Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread chris hallsworth
It also works with the iPod as well. Christopher Hallsworth On 07/04/2012 04:40, Pam Mathers wrote: Hi. Yes the person you are doing facetime with must have an Iphone or an Ipad. They have to be a mac user of some kind. On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: hello group; i was

Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, I'm new to this group and recently got a macbook running snow leopard. I have many many questions. I'll start with this one. Is there a way with voiceover to put shortcuts to websites on the dock or desktop? I read in the VO manual that there was but couldn't get it to work. Second,Is there a

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Erkens
I use facetime every day to talk to friends who have an iPhone or have a mac. Facetime is accessible, and I can confirm it because I use it so often. As soon as another friend of ours gets an iphone, we no longer use the regular phones anymore. Facetime sounds very good and it's a breeze to use.

mail sending continuously, we're stuck

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, My wife has a mac running Lion with all updates. Her mail started acting strangely, and I can't solve it for now so I'm hoping one of you knows what is going on. One of her mail accounts has a problem. If I send a test message from my wife's mac to myself, with just test in the su

Re: workbook for beginning mac users and updates

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Pam, I got started by listening to Mike Arrigo's podcasts on blind cool tech. They have been very very helpful and informative. www.blindcooltech.com and then search for Mike Arrigo, or just Arrigo. Ay r r i g o. On Apr 7, 2012, at 3:43 AM, Pam Mathers wrote: > Hi. I am a new Mac user and ha

Fujitsu SCANSNAP S1100

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Howell
Has anyone used this scanner and can report on the accessibility of the included software? THanks, -- 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

radio with airplay on the mac

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, Itunes is not very easy if you just want to listen to radio stations on the mac. I would like to listen to 1 of 3 specific news stations in my country. What do you use to hear national radio in your neighbourhood? Can you send any audio from the mac over airplay with a trick just lik

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; that was very helpful. so far it seams to me that the mac version of FaceTime is less daunting than the mac version of Skype. but since not everyone has an apple of some kind, i guess i'll have to use both. take care, max On Apr 7, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > I use facetim

anyone using AT&T U-verse as Imap rather than pop?

2012-04-07 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi, I'm thinking of setting up my AT&T U-verse as a imap rather than a pop account so that I can keep messages on the server even after checking my e-mail on my Iphone. I guess the first question is this. 1. do I really need to set up AT&T U-verse as an imap rather than a pop account to do t

Re: mail sending continuously, we're stuck

2012-04-07 Thread Lewis Alexander
the issue in question can occur with certain mail servers like gmail, sky, etc from my experience. it's not an issue with the macs themselves. there may be a settings issue but the likelihood of that is rather minimal. in your mail system, there will be a folder created called recovered emails o

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, Stacey; it's me again! :) I can help you out with Snow Leopard and VO; maybe we can Skype or something some time and I'll give you some tips. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHaw

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Anyone know if there's a way to make Facetime show up on your iPhone screen? It seems that the only way I can use it is to open Contacts, select a contact, then select FaceTime. this seems weird, because Facetime does show up on the screen of my iPod Touch, so it would seem like you s

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, no you can't. I guess the reason why it shows up on the home screen of your iPod is, there is no phone app to put it in like the iPhone. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: anyone using AT&T U-verse as Imap rather than pop?

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You shouldn't need to switch to IMAP just to do that. Actually, I think pop accounts do this by default. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking of setting up my AT&

Re: iPad losing battery power rapidly

2012-04-07 Thread Keith Watson
Andrew, I would take it into the Apple store and have them run some diagnostics on it. 20% overnight is a bit excessive. Keith On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I am somewhat puzzled as to why my iPad 2 loses power so rapidly. I > would charge it fully, an

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Too bad, I wish they'd change that. Donna On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > no you can't. I guess the reason why it shows up on the home screen of your > iPod is, there is no phone app to put it in like the iPhone. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > T

A question regarding Apple Mail

2012-04-07 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, Apple Mail always takes a long time to update my inbox after I start my Mac. For a long time, it only displays the messages that I received when I last used my Mac. For example, I last used my Mac on 3rd April before using it today. So, the last message in my inbox is the message that I

Re: iPad losing battery power rapidly

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, before doing that, I would check to see if the device is properly going into standby. The bug effects iPhones and iPod touches so, why not iPads? Leave your device locked for about 2 minutes then press the up or down volume. If you hear the little popping noise VO makes when volume keys

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, When you use the facetime app on the touch, what is the difference? I've never used it on one so was just curious. I mean, wouldn't you have to search through your contacts for the person you would like to facetime on that too? TIA. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@app

Re: A question regarding Apple Mail

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, do you have a lot of mail in your inboxes? I know it sounds crazy but, I've none people who keep tens of thousands of messages just sitting there. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > H

dropbox question.

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I'm running dropbox 1.2.52 and I've noticed that the dropbox sub menu, in the context menu when brought up in the public folder, is missing. Again! Can others confirm this? I would like to be able to get the public links for some files in my public folder and I can't. To make matters wo

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Hank Smith
yep On 4/7/2012 10:04 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, When you use the facetime app on the touch, what is the difference? I've never used it on one so was just curious. I mean, wouldn't you have to search through your contacts for the person you would like to facetime on that too? TIA. Ricar

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Ricardo, IDK, maybe it's psychological, but it seems easier to me. If you FaceTime from your phone, you have to open Contacts, go to the contact you want, select FaceTime, then select the number or email address. If you do it from the Touch, when you open FaceTime, you're already in your c

Using Siri to activate FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, this discussion has gotten me curious, so I've been playing around a bit. It would seem that you can use Siri to make a FaceTime call. At least, if you say "FaceTime Donna Goodin" Siri gets that you want to place a FaceTime Call, and prompts you to select the phone number or email yo

Re: Using Siri to activate FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Ryan Mann
I have been using Syri to make Face Time calls for a few weeks. I just say Face Time name mobile. For example, I would say "Face Time Pamela Mann mobile" and the call goes through. Sometimes it takes a minute. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: radio with airplay on the mac

2012-04-07 Thread chris hallsworth
Not sure if this would work but you can try Airfoil and use its Speaker application to receive audio from your iPhone to your mac. Any application for the iPhone that can use Airplay should suffice to receive audio from the application to the mac. www.rogueamoeba.com. Christopher Hallsworth

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
I don't have skype yet. On Apr 7, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Hi, Stacey; it's me again! :) I can help you out with Snow Leopard and VO; > maybe we can Skype or something some time and I'll give you some tips. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter:

Re: dropbox question.

2012-04-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
I've had lots of trouble with dropbox. I have no context menu either. On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running dropbox 1.2.52 and I've noticed that the dropbox sub menu, in the > context menu when brought up in the public folder, is missing. Again! Can > other

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Oh; well, I could call you if you like, or we can talk via Mail or whatever works; I'd be glad to help if I can. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this mess

Re: Using Siri to activate FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Ryan, you're right, that worked perfectly. I guess Siri only hangs if you don't specify which number you want when you speak the command. Cheers, Donna On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > I have been using Syri to make Face Time calls for a few weeks. I just say > Face Time name

Re: anyone using AT&T U-verse as Imap rather than pop?

2012-04-07 Thread M. Taylor
Hello, As I understand it, A T & T uVerse does not offer iMap. Mark On Apr 7, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking of setting up my AT&T U-verse as a imap rather than a pop > account so that I can keep messages on the server even after checking my > e-mail on my Iphone

Pages and Braille Display

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Malarsie
Hey all, Can someone tell me if a braille display can be used with Pages? I have never tried one before so I don't know how it works. Thanks. Mike Malarsie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Pages and Braille Display

2012-04-07 Thread Lewis Alexander
yep it can. the braille display is system wide and as long as voiceover can see what's there and understands it, it's converted to braille output. if you're looking for a really mobile and trustworthy braille display that's sharp, check out the humanware brailliant 40 cell or above. I used one

Re: dropbox question.

2012-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Ricardo, I'm running Dropbox 1.2.52 on Lion, and I don''t have this problem. When I put across the stanza.dmg file in my public folder and used the context menu for the link, I found under the "Dropbox" submenu the options for "Browse on Dropbox Website", "View Previous Versions", and "Copy

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Oh; well, I could call you if you like, or we can talk via Mail or whatever > works; I'd be glad to help if I can. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ah! I see what you mean. Thanks. You should drop apple a e-mail requesting this as a feature. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hey Ricardo, > > IDK, maybe it's psychological, but it se

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Okay, well how do you want to go about it? Shall I call you at a time, or do you want to ask a question at a time in E-mail, or shall I send a helicopter to fly you away to lovely rural Oregon for a week? *grin* • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: bu

Re: Is XCode accessible?

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello. So you are developing APPS for IOS devices and the MAC platform using Xcode? Where did you start learning the Xcode IDe, the APIS and the deployment process? Can you point me to the appropriate Apple documentation? Are there other resources to use, especially developing the User Interface

Re: navigation and formatting questions

2012-04-07 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Thanks very much Chris. I shall try out the bullet points thing and see if it works for me. Really I was looking for like how in word for Windows you can write your list, then select it and then select bullet points. With your command here, do I need to do that before I write each part of the li

Re: navigation and formatting questions

2012-04-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kirsten, In Pages, you set the type of bullets you want for your bulleted list in the Text inspector, List tab. Unfortunately, you won't be able to read the bullets with VoiceOver, however, you can check that they're there by using the very handy "New TextEdit window with selection" servi

Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-07 Thread Brent Harding
Hi there. I have this Mac Book that I bought for a good deal some time in 2008 or 2009, that was upgraded and was only 6 months used at that time, if the guy ever did much with it besides keeping it around to sell. When I took it home to my parents' place once, I never noticed that the charger g

Re: FaceTime

2012-04-07 Thread chris hallsworth
Wow, thanks for the information regarding not showing the local camera. Very useful. Christopher Hallsworth On 07/04/2012 14:58, Paul Erkens wrote: I use facetime every day to talk to friends who have an iPhone or have a mac. Facetime is accessible, and I can confirm it because I use it so o

Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-07 Thread Lewis Alexander
hi, the apple charger is pretty much a standard unit and there are no compatible products due to patent applications from apple preventing clones. an option or two open to you is ebay for a refurb or used pack or even an apple refurb company depending on where you are in the world. lew On 7 Ap

Re: Introduction

2012-04-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
Mark,Lets do it by email first. What's your address so I don't clog up the list. On Apr 7, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Okay, well how do you want to go about it? Shall I call you at a time, or do > you want to ask a question at a time in E-mail, or shall I send a helicopt

getting Mac Book keyboard fixed

2012-04-07 Thread Brent Harding
Hi there. I have an older Mac Book, the one I posted about getting its plug in the car door, and at times, I think some of the keys don't register as I think the keyboard may be starting to wear out. One problem I have is kind of self-inflicted, but this thing has probably been out of warranty f

Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-07 Thread Brent Harding
Yeah, I just knew that there were L shaped and T shaped ones, and if you don't have the correct one, depending on the firmware in the machine, if you originally had the older one, that's all you could charge with, and I heard Apple doesn't make the old one now. Maybe I can get by with that plug,

Re: getting Mac Book keyboard fixed

2012-04-07 Thread Lewis Alexander
Hi. I've serviced older systems like this in my time and it's a little fiddly, depending on how the key came off, the mounting bosses may have bent or been damaged. as it's an early macbook, the best thing is a keyboard replacement. if you were in the UK I could source a replacement keyboard fo

Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-07 Thread Lewis Alexander
from the early intel macbooks, they were the same as the recent ones, with exception of wattage ratings. where abouts are you? I can look up a specialist refurbs place in the USA who carries older components. what I could do with is the machine serial number and then go from there. the system

Re: dropbox question.

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Esther, It was my fault. lol. I restored from a time machine backup and, Dropbox wanted me to setup again. Since this is not visible to voiceover, I didn't realize there was something on the screen that needed to be addressed. Sorry. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@

Re: Remoting two Macs

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Holmes
I know, this is a really old thread but I'm going through my folder here and thought I would comment on dropbox if you haven't already figured this out. I saw a dropbox folder on my new mac mini but I have no idea what it was for because there was no dropbox app installed. When I installed the dr

Re: Pages and Braille Display

2012-04-07 Thread Gigi
Hi Mike Yes, a brails play does work with pages. I do it on the Mac with pages, although these days I use TextEdit more. Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Michael Malarsie wrote: > Hey all, > Can someone tell me if a braille display can be used with Pages? I have

Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Beefcakes
Hi guys, I really need your help. I'm trying to figure out how to do this on my iPhone 4S for my mail program. I want to be able to start typing in addresses and then the address field automatically populates itself. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Johnny see Cakes -- You received this

Very odd mail server issue

2012-04-07 Thread Christine Grassman
Happy holidays to all those celebrating. I am perplexed about something which has been happening almost every time I try to send mail for the first time after a significant inactive period -- say a few hours. I write a message from within Apple mail, and when I send it, a dialog comes in telling

Re: Very odd mail server issue

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I've been seeing this from time to time the last couple of weeks as well. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > Happy holidays to all those celebrating. I am perplexed about somethin

Re: Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, on the iphone, start typing a few letters and the results are displayed underneath the edit field. Just double tap on the correct name/e-mail address. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Beefcakes wrote

Re: Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Beefcakes
Hi Ricardo, well that's not happening for me. I think because I don't have the email addresses in my contact list. And that's what I'm having a problem I don't know how to get people into the contact list so that their addresses show up in the edit fields. Thanks anyway if you have any other ide

Re: Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Open the contacts app and double tap the add button. What part of the process are you having trouble with? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Beefcakes wrote: > Hi Ricardo, well that's not happening for me. I t

Frotz

2012-04-07 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi: I have 2 issues I am curious about. Well, only one of them is an issue. I have some old Infocomm games I'd like to play. The games are mostly in .dat files on the CD's. They will work with Frotz. The issue involves compiling with Xcode. I wanted to compile Frotz, an infocomm Z-code gam

Re: Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Beefcakes
Hi Ricardo, thanks for replying so quickly. At least I think that would you that replied to me. I inadvertently deleted the email that you sent or someone sent on this subject. Whoever sent the message the last message on this subject could you please resend it to me? Thanks a lot I appreciate i

Re: Very odd mail server issue

2012-04-07 Thread Kimberly thurman
This happens to me using hotmail but not gmail. I'm still using SL. I upgraded to Lion, but hated it and went back to SL. On Apr 7, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > Happy holidays to all those celebrating. I am perplexed about something which > has been happening almost every time

Itines downloaded album and can't find it

2012-04-07 Thread Jennifer Perdue
I downloaded an album from iTunes and looked in the downloads folder, no dice, the music folder, no dice, and the iTunes thing on the Doc, don't have a clue. Help! Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Apr 7, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > Happy holidays to all those celebrating.

Re: Itines downloaded album and can't find it

2012-04-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Try searching for it from within the Itunes app; vis the playlist browser or in the search box. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you a

Re: Itines downloaded album and can't find it

2012-04-07 Thread Jennifer Perdue
What is the playlist browser and how do I get to it? I also want to delete some things that I know are on iTunes from my playing them from another website. how do I delete everything at one time instead of having to delete 25 files one by one. thanks. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Apr 7,

Re: Itines downloaded album and can't find it

2012-04-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Open Itunes, and use VO navigation to explore; you'll find the playlist browser and the music table as well as the search box. If you put the right terms in the search box, you should be able to group all the files you want to delete together, provided they're all in your Itunes library. • M

Re: Itines downloaded album and can't find it

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
:) items you download from the iTunes store are added to iTunes. In the sources table, navigate to music. It should be the first item. Now press command option F to bring you to the search field. Type in the name of the artist and or album. Now press VO command T twice to jump to the musi

Re: Frotz

2012-04-07 Thread Greg Aikens
I have played with Zoom some. There are a handful of resources for mac on the interactive fiction archive page. Some of the mac resources work better than others with VO. Unfortunately it has been months since I have tried so I can't remember specifics. -Greg On Apr 7, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Jos

Re: Frotz

2012-04-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I have zoom interpreter here and it searches the IF archive, but I've never been able to automatically load a game. Of course, they have like 250 eamon adventures none of which seem to load into zoom. Best, Erik Burggraaf Ebony consulting is pleased to offer the digit-eyes compatible koamt

Re: workbook for beginning mac users and updates

2012-04-07 Thread Pam Mathers
Hi. Thank you for the information. I have started listening to some of this first one and will continue on with it. Thank you. On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Pam, > I got started by listening to Mike Arrigo's podcasts on blind cool tech. They > have been very very help

Re: Adding contacts to my mail program

2012-04-07 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, double tap on the contacts app then double tap on the add button. Then, its just a matter of filling out the appropriate fields. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 7, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Beefcakes wrote: > Hi Ricardo, thanks for

Re: A little spellcheck before pressing send please?

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Sorry for digging up this thread so late but I have over a thousand messages to look through and there is valuable information I might miss since I'm new to the Mac. Now, I have just discovered another probable source for gross miss-spellings. I am a recent owner of a new Refreshabraille display

Re: managing mail on the IPhone.

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Jessica, I think your mail problem may not relate specifically to the mail iPhone app but maybe you're just getting too much mail! perhaps you subscribed to too many high volume email lists? I mean, you said the stuff you deleted isn't coming back but you're getting more new stuff. In other words