Re: New to the the Mac, and the dictation program.

2014-01-08 Thread April Brown
Hi Daniel, I understand totally. Speaking and listening are exhausting to me. Which is one reason VoiceOver will be so difficult to learn. My State Representative thinks I'd do good for call center from home.Yeah. I comprehend about 1 word out of 10 from most people. And lately

Re: Using Dragon Experience On The PC Side

2014-01-08 Thread April Brown
Hi Eileen, I had version 11 when it first came out. The last try - we took the computer back to the store and had them install it. (Now remember, I've reformatted hard drives, and set up many a computer). After training it the recommended nine hours. It worked about an hour. Several

Does Dictation have a page limit in Pages for working?

2014-01-08 Thread April Brown
Although I my have to limit my use of Dictation to non-novels, I still need to know if Dictation has a page limit. It works well in social media, email, and Page documents under 5 pages. If the Pages document is more than twenty pages long, I only get the color wheel, and it crashes and won't

Re: Does Dictation have a page limit in Pages for working?

2014-01-08 Thread Jessica D
I have never done a dictation that long. Are you using inhanced dictation? If not, i recommend it or you can only dictate 30 seconds at one time. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2014, at 8:07 AM, April Brown wrote: > > Although I my have to limit my use of Dictation to non-novels, I still need

Re: Does Dictation have a page limit in Pages for working?

2014-01-08 Thread April Brown
Hi Jessica, Yes, I am using Enhanced Dictation. If I open a 100 page document, about 1/3 of novel length, it only crashes, and won't record a single word., On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:45:10 AM UTC-5, Jessica D wrote: > > I have never done a dictation that long. Are you using inhanced

Re: VO Choppy in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I have 4gb or RAM and a hard drive. I’m am not experiencing the stuttering problem. I wonder what is your voice speed? Mine is at 40 and I’m using Alex, the only voice i can understand. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual B

Re: New to the the Mac, and the dictation program.

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Hawkins
April, Hmm since you are having problems with typing with your hands. Have you looked to I think called sticky keys? Just an idea and I never looked into it. Have you looked into special keyboards. Also, have you tried or used a Perkins keys for braille? Just some ideas. But if you have already

Re: Does Dictation have a page limit in Pages for working?

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Hawkins
April, I don’t think there is a limit. But there could be a possibly that it depends on your hardware. If you have more RAM and have SSD it would be more reliable and quicker for your Mac to keep up. So as to elimate the buffering done to translate to text. Just an idea, and hope someone more

Re: VO Choppy in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, While I agree with Terje that the SSD HD does amazing things for your computer performance, I only have a spinning HD in my MBP and don’t experience the choppiness with VO. I don’t experience it with my 2009 iMac running OS Server either, which has a spinning HD as well. In both cases, my

Re: editing a pdf

2014-01-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey again Paul I have, as I said, PDF Pen Pro on my computer, and have had for some time. I just kept letting it update itself. I did some experimentation with the IRS web site, and here's what I think I have figured out, and I think we have it at least as good as blind Windows users. PDF Pen

IMud for IOS is ready for beta testing

2014-01-08 Thread Tyler Thompson
Hello, for those if you interested I've got iMud working on the iPhone. (IPad version coming very soon). If you're interested in beta testing the accessible mud client please send me your device ID in a private email and we will get you set up Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message

Re: IMud for IOS is ready for beta testing

2014-01-08 Thread Stacey Robinson
Tyler, What is iMud? I might be interested. Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Tyler Thompson wrote: > Hello, for those if you interested I've got iMud working on the iPhone. (IPad > version coming very soon). > > If you're interested in beta testing the ac

Re: Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Christopher Edwards
David, Thank you for this and sorry for the delayed reply. When I went back to the Apple store your instructions did not work and it was the same machine I had used previously. However, swapping machines produced the cresults you described. At first I found it slightly confusing but when it was

Re: VO Choppy in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Brian Fischler
When I was experiencing the choppiness with Alex and Eve it was 60%. I am not having the choppiness issue with Samantha at 60%. Thanks for letting me know that you are not having the problem with only 4GB of RAM as that is what I have also. On Jan 8, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Hawkins wrote: >

Re: Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Jessica D
I cannot figure out how to add appointments. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 26, 2013, at 5:55 PM, David Taylor wrote: > > Hi, simply interact with the grid and use vo-left or right to move by day, > and vo-up or down to move by week, remembering your command-left and > command-right to move by

Problem with Voices when setting an Activity in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Is anyone else having a problem when setting a different voice for an activity in Mavericks? For some reason my activity works perfectly with all of my settings but doesn’t seem to accept any of the new voices in Mavericks for the activity. I can select the new voice in the pop up wind

Re: Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jessica, To add an event, press Cmd-n then type in the name of the event, its date and time, and any other relevant information, then press Return. You can then edit the event. To change the date and time, click the date and time link. When everything is correct, press Return. Cheers, A

Mini sadly not running

2014-01-08 Thread Regina Alvarado
Is there a reliable way to know if you are at the space to put in the password on the Mini? Many things could be wrong I know, but my Mini is not giving a signal when to put password in. I have had to force a shutdown twice after trying to add my password. Afraid it will crash so have not tried

Re: Problem with Voices when setting an Activity in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Brian, I get some confusion with voices sometimes. I choose Susan for my web browsing, and sometimes she doesn’t go away when I go back to something else where I have a different voice set. Restarting VO usually fixes this. I haven’t had your problem though of not getting the new voice to wor

Re: Problem with Voices when setting an Activity in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Lisette, I should have my head checked, as a simple VO F5 reset fixed the problem, thanks for suggesting. Love all the different voice choices in Mavericks. On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi Brian, > I get some confusion with voices sometimes. I choose Susan for my

Inserting Formulas in Numbers Under Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Christopher Edwards
Hello, I was trying out Numbers under Mavericks in the Apple store the other day. I know you can type a formula into a cell but if you want to check the parameters or look for the right formula I know you can select the formula you want from a list. However, I could not find out how to do this w

kindle

2014-01-08 Thread May and Noah
Good afternoon. Does anyone know of kindle works well with voice over? There was a last minute change with a text book of mine for class and the only Etext I can find is for kindle. Thanks for any help. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message because you are subsc

iOS Stock Twitter App

2014-01-08 Thread Timothy Hornik
Greetings Everyone, Anyone else noticing swiping issues with the latest update to the Twitter stock iOS app on an iPhone? Seems that explore by touch works great, but that is about it. Thank you for your assistance, Timothy Hornik timothy.hor...@gmail.com M: (785) 330-3503 LinkedIn Profile: h

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
It doesn’t work on the Mac, but it does on the IThings. HtH, Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:57 PM, May and Noah wrote: > Good afternoon. > > Does anyone know of kindle works well with voice

Doing a search or find in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Finding the updated numbers in Mavericks amazingly better. The only thing I think I haven’t found is how to jump to a specific cell in Numbers. I have tried doing a Find with command F and VO F, but not sure how to actually jump to the cell once it is found, and haven’t been able to fi

ibooks and braille.

2014-01-08 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. I have missed something here I am afraid. When I am trying to read an ibook with braille on the mac, I often get stock, and I get the same line again and again. I recall that there need to be changed some settings to get braille to work correctly in ibooks on the mac, but I can not fig

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Does it work on the Mac now? Hopefully my previous info is outdated? :) I’ve tried reading with Cloud Reader and VO seems to behave strangely. Previously, on the Mac, VO hasn’t recognized the text in the Kindle app itself. Admittedly, I haven’t tried it in the last few months. Teresa Slow dow

Re: Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Jessica, I just had a 1:1 session at the Apple Store last Sunday on this very topic. However, I am using Mountain Lion, but I would think that the concepts would be the same as in Mavericks. this is what I do and thanks to David he has answered one of my problems that occurred last weekend

Re: Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

2014-01-08 Thread Jessica D
Thanks, i will try it. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > > Hi Jessica, > I just had a 1:1 session at the Apple Store last Sunday on this very topic. > However, I am using Mountain Lion, but I would think that the concepts would > be the same as in Mave

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread Jessica D
How do you get kindle for mac? I thought it did not exist for mac. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:57 PM, May and Noah wrote: > > Good afternoon. > > Does anyone know of kindle works well with voice over? > > There was a last minute change with a text book of mine for class and the

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread May and Noah
There is a mac version, but it so doesn’t work with voice over. So I found out. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Jessica D wrote: > How do you get kindle for mac? I thought it did not exist for mac. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:57 PM, M

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread May and Noah
Whoops, meant to say this as well. Darn hitting send too soon. kindle is in the mac app store. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Jessica D wrote: > How do you get kindle for mac? I thought it did not exist for mac. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 8, 201

Background Sounds Getting Softer

2014-01-08 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, I’m noticing on the new OS X that when Voiceover speaks, all the other sounds go into the background. This is quite annoying. Is there a setting to change this? Brandon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe

Re: Background Sounds Getting Softer

2014-01-08 Thread Brett C.
This is called audio ducking. You can change the setting by going to your VO utility, select sound, and uncheck audio ducking. Brett C. On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: > Hello, > > I’m noticing on the new OS X that when Voiceover speaks, all the other sounds > go into th

Re: Background Sounds Getting Softer

2014-01-08 Thread don bishop
wish there was a similar setting in ios7 for the iphone. Don - Original Message - From: Brett C. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:44 pm Subject: Re: Background Sounds Getting Softer > > > This is called audio ducking. You can change the setting b

Renaming A File in ML

2014-01-08 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello List, I have a file that has one extension that I want to change to another file format. How is this done in Mountain Lion? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Eileen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this

rhapsody help!

2014-01-08 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I needs some tips on navigating the rhapsody site. In particular: 1. How do I use the player? 2. How do I look at my music library, and 3. How do I add albums/songs to the library? The iPhone app works reasonably well, and I was hoping that the mac would provide similar functionality. Th

Re: IMud for IOS is ready for beta testing

2014-01-08 Thread Tyler
iMud is an accessible MUD client for OSX and IOS (MUDs being text based games) On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 9:54:58 AM UTC-7, Stacey Robinson wrote: > > Tyler, > What is iMud? > I might be interested. > > Stacey Robinson > stac...@bellsouth.net > > > > On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Tyler Th

Re: Which program can we use instead of dvdremaster pro.

2014-01-08 Thread Esther
Hi Annie and Others, As Chris suggested, Ripit by the Little App Factory is supposed to work in Mavericks. Also, As it happens, the same day I read your post, I got an email about a MacHeist discounted app bundle that let's you purchase 9 apps for $19.99, including Mac DVDRipper Pro. The othe

Re: Renaming A File in ML

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Ring
Renaming a file isIn a file list in Finder just press enter on the file, erase the old name and type in a new one, but that would not change the format, only the name. If you want to change the format of a file, how you would accomplish this depends on the type of file you are dealing with. Yo

Re: IMud for IOS is ready for beta testing

2014-01-08 Thread Matthew Elliff
I might be interested, but where is the device ID found? do you mean the model number or the serial number? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Tyler wrote: > > iMud is an accessible MUD client for OSX and IOS (MUDs being text based games) > >> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 9:54

PDF Pen

2014-01-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Below is information I received from the developers of PDF Pen. It's very good. We can't use the program for everything that it will do, but it's a definite improvement from before. Greg Scown JAN 08, 2014 | 01:45PM PST Hi Eugenia, We did do past work to make fields accessible. I'm

IBooks

2014-01-08 Thread May and Noah
OMG, well I was mistaken. My text book is on Ibooks and not kindle. So, now to the drawing board for Ibooks. Thanks again to all those that helped with my kindle question. Now any word on how to use Ibooks? *smiles* I do have the text book now and I’ve at least figured out how to open the book

Re: rhapsody help!

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
The website is somewhat trickier than the IOS app. You can go to the “my music link” then go to “library” from there. If you tab to the title of a track or album, then shift-tab, you’ll reach “options”. For whatever reason, you can’t forward tab to this link. Press VO-space on “options” and then

Re: Mini sadly not running

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Hello, I for one never used the password login part. But maybe a few advice that can help you on the reliability. If you get a headphone and if needed a splitter, you can just plug the headphone or earbud in and hear what is being said on the Mac. That can elimate the problems if tv hav a prob

downloading files from sendspace

2014-01-08 Thread Andrew Head
Hi all, I downloaded an audio file someone had shared on sendspace. It’s an mp3 file, but when it was downloaded, the mac saw it as a safari file and not as an mp3 file. I tried opening it, but when I extracted the mp3 file, it was only 15 kb instead of 129 mb. In the future, how do I get files