I have heard ml will support it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:09 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi all, I just checked the hardware compatibility list and the brailliant BI
> still isn't on it. Does anyone happen to know if mountain lion will support
> it out of the gate? I have a
Hi all.
I've found 2 things so far that haven't been fixed in Mountain Lion.
1. Tables in documents. These still appear to not work properly with VoiceOver.
VO still announces new line new line when I tried this just now.
2. Web page selection. This still doesn't work. I know that the web page
sc
I've done it, thanks to all of your input. The installer is sitting in
my apps folder, just waiting to run; Twor restarts later it'll be
installed... I just keep thinking of how long and horrible updating
Windows can be, and looking at my (incredibly small) mac... wow. Now
if they could just make v
Odd. It was on before, I will confirm that.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jul 25, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi Donna,
>
> I tried restarting, shutting down then starting up both with power and using
> only the MBP battery and I had speech at the login window every time. You
> may wish to con
Also, and I freely admit that compared to your issues this one is petty, but
midi playback is still awful under Mountain
Lion. I can play midis in VLC, or boot into snow leopard from my external drive
to get good playback, but sometimes, I just
want to use quick preview, and it's still as poor of
I just installed mountain lion on my MBP. Everything was going well until I
tried to switch the soundcard to a USB headset. All of a sudden I lost all
voice over and system sounds. I did a hard shutdown booted back up computer
talks at walk on screen but no voice over app for that any ideas?
S
Yes it is checked. I've now set my Mac to log in automatically, but I hope
that isn't the only long-term solution.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
wrote:
> Are you sure that you have voiceover in your login items system prefs paine
> under users set to read
how is it different?
I don't have lion so don't know what u are talking about is it
instruments that are different or over all crappy quality?
On 7/25/2012 5:31 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Also, and I freely admit that compared to your issues this one is petty, but
midi playback is still awful unde
Over all crappy quality. Basicly, the sound is really compressed and the volume
is very, very low. It's 1 of the reasons I
keep an install of Snow Leopard on my external drive.
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of
I almost feel guilty for not upgrading, like I'm missing out on all the cool
stuff, but I'm a bull headed high partial not willing to give up his ppc only
games like Grass Games Tetris, YexiGame (based on StarTrek, TNG, and Maelstrom
(an old Asteroids clone that goes all the way back to the 80's
Hi all,
I don't know if this has changed in Mountain Lion, but in Lion vo is
usually a bit sluggish. It's useable, but it isn't as responsive as a
Windows screen reader, and I can't help wondering if part of the
problem is Alex. He sounds great, but are there other voices, whether
the ones you cna
Okay.
Here's the thing. When I was running SL, my Mac was fully started in just
about 30 seconds. Now, under Lion, it isn't fully started up until about a
minute and 30 seconds. Given this, what kinds of start up times can I expect
with ML on my Mac? My unit is a 15 inch Mac book pro dating
I find the Nuance voices; especially US English Tom (the premium version) to be
much faster in responseivness under Lion. As for ML, can't say just yet as the
installer is now in residence in my app folder awaiting use.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Ma
I use Fred, although you said you don't care for the voices included with VO.
I find it is more responsive than Alex. Also, I am updating my computer right
now, and there are several voice updates -- Paulina is one, but I don't know
about Alex, since I don't use him. For Paulina, it mentioned
I noticed a similar problem upon installing Lion when it first came out. it
was a big problem for me every time I switched from headphones back to regular
speakers. Apple came out with an update that addressed the issue, and, with
the exception of a couple of times since, I have never had an i
Okay, thanks. I'm downloading all the English Nuance voices I could find, so
we'll see tomorrow morning (it's 3.5gb, so I'm letting it download overnight).
Thanks for the suggestion. Once day, ESpeak will make its way onto the mac, and
all will be right with the world. :)
On 25 Jul 2012, at 21:1
I have the Brailliant B 80 and it is supported but I am still struggling to get
it working.
I am sure it is due to my lack of braile skills but it is set up right
in the sustem preferences
On Jul 25, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Allison Mervis wrote:
> I have heard ml will support it.
>
> Sent f
Hey guys. I was thinking of using the Siri dictation feature to write this
message, but after trying to send a message to Kimsan and seeing that it
entered something that I didn't say, I figured I'd write this myself. So with
that being said, I must say that Apple did a freaking awesome job with
Hi.
Startup times are not that much better. Looks like we're going to have to wait
longer for that one.
On 2012-07-25, at 9:16 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> Okay.
>
> Here's the thing. When I was running SL, my Mac was fully started in just
> about 30 seconds. Now, under Lion, it isn't fully sta
Hi, I just got a iMac a couple of days ago. Can I pair my wireless keyboard
with my iOS devices? Can it only be paired with one item, like my computer?
How in the world do I pair it with an iDevice if it can be done. I can't
figure it out. I'm really lost on this.
Thanks,
Christina C.
--
ok, I'm not quite understanding what you mean about web pages scrolling, and
what the relationship of selecting web pages has to do with that.
Can you try to rephraise+give an example?
Sorry bout that.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Matthew Campbell"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July
I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if there is a
key stroke to access the notification center? For example, you can press
control+f8 for the status menus, control+F2 for the menu bar, etc. Is there a
keystroke for notifications?
On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Shawn K
If you want to pair an Apple bluetooth keyboard with an IOS device, do the
following:
1. Open settings.
2. Open General.
3. Open Bluetooth.
4. You should see a list of bluetooth devices and one of them will be your
keyboard. It will probably be called either Apple Wireless Keyboard or
Christina
Hi.
Let me retract the statement about selecting text.
I was corrected by an Apple Accessibility rep. Sorry for the misinformation.
I'm thinking of selecting on web pages like a Windows ScreenReader user would.
On 2012-07-25, at 10:19 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
wrote:
> ok, I'm not quite unde
All,
I have found all over the net that in system preferences and then in
the Mail category you can link your Twitter account to the OS.
I have been all over in there and can't find anything about Twitter.
Can anyone help?
Also, I have ben trying out the updated voices and
Lol.
The crack about the voice was the funnies thing I've heard today.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Blinkin wrote:
> All,
> I have found all over the net that in system preferences and then in
>
Ah!
but to answer your question about twitter, go to the twitter site and login.
You should be asked if you want to use the twitter account for Mac OS apps.
Just say yes and the twitter option should then show up in
systemprefs/notifications.
hth
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Tw
Yes, it makes great sense, thanks. However, my iPhone won't find the keyboard.
Hmm, I'm not sure what to try next.
Sent from Christina's iMac :)
On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
> If you want to pair an Apple bluetooth keyboard with an IOS device, do the
> following:
> 1. Ope
You know what, just to see if it works on my end, I'm gonna fire up a midi,
not in ProTools, but in just the standard Quicklook and see how it sounds
over here, as you now got me intreigued.
Huhho! Wow! I see what you mean. It's very good as far as the sound, but,
the volume is atrocious!
I'm not sure why the iPhone won't find your keyboard. You did push the button
on the right side of the keyboard, correct?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:37 PM, "Christina C." wrote:
> Yes, it makes great sense, thanks. However, my iPhone won't find the
> keyboard. Hmm, I'm
Hi,
yes. it won't work because your Apple keyboard can't be paired to both at the
same time. If your using one, the other has to be off or, out of range of the
keyboard.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:37 PM, "C
Neither, Hank. It's just really really quiet.
I know exactly what she's talking about. I guess I usually just load my
midi's up in Pro Tools, Route the tracks through to an instrument track, pop
an xpand2 plugin insert on insert A of each track, then if I gotta run
anything else like E Q, or
Dono about the quote: being really compressed sound you mention, but then
I'm using Sinheizer studio headphones that're probably like $700 a pair, so
it might be compensating for that automatically, as these headphones I'm
using are incredible! I wish I could be a more help.
I hope at least t
Alex,
That's really really weird. I've never experienced any sluggishness. What
percent to you run the speech rate at?
I don't generally run it quite this fast, but I can, if needed understand it
up to 85% with Alex, pitch 50, intonation 50, volume 100, and it's not very
sluggish, at least
oh, BTW, I got 2 gb of ram.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Alex Hall"
To: "macvisionaries"
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:13 PM
Subject: synth that makes vo snappier?
Hi all,
I don't know if this has changed in Mountain Lion, but in Lion vo is
usually a bit sluggish. It's us
SL definitely bootted quite faster than Lion, let alone Mountain Lion.
I think this question's quite subjective, as it really depends on a lot of
things, as you said, hd rpm speed, solid state or not, how the startup disk is
connected, SATA, vs. ATA, USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, etc.
You're proc
What do you mean by the Premium version?
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: Ray Foret Jr
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: synth that makes vo snappier?
I find the Nuance voices; especially US English Tom (the premium v
Hey,
Just go to system preferences, keyboard, then shortcuts and you can set
up your own.
I use Shift, Command, N to open it up. Works great.
Mike
On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
> I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if there is
>
How does one update to the so called, new ML voices?
I know how to download and install them in Lion, but is it different in
10.8?
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Harry Hogue"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: synth that makes vo snappier?
I use Fred, al
Hi! Over all, I agree with this post. The only problem I've run into so far is
that growl notifications aren't spoken as they
were. I'm not sure if there will be a growl update released to fix this, or
what the deal is. The notifications I'm mostly
interested in getting back are when files are ad
I have a USB audio interface which also serves as a control surface. I've
never seen this issue, and this thing interfaces via USB.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Harry Hogue"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Sound
I noticed a similar problem upon insta
Wow! You certainly made a lot more progress researching this than I ever did.
For now, booting into snowy kitty or using VLC
works OK. It's just the whole principle of why did they have to go and break it
in the first place. Anyway, if you can find
whatever it is that needs downloading to fix it,
Not that I know a, no, but if you go into system preferences, you can then
go to keyboard, then to the shortcuts tab and make one, which is exactly
what I did.
Let me know if you'd like me to talk you through how to do it.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Arrigo"
To:
Sent:
I was gonna say, I didn't quite understand what you were trying to do. It
honestly didn't make much sense. LOL! NO hard feelings. It's all good.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Matthew Campbell"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: 2 things still not fixed
I, completely! second this question.
BTW, what's your twitter name? Would love to follow you, as well as anyone
else on here.
Mine is
@chris28210. Any of you all are more than welcome to follow me.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Blinkin"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1
I have to agree. Startup time under ML is a bit on the slow side, especially
when compared to snow leopard, but, on the plus
side, Voiceover starts as expected. At least on my system, that couldn't be
said for lion. So, it's worth the slower startup
to have VO behave as expected. I'd be intereste
I figured it out.
Go to system preferences, then go to mail.
From there select in the list which account you want it on.
After that stop interacting with the list and scroll down to the add
button.
It will open a menu with Twitter as one of the options.
Clic
Well, I have to say, I was vary impressed with the installation process this
time.
Because of past experiences, I decided to install from scratch. So, I booted
up with my external drive, did the disc utility and erase and then ran the ML
installer. It went well, and, the best thing of all, th
Aa.
Cool! So, will that eliminate me having to then use YoruFukurou?
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Ricardo Walker"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Setting up Twitter in ML and the voice upgrades
Ah!
but to answer your question about twitter, go to
Missy, is there anywhere I can get a trial of the Accappella voices like
Tracey, etc?
What I really would like to get is the Cepstral Dalas voice for the mac.
Gawod! is he hillarious! I bought 'em a while back, but even with the swift
thing installed, I couldn't for the life a me figure out h
Sure thing! I'll let you know if i find out anything.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Missy Hoppe"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:06 PM
Subject: RE: 2 things still not fixed in Mountain Lion.
Wow! You certainly made a lot more progress researching this than I ever
did.
Missie,
Just go into system prefs, then go to user accounts, and then to the login
items tab.
Be careful though. Don't remove anything if you're in doubt what it is or does.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: Missy Hoppe
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, J
OK, hold on a sec.
I'm a little bit confused. YOu said go to the account you want to add it
to.
So... why does it matter what account you wanna add it to?
What does a mail account have to do in relation to adding a Twitter account?
Now, I'm a little confused.
Chris.
- Original Message
I can still boot into Windows 7 on my Mac after installing Mountain Lion. Boot
Camp updated from version 4 to 5. I have not run Windows programs to do a
thorough check for problems, but no major disasters so far.
Kristyn
On Jul 25, 2012, at 3:33 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> I've been counting d
Hi Mike. I believe you have to create your own keystroke for notification
center. And while we're on the subject of keystrokes, I've noticed while in a
dialog, if you want to click on a button, you have to press VO+space twice for
some reason before Voiceover clicks it. Has anyone else experienc
I just tried to use my RefreshaBraille 18 display this evening and it doesn't
work here anymore. First off, I had previously defined it under Lion and
successfully used it several times. Tonight after the ML install, it would
never connect. So then I removed the device from the bluetooth list
It doesn't have anything to do with it at all.
I was wrong. I went back and tried it again after I wrote that.
Good catch
On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:43 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
wrote:
> OK, hold on a sec.
>
> I'm a little bit confused. YOu said go to the account you want to add it
LOL! I've heard a sample of that voice too. I don't have the cepstral voices
because on the whole, I don't like them very
much, but you can get the acapella voices from assistiveware.com. I'm sorry I
can't help with Cepstral. I have a couple of
their voices for windows, but they're not good enoug
Honestly, I see no need to mess with the stuff that runs at startup. As the
saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
This last time I started up, it was noticeably faster, so it could be that it's
all settled in now and ready to work. I've
still got a few things I need to figure out, mostly
I haven't seen that at all. Hitting vo+Space always seems to work the first
time for me.
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: Shawn Krasniuk
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: Mountain Lion Is Awesome!
Hi Mike. I believe
Same here. Before I actually installed Mountain Lion, I called Apple, and they
told me that there probably wouldn't be any
issues. Sure enough, bootcamp started up just fine, and even my jaws
authorization was still in tact. The only weirdness was
that it claimed I had no internet connection, but
Hi! How does 1 create a keyboard shortcut for notification center. I went into
keyboard, but didn't find it anywhere to add.
Thanks in advance for any instructions you may be able to provide.
_
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of S
OK, but wait a minute.
Can we be absolutely sure it's indeed braille display support in a whole
that is messed up? Sounds like you're using a bluetooth display. Could it
be that the issue only lies with BT displays, and not with regular connected
u s b's?
I'll have my best friend tonight,
Can you do the gesture that you can do with the IOS notification centre?
Matt
Sent from my mac
Twitter: matt692
msn: matt...@live.com
skype: blindman3221
On 2012-07-25, at 10:15 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Hi! How does 1 create a keyboard shortcut for notification center. I went
> into keyboard, b
So wait. Don't! tell me! that this means I can literally use my Twitter
straight from my Mail app! Now that! would be unbelieveably! cool!
Chris.
- Original Message -
From: "Blinkin"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Setting up Twitter in ML and the voice upg
Hi,
I updated using software update, which now takes you to the App Store instead
of the software update dialog, FYI. I haven't noticed any difference in
clarity of Paulina, but I also haven't been using it with headphones, and I
haven't read any spanish with it yet; I've merely tested it by m
Missie,
Also bare in mind that it could a been taking a while as Spotlight may a been
indexing your files and other stuff. That always tends to slow it down just a
tad, until it's done.
I'm with you, I'd not worry too much about it.
Now, if you wait 20 minutes and the thing doesn't boot? Then
Anne,
Thanks so much. It turns out that tab is tremendously helpful in moving about
in Pages. In fact, for the first time, I've set up an activity particularly
for Pages so that Quick Nav will be turned off at the outset, so I don't have
to worry about it, but if I need it I can still activat
OK, here's what you do.
So, you said you got to keyboard, so I'll just start yoou at that point.
So, once you're in here, go to the shortcuts tab.
OK, in here you're gonna see two tables. The first one is a category table.
So what you need to do in this example is to interact with that table,
I just noticed that when expanding mail messages with VO-space bar, sometimes
the focus is in the wrong place, apparently, and it opens up the "sort by menu"
where you are able to sort by attachments, date, from, etc. So far, my only
complaint is that they took the expand mail messages keystrok
Will mountain lion permit the usage of iphone apps such as ootunes?
Thanks much.
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Arrigo"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Mountain Lion Is Awesome!
I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if there
Uhm?...
Maybe? but I doubt it, as 3 finger sipe up/down normally just scrolls.
Now, having said that though, if you're focussed on the item before doing
it?... Hmm, let me see sumpthin here...
Yeah, ok, no, hunt uh, it doesn't work. I just tried it.
Sorry.
Chris.
- Original Message -
When I use Mail, I have the preview pane completely closed so for me to open
messages individually or a whole thread, I use Command-O to open a new window
and Command-W to close and return me to the message list. I did this in Lion
and I still do it in Mountain Lion.
On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:36 P
I did not figure out that pressing it twice works. My solutions were to use the
mouse click alternatives of VO + shift + space or double tap on the track pad.
Kristyn
On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:03 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
> Hi Mike. I believe you have to create your own keystroke for notification
How do you close the preview pane? That could be an interesting way to go
about it, but I also rather like seeing a preview of the message before I read
it.
Harry
On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> When I use Mail, I have the preview pane completely closed so for me to open
Hi folks,
I'm successfully using Baum VarioConnect 32 here with Mountain Lion. It's
connected via USB, but I could try Bluetooth too - out of curiosity. Speaking
of Braille suppor though, I wish one day they would fix all the issues with
International braille tables.
On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:16 A
Just hours ago, Apple released their new operating system, Mac OS10.8, known as
Mountain Lion. Main Menu is pleased to be one of the first to cover this brand
new operating system. On this week's Main Menu, Chase Crispin speaks with David
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