Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Sorry Jonnathan I'm feemale! > On 13 May 2014, at 12:12 am, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi Gigi and all, I'd like to try and set some expectations regarding what > customers should expect from what companies when it comes to Braille displays. > Kawl wrote to me a few days ago, and once we got pas

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
That's not true, I updated my display without any problems on windows though. I agree with Annie, if we could increase the firmness without connecting it to windows then it would be great! Kawal. > On 13 May 2014, at 02:49 am, Marianne Denning wrote: > > It is necessary to send the Focus prod

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
At the moment my display does not work on the Mac via blue tooth and my i Mac is a 2012 model late! That's OK about my gender Jonnathan! I love this display so much that got another for work through the Government! > On 13 May 2014, at 02:59 am, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi Gigi. I am replying

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Some people don't have Facebook or Twitter as yet so Can you make announcements in your FS Cast Jonnathan? Big please! Kawal. P.s. I have no idea of how to make a facebook account thus I don't have one! > On 13 May 2014, at 03:22 am, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi Teresa, what you are talking a

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jonathan When I say horrible, I guess I need to be more specific. It has to do with writing on the display with the keyboard. The timing of the keys is off somehowh if you write the letter T, for example, dots to three maybe recognized first and then dots 45 may be recognized later. . If that

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
I started using iCloud for this list so that I could take messages off real fast of all my devices. I don't think I could've managed this list if I had not put it on to iCloud. Before I did that, I was deleting everything twice. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2014, at 12:39 AM,

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Why does the 14 not connect to a Mac? I'm getting one of those in July hopefully to use with my i phone because I find carrying the 40 around is a bit too big so will use this Braille display with the Mac hopefully via blue tooth if the issues are fixed as I wrote to apple accessibility at acc..

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica
No, the correct email address is: accessibil...@apple.com or you may call them at 8772043930 Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Why does the 14 not connect to a Mac? I'm getting one of those in July > hopefully to use with my i phone because I find c

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks. > On 13 May 2014, at 12:41 pm, Jessica wrote: > > No, the correct email address is: accessibil...@apple.com or you may call > them at 8772043930 > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 13, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >> >> Why does the 14 not connect to a Mac? I'm getting o

download a linked file from an email?

2014-05-13 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Often, I'm emailed audio file links. I can open the links, but Safari's web player takes over. Bringing up the context menu on the link offers no way to download the audio file, and once it opens in Safari, I can think of no way to download it. What am I missing, or is this not possible?

Disregard question about downloading files from emailed links

2014-05-13 Thread Alex Hall
Never mind. :) I never thought to try the context menu on the Safari player itself. I just did, and lowe and behold a "download video" option which downloads the file being played. Problem solved. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are

Re: download a linked file from an email?

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Try option-enter. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 13/05/2014 14:34, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, Often, I'm emailed audio file links. I can open the links, but Safari's web player takes over. Bringing up the context menu on the link offers no way

Re: rules not working

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica
Can you teach gmail where to put messages? I had a message in my inbox earlier that suppose to go into a filter I made. How can i teach gmail to just put it there? Jessica jldai...@gmail.com On May 12, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Gmail filter > > You need to change gmail on we

Re: remapping VO keys?

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica
How can i enable the numpad feature with this program? I do not think it is working. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com On May 12, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Marsha and others, > > Keyremap4mackbook will remap the mac keyboard in many ways. I have > mine set up with VO as the cap

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Gigi, I'll see if I can reproduce your speed issue, there's certainly an issue with all Braille displays and Brailling too slowly on Apple devices, but I'll try and see if there's anything Focus 14 Blue specific with Brailling too fast. But again, this will be a driver issue. It's not an issu

Reset Password

2014-05-13 Thread Rich Ring
Hello: I would like to use the reset password function that is available in terminal when using the recovery partition. I first restart my Mac book while holding down command r. After giving the system some time, I start Voice Over with command f5, and hear the lovely Fred voice. I go to the men

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
I have the lists I read most often on iCloud, and some others on Gmail. I still use Gmail as a secondary email address. Setting up filters on iCloud is quite tricky if you want them on all your devices, but very solid once it's set up. HtH, Teresa Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com Facebook On M

Re: Reset Password

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Try vo-f1-f1 to bring up the application chooser. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 13/05/2014 16:55, Rich Ring wrote: Hello: I would like to use the reset password function that is available in terminal when using the recovery partition. I fir

working with numbers

2014-05-13 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I did my first real steps with numbers 13 and I have some questions: I was looking after some windows alike navigation options I couldn't find in the hotkey summary: move to the next/ previous cel with contents up/down or left/right, IN ms office , I think you can do this with contr

iTunes Store Question

2014-05-13 Thread Krysti .Power
hi everyone my name is Krysti and i have a question about the iTunes store if i buy something in the iTunes US store can i still download content i bought from the US store in my Canadian account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: iTunes Store Question

2014-05-13 Thread isaac
No You can't. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On May 13, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Krysti .Power wrote: > hi everyone my name is Krysti and i have a question about the iTunes store if > i buy something in the iTunes US store can i still download content i bought > from the US store

Re: iTunes Store Question

2014-05-13 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. No, you would have to sign in with your american apple ID. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On May 13, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Krysti .Power wrote: > hi everyone my name is Krysti and i have a question about the iTunes st

iMessage

2014-05-13 Thread Rowena Portch
I used to hear my new messages in iMessage as they arrived. Now, I don't hear anything. Is there some sort of setting that I may have changed? R o w e n a P o r t c h Author of the Spirian Saga RowenaPortch.com View the Book Trailer for Protected, Spirian Saga Book 1 -- You received this m

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Brent Harding
For the Focus 40 Blue, are there any real differences between 4.89 and the 4.93 mentioned here, or is the later one only for the 14 cell model? Is there a place to download the latest one to get applied? - Original Message - From: Jonathan Mosen To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Pages on iPad

2014-05-13 Thread Rowena Portch
How do you hear spelling errors in Pages on the iPad and how do you correct them? I'm not sure if I'm typing too fast or what, but even when I ask to read the previous paragraph, the spelling errors are not announced. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: iMessage

2014-05-13 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It's likely something to do with Notification Centre. You could have "Do Not Disturb" activated or you may have changed a setting within there that stopped those notifications. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 13, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Rowena Portch wrote: > I used to

Re: iMessage

2014-05-13 Thread Isaac Hebert
If do not distrub is on first double tap the status bar at the top of the screen. Next swipe up with three fingers to access the control center. Next swipe to do not distrub and turn it off. If it is notification center first go to settings Next go to notification center. Next go to messages

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Jonnathan. About bluetooth pairing on the I phone, when I've paired or tried to pair my braille display with my I phone 5S, It is hit and miss because even though I type the passcode in and try to locate the pairing button, the I phone normally says that the pairing was unsuccessful. It

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. I have an issue on the IPhone with focus 40, which I do not know how to get apple to understand and fix as soon as possible. Can you help? I have contacted accessibility a lot of times, I am afraid they could understand I was angry the last time. I have chosen the focus 40 blue, b

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica
You are probably taking too long to enter the pairing code. You only have six seconds. Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hello Jonnathan. > > About bluetooth pairing on the I phone, when I've paired or tried to pair my > braille display with my I p

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
I believe the pairing button is at the top right part of the screen. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Gigi On May 13, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hello Jonnathan. > > About bluetooth pairing on the I phone, when I've paired or tried to pair my > braille display wi

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
Actually, Jonathan, for me anyway, I can braille as fast as I want to on my Braille Edge 40. That didn't use to be the case, but it sure is these days. When I had a Focus 40, I could braille on it real fast. I can also braille as fast as I want on the iPhone with my Braille Edge 40. It's the Foc

Re: iTunes Store Question

2014-05-13 Thread Krysti .Power
ok thank you On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi. No, you would have to sign in with your american apple ID. > > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 > > > > > On May 13, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Krysti

Re: iMessage

2014-05-13 Thread Rowena Portch
Okay, I've checked my notifications, and banners is enabled for iMessages. It does announce that, but when I activate the window, it used to read the last message received. It also used to read the last message so long as I remained in the iMessage program. I didn't have to navigate away from th

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
If I braille fast on my 40 using my iPhone, I get extraneous dots. It is so very much annoying at times because I have to keep deleting things! I get to the same thing if I use an apex as well. > On 13 May 2014, at 07:48 pm, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Actually, Jonathan, for me anyway, I can b

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Robert C
Alex and others, Thanks. I just created an icloud email account and will work on moving mails from Gmail. This is when I do housekeeping in the Windows side and hopefully make it easier. I kind of wanted to change addresses anyway. :) Quote of the nanosecond . . . How important does a per

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Brian Fischler
I made the transition from gmail to iCloud a few months ago as for me I was having severe issues with gmail on my iMac. Yes, I know a lot of people haven't had any issues, and to those lucky ones that is great. For those of you thinking about switching I would say go for it, and you can set up y

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Alex Hall
The other thing about iCloud.com is that, once you get to the Mail portion, you must interact with the frame at the top of the page. Here's the trick, though: whenever you make a change, like clicking a different button, you must stop interacting and then interact again. Things may be different

how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-13 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
is there a way to transfer my iphotos on myiCluod going to my mac, i see all my photos on my iCluod on my mac, but i can't drag them or is it can i only copy them then delete it on iCluod? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
On the mac go to System Preferences > iCloud > interact with the services table and check photos. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 13/05/2014 22:48, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: is there a way to transfer my iphotos on myiCluod going to my

Re: working with numbers

2014-05-13 Thread Phil Halton
Hi, what you are referring to sounds like moving to regions with Control arrows. There is no such command in numbers that I am aware of. I was a big Excel fan and I too found this to be a problem at first. But, because numbers uses a canvas system as opposed to a large spreadsheet, with tables b

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi kawl, No, I've not seen this. I pair them quite a lot and have never had an issue. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 14/05/2014, at 5:42 am, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hello Jonnathan. > > About bluetooth pairing on the I p

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Annie, I wish I could. I'd prefer to advance the display from the left hand side as well, but since Apple make the drivers and the interface, this ball is entirely in their court. At least with the Mac, you can reassign the functions. The very least they might do is offer a reverse panning op

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-13 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you're seeing your iCloud/PhotoStream photos when in iPhoto on your Mac, then they're likely already downloading automatically to your Mac. To confirm, go into iPhoto, press cmd-comma to get into iPhoto Preferences then select the iCloud pane in the Toolbar. The "My PhotoStream" should

Re: iMessage

2014-05-13 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmmm. I've never had Messages behave that way for me, sounds pretty useful though. I wonder if that has something to do with Live Regions. Not sure though. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 13, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Rowena Portch wrote: > Okay, I've checked my notifications

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-13 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
if my mom would delete it on her iphone would it be deleted on my mac? Il giorno 14/mag/2014, alle ore 12:35 AM, Tim Kilburn ha scritto: > Hi, > > If you're seeing your iCloud/PhotoStream photos when in iPhoto on your Mac, > then they're likely already downloading automatically to your Mac. T

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-13 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, No, not really. What happens is that pictures taken on an iPhone are automatically uploaded to the PhotoStream if you have that enabled on the iPhone. Now, if your Mac uses the same Apple ID and you have photos turned on within the iCloud pane of System Preferences, then you're both acces

Re: download a linked file from an email?

2014-05-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Just to elaborate on what Chris said: Whenever you want to download a PDF, video or audio file which has opened in Safari, just press command-l to navigate to the address bar, and then press option-return to download the file to your Downloads folder. This works for ordinary webpages too if you

Re: working with numbers

2014-05-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi William, Phil's given you a great overview. We've had many discussions on this list about different tricks with Numbers, including how to rename tables and a number of other things. You can Google for all those and read them on the archives. But if you have any specific questions while you'r

Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

2014-05-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I know this is not news to many of you, but it might be for some of you so thought I'd share it. I think when Mavericks first came out email attachments in Mail were pretty inaccessible unless you downloaded them from the option in the file menu. Well, now you can navigate to them in t

Re: Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

2014-05-13 Thread Alex Hall
I recently discovered this as well. My usual method of previewing attachments is to press cmd-y on the email, but that only works with one attachment, if an email has multiple ones, it might not work, or you might only get one. I love how many options Mail offers for attachments. On May 13, 2014

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. Thank you for answering this. I have been thinking about something. Could freedom make a reverse possibility in the firmware, so that we could solve it that way. I do not really understand why apple needs to use these beautiful buttons which came instead of the wheels to do other

XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, Since Louis doesn't specifically transcribe from epub format, I'm wondering if xml is closely related enough that i can rename an epub to an xml file and try transcribing from it? I have tried using Calibre to convert from epub to rtf, but I get strange character's in place of quotes,

Re: No Luck with the Focus Blue 40

2014-05-13 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Annie, there may be problems getting this done, but we'll bounce it around for sure and have a look at the logistics and implications. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 14/05/2014, at 12:40 pm, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >

Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica Moss
I tried this app several times when I started using this peddle device thing a friend of mine gave us to use that you just set infront of a chair and use, which I've learned to love really quickly, and love the fact that the app keeps track of the time you've been working out for you so I don't

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-13 Thread Jessica
Used to use it. I don't anymore, I couldn't figure that out either. I'm glad it's free! Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2014, at 10:08 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > I tried this app several times when I started using this peddle device thing > a friend of mine gave us to use that you just set

Re: Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

2014-05-13 Thread David Chittenden
Nick, This has always been available. The difficulty I have had is when the attachment is embedded somewhere within the body of the message. The trick for me has been locating the attachment. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Robert C
I set up the iCloud email account from my iPhone. Now to make aliases which I assume has to be done on the Mac? Is it done in preferences or do I need to sign back into the iCloud site? Quote of the nanosecond . . . If you think something's bad, try it again and see. Robert & Annie Yanni ke7

Re: iCloud vs Gmail

2014-05-13 Thread Alex Hall
I believe you must use iCloud.com. Again, you'll need to keep un-interacting and re-interacting with the frame if things don't seem to be updating correctly. It's a little tedious, but doable, and you only need to do it once. On May 13, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Robert C wrote: > I set up the iCloud