I've had disk issues with my mac since day 1 and finally after 2 years talked
apple into installing a new hard disk so I'm setting up from scratch again.
With this in mind, I've somehow stumbled on the 48000 messages that were
somehow stored on my mail server. There now all in an old messages fo
It's easy to do but stupid in method. You have to edit the contact, scroll to
the bottom with a 3 finger swipe up and flick to delete contact which is the
very bottom option
Danny.
Sent from my iPhone
On 15/06/2013, at 11:19 AM, Jessica Moss wrote:
> Ok, to add to this thread, how do you
Ok, to add to this thread, how do you go about removing a contact? I think I
stumbled across this once, but can't remember how I found it now, so could use
a memory refresher, sense I have several I need to get rid of.
On Jun 14, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> My responses are in the belo
He couldn't have been very knowledgeable about VO if he didn't know that
parallels is inaccessible, and that VMWare or Bootcamp are the only windows
solutions.
I too am about to start using VMWare on an iMac. I have a bootcamp
installation of Windows7 already on the iMac, and will be installing
Hi,
Firefox 21 is very usable although not perfect yet. It's certainly worth the
download and investigating it yourself.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-14, at 11:07 AM, trahern culver wrote:
> hey all does any one know the current state of firefox accessibility
> w
I have had some trouble with this too, but I finally figured out that it works
better if you flick left and right from the left-hand side to the right-hand
side of the screen and vice versa to get the proper fields come up. I found it
very frustrating to run my finger around the screen to find t
My thoughts are that it depends. I used Bootcamp when I started with the Mac,
and installed a boot manager that let me just hit w or m to boot into windows
or mac. It was great, since I needed to know not a single mac command to use
windows, whereas a virtual machine solution requires you to be
Hi Zoey,
I myself am using Fusion, and it's the most wonderful solution for accessing
Windows programs along with your mac ones. Bootcamp requires some sighted help
to set up, unless you can find a guide to help you, which I honestly still
wouldn't recommend.
As far as Parallels, that's complet
Hi everyone, I am thinking about getting a base iMac. I am thinking about
getting a fusion drive and running Windows 8. I have been using windows for 13
years and IM a little afraid to convert to the Mac. I use an iPhone, and that
has opened up a new world for me. The accessibility that I have
Hey Ann,
Finally got ABBY to scan for some reason the Twain setting din't scan but when
I changed it to the other I got it to scan. I guess I will have to play around
with it a little as far as settings to see if I can get things set up to
quickly scan and OCR. Thanks again
On Jun 14, 2013, at
Hey Ann,
Like everything I seem to be having a problem. I found the drop down box to
select the Canon Twain Driver which I did than I pressed the convert to text
document, and all of the sudden I have no windows in ABBY Fine Reader. Do you
think having the Canon software hooked to scan when I p
All things new iOS users deel with. Please don't think me patronising but
frustration slows down the learning curve quite a lot. Everything is rational
and accessible but not expected or in a manner most of us expect. ESP people
like me from a windows background.
The first thing to remember is
Hey Nicholas,
I assume when you say has it already been OCR you mean do I have to do anything
extra to read it, if that is the question, than no, I just put the piece of
mail on the scanner, press the scan button in the physical scanner, and the
software cannon provided with the scanner scans t
HI it crashes randomly and it only started doing it when I decided to give
crome vox a try.
Maria Chapman
bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -
Mahatma Gandhi
On 14/06/2013, at 11:25 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a
I am getting them on Monday.
Kawal.
On 14 Jun 2013, at 07:30 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi guys
> I bought BlindSquare for my iPhone yesterday. It recommends getting bone
> conduction your phones, and I found the ones on Amazon for aftershock. The
> reviews I read seemed somewhat mixed. But t
You can use them for music but can't expect hifi quality. For hearing VO whilst
still being fully aware of your surroundings they are amazingly good. My
brother and I use them for calls as well and if the mike is placed well then
they work perfectly well.
I find them great in meetings class ro
My responses are in the below message.
On Jun 14, 2013, at 5:08 PM, jean parker wrote:
> Hello All:
> I am having no end of trouble with the contacts manager on the i phone.
> Finding a contact is ok for the most part although trying to slog through the
> letter headings is annoying.
> My curr
I personally like Awk in place of, or in addition to, Grep. Examine the code
for the webpage and see if there is always some element or bit of text that
appears just before the informaiton you want, then use Grep or Awk to get at
that area. You might then parse further in the shell, or just use
Hello All:
I am having no end of trouble with the contacts manager on the i phone.
Finding a contact is ok for the most part although trying to slog through the
letter headings is annoying.
My current problem is how to add a contact. When I open up the add contacts
thing the first thing it wan
Seeing how i can subscribe with this email.
Orin
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks
Skype: orin1112
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I have a pair of AfterShockz Bluez bone conduction headphones and they work
just fine since they are A2DP compliant. Since I don't use them anymore
(don't have any need for them), they are for sale. I only used them for
roughly one battery charge, so they're practically new. I'll ship them with
I have a bootcamp partition that is half my hard disk with Mac OSX taking
the other half. I'd like to import the bootcamp into VMWare, but it's too
big. I have a external firewire disk available. How can I go about doing the
import, and then erasing the bootcamp partition once successfully impor
Hi, Slau. I also posted the email to MacVisionaries yesterday, but I haven't
received any replies yet. I might repost the email on the list and see if I can
get any responses.
Katie
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I have tested many bone conduction headphones and AfterShokz is the best
ones I have used.
You need first decide if you want it with wires or wireless.
My suggestion with wires is
AfterShokz Sportz M2 -model. It has microphone too, so you can make phone
calls too and control Siri.
For wireless th
I haven't checked out those pages. I found a manual online which listed a
bunch of definitions with curl. No luck yet with grep.
Oops, no the webpage I pasted was the radio station's page. On that page,
inside a frame, it always says what is currently playing. That is the piece of
text I'd
Hello Gigi,
I have Aftershokz headphones and love them, especially when out using GPS on my
iPhone. They're really comfortable and work well.
Cheers,
Anne
On 14 Jun 2013, at 20:30, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi guys
> I bought BlindSquare for my iPhone yesterday. It recommends getting bone
> c
Hi,
One thing you can do is place the machine you are running in full screan mode
and yes my vmware takes over the keyboard when in fockus.
Matthew
On Jun 14, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:
> It is supposed to grab keyboard automatically. If you can see the toolbar,
> try hitting opt
Hi guys
I bought BlindSquare for my iPhone yesterday. It recommends getting bone
conduction your phones, and I found the ones on Amazon for aftershock. The
reviews I read seemed somewhat mixed. But these people were using them for
different things that I want to use them for. A lot of them were
Not to overstate the obvious but have you checked the man pages for curl
and grep? You might also want to check out the macport version of wget.
What are you trying to scrape from the page you listed? I didn't notice
the temperature on there.
CB
On 6/14/13 2:10 PM, Traci wrote:
Hi all,
Can
Hi all,
Can anyone point me in the correct direction to learn more about curl commands
and grep? I've been googling, but I'm not getting very far.
I have the weather temp script, where I can now hit a keyboard shortcut and the
current temp is read out for me.
I'd like to create a similar scri
Hello Brian,
You should be able to connect your scanner to your Mac, then launch ABBYY
Finereader and your scanner should show up in the table of sources. Select your
scanner then click the Convert to text button or whichever task you want.
My Canon Lide 110 shows up twice in the table, once fo
It is supposed to grab keyboard automatically. If you can see the toolbar, try
hitting option-tab a few times until you hear wineyes. That usually works for
me. If it doesn't grab, try moving away from the Fusion window with
command-tab and back again. Then retry the option-tab thing again.
That's a little annoying, since I like reading them a page at a time.
However, the PDF files read much much better -- thank goodness!
Cheers,
Harry
On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Barry Hadder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can only read pdf files in continuous scroll with vo in 10.8.4.
>
> On Jun 14,
Thanks. I am very close. I got a bootcamp window to come up with the startup
Window eyes message, but I can't get to it to enter my Windows logon. All I
get is the toolbar. Is there a hotkey to maximize the window and give the
keyboard control in the Windows area? Thanks.
On Jun 14, 2013,
hey all does any one know the current state of firefox accessibility
with the latest version of mac os10?
your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards
trahern.
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Hey listers,
I just installed the trial of ABBY Fine REader, and please forgive my ignorance
on this. I am assuming that I scan my mail the same way using my Canoscan and
it's software, and when the scan is finished I then open the scan in ABBY Fine
REader and either choose convert to text docu
You don't need screen sharing turned on in system preferences, but as Tim
pointed out, it doesn't work for iMessages. What you can do is use an AIM or
Google or yahoo instant message account on both ends and it will work.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 72
Hi Mac Friends,
When I attempted to try out screen sharing in the messages application the
screen sharing was indeed turned off in system preferences
. Am I to understand that it is not necessary for this to be enabled?
Also when doing my test, I was using my Apple ID and so was the person I w
I think you can find what you are looking for here:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014515.
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UnitMaster
Available in the Mac app store.
On Jun 14, 20
Hi,
You can only read pdf files in continuous scroll with vo in 10.8.4.
On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Harry Hogue wrote:
hello,
Does anyone have experience reading PDF files in Previous with ML 10.8.4?
Since updating yesterday or the day before I can't read any content in any PDF
file -- I
hello,
Does anyone have experience reading PDF files in Previous with ML 10.8.4?
Since updating yesterday or the day before I can't read any content in any PDF
file -- I only hear "Text," and can't read further. Interestingly, text
navigation was supposed to have been improved.
Thanks for an
HI:
Yes, I"m currently using The El Gato eye Tv Hybrid tuner with my Imac.
I've been using it a little over a year. . Had to have some sighted
assistance to set it up but after that is simple to use when watching cable
tv. there is some downs for it but nothing I don't mind. Wo
Hi.
Do you know which number podcast it is that helps with VM Fusion and
bootcamp? I wasn't able to find it. Thanks.
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Hi Anne.
I used goggles with standscan yesterday, there was some creams which I could
not find the barcodes on, nothing worked. At last I used standscan and talking
goggles, If you lift your item a little inside the standscan it works pretty
good. I would like, if the results where shown in bra
Hi,
Is there anything you're doing when it crashes or does it crash randomly? Does
it crash on startup or at some other time? Are you using VO alone with Chrome
or are you using ChromeVox?
Sorry, I just need more info to do a good job helping.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
Thank you so much for the info. I have another question, and please accept my
appologies if it seems like a stupid question. When I change the language
settings to Greek, and then I connect my phone and itunes automatically
appears, is the hq language suppose to automatically download, or am I
Hi all,
Yesterday afternoon I was messing around with both these apps to try and figure
out if one is better. So far my results are inconclusive, I wasn't 100% happy
with either scan. I was just holding the phone in my hand, I was not using a
StandScan Pro or Scanbox. Just curious whether an
hey,
thanks for letting me know.
my serch for a batch OCR ap for mac continues.
Michael
On 14/06/2013, at 8:59 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Michael, the app we're discussing here is for iPhone and other IOS devices,
> not for the Mac.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 14 Jun 2013, at 11:54, Mich
Michael, the app we're discussing here is for iPhone and other IOS devices, not
for the Mac.
Cheers,
Anne
On 14 Jun 2013, at 11:54, Michael Marshall wrote:
> hey,
> just wondering can this program do PDF files? if so can it batch convert?
> thanks
>
> Michael
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hey,
just wondering can this program do PDF files? if so can it batch convert?
thanks
Michael
On 14/06/2013, at 6:46 PM, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> Fantastic, thanks, Anne! You've given me the confidence and encouragement I
> need to go out and order myself one. I think it's going to make a big
Hello Nick,
I find that Talking Goggles doesn't really work for me with the StandScan Pro,
but it works great freehand in front of the kitchen window. It's in the kitchen
that I use it most to identify things like jars of pâté or pachaged cold meats.
Cheers,
Anne
On 14 Jun 2013, at 10:46, Ni
If the boxes were made of plastic rather than what they are made of now i'd
get one.
On 14 Jun 2013, at 09:39 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Kawal,
>
> There are two similar boxes to help with scanning using a smart phone.
> There's StandScan Pro and ScanBox. The StandScan Pro is shipped
Fantastic, thanks, Anne! You've given me the confidence and encouragement I
need to go out and order myself one. I think it's going to make a big
difference.
Have you had any luck using the StandScan with Talking Gogles or one of those
video-based apps which automatically read the results aloud
Hello Kawal,
There are two similar boxes to help with scanning using a smart phone. There's
StandScan Pro and ScanBox. The StandScan Pro is shipped from Hongkong and the
Scan Box comes from Australia. They both work on the same principle of
providing ideal lighting and positioning with no diffi
Is it the same box that people were on about? The one you could get from Hong
Kong?
On 14 Jun 2013, at 01:14 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mixed results. My
> husband got me this box called scan box. He got it from Amazon. Using it, I
> was a
Hello Nick,
I've been using the StandScan Pro for about three months now and would highly
recommend it.
My preferred OCR app for use with the StandScan Pro is TextGrabber + Translator
which can handle three different languages at once and produces even better
results than Prizmo.
I use both T
Have any of you tried StandScan? I've heard it's pretty good. I'm thinking
about trying it myself.
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Thanks, Chris. That looks good. I note their demo was using JAWS. I've noticed
that JAWS does tend to work a bit better with rich text editors for me. I'd be
worried that CKEditor might work well with JAWS, but not VoiceOver. I'm keen to
try and encourage people to make their websites accessible
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