Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread David Tanner
download of almost 400 meg. - Original Message - From: "Georges Zaynoun" To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:45 PM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight When downloaded and if one chose install later where are they stored so one keeps the download to use on another machine?

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread Georges Zaynoun
ke place and it will install all the new voices and languages. Now you can go set a new default system voice and it will take the place of Alex. - Original Message - From: "carlene knight" To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:08 PM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight Am I mi

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread carlene knight
ow you can go set a new default system voice and it will take the place of > Alex. > > - Original Message - From: "carlene knight" > To: > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:08 PM > Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight > > > Am I missing some voice choices

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread David Tanner
: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:08 PM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight Am I missing some voice choices? I'm only finding Alex, Fred, Olivia and Vicki. I might be missing one or two, but only Alex sounds high quality to me. Are there others somewhere? I've looked in the defaul

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Carleen: Mine still thinks so, and it's been a year and a half.:) Carolyn On Jul 22, 2011, at 4:08 PM, carlene knight wrote: > Am I missing some voice choices? I'm only finding Alex, Fred, Olivia and > Vicki. I might be missing one or two, but only Alex sounds high quality to > me. Are th

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread carlene knight
Hi Donna; I found that you can scroll through your playlists by using VO/arrow keys. My husband who is sighted said that when I was using just the arrow keys as I used to do, the VO cursor wasn't keeping focus at all. As far as VO being sluggish, it takes forever and a day to unload and reloa

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-22 Thread carlene knight
Am I missing some voice choices? I'm only finding Alex, Fred, Olivia and Vicki. I might be missing one or two, but only Alex sounds high quality to me. Are there others somewhere? I've looked in the default voices under speech and found nothing else. I also tried checking the voices with th

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Austin Seraphin
al Message - From: "Austin Seraphin" > > To: > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:48 AM > Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight > > > Hi. I've just installed Lion on both my iMac and my MacBook Air. Of course > things seem a little different, but I feel glad

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
na Goodin To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:39 PM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight Thanks, Cliff. It sounds like I can take care of it directly through the app store, so I'll try it that way. I appreciate the offer though. Best, Donna

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Cliff. It sounds like I can take care of it directly through the app store, so I'll try it that way. I appreciate the offer though. Best, Donna On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > If someone could tell me how to put the image on my public disk, and how to > retrieve m

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread
If someone could tell me how to put the image on my public disk, and how to retrieve my public disk name, I could put it there so you can get it.HTH Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com Sent from my IMac On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:24

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread
Now how would one do a clean install of Lion? I have a friend who would like to do this, and I helped him burn lion to a DVD, now what does he do? Thanks. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com Sent from my IMac On Jul 21, 2011,

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
And I thrid, that ITunes is being a pain in a place where the sun don't shine. Chris. - Original Message - From: Ricardo Walker To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight OMG Donna! What a horror

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Ricardo, Well, I'm glad to hear that this isn't normal. I may see if I can do a clean install, and hopefully some of this will go a way. Do you happen to know how one can do a second install? I didn't make a DVD, so the executable install app is now gone. Thanks, Donna On Jul 21, 2011,

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You're all set. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Austin Seraphin" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:48 AM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight Hi. I've just installed Lion on both my iMac and my MacBook Air. Of course things seem a little different, but I

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Ricardo Walker
OMG Donna! What a horror show. It sounds like you might want to do a clean install of Lion. This isn't normal behavior at all. The only one of your experiences I've shared is the butchering of iTunes. I think this is more do to the new iTunes than Lion though. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gma

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Ricardo, I'm finding VO to be *very sluggish. It seems like its speaking items a good half second after I initiate an action. I also don't seem to be able to close apps any more. When I think I've closed an app, if I try and open it later, VO says "App x is running in the background." I

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Walker" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:11 PM Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight Hi, If your a voiceover user, its a great deal for $30 in my opinion. We now have 1 letter navigation in the web browser, profiles you can set up for different apps. A boat load of new high quality v

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ah. I've caught this thread in the middle. besides Mail, what bad experiences are you having? On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Well, that is why I said at this point. But so far, I haven't changed my > mind. The features you mentioned are nice, but not sure they outweigh th

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Well, that is why I said at this point. But so far, I haven't changed my mind. The features you mentioned are nice, but not sure they outweigh the disadvantages I've seen so far. Again, JMO. Donna On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:22 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi Donna, > > What about activities? I

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-21 Thread James Malone
Once I learn it a bit, I'll probably do a general overview, opinions and thoughts. From what I'm hearing, it sounds great, but something that will be a bit of a cakewalk. Also, don't forget that this really is 10.7, and no updates have been posted yet. Still, we will see. On 7/21/11, Austin Seraph

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hi. I've just installed Lion on both my iMac and my MacBook Air. Of course things seem a little different, but I feel glad I upgraded. Over all VoiceOver seems more responsive, Safari too. It seems to load pages more quickly, and it has more accessibility options and improvements. For example, a

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Donna, What about activities? I think the ability to create a voiceover profile for individual apps is a really good feature. And being able to navigate the web with 1 letter navigation when using quick nav. So instead of pressing VO command H to go to the next heading for example, you ca

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Bryan, At this point, the only reason I see for upgrading is the voices in other languages. Just my opinion, of course. Best, Donna On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Brian Miller wrote: > I haven't seen anyone say one way or the other whether or not one ought to > download and install Lion... C

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread
Well, I canceled the installer before it started to make my back up disk. Once it's done downloading, it asks you if you'd like to continue, and I said know until I burned it to a DVD. HTH Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com

RE: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Miller
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The lion sleeps tonight And even in that case, all you need do is use CCC to make a bootable backup of your current HD volume to a USB

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Ray Foret Jr
And even in that case, all you need do is use CCC to make a bootable backup of your current HD volume to a USB drive, (make sure that the drive you choose can actually boot a Mac because there are some which cannot), and then, go right ahead and install Lion. Should you need to use an app which

Re: The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, If your a voiceover user, its a great deal for $30 in my opinion. We now have 1 letter navigation in the web browser, profiles you can set up for different apps. A boat load of new high quality voices for no extra charge. And I'm sure I'm missing some new features. I can't see any reaso

The lion sleeps tonight

2011-07-20 Thread Brian Miller
I haven't seen anyone say one way or the other whether or not one ought to download and install Lion... Can we be certain it is the best thing for those of us who use Voice Over? What are the changes? What are the benefits? I'm a little reluctant to just download Lion because it is there. W