Re: just got my mac today

You will need to configure growl si it can read skype's chats automatically. On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: > > I had to press the "add new event," button, before I got it to work, > but now Adium is speaking nicely, as is Ichat. Now all I need is > something to read the Skyp

Re: just got my mac today

I had to press the "add new event," button, before I got it to work, but now Adium is speaking nicely, as is Ichat. Now all I need is something to read the Skype IM pane... Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurni

Re: just got my mac today

I think I might have, but the problem is no one's sent me a message yet. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

RE: Changing voice of login window

I was quite surprised but happy with the voice for the ipod 16gig 4th gen nano. and so far I have found most if not all features to be accessible. _ From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pierre Heim Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 6:5

Re: Firefox

my apologies for this misprint. please just ignore it. thanks Dan Eickmeier wrote: > Arthur, how have you been using Firefox under Tiger successfully? As > far as I know, even with that firevox add-on that you can install, > that's not the greatest accessibility compared to Safari. > On M

List topic reminders (revision) Please read!…

Hey All, happy THU / FRI! I've made a few slight revisions to the on / off topic list for MacVisionaries, so I thought I'd post it here for your reading pleasure. Please do take just a minute or two to read through this as I believe a couple of points needed clarifying. My apolog

Re_preview

Hi Esther: Not sure if you got my reply or no but incase not, Didn't think of the PDF display menu, followed your tips and it worked, thanks. Now to another question for the list. Is there a way of funneling playing audio through a USB snd card while having VO use the internal snd card? I'm quite

Re: Requesting help with Tables

I do have this box checked. Thanks for the response. Brett On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > Brett, > > I've never used Tables, but you might go into VO > utility/verbosity/announcements and see if "speak header when > navigating > across a table row" is tu

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hi, Reset it as I explained in another post and then it will show up. Then do a restore. Thanks, Aex, On 9-Apr-09, at 9:45 AM, Dave Wright wrote: > Good morning ester, > Thank you for your advice thus far. I've currently got the Nano 4G. > As for the settings, I really don't understand it.

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hi, Here is the official Apple way on at least the Nano 3rd and 4th Generation. 1. Hold down the centre button and the "Menu" button which is on the top for twenty-five seconds and wait 30 Seconds. This will not loose any songs. Thanks, Alex, On 9-Apr-09, at 12:32 PM, Peggy Fleischer wro

Tangerine Theatre in serious developmental Trouble

Hi, Good People of Mac Visionaries, I am trying to put the finishing touches in bridging Tangerine Theatre with some popular applications and I am facing difficulties because I don't know C or C++, both of which are apperently needed. I ask you to see if someone will come forward and help wi

Re: Requesting help with Tables

Brett, I've never used Tables, but you might go into VO utility/verbosity/announcements and see if "speak header when navigating across a table row" is turned on. Don't know if that will work or not but it might. - Original Message - From: "Brett Campbell" To: Sent: Thursday, April

Re: Firefox

Arthur, how have you been using Firefox under Tiger successfully? As far as I know, even with that firevox add-on that you can install, that's not the greatest accessibility compared to Safari. On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:26 PM, arthur gindin wrote: Wendy I've been using firefox on OS10.4 for y

Fwd: Accessible World Presents Accessible Macintosh, April 13th

Begin forwarded message:From: News Wire Date: April 9, 2009 2:14:55 PM GMT-08:00To: mbabcoc...@wou.eduSubject: Accessible World Presents Accessible Macintosh, April 13th Accessible World Presents Accessible Macintosh, April 13thNews WireAn Overview of an Accessible

Re: just got my mac today

It seems to work fine. - Original Message - From: "Brett Campbell" To: Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:08 AM Subject: Re: just got my mac today > > Has anyone been able to get this to work? That is, Get Adium to > automatically read out incoming messages? I've messed around with t

Re: just got my mac today

Yeah, I got it work. All you do is interact with the events table, and go to the add button. After you need to check each box that says speak event. Hth, Chantel. On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Brett Campbell wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get this to work? That is, Get Adium to > automati

need ocr for epson vx30/300 scaner

thanks to mark and now alex for replying to me. I did try using vuscan on my 1.8ghz mini which has 1 gig of ram in it. Vuscan just kept saying busy when it was running or crashed on me a lot. I tried a few other programs that i discovered from my search for ocr on macupdate.com. I have ord

Re: just got my mac today

Has anyone been able to get this to work? That is, Get Adium to automatically read out incoming messages? I've messed around with the events in preferences with no luck so far. Brett On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > > It's under the preferences under events. I think yo

Firefox

Wendy I've been using firefox on OS10.4 for years. join us. all reviewers rate it better than safari eeb --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: firefox

please ignore my previous email. wrong group. sorry eeb Wendy Mitchell wrote: > ok, well, guess what, I've got my mail set up on here now so this is > my first ever message written on my mac. Next job how do I change > this so that it doesn't read everycharacter I write. I have it set to

Requesting help with Tables

I'm on a quest to find the best spread sheet program. At the moment Tables appears to be the most Voiceover friendly. Does anyone know if there's a way to have VoiceOver announce header titles as you navigate through the cells? Has anyone produced a tutorial for working with Tables, o

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Unfortunately, a reset did not do the job. I would try to reboot the device and then go in to the restore setting on the iPod with no luck. When I plugged in the device, I still got the same thing. I could see the device with iTunes, however, I couldn't readily access the settings area. Best R

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hi Guys, Did you only need a reset? See my post; I ended up having to restore while I was testing. Cheers, Esther On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Dave Wright wrote: > Yes definitely resolved successfully. Thanks Ryan. > > > Best Regards: > Dave Wright > Work Phone: 651-636-5184 X803 > Email: >

Accessibility issue for Restore [was Re: iPod has gone corrupted]

Hi Dave and Ryan, I think we may have come across an accessibility issue. Basically, when you force the iPod into the restore condition the pane where the iPods Setting scroll area appears becomes inaccessible to VoiceOver. That's why Dave couldn't VO-Right arrow or tab there. I just mana

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Yes definitely resolved successfully. Thanks Ryan. Best Regards: Dave Wright Work Phone: 651-636-5184 X803 Email: dwri...@gmail.com WebPage: http://www.knfbreader.com - Original Message - From: Ryan Dour To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:51

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Resolved. Ryan On Apr 9, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Dave Wright wrote: > Sure, my skype is: dynasty86 > > Thanks > > > Best Regards: > Dave Wright > Work Phone: 651-636-5184 X803 > Email: > dwri...@gmail.com > WebPage: > http://www.knfbreader.com > - Original Message - > From: Ryan Dour > To: mac

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hi Peggy, It's actually the top and center of the wheel that you need to press simultaneously. This is somewhat unintuitive, so I had to check the manual again: To reset iPod nano: 1 Toggle the Hold switch on and off (slide it to HOLD and then back again). 2 Press and hold the Menu and Cen

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

In the nano fourth gen. you press down on the top and the bottom of the wheel simultaniously for six seconds then wait about ten seconds counting slowly and press the middle of the wheel. There is no audio feedback for this. My husband did it last night when my Ipod crashed and it turned ba

Re: Preview Question...

Hi Esther: Didn't think of that. Just followed your tips and it worked, thanks. On 9-Apr-09, at 2:01 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > I haven't seen this problem before in Preview. What happens if you > set the PDF Display mode to single page? VO-M to the menu bar, press > "v" to go

Re: Changing voice of login window

Ok, so I'm waiting for Snow Leopard where we may find the voices of the new iPod Shuffle. The German voice sounds great. Pierre - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Changing voice o

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Sure, my skype is: dynasty86 Thanks Best Regards: Dave Wright Work Phone: 651-636-5184 X803 Email: dwri...@gmail.com WebPage: http://www.knfbreader.com - Original Message - From: Ryan Dour To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:10 PM Subject: R

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hello, Skype? Ryan On Apr 9, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Dave Wright wrote: > Thanks Ryan for the advice. I'm going to try this now. One thing I'm > confused about and that is when I'm supposed to press the play/pause > +select buttons? > As for the apple store. I do in fact have one or 2 in Austin ,

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Thanks Ryan for the advice. I'm going to try this now. One thing I'm confused about and that is when I'm supposed to press the play/pause+select buttons? As for the apple store. I do in fact have one or 2 in Austin , Tx. I really don't want to have to take this issue to them though. Best Rega

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Oh, I have an idea of what may be happening. Do you have the nano? YOu can put it into a restore mode by doing the following. Without sighted assistance this may be a bit of a challenge. 1. Hold the select (center of the wheel) and the menu (top of the wheel) down together for about 10 second

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Good morning ester, Thank you for your advice thus far. I've currently got the Nano 4G. As for the settings, I really don't understand it. I've tried VO arrowing to the right of the vertical splitter and cannot see any area to interact with for settings, so I can't even access the restore butto

Re: Preview Question...

Hi Mike, I haven't seen this problem before in Preview. What happens if you set the PDF Display mode to single page? VO-M to the menu bar, press "v" to go to the View menu, arrow down and press "p" to go to PDF Display, then right arrow to the PDF Display submenu and select "Single Page

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hi Dave, Reformatting is done in iTunes. I've never had my iPod settings window completely disappear, but I'd guess this is like setting up the new Nano 4G from scratch -- the area is reached by doing a VO-Right arrow from the sources table past the splitter to an area that originally sho

Re: mars edit

I thought it was too, because I didn't see anywhere to enter a key. Although I guess it is trial software. LOL. On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:35 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: hey, it's free. On 9-Apr-09, at 12:30 AM, william lomas wrote: > > Hi, is mars edit, for blogging a free or paid for appli

Re: Preview Question...

Hi Mike. I am not aware of a solution on the mac. but the same problem can occur in windows sometimes. Especially if you convert the pdf file directly to text format from adobe reader. Not to say hereby, that there is no solution on the mac, but just to say that I have seen the same thing on wi

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

I've upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and still cannot see the settings area. How would I go about getting my iPod to show up in disc utilities in order to perform a reformat? I'm guessing that when you performed a reformat, everything worked out ok? Did you just do a quick erase, or did

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

Hello, Got iTunes 8.1.1? Try that out. Also, you could reformat the iPod which will force it into recovery mode and really force a restore. I've done that one once, but it was a last resort thought right before running out to get a new one. Also, Genius bar could probably help if you bring

iPod has gone corrupted

Good morning all, So last night I had this great idea that I would try syncing my iPod with iTunes, since I'd not done it in a while. The thought was a great one since I'd just purchased some new music that I wanted to take with me to New York. Everything was great until I plugged the device in

Preview Question...

Hi all: I'm in the process of reading a 500 plus page book in PDF format. I'm using preview for this but I'm encountering a slight prob. When moving from page to page, VO is announcing the bottom half of the previously read page before reading the next page I want to hear. I have set in my prefer

Re: Changing voice of login window

Hello Søren and Pierre, Yes, you're right. No one has a choice of voice at login. I tried all possibilities this morning on a computer which I set up from scratch in French and the voice was still Alex. This would change if Apple provided a basic voice in every language into which VoiceOver

Re: Changing voice of login window

And that is why I said to the best of my knowledge, I believe it can't be done. I have not found any way to change this, but of course you can submit it as a suggestion to accessibil...@apple.com. On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > This is weird. It doesn't work for me either. I

Re: resubscribe

On 6 Apr 2009, at 18:22, L. T. Reed wrote: > I wish to once again receive the email digest of the mailing list. > How do I do this? You'll have to have a Google account associated with the address you're using on the list. Then you use http://groups.google.com/ to log in and change your su

Re: website building on the Mac?

Oh ok, this is good to know. I will check that out; thanks! Eliza On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > On 8/4/09 16:38, Eliza Cooper wrote: >> Can you use TextEdit to do the same thing (i.e., write code and see >> the >> finished product by launching the file when S

mood status in mars edit

hi all how do I set the mood status in mars edit when doing a journal entry? thanks, will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: Changing voice of login window

This is weird. It doesn't work for me either. I think this is because the changes in VO and the changes in the System Preferences are only made for each user on the computer. When you are on the login screen, you aren't logged in to any users yet. I don't have any clue about how to change

Re: mars edit

where do I enter the key though since it does not state it is a trial? On 9 Apr 2009, at 09:15, Scott Rutkowski wrote: > > it's a 30 day trial then you have to buy it and yes it's for blogging. > go and read the website all the info is there. > > > On 09/04/2009, at 5:30 PM, william lomas wrote:

Re: mars edit

oh is it? hmm, my bad, I thought it was free. On 9-Apr-09, at 1:15 AM, Scott Rutkowski wrote: > > it's a 30 day trial then you have to buy it and yes it's for blogging. > go and read the website all the info is there. > > > On 09/04/2009, at 5:30 PM, william lomas wrote: > >> >> Hi, is mars

Re: mars edit

it's a 30 day trial then you have to buy it and yes it's for blogging. go and read the website all the info is there. On 09/04/2009, at 5:30 PM, william lomas wrote: > > Hi, is mars edit, for blogging a free or paid for application? > Regards, WIll > > > > --~--~-~--~~

Re: website building on the Mac?

On 8/4/09 16:38, Eliza Cooper wrote: > Can you use TextEdit to do the same thing (i.e., write code and see the > finished product by launching the file when Safari is open)? I recommend using Smultron (it's free) rather than TextEdit, as it's more of a code editor and less of a simple word proce

Re: mars edit

hey, it's free. On 9-Apr-09, at 12:30 AM, william lomas wrote: > > Hi, is mars edit, for blogging a free or paid for application? > Regards, WIll > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVi

mars edit

Hi, is mars edit, for blogging a free or paid for application? Regards, WIll --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@google

Re: website building on the Mac?

Hi, Did you get my last message. I sent it from school and need to know if the list received it. Thanks, Alex, On 8-Apr-09, at 8:38 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: > > Hi list, >I'm taking on a new long-term project/hobby and learning how to > code so that I can start my own website. I'm a def