Re: mvware fusion questions

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Maria and Joe, Did you create any snapshots with fusion? A snapshot is a certain moment in time that you captured, when windows was still just fine. Every week, I create a snapshot in fusion, as long as windows is healthy. This way, if something like this does happen, then you can always go

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Tristan
Hi Alex, MacBooks have a background process that makes hourly backups if you have Time Machine enabled. These backups will accumulate into a "local backup," and until you connect the machine to your time machine drive they will take up space. I'm not sure if you're using time machine, but it's des

How to make Nvda better using Vmware?

2014-07-15 Thread Justin Mann
Hi there, Does anybody have any tricks to make Vmware work better under a virtualized environment on the Mac, Is there any keyboard mapping that I should do? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this gro

Re: How to make Nvda better using Vmware?

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Why not map the insert key to the grave accent or less used key? Ask on here if you need any help. On 15/07/2014 11:33, Justin Mann wrote: Hi there, Does anybody have any tricks to make Vmware work better under a virtualized environment on the Mac, Is there any keyboard mapping that I should

Re: facebook site a mess and wish advice

2014-07-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Thing is, I never use quick nav at all. Funny, I thought I would but I don't. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! On Jul 14, 2014, at 11:10 PM, Dionipher Presas Her

anyone know of an accessible webinar host?

2014-07-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'm looking to host some webinars in the near future. I've attended webinars hosted by Go-to-Meeting, and the accessibility has always seemed a bit dicey. Can anyone either correct me if there's a way to make Go to meeting accessible, or recommend a different host? Thanks, Donna --

Re: anyone know of an accessible webinar host?

2014-07-15 Thread isaac . hebert
Have you tried hosting webinars with the talking communities software tc conferencing? On Jul 15, 2014, at 7:27 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking to host some webinars in the near future. I've attended webinars > hosted by Go-to-Meeting, and the accessibility has always seemed

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks for the tip, but I'm not using Time Machine on this computer. Honestly, I'm just waiting for iCloud Drive with Yosemite, then I'll buy 250GB and dump my stuff in there. For now, though, no backups, which is why my essentials live in Dropbox. Not ideal, but it works for the moment. On Jul

MBP for sale, barely used!

2014-07-15 Thread Kliphton Senior
Please reply directly to me off list. I bought this MBP for my wife to work at home. But she doesn't use it any more. Only used it for 2 weeks. 15 inch MBP 2.3 i7 quad core processor, can clock up to 3.5. 512 SSD. Still have all original box and packaging. Will restore to latest update of mav

Information Transferring Across Devices

2014-07-15 Thread Josh
Hello Everyone, We have just recently noticed that my wife's phone, my phone, and the iPad are transferring information between them. This is great for most things, but there is a little one here that doesn't need to be privy to everything that my wife and I have stored in our phones. The litt

Re: working efficiently in the terminal with braille (or speech)

2014-07-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok. Have you installed the lib usb driver? It has to be installed to make brltty to work. But i am not sure as i do not use brltty on windows. /A 14 jul 2014 kl. 15:47 skrev Gabriele Battaglia : >> Hi! >> It should come with nvda if you look in the braille settings. > > Hi Anders, ah, ok. Nop

Re: captia for the Mac

2014-07-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Probably because it works under linux. But firefox for mac is pritty slow so i wont bother with it. /A 14 jul 2014 kl. 17:28 skrev 'David Goldfield' via MacVisionaries : > I'm wondering if the Webvisum extension would work on Firefox for the Mac. > I'll have to try that. > www.webvisum.com

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel McGee
Alex, just a thought but have you over time downloaded more than one voice fro the Voiceover Utility? I know this wouldn't be the reason why your hard drive should be filling up so. However, if you have more than one voice that you don't use anymore, maybe it might be worth it getting rid of it

Re: Information Transferring Across Devices

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Look for iCloud under Settings. Turning one or more things off will prevent the transmission from taking place. So if you turn contacts off on one device but not the rest contacts will be transferred to all but the one device. On 15/07/2014 17:04, Josh wrote: Hello Everyone, We have jus

RE: mvware fusion questions

2014-07-15 Thread wayne17a
Hi if that did not work then shut down the vm and then restart the mac it has worked for me in the past From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Maria and Joe Chapman Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:07 AM To: macvisionaries@goog

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! How do i do this? I have some voices i do not use but can't figure out how to remove them? Is it just to uncheck them in the voiceover utilities? /A 15 jul 2014 kl. 18:22 skrev Daniel McGee : > Alex, just a thought but have you over time downloaded more than one voice > fro the Voiceover Util

External sound device.

2014-07-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I am planning to transfer tapes and other analog material using my mac with audacity. However i really would like to have a good external audio device that's supported by the mac. I have an Infrasonic amon but the drivers really sucks and the control panel is not accessible so what do you al

Re: Making a clean installation

2014-07-15 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi and thanks for the really good explanation of how to make a clean install. I'm just about to start the reinstallation process but have a question since i got a bit uncertain: I want to take away an unnecessary partition that i have, and you said that if i wanted to erase the whole hard drive,

Re: External sound device.

2014-07-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You mean like an external USB audio interface? I've been pretty happy with the USB Dual Pro I bought several years ago. No drivers needed. Just shows up as another audio input the various audio apps I've used. http://artproaudio.com/discontinued_products/discontinued_products/product/usb_dual_p

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Really? I never knew time machine did that? I thought it just tried once an hour to connect to the backup drive and if it couldn't connect it just failed and tried again later. Apparently this isn't actually the case. I learn something new every day. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14329 CB On

Re: Making a clean installation

2014-07-15 Thread Joseph
Hello, Hope you don't mind me jumping in here. The utility is totally accessible for VO users. Just be sure to start VO after your system has booted into recovery mode. When I upgrade any of my Apple computers, I always do a clean install. I have found over time that I have the best results if a

Re: Making a clean installation

2014-07-15 Thread Alex Hall
You could always choose that partition in the table, then select the Erase tab and get rid of it. That will be just as effective, I imagine. Just to be sure: you have a backup, right? All the steps we've been discussing will completely erase your hard drive, so please be sure you have all your f

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Alex Hall
I believe you go to /library/voices, but I might have that path wrong. In either the system library folder or your current user account's library folder, though, you will find a folder containing all the voices your Mac has, sorted into a folder for each speech synthesizer provider. Simply erase

Re: Macbook Drive Mysteriously Full

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel McGee
Warning: if your going to earase some voices, then you do so at your own risk. I would highly recommend not getting rid of the compact voices. I found out the hard way when I got rid of one of these, I was unable to get it back despite downloading the HQ of that voice again. The only way I was a

Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, sometimes when I'm listening to podcasts where people demonstrate something on the Mac and are using the Alex voice, I don't know if it is me but he seems a little deeper so to speak and maybe a touch of less natural sounding. Basically, I want to kind of have him sound a bit more robot

Re: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread 'David Goldfield' via MacVisionaries
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RE: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread Jule Ann M Lieberman
Hello Daniel, You may want to change the intonation to a lower setting. Basically this "flattens" the emphasis associated with things such as questions. For example when a question mark appears in the text typically the screen reader will raise the pitch accordingly as human speech does when expre

Downloads pane in Safari 6.1.5

2014-07-15 Thread Mark Baxter
... doesn't seem to be there. Command Shift L now "shows sidebar," but I can't even locate *THAT*. What's the new way to show the progress of downloads in 6.1.5? Thanks. * Mark BurningHawk Baxter * AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 * MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com * My home page

Re: Downloads pane in Safari 6.1.5

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Try option-command-l On 15/07/2014 20:39, Mark Baxter wrote: ... doesn't seem to be there. Command Shift L now "shows sidebar," but I can't even locate *THAT*. What's the new way to show the progress of downloads in 6.1.5? Thanks. * Mark BurningHawk Baxter * AIM, Skype and Twitter: Bur

Label a button

2014-07-15 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi I am at the button and press vo-shift-/ to label a button, but VO keyboard help says this command makes a focus spot and that is correct. How do i label a button? Is there any criteria that a button must have to enable creating a label? And, how do i move Voice Over cursor to a focus spot?

Re: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniel, Have you thought of trying a different voice? I use Fred because I find him less obtrusive than any of the other voices. He's also very reactive being a lightweight voice that's been around for years. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2014, at 20:59, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, somet

Re: Label a button

2014-07-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Terje, The command to label an element is VO-Slash. What language keyboard are you using? VO-Slash works for me both on a British keyboard and a French one. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2014, at 21:50, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Hi > > I am at the button and press vo-shift-/ to label a butto

Re: Downloads pane in Safari 6.1.5

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Look under the Window menu, if the Download Window option is there, the shortcut will be beside it. If it's not there, then it may have been removed and then you'll need to Interact with the Toolbar and get to the last item usually with VO-end which should be the Downloads button. Later..

Re: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Anne, yes I have tried using Fred in the past but for me, he's a little to quiet if you know what I mean. Its between Alex and Daniel compact. I always seem to be going back to Daniel compact though, dispite continuing to try all the other voices that I can choose from. There's something a

Re: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel McGee
Thank you Jule Ann and David for your descriptions of Intonation works. They were both helpful. Daniel On 15 Jul 2014, at 20:18, Jule Ann M Lieberman wrote: > Hello Daniel, > You may want to change the intonation to a lower setting. Basically this > "flattens" the emphasis associated with th

Re: Label a button

2014-07-15 Thread Terje Strømberg
Norwegian. Apple standard usb keyboard. The slash sign is like this / the same as after htttp// On my keyboard i need to use shift to get slash sign. Can not find a key with the slash sign without using shift. Maybe i should assign another command for this in keyboard cammand or something. Tak

Re: Label a button

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It does appear to be problematic on the Norwegian keyboard for some reason. As far as I can tell, the slash is accomplished by pressing shift-7. When you use keyboard practice, and press VO-shift-7, it announces the "Label" command but when you actually try it in regular mode, it just thu

Re: adding songs to play lists in the latest version of iTunes doesn’t seam to work! please help! kind regards trey.

2014-07-15 Thread trahern culver
hey i tried your tips but the problem is still on going kind regards trey. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegro

Re: Downloads pane in Safari 6.1.5

2014-07-15 Thread Mark Baxter
Right; thanks. :) * Mark BurningHawk Baxter * AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 * MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com * My home page: * http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Label a button

2014-07-15 Thread Terje Strømberg
Wow, it worked. We got a new Web Player for our Wimp music streamer. Beta version. Here in scandinavia and some europeian countries. Seems to become very accessible. Need to label play, forward etc. I guess it is HTML5. Safari on mac. Take care 16. juli 2014 kl. 00:31 skrev Tim Kilburn : Hi,

Ray Kurzweil At Google I/O: Biologically inspired models of intelligence

2014-07-15 Thread Barry Hadder
I assume that most people here know who Ray Kurzweil is. He works at google now and did a talk on AI at their I/O conference recently. You can git it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_nOddk01E. I Strongly recommend checking this out. It is quite cool. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com --

Re: adding songs to play lists in the latest version of iTunes doesn’t seam to work! please help! kind regards trey.

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, That's extremely odd. Could you please outline a few things for me? 1. Confirm the version of iTunes that you're using. Go into the Finder, in the Applications folder, navigate to iTunes then press cmd-i to Get Info. Tell me which version it is please. 2. Give me a step by step proces

Re: mvware fusion questions

2014-07-15 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. can't remember if I made a snap shot or not, but if I didn't, I will keep that in mind when i get windows going again. regards Maria and crew from australia bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 15 Jul 2014, at 5:43 pm, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Maria and Joe, > > Did you create any snapsh