Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

Yes, you have to do it via gmail website interface, in setting and I think in labels tab where you uncheck the all mail folder. That's how it used to work. Andrew > On 15 Dec 2014, at 00:37, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Hi: > I didn’t see this option under Gmail settings. I looked! >> On De

Re: How To Get iWork Apps On OS X Yosemite For Free On Older Macs

Cheers! Unfortunately I deleted iWorks '09 from both my mac and its trash. I spent the best part of half an hour trying to update. All the time it kept saying, "no updates available". Even more frustrating; I could not manually check for updates in each of the apps. I ended up resetting the appl

Braille commands for Mavericks

I was told of a new braille command which follows. Activate quick nav mode Space-1-2-3-4-5 Is this new to Yosemite or to Mavericks? I do not see it in any list of commands that applies to Mavericks when using a braille display. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.

Re: yosemite advice

My advice: Backup, backup, backup! Did I mention backp?! Make a couple of them. No, you don’t have to setup iCloud drive if you don’t want to. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:13 PM, jeffrey greene wrote: > > Hi, ok I downloaded Yosemite today and made a boot/install drive. I will > install Yosemite tom

Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

I'd love to know that too actually, I didn't know there was an option to do that, and that folder to me is a space waster sense I never use it. On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:43 PM, John Panarese wrote: > I think you have to disable the folder. They keep changing the interface, > so I have not done it

yosemite advice

Hi, ok I downloaded Yosemite today and made a boot/install drive. I will install Yosemite tomorrow. Was wondering if anyone on the list has any advice? Also, I know it asks you to setup iCloud drive. I’ve never used iCloud for anything so don’t really need this feature. Do I have to setup iCloud

RE: iTunes 12 importing media slow?

Match wouldn’t benefit me, my collection is far too large. 1.5TB of music, and over 4TB of movies and TV shows. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. Cohn Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 7:21 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups

Re: Hand-coding midi files on Mac?

You may want to look into Lilypond. That's free. It is a music engraving program, and there is a learning curve but it sounds to me like it will do what you want. ww.lilypond.org John S - Original Message - From: Alex Hall To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, D

Re: iTunes 12 importing media slow?

You don't use match by any chance?g Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 13, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, Kliph, > > I would suggest that with large imports like you’re doing, that the iTunes > Database is possibly the issue. The number of files tends to be as big of an > issue as

Re: My Network

You might be able too get to the drive with url like smb://myoldcomputer/public Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Hello guys > I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out. I can’t figure out > which computer, or maybe both of them, is causin

Re: other lists?

I am 1 of the owners of that group, and the subscribe info is below. Would love to have you! Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questions are always an

Re: vmware fusion eating the caps lock key

I have no clue, the sharp keys method was my choices. You may find it in the group archives, or maybe google is your friend here. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Can you please explain how to remap the keys using the within fusion option? > > I want to remap the ac

Re: how to save please help?

Another thing to note about the control key. The control key will continue playback after you have hit it a second time.so in other words it acts like a pause/play button rather than a stop button. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > I’m pretty sure that

Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

I think you have to disable the folder. They keep changing the interface, so I have not done it in a while. Hopefully, someone can provide better instructions than I. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://ww

Re: Hand-coding midi files on Mac?

If possible, free is better. I won't need to do this much, and if I can avoid sinking money into it, I'd like to. If I remember right, Pro Tools is very expensive. If I have to go that route… Well, hopefully I don't have to. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:17 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > > I would try proT

Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

Hi: I didn’t see this option under Gmail settings. I looked! > On Dec 13, 2014, at 10:45 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > I think the only way you can do this is by logging into your gmail account > through the web interface and going into settings to disable that folder. I > don't think it can b

Re: Pages Formatting

So what can I do? I’m having a sighted person help me make a resume on a Windows machine. I couldn’t figure how to do formatting on Pages such as bulets, and spacing. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Sarai, > > Most formatting is preserved between Word and Pages.

Re: vmware fusion eating the caps lock key

Can you please explain how to remap the keys using the within fusion option? I want to remap the accent key to be the caps lock key.. I tried this, but somehow managed to screw up and it didn’t work.. thanks! Caitlyn > On Dec 13, 2014, at 3:07 AM, Kliph wrote: > > YOu gotta use sharp keys, or

RE: Hand-coding midi files on Mac?

I would try proTools. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: December-14-14 3:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Hand-coding midi files on Mac? Hi all, I want to create music on the Mac. I know Garageband

Re: Sending a card to multiple addresses

Sorry, I forgot to say one important thing. Once you have all the contacts you want in the group, head back to Mail. When making a new message, just type the group name into the field and it will be spoken; enter or simply tab will fill in all the addresses. If a contact has multiple addresses,

Re: other lists?

The address changed. Try: peel-the-apple+subscr...@googlegroups.com > On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody know what happened to the peel the apple group? > > If anyone knows, I’d be interested. Tried to join and can’t find it anymore.. > thanks! > Ca

Re: Sending a card to multiple addresses

Sorry, I misunderstood your intent. Open up the Contacts app and create a new group (I think the shortcut is cmd-shift-n, but I'm no sure). Now give the group a name, and press enter. Finally, go to the All Contacts group in the groups table which you should already be in, and start finding the

other lists?

Hi, Does anybody know what happened to the peel the apple group? If anyone knows, I’d be interested. Tried to join and can’t find it anymore.. thanks! Cait -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and s

Re: How To Get iWork Apps On OS X Yosemite For Free On Older Macs

If you have problems to update in Mavericks (the updates do not appear) you can log into the App Store account, go to bought section and update each of the three iWork components. A message about the need of download a antique version will appear for each of the applications (due that the last is f

Re: Sending a card to multiple addresses

Alex Thank you. Although My memory is good I can not remember all the 269 contacts. I am aware of adding one person at atime. Lets say I wish to do all A’s, b’s and etc. but can not remember everyone. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Sending a card to multiple addresses

Alex Thank you. Although My memory is good I can not remember all the 269 contacts. I am aware of adding one person at atime. Lets say I wish to do all A’s, b’s and etc. but can not remember everyone. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Sending a card to multiple addresses

Simply type a name or part of a name/email address. Down arrow through the results if the first one isn't the one you want, and hit enter when the contact is spoken, be it the first one or not. Once you hit enter, you can start typing another name, and repeat the process for as many contacts as

Hand-coding midi files on Mac?

Hi all, I want to create music on the Mac. I know Garageband is the default answer, but here's the thing: I can't actually play the piece, but I can construct it. That is, I could tell the computer to play these two notes with the right hand for x measures, while doing this with the left hand. S

Sending a card to multiple addresses

I wish to send an email to multiple email addresses in the BC Feild. I see how to turn on the BC feild but not how to add multiple email addresses to the BC feild. I have 269 contacts whicH I wish to edit. So, I start with a master list and then delete the cards I do not want. How do I create th

Re: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Krister, I'm not able to help, and I know this is just a rant and probably out of turn, but I have given up on facebook. It's just not possible for me. The time I spent finding the posts, struggling with various ways of trying to respond, see the responses, read the notifications, respond to

Re: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Hi, I now use Current too, but i still have these two problems even when i am in dom mode i don’t see more than ”OO has posted” and when you want to read whos actually posted and what comments i have to interact with the group where the message is in and while reading messages i get thrown back

Re: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Yes, and is a little smoother. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questions are always answered, and we are always patient with you. Subscribe here: pe

RE: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Hi, I’ve never heard of current. Does it work like menu tab? That is what I use now. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliph Sent: December-14-14 12:50 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Navigating on Facebook, prob

Re: how to save please help?

I’m pretty sure that Notes autosaves the note when you exit it’s window. Kind of like in contacts where the app just saves the data without there being a save button. As to renaming, notes will simply use the first line of text as the note name - think of the first line as a title line. Of Cours

Re: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

They say there is a safari extension to make it easier to move around. I use to use menu tab pro for face book. But more recently I use current for face book, they are both in the mac app store. Before I used the single key navigation to move around. H for heading, l for links, and so on. Th

Re: how to save please help?

I can answer the shut up button question I think. Just press the control key, and that should work fine. Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: > > Hi everyone how do you save and name a notes document and where can I save it > too? Also when voiceover is

Re: My Network

Hello Andrew I had not even thought about putting an alias on there. That might be better. I am going to do a test by restarting my computer with the public folder on there to see if it causes any problems or not. Then I'll think about doing that alias that.thanks for the idea. Gigi Sent from m

Re: how to save please help?

You don't have to save anything you create in Notes. It's automatically saved. You can open it any time from the notes list that is created as you add more notes. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.m

how to save please help?

Hi everyone how do you save and name a notes document and where can I save it too? Also when voiceover is reading is their a shut up button? I'm very frustrated, a few days I felt like I really liked my new mac but now that I cannot navigate in my favourite website and copy paste what I want I am

Re: Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Hi! I use safari on facebook most of the time if i don’t use my iphone or ipad mini. I think its the easiest way to handle things. /A > 14 dec 2014 kl. 20:26 skrev Krister Ekstrom : > > Hello again. > I’m just wondering how you facebook users find going round the facebook area > nowadays? I’m h

Re: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

A pleasure re the Podcasts - we I am no expert but hope that sharing what I have learnt is helpful. I had completely forgotten about system report so thanks for reminding me. I have just gone to system report and of course everything under Audio now is absolutely fine but your suggestion of se

Re: A strange issue i have with voices

Hi! Yes i have a similar problem. I can start safari and move around and then go away to do something else and when i come back i cant here voiceover. It seems to lock up. /A > 14 dec 2014 kl. 14:10 skrev Krister Ekstrom : > > Hello good people. > I will now as best i can try to describe a proble

Navigating on Facebook, probably revisited

Hello again. I’m just wondering how you facebook users find going round the facebook area nowadays? I’m having a couple problems in the various facebook clients for the Mac. Firstly, i can’t see names of people anymore, Voiceover can read something like: ”OO has commented on ’s” and then a messa

Re: Very odd mail behaviour.

Hi! The problem is that i don’t use threading at all. But can it be the classic view maybe? /A > 13 dec 2014 kl. 22:24 skrev Alex Hall : > > I suspect threading is the confusion. If you highlight five conversations, > and each has two messages in it, you are deleting ten items total. My first >

Re: Applications, syncing, and I Cloud Drive.

It’s really not that hard to down load it again. Just go to skype.com , go to downloads, and then find the mac version. Or just put it on a USB drive, and copy it there and then copy it to the computer you want to install it on. If you have a time capsule, or network attach

help with using shrook

Hi everyone, I have posted this on another list so those of you who are on that list please ignore this message. For those who are not on the list please I'm desperate and need help. With the help from the people on these mailing lists I'm using shrook to read my favourite greek recipes from my f

Re: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

Hello David, My sympathies with you that must be annoying. You mentioned System Prefs. I wondered if you knew about the system report button in "About this Mac”? Hopefully, it doesn’t happen again but a screen dump of the audio devices might be useful to some of the Apple forums. (Shift + Comma

Re: A strange issue i have with voices

Ahem, i have actually repaired permissions, but not verified the disk, this will be done immediately after having read the mails i’ve got. I have app delete as well so i’ll check those orphan files and see if they can be removed in some way. Thanks for the tips and more tips are welcome. /Kriste

Re: Various questions about iPhone six and iCloud.

See my answers below, in your message. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter > wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > I have an iPhone six, and cannot restore any information from AN iCloud back > up which was done of my previous iPhone five. Is there a way to do this, or > should I j

Re: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

Hello thanks for the feedback. The reason I lose sound in the 3.5mm jack is a bit of a mystery. It is the second time this has happened and only a re-install resolves the issue. If you go into system preferences and consult the output tab the device has completely disappeared with only interna

Various questions about iPhone six and iCloud.

Hi, everyone. I have an iPhone six, and cannot restore any information from AN iCloud back up which was done of my previous iPhone five. Is there a way to do this, or should I just delete the back up, and save the 2 gb it with you think? What is the key combination to push, during power up, whi

Re: Observations

For what it's worth, I've never gone below 2.5GB free in my iCloud storage, and I still have the basic 5GB plan. It helps to disable backups for apps that already use cloud storage, such as read later services or RSS apps that use Feedly or other syncing services. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:33 AM,

Re: My Network

Dear Gigi, I guess you should be able to leave the public folder on your desktop. Alternatively, could you put an alias to this folder permanently on your desktop? Andrew > On 14 Dec 2014, at 14:27, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Hello guys > I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out.

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

Hello again, Only now, Having posted my message to you, I realise that you run Arch in the VmWare Fusion which I think is a linux system. Maybe you won't need to do more apart from setting capslock key on the mac side to "no action", since I understand that Mac doesn't give up capslock key eas

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

Hello, I, too, had terrible problems remapping my capslock key as a screen reader key in VmWare Fusion. I had to follow instructions given on the list and on applevis.com by Erik Caron a while ago. In order to achieve this, I first had to set my capslock key on the mac side to "no action" usi

Re: A strange issue i have with voices

Krister, Forgive me if I say something obvious you know and tried already, but have you repaired permissions? Also, have you verified your disk in disk utility which you can find in the same tab in disk utility, that is under "first aid"? You may want to do this from your start up partition f

Applications, syncing, and I Cloud Drive.

Hello. Last evening I tried putting my Skype application into I Cloud Drive in the hope that I could copy the same to my Mac Mini rather than downloading it again. This Application would show up in my I Cloud drive when I was sitting at my I Mac. But when I got to my Mac mini, the Skype appli

Re: Observations

Hi, Actually Chris, this is a common misconception. When your iDevice is backed up to iCloud, the entire device is not necessarily backed up. That is, the OS and pre-installed apps are grabbed from Apple, only markers and setup info is stored for your apps as they are downloaded after the fac

My Network

Hello guys I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out. I can’t figure out which computer, or maybe both of them, is causing me grief here. My husband has a computer running under Windows Vista. I hav a Macbook Pro under Yosemite. Sometimes when he is using the computer and I want to

A strange issue i have with voices

Hello good people. I will now as best i can try to describe a problem i have and have had since Mavericks. Every so often especially when browsing facebook or other apps with html content, but even in other apps, Voiceover will all of a sudden go silent and after that the only things that can be

Re: Pages Formatting

Hello Sarai, Most formatting is preserved between Word and Pages. However, text in shapes, ligatures, some tab settings, linked text boxes, vertical text, stylised bullets, SmartArt graphics, some charts, paragraph borders, page colour and watermark as well as macros, OLI objects and themes are

Re: synching iphone

Hello Mark, Yes, that did it. Thanks so much. > On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:13 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Denise, > > Yes, I have encountered this issue. The problem is most likely being caused > by your phone. > > First, disconnect the phone from your Mac. > > Second, reboot both your Mac an

RE: synching iphone

Hello Denise, Yes, I have encountered this issue. The problem is most likely being caused by your phone. First, disconnect the phone from your Mac. Second, reboot both your Mac and your phone. Finally, reconnect the phone to your Mac. All things being equal, you should be good to go. Good

RE: Saga trying to reinstall Yosemtie

Hello David, First, let me say that I am so sorry you had to go through all of that just to get back up and running. Second, I am wondering why you lost sound in your 3.5 earphone/microphone jack. If you don't track down the cause, or at least an easier solution, you may have to deal with s

synching iphone

Hello all, I have connected my iphone to my computer using the cable. All I can get is a message in itunes 12 is waiting for synch to start. Has anyone encountered this issue? I have not until yesterday. thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV