Re: iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Thank you all for your suggestions. Can the dictation be used in edit field of any app? Ya. Excluding the password fields. :) Sent from my iPhone On 09-May-2012, at 4:33 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Venkatesh > I have not noticed a significant battery problem from my iPhone 4 and when i > fo

RE: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread alberto arreola
Well in iTunes if you back up your apps everyday and you have an app that was updated today persay and you update it on the phone then backed it up to iTunes the old version of the app will be removed and replaced with the new one. The same thing goes for iCloud. -Original Message- From:

Re: opening or closing a series of apps at once?

2012-05-08 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Yes, I just used TextEdit; perhaps I should have saved it as a .txt file. I'll try that and a few adjustments in syntax; I really wish I had a manual of commands and structures I could look at for scripting. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burnin

Re: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread David Tanner
But, if I understand you correctly, that would not necessarily be the same if you were just backing up apps from your phone to your computer because they wouldn't be checked for release date there, but the would be if backing up to iCloud. Is that correct? - Original Message - From

Re: opening or closing a series of apps at once?

2012-05-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
How did you initially create the file as a textedit RTF? I'll get back to you. Best wishes, JOnathan Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On May 6, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Attached is the file I wrote. It opens in AppleScript Editor, which I'm not > sure what that m

Re: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread alberto arrreola
It will autimatically synces the newest app update when your phone backs up on icloud. Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2012, at 6:24 PM, David Tanner wrote: > It does seem like a reasonable idea. But, I have a question in that regard. > > Question: If you have backed up apps either on the comput

Re: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread David Tanner
It does seem like a reasonable idea. But, I have a question in that regard. Question: If you have backed up apps either on the computer or iCloud how do you know whethere there are multiple copies of an app or whether the version that is backed up is the most current update of the app that is

Re: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
I assume we are talking about iPhone apps? What seting would one change to stop backing them up? I found it useful to have them if an update should brake accessibility. It was comforting to find the old versions in trash. Thanks, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes

RE: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread alberto arreola
Most of my stuff is going to iCloud these days. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:42 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: backing up apps in itunes Hey everyon

Re: backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread Mac Egbert
Seems a good idea Egbert Verstuurd vanaf mijn IPhone Op 9 mei 2012 om 01:42 heeft Mike Arrigo het volgende geschreven: > Hey everyone, I'm wondering what everyone thinks of keeping their apps backed > up in itunes. Do most of you do this? The reason I ask is, since you can > redownload them

Re: Getting live regions on a web page to automatically speak?

2012-05-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Does chrome behave any better? JOn Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On May 8, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I went to reproduce the issue and ran into another one. For some reason I > can't get aria-atomic="false" working in Safari with Voiceover. I have a > container on a page l

Re: mail problems, anyone?

2012-05-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
IN your advanced mail settings, there is a pull down for Keep messages for offline viewing". changing this might help. Best wishes, Jonathan Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On May 8, 2012, at 7:43 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Kaitlyn, > > Yes, I have experienced exactly what you descr

Re: mail problems, anyone?

2012-05-08 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Kaitlyn, Yes, I have experienced exactly what you described, for the first time, yesterday. The funny thing is that this does not occur in Outlook 2007. Mark On May 8, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > Hi, > Is anyone else having problems with mail acting sluggish with gmail

backing up apps in itunes

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hey everyone, I'm wondering what everyone thinks of keeping their apps backed up in itunes. Do most of you do this? The reason I ask is, since you can redownload them if needed by going to the purchased tab in the app store, I've thought about deleting them from my computers and freeing up sever

Re: RSS reader that can handle podcasts.

2012-05-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Mail can handle podcasts, the podcast will be an attachment to the message. I generally use command-Y to listen. Best wishes, Jonathan Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On May 6, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Allison Mervis wrote: > Hi everyone. > Is there an accessible RSS reader that can handle both

Re: iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Venkatesh I have not noticed a significant battery problem from my iPhone 4 and when i fot 4S. You might want to get a portable battery charger you can carry around. That's at I did, but I seldom have to use it from within my purse. I think the dictation feature is pretty good, but then I a

iBird Explorer Pro and iBird United Kingdom & Ireland apps on sale for $0.99

2012-05-08 Thread Esther
Hi All, I know that some of you like and use birdsong apps. The iBird Explorer Pro app is currently on sale for $0.99 to celebrate iBird's 3-year anniversary. This is their premier app that normally costs $29.99 (although they've recently reduced the price to $14.99 before this sale). It list

Re: iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, honestly, at this point I would just hold off. The 4S has already been out for 7 months. In 5 months or less there will more than likely be a new iPhone for you to pick up instead. And if you don't want to do that, you can get a 4S at a cheaper price once the new iPhone is released. Ric

Re: iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi, I won't be able to answer all your questions as I don't use the iPhone 4S, but I can answer your first question. I was recently trying out Siri on a cousin's iPhone. And, frankly, I was a little disappointed. This was because of 2 main reasons: First, Siri has a hard time understanding the In

Lion DiskMaker makes it easier to create a bootable Lion installer

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Re: iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread chris hallsworth
1. I can't speak for Siri myself, but here in the UK I know it can't help you locate businesses for example restaurants. 2. I believe the text dictation feature works for all except password text fields for obvious reasons. 3. The camera on the 4s is 8 megapixel compared to the 3gs which is only

Re: anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-08 Thread Esther
Hi Philippa, Chris, and Others, I think the recommendation for presentations with Keynote is to export the presentation as a PDF file using the "Export…" option that can be selected from either the "File" menu or the "Share" menu on the Keynote menu bar, choose an output format of PDF, and then

Re: Curious trash/deleted mail issue.

2012-05-08 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Yep, go to your gmail account on the web and delet all your messages by hand, screen by agonizing screen. It's what I had to do, finally. things in my mail world still aren't acting as they used to, but are more normal then before. also, make sure you read that good article robert Carter sent

mail problems, anyone?

2012-05-08 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Is anyone else having problems with mail acting sluggish with gmail lately? For instance, I use the vo j command to read my messages, and I use the new view and lots of times lately, if there are several messages in a conversation, after I read the first message in the conversation, I hit d

iPhone 4S: is it really awesome?

2012-05-08 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi listers. I am currently using an iPhone 3Gs. I am considering to get a new 4S. I have a few questions. I am sorry for a long email. the 4S is an expensive purchase so I wish to be very sure before I decide. 1. I watched many videos of siri. from that, I learn it is really good in speech recogn

Re: Getting live regions on a web page to automatically speak?

2012-05-08 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It's a toggle switch. Turns monitoring on or off. HTH. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On May 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hi, > I have made a hot spot and set

Re: Getting live regions on a web page to automatically speak?

2012-05-08 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hi, I have made a hot spot and set it to monitor the activity taking place. This seems to be working. Only question I have is how do I stop the monitoring if I want too? Do I have to remove the hot spot? Thanks, Doug On 2012-05-07, at 11:55 PM, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Have you tried making a

Re: anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
Are you sure you have it turned on in the Presenter's Display? Showing them in the view menu doesn't mean they will be shown when you are presenting. Turn this on by going to Preferences (command-comma) and then find Presenter Display in the toolbar. Select that and then navigate to the list of

Re: Sysdiagnose Folder Keeps Opening Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks, Chris. No, I didn't type it at all, that I can tell. Mostly, I'm not even using the keyboard when it happens. Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/

Re: anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-08 Thread Philippa Woodcraft
hi. thanks, I tried this but no luck. more suggestions? On May 8, 2:50 pm, Chris Blouch wrote: > I found navigation while presenting to be buggy, at least with the usual > 'dual screen' setup. I did find that after starting the presentation > (command-option-p) that if I command-tab away from key

Re: Getting live regions on a web page to automatically speak?

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
I went to reproduce the issue and ran into another one. For some reason I can't get aria-atomic="false" working in Safari with Voiceover. I have a container on a page like this: and I stuff random numbers in there once every three seconds with a javascript method like this: function update

Re: Sysdiagnose Folder Keeps Opening Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
Never heard of this before. Apparently there is a sysdiagnose command in terminal which dumps a pile of system information into a set of files with the idea that you could send it to Apple to help resolve some issue. So this doesn't sound like something normally used, not to mention something t

Re: anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
I found navigation while presenting to be buggy, at least with the usual 'dual screen' setup. I did find that after starting the presentation (command-option-p) that if I command-tab away from keynote and then command-tab back again VO focus seems to clear up and I can then navigate all the but

anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-08 Thread Philippa Woodcraft
hi. just trying to use keynote to do a presentation. i've added some presenter notes but I can't find them with the VO curser when i play the slide show. anyone haveany ideas? i've chosen "show presenter notes" in the view menu but no difference. many thanks. Philippa -- You received this me

Re: ColorVisor, color identifier for iPhone

2012-05-08 Thread Lisette
Many thanks jan I look forward to it whenever this can happen Lisette Sent from my iPod On 8/05/2012, at 6:35 PM, Jan Blüher wrote: > Hallo Lisett, > > I am planing to make the ColorVisor available in more Stores and New Zealand > is also on the list. Please give me some time. I will let yo

Re: Sysdiagnose Folder Keeps Opening Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ricardo, It's been happening for quite a while, despite restarting the machine many times. I probably saw the first instance a few months ago. Now, I think it's happening more often, though. Teresa "Slow down; you'll get there faster." On May 8, 2012, at 12:20 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >

Re: Sysdiagnose Folder Keeps Opening Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ah! Have you tried restarting the machine? I know its a pretty obvious thing to do but, hey, I miss the obvious all the time. lol Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 8, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Ricardo, > > I

Correction: Re: Sysdiagnose File Keeps Being Highlighted Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
I should make a correction. It's a temp folder that opens, and various files with the name sysdiagnose (that is, for those not spelling it out, s-y-s-d-i-ay-g-n-o-s-e) along with a date. Thanks, Teresa I'm a pantheist; I worship Pan. On May 8, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Ric

Re: Sysdiagnose Folder Keeps Opening Spontaneously In Finder

2012-05-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ricardo, I haven't done anything yet, because I've had no bright ideas. Or other ideas, for that matter. :) Teresa "On the other hand, there are different fingers." On May 7, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > What have you done so far to try to get rid of this so people