Re: recording for students

2010-10-28 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
I have a couple of friends that use the Zoom H2, which can record straight to MP3. The default I believe is wav files, but that's adjustable. You may need sighted assistance for the initial setting of preferences, but after that you should be good to go. A friend of mine has a document with the

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread David Taylor
Hi, yes, I agree with you. There are a lot of keys that they need to allocate. I wish they would just allocate as many sensible ones as possible and use the Keyboard Commander, and switch all commanders on by default! Cheers Dave On 29 Oct 2010, at 07:07, Sarah Alawami wrote: > yeah after a lo

Re: [Bulk] My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Welcome to not only the world of Macs, but, to this list also. This list was a great help to me when I first started using my Mac book pro 15 inch back on November 25th, 2009. That's a day I'll never forget. IF you're looking for a good noise reduction program, I'd like to suggest RX by Izo

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread heather kd5cbl
I know if you have a macbook, I think you can use f12 to turn the volume back up! But, I think I know what your saying, a button for muting and unmuting. My dell used to have a button that did this at the top of the laptop by the on button. Perhaps mac will consider this in the future. Heath

Re: recording for students

2010-10-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
You can use amadeus pro to do that, or an olympus that records to mp3 if you set it that way. you can then use amadeus pro to transition and stuff. Take care. S On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:09 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > Okay, there are so many choices so I am not sure what might be best! I want >

recording for students

2010-10-28 Thread heather kd5cbl
Okay, there are so many choices so I am not sure what might be best! I want to create an audio story of my family and be able to put it on my computer in MP3 format. So I can send it off to them. Which devices allow to record in mp3 format without having to convert the files? I have never re

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
yeah after a lot of frustrations I finily got it back on but they really need to have a mute and unmute key there not just the track pad or the other thing you mentioned as I could not get yoru suggesiton to work and I had to rely on some eyes. that were not any help. Take care. s On Oct 28, 2

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
For me that didn't work and i need to turn on speach. I'll probably have a set of eyes look at it to help me get speach back on. Take care. S On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:39 PM, David Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > I did vo-h-h and typed speech on and, guess what! It worked! So, either way > works! > >

Re: My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah good idea. and good luck on teh article writing. Take care. S On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Ruud Bemelmans wrote: > No podcast coming from this corner. I think the Mac-related ones out there > have things covered pretty well. At one point I may write a few articles in > Dutch about Mac a

Re: My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah welcome welcome! some of os on here have produced some mac podcasts as well. they can be found at http://blindcooltech.com, http://gwenna.podbean.com and http://marrie.podbean.com. All of them are well done and all take a different approach to learning the mac. Well I'm not one for longish

Re: My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
No podcast coming from this corner. I think the Mac-related ones out there have things covered pretty well. At one point I may write a few articles in Dutch about Mac and VoiceOver though, because it doesn't seem that popular here, which I think has more to do with people not being informed abo

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I did vo-h-h and typed speech on and, guess what! It worked! So, either way works! Cheers Dave On 29 Oct 2010, at 02:31, Barry Abbott wrote: > Hello Julie. I have had this problem where VO was muted and it did not matter > whether it was checked or unchecked in the VoiceOver utility panel

Re: My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: That was a very interesting description of getting acquainted with the Apple platform. I liked the way you found solutions around problems and used help from blind users and corporate staff to smooth the transition. Regards, Cheree Heppe - Original Message - From

Re: My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread heather kd5cbl
Well, judging by your post Ruud, I have a feeling that I will be hering a podcast soon! Wellcome to the mac family! Heather -- 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

My impressions so far...

2010-10-28 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
Before I'm going to give my impression of my MacBook Pro, the OS and of course VoiceOver gathered over almost two weeks, let me introduce myself. I know I've posted already to some topics, but I just haven't really said anything about myself and I figure it's time to rectify that. For those who

Re: Opening .rar files on the mac.

2010-10-28 Thread heather kd5cbl
Oh, the link for the unarchiver did not work! Heather -- 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+unsubsc

Re: Opening .rar files on the mac.

2010-10-28 Thread Hai Nguyen
Good evening, Rather than making you search cyberspace, here's a direct download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4918985/The Unarchiver.zip hth On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: > Hi, > search for the unarchiver in google, install it, and it will let you open any > number of diff

Re: Opening .rar files on the mac.

2010-10-28 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi, search for the unarchiver in google, install it, and it will let you open any number of different compressed files. hth, Rafaela El 28/10/2010, a las 21:50, Nektarios Mallas escribió: > Hello list. > In windows, I use winrar to open and manage rar compressed files. > Is there something simil

Opening .rar files on the mac.

2010-10-28 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello list. In windows, I use winrar to open and manage rar compressed files. Is there something similar that I can use on the mac? Thanks. Nektarios -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvis

Re: VO mute hot keys

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Abbott
Hello Julie. I have had this problem where VO was muted and it did not matter whether it was checked or unchecked in the VoiceOver utility panel. When I would bring up VoiceOver with "command+F5" it would say "VoiceOver on speech off." Well, it turned out that I had to turn it back on with my Tr

Re: MP3 Books on the iPod Touch and iTunes

2010-10-28 Thread Kimberly thurman
As always Ester, thank you for such a detailed and informative answer. It certainly puts me on the right track. :) On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Kimberly, > > Robert's correct that if you're having difficulty getting your mp3 files to > play in order, it's probably because o

Re: keynote

2010-10-28 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Thanks Greg, I will try that. Still, there must be some more accessible way to use keynote. When you move to a slide can you interact with it and read it with the arrow keys or do you have to vo arrow down? and can you access all the text? any other suggestions will also be appreciated, Rafaela E

Re: keynote

2010-10-28 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi, I have only started to work with keyote as well and you're right that it does seem complicated. To move from slide to slide I hit page up and page down. That moves you consecutively through the slides. Hittin home or end will take you to the first and last slide. There must be a way to jump

Re: Stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. I got stanza to work in a way. But I would say that it is totally inaccessible with braille. I get that problem again, that I can only read some of the text, braille only shows some of the text, and then simply stops showing text, it looks like the problem I have mentioned before with b

keynote

2010-10-28 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi folks, I was wandering if any of you uses keynote, and how accessible it is. Numbers and pages work great for me, but when I want to view a presentation (for example a power point one that someone has sent me) it is complicated. I first interact with the layout area and interact with the slid

Re: MP3 Books on the iPod Touch and iTunes

2010-10-28 Thread Esther
Hi Kimberly, Robert's correct that if you're having difficulty getting your mp3 files to play in order, it's probably because of missing tags. iTunes uses as a minimal set of tags the song name, artist, and album. If you have no tag information in your tracks, it will make the song nam

teamviewer

2010-10-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, is any one using teamviewer? I'm going to try it out here, but I was wondering, does the mac version allow you to connect to windows PC's, or do you need the windows client for that? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Moore
Anyone able to edit midi notes yet? On 28 Oct 2010, at 16:39, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yup, > > I have no problem zooming in and out to get the playhead where I want it. > Its how to select portions of tracks that's making me scratch my head. :) > > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Tw

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Joshua Loya
Well, for my part, it would be nice not to have to enter network keys in each device. Several of the networks I regularly use have fairly long passwords, and it would be nice to share that information between computers and devices. -Joshua On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Charlie Doremus wrote: > W

Re: dropbox

2010-10-28 Thread EWOUD
jep, running jaws, tells me when the item is finished. and via the systemtree you can see whats happening. Ewoud - Original Message - From: "louie" To: Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:20 PM Subject: dropbox Hi all, Is there any way to tell when a item is downloaded from your dro

dropbox

2010-10-28 Thread louie
Hi all, Is there any way to tell when a item is downloaded from your dropbox? Thanks for any info. louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroup

Re: Stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Esther
Hi Donna, Brett, and Others, I'll add to Brett's post of my earlier discussion of how to use Stanza, and cc this to the macvisionaries list. I think the issue that Paul and others have with using Stanza's iPhone app to read ePub books is getting past a cover image or title page. This is pr

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period

2010-10-28 Thread Scott Granados
It's not just rehab, welcome to dealing with the government. This is why spending money on governmental programs and taxation in general for the most part is an absolute waste. On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:15 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > Texas, there never in the office always in training and they get

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Is it a show stopper if we can't use flextime or the likes or if we can't edit in the piano roll? Can we edit what we record in other ways? /Krister 28 okt 2010 kl. 18.27 skrev Goldfinga Productions: > IDK if we can even do that yet. I just move regions around, and stuff to get > the desired sou

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Goldfinga Productions
you just select the region you want to delete by VO, shift, and spacing on the region you want, then you press delete. GF On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > As i understand it, you can use the zoom slider to zoom in so that the play > head moves in smaller increments, but

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Goldfinga Productions
IDK if we can even do that yet. I just move regions around, and stuff to get the desired sound I am looking for. GF On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yup, > > I have no problem zooming in and out to get the playhead where I want it. > Its how to select portions of track

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Scott Granados
It's not all that difficult. I don't believe there's a method to sync these settings. Just set them up by hand, it's not like you have to do it more than once.:) On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:15 AM, Chris G wrote: > because I don't feel like typing my information on multiple touch > devices. > Chris

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, I have no problem zooming in and out to get the playhead where I want it. Its how to select portions of tracks that's making me scratch my head. :) Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
As i understand it, you can use the zoom slider to zoom in so that the play head moves in smaller increments, but how you delete things, i'm not sure, because i haven't come that far yet. /Krister 28 okt 2010 kl. 14.18 skrev Ricardo Walker: > I was wondering if you guys no how to select parts of

Re: Bible Reader

2010-10-28 Thread Greg Aikens
The Bible app from youversion.com is free and very accessible. I really like it because it has tons of reading plans you can choose from and you can access it from a computer as ewll. Greg On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Paul Hunt wrote: > Hwello Martin. I don't know about Bible Reader. I can tel

BootCamp and Windows

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I use VM Fusion on my machine and run Windows and the mac together. However, my wife needs to upload data from her insulin pump and VM Fusion doesn't work well for her. I would like to install Windows using boot camp on her machine. I realize that we're going to need sighted assista

RE: Bible Software

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Joshua. Try www.biblegateway.com. It works on Windows and the mac. It has lots of versions and commentaries. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Loya Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:10 PM To: macvi

RE: Bible Reader

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Hunt
Hwello Martin. I don't know about Bible Reader. I can tell you that www.biblegateway.com is accessible and you have lots of versions in many different languages to choose from. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
I was wondering if you guys no how to select parts of a track? For example, I want to delete or mute the 3rd and 4th beats in the 16th bar of my drum track right before the hook. How would I select beat 3 and 4 in the 16th bar? TIA Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Moore
This is where I am stuck too, I just can't seem to edit notes in the editor or even see them. On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:33, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Has anyone figured out if it's possible to work with flextime and/or groove > matching as of yet? Another thing, can you use the editor? > q #3, i want

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
The SSID name and incription key. On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:48:34 -1000 Charlie Doremus wrote: > Excuse me for sounding stupid. What information are you referring to? We > might be having a failure to communicate. > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Chris G wrote: > > > because I don't feel

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Charlie Doremus
Excuse me for sounding stupid. What information are you referring to? We might be having a failure to communicate. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Chris G wrote: > because I don't feel like typing my information on multiple touch > devices. > Chris > > > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:47:37 -1000 >

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Has anyone figured out if it's possible to work with flextime and/or groove matching as of yet? Another thing, can you use the editor? q #3, i want to learn GB but no help is available, does anyone know if you can get help online somewhere? /Krister 28 okt 2010 kl. 12.19 skrev Ricardo Walker: >

Re: quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yeah it was quicker in the previous version. You could just type in the tempo you wanted. Now VO left/right arrow move the tempo in increments of 10. Then you can press VO shift left/right arrow to move by increments of 1 when you get close to the value you wanted. hth Ricardo Walker

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
because I don't feel like typing my information on multiple touch devices. Chris On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:47:37 -1000 Charlie Doremus wrote: > WHY? > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a program that will sync your wireless network settings from >

Re: network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Charlie Doremus
WHY? On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Chris G wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a program that will sync your wireless network settings from > the Mac to the iPhone and iPod touch? > > Thanks > Chris > > -- > Chris G > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

network setting on ipod and iphone

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
Hello, Is there a program that will sync your wireless network settings from the Mac to the iPhone and iPod touch? Thanks Chris -- Chris G -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...

quick garage band question

2010-10-28 Thread chad baker
Hi do you guys know how to change the tempo manually in garage band? all i see is a slider. thanks -- 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 g