Re: Louis for mac

2010-05-01 Thread John J. Boyer
Louis should work with Snow Leopard. Be sure you get the Intel versions of the liblouis and liblouisxml libraries. There are already Danish tables, though they may not be the latest updated versions. They will not work with VoiceOver. John On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Annie Skov N

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Scott Howell
Nic, that would be nice if it would really help, but in this case it seems to be an issue between VO and Fusion. I used to be able to do this, but so far no luck. I am going to try a few things, but I am curious how you have the settings under navigation in the VO utility configured. Thanks for

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Scott, I really just have everything following one another. The table doesn't seem to track right, so I have to move the mouse there with VO-Command-F5, then control-click on the machine I want. It's very strange why you're not getting any results. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com S

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Nic, Yes, it is strange and it is the same issue my friend is having as well. Seems when trying to route the mouse pointer to the location, VO says there is nothing under the mouse. So, that would indicate the mouse pointer is not tracking with VO or for some reason cannot enter that table a

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, When you try using VO-Command-F5, it should say something like "Virtual machine list". Make sure VoiceOver is actually focussed on the item, and that you are using the VoiceOver keys to navigate the table. The only thing I can think of is that if VoiceOVer doesn't track keyboard focus prope

Re: Separator on the dock

2010-05-01 Thread Dyer mattheqw
Hi, Have try the hide opsion to see what happens:? Just a thought. Matthew On 4/30/2010 6:21 PM, Linda Adams wrote: I think it showed up after I installed Skype and or Magicjack. When I check the short-cut menu (VO-shift-M) I get the following 5 choices: Turn hiding on Turn magnification

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Scott Howell
Nic, Just curious, but does the table say something like the name of the VM and this is s a dimmed table? There is some sort of tracking issue and I've changed all the possible settings. I did however use the simulated mouse keys, but even when locating the table, it says it is dimmed out, so t

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Scott, No, mine just says this: "Virtual machine list, one item selected. Windows 7, empty dimmed table row." That's what I get. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter O

FW: switching from windows, some questions?

2010-05-01 Thread Kerie doyle
Hey, would really appreciate a reply to this one, Thanks again everyone, Kerie _ From: Kerie doyle [mailto:ker...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 April 2010 17:23 To: 'macvisionaries@googlegroups.com' Subject: RE: switching from windows, some questions? Hi nic, Carollyn, Chriss and all,

why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread erik burggraaf
Alright guys, I'm fiddling with fine reader. Now I got this to work at a clients no problem, but here it seems to be giving me a lot of grief. When it opens it presents me the tasks window. I choose to get my immages from cannoscan lide90 and hit the convert to text button. I've tried this on

resetting mail

2010-05-01 Thread May McDonald
Ok, I need some help here. How do I get apple mail to reset to it's default state? For some strange reason my email is not always being downloaded and it's says sometimes that I have more messages than I really do. I've tried deleting all the accounts and starting over but when I do that the old

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eric, How did you manage to click the Scan button for your Canon Lide 90? I've always found the ScanGear window totally inaccessible. That's why I always use VueScan to capture the images. Cheers, Anne On May 1, 2010, at 7:50 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Alright guys, I'm fiddling with

Re: resetting mail

2010-05-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello go to your home dir then libraries and then preferences and I think it is called com.apple.mail.plist but I'm not sure about that. Find any references to apple mail and get rid of them and restart mail. If any of the above steps are wrong someone please correct me as I'm not a veteran ye

If you dob';t understand IMAP, you can pay through the nose!

2010-05-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Friends, I just returned from the Sight City show in Frankfurt where I had the opportunity to check out some really cool technology. While there, I chose to use my mobile broadband service instead of paying for the daily hotel rates for a wireless connection in the hotel. WLAN would hav

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread John Panarese
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Re: parelells a complete waist of my time

2010-05-01 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Wow, that's unfortunate, as Klango is a great service. In a way I wish they'd port it over to the mac side. On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > o it's not. We've discussed it witht he devs and it does not appear tht they > will be doign this any time soon. > > Tc. > > S > On

Re: parelells a complete waist of my time

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Klango said a little while ago they were starting to make a Klango client for Mac. Sadly, I don't know when that'll happen. They made it for Symbian, but I will probably never understand why anyone would want it on their phone due to the feature-rich environment. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: ni

another mail question

2010-05-01 Thread May McDonald
Ok, I think I got the problem fixed, at least I hope so, smile. Thanks for that advise I never would have found it otherwise. Now that I have my gmail set up again, how do I get it to put all my gmail folders into apple mail? I don't remember how I did that before. I thought by telling it to sy

Re: switching from windows, some questions?

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Sorry for the time. I've been meaning to get to this one. :) Adium. When you locate the "Unknown" item in the chat window with someone, you can read the messages with the VoiceOver keys. You can also set up chats to read automatically using the system voice, or any other voice you select i

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread erik burggraaf
Growls! I've figured it out. What a pain in the neck. essentially, fine reader was hanging because the cannon twayne driver wouldn't let go of the scan until I delt with an invisible window. Honestly, maybe I can dumb this down with a little tweaking of my Scanner settings, but right now I'm

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, The scangear window is *not* inaccessible. If it was, how would i be able to use it every time? True you have to use the physical mouse or maybe turn on mouse keys to go to the actual scanning button, but for me at least it works all the time. Had it been a hit or miss, i'd agreed to some ex

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Krister. My roomate uses a lide200 and I thought he was using it OK last year when we were scanning in rental applications, but I went to use his for something a couple of weeks ago and it was totally useless. The canoscan window popped up and there was nothing at all in the window. Not e

my crash with switch update

2010-05-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
Well I learned that flip for mac is the culprit. It is a compatibility issue with the latest version. I'm trying to find an older version I could downgrade to. I'm looking on version tracker now but anywhere else I could look? Take care. S -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eric, It doesn't bother me that neither of my Canon scanners work directly with FineReader since I'm used to using VueScan which produces really good images. It's just that a lot of people don't want to be bothered using two apps to do the job. VueScan opens FineReader automatically once

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello John, Preferences aren't available in FineReader for the Mac as it's the Express version. They haven't made a full version for Mac users yet. I hope they do that some day. Cheers, Anne On May 1, 2010, at 8:05 PM, John Panarese wrote: >I can't even get to preferences. For whatever

Re: why is everything disabled in fine reader

2010-05-01 Thread erik burggraaf
I'd rather have one program myself, and I'd definitely rather teach one program if it will do the job. I'm settling in with fine reader now. It's clunky, but I don't want to read novels with it or anything. Best, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-

Re: my crash with switch update

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
HI, Are you for real? I would think an issue like this is universal. It doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately, which probably makes it harder to fix. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook

Re: my crash with switch update

2010-05-01 Thread Kaare Dehard
you might try http://www.oldversion.com I've not been there for some time, so may not have a lot of mac stuff. Worth a try though. On 2010-05-01, at 3:14 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Well I learned that flip for mac is > the culprit. It is a compatibility issue with the latest version. I'm trying

Re: house full of apples, and question about time capsule

2010-05-01 Thread Thuy
Regarding the time capsule, does anyone know if there's a way to make the storage drive visible to the network without having to run the airport utilitity on each machine? It's just that I want to use it as a network attached storage device that I can access from my Braille note takers and other mo

Changing voice at login

2010-05-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, A very recent switcher on the CeciMac list just posted this trick to get VoiceOver to speak with any voice you like at login. When the Login window comes up and Alex starts speaking, hold down VO-Command and use the left or right arrow key to find Default Voice, then the down ar

Firefox on the Mac

2010-05-01 Thread William Windels
Hello all, about firefox, someone has posted a bugreport on bugzilla about firefox 3.6.3 and the missing support for voiceover. They closed the bug very fast because it was already reported. So, I don't think that it makes sense to posts more bugreports. I think , it should be better to count up m

Re: -- Question on Autostarting a VM under Fusion

2010-05-01 Thread Scott Howell
Nic, Thanks, that is what I get as well, I just should have had VO put that in the message. Well still no joy, but I will continue to poke at this problem from time to time and I may stumble over the answer yet. tnx, On May 1, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi Scott, > > No, mine

New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Edward
Hello all, I am strongly considering buying my first Mac in a few weeks and would like to know if vo gives the user full accessibility in terms of ms office and web browsing? Thanks for answering my nubie questions Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully accessible yet, but it is said that it will be written in Cocoa, most likely making it accessible. The Mac has a basic Text Editor called Text Edit, which is a lot better than Wordpad and Notepad on Windows. You have suites su

RE: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Edward
Hello Which one, open office, or iworks, do you recommend? Also you wrote: Web browsing is very intuitive. There is simply nothing bad I can say about it. It works absolutely great, and the fact there is no buffer to load the page into makes you able to navigate a site even before the page has lo

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I personally prefer iWorks myself, but that is really only because in Open Office, each line is shown as another edit field. I still believe that is the case. As for web browsing, you can jump to certain blocks of text. With the introduction of Web spots in Mac OS X 10.6, it can sort the p

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread John J Herzog
Edward, For a great demo of voiceover and the mac's web browser, head over to the blind cool tech web site. Then, search for the words mac demo. I don't want to spoil it, but one of the really cool things about no buffers is that you get to see information change on the page dynamically as it h

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread olivia norman
I've never understood web spots and how they work. Can someone point me in the right direction here? Thanks, Olivia On May 1, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully accessible > yet, but it is said that it will be wri

RE: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Edward
Hello Yes, please send the link and I will take a listen right away. Thanks Edward -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John J Herzog Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subjec

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Kaare Dehard
it is good indeed, however, it may take some getting used to. Intuitive yeppers, but it took me a bit of time to get through the learning curve. It was worth it, but ya got to hang in there while you get used to the different ways of navigation. On 2010-05-01, at 8:45 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I've been using a Mack for about a month and a half now. It didn't take me very long to get used to, but it is way different than Windows. From what I've seen, there's nothing bad about the Mack, I love it. Courtney On 01/05/2010, at 9:36 in the Afternoon, Kaare Dehard wrote: > it is good

Re: my crash with switch update

2010-05-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
I looked it up on the net and that's what the nch team said. There is no fix for it at this time and this crash was reported in nov of last year. nov 24 to be exact. Tc S On May 1, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > HI, > > Are you for real? > > I would think an issue like this is

Re: my crash with switch update

2010-05-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah maybe i'll give it a try. I'd used it fore windows so searching for mac might be a bit tricky. Tc S On May 1, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > you might try http://www.oldversion.com I've not been there for some time, so > may not have a lot of mac stuff. Worth a try though. > On 2

Re: Changing voice at login

2010-05-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
OH cool! Yeah I new about that trick in the regular os but I did not realise it would work at log in. Take care. S On May 1, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A very recent switcher on the CeciMac list just posted this trick to get > VoiceOver to speak with any voi