Re: ftpclients on the mac?

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Thanks Erik I had already dowloaded unison not knowing it was by panic. When i just browsed their site yesterdauy I could not locate unison there. Great to know that downloading binaries does work on the mac. Greetings, Anouk,On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:25 AM, hank smith wrote: > > hat is the websit

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, Hmm yes mabe, i will look more into it later today, i had turned off spellcheck but I will check if it is really off. I was able to navigate to some other long books without problems in textedit so I will have to check why THIS particular document is causing problems. Greetings, Anouk

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hi John indeed that is exactly what I mean. Since I am a law students I have LOTS of those kinds of documents (a lot of which I scanned in myself btw). I am planning to get iworks in a few weeks, hopefully I can get a student discount. Btw a different question do i have to get apple stuff

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I notice slow behaviour in safari as well and I am using dom mode, only with one site so far which i dont plan to use again but still worth mentioning. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > I believe that I'm seeing a relationship between this and problem

I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi all. Spending yesterday evening with snow leopard and I must say that I'm not very impressed. Here is my observations so far. - VO gets stuck in submenus and also jumps over menu items. This have been discussed here before. - In swedish translation vo says k l instad of at for the @-symbol. - S

Where to go to inform Apple about bugs with Voice Over?

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Kauflin
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has a good place to go to let Apple know about bugs we are encountering with Voice Over and Snow Leopard. I have encountered a few and would really like to go to a good place to let Apple know of my experience. One of the most annoying things I have found

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, well to tell you the truth wordpad isnt considered a real word processor either but I ALWAYS used it to read long documents because 1. they were in text format anyway (thats the way i scan them) and it was just so much faster and more responsive then microsoft word. I will report my

Re: Where to go to inform Apple about bugs with Voice Over?

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, the way to interact with apple about accessibility issues is emailing accessibil...@apple.com. If you call them people tend to dont know what you are talking about. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > > Hello, > I'm wondering if anyone has a good pl

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hey Tony, I am having issues too, not as many as you do but still. Please try mailing apple accessibility about them, i will as well and hope they fix it soon. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi all. > Spending yesterday evening with snow leopard and I m

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

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Greg, Where can I get this plugin from and some info on making the process work please? Can you do this by hand? Thank you Take care James - Original Message - From: "Greg Kearney" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:37 AM Subject: Re: Creating DAISY books was VoiceOver Ge

Re: VOHelpDesk 3.0 Beta Released

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
I would like to know this as well. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > What is VO Help Desk? The website doesn't say. > > thanks, > anna > > > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: > >> Hey all. this is from Alex. he wanted me to foreward this

Re: making java apps accessible with vo?

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello hmm the app i tried, i could read the text on the first page but the buttons were not labelled nor did they have any helptags. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > Hi, > > On the Mac, java is accessible right out of the box. No access bridge > is require

Letting Apple Accessibility know when they've done a good job

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, I know that there are a few issues at the moment with Snow Leopard. But I think it's a good idea to let Aple Accessibility know when things work well as well as when they don't because over all the work Apple have done to make the operating system accessible is phenomenal. Also, Lets

Re: Letting Apple Accessibility know when they've done a good job

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Certainly, i let them know that I bought a mac in the first place and that I was thankful for all the work that was being done by them. Also when I mailed them just now I said I was very happy with voicover and sl overall. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:10 AM, James & Nash wrote: >

cursor (braille) not on the right spot)

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, sometimes in mail when i am typing stuff, the cursor is not on the right spot where it hsould be. It is a few characters before the place where I am typing. Its a bit strange and disorienting luckily i have cursor routing keys . Greetings, Anouk --~--~-~--~~~-

background picture

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello all, when i first installed my mac it asked for a picture to select for my account I guess it made a picture but now someone on adium told me it is displayed there as well which ius sort of embarrassing. I did not know that a picture for my account would be displayed in adium as well

Re: VOHelpDesk 3.0 Beta Released

2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
i think it is a remote help system where you can help someone by controling their voiceover from your pc On 4 Sep 2009, at 09:06, anouk radix wrote: > > I would like to know this as well. > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > >> >> What is VO Help Desk?

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread John André Netland
Hi Tony, To avoid getting stuck in menus etc., go to VO Utilities, enter the navigation category and set the mouse cursor to ignore the VO cursor. This will make navigation in menus etc. work just fine. For now, you must use the "move mouse cursor to VO cursor" shortcut to have them at th

Re: background picture

2009-09-04 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, you can change this in the accounts section of preferences, on the personal tab in there. YOu can select to not use an icon. Hope this helps. On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:31 AM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello all, when i first installed my mac it asked for a picture to > select for my account I g

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

2009-09-04 Thread Greg Kearney
Well you could do it by hand but it would be very difficult to do. It would require understanding teh DAISY specification very well indeed. The link to the OpenOffice plugin can be found here: http://odt2dtbook.sourceforge.net/ Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Bl

Re: Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
4 sep 2009 kl. 04.55 skrev Woody Anna Dresner: > Sometimes when they aren't read, I hear part > of the word "Interacting" when I press VO-J. It's as though something > is cutting off the speech. > Confirmed here to. I'm now using the tab key instead of the vo-j and it works better and i get te

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

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Greg, Can any text or audio bok i.e. mp3 be made into a DAISY book with this plugin or are audio books created differently? Thanks James - Original Message - From: "Greg Kearney" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Creating DAISY books was VoiceOver Gett

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Speaking about mouse cursor behaviours, i know i have reported this here earlier and i have reported it to Apple accessibility who didn't understand what i was talking about, but has anyone noticed that when you have mouse cursor follow VO cursor, text under the cursor gets read two or

Re: voiceover prevents screen saver from turning on, and display sleep.

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
I have not encountered this one. Just to clarify, have you tried setting this to 10 or 15 minutes? I've set mine down to 3 minutes and could not reproduce this, but there may very well be some other factors. On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:46 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > > Hi listers, > Can anybody conf

Re: background picture

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
HEllo, i have just looked but i can only find a password tab and a tab to start certain programs at logins, no personal tab. I did delete the defaultdesktoppicture.jpg in library/coreservices but I am not sure if thats it. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: >

Re: Where to go to inform Apple about bugs with Voice Over?

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
You can get a free ADC membership and post bugs that way and I encourage you to do so. Issues of accessibility, send to accessibil...@apple.com . On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > > Hello, > I'm wondering if anyone has a good place to go to let Apple know > about bugs we

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

2009-09-04 Thread Jes Smith
Okay, thanks. I appreciate that bit of knowledge. Jes On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > > 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,

Re: burning dmg with disk utility?

2009-09-04 Thread ben mustill-rose
What are you burning it onto? On 04/09/2009, hank smith wrote: > hello how do I burn a boottable dmg using disk utility? > its conplaining that I cant run from this volume > can I get instructions on how to burn this dmg file to make it bootable > using disk utility? > Hank > > > -- Kind rega

how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, i know i can put stuff in trash with cmd-del but if i am in the thrash and i press that it returns it to its prev location. So How can I actually empty the trash? Greetings, Anouk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are su

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hey Anouk, The keyboard shortcut to empty the trash is command-shift-delete. Works from anywhere you happen to be in the OS as far as I can tell. hth Scott On 9/4/09, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello, i know i can put stuff in trash with cmd-del but if i am in > the thrash and i press that i

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Chesworth
Actually to clarify somewhat, command-shift-backspace definitely works. I don't have the mac in front of me now to varify whether the same shortcut works for backspace and forward delete, but try it and let us know. Scott On 9/4/09, Scott Chesworth wrote: > Hey Anouk, > > The keyboard shortcut

Re: VOHelpDesk 3.0 Beta Released

2009-09-04 Thread Brandon Misch
just e-mail alex about it. his address is in the foreward i sent out. On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > What is VO Help Desk? The website doesn't say. > > thanks, > anna > > > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: > >> Hey all. this is from Alex. he wanted

emptying thrash

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello Scott, cmd-shft-del is secure delete trash but it works from anywere. Is there also such a button to delete it normally? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVi

Re: emptying thrash

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Chesworth
Not that I know of... Adding option to the shortcut performs the opperation without bringing up the confirmation box, but I don't think that changes whether it's a secure erase. If the shortcut you want exists, you won't have long to wait before someone smarter than me chimes in though lol. Scot

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Go to the main Finder window. Then,, press Shift Comand Delete. That should empty the Trash folder for you. HtH, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "anouk radix" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:42 AM Subject: how to empty trash folder > > Hello, i know i can put stuff in t

super duper

2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
hi all I am using super duper to clone my mac hard disk. I may do a clean install eventually of Snowleopard. SO, If I wish to put back my home folder do I after buying super duper, boot from firewire drive, run SD and just restore home folder? Will that put back my applications, as w

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Cool. Didn't know it works anywhere you are on the Mac. Thanks for that. Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Scott Chesworth" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:53 AM Subject: Re: how to empty trash folder > > Hey Anouk, > > The keyboard shortcut to empty the trash is command

Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, What are folks on the list using for Word Processing please? Although I don't need it right at the moemnt, I would like the ability to use footnotes and endnotes as well as tables of contents. Latex is great for academic writing nbut sometimes when there's an error and the file will

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I think this specific issue has been around since Tiger. Essentially the system is trying to read where the mouse moved to but also the VO cursor moved too. The solution is to force mouse reading off when mouse follows VO. I especially had problems with web pages that had verbose graphic

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
I use a combination of Open office and Pages - the latter is very nice indeed I'm told under Snow Leopard though I haven't had the chance to try that for myself yet -. Another word processing package -available on its own - which is super! to use is Nisus Writer Pro, very accessible and packed

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
yes but it is context sensitive, in mail it removes your deleted messages but if i try it anywhere else it wants to do secure delete trash which takes ages and for some reason does not work here, i always get an error message when rying it and it takes hours. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 4, 2009,

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, The iWork Suite seems to be pritty accessible from what I can tell. It has done what I needed so far, which is good especially when it comes to getting work for college classes accomplished and I don't feel like switching to my Windows machines to get the assignment or whatever done. HTH, J

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yes, Pages is the name of the Word Processing package in Iwork 9. On 04/09/2009, at 10:50 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hi, > The iWork Suite seems to be pritty accessible from what I can tell. > It has > done what I needed so far, which is good especially when it comes to > getting > wor

Re: emptying thrash

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello, thanks for the shortcut i did not know it was there, i am trying it now but in the past it gave me error messages. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Not that I know of... > Adding option to the shortcut performs the opperation without bringing > up t

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
There is also a demo of pages as part of IWork On 4 Sep 2009, at 13:46, Dane Trethowan wrote: > > I use a combination of Open office and Pages - the latter is very nice > indeed I'm told under Snow Leopard though I haven't had the chance to > try that for myself yet -. > > Another word processin

Re: VOHelpDesk 3.0 Beta Released

2009-09-04 Thread Brandon Misch
just e-mail alex. i think he may be back on the list though. On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:06 AM, anouk radix wrote: > > I would like to know this as well. > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > >> >> What is VO Help Desk? The website doesn't say. >> >> thanks, >> a

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Yeah, that's true, which is always why I always go to the Finder Window and press Command, Shift, delete to make sure the Trash is emptied. What is the difference between just emptying the Trash folder and Secure Empty Trash? They seem to do the same thing. Thanks, Jeffrey - Original Message

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Yep, it seems to be a nice little program, from what I can tell. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Yes, Pages is the name of the Word Processing package in Iwork 9. > > > On 04/09/2009,

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Chesworth
Jeffrey, My understanding of it is that emptying the trash is no different from just deleting a file in that it could still be recovered with any half decent recovery app, because it's only the file alocation table that's modified, the data itself you just deleted isn't overwritten until you real

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread dannyboy
To empty trash, just find that option under finder's menu. There is empty trash, and also secure empty trash. On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:48 AM, anouk radix wrote: > > yes but it is context sensitive, in mail it removes your deleted > messages but if i try it anywhere else it wants to do secure delet

Re: how to empty trash folder

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Oh, I see, it's similar to how the Recycle Bin works in Windows. Now I understand. Thanks for the help. Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Scott Chesworth" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:58 AM Subject: Re: how to empty trash folder > > Jeffrey, > > My understanding of it

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Do you know which options to change to fix the issue please? - Original Message - From: "Jonathan C. Cohn" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:42 PM Subject: Re: I'm not so impressed with s l. I think this specific issue has been around since Tiger. Essentially the system is tryin

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Hi Dane, I've used Nisus Pro for a long time and I msut say that the developers are very open to accessibility issues. I wonder how well the new 1.3.1 of Pro will work under Snow Leopard when it comes out of beta. Thanks for the suggestions - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan"

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
That's really good to hear. Thank you Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Shockley" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Hi, > The iWork Suite seems to be pritty accessible from what I can tell. It has > done what I needed s

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
Pages contains many advanced features that I'm only now discovering and I've been using the software for much of this year. On 04/09/2009, at 10:57 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Yep, it seems to be a nice little program, from what I can tell. > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Tre

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Cool. What kinds of features does it offer? I just started using it so I'm not that familiar with it. Thanks, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Pages contains many advanced fea

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
I look forward to trying it , bought that excellent little package nearly 3 years ago and haven't looked back, I really should give the software a "run" and see if its been updated and improved since I last used it, one of the features I liked in that software was the ability to write HTML

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
You expect me to summaries the features of Pages in one email message? We'll be here all night , what I've discovered so far is some very excellent auto-correct features, we've discussed the "Auto Numbering and Auto-bulleting" functionality of Pages but that's just the start, just play abo

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Ah, I'll take a look at those resources. Thanks. Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > You expect me to summaries the features of Pages in one email message? > We'll be here all nig

Nisus Writer Pro

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay folks, here's the link to this excellent word processing package, you can download a 15 day fully functional demo of the software from here too! http://www.nisus.com/pro/ ** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net Twit

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
As I said earlier, many things I haven't even explored yet so have fun and please let us all know what you think. On 04/09/2009, at 11:30 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Ah, I'll take a look at those resources. > Thanks. > Jeffrey > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To:

trashing files

2009-09-04 Thread anouk radix
Hi, if i type cmd-shift-home in the fidner window and i say i want to securely thrash files i get the following information after a while, alert the operation cant be completed because you dont have permission toaccess these items. Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
OK, Will do. Thanks, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > As I said earlier, many things I haven't even explored yet so have fun > and please let us all know what you think. > > >

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-04 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Interesting, Robert. I get a beep if I try these commands, and nothing happens. Oh well. Best, Anna On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Robert Carter wrote: > > 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-

selecting items works great!

2009-09-04 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, There are things I find annoying about VoiceOVer at the moment, but there have been huge improvements as well. One great one I don't think anyone's mentioned yet is the excellent feedback when selecting multiple items, such as files or songs in iTunes. Before we were just told how man

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Some commands may be context sensitive i.e. only woring in certain situations. - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:43 PM Subject: Re: can't control-click on misspelled words > > Interesting, Robert. I get a beep if I try these comman

Re: selecting items works great!

2009-09-04 Thread John André Netland
Hi Anna, This works the same also in Finder, for each new file you add or regret to add, VO reads the name. Makes copy and paste even faster and more secure to perform. This is one feature I forgot to include in my "15 new findings in Finder" list.. There are lots of hidden improvemen

Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software

2009-09-04 Thread dannyboy
Hello. Here is a link to another word processing software. I have not used this yet. But just wanted to spread the word on one more choice. http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=12 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread Marshall Scott
Hi James, In Voiceover Utility, go to Navigation. There is a pop-up menu for Mouse Tracking. I've set mine to Ignore. HTH Marshall On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:07 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Do you know which options to change to fix the issue please? > - Original Message - > From: "Jonathan

Re: ftpclients on the mac?

2009-09-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Here is the website. http://www.panic.com/transmit/ erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 3-Sep-09, at 9:25 PM, hank smith wrote: > > hat is the website? > the link that was given earlier gave stuff on mental he

Re: selecting items works great!

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
That's fantastic. Yes, that was really annoying. - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:45 PM Subject: selecting items works great! > > Hi, > > There are things I find annoying about VoiceOVer at the moment, but > there have been huge im

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
There's also a proof reading feature which I've heard about? This is not a grammar checker smile. BTW can I install Pages without Numbers and Keynote or do i need to instal all of them? - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:26 PM Subject: R

Re: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Oh yes, I forgot about this lol. It is supposed to work with VO on version 4 aparently. - Original Message - From: dannyboy To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:05 PM Subject: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software Hello. H

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Marshall, I'll remember that. - Original Message - From: "Marshall Scott" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:07 PM Subject: Re: I'm not so impressed with s l. Hi James, In Voiceover Utility, go to Navigation. There is a pop-up menu for Mouse Tracking. I'

Need your help, looking for irc client for snow

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Greetings, I am seeking advice on an irc client for use with snow. I currently use ircle. My main requirement is that it must speak all text from incoming open channels in the background reliably. Of course, general VO compatibility is a nice thing too, yet Ircle isn't that good, but I rely

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
Can't remember to be honest, I installed everything. On 05/09/2009, at 12:14 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > There's also a proof reading feature which I've heard about? This is > not a > grammar checker smile. BTW can I install Pages without Numbers and > Keynote > or do i need to instal all o

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-04 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Anna, The reason that you get a beep is that I told you the incorrect command. It is VO-command-e and VO-command-shift-e. I actually find that the old command simicolon command seems to work better. Robert On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Interesting, Robert. I g

Re: Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-04 Thread Randy Stegall
Here it will announce the first character and then read the first word in the e-mail. Sl has caused the computer and vo in particular to be more snappy. I did the upgrade without a hitch. Randy On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > > 4 sep 2009 kl. 04.55 skrev Woody Anna D

Re: Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-04 Thread Frank Tom
Hi all, I now get VO to read the preview pane automatically. I VO right arrow over to the Subject line of a message to see if I want to read or delete it. If it the subject line of a tread I right arrow to open the thread. Then I tab down to the preview pane and VO reads everything. If it

Re: male in snowleopard and gmail

2009-09-04 Thread Søren Jensen
What's the issue? Can you receive mails but not send mails? If this is the issue, then try to take all accounts offline and then online again. On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:11 PM, matthew Campbell wrote: > > Hi list I'm now running snowleopard and I've just upgraded my > accounts. They aren't working. >

Open Office security vulnerabilities

2009-09-04 Thread Marshall Scott
Folks, Forgive the cross-posting, but I know some of you use Open Office. I noticed a message on a security list I'm on that stated that there are two high level security vulnerabilities in Open Office. The affected version is Open Office 3.1 and there patches available from http://www.openo

male in snowleopard and gmail

2009-09-04 Thread matthew Campbell
Hi list I'm now running snowleopard and I've just upgraded my accounts. They aren't working. I've tried re adding them but nothing works. Is anyone else having issues with gmail and apple male 4? Any help would be awesome. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Tip on Extra Status Menus in SL

2009-09-04 Thread Barry Hadder
I found an interesting way to get extra airport status information. I wanted to post this because I believe that it is new to sl. Open the status menu with vo-m twice. Hold down the option key as you left or right arrow over the airport menu icon. Now release the option key and arrow down th

Re: Tip on Extra Status Menus in SL

2009-09-04 Thread Søren Jensen
Wow. that's awesome. Thanks for this cool tip. On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > I found an interesting way to get extra airport status information. I > wanted to post this because I believe that it is new to sl. > > Open the status menu with vo-m twice. > Hold down the option

Switching between virtualization software

2009-09-04 Thread Claude Renaud
Hello all, Currently I'm still under windows vista. I am working with virtual box the only accessible and affordable (because free) virtualization software I know on this platform. I soon plan to create a windows xp virtual machine. As I also plan during the coming months to switch under

Re: Tip on Extra Status Menus in SL

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Babcock
hi; I just tryed this in leopard, and it does work, but it is a good tip:) mike On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > Wow. that's awesome. Thanks for this cool tip. > On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > >> >> I found an interesting way to get extra airport status >>

Re: I'm not so impressed with s l.

2009-09-04 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. Thanks for that. it looks like it fixes the menu issue. Regards Tony 2009/9/4, James & Nash : > > Thanks Marshall, I'll remember that. > - Original Message - > From: "Marshall Scott" > To: "MacVisionaries" > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:07 PM > Subject: Re: I'm not so impresse

Re: About mac and airport express.

2009-09-04 Thread BlindMacMan
Hello! I use Multiple Speakers all the time on my Mac in iTunes. There is a simple trick to make it work properly. First, however, make sure you do the following: 1. Open iTunes Preferences (Command-Comma). 2. Click on "Devices" in the toolbar. 3. Check the check box for "Look for Remote Speaker

Re: Tip on Extra Status Menus in SL

2009-09-04 Thread Barry Hadder
Actually, I recall now that the network icon worked in leopard allthough, I just figured out how to access it with the keyboard. The other menus I mentioned are new however. On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Michael Babcock wrote: > > hi; > I just tryed this in leopard, and it does work, but it

Re: super duper

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
WHy don't you just migrate your data once you perform the clean install. You will have the option to include applications and these are the applications you installed, not the apps that Apple installs. On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:40 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi all I am using super duper to

Re: male in snowleopard and gmail

2009-09-04 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I was definitely having major gmail issues when I first installed SL and I tried so many things that I'm not sure how they finally got fixed, lol. my issues were that I could send mail fine, but I'd set up my two accounts in mail and one would receive and the other wouldn't. I think what I

Re: male in snowleopard and gmail

2009-09-04 Thread matthew Campbell
Can't do sending or receiving. It's real weird. On 9/4/09, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > > I was definitely having major gmail issues when I first installed SL > and I tried so many things that I'm not sure how they finally got > fixed, lol. my issues were that I could send mail fine, but I'd set u

Re: Mail not Reading Automatically - Oh Rats

2009-09-04 Thread Søren Jensen
I must say that I have no idea on what's wrong. The weird thing is it does work on some machines and others it doesn't. On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi Soren, > > I have tried high and medium verbosity. I have a Mac Mini. I don't > think the issue has to do with whe

Re: making java apps accessible with vo?

2009-09-04 Thread Barry Hadder
Hay, You might try the button labeler. I haven't tried it yet so I can't tell you anything about it. The app you are trying to is is accessible as far as java apps go. If it wasn't, you would be able to tell if there were buttons or anything els. As I said before though, java still has

[Mac-cessibility News] FaceBook iPhone Application Updated With Accessibility Fixes

2009-09-04 Thread Maccessibility
FaceBook iPhone Application Updated With Accessibility Fixes The FaceBook.com iPhone application has been updated to version 3.02. The update focuses on VoiceOver compatibility, and accessibility fixes. The rapidity with which the developer has addressed the accessibility issues is extraordinary,

Re: Voiceover and the spell checker

2009-09-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Very interesting. Perhaps if you turn off the visual queues of mis- spellings? Edit menu spelling and grammer sub-menu Check Spelling-> sub menu while typeing Then this behaviour will stop. I can't / won't check this out here. On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > Hi. > > When

Re: Web Pages Loading Slowly

2009-09-04 Thread dannyboy
If you plug an adaptor to your machine, that may be all you need. My moniter's adaptor is plugged in, but the monitor is not plugged in to the wall. On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > > Are you saying I have to purchase a monitor which I can't see in > order to > use this mach

Re: problems reading a document in textedit

2009-09-04 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Anouk, I, too, am a law student. Good luck with Iwork. It seems to resolve many of my textedit issues. Some documents I have are one thousand pages plus. Aside from initial sluggishness when interacting with the document body in pages, voiceover remains snappy and responsive. BTW, when yo

snowleopard on the way

2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
hi my snowleopard has been shipped today but UPS won't deliver weekends. HOw daft? lol so have to wait till monday. WIll --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to t

Re: super duper

2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
ah so now i ahve my clone can I use that to migrate applications? On 4 Sep 2009, at 17:38, Scott Howell wrote: > > WHy don't you just migrate your data once you perform the clean > install. You will have the option to include applications and these > are the applications you installed, not the a

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