frustrated

2009-11-10 Thread May McDonald
Ok, is there anyone here that can help out? I'm getting extremely frustrated with Windows 7. I have windows 7 installed and I'm using it through fusion. For some reason that I can not figure out, I can not save anything to windows. I try and download a program but it won't let me. Does any

Re: frustrated

2009-11-10 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. Maybe it's something to do with your shared folder settings? On 2009-11-10, at 5:29 AM, May McDonald wrote: > > Ok, is there anyone here that can help out? I'm getting extremely frustrated > with Windows 7. > > I have windows 7 installed and I'm using it through fusion. For some reason

Re: hello

2009-11-10 Thread Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire
I'm getting lots of e-mail from MacVisionaries every day all day long. JG On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi List, > > > > I’m not receiving any email from here, I was just wondering if any traffic > was moving? > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

am I still on this list

2009-11-10 Thread Mac Cougar
Am I still on this list or did I get bumped somewhere along the line? Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

Re: Staying in a menu when you have selected something in that menu - can this be done?

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Unless each of the menu items you are interested have their own shortcut key, but that's not usually the case. For often accessed menu functions with no shortcut you can play with the Keyboard and Mouse preference to add menu shortcut keys to a particular application. It gets a bit difficult be

Re: Voice Over intermittently restarting in Safari

2009-11-10 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Hi Nick you're correct. Webvism is only a windows add on. On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm pretty sure that WebVisum is only a Windows add-on, though. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Mess

RE: Staying in a menu when you have selected something in that menu - can this be done?

2009-11-10 Thread Kevin Gibbs
If I understand you correctly, I've never seen that possibility even in the sighted world. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroup

Re: hello

2009-11-10 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
I am receiving emails from the list. On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi List, > > I’m not receiving any email from here, I was just wondering if any traffic > was moving? > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: frustrated

2009-11-10 Thread May McDonald
Do you know what? I don't have the windows and mac sharing folders since I heard that didn't have to be set up that way. On 2009-11-10, at 5:06 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > > Hi. Maybe it's something to do with your shared folder settings? > On 2009-11-10, at 5:29 AM, May McDonald wrote: >

Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, A friend of mine has bought Abbyy FineReader so I had a chance to try it. It does a very good job and doesn't have the restriction to 50 pages that Readiris has. I tested it in both English and French. FineReader doesn't recognise my friend's scanner so he has to use VueScan t

Re: Spaces and Mac OS X 10.6.2

2009-11-10 Thread James & Nash
Spaces lets you create multiple desktops on one screen which you can navigate thorugh via shortcut keys. The iea is that you could have one desktop for web browsing and one ofr say reading a document. It is supposed to increase productivity and makde tasks easier to accomplish. But as I said i

Re: Importing podcasts into ITunes

2009-11-10 Thread James & Nash
Hi Esther, Ah thank you for the explaination and the clarification. Invaluable as always. I did try to import the OPML file as you suggested, but nothing appeared in the Podcast section of ITunes. TC James - Original Message - From: "Esther" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I think there's been discussions about FIne reader in the past on this list. And some people had thought that it wasn't worth it compared to Read Iris at the time. Has the overall accessibility of it now, if it's had updates since this was last discussed on this list, which i think it was, o

Re: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Yes, I think there is a version of the Airport utility for Windows. On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: > > Thanks that is good information.Is there a configuration utility that > can be run a PC as well? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [m

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, Do you know how much fine reader is? /Krister 10 nov 2009 kl. 18.05 skrev Anne Robertson: > > Hello everyone, > > A friend of mine has bought Abbyy FineReader so I had a chance to try it. It > does a very good job and doesn't have the restriction to 50 pages that > Readiris has. >

Re: Voice Over intermittently restarting in Safari

2009-11-10 Thread James & Nash
I think it is Open Source and cross platofrm. I have used it on Linux. TC James - Original Message - From: "Chantel Cuddemi" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Voice Over intermittently restarting in Safari Hi Nick you're correct. Webvism is only a windows ad

Re: Staying in a menu when you have selected something in that menu - can this be done?

2009-11-10 Thread James & Nash
MessageThis is possible in Linux. It's really nice so perhaps I'll E-Mail Apple and see if they could add it at some future date. TC James - Original Message - From: Kevin Gibbs To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: RE: Stayi

Re: Staying in a menu when you have selected something in that menu - can this be done?

2009-11-10 Thread James & Nash
Thanks for the idea Chris - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Staying in a menu when you have selected something in that menu - can this be done? Unless each of the menu items you

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. I have both programs but I can't try them out due to the bad interface program that was shipped with canon lide 100. Do you folks out there think that wuscan should help me or do I still have to use windows to make the OCR jobb done? Or is there any other solution to bypass scangear softwa

New iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Larry Wanger
Hi, Well, after 4 years with my first iMac I decided to make the jump to the new 27 inch iMac. It's really a great machine. I have the 3.02 processor with 8GB of RAM and both the new wireless blue tooth keyboard and mouse. And, while I previously said I'd never do it, I installed Windows

Re: Voice Over intermittently restarting in Safari

2009-11-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I've never seen it work on a Mac before. Hmm. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:45 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > I think it is Open Source and cross platofrm. I have use

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Esther
Hi Krister, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for the Mac is $79.99 for the downloadable edition. I'd say that the major limitation that list members reported on was the need for driver support on the Intel platform. Since many list members have older scanners without native drivers for

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dan, The problem with Abbyy FineReader is that it doesn't work with network scanners. However, you can give it a file of images to OCR if your scanner doesn't work directly with FineReader. I compared a document recognised by Readiris, and the same document recognise with Finereader and

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Krister, FineReader costs €89 which is considerably cheaper than Readiris. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvision

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Tony, VueScan should solve your problems. A big plus with FineReader is that it isn't limited to 50 pages as Readiris is. I don't know what its limit is, but my friend scans a whole book at a time and FineReader copes. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi Anne. Thanks for the answer. I'll give vuescan a try later. Regards Tony 10 nov 2009 kl. 20.48 skrev Anne Robertson: > > Hello Tony, > > VueScan should solve your problems. > > A big plus with FineReader is that it isn't limited to 50 pages as Readiris > is. I don't know what its limit i

Re: How to copy files from your ITunes into your Ipod touch

2009-11-10 Thread Esther
Hi Annie, It's actually simple to select all the songs in an album to either add to a playlist or to create a new playlist if you use the Browser in iTunes, which is toggled on and off with Command-B. However, you may want to change from the default view option for the browser in iTunes

Syncing contacts with Google

2009-11-10 Thread David Hole
Hello guys. It can be that I have had this topic up earlier, but at that time no one answered me on that subject... Before OS X Snow Leopard was released, it was possible to sync the "All contacts"-folder in gMail. After the update, the address book only syncs the "My contacts"-folder according

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Fettgather
How would one go about researching purchasing a new scanner compatible with Fine reader without the need for third party software? Thanks. On 11/10/09, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi Anne. > Thanks for the answer. I'll give vuescan a try later. > Regards Tony > > 10 nov 2009 kl. 20.48 skrev Anne Ro

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey Anne, is there a list somewhere of scanners that work directly with finereader? or does anyone have suggestions for ones that do? I'm probably on the market for a new one anyway. would be really great if I could get one of those scanner/coppier/printer combos since my printer, as great as i

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread hank smith
I heard the hp line of all in ones work well - Original Message - From: "Jessi and Goldina" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Abbyy FineReader works well hey Anne, is there a list somewhere of scanners that work directly with finereader? or does anyone have s

sorry for disagreeing with the mod

2009-11-10 Thread hank smith
I am sorry for disagreeing with the mos please don't kick me off the list --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Jessi and Goldina
my printer is one of the few hp printers that's not mac compatible. so I'm a little leary of buying another hp printer, but if I was absolutely sure it would work then I would. On 2009-11-10, at 1:51 PM, hank smith wrote: > > I heard the hp line of all in ones work well > - Original Messag

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread hank smith
thats odd every one I owned was mac conpatible. you must have one of the odd ball ones - Original Message - From: "Jessi and Goldina" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Abbyy FineReader works well my printer is one of the few hp printers that's not mac compatib

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jessie, On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > is there a list somewhere of scanners that work directly with finereader? I really wish there was. That would be a really useful resource. So far, I haven't found a Cannon scanner that works directly with either Readiris or

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas McMahan
We used to have a HP 2100 series, was Mac compatible, but not much for an interface for VO or Spoken Interface before, and even back in the days of Outspoken and OS 9 I had lots of problems with it, but of course that's an ancient series. Finally got rid of it because it was pretty well s

Re: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-10 Thread ben mustill-rose
I wish I found that sort of thing every time I cleaned my house! On 10/11/2009, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > > Yes, I think there is a version of the Airport utility for Windows. > On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: > >> >> Thanks that is good information.Is there a configuration utility

VO stopped saying page number in Pages

2009-11-10 Thread Howard Dupuis
Hello, All of a sudden and out of the blue, VoiceOver stopped announcing the page I'm on in a Pages document, but this feature still works on other Pages files. (I'm not referring to actually numbering the pages; I'm talking about having VO tell me what page I'm on -- "page X of Y.") I can only as

Moderator note To those with issues receiving list mail

2009-11-10 Thread Cara Quinn
Hello All, I'm cross-posting this as this issue applies to both lists. Firstly, would those listers who are still receiving mail, kindly consider forwarding this along to those whom you may know, who may not be able, for whatever reason, to receive list mail? -My thanks to you!… So now

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I sure do lol. I've scoured the internet for ways to make it work and the only way to do it is to do something weird with the firmware and then reinstall it everytime I wanna print. how about no! lol. I'd rather use my pc!!! On 2009-11-10, at 2:05 PM, hank smith wrote: > > thats odd > every on

Re: is the busy, ready, busy, ready, bug gone?

2009-11-10 Thread Christina
Hi, Strangely I did not encounter the "busy" issue very often with the first version of SL. However, since I upgraded to the newest version, I get the "busy" thing much more often and Safari is much slower. It's slow enough to be quite frustrating. I also encounter other stranger issue

RE: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-10 Thread Frank Ventura
Well, it is pretty scarry what turns up in the depts. Of the basement sometimes. Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ben mustill-rose Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:55 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.c

audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread Christina
Hello List, I have several audio books that I would like to import onto my mac and then transfer to my victor stream. These audiobooks on compact disc have several discs. I had tried using itunes in the past to import the cd's but I found the process very confusing. I believe the stream

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread louie
I just ripped 16 disks using NMP3 Ripper. This was the third volume in the dark tower seriesserices by Stephen King. I do not have a URL for you sorry. google it. On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Christina wrote: > > Hello List, > > I have several audio books that I would like to import onto my

weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Gang, I've been starting to play a bit more with my address book as i merged all my mail accounts adresses, and need to sort this nice mess out, but have stumbled upon something that seems like an inaccessible googaw of address book? When i am in the group list, i do shift command n for new

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread Christina
Were you able to then easily transfer to a stream? Thanks, Christina On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:08 PM, louie wrote: > > I just ripped 16 disks using NMP3 Ripper. This was the third volume in > the dark tower seriesserices by Stephen King. I do not have a URL for > you sorry. google it. > > On Nov 10,

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hey, it took me a while to get used to that one too. After you press the new group command just start typing your group name. I find it helpful to know what I'm going to call the group before i press the menu choice. If you want to rename a group you go to the group press enter type you

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread louie
Sure I use a card reader. On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Christina wrote: > > Were you able to then easily transfer to a stream? > > Thanks, > Christina > On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:08 PM, louie wrote: > >> >> I just ripped 16 disks using NMP3 Ripper. This was the third volume >> in >> the dark tower

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread Christina
Thanks, I know how to transfer files onto the stream. :) I have just had difficulty getting the files to be named correctly for the stream to play in order. Maybe this program will be a times saver. :) On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:52 PM, louie wrote: > > Sure I use a card reader. > > On Nov 10

Re: audio books with multiple discs

2009-11-10 Thread louie
If you need help just drop me a e-mail. On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Christina wrote: > > Thanks, I know how to transfer files onto the stream. :) I have just > had difficulty getting the files to be named correctly for the stream > to play in order. Maybe this program will be a times saver.

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Ok, i've tried it but won't owkr, I've also tried interacting with the untitled group, and it says interact with edit text, but i only get the boing sound whenever i try something, whether writing or anything else. Any opinion? Thanks, and best Yuma On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Maxwell Ivey

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
now i'm not sure what to think. do you have it on columns, tables, or icons? I actually have accidentally changed my group names because it is so easy to do. good luck, Max On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Ok, i've tried it but won't owkr, > > I've also tried in

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Really weird I've tried putting as list instead of column which is my preferred display, and it puts me into a search field. so i have to disinteract, and i get the same result. I wonder if i'm going somewhere else. If i navigated with VO, it would be the space right after toolbar right? Than

Re: weird can't rename contact group in address book

2009-11-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hi; I just thought of something. When I open address book for the first time, I have to arrow over using vo right arrow until i hear group. Then I can arrow up and down or left and right. But there is a blank area between the group list and the name list. If you are there you can't do

RE: frustrated

2009-11-10 Thread Simon Fogarty
What have you got your network setup for? Relay, nat or host. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:29 p.m. To: macvoiceo...@freelists.org Cc: macvisionaries@google