to the person creating application shortcuts:

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Alex, that help was brilliant! With the Save Attachments… I had tried using three dots, but of course it didn't work. Option semicolon is a great little trick. And the VO-Shift-C (another keystroke I wasn't really aware of) worked a charm for syncing my iPhone in iTunes. I think the pro

Re: Is there a hosts file

2012-10-17 Thread Agent086b
Thanks, I wish to ad some sites that I don't wish anybody using this computer going to. I don't know anything about Unix, but I recon I will work it out by seeing what is already written.I could this in Windows with no problems. How do I unhide files on the Mac? I do understand the risks, so am c

VIP question

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I suppose three things happen. First, Mail creates a smart mailbox which contains messages from your VIPs. As I understand it, these messages will still go to the mailbox they would ordinarily go to, but a copy is also kept in the VIPs mailbox. Second, this smart mailbox is added to your favouri

Re: Is there a Way to Convert WMA's Into A Format that iTunes can use?

2012-10-17 Thread Timothy Clark Music
yep, that works. looks like it works for video as well. nice tip. thanks for that one. never knew that. web site http://www.timothyclarkmusic.wordpress.com phone number should you need to reach me 724-401-1224 check my site for more contact information. thanks and may the good lord keep

Re: Bluetooth Headsets and VoiceOver

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Mimms
I have experienced the same frustrating and disappointing circumstances. On 10/15/2012 11:17 PM, Timothy Hornik wrote: I am trying to set up a bluetooth headset, LG Tone, on a Mac Mini with 10.8.2. My goal is to use the headset for VoiceOver, and an audio system for playing the various sounds l

Re: Is there a Way to Convert WMA's Into A Format that iTunes can use?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi. I am not sure if this will do it. but if you go to the files and select them. I saw an option under finder and services that said convert and i could confer thte files to mp3. On Oct 17, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi guys. Last night I downloaded a bunch of songs from a torre

Is there a Way to Convert WMA's Into A Format that iTunes can use?

2012-10-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi guys. Last night I downloaded a bunch of songs from a torrent site. Unfortunately, they're all in WMA format. Is there an app that I can use to convert the songs into MP3 format or some way I can play them on Itunes? Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you

Re: Hard Disk Utility Manager

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Blouch
One thing I've found useful when trying to figure out where all my disk space went is to turn on "Calculate All Sizes" which is a checkbox in the View Options which is in the View menu. It takes a while but it will populate the Size column in list view with totals of space used for every folder

Re: Hard Disk Space Consolidation

2012-10-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I may have missed the first messages in this thread so forgive me if I'm lost. Yes, you do appear to have a mostly full HD. Is there some reason why you believe that the usage calculation is a problem? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-17, at 7:09 PM, Emilio Herna

Re: Best braille display

2012-10-17 Thread David Tanner
At this time I can't think of any displays that small that do not have a Braille Perkins style keyboard on them. - Original Message - From: "Emrah" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:45 PM Subject: Best braille display Hi folks, What is your recommendation for a braille displa

Re: Is there a hosts file

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Blouch
If you know what you want to do in the hosts file, and I suspect that just asking the question you may be in that category, form terminal you can do sudo open /private/etc/hosts which will open up you hosts file in textedit ready to be mangled or improved as you like. Note that /etc/hosts is

Re: Help with Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

2012-10-17 Thread Esther
Hi Nic, I just tried to set up your keyboard shortcut to save attachments with Command-Option-Shift-A in Mail, and everything worked correctly. On the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab of the "Keyboard" pane of System Preferences I selected "Application Shortcuts" in the table of preferences. Then I navi

Re: Hard Disk Space Consolidation

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Blouch
You can just get info on the drive to find out used and free space. How you weed out junk files and stuff is a bit more tedious. CB On 10/17/12 9:09 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Hello everyone, I have reviewed my hard disk and all the files in my home directory are within normal size perammit

Hard Disk Space Consolidation

2012-10-17 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I have reviewed my hard disk and all the files in my home directory are within normal size perammitors for my 1TB of disk space. I ran the disk permissions and repair function, which indicated that the repairs were completed successfully, but truthfully, I was not sure what to l

Re: Is there a hosts file

2012-10-17 Thread Esther
Hi Max, There is a /etc/hosts file on the Mac, which follows the standard unix convention for its location. It's a hidden file, which means that your system won't show you this in Finder unless you actually know where the location is, or else if you issue commands to turn hiding off. You probably

Re: to the person creating application shortcuts:

2012-10-17 Thread Esther
Hi Harry, The keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis character varies according to your input language keyboard. For Spanish and German, the combination is Option+period. For US, UK, and French input keyboards, the combination is Option+semi-colon. For the Canadian French input keyboard, it is Opti

[Maccessibility] Next Live Stream of the Maccessibility Round Table on 18/October

2012-10-17 Thread Maccessibility
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braille pen 12 question:

2012-10-17 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Hello all, I just received my brand new braille pen 12 portable braille display earlier this morning from my v.s.b.i counselor. My question is? Is there anyone out there that could give me step by step instructions on how to install the drivers onto my mack? and right now now i have it on

Re: to the person creating application shortcuts:

2012-10-17 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi Alex, I wanted to make sure, is it option semicolon to make the ellipsis? I use a Spanish layout for my keyboard and it is option period, so maybe it is different depending on the layout. I just wanted to point this out in case other's had a similar issue. The reason I brought it up is bec

Is there a hosts file

2012-10-17 Thread Agent086b
Hello, is there a hosts file on the Mac? If so where is it? Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send em

Re: Hard Disk Utility Manager

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
Open Disk Utility, make sure the correct disk is selected and the first aid tab is selected, then you can click either verify disk permissions and or repair disk permissions. Results will be shown in the appropriate table. Christopher Hallsworth On 17/10/2012 19:14, Emilio Hernandez wrote:

Re: Dragging Items Using Magic trackpad?

2012-10-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Teresa, I had to ask my husband about this one. You can either place one finger on the trackpad where the mouse is, press down and hold it down while sliding your finger to the drop destination and releasing it, or you can "lock" the trackpad by doing a one-finger double tap on the item a

Hard Disk Utility Manager

2012-10-17 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, What kind of hard disk utility manager have users of this list found accessible? Unfortunately, Daisy Disk is not accessible. I have already completed the recommended tasks: emptying the trash, and deleting e-mail messages, but I have not yet moved things to an external disk beca

Re: Dragging Items Using Magic trackpad?

2012-10-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Anne, Thanks for this. Can you or someone else tell me what the standard (non-commander) gesture is for dragging in ML ? Is it one or three fingers? Thanks, Teresa On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Teresa, > > If you want to drag items the way a sighted person do

VIP question

2012-10-17 Thread Mary Scott
What exactly happens if you select to add to VIPs? It sounds like a good idea but I want to make sure I know before I start adding addresses to it. Mel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to ma

to the person creating application shortcuts:

2012-10-17 Thread Alex Hall
Hi, I just tried making a shortcut to save attachments and it worked. First, though, thank you for your question, as I never knew this functionality existed and I'll be making plenty more of these shortcuts. Now, here's what I think your problem is: you need to match the text of the option char

Help with Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI, I've been trying to add my own custom keyboard shortcuts. I've found the place to do it in the keyboard panel of system preferences. I've added some new custom application shortcuts but they're mostly not working. The ones I've tried so far are as follows: Option-Command-Shift-A for saving

Quickly Accessing Websites with Shortcut Keys

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You can also reorder the bookmarks in your bookmarks bar. View all bookmarks with Command-Option-B. Select Bookmarks Bar from the side table. In the main table you can drag and drop your bookmarks with VO-Comma, and VO-Less or VO-Greater to drop it before or after another bookmark. You can also

Re: Dragging Items Using Magic trackpad?

2012-10-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Teresa, If you want to drag items the way a sighted person does, you'll need to turn trackpad commander off as the mouse cannot be found when trackpad commander is active. If you want to find a way to drag&drop using trackpad commander, create a custom gesture for each of the necessary c

Bluetooth Headsets and VoiceOver

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Dear Timothy, Sadly, the problem is not with you. It's a problem (bug, if you will), with VoiceOver and Mac OS X. It's been like that ever since I've started using the Mac in Lion. Other people have confirmed the problem with me, including Apple's accessibility department. It's odd that it's s

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Harry. Some people find it more readable to do a transformation in TextEdit for reading brf files. This is because since dots 7 and 8 need to be up to show computer braille, you see everything in all caps. It doesn't bother some people, but it bothers me. So I do a transformation in TextEdit

Dragging Items Using Magic trackpad?

2012-10-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, folk, I am playing with the Magic Trackpad a bit more. I'm wondering how to drag items. Does Trackpad Commander need to be on or off? Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to ma

Re: fusion upgrade?

2012-10-17 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Oh well, I already bought the professional one and I guess I'm not really sorry. will watch out next time so that I only pay if I really want to do so. -- 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)

Re: Vmware Fusion

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
Hello all Does Ubuntu work under Vmware Fusion? I know Linux in general does but if I am to try Linux which I do now and again it has to be Ubuntu simply because of Orca and the gui interface. Back to Windows 7, you know you do not have to enter a product key to install Windows 7. There is a s

Re: fusion upgrade?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
When I looked I was able to select it from a group of radio buttons after clicking the upgrade to Vmware Fusion 5 link. You are looking for just Vmware Fusion 5. Christopher Hallsworth On 16/10/2012 15:33, Kliphton wrote: Okay, I don’t need the professional upgrade, just version 5 basic. Ho

iTunes creating app folders

2012-10-17 Thread Traci
Hi all, In Mountain Lion, is it possible to create app folders on our iDevices? Of course, sighted users can do this, can voiceover users? If not, is it possible to use a bluetooth keyboard on our iDevice to move folders? Thanks, Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail -- You received this message b

VIPs in Mail

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've had a chance to play around with VIPs in Mail in Mountain Lion and would just like to reconfirm what Cheryl told me the other day for the benefit of everyone. Perhaps everyone is already aware of this, but if you move to the headers field within an open Mail message and interact with it, t

RE: Quickly Accessing Websites with Shortcut Keys

2012-10-17 Thread wayne coles
Hello i don't know if this will be what you want but if you triple tap on a word the app will launch what you need and more it is very good but i stress i have not used it with vo so go ant try it and let the list know if it works -wayne coles Original Message- From: macvisionari

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Harry Hogue
Oh, got you. Thanks. Harry El oct 17, 2012, a las 7:01 a.m., Teresa Cochran escribió: > Yes they can be read in TextEdit with contractions off and eight-dot Braille > on. > > Teresa > On Oct 17, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Harry Hogue wrote: > >> I've never heard of being able to read .brf files on

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
A further note on this. You can only read with a Braille display; not with speech. Teresa On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Yes they can be read in TextEdit with contractions off and eight-dot Braille > on. > > Teresa > On Oct 17, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Harry Hogue wrote: > >

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes they can be read in TextEdit with contractions off and eight-dot Braille on. Teresa On Oct 17, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Harry Hogue wrote: > I've never heard of being able to read .brf files on the Mac. I've always > jsut opened them in Kurzweil on the Windows side. > > Harry > > El oct 17, 201

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Harry Hogue
I've never heard of being able to read .brf files on the Mac. I've always jsut opened them in Kurzweil on the Windows side. Harry El oct 17, 2012, a las 6:33 a.m., Teresa Cochran escribió: > It seems odd to me that it's possible to read Braille NLS books on the Mac, > but not recorded books

Re: Quickly Accessing Websites with Shortcut Keys

2012-10-17 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi Anne, thanks so much. This worked -- so now I don't need to waste time manually typing in these sites when I want to quickly look up a translation. Thanks, Harry El oct 16, 2012, a las 11:17 p.m., Anne Robertson escribió: > Hello Harry, > > To put a new item in the Bookmarks bar, just d

Re: Vmware Fusion

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
With me using all 4 cores of my CPU which is an Intel Core I5 being it a Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012 model and 1 GB of memory which is the default when creating a Windows 7 virtual machine didn't adversely affect the performance on both sides. Christopher Hallsworth On 16/10/2012 17:37, Phil Ha

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
It seems odd to me that it's possible to read Braille NLS books on the Mac, but not recorded books. Why the distinction, I wonder? Just saying … Teresa On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Richard Ring wrote: > It is the policy of NLS that their books not be read on computers, be they > Mac or Windo

Re: messages question

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
No. Only iMesage and several other protocols excluding MSN are supported. Christopher Hallsworth On 16/10/2012 19:10, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: Hi all. since ichat is messages now, is there a way to use msn messenger with it? Thanks. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscri

Re: Battery announcing script

2012-10-17 Thread Chris
I never used the script; I didn't know one even exists. I jut use the item in the extras menu or the menu bar depending on Os X version. Christopher Hallsworth On 17/10/2012 02:39, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: Hi all. I was wondering, i just purchased a macbook air. I really enjoy the machine and

Re: NLS on the mac?

2012-10-17 Thread Richard Ring
It is the policy of NLS that their books not be read on computers, be they Mac or Windows. "It's not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me. I need a majority." Adlai Stevenson richr...@gmail.com On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Forget it. It

Re: Changing the order messages are read

2012-10-17 Thread Shen
Hi, There are 2 ways of doing this. The first is the easier way. 1. Use classic view in Mail. Your list of messages will be in a table. Interact with the table and move to the subject column. As you move up or down the table, only the subject is read. This may be enough for you.But if you do want