Mountain Lion is going to be released today, the 25th

2012-07-24 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi all. This is not a rumour. Just saw this on Twitter from Macrumours. So, get ready for a big big mail storm. :) Have an awesome day. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Looking for a good stereo bluetooth headset.

2012-07-24 Thread Allison Mervis
Hi everyone. The subject basically says it all. I'm looking for a stereo bluetooth headset that I can pair with my iPhone and possibly my MBP as well. I want something that's really easy to pair and disconnect. I have a nice Sony one here, but the blasted thing has so many modes, pairing is a bi

Fonts in Pages and TEmplates with placeholder text in Pages and Numbers

2012-07-24 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi, everyone, I am in the process of exploring Pages and getting ready for my internship, so I want to be comfortable changing fonts in Pages as needed. I am trying now to change to Times New Roman. I type some text and select it, although this is probably not even necessary, and I then press

brailliant b 80 Bluetooth help needed

2012-07-24 Thread Mike
All, I have the brailliant b 80 take and I am trying to get it paired with my iphone. I am having issues though. I can't get the display to even show up on the list of bluetooth devices. I have gone through the menu on the display but can't figure out how to get it in pairing mode or if I even n

Re: problems connecting bluetooth display to mba (10.7.4), help needed pls!

2012-07-24 Thread William Windels
Yes, i have written the voiceover pane but i mean the voiceover utility program of course :) There is the button disabled...kind regards Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 24-jul.-2012 om 22:33 heeft Kawal Gucukoglu het volgende geschreven: > Hello William. > > Have you trie

Re: About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Disk utility can also burn CDs from an ISO. I think it can burn DVDs as well but I've never tried it. So for unencrypted disks you could use disk utility to make an ISO of your source and then burn one or more copies from the ISO. CB On 7/24/12 12:08 PM, Daniela Rubio wrote: Thank you very mu

Re: problems connecting bluetooth display to mba (10.7.4), help needed pls!

2012-07-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello William. Have you tried going into the voice over utility menu by pressing VO f8? In there there is the braille category and it's there where you add your braille device via bluetooth or USB. Kawal. On 24 Jul 2012, at 20:31, William Windels wrote: > Hello all, > it seems not that easy/l

problems connecting bluetooth display to mba (10.7.4), help needed pls!

2012-07-24 Thread William Windels
Hello all, it seems not that easy/logic to add my braille star with bluetooth on my macbook air. The button to add a braille display is disabled in the voiceover pane. one remark: there is already a bluetooth display in the list of authorized bluetooth displays but that display is not active now

Re: No sound?

2012-07-24 Thread BlindMacMan
Hello... I am happy you resolved your problem with the VO sound... I must say something, however, about the very first solution which was recommended to you: Do a clean install of your OS. In my 24 years of using a Mac, I have *NEVER* had to reinstall the OS. I admit that I might be very, very

Re: About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Blouch
DVDs have a very specific arrangement of the files and folders along with what the config files contain. This is all contained is a large spec called the "Blue Book". Suffice it to say that there is a lot more to creating a DVD than just copying video files onto DVD media. The best route is to

Re: About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Daniela Rubio
Is there a way in which I can create DVDs on the mac that I can play in any DVD player? The thing is that if I convert the file to avi and make a dVD with it, it won't play in avery DVD. Any ideas? Thanks! Saludos, Daniela Rubio Trujillo Macneticos, Apple y Accesibilidad a tu alcance.  Distingu

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

2012-07-24 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi list: I have installed Windows 8 prerelease in a VM. First, I used a Windows 7 VM. I ran the Windows 8 DVD install program and chose a clean install. After a while, it rebooted and I could use Narrator to finish. I had some trouble with the Caps Lock key, but, I will try to figure out a wor

Re: About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Daniela Rubio
Thank you very much for your help. DVD Diamont does that, it virtualizes DVD images, that is what we wanted. In fact, I don't use it very much, my friend is who was asking. the hint of disc utility to create iso images is something I also did not know, thanks! Saludos, Daniela Rubio Trujillo M

Re: Go to page...

2012-07-24 Thread Candie Stiles
Press vo I to open the item chooser. This will present all the info on the screen in one long list. Then begin typing the numbers of the page you're looking for. As you type each number, the list will be narrowed down to include only the characters you typed. On Jul 24, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Harry H

Re: About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm not familiar with DVD Diamond. What does it do? You can already mount ISO images just by opening them. Should appear as another drive on your desktop. You can create ISO images from unencrypted volumes using the Apple Disk Utility. If you are trying to make a video_ts folder from an encrypt

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Johnny, here is the direct homepage for Bean. http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html I will now try to describe how you download and install it. Note two things. Once you understand how to install an app on the Mac, then it will apply to most apps that you want to use. With the exception of somet

Re: No sound?

2012-07-24 Thread Krysti .Power
Back up all data first and no if you do a back up your safe On 2012-07-23 2:26 PM, "Will Cummings" wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, Krysti. Is that my only self-help option? If > so, that kinda bites - by doing that I would lose my license of Windows 7 > that's currently running in VM Fusion

Re: No sound?

2012-07-24 Thread Will Cummings
Hi, I have no idea what happened, but messing with the VO settings did the trick. Even setting everything back to where it was when I first opened the settings (with no sound), I can now get the speech to come through the speakers. I love my tech stuff, but there are plenty of times when it c

Re: audio editors for Ipad

2012-07-24 Thread andre carioca
Ok Esther. Thank you. 2012/7/23, Esther : > Hello Andre, > > Two accessible multi-track, audio editors that you could use on the iPad are > Hokusai and Gigdaddy. In both instances VoiceOver users worked with the > developers on the accessibility of the interface. You can find out more > about th

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

2012-07-24 Thread William Windels
Hello Johnny, The right link is: Download Bean If the link is not responding, try to save the source of the link with the save as option. Hope this helps, kind regards, William Windels Op 24-jul.-2012, om 08:17 heeft Johnny Angel! het volgende geschreven: > Hi! > > Well I too went to rosie's p

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stacey, You can find a lot of standard shortcuts in System Preferences in the Keyboard pane. You can also create your own shortcuts for commands that don't already have one. Cheers, Anne On 24 Jul 2012, at 13:15, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Control f3 has worked great. > Is there a place

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Stacey Robinson
Control f3 has worked great. Is there a place where I can find a list of these? On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > I have learnt them from people on the list. Has control+f3 shortcut worked > for you? I understand this combination and similar like this, for instance, > contro

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
I have learnt them from people on the list. Has control+f3 shortcut worked for you? I understand this combination and similar like this, for instance, control+f8 to go to the menu bar where you have battery charge level, bluetooth status, wifi status, etc are not voiceover specific but general s

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Stacey Robinson
No, where can I find a list of these alternative keys. On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? > > Best wishes > > Simon > On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:59, Stacey Robinson wrote: > >> Hi, >> I've pared my apple blueto

Re: mail question

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
I will describe to you what I do to achieve this on macbook air. Whilst in a mailbox, interact with the list of messages. Then press fn+vo+shift+left arrow to go to the first row of the table of messages and fn+vo+right arrow to go to the last row in the table of messages. hope this helps. Sim

Re: braille translation for mac?

2012-07-24 Thread Don Breda
DBT for the Madc was discontinued many years ago but there is a new version in the works that is coming along very nicely now. It will be accessible with voiceover however that is a very tuff project and a big one. Voiceover works great if you code from start to finish for the mac but if you

mail question

2012-07-24 Thread Luke Henson
Hey guys Does anyone know why command up arrow doesn't lead you to first message on the list and if there's a way to jump from the first message to the last message inside your inbox thanks Luke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisio

Re: Go to page...

2012-07-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Harry, Would you please be so kind as to give me a step by step instruction on how to use the search feature in pages? I tried with cmd+F and was unsuccessful. Then I read that you could use VO+F, but that didn't work for me either. Thanks in advance for your help, Johnny On Jul 24, 2012,

Re: Go to page...

2012-07-24 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, The easiest way is to simply do a search for the tex you're looking for -- usually a few words does the trick. Note that Within there is a limit on how many words/characters are are able to type into the search box, for some reason. The other way is to stop interacting until you hear i

Go to page...

2012-07-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi folks, Working on a textbook for school. I need to get to a certain page number around two-thirds the way through a book of aproximately 290 pages. What's the VO command in Pages to do this? Thanks, Johnny Not of this world, I am born of The forty-second generation A new, powerful race,

About DVD virtualization and format converter

2012-07-24 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello all: I am trying to look for apps with these 2 quests. An app like DVD diamond, to mount and virtualize iso images. The other, to convert amount audio an video formats. If somebody can help, I will appreciate it very much. Saludos, Daniela Rubio Trujillo Macneticos, Apple y Accesibilidad

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? Best wishes Simon On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:59, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, > I've pared my apple bluetooth keyboard with my macbook. > I can't get some commands to work though such as moving to the doc. What > could I be doing