Turning Off Auto Complete In Safari's Address Bar

2011-11-12 Thread Gavin
Hi guys, How do I disable the auto complete in Safari's address bar in Lion? It really annoys me. Regards, Gavin -- 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 unsub

Dragon Express Introductory pricing

2011-11-12 Thread Garth Humphreys
HI I noticed that Dragon Dictate has an express version in the app store at the moment for the introductory pricing of about $50. Does anyone know how well this works or if it is compatible with VO? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionarie

Re: Turning Off Auto Complete In Safari's Address Bar

2011-11-12 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Gavin! If you go to safari pref's [command+comma] interact with the tool bar and select the auto fill button there is a check box for both options! Try unchecking either both or the one that is! hth Colin On 12 Nov 2011, at 09:20, Gavin wrote: > Hi guys, > > How do I disable the auto complet

Re: Facebook

2011-11-12 Thread David Eagle
I would suggest writing to Facebook but that's a whole challenge in itself. I know a lot of blind people who use the mobile Facebook site on their computers, so this is really going to frustrate a lot of people. I wonder if Facebook do it on purpose. Perhaps that will be in the sequel to that fi

Re: Turning Off Auto Complete In Safari's Address Bar

2011-11-12 Thread Gavin
Hi Colin, All 3 check boxes are related to web forms. I can't find anything that talks about the address bar. Regards, Gavin Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 Email: g.batw...@gmail.com Mobile Email/MSN: customtra...@live.co.za Skype: batwo

Re: Facebook

2011-11-12 Thread Gavin
Since when has the Facebook mobile site redirected people to the main site? I've just visited the mobile site on my Mac, and it works perfectly. Regards, Gavin Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 Email: g.batw...@gmail.com Mobile Email/MSN: cu

iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I did an update to my iPhone last night directly to the iPhone. I had a problem I need to tell you guys about, and I need to contact Apple about this also. My sighted husband had already gotten his update to work, so I started mine. My phone was happy to download the program, no problem

RE: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, That's not true at all. There are several people on this list that have reported their updates on the phone itself going fine with VoiceOver on, including mine. I don't know what kind of error you got, but a lot of us at least on the ViPhone list updated successfully. -Original Message---

Re: Facebook

2011-11-12 Thread David Eagle
Hi, it says in the address bar (or whatever it's called on the Mac) that it's the mobile site, but it quite clearly isn't. Instead of getting things like notifications, messages etc we now get the stupid numbers at the top that don't announce themselves as links and don't tell you what they actu

Re: Search in Apple Mail

2011-11-12 Thread David Eagle
Hi, I'm on about using the search facility in Apple Mail. You press command Option F, type your query and then scroll down for results. I find the message I want but then can't read it. I know how to read messages ordinarily with Apple Mail, which hopefully I have demonstrated by reading your me

attaching songs to emails

2011-11-12 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi everyone, how could i send music files to friends via email that i have in my music folder I only want, to send 1 or 2 songs. having experimented, emailing 1 song out of the music folder, to myself I'm wondering why it wouldn't work and i couldn't get to song to play back, any help would be m

Re: attaching songs to emails

2011-11-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Forst, that depends on how large of a file your e-mail server can take. I would be hesitant to try anything over 15Mb. Usually, though, it's actually more like 10. I'd prefer to use either Drop Box or some third party server to do that since the files can be much larger than 15Mb. Let's say,

Re: Facebook

2011-11-12 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hey; in recent posts its just been apple users with problems. could we hear from some windows users about their experiences. I do wish they would pick a format and stick to it. then at least we might get a 3rd party app that would handle it for us. take care, max On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:43

Re: How do I get to mail from the doc quickly

2011-11-12 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Jennifer and Kevin, > > When you navigate to the dock, menus, or the sidebars of windows, and press > the first few letters of the name of an element, focus moves to the first

Re: How do I get to mail from the doc quickly

2011-11-12 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Thanks. I did it a little faster and got mail. Thanks again for your help. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Jennifer, > > After you typed an M, if you wait a few seconds and type an A, you'll land on > an app starting with the letter A. Th

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Hunt
Mine worked just fine. On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:11 AM, "Daniel Miller" wrote: > Hi, > > That's not true at all. There are several people on this list that have > reported their updates on the phone itself going fine with VoiceOver on, > including mine. > I don't know what kind of error you got, b

Re: How do I get to mail from the doc quickly

2011-11-12 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Thank you. Hope you have a great weekend. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Easiest way for me is to just press command space, type mail and press > enter. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisi

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Kevin Mattingly
I did the update last evening and had no issues. My phone is a 4S and I guess that could've made the difference. Kev On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys. > I did an update to my iPhone last night directly to the iPhone. I had a > problem I need to tell you guys about, an

RE: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Daniel Miller
I did the update on an iPad II, and an iPhone 4, with no issues. I really don't think you need to contact apple for anything. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Mattingly Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread John Panarese
OK, I had a similar situation as Gigi, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with VoiceOver. The download on my 4S went fine, but I received an error message when it started the process to update. However, I just went back into settings and selected the update button in the software u

Re: Search in Apple Mail

2011-11-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Once you have a search result, stop interacting with the search area and find your way to the messages column. Interact with that, and you will find the search results listed as usual. HTh, Teresa "Visualize whirled peas." On Nov 12, 2011, at 4:31 AM, David Eagle wrote: > Hi, I'm on about usi

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Howell
I have no idea what happen in your case, but I updated two iPhones (4S), an iPad 2, and two first generation iPads with no issues. I updated my iPhone and my sighted wife's iPHone using VoiceOver and the iPad 2, and first gen iPad. THe second first gen iPad was done without VoiceOver. In every c

Help with audible, please?

2011-11-12 Thread Wendy Alling
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Re: Search in Apple Mail

2011-11-12 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Teresa, If you mark a hotspot first on the message table it becomes very quick going from search field to messages table. :) Talk soon Chuck In GOD I TRUST!!! On Nov 12, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Once you have a search result, stop interacting with the search area and fin

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread James Mannion
I did an update directly to the phone with an IPhone 4 and a 4s and they both went fine with voiceover on. I suspect in your case it was an error just like what has and will likely still happen in some cases when doing it on ITunes. Likely what this tells us is that the over the air update process

Re: Help with audible, please?

2011-11-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
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Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Hypnotic Consulting
I had a loss of speech issue. my 4s was plugged into the wall. I hit the sleep button and a while later my son grabbed it to play, and he said there was no sounds. And when I tried to turn vo on, nothing. I restarted it and nothing. I plugged it in and nothing. it was recognized. I restored it t

Mail Folders Question

2011-11-12 Thread Kevin Mattingly
Hey guys, I used to have a personal folder in my list of mailboxes or folders. How do you find those folders again? Kev -- 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. T

RE: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread Daniel Miller
It will download automatically, but will alert you when it's ready to install, or you can trigger the download manually. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hypnotic Consulting Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:3

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi all, I saw this in the archives. Is set up the same in Lion? Thanks, Johnny Chilelli On Sep 10, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: > Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard > commander is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the > image

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, change your account to pop on the gmail site. This way when you set it up on the Mac, the correct information will be retrieved automatically. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Nov 11, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > I tried to

Re: Any accessible amateur astronomy app

2011-11-12 Thread Esther
Hi Subbu, For some reason your original post requesting accessible amateur astronomy apps for the iPhone still hasn't shown up in my Inbox, although I've read Anna's reply, where she mentions both the NASA app and SkySafari Lite. I'm cc'ing a copy of this response to the Macvisionaries list, s

Re: How do I get to mail from the doc quickly

2011-11-12 Thread Rachel magario
Janny, I just created a shortcut to open mail for me in the voice over utilities under key board commanders. I chose the right option key to be my commander and I just do option m and that opens my mail, but you can choose whatever key you want. I thought this way it is super fast and I do onl

Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-12 Thread Missy Hoppe
Good evening, all. I'm highly skeptical that this is going to do any good, but just because I want to say I've made the effort, I'm getting ready to do a clean install of lion. While I'm doing all my prep work: cloning to external drives to make sure I don't lose anything, I'm going to listen to

Re: iPod Touch

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Everyone! Wow! What a goldmine in the Macvisionaries archives! I have a question of my own about the I Pod touch and the I Pad 2. This may be a silly question but, can you do everything on the I pod that you can do on the I Pad? If not, what are some major differences between ;the two? J

Re: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Howell
The best thing you could do is install all the apps from scratch. After all if your going to go through all the trouble, you might as well start with a truly fresh system. Otherwise, you will be copying things by hand and you may not get everything necessary. If nothing else, you will have learn

RE: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-12 Thread Missy Hoppe
For nearly all of my apps, that's no problem. I guess I do the same with the acapella voices and reenter the licence info? What about my 2 pitiful Itunes purchases? Thanks! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sco

RE: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Missy, You can re-download them through iTunes at no charge. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:57 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Preparing for

A question about Dropbox and Flash-player

2011-11-12 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, I thought I had successfully installed dropbox, but when I open it, there is nothing in it. When I installed, I did tell it I had an account, so I expected to find all my files but they are not there. They are on the website. What do I have to do to get them in my dropbox on the Mac? I ne

Re: attaching songs to emails

2011-11-12 Thread Gerry Cook
thanks Ray that's helpful and i'll try it i did cmd i to find out how big it was i was thinking in windows you use alt key and arrow to send to sub menu and i was trying to find something like that on the mac but it doesn't matter if there's nothing like that. Gerry Cook cheers gerry gerryc...@o

Re: attaching songs to emails

2011-11-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
No Gerry, Command+i is the info hot key. That's the quickest way to get info on a file. Study your hotkeys a little more. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Nov 12, 2011, at

Re: attaching songs to emails

2011-11-12 Thread Gerry Cook
yes i will Gerry Cook cheers gerry gerryc...@optusnet.com.au On 13/11/2011, at 11:23 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > No Gerry, Command+i is the info hot key. That's the quickest way to get info > on a file. Study your hotkeys a little more. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > >

Re: rosetta stonesand voiceover?

2011-11-12 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Karen, I am also a French language learner. I was told by several language teachers that the Risetta Stone program was very visual. I suspect it is not going to be a good tool for a blind language learner. I found the Pimsler program worked well as it is all audio. Also The Miche

Re: rosetta stonesand voiceover?

2011-11-12 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Karen, I am also a French language learner. I was told by several language teachers that the Risetta Stone program was very visual. I suspect it is not going to be a good tool for a blind language learner. I found the Pimsler program worked well as it is all audio. Also The Miche

Re: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Howell
All iTunes purchases can be pulled back down from the store or just add them back into iTUnes. On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > For nearly all of my apps, that's no problem. I guess I do the same with the > acapella voices and reenter the licence info? > What about my 2 pitifu

Re: How do I get to mail from the doc quickly

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Jenny, Just quickly type the first two or three letters for the program you wish to navigate to. On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Jennifer Perdue wrote: > When I go to the doc from lion I press M for mail and get mission control > (Whatever that is), and then press A hoping it will go to mail.

Hopstop website frustratingly inaccessible with VO

2011-11-12 Thread Eric Brinkman
I just went to hops top.com to plan a NYC trip, but found that I was unable to adjust the transportation method preferences when entering information. Adjusting the time of departure was also unnecessarily difficult as I had to mouse-click randomly to get it to select the time I wanted. I eventua

Re: A question about Dropbox and Flash-player

2011-11-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I can at least answer the second question. Yes, Adobe has chosen to not make Flash accessible on the Mac. Not much we can do about it other than continue to pester Adobe, but success seems unlikely. CB On 11/12/11 6:05 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: Hi, I thought I had successfully installed dr

Re: Facebook

2011-11-12 Thread Rahul Bajaj
David, Your suggestion about that movie was too hilarious :P On my Windows laptop, the mobile site is working perfectly. I have been trying to use the mobile site on my Mac for a long time, but it always redirects me to the main site. Will the Facebook people do something about it if I write to t

Apple Mail

2011-11-12 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I have a couple of questions regarding Apple Mail. 1. If I wish to search for a mail, then what should I do? Whenever I try searching with the toolbar, it mentions the number of messages found, but I don't know how to read those messages. 2. How can I directly go to the last message in m

A question.

2011-11-12 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I just downloaded a book from the Internet. So, when I tried to open the file, I got a message saying that there is no default application specified to open this document. So, how can I open the document? Is there a way of selecting the application in which I want to read the document?