Re: Connecting HP All-in-One

2010-01-18 Thread Scott Howell
Larry, just to be clear, you are using the drivers included in Snow Leopard and not those, which came with the printer? On Jan 18, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Larry Wanger wrote: > Hi, > > I thought of that but when I launch Immage Capture it says no devices were > detected. > > > On Jan 17, 2010, at

Re: accessible bit torrent client

2010-01-18 Thread erik burggraaf
I've tried transmittion bitrocket and utorrent. Transmition has the features I want but the main torrent list is broken with VO. that makes it really annoying once you get up past the 50 torrent mark or so. Bitrocket hangs on torrent generation for me and doesn't have some features I want suc

Re: Flash is Poison!

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
I have a lot of hope for new content using html 5 but there is so much Flash out there that I doubt many will be refactored. I'm are really cynical these days. On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Well, I won't shed a tear for them, then, when HTML 5 makes most of their > flash pla

Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, On my MacBook Pro 13 that I bought in October, it feels like everything is slowing down. The Item Chooser menu causes the "Safari Busy" announcement at least once but more times on particularly big pages. This is a fast computer (2.26 Core 2 and 4 gb RAM) but it gets slower all of the tim

Re: Weird menu behaviors and airport express

2010-01-18 Thread Rich Ring
Ok, I know I could go to the Apple web site and find this out, but just what, in plain English is Airport Express? - Original Message - From: "Lauren" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:24 AM Subject: Weird menu behaviors and airport express Is it normal for the st

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
I don't have one of your models, but have you repaired Permissions recently or cleared Safari's caches recently? On 18 Jan 2010, at 14:12, Chris Hofstader wrote: > Hi, > > On my MacBook Pro 13 that I bought in October, it feels like everything is > slowing down. The Item Chooser menu causes th

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Chris, I've had a macbook pro since a few months before you got yours, and my unit is running just as fast as when i got it. I do have a lot of applications and my media library is growing steadily, but i do believe that it is because i keep it clean with cache emptying, using click2flash,

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
Thanks very much. We should post your message as an FYI somewhere. On Jan 18, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I've had a macbook pro since a few months before you got yours, and my unit > is running just as fast as when i got it. > > I do have a lot of applications

Problems with preferences in Adium

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, Does anyone here use Adium with Voice over please? First off, I had absolutely no speech when I went into the Adium Events preferences. However, after restarting my Mac I now have speech back. But does anyone know why none of the preferences I set seem to be working please? I have a

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Hi Yuma, Where can I get Xupport from please? Also, could you please contact me off list regarding Apple Script? Thanks TC James On 18 Jan 2010, at 14:32, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I've had a macbook pro since a few months before you got yours, and my unit > is running just

Flash Again

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
I somehow got the peculiar notion that Flash may not suck entirely for VO users. I thought I might be able to go into AppleScript, enumerate the controls on the active Flash item and then provide a way for users to hit keystrokes to activate the Flash controls. Well, I found out that Flash doe

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi James, Just do a google on xupport and it will be there on your first header. Also, since this one is commercial, you can try tinker tools *same, just google it* and you will find it. Both have similar tools for ridding space, optimizing performance especially for blind people, and xupport

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-18 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
You can't control flash that way as the whole framework is in carbon. Until we get adobe stuff in coco, it won't help much to do anything. unless you call out flash buttons from javascript and get safari to read the labels and buttons extracted from javascript then plug it back in via the same b

Re: Flash Again

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
Thanks. I might try your idea this afternoon. On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > You can't control flash that way as the whole framework is in carbon. Until > we get adobe stuff in coco, it won't help much to do anything. unless you > call out flash buttons from javascri

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Which would you recommend please? TC James On 18 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi James, > > Just do a google on xupport and it will be there on your first header. > > Also, since this one is commercial, you can try tinker tools *same, just > google it* and you will find it

Programming

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Hi Yuma, Are you a programmer by profession? Where id yu get your knowledge about Apple\Script et al. Thanks TC james On 18 Jan 2010, at 15:11, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > You can't control flash that way as the whole framework is in carbon. Until > we get adobe stuff in coco, it won't help

Re: Problems with preferences in Adium

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Well, the only issues that i've had with Adium events is the speech rate not matching what it's set to for all events. Regards, nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:57 PM, James & N

Re: Flash is Poison!

2010-01-18 Thread Kaare Dehard
I can't see myself crying a lot either, Just from the general lack-luster priorities of adobe, with support for only one os, My tears ought to be uncontainable. On 2010-01-17, at 7:37 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Well, I won't shed a tear for them, then, when HTML 5 makes most of their > flash pla

RE: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Bryan Smart
Its probably got something to do with one of the apps that you have loaded. I have similar model, and haven't seen that happen. Learn to use activity monitor to monitor cpu and disk use of processes for spikes. Bryan -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:ma

Battery extra menu and Voice Over

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, From what i've been reading, there is a way to check the current health of the batteries in the Apple laptops. Has anyone worked out a way of getting to this info please? I did it once, but I've forgotten how to do it as it was a long time ago. Thank you for any help. TC James-- You

Re: Battery extra menu and Voice Over

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi James! I vo-m twice and then left to the battery menu. mine tells me the time left and if its charging, how long till full charge. Jim On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:53 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi list, > > From what i've been reading, there is a way to check the current health of > the batteries

Re: Slowing...

2010-01-18 Thread Tom McMahan
Years ago back in the days of Panther we had a slow down problem, tunred out it was the driver for our printer, which back then was a HP 2110 all in one machine. Took out the driver and Mac was back to normal. It slowed the machine down as a whole, even when I was in OS 9 using Outspoken

Re: Battery extra menu and Voice Over

2010-01-18 Thread James & Nash
Hi Jim, On 18 Jan 2010, at 22:09, Jim Gatteys wrote: > I vo-m twice and then left to the battery menu. mine tells me the time left > and if its charging, how long till full charge. Thanks for this, mine does the same. However, you can also be told if you're battery is healthy or if it needs repl

Re: Battery extra menu and Voice Over

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hey James! that info is under the system profiler. You can get there by going to the apple menu. When you get to about this mac, if you hold down the option key the menu turns into system profiler. The battery life is under there. I also downloaded a little application called Coconut battery

Re: Battery extra menu and Voice Over

2010-01-18 Thread Esther
Hi James, I also wondered whether you were thinking about the Coconut battery application, which can tell you additional information about your Mac's battery performance and history -- such as the number of cycles, the current battery capacity compared to the original battery capacity, et

Re: accessible bit torrent client

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, thanks for the feedback. So far tomato seems to be doing the job. Mike On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > I like utorrent just finished using it this morning, and it is quite > accessible. Others have had limited success with bitrocket, and I heard that > transmitio

Re: Programming

2010-01-18 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi James, I used to be sighted, and a 3D graphist. I know manage a 3D team, i know its odd, but this is my day in day out activity. I only baught or even touched a mac last June, as i heard Mike Arrigo's podcast and thought voice over seemed better than jaws, though the windows platform was my

xls files

2010-01-18 Thread May McDonald
Hi, can someone tell me what program will open this type of file? When I try and open it, it does it in text edit and it's nothing but gibberish, lol.-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisio

Re: xls files

2010-01-18 Thread John André Netland
Hi May, It is a spreadsheet. You may open it with the apps Excel, Numbers or Table. Numbers is the spreadsheet app included in iWork from Apple. Numbers is pretty accessible, I use it a lot myself. Hope this helps, John André On 19. jan. 2010, at 05.17, May McDonald wrote: > Hi, can someone

Re: xls files

2010-01-18 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi May, Its an excel spreadsheet file. you have to open it with either the office suite, or with numbers from the iwork suite. TheCheers Yuma-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar..

Re: xls files

2010-01-18 Thread May McDonald
Hmm, so how come it wouldn't use that to open it automatically instead of text edit? Thanks for the info, I will go try it now. On 2010-01-18, at 8:33 PM, John André Netland wrote: > Hi May, > > It is a spreadsheet. You may open it with the apps Excel, Numbers or Table. > Numbers is the spread

Re: xls files

2010-01-18 Thread May McDonald
Never mind. I just answered my own question when I went to try it. Somehow my IWorks applications have disappeared, strange. On 2010-01-18, at 8:33 PM, John André Netland wrote: > Hi May, > > It is a spreadsheet. You may open it with the apps Excel, Numbers or Table. > Numbers is the spreadshee

Re: getting started with VO

2010-01-18 Thread ameliadicker...@gmail.com
Thanks much. It just was a matter of using all of the keys in the proper combination- command and then releasing command then hitting function and F5 simultaneously. On the plus side, I put together portable preferences and changed that in my preferences, so hopefully no more dinking around with th

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-18 Thread VaShaun Jones
Switch to another app and turn VO off and on again, then go back to Automator and it should work fine with a few bits of sluggishness. On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > Hey Buddy! > Not sure if somebody else has answered this because I'm not to the end of > reading my emails. > I

windows 7 painfully sluggish in fusion 3

2010-01-18 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, Do any of you have tips on how to speed up windows 7 performance in fusion 3? I have a macbook with a 2.4 GHZ core2 DUO processor, and 2 GB of ram. I gave windows 7 1 GB, which most people say is sufficient. All I can say is that I'm not impressed. I get lots of choppy sound and stu

hot to share voiceOver labels?

2010-01-18 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello everybody, I labeled some buttons in xCode and other applications using vo+/ function. I want to share these labels with other users. How can I do this? thanks and regards Jonathan Chacón-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Searching the iTunes Store of a different country [was Re: GPS Apps for New Zealand besides TomTom [was Re: Response from Navigon]]

2010-01-18 Thread Esther
Hi Earle, I'm using iTunes on my Mac, so this description of how to change countries for the iTunes Store may not translate well into instructions for Windows screen readers. I'm supplying this answer (and cc'ing to the Macvisionaries list), to provide general information about how to fin