Hi Dewald, Good to have you on the list.
The Mac often displays warning messages in what Voiceover describes as System Dialogs. These can range from backups not having been performed for a few days, through to low battery notifications. In short, they’re worth dealing with. In order to get to them, press VO f1 f1, or in other words, hold down control and option, and press f1 twice quickly. This will put you in a list of running applications, use the up and down arrows until you hear ‘system dialog’. Pressing enter will put you in a list of the various system dialogs you have running, press enter on one of them and explore it using VO left and right arrows. Note that the buttons to dismiss them (often close or ok) can appear at either the far left or far right of the dialog, depending on what the dialog is. Cheers, Ed > On 11 Jul 2015, at 08:21, Dewald Gmail <dewaldvandeven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. My name is Dewald. I am from South Africa. > Jonathan Mosen recommended me to this list. > I am a piano technician and love to tinker with technology. > I got my first Mac in December of last year through a Black Friday deal on > Best Buy. > I was still in the US by that time. > Anyway ... I have some questions, because I'm still new to using it, but yet, > I have turned my back on Windows for good. > > When I start up my Mac, or just waking it up from sleeping, it says 3 system > dialogues". > And it will repeat it a couple of times. > Sometimes it's 1 system dialogue, or two or three system dialogues. > > What is this? > > About the notification center: > do I have to go in there from time to time and clean up, or is there a way > for it to do it automatically? > > Whichever app I use, I don't know if it is my internet connection or what, > but like using something that doesn't even need a connection it will say busy > busy busy, ready. Very irritating. > > They say you can press command-tab to switch between windows. > Mine, when i press the combination, it just makes a dunk sound. > So I don't know if it's only me, but, I have to press the combination, then > release, to give it time to focuss or something, and then I can hold in the > command key and press tab repeatedly to cycle between windows. > > And last for now, do any of you use Scrivener successfully? Is it possible > and can someone email me off-list to help. > > Thank you very very much for any help. > I am so excited about my Mac and all the things I can do with it. > Just a short amuzing story. > I was living with two room mates in Vancouver WA, The one guy had an HP > printer, copier and scanner. > I had an HP pc trying to connect to this thing, wanting to print something. > I spent hours trying to find the right driver, and no matter how I tried to > install it, it ended up giving me an error. > While I was wondering what I could do, the other guy came with his Mac, > connected it to the HP printer, and I promise you, a few seconds later, the > machine was spitting out paper. > I was dum-founded. > You would think: HP to HP ... easy, right? > That sold me to get a Mac. And also of course that it came with Voiceover. > Amazing! > > Thank you, > God bless, > Dewald. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
