Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Esther
Hi Anna, On Jul 20, 2009, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Thanks so much for your post. I tried installing Window-Eyes, and it > almost works. When I start Windows, Window-Eyes functions. I can open > the Start menu and browse the Web with Internet Explorer. I can switch > to Finder, change VoiceOv

RE: IPhone accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
Using it on the go I mean, while I'm walking around. With the n82 and other nokia phones I can do this, either on a call or typing / reading email or text messages, I can do this with one hand, which I don't think I could dowith the IPhone. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:mac

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread James & Nash
Hi Alex and all, Aren't VIM and Nano Linux command line tools? I'm sure I've seen them when I've played with Linux? You can port these to the Mac I take it how cool. Take care James - Original Message - From: "Alex Jurgensen" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM Subject: Re: Opt

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Babcock
hi; jumping in here, but i use terminal all the time for sshing into the 3 servers i administer, if someone has a better way to do this, that would be wonderful, but i just use it now and love it:) On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:10 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi Alex and all, > > Aren't VIM and Nano L

keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread Wendy
Hi, Can someone tell me how I change the keyboard layout from US to UK please?> Thank you. >From Wendy. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: macbook pro observations

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Howell
First no the glass is no more an issue because a plastic covering or not, you break the screen your screwed. As far as usb ports, just get a hub. I have a seven port hub here and I have a few devices, but since I dont' generally take them with me on the road, don't see the need for more tha

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Howell
I'd try to return Parallels if possible and get VmWare Fusion, which you will be much happier with. You can sometimes get it for $49 even when not a student or look around at places like MacMall and you could possibly find it for $69. Good luck, On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Woody Anna Dres

Re: keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread Esther
Hi Wendy, Do you just want to change your keyboard layout from US to UK or your complete language localization? Also, do you want to be able to switch to a UK keyboard or make that your sole (default) keyboard? The difference between just using a UK keyboard (and not a UK localization)

Re: keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread A-Pro Studio
Hi Wendy, •Open System Preferences •Go to International •Go to the Language to set your overall system language, and to Input Menu to select what will show in your Status menu as optional keyboard sets. Hope this helps... John André in Norway On 21. juli. 2009, at 11.29, Wendy wrote: > >

Re: mac/voiceover on a laptopRe: does reading on the mac take two hands?

2009-07-21 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Anouk, When you buy your macbook it won't have a numpad. That means you won't be able to use the fn key and a key on your keyboard to turn hal's v-focus on and off if you decide to co-operate windows and mac OS in some way You could presumably buy an external number pad, but I don't

Re: mac/voiceover on a laptopRe: does reading on the mac take two hands?

2009-07-21 Thread erik burggraaf
Not until snowleppard gets here. erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 18-Jul-09, at 8:05 PM, peter Apgar wrote: > > Does the I phone's two finger flick read all command work on the > new mbps? > > Thanks i

Re: newsreader

2009-07-21 Thread erik burggraaf
If you don't have a credit card, I'm sure you could just send them an old fationed check. erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 19-Jul-09, at 2:21 AM, william lomas wrote: > > they don't I don't think, accept

Re: mac/voiceover on a laptopRe: does reading on the mac take two hands?

2009-07-21 Thread erik burggraaf
No, but depending on how you use windows a numpad may greatly ficilitate things. If you use window-eyes for example, the mouse functions are extremely conveniently laid out on the numpad, which of course, you no longer have. I've gotten around this by switching to laptop layout, but i us

Re: keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread Wendy
Hi Ester, I've followed your instrucitons and all seems well. Let me explain though, on my windows keyboard when i do a capital 2 it vies me a double quites sign and a capital apostrophe for the at sign, on the apple its the opposite way round and someone told me that the first way i describe

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Garry Turkington
Hi James/Alex, Thanks for your input here. James, I'd be interested to hear if you've done any configuring to make access to apps on the remote machines you ssh to better? Coming back to my 3 questions thanks for the clarification re interaction with the scroll area for screen review, that's

Re: macbook pro observations

2009-07-21 Thread kaare dehard
I've found for my extra usb needs, I just got a little passive hub with 4 on it and hooked it up. On 21-Jul-09, at 1:02 AM, a radix wrote: > Hello, I must say 2 usb ports is a bit meager. My current 2-year-old > toshiba laptop has 3 and I found that a bit little, i wa shoping to > go up to a

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread kaare dehard
mac is based on bsd which is unix... Most flavors have these utilities standard and the mac is no exception. On 21-Jul-09, at 5:10 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi Alex and all, > > Aren't VIM and Nano Linux command line tools? I'm sure I've seen > them when > I've played with Linux? You can po

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, Thanks so much, Esther and Scott, for your help. I appreciate it very much. Looks like switching to Fusion makes the most sense. Do I have to uninstall and reinstall Windows, or is uninstalling Parallels and installing Fusion enough? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~

Re: keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Wendy, The Apple keyboard layout is different from Windows. The "@" sign is over the 2, and double-quotes is above the apostrophe. You can tell for sure whether your keyboard is British or not by doing Shift-3. If you get the pound sign, it's British. Cheers, Anne On Jul 21, 2009,

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Howell
I'm not entirely sure, but I do not believe one VM image is compatible with the other, but someone more knowledgible will have an answer. On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks so much, Esther and Scott, for your help. I appreciate it very > much. Looks like s

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Thuy
Hi Anna. Fusion is definitely way better than parallels. I did manage to get parallels to work with jaws some time ago, but the virtual machine ran very slowly. If I remember this correctly, I first installed windows through bootcamp and installed jaws also through bootcamp. Then once parallels wa

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-21 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, I am yet another very happy fusion user. I mostly use it with System Access but Window-Eyes works just fine as well. Anna, feel free to contact me off list if you want help. Robert Carter - Original Message - From: Thuy To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, Jul 21, 2

Re: Apple plans to blick rival smart phones

2009-07-21 Thread Abdul Kamara
Hi James, I found the article referenced and the discussion on "This Week in Tech" (TWIT), podcasted on the 12th of this month, rather interesting. Objectively, it can be said that by blocking the Pre, Apple is practicing the same anti-competitive monopolistic behavior characteristic of Mic

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
As already mentioned, you interact with the scroll area to review the screen. Some times however, VO seems to get stuck and I've found I have to read by sentence when starting from the current prompt and reading upward through the output. How well it echos back when output is written to th

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread louie
Is there a way to clear the scroll area? On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > As already mentioned, you interact with the scroll area to review the > screen. Some times however, VO seems to get stuck and I've found I > have to read by sentence when starting from the current prom

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
Another note about using ncurses aps that I didn't mention or didn't articulate very well: Use the arrow keys are what ever key combos the app uses rather than the VO keys. I've found that in most cases VO will track and read the hi-light quite well. Hope that helps. On Jul 20, 2009, at 1

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread James Dietz
Usually the screen can be cleared with control-l. I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to have the terminal speak text written to stdout/stderr using the system voice. I looked in preferences and couldn't find it. Anyone else have any luck? I use terminal for macports apps/ssh/nano on

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
Just type clear at the prompt. On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:08 AM, louie wrote: > > Is there a way to clear the scroll area? > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: > >> >> As already mentioned, you interact with the scroll area to review the >> screen. Some times however, VO seems to get

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, I think to clear the screen it is "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "k", or at worst, without the "Shft". I don't remember. Regards, Alex, On 21-Jul-09, at 9:11 AM, James Dietz wrote: > > Usually the screen can be cleared with control-l. > > I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to have the

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Cocoaclipse, the Cocoa port of the Eclipse Javae IDE is apparently good with VO. Regards, Alex, On 21-Jul-09, at 4:54 AM, Garry Turkington wrote: > > Hi James/Alex, > > Thanks for your input here. James, I'd be interested to hear if > you've > done any configuring to make access to a

Re: IPhone accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
It's quite possible to use the iPHone one handed. I do this frequently while walking around. It's, of course, easier to use two hands when you can, but that's true with any mobile phone. Anyway, there's no problem using the iPhone one handed, and it isn't all that much different from using

Re: made the decision

2009-07-21 Thread Vicki Manley
Hi, I've got a mac mini and must say it's great. It's small, just a little square box really!! Best wishes, Vicki. On 16 Jul 2009, at 02:46, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > You could always get the mac mini, it's the cheapest one, but they > work great. > On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:41 PM, May and Wynter wrote:

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2009-07-21 Thread william lomas
hi all, When I set voiceover to group navigation it seems to still be acting in dom mode? very strange Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post

Re: Apple plans to blick rival smart phones

2009-07-21 Thread James & Nash
Hi Abdul You may very well be right. You have made some very compelling arguments. James - Original Message - From: "Abdul Kamara" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Apple plans to blick rival smart phones > > Hi James, > I found the article referenced and the disc

Re: keyboard layout

2009-07-21 Thread Wendy
oh Anne, thanks for that and I will check it out. >From Wendy. - Original Message - From: "Anne Robertson" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:00 PM Subject: Re: keyboard layout > > Hello Wendy, > > The Apple keyboard layout is different from Windows. The "@" sign is > over the 2, and

completely uninstalling Parallels

2009-07-21 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I want to be sure all traces of Parallels and the virtual Windows XP machine it created are off my system before I try installing Fusion. I ran the uninstall application that came with it, and it said it removed Parallels but would leave Windows XP and activation files. Does anyone kn

Re: completely uninstalling Parallels

2009-07-21 Thread Fonzie
Hi Anna, how are you doing? I hope everything is going well. Have you checked in the following areas? Within your Macintosh HD folder, head into the following areas. System Folder In this folder, into your Library folder. Check the folders that are labeled Cache, preferences, preferences p

Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

2009-07-21 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Hi, I hope I can ask this clearly... I have several spoken word type audio files. m4a. I use audio recorder to get them. Right now they go on my iPod as a big bunch of audio files. I was playing around with the tag editor in iTunes and got them to go from my music list to my audiobooks list b

Re: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, You can use Audiobook Maker from http://audiobookmaker.sf.net/ or Sox if you like CLI. Note: With AudioBook Mker you have a limit of 13 hours per track because of Quicktime. Regards, Alex, On 21-Jul-09, at 7:36 PM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: > > Hi, I hope I can ask this clearly...

Re: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Babcock
or you can use audiobook builder from http://splasm.com mike On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > > Hi, > > You can use Audiobook Maker from http://audiobookmaker.sf.net/ or Sox > if you like CLI. Note: With AudioBook Mker you have a limit of 13 > hours per track because of Quick

Re: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

2009-07-21 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Oooo! Hi Alex! Thanks much. This looks just like what I was looking for. Oh and the program workflow thing you directed me to that makes text files into audio files is so awesome! Totally perfect! :-) Thank you very much! This makes me happy. :-) ### Best Wishes Jenny Kennedy (Howard)

Re: Making several audiofiles into an iPod audiobook?

2009-07-21 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi. Another solution to this is the join together, over on doug's scripts. You can find it at this link. http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/jointogether.php I can't say how this compares to audiobook maker or audiobook builder, as I've not used those programs. But I have had good luck doin

What Audio Editors are people using?

2009-07-21 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi guys. This is partly for my own curiosity, and partly for something Holly and I are planning for Screenless Switchers. For those of you who do any sort of audio editor, what is your program of choice? The ones I'm aware of are, garage band, Amadeus Pro, Sound Studio, Fission, and audaci

Re: What Audio Editors are people using?

2009-07-21 Thread Maurice Mines
I use sound studo. btw how can a vo user use adsidy here at unc in Colorado thay like this program but Ihaven't figered out how to use vo with it? On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > > Hi guys. This is partly for my own curiosity, and partly for > something Holly and I are pl

Re: What Audio Editors are people using?

2009-07-21 Thread kaare dehard
Amadeus Pro is my editor of choice. Not very experienced yet, I have done a little recording and a few file conversions. On 21-Jul-09, at 11:45 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > > Hi guys. This is partly for my own curiosity, and partly for > something Holly and I are planning for Screenless Switcher

Re: What Audio Editors are people using?

2009-07-21 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I prefer Amadeus pro as well. Not all that experienced with it yet. There was an editor which is a totally free app I believe, that was mentioned on the latest Mac Review cast, will have to take a look and get the site for it. Haven't tried it to see if it's accessible. On Jul 21, 2009, a

Re: What Audio Editors are people using?

2009-07-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Darcy, I use Fission. I've used it quite a bit although it's off and on so I need to refresh myself most of the time when I start doing audio sorts of things. Later... On 21-Jul-09, at 9:45 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > > Hi guys. This is partly for my own curiosity, and partly for > s