Usefulmavericks page on the Apple Site

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, guys, I was poking around for system requirements and found this useful page on the Apple site. It lists compatible computers, system requirements, and the apps Mavericks has built in. http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this me

Re: Anyone using Aftershokz bluetooth headset!

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Colin. I love my Aftershockz headset. I use it every day. I would not be without it. No problem with using it. However, I do not like using it with blind square as the voices are too loud. I can't wait to get the Sendero App when it's out in Europe. Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
What does this Docking thing do? My volume on my I phone is still stuck at 35% even though I reset it once someone said on this list that I should do so. Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 03:27 am, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > Correct. > > This can be toggled on/off in Voiceove

iBooks Button Labeling, and Book Syncing

2013-10-23 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, Has anyone figured-out the button labeling in iBooks? Also is there a way to sync ePub files between both clients? (Mavericks OS X, and iOS 7.3). Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionarie

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Waaw great news Can i do the upgrade alone or i need sited assistance And how can i upgrade from ml? I have a bootcamp will it be affected . Thanks so much Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 23, 2013, at

Apps Opening Very Slowly in mavericks; Anyone Else Experience This?

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
hi, all, I’m using an upgrade from Mountain lion on a late 2009 Mac Mini with 4GB ram. The specs indicate that i should be ok to use this, but i notice that apps are taking at least twenty seconds to open. I might be mis-estimating the time, but I certainly notice the slower load times. Anyone

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Kliphton -------
You didn’t have to turn classic view on for that. You could have whent to preferences, viewing, and then went to header. There is an option in that setting to customize what you hear. The one thing I haven’t been able to get rid of, is voice over saying “imbedded” before reading each email,

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Caitt Furness
How you read messages in mail now ever since I'm fine ever since installing Maverick I haven't been able to do anything with my mail messages not read not reply not forward not anything thanks Kaitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 04:54, Kliphton --- wrote:t > > You did

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Can't you do classic view for mail? I use the classic view in ML but will be installing Mavericks od Saturday. Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 10:33 am, Caitt Furness wrote: > > How you read messages in mail now ever since I'm fine ever since installing > Maverick I haven't

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
That’s good for Safari, but it would be nice if the Mail app did the same thing where if you click on something that says clickable, like in this digest, it would bring you to that thread instead of me having to issue the find command to get there. Shawn Sent From My White Mac Book On Oct 23,

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
No Ray, I would suggest deleting them before you install the Vocalizer Expressive voices or else, like I found out, it’ll bugger up the new ones. Shawn Sent From My White Mac Book On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:09 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: -- You received this message because you are

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Caitt Furness
DoesvDOJ still working maverick I can't seem to get it to work thanks Kaitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 01:51, Alex Hall wrote: > > Fair enough, everyone uses apps in different ways. I just wanted to make > people aware of the alternative. >> On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:11 AM

Re: mavericks and voices

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
Hi May. You can download the Vocalizer Expressive voices 2 ways. In the VO Utility, go to speech, and under the popup button with all the voices, select customize. There you’ll find a table and you can select the voices you want. The other way is in System Preferences. Select dictation and speec

Issue With New iTunes Update

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
Hi guys. I just downloaded the new update to iTunes. I noticed that under the internet radio button that has internet radio stations, first letter navigation no longer works. Are people also seeing this? Shawn Sent From My White Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: delting files in mavericks?

2013-10-23 Thread Caitt Furness
Yes I am trying to delete it from my apps folder is that special? Cait Kaitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On 22 Oct 2013, at 22:26, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > Hi, > > are you trying to delete the app from your apps folder? > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2t

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
22 okt 2013 kl. 22:35 skrev Michael Marshall : > i just don't want to update the OS to find it so buggy that i can't use it. And when has that ever happened on the Mac? This ain't windows, ya know. I have had a Mac since 2008 and i've never ever seen an unusable OS. /Krister -- You received t

Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a boot camp, now i need to install the mavericks, 1, will i need sited assistance to do so? 2, what about my booot camp, will it be affected?? 3, if you please, i need a tutorial or something on hhow to install

Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a boot camp, now i need to install the mavericks, 1, will i need sited assistance to do so? 2, what about my booot camp, will it be affected?? 3, if you please, i need a tutorial or something on hhow to install

Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a boot camp, now i need to install the mavericks, 1, will i need sited assistance to do so? 2, what about my booot camp, will it be affected?? 3, if you please, i need a tutorial or something on hhow to install

Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a boot camp, now i need to install the mavericks, 1, will i need sited assistance to do so? 2, what about my booot camp, will it be affected?? 3, if you please, i need a tutorial or something on hhow to install

Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread ramy moustafa
Hi all: i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a boot camp, now i need to install the mavericks, 1, will i need sited assistance to do so? 2, what about my booot camp, will it be affected?? 3, if you please, i need a tutorial or something on hhow to install

Re: Maverix and Terminal?

2013-10-23 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
Good Day: The terminal works as it always has in Mavericks. You need to make sure that you are interacting with the text where the contents of the terminal is, but I have no problem reviewing the screen if that condition is met. HTH: Henry Education never ends. It is a series of lessons

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
How then do you delete them? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:42 AM, BBS wrote: > No Ray, I would suggest deleting them before you inst

EverNote is EverBroke

2013-10-23 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, Has anyone been able to successfully delete a note with the latest update to EverNote? Additionally, has anyone been able to successfully move a note from one folder to another with the latest update to EverNote? Finally, what are the ways in which users are incorporating EverNot

Re: Apps Opening Very Slowly in mavericks; Anyone Else Experience This?

2013-10-23 Thread May and Noah
Yes, I noticed this as well and I have a macbook aire 2013. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:53 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > hi, all, > > I’m using an upgrade from Mountain lion on a late 2009 Mac Mini with 4GB ram. > The specs indicate that i should be ok to use t

Re: Apps Opening Very Slowly in mavericks; Anyone Else Experience This?

2013-10-23 Thread Richard Ring
I have the same issue with my Macbook Pro from 2011 with 8 gigs of ram, and a dual core I7 processor. You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Oct 23, 2013, at 6:19 AM, May and Noah wrote: > Yes, I noticed

Re: Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. Email me off list and I can help you. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-23, at 6:18 AM, ramy moustafa wrote: > Hi all: > i have my macc mini with mountain lion installed, and i have windows 64 as a >

Re: Upgrading to Mavericks, help please for a new user

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, No it won’t affect your bootcamp partition, and no, you don’t need sighted help. Go to the Mac app store and the first item in the html area is OS X Mavericks. press that and then press the download button. After that, just follow the prompts. When your computer restarts, wait about 10

Re: delting files in mavericks?

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, No. I just thought you might have being to delete something from your dock. Yeah. pressing command delete still removes apps to the trash from me. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 23, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Caitt Furness wrote:

Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Mary Otten
Hi all, I saw a comment on the Apple viz. sight indicating that you can no longer use command left arrow to return to the previous page and Safari on Mavericks. Is this true? If so, how do you go back to the previous page? It seems rather silly for Apple to of taken this easy method away. Sen

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
Ok, I finally got vo j to work, but for some reason, I’m having to hit it twice for it work. anyone know the reason for this? thanks, Caitlyn On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > I don’t like to hear read or unread status, because it just slows things > down. Similarly, openin

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
I never knew you could go back with CMD left arrow. I always used CMD left bracket. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-23, at 9:02 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi all, > I saw a comment on the Apple viz. sight

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Yep, you can upgrade independently (yay Apple!) Just go to the App Store, find and download Maverix, and follow the instructions. The download is over 5gb, so have a solid internet connection and some time to kill. Your Bootcamp should not be affected at all, though it is always, always, always

Re: Maverix and Terminal?

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I'll pass that along. On Oct 23, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Henry D. Hollithron wrote: > Good Day: > > The terminal works as it always has in Mavericks. You need to make sure > that you are interacting with the text where the contents of the terminal is, > but I have no problem reviewing

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Mary, command left bracket has always been the actual documented command to go back in Safari. If your still running Mountain lion, look in the history menu and you will see that command left bracket is indeed the default command. Backspace and command left arrow I think were just convenie

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I also keep a copy of the installation file around. After the OS is finished downloading, you will have an app in your app folder called something like Install OS X Mavericks. I usually take this and save it on an external drive. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple

I Pad Air.

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
So what did people think of the I Pad Air? Would people buy it if they had the money? Do you all think this will change the Tabllet competition? I'm just curious as to people's thoughts. Kawal. Sent from my I phone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi there, This is not necessarily a complaint, but, has anybody noticed that now, when you are sitting on the main drive volume, Voice Over no longer says “selected”? For example, with mine, when ever I land on the Macintosh volume, I’d here “Macintosh Volume selected”: but now, I just hear t

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Also, I noticed that when moving through messages in mail, I get the status as to whether a message is read or unread last of all. I’d like to get that first of all. Any way to do that? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constan

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Mary Otten
Since I came over from Windows, command left Earrow was an easy keystroke. It's position is like alllt left arrow in windows. Left bracket is just not something I type very much. I also just tried cmd left bracket on Mountain lion, and it didn't work. Go figure. Mary Sent from my iPhone On O

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Have you looked in the View tab of Mail's preferences? I am still waiting for my 10.9 download to finish, so I can't confirm anything yet. Also, just how big a deal is the slow app opening, and does it happen with VO off? Are there any other major bugs I need to know about? Thanks. On Oct 23, 20

Re: Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-23 Thread Mike Arrigo
Doing a clean install erases the hard drive and installs the operating system from scratch. After that, you can restore your applications and data, though I prefer to install them manually. It takes longer but that way everything has a fresh start in the new version. Of course, any content, suc

bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi, OK, I keep on hearing this thing with the blurry and no faces stuff, in mail, in lists of files, etc.. what is it, and more importantly for my sanity, how do I get rid of it? thanks! Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Mike Arrigo
A few things here. You might try changing to classic view instead of conversation view, I think that's a bit easier. Second, the fastest way to move through your messages is to interact with the messages table and place your voice over cursor on the subject column, at that point, you can just a

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
um, lol, ok! So, there’s no way to turn that off, then? that’s neat in a sort of annoying way, I have to admit thanks for explaining it for me, though. If I can’t turn it off, guess I’ll just have to learn to tune it out and be happy with it for the time being. Cait On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:55

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Mike Arrigo
There is a setting in voice over where you can disable the announcement of column headers, this should turn off the reading of the title of each column. Original message: Thanks very much for that Alex. I have never used Classic View before today, but you’re right, enabling it has allowed me t

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
The only way to turn that off it seems is to disable help tags. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-23, at 9:57 AM, Cait and Maggie wrote: > um, lol, ok! So, there’s no way to turn that off, then? > > that

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
Ah, Ok. thanks. Well, I’ll definitely learn to live with it, then, because help tags are definitely worthwhile! Cait On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > The only way to turn that off it seems is to disable help tags. > Matt Dierckens > matt.dierck...@gmail.com > Assistive Te

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Reminder: vo-shift-h reads help tags. So, you could always disable the auto-speaking of help tags, then just hit that keystroke, or set up a commander, when you need the tag spoken. That's what I do, and I only occasionally have to use the keystroke, mostly in new apps I don't know yet. On Oct 2

Re: delting files in mavericks?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
I didn’t think so, either. I finally got it fixed by repairing disk permissions and running onyx. I actually had to go and repair my start up disk too, so possibly something was just really messed up all over. stuff seems to be mostly working now, though. some small weirdnesses, but there alwa

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Wrong, your bootcamp part may in deed be impacted. Upgrading mac OS will cause bootcamp and it's associated windows drivers to be updated. If this happens, windows may decide you have installed on a new computer and deactivate itself. This happens to my clients occasionally. Use magical jell

Re: Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but wasn't sure. Mostly I wondered about apps, because I really hate having to reset all my preferences and settings. Still, if something goes crazy, it will be my only option I guess. Anyway, I'll try a regular install first since I did that with 10

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. That's voiceover describing images Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-23, at 9:49 AM, Cait and Maggie wrote: > Hi, > OK, I keep on hearing this thing with the blurry and no faces stuff, in mail, > in l

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Nothing in the view preferences window that seems to help with this. I’d say that when I press the return key on Mail, it takes about five or so seconds to open, although, this last time, it was only I think about three seconds or so. I did a disk permitions repair just in case that smoothed th

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
You are right, of course, my apologies! Yet another reason to prefer VM solution, though similar problems, particularly where Jaws is concerned, can still happen there as well. Using NVDA solves that, though - NVDA is a free screen reader with no activations or licenses to worry about. On Oct 2

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Mary Otten
I have never heard of this magical jellybean key finder. Eric, could you give a little bit more information? I do have a boot camp partition, and I would certainly not like to lose it. Thanks. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:16 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Wrong, your bootcamp

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread erik burggraaf
I agree. The idea of buying a mac and then throwing jaws at it makes me cringe. I honestly think nvda is the best thing going right now for consumer level windows use and even in some corporate situations it performs very well. There's really less and less reason all the time to be using a ja

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
And the best reason for going to the Mac is free operating system! Sent from my I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 03:23 pm, erik burggraaf wrote: > > I agree. The idea of buying a mac and then throwing jaws at it makes me > cringe. I honestly think nvda is the best thing going right now for consu

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-23 Thread Laura ann Grymes
from what I heard on the event broacast and read on line you can directly upgrade from each OS. so yes can upgrade from Lion. Laura Ann On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Kjsc Radio wrote: > You will be able to upgrade from mountain lion. I'm doing my installation > right now. > > Sent from my iPh

What's Going On With My Emails

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
Ok, what’s going on with my emails. I made sure that my subject line had the right subject to a thread I’m replying to, but ever since upgrading to Mavericks, it’s sending irrelevant messages to threads that aren’t talking about the topic I’m replying to. I’m wondering then if I should just have

OT, keyfinder

2013-10-23 Thread erik burggraaf
For any one wishing to back up their microsoft product information including windows and office product keys, Here is an installer for magical jellybean keyfinder. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1291668/KeyFinderInstaller.exe Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Ebony Consulting will close it'

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I use Rumola to solve CAPTCHAs. It's fantastic. On 23/10/2013, at 11:00 AM, Rob wrote: Dear List, How do you solve captures on a mac? On my PC I use Firefox and Webvisum. I have not received my ordered macbook yet, but I wanted to know the answer. I also would like to know if any of you are us

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Please tell me Nick where to get that from? Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 03:36 pm, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > I use Rumola to solve CAPTCHAs. It's fantastic. > > On 23/10/2013, at 11:00 AM, Rob wrote: > > Dear List, > How do you solve captures > on a mac? > On my PC

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Richard Ring
If anyone gets around to trying iBooks, I would be quite interested in what you discover. As for me, my books show up in the library window, but they can not be opened, not with command o, not from the file menu, and not with VO space. If anyone has a different experience, I would love to hear a

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You can get Rumola from: http://skipinput.com It's a Safari extension. It fills in CAPTCHAs automatically for you. There's a trial version and then I think it's something ridiculously cheap like 99 cents for 99 solutions. I've never had to top up since installing it so now I can't remember. :) B

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
Eric, can this also happen on a VM of Windows? As I’ve stated before, after upgrading to Mavericks, I went on to Windows, and I can’t get an internet connection. Shawn Sent From My White Mac Book On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:30 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: -- You received this message

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
For those of you unsure how you want to upgrade, I recommend the book Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks (available on iBooks or Kindle) or MacWorld has a number of great articles which you can Google for free. Best, Nic On 24/10/2013, at 1:29 AM, Laura ann Grymes wrote: from what I heard

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

2013-10-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks Nick. Will write to you off list. Sent from my I phone > On 23 Oct 2013, at 03:49 pm, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > You can get Rumola from: > http://skipinput.com > It's a Safari extension. It fills in CAPTCHAs automatically for you. There's > a trial version and then I think it's som

Re: Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I recommend just doing the standard backup unless you are experiencing problems with your system as it is. Either way, however, I recommend you create a backup duplicate of your entire drive before upgrading. This way if anything goes wrong, or you decide you hate Mavericks, you can restore to y

splitting MP3 files

2013-10-23 Thread Shannon Dyer
Hi, all. I'm wondering what, if anything, people use to split large mp3 files into smaller ones. I know there are several programs that work with windows, but I have no idea what will work with the Mac. I have a MacBook running mountain lion. Thanks for any assistance. Shannon -- You receiv

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Return key will open books. Then you interact with scroll area, then with html content. You may get more than one html area with an epub book, and I’m not sure how that translates to the layout of a book. I sometimes get more than one html area, and each one is a chapter. The buttons have no te

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Are you sure you're pressing the correct left bracket key – it's the one to the right of the letter p. On 24/10/2013, at 12:44 AM, Mary Otten wrote: Since I came over from Windows, command left Earrow was an easy keystroke. It's position is like alllt left arrow in windows. Left bracket is jus

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
This works on my Mac Mini running Mavericks. I had a little bit of a panic earlier when I tried command-left-bracket and it didn’t work, then realized I was on my home page and hadn’t opened any other web pages in that session. doh. :) HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Oct 23

Re: I Pad Air.

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I think the slimmer lighter design sounds awesome, but I'm just disappointed they didn't include Touch ID. I'm keen to get an iPad soon, but can't now decide which one I want. I think I'll have to play with them all in the Apple Store once they're out to see which one feels best. If the iPad Air

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, or you can manually get help tags by pressing VO shift H on the item. If you don’t mind doing this, you can set help tags to notification instead of turning it off completely. So instead of bright, blurry, etc, it will say Maverick image: there is a help tag for this, for example. hth R

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Well, theoretically it could, but this is more likely an issue with either a driver or if you are virtualizing with fusion, a bad network setting. You could download the latest bootcamp drivers for mavericks and install them. Change your vmware fusion network setting to bridged mode and config

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

2013-10-23 Thread Mary Otten
Yes, I am using the key just to the right of the P. I did try it again, and it worked. So I guess it was just a fluke. Knows? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Are you sure you're pressing the correct left bracket key – it's the one to > the rig

Re: mavericks and voices

2013-10-23 Thread Traci Duncan
Hit VO-f8, in the utilities table go to speech. Outside of the table arrow over to your default voice, the pop-up will say the default voice’s name, go to the bottom inside the pop-up, which says customize. Hit that, which will bring you to all the voice options. I’m enjoying Oliver, the new

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, Yes. When I bring up the table of contents with command T, I bring up the item chooser with VO I, and find the chapter I want that way. When you do it straight from the table, it selects the first thing you land on. I personally fin using the item chooser easier than turning off curso

Number of Messages in mail Conversation as the first column?

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’m using Mail in Mavericks. I’m probably in the minority, but I prefer to have the number of messages in a conversation as the first column. this way, I don’t delete 50 messages when I think I’m deleting 1. How can i rearrange the columns so it’s the first one instead of the last? Th

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Traci Duncan
I wish in modern view we could move around the columns. I too miss the number conversation at the beginning, I relied on that pretty heavily. Sheesh, if I saw a conversation was over 20, sometimes I skipped it. In classic layout I don’t know how to get VO to announce the number inside the con

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, fantastic. Doh. thanks, Ricardo. that *is much easier. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello, > > Yes. When I bring up the table of contents with command T, I bring up the > item chooser with VO I, and find the

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Actually those preferences are the first thing I played with. I’ve found no way to silence the time every message was received as I arrow through the message list. If you ahve found a way it would be great to get more info. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials an

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Actually you can use columns is standard view. You just interact with a message, move to a column, and then when you press the up and down arrows, only that column is read. HtH, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:

Re: mavericks and voices

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I thought there was a new American male voice, you know, the new male voice for Siri? Anybody know what that one is or if it’s available yet? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac an

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That’s funny, I got a book to open using Command+o. Many buttons are unlabeled, but, there are help tags on some of them. However, manually labeling buttons appears not to stick consistantly in Ibooks. To get from chapter to chapter inside a book, press the button to show the table of conten

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, didn’t think of that. Wow! Seems to me like they kind of dropped the ball on this one ey? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:35 AM,

Re: Number of Messages in mail Conversation as the first column?

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
I’m right there with you! I also hate that the unread status is moved, since that and the message count are two very important things for me. I have turned on mail preview so I can hear the first part of a message without opening it, so now I have to wait through the sender, subject, preview, an

Re: splitting MP3 files

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Audacity will handle it. It is free, open-source, pretty accessible, and has a mailing list for help and questions. I believe the link is http://audacity.sourceforge.net but I could be wrong. On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Shannon Dyer wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm wondering what, if anything, peop

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Richard Ring
My problem is, when I interact with the scroll area, I see a book title, but I can’t open the book no matter what I do. Does this mean that my books haven’t been properly sinked with iCloud? I’m becoming a bit unsure as to how to proceed! You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off!

KeyRemap4Macbook is broken for me

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I use KeyRemap4Macbook to use my caps lock as a set of vo keys, but in 10.9 that functionality seems to be broken. Is it just me? Thanks. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "M

Re: my own Mavricks observations

2013-10-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You want I think to look for the table scrole area. Then, you want to select a book just by using the arrows and nothing else. To open a book CMD+O should do the trick. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted R

Re: Number of Messages in mail Conversation as the first column?

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Ok, when I go through the sort options, both in the menu and in the popup at the message table, there’s a “number” option that’s dimmed. I wonder if there’s a way to make it available. Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Alex Hall wr

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread BBS
Hmmm. I don’t really want to mess around with Bootcamp. I guess an alternate solution would be to reinstall XP on this thing which is gonna be a pain in the A** to do. I hope it’s not a VMWare problem because, like I said before, a friend told me that if I wanted Fusion 6, more ram is needed to

Re: bright, blurry, no faces?

2013-10-23 Thread Cait and Maggie
Oh, thanks, Ricardo! I’ll try this, I might like that better.. won’t know until I try that. thanks! Caitlyn On Oct 23, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > or you can manually get help tags by pressing VO shift H on the item. If you > don’t mind doing this, you can set help ta

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Shawn, I think you're getting confused between bootcamp and the bootcamp drivers. They're basically two sides of the same coin. You don't need a bootcamp partition to install the bootcamp drivers. In fact, although fusion provides drivers that are adequate for practical purposes, you shou

RE: OT, keyfinder

2013-10-23 Thread wayne17a
Hello eric thanks this little app is very handy so again thanks Wayne c From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of erik burggraaf Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: OT, keyfin

Re: Number of Messages in mail Conversation as the first column?

2013-10-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
I’m setting those two columns as hotspots, and they work fairly well, though not entirely consistent. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Ok, when I go through the sort options, both in the menu and in the popup at > the message tab

Re: mavericks and voices

2013-10-23 Thread Traci Duncan
The only American male voices I know of are Alex & Tom. There are 3 new American female voices, though to me, they just sound like variations of Samantha. Lol! Traci On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > I thought there was a new American male voice, you know, the new male voic

Re: KeyRemap4Macbook is broken for me

2013-10-23 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Alex, this is working fine for me. Not sure what to suggest, but just wanted you to know it isn’t a universal problem. It’s companion is also working fine in JAWS in Fusion. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 24/10/2013, at

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