Re: Adjusting Individual Audio Sources on the Mac

HI. googled and found this link. hope it helps. https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ Maria > On 8 Jun 2019, at 11:08 am, kelly ford wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > Is it possible this program was renamed? So far the only program by the > company you ment

Re: General Screen search on iOS

No, sorry, you believe wrong. The item chooser is not a manual search feature. regards, Ben On 6/8/19, Barry Hadder wrote: > Two finger triple tap brings up the item chooser. > I believe that is what you are looking for. > >> On Jun 7, 2019, at 23:18, B G wrote: >> >> I've a feeling we may be a

Re: General Screen search on iOS

Two finger triple tap brings up the item chooser. I believe that is what you are looking for. > On Jun 7, 2019, at 23:18, B G wrote: > > I've a feeling we may be at somewhat of a cross-purposes here gentlemen. > (smile) > None of the choices available on the rotor will take you to the next > te

Re: General Screen search on iOS

I've a feeling we may be at somewhat of a cross-purposes here gentlemen. (smile) None of the choices available on the rotor will take you to the next telephone number - which would just be a sequence of digits and possibly a few hyphens interspersed among them - on the page, but let's not worry ab

RE: General Screen search on iOS

Do you know about the Rota and it's different features? If you are in safari and need to work through things then the rota has things such as viewed links, links Headings containers Buttons, And a truckload of others, I'd say use those to find what your looking for. -Original Message-

Re: General Screen search on iOS

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There is a find on page feature within the share tab. Tap share, and it is almost at the very end, I think you have to tap the second more button to get to it. If it doesn't give the text field to type in your search the first time, tap the done button,

RE: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

Great work, Wish I could get my employer to follow this kind of sensible forward thinking. From: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2019 6:32 AM To: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries Subject: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news Hi, I’ve been using for some time e

RE: Apple Watch no longer tracks activity accurately

Hi Donna, Yes I'm noticing a similar issue with my series 4 watch, I walk to and from work every day and that is about 20 minutes there and 35 minutes home due to it being up hill on the latter trip. Yet I'm lucky if my watch is picking up the full walk to work in the mornings, I sometimes get

RE: Message Filters

Hi Janina, Edge is a nice browser though, Infact the biggest problem I'm having with it is Is whether it's edge or chrome, They are bloody hard to see the difference in. -Original Message- From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2019 2:14 AM To: macvisionaries@g

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hi Janina, Yeah it is, Considering it's lasted being hit by me and a 50 seater tour bus, Dropped Stood on, Sat on multiple times. Keyboard losing keys, Food stuck in the usb ports, I love children, So yeah I got my moneys worth out of it, I do think that if I get a 2017 refurbished device t

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hi Janina, The 2017 I7 2.5GHz 16GB ram & 512GB ssd pro has 2 USB-C ports for charging and connectivity to go with a crazy new Zealand price of $3179.00 That's a refurbished price, Brand new RRP is approx. 600 more. But it would be my first choice I'm thinking over the weekend on what device

Re: Adjusting Individual Audio Sources on the Mac

Hi Robert, Is it possible this program was renamed?  So far the only program by the company you mentioned I’m finding is called Fission.  It appears to be an audio editor/converter. Kelly From: on behalf of Robert Carter Reply-To: Date: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 7:37 AM To: 'Andrew

Re: Math Content and VoiceOver with Safari

Thank you Jason, This was my experience and I just wanted to see if there was something I was missing here.  It doesn’t sound like it. Kelly From: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries Reply-To: Date: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 12:28 PM To: Subject: RE: Math Content and VoiceOver with Sa

General Screen search on iOS

Unless the feature exists already -- and has therefore hitherto escaped my notice -- a general screen search tool on iOS would come in very handy. Suppose you're in Safari and the information, e.g. a phone number, is many lines or even screens down. Rather than traversing everything before you ge

Shortcut to Navigation Bar in iTunes

Ia that the correct term, Navigation Bar? What is the shortcut for that? Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries li

Re: Apple Watch no longer tracks activity accurately

I notice that a lot with the health app, but don’t own a watch, so can’t speak for that. It seems to want to track flights of stairs climbed on my end at random times, and sometimes not at all, which I find strange, considering the fact that I climb steps off and on all day, sense we have them

restart

I have my Mac Mini set to start again right away if it shuts down because the electricity goes off. I'd like to change this setting but I can't find it. can anybody tell me where it is? thanks. Lorie -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If yo

Re: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

Hi Andrew, Did you get them this Apple link? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/ Its very helpful and takes the guess work out of VoiceOver Accessibility. :) HTH Chuck On Jun 7, 2019, at 2:31 PM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionar

Re: Not Bourne Again

Thanks, Barry. This is certainly a heads up yours truly seriously appreciates. I've yet to get comfortable with the Zulu shell. I guess this is my wake up call. Best, Janina Barry Hadder writes: > Hello all: > > For anyone this may concern, The default shell starting in Catalina will no > lon

Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

Hi, I’ve been using for some time encrypt.me VPN service. It’s a paid service but I have found their application fairly simple in terms of accessibility. They have just changed their top people - and since I’m on their mailing list - I got to know about it and received a

Apple Watch no longer tracks activity accurately

Hi all, The subject line sums it up. I have been noticing this for a while, so today decided to keep my own records to try and confirm the problem. According to my watch--series 4--I have 7 active hours--I should have 8, and I have climbed three flights of stairs--I've actually climbed 7. Ob

Re: Math Content and VoiceOver with Safari

Here is a page with examples you can experiment with; https://www.mathjax.org/index.html#samples > On Jun 7, 2019, at 10:29, KellyFord wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know the current story with MathML content and VoiceOver with > Safari? For example is there any way to have the braille of t

Not Bourne Again

Hello all: For anyone this may concern, The default shell starting in Catalina will no longer be bash. It will be the zsh shell. It appears that Apple will be phasing bash out all together at some point. So, I suppose now would be a good time to switch over and tweak any shell scrips. It’s

RE: Math Content and VoiceOver with Safari

So far as I’m aware, Nemeth Code is supported under iOS, but not Mac OS. On the Mac, you’ll get a braille representation of the text as it would be spoken. Whether Apple’s recently announced enhancements to braille support will change this (immediately or subsequently) is not publicly known.

Re: How do I convert an mp4 file

OK, I can confirm that ffmpeg is installable with homebrew, and that it will convert. Here's the quick overview: 1.) Install homebrew. There are several web pages that can guide on this task. Here's just one: https://brew.sh/ 2.) Use it to install ffmpeg at the terminal: brew install

Math Content and VoiceOver with Safari

Hi, Does anyone know the current story with MathML content and VoiceOver with Safari? For example is there any way to have the braille of this show up as Nemeth code? Kelly Thank you, Kelly Connect with me Twitter My Blog

Re: handbrake

Handbrake isn't for editing. It's for video file conversions. Lorie McCloud writes: > what is handbrake? I'm looking for something (hopefully free or very > inexpensive) that I can use to edit mp3 files, take parts out of them etc. > > thanks. > Lorie > > -- > The following information is impo

Re: How do I convert an mp4 file

Handbrake is about keeping the video. In rereading her post, the problem is not the Mac, but Amadeus. I'm now thinking she really does need something Amadeus will by happier using. So, that means ffmpeg and a file conversion on the Terminal, imo. I'm going to see if I can get home brew to install

Re: How do I convert an mp4 file

VLC will play those files, as will mplayer for osx. These days I'm using ffmpeg to convert among formats when I need to do that, but I do that on the Linux command line. I would expect I could install the ffmpeg tool using Home Brew on my Mac, though, which would make conversion in the terminal qu

Re: Message Filters

Yeah, but not really, because Edge and Chrome are now both using the same Google Blink rendering back end for their browsers. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-chromium,38192.html In a way this is good news. In another way it's scary, imo, because it threatens to squ

Re: Message Filters

I'd definitely install the Chrome browser everywhere. Increasingly, it's my go to browser in the gui. For professional reasons I have many browsers under four different operating environments. I will sometimes look at a particular site on multiple browsers. It's really amazing how different a sing

Re: mac book pro 2017

Hi Again, Simon: I think six years from a machine is actually pretty good. My longest survivor ever was a 2008 Thinkpad X61s, which I just retired a couple months ago as it no longer powered up in any way. Not at all. I've had several desktop/tower machines go 8 or 9 years. And, I've had laptops

Re: mac book pro 2017

Simon: That 2017 Pro with an I7 and 16 Gb RAM sounds a lot better. It should have a pretty compelling price, because I should think that's pretty baseline specs for 64bit Windows 10 under Bootcamp--especially if you also want to run the Windows in some kind of vm. For me it would also need USB 3

Map bug on iPhone

Dear List, This bug from 2017 still exists. Am I the only one who is having this problem? Using a iPhone 7 with the latest IOS. Begin forwarded message: From: Apple Accessibility mailto:accessibil...@apple.com>> Date: October 3, 2017 at 7:01:02 PM EDT To: mr.robertc...@icloud.com

Re: Adjusting Individual Audio Sources on the Mac

Hi Kelly, There is an app from Rogue Amoeba called SoundSource that will almost certainly do what you want. This is an application that lives in the extras menu. At the moment, there is a VoiceOver bug that keeps the VoiceOver option+control+space command from opening the SoundSource window. S

keyboard shorcut to add and list bookmarks on pages

Hi, Subject line says it all, if someone knows what are the shortcuts to add and list bookmarks please reply. thank you. -- "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All these mo

Re: Reading app-specific passwords on the Apple-id page

Hi Simon and all, You only need this if you need to access your iCloud information via non-Apple apps such as Microsoft Outlook. That is my understanding anyway. Hopefully more people can chime in here. Daniel > Den 6. jun. 2019 kl. 11.49 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > Hi Daniel, > > I must be

RE: mac book pro 2017

Yeah petrus, I wondered if it’s more to do with your not use to the older mac keyboard, but then you used windows computers / notebooks before your mac so I can only think your picking up the butterfly better than those of us that don’t like them. Great work and I’ll be coming for typing lesson

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hi Donna, Thanks for the honest reply. I know a lot of folks world wide dislike the butterfly, Then there are a lot that like them, Petrus being a recently new convert likes his as does his wife like the keyboard on her mac book. Could that be as new users they aren’t use to the older format?

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hey Petrus, The Auckland jive is only because I’m in Dunedin and it’s just one of those things we do. Could be worse, you could be in Australia! The chime was there to indicate all devices were functioning correctly I believe it was. Then with the onset of solid state and non moving technolog

RE: handbrake

A media tool for things like conversion or ripping etc. Or otherwise known as a parking break for a car or other such motor vehicle. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Lorie McCloud Sent: Friday, 7 June 2019 6:58 AM To: 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries Subj

RE: Message Filters

And hey if you’re a sucker for craziness, A company called Microsoft are meant to be releasing a new browser called Edge to the MacOS plat form. Might be worth a look. From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Sent: Friday, 7 June 2019 6:20 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Messa

RE: How do I convert an mp4 file

yeah leave it alone and play it in itunes or VLC, MP4 is a standard format. -Original Message- From: 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries Sent: Friday, 7 June 2019 4:27 AM To: Mac Users Group Subject: How do I convert an mp4 file I need to take a file created from Skype, which is an

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hi Tim, I’ve gotta couple of options, The air would be a custom build to fully spec’ed out and yes still has USB-A and thunderbolt 2. But only 8GB ram, I’m also looking at a 2017 I7 2.5GHz pro with 16gb ram and 512 GB ssd, I’m not going to touch bar as that causes trouble with windows in bootc

RE: mac pro pricing

I want a xdr screen, I don’t want the stand though. From: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries Sent: Friday, 7 June 2019 12:09 AM To: Macvisionaries Subject: Re: mac pro pricing The articles I’ve read are lacking in specifics beyond the base price. I expect details will be forthcoming as the hard

RE: mac book pro 2017

Hi Janina, Yeah I'm currently split on what to purchase as a replacement machine. The fully worked 2017 air would do the job, And has the to me better keyboard but then the 2018 pro 13" has more ram, faster processor and USB-C, However everything has down sides, the newer pro has the butterfly

Re: Track commander

Hi, I am sure you can enable or disable it in VO preferences > On 6 Jun 2019, at 23:31, Petrus Tuerlings > wrote: > > Hi all, > Is it possible to disable the track commander? I know how to turn it on and > off by holding down the Voice over keys and doing the rot