Re: How do you change margin widths in TextEdit?

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Griffiths
I think I've managed to do this. Here are the steps I went through; you may of course be set to inches rather then centimetres. Select everything in the document with Cmd-A. VO-left arrow to the ruler and interact with it. VO-right arrow to "0.00 centimetres head indent ruler marker" and interac

Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs on the Mac?

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Howell
I agree the NLS excuses are so weak as to be pathetic. If someone really wanted to steal the damned audio, they have so many options including going to the local library and borrowing possibly the same book on CD and ripping it. Now gee, don't you think the local library knows people like me do

Re: My spanish apple accessibility new list

2010-11-30 Thread Claudio Haase
Hi Anne. Yes, you can do this. Thank you so much. On 11/30/10, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Claudio, > > I maintain a list of discussion groups for the Mac and VoiceOver on my > French site: www.cecimac.org > > Would you mind if I added your group to my list? > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 30 Nov

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Before you partittion the drive, you should consider the partitioning scheme you want to use. There was a discourse about this on Tidbits two or three years ago. I will be receiving a new disk shortly, and will need to review all this too. I am getting one of those Western Digital disks that ha

Re: musicality

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Aikens
The Last FM page does work. I can't get the interfaces for pandora and grooveshark to work though. It comes with a 14 day demo but not sure I would pay the $10 unless I could use all 3 services. -Greg On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I've been playing with it a bit. The

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Slau
Trahern, 1. Navigate to any field, object or control you wish to set as a hot spot. 2. Use VO-Shift-with 1 through 0 on the numbers row to set a hot spot. Once you've set a hot spot, you can use VO plus the number to instantly move the focus to and speak the status of the hot spot. If you want V

Re: My spanish apple accessibility new list

2010-11-30 Thread Esther
Hi Rafaela, Do you know about the web pages of Jonathan Chacón Barbero? He is a blind developer who is on both the macvisionaries and viphone lists, and who has recently submitted an accessible Minesweeper game to the App Store. He also posts a number of useful articles in Spanish on his

Re: Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Brandt, Check the archives for more suggestions but the method I use right now is to open the xml version of the book in safari. There is a free daisy player called Olearia but I couldn't get it to read from one chapter to the next without manually telling the program to move on. The safari

Re: My spanish apple accessibility new list

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Rafaela: Very cool idea. I know just enough Spanish to make a large fool of myself. But, I wanted to give you a verbal thumbs up for what you're doing. Muy fantastico! Carolyn On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I hope it is ok for me to post this here. >

Re: Using VO to download applications

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Israel: I have to tell you something funny and make a correction. I woke up this morning and realized I'd been watching and reading too many medical stories. I think I said the files would appear as EMG files, when in fact they are DMG. OOPS Think I have it right now.:) Take care and good

Re: My spanish apple accessibility new list

2010-11-30 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi Ester, I didn't know about all of this, I will check it out. Thanks for the info, I will add the resources you've suggested to my list page. Rafaela Freundt E-mail/MSN: rafafreu...@gmail.com Skype: rafafreundt El 30/11/2010, a las 09:10, Esther escribió: > Hi Rafaela, > > Do you know abo

a Safari question

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi everyone: I was on a surfing frenzy yesterday and got to wondering something about web page access. If I am reading something, say, for example a list of sale products, and there's a series of pages within the listing, is there a way to have my cursor move right to the same listing when the

Re: a Safari question

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
If you hit the webspot create option sequence twice, this is supposed to set up such a point but I have had little luck with it personally. I generally will look for something searchable, or use the headings. If there is common text right before where you want to be, and search for it with VO-F, th

RE: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Ford
Hi Sarah, I have a 1TB that I split into four partitions. I created two osx on the first two partitions and then created two fat32 partitions on the last two. I did all of this on the Mac mini. Now I am using this for a network storage. Later, Scott -Original Message- From: macv

Re: My spanish apple accessibility new list

2010-11-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Rafaela, If you go to http://www.cecimac.org/english.htm you'll find all kinds of sites and lists for other languages. Cheers, Anne On 30 Nov 2010, at 15:40, Rafaela Freundt wrote: > Hi Ester, > > I didn't know about all of this, I will check it out. > > Thanks for the info, I will ad

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Ezzy Bueno
Hello Slau, I can use the same number on different wccbsites, right? For example, I can use the number 1 as a hot spot for Twitter and Facebook, right? How do I get rid of a hot spot if I no longer need it? Ezzy - Original Message - From: Slau 1. Navigate to any field, object or c

iphone app OT

2010-11-30 Thread John W. Carty
There's a bible app called olive tree that has some good features but using voiceover the text is completely silent. I thought apple was publishing development standards and enforcing compliance. Is anyone out there successfully using an iphone / ipad bible application? If so, which one? Thanx

Re: iphone app OT

2010-11-30 Thread Jim Barbour
On the iphone list (subscribe at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone) several folks have talked about using bible apps. That might be a good place to check. Apple is absolutely not enforcing accessibility. there is off and on chatter on the list about this as well. JIm On Tue, Nov 30, 2010

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Slau
Hi Ezzy, I'm not sure if I understand your question, exactly. Think of it as having 10 points available to you, anywhere on your Mac, in any application. You can use any number hot spot in any application but you can't use number 1 twice, that is, in one application and also another application

Re: iphone app OT

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Aikens
The Bible app from youversion.com works well, is free, and has a large variety of translations and reading plans available. Greg On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Jim Barbour wrote: > On the iphone list (subscribe at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone) > > several folks have talked about usi

the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Matthew J
hay all: Well it is that time that I start considering a laptop solution and the mac is becoming ever more attractive for taking places and working. What I'd like to see however, is how productive the mac can be in comparison to windows machines. I have mys ystems with office 2007/10 down to a

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Esther
Hi Ezzy, Ezzy Bueno wrote: I can use the same number on different wccbsites, right? For example, I can use the number 1 as a hot spot for Twitter and Facebook, right? How do I get rid of a hot spot if I no longer need it? I'll add a little more information to Slau's excellent response

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread heather kd5cbl
Well, I hate to say this but, if you don't want to learn completely knew ways of doing things, that is a problem. The mac is not lie a windows PC and yes it has simular programs but they are not accessed like a windows program. They are just as productive and are easy after you learn them. I

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Kimberly thurman
I would recommend a slow transition. Get a Mac. Keep using your PC, and slowly begin to perform tasks on the Mac that you once performed in windows. Just my opinion. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:39 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > Well, I hate to say this but, if you don't want to learn completely knew w

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Jim Barbour
I don't believe any of the Microsoft programs written for the mac are accessible using voiceover. The mac equivalents - pages, numbers, etc - are accessible, but you need to figure out if they generate documents that you can share with those using Microsoft products. That is probably what I'd pa

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
First, Microsoft Office is not accessible on the Mac, as far as I can tell. However, you can partition your harddrive using BootCamp, so that you can install Windows on one of the partitions, if you absolutely must use Windows software. Second, pdf files are very readable on the Mac, using Prev

Re: where is the built-in mike on the MBP?

2010-11-30 Thread David Taylor
I can feel a tiny thing on my ordiary MacBook which you find by moving up and left from the escape key. It's about a quarter of an inch in from the left, about level with the centre of the power adaptor. Is that it? Cheers Dave On 29 Nov 2010, at 20:52, Donna Goodin wrote: > Well, i'm not gett

vmware fusion and remap keys for screen reader.

2010-11-30 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi List. Well, I managed to install fusion and create a virtual machine with windows XP. How do I remap keys so that I can use my right command and option keys for insert etc? If you can point me to any archived message or help directly I would appreciate it very much. Nektarios. -- You recei

Re: vmware fusion and remap keys for screen reader.

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Granados
Use something like sharp keys or keymapper. I use sharp keys and it fits the bill nicely. Both are free products. Thanks Scott On Nov 30, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hi List. > Well, I managed to install fusion and create a virtual machine with windows > XP. > How do I rema

Re: torrent files on the Mac.

2010-11-30 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks so much Chris and all of you have responded. On 29 Nov 2010, at 14:11, Chris Snyder wrote: > I use UTorrent. > www.utorrent.com > It is fully accessible, allows total control of the torrent process, and > doesn't require a lot of system resources to run. > > Friendly, > Chris > > On Nov

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim and everyone, I use iWork09 to open and modify MS Office documents all the time, and then export them to their Office equivalents again. There are one or two problems such as incompatible fonts and tables in Word documents that have to be pasted into Numbers documents to be read and e

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'm just worried that it will be unstable in windows. I don't feel like loosing 2 tb of data. Ok about 720 gigs but yeah. On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your will :) > > > -- > You received this message because yo

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Wht kind of research is needed? the thing is coming probbly this week and all of this tech jargin is for some reason going over my head. I can't even speak the partitioning lingo right. lol! s On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Hi Sarah, > I have a 1TB that I split into fou

Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs on the Mac?

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Well maybe ef enough of us worry them to death for a few months they might take it in to consideration. Anyone feel like writing a resolution? lol! I think it's a good idea that rfbd are finily puting it on mainstream devices. that will make it easier to cary around 2 things. your ipad or what e

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I don't think at&t downloaded stuff for me to that folder but yeah I googled and found that longish path and thte bigish file. lol! S On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hello Sarah, > > The update will be stored in ~/library/iTunes/iPhone SOftware Updates. In the > iTunes

Re: How do you change margin widths in TextEdit?

2010-11-30 Thread Esther
Hi Tom, Steve, Jonathan, and Mark, Steve's correct that you can set the left and right margins in TextEdit (in Rich Text Mode) by interacting with the head indent ruler marker and tail indent ruler marker and moving them to the desired positions. As a general comment, you can save any chan

Getting torrents off my windows machine to a mac

2010-11-30 Thread brandt
Hi there folks. Being a user of µTorrent for windows, I'm looking for a way to bring running torrents over to the mac when I swich. If anyone can help, I'd be greatful. Regards, Brandt Steenkamp MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com AIM: brandt.steenk.

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Ester, Just one thing, hot spots are actually persistent through reboots, FYI. Cheers! Slau On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Ezzy, > >> Ezzy Bueno wrote: >>> >>> I can use the same number on different wccbsites, right? For example, I can >>> use the number 1 as a hot spot f

Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?

2010-11-30 Thread Brett Campbell
Esther, is there a way to manually arrange the order of the bookmarks in the bookmarks bar? Brett C. On Nov 30, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Ezzy, > >> Ezzy Bueno wrote: >>> >>> I can use the same number on different wccbsites, right? For example, I can >>> use the number 1 as a ho

Re: Getting torrents off my windows machine to a mac

2010-11-30 Thread trahern culver
hey brant u torrent for mac is also fully accsessabel in my experance kind regards trahern. -- 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, s

Re: where is the built-in mike on the MBP?

2010-11-30 Thread Pete Nalda
Yeah that's it. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:19 PM, David Taylor wrote: > I can feel a tiny thing on my ordiary MacBook which you find by moving up and > left from the escape key. It's about a quarter of an inch in from the left, > about level with the centre of the power adaptor. Is that it? > > Chee

Reordering the bookmarks bar [was Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?]

2010-11-30 Thread Esther
Hi Brett, Brett Campbell wrote: Esther, is there a way to manually arrange the order of the bookmarks in the bookmarks bar? On the Mac, you'd have to use copy and paste to manually reorder the bookmarks bar entries. If you have MobileMe, and sync your bookmarks, then the easy thing to

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You are normally asked to install these carrier updates if necessary after an update, or whenever one is available for your provider. You have probably had one of these at some point, so it's andy to know where they are. Regards, Nic GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype:

Re: Reordering the bookmarks bar [was Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?]

2010-11-30 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi Ester, what is the difference between the bookmarks menu, bar, favorites, etc? that is what isn't clear for me. Also, when I cynch my ipod touch and tell it to cynch bookmarks with my mac does the bookmarks from the mac are cynched to the ipod or the other way around? thanks a lot and hope I

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Eric Oyen
unless you have some significant issues, you can single partition that drive (assuming you are using a 64 bit OS). otherwise, I'd slice it down into 4 500 GB partitions. that generally makes the cluster sizes a little smaller, and thus allows for better data storage. -Eric On Nov 30, 2010, at 1

Re: Reordering the bookmarks bar [was Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?]

2010-11-30 Thread Esther
Hi Rafaela, Your Safari bookmarks are what Internet Explorer would call favorites. You can export bookmarks from any browser and import them into any other browser -- that's platform independent. Safari lets you organize your bookmarks menu into folders, and create new folders for your b

Re: vmware fusion and remap keys for screen reader.

2010-11-30 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi Scott. Is sharp keys a mac program or something that I need to run within the windows session? If I use that to remap my keyboard, will those changes be applicable when not using windows? Thanks. Nektarios. On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Use something like sharp keys

wifi-problem since ios 4.2

2010-11-30 Thread William Windels
Hello, I think, since ios-version 4.2, I have some network problems on my iphone4. When I come into my house, normally the iphone should connect automatically to my authorized network that's encrypted with a wpa2-key. Since last week, one or more days after the update, I discover that the Iphon

Re: vmware fusion and remap keys for screen reader.

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Granados
You would make the changes inside the virtual machine. The mac side is unimpacted. This is critical to remember because your VM is for all intense and purposes an isolated sandbox. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hi Scott. > Is sharp keys a mac program or something that

Re: wifi-problem since ios 4.2

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Granados
Your problem is most likely Apple or your routers implimentation of AES cryptography. On your router set your security to wpa/wpa2 and set your crypt function to tkip/aes or auto not just AES. That should fix the issue. Thanks Scott On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:06 PM, William Windels wrote: > Hello

Re: Reordering the bookmarks bar [was Re: how do i use the hot spots feature in voice over?]

2010-11-30 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi Ester, thanks for your response, I understand it now. I don't have mobile me, but I think with the normal iphone cynche you can cynch bookmarks across both platforms, is this true? thanks, Rafaela Freundt E-mail/MSN: rafafreu...@gmail.com Skype: rafafreundt El 30/11/2010, a las 16:52, Est

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from Matt boil down to on Intel based Macintoshes you should use a specific partition style if you want to be able to use the hard disk drive to boot your computer in ememergencies. The article is fairly brief and entertaining

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I am using a 32 bit OS for both mac and windows. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > unless you have some significant issues, > you can single partition that drive (assuming you are using a 64 bit OS). > otherwise, I'd slice it down into 4 500 GB partitions. that generally makes > th

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh I don't plan on booting from it at all. Just using it. but my 320 gig portable hd I plan on reformating to OSx extended journal and seeing how things go. On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from > Matt bo

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm I don't remember having been asked to install a carrier update. Just the ones from apple. but I will keep that in mind. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi! > > You are normally asked to install these carrier updates if necessary after an > update, or whenever one is a

Re: vmware fusion and remap keys for screen reader.

2010-11-30 Thread Kimberly thurman
You need to download Sharp Keys and install it under windows. It's pretty straight forward and easy to use. If you run into trouble, there are several folks on this list to help you. On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hi Scott. > Is sharp keys a mac program or something tha

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Theres not really any point in backing up the ios installers. 1: If your thinking of being able to downgrade to something older using this method then it won't work. 2: If you're worried that you might some how break your phone and are wanting to preserve the files to do a factory restore theres no

Dropbox via LAN

2010-11-30 Thread David Hole
Hi folks. Maybe someone here can tell me, where can I see if and/or set up my Dropbox to sync via LAN on the Mac? Actually I can't find the settings for dropbox on the Mac :( I've also tried Google in many variations, but nothing to find there too... I also would like to see how far the process

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually my thing is to save each installer in a folder on my external drive so if I restore I can jut ctrl click on the restore button in itunes and downgrade to what ever was before the IOS upgrade. On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > Theres not really any point in backing u

Yelp on the IPhone

2010-11-30 Thread Kevin Mattingly
It looks like the folks at yelp are starting to work on the accessibility of their app. It is a lot like some other apps I've seen but there seems to be more people using it and therefore the ratings are a little more accurate. Kev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

question on how to move the mouse

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Any ideas would be appreciated. Marlaina -- 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 email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegro

something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello to all. You can write me off list for this if you wish just in case I get in trouble. Someone is seeling there 1 year old ipod nano. Beeing that I've never seen one I have some questions. It comes with voice over and it can only do music and it comes with a radio thing they say. 1. I did

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Howell
No, you cannot run Skype on a Nano. THis is the previous generation nano and you cannot run apps on it. Scott On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello to all. You can write me off list for this if you wish just in case I > get in trouble. > > Someone is seeling there 1 yea

Re: problems saving using save as in text edit and pages

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Tim, I tried this three times as a test. Twice it did not work, once it did. It seems arbitrary, or is it just dang contrary! On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi Marlaina, I've seen this sort of thing happen when there is something selected in the File Table of the Save dialog

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Yes, but that won't work after a couple weeks of a new version being released at the most. On 30/11/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Actually my thing is to save each installer in a folder on my external drive > so if I restore I can jut ctrl click on the restore button in itunes and > downgrade to w

Re: where is the download of the ios update saved

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm I managed to restore about 2 months after ios what ever was released in june. i had no choice. lol! S On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > Yes, but that won't work after a couple weeks of a new version being > released at the most. > > On 30/11/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote:

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Darn! thats what I thought. Ah well. I moight still go for it as I can still listen to music and use the radio app I think. and for the price they are giving it seems good. It's 8 gigs but it's better then nothing. lol! On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > No, you cannot run Skype

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh! and would I be able to update it to ios4.2. there updates are about a year old! lol! On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > No, you cannot run Skype on a Nano. THis is the previous generation nano and > you cannot run apps on it. > Scott > > > > > > On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:06

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Sarah: Sounds like probably a fifth gen nano. I have a 4th gen that has Voiceover it is also an eight gig. So, I know that part will work. I suspect the nano will not have skype capability. It would have to tie into a wifi network, and I'm not certain nanos do. Hope tat helps a little O

is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
In Windows, I use duck stream to broadcast or stream. What is comparable and accessible for the Mac? -- 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 th

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn
Sarah: I actually never filled my 8 gig nano until I put a couple books on it. So, you can hardly go wrong if the price is right. Carolyn Haas - Original Message - From: Sarah Alawami To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:51 PM Subject: Re:

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Howell
No. The software on the Nano is completely different than the software on the iOS devices. I'm not sure the software on the most recent Nano is the same or to what degree it is like iOS 4.X. Scott On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Oh! and would I be able to update it to io

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
As far as I'm aware the radio bit only works when you have the headphones/earbuds in as it uses those as a receiver. It's all a matter of what you want to do with it in the end, if it has a camera that's cool, but for skype you'd definitely need a built-in mic or have the option of using an ex

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah. I've never baught apple tech from people besides the apple company itself. that's why I'm nervous and it's a year old but it is in good condition so the person says. How small are they I don't want to loose them and will it work in the ipod docs I have? I hope so as one of them is about 2

Re: is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
there's nice cast. I've used it a bit and it works like a charm! On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > In Windows, I use duck stream to broadcast or stream. What is comparable and > accessible for the Mac? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ah nice. Well I don't need anything fancy at the moment. lol! On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Sarah: > Sounds like probably a fifth gen nano. I have a 4th gen that has Voiceover > it is also an eight gig. So, I know that part will work. I suspect the nano > will not have

Weird Problem with a Focus 40 BT Display

2010-11-30 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I'm not sure if this is a vO issue or a braille display one. I just got an exchange unit from FS and I'm trying it out. The Bluetooth works great, but when I plug in the USB, the Braille display goes to sleep. VO is still accepting input keys, but the display is dead. It works when not

Re: is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
where do I get nicecast? On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: there's nice cast. I've used it a bit and it works like a charm! On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > In Windows, I use duck stream to broadcast or stream. What is comparable and > accessible for the Ma

Re: Yelp on the IPhone

2010-11-30 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, What exactly is yelp? Courtney On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > It looks like the folks at yelp are starting to work on the accessibility of > their app. It is a lot like some other apps I've seen but there seems to be > more people using it and therefore the ratings are

Re: using speech commands on the Mac

2010-11-30 Thread M. Taylor
I used XLR mikes that were first converted to bits before being used by my Mac. On Nov 29, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Mark, > > Were these wired Microphones? Unlike PC's Macintoshs have line-in and > not mic-in jacks. What this means is that most microphones need a > pre-amp if t

Re: something I'm contemplating

2010-11-30 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I know this is off-topic, but it just peaked my interest, when someone said that apps couldn't be run on the previous version, but can you run apps on this version of nano? Courtney On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > No, you cannot run Skype on a Nano. THis is the previous

Re: Great News! List Mailing Issue Solved!!!!!!!

2010-11-30 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Les, I am sorry for taking so long to reply. In order to get your gMail list messages working, again, it is sometimes necessary to completely delete/remove the Outgoing SMTP server for the account and then create it again. Many are reporting that this, in addition to what I wrote, he

nicecast

2010-11-30 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, Would it be possible to just prerecord a show with nicecast without streaming it? I do a radio show, which is prerecorded, and since nicecast is good broadcast software for the mac, I'm wondering if and how this will work? Thanks, Courtney -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: problems saving using save as in text edit and pages

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Marlaina, I don't believe that it is arbitrary at all, most likely contrary. Just for fun, try thi: 1. Open your document. 2. Press cmd-shift-s for Save As. 3. Type the filename you wish to save it as. 4. Press cmd-shift-d to tell it to be saved on the Desktop. 5. Press return. Your fi

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Eric Oyen
ok, a 32 bit OS will not be able to properly address a 2 TB drive without some special drivers or perhaps making the cluster sizes (in windows) overly large (in order to keep the cluster count within the supported addressable range). I am not sure what OS X uses for this as I have never had to p

Re: Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
The way I do it is, use a program like the unarchiver which will unzip password protected zip files. One of the files will have an xml extension, just open that in safari and off you go. On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:59 PM, brandt wrote: > Hi there folks, > > Are there any way of reading a bookshare

Writing reviews on Audible

2010-11-30 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I have tried to write a review for a book I just read called Spanish Eyes on Audible. Has anyone had success submitting reviews to Audible. I can see the rating scale, title, and description to enter the review. But after I write it, I cannot see the submit buton. I click on the previe

Re: How do you change margin widths in TextEdit?

2010-11-30 Thread Tom Frank
Hi there Esther, I can do everything but move the left margin to the right less than one inch and the right margin to the right less than for a one inch margin. I tried creating a document in pages the way I want it, then saved it and then tried to open it in TextEdit to check out the margins; I

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
You can also try open office, it's free and works fairly well. On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jim Barbour wrote: > I don't believe any of the Microsoft programs written for the mac are > accessible using voiceover. The mac equivalents - pages, numbers, etc - > are accessible, but you need to figu

Re: problems saving using save as in text edit and pages

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I'll try that Tim, though I hate to save things to desktop, but then I'll copy it to its folder then delete from desktop. On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi Marlaina, I don't believe that it is arbitrary at all, most likely contrary. Just for fun, try thi: 1. Open your docume

Re: How do you change margin widths in TextEdit?

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ho do you check margins in text edit? On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Tom Frank wrote: Hi there Esther, I can do everything but move the left margin to the right less than one inch and the right margin to the right less than for a one inch margin. I tried creating a document in pages the way I want

Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Does anybody else run into the situation where Alex pronounces a capital letter then the rest of the word, like H ello. This drives me crazy and I don't know how to fix it. He will say my name as M arlaina for example. Thanks for any help saving my poor sanity! Marlaina -- You received this

Re: question on how to move the mouse

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
This depends on how you want to move it. Pressing control option command F5 will move the mouse to the item the voice over cursor is on. You can also set the mouse to follow the voice over cursor, this is a setting in voice over utility. On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > An

Re: Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Teresa Cochran
I notice this mostly in emails. I suppose it's one of those things to report to the accessiility team. Teresa On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Does anybody else run into the situation where Alex pronounces a capital > letter then the rest of the word, like H ello. This dr

Re: Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Kimberly thurman
Happens to me all the time, usually in mail. Sometimes, Voice Over even skips the first letter of a word. On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Does anybody else run into the situation where Alex pronounces a capital > letter then the rest of the word, like H ello. This driv

Re: question on how to move the mouse

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok but if I want to explore a page or a document using the mouse, how do I do that? On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: This depends on how you want to move it. Pressing control option command F5 will move the mouse to the item the voice over cursor is on. You can also set the mouse

Re: Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I just wrote apple accessibility; hope you guys will, too. On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: Happens to me all the time, usually in mail. Sometimes, Voice Over even skips the first letter of a word. On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Does anybody else ru

Re: Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Marlaina: I think this is more a function of how things are written. I've noticed mine doing the same thing, and thought perhaps people are sometimes shifting on the second letter while typing quickly. But, let's see what other feedback we get. Carolyn Haas On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Marla

Re: is there broadcast software for the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I don't have a link but google for it and you should find it. I did not bookmark that page where they make it. it is the same company that makes audio hijack pro software. On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > where do I get nicecast? > On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: Alex pronouncing weirdly at times

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I have reported it for a few months now. the only work around is to read the plain textr version of an email with cmd option p. S On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I notice this mostly in emails. I suppose it's one of those things to report > to the accessiility team. > > Te

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