marked item is no longer available. Cannot figure out drag and drop.

2011-07-21 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I followed directions, but voiceover continues to exhibit quirky behavior regarding drag and drop. When I hit VO comma to mark something, and then change folders, I hear the words selection replaced. When trying to hit VO period, I get the message that the marked item is no longer a

lion and voiceover's drag and drop

2011-07-21 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Has anybody running Lion gotten drag and drop to work correctly using voiceover? I opened the keyboard commander and assigned a command to mark an item for dragging. I then assigned another command to drop an item on the voiceover cursor. Whenever I select a document in a folder and

running mac OS in vmware fusion

2011-03-09 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, I have a question about running mac OS in fusion. Do I need to install vmware tools to get sound working? Thanks, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroup

is kapten GPS for Iphone accessible?

2010-08-30 Thread John J Herzog
so stores the maps locally, so there wouldn't be any outrageous data charges. It also means IPod touch owners can use this too. Any thoughts are appreciated. Sincerely, John J Herzog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries&quo

Re: vmware player files in fusion?

2010-07-04 Thread John J Herzog
Vmx files will work in fusion. I have tried this before and there's no problems at all. hth John On Jul 4, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > Scott, > > vinux is pretty awesome. It is the ready orca (speech on) version of linux. I > haven't tried the vmx option yet as I just got the

FYI: clamxav is a free and accessible anti virus program for mac

2010-06-30 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, I know we don't have to worry just yet, as most viruses are for windows. However, my school requires all macs to run a virus program, and in my searching the internet, I found something which I think is pretty useful. The program is called clamxav, and with the exception of 2 unlabeled

Re: How do you drag a file or folder from one location to another?

2010-06-30 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Teresa, I wanted to comment on your suggestion that it is easier to copy and paste versus drag and drop. I'm afraid that, for time reasons alone, drag and drop would be far more useful than copying and pasting currently is. When you drag and drop something from one place to another, it is al

saytext: new OCR app for IPhone

2010-06-25 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, I just got this link from a friend of mine. Apparently, this app is free, and it performs OCR using the new IPhone. It's different from the one that emails your image to a server and then gives you back text. This one actually performs OCR on the phone. Furthermore, it automatically tak

how to add voices to language rotor.

2010-06-21 Thread John J Herzog
Hi list, I have a question about the language rotor in voiceover. I want to have the option to choose between the US english, australian english, and UK english voices. However, right now it is only showing the US and australian voices. How do I add the UK english one to the mix as well? I trie

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread John J Herzog
Hello Mary, The scanner I'm using is a fujitsu fi-6230. I like the scanner because of its super fast document feeder. You can get that bad boy going at sixty pages per minute. The other nice thing is that the document feeder supports double sided scanning, so where applicable you get both pages

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread John J Herzog
Hello, I am in the same boat. I have a lot of scanning to do, and started law school 2 years ago. There wasn't any great OCR solution for the mac, so I decided to install windows XP and kurzweil via fusion on my machine. I still use it to this day just for that purpose, but have replaced window

IPad question # 2: find feature in Ibooks?

2010-06-16 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have a lot of IPad questions after todays apple visit, but I won't flood the list with them. I'll stop after this one. Does Ibooks have a find feature, so that you can find particular words and phrases in books? Also, can you quickly and easily find the next instance of a phrase o

ipad: how to enable new touch typing feature

2010-06-16 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I went to my apple store today to check out the IPad. I liked it over all, but I have a question. How do I enable the new form of touch typing? I really wanted to try this out, but when I put my fingers on the keyboard, found the letter I wanted, and then lifted them, nothing happen

Re: Pocket tunes

2010-06-10 Thread John J Herzog
As an owner of pocket tunes, I must say that they have an outstanding station catalogue. It's the best 7 dollars I ever spent on an application. It also has a really cool feature that prevents the screen from locking when you are playing a station. The Ipod turns wireless off half an hour after

safari 5 skipping large blocks of text. Any work arounds?

2010-06-07 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, To experience the following bug, visit a site like www.engadget.com. Go to one of the story headings and VO right to read it. You will notice that part of the story reads, but it cuts off and the next thing you see are links that come at the end. When you VO left arrow, you realize that

Re: Best App for Streaming Sirius?

2010-05-31 Thread John J Herzog
Albert, Keep in mind that starplayr is no longer being updated. This means that, while you can stream some of sirius's channels, you do not have access to their online only content, which was added after starplayr's developers moved on to other things. This also applies to channels updated in r

deauthorizing computers for Itunes?

2010-05-11 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I am having a strange problem. I got my mac serviced today, and as part of the repairs, they replaced the logic board. Now, however, my mac is saying that it is not authorized for some of my apps on my Ipod touch. It told me if I did not authorize the machine the apps would be delet

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread John J Herzog
As said before, NTFS 3g is free software for the mac. It allows you to both read and write in NTFS. Due to technical limitations in the fat 32 format, this is no longer recommended for hard drives. I will briefly explain why. 1. Fat 32 does not allow a file to be stored that is larger than 4 gigs

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Nick and all, There is a free program that ads NTFS read and write support to mac. It is called NTFS 3g. You can get this program and it costs nothing. The coolest part about it is that, in your disk utility, you have the option to format drives in NTFS if you so desire. hth John On May

Re: Accessible iPhone/iPad apps and refunds

2010-05-06 Thread John J Herzog
I see a problem with this philosophy. Different people view accessibility in different ways. For instance, some people would not consider the workout application posted to this list accessible because of a few unlabeled buttons. Others would be fine with it. Similarly, I have a few games on the

Re: how install windows 7

2010-05-03 Thread John J Herzog
William, If you download windows images from torrents, they are usually modified in some way. They are not the original windows image, either because they have more drivers/features added to them, or they are a recovery disk for a certain type of computer. This messes with fusions ability to au

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread John J Herzog
Edward, For a great demo of voiceover and the mac's web browser, head over to the blind cool tech web site. Then, search for the words mac demo. I don't want to spoil it, but one of the really cool things about no buffers is that you get to see information change on the page dynamically as it h

Re: malwear and macs

2010-04-24 Thread John J Herzog
Guys, One of the tips in the malware article is to protect yourself by preventing safari from opening safe files after download. This setting can be changed in Safari's preferences. Basically, it means that disk images are not automatically mounted, zip files are not unzipped, etc. This makes s

Re: accessible p2p applications

2010-04-21 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Try acqlite. It is accessible. To see the results after performing a search, arrow right to the last column, and you will be read all the others. For some reason, the other columns in the table appear blank to voiceover, except for the last column which summarizes information from all the oth

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-20 Thread John J Herzog
rly since I am a lawyer with the public defenders office. And >>> my primary role as an appellate and post-conviction attorney is to write >>> briefs, with case citations. >>> I knew about the fusion program, as I have spent time talking to others >>> about t

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-20 Thread John J Herzog
new about the fusion program, as I have spent time talking to others about > the program. I didn’t know about the snap shot. > So thanks. > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John J Herzog > Sent: Tuesday, Ap

Re: the apple user?

2010-04-20 Thread John J Herzog
Hello, As a macbook user, who has to write substantial papers for law school, and who has used his computer at a summer internship with Pepsico, I feel I can helpfully answer your questions. Forgive the length of this email. First, the idea that macs are only play toys is complete and utter no

Re: malwear and macs

2010-04-20 Thread John J Herzog
The key language from this article is the following line. But security experts feel that since the ‘Backdoor’ would need to be installed by the user himself in order to physically access the machine, the threat from the malware is quite low. Bottom line is this. Don't install any cracked progra

Re: Article from the RNIB about the IPad

2010-04-20 Thread John J Herzog
Thanks for passing this article along. I think that, for the most part, this article was fair. They seem to point out both positives and negatives of the product which is good. The only area where I have some problems with the article, is that they made to big of a deal about activating voiceov

Re: MLB at bat app closing

2010-04-19 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have the at bat application, and it also keeps closing for me. Interestingly, I have found a workaround. If you click on the audio stream you want, and it starts playing, you can then click the hide button. Next, click back, so that you get into the main screen of the at bat app

Re: Accounting software for the Mac that works with VoiceOver

2010-04-08 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, I played with the actual quickbooks for the mac last summer. Most of it is accessible with VO, but it's not quite useable. You can see all the different transactions, and you can review all their details with voiceover. However, the portion where you actually write checks is inaccessibl

Re: virtual box for mac

2010-03-16 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Since when did virtual box become accessible? Last time I tried it, nothing could be read by voiceover. What version did this change in? John On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I know on VMWare when there is a USB device inserted it prompts asking if you > want to giv

voiceover working with Ebooks on IPad

2010-03-12 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Check out this exciting article from engadget. They start talking first about a switch on the IPad, but then they mention voiceover. The article states that voiceover will read the pages of Ebooks out loud. Click here for this awesome news. http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ipad-m

need help: windows 7 very sluggish in fusion

2010-02-23 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I'm having problems running windows 7 under vmware fusion 3.0.1, the latest version. Specifically, when it's running, windows 7 slows my mac down considerably. My mac is a 2.4 GHZ core2 duo from 2008 with 2 gigs of ram. Even with a gig of ram allocated to each system, the performanc

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-12 Thread John J Herzog
James, I wanted to add one more remark about pages accessibility. Comments are also inaccessible. So if you have a document where someone has inserted comments, you cannot see them in pages. John On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:15 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi, > > Well from what I have seen so far,

using mac's bluetooth, microphone, and camera under fusion?

2010-02-07 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I want to use my mac's microphone and bluetooth in my windows XP virtual machine. However, I'm having a rather odd problem. First, I install the drivers in XP by inserting the snow leopard DVD. Then, I restart the virtual machine and try connecting the hardware. I get the warning fr

windows 7 painfully sluggish in fusion 3

2010-01-18 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Do any of you have tips on how to speed up windows 7 performance in fusion 3? I have a macbook with a 2.4 GHZ core2 DUO processor, and 2 GB of ram. I gave windows 7 1 GB, which most people say is sufficient. All I can say is that I'm not impressed. I get lots of choppy sound and stu

Re: how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-11 Thread John J Herzog
ple-K > to bring up the AV controls. Towards the end of the left column you'll find a > slider for pitch shift and at the bottom right of the window is another > slider for playback speed. > > CB > > John J Herzog wrote: >> >> Hi Scott, >> I may be m

Re: how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-09 Thread John J Herzog
p;ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari > That is a really long URL and may not work. > > hth, > > On Jan 9, 2010, at 2:03 AM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> Hi listers, >> I have recently gotten my hands on some audio tracks from described videos. >> They're

how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-08 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have recently gotten my hands on some audio tracks from described videos. They're cool, but because they are from Britain, and were converted from different video standards, the audio plays at a slightly faster rate than it should, making voices and music sound weird. Is there an

Re: how do I share my ethernet connection securely?

2009-12-28 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Actually, there is a simple and elegant way to share ethernet connections securely. Basically, go into system preferences, and then click on sharing. Next, highlight the service of internet sharing in the table, but do not check the box yet. VO right, and you can choose where your conne

how do I share my ethernet connection securely?

2009-12-28 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, How can I share my mac's ethernet connection to the airport with security enabled? Whenever I go into system preferences and enable internet sharing, it creates a base station with no WEP security. Alternatively, when I try to create a network by going into the airport menu, I can g

Re: how to make ISO files of a hybrid cd?

2009-12-24 Thread John J Herzog
he > volumes shown underneath it. Highlighting the named volume will give > you the issue you are getting where the hybrid image is not saved, as > it will only image that volume rather than the entire disk. Also, this > is with Snow Leopard, with Leopard the menu items in disk utility are &

Re: how to make ISO files of a hybrid cd?

2009-12-24 Thread John J Herzog
of such a CD and then allow you to burn copies > from this master. While other products may handle these kind of edge > cases as well I know Toast in the past did all this but haven't had the > need for it recently. > > CB > > John J Herzog wrote: >> Hi listers, &g

how to make ISO files of a hybrid cd?

2009-12-23 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I was interested by my odd disk utility problem, and have done research. It turns out that the cd shows different things on the PC versus the mac because it is a hybrid. The concept of a hybrid is that it shows only the files appropriate to ones operating system. The others for diff

disk utility and image creation problem

2009-12-23 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have a problem with the disk utility, and I was hoping to get some assistance. Long story short, I want to make images of some old program CDS I have in my collection. These disks date back to the nineties and are no longer sold. I want to make images I can use for my windows XP v

Re: DVD

2009-12-21 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Handbreak will do this job just fine. Just set the video output to none. John On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:12 PM, louie wrote: > Hi all, > What program are you using to rip audio from a DBD? > Thank you. > > louie > louiem...@wavecable.com > > > > -- > > You received this message because you

Re: System access to go on a mac

2009-12-13 Thread John J Herzog
On 12/13/2009 7:35 PM, Joe Plummer wrote: > What I understand it will not work on Mac OS. > > > > > Sign, > JP ( Joe Plummer) > joeplum...@tds.net > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of .dan. > Sent: Sunday, Dec

Re: question about external hard drive permissions

2009-12-12 Thread John J Herzog
> information in your originally posted question to give a detailed > answer, since we don't know about the operating system, your original > external drive format, and your account access status on the two > machines, just as a starter. > > HTH > > Cheers, > &

question about external hard drive permissions

2009-12-12 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have a question about external hard drives and permissions. As a backup, I would normally copy the folders from my user on the mac, i.e. documents, videos, etc. to the external hard drive. When attempting to transfer my files to another computer, I was told I did not have the perm

Re: Read: question on how to be able to play ogg streams and files in Itunes.

2009-12-04 Thread John J Herzog
Esther and list, I am using the XIPH plugin for ogg vorbis files. It does work with snow leopard, even though there is no documentation about it. hth, John On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Michael Huckabay wrote: > >> I am righting to see if enny one knows how to ge

accessible dvd converter?

2009-11-19 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I want to take some dvds I own, and convert them to avi files. Are there any accessible programs that do this? I have tried a few, but they do not appear to be compatible with voiceover. Thanks, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

anyone else having trouble with ebay and safari?

2009-11-11 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Lately, whenever I go to www.ebay.com safari immediately crashes. Is anybody else experiencing this? Thanks, John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

is the busy, ready, busy, ready, bug gone?

2009-11-09 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have just installed the latest mac update on my system. One thing I have noticed immediately is that safari seems much more stable. I have not been getting the safari busy nonsense as I navigate through web pages. Can anybody else confirm that this bug has been squashed? Or have

Re: simple mail question

2009-11-07 Thread John J Herzog
and >> Subject fields. I thought that would have worked also. >> >> Les >> James & Nash wrote: >> >>> >>> Can't you do a command A to select them all? >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "John J Herzog" >>>

simple mail question

2009-11-06 Thread John J Herzog
Hi list, I have an email with several peoples email addresses in it. THey show up as links, but strangely, I cannot highlight them and press command C to copy them. When I do this, I get an error tone. Since this method is not available, how do I add all of the addresses to a new message?

Re: Installing Windows 7 With VmWare

2009-10-31 Thread John J Herzog
Deborah, I have installed windows multiple times under fusion 2. The process has remained exactly the same for fusion 3. After the DVD stops spinning, you need to give it some time. The way the windows install works is that it first copies many files to your hard drive via the DVD. Then, it

open SUSE cannot be auto installed in fusion. Different linux distro needed.

2009-10-31 Thread John J Herzog
Hi list, I found out how to get audio working in SUSE, but first this requires that it be installed. I have nobody sighted around, and there is no easy install option via fusion. Thus, I must choose another distribution. Are there any distros with working sound and the latest version of gn

Re: slight accessibility issue with fusion 3

2009-10-31 Thread John J Herzog
ge- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John J Herzog > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:32 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: slight accessibility issue with fusion 3 > > > Hi listers, > Ha

Re: burning isos on the mac?

2009-10-29 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, To burn an ISO image on the mac, go to your applications folder. Then, select utilities, and open disk utility. When in disk utility, first select a disk in the first table, as if you don't, you will not see any of the dialogue boxes in the next step. After having selected a disk, unrelated

open SUSE 11.1 on macbook?

2009-10-29 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Has anybody had success getting the Open suse live CD running on the macbook? Specifically, has anybody gotten the talking boot menu to work? Supposedly there is an initial screen that lets you configure accessibility options of suse, including starting the desktop with orca, b

not spam, possibly helpful? : was: Re: -- SPAM -- slight accessibility issue with fusion 3

2009-10-27 Thread John J Herzog
hlight the window do you mean go to it with > vo or something else? > On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:32 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi listers, >> Having just acquired fusion 3, I thought I would pass my experiences >> along with voiceover. For the most part, everythi

slight accessibility issue with fusion 3

2009-10-27 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Having just acquired fusion 3, I thought I would pass my experiences along with voiceover. For the most part, everything remains accessible. However, when running and using your virtual machine, there is no longer a scroll area. Thus, you cannot VO to the area and start using t

google documents on safari?

2009-10-23 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Can I edit spreadsheets on google docs with safari? I have tried to do so, but when I type in text, it does not appear in correct fields. For instance, I can highlight the cell I want to edit, but somehow when I type, it appears up in the headers of the sheet and not the correct

Re: games

2009-10-17 Thread John J Herzog
Hi May, Unfortunately, your best bet for games is still windows. In my case, I use Vmware fusion, and boot into windows. Note that if you do this with snow leopard, you may want to turn voiceover off completely. In games such as top speed, shades of doom, and technoshock, your arrow keys w

cannot quit applications on macbook

2009-10-16 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Twice today, I had something odd occur. First, when using textedit, I was unable to quit the program. It was still responding, and would let me manipulate text, but I was unable to press command Q. Also, the quit option was dimmed in the menu bar. The same thing just happened wit

Ipod touch users. There's a better voice than Samantha

2009-10-15 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, For english speaking Ipod touch owners, there are actually two voices to choose from. One is Samantha, who starts speaking by default. However, there is another more pleasant sounding Australian female voice. I think its Karen. To utilize this voice, without changing much else, d

Re: Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Has anybody tried Kurzweil 3000 for the mac? I know that K 3000 and k 1000 are closely related, so that program should have both good OCR and good scanning in one interface. Is this VO accessible at all? And, other than price, are there any show stopping bugs that would prevent thi

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-13 Thread John J Herzog
Hi I am running skype 2.8, and some of the unlabeled buttons have been fixed. hth John On Oct 13, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Christina wrote: > > Hello List, > > How accessible is Skype? I am running version 2.7.0.330. I need to > be able to video chat with someone in Germany. I have had this > ver

vmware fusion question regarding internet

2009-10-12 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have a question about Vmware fusion. Long story short, I want to play a windows game online with my friends. However, it requires one of our machines to be the server. I usually use my machine to do this, and I just put fusion in bridge mode. Bridge mode means that two diffe

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread John J Herzog
Look for Nimbuzz in the app store. You can find it there. Also check out www.nimbuzz.com On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Where do you get Nimbuz from? > On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:13, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi >> Use nimbuzz instead. Nimb

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can log into facebook, AIM, yahoo, google talk, and skype. It even lets you use your skype out call plan to dial phone numbers. Perfectly accessible, except the dial pad buttons are not labeled. But if you know the layout of a telephone, its completely useab

Re: have any of you used quick books with Voiceover?

2009-10-04 Thread John J Herzog
trying to write a check, you will not hear it say edit text even once. On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:41 PM, hank smith wrote: > > can't some one lebel the edit fiels in snow leopard? > - Original Message - > From: "John J Herzog" > To: > Sent: Sunday, October 04,

Re: have any of you used quick books with Voiceover?

2009-10-04 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Ben, quickbooks 2009 is almost accessible. I say almost, because although you can view reports successfully, and view when transactions were made, you cannot write checks on your own. Voiceover does not recognize the different fields in which you are supposed to type material. I was goi

Re: how to get a caps lock key in ubuntu under fusion

2009-09-30 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Mat, I am assuming you want to use the caps lock key to run the orca screen reader. If this is the case, you can remap the caps lock key to the escape key from within ubuntu itself. To do this, go into your VM and using orca, look under the system menu. I think its under system preference

a question about pocket tunes for the Iphone

2009-09-27 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, When I first got pocket tunes, I could click on search, and use it to find stations all around the country. Recently however, I clicked search by location just out of curiosity. Now I wish to once again search the entire catalogue for stations. How do I turn location based sear

I don't like Fring: Any other accessible skype clients for Iphone?

2009-09-19 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, I figured out why my Ipod touch is not going to sleep. Apparently, when I turn Fring notifications on, it interferes with the devices ability to remain sleeping. The down side of this, is that I do not get sounds for incoming messages, calls, etc. Are there any other accessible ways

question about Ipod: How to prevent it from unpausing?

2009-09-18 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I am experiencing an annoying problem with my Ipod touch. If I no longer want to play music, I pause the currently playing song. However, if left alone long enough, the Ipod will resume playing music, rather than simply sleep. I have the screen set to lock after five minutes of

why did my Ipod become corrupt? Anyone else experience this?

2009-09-17 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I received my Ipod touch on Tuesday, and everything was working fine last night. However, when I turned it on today, none of my installed apps would launch. I would double tap them, but the home screen would not go away, and the app refused to run. Long story short, I had to rese

Re: skype on the iphone

2009-09-17 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, I use Fring too. Has anybody else noticed though, that when using Fring, voice quality is lower than it is on skype? On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:00 AM, Thuy wrote: > > Hi Rebecca. I use Fring, which is an instant messaging/voice over ip > app which includes skype. > http://maccessibility.net/iph

a few questions about Iphone OS 3.1

2009-09-16 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I am currently using a new Ipod touch with voiceover, and I have several questions. First, in the mailbox, is there a way to delete messages without first clicking on each one? If I decide that I do not want the message based on the subject alone, how can I remove it? Second, and

question about airmouse on Iphone

2009-09-12 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, In anticipation of my new Ipod touch, I have started searching the app store to find some cool things I can do with the device. I came across one that was called wireless airmouse. Supposedly, airmouse turns your Iphone or Ipod touch into a wireless controller, with buttons speci

Itunes cannot find my files after update

2009-09-09 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, After I installed Itunes 9, I have been experiencing odd behavior. When I try to play certain songs in my library, I get the following message. Itunes was unable to play the file because it cannot be located. Would you like to locate it? If I click yes, I am then taken to my fi

Re: voiceover with braille note as display

2009-09-08 Thread John J Herzog
can't assigng an actual, Open, command. It is a > suggestion I made to Apple in regard to being able to assign OS X > keyboard commands to the Braille keys on the BN, such as, open, enter, > etc.. > > > Take Care > > John Panarese > > On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:50 PM, J

Re: voiceover with braille note as display

2009-09-08 Thread John J Herzog
ebar and letter o > on the display for opening applications. > > > Take Care > > John Panarese > > On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:20 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi listers, >> I have a question about using the braille note 32 as a display with >> voi

voiceover with braille note as display

2009-09-08 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I have a question about using the braille note 32 as a display with voiceover. When my friend hooked hers up, everything worked fine, but she could not open various programs from the display. According to voiceover, the routing keys above each cell were supposed to perform the

Re: Vo-shift-space bar is broken

2009-09-05 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, I have noticed that I cannot click on a machine within fusion as well. I'm not sure if it's completely broken though. John On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hi, > Can anyone confirm that the actual mouse clicking vo-shift-spacebar is > broken under Snow leopard? For e

Re: cool google feature accessible in snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > humm this does not work for me. I actually feel like this worked in > Leopard, and probably better. > El Sep 4, 2009, a las 4:43 PM, John J Herzog escribió: > >> >> Hi listers, >> If you go to google.com, and type in some search terms,

Re: A VO Bug: IP addresses

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
Bug confirmed. John On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > > Goodness. This is a real problem. I checked it out and got, um, the > point, if you know what I mean. > -- > > On Sep 4, 8:02 pm, Buddy Brannan wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Wonder who can replicate this? It's sort of importa

cool google feature accessible in snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, If you go to google.com, and type in some search terms, you can now hit the down arrow to cycle through a list of suggested criteria for your search. For instance, typing in best selling books might give you best selling books of 2009, best selling books on Amazon, etc. To highli

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
, at 5:23 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello John, > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:58 PM, John J Herzog wrote: >> >> I'm currently using Kurzweil 1000 under fusion to handle all my >> scanning needs. My scanner, which has both an ADF and flatbed works >> with tw

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
games do you plauy udner windows/ I too would > really like to switch to the mac as much as possible, > greetings, Anouk > On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:52 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi Anouk, >> I, too, am a law student. Good luck with Iwork. It seems to resolve &g

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
eks, hopefully I > can get a student discount. Btw a different question do i have to get > apple stuff on cd, cant you just download it from their site? > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:17 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> I have noticed the sam

Re: Tip on Extra Status Menus in SL

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
Awesome. This works really well for me. However, the only way I was able to obtain the extra information was by using VO down arrow after first arrowing to the menu with option held down. On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > I found an interesting way to get extra airport sta

voiceover prevents screen saver from turning on, and display sleep.

2009-09-03 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Can anybody confirm the following bug? In your energy saver preferences, select a time for the display to go to sleep. For this demonstration, select the time of 1 or 2 minutes. Now, leave voiceover and your mac alone. Notice that instead of the display sleeping, voiceover will

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, I have noticed the same behavior you mentioned. It normally occurs on long documents, and textedit does in deed say busy after arrowing down each line. It's quite frustrating, but if you have Iwork, it seems to do a better job. Note: When I say long documents, I am referring to those tha

Re: voiceover getting stuck in submenus?

2009-08-30 Thread John J Herzog
cision to leave Windows and JAWS behind, I hadn't been this > happy before. My biggest problem is that all my playing around is > cutting into my sleep. > > On Aug 30, 8:41 pm, John J Herzog wrote: >> Hi listers, >> Has anybody noticed that voiceover now gets stuck

voiceover getting stuck in submenus?

2009-08-30 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Has anybody noticed that voiceover now gets stuck in submenus in snow leopard? For instance, when I am in mail, and I go to the mailbox menu, I can move through the options until I get to the online status submenu. At this point, hitting the up, down, left, and right arrows sim

window chooser not working with Ichat

2009-08-29 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I am having a problem, and was wondering if anybody else can confirm this. Whenever I get a new message from a buddy, I can no longer use the window chooser menu to get to it. Hitting VO f2 twice after hearing the pop up sound results in voiceover saying, zero items in window c

Re: choppy reading in mail

2009-08-29 Thread John J Herzog
within the coming > months, and will probably iron out some of the little annoyances we > find as VoiceOver users. > > Take care. > > Fonzie > > On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, John J Herzog wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> I'm liking the snow leopard up

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