Re: Doesn't Anyone else use Web Spots in Safari?

2012-08-04 Thread Garth Humphreys
Awesome idea, I really don't make enough use of the track pad commander Garth On 04/08/2012, at 12:09 AM, Blinkin wrote: > I set up my trackpad so I can hold control and flick left or right to go > through my webspots. > All I did was reverse those custom gestures and it works like normal

Preview versus skim?

2012-08-04 Thread chris hallsworth
The subject says it all. What are the pros and cons please. Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Esther" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:43 AM Subject: Re: merging several PDF files into one. Hi Chris, It's actually possible to merge PDF files with Preview if you can drag and

Re: voiceover and greek?

2012-08-04 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello there. I don't exactly understand your question. I have been using Greek since the early 80s in various forms both using hardware and software synths. Espeak is available in Greek under Linux for years, Acapela has a Greek voice for the Mac, Loquendo has a couple of Greek voices etc. The

Re: voiceover and greek?

2012-08-04 Thread Karen Lewellen
Oh really? I would say you understood my question perfectly. The person who wants this is not using a mac at all. so you sharing hardware synthesizer that canspeak Greek helps very much. May I write you privately with extra questions? this of mouse a topic for here. Thanks, Karen On Sat

Mountain Lion, Facebook, and Trillion.

2012-08-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, Has anyone had any issues accessing Facebook chat via Trillion? Before the update and install things were working fine, but lately I have not been able to chat with certain contacts who are online. We are not able to see one another as appearing online. We are not blocking each o

Re: Dictation By Voice.

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, The dictation button is found to the left of the spacebar. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Georges Zaynoun wrote: > I bought the new iPad, how do I access the voice dictation button? Thanks so > much. >

Re: Dowloading VLC

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, download the 64 bit version. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 3, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi folks, > I've got the link for the VLC page, but don't know which version to > download. I have a 2011

Re: Another bootcamp question.

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yes you could. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Allison Mervis wrote: > Hi everyone. > Assuming that I can create a bootcamp partition without sighted assistance, > couldn't I then create an unattended

Re: Dictation By Voice.

2012-08-04 Thread Alex Hall
Also, if it works like the iPhone, double tap two fingers to stop dictation. That way it won't pick yp your trying to find the button again. On 8/4/12, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > The dictation button is found to the left of the spacebar. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twi

RE: Microsoft Outlook web access and Safari

2012-08-04 Thread Jeff Bishop
OK, so, we are on 2010. Another thing to try. Go into Safari Preferences, enable the Developer Menu on the Advanced Tab on the toolbar. Open the Developer menu and change the User Agent String to Internet Explorer 8. Now, browse to your site and see if that fixes it maybe? Jeff -Original

Re: Weird Mail Rules issue

2012-08-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Harry, First, the All Mail thing from GMail is just there, it's something from Google and, as far as I can tell, you can't do anything about it. So, I just ignore its existence. Now, for your other issue, if the GMail Mailbox/InBox is selected when you create a new mailbox, the folder will

Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Craig J Dunlop
On my MBP with Mountain lion I am having an issue with attachments. When I find the embedded attachment I do VO shift M and no menu comes up. Does anyone have any ideas? The attachment will open just fine on my iPhone Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: How to get facebook on Moutain Lion.

2012-08-04 Thread Kliphton
I use facetab pro on my mack, and it works just fine. I don't know what the big deal is, there is a feature in iPhoto to share pictures directly to facebook, flicker, and twitter. JMO Kliphton Senior (Twitter&Skype) kliphton72 (iMessage&facetime) kliph...@me.com (Marriage Blog) http://chris

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, honestly, I don't even bother trying to interact with the attachment to bring up the context menu. If you just want to preview the attachments, press command Y on the message in the messages table. If you decide you want to save the attachments, go to the file menu and select save attachm

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The VO-shift-m works for me although VO-space does appear to be broken in ML. If VO-shift-m is not working for you, you can go under the File menu and choose Save Attachment. Alternatively, you can press cmd-y while on that message to QuickLook the Attachment. You could also navigate to

Re: voiceover and greek?

2012-08-04 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Keren, Yes, fill free to contact me any time and I will do my best to help you out. Email. nmal...@gmail.com If you have skype you can contact me through that as well. My skype user name is: nmallas Regards. Nektarios. On Aug 4, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Oh really? > I would

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Christine Grassman
Although it doesn't work for me in attachments, vo space works most of the time if you hold it down for a second, and then release. Since I started doing this, it's reliable 95 percent of the time. Christine On Aug 4, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > The VO-shift-m works for me a

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
The other 5% of the time, you buy 18 items because VO space fires off in key-repeat mode while holding it down. *grin* • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received thi

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Christine Grassman
LOL. That happened when I tried to download from bookshare. Had no clue it was working; there was no indication, and next thing I know, the book in question was downloaded fifteen times in my downloads folder. Can't seem to delete them either. If anyone knows how to do that, drop me a note. :) O

Re: Weird Mail Rules issue

2012-08-04 Thread Harry Hogue
Tim, Thanks very much. I will give this a try by first deleting the current mailbox, so that I can relocate it; I'm not sure how to go about just moving it. Take care, Harry On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Harry, > > First, the All Mail thing from GMail is just there, i

RE: Seaking Purchase advice on IPhone car kit

2012-08-04 Thread wayne coles
Yes i did and if you had gone to amazon and done the search you will find one that tunes in to a radio frequency and then the music from the iphone or any apple device will come through the speakers and the device is on amazon because i got one for my son so just look for the radio transmit

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
bwahahaha! I'm good. Okay: to delete them, Go to Finder, and navigate to the Downloads folder. There, you'll find a whole bunch of files with the same name and different numbers after them. Delete all but one by selecting them, holding down the shift and using arrows to cursor over them all,

Re: How to get facebook on Moutain Lion.

2012-08-04 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Does anyone have issues when running apps from the menu bar, if you vo space on them, they disappear, and you're returned to the desktop? this happens with Menutab pro, and if there's a fix, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Kliphton wrote: > I use facetab pro on my

Re: Microsoft Outlook web access and Safari

2012-08-04 Thread Allison Mervis
No dice, but thanks for the suggestion. Allison On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Jeff Bishop wrote: > OK, so, we are on 2010. > > Another thing to try. > > Go into Safari Preferences, enable the Developer Menu on the Advanced Tab on > the toolbar. > > Open the Developer menu and change the User Age

Actually it did work

2012-08-04 Thread Allison Mervis
Changing the stream did work after all Jeff. Thanks so much! Allison -- 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 macvision

Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I work a lot with pages that have many dozens of links. When I click one of the links, get the info I need and then use command [ left bracket o return to the original page almost always I am put back at the top of the page and have to find my way back. Is there some seting I might have

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Christine Grassman
Tred that, but didn't work -- but I'll try again. On Aug 4, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > bwahahaha! I'm good. Okay: to delete them, Go to Finder, and navigate to the > Downloads folder. There, you'll find a whole bunch of files with the same > name and different numbers

Re: Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Alex Hall
I wondered the same thing, but have not yet found a solution. For your information, though, Chrome does the same exact thing, frustrating when you're moving through a page of google results, open one, then go back and want to find the next result. On 8/4/12, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I work a lo

RE: Actually it did work

2012-08-04 Thread Jeff Bishop
Awesome, glad it worked out for you. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allison Mervis Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 1:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Actually it did work Changing the stream

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Didn't work? Um. I don't understand. Depending on how browsers are displayed in your Finder, I can walk you through it at a more detailed level if you need. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://Mark

Re: Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! OK if the place you need to get back to is always the same maybe web spots might help or even that sweet spot option just a thought! Colin On 4 Aug 2012, at 22:24, Alex Hall wrote: > I wondered the same thing, but have not yet found a solution. For your > information, though, Chrome do

Re: Voiceover on Login Screen in ML?

2012-08-04 Thread Dan Roy
I have the same thing, but, it's only on the llogin window, vary miner annoyance. On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > I get the 2 dialog box thing on my Macbook, but on my iMac I get 4 dialog > boxes! It is starting to frustrate me! > On 30 Jul 2012, at 04:29, Dan Roy wrote: >

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

2012-08-04 Thread Dan Roy
Thanks for the info, this is really to bad! My wife does lots of charts and that sort of stuff, sounds like shaky ground to me. On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Dan, > > When converting files from MS Word to Pages, there are problems with the > positioning of text

dictation help

2012-08-04 Thread Caitlyn and Nickels
Hi, Ok, trying to set up dictation in ML and can't quite get it.. Where exactly do you turn on listening or whatever? I've set up the microphone, thanks to Donna, but can't seem to find the listening doo hicky or whatever! lol! I also can't seem to find a list of phrases to say to my mac to g

Re: dictation help

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Check under system preferences, Dictation and Speech. On Aug 4, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote: > Hi, > Ok, trying to set up dictation in ML and can't quite get it.. Where exactly > do you turn on listening or whatever? I've set up the microphone, thanks to > Donna, but can't se

Re: dictation help

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Caitlyn: I am not much into bossing people around, unless they're utter morons and I have no choice, so in your case, no bossing will be necessary. To set up Dictation, Go to the menu bar with VO M, then down arrow in the Apple menu to System preferences. Enter there or VO Space. Interact wit

Re: Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Perhaps it's time to send an email to accessibil...@apple.com Thanks. On Aug 4, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I wondered the same thing, but have not yet found a solution. For your > information, though, Chrome does the same exact thing, frustrating > when you're moving through a page of

Re: Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Unfoprunately, it's often the case where i will be on the 30th link, come back and then wind up at hte top. I can use the visited links key to get back, but after several trips off thepage even this is not always much of a shortcut. On Aug 4, 2012, at 6:18 PM, "Red.Falcon" wrote: > Hi there

Re: dictation help

2012-08-04 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! I am not speaking for Caitlyn: but I she might also want speakable items because she mentioned the list of phrases to say! that Caitlyn is not the same as Dictation, hth Colin On 5 Aug 2012, at 00:15, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Caitlyn: > I am not much into bossing people around,

Re: dictation help

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Okay, well, those are called "speakable items," and they're located in the Accessibility section of the System Preferences pane. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You r

Re: time machine sorted was time machine help

2012-08-04 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
My timecapsule has always caused me trouble so I nicked named it "death Star". However, since I manage the network myself these days, it's behaving itself but it's still called "Death Star". Kawal. On 3 Aug 2012, at 11:24 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > Hi, > As subject says, I think I have

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

2012-08-04 Thread Pam Mathers
On Aug 4, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Dan Roy wrote: > Thanks for the info, this is really to bad! My wife does lots of charts and > that sort of stuff, sounds like shaky ground to me. > > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Dan, >> >> When converting files from MS Word t

Making VLC the default player

2012-08-04 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, How do I do this. The Readme file says something about checking the box in the VLC app but I can't find one. Lisette -- 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

Re: Making VLC the default player

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Have you checked in System preferences? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: Making VLC the default player

2012-08-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don't use VLC for a lot but I'm guessing that this dialog may have come up when you opened VLC for the first time. I did look around a bit in the Preferences and didn't find it either. Therefore, I'd do this for now: • Try locating an audio file that you wish VLC to open. • Press cmd-

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Christine Grassman
OK, here's the weird thing. If I go to the dock, then arrow over to Downloads, then use vo M to interact with the list of downloads in the folder, select things I want to delete, and then hit delete, it does not work. However, if I manage to get to the Downloads folder right in Finder, which fo

Dropbox alerts driving me nuts

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. How can I get Dropbox to stop putting alerts in my notification center? It seems to want to put a new one there every time it copies or changes a file on my mini. I don't see it on the list of programs I can uncheck. Any help suggested. -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hmmm, as far as I can tell, when you use VO-shift-m on the dock, it just lists options for manipulating the folder. If you use this keystroke in the dock, find the "open folder" option and hit enter. Otherwise, simply open the folder from the finder with command-option-l. Then find your items an

Re: Dropbox alerts driving me nuts

2012-08-04 Thread Teresa Cochran
Go to dropbox in the Extras menu and open preferences from the menu. Uncheck "show desktop notifications." HtH, Teresa On Aug 4, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > How can I get Dropbox to stop putting alerts in my notification center? It > seems to want to put a new one there ever

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Don't know. but, to access the downloads folder off the home folder, you just press dow very quickly and you can access it. Works every single time. That is d o w and that should do it. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefooted

Re: Dropbox alerts driving me nuts

2012-08-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Or else, you could do it via growl. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Go to dropbox in the Extras menu and open preferences from the menu. Uncheck > "show desktop n

Re: Dropbox alerts driving me nuts

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Thanks much. If I want to update dropbox to the latest version, I should just download and copy over the new app file in my app directory? Also, in Windows I can get a public link to a file in my public folder with a right click. How is this done on the Mc version? Thanks. On Aug 4, 2012, at

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have no idea why deleting from the dock doesn't work. I don't ever do it that way. I notice though that Open Downloads is one of the choices listed under the context menu, VO Shift M. If you open it, you'll be in Finder, which is the same environment in which you said the command-delete key

IMovie with ML?

2012-08-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Say y'all, has anybody had any success editing a video with the latest version of IMovie and ML? I heard there was an issue with the timeline and wanted more info before deciding to burn $14.95 or what ever. thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac

Re: Attachments

2012-08-04 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
… where is the dow key? … Sorry. couldn't resist. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisiona

A way to renable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Has anyone tried this? Or is there a better way to get a better command to go back in Safari.. Re-enable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari 6 Aug 03, '12 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: philwo It seems like Apple disabled the "Press Backspace to go back a page" feature in Safari 6 due

Re: A way to renable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari

2012-08-04 Thread Christopher-Mark gilland
I definitely wouldn't wanna do this, as like the tip states, you then lose your ability to delete inputted text, so, if I make a booboo on a web based e-mail service and I'm 3 paragraphs deep, and I only have a backspace key, not a full delete key on my keyboard, then, guess what, I'm screwed.

Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Wasn't there a command you could use to jump from open tab to open tab? I thought it was CTRL-tab, but that doesn't seem to be working. Also, thought there is a command that will cause VO to list all open tabs, or am I mistaken? Second, does anyone have a clearer explanation or a podcast

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, pressing VO F2 twice will bring up the windows chooser which will list all your open tabs. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > Wasn't there a command you could use to jump from

Re: A way to renable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Am I missing something here? I'm able to press backspace to go back a page without configuring anything. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Christopher-Mark gilland wrote: > I definitely wouldn't wanna do this,

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
In which case, why not just set up Safari to open links in new windows rather than tabs? Same difference right, if you use VO+F2 to move between them? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Rica

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Actually, pressing VO+F2 twice did not show me any of my tabs. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > In which case, why not just set up Safari to open links in new windows

Re: Making VLC the default player

2012-08-04 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Tim, Yes this worked thanks. The Readme file said something to this effect, but your instructions made a lot more sense than their's did. I assume this "get info" thing is common to other apps, so it's something I'll be exploring more. I didn't know about it, so thanks. Lisette On 5/08/2012

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Not really. Opening up a window takes up far more system resources than opening a new tab. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > In which case, why not just set up Safari to open links in ne

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Sorry. Your right. just open windows, not tabs. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Actually, pressing VO+F2 twice did not show me any of my tabs. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefo

More problems with Menuweather

2012-08-04 Thread Allison Mervis
Hi everyone. I got my location issue sorted out with Menuweather. However, even though I go into preferences and check the automatically launch at startup box, I have to go into my applications and launch it manually every time I restart. When I go back into preferences, the box is not checked.

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-04 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, Skim has been referred to as "Preview on steroids". It's free and open source with a creative commons license, and gets frequent updates. You can download the latest version from Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/files/ I don't know that there are any "cons" abou

Re: Safari and returning to last spot on page

2012-08-04 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Bill, that's also quite annoying to me. My work around is to remember on the links title, open by pressing VO + u the link list and type the title to find it. Then press VO + spacebar, here you are. But still it's just a work around and one additional point on Apples list to do on VoiceOver.