Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread E.T.
Let me add some flour and yeast to the mix also. Ours is not a very cohesive society. Its extremely fragmented on many levels. I won't go into the politics of it, just that its unfortunate that all the various pieces have to practice their own advocacy to achieve the same goal. As far as

Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread Michelle's Home Emails
Hi all, Michelle here, What about the Deafblind community who gets very easily over looked during these conversations. Also there is a huge difference between a person who is vision impaired and person like myself who is totally blind and profoundly deaf with only light perception. Had t

Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread Arthur Gindin
I agree. We raise a blind child who also has the gifts of a talented musician. Unfortunately, the cause of her blindness has also caused other problems e.g. gait, use of only 5 fingers etc. We encourage her to make use of her talents. Unfortunately the abuse she gets from the ISD and the ove

Fusion or fusion pro?

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! What are the major differences between Vmware Fusion and Fusion pro? Ofcourse Fusion Pro might be for professional use but what can you do with pro that you can’t do with Fusion? I need to deside if i should buy pro or fusion only. Thanks in advance. /A -- The following information is import

Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread David Chittenden
There is a huge difference between minor vision loss and low vision, and then another huge difference between low vision and legal blindness. Legal blindness is 20/200, 6/60, or worse in the better eye after correction. Low vision, is any vision which is better than that, and worse than 20/60, 6

Re: A simple audio converter on mac

2017-03-23 Thread Ray Foret jr
IF you don’t mind paying a little, might I suggest “Easy Music Converter”? Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone7+ and Apple T

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Just what i thought to. I haven’t done that yet. Will try tomorrow. But Norman Mailer spins my head right now so can’t do it *smile*. /A > 23 mars 2017 kl. 20:09 skrev Scott Granados : > > Anders, no need at all to turn it off. Just do the process as normal and > when prompted again to enter

A useful App.

2017-03-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. I came across a useful app yesterday for the I phone. For those of you who live in the UK, the HMRC App which is designed for those who pay taxes is very voice over accessible. You can even calculate your taxes for your take home pay and perhaps for your tax returns for those who are s

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. At present I am successfully using the Samsung SLM2020w monochrome laser printer. However, this model is no longer used but I am sure the new model is out. I think the only draw back is that it's now touch screen. Mine though is not touch screen and I can operate it using the Mac. Th

A simple audio converter on mac

2017-03-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all: I need an accessible audio converter on mac. Thanks -- Ramy MoustafaSaber Music instructor @: Faculty ofmusical education Music arranger and Sound engineer @: Harmony Recording Studio https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyRecordingStudio.eg -- The following information is important for al

Re: Question regarding protools for mac

2017-03-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
ok, so will remove it now On 3/23/17, joseph wrote: > Hi > I downloaded it on my machine and sorry for the late reply > Best > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 22 Mar 2017, at 7:48 pm, jaan ali wrote: >> >> Hi i downloaded it >> Thanks >> >> >> Get Outlook for iOS >> >> From: macvisionaries@googl

Re: Garage Band 10, Quantize a MIDI Track

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Berry
I thought it used to be just the letter “q” if you were in the track. But the problem with that is you need to ensure that your quantizing correctly first I wouldn’t just quantize a track that could be detramental. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:54 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries > wrote: >

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I find that the ink jet are much cheaper out of the box, but they'll kill you with ink costs. the laser printers may cost more to start with, but with how many pages you can get out of the toners, it's well worth it to me. I went with the Lexmark CX410, but just about any known manufactur

Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
I have to disagree with this. You’d be absolutely right if we were a huge subsection of the population, but we’re not. We’re to small of a group for the general population to gain any nuance about our existence. Most people go through life with out ever encountering a blind person, to add all

Re: Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread Karen Lewellen
mark, I wish to interject something I feel you and those of you who resonate with this effort should consider. Speaking only for myself I feel one reason why it can be challenging to instigate impact is the way you discuss the experience of sight loss as if it is totally and absolutely t

Re: Question regarding protools for mac

2017-03-23 Thread joseph
Hi I downloaded it on my machine and sorry for the late reply Best Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Mar 2017, at 7:48 pm, jaan ali wrote: > > Hi i downloaded it > Thanks > > > Get Outlook for iOS > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on > behalf of Ramy Moustafa > Sent: Wednesday, March 2

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
I bought the 551N from a liquidator so got it for pennies on the dollar so I’d shop it around. Ink supplies are like $100 to $200 but last for a very very long time. I bought mine in 2013 and have only changed the supplies once. It’s a whole toner drum and inks deal like a copier. > On Mar 2

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread E.T.
That 551 sure is high end, about the same cost as a new MBP. How do laser printers stack up against ink models? I have no need to do color printing. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Anders, no need at all to turn it off. Just do the process as normal and when prompted again to enter your password enter the password + the 6 digits in the same field as one long value. YOu’ll be good and no need to disable anything. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > >

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! It was a hell to get the two step verification turned on and i don’t want to turn it off and then turn it on going through this again. But i will do some research on this. /A > 23 mars 2017 kl. 09:27 skrev Scott Granados : > > Ask John Podesta if 2 factor authentication is more trouble than i

GPG tools now supported by Sierra apple mail again

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Just wanted to give everyone the heads up using Sierra that GPG tools now works on Sierra again. It’s been reworked to work with Sierra Apple mail. Still in beta but seems to be working well for me so far. Google gpgmail2 to learn more. Thanks -- The following information is important for a

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Not what i can find but i can do a new retry. /A > 23 mars 2017 kl. 08:54 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > HI Anders > > Is there any option under the password to bring a drop down box into focus. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@goo

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
You’d think so and I totally agree but I’ve seen the defragmentation on Macs go totally sideways. It’s supposed to handle this as part of the file system but doesn’t especially as you mentioned the disk fills. Sounds like we’re on the same page though. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 2:55 PM, 'Chris Bl

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Yes, fragmentation is a problem not really attributable to the drive itself. Of course an SSDs don't have a head flitting around to gather up the random bits of your file from all over the platter so fragmentation doesn't matter on those. In Linux, and I'm assuming OSX, fragmentation on spinnin

Let's Use Social Media to Advocate for The Visually Impaired

2017-03-23 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, Earlier this week, both Apple and Starbucks announced that they were, in effect, reaffirming their commitments to several agendas. In apple's case, they introduced iPhone 7 and 7 Plus RED Special Edition, which is intended to give customers a way to participate in the fight against a

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
The problem is the old fragmentation problem, not to tricky. The files start getting written in noncontiguous blocks and the more large files you store the more fragmentation over time you get. A reformat and reinstall generally clears this up. I don’t mean physical degradation as much as I m

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Anders, you should be good I told you how to log in so you need not disable 2factor. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:58 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > No i don’t want to disable it. > Then i rather don’t use apple music on my android phone. > /A >> 23 mars 2017 kl. 01:16 skrev Matthew Dyer : >>

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Check out the HP 551N if you want a high end network attached printer. Check out the hp 6815 copier printer scanner as well. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Marianne Robbins > wrote: > > My printer is dying and needs to be replaced. I am looking for something that > will work well with a Ma

Re: printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Erik Burggraaf
Hi, I liked my samsung. It was a minimalist as far as the onboard controls were conserned. There was an apple configuration utility that was more or less accessible and there was a web interface for things like checking the ink level. It programmed via usb, then connected to the wireless ne

Sorting Favorites In Safari

2017-03-23 Thread Brian Hansen
Is there a way to set up a custom sorting of my Safari favorites? I’ve added a couple of new ones, and they seem to be appearing first when I’m tabbing through my favorites, and I would like them to appear at the end. Thanks for all of your help. Blessings, Brian -- The following informati

printer with voiceover

2017-03-23 Thread Marianne Robbins
My printer is dying and needs to be replaced. I am looking for something that will work well with a MacBook pro with sierra 10.12.3. (It would also be great if i could print from iPhone or iPad, but not essential) I use voiceover screenreader. I need compact size and controls that are not touch-

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! No i don’t want to disable it. Then i rather don’t use apple music on my android phone. /A > 23 mars 2017 kl. 01:16 skrev Matthew Dyer : > > Hi, > > > Sounds like ypou have 2 step verification enabled on your account. Try > disabling it and see what happens. JMO 2 step verification coses

Re: Text edit very sluggish when opening and saving documents

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Can it be the fact that it saves the files to Icloud Drive. Not sure though why this should slow down things but just a thought. /A > 22 mars 2017 kl. 18:27 skrev Phil Halton : > > I also have a sluggishness problem in TextEdit save dialogue, and my solution > has been to turn voiceover off a

Re: Text edit very sluggish when opening and saving documents

2017-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I use to run a program called cleanmymac which removes some junk and repairs disk permissions and a lot more. I can not remember the price of the app but its not huge. THe app has made my mac mini mid 2011 run a bit faster. /A > 22 mars 2017 kl. 17:56 skrev Gabe Griffith : > > Hi, > What mode

Re: Text edit very sluggish when opening and saving documents

2017-03-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have 8gb ram in a 2010 mbp and Text edit works fine. I also updated to a 750gb SSD. Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli > On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Gabe Griffith wrote: > > Hi, > What model of Mac do you have? I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro and ever since > I h

Garage Band 10, Quantize a MIDI Track

2017-03-23 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello. Coming to grips with the latest Garage Band in Sierra, I am wondering if there is a hotkey to immediately quantize a track after recording it. I have looked through lists of hotkeys but have not found anything so far. Thanks for any guidance. -- The following information is important fo

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In light of https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/22/apple-responds-to-hack-threats/ two-factor auth seems like a really good idea. CB On 3/23/17 4:30 AM, Scott Granados wrote: Anders, you’re intuition is correct. On native apple devices we get a separate pop up for the 2 factor response in thi

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Interesting. I had not heard about spinning disks degrading over time. I've heard of operating systems getting loaded up with goo from old files left behind and such, but not the drive. There is the stuff about drives remapping bad blocks over time, but I wouldn't expect that to make an impact

Re: Text edit very sluggish when opening and saving documents

2017-03-23 Thread Nancy Badger
Phil, It worked! Thank you very much for the tip. I am also going to report this to Apple. Nancy Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > On Mar 22, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Phil Halton w

Re: Text edit very sluggish when opening and saving documents

2017-03-23 Thread Nancy Badger
I have a iMac that I am using at work as far as I know it was purchased last summer. I just looked under "about" and it says late 2015. Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > On M

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, remember that spinning drive will degrade over time and make that Mac crawl so make sure you’re backing up regularly because a reformat and reinstall does fix the problem. (As does replacing it with an SSD). Good luck and glad it’s sorted out. > On Mar 22, 2017, at 5:20 PM, 'Jim Fettgather

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Anders, you’re intuition is correct. On native apple devices we get a separate pop up for the 2 factor response in this case the numerical portion of the response. In your case, you don’t have that specific pop up so you would respond like this. For our example say that your password is marsh

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Scott Granados
Ask John Podesta if 2 factor authentication is more trouble than it’s worth.;) That’s a pretty reckless statement. For we who store things like credit card numbers, personal files, and so on and so forth do you really just want a password between you and it? I strongly and I mean strongly sugg

RE: Apple music on android.

2017-03-23 Thread Simon Fogarty
HI Anders Is there any option under the password to bring a drop down box into focus. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2017 12:06 PM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionar

RE: Changing the writing from left to right, to right to left, and something about footnotes

2017-03-23 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah kind of, I'm writing in English and the words start left to right, Like my name "simon", If your writing right to left would my name still be spelt "Simon" Or "nomis" That's part of what I don't understand, And yeah Japanese / Chinese etc write in funny shapes / characters Amazi

Re: Changing the writing from left to right, to right to left, and something about footnotes

2017-03-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Simon: English, French, Spanish and many languages are written from left to right, but some languages like Arabic are written from right to left, others are written from top to buttomn like Japan Language I think. but anyway, our way in writing s the same, the screen view is different, but if you

Re: Changing the writing from left to right, to right to left, and something about footnotes

2017-03-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Jonathan: Thanks so much for your Detailed response. I discovered that the Mac itself is Clever enough to know if this language needs to be written from left ot right or Vice versa. so, it is working with no short cut. Thanks again for your help On 3/23/17, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi, > > I’m no