Re: numbers guide

2009-09-29 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. When yu see the template chooser just say blank it's the top row and then in the grid choose blank. As far as a quick start goes, there isn't one that would help a visually impaired but there is a number of tutorials I think that can be accessed from the help menu. HTH. Matthew Campbell

RE: VPN revisited

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Ventura
Christina, just for some more food for thought. A VPN does not have to be toa corporate network. You can also use one to jump onto your network at your home while away from home. Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Beh

a few intro questions re: applications and voiceover

2009-09-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello all, I recently got my apple a couple weeks ago, and have been hunting for a few solutions to give me the functionality I had on windows. First, I'm a full-time coder, what time I don't devote to anything I code for a hobby. I'm looking for a good, accessible editor; any ideas? I'd spe

Re: numbers guide

2009-09-29 Thread Mac Cougar
Hello, I have just purchased Iworks and you just use the blank template and as far as I can tell the formulas are the same as excel. Steve On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:29 PM, peter apgar wrote: > >> Good evening all, > > as i have been playing around with numbers lately. a few questions > com

numbers guide

2009-09-29 Thread peter apgar
> Good evening all, as i have been playing around with numbers lately. a few questions come to mind. 1. how does one open a blank worksheet with out all of the options like budget shopping lists and other formatting choices being selected? 2 after opening this new work sheet can o

Re: VPN revisited

2009-09-29 Thread Christina
Oh, thanks that makes perfect sense. :) Thanks, Christina On Sep 29, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Hi Christina, > > VPN stands for "virtual Private Network". Basically, it allows me to > connect into my work network from home. I can see the network disks, > send mail, and ac

Re: VPN revisited

2009-09-29 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
Hi Christina, VPN stands for "virtual Private Network". Basically, it allows me to connect into my work network from home. I can see the network disks, send mail, and access all the resources I need to access as though I'm in the office. hth Donal On 29 Sep 2009, at 23:25, Christina wro

Re: VPN revisited

2009-09-29 Thread Christina
This may sound dumb but for my information, could you please let me know what a VPN is. Thanks, Christina On Sep 29, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > Ok I've been playing around with two VPN clients since I raised this > topic about a month ago. The two clients I've

Re: Updating mail and iPod Touch

2009-09-29 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kevin, It all depends on whether your wife is using POP or IMAP. With POP, you get all the messages on both devices, but with IMAP, if you delete a message on one device, it disappears from the other. If a message is read on one device, it is marked as read on the other. Cheers, Anne

VPN revisited

2009-09-29 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
Hi all, Ok I've been playing around with two VPN clients since I raised this topic about a month ago. The two clients I've looked at are Tunnelblick and Viscosity. In case anyone needs to use a VPN, my thoughts on both are given below. 1. Viscosity. I chose this one first because, as E

Re: Fwd: [VICUG-L] FW: [WebAIM] WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Interesting that under "How did you obtain your primary screen reader?" there is no choice for "built into the OS". I guess there is always "other". CB Dean Hudson wrote: > THis is a great chance to weigh in as VO users for web developers. > Please take a few moments to fill out this questionn

RE: Updating mail and iPod Touch

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Gibbs
If it doesn't sync messages, why did Pam get what I would guess was every message that was online downloaded to her Touch? am I to understand that if she deletes a message from her Touch and then opens her Mac Mail program, the same message she has already read on her Touch will appear in her Mac'

Fwd: [VICUG-L] FW: [WebAIM] WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey

2009-09-29 Thread Dean Hudson
THis is a great chance to weigh in as VO users for web developers. Please take a few moments to fill out this questionnaire. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: webaim-forum-boun...@list.webaim.org >> [mailto:webaim-forum-boun...@list.webaim.org] On Behalf Of Jared >> Smith >> Sent: Tues

Re: Updating mail and iPod Touch

2009-09-29 Thread Holly Anderson
Hi. NO the ipod touch doesn't sink messages just mail settings. so the messages will not be deleted from the account. Holly On Sep 29, 2009, at 1:19 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > Guys, > My wife just bought an iPod touch and I got a chance to play > with it a little. Amazing. I just have a

Re: VO and screenwriting software

2009-09-29 Thread Israel
Thank you Esther! I remember reading Final Draft 8.0 had been released. I always found that FD 7.13, which I own for the PC was very accessible, but when I switched to Mac, this summer, I learned from an Apple Store employee and someone from Apple Accessibility, that FD was not completel

Re: VO and screenwriting software

2009-09-29 Thread Esther
Hi Israel, This is a bit late, but here are two pieces of information related to your query about screenwriting software. Final Draft 8.0 was released in April, according to the Apple Software pages: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/finaldraft.html Mariner Software

Re: Question on Burning an Audio CD

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Blouch
As far as I know you'll need to use iTunes or some other 3rd party app to make an Audio CD from a set of mp3s. That said, many newer CD players will now play mp3 files directly from CDs so you might want to still go that route. You can fit quite a bit more material on a standard CD in MP3 than

Skype opening extra ports, Ichat connection erratic, etc.

2009-09-29 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Lately I've noticed that AIM and Google Chat are bouncing off and on line. Skype seems to be fine, but when I looked at my network at the router level, I noticed that Skype UDP and TCP were being hosted directly on the router. Googling this taught me about Universal Plug and Play UP&P) i

Software to flatten a photographed book

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Anyone play with PostProcessor? Apparently there is a whole community around building your own book scanner rigs and they have a Java app to remove keystoning, find the page edges and remove curves. Supposedly it runs on OSX. http://www.diybookscanner.org/news/ General discussion thread on bo

RE: quick nav problem

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Gibbs
DearAnne, How sweet of you to let me know. I don't own a Mac yet. I'm practicing on my wife's original Powerbook running Leopard and playing with Macs in my local stores when I have time. Pam just bought a Touch and I'm learning the VO gestures for touch screens prior to getting an iPho

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-29 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kevin, Quick Nav is a very handy way of navigating in VoiceOver. To toggle Quick Nav on and off, press the left and right arrow keys together. You can then just use the arrow keys as though you were using VO plus arrow keys. With Quick Nav on, pressing the right and down arrow keys to

Re: quick nav problem

2009-09-29 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Quick nav is a new feature in snow lepard that allows you to navigate the screen more efficiently. On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > What is quick nav? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: torrents

2009-09-29 Thread Søren Jensen
It puts the downloaded files in your download folder. - Original Message - From: "May McDonald" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:47 PM Subject: Re: torrents > > I downloaded utorrent since that's the one I was familiar with through > windows, but I of course don't know how it w

Re: How to open an url in VLC-player.

2009-09-29 Thread Søren Jensen
Just press command n, browse through all the network options and you'll find it somewhere... Best regards Søren. - Original Message - From: "Annie Skov Nielsen" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: How to open an url in VLC-player. > > Hi all. > >

RE: quick nav problem

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What is quick nav? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kaare dehard Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:25 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: quick nav problem Hi Pete, toggle it off by pressing

RE: Strange bug with Voice Over

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What application are you in and what is the line hat's added? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James & Nash Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:45 AM To: Mac visionaries Subject: Strange bug with Voice Over

Strange bug with Voice Over

2009-09-29 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, I've noticed a strange issue with VO under Snow Leopard. If I leave my PC alone for any length of time, when I come back to typing, VO has aded a new line automatically. Is there a setting that would cause this or is it a bug? Can anyone confirm please before i send a message to

Re: voice over instruction manuals

2009-09-29 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Simon. The Getting STarted guide for VoiceOver in Snow Leopard is at the bottom of the vO help menu. Press VO-H, then Up Arrow, and you've got it. That particular version is in HTML and opens in safari. HTH, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

How to open an url in VLC-player.

2009-09-29 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. Is it possible to open an URL adress or another link in vlc-player. Best regards Annie. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisiona

Re: torrents

2009-09-29 Thread May McDonald
I downloaded utorrent since that's the one I was familiar with through windows, but I of course don't know how it works with the mac. It doesn't seem to be doing anything and I have no clue where it puts the files when it's done since I didn't see options for that. On 29-Sep-09, at 4:06 AM,

Re: torrents

2009-09-29 Thread ben mustill-rose
Did you check out any of the programs that people suggested? If so, what problem are you having setting them up? On 29/09/2009, kaare dehard wrote: > > I use utorrent for mac. I did a google search, and found it through > the greatness of the search engine. > > It is accessible with the mac, the

developement tool for the iphone

2009-09-29 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi everyone, As i have spoken about our new iphone developement cell, i would like to make an addendum: I have purchased the shiva 3D engine tool for iphone which includes features such as voice over integration. Here is the link: http://www.stonetrip.com/new-features.html My original pro

RE: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-29 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Donna, sorry I missed that part earlier, yes I can give you the staff view of blackboards gradebook or waht ever bb 8 call it, can't remember if it's gradebook or grade center. but as I said, give me a yell at work and I'll let you know what I find. and let me point out, I'm a pc user more t

voice over instruction manuals

2009-09-29 Thread Simon Fogarty
hi guys and girls, ladies and gents. can anyone put me on to a good easy to read user guide for voice over, both for leopard or Snow leopard. if not both. cheers simon f. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

RE: using Mac with Blackboard

2009-09-29 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi donna, What are you using for your browser and is leopard your os? I use / deal with blackboard at work, I'm not a big user of the mac platform. But I can have a look tomorrow and can get back to you then. Can you email me at work on simon.foga...@otago.ac.nz And I'll see what I can figur