Pasword protecting a Pages document?

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, Anyone know how to password protect a document in the latest version of Pages? Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, se

Re: Help me get started running Windows on a Mac

2011-04-03 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hello! Just a quick note: You will need to change at least one key since you can't have the capslog key as the Jaws key. You can use a program called: Sharpkeys. It has been reviewed on Mainmenu and it will help you a lot, when you want to use the Jaws key. I have personally decided to use the

Re: speed of bootcamp vs vmware vs native windows?

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
Hey, In my experience, the latest vmware fusion is pretty fast! I run a few apps on it, and they all work great. I would say to have more than 2GB or ram, so that you can give enough to windows and enough to OSX and it'll fly. As far as bootcamp and running windows natively, they're both the sa

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
there is little to know defragmenting needed, and the mac doesn't use a registry. Repair permissions and check the disk using disc utility. Then under applications in utilities, go into terminal. In the terminal, type this: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly press enter, type your password, and

Re: speed of bootcamp vs vmware vs native windows?

2011-04-03 Thread joseph
hi i am running fusion and windows 7 on 2010 imac. it is faster than my 1 gig of ram notebook. also i tried using bootcamp but i found it easier to use fusion because i can switch between mac and windows without reboot. best On 3 Apr 2011, at 02:17, Charlie Bates wrote: > Hi Alex > > I am n

Audio software recommendations?

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
Hey All, I'm looking for some audio software recommendations. i know about the usual audacity, sound studio, audio hyjack, gb and logic, etc. programs i'm looking for: a basic audio recorder an audio mixer a simple audio editor If anybody could recommend any of these programs, it'd be much ap

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Ashley, You are correct; however, if you work with large files or move a lot of data around, your drive can become fragmented and may require some help.I do not know about all the different utilities available, but I found Drive Genius at http://www.prosofteng.com that does a number of thing

Re: how to go from page to page in the PDF attachments

2011-04-03 Thread Cheok Cheng Ann
Dear Robert, This is Cheng Ann. Thank you for telling me to open the PDF attachments. I tried it by opening control Y, it only opens the the quick look. How does one open the preview? Thank you Regards, Cheok Cheng Ann cheokcheng...@gmail.com http://www.chengann.com/ On 07-Mar-2011, at 10

Re: Moving the partition slider in bootcamp using VO?

2011-04-03 Thread Matthew Campbell
There is a splitter that you have to interact with. I'm not sure if it was a vertical or or a horizontal splitter but just interact with it and move it using the VO and arrow keys. HTH. Matthew Campbell. On 2011-04-02, at 11:17 PM, James Malone wrote: > Hi guys. The subject pretty much says it a

Transfering mail and address book from outlook express to mac mail

2011-04-03 Thread Dean Adams
Hey All, A friend of mine is soon to be getting himself a macbook pro and I need to help him get his email and address book from outlook express on his windows box to mac mail and address book on the mac so if anyone can point me in the wright direction it would be much appreciated. He

RE: Introduction & a Question

2011-04-03 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
Hi, I did check it out. It's got some interesting info there. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CJ Daniel Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 5:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introduction & a Q

Re: how to go from page to page in the PDF attachments

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Cheok, I am sorry. If you hold down the vo keys and press the space bar while you are at the attached file name, it will then automatically open in Preview. Sincerely Yours Robert Nelson On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Cheok Cheng Ann wrote: > Dear Robert, > > This is Cheng Ann. Thank you

Re: Best way to navigate mac visionaries with web item router?

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Try using links combined with contracting the discussions so all you see is the watching this topic star and the thread subject line, but not the first lines of the post. Just my opinion. Works on a handheld box. Kevin Charlie Bates wrote: > Hi list > > I am wondering what the best way to navigat

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
Yes, true. there is a nice program called iDefrag if you really want to defrag. But OSX does some defragmentation automatically. On 03/04/2011 11:14, Scott Howell wrote: Hi Ashley, You are correct; however, if you work with large files or move a lot of data around, your drive can become frag

Re: Transfering mail and address book from outlook express to mac mail

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
just sinc it from outlook express to the iPhone, then transfer it You could also open address book, export the addresses as a CSV, then import them to addressbook on the mac. ash On 03/04/2011 14:55, Dean Adams wrote: Hey All, A friend of mine is soon to be getting himself a macbook pro and I

Re: how to go from page to page in the PDF attachments

2011-04-03 Thread John Sanfilippo
when focused on the pdf, try command down arow to open it. Or if in a message and interacting with the message text, control option space on the pdf name. On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Cheok Cheng Ann wrote: Dear Robert, This is Cheng Ann. Thank you for telling me to open the PDF attachments. I

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Scott Howell
Yes it does. I picked up a copy of Drive Genius more for its capabilities to repair damaged drives etc. An expensive program, but one that is worth having in the toolkit for sure. I'm also working with Prosoft Engineering on some tweaks to their Data Rescue package, which is again,perhaps a litt

Re: Skype 2.8 will be available for seven days if anyone on list needs it.

2011-04-03 Thread Jes Smith
I downloaded your Skype 2.8 dmg. Thanks for that. Jes On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Rose Morales wrote: > Hi Michael, > I saw your post and thought your dmg file would be a wonderful edition to my > site. I was sure I put Skype 5.0 up there, but I wasn't sure I had 2.8. But > upon looking, I real

King's Corner?

2011-04-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I recently stumbled onto an app called Kings Corner, which claimed to be voiceover accessible. It's a card game for iOS, but I've been having a lot of trouble actually moving the cards. I'd really appreciate any tips from someone who has actually managed to play and done reasonably well

Re: Audio software recommendations?

2011-04-03 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Ashley: I think I got this nifty little app referred to me by Colin. It's called vinyl studio, and works incredibly well for making audio recordings, and probably for some mixing as well. I'm terrible with things like this, but it was a breeze for me to use.:) Think you can find it if you

Re: King's Corner?

2011-04-03 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Zack, I've played this game some, and found it to be quite accessible.The way you move cards around is by dragging them. the trick is that the game only reads the stack if you can actually drop the card there, which is a bit confusing at first. Hope this is helpful. Donna Donna Goodin,

Re: Audio software recommendations?

2011-04-03 Thread Ashley Cox
Looks cool; thanks! i'll give it a go! Ash On 03/04/2011 20:54, carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Ashley: I think I got this nifty little app referred to me by Colin. It's called vinyl studio, and works incredibly well for making audio recordings, and probably for some mixing as well. I'm terrible with

Apple Airport Extreme

2011-04-03 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
All: FYI. My parents' router crashed. I picked them up an Airport Extreme at the Apple store. It was very simple, and accessible to setup. My Mac is super fast! I highly recommend it. I can't belive how simple the setup process was. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

mod note

2011-04-03 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi everyone: Hope all are having a great weekend. I would like to post a couple of reminders on behalf of the moderators of the list. There have been quite a few new members, and we could all use a refresher of things to keep in mind when writing: 1. This list is open to people with interest

preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Denise Avant
hi all, I downloaded copies of flight reservations which are in a pdf format. however, when i open them in preview, i cannot get them to read. is there something i should be doing. thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To p

Re: preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Denise, I sometimes run into that problem. I went to a web site to look up directions for a digital recorder. there were two different products and I downloaded both sets of instructions. In one case Preview and voice Over were able to read the instructions in the other case all I had

accessible preview alternatives

2011-04-03 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello listers. Does anyone know of an accessible preview alternative? My biggest issue is that I have to use the VO and arrow keys to navigate around a document which doesn't allow my sighted peers to follow along with me. I'm looking for something that'll allow me to just use the regular arrow

Re: speed of bootcamp vs vmware vs native windows?

2011-04-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
I think the speed of vmware fusion is fine, of course, it won't be as fast as boot camp, since it's using a virtual machine, also, fusion allows you to install windows without sighted help. On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Just a quick question. If I win the lottery and g

Re: accessible preview alternatives

2011-04-03 Thread Colin M
Hi Matthew! I've got two suggestions! 1, go to vo utility and under navigation change the mouse cursor to follow vo cursor! And if not that! 2, you could set tile visuals with the command vo+f10 This leaves [if you got normal screen] just the vo cursor and caption panel visible on a darkened scr

Preview documents for Denise

2011-04-03 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Denise, I had the same thing happen to me. I downloaded a document telling my flight info and I opened it in Preview. THe only way that I've found to get these to read is to hit command up arrow, which will place you at the top of the document. THen press option control A which will read

Re: preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Cheok Cheng Ann
Hi, This is Cheng Ann. I am also experiencing the same problem. The only way I can get the voice over to read is to hold down the option and control keys and press down the arrow key. however, I still cannot jump from page to page. Regards, Cheok Cheng Ann cheokch

Re: Introduction & a Question

2011-04-03 Thread CJ Daniel
Gail, Alright! I'm glad you enjoyed it. There nice folks & they've already been helpful to me. CJ On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > Hi, I did check it out. It's got some interesting info there. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I've heard a lot about Drive Genious in a lot of hte Main stream mac podcasts. Exactly how accessible is this App? On Apr 3, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Yes it does. I picked up a copy of Drive Genius more for its capabilities to > repair damaged drives etc. An expensive program,

Re: Best way to navigate mac visionaries with web item router?

2011-04-03 Thread Charlie Bates
Hi Kevin I am not sure what you mean when you say "contracting the discussions so all you see is the watching this topic star and thread subject line" can you explain further please? Or can anyone else help? On Apr 4, 2:43 am, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > Try using links combined with contracting the d

Selecting all messages from sender or on subject in Mac Mail

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, I want to know how one chooses all the messages from a given sender, or on a given subject for deletion or moving to another folder. In the Windows Outlook days, there was a command that said, find all messages from sender, or find all related messages. What is the analog in Mac Mail? I

Re: preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Cheng Ann, There are two separate questions. One is that Voice Over is unable to read certain .pdf documents. The other question is given that voice Over can read the document what are the keyboard commands to do this. The read all command is vo-a. You must interact with the text firs

Re: Best way to navigate mac visionaries with web item router?

2011-04-03 Thread Esther
Hi Charlie, I'm not quite sure either what Kevin meant, but perhaps he is suggesting that you view the web page listed by topics and subject links? That is, the view you obtain if you use this version of the macvisionaries web page, with the topics argument as part of the URL: http://groups.go

Re: Best way to navigate mac visionaries with web item router?

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Dear Esther and all, yes, I meant use topic list instead of topic summary. That way you can just say watch this topic and then read the subject lines.  Your explanation of the archives was very interesting and I'll do my best to learn from it. Thanks again, Kevin -- You received this message be