Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-24 Thread Jessica Moss
Oh wow, had no idea they made apps for other operating systems as well, but never used them after I switched to the mac platform. I did a tryal subscription when I still used my windows machine, and loved it, and was debating over whether or not to get a paid subscription, but never did it. On

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Devin Prater
Um, why did mike Calvo leave? And why a sighted person in place of him? Gosh. All these companies are making way too poor of choices. > On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: > > What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage > and or A T news braggi

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Devin Prater
Wow. That’s really a shame. The programmer worked so, so hard! He made apps for the mac, iOS, Android, and System access. Sure it wasn’t all that good, but the services offered, gosh it was the first time I ever heard described programming! > On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: >

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread The Believer
Its not like they are alone in this. I see more and more adaptive companies facing more competition from other areas such as Apple. Reality checks do not bounce. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/22/2014 10:59 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: What

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Mary Otten
It's probably simple. They probably ran out of money. I don't think very many people use their screen reader. And I have no idea how many are on Sam nett. I know I am. I have most of the year left on a subscription. It is really too bad. I will certainly miss them. And I do wish the company woul

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Pamela Francis
What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage and or A T news bragging about how many followers they had, yet are willing in the wink of an eye to pull the rug out from under all of those people who have come to depend on them. Mike Calvo, their founder, is bl

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Jessica Miss
That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: > > Here it is: > Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader a

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Juliette Swiler
As a longtime paid subscriber of the mobile network, I am shocked and saddened by this announcement. As myself, like many others depend on their service for our email and other content in the blindness community, including DocuScan plus, iBlink radio, etc., I would surely hate to see this compan

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-22 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Wow! That's quite a shame. System Access is a good screenreader and I would hate to see Serotek go belly up and lose those resources that SA and SamNet have. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: > > I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realiz

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-21 Thread Pamela Francis
I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around t

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Quinn
Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Stei

Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-21 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is no

A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some

2014-11-21 Thread Pamela Francis
Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move.

Re: Maybe a little off topic

2013-02-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I believe you can do this but, you need to install a syncing tool from Apple. The name of it escapes me but, a google search should get you pointed in the right direction. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 27, 2013, at 10:2

Re: Maybe a little off topic

2013-02-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Oh, you're trying to get the contacts from the phone to Outlook? I don't think that's going to work. You definitely can't get your iCloud contacts to sync with Outlook. You could perhaps export any iCloud contacts and import them into Outlook, and then sync them with the phone. Otherwise the iPh

Re: Maybe a little off topic

2013-02-27 Thread craig J Dunlop
I cloud is working but getting the contacts from the phone to outlook 10 is driving us nuts! On Feb 27, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I can sync to both. Are you having any luck with either? What steps have you > taken so far? > > -- > You received this message because you are

Re: Maybe a little off topic

2013-02-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I can sync to both. Are you having any luck with either? What steps have you taken so far? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsu

Maybe a little off topic

2013-02-27 Thread Craig J Dunlop
We are working with the student using an iPhone 4S with the newest OS on a Windows 7 machine with office 10. We are trying to get his contacts to sync to the cloud and also to Outlook 2010. We are not having any luck! In any ideas. We are using the newest iTunes can information be synced to both

A little off topic. Wordpress.org themes

2012-11-24 Thread Mike M
Hey all, I wanted to ask you who are familiar with wordpress.org themes what is good to look for as far as accessibility goes. I am new to this stuff and honestly don't even know what columns mean. Are those the permanent headings that don't scroll away? Anyway, I'm in the

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-10 Thread Pete Nalda
Thanks for the iPad answers and thanks for asking about the store position. No word yet though on that. On May 10, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Olivia Norman wrote: > It seems that others have already answered most of these questions. I will > also say that I never press my screen accidentally, and find

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-10 Thread Olivia Norman
It seems that others have already answered most of these questions. I will also say that I never press my screen accidentally, and find that the iPad works well as a media player, as well as for some word processing, especially with the keyboard doc. Any word from the Apple store yet, Pete? I'm

Playing iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Music or Videos with the Screen Locked [was Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.]

2010-05-08 Thread Esther
Hi Pete, I'm pretty sure that you were on this list around New Year's when there was a discussion about Alvin's post forwarding an article on "Ten iPhone Shortcuts You Never Knew Existed". (Reconstructed after the fact based on content, this came from the Strait Times New Year's Day edit

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Pete Nalda
Ok thanks everyone. I'll check this stuff out next time I'm in the store. I'm just weighing all my options with the IPad before I commit to it, as the Touches are so much cheaper. On May 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote: > Correct > > Sent from the iPad I wish I had > > On May 7,

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Charlie Doremus
Correct Sent from the iPad I wish I had On May 7, 2010, at 1:06 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > I may be wrong but on the iPhone if you hold the power button it will bring > up the power options. To lock the iPhone you just press the power button once > and it locks. I'm assuming, possibly incorre

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread marie Howarth
I may be wrong but on the iPhone if you hold the power button it will bring up the power options. To lock the iPhone you just press the power button once and it locks. I'm assuming, possibly incorrectly the same is true on the iPad. No holding, just press the power button. On 8 May 2010, at 00:

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Charlie Doremus
Pete, If you happen to tap the iPad screen once you have pressed and held the power button your iPod will shut down. So the trick is not to tap once you start your music. Sent from the iPad I wish I had On May 7, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > Ok, but how come when I pushed the power

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Pete Nalda
Ok, but how come when I pushed the power button the music would stop? Was I pushing it too long? And yeah I know a case would prevent anything touching the screen, but my backpack has a suspended padded compartment so I was just going to put it in there, but hopefully while having a podcast or

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Charlie Doremus
Two points! First you can lock the ipad screen by pressing the power button. Also using a case would cover the screen completely preventing any sort of "screen presses". Sent from the iPad I wish I had On May 7, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think you need to w

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Pete Nalda
Cool! Because I have a backpack with a padded laptop insert that even has a outlet to run headphones through, and have at least one little book I carry to prop the iPad up on for typing, so I won't even really need a case. My mind is at ease. Thanks for the answer :) On May 7, 2010, at 3:55

Re: Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I don't think you need to worry about accidental screen presses. The screen reacts to your skin not pressure. So having it in a big should be fine. On May 7, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > Hi all, > I thought I'd ask this here because of the recent iPad talk on this list. > Topic

Kind of a dumb (and maybe a little off-topic) question About the iPad I'm embarrased to ask.

2010-05-07 Thread Pete Nalda
Hi all, I thought I'd ask this here because of the recent iPad talk on this list. Topic related part of this is that I'm considering an iPad as a more Zoomable media Player/Content viewer/creator. That said, can one have this thing in a bag or backpack playing back music or a podcast? What ab

RE: A little off topic...

2009-03-12 Thread Simon Fogarty
Are you logging in as the SU or just a user? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2009 2:57 a.m. To: MacVisionaries Subject: A little off topic... Hi all: I'm trying to rem

Re: A little off topic...

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like that user has not been granted remote SSH access to that box. Not really a problem with the Mac itself. I know when I SSH to another Mac I have to enable that access in the sharing control panel and to SSH to another Mac as root I have to enable that via another setting. Probably n

A little off topic...

2009-03-11 Thread Mike
Hi all: I'm trying to remotely administer a Ubuntu 8.10 box with my Mac using SSH. When I open ther terminal on my mac and type in the following: ssh u...@ip address of the ubuntu box, I'm prompted with the password. When I type in the password, I get a permission denied notification. I initially