Sound Studio & Skype

2009-10-14 Thread John JD Denning
Anyone know if I can use Sound Studio to record Skype calls? I know I can with Audio Hijack pro, but I'd rather not buy another piece of software just for this. - JD - John Denning Facebook: www.facebook.com/jdiver AIM: denni...@me.com A+ MCSA MCSE ITILv3 And glad to be a Mac snob agai

Presentation Program Accessibility

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I've been asked to co-present a program about Macintosh and VoiceOver at the ACB Mid-Atlantic conference on 10/30 in Baltimore. I have not yet tried the presentation programs in either iWork or OpenOffice, does anyone with experience using such have a little time to help me get start

continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Hi everyone. I'm using lepard and would like to know how to get it to read continuously? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvis

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Søren Jensen
You can only do this in snowleopard. The command for this is Vo b. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:39 PM, May McDonald wrote: > > Hi everyone. I'm using lepard and would like to know how to get it to > r

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Actually you can do it in lepard to. I just forgot what the command was, but I have it now. Now I jst meed it to start where I am and not at the beginning, lol. On 14-Oct-09, at 5:56 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > You can only do this in snowleopard. The command for this is Vo b. > Best regard

burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Did I read on this list that you can do this? If not, what are people using? Thanks, and sorry for the repeat thread, I know this has come up on this list before. Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've never seen it. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:59 PM, May McDonald wrote: > > Actually you can

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Smile, actually it does that too. I just got that info from the other list I'm on. Thanks anyway. On 14-Oct-09, at 6:15 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've > never seen it. > > Regards, > Nic > > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Mess

MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Bob Hill
Hi all, I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and demonstrating access using VoiceOver and the Macintosh. We're thinking of purchasing a MacBook Pro. I am wondering what your thoughts are on which model might suit the needs for us. I envision needing a word processor,

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas McMahan
Yes you can, but you can also set up a folder and burn through the finder as well. Or where ever your constructed folder may be if it's a (burn folder.) On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > Did I read on this list that you can do this? If not, what are people >

Music from PC and Mac onto the iPod

2009-10-14 Thread David Hole
Hello guys. Wich method are you out there using to drag albums, artists and so on onto the ipod - using itunes both in windows and on the mac? I got my ipod touch today, and would like to have the great music on it :) Kind regards David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

taking iphone for long-term visit to Britain, do I get it unlocked?

2009-10-14 Thread Rebecca Redmile
What are the dangers both technically and financially of doing this? Please don't anybody write and suggest I get a roaming plan, ... I havea three-year contract already and would like to keep costs as low as I can. But I don't know anythig about unlocking a phone. Any suggestions? Rebecc

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Thank you, Thomas, that's handy. I had looked through the menus in Itunes, but it hadn't occured to me to look in Finder. Best, Donna On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > > Yes you can, but you can also set up a folder and burn through the > finder as well. Or where ever your

USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
Hello, I'm hoping someone on this list can cast light on a problem that I'm having with my USB drive. It often fails to show up on the desk top when I start my Mac. I have to restart the machine, or to turn it off and on again, before the USB drive shows up. Any suggestions as to how to

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas McMahan
There are advantages each way depending on what you want to do. Back a year or two ago using the finder to burn was a lot easier, I-Tunes has caught up though some, but still use finder sometimes depends on where the files are that you are wanting to put in a folder to burn I guess. On O

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Just curious, how do you burn from Itunes? I didn't see it in the menu options. Donna On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > > There are advantages each way depending on what you want to do. Back > a year or two ago using the finder to burn was a lot easier, I-Tunes > has caugh

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I think this is a bug in sl. mine does the same thing. I find the easiest way to get to it if it doesn't show up is to open up a new finder window and go to the sidebar and look under devices. you'll see it there and can then access it. On 2009-10-14, at 7:53 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: > >

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'd be interested to know how, in that case, since it was introduced to me as a new feature of VoiceOver. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, May McDonald wrote:

Re: Presentation Program Accessibility

2009-10-14 Thread Barry Hadder
I think that Keynote in IWork is your best bet. I've played around with it and while it seems a bit flaky, I think that most things can be done with vo. On Oct 14, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been asked to co-present a program about Macintosh and VoiceOver > at

Re: Gmail Filters and the IPhone

2009-10-14 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
Hi, I just spent most of yesterday setting up Gmail filters and although I'm hardly the expert, I thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Definitely check the skip inbox checkbox, I didn't do this and it wasn't until much later in the day that I found the box and had to go back to edit all my filt

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread louie
Check /volumes. I had the same trouble and the external usb drive showed up in /volumes. On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone on this list can cast light on a problem that I'm > having with my USB drive. It often fails to show up on the desk top

Re: taking iphone for long-term visit to Britain, do I get it unlocked?

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Blouch
What provider do you currently have? I'm heading to Madrid next week and I ended up just getting another phone for that period of time. The costs for my iPhone AT&T US plan to use it overseas was crazy expensive per minute and the data charges were worse. I'll still have my iPhone but turn off

Re: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Seems like you could do this on most any flavor of Macbook. Only thing that might narrow your choices would be what your audio production software requires. CB Bob Hill wrote: > Hi all, > > I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and > demonstrating access using VoiceO

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Søren Jensen
You can maybe do it by pressing VO a, but this command will read from the top of the text, and it doesn't work on webpages. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, that was the command I was referring to. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > You can maybe do it by pressing VO a, but this command wi

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
Thanks for your prompt reply. Actually, the problem occurs on computers using in Tiger and Leopard (I don't have Snow Leopard yet). I will try your suggestion to open a new finder window, however. Hopefully, that will work for me, too. Rafael On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Jessi and Goldina w

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
I'll try that. Thanks. Rafael On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:22 PM, louie wrote: > > Check /volumes. I had the same trouble and the external usb drive > showed up in /volumes. > > On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm hoping someone on this list can cast light on a

Re: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Bob, On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Bob Hill wrote: > I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and > demonstrating access using VoiceOver and the Macintosh. > We're thinking of purchasing a MacBook Pro. > I am wondering what your thoughts are on which model might suit th

Re: Presentation Program Accessibility

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Thanks. As it's a blindness conference, we do not need anything flashy, just the bullets for people to take home to review later if they care to. Word and PowerPoint work together really nicely so all composition of the text can be done in Word and exported to PP but I can't find anywher

Tips on burning CDs and DVDs in iTunes [was Re: burning CD in Itunes?]

2009-10-14 Thread Esther
Hi Donna, • Choosing "Burn Playlist to Disc" from a playlist menu or from the burn button in iTunes There are a number of ways to start burning a disc (either CD or DVD) from iTunes. Since you need to create a playlist to specify the items you want to burn to disc, when you select a playl

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
/volumes? just cuz I'm curious and like to absorb as much info as I can about the mac and VO, how do you get there? On 2009-10-14, at 10:44 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: > > I'll try that. Thanks. > > Rafael > On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:22 PM, louie wrote: > >> >> Check /volumes. I had the same troubl

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
oh, weird!! I dunno then! I could see my drive from the desktop fine when I was using leopard. it's only since upgrading to snow leopard that it's been a bit flaky. still, try a new finder window, or / volumes, I'm sure either one will give you access to it. On 2009-10-14, at 10:43 AM, Rafael

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread louie
command + shift + g then type in /volumes. On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > > /volumes? just cuz I'm curious and like to absorb as much info as I > can about the mac and VO, how do you get there? > On 2009-10-14, at 10:44 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: > >> >> I'll try that.

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
oh wow!! thanks, that's nifty!!! On 2009-10-14, at 11:12 AM, louie wrote: > > command + shift + g then type in /volumes. > > On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > >> >> /volumes? just cuz I'm curious and like to absorb as much info as I >> can about the mac and VO, how do you g

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas McMahan
How I do it is to create a playlist, put in the songs or whatever I want into it, then go to the playlist in the sources, then just to verifythings are in order will check the songs listed, then back out of that interaction and vo right arrow and there is a burn function. A dialog will co

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Thomas and Esther. I obviously never saw these options because I hadn't yet selected a play list. Thanks to both of you for the help. Donna On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > > How I do it is to create a playlist, put in the songs or whatever I > want into it, then

Annoying / weird web page.

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
hello, This is one I have never seen before. The voice over cursor will not move off of "close button" for the web-site: http://usa.hrteamplus.com/user/requirement.aspx%20%20edit%20text How can this happen? I tried another page off of this site, and I could tab around to text entry and pop

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Cavendish
Can Snow Leopard read from where you are continuously? On 14 Oct 2009, at 14:15, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've > never seen it. > > Regards, > Nic > > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinste

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, use VO-A. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Can Snow Leopard read from where you are continuously? > On 14 Oct 2009, at 14:15, N

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
By doing vo a will read all and if I want it to read where I am and not at the beginning then I interact with the text and then do vo a. On 14-Oct-09, at 10:03 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd be interested to know how, in that case, since it was introduced > to me as a new feature o

Re: Annoying / weird web page.

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Site seemed ok for me. I had to take the %20%20edit%20text Off the end of the URL before it would load. Is this still the correct page? I couldn't find a Close button, or is this not the right page? It appears to be some kind of job listing search site. I tried it in both DOM and Group mode

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Actually it does. Tried it earlier when I was done with my exam. Interact with the text and it works. On 14-Oct-09, at 10:41 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > You can maybe do it by pressing VO a, but this command will read from > the top of the text, and it doesn't work on webpages. > Best regards

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Christina
Thanks everyone. Is there a way to get vo to read the status of my contacts. The thing I've been doing is just making the call and seeing what happens. It would be nice to know the status of people.One strange thing is that I have labeled some buttons in skype twice because every ti

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, but again that's only one place with the cursor on a web page. I know it works otherwise, but web pages never did it for me. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:59

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, In fact, that is set automatically when you run VoiceOver for the first time on Snowy as default I believe. You can, however, change it so that it reads them 0.5 seconds after speaking the item you're focused on in the VoiceOver Utility>Verbosity>Hints tab. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme M

Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread Christina
Thanks so much Anne and Ester. I think I have a clearer picture. I just want to confirm that I understand. Vuscan is used more for the actual task of scanning, sort of like the driver/software that comes with the scanner ; while read iris is a better or more robust OCR software? So, th

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Christina
:) You're right, mine is set to automatically read help tag if the vo cursor sits there for a bit. :) Christina On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > In fact, that is set automatically when you run VoiceOver for the > first time on Snowy as default I believe. You c

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Sorry if this goes through twice. My mac died before I had a chance to plug it in, lol. All I know is it read for me and did what I asked it to do both on the web and in a text file. I'm definitely not going to complain if it's not suppose to work, smile. On 14-Oct-09, at 2:08 PM, Nicolai

Bootcamp

2009-10-14 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello everyone, Can Bootcamp be used to install ubuntu on the Mac? Thanks. Rafael Bejarano --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@

Re: Bootcamp

2009-10-14 Thread hank smith
I to would be interesrted in this - Original Message - From: "Bejarano, Rafael P." To: Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:19 PM Subject: Bootcamp Hello everyone, Can Bootcamp be used to install ubuntu on the Mac? Thanks. Rafael Bejarano --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Has anybody tried Kurzweil 3000 for the mac? I know that K 3000 and k 1000 are closely related, so that program should have both good OCR and good scanning in one interface. Is this VO accessible at all? And, other than price, are there any show stopping bugs that would prevent thi

new hearing aids and my Macbook's audio output

2009-10-14 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have recently gotten new hearing aids, which come with an "Icom streamer," which is a device for patching the audio of a device into the hearing aids directly. However, after about five seconds of inactivity, the Mac turns off its audio circuit, which causes the streamer to beep madly f

RE: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Weird. My Skye version is 3.8.088 something. Where would I even find version 2.8x? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What are you reading continuously? I can read mail continuously, but not web pages. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:00 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Su

RE: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Also, your options as to what audio production programs are accessible with VO are very limited just yet. So, that will take its own research. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Wednesday, Oct

RE: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Some of you may recall that I had asked about this in Leopard in terms of cruising around on my wife's Leopard equipped powerbook. I'll try interacting with text and using VO A to see if I can read more than one paragraph at a time in a news article and get back to you all. Kevin -Original M

Re: Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christina, On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Christina wrote: > Vuscan is used more for the > actual task of scanning, sort of like the driver/software that comes > with the scanner ; while read iris is a better or more robust OCR > software? So, the two are used together. That's exactly right

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
I was reading a text book and then I also tried it on the web. Both worked fine. On 14-Oct-09, at 10:11 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > What are you reading continuously? I can read mail continuously, > but not > web pages. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I never got it to work for me, it literally only read contents of VoiceOver cursor, so I dismissed the feature entirely. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 15, 2009, at 7:54 AM, May M

strang ecrackle

2009-10-14 Thread william lomas
hi as I move through the mac i hear a small "pop" from the external speakers as I move down lists and through the mac is this normal? Through headphones I don't notice this sudden behaviour --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because