Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Can someone really tell me what's the point of Notification center, when all but Safari (and a facebook app I guess we'll see in the fall?) make their own audio notification alerts? Unless you run the system with all external sounds turned off except VO, Notification center seems a bit redundan

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
If you mean the Downloads list, you can still see it with Command Option L. I'm not sure what icon you're referring to. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received t

RE: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
It's not really that redundant. Say you're working on a paper or something, and you get emails, instead of having to sift through all those message in mail itself, you can just pull notification center and bam, your mail is there, so you can either reply to it then, or wait. -Original Message

RE: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
There was an icon that said file icon button, and that's what you'd click to mount the disc image, etc. However, in ML, that's gone, so now you have to simply click on the file. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Ummm, you can just click on that collapsed conversation triangle and it'll restore the messages in that thread… • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this messa

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Okay, I grant you, hearing what messages you have rather than going to the window and browsing through them might be useful, and a Messages notification will actually speak the message it just notified you about. I agree it cuts down on the need to stop what you're doing or break the rhythm.

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
oh, it works perfectly! I do it all the time, and absolutely am swearing by it!~ Basically, find it in your menu bar with vo+m twice, then vo left and right till you see it, then vo+space on it. You also can two finger swipe from the right to the left on your track pad, if you have one. Thi

RE: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
The problem is, though, at least in my experience so far, that is VO is already reading something, the notifications are never spoken. They need to make it more similar to Growl, where the system voice is used. I think notification center has a ton of potential, but as it is at the moment, it's n

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Donna, Not many apps yet are able to take advantage of the notification center. It's gonna mainly be things like Messaging, Mail, ICal, Twitter if you have that set up, and really honestly, that's about it. So, it's very possible, that you just don't have any notifications. Give me your Appl

install ml nerve-racking is this normal?

2012-07-27 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, Hope you can reasure me here. I started ml install Fred came on fine and said installing and a progress indicator. It reached 100% but nothing else happens. The time left keeps increasing now. Is this normal? What is the next thing supposed to happen now? Thanks for your help! Oana Pleas

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
The only thing, Ray, that I can hypothesize is maybe you need to go into system prefs, then go to notifications, and verify that you have everything set to alerts, badges, and bannars, all 3. If you don't have it set to alerts, then you won't get anything. Also, I kind a remember there being a

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That's not the point. Of course, I know that. My point is this. I have my mail closed all the time, and so, notifications just don't get spoken. But this is the case, even with mill is open. In other words, what notifications come, no matter what app were talking aboutI simply just don't get tol

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2012-07-27 Thread Stacey Robinson
Thanks for this helpful link. On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Shen wrote: > http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/downloads.html > > Keep in mind the keyboard shortcuts is also available in VoiceOver > Help by pressing VO-H. > For iOS devices, if you open Safari, the page is in your Bookmar

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
That's just it; Notification Center and VO trip over one another, and if you're running Growl for Skype status updates, they all trip over one another. If you're using Itunes or some other app, playing something, then the notifications talk over what you're hearing--all these are minor annoyance

RE: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
>From what I can see, Notification center does not play a sound like it's supposed to. That's something I honestly think they forgot to implement. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark BurningHawk Baxter Sent: Fr

Re: f11 and f12 as volume keys on Mac Mini?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
oh, there's your issue. It's not gonna work with a cheap non apple u s b keyboard, unless you go into system prefs, keyboard, then to to the shortcuts tab, and remap it to something. It's actually the fn key. Now, what you could! do, is in keyboard, can't recall what tab it's on, I wanna sa

Re: f11 and f12 as volume keys on Mac Mini?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
He can't. He doesn't have an fn key being he has just a regular non Apple based u s b keyboard. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Miller" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:31 PM Subject: RE: f11 and f12 as volume keys on Mac Mini? Try using FN with those keys. -Or

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Hmm, odd. It definitely shows up on my end. You gotta be sure you're first interacting with the group which is named whatever the file name is. Otherwise you're not gonna see it. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Teresa Cochran" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:33 PM Subject:

Re: twitter

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, here's what you need to do. Go into system preferences, then to Mail, Contacts, calendars. Once here, go down to the account types table, and find the button in there for Twitter and vo+space on it. You might have to then stop interacting, and go hit the add button, I don't remember if I

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You do have a valid point. I think more or less it's an alternative to having to use growl for sighted people, but then, there is a setting to growl the NC notifications, so, yeah, I dono... hmm... good point. Chris. I never really thought of it that way, - Original Message - From:

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Wo! so you're saying when in Safari itself command option l brings that list up? What I've been doing is command+option+F to reach the google search, then just vo+right arrow over to it, and hit vo+space. I guess I'm making that way harder than it has to be? Chris. - Original Message --

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Another very good point I didn't think of. You guys are out smarten me! LOL! Heheheheh. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Miller" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:52 PM Subject: RE: notification center It's not really that redundant. Say you're working on a paper or so

RE: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
Yes, it does. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:29 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari? Wo!

Re: twitter

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
What happens if you have 1200 followers and don't want to hear from 1100 of them? Are there any filters in place, like you will find with a twitter app like Syrinx? If not, wow would that be a serious bum pain. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: b

Re: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yeah, I know, but I know what Mark's talking about. I too have seen it, and was like what? the, heck? OK? if there is only one conversation, then why on earth is it collapsed to start with? I think he understnads you can expand it, and how, I think the issue more, is Vo's not correctly repor

Re: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Wheat sorta threw me was Vo announcing "five new items," then only showing me one or two in the messages table. Now that I understand what's going on, and know to look for that conversation triangle thing, I actually rather like this feature, because sometimes people just go on and on and on ab

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
But that's just it, Missie, I think if you install Growl, then you set NC to! growl, then, it'll work, provided you have Growl set up to speech and not to a graffical based scheme, like say, smoke, or what not. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Missy Hoppe" To: Sent: Friday, July

Re: install ml nerve-racking is this normal?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
No, definitely not normal, and by the way, regarding installing the thing, my friend who I told you all about earlier, took the system in today as I said earlier. They! can't even get it to install. He hung with the spinning Apple. So, yeah. Needless to say, this is really perplexing. Even

RE: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Mark, In the view that I use, there is no Collapsed Triangle in the Message Table. Perhaps I'm mistaken, so, please provide the steps to activating it. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
I set growl up to use speech ages ago. I'll double check notification center; still not clear what settings are ideal for that. I disabled badges because I figured they're all just graphics. I also set it to use banners, thinking they'd just fade away and not cause any discontent; thought that wo

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Ray, he's just trying to help for goodness sake, maybe he's just a bit confused, no need for the quote: that's not the point comment. That was a little bit cold, personally. Chris. - Original Message - From: Ray Foret Jr To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, July

RE: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Christopher and thank you. This is definitely a bug. When it says 1 Conversation, there are multiple messages in the thread, to be sure. What's even more annoying is when browsing the Message Contents area and all you hear is All Messages instead of the message number. As I wrote to M

Reading brf files on the mac.

2012-07-27 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi all, Is there any way that I can read brf files on my macbook? My syncbraille is hooked up and working fine. Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to mac

Re: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have Mail set to Classic view. IN this view, the collapsed disclosure triangle appears next to the "from," field. I found the newer view in Mail to be sort of more than I wanted to hear when skimming 150 messages. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Actually, for me, with NOtification Center, I hear a little sound that sounds like a baloon pop. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Miller" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:18 PM Subject: RE: notification center From what I can see, Notification center does not play a sou

Re: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, of course, Didn't mean it that way. Thing is, I reckon we're all trying to get used to this thing. BTW, I just took a glance at the accessibility preferences. Looks to me like one can set up one's Mac so that one can now speak most everything one can configure for a command. Didn't rea

RE: notification center

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
I only hear that with messages, though. It doesn't play for anything else. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:49 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
ok, yeah, I'll have to try that then. I knew that would work in the Finder to pull up my downloads folder, but I wasn't aware it also worked in Safari to actually bring that pop up window up. Thanks for the tip. Ya learn something every day, don't ya. LOL! Smile. Chris. - Original Mes

Re: twitter

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Heheheheheheheheheheheheheh, Don't worry about that. I think it only notifies you with DM's Mentions, and retweets, not with your regular timeline. LOLNESS! Chris. - Original Message - From: "Mark BurningHawk Baxter" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:31 PM Subject: Re: twitter

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Christine Grassman
I repaired disk permissions as suggested by Ricardo, and so far, so good. (pauses to cross fingers). Christine On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:38 PM, "Daniel Miller" wrote: > She does have a white MacBook. However, I had one as well, and encountered > tons of busy messages with Lion. I believe those machi

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-27 Thread Steve Holmes
That' is probably the problem. I've only switch between the Mac and the iPod a few times and I usually made sure I was either logged out of the Mac for the iPod to get it and I thought I usually could connect to the Mac as long as the iPod was at least in screen lock. Maybe I need to turn the iPod

Special command to put Mountain Lion on Usb stick?

2012-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. Just downloaded Mountain Lion and wish to put on a USB stick. Does anyone know how to do that as I understand there is special terminal command to do that. I just want to do a Clean Install once I've done that. I can follow any instructions as long as they are not very complicated as I

Re: vlc questions

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Blouch
If you get info (command-I) on a particular file there is an "Open With" section where you can assign the application which will be the default opener for that file type. Just below the application selector is a a "Change All" button which will change the assignment for this particular files bu

Re: vlc questions

2012-07-27 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, that worked perfectly. On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:26, Chris Blouch wrote: > If you get info (command-I) on a particular file there is an "Open With" > section where you can assign the application which will be the default opener > for that file type. Just below the application selector is a a

Re: f11 and f12 as volume keys on Mac Mini?

2012-07-27 Thread Alex Hall
Ok, thanks all. I'll just manage until, and if, I can get my hands on a macbook of some kind, which has become my ultimate goal. My whole family now wants macs, having played with mine... We'll be an Apple household yet! On 27 Jul 2012, at 15:19, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > He can't. > >

clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Alex Hall
Hello all, I'm finally home, and plan to do the upgrade later today (here's hoping I don't run into the installation or "semper busy" problems reported). So, before I do: should I do a clean install or an upgrade over Lion (My mini came with Lion)? If clean, I know I'd have to put ML on a thumb

Share Dialog for Posting to Twitter Sometimes Won't Close

2012-07-27 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, If I send something to Twitter, it generally closes ust fine. But sometimes when I go back into notification center, it takes me right back into the share dialog. Clicking cancel doesn't work, either. Does anyone have an idea of how to get rid of this dialog? Thanks, Brandon -- You re

Re: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'm also awishing to do a Clean Install so I'm interested in this reply. On 27 Jul 2012, at 09:47 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hello all, > I'm finally home, and plan to do the upgrade later today (here's hoping I > don't run into the installation or "semper busy" problems reported). So, > before I

Re: Reading brf files on the mac.

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, you can open them in textEdit, and as long as you have contractions off, you can read them on your display. Turn off speech, though. :) Teresa On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > Is there any way that I can read brf files on my macbook? > My syncbraille is hook

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, yes, command-option-l works now, as it used to, I believe. And no, within the group, once I interact with it, the file icon doesn't appear. I will try a VO-space on the group, though. Teresa On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:28 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > Wo! so you're saying when in Sa

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
YOu cannot open a file which is still downloading. If you go to Finder and navigate to the downloads folder, you will see a file name such as, "file.zip.download," or similar. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My hom

Re: install ml nerve-racking is this normal?

2012-07-27 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I'm writing this dictating from new mountain lion. So obviously the situation was resolved successfully. I am guessing that it just was delayed in showing me that progress indicator status. All the best Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online s

Re: Special command to put Mountain Lion on Usb stick?

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
I don't know about the terminal commands, but you can do it with Disc Utility, specifying one partition and a GUID partition table. Or you can download a handy utility to ask you questions and do everything for you. Lion Disc Maker: http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/ I used it successfully

Re: Reading brf files on the mac.

2012-07-27 Thread Stacey Robinson
Ok, I can do that. Is there a shortcut key for muting speech? On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Yes, you can open them in textEdit, and as long as you have contractions off, > you can read them on your display. Turn off speech, though. :) > > Teresa > On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:4

Re: Reading brf files on the mac.

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
If you have keyboard commander on, you can use right-option-v. With a trackpad, it's a double three-finger tap. In VO utility, navigate to speech and mute it. HtH, Teresa On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > Is there any way that I can read brf files on my macbook? >

Re: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In my opinion, the clean install would be totally unnecessary. I've done 100s or even 1000s of upgrade installs in my career and have only experienced one problem. The upgrade process is tested quite rigorously and, really, for the most part, is no different than a clean install and migra

ML Mail annoyances.

2012-07-27 Thread Veronica Elsea
Hi everyone. Two things to ask about. I am using imap and have ML mail set to classic view. 1. Still scrounging around for what I goofed up from yesterday's message about getting rid of preview pane. In between the mailboxes table and the messages table I have three things, new mailbox, hide mai

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Alex I would actually say the opposite. There is less busy busy on my 2011 MacBook pro with 4 gb ram than in Lion. Start up is definitely faster and I think VO is a bit snappier. Lisette On 28/07/2012, at 4:17 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > Has anyone else noticed this? I went through enough of tha

Re: Numbers

2012-07-27 Thread Harry Hogue
Thanks, Tim, I look forward to anything you might find out. I remember one time I called Apple and asked about this issue, and they said it wasn't considered when they were designing Voiceover (this was back with Snow Leopard). I'm familiar with the table command, and use it frequently. Thank

Notes, where are they?

2012-07-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Guys, the subject says it all. I can't find them in Mountain Kitty. They are on my iPhone, so I assume they are somewhere on the Mac these dayso. Has anybody found them? Maybe I missed something here. Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: in Pages

2012-07-27 Thread Harry Hogue
Anne, I will probably contact you soon off-list in order to take advantage of this training. My internship begins sometime between 20 August and 27 August, so this will be very useful. Thanks, as always, Harry On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Harry, > > Yes, it's

Re: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
I agree with you for the most part, Tim. However, after having my Mac Mini for two years without doing a clean install, VO began muting itself spontaneously, and a sys diagnose file began appearing without warning in a finder window. I decided to use a clean install to clear these things up. Bel

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Harry Hogue
i agree. i have noticed less "busy, busy" overall. On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi Alex > I would actually say the opposite. There is less busy busy on my 2011 MacBook > pro with 4 gb ram than in Lion. Start up is definitely faster and I think VO > is a bit snappi

Re: Notes, where are they?

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
They are a stand-alone app now. Check your dock and you will find them there. :) Teresa On Jul 27, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Guys, the subject says it all. I can't find them in Mountain Kitty. They are > on my iPhone, so I assume they are somewhere on the Mac these dayso. Has >

Re: Notes, where are they?

2012-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Teresa, Okay, I found the Notes App, but I don't see any notes that I know I have on my iPhone. Can I access them, or only view new notes that I create on either device? Thanks. Les On Jul 27, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > They are a stand-alone app now. Check your dock and y

A Question About Using AirPlay to Mirror My Mac on Apple TV

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, Perhaps I'm missing something but I cannot figure out how to use the new Mirroring feature in Mountain Lion to throw my display up on my Apple TV. There does not appear to be a button for this that VO is reading in the menu Extras. A sighted friend of mine says that for him, there

RE: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
Same here. I don't think I've had any busys at all, and startup is a lot faster. I'm very, very glad I got Mountain Lion! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisette Wesseling Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 5:38 PM

RE: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
I don't get any busys at all, except every so often in iTunes when I go to the store. Then again, I am running a 2012 Macbook Air with 8GB of ram. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe Sent: Friday, July

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ok, guys. I'm doing ok with Mountain Lion, but I would like to tell y'all about a bug in numbers. It's ok if you're using a relatively small file, which fortunately, most of mine are. However, below is a part of a message I sent to Accessibility at Apple .com. Hello. I am writing to tell you

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
I have a macbook pro new bought in Fall of 2012 silver. I7 processor, 8 gb ram. I get lots of busy messages with mail, safari and iTunes. running lion and have had those messages ever since using this Mac. This is my first apple computer and I just thought that is what they do. Its frustrating b

Editing text problems in Mars Edit

2012-07-27 Thread Blinkin
All, Before upgrading to ML I could scroll through a post I was working on in Mars edit and hold shift at whatever point I wanted to select portions of text. Now when I try this holding shift and pressing the arrows does nothing and VO will get stuck on a random work and just kee

RE: Mountain Lyon and VM users please report in

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I'm up in VM Fusion 4.1.3 now. Here's what I did. 1. I tried to start VM Fusion Version 3 in Mountain Lion. It wouldn't start and I got a dialog telling me that my version wasn't compatible with Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion moved VM Fusion into the Imcompatible Apps folder. 2. I pur

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Laura. I think we're going some things this going on for a while, no matter how much they test. We've got too many variables like Braille displays, etc. for there not to be something. I don't mind a little busy busy if it stops soon. It might be worth it, if you can do it and after Mountai

Re: Notes, where are they?

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I believe they're called Reminders now? They're in Notification center among other places. I never use notes, stickies or to-dos so I don't know first hand. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://Ma

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. Can you check a status of a download these days in Mountain Lion? Also, I can't figure : what I am doing wrong with the dictation option. I pressed the function key twice and went through the setup process. I then restarted my computer when it didn't work the first time. I had pressed

Re: ML Mail annoyances.

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The method that I originally outlined to get rid of the Preview Pane was for the non-Classic layout and have since found to be a little inconsistent. I did some testing and will outline my new method both for Classic and non-Classic layouts. This process has worked for me numerous times.

Re: ML Mail

2012-07-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
Its not working anymore in lion to expand. Laura Ann -- 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 email to macvisionaries+unsubscr.

Re: Opening Downloads in Mountain Lion With Safari?

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
When you get a download, hit Command Option L to open the downloads list. Interact with the list, then interact with the group whose file name you care about. VO Right and your status should be there, and as well, you'll land on a moving visual indicator that now clicks as the data comes in.

Re: ML Mail

2012-07-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
It worked yesterday with right arrow to expand in mail and left arrow to collapse but today I have to go to the menu and expand all or collapse all to do this. How do I get it back to right and left arrow working to do this. I have quick nav off. Laura Ann -- You received this message because

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Laura ann Grymes, LMT
Thanks yes that does help and I will do that. Have a great day. Laura Ann On Jul 27, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Laura. > I think we're going some things this going on for a while, no matter how > much they test. We've got too many variables like Braille displays, etc. for > t

Re: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Just my opinion of course but I'll pipe in here with a further comment. I do hear a lot of folks on this list speaking of using Clean Installs. I'm guessing that they may be coming from a Windows background where clean installs seem to be needed more often due to corrupt files. For the m

RE: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Missy Hoppe
I agree with this completely. I remember when I got lion and had a few weird issues. I tried a clean install after backing up my upgraded install first. Long story short: things were a lot worse with the clean install, so I restored my updated install and just muddled through until Wednesday whe

Re: clean install?

2012-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Tim, I agree with your comments. Apple recommended installing over top of Lion, and I don't see any performance hits. I also ran Disk Permissions Repair. I also have a program called MacKeeper and it cleaned up a lot of files that were wasting space, over 1300 to be exact. Les On Jul 27,

Re: VoiceOver Reporting One Conversation Items

2012-07-27 Thread Brandon Misch
it also puts your message in the conversation so if you reply to the message then delete the thread, the next time a message comes up for the thread, you'll see your message along with any replies and if there is one new message besides yours, it's wright that way. On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:46 PM,

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Laura Ann: What are the specs of your system? I.E. how much ram and what GHZ processor? I'm running 4G of RAM and a 2.5GHZ processor, and rarely hear Busy more than once, and it rarely lasts more than a few seconds. I"m wondering if you could benefit from a hardware upgrade. • Mark BurningH

RE: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Miller
She has a cor I7, with 8GB of ram, yet she's still getting busy. That's extremely odd, since I have a core I5, with 8GB of ram and don't get any hardly at all. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark BurningHawk B

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Oh. nuts. well, there goes that theory. :) Hmmm. repairing disk permissions would be my next step, as I don't know of any malware that could do it, even though that's what the behavior sounds like. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@h

Mountain Lion Installed, Question re I Message.

2012-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
The subject line says it all but when I write an I message how do I find a mobile number as I can find person's e-mail. On the I phone it gives all fields but not so on the Mac. I am still playing with Mountain Lion. Kawal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: A Question About Using AirPlay to Mirror My Mac on Apple TV

2012-07-27 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Mark, What model mac do you have. I saw this same thing, then later figured out it only works on certain models. I know, pretty stupid, huh. Chris. - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 5:55 PM Subject: A Question About Using AirPlay to Mirror My

Re: Special command to put Mountain Lion on Usb stick?

2012-07-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
thanks Teresa I got Mountain Lion on a USB stick and have cleaned installed as I had a problem with my disk in Lion so had to repair it and then install as my time Capsule had not been backing up. Kawal. On 27 Jul 2012, at 10:03 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I don't know about the terminal comm

Re: Numbers

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Harry, A couple of things of come up with: 1. You can also Jump around to various elements within Numbers using the VO-J command. This will take you to the Styles table, the Sheets table and more. 2. When focus is on a cell with a pop-up, you can go to the formula field to learn what opt

Re: Notes, where are they?

2012-07-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
No, they are not the same as reminders. You may have to adjust the notes settings. Also, if they are synced to Gmail, you'll have to sign into Gmail to sync them with the computer. This goes for ICloud as well. Teresa On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > I believe th

Re: Mountain Lyon and VM users please report in

2012-07-27 Thread Rachel Feinberg
the only thing you can do is drag your finger on the trackpad, from the top left corner, diagonally to the bottom right, then click with it. That should take the focus away from voiceover to the virtual machine and windows. It does take some fiddling with, but should get you there. Let me know i

Re: Mountain Lyon and VM users please report in

2012-07-27 Thread Hank Smith
I thaught there was a command to do this did they remove this? On 7/27/2012 5:31 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: the only thing you can do is drag your finger on the trackpad, from the top left corner, diagonally to the bottom right, then click with it. That should take the focus away from voiceover

Resolution to VoiceOver Intermittently Not Reading Correct Number of Messages in a Email Thread

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, I now know why VO says, for some items in the Message Table, "1 Message Conversation Collapsed Disclosure Triangle. I also know how to turn this off so VO reads as it should, in my opinion; that is, reads the number of messages in a thread and, consequently, read the number of e

Re: A Question About Using AirPlay to Mirror My Mac on Apple TV

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hi Chris. I have a Mac Book Pro 2009 model. Mark On Jul 27, 2012, at 4:40 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > Mark, > > What model mac do you have. I saw this same thing, then later figured out it > only works on certain models. I know, pretty stupid, huh. > > Chris. > > - Origin

Re: Resolution to VoiceOver Intermittently Not Reading Correct Number of Messages in a Email Thread

2012-07-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Why do you strongly suggest this? I've done it, and am not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to ascertain the reasoning. To my way of thinking, having the conversation's messages grouped in a triangle which I can just click on to expand, even if I"I've already trashed some of the individ

Re: Resolution to VoiceOver Intermittently Not Reading Correct Number of Messages in a Email Thread

2012-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Mark, Thanks for this. I' also hopeful that the text of the last message in a thread will now be read properly. Here's the problem I had which I hope is fixed. I reach a conversation with 2 or more messages. I expand with right arrow. I use VO-J to jump to the text. As I conclude readi

RE: Resolution to VoiceOver Intermittently Not Reading Correct Number of Messages in a Email Thread

2012-07-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hi Les, You are very welcome. I had the exact same secondary issue you succinctly described. Yes, changing the setting does resolve the secondary problem as well. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les

Re: Resolution to VoiceOver Intermittently Not Reading Correct Number of Messages in a Email Thread

2012-07-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Mark, It sure does. I'm very pleased that that issue is resolved as well. Great catch on your part. You might want to report that to the accessibility group at Apple, as I'll bet they have no idea as to how to resolve these two issues. Les On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:10 PM, "M. Taylor" wrote:

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