Need help with finding links in mail message

2011-11-10 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Previously, I have been able to use the VO-command-l read next link command in mail messages to move from hyperlink to the next. Suddenly this has stopped working, and I can't figure out why. I have checked preferences, I have header info hidden, and I am using enter to open a message, which

RE: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Missy Hoppe
I must admit that I haven't tried the clean install of lion yet either, but every time I asked Apple tech support if they thought it would make any significant difference, they insisted that clean installs weren't necessary. I have a lion DVD made, though, so if I ever get really curious, I suppo

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Mike, You did a clean install, and I wonder if that had something to do with your luck. You put together a very nice podcast on doing that, and I believe I might try that over the weekend if I get a spare hour or so. If it doesn't work out, I always have my time machine backup. :) Friendly,

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Fair enough. :) Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > I use my Macbook for a number of work related tasks which I don't feel > comfortable entrusting to Lion. I don't have time to wor

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Ricardo, I use my Macbook for a number of work related tasks which I don't feel comfortable entrusting to Lion. I don't have time to worry about dealing with major bugs in either Safari or the main OS in general. If I did have the time, I would of course ferret out these bugs and report them.

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
I also have not had any major issues, as far as using it, actually it's exactly the same as snow leppard for me, I don't use any of the new IOS like features. On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > I am one of those politically incorrect people who haven't had a single > pro

Re: typing in password fields.

2011-11-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Jessica! I have this problem all the time! I can only suggest 2 things! 1, just type the password all the way even if you only hear a couple of clicks, you might find that the password has gone in! 2, If I've found that method does not work I've moved my mouse cursor to the field and do a mous

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Jessica
I'm currently using that as well, and not sure what I think about it. I'm not sure if it's unfamiliarity with the system itself, issues with the OS, or a little of both, but I've kind of been struggling with it. Perfect example, I just had a friend of mine help me make some changes to my e-mai

typing in password fields.

2011-11-10 Thread Jessica
I've been having issues when setting up several acounts on Ateum, where when I type the password into the fields, I don't hear the clicking sound I usually would when I would log into an acount somewhere else, so I have no idea if it took or not. So I've tried anything from typing them normall

Re: Problem with itunes on an XP machine

2011-11-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
It might be best to choose "import" from the ITunes file menu and bring the files in that way. It sounds like they are being moved via cut-and-paste, and this might cause problems. If this isn't the case, I apologize, but I hope importing into the library works well in this instance. HTH, Teres

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm not sure where the "Intelligence" factor arose in this thread and I apologize if my comments offended anyone. The gist of what I was trying to say is that if you prefer returning to SL for whatever reason, then all the power to you. It's your choice. With respect to moving back to SL

Problem with itunes on an XP machine

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Otten
I'm sending the below for a friend, who has put ITunes on an xp machine preparatory to getting an IPhone 4s and has encountered the following problem. I will forward any responses to my friend, and thanks in advance. Hi. I've installed the latest version of Itunes on a windows XP system with all

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I understand this line of thinking but, if you don't use it, don't you think you might be doing yourself a bit of a disservice? I mean, in that intervening time, you could have been sending Apple information about the bugs and unexplained behavior your having there for helping to improve t

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
I agree completely, I would also like to add, I think some on here might have short memories. lol. Lets go back in time to when SL was first released. I seem to recall people having similar complaints. I'm not saying the problems weren't real mind you, I'm just pointing out that many proble

Re: playing music clips outside of iTunes

2011-11-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I would go to Safari preferences and under general, unchecked Open “safe” files after downloading. This is why the clipse are playing in iTunes. With this off, you can just navigate to your downloads folder and press spacebar or command Y to listen without adding the track to iTunes. Or,

Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-10 Thread Doug Lee
Not sure if this is a MacOS problem, a SoX problem, or both. Tested on MacOS SnowLeopard (and Leopard I think, but I'm not sure of that) with SoX 14.3.2 as installed via MacPorts. Problem: I can block all sounds on MacOS by suspending a SoX play. Steps to reproduce: Verify that system sounds wo

playing music clips outside of iTunes

2011-11-10 Thread Traci
Hi all, What is your recommendation for playing music clips and samples outside of iTunes? It bugs me how when I'm sampling something on the web, then that audio clip makes an appearance in my iTunes library. Oy! I went googling on alternatives to iTunes and saw VLC and several others, just

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have know problems with Lion either and no problems with Safari. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 10 Nov 2011, at 09:40 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > I am one of those politically incorrect people who haven't had a single > problem with Lion. I installed it on day 1 and haven't looked bac

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I think i have a rather recent nightly build of webkit, but if i can't get an update from there, could you please remind me with my bad memory where to get the nightly build? /Krister 10 nov 2011 kl. 17:38 skrev John Panarese: >The nightly builds of Web Kit are more advanced than what S

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
As far as i can understand, and if i'm wrong here, please correct me, but isn't nightly builds of webkit code that is to come in Safari? If so it might be worth giving it a spin. I personally haven't had much busy problems, and i don't use the fancy rotor stuff much, if at all so can't comment o

Re: Deleting multiple emails

2011-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I realize i come very late into the thread, but how do you swipe to delete an email from any account in ios mail? This is the only app i don't use and actually think is clumcy because it doesn't fit my reading style, which goes like this: I look at a subject line and in 98 percent of the cas

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
The pop up windows check box is checked by default, and the boxes I refer to are not ads of any sort they are safari alert windows On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Cody, > > As a matter of interest, have you installed the Safari extension Adblock? > Also, in Safari pr

Re: Strange e-mailing problem

2011-11-10 Thread Jon Cohn
Did you get a solution? I found that if I composed the message on myMac, and then logged into GMAIL and went to drafts and sent from the web interface e-mails that were not getting to Verizon started working again. If ISP's keep this up, soon we will all be using Facebook which would be unfort

Re: Deleting multiple emails

2011-11-10 Thread Jon Cohn
First may I recomend that you reconfigure your mac GMAIl to use IMAP. Otherwise, when you delete from one system it may not delete from the other. Now on to the IOS issue... 1. By default GMAIL does not delete, but archives e-mails. I am not sure if this is important for you, but when you arch

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cody, As a matter of interest, have you installed the Safari extension Adblock? Also, in Safari preferences, under the Security tab, have you checked the check box "Block pop-up windows"? I find that these two things help to keep Safari stable. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread John Panarese
The nightly builds of Web Kit are more advanced than what Safari currently uses. Note, though, these are test builds, so it isn't a silver bullet solution. In other words, the nightly build might have problems of its own once in a while. However, these things tend to be fixed pretty quick

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
My experience suggests that it's a hit and miss proposition with Web Kit. Some times I use it and sometimes not. You will find that in some cases it will make a difference and in others not. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: baref

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
Thanks John for that info, greatly appreciated. I've not done much digging into why these bugs are presenting themselves, so that info is greatly appreciated, I'll keep it in mind. I haven't tried webkit because since it's basically the same thing as safari, would it really matter one way or ano

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread John Panarese
The reality is, Safari is a problem in Lion with VoiceOver. From the technical information I have read, this is more of a Safari issue than a VoiceOver issue. However, with that said, it seems these issues vary with person to person. A clean install is a good suggestion for sure. Al

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
I've performed a clean install as well as an upgrade, and both, on my macbook pro and this mac pro it is still occuring. I just want to keep the issue of bugs separate from someone not familiar with proper functionality of technology, and not blame or insult someone on this list, not specificall

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Cody, in some cases, to speak frankly, it is a matter of not being familiar with how to use Voice Over. Tim was not, I think, trying to insult you; and, nor am I. you're taking this rather too personally I fear. A practical suggestion, (and one which I myself might have to try soon) did you t

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
No, I disagree. There is no reason why voiceover should randomly decide to stop functioning properly in safari, which it has done, and continues to do for me, specifically, as said prior, about the web roter and quicknav, some windows, like the "do you wish to send the form again?" box will pop

Re: Braille translation programs

2011-11-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Louis is very good. http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis/ HTH, Teresa "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga On Nov 9, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > Hi once again, > I am wondering if anyone here might have an update on the situation with > braill

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I won't take sides here, as I don't believe that it is a "sides" issue. Levels of comfort and ease of adaptability to the changes in look and feel of Lion vary with individuals and they should do whatever they feel so that their experience remains positive. You may find, though, that you w

RE: Lion shortcut keys

2011-11-10 Thread Bill Holton
Thanks for this. It's the most comprehensive list I've come across. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Angel! Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:20 PM To: MacVisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Johnny Angel Subject: Lion shortcu

a funny fact about siri

2011-11-10 Thread Yuma Decaux
Now that i think about it, i might have heard daniel in a few key locations in london :) http://gizmodo.com/5858200/the-british-voice-of-siri-asked-to-keep-quiet-by-apple -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this grou

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
Hi chris, Lion for me is fine, but it does seem that the main issues are with safari. Mail was easy to configure back to the classic views and the way it used to be. Safari will lock up and I have not tried webkit but I'm afraid since webkit is safari's engine, that wk will not be much better.

RE: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Missy Hoppe
I agree with you a zillion percent. I still have lion installed on an external drive, so try it out from time to time and update it whenever possible, but for day to day use, I have no plans to ever abandon Snow Leopard. I'm not an expert using that by any means, but at least it works more reliab

RE: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Allison Mervis
I agree with you Cody. So many bugs are machine-specific. I don't think it's fair or correct for anyone to imply that the problems that many list members are experiencing is due to a lack of knowledge or unwillingness to learn. Allison -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Howell
Do write to APple; however, they are aware. I think folks do need to write regardless of how large or small the issue may seem and of course within reason. It is important that Apple knows users are interested in having such features and "we" are out here. There may be a valid reason for why thi

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, All this having been said, i'm surpriced that VO can't reach the status menu in other ways than described, i.e using the mouse or track pad to get to the menu, because the menu itself is accessible in that you actually can get into and manipulate the applications menus and given the fact tha

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Cody, Have you found that your experiences with Lion have been better or worse than your experiences with Snow Leopard. I have learned the ins and outs of SL pretty well, and I'm very comfortable with it. I began using it in November of 2009, and have only learned more in the intervening time

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I'm going to side with Crister on this one. The only thing I remember about Lion first coming out was that a number of us had to get used to the differences in the way mail worked. Once done, all seemed well. Even the issue of not being able to focus on the hidden menu bars can be resolved by

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Krister, You'll not be flamed by me. I just wrote of the experiences I've had with it. I was more than willing to learn how to use it, but it seemed as though things ran more slowly, safari was busy and then their were the other things I mentioned. You're quite lucky, and I'm glad your Lion e

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Cody
Lion works fine for me, but the only problem I've had, like with everyone else, is with safari, where the quicknav keys for the web roter, decide to stop working when going back in a session, where the up and down keys just announce the title of the page and stop doing anything useful. I am an a

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I am one of those politically incorrect people who haven't had a single problem with Lion. I installed it on day 1 and haven't looked back since. I will probably get flamed for saying this, but i think it has to do with learning. After all, Lion had several new features and several modificat

Latest Webkit Nightly and the "busy" message

2011-11-10 Thread Victor Tsaran
Hello all, Can you please check out the nightly snapshot of Webkit for the Mac? It seems that "busy" messages are gone. It could be that I am lucky but I could not get to "busy" on me for the last half-an-hour. Additionally, those of you who encounter "busy" messages often, can you please send