Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Nic, I've noticed this behaviour for some time, certainly in Maverick, and I think it started happening after I'd upgraded to Maverick. I would delete a character but VO announces a different character from the one I've just deleted. I thought it was curious but did not follow it up with A

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, Have you tried going back to the document from the Find window and putting in a Return character then copying that to the clipboard and pasting it into the Replace field? I've noticed that some of the new line characters coming from a different source don't seem to be recognised cor

Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Nic, I hadn't paid attention to this before, but you're right. It certainly happens in Pages, but not in Mail. Cheers, Anne On 4 May 2014, at 04:35, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Hi list, > > I've noticed a bug which I think has crept in with Mavericks. If I navigate > by word with opti

remote another mac with teamviewer

2014-05-04 Thread Jørgen Skov Nielsen
Hello All Is it possible to remote another mac with teamviewer. I want to remote my mothers mac, but is this possible with teamviewer. Thanks in advance Best regards Jørgen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from th

Re: A program for clipboard.

2014-05-04 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Tracy. Ok thank you and it is free too. great I will go with that. Best regards Annie. Den 04/05/2014 kl. 04.19 skrev Traci Duncan : > I recommend: > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudclip-manager/id563362017?mt=12 > > > It sits inside your menu extras bar. You access this via VO-MM.

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I've gone for the 11 inch myself. I maxed everything out on it and find it is plenty good enough for me. If you don't need a built in SD slot, it has everything the 13 inch does, and easy enough to get any adaptors you need for connections it doesn't have, such as Ethanet if you want that.

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello, I will ditto what David said. The way I handle a DVD/CD ROM drive is using an external one. There are plenty out there that shouldn't cost more than $20. The one I have is from my PC netbook days that didn't have an internal DVD drive. Just make sure that the drive is compatible for Macs

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-04 Thread Phil Halton
Yes, I tried inserting two return characters, copying them and inserting them into the find field. the find/replace button remains dimmed and VO doesn't recognize those characters. BTW: I recently installed Nysus Writer Pro demo version and now in the services menu, instead of the option to open

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
Many externals just work, even if they don't say they are compattible, and we are needing such drives less and less often now anyway. On 4 May 2014, at 14:31, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hello, > > I will ditto what David said. The way I handle a DVD/CD ROM drive is using an > external one. There

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi There! so, OK, I feel like a total dweeb now! We found out that the HP printer we had was discontinued. It was the 1505. We couldn't find drivers for it or anything. We went out and got a brother hl 2270 dw and now I have that connected to my mac via USB but would love to get it connected t

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Tell me, is that Brother printer of yours accessible via Voice Over? By which, as you will gather, I mean can one access the conection to Wifi and so forth via the printer preferences window? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The C

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread Tristan
Would the 1.7 GHZ processor in a MacBook Air be enough for a virtual machine though? Or does most of the dependency rely on RAM. I don't have much experience with the whole virtual machine front, so clarification would definitely be welcome. I originally only opted with the MacBook Pro because of t

problem with selecting appropriate text in Text Edit

2014-05-04 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, When I use Option Shift Right or Left arrow to select text I need to copy for a class I seem to be a line or two above what I really want to copy. One of the cursors isn't following properly but I am unable to determine which one it is. Can someone help me out with this? -- Yo

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
It's plenty. My MBA runs faster with a VM than any Windows machine I ever had On 4 May 2014, at 17:31, Tristan wrote: > Would the 1.7 GHZ processor in a MacBook Air be enough for a virtual > machine though? Or does most of the dependency rely on RAM. > I don't have much experience with the whole

Re: good o c r for mac

2014-05-04 Thread Scott Berry
I suggest Abby Fine Reader. If your a student you can get aa discount too. It normally costs $99.95 but if you get the 30% discount you get it for $65.95. I love it. I just bought it a couple days ago and it's already made my life easier. On May 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM, joseph wrote: > hi li

Re: best printer?

2014-05-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Model numbers are tricky. These types of devices turn over a lot and model numbers vary by region. Maybe you should pick two or three that you have access to so you can look at them. Then we can help you research their accessibility. Best, Erik Burggraaf Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-25

Problem with Pages Jumping Around

2014-05-04 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, This is a really strange annoying issue that just started occurring recently in pages. If I am trying to read a multipage document I will use VO down arrow to quickly go through some notes, and instead of going to the next line Pages will jump to the bottom of a document. I know this b

Re: AUdio/MIDI configuration utility, any alternatives?

2014-05-04 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Vic, Great to hear it worked! :) If you ever need pro tools help contact me off list and we'll get er done! Chuck CHUCK REICHEL soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com www.SoundPictureRecording.com 954-742-0019 Isaiah 26 : 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because h

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Well, Ray, I managed to get it connected to my mac without sighted help. I can see everything so far in the print and fax and scanners section of the system prefs. However, I am still trying to figure out how to get it working on my network via my airport extreme. I do have it networked on my ma

Re: problem with selecting appropriate text in Text Edit

2014-05-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I used TextEdit all the time, and I have never had this problem. What I do is I have all the cursors following each other in the voiceover utility, including the mouse cursor. So you want to go to to the voiceover utility and see what cursors are following each other. Gigi Sent from m

Re: iSSH or other ssh app for iPad

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
Ok, this sounds interesting! My question is do you have instructions for building screen and bratillety on the mac? I don't think the stock version of screen supports shared memory which is required for bratillety. ' Chris On May 2, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Oh yes! I can us

Re: how to skip ads on youtube?

2014-05-04 Thread Ezzy Bueno
I, too, would be interested in the ways others use to skip ads on YouTube. It is possible on the iPhone, but have not figured out how to skip the annoying ads on the Mac. On 4/27/14, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > can somebody figure out how to skip ads on youtube, because when i tried to > vi

Re: iSSH or other ssh app for iPad

2014-05-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I really would like to put out an updated version of how to do this but I just don't have time right at the moment; will do it when I can. You have to have screen-4.0.1 and you have to patch it for brltty. In the Patches directory of the brltty source package you will see the needed patches and

strange issue

2014-05-04 Thread May McDonald Homuth
Good day everyone. i have this strange thing going on and I can't figure out how to unbreak it. Whenever I'm on a website that requires me to enter in text like username or address or things like that if I go back to look over what I put in with the up and down arrows it is reading character by

Re: strange issue

2014-05-04 Thread Alex Hall
Do you have quick nav on? It sounds like you do, and are set to characters. Hit the left and right arrows together to turn it off. On May 4, 2014, at 6:53 PM, May McDonald Homuth wrote: > Good day everyone. > > i have this strange thing going on and I can't figure out how to unbreak it. > > Wh

Re: strange issue

2014-05-04 Thread May McDonald Homuth
Hmm, yes it is off, but didn't fix the issue. Weird! May, RIP Prince Noah, May 31, 2009 to April 1, 2014 www.canadianlynx.ca On May 4, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Do you have quick nav on? It sounds like you do, and are set to characters. > Hit the left and right arrows together to

Re: Problem with Pages Jumping Around

2014-05-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Brian, Have you changed any of your VO settings recently? I find that everything works better when my mouse pointer ignores the other cursors. Also, have you got Quick Nav on? After that, my next suggestion is to repair permissions. For the record, I'm having no such problem with Pages.

Re: strange issue

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Whenever you get weird things like this, it's always worth quitting and restarting VoiceOver. Also, have you checked if you have any system dialogs? Do vo-f1 twice quickly, (written as VO-f1-f1) and if you have any system dialogs or notifications, right arrow into them, select them and act

Re: problem with selecting appropriate text in Text Edit

2014-05-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'd also recommend making sure you interact with the text area and check that your cursors are following each other properly by navigating with VO and arrow keys. It's possible to navigate in TextEdit just using the arrow keys, but sometimes this means the VoiceOver cursor gets left behind somew

Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, all, I'll report it to Apple Accessibility. and Alex, if this still exists in the beta it would be great if you could report it as well. Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Changing mp3 tags

2014-05-04 Thread Steve Holmes
I like to use a program called id3 edit. I don’t remember the original source right off top of my head; they aren’t in the app store. I use that all the time before placing tracks into iTunes. that way iTunes can store them in their proper places in the library. On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:05 PM, 'Ch

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
RE the services issue I think you might find the TextEdit still there if you look carefully but otherwise I'd suggest it depends on what your default app for opening rtf files is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscrib

Tap Forms nad e-Mails for groups

2014-05-04 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Folks, if I have e-mail addresses in several entries in Tap Forms, is it possible to send some or all of them an e-mail or is it just possible to send an e-mail using the button in one entry. If I can send one e-mail to several entries could you please explain how it works? I want to build u