That's interesting, the r600 only takes a max of 4gig ddr2 ram and has a
1.4GHz ULV ltra Low Voltage processor.
It's great how quick something still low powered, can work so brilliantly
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moisturizing lotion used on your fingers every day should keep the skin soft
and maintain sensitivity (its an old poker players trick).
-Eric
On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Cameron wrote:
> Hi. you should be fine. the callus will be on the tip of your finger, not
> on the pad of it.
>
> If y
You gotta be kidding me.
4$100 on training that my closest and probably every othe r mac store in nz
couldn't give me as they don't know or give a rats rear end, in or for
accessibility / adaptive technology features of mac osx.
I know more of voiceover than the two closest mac dealer stores in
Carolyn,
for all the good reasons with a PC, the issue still is that I cannot live
with JAWS fouling up all the time, if I was still sighted I'd not switch,
perhaps that's the best way of conveying this.
thanks.
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On Oct 12, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> That won't do OCR though will it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 12/10/2010, Scott Howell wrote:
>> Thanks Justin, I will pass this along.
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Justin Ekis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi scott, here is the link for
Hi,
Just to clear up the jaws command with Outlook, Outlook Express and probably
also Windows Mail is indsert+shift+r.
Claus
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Subject: Re: Selecting a recipient
Two points:
1. On the PC si
Hi,
Don't bother with the menus for preferences, just use cmd-comma. Works in most
apps so worth remembering. You then need to select the accounts tab to get to
the relevant options.
Cheers
Dave
On 12 Oct 2010, at 20:47, Scott Granados wrote:
Hi there,
You should be able to go to preferences
I sent them a message asking if the ebook would work with a screenreader or
if it was an imaged file. Heather
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The Whiz Wheels don't seem to work well on web pages. However, they work great
in other documents if you interact with the text. You can press both rocker
bars down or press VO-shift-down-arrow.
hTH,
Teresa
On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Ahmed Alomran wrote:
> hi all
> for those who use focus 40
many thanks for your help.
regards.
Ahmed.
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Subject: Re: activating wizweels in freedom scientific braille focus 40 with
voice over
The Whiz Wheels don't seem to work well on web pages. Howeve
Hi Simon:
The Mac store does not an Apple store make.:)
Differing requirements, different employees. It would be like going to a
hearing aid dealer who doesn't do audiology testing but just sells hearing
aids.
Probably redundant for me to say this, but you might get on Apple.com and try
the
Hi Neil:
Now thats the makings of a possible good Apple commercial; once we get you
comfortable in the Mac.:)
Take care
Carolyn
On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> Carolyn,
>
> for all the good reasons with a PC, the issue still is that I cannot live
> with JAWS foul
I would not suggest that for the fingers on her fretting hand though.
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Gambling, now that's something I can get behind. More Blackjack than Poker but
that's all good!
Maybe I wouldn't have lost 250,000 and change to the Mohegan sun if I used
moisturizer over vacation.
:)
On Oct 13, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Cameron wrote:
> I would not suggest that for the fingers on
I wonder if Apple was smart enough to disable VO-shift-c in such instances?
On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are some web-pages, like on the iTunes Store, that do not allow
> selecting and copying. Think of it like a locked pdf or a web-page that
> doesn't allow
Hi Claus,
This is a good illustration of why its a good idea to do a modicum of testing
prior to posting; reply all does *NOT* work on this list.
Carolyn had a good suggestion. I usually only read messages in the preview
pane, but when I do want to reply to the individual user I'll press enter
Hi,
Their might be some OS 10.7, lion news coming next week. Read more at
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Has any one used Silverlight plug in with Safari?
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Is it possible to delete a bootcamp partition? I have a macbook pro with
snow lepard on it. I used bootcamp to dual boot windows xp. I think I want
to kill that partition and just use the mac osx operating system. How can I
do this? Is it even possible?
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Hello, everyone. I have gotten my Apple Mac Book working again. Now I want to
experiment with the settings in VoiceOver Utility to get as much shown to me in
a list view as I can do with Apple. I would appreciate knowing the process and
specific keystrokes when I press VO F8. What are the sp
As a way of demonstrating my utter inexperience with the Mac operating system
(or my lack of motivation to find certain information with Google), I have a
few questions. My first question regards Mail. Is there a way to jump quickly
to the top or bottom of a table-specifically, the messages tabl
Hi Linda!
When you go into vo utility, you will be on the general settings, just scroll
right and you will be given different options like on mine I've change how my
Mac starts up!
Then when you have tweaked what you want on that setting, go back to where it
says categories table general!
Just i
Hi, i have been playing guitar for years and i play everyday of my
life for at least two hours. I tell you that to let you know i have
some calluses haha and that even on my left hand i can still read
braille just fine. So yes you should be fine.
On 10/13/10, Scott Granados wrote:
> Gambling, now
Hello,
It is extreemly simple to do. Just start the bootcamp wizard and one
of the first things that it askes is do you want to remove the bootcamp
partition. What is really scarry is how fast it does it.
Later,
Scott
On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Damon Fibraio wrote:
>
>
> Is it
Hi Damon!
Simply go into the Bootcamp Assistant again, and you click continue. Then, you
get two choices. "Create or remove Windows partition" or "Start the Windows
Installer". Obviously, you choose the first choice, select the partition you
want to remove if you have multiple ones and click re
Scott. Thanks a lot. I'll keep this in mind.
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Yes.
IF you go to:
www.wwl.com
and register, you can listen to the stream; but, to do so, you must download
and install Silverlight. No prob on this end.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!!
Skype Name:
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On Oct 13, 2010, at
When in the message table, if you press asnd hold the option key and up or down
for about one second, this action will move you to the top or bottom of the
table.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
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Skype Name:
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On Oct 13, 201
OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what can I do about
accessing aol or msn messengers on the Mac. Here's my deal.
Been using a MacBook pro for a while, mostly booting into win xp using
bootcamp. Well, kind of think I am stupid for doing this, and figured that
maybe it's time to
I don't have an answer for this, but I wonder... VO-Shift-M on a
picture will bring up a contextual menu. Could one put a send image
to Abby Reader as an acttion in there?
That would solve this problem.
Jon
>> My next question is regarding using the Web. Captchas-need I say more? On
>> the Wind
1. There are a couple of ways to jump around a table. In all cases
you should be interacting with the table.
1. Use jump cursor mode... VO-shift-J puts you in jump mode, there are
8 combinations you can then use...
1. VO-arrow move to the visible edge in the direction of the arrow.
2. VO-shift-ar
I personally use iChat, though there are a few folks on the list that
use Aanother program. iChat supports AOL and Jabber protocols, so
that means that it also supports facebook and google chat.
on
On 13/10/2010, Damon Fibraio wrote:
> OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what ca
OK, so what works with msn/windows live messenger. I need this part for
work.
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Hi there. I've been looking at running Windows on my Mac to play a couple
games and maybe to do a little streaming, probably with Stationplaylist. I
heard Sara's demo of Fusion and how incredibly bad the audio was almost like
a buffered stream or something. Is Parallels any better in this regard
For me, the answer is this:
www.solona.net
There's a handy tool you can install and run via termin.app which will really
help wi the captcha issue. There's even a process you can do so that, in order
to solve a captcha, you just snap a shot of the screen using shift+command+3
and then press a
hi
i was wondering if there is a way to tag certain sections in a
document that can be jumped to either using VO or the mac keystrokes
in general.
for example on windoes i am able to do this using the headings list in
jaws.
is there an equivalent of doing this in mac?
thanks regards
Liam
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Hi Damon, yep, Adium works really well, with MSN messenger, AOL messenger,
and a whole bunch of other IM services. If you need help feel free to email
off-list.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Damon Fibraio wrote:
> OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what can I do about
> ac
Adium is your program of choice.
I primarily use it for icq and facebook. it supports a number of other chat
protocols including yahoo, google talk, bing, etc). also, you will end up
installing growl. that is a side program designed to make programs (like adium)
a lot more accessible (I use it w
Not that I'm aware of but there are others on this list more experienced then
me. Waht are you using for your editor?
On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:17 PM, DJ Nezumi wrote:
> hi
> i was wondering if there is a way to tag certain sections in a
> document that can be jumped to either using VO or the mac key
Are you looking for just while the file is open, or for re-occurrence
every time you open the file.
If you are looking for a temporary marker, then hot spots should work.
Also, the VO navigation kekeys for jumping to headers and tables
should work in most applications.
Best regards,
Jon
On 1
Adium is awesome. It's kinda like miranda in a way. Real open source, tons of
stuff it can interface with. Love it.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> Adium is your program of choice.
> I primarily use it for icq and facebook. it supports a number of other chat
> protocols including
Robert,
For captcha check out Solona.net.
For Webkit go to
webkit.org
Linda
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Robert Hooper wrote:
> As a way of demonstrating my utter inexperience with the Mac operating system
> (or my lack of motivation to find certain information with Google), I have a
> few
I had a co-worker send me a Microsoft word file with documentation on
a process I am supposed to implement. Jaws however just says "empty
page" for all four pages. I am therefore assuming that screen image
captures were pushed into word. I don't really wnat to ask for a
resend of the document,
DO not use parallels, it pretty much sucks the big one in terms of performance
and fusion is much more accessible.
Also, audio is not a problem under fusion. I'm not sure what you heard but I
run tons of apps under fusion at the same time as apps on the Mac and no
problems. Streaming, the TTS
hi
thanks for your responses. @sarah i'm most likely going to use Nisus
writer pro but could use pages at a push. @jonathan i would like this
to happen everytime i open the document. just to let you know the
keystrokes for headings etc only work in safari unfortunaetly.
thanks Liam
Jonathan Cohn w
well I don't have the $200 I would need to get it, but I can say that if it
works as well as its little brother, the iPhone version works, I would start
saving right now. Its cool to be able to just talk out an email or a command
from across the room or what ever. Some times I may be doing somet
hi thanks for your responses. @Sarah i'm most likely going to suse
either nisus writer pro or pages.
@jonathan i would like this to happen every time that i open the
document. unfortunately dude the headings keystroke etc only works in
safari.
thanks
Liam
DJ Nezumi wrote:
> hi
> i was wondering if
Hi John:
Perhaps this is a far-fetched idea. But here goes.
Could you safe the word file in a pdf format and bring it to the mac to read
with preview?
Or, safe the word file as a text file and bring it over that way?
Carolyn
On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> I had a co-work
Hi guys:
I decided to look more closely at the braille display options offered by
handytech. While on their website, I learned that they have developed their
own manual, workbook and tutorial, as well as a 3 day workshop for learning the
mac with voiceover. I was kind of excited to learn this,
Why not just run Abby Fine Reader on the file? IF that fails, maybe convert it
to a .pdf file? From that point, if necessary, (I bet it will be necessary if
it's a scanned image ot text) you could then run Abby Fine Reader on it.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now A Very Proud
All:
My music on my phone isn't organized, so I want to delete the music, only from
the phone, and not my Mac. How do I do this? I'm manually managing content
using iTunes.
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Hello Carolyn,
Handytech now sells macs and when you buy one, you get their tutorial for
Macs. they've developed a dvd that they sell for 470 for their training.
they offer workshops as you mentioned. three day workshops on the mac. they
seem to be expanding this all over the country. I hear th
Thanks Liam for asking this question. I too, would be interested. I use text
edit and would want the tags to be permanent. Does anything exist that would
do this for us?
Linda
On Oct 13, 2010, at 6:17 PM, DJ Nezumi wrote:
> hi
> i was wondering if there is a way to tag certain sections in a
If you have kurzweil1000 on the windows side, just run it through, if
nothing else works. But you should be able to open the file and do a save
as in to another format to read it! My teacher always seem to send me word
docs of a scanned worksheet, annoying! So I sometimes had to run it throug
To access aim, use ichat. Msn can be accessed with adium.
Go to
http://www.adiumx.com to download adium.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Damon Fibraio wrote:
> OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what can I do about
> accessing aol or msn messengers on the Mac. Here’s my deal.
>
>
Paralles is inaccessible. Boot camp or fusion wioudl work.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Hi there. I've been looking at running Windows on my Mac to play a couple
> games and maybe to do a little streaming, probably with Stationplaylist. I
> heard Sara's demo of Fusion and
Cheree Heppe here:
Yes, well and good for Handy Tech, but
The Apple stores sells a service plan where anyone can get tutoring for $99.00
from any Apple store for I think two years, along with the hardware support
plan. No special anything.
They're just trying to tap into the current reha
Hi all:
I'm wondering if there's an alternative accessible web browser?
I'm getting tired of Safari crashes and lock ups and then having to
use web kit.
If this thing is so grate, how come apple doesn't update it weekly
with the web kit engine?
Puzzled:
Mike
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I might have to rip all my cd's again! *sigh* Any experience with aac vs mp3?
Which is better?
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I would say that the experience you would get from a 3 day intensive workshop
would be quite different from the experience you'd get from a now and then
tutoring at your local Apple store, if you happen to live close enough to one
to make the approach of traveling to and from the store reasonabl
I think aac sounds better. If you have to go with a lossy format that would be
the better choice.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
> All:
> I might have to rip all my cd's again! *sigh* Any experience with aac vs mp3?
> Which is better?
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Cheree Heppe here:
Our Apple and our Mac guys are very trained and intelligent. They know how to
learn and don't have a limited knowledge of VO. At least, their limited
knowledge is less limited than my limited knowledge.
I think Handy Tech is just playing on fear of open community access and
Hi Mike,
I'm wondering what sorts of things are you browsing that is causing Safari to
freeze and/or crash. I've seldom, if ever, had safari crash on me. There are
some sites that don't act properly, but never have I had it crash like you're
speaking of.
to answer your question though, you m
Hi Mike,
I just use webkit as my default browser and don't even worry about safari. They
can't use it as the default just yet because it is still a work in progress.
However, I have been following apple news sites such as apple insider that have
been reporting about private betas of the next fr
Hi:
Ok, I followed the link to the missing manual, found description, table of
contents, etc. Guess I'm pretty dense, because I don't see how to buy or
access the book. A push in the right direction would be most appreciated.
TIA
Carolyn
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For mobile content, you'll be fine with AAC at 128 kbps. This sounds much
better than MP3 at higher frequencies and will fit nicely on a 32 GB iPhone or
iPod.
If you're listening at home or with headphones on a lazy afternoon, AAC at 256
kbps will sound great, even for music with lots of dynam
I e-mail them yesterday evening about the eBook accessibility and they told
me that I can purchase in PDF or daisy. I asked them where to go so I am
waiting for an e-mail myself on the book! So when they e-mail me tomorrow,
I will pass it along! Heather
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Hello to all I need to finding a midi editor for the mac preferable free that
works almost like, but better then qws. I'm trying to edit a tempo in a midi
file and failing. Any suggestions? I can do the rest as I have synthfont now
but please help!
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Well, your response certainly has the possibility of real truth because of
the motives of people. I won't disagree with you. there's lots of politics
in the whole issue. It's unfortunate, but there it is.
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