Fwd: Ulysses News 10/15 – Keep Your Hands on the Keyboard

2015-05-23 Thread Jon Cohn
This is a mark up editor I have not tried it but I did talk to the developer and if there are accessibility issues with VoiceOver he would be interested in correcting them. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "The Soulmen" > Subject: Ulysses News 10/15 – Keep Yo

Re: For those who use Me.com e-mail

2011-12-27 Thread Jon Cohn
Is the automatically cc check box in the composing pane of mail preferences selected? Best wishes, Jonathan On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi All. > > This is for those who just use Me.com mail so those do not you can delete > this message. > > If I write mail using m

Re: Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Jon Cohn
NO, the speech recognition built into MacOS is just for clicking on buttons and running scripts and/or macros. If you need dictation dragon is, I believe, the only alternative On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Becky Knaub wrote: > Hi all, > does anyone know if you can use this option to dictate ins

Re: Disabling reopening last visited file on app specific basis in Lion?

2011-11-24 Thread Jon Cohn
I have heard that tinkertool has a "knob" for this. I don't have it on my Lion machine yet, so I can't test. Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To u

Re: JetBlue vs Chrome

2011-11-15 Thread Jon Cohn
Thanks for checking into this for me. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Well, my son just informed me that a revised website will roll out on > December 9 for JetBlue. There may also be an iPhone app as well coming > around the same time. What's unclea

Re: Strange e-mailing problem

2011-11-10 Thread Jon Cohn
Did you get a solution? I found that if I composed the message on myMac, and then logged into GMAIL and went to drafts and sent from the web interface e-mails that were not getting to Verizon started working again. If ISP's keep this up, soon we will all be using Facebook which would be unfort

Re: Deleting multiple emails

2011-11-10 Thread Jon Cohn
First may I recomend that you reconfigure your mac GMAIl to use IMAP. Otherwise, when you delete from one system it may not delete from the other. Now on to the IOS issue... 1. By default GMAIL does not delete, but archives e-mails. I am not sure if this is important for you, but when you arch

Re: Trying to lie to itunes

2011-11-04 Thread Jon Cohn
All songs in iTunes have a count of play times and count times. Though generally, the play count is not displayed. Also, there is a remember location and skip on random check boxes in the iTunes info box. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Daniel Montalvo Charameli wrote: >

Re: putting in contacts

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Cohn
There is a application called "Address Book". Starting it up, and hitting command-N is the way to do this by scratch. Also when you are reading an e-mail message and you hear data detector near a phone number, VO-shift-M will bring up a contextual menu item including add to address book. Some

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Jon Cohn
Becky, THe built in speech recognition on the Macintosh does not recognize words, it recognises phrases. So you could for example hold down the escape key and say "switch to system preferences" You would then hear a click and System Preferences would be launched. If you want dictation, then y

Re: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-31 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, some of it is already there, and has been since before Voice Over, before OSX and possibly even before Steve Jobs was kicked out by the board. Macintoshes have had a speech recognition system. It does not work as flexibly as Siri, but you can have it understand several hundred commands p

Re: uploading html code with accented letters

2011-10-31 Thread Jon Cohn
I would trust Chris on this, he does has more experience than I do... However, I would have expected that if the HTML had indicated that the content-encoding was UTF-8 which I believe all Macintoshes use, then I would have expected the accented characters to be displayed correctly on the web pa

Re: Track pad commander question

2011-10-31 Thread Jon Cohn
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Angel! > Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:50 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Track pad commander question > > Hi John, > > I too am interested. H

Re: a note on microphones for macs

2011-10-28 Thread Jon Cohn
I I believe the converter is called a pre-amplifier. External microphones work OK, but the signal is too small for the line-in to recognize it. Best wishes, Jonathan On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > Wow, they've been doing this for a few years now. I wonder what the conv

Re: help please with ITunes

2011-10-27 Thread Jon Cohn
Kim, It would help to know what the dialog boxes say. There is a permissions issue with the current iTunes and your AppleID account if you do not use the computer as an administrator. I saw some notes on how to fix this, but I have not done this yet. Best wishes, Jonathan On Oct 27, 2011,

Re: Track pad commander question

2011-10-27 Thread Jon Cohn
Yes you can override them in the keyboard shortcuts. At least I have intentially overridden cmd-W to do another function. Jon On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > No no no no! > Not that one Ricardo! lol! > I was looking for it in the keyboard shortcuts as you suggested! > It looks

Re: Twitter makin me bitter

2011-10-27 Thread Jon Cohn
Sounds like you have the twitter safari extension. Look in your extensions tab of safari preferences and you should be able to turn it off or delete it. Best wishes, Jonathan On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi all! > I was also getting a Twitter page turning up and I do not

Re: Terminal problem: speech getting interrupted when new text appears

2011-10-22 Thread Jon Cohn
The only solution I have heard that really works is to use a terminal window within emacsspeak. I have not tried this, but I have terminal fairly under control. The first thing to know is that by default terminal continually keeps the full scroll back by default, so after 20,000 or so lines of

Re: Track pad commander question

2011-10-21 Thread Jon Cohn
There is a text recognition command to send the current e-mail. I believe I could set up the equivalent for you in an AppleScript if you want. Jon On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:40 PM, bill holton wrote: > Hi. > So it looks like I would have to construct a macro to press the send key and > then assign

Re: exporting subscribed podcasts from itunes

2011-10-07 Thread Jon Cohn
I would be suprised if there was not a way to get a list of the URL's via AppleScript. On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, sorry if this gets posted double but this kept staying in my drafts > folder. > Is it possible to export your list of subscribed podcasts from itunes to a

Re: Numbers Question

2011-09-28 Thread Jon Cohn
I have only one point of help for you. You should be able to select an entire row or column if you go to the extreame edge using the touchpad commander, and thenclicking on the item found. I have not had much luck with navigating, but I wonder if the standard command down would do the trick?

Re: payroll program

2011-09-25 Thread Jon Cohn
I had high hopes for Account Edge. But as soon as I started the demo I started running into non-readable fields. I understand that Money Guru is a standard accounting package and not a checkbook program, so perhaps that is accessable and has the features you need. Let us know, and also let me

Re: accelerate a podcast in iTunes

2011-09-25 Thread Jon Cohn
my _movie -- starts playing end tell On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: > WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have > told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as > a class of "quicktime player"

Re: accelerate a podcast in iTunes

2011-09-25 Thread Jon Cohn
WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as a class of "quicktime player" and so it is assuming the word movie is actually a variable (identifier) but in syntactically a class is requir

Re: searching for book: applescript 1-2-3

2011-09-25 Thread Jon Cohn
Paul, I would be glad to help you with APpleScript. I learned by tearing apart a few applescript's and also by reading the Apple help documents available in the Applescript editor help menu. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Colin and Darcy, > > Tha

Re: Recording system audio and microphone with audio hijack pro

2011-09-25 Thread Jon Cohn
Actually if you are going to set it up as a key stroke, you might want to go a little more complicated. property RunState if RunState is equal to "stop" then tell application "AUdio Hijack" ... .. to run set runState to "running else tell application "Audio Hijack" to stop recording .. set

Re: mail rules

2011-09-21 Thread Jon Cohn
I have had Snow Leopard ask me if I want to apply rules to the currently active folder. If you say yes then it will do this. After creating the rule there is also a menu around I think in the messages contextual menu that allows you to apply rules. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 21, 2011, at 2

Re: List of mail recipients in Snow Leopard?

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Cohn
Kevin, What I do is the following: After typing a bit of a name I stop. Voice over then announces "new window" I then make sure quick nav is turned off and just use the down arrow key. Also, if the name mentioned is the one you want, then it will be completed by typing a comma. Best wishes,

Re: Mail questions

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Cohn
Are you running Snow Leopard? I don't know theconfiguration of signatures for Lion. To create a folder there is a button at the bottom of the list of folders. Clicking this button is the easiest way to create a folder. I believe you can also create one using a contextual menu on any fo

Re: Customizing Go Menu

2011-09-17 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, this is not exactly what you want, but default folder X is supposed to allow you to have keyboard shortcuts and additional neat features in the file dialog boxes. I have heard people rave about it, but I have personally never tried it. http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.ht

Re: finder document, what is this?

2011-09-17 Thread Jon Cohn
It is a document that the finder does not have a translation to describe what it is. Generally every application has a "plist" file within the application that lists file extensions that the application supports and also gives a descriptive name to the file extension. This is how Word document

Re: good (un)rar/(un)zip prog for os x lion

2011-09-17 Thread Jon Cohn
If there is a command line interface to compress the files but no GUI and the person wants something in the contextual menu, then a short automator script should be able to enable this. I am not personally very agile at using the automator, but there is certainly the ability to "do shell script

Re: smart mail boxes

2011-09-17 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, there are actually "Smart Folders" in Mail app directly too. They are just a way to merge several Smart Mailboxes much the way that the Inbox folder collects all of your different Inboxes into one view. If the "Smart Mailboxes" allowed a bit more control in their selection criteria then

Re: VO and Apps Using Mac ports?

2011-09-16 Thread Jon Cohn
I have heard good things on another list about emacs speak working under the Macintosh. They told me to look in the archive to find out how, and I have as of yet not done that. Jonathan On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm playing a little with Lynx and Alpi

Re: Is there a manual eject button anywhere on the MBP?

2011-09-16 Thread Jon Cohn
1. If you hold down the control key during boot, I believe it will first eject the Disk. Second, Don't you have Lion installed? perhaps you can use the Lion recovery partition to install the OS. Jonathan Skype: joncohnfairfax -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: parallels?

2011-09-14 Thread Jon Cohn
Version 7 just came out and I have seen no mention on the Blindness lists about it, so it is probably too early to say. Earlier versions of Parralel did not allow display chaining or as I understand it, and so were useless for jaws users. Jonathan On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Anouk Radix w

Re: moving mail messages to new system

2011-09-13 Thread Jon Cohn
On Snow Leopard, the mail messages are stored in the "~/Library/Mail" folder. This folder defintately has all of the e-mail messages and I am fairly certain that the Database that indexes the folders is also stored there. If it is not, then it would be in the folder that "Application Data" fo

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear. There is a program called sandvox sandbox but the b as in bravo has been changed to a v as in Victor. This program seems to allow some interesting HTNL editing, but I did not spend much time on it. You can download it for free, and

Re: Tax Program

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
I reviewed some of our taxes in Turbo Tax last year using VoiceOver. I did very little data entry, so I am not sure about how well that works, but TurboTax 2010 certainly was navigatable using VoiceOver, and our family will be using the 2011 version too, so I can report back on that in a few m

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
I had some minor success wit but I had no desire to really create a website. Best wishes, Jonathan sandvox On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, Unfortunately i have no knowledge of html at all. I can upload stuff via > ftp if need be but dont know anything about programming.

Re: VO reading message list?

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
Some Snow Leopard folks actually deleted all the fields in the messages table and then re-added them in order they wanted. Tables including this one have a column header that a sighted person can see, and that VO's trackpad commander can access if you go to the top of the column with a single f

Re: This has brought up library questions

2011-09-11 Thread Jon Cohn
OK. Information in /System/Library is only supposed to be Apple items. Items in /Library/ are items available to all users of the computer. Items in /Users/myUserName/Library are generally only available to myUserName If the computer is only being used by the owner, then there is no real dif

Re: creating extended journal encrypted partition on ntfs drive

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find the option to partition the disk? Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one has a tap to modify the partition table. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:

Re: strange mail behavior

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
I find that sometimes a disclosure triangle is "part of a group" (like in the mailbox list in Snow Leopard. In these cases, you need to interact with the group before the right arrow will work. (It might be that there are ways the developer could have the group just feed the arrow keys to th

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this... And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download (

Re: Looking for a good task reminder program

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
In snow Leopard, I usually select a chunck of text and then do a contextual menu select and find create task. I am not sure if this is a mail contextual menu, or a general text one. Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Nothing in file for a to do list. Looks like the

Re: Such a small selection of sounds

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
I believe you can also put MP3 files in your sounds library with success if you don't feel like converting them. The worst thing that could happen is that the sound file does not work. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Traci wrote: > Oh, I change other formats to .aiff. Ya

Re: Hardware Growler, was more system sound feedback?

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
The two sets of instructions do exactly the same thing, they modify the properties file of the application which is sorta kinda like the registry in Windows, though by no means as global. So using the defaults command adds a new item to the appropriate plist file using Apple standard operatin

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard commander is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the image in the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi everyone, On the pc I could sol

Re: putting mail into folders

2011-09-03 Thread Jon Cohn
OK, just to make sure you are using GMAIL right? If you followed what appears to be current best practices and configured your systems to retrieve e-mail via "IMAP" and not "POP", then where ever you create the folder it will appear automatically in a) Your GMail WEB Client b) Your iPhone / i

Re: Disabling start up programs on the Mac

2011-09-02 Thread Jon Cohn
I am afraid you will have to be a little more specific. 1. In Lion by default every program that was running when you logout or shutdown the computer will be restarted. 2. You can mark programs to start at login via the DOCK and/or system preferences. 3. Several utility programs are started by i

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-02 Thread Jon Cohn
s podcast using > iCatcher? > > Maybe the official podcast name would help since there is the ability to > search for podcasts. Does anyone know the official name of the podcast? > > > - Original Message - From: "Jon Cohn" > To: > Sent: Thurs

Re: Alpine and the Mac

2011-09-02 Thread Jon Cohn
You can build this under fink... fink install re-alpinoperations-center:~ root# operations-center:~ root# operations-center:~ root# fink install re-alpine Information about 10441 packages read in 2 seconds. WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 19 days. You should run 'fink se

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
I generally use VO-L (read line) some of what you want to use will depend on if you are interacting with the input field. If you are not-interacting with the input field then VO-F3 should work. If you are interacting then the commands to read from beginning will give you the entire field. (VO-

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
There are a few options. The easiest is to use the Subscribe to podcast in the advanced menu of iTunes. If you goto the feed: url in Safari, then you should be able to review the podcast there. there will also be a subscribe in mail button on the Safari page. If you subscribe in mail then th

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
It is fairly straight forward in textedit to do non-stylized changes ie there are shortcuts to Bold, Underline, Italic, Center, Justify, increase font and decrease font. (Most of these shortcuts work in any richtext based Macintosh application) What pages does is set up or allow you to setup sev

Re: difference quicklook and preview?

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
Quicklook can also be used to listen to audio files... When you quicklook an audio file the playback will be paused if you switch to a different application on the Mac and then will resume when you jump back to the finder. Quicklook can also be used for HTML files in exactly the same way as PD

Re: getting MBP ready to sell

2011-08-30 Thread Jon Cohn
There is one other option for deauthorization of computers. If you have five (the max) authorized computers then you can deauthorize all computers in the Apple Store. This is described in the iTunes help. I hope this helps. So the process of making a computer safe for resale should be. 1. Ma

Re: Questions about mac mini

2011-08-29 Thread Jon Cohn
My memory about the new mini's is that the server version and the low-end version do not have a GPU and that the mid-tier version does have thededicated graphics processor. So it might be that the only the medium tier mini has issues with no display attached. Sounds like a fun experiment...

Re: getting MBP ready to sell

2011-08-29 Thread Jon Cohn
Don't forget when formating the disk there is an option to safely clean out old data. If you need me to search up specifically ow to do this, I can. I would love to move up to a MBP< though right now my budget won't allow it. Best regards, Jonathan On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:21 AM, erik burggraa

Re: Finder and Dashboard driving me crazy

2011-08-04 Thread Jon Cohn
This is mission control at your command. YOu can disable these keystorkes in the system preferences. Jonathan On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:52 PM, carlene knight wrote: > Hi: > > When I hit the VO keys a lot, such as in Facebook, I either get the dashboard > or finder popping up as one has a hotkey

Re: just curious

2011-07-30 Thread Jon Cohn
iTunes gets updated anytime there are interesting new features for iPhones or new media types or a security hole is found. The problem with iTunes right now is that it has to manage too much... 1. Sync music, contacts, photos, home page,and applications to every type of iPhone and iPod touch.

Re: Option click?

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
I think that is an option with the option key. :-) though I also believe that Esther's solution might be a bit easier to control. Jonathan On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, I can't get my output device to switch from my internal mic to line-in on > my macbook air. I've

Re: Option click?

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
I assume you are talking about getting extended options in the bluetooth, airport and other status menu bar items? I do this by the following process: 1. Hit vo-m twice to get to the status menu items. 2. Make sure quick nav is turned off. 3. Hold down the option key with your left hand and use l

Re: drag and drop question

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
Make sure Garage Band is not in full screen mode. On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:44 AM, chad baker wrote: > hi i'm trying to drag a bunch of loops i purchased a while back into gb > when i cycle through windows gb don't show up > any suggestions > thanks > > -- > You received this message because you

Re: Bookmarks bug in Safari?

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
Did uou try a window list? Double click on the right side of the track pad with track pad commander on. Also Control-Option-F2 twice... Jonathan On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote: > HI Riccardo, > > I've experienced this within Safari as well as other applications where > Voic

Re: custom sounds?

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
Yes, you can select play sound as one of the items in the Mail rules. Just select add new action and then there should be a drop down for play sound. Once you select that a second drop down will appear with the sounds in your library sounds directory. THere might be a browse button too, but I

Scripting functionalities ...

2011-07-29 Thread Jon Cohn
How much have you actually looked at AppleScript? The Voice Over set of commands just allows you to script the various VoiceOver functions if you want access to the menus or different graphical widgets an application that has been available in the Macintosh environment longer then VoiceOver has

Re: setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-24 Thread Jon Cohn
1. This is not really new to Lion. 2. There is the unix "reboot" command and there is also another command line commmand that supports configuring next boot options. But I believe that the command-R boot is almost like the C boot, except it will boot off the restore partition in your hard disk

Re: getting back old emails

2011-07-16 Thread Jon Cohn
ages->move menu. Best regards, Jonathan On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > when i set up my gmail account, i had no idea about the list. But I am using > imap for my mail prtocol. > On 2011-07-16, at 1:08 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: > >> This depends on if you

Re: getting back old emails

2011-07-16 Thread Jon Cohn
This depends on if you are using IMAP or POP for your mail protocol. Check in theaccounts section of mail preferences if you don't know. Also when setting up your gmail did you follow the instructions from the tidbits.com article that Esther and I have referenced before? Best, Jonathan O

Re: can't get my macbook to stay shut down

2011-07-16 Thread Jon Cohn
I do not think this is your issue, but take a look at the following: 1. Open up the System Preference Pane for energy Saver. 2. Click the schedule button near the bottom. 3. Review all the settings in this dialog. HTH, Jonathan On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Christina,

Auto start of bt sound devices.

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
Mark, My blue tooth headset has decided to stop working on me, so I have nothing to test with right now. My memory however is that there is a helper program of some kind that is started when you select a bluetooth audio device. Some possibilities 1. The volume / sound status bar item will

Re: Stop Using Headset Annoying.

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
In the blue tooth system settings you will find a table of known devices. Select your headset and hit the delete key. I usually get to the blue tooth system settings by going to the bluetooth status menu and selecting the last item in the menu. Jonathan Just for completeness there is another w

Re: complex networking question (double nating)

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
Scott, I would suggest using the bridge mode on the Apple routers. Generally only tunnelling will cause you issues, but any VPN will probably use tunneling. You should still be able to block MAC addresses in one of the manual airport controls even with DHCP turned off. My problem with NAT i

Re: mp3 to txt?

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
I believe the folks at MacSpeech had an application for this. Jonathan On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone know if there's an app that will convert an mp3 file to txt? I > know it's probably a long-shot, but I figured that if it exists, someone on > t

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Jon Cohn
ist if you want to know how to configure this. Jonathan On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the > systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning, > downloading and deleting of e-m

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Jon Cohn
If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning, downloading and deleting of e-mails on your e-mail providers server. Actually my first sentence is a bit off, IBM and Microsoft provide Domino/

Re: Installing Drivers after installing via Bootcamp?

2011-06-29 Thread Jon Cohn
The last step in installing bootcamp is to insert your Snow Leopard disk into the system while you are running windows. This should ask you to install the boot camp drivers. Did you do this? Jonathan On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:10 AM, James Malone wrote: > Hi folks, yesterday I decided to install

Re: Update on mac running hot, from bad to worse!

2011-06-29 Thread Jon Cohn
I wonder if you are having issues with one of the preference files? I looked around on my Macintosh, and did not find anything in ~/Library/Preferences with "spell" in the name. There is a "spell" directory within the library that has your private dictionary. Perhaps if you move that director

Re: weird problem with airport extreme

2011-06-27 Thread Jon Cohn
I once got this and it was resolved by rebooting the cable modem. If you have COX they won't directly help you fix the problem because they don't support routers. Also you did not perchance change where the ethernet cables are plugged in did you? There is one place that is marked as WAN and i

Re: Facebook and clients

2011-06-27 Thread Jon Cohn
With the full facebook client just one or two "clicks" and you can remove Friend and/or application updates. I believe it might be an unlabeled link, but if you click on it then wait a second a list of choices appear asking if you want to ignore the person or the type of message. JOn On Jun

Re: Adding RSS feeds via an OPML file

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Cohn
The terminal command open -a Mail TheFileName should do the same thing. And you can get theFileName by selecting it in the finder and then typing command-c for copy. Then when you hit paste (command-v) in the terminal the POSIX path of the file should be entered. Oh, and the apple Script

Re: strange result when running a repair disk permissions, anyone no what it means?

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Cohn
I think it is worthwhile to understand SUID as this is a file that circumvents standard UNIX user protections. A SUID file will run as the user that owns the file rather then running as the user that started the program running. There are several programs that need to be SUID so that they c

Re: Setting priority and return receipts

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, setting Priority is fairly easy. . When composing a message click on the "customize header button" There is an item to check in there for priority. I suggest using High priority minimally, To get a return receipt there are actually two styles of return receipts if you read http://en.

Re: Cloning Account Settings Across Macs

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Cohn
The Migration assistant can also use a Time Machine image to create a copy of a users files JOnathan On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Other than cloning the drive, I'm not familiar with any utility that would do > what you're asking. There might be a way that

Re: Will I lose data if I boot from instalation disk?

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Cohn
Yes you will lose something but it is not data. What you will lose is access to the APple Keychain that holds all of your stored passwords forMail, Safari, WebKit Skype and probably other tools too. Jonathan On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Eleanor Southwood wrote: > Thanks, thought not, but the

Re: Help with bold text?

2011-06-20 Thread Jon Cohn
Perhaps vo-shift-command-b to search in reverse? The other possibility is that vo-command-c might help you out. Jon On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:21 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, I'm stuck. I've got to look at some information on the web where > certain elements are marked in bold. So, I tooled

Re: resetting password on my mac?

2011-06-17 Thread Jon Cohn
Read the warning near the bottom before you proceed with this procedure. There is an option when you boot from the DVD. 1. put DVD in computer while it is on. 2. Reboot the computer and hold down the "C" key until it starts to boot. 3. I believe that Voice Over will come on after a few moment

Re: alternative for accessing federal websites

2011-06-17 Thread Jon Cohn
I believe you should be able to do most things in Safari. I haven't seen that message this year. Last year I did quite a few Federal applications. Some of the sights that are using the Monster based application tool did refuse to let me go any further until I faked them into thinking I was ru

Re: folders missing?

2011-06-16 Thread Jon Cohn
Ok, go into the mailbox list and listen for "collapsed" expand that folder and see if the new one is there. By default MacMail puts the folder crated as a sub-folder of the currently selected/opened Mail folder. On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > Okay, I've created a new fold

Re: junk mail

2011-06-16 Thread Jon Cohn
Are you having issues? First of all there is not always a junk folder. By default the Mac just puts a flag indicating the message is junk, but leaves it in the inbox. However if you enabled the junk folder in your preferences then command-6 should open the folder. Note: however that GMAIL ha

Re: Time update on network

2011-06-16 Thread Jon Cohn
The MacOs has the standard UNIX suite of commands. ntpdate - set the date from an NTP server. ntpd - run an NTP server (requires a config file to list NTP peers to use Also if you use ntpd you should ensure it gets autostarted via launch or rc init files. ntpdc and ntpq - commands to query an

Re: Boot camp questions

2011-06-09 Thread Jon Cohn
IN terms of boot camp, I am not the expert but nobody else has answered yet. In the Utilities directory there is a program called bootcamp assistant . When you run this program it will partition your hard disk and perhaps do a little more setup. At that point you will need to install the OS

Re: Itunes error message

2011-06-08 Thread Jon Cohn
Have you recently done a permissions fix in disk utility. I know folks that swear this helps, but I have doubts that it really should. I would expect that doing the following might be more useful but a bit dangerous. In terminal run the following commands. 1. cd /Users/ 2. sudo chown -R

Re: multiple email accounts?

2011-06-08 Thread Jon Cohn
There is a preference item or two about picking the account. THere will also be a pop-up button that you can arrow through to change the From: field. If you have not checked the only use the specified SMTP server for this e-mail account check box in the account preferences then there will also

Re: ABBYY Fine Reader question

2011-06-08 Thread Jon Cohn
Be warned there is a older version of Abby that is distributed in such a way that it shows up as a folder in your applications directory. It also for some strange reason has the word "Sprint" in its name. I had bad experience with this one. The buttons did not respond to VO, but there was a c

Re: All the new features in Lion

2011-06-07 Thread Jon Cohn
Hmm, you can not purchase any version of Apple software. You can purchase the right to use it. This is true with almost any software you "purchase". THough I believe what you are trying to say and believe me we have heard you and at some level I expect 95% of the readers of this list agreee i

Re: iBooks, iCloud and the Mac

2011-06-07 Thread Jon Cohn
Tidbits.com who also publish the take control books, talked a little about ePub books on the Macintosh yesterday. Apparently the iTunes store now allows purchases of books, and I believe they had two suggestions about reading those books on your non-IOS Apple device. Best regards, Jonathan O

Re: Abisee?

2011-06-07 Thread Jon Cohn
IT sounds like from my recent readings that the fujisu scanners are well liked by the OCR manufactures of Mac software. I have been playing around with devInc pro office which is a paperless office solution which costs about $150. It uses Abby as its OCR engine, but can automate with any scann

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