Re: apple ii emulator for sl?

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
This one seems interesting. http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/VirtualII/ Wonder how accessible it is. UI is probably ok but then the display is going to be just a bitmap so it will be hard to tell what's going on. CB erik burggraaf wrote: > I did try several, but they stunk. That was almost a year ago

Re: so slow

2009-09-10 Thread william lomas
if I arrow through a message to read characters it is so slow at responding to me On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:20, Jess Smith wrote: > > William, what are you talking about "voiceOver being so damn slow"? I > haven't noticed any sluggishness when arrowing up and down through the > message list, eithe

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-09-10 Thread william lomas
quick nav for one On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:20, Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote: > > Just got Snow Leopard for our Imac. I'm way behind on emails, so > give me > some ideas of what to look for and try out. :) > Than > Ks. > > Jane > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

language switcher.

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, in my Solaris machines, setting the "LANG" environment variable in the shell before launch will set the localization. I wonder if that would work in Leopard? Something like a shell script LANG=UK/English launch mail :0) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Nisus Writer

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
There is a dictionary and thesaurus built into OSX but I couldn't figure out how to activate it as it appears to require a mouse over. I was following the tip directions from here: http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et090305.htm CB Dane Trethowan wrote: > The Thesaurus is an extremely

more questions

2009-09-10 Thread May and Wynter
Hi everyone. I have a question regarding email and lepard. How do I read email say line by line or word by word? Also, how do I get it to stop saying buddy blank, status space and so on? I hope that made sense. Now for Safari I'm also stuck and haven't been able to figure it out. How do I d

Re: filezilla

2009-09-10 Thread Chris G
wow, thanks, I'm a registered user of web drive for windows, but will give expand drive a try for sure. Chris On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:09:09 -1000 Esther wrote: > > Chris, > > I meant to reply to your (much) earlier post about webdrive, but never > got this out of my drafts: > > You might

IPhone and mac

2009-09-10 Thread May and Wynter
Oops, here's another question. How do I sync my IPhone with my Mac and not loose everything that's on my IPhone? I plugged it in and everything but nothing copied to the computer and I lost everything on the IPhone and had to go to my windows machine to fix it, lol. Help!!! May, now using my

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi May, In the View menu, you can eliminate columns you don't care about, such as the Buddy one. As for reading line by line, you can often arrow up and down using Snow Leopard, but for more precise control, you may need to interact with the text using VO-Down Arrow or, if Quick Nav is on

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread May and Wynter
Smile, I don't have sl. May, now using my MacBook - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:13 PM Subject: Re: more questions > > Hi May, > > In the View menu, you can eliminate columns you don't care about, such > as the Buddy one. As f

Re: so slow

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
Nope its not the ram. My mac has 4 gb of ram and it is still quite slow. it is the quicknav. Turn it off and it works better. Justin On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > > I find voiceover to be a tad bit more sluggish when arrowing through > when quicknav is on, but mayb

Re: Multi-language spell checking in Snow Leopard [was Re: About nisus writer and spell checking]

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
So that's what it is. I love being able to write in Spanish and English now without having to change languages for spell check. If anything, SL has been an improvement for bilingual people. J On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hello James and Annie, > > I don't use Nisus Write

Re: iPhone 3GS iPod Application Extended Playback Features Now Accessible With VoiceOver Screen Reader

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there Mark This is not new with 3.1. We have had this since the original release back in June. Regards Justin On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:33 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > [As Posted on the Candleshore BLOG] > > iPhone 3GS iPod Application Extended Playback Features Now > Accessible With > VoiceO

Re: iTunes playlist browser and keyboard shortcuts

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Kauflin
Just to update, it seems that the playlist broser bug with VO has not been resolved with iTunes 9. What a bummer. I will definitely be writing to Apple about this. It is extremely annoying not to be able to do this... I have found that you can't tab into the playlist browser like you used to e

don't you just hate it

2009-09-10 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
When you're in the middle of a storm, and reading through a critical part for yourintrigue to illuminate, then you find the actual magic sentence to be in a figure image...Feel like using ocr now on my iphone and take a pic of thatstupid figure... leopard and sl updates are out :) --~--~--

Snow Leopard update was don't you just hate it

2009-09-10 Thread James & Nash
They've released 10.6.1 already? - Original Message - From: "Yuma Antoine Decaux" To: Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:36 PM Subject: don't you just hate it > > When you're in the middle of a storm, and reading through a critical > part for yourintrigue to illuminate, then you fi

Re: Nisus Writer

2009-09-10 Thread James & Nash
Could you not find the word you're after in the text and then root your mouse pointer to the word? - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Nisus Writer There is a dictionary and th

Re: tips on using the trackpad

2009-09-10 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Mike. I am in the same situation as you. I also have a trackpad, but I can not find out how to use it. I would really like to, because I am a person, who do not remember keystrokes and other comands very well, I always look in the menus. Best regards Annie. 2009/9/10, Christina : > > Hi, >

Re: Multi-language spell checking in Snow Leopard [was Re: About nisus writer and spell checking]

2009-09-10 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi again. Thank you to all. I have a few more questions. I have only used mac for about a month, so I still have a lot to learn. Yesterday I found out, that it is possible to use multiple languages in snow leopard, but I didn't find out how to check more languages, and how is it possible to know

Re: SL and remote servers

2009-09-10 Thread Barry Hadder
Well, I may have been some what wrong about that then. On one of my services, I'm able to connect to the ftp server using https://ftp.messagingengine.com , so that might make a difference. It didn't work in Leopard, but the paste option was always there. So, now I'm thinking that it was jus

opening attachments directly from an email

2009-09-10 Thread Rebecca Redmile
Hello. Is there a way of opening attachments directly from an email message, as one can do in Windows-based email clients? I'm using apple mail. Thanks. Rebecca --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ma

Re: opening attachments directly from an email

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Huckabay
Hi there. The last time I got a atachment from mail it seamd to save it to the documents folder or you can tell it to save there but I don't think you can open them right in the msg in maile. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi May, The advice I gave holds true in either Leopard or Snow Leopard. HTH, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googleg

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread May and Wynter
Well then it just doesn't like me and it's rather frustrating. I can't get it to work for me either in the email or in safari. Pulls my hair, smile. May, now using my MacBook - Original Message - From: "Woody Anna Dresner" To: Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:07 PM Subject: Re:

Re: sending an email message

2009-09-10 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, The command should be command shift d not e. HTH. Matthew On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Keith Brown wrote: > > Does anyone else have a problem with the command plus shift plus e > command? i.e to send a message. it doesn't work for me. I have to > navigate to message and select th

Re: opening attachments directly from an email

2009-09-10 Thread Brett Campbell
Just VO space bar while focused on the attachment. This is in snow leopard. Brett On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Rebecca Redmile wrote: > > Hello. > Is there a way of opening attachments directly from an email message, > as one can do in Windows-based email clients? I'm using apple mail. > Thank

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread Christina
Hi, I'm not sure if you're using vo plus j to get to your e-mail message or just opening the e-mail with the enter key or vo plus spacebar. Well, either way, once you are in the area where voiceover is reading the entire message to you you need to then interact with the message. Just mak

Re: Nisus Writer

2009-09-10 Thread Christina
I have a question. How can you access information that pops up from hovering over a particular area with the mouse pointer? Also, I am pretty sure you can access the dictionary via spotlight. vo plus m plusm plusm I do not know if this works, but try highlighting the word, then try access

Re: more questions

2009-09-10 Thread Christina
Oooops, I forgot to add. Someone here told you how to get rid of columns in your e-mail table that you may not want. However, sometimes I still do not want voiceover to announce every cell in a row. So, what I do is interact with the table. Once the voice over cursor is focused on the t

Question on Initial Set-up of a Mac Mini

2009-09-10 Thread Dave McLean
Hello, I am in the process of setting up my mac mini and it is also my first mac. I reached a point where it is asking me for my apple id. Is that something that is written on the cd box does anyone know? Or is there a way to just bypass that dialog entirely? Thanks for any help. Dave --~--~

Re: Question on Initial Set-up of a Mac Mini

2009-09-10 Thread Charlie Doremus
You have to create an Apple account. On the page asking for an Apple id you should be able to crease one. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dave McLean wrote: > Hello, I am in the process of setting up my mac mini and it is also my > first mac. I reached a point where it is asking me for my app

Re: List of Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts.

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm way behind on my email so somebody may have already pointed this out. There is an iPhone app called Snatch which allows you to use an iPhone as a trackpad for your mac via wifi. I haven't tried it but I'd be curious as to whether it would be recognized for gesture input on laptops which don

Re: nes game emulators that work with vo?

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Here is a list of NES emulators for the mac: http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/nes.html CB Darcy Burnard wrote: > A few years back I used a NES emulator called nestopia. At the time > it worked really well. This was in the Tiger days though, so that may > have changed. If you try it, let us k

iPhone VO home button oddity

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
So I upgraded my iPhone to the 3.1 OS which now has the option to have a triple click of the home button toggle VO on or off. Great if you want to quick set an iPhone back to the regular gesture system for somebody else to use and then get VO back on again. What seems odd to me is that this fe

Re: iPhone VO home button oddity

2009-09-10 Thread william lomas
you just check the box in itunes to set it up yourself anyway it not that hard On 11 Sep 2009, at 05:59, Chris Blouch wrote: > > So I upgraded my iPhone to the 3.1 OS which now has the option to > have a > triple click of the home button toggle VO on or off. Great if you want > to quick set

nano goodness?

2009-09-10 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, I was thinking of a splurge at the apple store and get myself a new nano. What's the word on that? Is it actually a voice over integrated into the core or a lip-synch affair? In that i mean are the menu and song titles a pre-record from itunes when synching? If they crammed a video c

Re: Snow Leopard update was don't you just hate it

2009-09-10 Thread william lomas
wonder if any voice over issues as in mail ... when ... it . pauses at the end of each line lol On 10 Sep 2009, at 22:40, James & Nash wrote: > > They've released 10.6.1 already? > - Original Message - > From: "Yuma Antoine Decaux" > To: > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009

iTunes is Buggy?

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Kauflin
Hey, I'd like to hear about everyone's experience of iTunes 9. I've been having some problems with some bugs, and am wondering if these are actual bugs, or I'm just doing something wrong. First off, I cannot arrow through the songs as I could in Leopard with the older iTunes. When I am in l

Re: iPhone VO home button oddity

2009-09-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
great question and suggestion. tell apple through their accessibility section. Take care, Max On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > So I upgraded my iPhone to the 3.1 OS which now has the option to > have a > triple click of the home button toggle VO on or off. Great if you

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