Re: I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

2013-09-09 Thread Anne Robertson
A few tips. Make sure you close all windows in applications before quitting. Make sure you quit applications rather than just closing all windows. Repair permissions regularly. Reinitialise the PRAM from time to time. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

2013-09-09 Thread Alex Hall
Agreed. Even in Mountain Lion I was getting those all the time. Eventually i saw that my system, a low-end Mac Mini, was running with only a couple hundred mb of free ram at any given time. I put 8gb in it instead of the stock 2gb and have had almost no problems since. The only "busy" messages I

Re: I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Blouch
How much memory do you have in your Mac and what all did you have running. What version of OSX are you running? There have been issues with getting lots of VO busy messages when memory gets low and this seemed to happen more often on older versions of OSX. CB On 9/9/13 9:14 PM, Christine Gras

Re: Does anyone have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the Mac?

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Moore
Mike, I typed "howto install ubuntu on a mac" into safari. The first result was a step-by-step guide. ChrisOn Sep 9, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Mike wrote: > Hey everybody, > > The subject line says it all. I'm looking for a guide on how to do this. So > far everything I have found just says "clic

Re: Does anyone have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the Mac?

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Just checking why you would need to do that? You already have full unix in the terminal. Is there something in Ubuntu that you really need? You'll have to do a lot of fiddling around with partitions unless you are doing this under VMWare. CB On 9/9/13 9:58 PM, Mike wrote: Hey everybody, The

Does anyone have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the Mac?

2013-09-09 Thread Mike
Hey everybody, The subject line says it all. I'm looking for a guide on how to do this. So far everything I have found just says "click here" and that does not help very much. Thanks for any tips Mike m How to be Blind www.htb2.com Roundtable podcasts, software reviews, accessibility tutorials,

I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

2013-09-09 Thread Christine Grassman
This occurred some time ago, and I was directed to some steps which alleviated the issue, but I cannot find the post . . . because every time I try using Spotlight to search through my archives, or use Google to search, or go *anywhere* to try to find the info, I hear "mail busy" and "Safari bus

Re: Convert Kindle books to Epub?

2013-09-09 Thread Rebecca Blaevoet
I did have a word with someone on Twitter who seems to be a calibre expert. I found him through Googling something to do with accessibility and calibre I think. And yes you can. Rebecca Blaevoet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gro

Re: Garageband

2013-09-09 Thread Jessica Moss
Thanx for these podcasts, Now have to update mine sense half my instruments seem to be unavailable and now it's taking forever lol. I like what's here though, and it makes the IOS version look like next to nothing. On Sep 8, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Mike wrote: > Hi David, > > I have some GarageBand

Re: Amadeus: Listening to sound as it records

2013-09-09 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Antonio, the only way I am aware of to do this is to use the Record to New Track option. If you create a new track, and press Record, you don't hear previous tracks playing back, but when you use Record to new Track, you do. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials a

Re: Garageband

2013-09-09 Thread David Eagle
Brilliant Mike, I'll give these a look. On 9 September 2013 00:35, Mike wrote: > Hi David, > > I have some GarageBand tutorials on the website that I am working on. The > link is below and I hope the answer your questions. > > http://htb2.com/tutorials/mac-tutorials/garage-band/ > > > Mike m >

Re: Amadeus: Listening to sound as it records

2013-09-09 Thread Garth Humphreys
Sounds like you may be creating a new document rather than a new track, not sure from what you said. Anyway I don't use this option much but what you can do is to use the keystroke Command Option R. If you have a sound document open and press this it will start playing the existng track and reco