Re: mac client for the Playroom?

2013-05-30 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
Hmm wonder if we could request it though? I mean all they could say is no right? Blessings! Maria Joe and loving guide Karly. Email/ I Message: &fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl skype: bubbygirl1972 bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 30/05/2013, at 12:32 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote: >

Re: Wait to crash numbers

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Actually, this is the only problem I've had with numbers lately. After I updated my memory, I have had fewer problems with it. I had 4 GB, now I have eight. Regards, Gigi On May 29, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > I haven't had that specific problem but the list of voiceover issues w

anyone else using tuxera ntfs?

2013-05-30 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I have an external ntfs drive that i want to access and write to with the mac. It has 2 tb on it and i cant copy that much data to the hd so htat i could reformat the drive. I have bought and installed tuxera ntfs but still cant copu/cut stuff to the external drive except to the root dire

accessible dictionries for mac or ios?

2013-05-30 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, Has anyone got experience with dictionary apps (translation apps) on the mac or ios that are accessible with voiceover? Thanks Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop re

Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread David Eagle
Hi, I'm trying to create some reminders on my Iphone manually, without using SIRI and it seems really inaccessible. I can't change the day or the time of when I wanted to be riminded by. I'm using the default reminders app inside IOS.It seems a bit odd for this to be inaccessible. Thanks Sent

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Phil Halton
I have no trouble editting a reminder on my iPhone5. I just double tap on the reminder in the reminders list, and then I am in a screen where I can change any field: text, date, etc. - Original Message - From: "David Eagle" To: "mac Visionaries" Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:48 AM Su

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread David Eagle
Hmm, interesting, thanks. I'll have to try again. There's a button that lets you toggle the select a fday option on or off. But I just can't work out how to change the day and time of the riminder. The calindar is completely fine, but the riminders app is vexing me. Sent from my iPhone On 30

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Berry
Hi David, It certainly should not be accessible. Can you give us specific steps you are taking to create these reminders and we can try it and see what happens? On 5/30/13 7:48, David Eagle wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create some reminders on my Iphone manually, without using SIRI and it se

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, I did have safari open in the background. I have shut it quit mail, and toggled VO off and on, then relaunched mail, but even with safari closed can't seem to get the mouse down to remove the mailbox and the trackpad still seems to want to open the Apple menu. I am thinking it is someh

Re: accessible dictionries for mac or ios?

2013-05-30 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Anouk, OS10 comes with a dictionary app built-in. For further translation needs, you'll probably need an additional app, but for definitions as well as searching other things, the built-in dictionary can be quite useful! Rachel On May 30, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, Has a

Re: accessible dictionries for mac or ios?

2013-05-30 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello! Ultralingua is very nice and very accessible. I am a translator and I use it a lot. As well as the iOS version, which I use when working in the booth. Cheers! Daniela Rubio T  Distinguished Educator iPhone: +34662328507 El 30/05/2013, a las 15:31, Anouk Radix escribió: > Hello, Ha

Acapella or Scansoft?

2013-05-30 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You decide on which voices you prefer have a listen as it's funny as we all have something on our Macs. http://t.co/Xl4HuWgD9U -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: Acapella or Scansoft?

2013-05-30 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey, Just curious, how did the emotion voices get in here? I thought the mac doesn't have them yet? On 2013-05-30, at 11:20 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > You decide on which voices you prefer have a listen as it's funny as we all > have something on our Macs. > > http://t.co/Xl4HuWgD9U > > >

Re: anyone else using tuxera ntfs?

2013-05-30 Thread shane christenson
Hi. As I understand, you can read from an NTFS drive on the Mac, but it cannot be written to natively on the mac. The drive must be formatted as fat32. Shane On May 30, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, I have an external ntfs drive that i want to access and write to with > the ma

Re: anyone else using tuxera ntfs?

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Number of solutions mentioned here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4152122?start=0&tstart=0 although it sounds like what you have should work. Never needed to do it but I've heard you can mount the drive under your virtual machine and re-share it to yourself to read from the Mac side as

Does anyone know if the keyboard voice can be changed on Voiceover?

2013-05-30 Thread Megan Bening
Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to change the keyboard voice on Voiceover. I've noticed some lag with Alex when I'm typing between the time I press the key and the time it's announced. No such lag is evident when using Samantha on my 2006 iMac, 2009 Mini, 2010 Mini, or 2011 Air but

Re: Does anyone know if the keyboard voice can be changed on Voiceover?

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Megan, press VO+F8 to bring up the VoiceOver Utility. Navigate to Speech and ensure the voices tab is selected. Check the Additional voice Options checkbox, and you will see a bunch of new voice options. One group is called Type. This is the one you want to change for the keyboard. Jonathan M

a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread shane christenson
Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu ray reader/writer for my mac mini. I would prefer something I don't have to plug into electricity, but if it has to have wall power, that's not by any means a deal breaker. I don't care if it doesn't write to blu ray disk

Re: Does anyone know if the keyboard voice can be changed on Voiceover?

2013-05-30 Thread Megan Bening
Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, though, I think the type option is only used to announce html content, text edit box, etc. In short, the type of control you're working with. Enabling it seems not to do anything for the keyboard voice. Do you have any other suggestions? Am I doing somethi

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Phil Halton
Okay, after tapping the reminder, you're placed in the details screens for that reminder. The first field is the text description field for the reminder - simple enough to edit that. then you have the "remind me on a day" switch. double tap it to turn date reminder on and off. When its on, the n

Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when I try to find the end key. What I have to do is press the home key, press the phone icon, and then BNP comes up. Have the rest of you been having this problem regar

Re: accessible dictionries for mac or ios?

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Berry
How about the Ipad? On 5/30/13 8:48, Rachel Feinberg wrote: Hi Anouk, OS10 comes with a dictionary app built-in. For further translation needs, you'll probably need an additional app, but for definitions as well as searching other things, the built-in dictionary can be quite useful! Rachel

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Playback of bluray on Mac is still a bit of roll your own. Some folks say you should just rip the disc with MakeMKV and then play it back with VLC. For regular DVDs you should be able to just use Apple's DVD player. The difficulty with any flavor of video disk is that if you are in the states t

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Jamie Pauls
You didn't mention using to finger double tap to hang up. Do you not use that option? Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone > 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Berry
I have seen this problem. I just updated my Iphone 5 which I bought yesterday and the end button doesn't show up on the screen. I wonder if there is a certain button you can poress to hang up calls. I'll have to look in the manual. On 5/30/13 13:16, Eugenia Firth wrote: Ever since the ne

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Berry
I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the heads up Jamie. On 5/30/13 13:29, Jamie Pauls wrote: You didn't mention using to finger double tap to hang up. Do you not use that option? Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Ever since the new update, I have bee

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey there As long as I've had my iPhone, I had not a clue that you could do that. Thanks for telling me. I will try it next time and see what happens. GG Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote: > You didn't mention using to finger double tap to hang up. Do you not

Re: Yurufukurou and Lists

2013-05-30 Thread Rebecca Blaevoet
Hello Mark, Did you ever get an answer to your question about Yurufukuru and lists? I tried to create custom tabs for particular categories of tweets and I'm quite sure it's possible, but can't figure it out either. Let me know if you can provide any helpful information. Rebecca Blaevoet Co-Direc

Re: Basic Recording with Garage Band

2013-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Thats a very broad question haha. First off, I'm assuming your just wanting to record spoken word? If so, open garageband and select new project. From the template section, select voice. Type a name for your project, where you want to save it, and press the create button. Ok, you wil

Re: Acapella or Scansoft?

2013-05-30 Thread BBS
Hi. Now I'm tempted to redownload my Acapela voices. But how do they make the voices have emotions? I'd like to try that myself. Shawn Sent From My White Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Danny Noonan
It's accessible but you have to feel round the screen for the time and date pickers rather than swiping. To save some typing tap means double tap. Tap add reminder. Type the reminder name. Tap edit details which appears to the right of the text field. Tap on a day. Now a date will appea

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Danny Noonan
2 finger double tap to answer and end calls makes the phone so much better with voice over and should be taught to us all from the start but your not the only one who doesn't or didn't know. Smile. 2 finger double tap starts and stops most audio and video and calls, face time etc are audio and v

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi David, I agree with you the reminders app is a little weird but below is how I get it to work. Once you've created the reminder text, go to the edit details button. Press show more Tap the remind me on a day switch to on Double tap the day and time it gives you as the default and it will say s

Re: Basic Recording with Garage Band

2013-05-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Haha, Your right. Thanks for pointing that out. I can't believe I forgot those. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 30, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > Perhaps also space for play and enter to jump to start of the project

unlocking files copied to hd from ntfs drive

2013-05-30 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, since i still have problems ewriting to my ntfs drive from the mac i decided to copy some files to the mac itself. I did so and they do show up but when i try to edit a file textedit still says i dont have permission and need to duplicate the file if i want to edit it. Apparently its loc

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Brian, How does the trackpad behave when not in Mail? Try going to the Finder, navigating to something located on your Desktop, make sure that the mouse pointer is at the VO-Cursor location with VO-cmd-f5 then double-click on your trackpad. Does it open the selected item or does it do the App

Re: unlocking files copied to hd from ntfs drive

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try navigating to the file then press cmd-i to Get Info on it. Just after all the label checkboxes, there will be an checkbox for if the file is locked or not. Make sure that it is not checked. Don't confuse this checkbox with the lock at the bottom of the window which is used for somet

Re: Several iPhone 5 questions.

2013-05-30 Thread Esther
Hi Mark, I'm not sure how you're syncing your playlists, but in general for iTunes, if you create a playlist and want to make sure that it is ordered the way that you want, view the playlist in iTunes the way it should appear. Generally, that should be the order in which you added items. Assum

Re: Acapella or Scansoft?

2013-05-30 Thread Matt Dierckens
I have no idea, but, you can't use them with macintosh. On 2013-05-30, at 4:07 PM, BBS wrote: > Hi. Now I'm tempted to redownload my Acapela voices. But how do they make the > voices have emotions? I'd like to try that myself. > > Shawn > Sent From My White Mac Book > > -- > You received this

Re: Dimensions

2013-05-30 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, something I find interesting, is on occasion I end up hearing sounds in the background, mostly in the tranquil dimension, that sound like anything from birds screaching to people having a conversation that sounds like just bits and pieces. What's that all about? I remember a couple times,

Re: mac client for the Playroom?

2013-05-30 Thread Jessica Moss
I don't have vmware on my mac, and don't know if it could run properly on my machine considering the fact that I only have a 300 gb harddrive. I got my macbook pro with a small harddrive not planning on running Windows on it, sense I didn't think I'd ever use it again, and really glad to be rid

Re: mac client for the Playroom?

2013-05-30 Thread Jessica Moss
I found a thread on one of the forems where some did, and the owner sounded, in my oppinion, a bit rude when he stated that he hadn't created one because he didn't own a mac, and something about being in school, and this and that. Ok, what does that have to do with anything? There are others

Re: Yurufukurou and Lists

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Rebecca Are you talking about viewing lists in Night Owl, sorry can't spell the Japanese name of it. You can view your lists as tabs buy going to the settings and going to tabs in the toolbar, under tabs go to the final option and open it you can set what lists show up as tabs here. Good luc

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, I hope I was doing what you wanted me to check, as when I moved around the desktop I had VO on the trackpad turned on. Was it also supposed to be off, as when I try and move the mailbox out of favorites I thought VO on the trackpad had to be off. Moving around the desktop and double ta

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Brian, Oops, sorry for not being entirely clear. VO needs to be on but the trackpad commander should be turned off. Yes, you are correct, when doing all this Dragging and Dropping stuff that we've been fighting with, the trackpad commander DOES need to be turned off. So, with VO on, the trac

Re: mac client for the Playroom?

2013-05-30 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
Oh I don't know rs games has quite a few games and I think they are working on more. Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 31/05/2013, at 8:22 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > I don't have vmware on my ma

Re: accessible dictionries for mac or ios?

2013-05-30 Thread Esther
Hi Anouk, As Daniela mentioned, Ultralingua has accessible dictionary apps on both the Mac and iOS platforms. There was substantial feedback and interaction with VoiceOver users several years ago. As it happens, it seems that the Ultralingua dictionary apps for iOS just went on sale for 50% s

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, Interesting, actually we were talking about the same thing, I meant with the trackpad commander turned off not VO. Anyway, this is interesting as when I do a VO F3 on the desktop I get the folder is under VO cursor, when I do a VO F4I get the folder is under the ,keyboard focus, , but w

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Somebody finally told me about answering the call with the two figure double tap. But, stupid me, it never occurred to me to try it to hang one up. Go figure. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > 2 finger double tap to answer and end calls makes

re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, We have a 2007 Mac Mini on which I am going to enable Airdrop. Part of the process is to restart Finder, and to do that I have to hold down option while right-clicking the Finder icon. Obviously, I can't do that with VO, so what is the keyboard-only way to re-launch Finder? Thanks. Hav

Re: mac client for the Playroom?

2013-05-30 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, I just know that half the time I go on there, there's almost nobody on there, which is frustrating, but don't have time to go on it except at night around 9 or so, so at that point I'm lucky to find many game tables that have anybody at them, or that aren't private. On May 30, 2013, at 7:31

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Rod Skene
Will going to force application to close and restart Finder work? Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse any errors. On 30/05/2013, at 8:19 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > We have a 2007 Mac Mini on which I am going to enable Airdrop. Part of the > process is to restart Fi

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Jessica Moss
I don't think so; I've tried to do that several times, and the finder never actually relaunches, and in the end you have to shut the machine down via the power button. I've unfortunately had to do that several times when I've tried to empty my recycle bin or copy a file, and one or the other ge

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
I'm not even 100% sure if blue ray works on the Mac with the appropriate drive. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm only saying I don't know if it does, seeing that no mac systems come with a Blue ray drive, which I'd think most modern windows based machines would, wouldn't they? or am I wrong. C

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
See my previous message. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Scott Berry" To: Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone I have seen this problem. I just updated my Iphone 5 which I bought yesterday and the end button doesn't show up on the scree

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
You're making this way way harder than it has to be. Just two finger double tap anywhere on the screen, and that should both answer a call, as well as hang up a call. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Eugenia Firth" To: Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:16 PM Subject: Problem hangin

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Rod Skene
Okay, this might work. Go to the doc, focus on Finder, VO command F5 to move the mouse cursor to the VO cursor, control option number pad five to simulate a right-click with the option key. I tried this and saw a re launch option at the bottom of the menu. I hope this works for you. Rod Sent fr

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
The thing about reminders that I! didn't quite understand is the area that says page one of 3, or was it 4, something like that. what the heck is that used for? It's near the bottom of the screen. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Danny Noonan" To: Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Alex Hall
It didn't work for me. I did find what I thought was a way, in terminal: killall Finder but Airdrop is still blank on my Mac, even though my older Mac (which has a mouse connected, so i cheated there) now show my new Mac in Airdrop. A restart it is then... On May 30, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Rod Skene

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread John Panarese
Why do you have to restart Finder to use Air Drop? Does a Mini from 2007 even support the feature? I had a 2008 Mac Book Pro, but I don't recall being able to use Air Drop with it. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Web

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Brian, In your VO Utility, in the Navigation category, tell me what is checked and not checked please. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-05-30, at 6:46 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey Tim, Interesting, actually we were talking about the same thing, I meant > with the

Re: re-launching Finder?

2013-05-30 Thread Alex Hall
You can enable it, or something like it, in terminal: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1 You must re-launch Finder for the change to take effect. Incidentally, I figured out a way: I held option down as I hit vo-shift-m (obviously you need two option keys, or KeyRemap4

accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi all, As mentioned in the subject line, does anyone know of an accessible regular expression practice tool, desktop app or other? Really keen on practicing this very useful tool. Best regards, Yuma "Light has no value without darkness" Mob: +61 (0)410732547 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter:

Re: Basic Recording with Garage Band

2013-05-30 Thread Danny Noonan
Perhaps also space for play and enter to jump to start of the project or section. Danny. Sent from my iPhone On 31/05/2013, at 5:56 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Thats a very broad question haha. First off, I'm assuming your just wanting > to record spoken word? If so, open garage

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Danny Noonan
I don't have that but ill hazard a guess. Do you have lots of reminders? If so a multi page switcher may show as an alternate option to the 3 finger swipe to scroll through screens of reminders. As I use calendars for most things I only have a few reminders in my lists. Danny. Sent from my

Re: Is the reminders app on IOS inaccessible

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
No, I don't have any reminders at all set up. I did however figure out, I think, what it is. It looks like that moves me from completed, active, etc. etc. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Danny Noonan" To: Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Is the reminders app o

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey that's kind of personal Tim. Kidding. keyboard focus follows VO cursor Checked, Vo cursor follows keyboard focus checked, insertion point follows VO cursor checked, VO cursor follows insertion point checked, mouse pointer follows VO, allow cursor wrapping unchecked, skip redundant labels un

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmm. Nothing there should be causing any issues related to mouse movement. The only things I have different is that I check both the "Allow Cursor Wrapping" and "Skip Redundant Labels" but I can't see how that would affect anything. • Do you have or use a Braille display? • In the Visuals sec

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You're right regarding many of the modern Windows units. You're not quite there with the Mac and Blu-Ray stuff. You can play Blu-Ray content on a Mac with a third party app such as from http://www.macblurayplayer.com/how-to-play-a-bluray-disc-on-mac.htm and of course you'll need a compat

Re: accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Could you just practice using the command line in terminal? For example you could make a test text file called 'bob' and then use sed to run some regex substitution like this: cat test | sed 's/And/Dan/g' which would replace all the instances of 'And' in the output of the cat command with 'Da

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Other World Computing sells Mac compatible BlueRay external drives starting at $68 http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/blu-ray Of course you would then need software to read a bluray. I wonder if Apple's push to go diskless is early adoption of a perceived future trend or a push for more iTunes pu

Re: accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Hadder
Hey Yuma, Best thing to do is play around with sed or find. In terminal, you can type man find to learn how to use it. A good sed tutorial is at: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html. You can also type man re_format at the terminal to learn regular expression syntax. On May 30, 2013, at 10: