Hi list,
There's some movement on the haptic world, namely e-sense from senseg.
If anyone remembers, these guys have the paired with toshiba to manufacture a
thin sheet of conducive and transparent material bundled with a framework to
allow developers to create haptic features on any applicatio
5 dec 2010 kl. 00.50 skrev Scott Granados:
> Does it feel faster to you as well?
Hmm, not that i can see, however my machine only has 2 gigs of ram in it, so
it's possible that upgrading memory would increase speed as well.
/Krister
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I'm glad that at some point Flash may become a thing of the past, but I suspect
it will be several years before it happens. In particular with respect to
higher education. I certainly complained to the university I attended and made
zero progress. The solution was to simply require the instructo
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Just my thoughts, but as far as I know Adobe has no plans to make anything
> accessible for the Mac despite any petition.
Correction:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html
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Benjamin,
Well thanks for sharing and what a positive correction. So, perhaps this means
that Adobe will finally get their thumb out and address their other products?
One can only hope, but what will still be interesting is the affect html 5 will
have on flash. EIther way, maybe Adobe finally i
Don't count on it. Adobe Reader X (X for 10) just came out recently for
Windows, and it was done with Adobe Air. Guess what? It's completely
inaccessible.
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On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Benjamin,
>
Ah, if only SnowTape was accessible. Seems like every app that has last.fm in
it is inaccessible accept Musicality. SnowTape is like Replay AV, though.
Orin
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On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
> Jason,
> Tha
Case in point, if anyone has Facebook and plays Legacy of a Thousand Suns, the
story is text based, but they use flash to add music and sound effects and also
graphics. This is why I find it annoying because the story is actually quite
good, I just can't seem to play it on either Mac or windows.
Another case in point. The navy which is covered by Section 508 uses
flash to make all of its mandatory training. Same problem you experience
with facebook all screen reader users that use jfw are confronted with for
this reason. The alternate form of the training uses powerpoint and
sometim
the only way to get adobe's attention is to hit them in the wallet, HARD.
if all 15 million visually impaired in the US were to join in on a class action
against adobe because of their flash player, that would make a hell of a class
action and really get adobe's attention.
-Eric
On Dec 5, 2010
The most important thing is to have the correct icon selected in the "table"
of disks. Each physical disk will have at least two icons on the left, one
for the physical disk, and one for each partition. The partition tab at the
top only appears when you have selected the physical disk from the lis
the major problems are:
1. that doesn't help us now
2. I still can't use voiceover with any flash, regardless of version.
at this point, its easier to block flash than not.
-Eric
On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:42 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>>
hi marlana,
i have to agree with louie and tim about being able to burn music from your
itunes library to a cd. you can do the following: first, if your music is
already inside of your itunes playlist you can go to your burn to cd press vo
and the space bar to select the item. then before t
hi eric,
i wanted to know when putting audio compact disc books like in the case of
the harry potter series. how do i devide m my music library and the audio book
library? also this question can be answered off list if possible. i wanted to
know where i could go to purchase the harry potter
THanks Buddy for sharing this info. I guess I won't expect more than possible
access to flash, which I am hoping will be replaced by html 5. THis means one
less thing I would need to install. :)
Scott
On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Don't count on it. Adobe Reader X (X fo
Hello
I struggle with books in I tunes While understand music, books alludes me.
Not sure - I too am interested
Julie
On Dec 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Chenelle Hancock
wrote:
>
> hi eric,
> i wanted to know when putting audio compact disc books like in the case of
> the harry potter s
Hi chenelle,
If you've imported an Audio Book from CD and you wish it to be placed in the
books portion of the sources List, do the following:
1. Select the book or books from the music library and then press cmd-i for
Get Info.
2. Press on the Options tab.
3. Press on the Kind pop-up and ch
Thanks for the information.
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that i downloaded the RC1 of drop box, and apart
> from getting a permissions warning, thus unabling me to install it, drop box
> is having some strange behaviors in terms of
As far as the harry potter books go, I've got connections in northern Ireland
and they grabbed me a gorgeous mp3 cd box set in nice amaray packaging. It's
like the pride of my audiobook collection.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf,
Hi Tim.
Yes, I am delighted that I can play my music via apple tv. Only reason I burn
a few CD's is to have good music for working out on my treadmill, which is
nowhere near my apple tv.
I will try your directions for changing my views in iTunes. I really
appreciate all the help.
Marlaina
O
Tim,
Is this the method I can also use to get ring tones into my library? God knows
then how I'll get them to my phone, I'm hoping a sync will do it, but first I
have to figure out how to get them from downloads to my library. I'm going to
try your instructions below.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 201
Hi Marlaina,
Were your Ringtones downloaded through itunes? If so, then they'll
automatically be moved from the iTunes Downloads area into the appropriate
Sources List area.
If you downloaded these Ringtones from somewhere else and they just reside in
the Downloads folder of your Home Directo
Hello,
Here's a rehash of a message I posted to the viphone list a while ago
about getting ringtones from the iTunes store and a little about
creating your own from scratch.
Enjoy, and feel free to reply with questions.
Jim
-
Hey Everyone,
I spent some time playing with ringto
yah if only NFB and ACB would get together to attack adobe's empire of
inaccessibility, that would make for a real good show down! Heather
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To:
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition
the onl
Hi.
I can answer both questions.
harry Potter can be purchased through Itunes but as you may be not in the UK,
don't know how you can get it as you may be able to get the American version if
of course there is one.
When you have a spoken file in your music folder, (I did this recently), do
co
Why can't we just put an mp3 file in the ring tone section of Itunes? all the
other smart phones accept mp3 files as ring tones so I don't understand why the
I phone can't?
On 5 Dec 2010, at 19:22, Jim Barbour wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's a rehash of a message I posted to the viphone list a whil
Hi Greg,
Currently Musicality does not provide any way of adjusting the player
volume. I had always assumed you would set the player volume once, and
then adjust the system volume after that. Of course, that doesn't work
if the player volume isn't accessible. I'll look into adding this in a
future
Hi all!
You can make ringtones with Itunes I mean chop a track down to ringtones size!
There is a thread about this in the archives somewhere!
In this thread Jim talks about changing m4a to m4r!
I do not have a Iphone so the m4a's work ok on my nokia but someone said in
that original thread they
Hello.
I am looking for a utility to download videos from youtube.
I would also like to be able to convert a video to mp3 so that I can get the
sound out of it.
There are various utilities for this task under windows, but I am trying slowly
to switch to the mac and use windows as little as possib
Hi Tim, Marlaina, and Others,
For creating new ringtones from tracks in your iTunes music library, I
think that the easiest way now is to get an AppleScript named "Make
Ringable", which automates the process of creating ringtones from your
own music. You need to download the AppleScript from:
htt
VMware fusion is the best solution right now.
Did you increase the amount of ram that is given to windows? The default is 512
MB, which is not much.
This may improve your situation.
The other way is, of course to run windows from bootcamp, but I don't like this
for various reasons.
Nektarios.
I did get this working; they were m4r tones from an app I bought on iPhone
which sends the link to the files as an email and you download it using safari.
I took the plunge, downloaded the files, navigated to them in downloads and
did vo shift m on each file and selected copy. Then I got reall
Thanks Jim. I got an app on my iPhone that only offers m4r files. I'm glad I
don't have to go through all that other stuff!
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Jim Barbour wrote:
Hello,
Here's a rehash of a message I posted to the viphone list a while ago
about getting ringtones from the i
Wow Esther! I'm going to hang on to these excellent instructions and if the
day comes when I absolutely have to make a ringtone out of something, I'll give
it a try.
I love your instructions; they are always so clear and I appreciate that a lot.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Esther w
Oops, I meant to also include the link to Tim's VoiceOver Downloads
page for the RestartAt AppleScript:
http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html
That's mostly a convenience for easily choosing start and stop times
-- or really for starting the playback of any track at a specific time
of
> Hi Kawal,
You asked: Why can't we just put an mp3 file in the ring tone section of
Itunes? all the other smart phones accept mp3 files as ring tones so I don't
understand why the I phone can't?
TK: Because the iPhone is not any other Smartphone. All the other Smartphones
don't have VO ei
Thanks for keeping us updated, Yuma. I'm very interested in this technology.
Teresa
On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:16 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> There's some movement on the haptic world, namely e-sense from senseg.
>
> If anyone remembers, these guys have the paired with toshiba to manufactu
Thanks Esther for this. It's very useful and once again, both you and Doug's
Scripts come through with making things easier for all. I'll add this to my
list of goodies. I'll look at adding an iTunes page soon if I can't find some
time to write up the code.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 1:19 P
just changing m4a to m4r won't work. You need to make sure it's short
enough, and then once you've renamed your .m4a file to an .m4r file,
you need to tell itunes to import it again.
Jim
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:57:48PM +, Colin M wrote:
> Hi all!
> You can make ringtones with Itunes I me
Apple wants to motivate you to use their 99 cents per song service to
get your ringtones.
That's why building your own is so fiddly.
On the other hand, that 99 cents per song helps to pay for voiceover.
Jim
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:54:11PM +, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> Why can't we just put
Hi all,
How exactly do I extract music from a zipped folder and get it
to iTunes?
Do any of you know of a Skype recorder that will work with the
Mac?
THANKS,
Ezzy
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How exactly do I connect my Facebook account to iChat? Sry, I'm
soo new to the Mac. LOL.
Ezzy
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question for ya guys... how do you broadcast on the mac? do ya boot into
windows, then use Station Playlist? i assume that's what occurs, cause, to my
knowledge, (which, is limited, as it is with most things), there's not really a
way to broadcast on the mac, I don't think. there's nicecast, but
Oh, I see and thanks for all the explanations.
On 5 Dec 2010, at 21:53, Jim Barbour wrote:
> Apple wants to motivate you to use their 99 cents per song service to
> get your ringtones.
>
> That's why building your own is so fiddly.
>
> On the other hand, that 99 cents per song helps to pay for v
Hay Colin,
I never could find the burn to cd button as you instructed below. I always
have to make a playlist, select the songs for the playlist, copy and then paste
them into the playlist. Then I go to the file menu and select burn playlist to
cd. I like your instructions because they seem
Ok, here I am again with yet another ask.
Per excellent directions from this list, I have indeed changed my iTunes server
to my music file server. that all works well; it repopulates each time I open
it and that is fine.
But, (and isn't there always a darned but), when I by albums on iTunes (I
I'm aware of something called MegaSeg. Not sure if it's accessible.
Kevin
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hey guys.
I use the default application that came with my lextmark 5400 all in
one scaner printer and fax. but the program keeps quitting on me all
the time after I scan one page. I unintalled it and intalled again and
the same happened. I've been looking around the web lookingi for a
good but free
Hi Marlaina, Colin, and Others,
The dedicated button to burn to CD or DVD was removed in iTunes 10.
You can find the option in the context menu for your playlist if you
don't want to navigate to the File menu on the iTunes menu bar. You
can also select the playlist you want to add songs to from t
If you don't want to use safari, are there other options for the mac,
like firefox?
Caitlyn
On 03/12/2010 7:46 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
I'd like to make one personal comment here which is that I'm using Safari more
and more not just to get information but am now buying on line with it more
Esther,
Glad it's not just the Seattle version, LOL!
If I understand what you wrote here, once I select the tracks I want, I can do
a vo shift m and select the playlist to add them to?
Also, what if I want tracks 5 7 9 and 11, but not all the other tracks; can I
do that some how?
Marlaina
On
Not really. Firefox is not accessible as of yet nor are most of the other
browsers. You could give Opera a try but it has limitations in its
accessibility as well.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 4:24 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote:
> If you don't want to use safari, are there other options for the
Hi eddy:
You can use iPhoto which will scan pictures in, but will not do any ocr. You
can get Vuescan, (try it first), for $40, and it will do pics, text pdf and
rtf. Just not much out thtere that's free.
Also, I'm working with the developer because my Vuescan has gotten stuck on
busy after ha
You can use the non-contiguous selection process to choose items 5, 7, 9 and so
on.
HTH.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 4:37 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Esther,
>
> Glad it's not just the Seattle version, LOL!
>
> If I understand what you wrote here, once I select the tracks I want, I can
> d
Hi Marlaina!
Sorry I did not know that burn button had gone! :]
Ok you can select tracks 1, 3 ,6 ,12 but its a bit messy!
I find [ for me ] it is faster just to pick each track and add it to playlist
with vo+shift+m menu! Only if you have say up to 6 or 7 tracks to pick!
If you are talking about a
thank you but what version of iphoto is the one that is able to scan
pictures? the 09 vesions does not have this feature.
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Hi Brianna, Tim, Marlaina, and Others,
I wanted to add a suggestion that will make it easier for you to use
TextEdit: once you have configured the spacing and fonts to your
satisfaction, save these settings as a style file under a name of your
choice. Then, when you want to create a Rich Text doc
Google has started to make Chrome accessible. I've downloaded it, but haven't
played with it extensively, so can't really comment on how well it works. Here
is their accessibility page.
http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/screen-reader-support
Darcy
On 2010-12-05, at 6:24 PM, Caitlyn and N
Hi Marlaina,
That's odd. Where did they end up when they were downloaded? Do you see them
anywhere?
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 3:50 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Ok, here I am again with yet another ask.
>
> Per excellent directions from this list, I have indeed changed my iTunes
> server
Hi,
I checked it out, and no, it doesn't seem too accessible, but I've already
written the devs about this, I'm pretty desperate to get a good broadcast
solution for the mac also.
Courtney
On Dec 5, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> I'm aware of something called MegaSeg. Not sure if it's acc
That's not a broadcast program. That's a playlist manager for Live DJs, I
believe.
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To:
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: broadcasting on the mac?
I'm aware of something called MegaSeg. Not sure if it's accessible.
Kevin
Nope. NiceCast will broadcast any audio from your Mac. However, it doesn't have
awesome features like Station Playlist, like being able to talk with music over
yourself without your screen reader coming through. Not to mention an awesome
crossfader that kills iTunes crossfader. Note that you can
Hi,
I do wish I could prerecord on Nicecast and not have to do a show live, is it
possible to record a radio show with nicecast and not stream it anywhere?
Courtney
On Dec 5, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Orin wrote:
> Nope. NiceCast will broadcast any audio from your Mac. However, it doesn't
> have awesome
ok... an interesting question... I'm running fusion 3.0 with win7 64-bit...
and, even when i have VO off, the start-menu key, which is command on the mac,
still registered command. for instance, command r, run in windows, made fusion
think i wanted to register... any way to avoided this? I had t
Wow!
I would love to see this! I was one of the people talking about Braille output.
There are lots of potential uses for technology like this. Let me know what you
find out.
Doug
Sent from my iPhone
On 2010-12-05, at 5:59 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> Thanks for keeping us updated, Yuma. I
Can yu hijack the mic with out the screen reader coming through, one of th e
list members does do this successfully.
S
On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Orin wrote:
> Nope. NiceCast will broadcast any audio from your Mac. However, it doesn't
> have awesome features like Station Playlist, like being a
Hello to all you apple tv users. I have just got mine, but I'm waiting on my
hdmi cable. In the meantime, I have a question. I have the remote app for my
IPod touch, and I understand that you can use this app with the apple tv,
instead of the remote. This might be particularly useful when enteri
Why are you runing 3.0? Any specific appliction that requires it? 3.1.1x just
came out.
On Dec 5, 2010, at 6:06 PM, joe quinn wrote:
> ok... an interesting question... I'm running fusion 3.0 with win7 64-bit...
> and, even when i have VO off, the start-menu key, which is command on the
> mac
i've not updated to 3.1
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: VMWare fusion question
Why are you runing 3.0? Any specific appliction that requires it? 3.1.1x
just came out.
O
Hi Marlaina,
I was just thinking that maybe your Finder is set not to show connected servers
on your Desktop. This is the default behaviour when Apple sets things up but I
prefer to see them on my Desktop so I don't have to use the sidebar all the
time. To set this up:
1. go to your Desktop
To those of y'all burning audio CD's with both ITunes and Simply burns, which
do y'all recommend and why? IN short, is there any advantage in using ITunes
to burn audio CD's over Simply Burns? Seems to me that in order to burn CD's
using ITunes, you've first got to make a play list of the file
Yes Tim; they are in my iTunes music folder; I see them in Finder.
On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Marlaina,
That's odd. Where did they end up when they were downloaded? Do you see them
anywhere?
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 3:50 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Ok, here I am
Ah! A question I can finally help answer.
I haven't used the remote so much because the iPhone app is so dang cool. It
is completely and joyfully accessible.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Hello to all you apple tv users. I have just got mine, but I'm waiting on my
hd
Hi Marlaina and all,
So I assume you had to use the remote at first when the a tv was being set up.
And then after you got vo installed and sharing turned on, you switched over to
using the remote app? Is that right?
Mary
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Tim.
I did all that and then arrowed around on my desktop but still don't see
connected servers. Hmm, I'll go back and check my work to ensure I did it
correctly.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Marlaina,
I was just thinking that maybe your Finder is set not to sho
I use playlists anyways as tha'ts how I organise my stuff so itunes is no big
deal.
Take care.
S
On Dec 5, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> To those of y'all burning audio CD's with both ITunes and Simply burns, which
> do y'all recommend and why? IN short, is there any advantage in us
Yes Mary, that is what we did but I don't know that I could have done this on
my own; Gary did a bunch of the set-up.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Hi Marlaina and all,
So I assume you had to use the remote at first when the a tv was being set up.
And then after you got
Ok Tim.
I went back and checked and under general and show these items on my desktop,
connected servers is indeed checked. Maybe I will reboot.
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Marlaina,
I was just thinking that maybe your Finder is set not to show connected servers
Hi Tim.
Well, once I figured out that I had to close finder windows, I did see my file
server. However, all my iTunes purchases are going into my iTunes music
library on my hd; then I have to copy them to my file server. This is making
me nuts, so I think I'll just go to bed for tonight and p
Marlaina,
Is the media on your NetGear server used by another computer as well? If so,
is it accessed using iTunes as well? If this media is just used for the iTunes
on your Mac, I'd do the following instead:
1. Start up iTunes with the Option key down. This will force iTunes to ask
for wh
Marlaina,
You won't actually see anything called Connected servers, you'll see any
volumes that you've mounted from those servers as icons on the Desktop. That
is, if you mounted a volume called NetGear, it should now show up on your
Desktop as an icon that you can open like any other folder.
Hi Ray,
You don't really have to make the playlist, I just usually do that so that it
is easier to remake the CD later and then it is better organized for me. With
respect to clutter, you could simply make a folder within iTunes and drop all
your burn playlists into it thus your Sources List i
Marlaina,
OK, we're getting somewhere. Update me tomorrow and I'll look at things after
work to see if I can be any clearer.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 10:29 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Hi Tim.
>
> Well, once I figured out that I had to close finder windows, I did see my
> file server. H
Hi Tim.
Gary uses the same file server and location to play music, but not sure where
his library is. You are great, and thanks for all the help. I willl swear at
this, I mean play at this tomorrow, :)
Marlaina
On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Marlaina,
Is the media on your N
unfortunately, no. firefox and opera are both inaccessible when using VO.
I have sent off a small screen capture video to both mozilla )makers of
firefox) and opera. I hope it has a much more desired effect than all the
e-mails I have sent.
-Eric
On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky w
But does he hijack other sources with it though, E.G. Line In or just
Voiceover on it's own for doing app reviews.
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From: "Sarah Alawami"
To:
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: broadcasting on the mac?
Can yu hijack the mic with out the screen re
Use Audio hijack for that.
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From: Courtney Curran
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: broadcasting on the mac?
Hi,
I do wish I could prerecord on Nicecast and not have to do a show live, is it
possi
Hi!
Well, Mozilla is already aware and working on it. In fact, if you get the
Firefox source, you can enable some accessibility features and some of it will
work. It's pretty limited, but it's a step forward.
Unfortunately, adding accessibility to Firefox is a lot more complex than you
might t
Hi Ezzy,
just press VO + Space on the zip-archive. Then you've got an unzipped folder
with the music. From there you can import the files to iTunes.
For recording Skyp calls and many other things you can use Audio Hijack Pro:
www.rogueamoeba.com
Regards
Jürgen
Am 05.12.2010 um 23:21 schrieb Ez
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