RE: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-17 Thread Kliphton Senior
Below is what I found in my collection of mac tutorials. Mapping keys in fusion > First off, it is true that you have no insert key on the mac, while you often > do need one in windows. You can create a key mapping for yourself in 1 of 2 > ways. Either using fusion itself, and there is no real dow

Re: Airmail, we're not there yet

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
On the contrary, I'd love to see Thunderbird rendered accessible on OS X. Using virtualisation for daily tasks is silly and is making me uncomfortable. This, of course, is the downside to voluntary accessibility. The only half-witted email client that's any good for accessibility for OS X is Ma

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I'm just not happy with VoiceOver's braille support for a variety of reasons which I've restated many times on here. It's behind even the other graphical screen readers. But you don't have to take my word for it, just perform this simple test: turn speech off. Can you manage with braille only?

Re: how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
This can be done, yes, but it's a bit tougher because the tool that Mavericks supplies for creating media only itself runs on Mavericks, rather unhelpfully. In summary, what you must do is restore the base system disk image, BaseSystem.dmg, onto your freshly-formatted USB stick, and then copy ov

Re: Time Machine question

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If you don't mind losing all your Time Machine history for now, simply reformat your target disk using Disk Utility. Any problem with the disk will then be solved and Time Machine should resume. Yes, it's inconvenient, but at least you haven't lost any current data. -- You received this mess

Re: how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-17 Thread Angus MacKinnon
How accessible to VoiceOver is the Gmail App on Mavrix and IOS? Angus MacKinnon -- 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...@goo

Re: facetime on mavericks setup question

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
The FaceTime from the Mac App Store is for Snow Leopard users; don't buy it. You need to be aware that FaceTime works a little differently from other apps on the Mac, in that it's very iOS-like; you don't open or close dialogs. Therefore, the top button is usually a back button, and you mustn't

Re: e book question

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
With some little difficulty. Open iBooks on your Mac, and then use the File, Add to Library option to find and import your book. Then use iTunes to sync it across. One year of iBooks inaccessibility, and counting. It makes me very annoyed. The reason I don't use Dropbox or whatever is that y

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Kevin Cussick
I am having the same problem, sorry no help to you but just letting you your not the only one it is gmail at the moment but I have a blueyonder account not set it up yet. I have had no help thus far. On 15/08/2014 19:46, Jose wrote: Hello; Listers, I need help! I called Apple because I am

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
To be honest, the best advice we can give you is to switch to iCloud. No, this is not a joke, sadly. You can fiddle with Gmail to make it work, but the Mavericks-Gmail combination is not at all pleasant. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisiona

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread David Griffith
This was a well known issue with the early releases of Mavericks but I believed that this had been fixed by Apple in a subsequent update to the OS. Certainly I am having absolutely no issues with G mail in my latest version of Mavericks. Could I ask both of you whether you have gone to the App

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread John D. Lipsey
I, too, am having no issues with my gmail on my Mac. Even back in the first version of Mavericks, I only had very minor issues with gmail and mail on my mac. I'm puzzled as to why it works well for some and not hardly at all for others. :( -John On Aug 17, 2014, at 13:39, David Griffith wro

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Regina Alvarado
I have wanted to switch to iCloud, but how do I do it? Need some step-by-step. Thanks. reggie and Allegra On Aug 17, 2014, at 3:39 PM, David Griffith wrote: This was a well known issue with the early releases of Mavericks but I believed that this had been fixed by Apple in a subsequent upd

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
1. Open System Preferences. 2. Open iCloud. 3. Interact with the iCloud services table, check the mail chek box and stop interacting. 4. Follow any further instructions. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 17/08/2014 20:42, Regina Alvarado wrote:

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Kliphton Senior
The clean install method doesn't work either. I have 3 people that I have tried to help on Skype with this issue, and the clean install was the last option. WE did it and no go, still the same issues. Funny thing though, when they created a new gmail, everything worked fine. Who knows, maybe

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I don't know what or why Apple made changes to the IMAP behaviour since Mountain Lion. I am positive that Gmail IMAP is buggy and slow, irrespective of client, but it is true that if you bugger about long and hard enough, specially when you're on a slow connection and want to avoid the "All Mai

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Jose Lomeli
How easy is a clean install? Can somebody help me? Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Kliphton Senior wrote: > > The clean install method doesn’t work either. I have 3 people that I have > tried to help on Skype with this issue, and the clean install was the last

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Kevin Cussick
thanks, I have not tried this will try another day I have loads to do but good suggestion thanks. On 17/08/2014 20:39, David Griffith wrote: This was a well known issue with the early releases of Mavericks but I believed that this had been fixed by Apple in a subsequent update to the OS. Cer

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Jose Lomeli
Well I called Apple and I had to do a clean install! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Kevin Cussick > wrote: > > thanks, I have not tried this will try another day I have loads to do but > good suggestion thanks. > >> On 17/08/2014 20:39, David Griffith wrote:

RE: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread Kliphton Senior
I told you on Skype, it’s not gonna make a difference. But if you want, iMessage me, and I will walk you threw it. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list whe

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-17 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, If I am not mistaken, I am running 10.9.4. Is that not the latest version. I thought I heard there was a 10.9.5 coming out at some point. I will take a look again. I usually get any new updates that come out software or otherwise.. Matthew On Aug 17, 2014, at 3:39 PM, David Griffi

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-17 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Couple of points here. Firstly, if you delete all the built in keystrokes, you have to do a lot of finger contortions that you don't actually need to do, given that the mac keystrokes are much easier to reach than the windows ones. I would advise people to keep them, they can actually come

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You are right there. If only they took Braille seriously on the Mac. That's why I use my Braille display on my I phone although I'd really like to use it on the Mac as I have two displays as I wanted to use the 40 on the Mac and the 14 which I use on my I phone. Kawal. > On 16 Aug 2014, at 05:

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I can't use my Focus 40 blue via the Mac by Bluetooth as it's been broken with Mavericks on it. I hope IOS fixes that problem. Kawal. > On 17 Aug 2014, at 12:09 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can and I keep promising to put out an update but never get around to it. > Also, when a new OS com

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Cheryl, I always mute the speech while using braille. I have always done this with any screen reader whilest using braille. It's just too distracting! Cait On Aug 16, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with > brl

A script that would remove the preview pain?

2014-08-17 Thread matthew dyer
Evening all. I was just wondering about a script that sould hide the preview pain in mail. I had to reinstall mavrects and so I was wondering about it as someone posted it some time ago, but could not find it in the archives. Any ideas? If not I can take care of it as soon as I get new batter

Re: A script that would remove the preview pain?

2014-08-17 Thread Alex Hall
There's an easy way to do just that. The bad news is that the script command is broken in Mavericks, and won't actually do anything when run. Perhaps Yosemite will fix this, I don't know. On Aug 17, 2014, at 8:51 PM, matthew dyer wrote: > Evening all. > I was just wondering about a script that

RE: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-17 Thread Kliphton Senior
That's why I prefer the sharp keys way. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questions are always answered, and we are always patient with you. Subscribe her

assistance with skype, adium, and mail

2014-08-17 Thread Scott Shade
Hello all. I'm trying to get up to speed with mail, skype, and adium on the mac. However, I need podcasts or one on one with setting up my mail accounts, and if someone can, a quick how to on how to navigate adium, and skype. Those two programs make me want to cringe. Thanks for any help you can

Macbook air 11inch for sale

2014-08-17 Thread Scott Erichsen
Hi all, As I've upgraded to a macbook pro, I'm selling my customised 11inch macbook air. Includes: 1.7GHZ I7 processor, 8GB Memory, 512GB SSD. Asking $1500 or if someone is really interested I'll work with them. Please contact me off list at piano...@scotterichsen.com Thanks. Scott -- Y