Radio App for Mac

2012-11-29 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, do you know of a good usable online radio app for the Mac? I want to listen to a lot of radio station which are not listed in iTunes. It's also not possible to add them to iTunes as a Stream. Actually I used Mini Radio but to me it seems not to be the best solution. Do you know of an easy t

Re: podcasts

2012-11-29 Thread Garth Humphreys
Sorry, too many lists. I believe that the creator of downcast is working on a mac client but I don't think it is out yet I found a few in the Mac app store but I haven't tried any of them. On 29/11/2012, at 3:10 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Hi Garth. > I'm sorry, i should have been clearer. I

Re: figured out the issue with voice over saying the wrong number of apps in mountain lion

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Cocktail is a commercial app which costs $14. You can use it ten times before it self destructs. Download and more info here: http://www.maintain.se/cocktail CB On 11/29/12 12:45 AM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: Mike, What is cocktail exactly? Also, how can I learn more about the processes on the

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, The site went back online lastnight and after you log in you will see a message about what happened on the 27th after the site went live. Matthew On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: > thanks for replying. I also went to the website after I sent my e-mail about > it.

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Marianne Denning
Thanks a lot Matthew. I will be sure to check it out. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:33 AM, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi, > > The site went back online lastnight and after you log in you will see a > message about what happened on the 27th after the site went live. > > Matthew > >

Talking community's again! solution!

2012-11-29 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi all! Well for those of you who might want to use a talking community's room there is a solution! This involves replacing the java in mountain lion with a older version using some terminal commands [these commands come from Apple support ] I have never used Terminal before but used these comman

ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread dhacker
Just to let everyone know, Ai Squared is close to releasing a version of ZoomText for the Mac. First release will be Magnification + Enhancements only to be followed by reading functionality. You can apply for group membership here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ztmac Doug -- You r

Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Mary Otten
I just had a nice exchange with the lead for the Barnes and Noble accessibility team. I suppose most people on this list know that the Nook app for ios is now wonderfully accessible with v/o. In response to a question, he stated that they have plans to make Nook accessible on both Mac and pc, an

Safari acting strangely

2012-11-29 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, Safari has been acting a bit strangely on my Mac lately. I have ML (10.8) on my Mac. The main issue is that the full screen mode automatically gets disabled. Due to this, the layout of the toolbar changes and the back/forward buttons do not appear where they should. Even if I click on t

itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Mary Otten
Subject line says it all. Itunes 11 with simplified player and redesigned store is now available for download. I haven't tried it yet and don't plan to until my husband puts it on his Mac and I can see how it works with vo. Oh the joys of having the screen reader built in to all Macs! Mary Mar

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
Two quick questions. that industry standard framework means, one can perform exactly the same functions accessibly? Second, will they be issuing a stand alone reader with the access too, or is one still chained to a computer for this? Thanks, Karen On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Mary Otten wrote: I ju

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Ring
I love the fact that any Mac can be made blind friendly so easily. On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Subject line says it all. Itunes 11 with simplified player and redesigned > store is now available for download. I haven't tried it yet and don't plan to > until my husband puts

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Thanks for replying. Actually, I did see the message, but they are still having trouble with the site. When you conduct a search, only a few results display. I don't know if the problem is with Safari or with the site itself. I've informed NLS of the problem. On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:33 AM, mat

Re: Safari acting strangely

2012-11-29 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Well for your progress loading problem just go to VO utility and select the web option in the table then the loading page tab and you will find the place to either choose tone or nothing button as yours is already set speak progress! hth Colin On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:55, Rahul Bajaj wr

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks, Mary! I knew they were going to do it. They did so much work on the IOS app that I figured it was likely they'd work on the PC and Mac ones as well. Teresa "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > I j

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
No, I do not believe it's a Safari issue. Besides, I just did a search or two this morning and pulled up quite a large list of books by Stephen King, both in audio and Braille. Perhaps it's what you are searching for? Just a wild guess. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very p

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Mary Otten
I didn't ask about the stand alone Nook and whether it will be made accessible. Seems that could happen if they used standard Android and took advantage of what Google builds in for accessibility. But I didn't ask if they plan to do that. And by standard framework, I thin they meant that they'll

Re: figured out the issue with voice over saying the wrong number of apps in mountain lion

2012-11-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
It doesn't come with the mac, go to http://maintain.se Original message: Hi, How can I find that application called cocktail in my system? I am using macbook pro 13. Thank you. Nene - Original Message - From: "Mike Arrigo" To: Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:35 AM Subject: fig

Re: figured out the issue with voice over saying the wrong number of apps in mountain lion

2012-11-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
Cocktail is an app that allows you to tweak some things, it will also do things like clear your cache. You can look at the processes on your mac by going in to activity monitor, you will find it in the utilities folder. Original message: Mike, What is cocktail exactly? Also, how can I learn m

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh, that will be wonderful! I will be looking forward to this! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > I just had a nice exchange with the lea

RE: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread wayne coles
Hello what do you search for on ios for the nook app only when I searched all I got was a ebook reader and it did not say nothing about nook so any help would be most grateful -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Beha

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
I can say it works amazing with VO, not so much so on the Windows side of things. Everything's perfectly accessible, buttons are labeled, etc. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Ring Sent: Thursday, Novembe

Accessible shopping extension?

2012-11-29 Thread Christina C.
Hi, I'm not actually sure what this type of app or safari extension is called. My husband uses some sort of plug in with google chrome on his mac. When he shops online it will automatically fill out his contact info and he chooses which credit card he wants to use and he's done. It fill it all

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
What are the primary differences we can expect in ITunes 11 from what you've seen so far? I am operating on the assumption that this version of ITunes is still as library dependant as the other versions have been. IF so, it will mean that, when I start rebuilding my audio collection from scrat

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
Should be interesting to see if that sells at all, the mac already includes zoom for magnification and voice over for reading, these can also be used at the same time. If people buy it, great, but they're taking a huge gamble. Original message: Just to let everyone know, Ai Squared is close to

Re: Safari acting strangely

2012-11-29 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Thanks Colin -- that did the job perfectly. Can you suggest anything for the other problem, my friend? On 29/11/2012, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi there! > Well for your progress loading problem just go to VO utility and select the > web option in the table then the loading page tab and you will find t

Moving a Folder in Mac Mail

2012-11-29 Thread Marc Sutton
Has anyone successfully done this with vo? Even if i am trying to do this with contiguous folders, vo tells me that the original folder is no longer available for dragging (using the vo-comma and vo-period commands). Thanks for any help. Marc -- You received this message because you are subscri

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
>From a Mac perspective, things are much cleaner when it comes to navigating around the UI. On Windows, there's even more tabbing around than there used to be, and that annoys me. Thankfully, however, I use it primarily on the Mac. As far as libraries, yes, it still uses them, although I'm not qui

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, you see, I had a problem. Every single time I tried to add files to my last ITunes Library, (this was just prior to my totally fresh OS reinstall), ITunes would crash every single time if it was not permitted to add the files themselves to the Library. What about playing files directly f

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
What do you mean directly from the finder? I never knew you could even do that. Also, for windows users, the menu bar is hidden by default, and refuses to read with jaws when you show it. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr S

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Here's a direct link to the IOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nook/id373582546?mt=8 HtH, Teresa "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:10 AM, "wayne coles" wrote: > Hello what do you search for on ios for the nook app on

Re: Moving a Folder in Mac Mail

2012-11-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Marc, Drag and drop seems to get much better results when using full-screen mode. Did you try this? Also, you can use the "old" method for drag and drop, VO-command-shift-space at the beginning and end of the operation. HtH, Teresa "We're made of star-stuff."--Carl Sagan On Nov 29, 2012,

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, what I mean is that I wanted to be able to locate a file using finder and cue it up in ITunes to play after the current file. I know that, ITunes has never allowed files to be play in that way. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac user! On Nov 29, 20

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. iTunes 11 does have a new feature called up next. This only allows you to cue up songs in the library though. On 2012-11-29, at 2:56 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, what I mean is that I wanted to be able to locate a file using finder > and cue it up in ITunes to play after the current fil

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Doug Hacker
Mike, The same is true on the Windows platform but Ai Squared does a very good business there, no reason to think it would be any different on the Mac side. Visually impaired Mac users want the same thing as their Windows counterparts. - Better font smoothing - Better tracking - Cursor, pointe

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, of course. But, suppose you don't want to use the ITunes library? that's always been my beaf with ITunes anyhow. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac user! On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi. > iTunes 11 does have a new feature

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Hall
I'm not a large print user at all, but it seems to me that saying windows already has zoom is like saying Narrator is already a screen reader. Does it read things on the screen? Sure, but comparing that to Voiceover is ridiculous. I hope AI Squared does well with this, I just don't know if it will

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Mary, Given your informative and direct connection, do you mind asking? Some if not many would appreciate a stand alone reader I am sure. Thanks for sharing, Karen On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Mary Otten wrote: I just had a nice exchange with the lead for the Barnes and Noble accessibility team.

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Oh. You can't do that, but they do offer something called up next, where you can queue up songs through iTunes to be played right after each other, without having to search your entire library. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
If you don't want to use the library, then you're out of luck. I personally like the library. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: itune

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
Have you not heard of playlists? Also, you can unstick files when listening to playlists or albums etc, the songs which are not ticked will be skipped and iTunes will then start playing the next song/podcast etc it comes across within the list which is ticked. iTunes 11 also has a new feature t

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Um.the store uses headings, quite well actually. I have no problems. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:18 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: itunes 11 is out Have you n

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I have always disliked the library. That's because despite the fact that I tell ITunes not to keep everything organized, it always insists on putting my stuf where it wants to instead of where I want it to. That always makes it harder to quickly find exactly what I'm looking for. Sincerely,

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Hmm, that's weird, cuz once you uncheck that box to not keep your library organized, it shouldn't anymore. Perhaps next time you have to redo your library, uncheck that box first? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Thur

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
Go to iTunes preferences. Then go to advance in the toolbar and you have two options to play with. 1. Keep iTunes media folder organised (this is checked by default). 2. Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library (this is checked by default). Untick these options, and it should t

Re: Accessible shopping extension?

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
Christina, There should be no problem entering credit card information on sites using Safari. What kinds of problems do you find yourself having when attempting to complete purchases online? I'm not familiar with an extension or plugin to allow the auto-completing of contact information or cr

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
Yes the store uses headings, there are heading 3 and 5, no heading 1 and 2s etc.. The structure is all wrong. It could be organised much better. On screen everything sits where it should, but voiceover moves from left to right and the store is actually organised from top to bottom in columns.

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Hmm, I'll have to have someone look at it with me when I get the chance. >From what I can tell, VoiceOver moves the way it needs to move, but I could be wrong. I've never had any difficulty finding what I want in the store. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegrou

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
If you just want to play songs from the finder, why not just hit the spacebar which will then perform a quick view and then start playing the song without having to even open iTunes? On 29 Nov 2012, at 19:40, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, you see, I had a problem. Every single time I tried to ad

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Chris, You stole the words out of my mouth, lol. I think he wants multiple songs queued from there, which iTunes doesn't do. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:33 PM To: macvisionaries@goog

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I am not having any problems with the new Bard site. I am using Safari with my MacBook Pro, and it works fine. I just downloaded a whole pile of books from bar. As a matter fact, I think at the thing is faster. Of course, it doesn't take as long to download the Brf files As it does for

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
i am just being picky as web accessibility is my field. I agree it does not cause any major problems, but it could be made so much better and more intuitive. Guess I am going to have to write to the usual Apple departments. On 29 Nov 2012, at 20:31, "Daniel Miller" wrote: > Hmm, I’ll have to h

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Pete Nalda
I personally would be hard put to buy ZoomText. Yes, it may better fit others, but Zoom and VoiceOver seem fine on the Mac. Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/lpnalda Http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter @l

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Ah, that makes sense. I'd be picky too, then. J From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:35 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: itunes 11 is out i am just being picky as web ac

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Which version of Safari did you use? On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: No, I do not believe it's a Safari issue. Besides, I just did a search or two this morning and pulled up quite a large list of books by Stephen King, both in audio and Braille. Perhaps it's what you are sear

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi Alex, There's a bit of confusion here. I may get myself in trouble here, but I will say this: the off-the-shelf accessibility on the Mac is notches more complex than the off-the-shelf accessibility in Windows. I haven't used Zoom for the Mac, and don't know if it has the same magnification f

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
Not quite all buttons. Go to the iTunes Store and select music from the menu which appears before you actually get to the HTML area (really not sure why these buttons have not been integrated directly into the HTML of the iTunes store yet) and you should see a link for last week's top 40. Open

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
If you have VoiceOver hints turned on, and set it to the minimum delay, it will say Preview the song, etc. HTH, Harry On nov 29, 2012, at 1:40 p.m., Chris Moore wrote: > Not quite all buttons. Go to the iTunes Store and select music from the menu > which appears before you actually get to t

RE: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Miller
Ah, but as long as the buy buttons are clearly labeled, I'm good. That's a small issue, but one that's really not that bad, since I generally know where the preview buttons are anyway. Good point, though -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@google

Re: New BARD website

2012-11-29 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Thanks for the feedback. On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi there I am not having any problems with the new Bard site. I am using Safari with my MacBook Pro, and it works fine. I just downloaded a whole pile of books from bar. As a matter fact, I think at the thing is faster. O

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Moore
I know, but I have my hints turned off as they are so annoying when you've been using VO for quite a while. My point is that this used to work in earlier builds and seemed to stop working earlier this year. Apple can fix it from their end, it would not require a new build of iTunes as it is j

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Tried that already. No good. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac user! On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:24 PM, "Daniel Miller" wrote: > Hmm, that’s weird, cuz once you uncheck that box to not keep your library > organized, it shouldn’t anymore. Perhaps next time yo

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I know all that. I tried all that too. It ain't a matter of my not knowing; rather, it's a matter of it's not working right. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac user! On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > Go to iTunes preferences. > > Then

Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, guys, I have a friend who uses a macBook Pro running Lion, and he runs Mail in the modern (not the classic) view. When he VO-J's over to the message text, sometimes he says it lands him on the message content instead of saying text and starting to read the message. He is also having tr

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That won't work if I'm streaming stuff. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac user! On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > If you just want to play songs from the finder, why not just hit the spacebar > which will then perform a quick view and th

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. I think he means within the library it's self. What I think might be the issue is the tagging of songs. If they aren't tagged correctly, iTunes won't sort them correctly. There are apps you can purchase that'll fix tagging if you want. HTH, Matthew Campbell. On 2012-11-29, at 3:25 PM, Chris M

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
Chris, I've not yet upgraded to iTunes 11, but you're right. It used to work earlier, and I, too, had hints turned off, and then I realized I really needed them for a particular webpage, so I turned them back on. They don't bother me too much -- I just use what I need and ignore the ones I do

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, you could always play directly from the finder but if I understandit correctly that added them to your library. You play files from the finder by doing vo-space on them and if they are a type of file that is set to play in iTunes by default, they will play. The same is true with other play

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; i use the classic mode. when saving files i go to the menu arrow right to file and then down once followed by pressing the letter s because that gets me close to the right selection quicker. if there are attachments i press save attachments there and tell the mac where i want them saved.

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
hello Max, I had him go to the menu and go to file, and save attachments, and that worked great, but I wasn't sure if there was a slightly quicker way. What do you like about the classic view over the modern view? Thanks for your reply, Harry On nov 29, 2012, at 1:55 p.m., Maxwell Ivey wrote

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Hall
That's what I did, set up a keystroke through shortcuts in system preferences. I also killed the preview pane and just press enter to open messages and cmd-w to close them. I prefer this because (1) I don't have a message marked as read just because I arrow past it, and (2) if vo ever does fail to

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, that's my point. If zoom on mac compared to zoom on windows is anything like vo compared to narrator, then, as you said, there's no comparison. Can some low-vision users chime in here? Maybe us totals are missing something? On 11/29/12, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi Alex, > > There's a bit of c

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi Alex, Hotspots are tricky, because they only stay for short periods of time. I used to have a hotspot to go to the search box in the iTunes Store, until I realized I could press command+option+F. I love that command, now. I will play with the classic view. Thanks so much, Harry On nov 2

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Hall
I forgot to say that I use the standard mail view and much prefer it. On 11/29/12, Harry Hogue wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Hotspots are tricky, because they only stay for short periods of time. I > used to have a hotspot to go to the search box in the iTunes Store, until I > realized I could press com

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, if you really don't want to use iTunes, set your files to play in something else. Most of my files play in vlc by default so they only play in iTunes if I want them to do that on purpose. Most of the files in my iTunes library are ones I purchased from iTunes. it is not really that I don't

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
That sounds nice! Of course you could sort of do that with playlists but I realize that isn't really the same thing as queueing up what you want on the fly. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I guess I never thought of it as not intuitive. I guess intuitive or not depends partly on what you are expecting. Probably if it was changed now to what you consider intuitive, I'd pull my hair out for the first ten minutes or so and then I'd eventually forget the switch and come to say that wa

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread dhacker
I don't think there's any reason to make that comparison, it's just not valid. Zoom on Mac works but it's not a sophisticated product. Voiceover works and it IS a sophisticated product. Ai Squared sees an opportunity to better Zoom related features. Also, the way Voiceover works may be fantast

Re: Moving a Folder in Mac Mail

2012-11-29 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi Teresa, Thanks for the full-screen mode tip. That did the trick. It also seems to work better in classic than modern view but i am going to go back to modern view and see what the results are like now that i am getting success. And, yes, it was the old 5-key mouse-down command that made it wo

Re: Easiest Way to Use Mail and save Attachments in Lion

2012-11-29 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hi; i wish there were a quicker way. for some reason in lion there are many things where you can't enter the keyboard combination. for example you can go into text edit and the menu there and save a document if you want to be sure which version of the doc is being saved. but you can't just type

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
First of all, we are trying to help each other and none of us has any idea what the rest of us know and don't know so you are always going to get some advice you've already tried. secondly, if it doesn't work, one of two things is true (1) you haven't figured out how to implement it; or (2) it's

fixing music tags for iTunes: was: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'd like some referrals on apps to fix tags. Most of what I have heard of requires one to do a lot of information input which is just what I don't really have the time for but if there's something out there I haven't tried, I'd be interested. Thanks. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and t

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Ok, I think that if what you say, Dhacker, is correct, then maybe we should take screen-readers out of the equation entirely and concentrate on magnification software. I've never seen a discussion comparing various magnification apps on the PC versus the Mac. Thanks for the input. Most of the f

Re: Moving a Folder in Mac Mail

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I wonder why people have to do such different things to get this to work. For instance, the new drag and drop usually works for me in mail now but I have a friend who got it to work once and never again. There has to be some reason why some people have to use full screen mode and some don't and

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Well I do not use zoom but I remember someone saying a while ago that they wished the Mac version could give options to change colours so you could have yellow text on a blue back ground or something else! And as far as I know zoom text can do this [but I'm not sure] You only have black

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Damashe Thomas
I too am a VoiceOver only user. I have spoken at length with friends of mine who are low vision users though. Not to stray to far off topic for this list, but by all accounts from people I know, magnification on any version of windows is hardly sufficient. As was stated earlier in this thread, c

Re: Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

2012-11-29 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Karen, My connection just came because I sent a thank you note to accessibil...@book.com. No special connection here. Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to mac

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread Ryan Mann
If somebody has purchased ZoomText for Windows and they want to switch to the Mac, will they have to buy ZoomText again or would their serial number for the Windows version work? I'm asking since I'm an assistive technology instructor and somebody might ask me this in the future. Thanks. Sent

Re: ZoomText on the Mac Coming Soon

2012-11-29 Thread dhacker
Serial numbers will not be cross-platform compatible. No pricing has been determined as of yet . . . On Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:15:44 PM UTC-5, rmann05 wrote: > > If somebody has purchased ZoomText for Windows and they want to switch to > the Mac, will they have to buy ZoomText again or wo

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
One thing I don't like about the new version, and perhaps there is a way to change this, it groups your tv shows by season now, there's no way that I can find to just get a list of all shows in a nice long list. On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:14 PM, "Daniel Miller" wrote: > If you don’t want to use the

vlc: adding to media library

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Does anybody know if there's a keyboard shortcut or accessible method for adding to the media library in vlc. I am sure it's enabled because the window comes up when I open vlc and I've apparently accidentally added a couple of songs to it but I have no idea when or how that happened. I have no

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I would almost be willing to bet there's a way to change that, maybe something in the view options but I can't check it out since I don't have any tv shows. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)

Re: itunes 11 is out

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
You can switch to list view. There are three radio buttons. One thing i do like is the ability to see shows in the cloud. On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > One thing I don't like about the new version, and perhaps there is a way to > change this, it groups your tv shows by seaso

expense tracking software for the mac?

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I will soon have need of expense-tracking software and, of course, I'd like to keep it on the mac instead of needing Windows. I have zero experience in this field, but I was told to look into Quickbooks, I think it was. Is that accessible? If not, is there similar software that will work wi

Re: expense tracking software for the mac?

2012-11-29 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I use Checkbook Pro by Splasm Software. On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I will soon have need of expense-tracking software and, of course, I'd > like to keep it on the mac instead of needing Windows. I have zero > experience in this field, but I was told to look into

VO Hints

2012-11-29 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, Can someone remind me how to turn on vo hints? Thanks, On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: > If you have VoiceOver hints turned on, and set it to the minimum delay, it > will say Preview the song, etc. > > HTH, > > Harry > > On nov 29, 2012, at 1:40 p.m., Chris Moore wrote: >

Re: VO Hints

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Go to your VoiceOver utility. It's under verbosity and the fifth tab called hints! Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, > Can someone remind me how to turn on vo hints? > Thanks, > On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: > >> If you have Voice

Re: VO Hints

2012-11-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes. Open voiceover utility with vo-f8. In categories go to verbbosity. Hints is the fifth and last tab; select it with vo-space. There's a checkbox for speaking the instructions for the item in the voiceover cursor; there's a pop-up for handling items with help tags, and there's a table to set

Re: VO Hints

2012-11-29 Thread Stacey Robinson
Cool, I got it. On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Go to your VoiceOver utility. It's under verbosity and the fifth tab called > hints! > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > >> Hi, >> Can someone remind me how to turn on vo

Re: adding to media library

2012-11-29 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Can you use and manage an I O S device like an IPhone, or IPad with VLC? I highly doubt it. Just wondered if there is another sollution if for whatever totally bizarre reason, you'd not want to use ITunes? I know that to get apps/music/movies/TV shows/Books, etc. you definitely need ITunes, b

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