Hi,
Yes, I prefer this too, but unfortunately, that does not work witht he mac.
Believe me, I wish it did.
For some reason, voice over does not allow to map those keys to this action.
Naama
On 11 Jul 2011, at 05:01, John Sanfilippo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure this will work with the mac as I h
Thanks to all of you. Looks like the oddly named one seems to be preferred.
Mike, I am listening to your podcasts. I can't tell you how much I appreciate
your doing them. I hope you do more as it really helps us new guys have
somewhere to start.
Thanks to all of you guys.
Sent from my iPhone
Thanks, Ricardo. I am at ACB this week. Can't wait to get home and back to my
Mac.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 7, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think syrinx is the easiest to use for a newby.
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker...@gmail.com
> Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296
The minimum processor on Apple's site here
http://www.apple.com/macosx/how-to-buy/ is an Intel Core 2 Duo. So I'd think
with an '09 you should be fine, as this one was purchased in late '08 I think,
and it has an intel Core 2 Duo. That said, I'm not sure I'll update to lion
just yet, as I have
hello list:
For those who are interested in the wonderful blog editor MarsEdit, I have
posted a keyboard reference at:
http://www.douglawlor.com/marsedit-keyboard-reference
I hope people find this helpful. I would be interested to know if people would
want to see more keyboard reference lists li
Hi,
I'm not sure this will work with the mac as I have not tried. but try pressing
the left most cursor routing button to go left and the right most button to
move right. I much prefer this to the hit or miss nature of the whiz wheels.
But if you ar3e happy with what you have and/or what I sugg
Mike, the goal was not to complicate anything. The initial goal was to just get
up and running with as few changes as possible. They did the install in the
middle of my work day, so I had to just plugin and go. As is things work for
the most part, but for IPV6 tunneling and I can live without th
Ben and all,
Thanks for the feedback, but as I stated in my previous message, I neglected to
mention I cannot put the SMC cable modem in bridge mode. THat would have been
my preferred method for sure. You got the idea though, but seems that what I
want to do would cost me more money. :) One thi
Well, you should be able to upgrade to Lion on your existing MBP,
maybe? I haven't bothered to check about the 09 ones, seeing as mine
was from last year and will work fine. Maybe just check the
requirements?
On 7/11/11, David Geiger wrote:
> have a question guys thinking about getting ipad2 vs.
Matt,
I neglected to mention that the only way to put the damned SMC cable modem into
(effectively) bridge mode is to pay an extra $15 a month for a single static
IP. I ain't gonna do that. I can't switch out the modem either on this type of
account and would not make sense to do so since as a
While I appreciate the work you are doing there Jonothan, I still
don't completely see the need for something that doesn't display
tweets as you read them, and focus on the blind comunity. I for one
refuse to use blindness apps for the most part, because it sort of
makes us look stupid. Its almost
My Skype five point latest doesn't have an actions menu. How odd.
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have a question guys thinking about getting ipad2 vs. mbpro with
lion i already have a mid 09 mbpro with sl got it in september of
09 do you think ios 5 will have more accessability features then
lion that will be cool cant make up my mind please help
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Not sure if you're using wireless, but my suggestion is, use the routing
features of the com cast modem itself. This would mean you would need to give
up the mac address control but if you turn off the ss id broadcast and have a
good password for your wifi network, you should be fine. No sense m
Hi Ray and Others,
As a follow-up to Scott's comments about using asr in Terminal, there's a nice
article on the mac-access web site that discusses SuperDuper!, Carbon Copy
Cloner, and also gives instructions on how to use asr in Terminal to backup via
bootable clone:
• How to copy (Backup), (C
Geoff,
I'd be interested in knowing why you connected an extra router to your
router as opposed to a switch? It seems overly complicated
considdering that a cheap unmanaged switch would have done the same
thing and probably would have given you gigabit.
On 11/07/2011, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
> S
Scott,
If I've understood you correctly, the comcast device is doing dhcp for
all of the computers on the network, but the computers are actually
connecting through the airport; you're wanting to make the comcast box
act just as a modem and nothing else because of the airports ip
reservation featu
Hi
I don't get radio through the Iplayer bit of the site, I go through
the individual radio station sites.
The radio player site didn't seem to be accessible when I tried it a
month or so ago, but they say they are aware of the problems.
Cheers
A
On Jul 10, 8:12 pm, David Eagle wrote:
> I can
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Scott Howell wrote:
Here is the situation. I recently switched to Comcast business class. I
was provided with a SMC Network cable modem. THis box is actually a
switch consisting of four ports. Currently I have my AirPort router
plugged into the SMC and thus I have a double
Hello Scott.
I've recently had issues of a similar nature. What I would like to do with my
network is to have the ISP box do what it was payed for to do and that is to
provide me with an internet connection and have the airport handle everything
else. I'm not a huge fan of devices with extra and
The only way to accomplish this. Keep in mind that although windows has this
feature, it uses space on the same drive windows is installed. So, if something
were to fail on the drive, you'd likely be up the crick without a paddle.
Time Machine is your friend and so are external drives.
On Jul 10
All,
Here is the situation. I recently switched to Comcast business class. I was
provided with a SMC Network cable modem. THis box is actually a switch
consisting of four ports. Currently I have my AirPort router plugged into the
SMC and thus I have a double nat situation. THe SMC is configured
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Anne Robertson wrote:
If the PM 40 works like the PM 20, you use one of the whiz wheels, the
right-hand one I think, to pan right or left.
Thanks to you cluing us in about being able to assign Braille display
commands, we went to check them out.
First, it seems that rig
Nope.
This is pretty much what time machine was created for.
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On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote:
> So is there a way to restore your mac to a earlier date without using time
> machine or
So is there a way to restore your mac to a earlier date without using time
machine or any other back up soft ware? Or is this the only way one can
accomplish this.
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Anne Robertson wrote:
If the PM 40 works like the PM 20, you use one of the whiz wheels, the
right-hand one I think, to pan right or left.
hmm. The right one does something odd, can't work out exactly what, but
keyboard help doesn't say what it is.
I hate this arrangem
Hello Geoff,
If the PM 40 works like the PM 20, you use one of the whiz wheels, the
right-hand one I think, to pan right or left. I hate this arrangement, so I've
changed the panning commands to be a press on the right whiz wheel to go right,
and on the left one to go left. You do this in Voice
I can't see how anyone can access the Iplayer since it relies on Flash
which seems to be undetectable by Voice-Over. I always use my windows
computer for the IPlayer. I contacted the bBC about this and their
email didn't suggest that they would be moving from Flash any time
soon although there are
Hi,
We've hit a little problem and figure someone here will know.
Naama is using her PACMate 40 display with VoiceOver and wants to scroll
the display so that she can see the righthand part of the line. But we
can't find a keystroke that will do this.
Does anyone know how this is done? It
Hi,
with boxcar for Mac, you can reply to mentions and DMs from anywhere. All you
need to do is assign a keyboard shortcut to bring it up in the boxcar app.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Ashley Cox wrot
Hello All;
Hope everyone is having a terrific day / evening wherever you may be!
I'm writing to let you know of an updated list policy we have, regarding one
line notes.
For those who may not be aware of this, On VIPhone and MacVisionaries, we
really encourage you all to put more into your not
yup,
The time stamp being hidden away in the drawer is my only major complaint about
Yorufukurou
Ricardo Walker
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Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:20 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Yorufukuru does what you ask as i understand.
> Th
Hi Ray!
So to get rid of all your history [forever and completely]
When in Skype open command+comma and go to the tool bar and interact!
Select the privacy button and in it's settings are how long to keep history
[and the one you want] delete history!
Skype help said it could take a little time to
Sounds logical to me, and your program would be unique for mac users, that's
for sure!
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:06 PM
To: Krister Ekstrom
Cc: macvi
Hello,
there's a problem to change the name... Twitter doesn't allow new twitter
clients because they think there are too many twitter clients now. Well, I
needed and argument to get the twitter authorization. I argued there was no
twitter client for blind users like qwitter in OSX... Well, Twi
Not necessarily. It might be a clever name if the application has no visual
component, for like what the developer said: if
you're tweeting at work and don't want anyone to see or something like that. To
me, it doesn't matter what it's called. If it
works, I'll try it. If I don't like it, I can a
One little piece of advise though. If you really, really want to have your
product used by blind and sighted alike, the name "blind tweet" maybe isn't the
best name in history. Everyone will assume that it's a client for blind people
only and we will have yet another reinvention of the wheel.
/K
Ah, that would explain why i got an error when trying to check for updates.
Well, if so, Nambu's out of the question.
/Krister
10 jul 2011 kl. 16.19 skrev Missy Hoppe:
> Hi! I thought Nambu was no longer being developed. That's one of the main
> reasons I didn't try using it; I simply assumed i
Hello
Blindtweet will have global keystrokes and it will run in background. I hope to
finish the first release version by the end of the summer
Regards
Jonathan Chacón
El 10/07/2011, a las 14:38, Ashley Cox escribió:
> Yes, agreed. Perhaps, if someone were to create the twitter applica
Hello Krister and every body,
I think the same of you but some friends of mine prefer a Twitter client in
background managed by keystrokes. This method of management is very easy for
many users and I think if I can develop it for my friends, why not to do it?
I think Blindtweet will be used by
They both are actually.
On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> I reckon, then, that it comes down to which is more accessible; Super Dupre
> or else CCC.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>
> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>
> Skype name:
> barefootedray
Hi Matthew!
Well I had the same problem!
However I noticed that if you set up the hotspot within the message field of
the mailbox in question you get that problem!
But if you set up in the mailbox list EG. inbox, Drafts, sent and so on!
They do work and then you'll have to go to message field from
I reckon, then, that it comes down to which is more accessible; Super Dupre or
else CCC.
Sincerely,
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On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Ra
Okay. To Mike. The history table, when it is interacted with, only shows
three unlabled items, none of which can be pressed. Also, there appears to be
no action menu at all. Now, when you interact with what used to be the source
list, you have only two tables. One is contacts, and the other
Ray I'm not sure if you are referring to specific utilities or what.
However, you can clone your drive using something like CCC or Superduper. There
is another option called asr, which is a program you would have to run from
within Terminal. I will leave asr to you for research. This is a utility
Hi Donna and anybody else who might be interested!
Well I've just got a track pad yesterday and was playing around with it when
[just by chance] in mail I was scrolling the header list like
subject,from,date, mailbox!
And without taking my finger off the track pad I pressed the control key and
s
Hi Soren,
I'm not sure if you'll be able to get these. but here are links for 2 animated
movies with descriptive audio. These are the only two I'm aware of currently in
the US iTunes store, but there might be others.
Toy Story 3:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/toy-story-3-with-descriptive/id3
So I was poking around my system trying to figure out why I lost 200 GB of
space on my hard disc, even though I know where it went, I just can't get it
back. Anyways, it said my mac hard disc is in Mac OS extended journal format.
Is that what it's suppose to be in, or did something get screwed
According to keyboard help, you are supposed to be able to hold down the the
control key and tap to jump to a linked item, such as moving from the messages
table in mail to the text.
I can get this to accknowledge this gesture in keyboard help, but for some
reason, I cannot get it to work in th
Hi.
I'm sorry if this is off-topic, but I'm disparately searching for ways to get
audio described movies in legal ways. Well, BBC won't let us outside the UK
stream their shows in legal ways, so I was thinking if there are any audio
described movies in the Itunes store if I had an american Itune
There is a setting in preferences to do this. Also, if you interact with the
table of the recent list, you can delete things by opening the actions menu,
the new skype seems to make heavy use of that.
On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> Say, anybody got any notion how to erase hist
Hi! I thought Nambu was no longer being developed. That's one of the main
reasons I didn't try using it; I simply assumed it
wouldn't be coded to handle Twitter's new authorization scheme. It sure sounds
like it was neat, though.
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hi,
Both Nambu and Yurofukuru, (how the heck do they spell that name?) provides
those features already. Nambu, in my oppinion has the best implementation of
the "write tweets from anywhere" type of feature, although it lacks other
features i want to see. Both apps have shortcuts for bringing up
Hi Esther,
thanks for this info. I knew that there are some gestures that are different
from or not present on the iPhone, so I'm sure I'll find the help section very
useful.
I'm really surprised that there isn't a way to open an email message using
the trackpad. that seems like a major o
hi brother.
thanks foryour information
very good.
regards.
From: Red.Falcon
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:27 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voice over keys..
Hi mário!
Sure the vo keys are at the left of the space bar!
>From very left to right
fn, control, option and co
Ok well it is not working. Did I do something rong? If I press vo 1 for
example, I am still in my gmail mail box or what ever mail box I was left in
before pressing the command.
Matthew
On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
> Yes, it should be as you say.
> On 8 Jul 2011, at
hi missy.
yes your help mi nice.
thanks.
From: Missy Hoppe
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:16 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: voice over keys..
The VO keys are control and option. Command is not considered one of the VO
keys. So, for example, to go into keyboard help mode,
Hi mário!
Sure the vo keys are at the left of the space bar!
>From very left to right
fn, control, option and command
The control and option keys are the vo [voiceover ] keys!
Each end of the space bar are command keys and to right of the right command
key is another option key!
hth Colin
If you
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Am noticing since today morning little distortion like two weeks ago or
more when I wrote about it and it was fixed, time to fix it again,
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The VO keys are control and option. Command is not considered one of the VO
keys. So, for example, to go into keyboard help
mode, you'd press control, option and the letter K.
Good luck, and hope that answers your question.
_
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@g
Ah ok, thanks for that information. I'll try again.
May and the famous Prince Noah
On 2011-07-10, at 8:57 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Just a quick addition to this. Through some really easy steps
> (tweeting, facebook, sharing, and so forth) you can get more space. My
> dropbox is at 3.25gb, and I s
hi folks.
somebody tell me Which are the keys vo and comand?
thanks.
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Just a quick addition to this. Through some really easy steps
(tweeting, facebook, sharing, and so forth) you can get more space. My
dropbox is at 3.25gb, and I still haven't paid anything for it.
It is true that uploading seems to take a while, and that can be
frustrating if you have a lot of info
Hi May, A couple of things to consider. The limit on a free dropbox account
is about 2 gb to start with, so you can't put more than that into your dropbox
at any given time.
Also, The dropbox has to upload your material to the server before it can show
the file sizes. Uploading 2 gig here tak
Yes, agreed. Perhaps, if someone were to create the twitter application
I describe below (how about calling it tweeter?), there could be a
keystroke that was global, that when pressed would pop up a dialog in
which you could compose a tweet.
I do find sometimes that the ability to read tweets fr
Very well said. The only thing I'd like to add is that the thing I like best
about qwitter is that it runs in the background;
you can just use it where-ever you are on the computer without having to
alt-tab to it first. So, if you're writing a
document, or playing a game for example, you can just
Yes I did, and then I restarted the mac. but it's still showing me the same
amount of space that I had before I deleted the vm machine
Sent from Minister Miller's IPhone
On Jul 10, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Normally you won't need to defrag the drive on OSX. Just to check the b
Am I mistaken or can one clone a drive via utilities?
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
Facebook:
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On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:53 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Your TIme Machine drive will backup any
Yorufukuru does what you ask as i understand.
The only thing i would want from Quitter is the ability to post tweets without
having to be in the main window. Nambu does that, sorta, and Yorufukuru
apparently also does this in a way although i don't really know how that works.
The one thing i wan
Your TIme Machine drive will backup any new content, which includes the new
Lion install. However, if you want to do things right and you have the space
available; I suggest you partition the drive and clone the internal drive. You
may then have to start over as far as backing up stuff via TIme
Kevin,
You will be fine with 2Gb of ram, but of course 4 would not hurt and might help
a bit; however, again, 2Gb will be fine.
You will only need the original discs etc. for any software you plan to
reinstall. If you are performing an upgrade, you will not need these items.
However, if you hav
I see what you're saying. The only reason I wanted to see a port of
qwitter was simply because it provides features that most of the other
twitter clients do not, or if they provide those features they are
either more hidden away or in the wrong place.
It would be great if someone would write
Flip4Mac did handle it; thanks. I just usually use Itunes for everything, one
of my students asked me about this.
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Hello Missy,
In Pages preferences, you can choose to have Pages always open with a specific
template.
To create your own template, you start with a blank document and set up all the
elements you want, then go to the File menu and select Save as Template.
You can even include place-holder text
Hi Krister,
I agree completely, for what it's worth. I switched to mac for this reason
among many others, and am not a fan of blindness-specific solutions, if they
can be avoided. I am personally quite happy with YoruFukurou as a very
powerful, and mainstream, Twitter client. I doubt the two
Hi,
Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this:
Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose
the Mac platform to get away from blind specific solutions and be more
standard, thus being able to more easily communicate with sight
Yes, it should be as you say.
On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:41, matthew Dyer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have set up hot spots for my mail programs to jump between the different
> mail boxes. How ever, in testing them, It only takes me to my gmail and I
> have 4 acccounts which I have hot spots seup for.
Thank you for the suggestion! I didn't even know that creating a new template
was possible! How would I go about setting it
up and if I did so, would it really be possible to make pages use it by default
from now on? Would love one that was just
plain text: no header, no footter and wordwrap enab
Hello Missy,
Have you thought of creating your own template with the font, margins,
hyphenation and any other preferences you always like to use? You could then
always open Pages with your own template.
Cheers,
Anne
On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Thanks for this! It's st
Thanks for this! It's strange, though that you can't set the hyphanation option
in preferences; the fact that you have to
change it fore each individual document is a teency bit annoying, but at least
now, I know it can be done. Maybe in a future
bersion of pages, they'll add some formatting stuf
Time Machine will serve as the backup you need; because, you see, it backs up
every single file on your drive. At least, that's what I believe.
Sincerely,
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Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
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