Macbook Pro and external HDD

2015-12-29 Thread Grant
Hi all, Is it unheard of to have issues with removable drives after waking a Macbook Pro? I’ve noticed on occasion my external hard drive appears to be unmounted after my Macbook Pro wakes from sleep, and I need to disconnect then reconnect it for it to show up in the Finder. Obviously, this is

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, so the thing is to make your airport work all you need do is have the same network name on 2.4 and 5.0 ghz. The SSID and associated hardware addresses are the same so it joins either way and then uses the best available option which is generally the 5.0 ghz if available or the 2.4 ghz type

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
I know, this was the old days, reminds me of old family road trips. XM is another great solution to the problem of having to change channels. XM got their start I think being sold in truckstops for obvious reasons. > On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:20 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > I love tunin, some

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
Few things here, the efficiency point is incorrect. The Internet is much more efficient for broadcasters. They can use multicast and other technologies to help manage the streams more efficiently, they get direct confirmable and trackable access to each listener, they get a lot more demographi

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
When someone talks about the radio in a cellphone they mean the radio software and hardware that talks to the tower in the transceiver sense not the radio as in AM FM sense. Now there’s an exception to that. Many older phones had AM / FM radio hardware included in the cellular radio chi

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Jim Gatteys
Ithink all the listening maps are great but there's nothing like listening to radio. When we had our blizzard this weekend and there were tornadoes not far from us I thought how lost we'd be without the internet. I hope over the air radio never goes away. jg > On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Jes

Re: Removing an app

2015-12-29 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, thanks. - Original Message - From: "Ricardo Walker" To: "Macvisionaries" Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 7:59 PM Subject: Re: Removing an app I’m pretty sure it will. On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: If I remove an app from my IPhone, will it als

Re: Removing an app

2015-12-29 Thread Ricardo Walker
I’m pretty sure it will. > On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > If I remove an app from my IPhone, will it also automatically get deleted > from my watch? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you

Re: iTunes, automatic behavors

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
iTunes is a pig, isn’t it? It now does many things, a lot of them at startup. Turn off Wi-Fi sync for each device to stop that happening at startup. This will of course mean you need to cable up to sync. Or you could try to avoid syncing by going to the cloud. The option is in each device’s

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Jessica Moss
I love tunin, someone introduced me to that about 3 years ago back when I used to use iheart radio, and I like that so much better, especially sense it picks back up on whatever station you were listening to when you closed it. I love those apps so much better than a regular frequency radio, co

Removing an app

2015-12-29 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
If I remove an app from my IPhone, will it also automatically get deleted from my watch? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inapprop

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Brent Harding
That's true. I pretty much listen to most stuff streaming these days except for the little bit of TV, news, etc that isn't always available online, but the actual AM or FM radio itself isn't something we probably need inside of a phone. I agree that something has to be come up with to make this

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Scott, Thanks for this. You put me on the right track. Essentially, my issue was a wifi limitation of the watch, not supporting 5.0Ghz networks if you can believe that. In 2015. smh. So, I’m also using an airport router that won’t let you disable a 5.0ghz radio. So, I just connected to my Fi

Re: Odd Navigation Results with Web Page under OS X 10.10.5

2015-12-29 Thread Craig Werner
Hello, Sabahattin. I have indeed reported the link to Apple Accessibility with full particulars of the allegedly locked table. I pointed out that the page is navigable with the Tab and other keys but that results produced by pressing VO-left and VO-right arrow are disappointing and anomalous. Th

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Brent Harding wrote: > I don't think the iPhones ever had one. The radio might be part of the chips > in there, but Apple disabled it somehow to where we can't turn it on. I > think this is something exclusively for Android phones, but it would require > headphones or a cable hooked to speakers to

Re: questions about apple watch and sending taps

2015-12-29 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I also would like to know better how to do this, as it's apparently not working here. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados" To: "MacVisionaries 'Chris Blouch' via" Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 2:13 PM Subject: questions about apple watch and sending taps Hi, if I

iTunes, automatic behavors

2015-12-29 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, When I start up iTunes, all of this automatic activity occurs, & I don’t know how to stop it. The Mac wants to open the store, it pops up my iPad, then my iPhone. I need to wait 30 seconds or so for it to run through it’s little routine before I can do what I want to do. Is there a w

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Brent Harding
I don't think the iPhones ever had one. The radio might be part of the chips in there, but Apple disabled it somehow to where we can't turn it on. I think this is something exclusively for Android phones, but it would require headphones or a cable hooked to speakers to use for its antenna, so it

Re: Router recomendations?

2015-12-29 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Andrew. I have the set up that Sabahattin was talking about as it was on his recommendation and his help that I have a rock solid network handled by my Draytech 230 and Airport Extreme. It wasn’t hard to set up but if you need help, there are plenty of us on this list who will help. I a

radio and iPhone 5S

2015-12-29 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi all! Just curious. I have heard that there is a built-in radio chip in most smart phones. Is this true and how does it become activated. If this is the case why do we need special apps to listen to radio? I have an iPhone 5S and would like to know more about this. Any info would be apprecia

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

2015-12-29 Thread erik burggraaf
VLC definitely plays mkv files once they are extracted. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > What about the opposite, generating MKV files that are lossless from DVD > discs? Is MakeMKV accessible, and will VLC play the resulting discs > acces

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
What about the opposite, generating MKV files that are lossless from DVD discs? Is MakeMKV accessible, and will VLC play the resulting discs accessibly on OS X? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Best configuration for new mac?

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Awfully sorry. My last post was intended for another thread. Please disregard. I will repost it on the correct thread, and answer this one soon. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

2015-12-29 Thread John Panarese
You cannot create DVDs. I had communications with a tech support person and they told me it only rips from DVD or can copy DVDs, but will not convert from other formats into a DVD disk. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com

Re: Best configuration for new mac?

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
What about the opposite, generating MKV files that are lossless from DVD discs? Is MakeMKV accessible, and will VLC play the resulting discs accessibly on OS X? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

2015-12-29 Thread erik burggraaf
Has any one tried this and will it allow for accessible creation of dvd menus and chapters? Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Dec 23, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey John, Not sure of the format you are looking to convert from but pretty > sure Mac DVD Ripper Pro could do it as they

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Scott, Nearly. The watch and phone will use Bluetooth if available. If Bluetooth is off or unavailable, the watch uses any existing association to reach the phone over Wi-Fi. Finally, if the phone itself is off and can’t be reached by any method, then the watch will do some things indepen

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Brent Harding
That's what I always thought too. By the time I got my watch around the end of June or early July, Sprint had wifi calling available on the iPhone, outgoing calls could be made from the watch, but incoming had to be answered on the phone. That wifi calling made the watch not receive calls back t

questions about apple watch and sending taps

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, if I want to digital touch someone how do I do it successfully with voice over on. On my watch i press the button, select the friend, select the digital touch option, select the area where it seems there should be input and tap away. Not much happens. I can also not always receive them r

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
So here’s how that works. The interface between the watch and the phone appears to be bluetooth. The calls route over bluetooth and notifications are sent over bluetooth. WiFi kicks in if the primary connection to the phone over bluetooth is lost. Once the loss is detected the watc

Re: wifi calling on Apple Watch

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, Ricardo, I finally got this working but it took some finessing. Here’s what I did, your milage may vary. First, trouble out T-Mobile I called them and they were surprised this feature worked but they said they wouldn’t block other devices like laptops or iPads so the watch should work. Aft

Re: Airplay iPhone 5S to Apple TV 3rd Generation

2015-12-29 Thread Scott Granados
I believe the iPhone uses the main connection so the airplay data would traverse the router. This makes sense. What I’m not sure is if the two radios talk together on the WiFi side once the session is established or if the access point always has to stay in the middle, I’d suspect the ladder.

Re: iOS 9 voiceover manuals

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If you’re talking about the iPhone user guide, you can view it online at http://help.apple.com/iphone . (Incidentally, replace “iphone” in that URL with the names of other products, for instance “appletv”, to get their respective manuals.) The manuals are always published by Apple in the iBook

Call Recorder for Skype?

2015-12-29 Thread shaf
Anybody know if there's a good recorder for Skype out there besides Ecamms software which can automatically save files in MP3? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: Router recomendations?

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, I'm very grateful to Anders, Sabahattin and others for this discussion. I can see what I must do now to improve my network setup. I've just ordered the Draytek v130, and I will make it my modem and allow my Airport Extreme to handle everything else. I feel that it should improve infinite

Re: Trillian Has Broken Accessibility

2015-12-29 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I don't think being angry about things and attacking them is the way to go. That said, I do understand your anger. I, like you, hate it when companies think eye candy is the way to go, so therefore break things. Though it's tempting for me to publicly on Twitter attack them for this, I'm not

Re: iOS 9 voiceover manuals

2015-12-29 Thread John Panarese
Hi Phil, Choose, Support, and in the search field, search for user manuals or iOS user manuals. That should get the manuals in the results in PDF. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com

iOS 9 voiceover manuals

2015-12-29 Thread Phil Halton
I'm trying to locate somewhere on apple.com the getting started manual for voiceover. Can anyone point me to a link or a page where I can just get the iOS voiceover manual?. It used to be located somewhere in Safari bookmarks, but I don't see it there anymore. Thanks Sent from my IPhone -- T

Re: Best configuration for new mac?

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
May I ask further? How many cores would you assign to virtual machine running windows 7 on my mac pro with 3 GHz Intel Core i7? I'd greatly appreciate your advice. I don't quite understand the concept of cores, especially that lots of material on VMWare website talks about virtual cores and

Re: Getting to the dock

2015-12-29 Thread Jim Gatteys
I believe ctrl-f3 is a default keystroke for moving to the doc. You might have to use the function key depending on how you have your computer configured--at least on a laptop. Jim > On Dec 28, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Marie Lyons wrote: > > It doesn’t say anything. I get the tone that tells me whe

Re: Odd Navigation Results with Web Page under OS X 10.10.5

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Craig, Indeed. Very frustrating. As always, please tell accessibil...@apple.com and show them the page, if you can. This sort of thing needs to be addressed more urgently than other feature enhancements and would be considered a showstopper without other platforms to fall back on. -- Th

Re: Best configuration for new mac?

2015-12-29 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Bill. I should have been clearer that the 2012 Mac Mini did offer a quad-core option. And yes, giving just one core to an OS will work, but will not be quite as fluid as at least a dual-core virtual machine. So yes, if you’re planning on virtualisation-heavy workloads, look at the portable

RE: Best configuration for new mac?

2015-12-29 Thread Bill Holton
Not sure what you mean by virtualization downgrade? Is there a difference between the old dual core processors from the 2012 mins and the newer dual core processors, other than clock speed? Will a quad core on a macgbook improve virtual machine performance since you can dedicate two cores to e

Airplay iPhone 5S to Apple TV 3rd Generation

2015-12-29 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, When using airplay does iPhone 5S use wifi to directly communicate with Apple TV or does it use wifi via my wifi router? I hope it uses wifi directly to the Apple TV and thereby bypasses my wifi router. I ask because my Apple TV is located where wifi to my router is not good. Hence the

Re: messages app not connecting to Facebook anymore.

2015-12-29 Thread Jessica Moss
I've done that, but all it says is "contact list" but it shows up under the web interfase, so have no idea what to make of that. On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:44 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > No you can still use Trillian to connect to Facebook. Try pressing > command+slash. That should bring up the con

Re: Trillian Has Broken Accessibility

2015-12-29 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Yeah no kidding. I sent them an angry tweet about it but who knows if they check their Twitter account. Their handle is @trillianastra. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com

Re: Getting to the dock

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
You can also get to the dock by pressing control+f3. Also, you can gett to menu extras by pressing control+f8 or vo+m twice. Andrew > On 29 Dec 2015, at 02:58, Marie Lyons wrote: > > It doesn’t say anything. I get the tone that tells me when a command isn’t > available. > > Marie Lyons >> O