MBraille podcast

2013-06-29 Thread Chris H
Good morning all. Simple question, who would like me to do a podcast on this fantastic app? Plan to do it in a few weeks. Comments welcome. -- Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rec

Re: i phone users.

2013-06-29 Thread Eugenia Firth
Thanks. I did not know about 15 minutes that it would stop anyway. However, I am having a problem using the app switcher to close the program after I go in to BlindSquare. The husband turn voiceover off, and he had the same problem. I had to restart the iPhone. What happens is using voice over y

Re: i phone users.

2013-06-29 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
Yes, try that out. The thing you describe is something that app has no control of, so it's iOS feature/problem. I believe you can't stop any other app either? On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Thanks. I did not know about 15 minutes that it would stop anyway. > However, I

Re: finding dropbox

2013-06-29 Thread Danny Noonan
Yes you download it from the Dropbox.com Site and do the following to install it properly. . Do a google search for Install Dropbox with VoiceOver And a great document from memory by maccessibility will turn up with simple instructions on installing Dropbox. Follow them or you won't get full ac

Re: MBraille podcast

2013-06-29 Thread shane christenson
I would love something like that. On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:44 AM, Chris H wrote: > Good morning all. > Simple question, who would like me to do a podcast on this fantastic app? > Plan to do it in a few weeks. > Comments welcome. > -- > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are

Mac FTP Client?

2013-06-29 Thread shane christenson
Are there any V-O accessible ftp clients for Mac? 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. T

Remapping vo to capslock again.

2013-06-29 Thread Danny Noonan
With the updates to the apps to rout vo to caps lock, just wondered which app versions should be used now. I tried installing them and following the applevis instructions but it didn't work and I'm trying to work out what went wrong. Any help greatly appreciated. Danny. -- You received this

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-06-29 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anne, so I have a scanner with an automatic document feeder that holds approx 50 pages. Is it not possible to start a scan in ABBYY and just have it scan continuously as long as there is paper in the document feeder? It is possible to do this in Windows, so it seems like it ought to be pos

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-06-29 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi Donna, The problem that i personally get when trying to scan with my adf multiple times if using finereader on the mac: After a few tries the adf works fine, so it can scan continuously, but when you have inserted the next load in the pdf and hit scan in finereader you will again have to set

Re: i phone users.

2013-06-29 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again As far as I remember, that is right that it's not just BlindSquare that I couldn't stop. However, for some weird reason, and it may be an iOS thing like you say, I have never had this happen when exiting any other program. I have Navigon On my iPhone also, and it has never done this w

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
Gigi, I totally understand that, and that's great. I also am a huge fan of the alarm clock on the IPhone, so I'm not arguing your fact there in the least! What I however was talking about was for the Mac, not for I O S. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Eugenia Firth" To: Sent:

Re: Installing Jaws in Windows 7 in a virtual machine 7 hours no luck

2013-06-29 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I am not sure,. On 28 Jun 2013, at 23:01, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi there. Would a Jaws 13 work with a Jaws 14 license? I know that the > licensing scheme of Jfw is very strange and picky and stuff so i wonder if > that's the case here. > /Krister > > 28 jun 2013 kl. 23:04 skrev Kawal Gucuko

Re: Mac FTP Client?

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
I'd highly recommend one called Transmit. Chris. - Original Message - From: "shane christenson" To: ; Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 7:04 AM Subject: Mac FTP Client? Are there any V-O accessible ftp clients for Mac? Thanks. Shane -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I just use wake up. It's as bare as bare bones can be, but for the odd time when I need my computer to wake me up it does the job. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraa

Re: Blind square wasRe: i phone users.

2013-06-29 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I don't like Blind Square but am using it whilst waiting for the new Sendero App. Blind Square keeps going to sleep if you stand still and it won't wake up unless your open the phone after it's been locked. I keep it locked to preserve battery. I just wish it would wake up automatically once

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-06-29 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, I haven't got a scanner with an automatic document feeder so I can't test this. However, ABBYY FineReader for Mac is an express version so doesn't have all the options. For those of us with simple scanners, the advantage of VueScan is that it's much more efficient than FineReader

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-06-29 Thread Donna Goodin
Huh. That's weird. ABBYY in windows doesn't have that issue. Donna On Jun 29, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi Donna, The problem that i personally get when trying to scan with my adf > multiple times if using finereader on the mac: > After a few tries the adf works fine, so it can sc

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-06-29 Thread Donna Goodin
Interesting. thanks, Anne. It's too bad, I would go crazy if I didn't have an ADF, I don't think I want to buy two separate apps, though. so will have to keep thinking about this. Best, Donna On Jun 29, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Donna, > > I haven't got a scanner with a

num pad commander

2013-06-29 Thread Cait and Maggie
Is there a list someplace of the commands you can use with the num pad commander, or do you have to configure all of them? I'd like to get to know how to use this more fully. Thanks for any help. Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionar

Re: num pad commander

2013-06-29 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! Open VO+f8 then select Command+8 to take you to commanders! Then select the Numpad tab and when you arrow across to the table you can interact and you get a list of all commands without a modifier key! Then stop interacting and arrow left and there is a popup menu to select each modifier key

Need recommendation for Video Conferencing Webcam for mac mini & ML. Tim? any body?

2013-06-29 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi List, What Video Conferencing Webcam works well with ML and my mac mini? Skype? Face time? I'd like to get one that mounts on my flat screen for convenience. TIA CHUCK REICHEL soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com www.SoundPictureRecording.com 954-742-0019 GUFFAWING :) In GOD I Trust -- You recei

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
Do you know roughly how much it costs or if it's in the app store? Chris. - Original Message - From: erik burggraaf To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:32 AM Subject: Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock? Hi, I just use wake up. It's as

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-29 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
HI I totally love to read and apple has a fairly good selection. It will be nice to read ibooks on either my phone or mac and have the 2 sinc. Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 28/06/2013, at

Re: Need recommendation for Video Conferencing Webcam for mac mini & ML. Tim? any body?

2013-06-29 Thread Alex Hall
Your messages are coming through, there's no need to keep sending the same one. I know you have not gotten an answer, but that is simply a sign that no one who has read your message knows the answer. Google will be your best bet here, as cameras have nothing to do with Voiceover or accessibility

Re: NVDA tutorials- NVDA Korea - English Site

2013-06-29 Thread Phil Halton
I knew you'd take it personally Chris. Sometimes people just get sarcastic and you can't let it get to you so much. If you re-read my message, you'll perhaps see that there wasn't anything in there that should get a person so upset. I mean really, all I did is answer your question factually, the

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I use Sleepy Time (can't remember if it's one word or two). It's available from the Mac App Store. I use it to wake me up with a playlist from iTunes, but it has lots of built-in sounds and playlists as well. You can also choose for it to wake you up with a custom message from any one of Apple's

Re: NVDA tutorials- NVDA Korea - English Site

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
Sir? That is no? problem! I will forget about you, and will set up a mail filter from now on to block every bit your incoming mail, whether directed at me or not. Frankly, you're being very hasty and extremely disrespectful. But, Mister Congeniality whom I've delt with on and off various lis

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
Nic, Thanks for the help. Really do appreciate it. I'll have a look and see if I can find the app through Google. It sounds quite down my alley. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Nicholas Parsons" To: Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Anyone know of a good al

Re: i phone users.

2013-06-29 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
Hello Eugenia! I have not able to reproduce this. To understand it better, can you explain in which phase it works differently for you? I describe my steps here: 1) Press Home to close BlindSquare 2) Double tap home to open App Switcher 3) Select "BlindSquare" 4) Double tap and hold until you hea

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread erik burggraaf
Naw, I've been using it since the leopard days. There was no app store back then. It didn't cost anything though, I can probably send it to you off list if you still need it. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability su

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
Actually are you referring to Wake Up Time Alarm Clock? I found it in the app store if so, and it is perfect from what I can tell. It kind of confused me a little at first as everything was dimmed out. I didn't realize there was an option in the clock menu of the menu bar that says flip drawe

trouble joining this group

2013-06-29 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Someone emailed me asking about joining this group. When he tries, he is simply rejected - no mod notice that he is pending, no nothing. In case the mod(s) of this list are out there, here is his name and email address. I have no connection to him at all, he just emailed me out of the bl

Re: NVDA tutorials- NVDA Korea - English Site

2013-06-29 Thread CJ Daniel
Hello to anyone reading this crud, Time after time, I see Chris being a complete idiot on this list. His subject lines always reflect a border-line hysteria, when dealing with momentary, hiccup, problems with his Mac &/or OSX & its various applications. Words like, "strange, weird, bizarre, m

regarding a list member

2013-06-29 Thread shane christenson
I don't normally get in on discussions like this, but, I'm not sure where someone gets the idea that he is needing medication. I personally have found him to be a wealth of information with his knowledge of the apple products discussed on this list. Shane' On Jun 29, 2013, at 5:19 PM, CJ Danie

Re: regarding a list member

2013-06-29 Thread CJ Daniel
Did you read his last post? The med thing was a joke, sort of…meaning maybe it's not a bad idea. Anyway, maybe our standards are very different, CJ On Jun 29, 2013, at 4:02 PM, shane christenson wrote: > I don't normally get in on discussions like this, but, I'm not sure where > someone

Re: regarding a list member

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Gilland
It's ok Shane. You don't have to defend me. I'm going to give it a night to let things cool down before doing something rash that I'll later possibly regret, especially being how difficult I hear it now is to get on the list, but most likely, unless my decision changes tomorrow, I'll probably

dropbox

2013-06-29 Thread jean parker
Hello: Ok I have the document referred to but the instructions are quite old. It says to go in the context menu and select view package contents. When I do vo shift m for the context menu but there is nothing there about viewing contents. I opened dropbox directly but it went director

Installing 1Password on a Mac Book Pro

2013-06-29 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I'm trying to install 1Password on my MacBook Pro. When I run the application I get an error message telling me that the 1Password agent failed to start because /users/login/library/launchagents is not writeable. First of all, I can't see that folder in Finder. When I go into Termin

Does Anyone Know How To Get Voiceover To Read Continuously Without Pauses

2013-06-29 Thread BBS
Hi all. Subject says it all. I want to know if there's a way to make Voiceover to read all continuously without pauses like Windows screen readers do. What I mean is, in some threads by people, Voiceover would read a line, then pause, then read the next line and that is annoying sometimes. Shaw

Re: Does Anyone Know How To Get Voiceover To Read Continuously Without Pauses

2013-06-29 Thread shane christenson
I think it's VO A, but I could be mistaken. That's what I do, anyway. HTH. Shane On Jun 29, 2013, at 7:14 PM, BBS wrote: > Hi all. Subject says it all. I want to know if there's a way to make > Voiceover to read all continuously without pauses like Windows screen readers > do. What I mean is,

Re: Does Anyone Know How To Get Voiceover To Read Continuously Without Pauses

2013-06-29 Thread Alex Hall
VO-a will indeed read all. What the OP described, though, sounds more like pauses inserted by the speech synthesizer in use. In a hypothetical world in which every synthesizer worked on every platform, using the same synthesizer on the Mac as the OP does on Windows would, I imagine, yield Window

my apolopies

2013-06-29 Thread Phil Halton
It seems the request for information on NVDA tutorials came from another list, not from this MAC oriented list. I mistakenly posted the link to the NVDA podcasts here in error. I honestly did not intend for this discussion to spiral so far out of control, or cause so much consternation as it

Re: MBraille podcast

2013-06-29 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Chris, I'd be interested in a podcast on this app. I'm finding the app less than wonderful so please convince me otherwise. I simply can't get the table lay out to be reliable, and generally don't get on very well with this app. The contracted braille is wonderful, no doubt about it. Please

Audacity help.

2013-06-29 Thread Jessica Moss
I've just started attempting to use this program this morning, but at the moment am having a little trouble with it. Perfect example, have been trying to change the tempo of a song, but can't figure out how to change the incraments to make it faster/slower, so it just stays the same, and same w

Re: Audacity help.

2013-06-29 Thread Alex Hall
Those effects are pretty much everything you could want to do with files, and there are plugins all over the internet to do even more. For instance, changing tempo is done with the speed change function. You may also want to google 'audacity keyboard reference" to find the part of the manual tha

Re: Audacity help.

2013-06-29 Thread Jessica Moss
Well, I found the change tempo function function, I just can't get the thing to work, there are about 3 or 4 I think, sets of numbers that you can change, and I don't know what to do what with, so have no idea what to do there. I'm so used to the one Windows media player used to have that you c

Re: Audacity help.

2013-06-29 Thread Jessica Moss
Also, when it comes to recording, I want to record my voice for example, and attempt to alter that, sense I was told Audacity can do that, but can't figure out how to do that, can I please get some help in that area? On Jun 29, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Those effects are pretty much

Re: Anyone know of a good alarm clock?

2013-06-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Chris, Happy to help. Sounds like you've found a solution already, But just for completeness it's SleepyTime (one word) in the Mac App Store. I'd paste the link here but it's not working for some reason. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVision

Re: dropbox

2013-06-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'm guessing those instructions are out of date. Just install it as normal. I did, and it works fine. -- 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 macvisio

Re: Audacity help.

2013-06-29 Thread Alex Hall
First, open preferences (cmd-comma, as usual). I don't remember where, but in one of the preference areas is a setting about applying an effect to the full track if no audio is selected. If this is off, you can either turn it on, or remember to press cmd-a before applying an effect if you want t

Re: regarding a list member

2013-06-29 Thread Mauricio Almeida
I personally think that CJ is right here. I rarely post here, but quite frankly i have seen minimally speaking tem times the following scenario: bounders are stepped, apology comes once in a while - sometimes ina drama novel format - and the cycle repeats itself. anyone who looks up list archives w