broadcasting on a mac

2010-01-11 Thread anouk radix
Hello everyone, i wonder if any of you have experience broadcasting from a mac? (possibly even using your mac as the server) in combination with snow leopard. I know that nicecast is there but I am not sure if its its own server and if it works with sl. Are there any other possibilities? Greeting

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi donna, I have mine set up to read by chapters. On the bottom right there is a slider flick that thing up to 100% and double tap. Then flick to the left until you reach the first unlabeled button and double tap that. Then press near the top of the screen so voiceover can refresh and you sh

Re: firefox on a mac?

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
However, the Mozilla folks are looking for additional help in making it accessible on the Mac. If you have such talents you'd like to share, they would appreciate the help. On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Portia Scott wrote: > Hello, > > Firefox is inaccessible on the mac. > > Hth, > > Portia. >

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
Hi Scott, You wrote: > Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the boot > flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb drive? > I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small Linux distro on. I haven't, but I will look into it fo

Re: firefox on a mac?

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
Hi Anouk,-- You wrote: > Hi everyone, i just dled firefox 3.5 because i wanted to try it with snow > leopard but if i open it i cant do anything at all, it just says firefox has > no windows and i can topen a menu or do anything. Does firefox not work with > sl or is it just totally not accces

Printing labels on my Mac

2010-01-11 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi everyone. As you know, I am a fairly recent switcher. I used to make and print address labels under Windows with MS Word. Now that I don't have that anymore, what can I use to make and print labels on my Mac? The only word processing I have is with TextEdit, which I don't think has a labe

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Wow, I think so! How did you ever figure that out!? Donna On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi donna, > > I have mine set up to read by chapters. On the bottom right there is a > slider flick that thing up to 100% and double tap. Then flick to the left > until you reach th

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
lol. I read it on a list before i got the app. FYI. If you want to change the settings, it is the unlabeled button found after the add button if you are flicking to the right, or, before the add button if flicking to the left. On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Wow, I think s

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Donna Goodin
LOL is right! Thanks for the tip. I was trying to figure that out yesterday, but somehow kept pressing a button that seemed to make all my other buttons disappear. Take care, Donna On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > lol. > > I read it on a list before i got the app. FYI. If

Script for cutting files and folders

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello all, If you have found yourself wishing you could cut, instead of copy and pasting a file or folder on your Mac? Bryan Smart has wrote a great apple script to get this task done. The script can be found at www.icanworkthisthing.com Just click on the applescripts for use with voiceover

Re: Accessible IRC client for Mac os X?

2010-01-11 Thread Kaare Dehard
Have you tried macirc? On 2010-01-10, at 11:53 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > I used to use x-chat aqua, but since moving to 10.6.2., it lost the ability > to be accessible. It won't let Zoom track the cursor in the input window as > I type, and VO can't read or navigate any of the windows anymore. T

Re: Printing labels on my Mac

2010-01-11 Thread erik burggraaf
There's a way to do this using addressbook. I haven't tried it out because my printer is at my parents' place and I haven't absolutely needed it, but I was waiting for something like this for windows and never got it. So when I read that I could do it on the mac I filed it away somewhere. Bes

F-grab doesn't seem to be a valid command

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, Unfortunately, f-grab doesn't sem to be a valid bache command. Is there something I am doing wroing. I was looking for the man page on this command but apparently it does not exist. If anyone could advise I would be very grateful. TC Thanks James -- You received this message becaus

Re: Printing labels on my Mac

2010-01-11 Thread Esther
Hi Lynn and Erik, Fortunately, we have a searchable archive on this list with access key shortcuts, so I can point you to my answer to Erik's question from August: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06084.html I'd repeat the instructions here but they're somew

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Ricardo, If you don't mind one more question, what exactly does that slider do? TIA, Donna On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi donna, > > I have mine set up to read by chapters. On the bottom right there is a > slider flick that thing up to 100% and double tap. Then fli

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
James, I perhaps should be more clear. The issue is I cannot find a way to address the device. To explain further, the flash drive when mounted, shows up as /dev/disk1s1. However, to properly address the device with fdisk, the device must be umounted, but when attempting to address the device

vmware fusion command and option keys

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, When inside windows xp in vmware fusion, the command key is now my windows logo key, and option acts as alt. I'd rather have this the other way around, so I looked in vmware preferences. There is a keyboard and mouse screen there, but it poses a problem. Once keyboard mappings are ena

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread sandi sørensen
try getting a hold of it from /dev/ On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote: James, I perhaps should be more clear. The issue is I cannot find a way to address the device. To explain further, the flash drive when mounted, shows up as /dev/disk1s1. However, to properly address t

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
No Problem, The slider advances you through the chapter. if you flick to the left of the slider you will see the pages in the chapter , and what page your on. it will look like. 1 of 23. When you bring the slider to 100% and double tap you will see something like 23 of 23. On Jan 11, 2010, a

Re: vmware fusion command and option keys

2010-01-11 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. Why do you wanna change this? The great thing about having the command ke as the windows key is that you can press command tab to switch between your mac applications, and option tab to make a alt tab in your virtually Windows xp. If you wanna switch to one of your running mac applications,

Re: Accessible IRC client for Mac os X?

2010-01-11 Thread Pete Nalda
Thanks. Will look into that. On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > Have you tried macirc? > On 2010-01-10, at 11:53 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > >> I used to use x-chat aqua, but since moving to 10.6.2., it lost the ability >> to be accessible. It won't let Zoom track the cursor in th

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks a lot, Ricardo. This info really made the rest of it make sense. Donna On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > No Problem, > > The slider advances you through the chapter. if you flick to the left of the > slider you will see the pages in the chapter , and what page your on

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Sandi, Sorry, I'm not clear on what you are saying here. The device, /dev/disk1 does exist, but unlike a "normal" or static /dev file system, I assume that perhaps this works more like the DevFS found in some LInux distros? I have to admit that I am not that familiar with the newer file system

Re: Iphone: turning pages in Cobo?

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Glad to be able to help. On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Thanks a lot, Ricardo. This info really made the rest of it make sense. > Donna > On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> No Problem, >> >> The slider advances you through the chapter. if you flick to

Re: Accessible IRC client for Mac os X?

2010-01-11 Thread Pete Nalda
By the way, tried to download MacIRC today and it's only for classic. I'm running 10.6.2. On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > Have you tried macirc? > On 2010-01-10, at 11:53 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > >> I used to use x-chat aqua, but since moving to 10.6.2., it lost the ability

BootCamp

2010-01-11 Thread Blind Treasures
Has anyone heard any updates regarding the release of BootCamp supporting Win 7? Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: BootCamp

2010-01-11 Thread Søren Jensen
Nope, but Win 7 works very well in the newest version of Fusion. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Jan 11, 2010 kl. 4:42 PM skrev Blind Treasures: > Has anyone heard any updates regarding the release of BootCamp supporting >

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread sandi sørensen
first of all, have never used fdisk under osx so i can be very wrong. but when i have done it on linux i usually unmount the drive i wanna fdisk and then takes contact with it from the dev folder. Therefore i said as i did. try eventually before you mess with it too see how huge it is with

Re: firefox on a mac?

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Your explanation seems correct but I would tweak it to say that the Mozilla contributors have already written the 'glue' code that connects Firefox to the accessibility APIs on Linux or Windows. Each of those platforms has its own accessibility framework just like the Mac. There just hasn't bee

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Sandi, Thanks for the clarification. If I unmount the drive, it no longer can be referenced by the device node in /dev, which is interesting. It is as though once unmounted, the OS forgets about it, but I suspect it has something to do with the disk subsystem and how it handles dev

Re: firefox on a mac?

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
Well I would be happy to help with Firefox once i get up to scratch on programming, although I am only just starting out. It will take me some time I suspect before I am able to offer my help to projects like Firefox. TC James On 11 Jan 2010, at 15:58, Chris Blouch wrote: > Your explanation s

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
I could be very wrong here, but if I remember correctly, whenever a device is mounted in Linux or Unix, at least part of the link is virtual i.e. the directory for the disk does not actually exist except to be referenced by the operating system. Therefore, when the disk is unmounted surely the s

Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Esther
Hi Scott, I think if I were trying to set up a bootable Linux distribution on a USB flash drive I would do this on a Linux machine. However, for your entertainment, you might want to read Ted Landau's old MacFixIt column (from April 2008) titled, "Create a Leopard Startup Flash Drive": h

Re: how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Quicktime Player can do this. Just open your file in Player and hit Apple-K to bring up the AV controls. Towards the end of the left column you'll find a slider for pitch shift and at the bottom right of the window is another slider for playback speed. CB John J Herzog wrote: Hi Scott, I may

Re: how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-11 Thread John J Herzog
I take it you have to download the older version of quicktime for snow leopard? The player that comes installed by default just bonks at me when I hit apple K. John On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Quicktime Player can do this. Just open your file in Player and hit Apple-K

Re: how to change the speed and pitch of playing audio at the same time?

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Nice. It's gone in 10.6 QuickTime Player but definitely there in the 10.5 player. I wonder if it comes back in the Pro version on 10.6, but I couldn't dig up any info on that. I did find out the a plain old L key while in QT Player on 10.5 increases the playback multiple and J decreases it. Nei

Re: vmware fusion command and option keys

2010-01-11 Thread anouk radix
Hi Paul, go to vo-utility and then to the navigation tab, search for the mouse cursor item, next to it will be a popup menu open that and select follows vo-cursor. It should work now if you hit vo-shift-space on the item you want to select. Greetings, Anouk, On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Paul Er

Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
This seems like it should be such a simple question, but I've had terrible results with figuring it out on my own. How do you, or can you, go back to the previous page while browsing with Safari? In the global help, I saw a shortcut key, command-[, for going back in browsers. I've noticed that

RE: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
The Mac can boot a USB device, but I don't think that you'll have luck booting anything other than the Mac OS without a lot of work. If you want to boot Linux, then BIOS emulation has to be going before the Linux distro boots. Maybe some of them can boot with EFI, but I'm not knowledgeable enoug

Re: using fdisk

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
James, that makes sense and something occurred to me as I read your message. It is quite possible I need to poke around in the fstab file since at least back when I was running Debian and other distros prior to 2005, you setup a fstab file in /etc where you would specify info about partitions e

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Esther, THanks for the reference, but there is part of the problem, I'm trying to setup a Linux box and actually for some reason I'm having a hell of a time making it happen under Fusion. So, the idea was to setup a bootable flash disk I could use on my old Mini. I'd be curious if

RE: BootCamp

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
It is possible to get it going by using an unattended setup file to install Win 7, and packaging the Vista drivers as part of the unattended setup. That is more than most people would like to attempt at this point, probably. Also, the driver support isn't spotless yet. Apple says that official

Re: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Command left bracket. On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > This seems like it should be such a simple question, but I've had terrible > results with figuring it out on my own. > > How do you, or can you, go back to the previous page while browsing with > Safari? > > In the global

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Bryan, According to what I've read, it is possible to make a bootable Linux disk for the Mac and even get it to load. Now the details I'm not to clear on and my intent was to setup a Debian distro on an old Mac Mini. Of course why would I want to do this? Well because it's an older Po

RE: Script for cutting files and folders

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
Actually, I'll have an even better way of doing it later this week. I know that its kind of strange to throw these different approaches out, one after the other, but, while I've been programming for a very long time, I'm only now starting to program on the Mac. I'll solve a problem, only to read

RE: vmware fusion command and option keys

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
Paul, you might want to try a free Windows program called Sharp Keys for remapping your keyboard, rather than doing it in VMware. There are a few advantages when using Sharp Keys. First, sharp Keys can change more key assignments. If you're using Jaws in your VM, for example, you might want to

Re: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Søren Jensen
Or backspace. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Jan 11, 2010 kl. 9:54 PM skrev Chantel Cuddemi: > Command left bracket. > On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > >> This seems like it should be such a simple quest

Looking for Apple Script Utility

2010-01-11 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, I am looking for the Apple Script Utility. I can't seem to find it in either the Applications or Utilities folder. Has it moved in Snow Leopard? Or has it been amalgamated into the Apple Script Editor? Thanks TC James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Bryan! Interesting question about Safari! Command left-bracket works for me sometimes and sometimes just pressing the backspace key works. There's also a back button on the tool bar. Jim On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: > Command left bracket. > On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:34

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Have you considered trying one of the pre-made VMWare 'appliances' which has things already set up? Here's a 115MB download for Debian 3.1 http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/13 which takes you to here: http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#debian3.1 with a bunch of other Debian varia

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Hey Chris, I did not realize there was a VC already built. I appreciate that info and will check it out. I very well might be able to get something up and running rather quickly with this info. On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Have you considered trying one of the pre-made VMW

Re: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Pressing backspace works for me everytime without fail. On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > This seems like it should be such a simple question, but I've had terrible > results with figuring it out on my own. > > How do you, or can you, go back to the previous page while browsing w

RE: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Bryan Smart
Power PC system won't run many distros. Most distros are Intel, I think. Besides that, don't think that the Power PC machines can't emulate a BIOS. If you're running on that old machine, you'll need to search for a distro that is specifically designed for Power PC Macs. Bryan -Original Mes

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread bmustillrose
I'm not sure what the problem is here scot? Why are you wanting to install onto a usb drive when you can just use the internal harddrive of the mini? I fixed the mini that I was asking how to take apart back in early december and its currently running ubuntu for ppc perfectly fine untill I can find

Adium and display name for Windows Live Messenger

2010-01-11 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi everyone. One of my MSN Messenger contacts pointed out to me recently that my display name is now no longer Lynn, but is showing as canepri...@hotmail.com, which is my MSN Messenger username. I don't remember changing that, but how do I get it back to my correct display name again? Thanks

App suggestion and audio help

2010-01-11 Thread VaShaun Jones
Listers I have to take a instrumental track and add prerecorded voice audio to it and I don't have the slightest idea as to where I need to start. Can someone suggest a accessible Mac app that can do this and also a suggestion on how to do it as well? HTH-- You received this message because yo

Re: App suggestion and audio help

2010-01-11 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Try garage band. On Jan 11, 2010, at 8:16 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: > Listers I have to take a instrumental track and add prerecorded voice audio > to it and I don't have the slightest idea as to where I need to start. Can > someone suggest a accessible Mac app that can do this and also a sugge

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Bryan, there is a Debian distro setup that will work, but there are some things that need to be done. Hoping to get it to work. On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Power PC system won't run many distros. Most distros are Intel, I think. > Besides that, don't think that the Power PC

Re: Bootable flash drives [was Re: using fdisk]

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
THe issue is getting the installer to speak using the Debian distribution. Apparently the PPC distro does not include Speakup. The idea is to rebuildl the initrd in order to get Speakup working on that distro. It is good to know On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:50 PM, bmustillrose wrote: > I'm not sure w

Re: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-11 Thread Barry Hadder
I had to comment on the issue you mentioned in regards to cmd-[ some times working and some times not. Most of the time it works fine for me. However, I've noticed the same thing on occasion and it has really had me perplexed. There are times when I no that there is a prior window, but I can'

Re: Looking for Apple Script Utility

2010-01-11 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi. Yes the applescript utility is indeed now a part of script editor. Darcy On 2010-01-11, at 4:43 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi list, > > I am looking for the Apple Script Utility. I can't seem to find it in either > the Applications or Utilities folder. Has it moved in Snow Leopard? Or has