Re: A simple audio converter on mac

2017-03-24 Thread Ramy Moustafa
>From wma or wav to mp3. Can i tunes achieve this? Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2017, at 9:34 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > What sort of audio conversion are you trying to do? iTunes will

do i need java.

2017-03-24 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi everyone! I was just wondering whether i need java because i’ve heard that websites, won’t perform as they should with it, , I’m thinking if i should, get rid of it or keep it any ideas? Thanks. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerryc

Re: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread David and his growing pack of dogs. Benny, no longer with us his memory lives on through
On 3/24/17, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Pretty much a daily event here in nz, > > We are known for having four seasons in one day! > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David and his growing > pack of dogs. Be

RE: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Pretty much a daily event here in nz, We are known for having four seasons in one day! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David and his growing pack of dogs. Benny, no longer with us his memory lives on throu

Re: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread David and his growing pack of dogs. Benny, no longer with us his memory lives on through
I suppose there is a wet blanket in every crowd. LOL. Believe it or not, some like to know what the weather is like before they go out so they can dress accordingly. Let's suppose you are out somewhere and suddenly it starts raining. If you weren't prepared, you would look pretty foolish. On 3/2

Re: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread michael babcock
And hears the podcast done on this: Meet the Weather Gods of Fire, Ice, Water, Air & Moon | AppleVis Join with Thomas Domville (AnonyMouse) as he explores and meets the Gods: Fire, Ice, Water, Air & Moon delivering you the Weather as you have never experienced it before. https://www.applevis.com

Re: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread E.T.
Sounds like mythology has gone mainstream. Its about time too. The gods of Fire, Ice, Water, Air & Moon. More like it! $2.99 in the US of A. 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. You simply

RE: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah we're in autum / fall now and things are starttng to cool down and get wetter Just ask Auckland city they had flash flooding a couple of weks ago. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sat

Re: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Stuff falling from the sky around here tends to be white and cold this time of the year. An umbrella might help a little, but a hood or touque is more preferable. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 24, 2017, at 14:42, Simon Fogarty wrote: Weather gods? What ever happened

RE: Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Weather gods? What ever happened to just going outside and seeingif you get wet or blown over in the wind. I find if I go outside and there is stuff falling from the sky I know I should take the umbrella -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries

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

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah very few companys here in nz take the give it a go attitude Shame really, as we've got a lot of smart people willing to give it a try. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Saturday, 25 Ma

RE: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yes spindals have been around for years, Yes and they do stop working A disk spinning at 5400 or 7200 rpm with a little arm swinging over it will break in time. -Original Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, 25 Marc

Experience the weather in a whole new way with "Weather Gods"

2017-03-24 Thread christopher hallsworth
Evening everyone. I would like to share with you an app that lets you experience the weather in a whole new way. The app is called "Weather Gods" and does a lot more than display the weather. Since there might be too much to discuss here, you can find out more at www.weathergodsapp.com and, if

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The stories we could tell. I'll resist telling another one before this thread gets any further off topic. CB On 3/24/17 1:10 PM, Scott Granados wrote: Oh man can I relate to that. I remember my first ISP had no non routed IP space. Everything from the billing computer to the phone system an

Re: A simple audio converter on mac

2017-03-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, What sort of audio conversion are you trying to do? iTunes will convert a few audio formats quite easily. It just depends on the file type you have and what you wish it converted to. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 24, 2017, at 03:48, Ramy Moustafa wrote: If acces

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

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
Ah so a coltural or geographic difference. It sounds like a big hurtle to over come. Thank your the response and I’m sincerely glad you’re on the mend. Take care > On Mar 24, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > The French business world is very hierarchical and I th

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

2017-03-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Scott, The French business world is very hierarchical and I think that Apple France is typical of this. They think they know it all. As for my health, I’m vastly better now, thanks for asking. Cheers, Anne > On 24 Mar 2017, at 18:17, Scott Granados wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > Why do yo

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

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Anne, Why do you think this is? I can understand different countries having different governmental services or different companies having different attitudes but groups with in the same company seems odd. What do you think the source of the problem is? Also, I remember you were saying you

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
Oh man can I relate to that. I remember my first ISP had no non routed IP space. Everything from the billing computer to the phone system and even the dial up pools were all routed official IP space. Here’s a funny story and I’ll stop if the moderators wish but back in 1995 I had started my I

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

2017-03-24 Thread Anne Robertson
The sad thing about Apple is that it depends on the country you live in as to whether Apple employs blind people or cares about us. Here in France, Apple France refuses to communicate with organisations for the blind, and has steadfastly ignored my offers to help train their geniuses in the use

Re: Fusion or fusion pro?

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
The difference, at least in the US, is like $20 or $30 so I never bothered with the non pro version. Pro has some abilities like remote management and the ability to build servers locally and push them to a hosting service etc. I’m not sure the differences but the www.vmware.com/fusion

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

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
Apple does view us that way. There are several blind engineers at Apple some on this list in fact. There are also blind employees at the retail stores. I have never seen a blind person in a large scale retail setting. Small businesses yes but never working at Starbucks to use your example.

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

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
You’re absolutely right, I became aware of this discrepancy years ago when first working with Cell phones and accessibility. I think what happens is we get very connected to our own challenges and issues and design to meet these. We don’t necessarily ignore or neglect the deaf blind for exampl

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Since we're geezing here, I remember back in the early 90s setting up an Oracle DB on a Novell server on .mil so it was open to the internet. I was hosting data on GaAs high speed chip performance and they wanted it set up so any researcher from anywhere could get to it. That was before the day

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

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
David, I absolutely learn something new every time I read one of your messages. The statistics you offer up are always enlightening. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:43 PM, David Chittenden wrote: > > There is a huge difference between minor vision loss and low vision, and then > another huge differen

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
This is interesting and clearly drive reliability is improving. I remember back in the day running high speed SCSI drives for NNTP service. I was burning through almost 1 per day for a while there. IBM came out with a set of drives during that period which became more reliable and gave me a m

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Chris, if I told you about some of the practices at Wells Fargo for example you’d run down and pull your money out tomorrow.:) Some banks are very good but yes you raise as always an excellent set of points. The trade offs are huge. Things like finger prints and other biometrics are a help

Re: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just the traditional security usability tradeoff. Like door locks, you just want to make sure yours is tough enough to crack that the lazy bad guy moves on to somebody else. It's always crackable if they think the value inside is worth it. I can't imagine what it's like to try and do security f

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Backblaze, one of the larger cloud storage providers, publishes their drive failure reports every so often with some analysis. You can download the data if so inclined but the latest Q3 2016 report shows about a 2% failure rate. So if you had 100 drives in service you should expect two of them

Re: A simple audio converter on mac

2017-03-24 Thread Ramy Moustafa
If accessible and will work with sierra? I will pay, did u try it? Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2017, at 1:34 AM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > > IF you don’t mind paying a little, might I suggest “Easy

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-24 Thread Nickus de Vos
As for the long Jevity of spinning hard drives, you have nothing to worry about. Everyone have been using spinning drives for years and years with out any issues. Sure any Drive can fail after a year or 2 of used, but so can A solid state drive. Any computer get clogged up after a couple of yea

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

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
And on that every country has it's different rules and then for the likes of the USA different states or terratorys have different rules again, I'd love the likes of starbucks or apple especially to view us in the world of the blind / visually impaired as having the ability to work. There are

Re: Question regarding protools for mac

2017-03-24 Thread jaan ali
Hi i downloadet it Thanks Get Outlook for iOS _ From: Ramy Moustafa mailto:ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com>> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Question regarding protools for mac To: mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> ok, so

RE: printer with voiceover

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
HI ET, Laser is better for print quality, The higher end ink jet printers are pretty good but laser will always give a better print quality. Laser printers however have a toner cartridge toner is a somewhat powdered ink and they have a drum that helps press the ink to the paper, The toner

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

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Mark, I love the idea, I'd love to be involved, Shame that here in nz it's a bloody difficult job just to get a button on a webpage labelled on my companys webpage for health and safety incidents I think in the dictionary the term ignorance has the meaning What defines an able bodied p

RE: printer with voiceover

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Look at the canon lines I have one with wifi and the ability to print from my iPhone and iPad as well as both windows and mac os. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marianne Robbins Sent: Friday, 24 March 2017 5:17 AM To: macvisionaries@go

RE: Apple music on android.

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yes 2 factor authentication is a great idea, Shame it's a pain in the ass. -Original Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 24 March 2017 3:00 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple music on android. I

RE: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Oh yeah, They like any moving object start dying after a while. -Original Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 24 March 2017 2:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

Re: A useful App.

2017-03-24 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Kawal, thank you for posting about the HMRC App: very good to know that. Andrew > On 23 Mar 2017, at 23:10, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > 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 t