A router between the wall and the mac might help in the future. Consider
it a bullet stopper to prevent the mac from being taken out. Same
principle applies why external modems are better than internal modems for
PC's. They're bullet stoppers which may or may not work in the event of a
ligh
You can set the genre as podcast as well.
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> One of the options when you press VO-Shift-M should be Add to
> Playlist. When you choose that, all playlists - the ones created by
> iTunes and the ones you created yourself - are li
I disagree. There should be a surge protector/arrestor between the
router and the wall jack. So, you'd have in your example A as the
walljack, B as the cable running from the wall jack, to C the surge
protector/arrestor, D the cable from surge device, to e router, and so
forth. The poin
Dear Listers,
I've created a new alias under my .me account. I understand from the
manual that I should from the point of creation of such an alias have
an option under "from" field to choose which alias appears in the
field on the recipient computer. When I activate the "from" button, I
hi is voice over always so quiet on a call? a friend says the voice
on a call with the i phone is so quiet is this correct?
Will
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Hi all,
My name is Donna Goodin, and I just joined this group last week.
I am listening to Mike's podcast. I'm curious, is there a reason to use
Adium instead of IChat?
Thanks,
Donna
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Hello,
My Uninterrupted power supply has cable and modem surge protection as
well. I use all my protection, I never bypass it. It may or may not be
over kill, but it works for me.
Dan
On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> I disagree. There should be a surge protector/arrestor
Hi Donna; welcome to the list. the main reason is that ichat is
limited in what kinds of accounts it will take when entering buddies.
You cannot enter a yahoo id. and lets face it most of my contacts
have yahoo i d's. Hope that helps, Max
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Donna Goodin wrote
I use both audio high jack pro and just recently started using
nicecast. both are very accessible programmes with the exception to
the addition of the effects to a stream. With voice over, it is
possible to add a single effect, just not more than that when the
actual programmes both work on
Dan in my opinion, there is no such thing as overkill. If your going
to spend a thousand dollars or more on a machine, then there is no
reason to spend $50 or even $100 on protecting it. I haven't even
taken into consideration the data that in some cases may not have a
dollar value, but
Hi,
I just went in to the aliases panel to create one for experimentation,
but it's not letting me do it sense I'm running the trial. So much
for a fully functional evaluation.
You might try synchronizing the account from the mailbox menu. Just
as a side note, I noticed that when I set u
Hello Scott,
Boy, you gots that right!
Around 20 years or so ago, a large surge occurred in the local
transformer, due to a squirrel on the wires. It wrecked an
uninterrupted power supply that I had. But it didn't kill any of the
equipment. In fact, after I got a statement from the power com
Hi,
I'd rather lose a machine then lose the data.
Some data you just can't get back.
I have data from 1992 in WordPerfect 5.1 for dos format.
I make multiple backups of all my machines.
Chris
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:30:56 -0400
Scott Howell wrote:
>
> Dan in my opinion, there is no such t
hi all, can i set up my nano so that when i have played through
the
podcast on it, they are deleted next time I sync with ITunes on the mac?
I think I read about this in the ITunes preferences somewhere?
Thanks, WIll
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Hello Chris,
I don't want to run this thread into the ground, but.
It still amazes me how many times people tell me that I am being
overly concerned and I don't agree with them at all. My equipment and
in several cases, the data are really worth it and I don't plan to
change my approach at a
Hi Max,
Thanks for the welcome. I'm excited about my Mac, and about being on
the list. I've already gotten lots of great information, just lurking
these last few days!
I had actually been wondering if IChat had any limitations around
what types of IDs you could enter. thanks for the cl
hi when i was in a tree i highlighted all the podcasts for the
open
branch and hit delete but it seems to ahve deleted every single
podcast i own so all my feeds ahve gone!
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Hi Donna; when i started here less than a year ago, there were a lot
of people here who helped me as well. I rarely get to have the
answer, so i'm having a good day. let us know if we can help. take
care, Max
On Jun 27, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> Hi Max,
>
> Thanks for t
Hi guys,
I set up my iChat program. Haven't ever used it. Have used Audim but
didn't like it so thought I'd try this. If you wish you can add me by
adding the following email that I'm not sure if it is a real usable
Email or just something for ichat. Anyway here it is...
blueskyes9112..
I would love to do all of my twitter work from the Mac and stop using
OutTwit. Currently I have 2500 followers and I receive about 16,000
tweets daily from these followers. I actively track about 150
followers which means that I need to read there tweets every day. This
tweet number that I activel
Adium definitely supports more types of clients. This is why I
use it. However, iChat does audio and video chats, which is also the
reason why I will go to that as well. Keep in mind also that iChat
can be configured to read incoming messages and sound audio
notifications, just a
hi;
I'm not sure, but i think syrinx can do this.
mike
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Kevin Fjelsted wrote:
>
> I would love to do all of my twitter work from the Mac and stop using
> OutTwit. Currently I have 2500 followers and I receive about 16,000
> tweets daily from these followers. I active
IChat can't do MSN if it could I would make this my perminant client
On 27 Jul 2009, at 19:28, John Panarese wrote:
>
> Adium definitely supports more types of clients. This is why I
> use it. However, iChat does audio and video chats, which is also the
> reason why I will go to that as
Thanks, John. On a related note, I noticed that Anna posted last week about
external mikes. Am I correct that the MacBook Pro has a built-in mike? If
yes, do you have to do anything to use it, say in a video-chat situation?
Thanks,
Donna
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@goog
Hmm. Thanks.
Donna
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of william lomas
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:42 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Adium versus IChat
>
>
> IChat can't do MSN if
I think what she wants is to connect to the mac without using fusion.
In other words she wants to connect the vrstream to the machine
without going into fusion and loading her vertual machine first and as
for doing so I dobn't think it is possible but could be rong.
Matthew
On Jul 26, 20
seems like fusion to me, look below,"i have installed system access"
On Jul 27, 2009, at 12:54 PM, matthew T dyer wrote:
>
> I think what she wants is to connect to the mac without using fusion.
> In other words she wants to connect the vrstream to the machine
> without going into fusion and loa
I am trying syrinx. I definitely get a twitter timeline however it
seems to cut off after about 1000 tweets. Also I can open a search
window and search an individual and I can have multiple windows open
but they go away when I quit the app. The filters permit me to filter
people out but I can't se
I have had no problem with connectiong my Victor Stream to my
Macintosh that is not running windows. there is even a small program
called iStream that can assist with putting files in the correct
directories on the Stream.
Jon
On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:54 PM, matthew T dyer wrote:
>
> I think
Hi Donna,
The built in microphone works perfectly fine in iChat for audio
or video conferencing. I have used it plenty of times. There is no
real setup involved at all.
As for MSN chat, technically, it is not supported, though there
are ways to do this using Jabber. However, so
Or you could just navigate to the bookmark button you want to delete,
hit VO shift M for the contextual menu and then choose delete. You could
also choose Show All Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu (or command
option B) and then in the left hand column navigate to Bookmarks Bar and
then in the
Hi John,
this is good to know. I don't know how much I'll be able to use
IChat, like many others, most of my friends use MSN messenger. But,
I'm glad to know I can just use the built-in mike. Hopefully I'll get
a chance to try this out soon.
thanks for the info.
Best,
Donna
On Jul 27, 2
Thanks.
Donna
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> It has a built in mike but for best performance you might want to
> use headphones. If you turn up the speakers you can sometimes get an
> echo when the mike picks them up.
>
> CB
>
> Donna Goodin wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, John. On a
WOw, I can't believe someone would actually tell you your being
paranoid. After all, if that were true, the sale of ups and
suppressors wouldn't exist. Ask my father, I just replaced the power
supply in his PC a few months ago do to a brownout or surge. Point is,
he went out and purchased
Hi,
i cannot get the VO shift m to bring up a menu when sitting on one of the
bookmark buttons. I will take another look at the show all bookmarks option but
I was not able to see the bookmarks from the top sites menu in that list of
bookmarks. I will try that again if they are suppose to be t
It has a built in mike but for best performance you might want to use
headphones. If you turn up the speakers you can sometimes get an echo
when the mike picks them up.
CB
Donna Goodin wrote:
> Thanks, John. On a related note, I noticed that Anna posted last week about
> external mikes. Am I
We are talking about the "top sites" bar. Not the book marks bar.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Or you could just navigate to the bookmark button you want to
> delete, hit VO shift M for the contextual menu and then choose
> delete. You could also choose Show All Bookm
Hmm. Not sure about a top sites bar but if I go to the bookmarks bar
and click the Top Sites button then navigate to the main page area and
interact with it I can navigate to the end and find an Edit button. If I
do that I can then go back to the various top sites and hit delete to
remove a pa
Hi all,
I was just typing an email message. I'm not sure what I did, I was
trying to move to the end of the line with the fn key and the arrow
keys. Suddenly the voice stopped speaking, and I just heard clicks
when I tried tonavigate with Vo Keys. Anyone know what I might have
done, an
When you try to look at all bookmarks, top sites is not listed as one of the
groups that can be looked at. I am not sure why it works this will?
Robert Carter
- Original Message -
From: Barry Hadder
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, Jul 27, 2009 14:44:54
Subject: Re: Mo
What happens if I have multiple discontiguous rows selected and I option
up arrow? Do all the rows get inserted one row above where the top
selected row used to be? Probably the worst case scenario for complexity
but something to consider.
CB
Martin Pilkington wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I haven't p
Try turning VoiceOver off and on again with command F5 and function
Command F5, if all else fails.
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
My home page:
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Thanks, Mark, it worked. Phew! That was a little unnerving.
Best,
Donna
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Baxter
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 5:07 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject:
Hi Barry,
I've tried synchronising my .me account but it didn't change the
thing. Thanks for trying on my behalf. Maybe I do not fully understand
the concept of aliases.
Best wishes
Simon
On 27 Jul 2009, at 17:31, Barry Hadder wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just went in to the aliases panel to creat
Yes!
That does work. Some times the solution is too obvious. Especially if I try
to read the help files.
Adding them manually looks tricky though.. But he said that he did it so I
guess it can be done.
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From: Chris Blouch
To: macvisionaries@googlegrou
Everything I've read says that is the way it is supposed to work. It might
be that they haven't updated their documentation. I'm sure that doing it
the normal way will work in any event. You may all ready know this, but you
can just put all of your aliases in a cama separated list in the ema
This is the HUGE advantage to having Voiceover integrated as part of
the basic OS; if for whatever reason you need to, you can just restart
it. I've done it so many times that, when VO restarts, I've got it
saying, "Oh, have we started again?"
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter: Burning
hi;
I did a podcast on using the main facebook site with voiceover. You
can comment, and listen here:
http://gwfans.net/?p=530
if you wnat to talk about this, and the mods deem this "OT" then feel
free to email me off list at:
michael.babc...@gwhosting.net
hope this helps someone.
mike
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Hi Simon and Barry,
Here's the way I use aliases. You don't need to do anything to sync after you
set them up, but you might need to restart mail if you set up your aliases at
the MobileMe web site while your mail app is open. The following should work
from your Apple mail app.
1. Command-R
Hi,
I saw that edit button but couldn't tell that it did anything. I didn't
actually try deleting with the edit button active. I will have to ttry that
when I get home.
Thanks,
Robert Carter
- Original Message -
From: Chris Blouch
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, Ju
Hi Chris,
All rows get nudged up one space. When you reach the top or bottom of
a table then they get nudged together. For example, if you have rows 2
and 4 selected and hit shift-option-up then the they will move up to
be rows 1 and 3. Then if you hit shift-option-up again row 1 won't
mo
Hi,
I am trying to connect the Stream while running Windows through
Fusion. I want to be able to put system Access content onto it. Is
anyone doing this successfully?
Thanks,
Anna
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I'm currently trying to edit a web page and cannot seem to get the
drag and drop to work properly. Has anyone successfully done the drag
and drop technique successfully?
thanks
Marie
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Hi, there is a setting in fusion to determine whether usb devices are
automatically connected, or if you must manually select to connect
them from the menu, you can change this in the usb device settings.
On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have installed S
Hello,
When you start the machine for the first time, you will hear the
music. Then an announcement about if you already know how to use
VoiceOver, just press Command F5 to start VO. You can set it up
yourself. I have set up my different Macs without sighted assistance.
Dan
On Jul 27, 2009,
Hey,
I already have a macbook and I'm thinking of getting a mac mini. I
know if you don't have the monitor you need the adapter to make the
mini think there is one to prevent sluggish behaviour. My question is,
how would you set up the mac independently without sighted assistance?
I had to
thanks for this. not sure why mine didn't do this. but hopefullly when
I get my mac mini it won't be so much trouble. :)
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Dan wrote:
>
> Hello,
> When you start the machine for the first time, you will hear the
> music. Then an announcement about if you already kno
Hi,
Marie, you might want to check whether running without a monitor will
present a problem for the current generation Mac Mini and whether
using an adapter helps at all in this case. The reason for exercising
some care here is that after the last round of discussions, where we
hypothesi
thanks for this Ester. so are you saying I couldn't actually plug a
mac mini into a television? It is something I am wanting to do
eventually when i move into my own place so I will be purchasing a new
television or does it simply have to be a monitor? and I will check
with apple about thi
Hi, I had no problems setting up my mac mini, even without a monitor
connected. What probably happened with your laptop was, the function keys
were set for hardware functions instead of software. In that case, command
function f5 will start voice over. The mac mini defaults to software
functio
Michael,
Oh thank you thank you thank you! This is awesome! Yay! I'm going to
go download and listen right now. What a nice happy thing to find in
my in-box. :-)
###
Best Wishes
Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
blueskyes9112...@gmail.com
Olathe, Kansas USA
Join me on FaceBook:
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I've done some further testing. Using the new 2009 model Mac Mini, I hooked up
the Mini-DVI to video adapter and launched Safari and browsed a few pages.
Then, I unplugged the adapter and restarted the Mini. Once again, I launched
Safari. It was quite unresponsive. It appears this adapter still
Thats Exactly Right. You can never have too much protection from
problems
on 'the grid'
In any case Mike How old is your surge suppressor? They only have a
finite lifespan and
although they still pass through power after a surge it may be dead
and not stop
further surges. Most filter boards wi
thanks for this Blake.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Blake Sinnett wrote:
> I've done some further testing. Using the new 2009 model Mac Mini, I
> hooked up the Mini-DVI to video adapter and launched Safari and
> browsed a few pages. Then, I unplugged the adapter and restarted the
> Mini. On
I would prefer using iChat and it works great; But it no longer supports
MSN AKA Windows Live Messenger. It does work well with AIM.
At 10:28 AM 7/27/2009, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My name is Donna Goodin, and I just joined this group last week.
>
>I am listening to Mike's podcast. I'm curious,
Ha! I like it! :)
Donna
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Baxter
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 5:31 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Help, lost Vo Speech
>
>
> This is the HUGE
Hi Blake,
Thanks for checking. The Mini-DVI to video adapter sounds as though
it's the one we identified in the "Slow Mac Mini" thread in the list
archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02152.html
I've linked to the post that gives Apple Store links to the
Hello,
It could be that for some reason or other, perhaps someone ran it
before you got it. Don't know, just a guess.
Dan
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Marie Howarth wrote:
>
> thanks for this. not sure why mine didn't do this. but hopefullly when
> I get my mac mini it won't be so much trouble.
Marie, you dont' need anyone at any point during the process. If you
follow the instructions upon startup of the machine, you will receive
the human voice explaining what you need to do when getting started.
I'm not sure or clear what you needed sighted assistance for in
starting some assi
Ah, yeah you know I wasn't clear what she meant at first, but yes,
this does make sense. Funny, I can't recall what I did, but guess
since I already knew what I had to do, I just neglected to remember
the hardware keys are the initial configuration.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Mike Arrigo w
it wouldn't do anything until my sighted help clicked a welcome button
or something. I was confused because I had read you didn't need any
assistance but maybe I don't know. there was the music and then just
nothing.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> Marie, you dont' nee
Hello,
It is possible to send signals to a tv with a composite or S-Video input. It's
just not as straight forward. What you need to do is purchase a Mini-DVI to VGA
adapter. You could also purchase a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter and have two
monitors connected at the same time. You then
Hi Chris,
I'm running Windows XP Professional, SP 3. Thanks for checking this out.
All the best,
Anna
On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Chris Polk wrote:
>
> are you running vista or xp in the virtual machine? reason I'm asking,
> I will try and duplicate your issue with my stream.
>
> i'm wonde
Hi:
Yes I had he same experience. Now I only type
with the phone in portrait mode. I find the
landscape mode slows me down considerably.
Cheers,
Kamal
At 05:13 PM 19/07/2009, you wrote:
>On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote:
>>Just curious -- have people tried using the
Hi,
I just bought a Mac Mini. I had to buy a special adapter to use my VGA
monitor, but that works fine. If you can buy an adapter for that,
maybe you can buy one for a television too - I don't know.
Best,
Anna
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Hi Will,
Having podcasts deleted from your iPod after you play them is the
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tab when your iPod is connected and via the Settings button relating
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Some if not all LCD TV's have a DVI or VGA input port in addition to
the video inputs. I am pretty sure the Polaroid TV's sold by target
have computer inputs.
Jon
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a Mac Mini. I had to buy a special adapter to
Oh dear.
After listening to Michael's podcast on VO and FB. I went and was
croosing around with DOM web.Nav. and FB crashed the browser. :-(
What gives?
Have had this happen when I was trying to get around the FB main site
when trying to work with my blind parents of facebook group and had to
Hi all. I had a question about using apple mail with gmail. I want to set
up a gmail account ware all my email goes so that I can have filters that
apply no matter what email client I use. So if I had to re install mail my
filters would be there. So I've been successful with that part, however,
Hey all,
I'm trying to add some applications on my iphone through the lion
court links for iphone apps but when the itunes opens, it keeps
telling me that mobileme has unexpectdly shutdown while synching the
iphone. Does that happen to anyone? Am i doing something wrong?
Just wanted to add this
When you do command N for new message, if you tab past the subject
field, you'll hear the name subject of the current server in use, as
part of a pop-up button. VO space on this button and you'll have the
choice of using any other active E-mail account that Mail knows
about. This lets yo
ok, first thing in the morning i'll check it out. installing windows
now.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm running Windows XP Professional, SP 3. Thanks for checking this
> out.
>
> All the best,
> Anna
>
>
>
> On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Chris P
yes you can as a blind person setup your mac just press cmd+fnd five.
and that shud get vo working.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Marie Howarth wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I already have a macbook and I'm thinking of getting a mac mini. I
> know if you don't have the monitor you need the adapter to make t
I've noticed lots of duplicate entries in the "Itunes Music," folder,
and wonder if Itunes has a way to clean these up, so that there's only
one file of each song or whatever?
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
My home page:
http://MarkBur
If you can receive mail from that address in Apple mail, thus the
acount is there, you can send from it, just select the specific
acount you wish to send from in the pop-up menu just under the
subject line. Should go out that way.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Holly Anderson wrote:
> Hi a
Hi all,
I am pretty new at using the mac but i don't think this is something
to do with my ignorance.
Whenever i connect the iphone3gs i just baught yesterday, itunes comes
up and keeps popping up the message that mobiledevicehelper has
stopped unexpectedly. ANd it keeps popping up every 2 minut
I was just having that problem too. Because I am new to the mac I
don't relaly have any real contacts saved in my mac. I say that
because I had some in there to test synchronizing. After I took those
out and synchronize it has not given me that message and problem. I
have not tried again tryin
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