RE: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Heather
Well, they were right about tiger woods extra marital affairs and john Edwards mistress as well as prince Charles marriage to Camilla. Not that they are the most reliable source of info. I won't believe it till cnn, bbc or a more reputable news service confirms it. Heather -Original Messa

Re: apple wireless keyboards

2011-02-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
I can say that about anything. I can't think of many electronics that like to be dropped. lol. Personally, I've dropped my Apple BT keyboard a few times. It works just fine. Its just a hunk of metal. I don't see why it wouldn't be as durable as other keyboards. JMO Ricardo Walker rwalker.

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Pete Nalda
I would never believe the inquirer Egun. On, Lagunak! (Basque for "G' day,Mates"), Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda Http://www.Facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:20 PM, "Heather" wrote: > Wow that is so sad! I wonder who wil

Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Reeves
Hey folks. An instructor in training here at the Louisiana Center for the Blind is from Kurgistan. She was curious if there were voices available for either Kurgish or Russian. I'm sure it's not available by default in the OS itself, but I know that their are folks who have purchased voices in s

Re: [Bulk] my Mac suddenly cannot see my time machine backup disk

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh man! hope you don't loose your backups you have already. Good luck! On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Seem to have solved issue but don't quite know how. I just physically > disconnected the disk and reconnected it. I'll do a complete format on it > then reset it as the ba

Re: [Bulk] my Mac suddenly cannot see my time machine backup disk

2011-02-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Seem to have solved issue but don't quite know how. I just physically disconnected the disk and reconnected it. I'll do a complete format on it then reset it as the backup. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On

my Mac suddenly cannot see my time machine backup disk

2011-02-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. This is too weird. I turn my Mac off for the day, then return home only to start it up again and find out that I cannot see my time machine backup disk. I seem to get stuck when trying to repair the disk or erase it. What in the world to do next? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Mary Otten
Abisee is offering a price break to k1000 users according to their website. It still means you pay close to a grand for the eyepal, and if you already own the K1000 and a scanner, putting out that kind of money for the convenience of using a camera rather than a scanner seems a bit much. But may

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread David Tanner
At this point you can't buy the camera separately. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" To: Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:09 AM Subject: Re: scanning and the mac Brian, Eye-pal is a scanning solution offered for sale by abisee, a company in Massachusetts. It was written

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread David Tanner
It is a Windows OCR product for blind that has been ported to the Mac. It is made by ABISEE Company http://www.abisee.com. And the process for getting the Apple version of the software is as follows at this time. 1. Purchase the Windows version of Eye-Pal from Abisee or a dealor of Abisee prod

RE: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Andy Baracco
Stephen at Kurzweil told me that you can't buy the camera separately, and you can't use it separately. The Eye-Pal software must be installed, as k1000 needs to access components of the Eye-Pal software, so if you are going to use K1000 with the Eye-Pal camera, you will need to purchase both pack

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
No offense, but I'd wait for another news source to jump on this before I draw any conclusions. I'm going to hold my comments till that time. Teresa On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Jes Smith wrote: > Hi al, > > So, what will happen to Apple's Accessibility team after Jobs is gone? Will > we lose

Re: Itunes beginner's questions.

2011-02-17 Thread David Tanner
Have you or anyone else her used Daisy Worm? If so, how do you import books into Daisy Worm? - Original Message - From: "Ricardo Walker" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:18 PM Subject: Re: Itunes beginner's questions. Hi, Importing content is very easy. Just press co

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread David Tanner
It certainly works, features are somewhat limited, it does not use VoiceOver, and is not setup like a standard Apple application. Instead it has been ported over to Apple using its' own speech and essentually the same keys as the Windows version. But, it is better than nothing. - Origi

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread David Tanner
You are right on, the only accessible OCR for Mac right now is Eye-Pal which has no where close to the features of Kurzweil1000. The best solution at this time is K11000 in Windows and with the latest Fusion you should be able to setup a hotkey so that you can actually launch K1000 while you ar

Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.7 Build 10J858 to Developers

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
No notes of what is going to be improved but safari and graphics they are testing. read more: http://bit.ly/gYcTOc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To uns

Re: apple wireless keyboards

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hope I changed the subject right lol! but I hear they are not very durable if they are dropped then you might have problems. S On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > I've seen it for $60 with free shipping from Amazon. > On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: >

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Scott Howell
Exactly Ricardo. I doubt very seriously they have any clue what his medical condition truly is. As far as what would happen, I doubt Apple would change course because they have to much invested at this point to just pull the plug. Not saying it couldn't happen, just unlikely. So, relax folks. Sc

Re: solona.net — tactile screen protectors

2011-02-17 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I've seen it for $60 with free shipping from Amazon. On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Brandon: > The keyboard sells for $69, with free shipping, I find it totally awesome. > It runs on 2 double a batteries, and makes the difference a lot of times > between my responding

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Colin M
It's ok I've traveled 7 weeks into the future and Jobs is still there! But you all know about the future don't you! I cannot believe you've already berried him! WOW Colin Qapla! Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak On 18 Feb 2011, at 00:24, Ricardo Walker wrote: > OMG! > > Its the National Enquirer peopl

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
I partly disagree here. He is definitely the center of the Apple universe. Nothing worth mentioning happens without his approval. You can't honestly say that doesn't count for a lot. Look at where apple was before he came back in the late 90s. Things weren't looking good. Ricardo Walker rw

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
I think vo will be fine I would not worrie about it if I were you. as for jobs, let's hope he makes a very pseedy recovery and can continu to make wonderful contributions for apple and apple products. S On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > I don't know about the rest of you, bht

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Lol, Right Buddy. I even go there before the NY Times and Wall street Journal for accurate and insightful reporting. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > I don't know about th

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirer

2011-02-17 Thread Eric Oyen
anyone who believes the inquirer needs to have their head examined. As for Job's Health, its not really relevant. he's already got some people in place to take over and run things after he is unable to. -Eric On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Jes Smith wrote: > Hi al, > > So, what will happen to

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Charlie Doremus
Ricardo is right, this story is pure B.S. Aloha, Charlie Our new book "YOU MIGHT BE A MORON" is on sale at www.giantdolphin.com click the off the bookshelf link On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > OMG! > > Its the National Enquirer people!! They write about Elvis sight

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Charlie Doremus
Steve Jobs is not the center of the Apple universe in spite of what people might think, he's just the CEO. VoiceOver is part of the os and it is doubtful that it will disappear if anything negative happens to Jobs, so relax. Aloha, Charlie Our new book "YOU MIGHT BE A MORON" is on sale a

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Steve Jobs might have had little or nothing to do with voiceover to begin with. He probably just said ok to it and thats it. Who knows? I would guess that voiceover would stay the course its been on since 2005. Steadily improving. After all, Apple gets boat loads of money from educational i

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Buddy Brannan
I don't know about the rest of you, bht the Enquirer is where I turn for fast-breaking and accurate news reporting. But anyway, I don't think Voiceover's going to do anything based on the health of the current cEO of Apple. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDD

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
OMG! Its the National Enquirer people!! They write about Elvis sightings and celebrities being abducted by aliens. Sigh. Why are we even pretending like this is real? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 17, 2011, at 7

RE: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Heather
Wow that is so sad! I wonder who will take over where he left off! Heather -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jes Smith Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Stev

Re: Terminal question, magicjack issue

2011-02-17 Thread Jim Barbour
No, there is no wrapping going on here. ls is saying there is a directory called .magicJack, and inside there is a file called ISA Softphone By default, when you pass a directory to ls, it lists everything inside the directory. Passing a -d flag to ls stops this behavior. ls -d .* will show yo

Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-17 Thread Jes Smith
Hi al, So, what will happen to Apple's Accessibility team after Jobs is gone? Will we lose access to voice over, or will it cease to be updated? What do you guys think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group,

Re: Terminal question, magicjack issue

2011-02-17 Thread Erik Heil
Hi. Normally, you can enclose directory names in quotes. Then, you can use tab completion. You may have to clean it up a bit (Zsh is much better with it's two completion modules). Sent from my iPad On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:52 PM, ".dan." wrote: > > I want to remove all magicjack software from t

moving items to the trash with cmd del does something odd.

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello I went to del something to the trash and I got this instead of the trash sound. This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action. I was on my desktop. this happened yesterday. how do I fix this? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: setting up bootcamp again

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Thanks. and sorry for hte stupid question. I have not done this in about a year. lol! On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Cameron wrote: > Yes. That is correct. It should launch automaticly. > > Cameron. > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mac

RE: setting up bootcamp again

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron
Yes. That is correct. It should launch automaticly. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:44 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: settin

Re: setting up bootcamp again

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ah that thing where in the end where I have to put in the us10 dvd after installing the os? right? Sorry if I'm being vague but it's been a while. On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Cameron wrote: > That didn't work for me either. You can install it from your OS X dvd > instead. So just skip that st

Re: mac and iPhone syncing over the air through google calendars

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
tha'ts what I'm thinkin. my notes folder quit about q week ago and I don't use mobile me at all. S On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:16 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > How long has this behavior been going on? Yesterday I was getting spurious > errors about the calendar not being found on the server. I thoug

Re: mac and iPhone syncing over the air through google calendars

2011-02-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
It's been happening for a week or so as far as I can tell. On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:16 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: How long has this behavior been going on? Yesterday I was getting spurious errors about the calendar not being found on the server. I thought nothing of it at the time since my updates

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Sorry about that I was in a rush and didn't make myself clear. The ABISee people have told me that a fully integrated mac software for the Eyepal is in development but they didn't give me a timeframe. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggra

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Eric' That sounds interesting. Is that a solution from abisee or is it another solution. Best regards Sendt fra min iPhone Den 17/02/2011 kl. 00.04 skrev erik burggraaf : > Yes this is true I've strongly discouraged this since I work for a fair few > deaf-blind, but I suspect it's a don

Terminal question, magicjack issue

2011-02-17 Thread .dan.
I want to remove all magicjack software from the hd. I found two places where a directory and included files were and removed them. When doing in my home directory: ls .* Note that is ls period plus star, to find hidden directories I get this two line response: .magicJack: ISA Softphone

Re: Itunes beginner's questions.

2011-02-17 Thread Phantom.Vader
Hey thanks everyone! The importation thing worked fine! It's funny, I thought I'd tried that before back when I first got my Mac and it didn't work right then. But it did now, so thanks hugely! Is there a way, though, to get it to import stuff straight to the folder I want it in, like, an audio

RE: setting up bootcamp again

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron
That didn't work for me either. You can install it from your OS X dvd instead. So just skip that step, choose the option that says you have already downloaded it or whatever it is. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

setting up bootcamp again

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello to all. I'm trying to set up my bootcamp installation all over again and I mean all over but I downloaded the bootcamp software like ti said and it said this after it was done downloading. To use the Windows support software, burn a copy to CD or DVD, or save the software to an external d

Re: Editor for Java

2011-02-17 Thread Pierre Heim
Hi Brandon, I use Xcode for programming but only as editor. For compiling and debugging I go to command line directly. Perhaps I can do this also within the Xcode IDE but I do this all day on a Linux box. So it is more simple to me this way :-) Pierre Am 17.02.2011 um 17:47 schrieb Brandon Ol

Re: Growl Interfering With Voiceover Speech

2011-02-17 Thread louie
I have the same thing happening. It happens so much that I wrote a apple script to turn on and off the voice over four times. I assigned a function key to run the apple script. I also e-maild apple accessible about the trouble. On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all.

Growl Interfering With Voiceover Speech

2011-02-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all.I notice sometimes that when I check the time or another application uses speech, VO goes silent until I restart it. Sometimes it'll come up if I toggle muting speech on and off a few times. Anyone else have this experience? Teresa -- You received this message because

Editor for Java

2011-02-17 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, What is a good java editor for Mac? I'm taking a computer science class where we are programming in Java, but Eclipse isn't working very well with Voiceover. What would you recommend as an alternative? Thanks, Brandon www.thefulleffect.org - Healing the Whole Person I help people to experie

Re: request for people in the UK using Voiceover

2011-02-17 Thread DJ Nezumi
hi guys thanks for your responses will join the mac access list tonight at some point. to stuart thanks for getting back in contact will contact you off list. for Kawal thanks for the skype address have added you. hope to be in touch soon generally free in the evenings and definitly at weekends. th

Re: solona.net — tactile screen protectors

2011-02-17 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi Carolyn, Thanks for that information. It says it requires either a Mac or an iPad, though. Does this work with the iPhone? Still, it's not very good for texting on the go, it seems. Thanks, Brandon www.thefulleffect.org - Healing the Whole Person I help people to experience healing on all le

Garage Band

2011-02-17 Thread Robert Hooper
I am glad to say that the use of Garage Band, although different than other programs with which I am used to working, is fairly simple. My question is in regards to track selection. If I only want to manipulate a few measures of a track, how would I do so? Let's say I wished to select measures 4

Re: Is there some way one can accidentally block a website?

2011-02-17 Thread Donna Goodin
I think we've got it. thanks Jonathan. Donna On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > There are quite a few things that could occur. > 1 general routing issues. The easiest way to check this is with > traceroute. This can be run from the terminal, but the network utility > in the utili

Re: solona.net — tactile screen protectors

2011-02-17 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Brandon: The keyboard sells for $69, with free shipping, I find it totally awesome. It runs on 2 double a batteries, and makes the difference a lot of times between my responding or not responding to a text.:) I found it on apple.com/storeHere's a brief snippet copied from the Apple store w

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Mary Otten
Brian, Eye-pal is a scanning solution offered for sale by abisee, a company in Massachusetts. It was written for Windows and ported to the Mac, but it is not vo-compatible at all; it is self voicing. It uses a camera rather than a flat-bed scanner for image acquisition, and it is now possible to

RE: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Andy Baracco
But you have to have both packages. Andy "I'm pretty good at drinkin beer." -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr. Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegrou

Re: mac and iPhone syncing over the air through google calendars

2011-02-17 Thread erik burggraaf
How long has this behavior been going on? Yesterday I was getting spurious errors about the calendar not being found on the server. I thought nothing of it at the time since my updates pushed through, but it may well be that there is some server problem at google. Best, Erik Burggraaf User s

RE: scanning and the mac

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Miller
What is iPal? Is it an apple off-the-shelf scanning software program? Or is it a Kurzweil product? Brian M -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr. Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:

Re: mac and iPhone syncing over the air through google calendars

2011-02-17 Thread Scott Howell
I have not had any issues lately, but you might check to see when the last time your Mac synced with MobileMe. I have not had this problem, so cannot offer a solution, but if there is a problem with syncing in general, you might find an indication on the Mac side. Scott On Feb 17, 2011, at

Re: mac and iPhone syncing over the air through google calendars

2011-02-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually the same thing is happening to my notes so it is not just you. I wonder if gmail is chanigng something again? S On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Hi all. > > I use to have this working perfectly. I'd enter an appointment on my mac and > it would appear on my iPho