Sorry Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all Really sorry for my post yesterday, I do see your points indeed about not updating, that's all really and will stop harping on about it. Sent from my laptop On 10/10/2014 03:32, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Well, I can scarcely speak for everybody, but I'm still glad of my iPod Touch r

A note on iCloud Mail, third party clients and two step verification

2014-10-09 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all If you do not have two step verification enabled on your Apple ID, you can safely ignore this message. If you do, I have a note for you. The below took effect as of today. If you use third party clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird to manage your iCloud Mail accoun

Re: Deleting a partition with VoiceOver on Maverick using Disk Utility?

2014-10-09 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Vic, I just had to remove a partition from disk utility the other day, but my issue became more complicated because 471 MB would not be removed. That's a different story. This is what I did and others can pipe in if I am incorrect. 1. Open Disk Utility. 2. Select your main drive at the to

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Vivianna
hi, thanks, i will try this as, the other suggestions are not working. i can not add to cart on the mac and, i can not get past the, select shipping options on the iPhone. it's as if voiceover is not focusing on what it is saying. thanks again, Vivianna On Oct 9, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Gabe Griffi

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Well, I can scarcely speak for everybody, but I'm still glad of my iPod Touch running iOS 7.1.2 for playing Choice of Games games on. Because, yes, some bugs are really, really, really annoying and can not simply be excused. However, I agree with the general sentiment that simply forgoing the

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, You can also go to www.amazon.com/access. It is a bit scaled down but I just used it earlier this week and all the add to card and checkout buttons are quite accessible. Gabe On Oct 9, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Usually, the buy now with one click button is just off to the

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Usually, the buy now with one click button is just off to the right of the label for that button. The way they've gone and changed it, the buttons have very graphic numerical sounding labels sometimes so you have to watch that you don't pass over it accidentally. Also, it helps to have Safari

Re: hot to download youtube videos on mac?

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Soudns worth a look to me. Thanks for the headsup. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! On Oct 9, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Anouk Ra

RE: moving apps on i phone under I OS 8

2014-10-09 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
What's on page 1? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugenia Firth Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:52 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: moving apps on i phone under I OS 8 Hi y'all I finally

Re: moving apps on i phone under I OS 8

2014-10-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi y'all I finally discovered another way of rearranging my apps Lee's days. I used to use folders, but now I just tell my iPhone to reset my home screen. This has the effect of alphabetizing my apps starting with page 2. I discovered I like that a lot better than me moving things around Sent f

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I noticed on my iPad this morning that I had to tap the button and refocus a couple of times before the "add to cart" worked. You know that on Amazon because a new page loads. But on the Mac I just do return or vo-space and I have had no problem. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new

Re: hot to download youtube videos on mac?

2014-10-09 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I tried mactubes as well but I PERSONALLY vastly prefer a program called downie. Its totally accessible and can work with many many many other sites besides youtube. I installed a plugin for safari and now it is even easier, when you are playin gthe video that you want to download from youtu

Re: pop ups in Safari

2014-10-09 Thread Christina C.
No, I tried that. Thanks though. :) On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: > Does it come up as a new window in Safari? You could check in the window > chooser. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 9, 2014, at 14:46, Christina C. wrote: >> >> How do I deal with or access pop u

Re: mactubes question

2014-10-09 Thread CJ Daniel
No problem, I'm glad to help. I think I got them off of one of these email lists. They don't show up anywhere on youtube. Anyway, glad it was of assistance. Good day, CJ On Oct 8, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi , thanks a great deal for that! That helps a lot already. How did y

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I guess its because we want evrything as perfect as possible. Thats a problem for us in the western part of the world. SO now i take the plunge and update me phone. /A 9 okt 2014 kl. 21:07 skrev Christopher Hallsworth : > Hi all > > I know we use our devices whatever ways suit us, but I strug

Re: moving apps on i phone under I OS 8

2014-10-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The answer is yes and no. I think that there's an issue with the placement of apps and their ability to be moved with VO. At least for me, items in the fifth row don't like to be moved with the VO gestures. Try the same gesture in the fourth row and it works. My work around so far is to

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have upgraded my ipad mini and so far i've only found that voiceover crashes sometimes. I can live with it until the bugs are fixt. I have tried to use the braille input with no luck yet. /A 9 okt 2014 kl. 15:26 skrev Eugenia Firth : > Hi Cheryl > Which device is working okay for the braill

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I agree with David. Change is not often welcome even though it is inevitable. There are those who are pioneers breaking new ground, testing the waters, and settling the frontiers. There are those who wait for the lawlessness to subside and/or for the cities to mature and quote, "get civi

Re: hot to download youtube videos on mac?

2014-10-09 Thread Vic
I found Mactubes is the best option for me. Works fairly well with VoiceOver. You should be able to find it by searching on Google or via a Macupdate.com. Good luck. Victor On Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:37:17 AM UTC-7, Dan Dunfee wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote:

Deleting a partition with VoiceOver on Maverick using Disk Utility?

2014-10-09 Thread Vic
Hello all. Just tried deleting a previously-created Mac OSX partition using VoiceOver on Maverick, however, am having serious difficulties. Here is what I do: 1. Open Disk Utility, click on the primary disk, then choose the "partition" tab. 2. In the "partition selector" area select the partitio

moving apps on i phone under I OS 8

2014-10-09 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I was trying to move an app for my husband today on his i phone 5s which is running I OS 8. Does the double tap and hold, then slide the app where you want not work any longer? This is what I tried and the app stubbornly stayed in place, despite my efforts to shift it! How do we move thin

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Vivianna
Hi Ray, Thanks. so, how do i get to the correct buttons? i don't see any other button next to the add to cart button. thanks much. Vivianna On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > I had ocasion to order something from amazon recently. They've gone and > changed it so that the act

Weather on iPad mini

2014-10-09 Thread Chris G
Hi, Using a wifi only iPad mini with retina , under ios 7.12 I could ask it the weather, IE, do I need an umbrella and it would come back with the weather for the current location. After upgrading to ios 8.02 this no longer functions. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks Chris Mystic Access Where t

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread David Chittenden
People are often uncomfortable with change. Therefore, there is a tendancy to focus on the negatives rather than the positives. In my opinion, there is also a subset of people who are not happy unless they are complaining about something. These people do a good job of confusing the issue for th

Re: Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I had ocasion to order something from amazon recently. They've gone and changed it so that the actual buttons to order with one click or add to shoping cart appear just to the right of the labels for those buttons. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone use

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Colin Matthews
Note to self: All Apple Email list will get very busy on 16th! Put note in diary! *smile* Colin On 9 Oct 2014, at 22:10, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Totally agree with you on that. > I still on my plan with my 5s and i stick with that. > /A -- You received this message because you are subsc

Need help with amazon.com

2014-10-09 Thread Vivianna
Hi All, Does anybody know of a trick to add items to the shopping cart on either the mac or the iPhone? I can add things to my wish list but, can't add them to my cart. Thanks much. Vivianna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Totally agree with you on that. I still on my plan with my 5s and i stick with that. /A 8 okt 2014 kl. 20:24 skrev Phil Halton : > Has Apple ironed out the bugs in iOS 8 yet? And, is the 6+ bending under > pressure still a problem? Is it going to be a disaster for Apple? I've held > both iPh

Re: How to fix a CD drive on a Mac Mini

2014-10-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It sounds like there is something physically wrong with the drive. Normally, when that sort of thing happens, there's some sort of obstruction or misalignment in the drive that is causing the CD to not drop into place properly. Consequently, the drive determines that it needs to spit out

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-09 Thread Phil Halton
it must be a settings problem somewhere, Three’s no reason why windows7 shouldn’t work fine and fly on your system. I run win7 on Fusion v5 and it is just fine. Don’t run off and use bootcamp just yet - shake out the bugs and settings and I bet it’ll come around. You’ll appreciate the ability to

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-09 Thread jeff `greene
Hi Chris, I allocated 8gb memory and 2 cpu cores. If I have voiceover running when I plug in my flash drive it does ask me if I want to connect it to windows 7. Then my windows screen reader says there is a problem. I'm going to play around with it again tonight, maybe there are other settings avai

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread The Believer
Chris, Its not hard to understand. I for one do not want to spend time learning work arounds for bugs that will eventually be fixed. Its not a game where one scores points. I did not get my iPhone for any purpose other than to use it as a phone or use the apps on it. I dont want to have to

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread BobH.
Some of us don't want to swap a stable, fully functional system, for a more flaky one, still being refined; not even for new facilities. The frustration and productivity factors. RobH, understands that much. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Hallsworth" To: Sent: Thursday, Octob

Re: Is Uverse Accessible?

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I don't know. Is there some cause for concern because of it? My friend is a Windows user, where Isaiah, I'm a Mac user. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iPhone user! Sent from my iPhone, the only smart phone with full accessibility for the blind built-in! On

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Document yeah this is computers were talking about but anyway. I think it's almost impossible to get every little bug out, but if I understand things, it sounds like Apple went a long way to figuring out a method for debugging things when they wrote that new programming language. At least, that'

How to fix a CD drive on a Mac Mini

2014-10-09 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Hello everyone, this is Chanel it's been a long time since I've posted out here however, a friend of mine has a Mac Mini 2009 city drive is not working correctly in the spitting out CDs we went to system preferences then to city drive we checked all the boxes that needed to be church and it was

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all I know we use our devices whatever ways suit us, but I struggle to understand just why people won't update until bugs are fixed, with no specific rhyme or reason at all. But being an Apple fan I'm bound to not understand this. Sure I would like to see bugs fixed along with the rest of

Re: pop ups in Safari

2014-10-09 Thread Brandon Olivares
Does it come up as a new window in Safari? You could check in the window chooser. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 9, 2014, at 14:46, Christina C. wrote: > > How do I deal with or access pop ups that websites use either to get me to > sign up for their newsletter, answer a survey question, or to

pop ups in Safari

2014-10-09 Thread Christina C.
How do I deal with or access pop ups that websites use either to get me to sign up for their newsletter, answer a survey question, or to fill out forms for an online purchase? I only know that they are there because something seems wonky and doesn't' make sense when I am navigating on a page. It

Re: Is Uverse Accessible?

2014-10-09 Thread Gary
Okay, thank you for the information. Did your friend get the virus because of UVerse? Gary On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > I used to have AT&T U-verse here in my home. When I had it, the answer was > more no then yes. But, I understand from a friend who actually still has a

Re: Is Uverse Accessible?

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I used to have AT&T U-verse here in my home. When I had it, the answer was more no then yes. But, I understand from a friend who actually still has a virus in his home, that the universal remote app on the iPhone is actually quite accessible with U-verse. I think it's called easy remote. With th

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
How much memory and how many CPUs did you allocate to your Win7 Fusion setup? At a minimum I would do 1GB RAM and 2CPU but more will go faster. I haven't used Fusion 7 but under previous version when you insert a USB device Fusion would ask if you want it connected to the Mac or Windows side.

Is Uverse Accessible?

2014-10-09 Thread Gary
Does anyone have UVerse in your home? I'm wondering if it's accessible? Can you find shows, and record shows on your TV's? I heard there are UVerse remote and TV guide apps. Does anyone use these? Thanks, Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVi

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2014-10-09 Thread Walter Harper
Hello all: How do you get adium to read your incoming messages automatically? I am running OXS X 10 Mavericks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email t

Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-09 Thread jeff `greene
Hi, Well, yesterday I installed windows 7 under fusion 7. Last time i used fusion it was version 3. I finally got it done but there are some problems. Windows 7 seems kinda slow, also when i plug a flash drive into my mac when windows is running i get an error message and sound on the virtual machi

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
hi there That's really interesting. The only thing I can figure is that you got your calibration set right, and I didn't. Maybe it has something to do with getting it set wrong, and The iPhone won't change it once it gets set. That's the only thing I can figure. I have tried starting over, bu

Re: hot to download youtube videos on mac?

2014-10-09 Thread DD
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: are there are program to download some videos on youtube, i just want to present it to my prof. thanks I use youtube-dl in terminal. http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ It will download a youtube playlist. It also downloads video fr

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
it is working on my iPad my iPhone 5 s and my iPhone 6+ > -- > Cheryl > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call t

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Cheryl Which device is working okay for the braille input? I have a 5S iPhone, and that is the one I'm having trouble getting it to work on. I don't have an iPad, unfortunately. At least, not yet! Hey, I have been saying I was going to get one of those forever. I still haven't done it. I'm tr

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
let me just say: yes, there are bugs. However, I am using my iPad and both iPhones every day just as I have always use them. Do I have to do a few little work arounds? Yes. But still, I am using all of my devices with braille, with speech, with dictation and Siri and everything else and with the

Re: select all in pages and text issue

2014-10-09 Thread denise avant
Hi Phil, Thank you for letting me know. It was when I would do a select all from the top of the page that I had problems. On Oct 8, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > There is a well-known bug in pages where selecting across page boundaries > causes problems. I don't really know all the de

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I don't think the bugs are that bad. If I lose VoiceOver, and sometimes when I press the home key when getting out of an app it happens, I just tell Siri to turn VoiceOver off then tell her to turn it back on again. The other thing has to do with the music coming on when you use two fi

Re: Skipping ads on YouTube was mactubes question

2014-10-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Here's the trick to finding it. For one thing, the add MUST, absolutely must be over three seconds long or it won't even present. Now, if you start from the top left of the page and use VO+j, and if the add is over three seconds long, you will find it. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ra

Re: It’s official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: ‘It’s been way too long’

2014-10-09 Thread BobH.
I caught something in my pants zipper once, I didn't sue anybody, it wasn't in fashion then. I'm still hoping the 6/6+ form factor finds its way into a new iPod Touch, but have to wait and see like the rest of us. Rh. Rh. - Original Message - From: "Jamie Pauls" To: Sent: Thursday,

Re: It's official, Apple confirms October 16th special event: 'It's been way too long'

2014-10-09 Thread BobH.
The article I read was about the guy who put it in his back pants pocket and sat on it for an hour driving to work. Couldn't understand why it was bent when he got there. I mean, it is long and thin, so he sits on it, and then looks surprised. The sort of intellegence suggesting they aren't u

Re: Skipping ads on YouTube was mactubes question

2014-10-09 Thread Robert Cole
No, You can do it by yourself. The button only shows while the ad is playing. So pause the ad, or quickly VO right arrow to the skip ad button. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > > Hi, Just to clarify, I suppose you used a sighted person to find that skip >

Re: Skipping ads on YouTube was mactubes question

2014-10-09 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, Just to clarify, I suppose you used a sighted person to find that skip ads button the first time? Because i never see it in form controls or item chooser. Greetings, Anouk, On 09 Oct 2014, at 02:21, Rob wrote: > The way I solved the problems with ads on YouTube was to use the VoiceOver > Ho