Re: Question on Mail Settings on the Mac

2009-09-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Dave, this setting is found under accounts in the mail preferences, on the advanced tab of that pane. Hope this helps. On Sep 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Dave McLean wrote: > Hello, Another question from a Mac newbie: > Where in the mail menus is the setting to delete messages from the > po

Re: podcasts on your iPod?

2009-09-14 Thread John André Netland
If you interact with the list and press VO-space on the item you are focused on, the check status should change. Hope this helps, John André On 14. sep. 2009, at 03.56, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > > hey, thanks!! I really appreciate this, you're the only person who > ever respnds to me lol. w

Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread David Hole
Hello folks. Have anyone of you out there tried Spotify on iPhone? Note: You US users can't use Spotify as far as I know. Regards David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post

Re: Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread Esther
Hi, David Hole wrote: > Have anyone of you out there tried Spotify on iPhone? > Note: You US users can't use Spotify as far as I know. According to the Spotify web page, you're looking for someone from: Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France or Spain. Or else someone who has a jailbroken

Migration Assistant Troubles

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Kauflin
Hello, I have a quick question about the Migration Assistant. I have created Time Machine Backups with an external firewire drive. I'd like to restore some Apps with Migration Assistant, but for some reason, its not recognizing the external drive. The drive is formatted for Apple and I used the

Re: Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. I don't think it worth trying. it is completely not accessible on the mac and windows so I think it is not accessible for iphone too. I have tried mailing them about it but no answer. Regards Tony 2009/9/14, Esther : > > Hi, > > David Hole wrote: > >> Have anyone of you out there tried Spoti

Re: Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread David Hole
Hello Tony and rest of ye. I have Spotify on both Windows and Mac. On Windows, with jaws, you have to use the jaws-marker to brows around. On the Mac, it's only possible to search for something, and play the result without further browsing. :( I've also mailed them a half year ago, and then they

Wanting to ue IMAP on Mac

2009-09-14 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, I am looking at using IMAP on Aple Mail. I can get it sset up no problem, but has anyone got any tips or advise. I sem to get all these other folders i.e. personal and travel. If I remove this from Mail will that mess up my IMAP settings? Also can someone tell me please which files I

Re: Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread John André Netland
Hi David, I have not used this app on any platform, but I will check the free version on iPHone later today if you like. In many cases, an iPhone app can be fully accessible on the iPhone, even though the developer don't care about it at all, and even though it may be inaccessible on the

double speaking in syrinx

2009-09-14 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi guys, Someone has posted about double speaking in syrinx, but i didn't have snow leopard at that time and thought it was for both old and new platforms. Can someone orient me to the right paremeter to get rid of that? Thanks, and best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~

Re: Spotify for iPhone

2009-09-14 Thread David Hole
Well, John. You can't try the free Spotify if you don't have an invite. John André Netland skrev: > Hi David, > > I have not used this app on any platform, but I will check the free > version on iPHone later today if you like. In many cases, an iPhone > app can be fully accessible on the iPh

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Esther, Thanks for the directions for finding and previewing tracks. They work well for the most part. I was going through a song list of about 50 songs, and had no trouble previewing the first 22 or so. Then I came to a row where the mouse cursor would not route to the vO cursor; it w

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Esther
Hi Anna, What I usually do myself is VO-Right arrow from "Songs" to the "See all" link and VO-Space. This loads the table of songs onto a new page, but takes a while to respond, so if you're looking for a track that is likely to be matched within the first dozen or so item listed, you're

Re: VO+f8 doesn't work after upgrade to SnowLeopard

2009-09-14 Thread BlindMacMan
Hello! Are you trying to turn VoiceOver on by pressing Control-Option-F8 or bring up the Voiceover Utility? Before you can open VoiceOver Utility, VoiceOver must be turned on (Command-F5). Once VoiceOver is on, you can open VoiceOver Utility with Control-Option-F8. Remember, depending upon your

Re: I got back a tonne of space

2009-09-14 Thread erik burggraaf
Interestin. That might account for some of it, but I thought there must be be a lot of temp files ore something that got deleted during the upgrade. That was what I ment by bloating. Windows did that no matter how often you cleared the temps and caches. I'm not complaining aout getting t

Re: I got back a tonne of space

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, the daily, weekly, and monthly scripts are supposed to remove older temp files. If you regularily shutdown your system, I understand that the launch service can get confused and never schedule them to run. Check the consoel for their log files and confirm that they have run. There a

Re: ogg to mp3

2009-09-14 Thread Brett Campbell
Switch works great for me. Brett On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:48 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi all > > > Was there the program called switch or something? to put files from > ogg into mp3 whilst retaining its original sound quality? > Thanks, will > > > > --~--~-~--~~--

Re: awesome new keyboard command in itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread BlindMacMan
Hello! Just as an add-on to your Command-Option-F "find" in iTunes, after you enter your search term in the search field, you can press OPTION- RETURN and your search will take place inn the iTunes Store, not your Library. I would also like to point out that these keyboard commands have been

Re: Message headers and voiceover

2009-09-14 Thread Christina
I had not been able to get the menu to come up via a mouse click. It just would not work for me. However, I just figured out why. Well, at least I think that is why. Every time I would rout the mouse pointer to the voiceover cursor and mouse click nothing would happen except for the so

Re: double speaking in syrinx

2009-09-14 Thread william lomas
use quick nav On 14 Sep 2009, at 13:44, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Someone has posted about double speaking in syrinx, but i didn't have > snow leopard at that time and thought it was for both old and new > platforms. > > Can someone orient me to the right paremeter to get rid o

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Christina
Hi, I have a question. I want to make sure I understand. One of the reasons I have not upgraded to itunes nine is because of the switch in the itunes store from the songs table to the table being embedded in the html as an html table. I like the songs table and use the sort features as

Turning off Maiol preview pane

2009-09-14 Thread Brett Campbell
Hello, I visited the archives and believe I followed the instructions correctly, but I can't turn the preview pane on and off. I like to use the preview pane for the most part. However, I like to turn it off when I examine the contents of my junk folder before deleting. This is what I've

Copy/paste is now available on the Iphone and the Ipod Touch

2009-09-14 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi all. I'm sorry if this has ben posted here before, but I'll just let you know that the copy/paste feature is now available for Voiceover users in the new firmware for Iphone and on the new Ipod Touch. I've read that it's available on the new Ipod Touch on Apples website, and I've read

Re: Message headers and voiceover

2009-09-14 Thread James & Nash
Your kidding! The size of the VO cursor affects how it performs? Take care James - Original Message - From: "Christina" To: Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Message headers and voiceover > > I had not been able to get the menu to come up via a mouse click. It >

Re: awesome new keyboard command in itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Lol that command has been around since iTunes 4 or 5 probably. I used it all the time when iTunes wasn't "accessible". Yep that's old news. J On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, BlindMacMan wrote: > > Hello! > > Just as an add-on to your Command-Option-F "find" in iTunes, after you > enter your sea

Re: podcasts on your iPod?

2009-09-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
thanks, it did!! my iPod and I are friends again!!! :) when are you on skype? I never see you on! I still think it would be awesome to chat. On 2009-09-14, at 12:36 AM, John André Netland wrote: > > If you interact with the list and press VO-space on the item you are > focused on, the check st

Re: Turning off Maiol preview pane

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Hi there I think the problem here is with the VO mouseclick command. It doesn't work here. You have to do a real mouseclick with the mouse button. If you don't have a laptop, this may be a bit harder, but it can be done. Go to universal access, click on the mouse and trackpad tab. Ch

Re: Message headers and voiceover

2009-09-14 Thread Christina
um, I don't think the size of the voiceover cursor affects the performance. I am just guessing here but I think it's because the voiceover cursor is displayed in a larger size than what is actually on the screen so when the mouse pointer routs to the larger voiceover cursor the mouse poi

Re: awesome new keyboard command in itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Christina
It might be old news to most but it is new to me and very helpful to know. I'm also glad to have the info on the command to search the store when not actually in the store, that is great. Christina On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, BlindMacMan wrote: > > Hello! > > Just as an add-on to your Comm

Re: Message headers and voiceover

2009-09-14 Thread James & Nash
Yes it does. Thanks. How odd Take care James - Original Message - From: "Christina" To: Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:43 PM Subject: Re: Message headers and voiceover > > um, I don't think the size of the voiceover cursor affects the > performance. I am just guessing here but I

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Esther
Hi Christina, When you click on the "see all" in the search results for the Store in iTunes 9, the table is still in the HTML area. It's a bit like what you get in iTunes 8 when you run a search from the Power Search menu that you can access from the "Store" menu of the iTunes menu bar (VO

Re: Turning off Maiol preview pane

2009-09-14 Thread Brett Campbell
Thank you. I connected a mouse to my mini and that worked. Brett On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi there > > I think the problem here is with the VO mouseclick command. It > doesn't work here. You have to do a real mouseclick with the mouse > button. > > If you don't

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Christina
Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. I imagine I won't be able to hold off on upgrading much longer because itunes 8 has given messages that some features may not be available without upgrading. I really do not want to upgrade at this time though. I don't like too much change at onc

PeachPit press and training.

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Does anybody know if the PeachPit books used for Apple certifications are available in a Daisy or audible format? I have been thinking about getting some official training, and I saw that Apple uses books from the PeachPit press. A few years ago, I would have just gone out and bought the

problems emptying trash

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hi, in windows i can empty my trash rather quickly, in mac os x i can only find how to secure empty trash which takes HOURS AND HOURS and is very annoying. Can I physically go to the trash fodler and remove stuff from there without secure emptying because this is taking hours. Greetings, Ano

Re: problems emptying trash

2009-09-14 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello in lepard its command-shift-delete for normal empty trash. and yes secure empty delete does take a long time mainly because it is reallocating the drive space as it goes kind of like emptying the trash and then restarting your computer in windows. Hope i'm right, and hope that help

How can I turn that frustrating trackpad of.

2009-09-14 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. The trackpad is frustrating me, suddenly it starts up in text edit or in nisus writer. I have tried to turn it of under voiceover setting, it helps, but sometimes it turns itself on again. I would like to use the trackpad, but I am in doubt about, what the advantage could be. I do not feel t

problems normal emptying trash

2009-09-14 Thread a radix
Hello, according to some posts i found on the internet the empty trash option was removed from the finder menu with the introduction of snow leopard. I was assuming the delete key was the key that is backspace on my pcs and windows laptops because voicover calls it delete, am i wrong here becaus

yes, i finally got it!

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I finally got rid of this annoying thrash problem i had. You need to deselect in finder the use secure empty trash option and then it works. I fired my pc up to do some searching on google and I found it, apparently more people were confused after installing snow leopard. Greetings, A

opening saved game file

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, apparently not all file dialogs work the seem, i am in zoom and want to open a games save file. I am in the directory listing and it says games collapsed level zero, but how do i now go in that directory and select the file I want? i can do right arrow and it says x rows added so i

kill application command

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, A bit disturbingly to me although os x itself has only hung once on me several applications often need to be force quit and restarted before they work again, this is now a bit of a lengty process because you have to go to the appl e menu and then force quit, verification which often

opening saved games(again)

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, ok i guess i have found a quicker way thatshould work, apparently if i type the name of the saved gamefile into the search window it searches my whole computer for it and finds it but, even though i see it in the file list and it says it is selected i cant open it by hitting the ope

still problems opening games

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, ok i can navigate the list of files now in the saved game chooser dialog although i guess i am not using the normal method, i am using control-option-f to find the file i want, now still htough i cannot open it which is really getting frustrating, voicover SAYS the file is selected

Re: opening saved game file

2009-09-14 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Try VO backslash to expand the category. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, everytime i go into a chat window adium shows all the messages i have received from that person which takes a long time to go through, is it possible for adium to only show the current message and nothing else? Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread chris polk
yes, if you turn off message history. but this can be a pain if you close a window and want to see the last thing someone said. On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:52 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello, everytime i go into a chat window adium shows all the messages > i have received from that person which tak

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread May and Wynter
Hmm, I still can't get it to read me my messages at all. May, now using my MacBook - Original Message - From: "chris polk" To: Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:54 PM Subject: Re: preventing adium from reading message history > > yes, if you turn off message history. but this ca

Snow Leopard and Itunes 9, Buttons in the main window

2009-09-14 Thread James Fettgather
Hi to the list. I have noticed on one Mac computer running Snow Leopard and Itunes 9, when the Itunes store is selected, pressing VO and right arrow announces buttons such as music, TV shows, and movies. On another identical mac mini with Snow Leopard and Itunes 9, these buttons are missin

Re: opening saved game file

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hi Mark hitting vo-\ does not seem to do anything, in the keyboard help it gives the right function but when i type it when standing on the games folder nothing happens, i can open it allright with just the right arrow though, but if i want to go through it, or just in it i have to tope vo

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, i had problems with adium at first too and dont find it to be that fast now, you can close the contacts window with command-w and then the window you were chatting in will come to the front, you will be in the text field where you can type your message, press vo-left and voicover wi

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hmm i did turn off message history and still i get this. On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:54 AM, chris polk wrote: > > yes, if you turn off message history. but this can be a pain if you > close a window and want to see the last thing someone said. > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:52 PM, anouk radix wrote: > >> >

re: ps turning off history in adium

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I guess by message history you mean the log messages checkbox in the general tab of the prefferences window? I have that one unchecked, i could not find any other setting in the preferences that i found to have any relevance to this. Greetings, Anouk --~--~-~--~~-

Re: opening saved game file

2009-09-14 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Couldn't hurt to hit a command 3 (three) there, just to be sure you're in the column view... Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

Growl speech

2009-09-14 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi folks, I use Growl with several applications. Is there a way to speed the speech up? It drives me nuts how slow it is. I can change the voice, but no voice attributes. Hopefully I'm just missing something. I'd even be opened to editing a file with a command to change the rate. Thanks

Re: kill application command

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy Press cmd+option+esc to bring up the force quit apps dialog. I believe that cmd+option+shift+esc is supposed to just force quit the app in focus but I have never done that before. J On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:57 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello, A bit disturbingly to me although os x itse

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
After interacting with the unknown, press vo+cmd+shift+left arrow to wrap to the bottom. Conversely, press vo+shift+end to go to the bottom of the window. Justin On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:09 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hmm i did turn off message history and still i get this. > > On Sep 15, 2009,

adiumx

2009-09-14 Thread May and Wynter
Hi everyone. I'm still trying to figure out this darn mesenger, smile. I can't get it to save my settings. I make them and the next time I sign on, it's back to the original. Can someone please tell me what I might be missing and how to fix this? I figured out vlc a lot easier than I am adi

Re: Snow Leopard and Itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Thanks, Esther. I'll try that. Best, Anna On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Anna, > > What I usually do myself is VO-Right arrow from "Songs" to the "See > all" link and VO-Space. This loads the table of songs onto a new > page, but takes a while to respond, so if you're looki

Re: How can I turn that frustrating trackpad of.

2009-09-14 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, just press control and make a counter clockwise rotation with your thumb and index. if you want to turn it back on, do the opposite. best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: problems emptying trash

2009-09-14 Thread anouk radix
hello, here command shift backpace (which i assume is delete, i have a laptop) does secure empty trash and i cant find out a way to do the normal variation. Greetings, Anouk On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:44 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > > Hello in lepard its command-shift-delete for normal empty tra

Mail crashes if a thread is opened

2009-09-14 Thread VaShaun Jones
Listers I use threading to help with my mail sorting and when I press enter on a thread the system will open all the messages at once which is fine, but the problem comes in when I have to delete or close the front most message. This is when Mail crashes. Any suggestions? VaShaun Jones (Pres

Trackpad commander and Zoom. Possible to use both at the same time?

2009-09-14 Thread Pete Nalda
I wanted to know as I'm not going to take the time to study the commander if no. TIA. Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: problems emptying trash

2009-09-14 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; when i go into my finder window, i press control-option-m twice. that brings up a menu. where it says finder, i arrow down and it will say epty trash and then secure empty trash. just press enter on the empty trash. I hope that helps. good luck, Max On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:51 PM, a

MacOS RFB&D Downloader

2009-09-14 Thread Greg Kearney
This AppleScript application will ask you to find a .rfbd file and will then download that book into your downloads directory in the background. You will find your completed book in your downloads directory of your home directory. If you have Growl installed you will get a notification whe

MacOS RFB&D Downloader (with link)

2009-09-14 Thread Greg Kearney
http://www.cucat.org/projects/rfbd/index.php This AppleScript application will ask you to find a .rfbd file and will then download that book into your downloads directory in the background. You will find your completed book in your downloads directory of your home directory. If you have Gr

Re: MacOS RFB&D Downloader

2009-09-14 Thread michael A. Babcock
hi; very good, now, if we could get .wma protected files, to play on the mac, smile mike On Sep 14, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: > > This AppleScript application will ask you to find a .rfbd file and > will then download that book into your downloads directory in the > background. You

Re: MacOS RFB&D Downloader

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Right I was about to say the same thing. This is great that we have a way to download RFBD books to our macs, but still annoying that we haven't got a way to play them. Do you have any suggestions Greg? This is a really great idea. Justin Harford On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:19 PM, michael A. Ba

Re: Trackpad commander and Zoom. Possible to use both at the same time?

2009-09-14 Thread Mueller, Matt
It sure is. The trackpad commander performs just as it would if Zoom were not enabled. When Zoom is enabled and you place a finger on the trackpad, the voiceover cursor moves to the item at that position and Zoom tracks to it. Normally Zoom would primarily follow the mouse cursor. With