Re: dropbox Question

If you are not now paying for Dropbox storage then you have to make a decision. You get 2gigs free. If you need more space, you pay so much for so much space. I do not know what the pricing is. If you do not want to pay, then you need to move some of that 2gigs elsewhere. From E.T

Re: dropbox Question

Bad idea! You'd want to probably upgrade to a paid plan which would give you more storage. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Helga Schreiber To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

dropbox Question

Hi all! how are you all? I use dropbox on my mac and windows computer a lot! but now it tells me that is full, why should I do in those cases? Should I create another dropbox account and download another folder for dropbox? I'm just wondering since I use them a lot for school files, sharing fo

Re: checkbook pro

Marie, I have checkbook pro on my Mac Mini and the way I would try to resolve this is to go into the table of transactions, follow each transaction step-by-step, and check the running balance. Somewhere in yourtransactions a list, there must be an obvious error – I would think anyway. Have you

Re: checkbook pro

Have you recently had a $3 or $30 or similar transaction lately? You may have placed the decimal point in the wrong spot. I would start at the bottom of the entries and work your way up on the amount column. I have had to do this a couple times. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the

checkbook pro

Some how $8000 got added into my account in the program. I can’t figure it out. Does ;anyone know how to fix this? Even if I added instead of subtracted the amount of the check isn’t that big. Your help is greatly appreciated. Marie Lyons -- The following information is important for all memb

Re: not able to update i phone 6 plus

OK. Go to Settings on your phone. Once in here, double tap on ICloud. Now, under ICloud, don't double tap on the icon with your Apple ID e-mail address. Instead, keep flicking down. It's a ways down in this screen, but you should see something about backup. Double tap on this. Now, flick

Photo Stream

Not sure when this broke. I can no longer get my photos onto the computer after taking one with the iPhone current iOS. Settings are correct on Windows and iPhone. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for

not able to update i phone 6 plus

I am not able to update my iphone 6 plus. I am trying to update to 932, but when i select install now it says that i can update after the phone finish restoring from the i cloud back up. This has been going on for a week. thanks for any help -- The following information is important for all me

Re: need help with external bootable drive

Yep, I tried booting up Snow Leopard with Start up in the Preference Pane, and had the same result. It doesn’t go past the Apple logo screen. I spoke to Apple support and they confirmed what everyone here told me, it won’t work. Thanks to everyone that responded. Gary > On Jun 16, 2016, at

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Welcome to organic conversational threads. Same thing happens when chatting around a dinner table. The topic veers of and sometimes I wonder how we got there from where we started. In any case, I was just replying back to the content of Scott's previous message, not the subject. Hope you found

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Hi! Sweden is mostly harmless imho. /A > On 16 Jun 2016, at 14:03, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Thanks, but Siri in Sweden is for some reason very limited in what it can do > for us. I don’t think we can get sports scores, and i know we can’t get what > movies are playing if it’s not so that i ma

Re: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Heck, no offence was meant, however I still think Apple are the biggest and best example of integrated accessibility actually working, which is why one of the biggest reasons Mac users give for being on Mac is not having to depend on an external AT. That doesn’t factor in to the discussion by i

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Yeah, basically, the part you need for Windows integration is OS X Server, which performs authentication for AD on behalf of Mac users that log in and need Mac services, especially the Profile Manager to manage clients. You use Profile Manager to push out configuration changes, or like I said,

Re: Confusion about navigation settings

I also have all the cursors set to "follow each other". The only exception is the mouse cursor. I, like many others, have it set to "ignore voiceover cursor quote. Because of the way the mouse pointer can interact with certain fields in certain apps it can sometimes cause problems do have the m

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

As the originator of this thread, I wonder what in the name of sanity this has got to do with macOS Siera? Answer, not a single thing. Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wi

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

I used to do enterprise computing stuff back in the day but it was an all Mac shop with a few islands of Windows. I don't think there is a lot of work to integrate the two but in an all Windows shop any little thing that goes wrong is probably going to get blamed on the Mac. I've certainly run

Re: Confusion about navigation settings

Hi, I just set them all to follow eachother. There are very few instances where I don't want them to be in the same place. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Visit the out of work bum for your chance to win one of 10 KNFB Reader or Nearby Explorer for IOS or android! http://www.theoutofworkbum

Confusion about navigation settings

Hi All, Well, give a person a little knowledge and she can become dangerous. At least that's true for me. I seem to have messed up my navigation settings and now my cursor never seems to be where I think or expect it to be. I'm not sure whether my VO cursor should follow my edit cursor or vis ve

Re: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

She does a great job of explaining the basics to somebody coming from a windows background. On 6/16/16, Rhonda Partain wrote: > I really like this book. I don't feel so overwhelmed about my mac anymore. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionarie

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Nancy, I tried to make the same argument here. The computer lab run by DSS does now have a Mac thanks to me, but since the university already owned multiple licenses for JAWS, the cost-savings argument never got much traction. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 16, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Nancy Badger wrote: >

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Donna, I work in higher Ed as well. I have noticed the same thing. I am getting ready to start a new job, and when I asked for a Mac they thought I was asking for something extravagant. That is, until I told them that jaws would cost close to $1000 and therefore the cost would equal that of a Ma

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

A vpn account is certainly worth thinking about, however, i’m not so much helped by US specific info here in Sweden, it’s the local things i would have wanted. Still many thanks. /Krister > 16 juni 2016 kl. 15:13 skrev Scott Granados : > > Also remember though your Government is highly highly

RE: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

I really like this book. I don't feel so overwhelmed about my mac anymore. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rhonda Partain Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 5:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE:

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

I remember those days, too. But remember, Higher Ed is being lambasted from all directions because of the increases in tuition. At most universities budgets are very tight these days, so that would likely drive them toward the less expensive PCs. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 16, 2016, at 8:18 AM, Sc

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

That’s funny, I heard similar things happening with large banks having IBM board members force their products on the banks. I remember a time when Apple had academia wrapped up, especially the grammar and high schools. I think they used to give schools computers for free. I know my Son

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Also remember though your Government is highly highly restrictive and also from what I hear and I’m glad to be corrected but crazy on the taxes side. Again I may be the product of propaganda so I’ll take your word as a citizen over anything I hear on the media.:) That being said, I think gover

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Microsoft also has the higher education market cornered. Though many individual faculty prefer to use Macs, every campus I've ever been on was primarily a PC campus. When we came to SIU I made a real push to try and get them to move toward Mac, but the head of IT at the time was in bed with so

Re: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

The Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco has books on using a mac also. Peggy and Dixie Marie Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Andy wrote: Hi again Kimber. Got it and for only $22.00 I'm going to start reading tonight or over the next few days. I'm all excited now beca

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Thanks, but Siri in Sweden is for some reason very limited in what it can do for us. I don’t think we can get sports scores, and i know we can’t get what movies are playing if it’s not so that i make a syntax error of some kind but i doubt it i’m afraid. I don’t know if we can book tables on res

Re: keystroke typing tutor disappeared

Hi ET, Thanks for the link. Much appreciated. :) Talk soon Chuck On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:35 PM, E.T. wrote: > Here is the link. > > > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it wer

Re: voice over after phone calls

I’ve had that one as well. The whole audio routing thing is sketchy right now. Much better with out a Bluetooth headset but still not perfect. On 6/15/16, 12:18 PM, "E.T." wrote: Sounds exactly like my experience. BT headset works just fine until the other side answers then it goes to s

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Well, first, integrating Macs in to windows environments is very simple. At least it has been in the examples I’ve seen which are fairly large rollouts. Granted I don’t know how this was in the Leopard or Lion days but more recently the integration has been very good. You could harden the d

Re: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

Glad I was able to help. It's a very well written book and will help you feel more confident, especially if you try things out as you read about them. Wishing you the best of luck. I never conquered the learning curve myself and still struggle with all things Mac. I guess it's hard to teach this o

RE: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

Good luck andy and happy learning. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016 9:38 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me st

RE: external sound card needed

Hi, I’ve got a couple Both USB 2 and creative Think they cost me around 120 NZ dollars for the big one which does optical, RCA 3.5 both out and in, and has external volume The other one is simply a USB stick with a microphone and headphone 3.5 mill jacks and I think cost 30 NZ $. Worked fine w

RE: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Thank VM for that one. I use virtual box at work as it's free for windows on a mac but I use fusion myself and have been looking at the running OSX in a vm on my mac at work. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Hey Chris, For a simple computer option what about the Chrome Book? It's a cheap option here in NZ Tell them to have a look at them. -Original Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016 4:13 AM To: macvision

RE: need help with external bootable drive

HI gary, I would have to confirm it but I believe with the changes in firmware on your host machine, you wont run snow leopard from an external drive, The other thing you could try is boot up your host machine with the external drive connected, then go into system preferences and find near th

RE: voice over after phone calls

I’m running IOS 9.3.3 public beta on my 6S+ and I haven't noticed any issues like this. I use a Plantronics edge headset when making calls and it all seems fine. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Th

RE: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

I find it hard to believe that the Swedish siri is dummer than the austrailian or American siri versions? The Swedish are pretty dam smart people -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Thursd

RE: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Chris, I've tried jaws 17 on a windows 10 surface pro 3 and I still find it a lot more difficult to use than my iPad. Mind you that might be part of the problem is I'm trying to use a surface pro using IOS gestures But then what I'm doing with windows is more systems based so a keyboard is

RE: OS mac and vo

I just don’t find it that smooth, but then I sit all day in front of a windows 10 machine running office 2013 where thigns are a lot smoother in general with office, I also don’t find office 2016 for windows great for accessibility yet, it’s useable but not still not fantastic. From: macvision

RE: Looking for audio or even txt tutorials to get me started with VO and my new Mac

Hi Andy, Just thinking here, if the files are text files as in .txt files then why not download them to your windows 7 machine and open them in notepad then you could use that to read the book text while working through on the mac Just another thought. -Original Message- From: macvi

RE: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Yeah I've tried a number of times to contact the NZ vendors of window eyes and got no where. I have dealt with them years ago with regard other products but now days they don't seem to want to know. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@google