Re: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, That surprised me a little bit as well. I would have thought it'd be of a better quality, but since I'm never going to use it for anything else but reading coupon barcodes if I get an iPhone, I'm not too concerned myself. But if I was to use it extensively, then I would be a bit worri

Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Søren jensen
Hi. It seems as Apple have made an Ipod touch 3g in the 8 gb version. I thought there only were a 32 gb version and a 64 gb version. Does somebody know if the 8 gb version also have Voiceover included? Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolforthebl

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread william lomas
nope On 19 Oct 2009, at 08:38, Søren jensen wrote: > > Hi. > > It seems as Apple have made an Ipod touch 3g in the 8 gb version. I > thought there only were a 32 gb version and a 64 gb version. Does > somebody > know if the 8 gb version also have Voiceover included? > Best regards: > Søren Jen

RE: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Portia
You never know, Apple might someday, mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of william lomas Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:56 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone like KNFB? i would hav thought the IPhone camera, more so for the sighted community would have

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Søren, The iPod Touch 3G in the 8GB version was introduced to fill the $99 price point offering. It does not have the same CPU that qualifies it for the "3GS" designation with the speed and capacity to support VoiceOver. Here are a couple more of the features of the Third Generation i

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Charlie Doremus
8 gb ipod touch is an older model no longer made. can still be purchased but will not have voiceover. The 32bg & 64gb have voiceover 2009/10/18 Søren jensen > > Hi. > > It seems as Apple have made an Ipod touch 3g in the 8 gb version. I > thought there only were a 32 gb version and a 64 gb versi

RE: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Frank Ventura
But why, have you ever heard anyone say "nope sorry I won't buy an IPhone because it doesn't havea an 8MP camera"? Nope, neither has Apple. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Portia Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009

Re: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Portia
Oh of course not, But why, have you ever heard anyone say "nope sorry I won't buy an > IPhone because it doesn't havea an 8MP camera"? Nope, neither has Apple. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Portia >

Re: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Portia
Hi Frank, What I was trying to say was that Apple could someday. I have never seen a phone with an 8 megapixel camera though. I never knew Nokia madre phones like that. Best wishes, Portia. Frank Ventura wrote: > But why, have you ever heard anyone say "nope sorry I won't buy an > IPhone bec

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Søren Jensen
Thanks a lot. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Søren, > > The iPod Touch 3G in the 8GB version was introduced to fill the $99 > price point offering. It does not have the same

Need help from someone who have a Canon scanner

2009-10-19 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi all. I've tried for very long time to use my Canon lite scanner on my Mac. I've searched for some drivers for Mac on Google, but each time I find a driver, it doesn't work with Vue scan. It's a pretty old scanner, and I've lost my cd... If someone have a Canon lite scanner which works on

mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread John W. Carty
Hello list, I've been a windows and windows screen reader user for some twenty years. I'm considering making the leap to a mac. I'm also a ham radio operator and I've just started getting into internet radio linking using echo link. There's an app called "echomac" which is a mac version of the

Re: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, It's possible you might have heard someone say just that. Some people are picky about it. :P In all seriousness, sarcasm aside, I don't see why the camera couldn't be eight megapixels. As a blind user it's probably not necessary, mind you, since a two megapixels camera is probably fin

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello John, I cannot answer the questions you have regarding EchoMac, but I can try to answer the question concerning scripting abilities. One thing that is very different from Windows to the Mac, is the Windows applications are usually heavily dependent on individual scripting for the scre

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Buddy Brannan
Nope. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > Thanks a lot. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:11 AM,

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread May McDonald
Hi, I just found echomac and can say it does work and it's set up very differently from echolink. There's probably a way to change it so it looks like echolink but since I just got it yesterday I haven't had a chance to play around and figure out much yet. May, VA7MAI On 19-Oct-09, at 6:30

logic

2009-10-19 Thread Jean-Philippe Rykiel
Hi all, as a musician, I've always wondered why Apple has made so few efforts to make logic accessible to us. After all, logic belongs to Apple doesn't it. I'm of course appreciate Digidesign's attitude regarding accessibility, but logic is much cheaper and doesn't require extra hardware except

RE: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread John W. Carty
Please let me know how you get along with echomac. I cannot afford a lot of radio equipment at the moment so internet linking is my ham radio focus. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald Sent: Monday,

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread May McDonald
Will do or at least will try, smile. Right now it's not hard to use, but I like the way echolink is set up. 73, VA7MAI On 19-Oct-09, at 7:32 AM, John W. Carty wrote: > > Please let me know how you get along with echomac. > > I cannot afford a lot of radio equipment at the moment so internet

Re: Need help from someone who have a Canon scanner

2009-10-19 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have a Lide90, and did find drivers for it--though have since trashed the DMG. Let me know if you don't get it fixed, but I think if you just google on your scanner's name, possibly with the words "drivers," or "Mac OS10" in the search, you'll find them. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype a

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Buddy Brannan
Hi, Echomac does work nicely, with a couple caveats: 1) It isn't quite so forgiving of poorly configured or not configured routers. That is to say, you have to have ports 5198 and 5199 forwarded to your Mac for UDP traffic and 5200 forward for both TCP and UDP. Setting up as trigger ports

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread May McDonald
Hey Buddy, thanks for the shortcut. I didn't know about that, smile. Any other help you can give would be great. 73, VA7MAI On 19-Oct-09, at 8:18 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > > Hi, > > Echomac does work nicely, with a couple caveats: > > 1) It isn't quite so forgiving of poorly configured or not

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Buddy Brannan
Oh, well, you should also know that it's a toggle, i.e. you press cmd- return to turn on transmit, then press agian to turn it off. Don't hold them down. Try dialing up my node, 17681. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:43 AM, May

RE: iPhone like KNFB?

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
Apart from money and still early days. You don't just build a device and put the top of the line tools into it. With out testing by using the earlier technology to make sure things work first. Give it a couple of generations of iphones, and they wil have 8mp or higher cameras. Samsung are wor

Invalid certificates in Mail

2009-10-19 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, I have recently switched my IMAP GMail account back to POP. However, even though I've deleted all the Mail Preferences and Appplication Support files, Mail tells me that there is an invalid certificate for the IMAP server. How can I fix this please? Is there a way of deleting it? Tha

Re: Need help from someone who have a Canon scanner

2009-10-19 Thread Søren Jensen
I have tried that. Vue scan says the Canon Lite 35 and the Lite 50 drivers should work with my scanner, but when I install them, Vue scan totally ignores it. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Mark

Re: Need help from someone who have a Canon scanner

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Søren, Do you have the LiDE 35 scanner from Canon? I just did a Google search and found a driver that is listed for Mac OS X at the Canon USA support site. It's supposed to be good for all versions from 10.2 through 10.6 and was posted just last month. Here's the description: LiDE35 S

Re: recording lp or tapes to the mac

2009-10-19 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. Thanks for all tips. I didn't think about audio hijac, I'll give it a try. Have someone here any good suggestion for usb soundcards to use with the mac? I want 5.1 sound output so I can connect the mac mini I have to my reciever. That old thing doesn't have digital input so I have to u

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Does Echo Mac work ok under Snow Leopard? I was aware that it hadn't been updated in quite some time. I'd had it when I was running Leopard, but haven't put it on since installing Snowy. 73 de Dan VA3ETS. On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:09 AM, May McDonald wrote: > > Hi, I just found echomac and

Spelling buttons without interacting

2009-10-19 Thread Daniel K. Gartmann
Hi, Apparently, some buttons can't be interacted with e.g. in ITunes. I therefore wonder how to go over the text of the button letter by letter instead of just doing the vo+w command for spelling the word. I think this issue also applies to other elements. What they all have in common is that t

vmwarefusion and zoomtext

2009-10-19 Thread Christina
Hello list, I was wondering if zoomtext works in the the windows virtual environment using vmware fusion. I've heard of some of you using jaws while in windows with vmware fusion. I really have limited vision but what love to use zoomtext to look at some photos of family. I do not curr

Re: Spelling buttons without interacting

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Daniel, Some places where I need to get the text of something VoiceOver says, I just use VO-Shift-C (copy last phrase to pasteboard). If I want to examine the text in detail, I'll paste it i(Command-V) nto a TextEdit window. This command works in all sorts of places where I can't do a

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Maurice Mines
same thing here maurice ham call kd0iko. On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:32 AM, John W. Carty wrote: > > Please let me know how you get along with echomac. > > I cannot afford a lot of radio equipment at the moment so internet > linking is my ham radio focus. > > -Original Message- > From: macvis

RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I don' think the 8GB talks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Søren jensen Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:38 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk? Hi. It seems as

RE: logic

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Gibbs
JPR, Like you, I'm very interested in the potential for accessibility with Logic and VO. Unfortunately, think about how long it took Apple to make iTunes accesible. That's their flagship application and it took years. Logic serves a very small market compared with iTunes and it will take even

Re: recording lp or tapes to the mac

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Tony, Tony Bernedal wrote: > Does anyone know of any good software to use for recording lp or tapes > to the mac. I used audio grabber for windows to do that and I really > liked the features it have for splitting tracks etc. Is there anything > similar on the mac. Free or payed software. I h

Re: Trackpad commander makes VO mute

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hello, James, I think the problem is not deleting the problem plist -- if Anne knows which plist is problematic it can easily be located and sent to the trash. I think this can be fixed in terminal with a "defaults write" command if the keyword and syntax are known. Anne, how about the fo

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread hank smith
what ipod touch models have voice over and can you run all iphone apps on it? - Original Message - From: "Esther" To: Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk? Hi Søren, The iPod Touch 3G in the 8GB version was introduced to fill the $9

Re: vmwarefusion and zoomtext

2009-10-19 Thread Mueller, Matt
Hi Christina. VMWare Fusion 2 currently does not work with ZoomText. It will install and run, but using any level of magnification causes screen corruption when the visible area moves. In short, its unusable for magnification, though I've used some of its screen reading features with de

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Hank, hank smith wrote: > > what ipod touch models have voice over and can you run all iphone > apps on > it? > The 32GB and 64GB iPod Touch 3G models have VoiceOver. There is no iPod Touch model on which you can run all the iPhone apps, since clearly the apps that support phone funct

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread hank smith
what does the 32 gig go fore? and how do you tur on voice over on the ipod touch? also can you record audio on the ipod touch? - Original Message - From: "Esther" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk? Hi Hank, hank smith wrote: >

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Esther
Hi Hank, Price for 32 GB iPod Touch 3GS is $299. The 64GB iPod Touch 3GS is $399. You turn VoiceOver on on the iPod Touch the same way you do for the iPhone. When you connect your iPod Touch to your computer there's a button to Configure Universal Access, so you can set things up so th

RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Blake Sinnett
The FM radio is rumored to be coming. I've noticed that pressing and holding power and pressing the home key on my iPod touch produces a camera noise. I'm not sure if images are taken or what. But if someone could check this out, that'd be great. > From: mori...@mac.com > To: macvisionaries@g

RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Gibbs
No camera in a touch. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Blake Sinnett Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:46 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk? The FM radio is

RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I forgot to ask. Do you hear that camera noise by holding power and pressing the home key when the touch is already on, or does it have to be off before you execute this sequence? K. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Beha

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread chris polk
it is actually taking a snap shot of the screen when you hear this noise. hth Chris On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > I forgot to ask. Do you hear that camera noise by holding power > and pressing the home key when the touch is already on, or does it > have to be off befo

RE: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Gibbs
How do you know? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chris polk Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 10:09 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk? it is actually taking a sn

Re: Does the Ipod touch 3g 8 gb talk?

2009-10-19 Thread chris polk
b/c it is in the manual, and I've used it to have someone look at something on my screen. Chris On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > How do you know? > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chr