RE: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread M. Taylor
Scott, What do you use to plan and follow routes? I am woefully behind on GPS navigation with regard to my iPhone and I must catch up. Thank you, Mark -Original Message- From: Scott Howell [mailto:scottn3...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:27 AM To: macvisionaries@g

RE: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Lynn, You wrote that you use your iPod Touch for, among other things: 1. To Do Lists 2. Grocery Lists. 3. Bringing up street directions 4. Checking the calorie content of foods and other things. Question: If you have time, would you please tell me/us what apps you use for each of the

Re: Question about Weather App

2009-12-06 Thread Charlie Doremus
Use a three finger swipe across the face of the phone from right to left or vice versa. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Mark Gilland wrote: > Anyone know how the heck if you have multiple cities set up in the Weather > app on the IPhone/IPod, how the heck if you're on like page two of two, do >

Re: Question about Weather App

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
To move between pages in the weather application, flick left or right with three fingers. Matt Roberts Sent from my iPhone using VoiceOver On Dec 6, 2009, at 10:20 PM, "Mark Gilland" wrote: > Anyone know how the heck if you have multiple cities set up in the > Weather > app on the IPhone

Question about Weather App

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
Anyone know how the heck if you have multiple cities set up in the Weather app on the IPhone/IPod, how the heck if you're on like page two of two, do you get back to page 1 of 2. There is no back button that I see, and double tapping page one of 2 does absolutely nothing. Chris. ? ? t??

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
> Lynn Schneider wrote: > > I purchased my first Apple computer about three months ago. I will never > forget the feeling of complete surprise and joy at being able to just > turn the iMac on and get it talking within minutes. Microsoft is not to > blame > for not h

Re: Problem with Authentication

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Roy
James, your correct, I somehow did the same thing when I first got my mini and, the installation DVD did reset it for me. On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:46 AM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi David, > > You wrote: >> Hello, I just installed an Imac yesterday and some how I've got myself in a >> situation whe

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Roy
Chris, unfortunately, I think your correct. It's going to take a long long time if ever to really make an impact on Freedoms business. It's amazing just how arrogant they are, and, I guess, for now, they can afford to be. On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > The Fs sales stra

Re: Media Player

2009-12-06 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi Matt. I use VLC and have also installed something called Flip For Mac which is supposed to play Windows Media files, although I have not been able to get it to work for hurricanecity.com. It says I don't have some sort of mime plugin and I don't know where to get it. Windows Media files ha

Re: Media Player

2009-12-06 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
I am using vlc and itunes as my media players. On Dec 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Matt Roberts wrote: > What media players are people using on the Mac? I'm interested in Windows > Media, and MP3 files. Other file formats would be great as well > Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com > > -- > > You receive

Media Player

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
What media players are people using on the Mac? I'm interested in Windows Media, and MP3 files. Other file formats would be great as well Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group,

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Chris. ? ? t?? Te?? 畫 sa?. - Original Message - From: "Nicolai Svendsen" To: Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid! Hi Mark, Don't be too hard on yourself, dude. You're not the one who had to reinstall your Mac after you

More Info about Dial Zero free app for iPhone/iPod Touch [was Re: A Gaggle of Must-have Apps]

2009-12-06 Thread Esther
Hi, One of Cara's suggested apps, Dial Zero by Next Mobile Web, is in a list of 5 or so apps that I was drafting up back at the beginning of October (according to the save date in my mail), and never got around to finishing and posting. I'll just paste in the completed text for this entry

Re: running mud clients in terminal?

2009-12-06 Thread Jake
I'll second Tintin++. It's still my client of choice, first on Linux and on OS X as well. There's already an OS X version compiled on the webpage at: http://tintin.sf.net/ But to answer the question anyway, OS X is a POSIX-compliant UNIX os, certified as such. Essentially you can compile most thing

Re: Question: how to convert from Mac Word processor into LaTex?

2009-12-06 Thread James & Nash
Hi Dan, LaTeX is crossplatform, so once you learn how it works on one operating system, you'll be fine on any other. The only way I've found to turn a word processed document into a LaTeX one is to copy the file to a text editor i.e. TextEdit and then add the LaTex syntax etc stripping out a

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
Nicolai, etc. My experience with iPhone had a lot of mistakes in the early going but now, about six months into using it, I don't know how I lived without it for so long. There are lots of things I did wrong but, from making mistakes, I found other cool features that I would use in the future.

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Tyler Littlefield
um, do you really feel the urge to use so much punctuation? pauses in the subject line 5000 times isn't really wwhat I wanted to hear. On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Mark Gilland wrote: > Guies, it's a done deal. God? b'l'l'lessid! do I feel smart right about > now! > > Let me tell yall what I wa

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Mark, Don't be too hard on yourself, dude. You're not the one who had to reinstall your Mac after you got it out of the box, because a password was somehow set on the model you got, and booting from the DVD didn't work so you had to drive back to the store... Don't be too hard on yourself. Y

Question: how to convert from Mac Word processor into LaTex?

2009-12-06 Thread Daniel K. Gartmann
Hi, Since there seem to be some LaTex experts on this list, I thought I would ask this question here: How do you convert a word processor document with math equations into laTex? I need to come up with a solution to this problem both on the Mac and on the PC, so any input would be greatly a

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Mark Gilland wrote: > Wait a minute. When you say it's a toggle, I guess I'm a little confused. > what exactly is it you're toggling? The insertion being where you can type > or not? You toggle the insertion point between the beginning and the end. If you are at

Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
Guies, it's a done deal. God? b'l'l'lessid! do I feel smart right about now! Let me tell yall what I was doing! I know why what I typed wasn't working! Jesus! do I feel like an idiot! It's called, uh, Mark? Dawmer! Party, of one! Many? birds! Stupid dumb bunny me clicked on go! after I typ

Re: AbbyFine Express problem

2009-12-06 Thread Thomas McMahan
Kodak is also quite accessible as a scanner driver. Can just use it and Abby Fine Reader as well, however, I haven't tested it doing multiplepag scans yet, just single pages at a time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: AbbyFine Express problem

2009-12-06 Thread Scott Howell
Jake, Just wanted to get back to you and the list that the drivers included with SL for at least the HP Office Jet 7650 I have allows for scanning using Image Capture and having that image funneled to Read Iris or ABBYY and I imagine any other OCR software. So, for folks like myself using a net

Re: running mud clients in terminal?

2009-12-06 Thread Thomas McMahan
Another I see references to a lot for Mac OS X is Tintin ++. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionarie

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Esther
Hi Mark, Matt means that if you double tap in a text field that has content in it, you'll either hear "insertion point at start" or "insertion point at end". Double tapping in the same field again toggles the insertion point and VoiceOver message to the other setting -- if it's at "start"

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
Wait a minute. When you say it's a toggle, I guess I'm a little confused. what exactly is it you're toggling? The insertion being where you can type or not? Sorry, just slightly confused. Here's something else: If! I double tap on a field to put my insertion point there, then, will that! a

Re: installing a vm of windows without sighted help?

2009-12-06 Thread erik burggraaf
Well, I know that vmware fusion does automate the process for you. I did my own xp vm. If you are running a version that does not yet have windows 7 support directly, you can set it up as a vista vm. In that case you will have to interact with one of the dialogs during the instalation using s

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread Scott Howell
I actually have been using my iPhone for both entertainment and more importantly keeping track of my schedule, contacts, plan/follow routes, and much more. I would not consider the iPod Touch nor iPhone toys, but instead devices, which provide both productivity and entertainment functions. On D

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
You double tap in the area of the field you selected. This is a toggle. Matt Roberts Sent from my iPhone using VoiceOver On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:59 AM, "Mark Gilland" wrote: > ok, so how do I go to the end of the text field once I've double > tapped in > it? > > Chris. > > > ? ? t?? Te??

New macbook pro

2009-12-06 Thread Kaare Dehard
Hi folks, how does one switch videocards in the pro? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr..

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread joe quinn
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Re: running mud clients in terminal?

2009-12-06 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I will try it. I am trying to also get something working under windows 7 via vmware but that isnt working that well yet. Greetings, Anouk, On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:25 PM, KehzaFox wrote: > anouk radix wrote: >> Hello, I was wondering. I want to run a mudclient in terminal. But what kind >> of

Re: running mud clients in terminal?

2009-12-06 Thread KehzaFox
anouk radix wrote: > Hello, I was wondering. I want to run a mudclient in terminal. But what kind > of applications can be run that way? How must they be compiled? > Greetings, Anouk, > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread Kaare Dehard
Hi, I don't believe it is a toy. This of course is a subjective question. With my touch, I will have it download emails and I use it in my home with the wi-fi connection in places where I can get privacy and not disturbe the rest of the family. I can also hook it up to my electronic drums and pl

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread Lynn Schneider
Jes, I admit that I do a lot of fun things with my iPod Touch like listening to music and podcasts and playing word games, but I also do some serious things with it too. For instance, I can get my E-mail on the go, check my TV listings with the TV Guide app, keep to-do lists and grocery lists o

running mud clients in terminal?

2009-12-06 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I was wondering. I want to run a mudclient in terminal. But what kind of applications can be run that way? How must they be compiled? Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
ok, so how do I go to the end of the text field once I've double tapped in it? Chris. ? ? t?? Te?? 畫 sa?. - Original Message - From: "Scott Howell" To: Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch First the autocap or autocorrection

Re: about signatures in mail

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: > I've got 4 mail accounts in Mail. Y wrote 3 signatures in mail but I can't > use them in my mail accounts but I have to drag and drop the signatures to > the mail accounts in the configuration window of Mail. > > How can I do this using an a

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread william lomas
doesn't have the gps remember as well On 6 Dec 2009, at 12:38, Matt Roberts wrote: > The iPod Touch is not a toy. i use mine for e-mail, browsing the > web, keeping my calendar and address book, and playing music. The > iPod and iPhone3GS have the same functionality, accept the iPod > doe

Re: Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Roberts
The iPod Touch is not a toy. i use mine for e-mail, browsing the web, keeping my calendar and address book, and playing music. The iPod and iPhone3GS have the same functionality, accept the iPod doesn't have the phone. Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Jess wrote: >

Re: A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
The Apple "Speakable Items" feature for voice command and control have been around for about a million years and it's very well document on the Apple site as well as from other sources. cdh On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:08 AM, .dan. wrote: > > Someone asked: > > "I've looked with some curiosity at th

Is the IPod Touch just a toy, or what?

2009-12-06 Thread Jess
I'm just wondering, what are some real life things you can use the IPod Touch for? Or is it just a toy? What are the differences between the IPhone 3GS and the IPod Touch? Jes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Scott Howell
First the autocap or autocorrection being on/off will have no affect on password fields and only really makes a difference when typing. I actually find both useful, so try them both as well to see if it is helpful and yes it is a personal choice. VoiceOver will tell you if there is anything in t

Need some help with my new IPod touch

2009-12-06 Thread Mark Gilland
Yes guies, especially Mr. Babcock... I finally bit the bullet. I actually? diddit. I went yesterday to Best Buy with some left over money this month, and got me an IPod Touch 32GB. I love this thing, however, I'm having a slight issue. Mike Origo, if you're on this list, not sure if you are

Re: Time Machine confusion

2009-12-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Howard, On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > I want to restore one file -- just one file -- using Time Machine. (I > use a Time Capsule.) I launch Time Machine, get back to the date and > time I want -- and then don't know what to do to get to and select the > file I want. There

installing a vm of windows without sighted help?

2009-12-06 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I did install a version of win7 with sighted help in the past. But I want to do some experimenting and do some more installs. Can I do this wihtout sighted help because if I jus tload in the iso or cdrom I know it wont work. Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are

RE: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
What, sorry I've missed something here. Are you saying that NVDA will work on the mac platform? Simon F -Original Message- From: Nicolai Svendsen [mailto:chojiro1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:36 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bak on an Apple A

RE: LaTEX

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Word does actually have an equation editor in it that can be used. It may not be there by default, but you can add it into the install if need be. Check the menus for the equation editor and see how that goes. -Original Message- From: Ryan Mann [mailto:rmann0...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturda

Re: Whinings about Amadeus Pro:-)

2009-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I tried doing what you suggested below and nothing helped so i interacted with the scroll area and found that the track seemed to be collapsed, there was a disclosure triangle that was collapsed so i expanded that by clicking on the triangle and i could then use keys to play, rewind etc.

Re: Whinings about Amadeus Pro:-)

2009-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I don't have finereader as of yet so i'm afraid i can't do it. It would however be interesting to see what would happen if one ran the manual through Abbyy. As it is now if i want to see if i can get at the shortcuts, i'll have to go to my old pc and see if Adobe Acrobat reader can help me r

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
6 dec 2009 kl. 00.35 skrev Nicolai Svendsen: > NVDA is great, though it does not come installed by default Plus another thing, At least when i looked at it and i admit this was pretty long ago, Nvda worked only with the MS programs plus Firefox and maybe another application but try opening Peg