Re: There has to be a better way

2009-09-03 Thread hank smith
what is garage sale? can I get list sub info and more on what this list is about? - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:46 PM Subject: Re: There has to be a better way > > Mike, I get blind tech, gw-info, mac visionaries, garage sale, a

Fusion Bliss with Snow Leopard and Windows 7

2009-09-03 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, Just a quick update to thank you all for the wonderful help I received with my V M Ware Fusion project. I have been accepted into the private Beta program for V M Ware. As a result, I am now using Fusion 11.x. I tell you all this not to boast but so that you will know that

Re: Fusion Bliss with Snow Leopard and Windows 7

2009-09-03 Thread hank smith
I wish you could replace adio drives with xp vm damn when this sucker going to be out? - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:46 AM Subject: Fusion Bliss with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 > > Hello Everyone, > > Just a quick update to thank you

programing lists

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Ok, i know this is not really relevant to this list, vut i know some of you are way more apt to answer this than the searches i've made. I've been looking into programming for a fair bit now, getting all the pertinent documents, and i do have quite some knowledge and logic about syntaxes an

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Marie Howarth
use vo, works fine. On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi all > > An interesting SL bug for you. > > Go into textedit. Write a document. Press cmd s to open the save > dialog. Then try to tab over to the place where you select the > folder, assuming that that you have that

Re: copying text from mail?

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
3 sep 2009 kl. 04.19 skrev Justin Harford: > > Hey there > > Yep the vo command for select is broken when you are reading a > message, but that interestingly does not mean we can't highlight > text. Is Apple accessibility aware of this? I just tried the selection command and sure enough it did

Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
When I was listening to Mike Arigo's podcast on Installing SL from scratch, having eraseed the hard drive, there seemed to be an option during the installation to retrieve one's home folder from Time Machine. Is it true? Does that mean that during the installation you can choose this optio

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
3 sep 2009 kl. 06.59 skrev Justin Harford: > Go into textedit. Write a document. Press cmd s to open the save > dialog. Then try to tab over to the place where you select the > folder, assuming that that you have that checkbox to the right of the > name field checked. After you tab past the

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread John JD Denning
Yes that is true. You can choose time Machine or a vackup. I have done three like that now. Woorked great. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:14, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > When I was listening to Mike Arigo's podcast on Installing SL from > scratch, having eraseed the hard drive, t

Re: Reading mail fast without preview pane

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, The only drawback with this method, and please correct me if i'm wrong here, is that if you read by thread, as i do, there will be many windows with messages open, and if you don't want to read a thread, you'll have to delete quite a lot of messages until you get back into the messages

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
3 sep 2009 kl. 05.53 skrev Woody Anna Dresner: > In > Leopard, the message was always read automatically when I did this, > which was very convenient. Now the message is occasionally read, but > most of the time I have to press VO-A to get it to read. Has anyone > else experienced this? Any sugg

Re: Need Advice: OCR

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
Donna, I think there are some very good options on the Mac and you don't need three different packages. Everyone has their own way of doing things and I think ABBYY FineReader Express is a real option if they make some tweaks that I'd like to see and mostly working with my scanner, which

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread william lomas
could I choose a super duper backup On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:40, John JD Denning wrote: > > Yes that is true. You can choose time Machine or a vackup. I have > done three like that now. Woorked great. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:14, Simon Cavendish > wrote: > >> >> When I was

Re: Can't access trackpad commander in voice utility on my mac book

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
Don't feel stupid. The multi-touch trackpad does not have the large button at the bottom. It is just like one large flat square and you can press the lower portion of the pad. hth, On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Jes Smith wrote: > > How can I be sure? I thought all mac books had the multi-touc

Web Pages Loading Slowly

2009-09-03 Thread Michael D. Barber
I thought I submitted this last night, but perhaps it didn't make it to the list. I am having difficulty on my Mac Mini with web pages loading quite slowly. Is anyone else experiencing this problem and do you have a solution? Are there any settings which need changing? Thanks. Cordially, Micha

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Peggy Fleischer
I found that the messages read if you set the default verbosity to high in the voiceover utility. You can still turn off the announcements and junk that you don't want to here. Peggy Fleischer peggyfleisc...@bellsouth.net Psalm 90 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our

Query about Voice Over issues in Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, I've been following with interest all the issues that people have been reporting on the list since they upgraded to Snow Leopard. This makes me wonder how thoroughly Apple tested Voice over with its new additions before releasing. Now before anyone gets offended, I think it's a fair

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, Interestingly, on my iMac, the messages are still read automatically in Snow Leopard. I did notice that they do not get read if you set verbosity to low. They are read when either medium or high is used. Robert Carter - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier To: macvisionaries@go

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread John JD Denning
Yes you can indeed can. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:21, william lomas wrote: > > could I choose a super duper backup > > On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:40, John JD Denning wrote: > >> >> Yes that is true. You can choose time Machine or a vackup. I have >> done three like that now. Woorke

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Hi Justin, It seems that people are having different issues with Voice Over, and not everyone can reproduce other's problems. It's getting to be more like Linux than Mac lol. Things seem to be breaking. Have you reported this to accessibil...@apple.com - Original Message - From: "Just

Re: Query about Voice Over issues in Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread Michael Babcock
hi; i think, if you pay the what ever cost it is, can you not become a beta tester? mike On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:06 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've been following with interest all the issues that people have been > reporting on the list since they upgraded to Snow Leopard. This

Re: Reading mail fast without preview pane

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, If you have a keyboard with a numeric keypad, you can assign a key to the go to linked object command which is what VO-J does. This means you can read mail very quickly using only a couple of keys on the keypad. It is very cool. Robert Carter - Original Message - From: william lom

Creating DAISY books was VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY format

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Hi Gret and everyone, Is it possible to create DAISY books on Mac OS X? Thanks James - Original Message - From: "Les Kriegler" To: ; "'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'" ; "'Mike Shebanek'" ; "'Mary Beth Janes'" ; "'macvoiceover'" Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:16 AM Subj

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread william lomas
but if you do it that way will it jsut put the will lomas, my home folder, back with all my aps, downloads, music, preferences, etc? On 3 Sep 2009, at 12:10, John JD Denning wrote: > > Yes you can indeed can. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:21, william lomas > wrote: > >> >>

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Will, Please make sure that all your apps are SL compitable. I don't know what you use but I know that some of the apps that work under Leopard are curently not working under SL. - Original Message - From: "william lomas" To: Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Sn

Re: Web Pages Loading Slowly

2009-09-03 Thread Rich Ring
I am experiencing the same issue. My cheapy Windows netbook loads pages faster than my brand new Mac Mini. Something has to be wrong. I must have something set incorrectly. Help, please? I also have another question. I have been told that the Mac behaves better if you connect a mouse. As

Re: Query about Voice Over issues in Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Yes I think you're right, but pehaps they should open it up to the public without requring payment at least for 30 days or so as the osst is qutie expensive. Take care James - Original Message - From: "Michael Babcock" To: Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:22 PM Subject: Re: Que

RE: Need Advice: OCR

2009-09-03 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Scott, ReadIris was the option that I was thinking of that involved multiple apps, VueScan and ReadIris. I thought I recalled a thread on the list a few weeks back, about ABBYY having some accessibility issues. Maybe it was what you describe, i.e. Problems talking to the software that c

Re: Apple ships known vulnerable version of Flash with Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
I am largely ignorant of all but the most obvious non-VoiceOver settings in Safari. I would guess that, like IE and Firefox,, it would have a "turn off Flash" in it. A whole lot of sighted people turn off Flash, especially if they have a fairly slow connection and because, the majority o

rss help

2009-09-03 Thread Brandon Misch
Hey all. when i delete my news out of my rss feeds, they keep coming back, is there a way to make the news disappear? for instance for apple hot news, i delete all the news items out of there, and when i reload mail, they're back up. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread anouk radix
Hello everyone, i tried again today to take my macbook pro with me to school today but it did not go as well as the first two times. I had to consult a lawbook (if htats the right word) and every time i went down a line i got messages like textedit busy or busy or textedit ready which made

ftpclients on the mac?

2009-09-03 Thread anouk radix
Hello are there any good ftp-clients that work with voicover? With good i mean that they have to be able to que stuff and download folders. Greetings, Anouk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisio

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Could it dpend on the length of the document? This should not be the case but I have known it happen in Microsoft Office - Original Message - From: "anouk radix" To: Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: problems reading a document in textedit > > Hello everyone, i trie

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I'm not experiencing the stuttering either. Weird. Best, Anna On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi all > > An interesting SL bug for you. > > Go into textedit. Write a document. Press cmd s to open the save > dialog. Then try to tab over to the place where you sel

Re: There has to be a better way

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
You might also switch to the digest mode for the list so you only get one or two emails per day. On Sep 2, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Mike, You need to do a little reading about rules. I sent you > basically the rule I use and it has been working for a good number of > years. I'm

Working with more than one acount

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, As I think I mentioned before on here, I always use a limited account for my daily use on all my computers - wether it's Windows, Linux or Mac. So I was wondering. If I use the Admin account to run Software Update, will the updates be applied to the entire OS or only for that account

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Strange thing is that here on my Imac, messages don't read automagically neither in medium nor high verbosity. I have 2 gigabytes of ram in my Imac and 2.66 GHz processor. /Krister 3 sep 2009 kl. 14.11 skrev Robert Carter: > > Hi, > > Interestingly, on my iMac, the messages are still rea

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Robert and all, Last night almost none of my messages were being read automatically, and today, they all are. I didn't change anything, I don't think, but it's possible. Go figure. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Fusion Bliss with Snow Leopard and Windows 7

2009-09-03 Thread Mac Cougar
so much for being able to do it all by yourslf. It figures. Steve On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:46 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Just a quick update to thank you all for the wonderful help I > received with > my V M Ware Fusion project. > > I have been accepted into the private Beta p

Re: Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Blouch
It could also mean issues around international travel could be fixed. I'm in the US but I'm heading to Madrid later this year for some meetings and I'm assuming my iPhone will be useless there even though it uses GSM and has a SIM card. Or at least AT&T would happily charge me a small fortune t

Re: Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Maybe this is why all the cable companies have been testing the waters with data caps, overage fees and trying to redefine what broadband means with the government (at least here in the US). If I have pretty much unlimited broadband, why not cancel TV service and get all my shows via the intern

Re: Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year

2009-09-03 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
None of these carriers will be Sprint, which is what I have now. Bummer. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message b

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Anna, Strange as it sounds, Snow Leopard really settled down and started behaving normally after the first day. Robert - Original Message - From: Woody Anna Dresner To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 8:27:40 Subject: Re: Mail messages not being read aut

Re: Query about Voice Over issues in Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread Marie Howarth
James, with any update, things get broken. on the whole everything seems to be working as it should for me. things have changed in some instances and I think that has caused a little confusion. I think apple have done a good job without opening it up to other people, and to be honest, I am

stopping audio when trying to download files

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, With Leopard, if a file I wanted to download started playing, I could press Space to stop playback, then go to the address bar and press Option-Return to download the file instead. The downloading still works, but pressing Space doesn't stop playback. instead, it starts playback over

ignore next keystroke seems broken

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I just went to my Windows XP desktop in Fusion. I typed VO-Tab to have VoiceOver ignore the next keystroke, and then typed VO-X, my shortcut to open Firefox. Nothing happened. This happened consistently. The only way I could get it to work was if I kept holding down the VO keys after

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread Marie Howarth
never had this happen, I have to say. text edit is usually the most stable app on the comp. On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:05 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Could it dpend on the length of the document? This should not be the > case > but I have known it happen in Microsoft Office > - Original Messag

Re: Web Pages Loading Slowly

2009-09-03 Thread Mac Cougar
make sure you have a monitor connected or it will say busy all the time or most of it anyways. Steve On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Michael D. Barber wrote: > > I thought I submitted this last night, but perhaps it didn't make it > to the > list. I am having difficulty on my Mac Mini with web

Re: Query about Voice Over issues in Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
Hi Marie, Yes you're right, Acessibility are generally very good when contacted. Even if for some reason they cannot fix something immediately or implement a feature straight away, they will generally be curteous enough to send you an acknowledgement that is personalized. Take care James ---

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Dan and others who have this problem. To fix this issue, you can try the following: 1: Open the Voiceover Utility 2: Navigate to the verbosity tab 3: Set your verbosity to medium 4: Press tab again and expand the details triangle, and please, read the rest of the steps carefully so you don't

can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, Normally I check spelling in e-mail by pressing Command-Semicolon, then pressing VO-Shift-M to access the spelling options. This doesn't appear to work in Snow Leopard. The misspelled word is highlighted as expected, but when I press VO-Shift-M, a different word gets highlighted inste

Re: mac mini mic jack

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Blouch
A stereo mic is an unusual piece of gear often used for recording large venue performance where ambient sound and stereo imaging are critical to faithful reproduction such as chorales and large pipe organ installations. Best thing would be to check in with an audio pro but here's a couple you m

Re: tactile iphone

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Blouch
The brainport actually hit the somewhat mainstream geek news on slashdot.org a week or so ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/2035256/BrainPort-Lets-the-Blind-See-With-Their-Tongues CB Chris Hofstader wrote: > Hi, > > I got to try one of the lollipop devices a number of years back

Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-03 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. When Voiceover reads a misspelled word, it makes a small break before it continue the reading. It also does that when I set the "in- countering a misspelled word" to "do nothing" in the Voiceover settings. It's very annoying. Has anyone found this issue as well? Best regards Søren. --~-

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
I can't comment right now on this as I don't have SL yet, but have you looked in the VO help menu as the commands might be different? Take care James - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:04 PM Subject: can't control-click on misspel

RE: Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-03 Thread Blake Sinnett
Confirmed. > From: s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Subject: Voiceover and the spell checker > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:19:50 +0200 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > > Hi. > > When Voiceover reads a misspelled word, it makes a small break before > it continue the reading. It also does that

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy This really depends on where you are talking about. It has never worked under email since the days of Leopard (not tiger). I find it still works under textedit. In safari, has anyone tried that? Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 8:23 AM, James & Nash escribió: > > I can't comment right

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
Right that's what I do. It just seems to me that it would be common sense that you would not want to hide landmines like this throughout an operating system. One of the great things that I have found generally about OS X and computers in general is that there are several ways to do somet

Re: bluetooth braille

2009-09-03 Thread Scott McCormack
I don't have a bc640 so I am just guessing here but maybe it leaves the bluetooth radio on even though it is supposed to be in USB mode and the mac is just happening to grab the BT first. Try removing the display from the bluetooth config then reattach it via USB. On Sep 2, 12:00 am, anouk radix

Re: copying text from mail?

2009-09-03 Thread Dan
Hello, Yesterday, I emailed accessibility about this. Dan key...@comcast.net On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > > 3 sep 2009 kl. 04.19 skrev Justin Harford: > >> >> Hey there >> >> Yep the vo command for select is broken when you are reading a >> message, but that interest

Re: Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-03 Thread Marie Howarth
I think it is an audio cue. especially the indentations and is also a clue to tell you of a mispelled word. On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote: > Confirmed. > > > From: s...@coolfortheblind.dk > > Subject: Voiceover and the spell checker > > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:19:50 +0200 >

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Justin, When I started using Leopard in June, I couldn't use the spell check procedure I described in my last message. However, the most recent OS update fixed it so I could use that procedure. Looks like Snow Leopard broke it again. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---

coe 2 duo?

2009-09-03 Thread william lomas
Hi, I have 1 processor on my macbook with 2 cores running at 2.4 GHZ. What essentially please, does this mean? Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this g

opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi everyone, Is there a way to open a new window browser by clicking on a link? like a context menu? THanks, and best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group,

solona

2009-09-03 Thread william lomas
hi looks like solona apparently, have an automated image varification system in place now which will, hurray! work on mac or so they say. Wonder how we "capture" the image though and send it to them? Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message b

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, I have noticed the same behavior you mentioned. It normally occurs on long documents, and textedit does in deed say busy after arrowing down each line. It's quite frustrating, but if you have Iwork, it seems to do a better job. Note: When I say long documents, I am referring to those tha

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
I have a similar problem with Idisk but the variation is such as to demand a password from me as I happen to have IDisk. Because I do not wish to choose IDisk, I do not provide such a password. But then I'm stuck. the dialogue returns over and over again and I'm stuck. I can't go past the

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Yuma, Do you mean to open a particular link in a new browser window? Try routing your mouse cursor to your vo cursor - unless you have the two cursor tracking - and then perform right click by holding the control button and clicking the physical mouse. You should be presented with a m

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread James & Nash
I thought you could use the applications menu - don'tremeber what Mac calls it but that should show you possible spellings. Also, doesn't the spelling dialogue give you possible spelling corrections? Take care James - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Thursday,

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
She was using the context menu. It is true that we can still use the spelling dialog which is what we may have to do. I personally have been more partial to the way without the dialog though. Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 10:32 AM, James & Nash escribió: > > I thought you could use the appl

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Is there a way to open a new window browser by clicking on a link? > like a context menu? Take a look at your Safari preferences menu and select the tab button on the toolbar (Command-comma to open preferences, interact, navigate to tab button and press

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, You can open a link in a new tab by pressing cmd-enter. You can bring up a context menu in the usual way with vo-shft-m for more options. I find it a little odd that you haven't tried that. Just as a side note, You can open Safari help and type keyboard in the search field to see all o

Labels and VO

2009-09-03 Thread Fonzie
HI all, I hope all is well. The introduction of labels is very handy indeed. would anyone know where these are saved at? Say, if I miss label something, or wish to relabel is, how would I go about accessing labels I already created? I might be looking in the wrong areas, but thought I would

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, If you follow Barry's suggestion, you don't need to route your mouse cursor to the VO cursor to open in a new tab with Command-Enter (or, more accurately, Command-"Return"). If you want to open in a new window instead of a new tab, open your Safari preferences (Command- comma), n

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hello Simon and Krister, Can you remove the iDisk from the FInder sidebar by going to the Preferences menu for Finder (Command-Comma), and navigating to the Sidebar button on the toolbar, then pressing (VO-Space)? On the Sidebar pane you should be able to uncheck any items you don't want

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Thanks, i'll try that. to route the mouse cursor to the vo cursor it's VO command F5 right? Thanks Best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi guys, So shift acts a bit like a secondary command list. That's good to know :) I have looked at a list of keyboard shortcuts, but they vary from context to context, or so it tends to make me believe. Thanks a lot for the info though, one more for the mac bbest Yuma --~--~-~--

Re: Snow leopard clean install and restoring home folder from time machine

2009-09-03 Thread Jessi and Goldina
be careful though, if your drive if for whatever reason formatted for windows, there doesn't seem to be a way to import your data back without manually copying and pasting the folders. this is my dilemma right now! still trying to get stuff back. On 2009-09-03, at 2:40 AM, John JD Denning wr

Re: Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-03 Thread Søren Jensen
Yeah. Bu it shouldn't happen if I turn it off in the Vo settings, should it? When I set it to "do nothing" it still make this annoying break, just without any sound. Best regards Søren. On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > I think it is an audio cue. especially the indentatio

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Barry Hadder
Yuma, I don't know how new you are to voiceover and the Mac so I want to make sure something is clear to you. vo-shft-m is a voiceover key and not a Safari key and you won't find it in the Safari help. You can use that anywhere to bring up a context menu. There are times when it doesn't w

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Marie Howarth
simon, use letters to jump to the folders you wish in your sidebar. i.e, a for applications. hth On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > I have a similar problem with Idisk but the variation is such as to > demand a password from me as I happen to have IDisk. Because I do not >

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi guys, That works like a charm Thanks a lot! best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hey Barry, Oh yea, i meant i was looking into the voice over key list. Thanks for the precision though :) best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, s

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi ester, I do think opening new windows might be better. Perhaps with snow leopard it's fixed as i think they have the individual threads for each tabs, but i'm still on leopard right now. Soon though :) Also, it might be easier to just command accent for jumping from window to window, as

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, Shift seems to act as a secondary modifier on the Mac. In some instances, like adjusting sliders for sound or brightness, or moving splitters or resizing windows, pressing the shift key gives you fine control to move in smaller increments. In other cases, such as using tab, com

Re: opening new safari window

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Barry, We've got two different discussions going on here. Yuma was responding to my (lengthy) post about the options on the Safari Preferences menu for tabbing. Although they use sequences like Command-Click, Command-Shift-Click, Command-Option-Click, and Command- Option-Shift-Click f

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, I am not at home so can't test it but there are new commands for moving to the next and previous misspelled word. They are vo-e and vo-shift-e Robert Carter - Original Message - From: Woody Anna Dresner To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 10:36:37 Subje

Vo saying k l instead of @

2009-09-03 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi all Just upgrading to s l. I noticed that vo saying the letters k l instaed of at when I type the @ Maybe thats a bug in the swedish translation of s l but can I fix that? On the braille display the @- sigen is corect. Regards Tony --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Marie, Yes, using the first few letters to navigate to devices in the sidebar works, but Simon and Krister should also be able to simply remove the problem entry from their sidebar by unchecking it in the Finder preferences for the Sidebar. Cheers, Esther Marie Howarth wrote: > > sim

Re: Need Advice: OCR

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
Donna, I do agree and I think purchasing software without trying it first can be painful and it was. I finally got my money back from ABBYY's reseller, but it did take some messages and pushing to make them understand why I wanted my money back. I'd have to see some improvements in scann

Re: rss help

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
I'e seen this behavior and not clear what the issue is. You might want to try removing that feed and resubscribing. I did this and watching to see if there will be any return of these messages. On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: > > Hey all. when i delete my news out of my rss f

Another Questin regarding Mac and Jaws

2009-09-03 Thread M. Taylor
Perhaps I jumped the gun a bit last night with regard to my praise of Jaws 11 running as a virtual machine in fusion 11. I have not installed Jaws 10.x but with Jaws 11.x beta, the CapsLock key does not appear to engage or function as the Jaws key. That is to say, when I press it, nothing really

Re: stopping audio when trying to download files

2009-09-03 Thread Esther
Hi Anna, I've not migrated to Snow Leopard yet, but here are two thoughts: you might have to interact first on the page where the download started playing. In Cara's original post about controlling the play of streaming media in Leopard (early on) at: http://www.lioncourt.com/guides-tutor

Re: There has to be a better way

2009-09-03 Thread erik burggraaf
Garrage sale is an applet like turbo lister for bulk listing and managing your ebay octions. If you google up garrage sale mac, you'll get their website, which I think is something like http://www.iwascoding.com where you can find demos and mailing list info. Best, erik burggraaf A+ serti

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
Søren, thanks for this info. I don't generally need Mail reading automatically, but I do use it sometimes to get a feel for the message and if I just want to read it on my own, I just start with the arrow keys. I did follow your directions and they worked perfectly. It would seem that when

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-03 Thread Barry Hadder
I believe that I'm seeing a relationship between this and problems I'm having. In Safari when group mode is on, I get continuos busy and ready messages when a content list has a large amount of items. Navigation also slows down to a crawl. If I open a large pdf document in preview and pdf

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Esther, Thank you so much. I never thought one could do it. I am learning so much here on the list. Mari's suggestion would obviously work as well but sometimes I can't remember what's there in the sidebar. thanks to all for their support. Best wishes, Simon On 3 Sep 2009, at 18:50, Es

Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Howell
Søren, thanks for the great idea and it did work, but briefly for me. Damned if I didn't switch away from Mail and come back to find that it was no longer working. Oh well, how lovely. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I haven't seen spell checker in use, but based on the description, i'd thought it was really nice. /Krister 3 sep 2009 kl. 17.54 skrev Marie Howarth: > > I think it is an audio cue. especially the indentations and is also a > clue to tell you of a mispelled word. > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 PM

Re: Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-03 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Unfortunately, Soren's method didn't work for me either. Mail is once again not reading correctly. I'll restart later and see if that makes any difference. Best, Anna On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Søren, thanks for the great idea and it did work, but briefly for me. >

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