Thanks,
I've actually unchecked the address book checkbox and it does seem to work.
Alas, it is a shame that i can't create new addresses to synch with my
iphone as i'm doing a full switch to mac and all my contacts have to
be painstakingly tapped on the phone instead of on the address book
app.
try checking the box again. this happened to me with notes, I
unchecked and rechecked, works fine now.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
>
> Thanks,
> I've actually unchecked the address book checkbox and it does seem
> to work.
>
> Alas, it is a shame that i can't create new a
i would love to know the answer to this. I can only tell you I did it
all by hand which was painstaking. I honestly believe apple could make
it easier on us and when you highlight all duplicates, to be shown, it
gives you the option to delete only the duplicates. if you hit show
all duplic
Great, i think i don't have any problems anymore. Really smooth
contraption here, i'm really glad to have purchased the hone
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There are instructions on gmail for just this type of thing.
one thing to note is that if you have multiple gmail accounts you must
setup a
separate smtp server with each accounts details or you will be able to
recieve
from all accounts but only send via the one you setup.
I use Mail almost excl
Yes, I understand and that is the point you would hit command-f5 or fn-
command-f5 on a notebook. And should you ever have to boot from the
DVD, once you hear the chime after pressing the power button, press
and hold the letter c until you hear the DVD begin to run and in fact
hold it down
Hi Mark,
I have this same problem. In iTunes, I forget where in the menus, the
iTunes menu or file menu there are options for show duplicates. it
will list all the repeat files and you can go in and manually dell
them. If there is an automatic way I'm sorry but I dont know that. HTH
##
Blake, with these newer LCD TVs, which is the best method for
connecting lets say a Mac Mini? I'm not sure how most folk would be
connecting their Apple TV, but I've been thinking a Mac Mini would
offer me the ability to have a real media Center. I'd like to connect
it to our surround sys
Jon, I think your right, a DVI input is probably the best way to go,
so maybe I answered my own question.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
>
> 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 b
You know sometimes the automatic mode although nice could really cause
you grief. A good case in point is if you happen to replace some
lower quality files with higher quality files, but did not remove the
lesser files first. Problem becomes expecting iTunes to know which
you would rathe
Folks, I asked this question a while back and I recall pretty much how
to do this, but I for the life of me can't seem to get this one
character.
I am trying to create the character 'Latin small letter E with a Q'.
If I press option semicolon, I get the æ 'Latin small letter E', but I
can
Hi Scott,
Since I have this letter in my name, I suppose I should try to help
you out here... ;-)
On my norwegian keyboard, I press the key just to the left of the
delete key, and then the e key. If you use control-option-K I think
you will find it pretty fast.
Hope this helps,
HTH
John A
Hi John, unfortunately I have a US keyboard, which I think is a little
different than the keyboard layout your using. I'm not sure what key
is to the left of your delete key. For me it is the equal key. My
understanding is that the option key in combination with another key
or keys will
Hi Scott,
Don't know if this will help, but this is one I think I actually have the
answer to, at least in part.
Don't know what type of accent you want, but for acute accents press option-e,
release both, and then type the letter you need. I'm not sure yet how to get a
grave accent, so if t
There are instructions for optimal use of GMail with Apple Mail if you
want to use imap. The advantage of iMap is that your tags in GMail
will become folders in Apple Mail and the structure will be identical
between the two systems so if you have a item tagged as Family in
GMAIL it will sh
Hi Scott,
Here is my suggestion:
•press control-option-K to start Keyboard Help
•try different keys to find the one heard as "a Qd accent", since this
is the key I press first
•when you have found it, escape Keyboard Help and press the key,
followed by e. This should create é.
Hope this hel
Hi Scott,
Depending on how new this LCD TV is, You will need either the Mini-DVI to DVI
or Mini-DVI to HDMI adapters. As you may or may not know, you'll also need a
cable with a toslink male connecter on one end and a mini Toslink on the other
for hooking the Mini digitally to your surround
Hi,
At the Pacific Center Store in Vancouver BC, one of our geniuses is an
X-VoiceOver Phone Support Person.
Regards,
Aex,
On 24-Jul-09, at 10:51 PM, Abdul Kamara wrote:
> Oh how sad...
>
> I bet the people at Microsoft were "squirting" all over each other
> Zoons in hand when they came up
You got it right but were probably confused. Option e followed by a
vowel will give you that vowel with a acute accent.
option i does the same thing but for a circumflex accent.
I have forgotten what the grave accent is on the US keyboard. Used to
be you could go into keycaps and figure this o
Hi,
It sure seems that way that they will include it, seeing as all the
advances they made for touchscreens and touchpads on both the desktop/
notebook OS and the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. This by the way is from what
Apple has published on Snow Leopard. With all this change, I can't
believe w
HI,
The acent key is located to the left of the "1" key and above the
"Tab" key on American keyboards.
Regards,
Alex,
On 26-Jul-09, at 10:49 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
>
> Anna,
>
> I use the spacebar to stop and start an audio file. It seems to work
> for me.
>
> There are several techniqu
Thank you very much for this info. We've not gotten the TV yet, but
we're really starting to look into it. I have a Bose system that is
about six or seven years old and I need to check into the type of
digital input it uses, but I think this will all work.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Blake
Hi DOnna, thanks, but it seems what I get is åe
, which seems to give a different character and in fact two
characters instead of one. Now you gave me an idea I had not tried I
guess. It seems if you hit option-e, release, and hit the letter e, I
get exactly what I want. So, yes, you helpe
John, unfortunately keyboard help is only really for VO commands and
of course it will give you what the keys do, but not keystrokes to
produce special characters. However, Donna provided the answer, which
I had forgotten and that was it required two keystrokes, option-e,
release, and the
The thing is if you want to keep all songs as you imported them you
shouldn't delete jublicates. Say you download a discography of a
certain artest, and that folder has folders for albums, singles
etc. Now instead of ID3 tagging them all properly many of the
singles will be listed from the a
Well, glad I helped, even if in a round-about way. I think actually
we were talking about exactly the same thing, I must just not have
communicated it very well. I press Option e, release them, and then
hit the vowel I want to have the diacritic for. So, I'm not sure where
the confusion
Hi.
Try option e. Sounds like what you're searching for. What's that
character used for?
On 28/07/2009, at 12.20, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> Folks, I asked this question a while back and I recall pretty much how
> to do this, but I for the life of me can't seem to get this one
> character.
> I am
hi on the i phone how can I get my mp3's to play as a ringtone?
?
Will
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Oh the confusion on my part was the fact I assumed this could be done
with one keystroke. and once I realized it would require two steps, I
realized that was the part I had forgotten.
On Jun 28, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> Well, glad I helped, even if in a round-about way. I
Yep, option-e followed by the vow your needing as Donna pointed out.
It's used mostly for accented characters in names etc.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Try option e. Sounds like what you're searching for. What's that
> character used for?
> On 28/07/2009, at 12
Ah, got it. Oddly enough, this was the first thing I ever learned how
to do on a Mac. I'm a professor of Spanish, and had to give my
students info on how to produce diacritics on their computers. So,
though I'd never used a Mac, I had found a set of instructions for
this online, which I
Hello; Have you thought about going to a site where they have this
character and doing a copy and paste. Then save it somewhere you can
access it whenever you need it. Maybe copy it into your clipboard
before starting any projects where you know you wil need it. Best i
can come up with
Hi guys I forgot to mention that when I wanted to slect my dvd drive in the
second pop up menu it wasn't there even though there was a blank disk in the
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Hi Scott,
Joining this thread late, but are you sure this isn't for editing
artist names in your iTunes collection again (grin)? Remember that
if all else fails, you can find the track or album in the iTunes
Store, use Get Info (Command-I) and navigate to the Info tab where you
can brow
Hi,
There is an Applescript fro Dug's Applescripts collection thad does
this. Google "Dugs's Applescripts Duplicates free" and you shpuld find
it.
Regards,
Alex,
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Marie Howarth wrote:
>
> i would love to know the answer to this. I can only tell you I did it
> a
Hi Gene,
I don't believe that SuperDuper is designed to back up to DVD. I've
only known it to be used with hard drives and especially for the
purpose of creating a bootable clone (among other backup modes). I
went to check their web site, and I'm pasting in their description:
Please not
I'm trying to avoid weeding it out by hand, given how huge that folder
is. I suppose I could search for every song that has a (1) in it, but
that's hit-or-miss at best. Oh well.
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
My home page:
http://Mark
Thanks, Jenny. This is what I was afraid of. One must be careful
with this procedure. :)
Mark BurningHawk
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MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
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Ah yes, Spanish, I do recall just a little. I took a few semesters of
it and just did not have the chance to keep up on the proper use and
well gee I can't remember so much. Funny, if I had a Mac back then, I
might have been able to work with materials or well maybe I should say
if I was
Naaa, I would rarely need this. This was needed to correct my catalog
entry for a particular artist and well I can't stand not knowing the
answer to something so simple. So, to me it was easier to go ahead
and just learn how to deal with this in the event it comes up again.
On Jul 28, 200
Yep Esther, you done found me out. However, that was to simple and
would make to much sense. You know I just had to know how to make it
work and sure enough Donna provided the answer. Now this is one of
those I'm not going to forget for another reason I can't discuss here,
but it proved
WOw, could you imagine if you could backup to a DVD though? WIth
about 200Gb or so used on my drive, that would take one hell of a
compression routine to pull that off. :)
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Esther wrote:
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> I don't believe that SuperDuper is designed to back up to D
Someone can correct me if there is another way, but you'd have
to first convert the MP3 file into an AAC file in iTunes. Then,
manually change the extension from M4A to M4R. Then play it in iTunes
and it should be added to your ring tones list.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Jul 28,
Hi all,
Is there a way to tell when a window is fully zoomed out?
louie
louiem...@wavecable.com
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Just in case anyone else needs these:
acute accent - Option-e;
grave accent - Option-accent sign;
circumflex accent - Option-i;
diaeresis - Option-u;
C cedilla - Option-c (this is the only one that isn't a dead key).
Also, you can make the "oe ligature" by doing Option-q.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hi,
With the discussion last week of Mobile Me I realized that my subscription
is about up and that soon I will need to pay for the family plan I have once
again. I'm really not interested in doing that as I feel the service is
priced a bit high and I am looking for some alternatives. The main th
Hi Mark, Jenny, Dean, and Others,
You have a few options to search for duplicate tracks in iTunes. One
is to use the "Show Duplicates" option under the File menu of iTunes'
menu bar after selecting a library in the sources outline. This lists
entries with the same song name, so versions of
A single command option minus will zoom all the way out, even after
multiple zoom ins.
CB
louie wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a way to tell when a window is fully zoomed out?
>
> louie
> louiem...@wavecable.com
>
>
>
>
> >
>
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I really don't know if accessibility is a place that Microsoft wants
to go in their presentations. I agree that I would like to see Apple
employees be more familiar with Voiceover, but that isn't a trivial
thing to ask. Apple has a very functional screen reading system built
into their o
Have you tried to restart vo by pressing command f5 or command fuction
f5 to see if that fixes the problem.
Matthew
On Jun 27, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> 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 wit
Scott,
é e acute: I get it by pressing option+fn+e key and followed again by
e key. HOpes this helps.
Simon
On 28 Jul 2009, at 11:41, A-Pro Studio wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Since I have this letter in my name, I suppose I should try to help
> you out here... ;-)
>
> On my norwegian keyboard, I
Hi, You can start vo yourself for setup just by press command f5 and
then you should be able to go through the setup prosses on your own as
I ghave done. I don't know much about the monitor addaptors as I do
not use one and it seems to be fine without any problems. Might
consiter getti
Being that a DVD holds about 9GB you would need to have a tiny hard
drive to fit it all on a single DVD, even with compression which at best
would be 50%, much less if you have lots of already compressed media
like mp3 files.
CB
Gene Richburg wrote:
> Hi guys, wondering if someone has an answ
Thanks very much for this very helpful description and fix! I'll get
on this and my hard drive will thank you...
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To clear up some confusion, when you say TV that implies different
things depending on the model. Basic TV hookups are NTSC (US) or PAL
(Euro) sometimes called SD or standard definition as opposed to HD or
high definition. NTSC is commonly connected via an Composite or SVideo
connector. The com
Hi Ester, Ok that's interesting someone did a pod cast here a while back and
said that you could back up to dvds but I guess that's not true.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Gene
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: super duper
>
> H
Makes sense. So if I have four rows with A B C and D. I select rows B
and D and then hit shift option up I would now have rows B A D and C.
Hitting up again gives B D A and C. Is this what users would expect?
Normally I would think folks would be trying to cherry pick rows they
care about and d
Also, for those who have amadeus pro, you can have it directly export
to ringtone from the file menu.
On 28-Jul-09, at 12:52 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>
> Someone can correct me if there is another way, but you'd have
> to first convert the MP3 file into an AAC file in iTunes. Then,
> manu
Hi,
What does zoom mean? I am assuming it is a visual thing. Is there anything like
it in Windows? I am just not sure what it means in the context of the Mac.
Robert Carter
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From: Chris Blouch
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009 12:25:08
Hello John and all:
The only addition I would make is that you would want to select the
portion of the song you wanted to convert to the AAC file since
ringtones have to be 40 seconds or less.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:52 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>
> Someone can correct me if there is anoth
As part of the Mac's accessibility there is a built-in screen magnifier
where you can blow up the screen to many times normal size. An excellent
help for low vision users.
CB
Robert Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What does zoom mean? I am assuming it is a visual thing. Is there anything
> like it in
In the p.c. world maximize the window of the app you are running.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Robert Carter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What does zoom mean? I am assuming it is a visual thing. Is there
> anything like it in Windows? I am just not sure what it means in the
> context of the Mac.
>
> R
Glad to hear. Found this page which has all the settings for IMAP
(incoming) and SMTP (outgoing) email for AIM mail.
http://email.about.com/od/aimmailtips/qt/et082805.htm
CB
Marie Howarth wrote:
> just letting everyone know, I fixed my problem. just deleted it,
> started over. it's all workin
Yup, they say so here:
http://www.apple.com/macbook/why-mac.html
CB
Dan Eickmeier wrote:
> Hi Erik, pretty sure that the iLife suite, ships with all Macs.
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 12:23 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
>
>> Hi, It is farely accessible, except for the pan controls which are
>> the majo
That is actually a major difference in regard to
accessibility. I can walk into an Apple Store and play with the
systems right there on the floor. Actually, I've done it quite a few
times now. Good luck with that in the Microsoft Store. Imagine
trying to explain to the sales pe
Good point. I was assuming, from Will's post, that he already
had MP3 ring tones and wanted to convert them for the iPhone. My
apologies if I misunderstood.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:09 PM, patrickneazer wrote:
> Hello John and all:
>
> The only addition I woul
Thanks Simon, that is helpful. I figured this out after Donna posted
the tip on pressing command-letter and then letter.. Guarantee ask me
this next month and I will have not forgotten. Man, I can't believe I
forgot the extra step. :)
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
>
Yup, this is weird. It's just a link inside a paragraph tag. I thought
maybe they were doing something weird but the HTML is all correct and
normal. Seems like a straight VO bug.
CB
Esther wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I just checked the Serotalk web pages in both Safari and the latest WebKit,
> and
John, some interesting points you make is about level of knowledge of
each product. These employees are not paid specialists and are
trained to know enough to sell the product. There is likely not a
load of pressure for them to become masters of each product. I
believe someone on this l
VMWare supports running OSX Server in a VM but last time I tired to move
one of these VMs to my Windows box it failed to launch so they must be
tying it to running in Fusion on Mac hardware somehow. I'm sure there's
hackery somewhere that would lift this restriction but that restriction
is in p
Yes!
Thank you. I'm going to venture into apple script world to try this.
I accidently made some copies of some files in my library. And I
bought Ben Fold's latest album last September. It downloaded and
played jus fine but about a month or two later I was getting a notice
and two of every
And to add a few more accents (Spanish, German, and Scandinavian
languages):
tilde - Option-n;
eszett or sharp ess - Option-s;
slashed o - Option-o;
The last two are also not dead keys.
Cheers,
Esther
On Jul 28, 2009, at 07:02, Anne Robertson wrote:
>
> Just in case anyone else needs these:
Hi Scott,
Great point. Yes, some kind of sheet to provide basic knowledge
would go far. I would be willing to bet that this is done with other
products. Being an expert is not necessary or reasonable, but being
able to answer basic questions would be advantageous. How many people
I was at my alumni registration page today, and noticed that it
confused Safari quite a bit.
The autoforms put my Last name into the Last Name, Date of birth and
Student ID fields.
Can anybody look over the HTML at
https://my.gwu.edu/mod/alumni/register.cfm
and provide me comments that I c
I have some garage band questions that I would apreeciate anyone answering:
How do you quantize a track?
Is it possible to have one instrument on the bottom half of the
keyboard and another on the top? I'm going to be in a situation in a
few weeks where i'm required to drum using my left hand and
I am wondering if anybody could tell me how well the "Back To My Mac"
feature of MobileMe works with VO. I'm really interested in whether
or not a computer can be controlled remotely with VO when screen
sharing is enabled. I don't presently have another Mac to test this.
Thanks.
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I created the m4a file, then changed the file extension to m4r and played it
in iTunes. When I go to ring tones and search for the file name the list
comes up empty. Do you have an idea what I missed?
Thanks
Kim
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Off the top of my head, and I admit that I'm wiped out, I'd be
sure the files are less than 40 seconds in length. I followed the
steps of first selecting the piece of the song that I wanted as the
tone, converting it to AAC, copying the m4a file to my desktop and
then changing the e
OK, thanks. It is definitely less than 40 seconds. It is a short beep.
I'll keep trying and maybe I'll luck up.
Thanks
Kim
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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:2
Are you seeing the ring tones item in the iTunes source list? I
know this might be an obvious question and something you have done,
but you have to make ring tones viewable in the iTunes preferences.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Managing Director
Technologies for the Visually Impaired,
Hello Kim and all:
The two things that tripped me up when making ringtones from my own
music ... or any music for that matter were:
1. When you create the AAC version in itunes you must make sure you
delete it from the songs list in itunes before you run it from the
desktop
2. Make sure th
Yes, ring tones show up in the list, and I finally got it to work. Thanks
very much for the help! I have no clue what I wasn't doing before.
Kim
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