Re: ABBYY FineReader

2011-07-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, As far as I know, VueScan isn't available from the Appstore. You can download it from: www.hamrick.com You don't have to pay immediately, but it leaves a watermark on every scan until you do. It costs something like $39 for one year or $79 for a permanent license. You can get eit

Re: Is this really Apple software???

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Lol, How do you know VO users who are sufficiently expert weren't beta testers. Just because someone reports a bug in a beta cycle, doesn't mean its going to be fixed. It might not be reproducible by the company or the bug you reported might not be of high priority to them so don't get addres

Re: Is this really Apple software???

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I remember the cursor bug as well. When you had your mouse cursor set to follow your VO cursor, some funny things would happen. lol Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: I got snow leppard the

Re: my own preliminary observations of Lion so far

2011-07-27 Thread David Taylor
I don't mind the lack of DVD drive or Ethanet, but I like the 250 Gb storage I have on my MB. 128 would not cut it for me, though I presume there's an expensive upgrade! On 27 Jul 2011, at 01:29, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Yes, I think apple has discontinued the regular macbook, so now it's either >

Re: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
I did the same clean install, and am also confused by those who want to go back to SL. lol. Lion definitely has bugs. No doubt about it. If I said other wise, I would need my head examined. But I still find it superior to Snow Leopard. Especially as far as Voiceover is concerned. Ricardo

Re: yet another VO feature broken?

2011-07-27 Thread David Taylor
Couldn't agree more. I came back on here to be able to keep up with people's experiences of Lion and nothing more, and that has been useful, but every new OS brings changes, fact. My way of dealing with mail was to try the new layout and wait to see what tips I found, and in the main I really li

Re: Is this really Apple software???

2011-07-27 Thread David Taylor
I'm sure a company as clever as Apple would be able to find a way of making sure that they were! Not everybody would want to do it anyway, and how is this any different from ensuring non VO users are sufficiently expert? Come on, we're in the real world with Apple, not the blind world where busi

Episode: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With VoiceOver

2011-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
The following was just posted to the Candle Shore BLOG: EP98: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With VoiceOver Hello All, In this approximately 9 minute episode of the Candle Shore Podcast, I demonstrate how to optimize the Mac OSX Lion mail client for use with VoiceOver, Apple's software screen r

Re: my own preliminary observations of Lion so far

2011-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. I have a Macbook Pro which I bought last year from USA, and do not experience anything going hot or anything sluggish under Lion. I am wondering (hopefully no one will take personally) but those of you who buy third party software, does any of the software make anything run hot or sluggish

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-27 Thread Luca
Hi, Some important things i cannot still do with vo are wordprocessing (tables, items, titles, footnotes and so on), easy navigation in number (se t title row, column row , auto reading info when you move from cell to cell ecc). There are also some very useful features in other screen reader

can't find the message content column

2011-07-27 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hey list, I used to have a great streamline for my mail in snow leopard but i'm having troubles finding the message content area in my current lion configuration. Is there a specific key combo to bring the message content area back up? Cheers Yuma -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Episode: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With VoiceOver

2011-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Fantastic Mark for a great podcast. I'll configure nine like yours when I get home from work. Thank you once agaim. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jul 2011, at 09:43 AM, "M. Taylor" wrote: > The following was just posted to the Candle Shore BLOG: > > > > EP98: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With Voice

Re: Is this really Apple software???

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
What are you talking about? You've completely lost me. I just asked how do you know there weren't people who weren't sufficiently expert in the Mac who just happen to be VO users. Just because you encounter bugs when you get the public release of an application doesn't mean beta testers didn'

RE: Episode: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With VoiceOver

2011-07-27 Thread
I knew all of this recording, a good listen for a beginner though.h Kliphton SR (twitter&Skype) kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Marriage group) http://groups.googl

Re: Episode: Mark On OSX Lion Mail With VoiceOver

2011-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Mark, Thanks for a great presentation of using Mail in Lion. I can clearly see some of the new features as related to viewing threads in Mail. From what I've read, I think what I'll miss most when I upgrade is the ability to go to the top and bottom of the message list with two keys. Hope

RE: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
I understand, and completely agree. I just knew something wasn't quite right when I was running Lion, so for now at least, I'm happy I've downgraded. Does apple know about the cause of the over-heating now? If not, I can mention it to them; have an appointment to talk to a rep in a couple of hour

RE: my own preliminary observations of Lion so far

2011-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
The only non-apple software I had installed was Yorufukurou, Pianopub, Adium Skype and my accapella voices. I still had over 470 GB free on my 500 GB drive, so, at least as far as I know, there wasn't a lot to be indexed. My macbook was just uncomfortably warm to me at idle, even when nothing was

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Les and Patrick, thanks for the feedback. those aren't the problems we're having. For some reason, when we go to watch Netflix, we're are told that Apple TV is not connected to the internet. Sometimes it downloads about 2 seconds worth of content first, sometimes not. But I know our netw

Re: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, count me in as one of those who did an upgrade overtop of SL and find they do not wish to return to SL from Lion. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:42

Re: [Bulk] Re: yet another VO feature broken?

2011-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Can you ever say that again Jeffry. Could not agree with you more. After all, look at me. I was of the irronious opinion that Mail would take me forever to get used to because of all the complaints; and, what happened, within the same night I installed Lion, I'd pretty much worked it out. I'

Re: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I wish to do a fresh install of Lion as I burnt the image to DVD but I could not do it. If anyone could write to me off list with instructions please. I had to install over SL. Thanks. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jul 2011, at 12:24 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, count me in as one o

Re: can't find the message content column

2011-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
All I have to do when I want to get in to the message content area is just press the tab key. Say I'm arrowing up or down and or even pressing the delete key and come across a conversation I wish to read. I focus on that conversation and just press the tab key. At that point, I just use VO+up

Re: [Bulk] yet another VO feature broken?

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
I think I enjoy the classic mail view more, though i haven't really wanted to use the new layout so we'll see. no issues with mail here, just mainly with safari and the item chooser On Jul 27, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Can you ever say that again Jeffry. Could not agree with you m

RE: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! I don't have instructions for you, as I asked Apple about doing a fresh install when I was on the phone with them on Friday, and they claim it can't be done. Installing over SL is, at least from what I understand, the only correct and recommended way. Still, if someone does have instructions

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, all I know is this. Yesterday, My poor Mac book pro was indeed running very very hot; but, today, not so. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:59 AM, Mi

Re: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks. I look forward to Mike's podcast. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jul 2011, at 12:36 PM, "Missy Hoppe" wrote: > Hi! I don't have instructions for you, as I asked Apple about doing a fresh > install when I was on the phone with them on Friday, and they claim it can't > be done. Installing o

Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Roy
The problem is, when you boo from that partition, the window chooser isn't available. VO does work, but, it's a subset of the normal features. On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Try pressing control option f2 to open the window chooser menu, that usually > will allow you to se

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I'm not totally sure yet if Apple is aware of this problem or not, but I'm gonna call them here in a few minutes when they open. Chris. On Jul 27, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, all I know is this. Yesterday, My poor Mac book pro was indeed running > very very hot; but, today

Moving Mailboxes to the favorites Bar in Lion?

2011-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I was able to move one mailbox to the favorites bar. I have about 15 of them in my mailbox list, and when I try to drag and drop, I either get "area to drop may be hidden", or "item to be dragged no longer in view". I've tried full screen and making sure everything else was hidden when

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Donna, Have you contacted Apple or your internet provider? Something obviously isn't right as you shouldn't be getting that message. Not with Apple TV, but I've had occasional connection problems and unplugging and plugging in the router has fixed these types of issues. Good luck with thi

Conversations and Threads

2011-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
With the improved functioning of threads in Lion, it occurs to me that valid subject lines are going to be more important than ever now. BTW, I just changed the subject line to reflect what I wished to discuss. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Conversations and Threads

2011-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
That's the neat thing about conversations versus threads: they rely on more than the subject line, so that in most cases, you can change it, and still have messages within the conversation. Teresa On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > With the improved functioning of threads in Lio

Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Max
Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to clic

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread James Malone
Wow, I'm honestly amazed so many of you are having this problem. Is it only on the really new models? Mine is the mid 2010 one, and its fine. MBP by the way. On 7/27/11, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I'm not totally sure yet if Apple is aware of this problem or not, but I'm > gonna call them

Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
This is great news. I haven't checked out some of the books I've wanted to from the library because of the lack of accessibility.. Now it seems I can. Thanks, Teresa On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Max wrote: > Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it > seems to be qui

Using Dragon Dictate on a MacBook Pro with VoiceOver

2011-07-27 Thread irenehollybarry
Hello, I am a blind computer user and want very badly to purchase a Mac, as I am sick and tired of Windows lack of built-in screen readers. (I used Macs for years but had to shift to Windows because of my job.) Since I am partly paralyzed, I have trouble typing. Is there a dictation program I can

Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possib

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Nope. I have a mid 2010 mbp too, and it urns hot from time to time. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:41 AM, James Malone wrote: Wow, I'm honestly amazed so many of you are having this problem. Is it only on the really ne

Anyone running lion on 1 gb of ram?

2011-07-27 Thread matthew dyer at work
Hi all, I may upgrade my mac to 10.7, how ever I only have 1 gb of ram. I was just curius of any on the list has it running under a gb of ram. I want to be sure it is going to work before I do it as I do not have anyone rite now that can install the ram for me. Thanks again for your help

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I have a mid 2010 standard macbook (not pro), and it's running just fine here. Courtney On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Nope. > > I have a mid 2010 mbp too, and it urns hot from time to time. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.

Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
Can anyone also please post the key sequence to boot up the machine and bring up the Lion partition? Thanks, Mika On 7/27/11, Dan Roy wrote: > The problem is, when you boo from that partition, the window chooser isn't > available. VO does work, but, it's a subset of the normal features. > > > O

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Odd! You and I have the same system basically, except that your's is a Pro, where mine isn['t, but m ine's also Mid 2010. Dule core Intel 2.4GHZ, 2GB Ram, 250GB hard Drive, Lion OSX 10.7, 13 inch display. I can get my SMC Firmware version number, if you'd like me to, but I know, after refer

Re: Anyone running lion on 1 gb of ram?

2011-07-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Matthew, Unfortunately, 1 gb of RAM is insufficient to run Lion. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:50, matthew dyer at work wrote: > Hi all, > > I may upgrade my mac to 10.7, how ever I only have 1 gb of ram. I was just > curius of any on the list has it running under a gb of ram.

RE: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
I ran temperature monitor while I still had lion installed, and I'm not sure I was reading it's output correctly because it's not an app I'm familiar with, but assuming I did read it correctly, my temperatures were around 104F, which seemed awfully hot to me. I reported the overheating issue agai

rs games client

2011-07-27 Thread Ronald McEwan
Hi, I just downloaded the client and cannot get it to work. When I launch it, VO tells me that there are no windows. Does anyone have a suggestion? In the Journey, Ron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to thi

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Ronald McEwan
Where do you find temperature monitor? In the Journey, Ron On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > I ran temperature monitor while I still had lion installed, and I'm not sure > I was reading it's output correctly because it's > not an app I'm familiar with, but assuming I did re

Re: Moving Mailboxes to the favorites Bar in Lion?

2011-07-27 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Teresa, I had a similar experience trying to move mailboxes to the Favorites bar. I had success when I used the other drop command that is the one that drops the dragged mailbox under the current location you are on. so I picked up my mailbox with VO comma, then went to the Favori

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Actually, 104 isn't that bad. What is bad is about 240F where my was at it's highest peek. Granted, that's more than 85C that I quoted initially, but it only spiked to this level for maybe 5 minutes, but still, it was enough to make me r'r'really! freaked. If you're only at 1o4, then you're

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-27 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Il giorno 26/lug/2011, alle ore 05:07, Mike Arrigo ha scritto: > I would also ask, what does voiceover not do that you need it to do? I would > say it does most things the windows screen readers do, and in some ways does > many of them better. Hello Mike. I usually like your podcasts and I fin

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
The web site is found at: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html and the direct download is at: http://www.bresink.com/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/download.php5 Look on that page for the download button, and vo+Space on it. Good luck. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Rona

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Masimo, With respect to Spreadsheets, specifically Numbers, I'm not sure of what you are referring to with respect to its problems. After about one hour of playing around I was able to merge cells, do various formatting, implement functions and much more. I am quite proficient with compute

Re: Moving Mailboxes to the favorites Bar in Lion?

2011-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks, Eric. Unfortunately, your instructions didn't work either. Teresa On Jul 27, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Teresa, > > I had a similar experience trying to move mailboxes to the Favorites > bar. I had success when I used the other drop command that is the one that > d

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread carolyn Haas
Hello Tim: As usual, very well thought out and very well spoken. I don't have the issue at present, thankfully. But, I really appreciate your succinct and clear explanation. Thank you. Carolyn On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest that people dig a little deepe

Re: can't find the message content column

2011-07-27 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi ray: Awesome explanation here. I've been playing with mail, but didn't have a good sense yet of that layout. Someone described it to me as being similar to how iPad shows mail. Anyhow thank you. This helps. Carolyn On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:32 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > All I have to do when I

Re: Anyone running lion on 1 gb of ram?

2011-07-27 Thread Chris Blouch
More specifically, Apple requires 2GB RAM. It's in their spec sheet here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html CB On 7/27/11 10:03 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Matthew, Unfortunately, 1 gb of RAM is insufficient to run Lion. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:50, matthew dyer at work

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Donna, The only problem we have ever had with our AppleTV has been with Netflix. When we encountered our latest Netflix issue, we were receiving an error message indicating that Netflix was currently unavailable, and to please try again later. So I googled the problem, and many posts on th

Drag And Drop In Disk Utility.

2011-07-27 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi, I was trying to make a Mac OS X Lion flash memory and I managed to select the installesd.dmg file which is on the desktop from the source list, I have a usb flash drive plugged in but I don't know how to drag it to the destination, any help? Thanks. -- Georges Zeinoun Timmerv. 6A, SE54

Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread Doug Lawlor
Just hold down command-r while powering on and the recovery partition will come up. Doug On 2011-07-27, at 11:24 AM, Mika Pyyhkala wrote: > Can anyone also please post the key sequence to boot up the machine > and bring up the Lion partition? > > Thanks, > Mika > > On 7/27/11, Dan Roy wrote:

Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
Thanks Doug, just curious, is this command-R key new or has it been around with SL? In other words would you use the same command-R to boot off a SL dvd on a mac that did not have Lion? Best, Mikab On 7/27/11, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Just hold down command-r while powering on and the recovery partit

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jenny, thanks. this sounds a lot like the problem we're having. We'll give it a shot, we've really come to love Netflix! :) Best, Donna On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jenny Wood wrote: > Hi Donna, > > The only problem we have ever had with our AppleTV has been with Netflix. > When we enco

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Donna Goodin
thanks, Les. If Jenny's suggestions don't work, that'll be our next step. Hopefully we won't need to do that. : Cheers, Donna On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Donna, > > Have you contacted Apple or your internet provider? Something obviously > isn't right as you shouldn

Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Jane
I just use the arrow keys for previous and next page. Left for previous, right for next. Jane On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Max, > > I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. > Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read usi

Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello listers, sorry if this is off topic I just wanted to share My new creation with you all. I have created a new song with Garageband and I am very proud of it. I would love it if you could give me a little feedback, please email me at edworr...@bresnan.net with comments. So her is the link t

Re: Tips about using sendspace?

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Where will you post your podcast? Will it be blindcooltech or do you have your own feed? Thanks. On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > OK, there have been enough requests on how to do this. Stay tuned. I'm > gonna demonstrate the wizard on the next podcast epp I do. >

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread John Panarese
I agree with Tim as well. I have a mid 2010 MBP and are not having any issues with heating. I think, however, when one is troubleshooting any issue, a lot of research and caution should be undertaken. I am one who likes to have multiple expert sources when it comes to an offered solution

Re: Looking for app to convert ogg to mp3 with Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. I was recommended to use tunesify. It is in the app store for $2.99. It looks pretty accessible; though I haven't tried converting with it yet. On Jul 24, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Brett C. wrote: > Hello, > > I used to convert ogg files to mp3 with an application called Switch. > Apparently it doe

Re: voiceover, lion, and safari

2011-07-27 Thread John Panarese
I really am starting to believe that many issues people are reporting are system specific. It's just completely odd to me that folks using virtually the same kinds of systems and configurations, as well as their methods of installing Lion are having completely different experiences. I am n

Re: Tips about using sendspace?

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I have my own feed. You can go to: http://eclecticjukebox.podhoster.com to subscribe with the podcatcher of your choice. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Paul Henrichsen" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:13 PM Subject: Re: Tips about using sendspace? Where will you post yo

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
John, I tried all the things you and Tim suggested from the Activity Monitor, to the forums, etc. I'm sorry if my advice was useless. Chris. - Original Message - From: "John Panarese" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:25 PM Subject: Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot,

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread John Panarese
No advice is ever useless. That was not the point of my post. My point was that research and caution should be taken before anyone tries any given suggestion presented to them, and should be completely certain that the remedy offered is something that will fix the problem. If you have fou

Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, I'm sorry, maybe I over-reacted. forgive me. I see now where you're coming from. Chris. - Original Message - From: "John Panarese" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:46 PM Subject: Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution No advice is ever useles

Re: Sendspace Wizard Demo now available for Download

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks, Chris. It took me a while to find the link to subscribe through podcaster, but I am now subscribed to your podcast and am downloading what you have so far. Thanks again for doing these. On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Sarah May wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Is your podcast learning how to use

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
Sounds really good. I have looked at guide for garage band and it seems usable….has anyone had any luck in producing podcasts with garage band? I've got a show open, and commercials that I splice in and then a show outro and I like the ducking feature of garage band but was wondering how much of

Re: InfoVox fix for Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, All. How much do these voices cost? Every time I get near the speech synthesis links, Safari crashes and reloads the page. I was wondering how much Heather costs? Thanks. On Jul 25, 2011, at 5:03 PM, André Nuno Soares wrote: > Hello all, > > My apologies if this has already been discussed,

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, It takes a little work but its very doable. I edit the M-A podcast with Garageband as well as the garageband tutorials I did. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Cody wrote: Sounds really good. I have looked at

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
Nice, would you be so kind as to provide me a link to the tutorials you did? I will mostly be doing work with real instruments and prerecorded tracks and mixing them together. i will need to do things including mix pasting like in adobe audition, and fading/audio selection and fine tuning. If th

making a bootable dvd was: Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread William Windels
hello, I found a tutorial how to make a bootable dvd to install lion and I was wondering if the procedure in diskutility with dragging and dropping is possible with vo without sighted assistance? I mean: can we make a bootable dvd to make a clean install of lion? Thx for your answers! Mvg will

Re: yet another VO feature broken?

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. Very odd. I have been doing just this all morning as I go through a bunch of mac visionaries messages. Could it be your quick nab keys are turned on or something like that? On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:20 PM, carlene knight wrote: > I can't just press VO/j to jump from an open message to the mess

Re: I take back my previous post regarding mail

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
That happened to me as well the first day. Then, It mysteriously started working. No idea why. On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:30 PM, carlene knight wrote: > Somehow the jump command works now. I'm embarrassed. Now maybe if I > complain about the VO layout in ITunes, it will start working for me > pe

Re: Tips about using sendspace?

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, Chris. I have seen a lot of tutorials on the mac for the blind site. Is there a podcast feed one can subscribe to to grab those items without having to go to the site? Thanks. On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I have my own feed. > > You can go to: > > http:/

Looking for a music creator program

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, All. On the PC, my sighted wife used to use a version of Cakewalk a few years ago which allowed her to enter music one note at a time. I'm not a music reader, but i guess she could enter the staffs and create the entire choir song as if it were played on the piano. She would use her mouse t

RE: Looking for a music creator program

2011-07-27 Thread Jeff Bishop
Couldn't Garage Band do this maybe? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:38 PM To: Mac Visionaries Discussion List Subject: Looking for a music creator program Hi, A

RE: making a bootable dvd was: Re: Booting from the Lion Partition

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
William, You don't need to drag and rop, just go to the toolbar, click the burn button, find the image, and about 30 minutes later or so, you'll have a DVD. Hope this helps. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wil

latest iPhone update?

2011-07-27 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I just went to sync my phone and got a message that update 4.29 is available. Given how underwhelmed I am with Lion, and the complete disaster that is the current version of iTunes, I'm reluctant to update. Has anyone tried it yet? TIA, Donna -- You received this message because you

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hmm, I have a feeling Garageband might not be the best tool from what you just described. But its worth experimenting with in my opinion. You might also want to try out an app called Sound Studio. It can be purchased from the Mac app store for $29.99. You can also pick up a 15 use trial her

Podcasts on MacForTheBlind [was Re: Tips about using sendspace?]

2011-07-27 Thread Esther
Hi Paul, I should let John Panarese answer this, but I'll just quickly comment that John set up the web pages at: http://macfortheblind.com to aggregate some resources he found in different places to provide links in one place. For most of his content and tips, he contacts the people responsib

Re: rs games and lion

2011-07-27 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. I too have a problem with Monopoly. I've already sent an email describing my problems but they don't seem to care since they haven't done anything about it. This was last week. As for audio problems, I haven't experienced any erratic behaviour here. Shawn -- You received this message beca

RE: latest iPhone update?

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
Donna, That update isnt' really necessary, since it add no new features to the phone, so I wouldn't even bother trying to get it., but to answer your question, I did update mind to 4.3.5 (AT&T), and it worked wonderfully with the broken iTunes and Lion. -Original Message- From: macvisionar

News of iMac users

2011-07-27 Thread Naama Shang
Hi, A friend just sent this to me, anyone who bought in iMac in the last 3 months may want to read: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/apple-recalling-replacing-1tb-hard-drives-in-some-2011-imacs.ars -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisio

Re: rs games and lion

2011-07-27 Thread Isaac Obie
Shawn, Don't you think you may be speaking too soon? It takes time to get responses sometimes. Isaac - Original Message - From: "Shawn Krasniuk" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:24 AM Subject: Re: rs games and lion Hi. I too have a problem with Monopoly. I've already sent an e

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
Hi, Those links just start playing part 1 of your podcast I don't see parts 2 and 3 and the bonus…. On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hmm, > > I have a feeling Garageband might not be the best tool from what you just > described. But its worth experimenting with in my opini

Re: Garageband success again

2011-07-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Not sure what you mean. Just test the links out and they all go to the correct page. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Cody wrote: Hi, Those links just start playing part 1 of your podcast I don't see parts 2

Re: latest iPhone update?

2011-07-27 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi, Glad it's working for you, but also good to know it's not worth bothering about. I think I'll just sit tight, and wait for better things to come. :) Thanks for the info. Cheers, donna On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Donna, That update isnt' really necessary, since it

Re: Podcasts on MacForTheBlind [was Re: Tips about using sendspace?]

2011-07-27 Thread John Panarese
Hi Esther, I think Esther did a very nice job of some impromptu "public relations". Thank you kindly. *smile* Other than the audio demonstrations I recored, I have attempted to put up content that I have collected from my years on various lists, whether that be actual email messages

Re: latest iPhone update?

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
The iPhone 5 is said to be released either late August or September. It does not make sense to release a completely new version of IOS and not release a new iPhone. Mark my words, one will be out in the next month or so, all the right signs are here. Cody On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Donna Good

Re: latest iPhone update?

2011-07-27 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
I have to disagree with Daniel. 4.2.9 fixes a security problem; to suggest that someone shouldn't upgrade to it is missleading. On 27/07/2011, Cody wrote: > The iPhone 5 is said to be released either late August or September. It does > not make sense to release a completely new version of IOS an

new member with several questions.

2011-07-27 Thread jim rawls
Hi All, My wife and I will be buying a mac pro computer in the next little while. I am clueless about where to start to learn the mac with voice over. I have been a jaws user on windows computer since the year 2000, but think it is time to take the plunge and learn the mac with voice over. So, q

Re: new member with several questions.

2011-07-27 Thread Cody
Voiceover has a commands review keyboard learn mode by pressing control option k and you can press any key you like. the 1 to 1 program probably won't help you in the area of voiceover. Apple specialists may have heard of voiceover but probably wouldn't know how to operate it On Jul 27, 2011, at

Re: new member with several questions.

2011-07-27 Thread jim rawls
thanks for your input. I appreciate it. Jim From: Cody Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new member with several questions. Voiceover has a commands review keyboard learn mode by pressing control option k and you can press any key you lik

Re: Apple TV?

2011-07-27 Thread Scott Howell
The question Donna is what types of problems are you having. I had problems, but I was able to track it back to the gateway/the cable modem. I have not been able to reproduce the problem lately, but one suggestion is to be sure you have good dns servers. The problem overall is not having any kno

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