Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Been there, done that, and in the share menu are mail, airdrop, twitter and facebook i think and more... Choosing the "more" option brings up some system settings, but dropbox choices simply aren't there. Nowhere in this menu can they be found, they aren't there. > 3 okt 2014 kl. 20:55 skrev Th

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Don't need it. Preview will read pdf's just fine. And, if you ever need to do OcR on a pdf, Abby fine reader. 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 and fully protecte

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Are you really sure you have the latest version of Drop Box? I doubt it since you're having these issues. 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 and fully protected by

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Website says latest version is 2.10.30 and that's what i got. /Krister > 4 okt 2014 kl. 11:55 skrev Ray Foret Jr : > > Are you really sure you have the latest version of Drop Box? I doubt it > since you're having these issues. > Sincerely, > the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy M

Re: New Mac malware discovered; how to check your Mac for ‘iWorm’ malware

2014-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
I did finally get the Folder not Found Message spoken, but it didn't work the first time I tried it. Cheers, Donna On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > New Mac malware discovered; how to check your Mac for 'iWorm' malware > by MacDailyNews > [cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]"D

Re: more on adding to iTunes library

2014-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Got it! thank you! Donna On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Oops, my bad, one more folder deep. You need to go into the iTunes Media or > iTunes Music folder where all the media is stored. You'll see an Album > Artwork folder, a number of iTunes Library files and eithe

Re: to Donna: think I've solved the issue of Adding to library menu not being there

2014-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Hmm, Well, I don't think so. I tried following your steps, but still didn't see the Add to Library Window. thanks, though, for checking it out. At least now I've got the automatically add to Ituens folder sorted out, but I still miss the CMD-O, it was so quick and easy. Cheers, Donna On Oct

Re: more iTunes folder weirdness

2014-10-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Tim, I'll see if I can figure out which folder I'm connecting two. I've got a lot of music, so it'd be nice to free up that space. Cheers, Donna On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > No, you should have both, unless you really want two of them. If you go into > iTu

Re: A real clean install

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, once VO is on at the Language Chooser window, it is on and accessible all the way through the installation. There are a few occasions where you may need to use the Window Chooser (VO-f2-f2), but all options are fully accessible with VO. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, No, Adobe Reader is not accessible with VO at all. As Ray mentioned, the built-in Preview app will handle pdf's just fine other than finding edit fields in editable pdf's. Often web-sites claim that you need Adobe Reader to read their pdf's, but this is a misleading statement as there are

Re: New Mac malware discovered; how to check your Mac for ‘iWorm’ malware

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Not sure why we needed to use the Go To Folder option for this. Simply open Macintosh HD, open the Library folder, open Application Support and take a look. This Library folder is not invisible. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 4, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Donna Goodin wrot

Re: Any free ways to fill out pdf forms

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
No; we do not have OCR scanning available; besides, the stupid thing is supposed to be filled out on-line and submitted from the site. Otherwise, I would just save, convert, fill out, and send in. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I'm a bit confused here. The other day, preview did not open to read a pdf form on-line. I had to download Adobe Reader to access it. Then it read just fine. Does one have to save it first? Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionari

Replacement for Open Book on the MacBook Air?

2014-10-04 Thread George Cassell
I've lost my Windows computer with Open Book for scanning and reading my mail and documents. How can I accomplish the same thing on my MacBook Air? Do I need any special software to do this, or will connecting a flatbed scanner do the trick? -- George -- You received this message because yo

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Depending on your settings within Safari, pdf's are either opened within the Safari browser or they need to be downloaded first then opened with your preferred pdf reader. I expect that when you downloaded the pdf, then subsequently opened it, the file was opened with the Preview app, not

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I never downloaded it. Just read it on-line. I'll have to check the Safari settings. -- 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+un

Re: Replacement for Open Book on the MacBook Air?

2014-10-04 Thread Mary Otten
You need software. You can try docuscan plus, which is cloud-based, and only scans English. You can try Abbyy fine reader Pro from the app store. It costs less, does foreign languages, and there is an extensive list of scanners which it directly supports. Or you can try running Windows on your M

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Mary Otten
I must be missing something with respect to the preview app. I have never had good luck with that thing. I have not been able to navigate, read words or lines or's spell something. And tables? Forget it. What am I missing? I would love to be able to do PDFs on my Mac. Of course, Docuscan will do

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
Can't find anything which would use Preview to read pdf documents on-line. Within the security tab in Safari, I found configure web settings, and the only choices given were Adobe Reader, QuickTime, and Java plug-ins. There was a warning that using Adobe Reader might compromise personal informat

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I've had minimal success with it. Sometimes, it reads whole documents. Other times, it doesn't, and no matter what I do, I cannot get it to move from page to page, and I've never tried to do any of the other things you mentioned, Mary. Christine -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Preview works very well for me. In fact, it's pretty well what I use for pdf's all the time and have for years. With respect to your Adobe issue, I'm wondering if you've installed an old version of Adobe some time in the past. If so, the older versions of Adobe sometimes mess with Safari

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
This is a brand-new MacBook Air with no Adobe Reader history. Downloaded the latest version two days ago. Christine -- 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 ema

TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
These queries are for any fellow list members who use the TD Bank US iPhone app and on-line banking on the tdbank.com web site: 1. Web site: A couple of years ago, I went from having full access to the site to being thrown off as soon as I logged in. This has never changed, despite playing ar

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread The Believer
No, not the share submenu. Yesterday when I did this, the menu choice was 4th from the top and said "share ". Today it gives me "share dropbox link". From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/4/2014 1:04 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Been there, done

Re: A real clean install

2014-10-04 Thread The Believer
Tim, I tried again. Plugged the bootbale USB drive in, restarted, got the the startup manager, no speech. Conmad F5 did nothing. The bootable drive was not listed anyway so I aborted. Verified that the Mavericks installer was still on that drive. I need to get that speech before I proce

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Sorry, no such menu choice here. Only the standard right click menu. I'm starting to believe i have serious problems here. /Krister > 4 okt 2014 kl. 19:16 skrev The Believer : > > No, not the share submenu. Yesterday when I did this, the menu choice was > 4th from the top and said "share ". T

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread The Believer
Are you in Finder and using vo shift m on a file in the Dropbox folder? From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/4/2014 11:13 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Sorry, no such menu choice here. Only the standard right click menu. I'm starting to believe i

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes, there are only the standard menu choices that are there in every instance of the right click menus in the finder. No special dropbox menus or menu items. I've even tried going in from the finder by opening a hard drive and then using the side bar to go to the dropbox menu. No luck. /Kriste

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Sorry, no such menu here. I'm starting to think i have serious problems here. > 4 okt 2014 kl. 19:16 skrev The Believer : > > No, not the share submenu. Yesterday when I did this, the menu choice was > 4th from the top and said "share ". Today it gives me "share > dropbox link". > > From The

Re: to the user having issues with their Drop box and sharing files

2014-10-04 Thread The Believer
Not sure what more I can say. The right click, context, shortcut, menu contains standard menu items plus whatever is unique to the program or file its been activated on. In this case I am seeing the desired options by selectiing a file then doing the vo shift m. From The Believer. . . . .

iOS 8.0.2 crashes regularly and other issues.

2014-10-04 Thread Sean Murphy
Hello all. How is people finding the new version of iOS on their iPhones? I am finding it crashing regularly. I just have reset my settings hoping it would have resolved things. It didn't. For example, if I open MDN (mac daily news), open an article and start to read. Once the APP initiates a

How do i get rid of the preview pane in Mail?

2014-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, Just wondering how i go about getting rid of the preview pane in mail? I’ve totally forgotten how so i need a reminder.:-) /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Alex Hall
I don't know about the app, but someone at TD Bank once told me that the site doesn't like logging in with Safari, kind of. Here's the weirdest workaround I've ever heard of, but it does work: use Google. Search for the TD Bank site with a search engine, then go to it using a search result (of c

RE: iOS 8.0.2 crashes regularly and other issues.

2014-10-04 Thread Rick Alfaro
Hi. Like you, my iPhone 5s had all kinds of funky issues after going to IOS 8 and then 8.02. I never did 8.01. Lots of crashing apps, and AirPlay not working properly. I'm in the process of restoring right now hoping most of this stuff is finally gone. I believe others have also resolved these typ

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread John Panarese
The website will crash in Safari and Google Chrome. Not so much in Chrome as Safari. Firefox will be fine, but it's tougher to navigate your statements in Firefox. The app is great for the iPhone. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@ma

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Karen Lewellen
Suggestion, if this is important to you. I know directly from tD bank senior staff that they are upgrading their accessibility at all levels. without hearing from customers about an issue, they may not fix it and they sincerely want to fix things. I would strongly suggest contacting them. if

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Faisal
Preview has a lot of limitations especially for college students with advance PDF files. I could never get preview to do anything I want such as doing searches for phrases, not to mention there is way to create bookmarks or anything. Completely useless for academic articles. On Oct 4, 2014, at 9

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread David Griffith
Personally I have junked Preview in favour of reading PDF with Nisus Writer Pro. This appears to read fine to me so far and of course has the advantage of making the PDF editable. I realise this is not a free option but worth considering if you happen to have Nisus already. David Griffith O

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread denise avant
Hi, thanks for your response. I am asking because I want the choice. Where did you get this program and how much was it? On Oct 4, 2014, at 3:42 PM, David Griffith wrote: > Personally I have junked Preview in favour of reading PDF with Nisus Writer > Pro. This appears to read fine to me so

Re: iOS 8.0.2 crashes regularly and other issues.

2014-10-04 Thread Erik Heil
Hello Everyone, new wine. First of all, thank you for starting this thread. I'm going to try and describe some of the bugs that I have described. Perhaps this is related to my setup, but we will see. Ok guys, on to the bugs. The first bug that I noticed, is there. First of all, I miss mention that

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread denise avant
is Google Chrome helpful with this? On Oct 4, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: > Can't find anything which would use Preview to read pdf documents on-line. > Within the security tab in Safari, I found configure web settings, and the > only choices given were Adobe Reader, QuickTime

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread David Griffith
I believe that Nisus Writer Pro is available from Mac-update and also the App Store. >From memory it cost about £40 when I bought it but it appears on offer >regularly as part of bundles from MacUpdate. To be clear Nisus Writer Pro is a fully fledged Word Processor and some believe it it the bes

Re: adobe reader for the mac

2014-10-04 Thread Deb Lewis
I had no idea that Nisus would read PDF's. That's the best tidbit I've had all week. I frankly find Preview totally worthless unless you just want to hear your file as a data dump. I usually need to read more carefully and don't want to just hear a text string with no ability to start and stop, spe

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I tried Alex's Google search suggestion, with the exact same result. Don't like Firefox at all, since (at least the last time I tried it), it was pretty useless with VO. The iPhone app was fantastic until yesterday; however, it was never enough, as I could not check history of payments or simil

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
Google did not work. I did call their accessibility number as listed on their web site the other night. The young woman had never heard of VoiceOver; her supervisor got on and tried to help me use Java to fix it. No fix. I asked them to please pass this problem along. I was told they ha

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread John Panarese
Firefox is now not bad. It's just the problem being using VO navigation commands doesn't seem to work. What can't you do with the iOS app? I check my deposit history and payment history without any problem. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Em

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I'll check again, but last time I checked, payment history wasn't an option, just account balances, transferring, and paying bills. Yesterday, it would not accept a payment amount in the edit field for that item. It continued to ask for it, and did nothing when I hit submit, despite all

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread John Panarese
Double tap on account history. Then, choose the account and double tap on that. Then, you will have options for 10 days, 30 days, 60 days or pending transactions. Double tap on the one you want to see and it's in a table format. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel,

Re: TD Bank US app: Other experiences?

2014-10-04 Thread Karen Lewellen
Christine, I will write you privately about that then. Karen On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Christine Grassman wrote: Google did not work. I did call their accessibility number as listed on their web site the other night. The young woman had never heard of VoiceOver; her supervisor got on and

RE: How do i get rid of the preview pane in Mail?

2014-10-04 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Krister, Not to appear provocative but I am curious as to why you want to "get rid of" the preview pane in mail? You are not alone, many, many people choose to do so but I do not know why. As for me, I find that the application works beautifully using the standard display configuration