Paralles is inaccessible. Boot camp or fusion wioudl work. On Oct 13, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Hi there. I've been looking at running Windows on my Mac to play a couple > games and maybe to do a little streaming, probably with Stationplaylist. I > heard Sara's demo of Fusion and how incredibly bad the audio was almost like > a buffered stream or something. Is Parallels any better in this regard? How > is switching between Mac and the Windows virtual machine handled with > Parallels, and will it create conflicts with Jaws in hot key assignments? > This thing gave me trouble with trying Boot Camp under SL before, it's > probably from late 2007 or 08 and when it tells you to restart with the > Windows disk, it does, but stays on a blank screen with a flashing cursor and > no error no matter how long you wait, with two different XP disks, C on > startup, or any other way of telling it to boot from CD I know of. I called > Apple about this awhile ago, but they won't help me because the warranty I > had (all 6 months of it) when I got the thing used on Ebay was done for > anyways. There's no Apple store in my area. Is there any other way to force > windows xp down this thing since it's the laptop I have and the need is still > around for software that is Win only? I know it's definitely Intel, or it > says it is, never know with stuff you buy used, but it should be. Will I get > the multiple streams or whatever they call that where Jaws can mix with > whatever else I'm doing, running Parallels if I went that way? My dad > suggested that as he knew a guy for this company whose been using that for > awhile now. I don't know that they do much audio from the Windows side, but I > don't know how to take the HD out, stick it in a PC, and install Win XP on > the second partition that way to force it to do what Apple says is supported. > > Thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cohn" <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 4:57 PM > Subject: Re: general Mac questions / Captchas > > >> 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 Windows side, one would remedy this problem by downloading and using >>>> Firefox with the Web Visum plug-in, which performed OCR on the captcha >>>> image >>>> and placed it on the clipboard for convenient pasting into the >>>> appropriate >>>> edit box. Also, if you didn't wish to use Firefox, there was usually an >>>> audio alternative. I am trying to create an iChat account on the Mac. >>>> Naturally, this requires the use of the AOL web site. Before I can >>>> proceed >>>> to create my account, the web site requires that a captcha be entered. >>>> Although they provide an audio alternative, Safari is completely unable >>>> to >>>> use it and the link (upon checking) is java scripted. I know that Firefox >>>> is >>>> not at all accessible on the Mac side (at least from the information I >>>> received on this list), so are there any alternatives for captchas? Also >>>> web-related, how do I go about obtaining Webkit-as some seem to think this >>>> a >>>> better web browsing solution in general? Your contributions, time, and >>>> patience are appreciated. >>>> Thanks:) >>>> Robert Hooper >>>> hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu<mailto:hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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