Re: Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, For testing purposes, why not simply go under the Startup Disk pane of System Prefs and select your USB drive. If the System on the drive is blessed properly, then it will show up in the Startup Disk choices. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-20, at 9:52 PM, Nichol

Re: Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
First, have you created a bootable clone of your external drive? You can use a program such as super duper or carbon copy cloner to do this. For me at least, pressing the right arrow twice does the trick. On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > HI List, > > If I have an external

Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI List, If I have an external USB HD connected to my Mac, and it is the only external device I have connected, which arrow keys and how many times must I press them after I have held down the option key at start up? So far I keep managing to boot to the recovery partition or to my Macintosh HD

traveling apps for the mac

2012-10-20 Thread keith weatherly
hello is there a app for the mac that works like way finder? if so where can i find it and about how much would it caust? I do a lot of walking places and would like to go to other places around me but i need a app that lets me know step by step how to get to and from diferent locations that wor

Re: What are your favorite Mac apps?

2012-10-20 Thread Timothy Clark Music
i of corse love Skype for the mac. also, wave pad is great. it's an audio recorder +editor. the dailey bible verse application is great as well. games? not a gammer. I'm a musician. my site is below if you wish to learn more about me. let's see, more mac applications. well, YoruFukurou is

Re: fusion and USB drives?

2012-10-20 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Kliphton, I don't know how to help you find a driver but I thought I would let you know that I installed both windows 7 and JAWS on a new Mac book Pro using a external new super drive from Apple and it just worked. I don't remember but perhaps I did turn it on under devices in VM Fu

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Phil Halton
control+F5 will place you on (or near) the back button in the toolbar - its a system shortcut. - Original Message - From: "Chris Bruinenberg" To: Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Two Safari questions I use command { to go back. I also put the visited links in

What are your favorite Mac apps?

2012-10-20 Thread Blinkin
Hello everyone, I am looking to acquire some additional Mac apps or programs mainly just because, and I wanted to ask all of you what some of your favorites are and what you do with them. Does anyone know of games or anything like that? I am open to anything and everything so I a

Re: Pages and APA 6th edition style

2012-10-20 Thread ShamelessFanGirl
Hello, I use a combination of iText Pro, Nisus Writer Pro, and Pages. i HTH On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Tammy > Maybe I just don't get it or something but are you saying that you are using > pages? Because pages is accessible. So, if you're using pages what else is

Re: Pages and APA 6th edition style

2012-10-20 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Tammy Maybe I just don't get it or something but are you saying that you are using pages? Because pages is accessible. So, if you're using pages what else is it that you need added that you don't have now? Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 20, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Tammy Abreu-Butron wrote: > I

Re: Pages and APA 6th edition style

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I personally like I text Sent from my iPhone On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Tammy Abreu-Butron wrote: > I have a degenerative disease, this semester has been significantly more > difficult as I can no longer see beyond two inches from my good eye. As a > result I began searching for an add-

Re: Apparently, There is an Updated Firmware for Focus 40 Blue Braille Display

2012-10-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, I emailed them and got it. HtH, Teresa On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:22 PM, David McLean wrote: > Call Freedom and have them send you the update file. That's what I did to > get to 4.57 so will do the same for this one as well. > On Oct 20, 2012, at 8:04 PM, "M. Taylor" wrote: > >> Hello Every

Re: Trouble reading new bookshare books in xml format

2012-10-20 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi Greg, I did not really get anything from the list when I asked this question. ALex gave me some suggestions with opening the books in Olearia but they didn't work.So I wrote bookshare support about this. Apparently there is a new program for the computer which is called read out loud and actu

Re: Apparently, There is an Updated Firmware for Focus 40 Blue Braille Display

2012-10-20 Thread David McLean
Call Freedom and have them send you the update file. That's what I did to get to 4.57 so will do the same for this one as well. On Oct 20, 2012, at 8:04 PM, "M. Taylor" wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > A friend of mine just received his repaired Focus 40 Blue back from Freedom > Scientific. > >

RE: Apparently, There is an Updated Firmware for Focus 40 Blue Braille Display

2012-10-20 Thread Daniel Miller
I don't think the firmware is meant to be updated by the user. I think it's meant for diagnostic purposes only. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 7:05 PM To: macvisionari

Apparently, There is an Updated Firmware for Focus 40 Blue Braille Display

2012-10-20 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, A friend of mine just received his repaired Focus 40 Blue back from Freedom Scientific. He tells me that the firmware on his device is now 4.59. I'm running 4.57. Does anyone know how to either update the firmware or from where to get the update file? I have searched and sear

messages app won't stay in focus?

2012-10-20 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm having an odd problem. Messages is open because I got a message on my iPod. However, when I try to cmd-tab to it, vo says "messages" while I hold down the command key, then goes back to the last application it was in when I release the key. So, it claims messages is there, but the ma

RE: Trouble reading new bookshare books in xml format

2012-10-20 Thread Jesus Garcia
A list wide answer would be appreciated I am having some of the same issues. I figured it is a setting in Safari and have been trying to figure it out. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens Sent: Saturday,

Trouble reading new bookshare books in xml format

2012-10-20 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi all, I know there have been a few threads on accessing bookshare books in xml format over the last month or so, but I wanted to follow up to see if anyone had found a solution to the problem I am encountering. I can read bookshare books that I downloaded months ago just fine in the xml for

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Agent086b
Where is the backspace on the Apple wireless keyboard? I haven't found it yet, I use the left arrow. Still a lot to learn. Max. On 21/10/2012, at 9:04 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: > I believe that Command Left Bracket (or the backspace key) will take you back > a page, and I believe that VO Command V

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
I believe that Command Left Bracket (or the backspace key) will take you back a page, and I believe that VO Command V will jump you to the next visited link. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://Mar

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
oh shute. My bad, i'm sorry. On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Right I have found the problem. > On my keyboard the command to go back is command left bracket. Left brace is > with the shift. > Thanks it now works. > Max. > On 21/10/2012, at 8:44 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: >

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Agent086b
Right I have found the problem. On my keyboard the command to go back is command left bracket. Left brace is with the shift. Thanks it now works. Max. On 21/10/2012, at 8:44 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Hi Max. > Nope, it just was a built in command. > > On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Agent086

Re: keyboard shortcut

2012-10-20 Thread ROD SKENE
Thanks Alex. It worked. It didn't at first but when I restarted my Mac, the new keyboard shortcut worked great. I used Traci's key combination of option n. Rod On Oct 20, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I use ctrl-shift-n, since most keyboard shortcuts in the mac tend to use > command

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Max. Nope, it just was a built in command. On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hi I am unable to get the Command { to go back a page. Did you set this as a > hotkey? If so how did you do this? > Thanks again. > Max. > On 21/10/2012, at 8:17 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > >> I u

fusion and USB drives?

2012-10-20 Thread Kliphton
Hi, I am trying to help a friend with fusion, and we got windows installed just fine. Went to install jaws, but the usb super drive he bought from apple, needs a boot camp driver in order to work with fusion. Where do I get this driver from, or is it not possible without installing boot camp?

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Agent086b
Hi I am unable to get the Command { to go back a page. Did you set this as a hotkey? If so how did you do this? Thanks again. Max. On 21/10/2012, at 8:17 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > I use command { to go back. > I also put the visited links in my router with the trackpad. > > On Oct 20, 2012

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I use command { to go back. I also put the visited links in my router with the trackpad. On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hello all, could somebody please remind me how to jump to a back button when > on a web page? > Secondly is it possible to mark a link so when you return to

Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, could somebody please remind me how to jump to a back button when on a web page? Secondly is it possible to mark a link so when you return to that page after checking out that link you don't go back to the top. I find it very slow to have to go down that page to find where you were

fire fox and web visum under vo.

2012-10-20 Thread Maria Chapman
Hi. just installed fire fox. I am finding it's busy a lot. Should I report this as a bug? or is it a known issue? Also has anyone got web visum to work? I installed it and eventually got a log in screen where i filled in my username and pass word. I am not getting a message saying i'm logg

Re: keyboard shortcut

2012-10-20 Thread Traci
I used Option-n for notification center and option-shift-N for notes. :) Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > I use ctrl-shift-n, since most keyboard shortcuts in the mac tend to use > command and option before control. Go to system preferences, keyboard,

Re: keyboard shortcut

2012-10-20 Thread Alex Hall
I use ctrl-shift-n, since most keyboard shortcuts in the mac tend to use command and option before control. Go to system preferences, keyboard, keyboard shortcuts tab, select mission control from the first table, then go to the second and find the item called "show notification center". Press en

windows oem question

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi all. Sorry for the off topic question. I have a macbook pro and was wondering, if i go purhcase a windows 7 or 8 oem copy, could i install this through bootcamp? I read up on the oem and it says that it ties the lysine to your motherboard. Does this cause any problems? Thanks. Chris -- You re

Problem with Google Reader and Twitter Feeds?

2012-10-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Anyone else have their Twitter feeds they follow in Google Reader just all vanish? I just noticed that all the Twitter feeds I follow through Google reader have vanished on my mac through Newsrack, I tried to load them on my Iphone through As Feeds and it timed out. Anyone else having this problem?

Re: Transferring NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
The DB is an integral part of the book number. stands for Digital Book. I think the NLS player needs that file name protocol so when you go into "bookshelf mode," (holding down the play button till it falls off or says Bookshelf), it can identify them. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype

keyboard shortcut

2012-10-20 Thread ROD SKENE
Good morning listers, How can I create a keyboard shortcut for Notification Center? Also, any suggestion for the keyboard combination I should use? Thanks, Rod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email

RE: Transferring NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-20 Thread Jesus Garcia
Sorry I meant DB not DT thanks -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Baxter Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 10:24 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Transferring NLS Books to SD card I'm sorry, bu

[Maccessibility] vizWiz 1.4.3 Brings New Features

2012-10-20 Thread Maccessibility
Title: [Maccessibility] vizWiz 1.4.3 Brings New Features Maccessibility has posted a new item, 'vizWiz 1.4.3 Brings New Features' The popular vizWiz iOS application, designed to assist blind users in identifying objects visually, has been updated to version 1.4.3. From the release notes: iO

Accessible way to find out the codec information of a video file questions

2012-10-20 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hello everyone is there a way to find out codec information For a videophile that is accessible? I Found a program called "video spec" and it is great but it's not accessible as far as I can see. In windows there was something called G spot that would do this. Any help is very appreciated. T

Re: Transferring NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm sorry, but I do not know what DT is. Thus, my experience is that the folders are named something like, "DB 91743" and then the name and author of the book. In which case, no need to rename anything, unless you're using a player that's not an NLS player and doesn't recognize that format, wh

Re: best antivirus for mac?

2012-10-20 Thread Ben Constantini
I use Kaspersky anti virus.The basic commands are easy for me to access using the voice over keys . At least for me they are. I am sure that others on the list have other suggestions. Ben Constantini ben.n2...@verizon.net Sent from my Mac On Oct 20, 2012, at 12:03 AM, John D. Lipsey

VoiceOver Recovery Problem

2012-10-20 Thread Emilio S. Hernandez
Hello everyone, I have a problem that I am unable to solve. When entering into the recovery settings I am not able to here VoiceOver after pressing command f5. Has anyone experienced this before? Thank you all for the help. Sent from Emilio's iPhone -- You received this message because y

Re: quickly advancing from top to bottom of message headers

2012-10-20 Thread Alex Hall
What do you mean by headers? Vo-shift-down (vo-shift-funciton-right in your case, on a macbook) will move vo focus to the end of whatever it is interacting with. So, interact with whatever you want to jump to the end of, then issue that command. If you use it a lot, it might be worth a keyboard

Re: Possibly starting an online radio station?

2012-10-20 Thread Chris
Nicecast sounds really good from what I have read of it. You can either broadcast from a local server hosted on your network or you can use an online service like Icecast or Shoutcast to broadcast over the internet. Christopher Hallsworth On 20/10/2012 00:25, Jessica Carter wrote: Hi List,