RE: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

2010-07-18 Thread Frank Ventura
Allison, thanks I will check out that podcast. I finally got it to work
last night but it took me a few tries to do it.  In the end what I ended
up doing was going into the IPhone settings under Music Tab and down
arrowing until I finally found the playlists table and checked off what
I wanted. I never did the drag and drop thing. I am not sure why I
couldn't find the playlists  table the first zillion or so times I tried
this. Thanks for all the help.

Frankie V.

 

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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allison Manzino
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:59 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

 

Hi Frank,

I have a podcast on how to do this. It's entitled Syncing to Iphone.
Specific instructions can be found in it. I have to fool with the sync
feature of the  Iphone to get my playlist to sync. The podcast can be
downloaded and subscribed to by visiting:

http://gwenna.podbean.com

 

Have a great evening.

 

Allison

My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar!

 

On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:





ou don't have to. just sync ad it will show up.

S
On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:




Hi all, in ITunes (on my MacBook Pro) at the bottom of the sources Table

I have a few playlists. I also have my IPhone listed in that
sources

table. I was told by an Apple rep that to syncronize one of my
playlists

with my IPhone I had to drag the playlist in the sources table
onto the

name of he IPhone. How can I do this with VO?

thanks

Frank

 

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OT program for spanish translation

2010-07-18 Thread May McDonald
Good morning. Please forgive me if you receive this more than once. I'm sending 
it to all the groups I'm on that I can think of this early in the morning.

I was wondering if there's a program for the mac that helps with Spanish 
translation? I'm trying to find all helpful things possible to help me retain 
and practice the Spanish I'm learning.

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webkit question

2010-07-18 Thread chad baker
Hi i'm having trouble with webkit loading my homepage its google.
I have webkit set for the default app.
Also i checked what the homepage was and it was google.
Any suggestions?
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Re: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

2010-07-18 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Frank,

THe Iphone is a bit finicky with the playlist function. I'm not sure why, but 
if you listen to the podcast, you will hear that I have trouble as well.

Allison

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On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Frank Ventura wrote:

> Allison, thanks I will check out that podcast. I finally got it to work last 
> night but it took me a few tries to do it.  In the end what I ended up doing 
> was going into the IPhone settings under Music Tab and down arrowing until I 
> finally found the playlists table and checked off what I wanted. I never did 
> the drag and drop thing. I am not sure why I couldn’t find the playlists  
> table the first zillion or so times I tried this. Thanks for all the help.
> Frankie V.
>  
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allison Manzino
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:59 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone
>  
> Hi Frank,
> I have a podcast on how to do this. It's entitled Syncing to Iphone. Specific 
> instructions can be found in it. I have to fool with the sync feature of the  
> Iphone to get my playlist to sync. The podcast can be downloaded and 
> subscribed to by visiting:
> http://gwenna.podbean.com
>  
> Have a great evening.
>  
> Allison
> My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar!
> 
>  
> On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
> 
> ou don't have to. just sync ad it will show up.
> 
> S
> On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all, in ITunes (on my MacBook Pro) at the bottom of the sources Table
> I have a few playlists. I also have my IPhone listed in that sources
> table. I was told by an Apple rep that to syncronize one of my playlists
> with my IPhone I had to drag the playlist in the sources table onto the
> name of he IPhone. How can I do this with VO?
> thanks
> Frank
>  
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Re: webkit question

2010-07-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
There's an faq on that on the   webkit page when you first start it up. don't 
ask me to explain it here as the answer spins my head. I know you have to do 
something in the terminal but what you can do instead is his cmd shift h to get 
to the home page  you set an it will work.
On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:03 AM, chad baker wrote:

> Hi i'm having trouble with webkit loading my homepage its google.
> I have webkit set for the default app.
> Also i checked what the homepage was and it was google.
> Any suggestions?
> thanks
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RE: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

2010-07-18 Thread Frank Ventura
Yeah, I caught the podcast and I guess our problems were similar. I
think I got it working OK now but still can't figure out how to select
non consecutive tracks in the songs list.

Frankie V.

 

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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allison Manzino
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:34 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

 

Hi Frank,

 

THe Iphone is a bit finicky with the playlist function. I'm not sure
why, but if you listen to the podcast, you will hear that I have trouble
as well.

 

Allison

 

My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar!

 

On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Frank Ventura wrote:





Allison, thanks I will check out that podcast. I finally got it to work
last night but it took me a few tries to do it.  In the end what I ended
up doing was going into the IPhone settings under Music Tab and down
arrowing until I finally found the playlists table and checked off what
I wanted. I never did the drag and drop thing. I am not sure why I
couldn't find the playlists  table the first zillion or so times I tried
this. Thanks for all the help.

Frankie V.

 

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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allison Manzino
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:59 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dragging a playlist to my IPhone

 

Hi Frank,

I have a podcast on how to do this. It's entitled Syncing to Iphone.
Specific instructions can be found in it. I have to fool with the sync
feature of the  Iphone to get my playlist to sync. The podcast can be
downloaded and subscribed to by visiting:

http://gwenna.podbean.com

 

Have a great evening.

 

Allison

My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar!

 

On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:






ou don't have to. just sync ad it will show up.

S
On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:





Hi all, in ITunes (on my MacBook Pro) at the bottom of the sources Table

I have a few playlists. I also have my IPhone listed in that
sources

table. I was told by an Apple rep that to syncronize one of my
playlists

with my IPhone I had to drag the playlist in the sources table
onto the

name of he IPhone. How can I do this with VO?

thanks

Frank

 

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accessible ipod to mpeg converter

2010-07-18 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all,

Does anyone know of an accessible mpeg converter? I'm trying to convert a video 
I converted to avi to mpeg for my uncle. He has a Windows PC and cannot play 
the avi format. I tried mpeg Stream clip but it doesn't appear to be 
accessible. I can get it to convert to quicktime etc, but not mpeg. It says 
dimmed when I arrow to that option under the file menu. Thank you for any 
assistance. Have a great day.

Allison
 
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neat little iPhone app

2010-07-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi:
I found a cool free app. It's called rest area finder. The pins are unlabeled, 
but you can double tap and read the info on each rest area location, I.E. pin 
in the map.


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Re: neat little iPhone app

2010-07-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
OO nice. that might come in handy during my next vacation when ever that is. 
lol!
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> Hi:
> I found a cool free app. It's called rest area finder. The pins are 
> unlabeled, but you can double tap and read the info on each rest area 
> location, I.E. pin in the map.
> 
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Re: Selecting multiple tracks in the songs list of ITunes

2010-07-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
hi Frank,

To select consecutive items:

• Interact with the Songs Table.
• Navigate to the first item you wish to select.
• Press the shift key then press the down arrow until the last item
you wish selected is selected.

To select non-consecutive items:

• Interact with the Songs Table.
• Navigate to the first item you wish to select.
• Bring the mouse cursor to VO (press VO-cmd-f5).  Add the FN key if
on a portable or small keyboard.
• turn off cursor tracking (VO-shift-f3).  Add the FN key as mentioned
above.
• Navigate to the next item you wish to select then press VO-cmd-
space.
• Navigate to the next item then press the same combination as in the
previous step.
• If you mistakenly select an item, simply press the same key
combination again to deselect.

Once everything is selected, you can press cmd-c to Copy, or use other
key combinations to create a playlist from the selected items or
whatever you wish to do.

Remember to turn cursor tracking back on, VO-shift-f3.

HTH.

Later...

On Jul 17, 6:10 pm, "Frank Ventura" 
wrote:
> Hi all, can anyone give me a quick how to on how to select multiple
> tracks in the songs list of ITunes? I would like to learn how to do this
> both by selecting consecutive tracks and also by sleecting non
> consequtive tracks.
> thanks
> Frank

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RE: Safari troubles, when navigating to a previous page

2010-07-18 Thread Linda Adams
Barry,

Very helpful information.  You have saved me a lot of time spent getting
back to where I had been on a previous page.

Thanks much,
Linda


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Subject: Re: Safari troubles, when navigating to a previous page


Hello,

I find it helpful to open a link in a new tab with command-enter.  When
I close the tab with command-w, I am always back where I was on the
prior page.

On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Alfredo wrote:

> I have a question on safari.  Again, I know VO is not jaws, but I 
> can't help but make comparisons, since it will serve to understand my 
> question.  When I use jaws, and am using internet explorer, it 
> remembers where I last was on the previous page.  For example, when I 
> am navigating on the list of emails I received, on gmail.com, when I 
> click on an email I receive it will go to that page.  Then if I press,
> alt+left arrow, to go back a page, on the page where my email is
> displaying, I would go back to the the link I had clicked on the 
> previous page.  On safari, every time I go back a page, I am left at 
> the top of the page.  Does anyone else get bother by this?  This makes

> it so I have to use more navigation to get where I was at, or for 
> searching on Google, tedious to go back a page and having to press the

> down arrow, with quick mode on, several times, to get back to the next

> result of the Google search results.  Anyone have any suggestions on 
> how to change this if possible, so that VO will remember where I was 
> if I go back a previous page? Thanks, Alfred.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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RE: Selecting multiple tracks in the songs list of ITunes

2010-07-18 Thread Frank Ventura
Tim, thanks I appreciate that. I was missing the step to turn cursor tracking 
off.
Thanks again
Frank

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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:58 PM
To: MacVisionaries
Subject: Re: Selecting multiple tracks in the songs list of ITunes

hi Frank,

To select consecutive items:

* Interact with the Songs Table.
* Navigate to the first item you wish to select.
* Press the shift key then press the down arrow until the last item
you wish selected is selected.

To select non-consecutive items:

* Interact with the Songs Table.
* Navigate to the first item you wish to select.
* Bring the mouse cursor to VO (press VO-cmd-f5).  Add the FN key if
on a portable or small keyboard.
* turn off cursor tracking (VO-shift-f3).  Add the FN key as mentioned
above.
* Navigate to the next item you wish to select then press VO-cmd-
space.
* Navigate to the next item then press the same combination as in the
previous step.
* If you mistakenly select an item, simply press the same key
combination again to deselect.

Once everything is selected, you can press cmd-c to Copy, or use other
key combinations to create a playlist from the selected items or
whatever you wish to do.

Remember to turn cursor tracking back on, VO-shift-f3.

HTH.

Later...

On Jul 17, 6:10 pm, "Frank Ventura" 
wrote:
> Hi all, can anyone give me a quick how to on how to select multiple
> tracks in the songs list of ITunes? I would like to learn how to do this
> both by selecting consecutive tracks and also by sleecting non
> consequtive tracks.
> thanks
> Frank

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Braille Option-t and Other Keyboard Commander Items

2010-07-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Is there a way to have this Brailled? I only hear speech when pressing option-u 
or option-t.

Thanks,
Teresa

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Summary of options for typing accented letters on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad (long) [was Re: iPod touch or iPhone iOS4& accented letters]

2010-07-18 Thread Esther

Dear Jean-Philippe,

I'm cc'ing this reply to the viphone list, as well as to you  
directly.  The basic reply to your question about problems you're  
having problems using VoiceOver in touch typing mode under iOS4 is  
given in the first two paragraphs, with an explanation of how I use  
this on my iPod Touch.  The rest of this somewhat lengthy post  
describes the way you can type accented characters with an attached  
Apple Keyboard (either the Apple Wireless Keyboard or the iPad  
Keyboard Dock, both of which can be used with the iPod Touch upgraded  
to iOS 4.  In addition, I further describe another solution using the  
TextExpander Touch app, which allows you to type on the virtual  
keyboard. This solution can be applied to the iPad, which really does  
still have a problem touch typing accented letters.  People who are  
not interested in the keyboard solution or using TextExpander Touch  
can skip the later parts of this post that describe these  
alternatives. Touch typing of accented letters with VoiceOver under  
iOS 4 does work; try using a lighter touch on the keys for accented  
letters.  Touch typing accented characters didn't work for me on the  
iPad, but does work on the iPod Touch with iOS 4. If you can't manage  
a light enough initial touch on the letter "e" or "a" (as in the  
examples you gave), try flicking to the letter to give it focus.  Then  
do a double tap and hold pass through gesture anywhere on the screen  
and shift your finger to the right (or left) to the accent combination  
you want, and lift your finger. I typically first lightly touch the  
letter on the virtual keyboard to give it focus.  Then, I usually do  
my double tap and hold above the actual virtual keyboard, and I'll  
move to the right (or left) on the screen without lifting my finger  
until I hear VoiceOver announce the accent that I want. When I lift my  
finger, the accented character gets correctly typed.


To repeat, I could not get this to work reliably on the iPad (either  
before or after today's update to OS 3.2.1), but Apple seems to have  
adjusted the iPod Touch settings in the iOS 4 update so that this will  
work now.  On the iPad, no matter how lightly I touch the letter on  
the virtual keyboard, it gets typed as soon as I lift my finger, so  
there's really no good way to type accented letters unless you can  
flick to the letter you want. For example, to type "à" ("a" with a  
grave accent) in touch typing mode on the iPad, I have to touch the  
delete key (which will move focus to this key, but won't cause any  
action, since you'd need to double tap this key for it to delete a  
character), then flick right to the "a" key.  Then, I can double tap  
and hold anywhere on the screen, and I'll hear the sound for the pass- 
through gesture.  I'll move my finger to the right, and hear VoiceOver  
say "a grave, selected", and when I lift my finger from the screen, an  
accented "à" will be typed.  This means that in order to touchtype  
other accented letters, I have to flick further.  For, example, if I  
want to type "à bientôt" with a circumflex over the "o", I need to  
type the "ô" by first touching the delete key, then flick left twice  
to give focus to the "o".  Then I need to do the double tap and hold  
to get the accented combinations.  It is possible, but tedious.  I  
generally do the double tap and hold in the text area above the  
virtual keyboard.  For an accented letter "e", I flick to the right  
from the text area to the start of the keyboard, past the "q" and "w"  
letters.  (If you are using a French "a z e r t y" keyboard, you would  
type your accented "a" by flicking once right from the text area, and  
you would type your accented "e" by flicking right again past the "z".)


I am very happy touch typing accented characters on my iPod Touch, and  
rather unhappy with the status of touch typing accents on the iPad.   
(Not only is touch typing accents still not fixed in the latest OS  
3.2.1 iPad update, there are still no signs of the language rotor for  
the iPad in the Settings menu.)


You have two alternative solutions for typing accented characters: (1)  
use a Bluetooth keyboard like the Apple Wireless Keyboard, or use the  
iPad Keyboard Dock with your iPod Touch or (2) use the TextExpander  
touch app and define custom snippets for typing accents or accented  
words.  If you use either the Apple Wireless Keyboard or the iPad  
Keyboard Dock, you can type accented characters as though you were  
typing on a Macbook laptop keyboard.  It is possible to set the  
hardware and software keyboard for your desired language under  
Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > French (for  
example, or any other selected language).


For an English language input keyboard, I can type the accent key  
combination using the standard keyboard with the use of the option key  
on either the Apple Wireless Keyboard or the iPad Keyboard Dock.


acute accent - Op