accessing files on the mac while running windows via booth camp?

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello all, I know that with programs such as vmware, one can easily access for example, ad occurrent saved on the mac while running windows, and the contrary. is there any way of doing such while using booth camp? i see no mac partition on the list, which is why i ask? also, is there a way of do

Re: need help with fusion error.

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello there, while i can not give you detailed impression as for my machine booth camp works best as i use an older odel, vm5 seemed to be much faster than 4 as well as provide support to windows 8, which i have not tested. I would be glad to hear more about vm5 as well. mauricio On Oct 4, 2012

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello harry, >From my experience (i have used vmware and switched to booth camp as my >machine doesn't do well with both as it's kind of old) you have to reinstall >windows yes. though there might be a way of installing booth camp using an image instead of an installation disc. if there is, unf

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi, that's good to know that it doesn't cost money. I don't regret using VMware Fusion, since times call for having both operating systems running at the same time, but it's nice to know that this alternative option is also available. if I have Windows already installed via a virtual machine,

preview now seems to open; never mind

2012-10-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Kindly disregard my earlier message about preview not opening. Used disk Utility to repair permitions and then restarted machine. Thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray -- You received this message because you ar

Re: accessible ID3 editor?

2012-10-05 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, You can actually edit the ID3 tags in iTunes itself. If you press command-I on a track or multiple tracks, it will bring up the info dialog where you can enter in the info for the track. On Oct 5, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Further to my iTunes questions, I am lookin

suddenly find I cannot open Preview

2012-10-05 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi, Just now went to open a PDF document in preview and found I cannot do it. Preview won't even launch from the applications folder. Any clues? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray -- You received this message becaus

Re: vo seems blazing fast since I removed an activity - is this normal?

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
i see. Given your experience i won't even bother to ask how you set it up haha. I hope your mac's back to normal. Mauricio On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > No, it's one I set up when I got tired of remembering to toggle quicknav on > and off all the time, but now I think I'd rath

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hi harry, booth camp does not cost money, except for what you pay for a legal copy of windows. I found it to be definitely worth it. Though i try to do it all on the mac, obviously, it is still good to have windows. it can come in handy. mauricio On Oct 4, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Phil Halton wrote:

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Phil Halton
Just installed bootcamp/windows7 today. Went smooth as warm milk through a puppy! I've installed Microsoft Security Essentials so far and now I'm all about learning the new quirks introduced in windows7 from windows XP - should take about a day or so I guess. Found some good win7 tutorial podc

accessible ID3 editor?

2012-10-05 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Further to my iTunes questions, I am looking for a good id3 editor. I know I can use Audacity or something like that, but I'd like to be able to select multiple files, or even whole folders, to change at once. Any suggestions? Thanks. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) meh

Re: vo seems blazing fast since I removed an activity - is this normal?

2012-10-05 Thread Alex Hall
No, it's one I set up when I got tired of remembering to toggle quicknav on and off all the time, but now I think I'd rather do that than keep dealing with this slowness all the time. On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Mauricio Almeida wrote: > hi alex, > > did this activity come as default? > if so

Re: vo seems blazing fast since I removed an activity - is this normal?

2012-10-05 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hi alex, did this activity come as default? if so, would you orient me as to how to disable it so that i can test this as well? On 10/5/12, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > As the subject says, I removed an activity and vo, and the mac in general, > seem much faster. The activity simply enabled qui

vo seems blazing fast since I removed an activity - is this normal?

2012-10-05 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, As the subject says, I removed an activity and vo, and the mac in general, seem much faster. The activity simply enabled quicknav in Safari, Chrome, the App Store, and anywhere else where html is common. However, switching into and out of any of these apps became very slow. I put up with

Re: Bind hot keys to speech services in OS X

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
that's good. I'm working on it. On 10/5/12, - wrote: > > http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57526792-263/bind-hot-keys-to-speech-services-in-os-x/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title > > > > XB > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group

Bind hot keys to speech services in OS X

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iSonicsAudio Conversion Question

2012-10-05 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I've recently learned about an application that allows audio conversion of several types of files. ISonics from www.osxbytes.com is a freeware program that is highly intuitive. However, after selecting the files I want to convert and pressing the "convert button" in the toolbar,

Re: IPhone 4

2012-10-05 Thread keith weatherly
thanks a buntch and yes i will be contacting you for help, lol!! - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:45 PM Subject: Re: IPhone 4 Hi Keith If you want to go

Re: IPhone 4

2012-10-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Keith If you want to go to the voiceover menu, the first thing you need to do is to find settings on your screen. To do that, there are several ways. You can flick one finger from left to right or from Mike to left. When you hear settings, double tap on the screen white voiceover says. Then y

Re: IPhone 4

2012-10-05 Thread keith weatherly
by the way my wife set it up for me so i don't know what all she did. She did turn voiceover on and that's pritty much it. Any help will be helpful. - Original Message - From: keith weatherly To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:24 PM Subject:

IPhone 4

2012-10-05 Thread keith weatherly
hello everybody, today i just got my first IPhone and i'm basicly just exploring it being i've never used one before. It's all new to me so i will have questions from time to time. One of my first questions is how do i turn voiceover volume up and how do i get to the voiceover menu? -- You rec

Re: system dialog but not there

2012-10-05 Thread John Panarese
With Skype and other apps, the system dialog is sometimes related to if you have Growl installed. So, if there is an event in Skype, such as a contact going on line or off line, you will get a growl notification that visually appears for a few seconds. At least, I've had it happen with a p

Re: system dialog but not there

2012-10-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well my eset cyber security always has a system dialog but that shows up in either the window chooser or the application chooser or both. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Oct 5, 2012,

Re: system dialog but not there

2012-10-05 Thread Brian Fischler
I get this problem at least twice a month and don't even really use skype. I think it might be some kind of alert about the battery dying in the keyboard or trackpad for bluetooth. The only way I can get the annoying announcement to go away is by restarting the computer. would love to hear if anyon

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Harry Hogue
Since I am not familiar with boot camp in the slightest, I couldn't venture a guess, so maybe someone else can offer an opinion. But yes, I'm sure that it would probably run faster. it would be a native Windows environment in that case, as a matter of fact. Harry On oct 5, 2012, at 7:16 a.m.

Re: what, exactly, will iTunes do to my music?

2012-10-05 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, so I can still sort by different crier, cool. I didn't know about iTunes scripts, thanks. On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Just for clarification, the key combination of cmd-option-right arrow skips > forward through your item and cmd-option-left arrow moves skips

Re: what, exactly, will iTunes do to my music?

2012-10-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Just for clarification, the key combination of cmd-option-right arrow skips forward through your item and cmd-option-left arrow moves skips back in smaller increments. You are correct in that you can't, though, change the playback rate in iTunes. There may be a script out there that would

Re: time capsule?

2012-10-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You still use the Airport Utility to manage either the Time Capsule and the Airport Extreme which is very accessible. Yes there is an app available from Apple called Airport Utility for the iPhone/iPad. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-05, at 5:41 AM, Kliphton wr

RE: mountain lion clean install still wants app store access

2012-10-05 Thread Daniel Miller
How did you create the drive? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 6:43 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: mountain lion clean install still wants app store acc

Re: Boot Camp and 10.8.2

2012-10-05 Thread Phil Halton
It just seems easier not to have to learn a whole new software package (I'm refering to VMWare) to run windows for now. I'm hoping that later, once I've become familiar with windows7 (I use XP), I'll be able to "import" my bootcamp into a VMWare virtual environment. Also, it's bound to run fas

Re: Hosting with Wordpress.orgq

2012-10-05 Thread David Eagle
Hi Alison, I use hostgator to host my website, which is £4.99 a month and offers unlimited space (apparently). I use Wordpress.org on my Mac and PC. I also use the Wordpress app on my IPhone. I don't use any podcast provider for my podcasts. I make the rss files in notepad on the PC. I then just us

Re: what, exactly, will iTunes do to my music?

2012-10-05 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. I guess I'm reluctant to give everything to iTunes completely because, sometimes, I'll play songs in vlc so I can more easily skip through them (iTunes does not include keyboard shortcuts for jumping around a file) and so I can, if necessary, change the key or

mountain lion clean install still wants app store access

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After having crated a usb installation stick for mountain lion, off of which I can boot just fine, I booted the mac book pro from the usb drive, turned on voiceover, wiped the macintosh hd partition using disk utility, and started the mac os10 mountain lion installer. A few very s

time capsule?

2012-10-05 Thread Kliphton
I currently use a router that is not as accessible as I'd like it to be, plus they put everything in a cloud based service. Is time capsule still accessible, if so, how much? And a lot of wireless routers out there these days has an app to manage your router from your phone, does time capsule hav

Re: Hosting with Wordpress.orgq

2012-10-05 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Allison, I use Wordpress on the Mac and I host the Tech Doctor podcast with a company called Blue Host. I have been with them for two or three years and like them a lot. If you think I can help further, feel free to email me off list. Robert Carter On Oct 5, 2012, at 4:15 AM, Allison Manz

RE: Hosting with Wordpress.orgq

2012-10-05 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, Thank you for your helpful replies. I do know about Marsedit and use it to edit my blog with google apps. But what I want to do with wordpress.org is a little more in the way of pages, and static text. I want to be able to upload audio, post a link to a video on youtube, or maybe use Vi