stopping applications from starting when Mac starts

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
How is this done? Thanks. Shane -- 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, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email

how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

2013-06-24 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I just bought a multifunctional printer/scanner/coppier (epson wp4535) mostly for scanning materials. It has adf and should also have auto scan doublesided pages (i can select this in the drivers when starting scan) but in finereader only one side of the page shows up. I do get a wa

Re: stopping applications from starting when Mac starts

2013-06-24 Thread Chris H
System Preferences, Users and Groups, Login items. Chris On 24/06/2013 08:05, shane christenson wrote: How is this done? Thanks. Shane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving ema

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

2013-06-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Anouk, I don't think FineReader can do what you want, but VueScan can. In the Input tab of VueScan, you can set Autorepeat which should work for your scanner. If you set VueScan to produce TIFF files, then you can set all such files to always open with ABBYY FineReader. In any case, you

Reminder and Calendar Alerts (was: your opinions on what a reminders script should have)

2013-06-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Chris, What if you try opening the window chooser while the Finder has focus? This usually works for me to get to the Reminder and Calendar alerts. It's odd that it doesn't work for you. Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Alex! These are great. Just two issues to report, and one comment/feature request. 1. When I'm not connected to any wifi network the Say Wifi script outputs, "You are connected to at DbM". It would be great if you could make this instead say something like, "You are not currently connect

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
One more issue. The bluetooth script only ever seems to announce the name of one paired device, even though I have several paired. The device announced changes each time. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubsc

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Alex Hall
My answers are in your original message. On Jun 24, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Thanks, Alex! These are great. Just two issues to report, and one > comment/feature request. > 1. When I'm not connected to any wifi network the Say Wifi script outputs, > "You are connected to at D

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Alex Hall
I only have one device I can pair (my iPhone refuses to pair) so I can't test this. However, I temporarily changed the script from reading only connected devices to reading all stored devices, and the list was read out as expected. Are you sure all your devices are paired and active? The script

Re: stopping applications from starting when Mac starts

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In addition to the System Preferences option, one of two things is likely happening here: 1. Press VO-d to get to your Dock, press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu, down to Options then over to check status. One of the options there is "Open at Login". If VO says that it is ch

This makes me laugh.

2013-06-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have to return something to Apple, and I wrote to the representative who is meant to be helping me. I got an out of office reply. What made me laugh was that here is a company selling their products and here are people using a windows environment! After all you get out of office replies when u

Re: This makes me laugh.

2013-06-24 Thread Dave
Other mail systems use out of office replies. It's a feature of most server based email systems, not just Outlook or Exchange. -- 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: battery packs

2013-06-24 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Mike, On the Anker ones you charge it via a USB port, this is true for most other brands as well. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility spe

Re: This makes me laugh.

2013-06-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, plus you can get Outlook for the Mac as you can get Office for Mac. And then there's Office/Outlook 365 which is their web/cloud based service. But I would be really surprised if Apple employees even used Microsoft software on the Mac. Surely they'd be using Apple Mail and iCloud out of off

Recording vinyl records

2013-06-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello All, I wondered what apps you preferred to record vinyl records into .wav files? I am very familiar with making such recordings from the command line within a GNU Linux terminal. Then I'm going to need to split the tracks. I don't intend upon using any of the clean up filters some peopl

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Alex, Great to hear about the updated version to be coming out soon. Re the mute status, you're absolutely right. I was stupidly imagining VoiceOver to somehow work when the system sound was muted, but I guess this isn't possible. In that case, forget what I said about the system mute. Re t

Re: Recording vinyl records

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
What is your source? It it just the RCA jack outputs of a phonograph or is there already a pre-amp in line before the computer? The original output from a phonograph is like a microphone output - very tiny and not very good sounding. You need a pre-amp which will boost that up to a line-level a

Re: stopping applications from starting when Mac starts

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
Hi Tim. The system preferences was what I was after, although I did check the dock as you suggested, nothing there that needed to be changed. Thanks. Shane On Jun 24, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > In addition to the System Preferences option, one of two things is likely > ha

Re: first time using time machine

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Just to be clear, you must dedicate a drive or partition to Time Machine. It will take over whatever you give it and keep archiving until it uses up all available space on that drive or partition. Once it runs out of space it will prune the oldest backups first. As Tim points out, if you start

Re: finding the bit rate of an mp3 file on the mac

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
When in the Finder, doing a Get Info (command-I) on an mp3 file will give you all kinds of details but some of it is hidden behind a "More Info" collapsed disclosure triangle. If you expand that with the space bar then VO-right you'll find a bunch of stuff including the sample rate and duration

Re: Mail Sluggish when Loading

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Were you closing the App each time (command-Q) or just the mail window, leaving mail running for a long long time? Doing command-Q should leave no running process to kill as you did with activity monitor. CB On 6/23/13 11:16 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: Well, I have a theory, not a fact yet. What

Re: finding the bit rate of an mp3 file on the mac

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
Thanks, Chris. I've never done anything in a terminal window on the mac. How's the best way to pull up a terminal window, from the finder, or anywhere else for that matter? Thanks. Shane On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > When in the Finder, doing a Get Info (command-I) on an

Re: does this list support attachments?

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Have you tried it? All the stuff I could find elsewhere says you should be able to but maybe it is turned off for this mailing list. I'd give it a try. CB On 6/22/13 2:55 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I want to release my scripts to you all as a beta, but I still do not have my website set up

Re: Announcing the Beta of Talking Dashboard

2013-06-24 Thread Alex Hall
I added the extra keyword to the mute script anyway. If nothing else, deaf-blind users, or those using braille, might find it helpful to know if sound is coming from their machines or not, so customizing the template would be useful. As for bluetooth, that's incredibly odd. I'm not happy with t

Re: does this list support attachments?

2013-06-24 Thread Alex Hall
I just went with the dropbox link option, so never had a need to try it. On Jun 24, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Have you tried it? All the stuff I could find elsewhere says you should be > able to but maybe it is turned off for this mailing list. I'd give it a try. > > CB > > On 6/

battery packs

2013-06-24 Thread jean parker
Hi Neil: Yes this helps a lot. A couple of questions: How much does it weigh, what are the approximate dimensions and how much does it cost? Many thanks, Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Mail Sluggish when Loading

2013-06-24 Thread Les Kriegler
I always use command cute close any program I run.c Sent from my iPhone On Jun 24, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Were you closing the App each time (command-Q) or just the mail window, > leaving mail running for a long long time? Doing command-Q should leave no > running process to

need help with twitterific

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
Hi listers. When I open the twitterific app, I get the window that says authenticate with twitter, but I can't seem to find where you enter the appropriate log-in credentials. Anyone know a trick for doing this? Thanks as always. Shane -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

RE: need help with twitterific

2013-06-24 Thread Tommy Craig
This is a link that will take you to the twitter website where you enter your twitter login. There is then a button to authorize the app. Tommy -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of shane christenson Sent: Monday,

LookTel would like your feedback on VoiceOver Tutorial

2013-06-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Are You a LookTel VO Tutorial Customer? If so, we would like to hear from you about your personal experiences with the LookTel VO Tutorial app. We especially want to hear from people who are new to IOS, and who have tried the app. We hope to hear from instructors who have used the app to teac

Re: Mail Sluggish when Loading

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Weird. So even after you quit mail, when you went to activity monitor it still had an instance of mail running which you then killed? Maybe sometime in the past it hung up and never fully quit. Whatever happened it's not normal :) CB On 6/24/13 2:18 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: I always use comma

Re: Mail Sluggish when Loading

2013-06-24 Thread Les Kriegler
Actually, I close the process well mail was running. Sorry if that was misunderstood. Let's Sent from my iPhone On Jun 24, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Weird. So even after you quit mail, when you went to activity monitor it > still had an instance of mail running which you then ki

Re: finding the bit rate of an mp3 file on the mac

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
There are two part. First, you need to get Terminal itself running. Terminal is in your utilities folder which you can get to quickly from the Finder by hitting Command-Option-U and typing T should jump you to terminal (unless you have a bunch of utilities that all start with T). Then you can j

Re: fan issue solved

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Another trick is to create a new clean account, log out of your current one, log into the new one and see if you can trigger the fan ramping up. If not then it's something with the account. Maybe there is a corrupt preference file or the like. CB On 6/22/13 9:54 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: You mi

Re: need help with twitterific

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
Hey there, Tommy. I think you forgot the link. Lol. Thanks. Shane On Jun 24, 2013, at 1:40 PM, "Tommy Craig" wrote: > This is a link that will take you to the twitter website where you enter > your twitter login. There is then a button to authorize the app. > > Tommy > > > -Original Mes

first time using time machine

2013-06-24 Thread jean parker
Ok this helps a lot. So to be clear, I can partition my drive for time machine. Then once it is backed up I can use the rest of the drive as usual? In other words, time machine doesn't prohibit me from backing up and retrieving files from the rest of the drive, right? Jean -- You received t

RE: need help with twitterific

2013-06-24 Thread Tommy Craig
Hi, The link is the text that says authorize with twitter. Tommy -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of shane christenson Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 6:14 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: need h

Help with DNS settings please!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike
Hi everyone, I need help with fixing a broken website. My domain name is registered through Wordpress.com but self hosted at dream host. Well apparently my automatic renewal of the domain name wasn't set up after all and it expired last night. I've since renewed it but when the url is visite

Re: battery packs

2013-06-24 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Jean, The Anker 5600 Astro Mobile that I bought is apx 0.8 x 1.4 x 4 inches give or take and weighs no more than the iPhone itself, I'd guess less. I bought from Amazon in the UK, which lists Anker Direct as the seller fulfilled by Amazon. The recommended list price is £50 but it costs just £20

Help with Special Characters

2013-06-24 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi Listers, I'm trying to insert EMOJI into a document and I'm drawing a blank as to what to do once I have the character selected in the Special Characters window. I've tried copying and pasting. Nothing. I've tried clicking and dragging with VO. Nothing (Does this work for anyone, ever?) I'v

Re: Help with Special Characters

2013-06-24 Thread Devin Prater
Press vo space on it, then press enter. Where your curser is, is where the emojy should be. This doesn't seem to work when you're not at the beginning of a line though for some reason. sent from my Mac Mini with iCloud. Devin prater email and iMessage: d.pra...@me.com or r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com Sk

Re: first time using time machine

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Yes, sort of. If you wish to use your drive for other backup purposes as well, then you should have two or more partitions on the drive. One for Time Machine backup purposes and the other can be for other backups of whatever you wish. The problem with putting other files on the same partition

Re: finding the bit rate of an mp3 file on the mac

2013-06-24 Thread shane christenson
Hi Chris. I did everything you suggested in getting Xcode and macports, and got them installed The only thing i did differently, was install x ports, with is supposed to be the new x11. When I tried to do the sudo port upgrade outdated I got some sort of error message I can't remember right no

Re: Help with DNS settings please!

2013-06-24 Thread Scott Berry
You should allow up to 72 hours and see what happens then. Remember this has to go world wide. On 6/24/13 19:16, Mike wrote: Hi everyone, I need help with fixing a broken website. My domain name is registered through Wordpress.com but self hosted at dream host. Well apparently my automatic

Nisus writer pro 2.4 for sale today.

2013-06-24 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Nisus writer pro 2.4 is for sale only today for dollar 39 as a macupdate promo. Best regards Annie. -- 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, send an email to macvi

notes not syncing

2013-06-24 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, Ok, I'm feeling so frustrated. :) For some reason, in just the last couple days, my notes are not syncing. I was occasionally getting this error on my iPhone about my gMail account user name or password being incorrect. Well, this was not true, but somehow I was locked out of my acc

Re: 2 extremely frustrating problems - please help

2013-06-24 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi Tim, I did exactly what you instructed me to do, but that also doesn't seem to work. If there's an actual electronic issue with the keyboard, then shouldn't the key appear damaged/broken/stiff, etc. The funny thing is that the option key is otherwise working perfectly normally. On 20/06/

Vmware Fusion Advice Requested

2013-06-24 Thread Les Kriegler
I ordered and just received a copy of Windows 8 System Builder which I understand I need for a successful installation of Windows with Fusion. I also ordered Fusion version 5 from Dell, but was notified that there has been a delay and I may not receive this software until July 11. I have Fusio