOVer are being run by the user who logged in. So to force Mail to quit: killall Mail to force VoiceOver to quit killall VoiceOver For those that are interested in at least one vers

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The most likely suspects are TImeMachine if you have it enabled, and do not have the backup disk connected. Bittorrent clients. In any case, I love to use du the command cd / du -s * | sort -n | tail - 20 While this command will take a while to run it should give you the directories that ar

Re: Can't synchronize the iCloud NOTES account on my Mac with the NOTES iCloud accounts on my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2

2015-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Apparently there is the possibility if you have a gMail account of getting the Gmail based notes that are produced on the Macintosh running Yosemite to be visible to the IOS 9 systems. Look at the internet accounts area and check if there is a Notes area in your Gmail account. If so enabling this s

Re: i think my settings are wrong

2015-11-18 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, It is heard to tell what is going on from just your short descriptions. I think there are two possibilities. 1. Get one of us on the phone so we can hear what your computer is saying. 2. Upgrade to 10.11 using an erase of the disk first, then it will be like having a completely new compute

Re: And Vs. ad: a problem with autocorrect?

2015-12-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It sounds like you are writing in English and your primary language is set to another language. You could add and into your spelling dictionary, or make sure that language is set correctly for your current session. If you bring up the spell correction panel with command-shift-semiCola, there is a

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

2015-12-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe that if you install MAC OS Server, it will cache installs for other machines on your network. On 11 December 2015 at 16:49, Mike Arrigo wrote: > The problem with this approach is that each time an update is released, > you have to recreate the install in order to keep it up to date. Us

Re: Keyboard issue on Macbook air.

2015-12-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Are you connecting directly to the AIR, or via a USB hub. Also, when plugging in a USB device the computer does do a bit of processing before enabling the device, perhaps you plugged in while the computer was locked so this processing could not occur, or else you did not wait for it to occur? Whe

scripting column changes in Mail.

2015-12-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, As promised, I have written the script that Jonathan Mozen requested. Please note, I have only run this twice and only on a Yosemite system, so no promises. I put in a little more documentation than most of what I have published, but it could use more. I don’t always get to read MacVisi

Re: Real quick question about Keynote

2015-12-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The keystroke vo+accent (the key to the left of number 1 ) might just do this but I have no idea exactly how the VO move function works. If you use that keystroke with the additions of a space then it should resize. > On Dec 20, 2015, at 20:26, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I have a

Re: iMac late 2009 memory upgrade

2011-06-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Just to be sure we are on the same page… On my MacBook where there is a coin slot to unlock the battery, there is a ram/HD area behind a alumium panel. This panel is attached with three philips screws according to Apple documentation. Jonathan Cohn On 10/06/2011, Vince Mistretta wrote: >

Re: Move addict now completely accessible

2010-07-08 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Perhaps the developer could add a system preferences panel to make it easier to control rather then the contorted opening of the package contents. In the mean time, perhaps creating an alias of the preferences program and dropping that into the applications directory might work for some ease. I d

Re: voice over scripts

2010-07-08 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It might be possible to get to the underlying application objects via AppleScript and then create a completely new User Interface in Apple Script to the program. I would expect this in (except in some limited cases) to be completely the wrong approach. If you were able to reproduce all the User I

Re: Receipt Requests in Mail

2010-07-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
act the address from that field using just rules, but you could set up a applescript to do this and then link tha tto your rules. Best regards, Jonathan Cohn Software developer / Consultant On 14/07/2010, Michael Busboom wrote: > This is a great idea. > > No, the computers in the off

Re: navigating images o websites

2010-07-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Actually in some cases, jaws will read those verticle lines too... In your verbosity settings look for: Document Presentation: This option controls how JAWS formats virtual documents. The simple layout is line-by-line format, much as you might see in a braille book. Columns in a table follow each o

Re: transferring stuff between pc and mac

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe you don't even need a cross over cable. Certainly, I have connected two Macs with a standard ethernet cable and they recognized this fact and one side auto-switched the send/transmit pair. I have never tried this with a windows machines, but have done it between 4-5 different Apple la

Re: READING MESSAGES IN THREADED VIEW.

2010-07-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am not sure exactly what you are asking I do want to put one word of caution out there. If somebody replys to a message, and then changes the subject the message will usually still show in the original thread. This is because there are headers in the e-mail that are used for the threading

Re: Safari troubles, when navigating to a previous page

2010-07-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There is an option to go to top of page on new web sites... perhaps this is causing your concerns? I have not attempted to uncheck this and see what the behavior is. I do on occasion use VO-command-1 for this functionality. This would however be a little limiting. On 19/07/2010, Alfredo wro

Re: using a hard drive for multiple back ups?

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am fairly certain that Time Machine places all the backup information into a very specific directory on your back-up drive. If this is the case, and if this directory does not exist on your Primary disk then you should be OK. I know that Carbon Copy can co-exist if it is run first. Perhaps yo

Re: using a hard drive for multiple back ups?

2010-07-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
rk Time Machine creates a >> disk image called ComputerName.sparseimage which seems to be one giant >> file. >> >> CB >> >> Jonathan Cohn wrote: >>> I am fairly certain that Time Machine places all the backup >>> information into a very specific dir

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
One question that did not get answered was "how do I see what contacts are online?". My macintosh is not available for me to verify, but there should be a menu that lets you select predefined groups of contacts and one of these is Online contacts. If you have not found this by Monday, you can wri

Re: status menus messed up

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There are three major modes for the arrow keys. 1. VO lock. 2. Standard arrows 3. QuickNav. I am assuming you have quickNav on? If this is the case try typing the left arrow and the up arrow at the same time until VoiceOver says Navigation. See if that solves your problem. Also, I have on occa

Re: track pad gesture questions

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The function you were talking about is for navigating tables. If you wantto scan through the Subject of your e-mail's and not accidently start reading the sender, then you could hold down this key and the VoiceOver cursor will remain in the column you currently are in. (much like using the down ar

Re: changing the email to which the email for ical events are changed

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Do you et any error messages? Are you trying to do this with AppleScript, or with the notifications section of iCal? Best regards, Jon On 30/07/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Ok I want to try and schedule an outgoing message in ical and the 2 mb > scripts in mail fail constantly. Is there somet

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Gmail and IMAP are a strange combination when working together. GMAILusually has the philosophy of keeping every message in a everything message. There is a document on the Google web site that says something to the extent... Do not check the box to move deleted messages to the trash as this will

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
On 30/07/2010, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Gmail and IMAP are a strange combination when working together. > GMAILusually has the philosophy of keeping every message in a > everything message. There is a document on the Google web site that > says something to the extent... > > Do

Developing accessable websites with jQuery UI

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
A friend has started developing a website with a good bit of user interaction, and is using the jQuery UI to create Combo boxes and other folrm fields. Are there any elements he should avoid to ensure maximum accessablility? X Thanks, Jon using -- You received this message because you are sub

Programming for VoiceOver

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Scott, I don't know a lot about this, but essentially any program that uses the COCOA frameworks and also lables components when using the GUI builder should be Voice Over accessable. I expect Chris knows a bit about the way HTML rendering occurs. Also, dialog boxes and other controls that Apple

Re: strange problem with my MPB15

2010-09-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Do a search of firmware updates. My memory is that the triple beep is for an upgrade of firmware where the the installer puts special code on the disk that is read at boot up time to rebuild the firmeware. Sighted folks would just have to wait out the 3-4 minutes required for the firmeware to be

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-24 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It is more likely that I didn't write the command correcI will test my command with a cut and paste from home to ensure Iformatted it correctly. It should'nt take more then 3 seconds. Jon instantaenious. On 23/09/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hmm how long does this process of manual creation las

Re: A Quick Question About The Multi-Touch Trackpad

2010-09-24 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Mark, I probably shouldn't bring in a seperate issue here..., but hI listened to your p'cast on reading mail on the Macintosh, and I don't get my mail messages to auto-read when they open. I first have to interact with the text block. Have you ever experienced this? In Leopard, the message bloc

Re: How To Get VoiceOver To Automatically Read Messages in Apple Mail

2010-09-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
g.com/2010/08/20/ep59-how-to-optimize-the-macinto > sh-mail-application-for-use-with-voiceover/> Please Click Here to take > another listen to the episode. > > Mark > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [ > <mailto:macvisionaries@g

Re: getting mail to stop saying "Thread."

2010-09-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Did you put something in the dictionary? On 27/09/2010, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. In mail, I have all my messages grouped by thread. On one of > these machines, I was able to get vo to stop saying "Thread" every time it > encounter one in mail. I somehow got it to just say "Collapsed" and

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It would be interesting to test the new version of Office with Dragon Dictate, David Pogue in his review last week of the new Dragon said that Dragon was unable to track the insertion point within Microsoft Word. I assumed this was because of MS using the Darwin framework instead of the Cocoa fra

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathan Cohn
k I got it but not sure. it opened something but my text edit window > was blank. I'll look again when I get home. > > S > On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > >> It is more likely that I didn't write the command correcI will test my >> co

Re: bluetooth headsets

2013-04-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I had issues three or four years ago with bluetooth and reading by paragraph, my preferred reading style. It seemed that the bluetooth device cut off the first sylable of each prase spoken as the bootooth device powered back up. I expect this was an issue with the specific headset vendor I was u

Re: Faxing from a Mac

2013-04-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Also, most locations that accept fax will also accept e-mail though there is the issue that generally e-mail is less secure then a fax. Most financial institutions have some form of messagingn system built into their web that should prevent third parties from receiving the information. On 2 Apr

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Cc, attachments then the script would be edited and added to your home Library directory. Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com (703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: Vo J will jump you between the messages table and message body in Ma

Re: MB quirky behavior

2013-04-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Its hard to tell with the limited amount of information you provided. If this is still occuring, then you need to find an application or window name from the VO-F1 or activity monitor. I know that when I login to my system on occasion, the Tech Tool Pro agent takes the forground window instead of

Re: menu items and voiceover

2013-04-18 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Eric, I have also found that turning cursor tracking off sometimes helps with this. Unfortunately when cursor tracking is disabled, things are as confusing (or perhaps more so) then on the windows environment where there isare a few cursors to track and attempt to keep track. On 17 April 2013 13

Re: any way to certufy mail using Apple Mail?

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am not sure of the entire process, but Apple Mail does support S/MIME for encryption and certification. It looks like the first step is to import a certificate from a signing authority into keychain. It sounds like once that is done, Mail automatically has "sign" and "crept" functions. There a

Re: help with navigation in html tables

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Tables on web pages are most easily navigated when in-group navigation mode. When you are in group navigation mode and are in a table, then the arrow / swipe movements move you as you would expect within the table. You would then have to use the interact function to work more closely within the c

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
u want to limit your search to between steps 2 and 3. >> If you start at a specific location before you do your search with >> Command+F (which works as does Command+Option+F), one of the options to >> refine the search will let you select just that location. HTH. >>

Re: Adium has new window

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
This usually happens when you are not in the application that opened a new window. If you use VO-F1 (twice) and then select Adium you should hfind a window with a (new) appended to the end. There might be a possibility that the window is a "transient" window that disapears after a couple of secon

Re: XCode compile.

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Did you buy Snow Leopard as an upgrade, or did it come with yuour computer? When upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, the DVD install does not install the Developer package including XCode and App Builder. But if you insert the DVD in the slot after upgrading, then you will find an installer f

Re: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme?

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Too bad, I thought perhaps I would go and by a D-Link and see a whole new world through my very slow and firewall blocked hotel's "Internet" connections. Not only do they block IMAP, they also block the chat protocol that Google and facebook use. That's OK, my neighbor has file sharing turned o

Re: Safari frusterations!

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am regularily switching between webkit and safari, often use google and have never seen these problems. Though I have to admit generally, for doing searchs on my Mac, I type command-l and then hit tab and enter my search terms. This avoids opening a web page to just fill in a form. Best regar

Re: Voiceover dictionary in Apple Script.

2010-10-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The voice over manual has some descriptions of what you can do with apple script in VoiceOver. Essentially I think you can do things like Voice-Over find and read item in voice Over caret. The really cool things that you can do in say a jaws script have to be done with UI agents. So there is a w

Re: Voiceover dictionary in Apple Script.

2010-10-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The question about the time of day script was answered a while back by I believe Ester. The script will be in either /Library or /system/library Jon On 06/10/2010, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > The voice over manual has some descriptions of what you can do with > apple script in Voi

Re: Shortcuts for opening bookmarks [was Re: Bookmarks issues]

2010-10-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Ah, I just learned something useful.. I have been simulating a double click to open bookmarks. Also, on an extended keyboard is the command-fN-downarrow replaced by Command-pagedown? Thanks, Jon On 07/10/2010, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Thanks for that, I actually prefer using Command+Do

Re: Finder.

2010-10-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There is the "locate" UNIX command. This has been turned off since SpotLight was added into the system, but for those that know parts of file names, it could be useful to turn on. Basically the locate command works on a globally readable database of all files on a system and will return very quic

Re: Mail has changed on me!

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cohn
try going to your Gmail mailbox, and expanding it. I believe the VO-Command is control-opt-. There are a couple other ways: 1. Left arrow when gmail is highlighted. 2. Interact with Gmail and then activate control-opt- the colapassed toggle. Jon On 12/10/2010, Scott Ford wrote: > Hello everyon

Re: apple mail questions

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Also, under the windows menu there is a item called connection wizard or something close to that. If you select that, it will test all the accounts you have set up, and tell you which ones are working. I don't remember the detail listed there, but there might be a disclosure triangle to provide m

Re: unrar archiver.

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Stuffit Expander is the free one, it only allows expansion of files, there is also stuffit, which costs money. There are some folks around, who have a dislike for the stuffit suite. I don't recall the argumetns at this point, but So perhaps look at the tidbits or other technical discussions bef

Re: Selecting a recipient

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Two points: 1. On the PC side wit JFW 9+, there was a jaws script to reply directly to sender (perhaps alt+Y? 2. On the macintosh, if you interact with the headers, andthen when Voice Over readds the person yyou want to reply to, perform a click and a menu will appear. I think in Leopard and Tiger

Re: pdf2rtf service

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cohn
That won't do OCR though will it? Best regards, Jon On 12/10/2010, Scott Howell wrote: > Thanks Justin, I will pass this along. > > On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > >> Hi scott, here is the link for the download page where you can find >> pdf2rtf. There are a lot of downloads

Re: general Mac questions / Captchas

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I don't have an answer for this, but I wonder... VO-Shift-M on a picture will bring up a contextual menu. Could one put a send image to Abby Reader as an acttion in there? That would solve this problem. Jon >> My next question is regarding using the Web. Captchas-need I say more? On >> the Wind

Re: general Mac questions

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
1. There are a couple of ways to jump around a table. In all cases you should be interacting with the table. 1. Use jump cursor mode... VO-shift-J puts you in jump mode, there are 8 combinations you can then use... 1. VO-arrow move to the visible edge in the direction of the arrow. 2. VO-shift-ar

Re: messengers

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I personally use iChat, though there are a few folks on the list that use Aanother program. iChat supports AOL and Jabber protocols, so that means that it also supports facebook and google chat. on On 13/10/2010, Damon Fibraio wrote: > OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what ca

Re: ways of tagging sections in a document

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Are you looking for just while the file is open, or for re-occurrence every time you open the file. If you are looking for a temporary marker, then hot spots should work. Also, the VO navigation kekeys for jumping to headers and tables should work in most applications. Best regards, Jon On 1

"empty:" Microsoft word document...

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I had a co-worker send me a Microsoft word file with documentation on a process I am supposed to implement. Jaws however just says "empty page" for all four pages. I am therefore assuming that screen image captures were pushed into word. I don't really wnat to ask for a resend of the document,

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
If my memory is correct, there is a "logs" directory in your library I believe I have seen crash information for VO among the logs there, and the console program can read these log files. Jn On 14/10/2010, GEOFF WAALER wrote: > Greetings, > > I intermittently experience restarts of voiceOver.

Re: any way to delete remembered WEP key passwords

2010-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
You could always remove it from the wireless preferences. Selecting it from the table and then hitting backspace or command-backspace should do the trick. I would test to make sure, but my Macintosh is 10 miles away. Jon On 14/10/2010, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Okay, here's what's going on. > >

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
A 2. VO-A will generally work the same as read from cursor. (I think of it as read all, as a mnemonic), but that is probably from earlier versions of VoiceOver. Jon couple of points here. 1. Using the tab / shift-tab works well from shifting between the preview and the list of mail items. On 1

Re: Mysterious second Mail Account

2010-10-18 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have not seen this behavior before. A couple of questions: 1. Are you still receiving mail in the Maiul application? 2. When setting up outgoing (SMTP) mail you need to indicate a password for GMAIL, is this still configured? I believe you need to click on the advanced tab in the account setup

Re: mail questions

2010-10-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Every mail application except Outlook uses commas for seperators. In fact it has been an internet standardsince before 1985. Jon On 19/10/2010, Colin M wrote: > Hi Denise! > Sorry I cannot answer the first part of your question, but as far as putting > in more than one name in the [to] field wh

Re: Putting the documents folder back on the Dock

2010-10-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
This is one place where I have had no issues with dragging. 1. Select folder 2. . Make sure mouse is over folder VO-F5 3. Mouse Down VO-Shift-command-space 4. Move to Doc VO-D 5. Mouse Up VO-SHIFT-Command-Space Best regards, on On 19/10/2010, Graham Roby wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to put

Re: braille display

2010-10-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hey, I would be happy if I could read 1 word a minute. I can read the room numbers now with 85% accuracy. :-). Jon On 18/10/2010, Samuel wrote: > actually I meant to add this to the other topic i posted about braille > displays I forget that this is a mailing list and not a message board > som

Re: Washington Post articles?

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, I finally got my beloved Washington Post to work again. For a recap, I was getting a "scroll area" that was not intractable with when I went to any articles that were recent. (Perhaps all articles). I scanned through the "Develop" menu. This is a menu of tools that no non-webdeveloper shoul

Re: How to delete programs from your Mac?.

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, getting Office for the Mac was a mistake if you are blind, I am not sure why you would have the Dock activated overtime you start, I can't imagine that is actually Microsoft. Fore removing "simple" programs, one can just drag the folder from the application window into the trash. (or comman

Re: copy question

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Take a look at this script. The main portion of the script is in the "ProcessFiles" action. This script is meant to be a "Folder Action". It looks at all files moved to the folder, and if they are images, it will create a copy of the image as a TIFF file in a selected folder. I might be interpr

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
so it's just another great point to make in that apple vs. pc > commercial. On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > >> If my memory is correct, there is a "logs" directory in your library I >> believe I have seen crash information for VO among the logs th

Re: Making My Mac Tick Again

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, pop over to the tidbits site, they have reviewed keyboards that are noisy, and I think there was also a discussion of folks that have converted IBM Selectric typewriters to be computer keyboards. Jon On 20/10/2010, Scott Granados wrote: > Heh adding a mechanical typewritter sound would be

Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-10-22 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Perhaps there is a feedback or contact us link on the site? I met Tim once, and I can't imagine he would restrict NZ from access. Jon On 22/10/2010, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi Esthre, > > I've tried this on both the mac and my windows 7 machines and I get similar > things happening. > I don't

Re: how do I split files

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Why do you not feel comfortable with the UNIX split command, it has been around since the fastest modem was 9.6 kbs and hasbeen used by mailing lists to transfer files since before there was a web. Do you need recomendation on options? Jon On 25/10/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello I want to s

Re: AppleScript for Jumping to specific time in iTunes [was Re: Playback Counter in Itunes?]

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm good idea. I haven't looked at at AppleScript objects for iTunes. I expect with a couple of properties a iTunes script could be written that prompts for a bookmark name and then creates a a sdifferent dialog could then pull up a combo box or list box of bookmarks. If a audio bookmark manag

Re: Sd and Mac

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, does diskutility let you see the SD? Perhaps you could format it in FAT-32 using disk utility. Best regards, Jon On 25/10/2010, Scott Granados wrote: > Depends on the version of the OS you're running. > > I did some googling and that was one of the things suggested to check. We > had a

Re: Sd and Mac

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
s for your input. > Carolyn Haas > chaas0...@gmail.com > > > > On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > >> Hmm, does diskutility let you see the SD? Perhaps you could format >> it in FAT-32 using disk utility. >> >> Best regards, >>

Re: 64 bit processors

2010-11-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
For those hardware crazed individuals out there... Try MacTracker. I used it about 10 years ago, when I needed to know about programing in detail. It knows technical specifications of most Macintosh models. I am not sure if it works with Voice Over though. The website is http://www.mactracker.ca

Re: saving attachments in mail

2010-11-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I expect that you have headers disabled in your mail messages since that appears to be the recommendation of a few folks on this list. f this is th case I recommend the following based on memory... (My Mac is 20 miles away right now) 1. Command-Shift-H (turn on headers for current message.) . Look

Re: some newbie mac questions

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
One idea if it is recipes that you are usually interested in selecting, there are a few recipe keeper programs out there that can grab a recipe from a web site and put it into their database. I have not personally used any of these, but my wife (who is fully sighted) loves "Yummy Soup". tidbits.c

Re: Extra Text Being Spoken

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Sounds like you might have the option to speak text under the mouse after a delay. I can't remember if this is in the Universal Access setting, or Voice Over settings or both. This can be a nice feature won for partially sighted folks as when they hover the mouse over a specific paragraph, the co

Re: quick time player

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, since you are willing to use the shel... The "open" command described at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/open.1.html is your friend. I am not sure if with quicktime you could use the "open *.mp3" -a Quicktime but if not en wrapping a si

Re: text books

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe that entourage edge has a good selection of textbooks available. I am not familiar with their protection requirements, but I do know a linux developer that works for them. Jon On 05/11/2010, May McDonald wrote: > Hi, does anyone know of a good accessible site to get text books in E

Re: quick time player

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
for MusicFile in *.mp3 ; do open -w -a quicktime$MusicFile done OK, the above is a quick bash shell loop that goes through every mp3 file in the current directory one at a time and sends it to the open-w -a The open command is quite impressive, it can open web pages or text files or code samples

Re: accessible weather apps

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I find the Weather Underground site to be very screen reader usable. And if you wanted to create a widget from their site, there are notes near the bottom of the website on XML for weather. They even have a link for NOAA weather radio, so you can listen to NOAA over your computer. They also have

Re: Virtual cursor of some sort in OS X

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Item List mode might help. There are a few discussions recently on the list so I won't go into further detail. Jon On 10/11/2010, RvR wrote: > Hi Mike, > Alright that's clear, thanks! > Cheers, > Ronald > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvi

Re: Apple Mail and Google

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
One other note, It is possible that you deleted all of the mail in GMAIL by doing this action. Please reply if I am wrong about this. Jon On 09/11/2010, Darcy Burnard wrote: > Linda, are you using pop or imap with gmail? If you're using imap, you can > have gmail just not show you the all ma

Re: iTunes question: changing songs to be sorted by track number when viewing an album

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
1. Track Pad commander... When interacting with the table of songs go to the very top and find the column header for Track. Then Double click any where on the track pad. 2. Navigate to any song's track column and then hit VO-| (verticle bar) 3. I believe there is a sort option in the view menu. Be

Re: VmWare Fusion Discount

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
In the back of one of the Take Control books dealing with Windows on a Macintosh, there is a coupon for I believe $10 off of Fusion. Can the two discounts be combined? Thanks, Jon On 10/11/2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, folk, > > No, I don't work for Vmware, and I'm a blind Mac user. I jus

Re: greyhound, webkit/safari, and voiceover: oh my!

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, I just tryed the site with XP, IE6 and Jaws 11 and found that I could not do a search. Though I have to say more and more sites are not working with IE6. The form fields were not properly labeled, most of the form fields are edit boxes that will accept arrow keys (in jaws one has to quote th

Re: pasting date and time in Text Edit?

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, I don't believe there is a built in function for that, but I believe a one could quickly set up an automation, and then enable it as a text function to work in all standard text input fields. Would you want the standard Ddate as specified in the Internationalization, or a special format.

Re: Reading word by word or character by character

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have sometimes seen this and thought it had to do with interaction levels, but was not able to push the cursors back together again using the standard VO*F4 commands. Perhaps the problem will have vanish in the new OS update? Jon On 10/11/2010, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: longshot help with odsagent error

2010-11-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, DNSD almost sounds like dynamic DNS which is a Apple name for the functionality that allows the macintosh to find printers and Apple disk shares on the network. Sorta a standards based netbios if I understand netbios correctly. Searching my think pad right now... On 11/11/2010, erik burggr

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