Hi,
If one plugs the booksense xt, the model with the 4 gig of internal
flash into a mac via USB does it show up as a volume in the finder?
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lol...how bad I am at it? now we can squeee over our macs lol
On 15-Jul-09, at 10:13 PM, May and Wynter wrote:
> Heheheheh, I'll just have to find other reasons to tease you. Hmm,
> goalball could be a start.
>
> May off to Edmonton Alberta on the 25th.
> Am I ready to see some people there?
>
Heheheheh, maybe 28 hours. Have to play with all the diferent voices to ya know.
May off to Edmonton Alberta on the 25th.
Am I ready to see some people there?
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:34 PM
Su
Hmm, knew there would be one I didn't see, lol.
But that's ok, I liked the IMac and the Pro.
The aire was cool too, nice and light, heheheeh but I'd rather have all my
parts on one thing, smile.
May off to Edmonton Alberta on the 25th.
Am I ready to see some people there?
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Hi,
iTunes itself got rid of DRM on all music with the iTunes Music store
recently. As someone said, if people want it bad enough they will take
it to the exstremes to get it.
Regards,
alex,
On 15-Jul-09, at 8:52 PM, Maurice Mines wrote:
>
> hi this so the chafee amenent can be folled ple
Heheheheh, I'll just have to find other reasons to tease you. Hmm, goalball
could be a start.
May off to Edmonton Alberta on the 25th.
Am I ready to see some people there?
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From: Jessi and Goldina
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 15
hi this so the chafee amenent can be folled please don't misunderstand
me we must keep it just for the print disabled or we will luse the
exzpation ie if it isnot broken we shud not give the others gild
enaymor amo to put up roodblokes to a good and a good degree. drm is
the only that publ
sent to you Dan, distribute freely but I can't post here...:)
On 15-Jul-09, at 11:08 PM, Dan wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Do you have the URL for the live 365 feed?
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:12 PM, kaare dehard wrote:
>
>>
>> okay, however if this does not work out for any of us, there is a
>> live365 broad
Hello,
Do you have the URL for the live 365 feed?
On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:12 PM, kaare dehard wrote:
>
> okay, however if this does not work out for any of us, there is a
> live365 broadcast of the entire air to ground including press coverage
> and some stuff from the flight directors loop as well
Hi. Adding the import component did allow me to open flac files in
quicktime player. However, it did not allow me to open them in
itunes? Is there another way to accomplish that?
Darcy
On 15-Jul-09, at 3:24 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>
> The XiphQT only gives flac playback capability. I added
Hello May, Wynter, and all:
Yay. Glad you are walking toward the light (smile).
It will take you 25 hours no doubt ... lol
And if you are looking for revenue ... take mana ... lol
OK, shhh that last comment does not belong in this thread (wink).
You will convince them and they will be better o
Hi,
I was aware that that would come up. Unfortunately, what I said worked
in theory, though you are right that it did not work in practice. I
still however think quite clearly before making any statement on this
list.
Regards,
Alex,
On 15-Jul-09, at 6:49 PM, louie wrote:
>
> What about
What about the 3gp converter that you said that switch for the mac
would do?
On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Loui:
>
> I take offence at this.
>
> I know that there was a strong roomer that unibodies did not have the
> drivers included on the OS X retail disk. This
You could always get the mac mini, it's the cheapest one, but they
work great.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:41 PM, May and Wynter wrote:
> Ok everyone. I have made my decision. got to play the mac
> computers today and I absolutely fel in love with them. Of course
> when I actually get one it
Hi,
Loui:
I take offence at this.
I know that there was a strong roomer that unibodies did not have the
drivers included on the OS X retail disk. This may have changed, but
the evidance was that the machines requireing new drivers came out
after the disk.
Regards,
Alex,
On 15-Jul-09, at
Hi,
I did not say aluminum, but rather Unibody. There may have been
updates to the retail copies, but I know they didn't include the
proper drivers at first.
Regards,
Alex,
On 15-Jul-09, at 3:06 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> Alex, what are you talking about? Of course you can use a retail d
Hi,
What time is that?
Regards,
Alex,
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Yes textbook require much more in the way of navigation such as page
numbering. The NLS, which is mostly centered around recreational
reading, as a rule does not support page number or in some cases even
chapters.
Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of West
Not to start beating this to death, but another very important point is what
you use the material for. I've used the Daisy format for text books only.
That is completely different that how you would listen to a novel which I
believe would be a different experience for the user of the format.
--
yay this is music to my ears! :D :D now you have no reason to
tease me about being obsessed haha.
On 15-Jul-09, at 12:41 PM, May and Wynter wrote:
> Ok everyone. I have made my decision. got to play the mac
> computers today and I absolutely fel in love with them. Of course
> whe
okay, however if this does not work out for any of us, there is a
live365 broadcast of the entire air to ground including press coverage
and some stuff from the flight directors loop as well spliced in If
you google apollo 11 air to ground it should give you the link.
I only mention this of
Yes that is one of a number of things NLS has employed to limit the
playback of their books. It will be interesting to see how they
respond to our iPhone DAISY software.
Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Here is a very shor primer on making DAISY books. To start with many
of the existing books are converted from tapes and have no more
navigation than tapes themselves as few libraries have either the time
of staff needed to insert the additional navigation that is possible.
As I said, if mad
The trouble seems to be that the books have to be in some sort of encrypted
format, and let's face it, iTunes is sort of encrypted, but even that can
be, well gotten around. With DAISY, ye you can put them into iPod format,
but it takes a lot of work--I think--to do. Could be wrong though.
Anyh
The other thing NLS does is using the AMR codec.
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From: "Greg Kearney"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
>
> The Daisy standard is hardly a "bizarre format" and when made
> correct
Hello everyone,
I really hate to ask this question on this list, but I suppose in a
way, it's related to VoiceOver users.
Tomorrow the audio of Apollo 11 will be rebroadcast in its entirety. I
am sure that other Mac users would love to listen to this as well.
Especially those who remember th
Greg:
I want to make clear that All of my comments were solely in regards to NLS
and RFBD. I know nothing about what you do.
I have never heard of the daisy format being playable on anything but a
specialized player. If it can actually be played on an IPod, then that is a
good thing but it'
The Daisy standard is hardly a "bizarre format" and when made
correctly the books are playable on existing iPods and other such
devices. The issue here is not Daisy the issue is that NLS and to a
lesser degree RFB&D have chosen to add digital rights management aka
encryption to their books
Hi there. I am wondering how I can enable my Macbook to basically act as a
bluetooth speaker for other devices? I want to play the audio from my cell
phone and the new booksense I just got through it, but putting the Mac in
discoverable mode and telling the booksense to connect to headset doesn'
These are all good points about the NLS books. Maybe this feedback
should be sent to NLS. Does anybody know if there is an email address
or web form to give NLS feedback? I was really surprised when I found
out that I wouldn't be able to listen to NLS digital books on a
computer, atleast
FOlks, since there has been discussion about the iPhone and T-Mobile,
I thought I would share this article.
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> Date: July 15, 2009 8:40:00 AM EDT
> Subject: Reports say iPhone could be coming to British T-Mobile
> Source: AppleInsider
>
> Multiple sources are reporting t
Folks, here is an article from Apple I think you might find
interesting and guess what, it came out of one of their "normal" media
sources if you will.
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> Date: July 15, 2009 2:59:27 PM EDT
> Subject: How to make “the iPhone icons speak”
> Source: Apple Hot News
>
> Wh
And there ya go. Hit Apple with the idea and beat NLS about the head
and shoulders until they start paying attention. THey will quickly
find that folks really want to have this option and not be tied to one
of their funky players or spend a crap-load of money on specialized
hardware, when
Hi Scott,
I probably will wait for SL, although I am going to geta new MBP because my
old Mac is now completely dead. When I spoke to the people at the store
about fixing my optical drive, they said it would be better to just buy a
new machine
Thanks
James
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Alex, what are you talking about? Of course you can use a retail disk
on a aluminum MB. I've used my retail Leopard disk on several machines
since I have a five license user pack.
On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Alex wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> James:
>
> The MBP ships with its own disk. The retail copy
One thing that would drive NLS to consider computer-based playback
etc. is if consumers of the content put enough pressure. I have not
looked at the law in quite a while, but to the best of my knowledge,
there is nothing in the law that would prevent them from allowing
this. The simple tru
Do not pay much attention to what Alex says he has a tendcey to shoot
off his mouth before ingageing his brain.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> Alex, what are you talking about? Of course you can use a retail disk
> on a aluminum MB. I've used my retail Leopard disk on sev
James you might as well wait for SL. Do you have a MacBook that did
not come with the disk? In other words did you purchase a machine used?
On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:28 PM, James & Nash wrote:
>
> I see, thanks Alex. Can you still buy the retail copy or should I
> just wait
> until SL which I've
Alex, that is completely rediculous. Show me a source that says those
drivers don't exist. The difference in the retail copy and the copy
you get with the machine is iLife for sure, but what drivers are you
talking about. Consider what you are saying. If I purchase SL, then
that means I ca
Is there a link to the flac files someplace? Are you sure they are good?
CB
Mark Baxter wrote:
> Indeed, I do have both components there, and I have restarted the
> whole machine. No joy
>
> Mark BurningHawk
>
> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
> My home
Indeed, I do have both components there, and I have restarted the
whole machine. No joy
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You have both the importer and the xiph components in the QT folder and
quit/restarted quicktime?
CB
Mark Baxter wrote:
> Well, this is a step in a direction. After installing the importer
> component in the !library/quicktime folder, Quicktime comes up and
> claims the files are 0:00:00 l
Well, this is a step in a direction. After installing the importer
component in the !library/quicktime folder, Quicktime comes up and
claims the files are 0:00:00 long, thus won't play anything. :)
Mark BurningHawk
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MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
My ho
Thanks much; will investigate this when I get back from stuff.
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Rock On!
I made the plunge about two years ago and I've gotten to the point
that I use my windows machine grudgingly. I'm just waiting patiently
(or not) for it to die before I replace it with a Mac.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:41 PM, May and Wynter wrote:
> Ok everyone. I have made my decision
Well, if I'm not mistaken you can play wma on the stream as well. You
still can't play either of those formats on an IPod or ITunes.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
>
> Not any more. I heard they now have downloadable daisy, so we can
> play on
> the stream.
>
> - Orig
That did the trick. Many thanks for that tip and file download.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>
> The XiphQT only gives flac playback capability. I added the
> flac_import
> component and was able to open and play a flac file. The importer
>
Ok everyone. I have made my decision. got to play the mac computers today
and I absolutely fel in love with them. Of course when I actually get one it
will take more than the 24 hours I needed to learn my IPhone but I'm looking
forward to the new adventure. I saw the macbook white, the macb
Not any more. I heard they now have downloadable daisy, so we can play on
the stream.
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From: "Barry Hadder"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?
>
> I personally think that the way N
The XiphQT only gives flac playback capability. I added the flac_import
component and was able to open and play a flac file. The importer
without XiphQT enabled QuickTime player to open a flac but I got silence
when it played. So you need both pieces. I got the flac import component
from here:
Agreed. My hair splitting was just that from a user perspective I really
could care less if the app is executing in the background or not. Sure
there are a few exceptions where the lack of background execution is a
problem but for everything else it just doesn't matter. It's not like
I'm encodi
I second that; a restart did not make any difference in its behavior,
nor did another flac file.
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I personally think that the way NLS and RFBD should have gone about
the digital download thing is to have used either Audible or ITunes.
That way books would have been compatible with at least most known
platforms.
I will say on RFBD's behalf that their downloadable audio format is as
cl
The only way I've found is to have someone read it to me andd I talk
into a headset. There have been major improvements in recofgnition
and the process only takes a few mintues. I vaguely remember someone
doing a podcast on the program and somehow he made the training text
talk but I cou
Hello,
Here is a different prospective.
If a person belongs to Book Share, for example, this is how it works.
You have to be a paying member.
When you download zipped book share files, you have to put in your
login password to unpack the book.
When you read the book, it has your name and watermar
but how do we get past the initial training
On 15 Jul 2009, at 19:05, James & Nash wrote:
>
> Thanks Marsh
> - Original Message -
> From: "Marshall Scott"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac Speech Dictate
>
>
>>
>> I don't use it much but once you get pas
Sounds like security by obscurity. The media folks don't want to hear
that the audio version of their book is being distributed via the
popular portable and unencumbered mp3 format which can be copied and
used on nearly any device. They would rather hear that the file is in
the obscure quijibo
Thanks Marsh
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From: "Marshall Scott"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Mac Speech Dictate
>
> I don't use it much but once you get past the training it seems to
> recognize speech fairly well.
> Marsh
>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:50 PM, James & N
I think, too, that the one thing that is being lost in the
picture is that the iPhone is just a phone. Yes, it certainly does
much more than a phone, but I think that the extent and tasks that
some are considering to be the proverbial, cons, comes from this very
fact. We are not ta
Hey Cara and Scott,
LOL Cara! Well, you are the first person I've known with multi-
batteries, so I stand corrected on that. I still think it is far more
an exception than a rule. LOL.
Scott, yes, I like TOS way better than TNG. In fact, I'm a huge
Trekkie, and TNG is my least liked of the v
Oddly enough, I still can't get this component to work at all.
I'll mess some more with it when I can,.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Kieren wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 11:19 pm, Mark Baxter wrote:
>> I installed the component in the applications folder, but no luck;
I don't use it much but once you get past the training it seems to
recognize speech fairly well.
Marsh
On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:50 PM, James & Nash wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am curious to know what the current state of play is for Mac Speech
> Dictate and Voice Over. Does anyone know?
>
> Th
That's definitely my vision of how things should be. However, all
such blind services (i.e. NLS, RFBD) seem to be hell bent on producing
material in some bizarre format completely incompatible with anything
that the main stream world is using. I wonder just how much money
actually goes i
Did that, still no joy. When no joy, get more coffee. :)
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With its built in universal access features, Apple's recently released
iPhone 3GS is causing quite a stir throughout the blindness community.
Regardless of how one might feel toward Apple or its iPhone product,
the fact that this mainstream device can be purchased
Hi, Josh,
Phew, I think we agree too. [just don't say you
like Trek:OS better than TNG although your
earlier post about having an original
communicator wallpaper is alarming]. But
Yes your points make sense, but I'm seeing a
little misinformation on both the radical PC
right and radical MA
On Jul 15, 6:06 am, John Panarese wrote:
> I am having the same problem. I followed the instruction in the
> read.me documentation. I have no idea what is going on.
>
> > I moved it there, but Quicktime says "this file isn't a movie," and
> > Itunes remains stubbornly silent.
>
Teste
Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this.
That clarifies things.
Take care
James
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From: Anne Robertson
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Leopard Disc
Hello James,
On Jul 15, 2009, at
On Jul 14, 11:19 pm, Mark Baxter wrote:
> I installed the component in the applications folder, but no luck; am
> I doing something wrong?
from the read me in the dmg
Installation
To install simply copy the "XiphQT" component bundle into the Library/
Components folder in your home directory.
Hello James,
On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:29 AM, James & Nash wrote:
>
> But Snow Leopard is a complete OS yes and not an upgrade?
>
Yes, Snow Leopard is a complete OS Which will only work on Intel Macs.
Anyone purchasing a new Mac from now on will be able to get Snow
Leopard for the equivalent of $
Personally I would wait for SL if you can its only a couple of
months and unless you NEED a leopard install right now I would say
hold off.
This is just my personal opinion and the current leopard is still AU
$129 I think and the SL will be approximately AU$50.
Leopard is a complete install
Ok I think Clarification is needed here
OS X did and I'm not sure if it still does come in 2 slightly
different variants.
1. the retail variant which will install on any given machine as long
as the minimum hardware spec is met.
cant remember exactly but from memory its a dvd capable drive, a u
I see thanks Alex.
But Snow Leopard is a complete OS yes and not an upgrade?
Thanks
James
- Original Message -
From: "Alex Jurgensen"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Leopard Disc
>
> That was not a unibody. That is why. The MBP will ship with Leopard.
>
> Re
It's small / lite enough to fold and put in a pocket.
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