Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
even the public radio station would require that anything is on their equipment and never goes to the cloud so i couldn't use it even to help out at th elocal public or calssical station it coul dnot even be used for scanning documents for the animal rescue i am part of due to confidentiality

Re: imho: the cost of Mac vs others and their solutionsWas: docuscan is available

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
I love the fact that I don't have to beg someone else to fix my comptuer when windows blows a gasket and falls apart! i can reinstall and do all the maintinance on my mac myself windows yeah right you still have to see to install that trash On Apr 29, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Aman Singer wrote: >

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
yes why should we pay MORE because we are blind On Apr 29, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Ricardo, > > That is really my point. What are you willing to pay for ease of use and > quality of results. If the $100 ABBYY Fine Reader Express product gets the > job done to your satisfactio

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
if one more person comes on here and lectures about saving money I'm going to delete this list oviously you are one of the rich governement employee blind nfb freaks On Apr 29, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Thank you!! > There is also this concept of saving money. If you want an

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
only 5 megapixels damn that's redulous the camera my girlfriend totes around is 12 and costs $200 so what's the extra couple hundred buying you I am tired f blindness products raping us cause they can a camera and a tripod wow thats ot worth tha tkind of money for only 5 mp, the new I

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
well mst people who DO have those toys got them through vr services, which doesn't happe like it used to and I for one never got SHIT from my vr jerk counselor or the commission for the blind On Apr 29, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > I disagree, > > Since most the people on this li

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Thurman
ys but we blnd people ay MUC more for the same functioality! most scanners come with free ocr programs that work great but are cmpletey inaccessible On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:04 PM, brandt wrote: > Remember, sighted folks pay for programs they need just like we do, it's just > so typically blind t

Re: Apple TV and streaming movies

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Thurman
. We have just stuck with what works for us. > > > > -- > > Jenny Wood > Phone:(972) 989-3894 > Email:kc5...@gmail.com > Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni > > > > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >

Re: Apple TV and streaming movies

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Thurman
a silly question but what do you use to get your movies into a form that can be share don your network to the apple ios divices? handbrake is a joke from what I have seen and he last vd i tried to rip with dvd shrink was garbage with no audio mac the ripper gave the same results but I odn't kno

Re: A growl tip

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Thurman
I'd lik eto see both noone is forcing anyone to read the big stuff all at once u I for one would love an everything abtou the mac book jus like I'd lie to be ale to ptu on a book and jus tlisten about learnign what it relaly takes to start writing coco code I cant absorb html click here cick

Re: TeamTalk help

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Thurman
you can get it at www.chicksdigmacs.net that one is much much easier to use :) On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Orin wrote: > Hi all, > Just curious how I connect to a TeamTalk server with this very inaccessible > TT client? I thought I could just type a server address because it has > default por

Re: Frustrating issues/Needs with Skype 5.1 and Voice Over

2011-03-29 Thread Michael Thurman
if you need 2.8 E mail me off list and I will send it to you I kept te old installer for just that reason everyone else's problems with sype 5 thanks Michael On Mar 28, 2011, at 6:18 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Michael: > I'll agree with you that Skype is kind of a mess these days. I can tell

Re: Big time Vo Crash

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Thurman
thathappened to me too and a week out of my warrenty! but vo has been crashing and crashing, fortunately command f5 brings itback most times but i still find that unacceptable in a machien that costs as much as this mbp does On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:32 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi guys: > Well,

Re: Getting growl to announce incoming sms messages in skype

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Thurman
except mine, I downgraded to get my text back. it would say so and so is typing, but never read the messages, so back I went. I also can not stand skype dumping a call in progress to answer call waiting on it's own. skype 5 isn't ready yet far as I'm conserned let's see what the next update bri

Re: using older charger on my MB pro?

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Thurman
actually that's backwards it's the voltage you really have to watch. Wattage is only a maximum capacity. watts is equal to volts multiplied by amps. If the voltage is the same and one supply can source 1 amp and another can source 2 amps, the second one will have a capacity twice that of the fi

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Thurman
and what about those of us who can not do without it, also how does this explain why I am told that the new I5 macbok pro doesn't have the o issues? How many of us have 13" macbooks? On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > A detailed search for the problems listed in the crash report i

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Thurman
I have the problem I though tit was just a normal screw up but nw i am wondering is there a comon thread t these problems such as what hardware e run a friend of mine had the issues and apple replaces his 13 inch macbook pro with a new i 5 version. He o longer hs the issue I have the older 1

Re: running mac OS in vmware fusion

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Thurman
it wouldn't be illegal if you already own a mac you oviously have already paid for your mac os10.x so even if you get snow leopard from someone else you are licensed for it it's the license not the media that matters in software On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Rose Morales wrote: > A friend of min

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Thurman
I agree who the hell do you think you are accusig anyone of doing anything illegal I'm half a mind to leave this list jus ton principle who are you the software police? On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote: > Scott, > It is ridiculous how you accused me for doing something you don't

Re: Verizon to Drop Unlimited iPhone Data Plans as Soon as This Summer

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Thurman
yeah by the time i can afford an I phone I will get screwed why am I not suprised that verizon wil lbe doing a bait and switch and if i DID have a contract and when I renewed they wouldn't le tme keep unlimited I'm shove the phone up the most convenient oriface and give upif the droid ke

Re: RFB&D Releases RFB&D Audio iOS App

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Thurman
nls is becoming irrelevant most of the books I want I can't get through nls in digital anyway On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > No. nls is under a different set of legislation then rfbd so they in theory > will never develop an app for iphone. > > Take care all. > Sarah Alaw

Re: demand for yet another podcast?

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Thurman
regardless of who got it fo ryou you can take it to the apple store and say look the new ones came out today either you can be nice and just swap it out for me, or I'll return it it should still be in your name if it is not then good luck ever getting service that's one thing apple is stric

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Thurman
t; So, I say to pick your battles and try to be nice to the folks you're >> negotiating with. >> >> Jim >> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:27:51PM -0800, louie wrote: >>> Like I said they don't care and they don't have to. >>> Every one tha

Re: 27 inch iMac Firewire chipset question

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
why does the chipset matter? just curious as i have never used firewire On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > I'm thinking about purchasing the 27 inch iMac but had one question before > making the leap. Does anyone have any idea whether the newest models have a > Texas Instrume

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
well honestly I don't think it matters what we do short of a class action lawsuit because like most things noone cares unless you bust them over the head with a 2x4 lol most buisness people I uspect are abotu as stubborn as mules On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Sounds ty

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
why does the nfb never get into cases like this yet they destroy our chances for getting discriptive tv programming... wht are these groups like the nfb and the acb doing for us? they probably don't care after all their leadership are all people with PLENTY of money so what do theyc are

Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
how abotu apple giving accessible aps a higher placement int he ap store? On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > If you were the CEO of apple, they'd be broke. :). I know its hard for us to > sit by and just take but, I think Apple has done all they can as for > accessibility in r

Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thurman
and it sucks thank god I hav the old installer which still worked fine I will definately keep the old version guess i should burn it to multiple discs or whatever at least ntil someone else writes an alternative and this company thinks we will pay for their service? laughs On Feb 22, 2

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Twitterific for Mac 4.0 Is Released Sans VoiceOver Accessibility

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Thurman
just post t he text if you want to post stuff here these stes are rediculous anywayif you can't copy and paste the text into the E mail why bother these sites take forever and are almost universally porly written On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Quite correct. IF you as

Re: update on the xmradio site

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Thurman
just one reason I am not an xm subscriber anymore they do not care about accessibility. and they keep raising their princes while adding commercials to some stations and wasting slots with copies ofterrestrial broadcasters as many of us said before it happens sirius and xm being allowed to m

Re: Report: Apple making cheaper iPhone to fight Google

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Thurman
do you relally thint hat tey would toss voiceover? apple seems commited to accesibility for everyone more than anything else, even their cheaptest i pod has vo now, so i relaly can not see them not having vo. I also believe creating a different os would be more expensive. i suspect we will loose

Re: Mod note, off topic posts.

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Thurman
the last ot post turned into someone giving advice to get an ON topic item rather than a note taker, so i think it was worthwile, not to mention the fact that thi slist is full of people likely to be able to help. The blind guide dog and marriage counseling discussion board is likel to be so fu

Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Thurman
like a sprint overdrive, a MIFI, or a clear iSpot. Their are many > ways you can go if your will to do a little research. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Michael

Re: Recording Skype calls on the fly with Audio Hijack

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Thurman
that would be awesome :) I'd love to have it as well On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > Hi Michael. I've not done exactly what you want, but I have done similar > things with audio hijack and applescript. > Sometimes when recording podcasts with skype, I will want to play in a

Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Thurman
, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> charge way too god damn munc for less and less all the time. or are you >> independantly wealthy? >> the fact that I can't get a data

Re: how to add people to a Skype conversation

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Thurman
all of which is way too damn much to do what used to take a couple seconds in a menu On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Critically important step missed. After routing the mouse, VO+shift+space to > click. This will cause the mouse to focus on the table thus Skype should be >

Re: cos of data plans was Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Thurman
till had unlimited plans, well they sort of do now but >> yeah. >> >> S >> On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: >> >>> not when t mobile only charges 10 for the same service and only at and t >>> and verizon have I phones apple shou

Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
n nickel and dime with the best of them >>> but this doesn't seem unreasonable. What they charge for texting is >>> unreasonable now that they should reduce.:) >>> >>> >>> On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: >>> >>

Re: first impressions of the new Skype

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
H > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> because the people who write these programs do not care about us or anything >>

Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
texting is > unreasonable now that they should reduce.:) > > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> it's assanine that they want to charge more for tha thot spot I'm sick of >> getting jacked over by these companies >> >>

Re: MacMini Without a Screen

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
yeah can we say stupid! I thin it's pathetic that we can't have a way around it since we have screen curtain anyway. one reason I bouht the macbook pro instead On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I've accidentally unplugged my monitor while using the Mac Mini and VO got > extr

Re: first impressions of the new Skype

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
because the people who write these programs do not care about us or anything about accessibility! I am NOT upgrading til they fix th efact that you can't even run conferences easily anymore On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Rose Morales wrote: > The video button is one movement left of the end call

Re: Jailbreaking and some solutions?

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
it's assanine that they want to charge more for tha thot spot I'm sick of getting jacked over by these companies On Jan 30, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > If att and vz would bundle the hotspot in with out charging then I would nit > consider jailbreaking. > > On 30/01/2011, at 12

Re: use of djay 3.

2011-02-02 Thread Michael Thurman
the last thing I would ever want to be is a wet blanket or appear to support the riaa or ascap or bmi, but having been a professional dj back in the day when we still used turntables, a better day as far as I'm conserned, how if you are going to do this professioanly do you prove wher eyou got y

Re: Apple "screwing" iPhone users to block them from opening the hardware they paid for.

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Thurman
here here! damn right damn right damn right i am sick of big companies telling me what I can do with somethign that I bought did you knwo that the blue ray discs now as f the first of the year can be made to NOT output high definiton signals ont he componant video outputs ba

Re: Accessible kindle comes out for windows while Macs don't

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
exactly and why I don't read tts books anyway it's just a slap in the face for tem tell me that i can BUY not scan but BUY a book and stil not be able to accesit in anyw ay if the publisher decides to block tts when i already bought their book greedy peopl eake me wat to be sick and all of

Re: Accessible kindle comes out for windows while Macs don't

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
and why the hell do they care! publishers suck if its their choice On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see > that they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts > feature. that's why they ca

Re: Accessible kindle comes out for windows while Macs don't

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
amazon there shows how much disregard they have for us and how much they want to crawl and lick the boots ad other less savory parts of th ebig dogs they cower to i for one am sick of being 3rd class in society and why doesn't the nfb sue for crap like that the nfb can't even get us accessi

Re: Apple to Remove the Home Button from Future iPads and iPhones?

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
sing one to know if its >>>>> better, or comparable to an iPhone with a home button? Don't you think >>>>> that is a bit, well, impulsive? >>>>> >>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>> Twitter,

Re: Accessible kindle comes out for windows while Macs don't

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
amazon could not care less about us or they would have demanded text to speech be working on any book On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > As a avid reader, I must say I'm pretty annoyed that Amazon has given us the > short end of the stick as Apple device users once aga

Re: New Logic Accessibility Group

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
heres a stupid question but since I jut came int this discussion late what does logic do? On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Wow, I am glad to see there is so much interest even if I currently do not > have a need. lease though, if there are major changes in accessability kee

Re: Apple to Remove the Home Button from Future iPads and iPhones?

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
if they do that i don't want an I phone On Jan 17, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote: > Saw this story and thought I'd pass it along. This could spell trouble for > some of the accessibility features on the iPhone, for example, > triple-clicking the home button to toggle VO on and off. > > ht

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Thurman
this is probably late as i am way behindbut adiumis great now i havfinaly replaced my windows machine evenfor irc On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:06 AM, trahern culver wrote: > hey all does any one know how acsesabel the latest verssion of adium > is? in past versions voice over wouldn't read past the fir

Re: Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Thurman
good because verizon is is famous for crippling theit devices On Jan 11, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Not surprised here. > > http://dlvr.it/D7d4m > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group,

Re: =What the Verizon phone means for Apple

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Thurman
t; The link works just fine for me. >>> >>> Ricardo Walker >>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:46 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>

Re: =What the Verizon phone means for Apple

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Thurman
M, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> Um? not the response I expected but I'll take a look and repost. Thanks for >> letting me know. >> >> S >> On Jan 10, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: >> >>> bad link >>> >>> On Jan 10, 2011, at

Re: Using full-sized keyboard with MacBook

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Thurman
just to le tyou know there is a nice microsoft keyboard that comes with a driver cd that actually makes the comand and option keys work the way they are supposed to. it that should I suspect also fix the vm issues at least with the windows and alt keys I don't kow how tht would effect the othe

Re: =What the Verizon phone means for Apple

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Thurman
bad link On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Will this hurt or hinder apple, at&t or both? read more: > > http://bit.ly/fCCxOo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to ma

Re: garmin GPS iphone app

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Thurman
and you hadbetter hope you don't hit your data cap or at and t will be getting your next house payment On Jan 9, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Hi everyone, well I decided to try the Garmin GPS App, besides a couple > buttons that have strange labels, it's very accessible, it's the first

Re: a fabulous experience with my MacBook Air

2011-01-06 Thread Michael Thurman
14 each leg is rediculous othewise I might consider it although for even a 5 hour flight it isn't relaly worth the money I can take a book with me it should be free anwyay as much as they make you go through to fly thee days and as rediculous as airfare has gotten On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:19

Re: apple TV and choppy speech

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Thurman
if you are having a hard time getting optical out to work you probably need to select that input on your reciever. often the optical connection defaults to work with only a specific input, but can be reassigned for use with any input you desire. this is something that you will of course need si

Re: Checking Battery Status

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Thurman
the ammount of time remaining can change alot depending on wha tyou are doig at the time for example I can get 7 hours when i fire up th emac and am not doing anything but it settles down to a reasonable 5 hours after a littl ebit it is based on current power consumption rates and such sc

Re: almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Thurman
agreed that joke of a security company along with norton are absolutely useless unless you want to trash your winblows crap box. On Dec 28, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > This is BS. > > > Macafee has about as much clue and product quality as the burnouts they hire > in radio shack

Re: IPhone at work

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Thurman
of course when is the last time you ever saw a company that has people with a brain and common sense? if those companies truly existed we wouldn't be 90+ percent unemployed :) lol actually what we really need is for blindness organizations to do their job and make companies REALLY understa

Re: apple TV and choppy speech

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Thurman
what reciever do you have? i have never found a home theater reciever that did not take the audio from the hdmi connection, it is however sometimes a menu setting that can make the reciever ignore the hdmi audio in favor of another source. it has to take the hdmi audio in order to work with mult

Re: apple tv and choppy speech

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Thurman
the apple tv is probably looking for the presence of the hdmi connected tv, that's my guess anyway. so far apple tv is a no go for me i fit still has problems On Dec 28, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Justin, > > I have not noticed any difference in the quality of the audio from Mac

Re: off topic kindle question

2010-12-26 Thread Michael Thurman
what's sad is for th emoney they spent on that sort of accessible gadet they could have put alot of the money twoard an I device which IS accessible as far as the text to speech with books, i think it would be criminal NOT to enable text to speech and we should get a class action suit against th

Re: Adium problem with requests

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
Regards, > Nic > GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com > Facebook > Twitter > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 > AIM: cincinster > > On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> Hi there you are not alone Ihave

Re: is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
oh forgot to mention two nic eprogras audio hijack pro and nicecast they work great write me off list and I'll gi veyou more info and stuff On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > In Windows, I use duck stream to broadcast or stream. What is comparable and > accessible for t

Re: is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
cool where did you get duck stream? want to send me a copy? I would like to play with it on my old pc from time to time thanks Mike oh you could just write me of flist and toss me a copy too or skype or whatever :) On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > In Windows, I use duck

Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs on the Mac?

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
now if we can get the nls to pull their heads out of their collective asses regarding software players! On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: > Hello everybody, apparently recording for the blind and dyslexic today > announced that they have a book reader that will run on the Mac

Re: where is the built-in mike on the MBP?

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
nope the built i mic on the macbook pro at leas tthe 13 inch model I have is right above the escape and f1 keys tweeters for the left and right channels are located under the shift keys aproximately, with a "low" frequcy driver embeded near the screen it actually appears to have 3 drivers fro

Re: watching TV on my Mac preferably live

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
this is probably already been covered, but satellite systems, direct dishnetwork and the free to air mpeg systems all use different and proprietary data formats and encryption, so any litle box would either have to be supported specifically by directv dish or whatever, or would have to control a

Re: Next iPad to Add Five New Features including USB Port?

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
makes me ask why didn't they just put it on in the first place. it gets old hearing how they screw us who lready bought something I felt like that when a month after i got my mac the new set came out with better batterieslike a slap in the face to someone who still had the "new" smell o

Re: Adium problem with requests

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Thurman
Hi there you are not alone Ihave had the same problem for months. finally had a friend log into my yahoo account and take care of the requests for me. still not fixed on the latest update, nr is irc functionality working properly. not even a chirp on new txt in the chat room, so I wear out m

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
evices. TV shows, music, ETC can only be downloaded once. > On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> I thought that i tunes let you download as many times as you want once you >> pay for a track... my annoyance is I tunes doesn't have a refresh my library

Re: I cannot get gmail pop mail service to work

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
trash. but allof your messages are still in your all mail folder.Yeah > GMail did break somethingas that's when I started having issues. > > Ah well I'll live. lol! > > On Nov 17, 2010, at 21:40, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> i can't get my E mail to go away

Re: Behavior of macbook when lid is closed.

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
exactly that's why I don't use an external keyboard I'd prefer that and keeping my mac closed to keep kitties off the built in keyboard maybe it will last longer that way not to mention that often I'd put the mac on the home theater in the living room and kick back with the wireless keyboard

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> lol. Yeah youare one of the very few throw backs. Hehahaha! Just giviing you >> a hard time because I can. >> anyways 99 C is plenty for a track in my opinion and hte quality is just >> fabulious on a regular system. >> >> Tak

Re: Oh boy

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
one of those and a good home theater system would be awesome I have not heard th ebuilt in speakers, but I am sure I'd still want a theater system to go with it, not alot of separation there from the sofa. I'd love to see apple come out with a 35 or 42 or bigger display I bet they coudl do a 42

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system Using Tivo

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
dish doesn' offer on demand, i dumped directv because they screwed with my pricing and their package sucks in compaison maybe Raleigh twc is better than average. My girlfriend's parents have it and it's awesome there which is why we are interested not to mention that it costs only 35 more than

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system Using Tivo

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
r doesn't offer DVR for free. At least where I live. In NYC it's > about $7 a month. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Michael Thurman wrote:

Re: Bringing back an iTunes library

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Thurman
I have not read newer messages yet, but there are third party programs that will retrieve your entire llibrary from he i pod do NOT sync it with your mac and let i tunes erase it I don't have an I pod that cares, so I don't know the software's name but I do know it exists in the windows world t

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system Using Tivo

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
ansfer to an iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. There is > also a Tivo app for the iPhone that is supposed to let you accessibly > navigate your Tivo box from the phone, but I cannot remember the name of it! > I have a series 2 Tivo box. > > HTH > On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Michael T

Re: I cannot get gmail pop mail service to work

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
i can't get my E mail to go away and stay away on mail I stil have crap from august, no problems before that, but they broe something in august and I can not get the messages i delete to stay gone they keep reappearing google is such a pain I never had problems like this with windows and outl

Re: macbook pro battery.

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
it is on yours, I have to reset the brightness very time I boot up and sometimes i forget I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours depending n what I do i missed the new 10 hour mbp by 4 weeks and didn't kow it was coming out you would think that the lady at the apple store woudl have told me of cours

Re: Chat clients: Was Telnet

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
you aren' the oly one one major problem with the mac is it doesn't run mIRC I live on irc and that is one of two tasks I perfom on my old beat up slow pc that I'd MUCh rather do on my mac the other being mud games. telnet for mud is not really acceptable because voiceover skips older text whe

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
ok how do you operae the box itself so far none of the set top boxes talk On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > I use Tivo to record, and iTivo to transfer to the Mac. I can also watch tv > showes that I've recoreded using tivo. > Sarai Bucciarelli > Personal to win Amaz

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
I thought that i tunes let you download as many times as you want once you pay for a track... my annoyance is I tunes doesn't have a refresh my library option so if you have paid for tracks it remembers and replaces them if you loose them I shouldn't have to keep track of every track i ave purch

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Thurman
the apple tv also needs to do things like hulu. if it is accessible I will consider getting the apple tv, but hulu is a requirement before my firlfriend would get one. hey if it does run ios I wonder if it could be made to run any i phone ap??? imagine runing all the cool I phone aps on it that

Re: Researcher looking for iPhone users

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Thurman
ok how about solving the problem if the I hone data and voice costing way TOO much money lol that is an issue noone can fix. at and t and others want to build their oversold infastructure on the backs of those of us who don't have the money to afford it. It is sad that because we are blind if

Re: Growl

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Thurman
gt; > On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> this brings up an interesting problem I am trying to use adium with growl >> and it does not work, even after I had someone who can see and is a mac guru >> try and fix it. I am trying to se it for irc chat room

Re: Growl

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Thurman
this brings up an interesting problem I am trying to use adium with growl and it does not work, even after I had someone who can see and is a mac guru try and fix it. I am trying to se it for irc chat rooms. I'd love to hve something hat works as well as mirc did with jaws on windows, then I co

Re: messengers

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Thurman
Oh yeah we still do not have growl working with adium beta which is the only way to do irc on the mac and still not really convenient. adium is somewhat usable nothing else I have tried even comes close, but even that is not enough so i go back to windows for irc.. truly sad -- You received

adium and irc and growl

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Thurman
has anyone found a more recent version of adium that actually works with growl? the beta I downloaded a bit ago doesn't have it's growl stuff wrking yet, so doing irc with it is a real pain to in fact I'mstill using a windows machine to do irc chat pretty sad since I have a mac and fiugred tha

viewing only new messages in main

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Thurman
Hi there is there an easy way to just see your new messages in main since google seems incapable of actually deleting messages and not shoving them back into my mail ap again and again. I have almost 1000 messages in my in box and am abotu ready to just blow them all away and start over IF I cou

Re: anything to switch bluetooth connections?

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Thurman
ok i didn't know that they made kvm switches with audio :) that's cool and because of the way tha bluetooth works is the only way to switch bluetooth from one machine to another. the paring process is what makes bt secure and safe. if you could swap that way anyone else could take over your mac

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Thurman
5, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> well of course you could turn it on or off I'm thinking of a slight click >> nt abeep or chirp and anyone could turn the sound on or off at will :) >> On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>>

Re: Questions about Digit-Eyes? Want a demo?

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Thurman
I wasn't abe to find the podcast yet, but I assume that it won't be there yet unless of course it's next monday and I spaced the date lol On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Nancy M wrote: > I'll be on the Tek Talk on Accessible World tonight giving a > demonstration of Digit-Eyes and answering audien

Re: niki plus

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Thurman
can you please explain what you get with the nikee shoes? does the sensor fit into the shoe in a special pouch or something do you have to put the i phone in a pocket too, or can you leave it connected to your stereo or whatever across the room? or via bluetooth. if I get an I phone I will get t

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