Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-25 Thread James Lee
Hi Anne, Thanks for the suggestion. This is true, scanners with automatic document feeder are much faster than flat bed. I haven't used one of those, so I haven't thought of it. What if you can't take books apart. What would be the best solution? Thanks for help, JL On 9/24/2013 1:55 PM, Anne

Vocalizer Expressive, Was Re: iOS 7, the worse update for norwegians using VoiceOver

2013-09-25 Thread BBS
Hi everyone. I've been meaning to send this out to you guys but I was catching up on around 85 emails so here goes. I have an explanation of why the old Norweigion voice that people are used to is no longer used. I actually read this on the Viphone list and I wanted to inform you as well. The re

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello James, I use a flatbed scanner and scan a double page at a time. I use VueScan to capture the images and ABBYY FineReader Express to do the OCR. This is faster than just using FineReader and the images are better so the OCR is more accurate. This does however mean buying two applications

RE: Vocalizer Expressive, Was Re: iOS 7, the worse update for norwegians using VoiceOver

2013-09-25 Thread Rafi Cohen
Hi everyone. I could be happy that the new Vocalizer Expressive is integrated in IOS7 but instead I am mostly frustrated. I'm a blind software developer from Israel using both Mac and Iphone. During the last months there were strong rumors that Apple will add a Hebrew TTS to IOS7 and Mavericks. Yes

Re: how to create folders in iOS7?

2013-09-25 Thread Daniela Rubio
Thanks to all who have helped me with this trick. Finally I got it, It is just to slide the finger a little when we place an icon over an other. Then, the folder is created. Thanks again! Daniela Rubio T  Distinguished Educator iPhone: +34662328507 El 23/09/2013, a las 23:23, Angelo escribi

Issue with getting Vmware Fusion 6

2013-09-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello folks, I'm trying to download Vmware Fusion 6 and am having a little issue. I can get to the download link ok, after having wondered in cirkles for a little while and when having pressed the download link i am prompted to log in which i do. Then the download page comes back and i press the

Re: Issue with getting Vmware Fusion 6

2013-09-25 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I never had that problem. Used it with Voice Over. Try and do it from your E-mail that you get from them or write to VMWARE Customer Services. Kawal. On 25 Sep 2013, at 11:49 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hello folks, > I'm trying to download Vmware Fusion 6 and am having a little issue. I can

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Donna Goodin
Yeah, that fits for me too. The battery is a bit lower than it used to be, but I'm still getting a full day's use off a charge. Cheers, Donna On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yeah. > > I’m like you. If I’m really conservative, I can get about 26 to 28 hours. > But gener

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Donna Goodin
Wow, that's amazing. the only time I've ever had to charge twice in a day was if I got addicted to some battery chowing game and played it for too long. :) Cheers, Donna On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > Obviously there are many variables as with all respect to your experience

Re: spotify accessibility on the mac.

2013-09-25 Thread David Eagle
Sadly not, at least not for the Mac. It is accessible on iPods, iPads and iPhones. Contact them using the links provided on the website and let them know about inaccessibility on the Mac. I have done this if you times over the last few years, and each time their response has been along the lines

Re: spotify accessibility on the mac.

2013-09-25 Thread David Eagle
The reason the web player doesn't work by the way, is because it uses flash, which isn't directly accessible for with voice-over on the Mac. You might be able to get some very basic functionality with playing music on Spotify web player, if you download flash. This might just let you play a song

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Christine Grassman
26 to 28 hours has been the usual for me for a very long time, but since upgrading, and not changing my use all that much, I am down to between 12 to 16 hours, depending on what services and applications I use. Christine On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Wow, that's amazing.

Re: Issue with getting Vmware Fusion 6

2013-09-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. Been there, done that and still no fusion. Will try again. /Krister Skickat från min iPhone > 25 sep 2013 kl. 12:56 skrev Kawal Gucukoglu : > > I never had that problem. Used it with Voice Over. Try and do it from your > E-mail that you get from them or write to VMWARE Customer Ser

IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello folks.. Here I am to report some accessibility issues under IOS 7 and contact manager. 1. It is impossible to use the VO rotor to edit some contact information, such as name, family name, salutation etc... Notes, phone number, e-mail address, web site fields are not affected. using a

ringtones not working

2013-09-25 Thread jean parker
Hello All: Since iOS 7 my ringtones are not working. I changed all the tones to the new tones found in iOS 7 even though the ringtone I like for answering the phone doesn't seem to be there. I have checked in the sounds and notification settings and all appears to be well. Fortunately the vi

Re: spotify accessibility on the mac.

2013-09-25 Thread Barry Hadder
The web player does work. It's a little quirky but people seem to give up on it to soon. I can't say I like it very much, and I personally don't care that much for spotify. However, I've used it. Make sure you have something selected before you hit play such as a track or station. There are

Re: Vocalizer Expressive, Was Re: iOS 7, the worse update for norwegians using VoiceOver

2013-09-25 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. It is a disaster too in danish. Nobody understands the new voice. I mean that it is a catastrophe that voices are developing into something worse. Best regards Annie. Den Sep 25, 2013 kl. 12:34 PM skrev Rafi Cohen : > Hi everyone. I could be happy that the new Vocalizer Expressive is integr

Re: ringtones not working

2013-09-25 Thread Ray Foret jr
Sure. Check your mute switch. Also, are the files in the correct format? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Sep 25, 2013, at 10:43 AM, jean parker wr

Re: Cannot find any other web browsers in "open page with" Safari submenu except Google chrome

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Blouch
Can you share the URL? Microsoft's support for IE on the Mac was dropped after version 5.2.3 back in 2003. Some would say support was waning long before that. CB On 9/24/13 6:20 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: What happened to Internet Explorer? I'm trying to see if I can get a video to play

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Obviously we are talking about technology and with everyone's phones running all kinds of different apps we are all going to have a different experience in battery life. I am curious though to those of you have been fortunate enough to get 48 hours out of a single charge. When you do th

iBooks on Mac

2013-09-25 Thread Helena Fehr
Thanks for the help! I will wait for iBooks to come to the Mac. As for the VoiceOver Question, I just wondered if I was the only one with that problem. I hardly ever had it with IOS6, so i'm guessing it's the IOS7 that's doing it. I only have an iPhone 4, so maybe that's a part of the problem to

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Perhaps you should all get the Mycharge Peak (the old model) from Amazon.com as this charger talks. Once for you to get the device charging and the other time when you pull out the USB cable and then it says device disconnected, powering off. I am waiting for my I phone 5S before I experience

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys At one time, I was getting poor battery performance and I took my iPhone in. Apple put it on their computer, and determined that I needed a new battery. Now I am getting pretty good performance, but I have never gotten 48 hours. I have done better, as I mentioned before, ever since I set

Re: spotify accessibility on the mac.

2013-09-25 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello. Thanks for your response. I will definitely write them and tell them about it. Regards. Nektarios. On Sep 25, 2013, at 2:56 PM, David Eagle wrote: > Sadly not, at least not for the Mac. It is accessible on iPods, iPads and > iPhones. Contact them using the links provided on the websi

Re: Battery Life on IOS 7

2013-09-25 Thread May and Noah
Honestly I don't know what happened, but since my upgrade my battery issued fixed itself and I really hope it stays that way. I have wifi, bluetooth on, brightness and such at 0 and reduce motion is on. Everything else is left as is and I have lots of things like email, twitter, weather, a game

urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Estelita
After upgrading my IPhone 4, it stops working and I could not do anything, your urgent assistance is very much appreciated, thank you. Estelita -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Jessica Moss
This sounds cool as ever, haven't had a chance to download/try it, but stumbled across it when it popped up as one of the ads in rsgames, and am about to try it out. I was adicted to most of those games when I was a kid, and missed them after I upgraded to a windows machine, and had to of c

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Charlie Doremus
call Apple accessibility 877-204-3930 On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Estelita wrote: > After upgrading my IPhone 4, it stops working and I could not do anything, > your urgent assistance is very much appreciated, thank you. > Estelita > -- > You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Estelita
I think this is US number, I'm here in England UK, do they have a 1-800 number please? Thank you for your quick reply. - Original Message - From: Charlie Doremus To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:14 PM Subject: Re: urgent help please!

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Ray Foret jr
Uh, just what is this supposed to do? I don't download stuff I don't know what it is. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Sep 25, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Jes

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread John Panarese
This might be helpful to a lot of people on the list outside of the United States. http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks John. I'll keep this. Kawal. On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:30, John Panarese wrote: >This might be helpful to a lot of people on the list outside of the United > States. > > http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US > > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Estelita
Thanks John, I'll try this. - Original Message - From: John Panarese To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:30 PM Subject: Re: urgent help please! This might be helpful to a lot of people on the list outside of the United States.

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-25 Thread erik burggraaf
This solution meets the requirement of being the fastest, but it falls over in a few ways. first, a double sided sheet feeder is an expensive proposition, even though you can probably find a voscan compatible one. If you're in a commercial setting such as a university transcription service you

Strange thing with my iPhone just now

2013-09-25 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I just had a weird thing happened with my iPhone, and I have not a clue what happened. However, I am very glad that Siri will now turn voiceover on for you. This is because I couldn't even get triple click home to work. I had plugged in my battery charger, and was reading merrily along w

Re: urgent help please!

2013-09-25 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, It is possible that it restarted in recovery mode. If you haven't tried this plug it into your computer with the USB cable and see if iTunes sees it. If so, you can do a restore assuming you've backed it up at some point. This happened to me when I initially installed the gm release. It

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Jessica Moss
They're the older apple games we all, or at least some of us used to play back in the day when the Apple computers first came out, so thought I'd share that. On Sep 25, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > Uh, just what is this supposed to do? I don't download stuff I don't know > what it is

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Babcock
I am downloading it right now, but what it looks like is it is a virtualized emulator of the old Apple to eat computer environment with some of the talking games that some of us used to play. I am hopeful that it actually successfully works at least on OS X, my primary operating system, as it wo

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Jessica Moss
There are, from what I read from it, it sounds like a pain in the kneck to get it up and running, but I'm used to just being able to open a file and having it load, so go figure, so I haven't tried it yet. On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: > I am downloading it right now, but w

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Babcock
Actually, I got it up and running within about 45 seconds after downloading it. It's really not that difficult, and I'm in the process of recording a video to post on empowering the blind, using voice over walking through the process of it. Again, it's really not that difficult and, very fun. Mi

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread erik burggraaf
Well, it took me longer than 45 seconds, try 10 minutes, but it was time well spent. I got to play typing game and space invaders and great escape… Ah, the memories. Theres even a copy of bex, what you'll use that for I'll never know since I doubt this emulater has driver support for any sort

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread Jessica Moss
How in the world did you manage to get those up and running? That sounded complicated as ever from what I read in the read me file. On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:29 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Well, it took me longer than 45 seconds, try 10 minutes, but it was time well > spent. I got to play typing g

vo after awaking from sleep

2013-09-25 Thread Agent086b
Hi, when I awake my iMack from sleep and enter my password VO does not always come up talking. I must unload and load it several times with CMD + F5. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To uns

Re: vomit comet » There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet

2013-09-25 Thread erik burggraaf
Part of the trick is just to take it one step at a time. The documentation is pretty nice actually. Do the first step, then do the second, then the third and it all works. If you're not familiar with the command line then it's a bit more daunting I suppose. Maybe the podcast will clarify thi

gmail help?

2013-09-25 Thread Kliphton
Okay, for some reason my iMap settings aren't sinking across my devices. When I delete mail on my iPhone, it shows up on my mac, and when I delete email on my mac, it still shows up on my phone. How can I fix this? I have imap set on my gmail site, and have never chaged anything on my phone. Thi

it's official, I am an idiot!

2013-09-25 Thread jean parker
This pertains to my complaints about missing ringtones. Indeed, the mute had been accidentally turned on. But here is a warning for all. The reason I didn't figure it out is because I could still hear the voiceover sounds and assumed that because the phone was still making sounds the mute was

Re: it's official, I am an idiot!

2013-09-25 Thread Matt Dierckens
This is true. I wish they would mute the VO sounds so that, in axe of times like that when you mute your phone, you know. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com IOS and Macintosh User support, Windsor area Sight Substitution Centre On 2013-09-25, at 8:32 PM, jean parker wrote: > This pertains

Re: it's official, I am an idiot!

2013-09-25 Thread Mary Otten
You can still mute the voice over sounds, just not with the mute switch. I read about that in Jonathan's book, but right now I can't remember where you go to do it. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > This is true. > I wish they would mute the VO sou

Re: gmail help?

2013-09-25 Thread Ray Foret jr
Would I be correct in assuming that you have both your Iphone and Mac set to remove messages from the server as soon as they are read? IF not, there's both your problem and answer. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Ba

Re: it's official, I am an idiot!

2013-09-25 Thread Ray Foret jr
Sure, I can clarify alright. Her's the reason for what was happening. There has been a change in IOS7 which allows voice over soudns to be heard even in mute. You need to turn these off either in Settings/General/Accessibility/Voice Over, or, make it easy on yourself and put sounds in your r