vmware fusion stopped working after 10.7.4 update

2012-05-10 Thread Dean Adams
HI All, I am having a problem with vmware fusion and my windows 7 ultimate virtual machine after updating to Max osx 10.7.4 all I get when I try to open the virtual machine is the following messages Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes Failed to initialize monitor device and Cannot find

Trekker Breeze On Sale

2012-05-10 Thread Les Kriegler
For anybody interested in the Trekker Breeze, Humanware just announced a $200 discount for US customers. Through June 30, the cost of the Breeze is $729. Humanware, (800)722-3393. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, that is right. You use your same Apple-ID to hook up with the cloud. On May 10, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Thanks for your responses. I have never used iCloud, but am I correct in > guessing that I would log in through my iPhone's settings and that the > password I use for b

Re: Olearia

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Holmes
Is there any documentation available for this app anywhere? The link to the user manual on the site is broken and the zip file only has an .app file. So how is one supposed to be able to use this thing? I'm not one who likes to install an app and have no clue where to go from there. That's lik

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Busboom
Thanks for your responses. I have never used iCloud, but am I correct in guessing that I would log in through my iPhone's settings and that the password I use for buying apps from the AppStore is the one I would use for the iCloud as well? Thank you and best regards, Mike On 10,May,2012, at

RE: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Frank Ventura
If you need to test try sending an iMessage to 781 492 4262, I know imessages are working on that line. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:53 PM To: macvisionaries@go

RE: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Frank Ventura
To get iMessages working again I had to enable it in settings as well as log into icloud. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Ring Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:29 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com S

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
ThAnk you very much GiGi as did not understand Esther's message fully. Kawal.a On 10 May 2012, at 04:37 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi there Kawal. > I haven't had it long, but apparently serious bird watchers can use it to > identify birds with and it has a fax option, I guess for people send

Re: Open Office 3.4.0 not usable

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Holmes
When I first heard that OpenOffice was really good with OS X, it was probably during the Snow Lepeard days; it was an older podcast so when I began hearing about all these breakages, I was most disppointed. I'm also somewhat dismayed that it has been over nine months and it's still broken. Mountai

Re: searching in iBird [was Re: iBird]

2012-05-10 Thread Robin Frost
Hey Esther thank you for the thorough lessons which you share so generously. You don't get paid enough for this job (smile). In your time with this app have you figured out how one easily adds a bird to favorites? thanks so much for all your sharing on this list. Robin From: Esther Sent: Thur

Re: searching in iBird [was Re: iBird]

2012-05-10 Thread Esther
Hi Gigi, I don't know how to get range information from the map display that shows up when you choose range. If you double tap the "Birdipedia" button at the bottom the screen for the detailed entry on a specific bird, there's a Wikipedia type description page that includes a verbal description

Re: Open Office 3.4.0 not usable

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Blouch
It's also unfortunate that this is a regression. It used to work pretty decent until OSX 10.7 and they are just now starting to get things working again. Not sure what happened to break everything since other apps didn't fall apart like this. CB On 5/10/12 3:31 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: That's

Re: searching in iBird [was Re: iBird]

2012-05-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Thanks Esther. It looks like on the pro version that when you choose range, there's a map there. I'll have to ask my sighted husband about that, although he showed interest in looking at the birds when I asked him. However, I'm going to Apple Corps of Dallas on Saturday, and I can get oi them to

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Busboom
There's a thought, Ricardo, though I am not optimistic. If that were a criterion, then other people's phones or iPads would need to be constantly transmitting this info to the network. Nevertheless, for the sake of thoroughness and since you are probably right :) I will ask them to check this

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Keep in mind, it might not be you. The person your sending messages to might have turned iMessages off. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 10, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have several friends

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-05-10 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
CV, Well, collecting data, I personally said yes to the bit that said, can Apple collect, xyz, data in diagnostic form… There is a wide range of things that it says this includes, and you can be pretty confident it includes accessibility data. its all anonymous anyway. Ultimately though, I hav

Re: Open Office 3.4.0 not usable

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Holmes
That's too bad too. When I'm on Linux using Orca, Libreoffice generally works pretty well. To me, LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the most powerful non Microsoft office products out there. iWorks is 3 years old and God knows if it is going to be updated or not and with OpenOffice inaccessibility,

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Alberto, Normally, I would agree with you, but, per your suggestion, I went into the settings and still did not find what I wanted. iMessaging is turned on. Nor did I didn't learn anything helpful when I clicked on the link that took me to the part of the manual that talked about the iM

RE: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread alberto arreola
If you go to settings and messaging you will find what you need there. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Ring Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:29 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Difficul

searching in iBird [was Re: iBird]

2012-05-10 Thread Esther
Hi Gigi and Christine, There's an extensive set of help instructions under the "help" button, but I'll try to summarize. The search button (second button of five on the bottom of the screen) brings you to a screen with different search categories as well as a search field where you can type in

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread chris hallsworth
The iOS device to which the message is being sent determines if it's going to be sent as a text or iMessage. If you have speak hints turned on, touch the send button and listen to the hint to find out what it is going to send as. What you may try however is to turn off iMessage, then turn it ba

Open Office 3.4.0 not usable

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Just found out about the new release so I downloaded and installed it. While some stuff in my word processing document could now be read, it was otherwise unusable. Text as I typed it was not announced and navigating a table was not functioning. In other words, Voiceover access is still not bac

Re: Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Ring
If any of you can answer this question I'll enjoy having that answer as well. I almost wondered if Apple got rid of that function. On May 10, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have several friends who use iPhones, and I would prefer to send them > iMessages as oppose

Difficulties on iPhone 4S sending iMessages as opposed to 3G text messages

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, I have several friends who use iPhones, and I would prefer to send them iMessages as opposed to text messages, for which I pay. The problem I am having is that for some reason, I am not able to send them iMessages. I have gone into the Contacts app, as well as the Messaging app

Re: How can I receive any messages that I post to this group so I know they go through?

2012-05-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! You can also make your own address book card and in one of the menus in address book is the option to make that card your card! And when you've got that set up you can then in mail pref's under composing you can set the option to automatically bcc myself then any message you send will

Re: How can I receive any messages that I post to this group so I know they go through?

2012-05-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Daniel, By default, Google doesn't send you copies of your own messages. I've found a way around this by going to the google mail site and creating a label and filter that puts all messages sent from me to various groups in those folders. HTH, Teresa "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan,

How can I receive any messages that I post to this group so I know they go through?

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, subject line explains it all. On other groups I'm on which are not google groups, how can I receive the messages that I post. For example when I get any messages on other groups I would get an email that says Daniel McGee date subject etc. This is how I know that the message went throug

Re: CD's question

2012-05-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, if you go to the sources table and go to the playlist you created, interact, then press VO shift M to bring up the context menu the option should be in there. There is more than likely another place to find the same option but, I never burn CDs so, I never really had reason to look for an

Re: CD's question

2012-05-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Sorry about that! Well I checked this! What you need to do is sit on the name of the playlist in the sources table then open vo+shift+m then in that menu is the option to burn to disc! hth Colin On 10 May 2012, at 16:53, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, I didn't see an option to burn to di

Re: CD's question

2012-05-10 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, I didn't see an option to burn to disk anywhere. On May 10, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi there! > OK you can make a playlist in Itunes then when you've got it the way you want > then arrow past the table of tracks and you should find a option to burn to > disc! > hth Colin > >

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
I found the place, but I couldn't figure out how to complete the search. One of the tabs oo there is search at the bottom of the iPhone screen. Then not the lefthand side of the screen is the various things you can search by, at least it's the lefthand side as best I remember. I found the option

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Kawal. I haven't had it long, but apparently serious bird watchers can use it to identify birds with and it has a fax option, I guess for people send in pictures. You can hear bird calls on it, and I was able to identify a couple I was wondering about. ,esther's post had a link for the

Re: CD's question

2012-05-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! OK you can make a playlist in Itunes then when you've got it the way you want then arrow past the table of tracks and you should find a option to burn to disc! hth Colin On 10 May 2012, at 16:14, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, how do I make a music cd on the mac that will play in a ster

CD's question

2012-05-10 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, how do I make a music cd on the mac that will play in a stereo or someones car? I tried following the burn instructions but the disk won't play in my stereo. Help please. Do I use iTunes somehow? Stacey and Chesley -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: anyone use Keynote?

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Are you running a two-screen setup? In other words, you have your presentor notes on your laptop screen and your regular slide are runnon on some external projector? If you have just one screen then it will only show your slide content. CB On 5/9/12 8:42 AM, Philippa Woodcraft wrote: hi. tha

Voiceover and Google Play Book Web reader

2012-05-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I've been trying to puzzle out Google Play for the web. Basically, the text in a Google book appears to have very strange large spaces. I've tried to press the "no justification" button with no effect. VO will not read it very well, either. It pauses between words. Has anyone had any

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Juan Pablo
Hello, If you like bird fieldguides, all of the audubon are accessible with VO. There are some other bird guides for europe, australia, brasil, all of them completely accessible. Best, Juan. Check my cd here: www.cdbaby.com/juanpabloculasso4 From: Christine Grassman Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
What is I bird please and for its purpose and is it for the Mac or I phone? Kawal. On 10 May 2012, at 01:23 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys. > After Esther put the information on about iBird, i got it and am having a lot > of fun with it. Here's my question, though, if anybody knows. If you

Re: iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Christine Grassman
I have a question as well. The information for the app stated you could search by bird sound -- but this implies there is a place in the app where one can browse bird sounds. I cannot find such a place. Any help is appreciated. Christine On May 10, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi

iBird

2012-05-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. After Esther put the information on about iBird, i got it and am having a lot of fun with it. Here's my question, though, if anybody knows. If you want to do a search for birds in Texas and Louisiana, how do you do it? I got the check boxes checked for both states, but I couldn't find