Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hey Buddy! Not sure if somebody else has answered this because I'm not to the end of reading my emails. I always forget about automater but need to do more with it. It runs really slowly on my computer since snowleopard. Not sure why. The way I add actions is: when you get your workflow or wha

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I've got the same issue ever since Snowy. Automator's constantly busy, so I just said screw it, and gave up playing more with it. Heh. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Jan 13, 2010, at 10

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Nic! The thing that I've noticed with automater is that after its been running for a few minutes it seems to speed up. I'm wondering if I have enough memory--I have 2 g on this MacBook. Everything else seems to work fine. So if I go away for a few minutes its much better with automater. A

Re: Deleting mail in Mail.app

2010-01-13 Thread James & Nash
Hi, I thin you'lll find that if you delete it from the All Mail folder that it will be gone from the srver too. On 12 Jan 2010, at 22:41, David Hole wrote: > Hi James. > I checked this one: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# > But the only thing it says, is to uncheck a

Re: Firefox 3.6 RC1 not VO compatible

2010-01-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
Mozilla has a blind employee based in Hamburg with whom I had worked at FS. He uses a Mac as well as other systems, out of curiosity, I will ping him regarding Mac and Firefox. My sighted wife switches between Safari and Chrome depending upon the page and its types of content. This is very sa

Re: firefox on a mac?

2010-01-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
Mozilla is able to get some support for OpenOffice using an accessibility layer built into Gecko. I don't know how this could effect Firefox but one might guess that their UI common library should work at least as well as OO. OO is weird on Mac. Because of the gecko common UI layer, it can't s

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Buddy Brannan
Thanks guys, I'll have to try it on the macbook (2GB RAM). It works great on the Macbook Pro (4GB), though, well, I reckon it would, assuming I can figure out how to use it. Thanks for the usage tips; the only one I found talked about dragging the action into the work flow, and I couldn't get t

RE: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Bryan Smart
Same here. I'm using a very new MackBook Pro (2.5Ghz core 2, 4GB memory), so it can't be the computer. "automator busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy" It feels like my brain gets stuck when that happens. Regardless if Apple fixes Automator, they should make VoiceOver say busy a l

RE: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Bryan Smart
Same here. I'm using a very new MackBook Pro (2.5Ghz core 2, 4GB memory), so it can't be the computer. "automator busy, busy, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010

RE: Moving back in Safari

2010-01-13 Thread Bryan Smart
Wow. Could you think of some setting that I might have messed up to break that functionality on my system? I'm on OS 10.6.2. It has been that way ever since I got this Mac with 10.6, though. Maybe it was something I messed up early on? One of the first ways I started to learn about the computer

voiceover script dictionary

2010-01-13 Thread Luca Davanzo
Hello all, I am interested in documentation about voiceover script dictionary: i found a lot about apple script in general, applications that can be controlled, but not voiceover specific dictionary or sample code; can you help? i do not own a mac yet ... so please give some online reference

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Buddy Brannan
Yay! I have an automater service done from the example in somewhere or another. All happy. Except, yeah, automater does say "busy" a lot, especially right at the beginning. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Bryan Smart wrot

Re: voiceover script dictionary

2010-01-13 Thread Matt Roberts
I don't believe VoiceOver implements scripting itself. You have to use Apple Script. Matt Roberts Sent from my iPhone using VoiceOver On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Luca Davanzo wrote: Hello all, I am interested in documentation about voiceover script dictionary: i found a lot about

Pasting WP key into the secure text field to gain acess a network

2010-01-13 Thread James & Nash
Hi likst, My girlfriend has just bought her first Mac but is having terrible trouble pasting the WPA key into the secure edit field of the network she is trying to join. The wireless network is her own, but the OK button continues to be dimmed. Is it not possible to paste the network key into

what is softchoke, and is it usablewhin using vo?

2010-01-13 Thread Maurice Mines
hi I am wundering if softchock is usable with vo at all. I am neding to use it for a ed desine class for a class in my program? maurice ham call kd0iko. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvi

Re: voiceover script dictionary

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi! From what I can find, voiceover has some good script capability but the documentation for it is really sparse. I emailed accessibil...@apple.com to ask about it but they were as vague as the documentation. Jim On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Luca Davanzo wrote: > Hello all, > I am interest

Re: voiceover script dictionary

2010-01-13 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, If you try opening the voice over dictionary in the applescript editor *command shift o*, you will find approximately 22 commands which are voice over specific. These are for now quite sufficient to do what you want, though external sources on the net are sparse. I believe this is because n

download files sometimes staying in safari browser

2010-01-13 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, When i download files from safari links that normally redirect before downloading, i don't get the file in a download list box, but in an new safari tab. And the result is that i don't get the file. Is there a preference i have to change for this not to happen, and for the file to correctly

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi, guys. In my experience with this and I've had a bit since Snow Leopard and none before, ironically, the busy thing can usually be fixed by switching out of automator and back in. In other words, hit cmd-tab twice. I have absolutely no idea *why* this works, but it usually does for me, any

preview and full screen mode.

2010-01-13 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
Hi there, Well the subject says it all really. I have lots of PDF based presentations, all prepared using LaTeX. I'm thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro, but the clincher will be if I can show these presentations in full-screen. Has anyone tried this? If it's not possible, then I guess I'll h

Re: How do I know which albums on iTunes are DRM-protected?

2010-01-13 Thread Vic
Big thanks, David. Vic David Hole wrote: > Good morning Vic. > Apple doesn't use DRM on music anymore. > They ended using it a year ago or so. > From that time, they also began using 256kbs quality instead of 128kbs > wich have been used before. > THe m4a-files you buy now is compatible with all

Re: preview and full screen mode.

2010-01-13 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, It works ok, but you can't read the content with the vo cursor. You can, however read it by pressing vo-f4. On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi there, > > Well the subject says it all really. I have lots of PDF based > presentations, all prepared using LaTeX. I'm

New Line New Line!

2010-01-13 Thread Dan Roy
Has anyone found a way to stop VO from saying new line when it encounters a blank line in a message? i have been through the verbosity stuff and don't seem to be getting anywhere. I am sure I'm missing something, or, am I? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: New Line New Line!

2010-01-13 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
I don't think this can be avoided. On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Dan Roy wrote: > Has anyone found a way to stop VO from saying new line when it encounters a > blank line in a message? i have been through the verbosity stuff and don't > seem to be getting anywhere. I am sure I'm missing somet