Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Johnathan, > Looking at the command you gave: > man -t bash | open -a preview -f I have 2 questions. 1. man bash or man -t bash. What is groff? From man, I don't become any wiser. It seems that man -t bash, will have man pass its output to groff, rather than to stout, while groff in turn, d

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Oh yes, I'm also interested in how to use Sound Studio. Could you please answer the following questions? 1. How to highlight parts of a sound? Does the program have mark in and mark out or how does it work? 2. Are you able to hear a cut preview? 3. Does it have a scrubb mode, forward and backw

Re: x11

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, Very informative. Thanks a lot. I understand it and it makes sense. Interesting experience for a linux newbie. So in short, x11 I can safely forget about. Good to know. Thanks for trying it out by the way. I have xcode installed, because I want to use mac ports some day soon, but even get

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
This is really helpful! I will be playing with Amadeus this weekend. Thanks so much. Marlaina Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Marlena, To add to Jurgen. Load

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Hi Robert. Could you tell me what you like about Sound Studio vs. Amadeus? Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, I switched from Amadeus to Sound Studio becau

text edit find and replace?

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, When attempting to find and replace, I'm having a focus problem with voiceover. Does that sound familiar? What happens is: when I select a character that landed in my pdf converted to plain text, I either want to get rid of it, or I want to replace it with what it should have been,

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Robert Carter
Answers are below each question. On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Oh yes, I'm also interested in how to use Sound Studio. Could you please > answer the following questions? > > 1. How to highlight parts of a sound? Does the program have mark in and mark > out or how does it wo

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Robert, What is the cost of sound studio? Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Feb 9, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Robert Carter wrote: Answers are below each question. On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: >

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It's $29.99 from the app store. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Robert, > > What is the cost of sound studio? > > Reach

Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, This might seem like excessive quoting, and i apologize for this but it's important for my questions to get them in context. Qs and As below: 9 feb 2012 kl. 13:47 skrev Robert Carter: >> 2. Are you able to hear a cut preview? >> > Yes, pressing the spacebar when material is selected will pl

Re: question about spell check

2012-02-09 Thread John Sanfilippo
do you mean shift control option? js - Original Message - From: Adie To: MacVisionaries Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:31 PM Subject: Re: question about spell check Hi I just can't get the VO M to bring up the spelling suggestions any more in Text Edit, it st

Re: x11

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I think most of what xTools installs is located in the Developer folder at the top level of your hard drive. One thing I was disappointed in was tat the iOS Simulator (Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iOS Simulator) doesn't let you turn on voiceover. Why would

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, so let me see, you want the ability that, when you pause a file's playback, the inserttion point needs to remain where the playback stopped. Is that right? I suspect you might find something in preferences that indicates how the space bar should behave when playing a file. Since I don't h

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Blouch
By default osx uses bash so you shouldn't have to check unless you've messed with things. Nice tip on the Postscript output from man and how to pipe it to preview. CB On 2/8/12 10:10 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: The prompt string is defined in the variable PS1 for the bourne shell. I believ

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Didn't see an answer yet so let me try. 1. man -t routes the output of the man page through groff which defaults to making it into Postscript and then Jonathan piped that postscript into the OSX Preview app. Gives you a nice formatted output in a more Mac friendly viewer. 2. I think most of

Re: terminal: what is bzw

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, I didn't know yet that bz2 is a command as well. I was just wondering about the extension. For example, on windows you can make zip files, with but not with a program called zip. I should have know better though, because when I think it over now, in unix you have a tar command to make tar

Re: Creating Presentations USING KeyNote

2012-02-09 Thread Badger, Nancy
Ann, Where did you get this training? I would love to have this type of training, and I believe my employer would actually pay for it. Nancy On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Ezzie, On 8 Feb 2012, at 01:44, ezzie bueno wrote: My presentation must include two pictures alon

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, And now this is clear as well. Thanks a bundle. So what groff does is take man's output, in whatever format man outputs it, and then reformats that into postscript, whatever that is. I'll be reading. Paul. On Feb 9, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Didn't see an answer yet so let m

for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Elena Brescacin
hi, I have been here joined since last Sunday but did not talk too much. I like to work, not to talk! smiles I just reviewed a music streaming service on applevis community http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/music/soundtracker-radio As last.fm app for iPhone is not distributed in the italian

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, You are correct that there is not a pre and post as you describe. As far as scrubbing being useless, I disagree. I simply use scrubbing to get to exactly where I want to edit and tap the "m" key to set a mark. It works like a charm for me. Robert On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Krister Ekstr

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, I don't know the answer to these questions. robert On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Ah, so let me see, you want the ability that, when you pause a file's > playback, the inserttion point needs to remain where the playback stopped. > Is that right? I suspect you might f

Re: terminal: what is bzw

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Blouch
There is also a -k modifier to man to look for keywords. So even if there isn't a command but the word you are looking for is mentioned you still get a search result. For example man -k easter would list some man pages that mention Easter and you would find out that doing an ncal -e prints

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Right. Postscript is a language created by Adobe for resolution independent page layout. It was first used by Apple in laser printers where the resolution had become so high that it was not reasonable to download an entire bitmap for a page. Instead Postscript lets you define objects such as a

Re: text edit find and replace?

2012-02-09 Thread Becky Knaub
try cmd F for the find dialog and see if that works if not try VO keys and F type in search and press enter HTH Becky and C my clever guide On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > When attempting to find and replace, I'm having a focus problem with > voiceover. Does tha

Removing podcasts from my IPhone 4s

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Hunt
How do I remove podcast episodes from my IPhone while using Voice Over? Thanks so much. -- 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, send

Dragging music to iPhone manually...

2012-02-09 Thread David Hole
Hi folks. Is it now-a-day possible to manually drag music from my iTunes library to my iPhone? I turned that option on in the iPhone-settings window, and tried to drag albums using "VO+," and "VO+.", and got the message that it wasn't possible to drag the album to the iPhone... Is there another way

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Clear, as always. Thanks Chris. On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Right. Postscript is a language created by Adobe for resolution independent > page layout. It was first used by Apple in laser printers where the > resolution had become so high that it was not reasonable to downlo

Re: Creating Presentations USING KeyNote

2012-02-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Nancy, On 9 Feb 2012, at 16:05, Badger, Nancy wrote: > Where did you get this training? I would love to have this type of training, > and I believe my employer would actually pay for it. > My husband and I provide training on iWork. The person who learned KeyNote took a three-day course

Re: Removing podcasts from my IPhone 4s

2012-02-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, When on the specific podcast episode, double tap and hold for the pass through gesture. Then without lifting your finger swipe to the left or right. This will bring up the confirm deletion button after the episode. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www

Re: Dragging music to iPhone manually...

2012-02-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, completely unnecessary. Just copy and paste with Command C and Command V. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:31 AM, David Hole wrote: > Hi folks. > Is it now-a-day possible to manually drag music from my iTun

basic recording and sound editing app

2012-02-09 Thread Angie Giltinan
Hi all, So, there's been lots of great talk aon this list about recording and editing sound apps, which leads me to this one simple question. What is the best, simplest app for recording and editing sound. I want it to be simple to use. I'm not an audiofile or anything like that, for example, I

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Esther
Hi Paul, I'll give you a few other alternatives to using man from the terminal command line. First of all, in addition to Jon's suggestion of displaying in Preview, there's an alternative command that will send your man page output to TextEdit. You can also set up scripting definitions for bo

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
That was the first thing i looked for in the sound studio prefs but nothing could be found there, at least not that i saw, which made me a tad disappointed, because i would have loved such a feature. /Krister 9 feb 2012 kl. 15:51 skrev Ray Foret Jr: > Ah, so let me see, you want the ability tha

importing favorites from ie to safari

2012-02-09 Thread Angie Giltinan
Hi all, I'm just full of questions today. being a new switcher, I have loads of IE favorites that I'd like to get in to safari, Is this possible, and if so, how? Thanks a bundle Angie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
But then you could never be as exact as you wanted, given that it takes a smallish fragment of time from the moment you hear the place where you want to put the marker and your hand actually having pressed the M key. Yes, it's a very very small fragment of time, that's true, but in precition edi

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Not to mention which, if it's music you are editing, there's the tiny fraction of time when you anticipate the down beat of a measure; and, in anticipation of this, you might perhaps press the M key too early or late. That's one thing I do love about Amadeus Pro. You can slow down the playback

Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Marc
In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured out how to create and name new folders. Now I would like to move the documents into folders. As far as I can tell, I can copy and paste the documents into the new folder but the document remains in the documents folder. Does anyb

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Barry Abbott
If you are using Lion first copy the file with 'command+c' then move to the new folder and press 'command+option+v' the file should no longer be in the original folder. Barry On 2012-02-09, at 2:37 PM, Marc wrote: > In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured > out ho

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Becky Knaub
use cmd opt V to move files. HTH. B & C On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Marc wrote: > In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured > out how to create and name new folders. Now I would like to move the > documents into folders. As far as I can tell, I can copy and paste the >

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-09 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, I would like to make Chrome my default browser, how do I do this? Also, how do I disable Chromevox, I hate it ... Thanks. On 8 Feb 2012, at 11:13, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello, > > What about tables? > > Are you able to get to objects in table using the web rotor or item chooser? > I

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Mark, Are you using snow leopard or do you have Lion? If you have snow leopard on your mac, then there is a program called move addict, that you can buy for 7 or so dollars. Using it, you can move one or more files and or folders over to a new location. Now if you are using Lion, then you don'

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Marc Grossman
Thanks to all that responded. I am using Lion and that worked perfectly! On 9 Feb 2012, at 11:46, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Mark, > Are you using snow leopard or do you have Lion? > If you have snow leopard on your mac, then there is a program called move > addict, that you can buy for 7 or so doll

Re: importing favorites from ie to safari

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Angie, Yes that is possible. In internet explorer, go into the file menu, alt plus f, and then find export. In this menu option you will be able to export all your bookmarks. The dialogs contains a number of checkboxes, so just turn on favorites and turn off the other ones. They will be exported

Re: importing favorites from ie to safari

2012-02-09 Thread Esther
Hi Angie, The general way to migrate bookmarks (called favorites in Internet Explorer) from one web browser to any other web browser is to use the File menu to export them from the first browser as an html file and then to import that html file into the second browser. Make sure that you rename

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Don't need to spend $7.00 just use commmand+option+v. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Mark, > Are you using snow leopard o

Re: for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Doremus
IMHO soundtracker.fm is fine if your 16 years old. Checked add the stations I could find and did not recoginize a single song or artist. Guess that makes me an old goat. I'm '60's & '70's guy. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: > hi, > I have been here joined since last Sunda

Re: terminal: prompt

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Esther, Thanks for your thorough response. It is not all clear immediately, because I will need to do some further reading, but that's a pleasure. I have some questions on what you are doing to begin with though. >man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/ What are you doing i

Is there any way to...

2012-02-09 Thread Bill Holton
Is there any way to turn the right "applications" key on my PC keyboard into the right option key? I have swapped the left Windows and Alt key so they are like the Apple keys, but now the Right application key doesn't do anything, seems such a waste. -- You received this message because you a

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread David Griffith
If you are using Lion all you do is press option command V to paste using move rather than copy the selected files. David Griffith On 9 Feb 2012, at 18:37, Marc wrote: > In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured > out how to create and name new folders. Now I would

Re: for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Elena Brescacin
i found good 80s songs too! Just type the right artist. 2012/2/9, Charlie Doremus : > IMHO soundtracker.fm is fine if your 16 years old. Checked add the stations > I could find and did not recoginize a single song or artist. Guess that > makes me an old goat. I'm '60's & '70's guy. > > On Thu, Feb

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can do these things in preferences. You may have to put up with two things speaking at once temporarily, however. With Voiceover on, go into preferences in chrome, go to the general tab, and change your default browser there. Go to the extensions tab to first disable, then remove Chromevox.

Re: for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Doremus
Mahalo You can purchase our book "You Might Be A Moron" at our website www.giantdolphin.com at the "off the bookshelf" link as a PDF for $7.99 Aloha, Charlie On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: > i found good 80s songs too! Just type the right artist. > > 2012/2/9, Charli

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-09 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Thanks Teresa. On 9 Feb 2012, at 22:13, Teresa Cochran wrote: > You can do these things in preferences. You may have to put up with two > things speaking at once temporarily, however. With Voiceover on, go into > preferences in chrome, go to the general tab, and change your default browser >

Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Marlaina, When I was first learning Amadeus Pro I found it difficult to piece together all the written tips and suggestions. Also, the in app help was not written from a voice over perspective. Once I was successful I did a podcast designed to help new users of Amadeus Pro with Vo

ipad2 is doing so strange sometimes

2012-02-09 Thread William Windels
Hello, sometimes, my ipad2 wouldn't speak at all. It can be hard in that situation to determine what's happening: (it's a ipad2 with ios5.01.) - speech is lost / volume is going down to 0 automatically - the switch button is set to mute the volume. In case of the switch button: is the left posi

FW: Urgent: IS THE GOVERNMENT COMPLYING WITH ITS NEW STANDARD ON WEB ACCESSIBILITY? (fwd)

2012-02-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, I am sharing this because there are many Canadians on this list, and others who do business with Canada. Not only only is the effort important in general, it is critical that they get reviews from mac users, and those in Linux platforms. This is far from a windows jaws situation, nor

Re: Pros and cons with sound studio, was Re: Help getting started with Amadeus

2012-02-09 Thread John Sanfilippo
curious, does this software have a feature which will move to 0 crossings? Having this places the edit point where there is no sound and is supposed to avoid clicks and pops which can otherwise occur. js On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, You are correct that there is not

Can't Do Conference Calls in Skype 5.5

2012-02-09 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. I'm finding more and more things that I don't like about Skype. First, I'm no longer placed on my contacts. I can live with that, but that's a pain. The second thing is I can't make conference calls. When I try to add someone to the call by the add additional people to conversation fea

Re: Can't Do Conference Calls in Skype 5.5

2012-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, What you have to do in Skype to add a person in a conference in the newer Skypes is to go to the Add People button, click it, go down to the person you want to add, route VO to the Mouse, click it, and then, cog to the Add button and click on it like you usually would. Just be careful though