Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Justin Harford
This problem happens to me at times but its not consistent. I was not able to produce it here actually but I have seen it before. I don't really know how I could produce it consistently. Usually just reseting VO does the trick. J "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rutkowski
Can anyone try going to the iTunes store and using vo command h to move down to the heading called new releases and when I use vo right arrow and turn off cursor tracking the new releases seem to be just immages and you can't click on them. Didn't notice this in the previous iTunes. If it hel

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rutkowski
HI David. OK basically i've tried with different views such as grid view text view being focused on different parts of the source list and when i tab past the search field you can't tab to the songs table and other then this the new iTunes is fine. still trying to work out what the iTunes dj

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Thomas McMahan
When I tab through I-Tunes Vo announces "Search" "Sources" and Songs." Any other controls have touse VO keys and arrows although if I am at the "songs" list can arrow up and down through the list. Don't think I am having same problem as what you are describing. On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:50 PM

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread David Poehlman
sorry, we need more. if I do as you describe, I get search, sources and songs as I tab through. You might try turning the browser on, setting your view to grid, any number of things to see if you can lick this. what source is selected when you see this issue? On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:50 PM

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi Fonzie You're getting the same behavior i do, except on mine VO doesn't come back. Once it stops, I need to manually move VO to where the keyboard focus is to get it back, and it goes away again immediately after I tab. On Mar 12, 2009, at 00:17, Fonzie wrote: > > Hey there Jacob, I hop

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Fonzie
Hey there Jacob, I hope all is going well. I am looking at the issue you were mentioning, and here is what I get while tabbing. I assume, by controls, you mean the search edit box, the source table, the song table, and the minor things you can tab through, should you have them appearing on

The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi Everyone I wanted to ask this here before I write to Apple, in case it's something odd about my setup. Along with the accessibility improvements in iTunes 8.1 I'm seeing some very serious issues. Chief among them is that, while tabbing still moves through controls properly, Voiceover wi

Re: overwrite

2009-03-11 Thread David Poehlman
Here's what works for me. select the text you want to replace and begin typing. the text will disappear. On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:36 PM, william lomas wrote: hi from speaking to Anne on this subject I guess over write mode like on windows (see below) is not possible? I.e. you

mpg to dvd?

2009-03-11 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi guys, I have a collection of mpg files that I want to author onto a dvd with a simple title and chapters. Does any one know of a program for the mac that will do this? Preferably without recking the encoding of the files too much. I tried Imovie and IDVD, but they wouldn't see the mp

VO and MSN messenger 702 for Mac

2009-03-11 Thread Maurice Mines
For the most part VO works except for when you are in a conversation. The conversations appear to be in an HTML window. It appears that it is the messenger window. Any ideas? If you want to try writing me on MSN it's mine1...@bears.unco.edu I will have it on when I am not doing heavy schoo

overwrite

2009-03-11 Thread william lomas
hi from speaking to Anne on this subject I guess over write mode like on windows (see below) is not possible? I.e. you highlight a sentence and overwrite it, keeping the fomratting the same in windows you do this in order to keep the format exactly as it is, I overwrite the

Re: say only works reliably when vo is turned off:

2009-03-11 Thread Mark Baxter
I've had a phenomenon where VO interrupts other system speech; could this be happening here? Say is starting to talk and VO interrupts it because of a status change or a key press? Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://M

say only works reliably when vo is turned off:

2009-03-11 Thread David Poehlman
Hi all, It seems that something has happened to the terminal say command. If I try executing it, I get no errors but nothing is spoken unless I turn off vo. this happens on at least two computers. Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
You'd need a decent amount of flash memory considering the number of items the classic can hold. It would be the most optimal way to handle the situation, but as you say, there wouldn't be much benefit to anyone else. On Mar 11, 2009, at 14:00, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Could a solution

slightly off-topic, sorry

2009-03-11 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi Guys, I believe some of you use Ubuntu in bootcamp or fusion. I want to wipe my windows machine (which isn't running very well) and my question is with Ubuntu 8.10 can I have speach running during installation? Thanks in advance, Jeff Greene -- Email services provided by the System Access M

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Dean Wilcox
Good point well made. I never thought of the HD spinning up every time. At 17:37 11/03/2009, you wrote: >Well, flash memory is up to pretty good sizes right now. The iPods are >flash based, not solid state. In theory they could easily release a >64gb flash iPod if they so chose at a relatively

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Chesworth
Could a solution to this be to have a small amount of flash memory in there to store firmware and the songs database and spoken clips etc, with the actual user added content still stored on an HDD? Now i'm typing this it seems like we'd really be the only people who'd benifit from that setup, and

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Brent Harding
That's exactly what players with Rockbox does. I have an Iriver h120 that I don't use much because I got the victor stream now, but it spun up for speaking. - Original Message - From: "Jacob Schmude" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:37 PM Subject: Re: what the point in that >

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
Well, flash memory is up to pretty good sizes right now. The iPods are flash based, not solid state. In theory they could easily release a 64gb flash iPod if they so chose at a relatively reasonable price point. Now, if the iPods were solid state you'd be paying some pretty good money for

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Dean Wilcox
I heard the same a while back but they must replace it somehow? The solid state iPods like the Nano and Shuffle are great and small but the people with over 100 gigs in their library will want something similar. Myself I only have close to 40GB and I don't really know what kind of iPod I wan

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi They didn't mention Alex. What I got from it was that iTunes would be able to figure out what language the song title was in, but you'd still have to have the proper voice for it. Bare in mind this feature is not restricted to the Mac version of iTunes. On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:56, Justin

Re: bookmarking

2009-03-11 Thread Mark Baxter
You might try remembering a certain word on the page near where you left off, and searching for that word. So, the first use of the word "exclaimed," or "superstitious," or whatever could be your bookmark. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.c

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Justin Harford
It says voiceover speaks 14 different languages. I'm curious how they pulled that off with just alex? J "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 11/03/2009, a las 8:31, M AUSTEN escri

Re: A little off topic...

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like that user has not been granted remote SSH access to that box. Not really a problem with the Mac itself. I know when I SSH to another Mac I have to enable that access in the sharing control panel and to SSH to another Mac as root I have to enable that via another setting. Probably n

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread M AUSTEN
i think this is really great. i can choose my play list an track for different work outs at gym or just relaxing in bed on on train journeys without having to scan through the whole library. Ok so maybe i don't need 4gb. --- On Wed, 11/3/09, Scott Chesworth wrote: > From: Scott Chesworth

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Chesworth
Seconded. I want a talking classic as much as the next music junkie, but I doubt there'll ever be one, not in it's current form anyway. On 3/11/09, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > Wouldn't make sense, seeing as Apple has hinted the classic won't be > around much longer. > > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:02,

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Jacob Schmude
Wouldn't make sense, seeing as Apple has hinted the classic won't be around much longer. On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:02, Dean Wilcox wrote: > > A talking Iphone? Lets keep it simple for now and go for the iPod > clasic! > > At 14:32 11/03/2009, you wrote: > >> hmm, nice cheery outlook you've go

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Dean Wilcox
A talking Iphone? Lets keep it simple for now and go for the iPod clasic! At 14:32 11/03/2009, you wrote: >hmm, nice cheery outlook you've got there Will, lol. > >I should imagine the main thrust of this will be the playlist >selection. 4gb of songs would be quite a hefty amount to flick >thro

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Dean Wilcox
What do you mean, that is the point of it. Hear is a quote from the site, link at the bottom: "Musically speaking, the new iPod shuffle is brilliant, thanks to an exciting new feature called VoiceOver. Say you're listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Chesworth
hmm, nice cheery outlook you've got there Will, lol. I should imagine the main thrust of this will be the playlist selection. 4gb of songs would be quite a hefty amount to flick through to try and locate a particular album. What struck me as interesting about this though is that the shuffle has

Re: what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread David Poehlman
right, but if I want to select my song or playlist On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:23 AM, william lomas wrote: hi apple now have a talking ipod shuffle. what is the point in this? if people can't even tell what song they are listening to that crazy lol --~--~-~--~~-

what the point in that

2009-03-11 Thread william lomas
hi apple now have a talking ipod shuffle. what is the point in this? if people can't even tell what song they are listening to that crazy lol --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries

Woohoo! More talking iPods!

2009-03-11 Thread Buddy Brannan
Looks like Apple did this one pretty quietly: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/features.html Just to make things more confusing, they're calling the iPod Shuffle's talking interface Voiceover as well. Sounds like it probably works the same as the talking features on the Nano. -- Buddy Brann

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A little off topic...

2009-03-11 Thread Mike
Hi all: I'm trying to remotely administer a Ubuntu 8.10 box with my Mac using SSH. When I open ther terminal on my mac and type in the following: ssh u...@ip address of the ubuntu box, I'm prompted with the password. When I type in the password, I get a permission denied notification. I initially

uninstalling safari 4 beta after having problems

2009-03-11 Thread Dean Adams
Hey All, After installing safari 4 beta and trying it and found that it caused all sorts of problems in webpages and mail I have had to uninstall safari 4 beta and return it back to version 3 and all is back to normal now I am using a Powerbook G4 with 768mb of ram and soon to update t

Re: bookmarking

2009-03-11 Thread william lomas
Thanks esta I only asked this question since I am reading a HTL book and want to bookmark my place to come back to where I am if I turn on the macbook later I know in windows jaws and window eyes have perminant bookmarks i believe, on a page and I thought mac had the same On 10 Mar 2009, a