Re: reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, thats a pity that it doesnt work well with braille. I will have to see if I cant find a converter to convert epub to html instead. Greetings, Anouk,On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Anouk, > > Here's the link to download Adobe Digital Editions. I like it much better

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Thanks a great deal. I will try it. I basically need some kind of wizard interface which allows you to create a webpage even when you dont know html. Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear. > > There i

Amazon Subscribe and Save Weirdness

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
Ok, this is odd indeed. I am using Lion 7.1. when I go to amazon subscribe and save, I can't change or edit any of my orders. The links are there, but, when I attempt to click on change, edit billing and or shipping info etc. nothing happens. However, if I turn off VO, then, they work just

Re: question about saving attachments

2011-09-11 Thread Denise Barajas
thanks to you both, I'll try it On Sep 9, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Denise, > In the file menu in mail, you have save attachments. > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Denise Barajas wrote: > >> Hello all, I'm wondering how do you save attachments you get in the mail >> cli

Difficulty reading a pdf manual in the viewer

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, guys. I'm having difficulty figuring out how to read a pdf manual in the viewer. Particularly, I am trying to read the Amadeus manual. I can't figure out how to read it line by line like I would do in windows by pressing down arrow. I have tried interacting with the text, but it seems that V

Re: Unexpected behavior with iTunes and playing mp3 files

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. I didn't see any message from you earlier. Could you please send it again? I'd be interested in solving this problem. Thanks. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I disagree. If you use the method I outlined in an email I sent earlier > today, that is, with the Get Inf

Re: Unexpected behavior with iTunes and playing mp3 files

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I disagree. If you use the method I outlined in an email I sent earlier today, that is, with the Get Info window, your mp3s will always open with VLC if you choose that app. Works for me every time. Later... On 2011-09-11, at 7:48 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Hi. On further investigatio

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear. There is a program called sandvox sandbox but the b as in bravo has been changed to a v as in Victor. This program seems to allow some interesting HTNL editing, but I did not spend much time on it. You can download it for free, and

Re: Tax Program

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
I reviewed some of our taxes in Turbo Tax last year using VoiceOver. I did very little data entry, so I am not sure about how well that works, but TurboTax 2010 certainly was navigatable using VoiceOver, and our family will be using the 2011 version too, so I can report back on that in a few m

Re: xp on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
They might have been talking about boot camp, however, you can use fusion and it will run windows xp without problems, jaws should work fine with that. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > > someone told me that mac 2011 has trouble with runing xp. Can anyone confirm

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2011-09-11 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello List, I hope that you're lll having a fantastic weekend. I will be writing a paper on my Mac for the first time. I previously used Office to accomplish assgnments. I need you to please help me navigate through formatting my paper on pages. Some of my future papers will require the MLA f

Re: Ripping cps with Amadeus?

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. I don't want to copy tracks to a cd, but just rip them from the cd. Once I have the resulting mp3 files, I will probably transfer them to my book sense. I would use iTunes to do this, but it will then put the resulting mp3 files into my music library forcing me to search for and remove them.

Re: Unexpected behavior with iTunes and playing mp3 files

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. On further investigation, I have found that choosing other from open with and selecting vlc still only opens that particular file. If you open another mp3 file, it opens with iTunes. There doesn't appear to be a way on the mac to say only open mp3 files with vlc and no other app. On Sep 11,

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
I had some minor success wit but I had no desire to really create a website. Best wishes, Jonathan sandvox On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, Unfortunately i have no knowledge of html at all. I can upload stuff via > ftp if need be but dont know anything about programming.

Re: Ripping cps with Amadeus?

2011-09-11 Thread Tom Frank
Hi there again, I'm not sure if you can rip the track directly, but it's worth a try. Amadeus should be able to import the entire CD and then copy it to another CD. I'm sure there is a simpler program for doing this directly, but Amadeus will give you the option of saving individual traqcks, and

Re: Unexpected behavior with iTunes and playing mp3 files

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks. At least that way, when I open an p3, vlc will open it instead. That should keep it out of my iTunes library. Odd; because the windows version of iTunes doesn't do this. On Sep 10, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Paul, > > If you want VLC or any other program to open an m

Re: Ripping cps with Amadeus?

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks. Can Amadeus rip tracks from a cd and create mp3 files? I'm concerned about doing this with iTunes as every time I open an mp3 with iTunes, it thinks it should add it to my music library so that I then have to go in and remove them. Very odd since I never saw this behavior in windows. If A

Re: VO reading message list?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
Some Snow Leopard folks actually deleted all the fields in the messages table and then re-added them in order they wanted. Tables including this one have a column header that a sighted person can see, and that VO's trackpad commander can access if you go to the top of the column with a single f

Re: This has brought up library questions

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
OK. Information in /System/Library is only supposed to be Apple items. Items in /Library/ are items available to all users of the computer. Items in /Users/myUserName/Library are generally only available to myUserName If the computer is only being used by the owner, then there is no real dif

xp on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, someone told me that mac 2011 has trouble with runing xp. Can anyone confirm this? Should I try to get windows 7? Does jaws 11 work at all with windows 7? Thanks for your thoughts! Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. -- You r

Re: changing default file asosciation

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Kilburn
The only way I've seen that happen is when you start VLC for the first time, and VLC would then ask if you want it to be your default media player. If you could find the VLC plist file, remove it and then restart VLC so it would ask you again. Later... On 2011-09-11, at 3:14 PM, Anouk Radix w

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Watson
Tracey, Yep, all you do is copy that line into the Apple Script editor and then do a command r to run it. Once you see it is working you then save it off to a file and point the Voice Over keyboard commander at the file and away you go. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Traci wrote: > I am en

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Watson
Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. . Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it bec

Re: reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Anouk, Here's the link to download Adobe Digital Editions. I like it much better than Stanza and it works for Kobo books. It's not so good with Braille, however. The upside is, you can copy each page into a TextEdit document by using the "Copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard" comm

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
Works just fine here, thanks to the person who posted the whole thing on Dashboard, I used to hate it, now that it's configured differently, I like it vary much. On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hey Keith, > > Thanks for the tip on the lynx app, it made me explore every comma

Re: quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
With finder, try command-~ On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, I know you can do this in the window chooser or application chooser > but is there also a command like command tab in windows to quickly switch > from one to another iwndow in one application? I cant seem to op

Re: problems macfuse +ntfs3g

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
Yes, the free version worked under SL, but, not under Lion yet. I think, they will eventually get around to upgrading it, but, you know, it's something for nothing, it will happen when it happens. Besides, the free version caused some weird problems when using Lion, so, now, at least, if I hav

Re: creating extended journal encrypted partition on ntfs drive

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
Even if you by the commercial driver, I am fairly sure that you can resize an NTFS partition with the built in drive utility, after all, this is a mac! You might be able to do it with a third party program, I am not sure about that. On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > /Hi, unfor

Re: NTFS in Lion

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
I am assuming your using the free version? if so, to my knowledge, there isn't an update for Lion. However, the paid version does have an update and it seems to be working perfectly. You can download a 15 day trial at: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ if you have the paid v

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Yuma Decaux
It's just different schools of thought. Some mac users don't want to learn the terminal nor scripting as it is quite a complicated albeit powerful tool, while those who do have a comprehensive set of skills in unix and have delved into appplescript can actually find their ways into making their

Re: changing default file asosciation

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, Thanks a lot for htat informaiton. Is there a way to do this for all the file formats that are capable of being played with vlc at once? Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > To change the file association, do the following: > > 1. Select the file

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yeah, That works. The problem with this method is, you can only select what is in the voiceover cursor. It can get tedious jumping from spot to spot copying and pasting. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Cody wr

Re: creating extended journal encrypted partition on ntfs drive

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
/Hi, unfortunately I downloaded 800gig of data for that drive beforeI got my mac. I want to save that and dont have any other disk to do it on, so I either buy the commercial ntfs driver, or get a program that can shrink an ntfs partition. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Dan Roy

Re: Changing the sort of email messages in Snow Leopard

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Hunt
Thanks so much. This works in Snow Leopard. On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I don't believe this will work in Lion if using the standard Mail view. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 10, 2011, a

Re: Facebook Issues

2011-09-11 Thread David Eagle
Thank you, apparently this photos system has been in place since summer 2010. Even sighted people are struggling with it because they might have friends they added just for gaming purposes, so they don't know what they look like. Also apparently the photos could be of anything. There just taken fro

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-11 Thread Cody
Yup baically in short you can use vo plus enter to begin selection and use the arrow keys and then press vo plus enter again to stop selection and press control c On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've come up with a fairly easy way to select text on webpages us

Re: creating extended journal encrypted partition on ntfs drive

2011-09-11 Thread Dan Roy
Nope, you can't resize an NTF partition. However, if you don't have anything of value on that drive yet, you can create 2 partitions, 1 being NTFS and the other being Journal if you wish too! Yes, you will loose any data on that drive, but, you will only have to do it once. On Sep 11, 2011,

Re: changing default file asosciation

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, To change the file association, do the following: 1. Select the file with the associated file extension such as mp3. 2. Press cmd-i for Get Info. 3. Navigate to the Open With section.. 4. Select VLC from the Applications pop-up. 5. Press the Change All button. 6. Close the Get Info wind

changing default file asosciation

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I would like to open as many files as possible with vlc, is it possible to set htis somewhere? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegr

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Eric Oyen
I find that rather interesting. now why would the general public (and business professionals) get the impression that mozilla was the most accessible web browser for any OS? sure it works well with windoweeyes and jaws in the windows platform. it also works mostly with orca in linux. it does not

Tax Program

2011-09-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Guys. I am planning for next year's taxes. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but those pdf files the IRS puts up under those accessible tax forms don't seem to be working so well with Preview. I have several on my computer. Does anyone I'm going to have a somewhat complicated return this year

Re: Java Script message boxes cause VoiceOver to say "busy"

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Hadder
Same problem here. I've emailed Apple about it, but the more the merrier. On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Ryan Mann wrote: > Hello. I've noticed that since I upgraded to Lion, VoiceOver doesn't seem to > like message boxes that are on some web sites. Java Script is used to create > these messa

grade 2 Braille files

2011-09-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ok, Teresa. I don't understand something. If the iPod also doesn't have a computer braille option, how are you able to read grade 2 files on your braille display without translating them? Since I'm a braille proofreader, translating grade 2 files is not workable for what I'm doing. A little co

Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi folks, I've come up with a fairly easy way to select text on webpages using Lion. I haven't tried it but, I think the same method will also work on snow leopard. You can listen to me show how to do this at http://goo.gl/EY1eP hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalke

RE: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Sarah May
I agree. The audio captcha's are so garbled that you can hardly understand them. If the people who write the software for them think that doing that is making them accessible they are dead wrong. Sarah -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@goog

Message order in e-mail

2011-09-11 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Hi, I asked this question a while ago but I have forgotten the answer and the computer reversed the order after I fixed it so here goes again. I need to reverse the date order in my e-mail messages so that it goes from oldest to newest. Sorry for my forgetfulness. Thanks again. Jenny and her

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Traci
I am enjoying this thread. I agree that the weather widget isn't always up front in dash board. For me, it might be the translation app. Keith, if I use your second method with curl, is it that simple. I copy and paste that code into script edit, and while still in script edit, I hit comman

Re: quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Great, thanks that is one very useful command. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:22 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Sure, it's command and the accent key. The accent key is located above the > tab on the north american keyboard which I suspect is one reason why they > chose it. It might be i

Re: adium

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, A friend told me that there is a new prerelease version of adium that is a lot more accessible where groups are concerned then the current one and htat it also leaves out the empty stuff you get before each contact. Can someone tell me how I can get my hands on adium prerelease versions? Than

Re: reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi Anne I thought stanza was not accessible on the mac or is this only applicable where protected content is concerned. In that case its still a better shot to try adobe digital. Thanks I will haveo lok for it, is there a link to the preview verison on the adobe page or do you have a direct link

Re: Java Script message boxes cause VoiceOver to say "busy"

2011-09-11 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi Ryan. The same problem here and also with the interface for my readynas wich also uses these boxes to alert for differnt things. latest webkit solved it for me with the readynas. Regards Tony Med vänlig hälsning Tony Bernedal tony.berne...@gmail.com Blogg samt tips och trix om it, datorer och

Re: Question about Safari and reader

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Chao
Safari reader has worked for me on all websites, where it should work, without any fail at all. If you are able to provide specific websites/URL's of where Safari reader is failing, this would allow list members to confirm/deny if reader is working, report it as a Safari bug, and/or suggest any wor

Re: Java Script message boxes cause VoiceOver to say "busy"

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Chao
This is not a OS X Lion or Voiceover issue, but one specific to Safari 5.1. JavaScript pop-up hangs/busies have been fixed for a while in Webkit (engine Safari is based on and is updated constantly with new features and bug fixes). Most of these updates end up getting rolled into a later version o

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Esther
Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in S

Java Script message boxes cause VoiceOver to say "busy"

2011-09-11 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. I've noticed that since I upgraded to Lion, VoiceOver doesn't seem to like message boxes that are on some web sites. Java Script is used to create these message boxes. To see what I am talking about, open http://www.webteacher.com/javascript/ch01.html. Type something into the form.

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
The only downside to Lightning is that it's webkit-based as well. It's pretty darn fast, though. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: > hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and > lightening kind regards trahern > > -- > You received this message b

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Then there's always playing with scripts when you have a bit of time on your hands. That's basically what I was doing. I wanted to get the mac ports anyhow. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and > interact,

Re: adium

2011-09-11 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have never gotten Growl to announce the contents of messages in Skype as they come in; all I can coax from the events pane is an announcement of status changes or message arrivals. However, Growl WILL speak the contents of messages for Adium, and I prefer to use this app for texts and Skype f

Re: quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread RvR
It is located left to the letter z Anouk. Ronald Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 11 sep. 2011 om 16:22 heeft erik burggraaf het volgende geschreven: > Sure, it's command and the accent key. The accent key is located above the > tab on the north american keyboard which I suspect is one reason

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Did you test this for accessibility? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: > hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread trahern culver
hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and lightening kind regards trahern -- 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 unsubscribe from this g

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Watson
All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means contin

Re: reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Anouk, You can use either Stanza or Adobe Digital Editions (the new preview version) to read unprotected epub on the Mac. Adobe Digital Editions will also read some protected files, too. I've managed to read a book from Kobo with it. Cheers, Anne On 11 Sep 2011, at 16:04, Anouk Radix wr

Re: quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread erik burggraaf
Sure, it's command and the accent key. The accent key is located above the tab on the north american keyboard which I suspect is one reason why they chose it. It might be in a different location on your keyboard. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. M

Re: quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread james walton
Yes Use command accent On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, I know you can do this in the window chooser or application chooser > but is there also a command like command tab in windows to quickly switch > from one to another iwndow in one application? I cant seem to open

quickly going from window to window in one app?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I know you can do this in the window chooser or application chooser but is there also a command like command tab in windows to quickly switch from one to another iwndow in one application? I cant seem to open two finder windows so that i can switch between them with alt tab. Greetings, An

reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, is it possible to read unprotected epubs on the mac with vo? I know there is a plugin for firefox but dont think that one is there for safari. If you cant read them natively is it possible to convert them to html or text format? I think i found a site a while back that could convert mobi to t

Re: nzbdrop was:news reading on the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, Well, I hear on twitter from some friends that sabnzbd works too and that there is a universal binary for mac so I guess I will try that first, its free so no risks involved. I will post how it turns out. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > I have no idea, bu

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Howell
Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Donna Goodin
True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points >

Re: nzbdrop was:news reading on the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Howell
I have no idea, but would imagine if you can get a refund for an iOS app, that would apply to apps for the Mac. All you can do is try. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > nzbdrop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Howell
What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other

Re: navigating the vo getting started guide with webrotor

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi there thanks for the extended explenation. Sorry to have been unclear. I meant that i was already in the desired chapter and wanted to move to a specefic heading within that chapter, for some reason it did not bring me there through the webrotor but i will try it again alter today if i can ge

Re: creating extended journal encrypted partition on ntfs drive

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, well now that you mention it, i will try looking in disk utility again. But i realized that my external disk has 1 partition on it that spans the whole disk and is ntfs. I suppose i cant just shrink that partition and create a new one, because disk utility does not support ntfs natively. Is

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, Unfortunately i have no knowledge of html at all. I can upload stuff via ftp if need be but dont know anything about programming. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > Do you have any HTML and CSS knowledge, or you need something that is sort of > a ready te

Re: talking about accessible games

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi hmmm on my computer the chess app is in the applications folder and mine came preinstalled with lion so it should be there. I did hear that there are a few accessible chess apps for the iphone, you might want to ask this on the viphone mailing list for blind iphone users, its the sister goog

Re: accessible games and lion?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I am totally bliend but am happy to have refound spatterlight. I will have to check later today if it still works in lion. I remember from 2 years ago that the authors email address was broken even then though. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi Anou

Re: nzbdrop was:news reading on the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, hmm I might have to try nzbdrop then, is there a chance i can get back my money if it turns out to not be accessible? There is also sabnzbd of course but nzbdrop seems interesting Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > The last time I tried Unison it was worse

Re: opening directory in vlc

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hey, thanks i tried the advanced file open dialog and that didnt work, i will try this, would be great to use vlc again, didnt really like it on windows but works great on the mac. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:15 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > It's the standard command O. This will bri

Re: torrents and the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I have no big problem with torrentz.com but bit che on the mac would be great, native cocoa! It isnt actively developed anymore and the developers are not interested in porting so torrentz.com it is. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Cody wrote: > I use UTorrent as well and I d

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Watson
Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is. Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond memories. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > You k

changing default download location wasRe: torrents and the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, Well for some reason i cant change the default download location for torrents with utorrent. I have small hd in my mac and would like to save my downloads on my external drive. It is an ntfs drive but i htought it would work now that i have the correct drivers installed. But when i go to

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Donna Goodin
That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > You know what, > > For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the tempe

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Watson
Johnathan, Tried curl. Unfortunately the dump is not plain text as in lynx. It more resembles xml than anything else. I am not far enough into learning Apple Script to be able to handle parsing text strings yet, so chose this method. Attempted to use python to do it, but it wanted to open a ter

Re: adium

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, Well, I guess you know you have to install growl first? Google for growl mac and you will find it. It will install and you will be able to configure it through system preferences. It will allow announcements by a lot of applications to be spoken by alex. For me i installed growl first and the

adium

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
Hi everyone, I have done research online and I have heard in a podcast that adium can read out loud the answer someone writes. But all I managed to do was to make vo read, "attention! so and so talks to you" every time i get an answer, but I don't care about that. I actually find it annoying.

Re: NTFS in Lion

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, Yes I came across this seem situation as well when i wanted to use my external 1.5 tb disk with lion. The folks that have made ntfs-3g also have on their site a commercial ntfs driver that works well with lion and has a 14 day free trial. After that it will cost 25 euro though, about 30 doll

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Yes it is indeed sad, i love it on windows and apparently it is great on linux as well. Safari works better for me then 1.5 years ago but i still get a lot of sluggishness busy/ready stuff. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > the sad part is that loads of progr

Re: nzbdrop was:news reading on the mac

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Howell
The last time I tried Unison it was worse than ever. I have given up hope it will ever be truly accessible. I was a part of the beta for a while, but despite my input I was told they would look at it later. Well later has resulted in less accessibility. So, I cannot recommend Unison at all. Sco

Re: Facebook Issues

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
I'll report that for you. And let you know if I hear any thing back. Rm On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:16 AM, David Eagle wrote: > I am unable to use Facebook since they mysteriously locked me out of > my account and then asked me to prove that I was myself by identifying > photos of my friends so as to un

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
Do you have any HTML and CSS knowledge, or you need something that is sort of a ready template to work with? On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, > I would like to make a simple website soon with some text, links and possibly > some video and autio material. > Are there any

Re: Facebook Issues

2011-09-11 Thread David Eagle
I am unable to use Facebook since they mysteriously locked me out of my account and then asked me to prove that I was myself by identifying photos of my friends so as to unlock my account. I can't see the photos nor do I know what my friends look like. I cannot find a way to contact Facebook, so I

making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I would like to make a simple website soon with some text, links and possibly some video and autio material. Are there any accessible html editors or other website building suites that work with lion and voiceover? thanks, greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are su

NTFS in Lion

2011-09-11 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, since Lion I'm not able to connect my external HD to my Computer. It is formatted in NTFS. Unfortunately I'm forced to use NTFS on this HD because on my work we use exclusively Windows XP. So I know Express FAT works fine for Mac and Win7. But we don't use Win 7 on my work place. So I have

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
the sad part is that loads of programers think firefox is the most accessible browser out there. They get shocked to find it does not work on the mac. I recall a programer at my work insisted that I should use mozilla. Only after he tried using it with vo by him self, was when the message got

Re: accessible games and lion?

2011-09-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Anouk. Have you tried the RS Games client. The RS Games client is free and contains games like Monopoly, Uno, Blackjack, Yatzee, 1000 Miles and Battleship. Unfortunately Monopoly and Yatzee don't work in Lion yet and I don't know if they ever will. I sent an email to them asking when they'll

talking about accessible games

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
talking about games, does any one know where is the chess in lion, don't seem to find it on my apps any more. Please, don't tell me it went away? I hope it is just a fluke of my computer! And anybody know of an accessible chess game for the iphone? I have not seen one yet. Thanks, RM -- You re

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
Chris, Have you used opera? I installed, but could not make it read pages, I can read the bar and stuff, but not page content, do you think I might be missing some information? Also, I have the webkit installed, and safari keeps on crashing in several pages I need to view when hovering over a c

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
there is a way to use solona. But you are right, often there are no operators. I don't know of any other way. Rachel. On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Cody wrote: > I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not > accessible. Fortunately many sites have the audio captcha but th

Re: Looking for a good task reminder program

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
sorry, about that. this is a bummer, since it was very handy. I am already missing it. I will be in the look out for something for my self, so if I find I'll send it your way. Rachel. On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Nothing in file for a to do list. Looks like they remove

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