Hi Brian, On 12 Feb 2010, at 13:39, Brian Moore wrote: > Just started teaching someone the mac for the first time as she > sees many advantages over learning a windows computer. ONe of the first > things she wants to do is make skype calls. Got that going with little > difficulty, but I wonder if there are hot keys for starting a call and > hanging up. I know I can do vo m to get to the menu and go over to call and > find the appropriate items but windows use has turned me into a lazy person.
You can definitely set a keyboard shortcut for hanging up and calling someone. You ned to do this from within the "Keyboard" preferences option in System Preferences: 1. Open System Preferences and navigate to the "Keyboard" button. You can also use the item chooser menu which will remove the need to navigate through the other options. 2. Select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab. 3. Press the "Add an Application Shortcut" button and select Skype from the Applications. 4. You should then be presented with a dialogue where you'll need to add the command for which you want to create the shortcut. Make sure that type the command exctly as it apears in the menu i.e. Hang Up has a capital H and a capital U with a space in between the words. 5. Press "Ok" You'll need to do this for all the commands you want to create except that to create the new commands for Skype, simply select Skype from the table and then press the "Add Application shortcut" button again. HTH TC James Lyn Nash & Twinny > HI all. Just started teaching someone the mac for the first time as she > sees many advantages over learning a windows computer. ONe of the first > things she wants to do is make skype calls. Got that going with little > difficulty, but I wonder if there are hot keys for starting a call and > hanging up. I know I can do vo m to get to the menu and go over to call and > find the appropriate items but windows use has turned me into a lazy person. > I had a hunt through preferences but couldn't find any place wehre Ican set > up hot keys for these things. > Did I miss something? > Also, the getting started with vo manual which is very well done only seems > to be available in an html format now as well as gade ii braille as a brf > file. I know someone did a daisy version of the last one. Anyone got a > direct url for that as it was a very valuable tool for a beginner and I > learned a lot about using my mac from it so I would like to be able to share > it as a daisy version. > Thanks. > Brian. > follow me on twitter: > http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 > follow me on twitter: > http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 > > follow me on twitter: > > http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
