Accessibility of Mac OS X

2013-05-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi list, Below is a link to a blog article where I've discussed what I think are some of the key accessibility issues with Mac OS 10.8. https://nicholascharlesparsons.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/accessibility-of-mac-os-x-things-to-address-in-10-9/ Of course, it is by no means comprehensive. I'd we

Seeing Word count in Pages?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I have Pages set to show the Word Count at the bottom of the Window, but can't seem to see the Word count. Anyone know if it's possible to do this? TIA,' Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Seeing Word count in Pages?

2013-05-19 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Donna, Bring up the inspector with Command-Option I. Select the Info Tab which is the third tab to the right. You will see the Word Count in there, VO-right arrow will provide this information. HTH. Les On May 19, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Pages set to

facebook notification center in mountain lion

2013-05-19 Thread da reasoner
Hi I have integrated facebook on my mountain lion but I receive the updates via notification centre only sometimes. I want to get updates every time there is a new message,chat or facebook notification. Is there a bug in the mountain lion notification centre? Or I need to to change some setting

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi I also get these annoying "busy" messages in different programs from time to time. Command + Q and restart solves the problem in short - term. I am also curious about why this happens. Could be Voice Over, since i could use the mouse and click on tabs without voice, but not use Voice Over co

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I stopped having these issues once I upgraded my RAM to 16GB. On 19/05/2013, at 10:23 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: Hi I also get these annoying "busy" messages in different programs from time to time. Command + Q and restart solves the problem in short - term. I am also curious about why this h

Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-19 Thread Brandt
Hi there folks, I am wondering if excell macros will work in Numbers? I have an excell chess clock which I would like to use without having to start my windows virtual machine. Is this doable? Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +2778

Re: Seeing Word count in Pages?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi les, Thanks. I've done it that way, I was just hoping it was possible without going into the inspector. :) Cheers, Donna On May 19, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Donna, > > Bring up the inspector with Command-Option I. Select the Info Tab which is > the third tab to the right

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Sadly, not an option for me, I have an MBA. Mostly I love the Air, but the inability to upgrade anything is my biggest beef about it. Cheers, Donna On May 19, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I stopped having these issues once I upgraded my RAM to 16GB. > > On 19/05/2013, at 10:23

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Huh, interesting. I'm on an MBA. Never tried using the mouse. Cheers, Donna On May 19, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Hi > > I also get these annoying "busy" messages in different programs from time to > time. Command + Q and restart solves the problem in short - term. I am also

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi I forgot, VO + D, then arrow left or right to the actual program, then COMMAND + Q fixes the problem in shot - term. Take care 19. mai 2013 kl. 15:23 skrev Donna Goodin : > Sadly, not an option for me, I have an MBA. Mostly I love the Air, but the > inability to upgrade anything is my b

Re: Seeing Word count in Pages?

2013-05-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, The word count in Pages appears to VO as an image. You can find it to the right of where VO says "Layout area" but it isn't readable with VO and I haven't found a way round this as I can't seem to highlight it to use the trick of copying the highlighted text into TextEdit. In any c

Skipping YouTube Ads and Subtitles in YouTube Videos

2013-05-19 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, Does anyone else have problems skipping YouTube ads when using youtube.com on the Mac? It works great on IOS, but with the regular website on the Mac, although I can go back in the video with J, play/pause with K, and fast forward with L, I don't know how to skip an ad at the beginning.

Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-19 Thread Chris Gilland
Let's get a few things straight. 1. In the first place, aside what you say to appreciate the differences, what exactly were you trying to do that required root access, as that is normally strongly discouraged unless it be a very last resort. 2. Summarize for me the process that you took to en

Two questions related to iPhone 5

2013-05-19 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hello all. Hope you all having a good weekend. First, on my iPhone 5, how do I rename a photo once I have saved it to the camera roll or photo stream? I can't figure this out. As corollary, how would I set a timer, so that I may place to camera at a certain distance, and have time to set up the

Re: Anyone else having "mail busy" issues when they wake their Mac up?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks! I'll try that. Donna On May 19, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Hi > > I forgot, VO + D, then arrow left or right to the actual program, then > COMMAND + Q fixes the problem in shot - term. > > Take care > > > 19. mai 2013 kl. 15:23 skrev Donna Goodin : > >> Sadly, not

Re: Seeing Word count in Pages?

2013-05-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anne, Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know. Best, Donna On May 19, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Donna, > > The word count in Pages appears to VO as an image. You can find it to the > right of where VO says "Layout area" but it isn't readable with VO and I > have

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Nic, thanks for encouraging me not to give up. :-) Unfortunately I tried everything possible, I suppose, even VO + Shift + F2 and CTRL + CMD + f and both together. I tried both methods VO + komma and VO + period and the conventional way using VO + CMD + Shift + spacebar and so on. As I wro

interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-19 Thread Mike Arrigo
Looks like the newest skype uses a different control now for displaying chat messages, it's no longer using an html view, but rather a grid. Fortunately this does not cause any problems with accessibility, actually in some ways it reads a bit better. The only thing that concerns me is, I wonder

Re: Two questions related to iPhone 5

2013-05-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, really can't rename photos/videos on the device. The best you can do is label them with Voiceover. But, this isn't a great solution because your really labeling an area of the screen, not the photo itself. So, if anything gets rearranged in your camera roll, you labels are gone. I am pr

Re: Two questions related to iPhone 5

2013-05-19 Thread Chris Gilland
Mark, I'm not going to be of the slightest help regarding your second question, however, regarding your first two, I don't think that you can do either without a jailbreak, which I dont' wish to do on my phone. I did it for a short period of time, and though it did give me some cool functiona

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-19 Thread Chris Gilland
I wouldn't think it would make things any worse? What's your logic on why you think clicking links would be harder? If you want to add me, I am chris28210. I've been meaning to get up with you anyway. I sent you a Skype request a while back on an old account I used to use, but it kind a sat

playing/searching an artist in iTunes?

2013-05-19 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I just wanted to load all songs by a given artist in iTunes, so I could have a table of all that artist's tracks, regardless of album. How do I do this? After much fiddling I managed to get a table of one album, but not a unified table of all of them. What am I missing? Are there key com

Re: Skipping YouTube Ads and Subtitles in YouTube Videos

2013-05-19 Thread Candie Stiles
Yes I have the same difficulty. I'm wondering if this was done intentionally so you couldn't skip over the adds. The controls work find in the video itself but don't do anything when the adds are playing. On May 19, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Harry Hogue wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone else have probl

suggestion for best Apple keyboard please!

2013-05-19 Thread Estelita
Hi, I need to buy a new bluethooth keyboard for my MacBook, as mine just packed up after 6 months, when I did not used it that much! Any suggestion for the best model is very much appreciated, thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionarie

Re: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please!

2013-05-19 Thread Angela Carden
I personaly use the Logitech k760. Its a good, sterdy keyboard that can be used with 3 devices. It has a power switch instead of a button as the Apple keyboard does. Sent from my iPod On 19 mai 2013, at 22:22, Estelita wrote: > Hi, I need to buy a new bluethooth keyboard for my MacBook, as mi

Re: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please!

2013-05-19 Thread Estelita
Thank you, I'll search on this! - Original Message - From: "Angela Carden" To: Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:29 AM Subject: Re: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please! I personaly use the Logitech k760. Its a good, sterdy keyboard that can be used with 3 devices. It has a power s

Re: Skipping YouTube Ads and Subtitles in YouTube Videos

2013-05-19 Thread Harry Hogue
How did you discover these controls, by the way? I stumbled on them by mistake because I pressed the wrong key. And no, it has nothing to do with keeping you from skipping ads, as visually you are able to skip ads after five seconds for the majority of the ads. Harry On May 19, 2013, at 8:25