Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, To download the SD quality movie, press VO-shift-m when focused on the given movie, navigate down to the Video Quality item then choose SD from the sub-menu. now if you press download, the Standard Definition version will be downloaded or if you simply wish to stream it, the SD version wil

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2014-10-29 Thread Faisal ali
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Re: Messages Incorrectly Labeling Text Messages as Imessages

2014-10-29 Thread Christine Olivares
Yes I am running Yosemite. What happens is the exact opposite of what you said. These people I message do not have iPhones, so it is obviously a text message. When I go to message them, it tells me I am sending an iMessage when I am sending a text message. So the labels are incorrect. Like I sai

Re: Messages Incorrectly Labeling Text Messages as Imessages

2014-10-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi christine, Perhaps the person you’re trying to send the message to has or had a problem with their iMessage setting, which would cause the message to go through as a text message instead. I’m assuming you’re running Yosemite? > On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Christine Olivares wrote: > > Hel

Messages Incorrectly Labeling Text Messages as Imessages

2014-10-29 Thread Christine Olivares
Hello all, For some strange reason, Messages is incorrectly labeling text messages as iMessages. So when I send a text message from my computer, it says, “iMessage, edit text” instead of “Text message, edit text.” This just started today. Before today, both were labeled correctly. Any ideas as t

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Joe Quinn
how do you then download the SD version of a movie? no matter what i do, it seems to download the HD version, and when i click on the checkbox that says, “download hd when available”, it always gets turned back on when i go to download a movie… help! :) > On Oct 29, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Tim Kilburn

Re: Odd behaviour in notices.

2014-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, You can stop E-Mails from showing up in the Notification Center by > going into the Mail menu, then, to “Preferences.” You can also get to this > with Command cama. Then, Go all the way to the top of the window, and click > General. (VO Space on that button.) then, go right until you get whe

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The age of the movie only has a part to do with it. It mostly has to do with the studio. If they chose to update their iTunes Extras then they become embedded in the HD movie. The Booklet style of iTunes Extra is only viewable on your Mac unless you perform some trickery by extracting th

Add to iTunes as a spoken track not working

2014-10-29 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Since installing Yosemite, the service Add to iTunes as a spoken track no longer works. It does absolutely nothing! It shows up under Services and VO announces it, but nothing happens. Has anyone else experienced this? Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes it makes a lot of sense. I have had problems with airplay when bluetooth was turned on but this seems to work as it should now. /A > 29 okt 2014 kl. 00:51 skrev Tim Kilburn : > > Hi, > > I’ve not tried it using that kind of set up. I’ve got a similar setup at > home though but have my

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In FaceTime on your Mac, make sure that your phone number is selected. If it’s not present in your FaceTime Preferences, then sign out then back in within your FaceTime Prefs so that the number is properly associated with your AppleID and FaceTime account. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurra

Re: looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, They will remain separate. All you’re doing is telling messages related to MacVisionaries to be assigned to your iCloud account instead. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 29, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Faisal wrote: > > One last thing, > I have my iCloud set up separately on m

Re: Odd behaviour in notices.

2014-10-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I think so but i am not quite sure. /A > 28 okt 2014 kl. 22:39 skrev Shawn Krasniuk : > > Hi. Do audio notices include notifications using the system voice? I ask this > because it would be handy in situations when Voiceover is turned off. > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook > >> On Oct

Re: Yosemite: The ghost in the machine?

2014-10-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok, so this is why voiceover hangs when waking the system up. I guess i have to tell the accessibility team about this. /A > 28 okt 2014 kl. 18:02 skrev Jeffrey Shockley : > > Hello, > I have also had problems with one of my Macs when putting it to sleep. I am > experiencing the same be

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-29 Thread Agent086b
Thanks, I have the number selected on the phone, but I can’t see anywhere on the Mac. I now have my wife’s iPad able to answer calls. Unfortunately just can’t get the Mac to do the same. Max > On 30 Oct 2014, at 6:12 am, Terje Strømberg wrote: > > One forum member said iCloud need to have a ph

Re: looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread Faisal
One last thing, I have my iCloud set up separately on my mail clients. It is isolated from my gmail. If I add my iCloud as an alternative account to my google, will this result in my iCloud messages being downloaded to my google account? Ideally, I want to completely keep the messages separated

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-29 Thread Terje Strømberg
One forum member said iCloud need to have a phone number set in the settings somwhere. Take care 28. okt. 2014 kl. 21:37 skrev Agent086b : Hi, I think you are lucky getting it to work sometimes. I am not able to get to work at all. I may try Apple Care when I have the time. Max > On 29 Oct 20

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-29 Thread Terje Strømberg
A forum meber said iCloud needed to have a phone number set in iCloud settings somewhere. Take care 28. okt. 2014 kl. 23:49 skrev Aleeha Dudley : Yes, all settings are correct. Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students blindcowgirl1...@gmail.c

Re: looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread Faisal
Thank you tim On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I sent these instructions earlier this year. Give them a try. > > 1. Open Safari and go to www.google.com. > 2. Press tab or shift tab until you either hear “Sign In” or your name if > already signed in to Gmail. > 3.

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Joe Quinn
Also how do you do this on the mac? Go to the movie and click the Download cloud icon. You can select Download iTunes Extras or Cancel. I see no download option in the purchased section of the iTunes Store on my Mac. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Joe Quinn
But I have the extras booklets for all 3 movies on my mac. So I can't access them from the apple tv cause they're too old? But i can access all of the Harry Potter extras on my apple tv, and One of those movies, The sorcerers Stone to be exact, is as old as thefirst LOTR movie. Don't see the

Re: findings with regard to taking calls on the Mac

2014-10-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
True. This would apply to any headset which is configured as that set is. A most exelent example would be the Plantronics 355 set. Best headset I ever bought for both my Mac and brand spanking new 128GB iPhone 6+. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone us

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Pete Nalda
Jfyi, keep in mind, that Zoom is only available on an Apple computer, as is VoiceOver. So you'll need to go to a store, that sells Macs, to try these. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lp

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, CloseView did allow for colour inverting, but, I would expect that Zoom is much more advanced than CloseView was. Thanks for the info. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > > Zoom is much more advanced than close view. It offers

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Pete Nalda
Zoom is much more advanced than close view. It offers font smoothing,and picture-in-picture (windowed)zooming with shaping (using shift+control+option+right/left arrow keys when voiceover is off). It also offers color inverting and font smoothing as well. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, M

Re: findings with regard to taking calls on the Mac

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Ray, Further to what you’ve said here, if you use your Apple headphones that came with your iPhone within your Mac, you will hear and be heard normally. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > To the people who seem to have troub

Re: looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread BobH.
WeighHay!... I found the very link in the footer, just below your question; so it goes like this:- Use this account to post to the following address:- macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Use your new or other account to post to this following address. macvisionaries+subscr...@googlegr

Re: looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I sent these instructions earlier this year. Give them a try. 1. Open Safari and go to www.google.com . 2. Press tab or shift tab until you either hear “Sign In” or your name if already signed in to Gmail. 3. Press return. 4. Navigate with VO to find the Account

Re: App that moves the mouse a fixed distance

2014-10-29 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, I was hoping this app would make life easier in Pages, which it does for setting tab stops, but when it comes to navigating in a pop over, such as trying to access the menus beside each paragraph name in the paragraph styles table, this app just takes you out of the pop over. Mouse

findings with regard to taking calls on the Mac

2014-10-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
To the people who seem to have trouble with their microphones while trying to take or make calls on their Macs. I believe that I can explain the source of the troble. I recall that some people were having issues when they tried to use bluetooth headsets to do this and foud they could not. I j

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes. Visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6307?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US for Apple’s info on this. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Faisal wrote: > > So, the latest version of extras is viewable on all your devices now? > On Oct 29, 2014, at

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread erik
hi I habe a few concerns with this approach. 1, respect for the cost of your client's higher education. Your client will gain transferrable skills, but will gain none of the practical experience that others in his classes will have. 2, The expected rate of decline of the client's

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Faisal
So, the latest version of extras is viewable on all your devices now? On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I have the Special Extended bundle which doesn’t appear to come with iTunes > Extras. Things to note with iTunes Extras: > > 1. The new version of iTunes Extras is

looking to change my email subscription

2014-10-29 Thread Faisal
I want to change my email for this list to my iCloud account. Can anyone help? -- 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 to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googl

Re: iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I have the Special Extended bundle which doesn’t appear to come with iTunes Extras. Things to note with iTunes Extras: 1. The new version of iTunes Extras is kind of embedded into the movie. so, the title will read “Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Rings (PG) HD - iTunes Extras”

App that moves the mouse a fixed distance

2014-10-29 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, If you happen to need this type of thing, you're in luck. There's now an app that will move your mouse pointer a set amount, in inches. This lets you, for instance, give someone a set amount by which to move the mouse to adjust a slider, or move to something VoiceOver can't see but whose

iTunes extras

2014-10-29 Thread Joe Quinn
I'd just like to clarify for anyone who owns the itunes version of the lord of the rings extended bundles, and an apple tv, do the itunes extras show up when you select the movie? This doesn't show up on either my apple tv or my iphone 5s. Thanks for any help you can shine on this And I'm runn

Re: Creating radio stations playlist in itunes 12.01

2014-10-29 Thread David Griffith
I have done this in the past by simply copying and pasting into a playlist. I created a BBC Radio Playlist for example. I have not tried this on the new version of iTunes though. You could just try pressing command C on a station and then command V on a playlist and see how you go David Griffit

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Christine Grassman
Great. I’ll have him run demo/trial versions, and we’ll see. Thanks so much. -- 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 to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googleg

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I haven’t used Zoom or its predecessor, CloseView in a long, long time. But, as far as I know, Zoom is mostly a screen magnification feature, thus, as long as he has enough vision to see what’s on the screen, he should be fine. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 29, 201

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Pete Nalda
Zoom comes on all Macs, just as does voiceover. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda > On Oct 29, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Christine Grassman > wrote: > > Is this true of Zoom as well? A

RE: Creating radio stations playlist in itunes 12.01

2014-10-29 Thread Faisal
Is this with iTunes radio? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche Sent: October-29-14 7:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Creating radio stations playlist in itunes 12.01 Hi, There a

Creating radio stations playlist in itunes 12.01

2014-10-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, There are so many radio stations in itunes. How can I create a selection of the stations I like? It takes for ever to go through the list of them. Help please! I tried to call up contextual menu on a particular radio station to see whether there’s an option to add to playlist but I don’

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-29 Thread Christine Grassman
Is this true of Zoom as well? At least for the time being he is able to use Zoom. Does this make any difference with respect to accessibility? If so, I’m thinking he gets his foot in the door, then when the inevitable occurs, he fights for accommodation. -- You received this message because yo