Hi,
My impression is that doing a clean install, doing 2-3 recovery from Time
Machine makes the mac run with less busy announcements. Also, encrypt the disk
seems to help, but don’t forget the password.
Make the backup partition smaller with an external drive for music and movies
or maybe pa
This is the last I will publicly comment on anything relating to the religious
angle of the headphone thread as preposterous as that sounds.
The sad thing is the zealots who inject their comments in apple threads or
suffering through a litany of bible verses and other nonsense unasked for in a
Scott, Chuck and Phil;
First off, are you three just trying to make my life difficult or do you really
enjoy being disruptive to the list this much? :)
You know, honestly, regardless of whatever side of this so-called argument you
feel you are on, can you at least grow up and either be polite o
Alex, well stated. The right tool for the job and all that.
Some are forced in to a platform as well because that industry has adopted it
exclusively. Insurance is one that is almost exclusively windows. One may
have no choice but to work in a windows environment.
As in most things there ar
Phil, thank you for making my point for me. Christians are the most
unchristian people on the planet. Of course since your point is completely
with out validity you resort to the only thing you have left, name calling.
You criticize what you don’t understand the only way you can with names be
Alex,
Very evenly said. For me, the best thing about Apple is how well
integrated everything is, the accessibility, and also the much easier
process of updates for native apps as well as for apps purchased from
the app store. I could go on. (smiles)
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Couldn't have said it better, Alex, if I had tried!
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I certainly took no offense, and I hope no one else did either.
The way I see it, there are bugs in everything, and quite often, what people
find problematic depends on their specific needs. For example, I need access to
Windows at work, and I have a very hard time debugging webpages. I also fi
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Wow, now I would love to have VR audio based feedback, much like Microsoft was
using in some blogs a year ago.
On a related note, I read in tidbits a comparison of the details provided by
Apple Maps vs Google Maps. Part three of the article should have some
accessibility remarks, keep a
Hi Martin,
I appreciate your point of view whereby you weren't just slamming without due
diligence. A couple things to note, though, from a fairly strong Apple user.
• Removing Favourites,does only take half a second in Safari on the Mac. If
your Favourites bar is visible, navigate to the Fav
Ahh, ! The thread that would not die! What a nasty, Superior little Poindexter!
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> On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
>
> Chuck, this is delusional thinking.
>
> I can prove there was a singularity, I can point a dish in the sky and show
> you on devices yo
I honestly used Mike Erigo’s initial Fusion 3.0 podcasts and then did the trial
and error method for the rest. Fusion 8 is what I run now very nicely with
voiceover. I used the fusion website and documentation as a starting point.
and then i cheated and asked our VMWare guy.:) If you have a
Very true, whether it’s memory, optics, on and on branding is the key. That’s
why we buy Cape Cod potato chips over a generic brand. Or why I spend 30
thousand dollars on a specific optical transceiver instead of the chinese
knockoff that works at well for $600 because the manufacturer puts in
It’s a common strategy, have you ever priced memory for a Cisco router? From
Cisco you could pay thousands for memory worth $100. When you peel off the
Cisco sticker there’s a Kingston sticker and model number underneath. It’s
called marketing.:)
Apple soldering everything to the boards now
Chuck, this is delusional thinking.
I can prove there was a singularity, I can point a dish in the sky and show you
on devices you understand if you’re in the audio game the distribution of
radiation across the sky and how it originates from a central singularity.
To keep it on topic, I can als
At the top of the hour, 8:00PM Eastern, PBS is doing their yearly 4th of July
celebration.
Does anyone know if I can watch if live with my Apple TV 4th gen? Yes, I do
have the PBS app installed. I just can't recall if the app let's you watch the
network live, or not.
If not, I'll just watch
No issues with text entry in search fields in iTunes and app store?
Maybe its a setting? The only feedback I get is sounds but VO will speak
characters when I arrow back and forth.
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On 7/4/2016 3:44 PM, Scott G
Here’s a good article on lightning that answers many questions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)
It also deals with the Apple licensing chip being cracked and also how the
processor enables the cable to be inserted either way.
Looks from this that the battery / power leads ar
This is how I do it as well. I’m not having the text spoken issue.
It does lose focus when initially opening though I can confirm that same
behavior.
> On Jul 3, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Alternatively, you can use the Window Chooser, VO-f2-f2 to bring focus to the
>
Yes all around.:)
First, there’s no real advantage I don’t think to having multiple accounts
unless you have say a dedicated business phone and home phone or maybe a
business account and your over all family account. There may be reasons to
split and maybe others have better ideas but for me h
My platform specialist at my firm has created VMWare configurations for
Windows 7, Windows 10 and Ubuntu on my work system. I have a significant number
of previous messages from the list on using VMWare, but is there a centralised
resource available for blind users on configuring VMWare most ef
On older Mac one beep for username two beeps for password and three beeps to
indicate that startup is proceeding.
On my 2015 MacBookAir it actually says username, password and incorrect
password. The three beeps occasionally still do occur.
So at some point apple decided they could put a sound f
I'm not seeing any problems with that website unless it's with the ordering or
sign in stuff. I didn't actually sign in or order but everything read ok with
Safari on OS X.
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Being that I am still so new with the Mac that if I went to
www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk
and it wouldn't work well, I would assume it is me, not Safari. So, I went to
it with this pc, using jaws, and it seemed to work well enough, of course, I
didn't try to order anything. I then went to it on my
Yes that backward password entry was fixed.
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On 7/4/2016 8:27 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
The latest release notes for 1Password indicate several updates for VO issues
with a thank you for all the feedback. Severa
The latest release notes for 1Password indicate several updates for VO issues
with a thank you for all the feedback. Several unlabelled buttons are now
labeled, and I believe the right to left insert of password values have been
corrected.
Best wishes,
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Have not been using the Mac that long but much prefer it over
Windows which is a nightmare (I have been using Windows since 95).
Certainly there are things we don't need to have to work around in OS X.
Its frustrating to be sure.
I have not yet made a clean break from Windows, been a hab
Let me assure you Alex, and the other fine folks on this list, that no
insult was intended. In fact, I find the vast majority of people extremely
helpful and highly knowledgeable about all aspects of computing, and
especially on the topic of Voiceover.
Regarding NVDA, it must be remembered that th
I don’t take offence to that. Nothing out there is perfect, and there are
always bugs with anything that have to be ironed out.
I wasn’t verry impressed with IOS 8 when that first came out, but I think a
lot of the sighted community weren’t either, and like you, I really have no
faith that wh
Not to worry, I haven’t read the original post yet, but I’m having that exact
battle right now at my job I’m about to start at the ADA department in my area.
I’m really looking forward to it, and one of the things I’ll be doing is
testing various web sites for accessibility, but they want to us
When running google/apple maps, you just tell blindsquare to launch either/or
when planning a route, and they will open automaticly. As far as running
4square in the background, you do have to have a 4square account.
I currently have one, which is launched by default within the app itself, but
First, speaking as a mostly happy Mac user, I want to say that I very much hope
that offense is never taken by anyone to a message like yours. It wasn't "it's
not Windows so I hate it and you're all stupid fanboys". It was respectfully
written and gave some specific examples of the problems you
Well, all three operating systems have problems. Windows and Linux aren’t much
better, just with Windows you get used to poor performance, and with Linux you
have to do everything yourself.
Sent from my Mac.
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> On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:13 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
>
>
My first encounter with Voiceover was back in the Snow Leopard days, and boy
was I impressed with the level of commitment by Apple to its screen reader.
It was back then I was enthusiastic about learning as much as I could about
this very different way of accessing a computer. It was quite a strugg
Greetings,
On occasion, I use BlindSquare and really like it. However, I am thinking that
I could get more use from the app if I dug more thoroughly into understanding
all of its features. I have two questions that may have been answered in the
manual, though I don’t remember seeing them addr
Hi Arnold,
I only have one apple account on all my apple devices,
So that’s iPhone, Ipad, mac book air 2 iPods and an apple tv,
I also had it on my mac mini as well but that’s currently in a box to sell
I get the benefit of purchasing something on my iPods or tablet / phone and the
other device
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