Using Book Port Plus with a Mac and HCSD cards and card readers.

Hi guys, I am looking to buy the book port plus from APH here rather soon. It seems to be a very good device and I'm really looking forward to using it. I've a few questions about it and the Mac. How would you put NLS DTBs on it? Would you just hook it up to the Mac and the Mac would just trea

DTB players and thumb drives again.

Hi guys, Hope everyone is doing great. I have a question, I know somebody a while ago sort of answered this. Okay here's the deal. I bought a new 4GB thumb drive. I put DTBs on it but when I put it in the DTB player it shows only 3 books and only one of them plays. The other two are book error

Re: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

Here's my trick for sticking flash drives down the front of the dtbm. Get drives that have a cap that has a hole that you can put a will one of those straps around your neck. I just get one of the thinner hair ties and thread it through the hole on the cap of the flash drive. Some drives have a ca

Re: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

It works!!! Thankfully I didn't reformat my 2GB drive and was able to mount it and empty the trash. So I have one thumb drive that works. Our library said the same thing, the smaller gb the better chance it has of working. It had never even crossed my mind to empty the trash but it is good to kn

Re: NLS DTB players, usb flash drives, formating on a mac, cartrage errors Help?

Good morning everyone, Thanks for the suggestion of the kingston data traveler I plan to obtain one as soon as I am able. What size is best? Also why will the two flash drives I currently have format and work fine in the dtb player if they are formated on a windows computer but give me cartrage

iPod Nano fails to speak again. Help?

. LOL Okay thanks for any help you can give. Hopefully it isn't broken. ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat contact on

Text to audio workflow solved :-)

Hi all, Just wanted to post that I have my text to audio file workflow problem sorted. Alex was able to help me out so all is grand here. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of

To Alex or anyone who can help: Text to speach/audio workflow

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Some questions was Re: snowleopard shipping friday

Hi everyone, I will not be able to order the new O/S until 1 September. Will the special price still be in effect? Also how do you go about getting the special price? Just order it or do you have to prove you have Leopard? Thanks ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe

Re: Victor Reader and really really need help with iPod

is a multi part audiobook or something. you can slect all and make it go off your iPod or you can go through one song at a time without entering search text and clean out stuff that way.. Hope I was clear and HTH ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to st

Re: Victor Reader and really really need help with iPod

check for updates. You may have to resort to resetting the iPod which may mean losing whatever it is you have on there. I've heard of programs that will extract stuff off an iPod through something other than iTunes but am clueless on all that. HTH and good luck. :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishe

Re: Syrinx and Twitter podcast?

aed but feel sort of lost. Look forward to hearing what ya have to say. Much thanks :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat con

Re: Syrinx and Twitter podcast?

Anna, Awe awesome! This is wonderful. As I really haven't a clue what I'm doing on either twitter or Syrinx. I can only tweet. LOL But there is more. What time will this be on? Thanks ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in conta

Syrinx and Twitter podcast?

Hi, Has anybody done a tutorial on using Syrinx and Twitter? I installed Syrinx but am a lil lot confused on using it. The "Friends" list for example isn't speaking. Any info on this would be most welcome. Thanks ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas

Update on my iPod troubles...

this issue. :-) It's been put to bed, and now. So shall I. ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat contact only) F

A response from Accessibility at apple. Re: firm wear upgrade killing speech. Umm? Okay weird.

e to have the same problem as me. Am I jus t having bad luck? LOL Sorry. just a bit perplexed and frustrated... Thanks for reading. ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com

Speaking iPod Nano no longer Speaks after firmwear upgrade!

looked at both Extras and Settings also settings playback and general but no where did I see a thing to turn spoken menus on or off. help? This sucks? ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail

Re: sorting bookmarks in Safari

Hi there, thanks much. I'll give that a try. I have a crazy amount of bookmarks so it may take a while to sort them all -) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com

Re: Strange problem with external hard drive

what they said. HTH ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat contact only) Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ben_folds_fan Frien

sorting bookmarks in Safari

bookmarks list in the menus. Thanks much. :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat contact only) Follow me on Twitter: http://ww

Re: This may be a very stupid question, but... was Re: Adding buddies in iChat

ms. I just had AIM open and MSN open and that was it. Ok that's all I can think of for now. Any help would be very very welcome. Thank you. :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: bluesky

This may be a very stupid question, but... was Re: Adding buddies in iChat

silly about this. Chat on the mac has been something I've not toyed with much. ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskyes9112...@mac.com (for iChat co

Adding AIM buddies in iChat

budy menu the add budy thing is dimmed out. So like what do I do? Am very confused. LOL Thanks much :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of the following: E-Mail: blueskyes9112...@gmail.com iChat: blueskye

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

and two of everything on the album because iTunes re did something with the files because some peloe couldn't play it and the new fiels could play... Kind of confusing but have been far too lazy to fix it. LOL But these scripts sound great. Thank you. :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

. HTH ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBook" group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. Follow me vi

VO causes Safari to crash? When on FB main site.

ad to resort to using zoom. I don't understand. What gives? ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA http://blueskyes9112006.blogspot.com Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The B

Re: new facebook podcast

Michael, Oh thank you thank you thank you! This is awesome! Yay! I'm going to go download and listen right now. What a nice happy thing to find in my in-box. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Pr

I set my iChat. If anyone wishes to add me.

is... blueskyes9112...@mac.com Or if you've AIM. It takes AIM people too... ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBo

iTunes tracks out of order was Re: itunes something very annoying

talking track. then a whole glob of songs after, the ones he was talking about. Is rather annoying. I know what order the tracks are meant to go in by context plus when you look it up on the iTunes store it shows the proper order. So what gives? ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard

Re: vodafone have the i phone

th an iPhone in person to really get the idea of it. I can not wait 'til I get the chance. ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Pare

Re: vodafone have the i phone

Well here I am late to the party yet again. *smile* I just looked on BlindCoolTech and didn't find anything recent that had anything to do with the iPhone. Where is this review? ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on Fac

OverDrive Audiobooks come to the Mac

ess to batteries and or electric power, I'll never stop reading. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBook&qu

Re: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

Oooo! Hi Alex! Thanks much. This looks just like what I was looking for. Oh and the program workflow thing you directed me to that makes text files into audio files is so awesome! Totally perfect! :-) Thank you very much! This makes me happy. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard

Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

fully hard and are there howtoos in how to do it? Am I clear as mud? These btw are not computer read audio files it is real live people... ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/bluesk

Re: jumping on the itunes store

Mark, I'll have to give software update a go. LOL! Ms. Chokes on disks. LOL That's great! I nearly spit out the mouth full of tea all over the place when I read that :-) That's really good! Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas

Re: jumping on the itunes store

w os will fix this. I just let Mr. Macky *yes, I've named my macbook. Yes I love South Park. so calling the macbook Mr. Macky was enevidible. ummmkay?* have itt's little fit and then all is right with the world. *smile* Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmai

Re: Drunk with power. or buying from iTunes store all on my own was Re: iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

27;s Club Band" album, is perhaps my favourite or one of my top favourites. :-) Okay so this drunkenness with power doesn't go away. Good 'cuz y'know I LOVE IT! Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profi

Alex, mail, safari, osx tutorials?

of the vo user guide but for the other things? I thought you said there were but I don't think you said where. Even if it isn't as detailed as a user guide. anything would be very welcome. Thanks. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join

Re: Contacting NLS was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

treem, on other less expensive devices that would be wonderful. If they made their stuff iTunes, iPod, iPhone useable then I could streamline all the potential devices I would need/want into the iPhone. And you know they do say less is more. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@

Drunk with power. or buying from iTunes store all on my own was Re: iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

;s great and besides that there are some musical likes I will not admit to another soul. Okay I admitted Simon and Garfunkel but that is all you are getting from the likes of me! LOL Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal

iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

t was just 99 but have never ever come acrross any 69 cents. Even the songs that are crap seem to be 99. *smile* Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The B

Re: Accessibility fix in iTunes 8.2.1

their little flash player thing to be inaccessible. And I like to switch back and forth between the 97.3 talk station and 1152 all news station. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes

Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

27;m sure something very much like how audible on the mac say can be done for them. Well I know is being done for them but I'm coming at this from a mac users point of view. I hope I'm making my thoughts understood. no hard feelings right? Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard)

Greg, your program. Some questions?

wide use. I wonder with everything so global if someday there could be an international talking book program where countries could join as one and make all their offerings open to registered members? That would be very cool. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Ol

Contacting NLS was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

Hi there, I don't know a direct E-mail address but the NLS website should be able to point you in the right direction... The web address is: http://www.loc.gov/nls HTH Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Pr

NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

wn without much fuss or muss. Do you all think this could be done and is it something anyone else would like to see? How would people e go about telling Apple to look into this or like I said is it even possible? Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA

Re: Audio tutorials for mac programs?

Hi Eric, If there aren't any audio tutorials out there and you could do some that would be great! *smile* I saw some of these "Take Control" of, and then there were random subjects but it didn't seem to have anything to do with VO Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (H

Re: Audio tutorials for mac programs?

Hi Alex, Awesome. I have the VoiceOver getting started thing read by the Alex voice. Where are additional audio manuals for mail and whatnot? Or were you referencing the VO manual? Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook

Audio tutorials for mac programs?

Hi guys, Does anyone know if there are tutorials out there, audio tutorials, for different mac programs? OSx, Mail, particularly interested in Mail, and safari? combined with voice over? Thanks Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on

Obtaining sound effects files was Re: "New Mail" sound

nd TV and everything. Was just wondering where you collected all yours. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBook" group. Sea

Re: "New Mail" sound

Hi there, I got *.wav files to work. Right now I have just one sound but think I'll go look through the wonderful internet for more. *smile* Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskye

Quick update on my recent mail questions :-)

ou all are so lovely Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBook" group. Search for it in groups or contact me for details. F

"New Mail" sound

Hi there, I am wondering if there is a way to change that bonkey little squeltchey sound that plays when new mail is received. If so what file format must the sound file be in? Thanks :-) Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook

Saving key assignments in num pad commander? Also. What/Where are portable preffrences in VO?

sing it is a file you can put on a thumb drive that will load your personal VO settings on any mac. but not quite sure. Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard) blueskyes9112...@gmail.com Olathe, Kansas USA Join me on FaceBook: Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes And feel free to jo

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

Yes,. I think it is odd that in the blind/vi community when a "new" kid comes on the block and is a more cost effective or something outside th Microsoft norm that it is met with a lot of bad thoughts. It seems some folks are fearful of changes and advancements? Find that strange as well be

Thanks. Was disclosure triangles.

Hi To Jessie and everyone who helped me with te triangles thing. Thanks! VO backslash works wonderfully! also love the VO shift M command. I love figuring out and learning new things to do with this Mac and VO. :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

disclosure triangles? How to open/close them?

Hi my mac using friends, all right. I've gone for two, or two and a half weeks not using the screen at all . Its pretty nice. I have one tiny little trouble though. That is those disclosure triangles. Namely in iTunes. In my podcast lists. How the heck do you open them? I tried the VO shif

Re: Mae, iMac, Macbooks and other Apple computers.

Hi Mae, The really short answer is the MBA hasn't any sort of optical drive. Not quite sure how that works other than you're supposed to be able to network with another computer, say your desktop that has such a drive, CD/DVD drive in other words and somehow use that as, I'm guessing an e

Mae, iMac, Macbooks and other Apple computers.

Hi Mae, The iMac is the apple version of a full featured desktop computer. They have another "desktop" that lots of people use as a home entertainment hub called the Mac Mini. It's all the features of a CPU but you provide things like speakers, keyboard/mouse monitor. Then there are the

making a signiture in apple mail

Hi everyone, Well I'm managing my google mail through apple mail now, uh. again. LOL Okay, this might seem very stupid not to know this, but how do you make a signiture in mail? I found the signitures section in the mail | Preffrences | toolbar. But I don't very well see where you write what

Re: wonderful news about apple care

Hi Ben, Jese and all, I know exactly where you all are coming from. I love my Mac! I love it so much I have been known to cheer when the Mac adverts come on TV. I have even been known to shush people when they come on. Likewise I've been known to boo the PC adverts My feeance Larry t

Jpeg to text converter? Google? / Kurtzwiel 3000 question

Hi there, Hopefully somebody out there can help me. I've 2 somewhat related things. First. I have documents, PDFs, and others that are text but it is the kind of text that is just an image of text. I can not access them and need to for a project I'm working on. I thought I heard someplace