Re: Strange problem with accessing my airport extreme

2014-10-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Can you access your airport from your i device. I seldom use airport utility on the mac but on my iphone. /A > 20 okt 2014 kl. 18:45 skrev Joseph : > > Hello, > Hello Tim, > Here's the situation thus far. > I used command shift o to log into the airport, it displayed 10.0.1.1 but it > wouldn'

RE: mail in 10.10

2014-10-21 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Ray, The unread tag is working perfectly in Mail on both of my Macs, via Standard view. Mark From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:12 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mail

RE: mail in 10.10

2014-10-21 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Anders, You are referring to the server certificate verification dialog box that appears when opening Mail. I have several comments on this: 1. The dialog box appears when you attempt to use an unrecognized server or a server with an unrecognized certificate. 2. This occurs in Yosemit

How To Permenatly Dismiss The Unknown Server Certificate Verification dialog box Which Appears When opening the Mail application in Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread M. Taylor
This is for those who encounter the Unknown Server Certificate Verification dialog box when opening the Mail application in Yosemite. 1. The dialog box appears when you attempt to use an unrecognized server or a server with an unrecognized certificate. 2. This occurs in Yosemite, more than it d

Re: at specialist

2014-10-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, Try this method of positioning an image. copy the image file to the clipboard and paste it into the appropriate place in your document. Press VO-j to jump to the Formatter. Click on Arrange. Interact with the Arrange formatter scroll area and navigate to Text wrap which should be

Re: question about downloading audible books

2014-10-21 Thread David Griffith
Some one may give you a better answer but I will tell you what I know I download Audible Books using Audible Download manager on the Windows platform but I do not know if that is accessible / available on Mac OS. However it is possible to 1. Play and download Audible books through iTunes

Re: Copying the text from iBooks

2014-10-21 Thread David Griffith
Yes. Use shift VO C to copy last phrase spoken to pasteboard. David Griffith > On 21 Oct 2014, at 01:16, Mary Otten wrote: > > > > Is it possible under Yosemite to copy some text from an iBook? I am thinking > about cookbooks in particular, where I might want to copy a recipe, pasted > into

Re: Not able to copy songs to an i device with the new iTunes.

2014-10-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
If I am not mistaken, the radio buttons which control whether you have songs or album view are now to the left of the main types of library view. Could be mistaken as I'm still getting used to the new ITunes view which, I must say, I rather like. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Stil

no luck with enhanced dictation

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'm having no problem with standard text dictation in a document, but can't seem to get enhanced dictation to work, i.e. can't run the computer using voice commands. Enhanced dictation has been checked and downloaded. Any suggestions? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message becaus

weird iCloud issue since upgrading to Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Since my upgrade, I am being prompted to enter the password for an old Apple ID that is no longer active. I'm also getting messages that my Mac can't connect to iCloud because it doesn't have that password. I've tried going into iCloud prefs, but I don't see anyway to change from that

my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. For the most part, I reckon I can get used to Yosemite fairly well. I tend to like the way that Mail operates now in the standard view. I love that messages are now tagged as read or not as the first thing one here's while navigating through the table. Big plus that. The sluggishness,

Re: voice commands on yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Jessica Moss
Join the club, that would be amazing, now if they could get all the bugs worked out of IOS8, especially the one that makes it reboot every 2 seconds, that would be great. I just got a new 5C, which hasn't been updated yet, and have held of for that verry reason. On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Jua

Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi everyone, I'm really enjoying all the new goodness in Yosemite, and at least on my system, it's magnitudes better than the first release of mavericks was. Plenty to enjoy. There's one efficiency hit I've taken that I've not seen commented on here, although with so many messages of late, it's

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Got my sounds back. Forgot that I muted my sounds. Would like other thoughts though. Oh, Got albums in iTunes organized right too. That's some new view to get used to: but, I reckon I can see the logic behind it and actually, I think I'm starting to like it. Sincerely, the Constantly Baref

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Michael Malver
One of the things I miss about Outlook, and love about the Mac, is that it tells you how many messages are in a thread. Does this still happening in Yosemite? If so, is the message count given before any other information? > On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi everyone, I

Re: Copying the text from iBooks

2014-10-21 Thread Devin Prater
Yes, it is. Just select, copy, and paste as usual. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > > > Is it possible under Yosemite to copy some text from an iBook? I am thinking > about cookbooks in particular, where I might want to copy a recipe, pasted > into an

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Yes, you get informed how many messages are in a thread. Just press right arrow alone to expand a thread. Thing is, I have noticed that when a thread is expanded, you don't get informed about whether or not individual messages inside that thread are read or not. When you close it back up agai

Re: Strange problem with accessing my airport extreme

2014-10-21 Thread Joseph
Hello, Yes. Download the airport app from the app store and it's completely accessible when using VoiceOver. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Can you access your airport from your i device. > I seldom use airport utility on the mac but on my iphone. > /A >> 20 ok

Re: yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-21 Thread Rich Ring
I don’t believe that anyone should be slammed because something isn’t working for them, however, I just did 3 spotlight searches, and each time what I looked for was located. I don’t know why this is not working for other people, I can only document my personal experiences. I am not noticing any

Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
According to documentation, performing a search term is Spotlight should bring up Wikipedia entries, map data, possible dictionary definitions, and a host of results. I was able to verify that typing in the term Starbucks into Spotlight brought no results, and the message appeared visually on t

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I like Yosemite so far. My Finder is behaving better, etc. However, I had to call that 877 number again, no choice. It seems that FileVault got me in trouble when my battery went dead because yours truly let it go down too far. Then I had trouble, can't remember all the steps, getting Vo

Re: starting a new conversation in messages

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Another method is to VO-space on the Compose button within the Messages window, then enter the recipient’s contact info in the To field. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: > > To start a new message from within the Messages ap

Re: weird iCloud issue since upgrading to Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try going into system Preferences, Internet Accounts. Select the offending iCloud account then press on the Delete This Account. If you're unable to remove it for various reasons, try going to www.icloud.com and resetting the password for that iCloud account. On

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
For one thing, not all keyboards appear to be supported by file vault. If you get stuck, that'seven a choice you will be given. I know hindsight is always 20/20 but if you had rebooted your computer when the password wasn'taccepted, if that is what happened, one of the choices would have been to

Re: no luck with enhanced dictation

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Did you try going into the Accessibility pane of system Prefs, pressing the Dictation Commands button then checking the box to Enable Advanced Dictation commands? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm having

Re: yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Spotlight appears to work as it should for me as well. Initially, the default for the Search location appeared to be in the folder location that I was in, so, it wasn’t finding what I wanted it to find. Once I changed it to “this Mac”, the search results populated fine. I was able to nar

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
If I had a choice for unencrypting, I never found it. My computer was asleep when the battery went down, or at least it didn't have enough power when I opened it back up again. I consider myself fairly computer literate, but I guess at some point I did the wrong thing somewhere and got myself in

Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Hmmm. I did the same as you entering “Starbucks” into my Entry field. The first result was your message, then I could arrow down through various other references to Starbucks that it found. Interestingly enough, I had more than a dozen references to Starbucks in various eMails and no oth

Re: no luck with enhanced dictation

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Tim, Thanks, that did the trick. One more question, do you know if there's any way to get some kind of audible or spoken feedback when the command is implemented? That used to happen with speakable commands, but doesn't seem to happen now. Cheers, Donna > On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Tim K

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yeah, it's hard to know all the ins and outs of that I think. I hadn't realized until I had trouble entering my password or even doing cmd-f5 to get the beeps at login that I realized the keyboard could be a problem. Worked fine with one keyboard and not with another. I wonder if there's a "take

RE: question about downloading audible books

2014-10-21 Thread Alan Lemly
Here is a link to an Audible Support article on Downloading Audible content to a MAC: http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3845/~/downloading-audib le-content-to-a-mac That link takes up two lines and will no doubt break in this plain text email so here's a TinyURL link to the same

Re: no luck with enhanced dictation

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I haven't played with it very much but have found it to be inconsistent with it's announcements or responses. If I say "Open Selected Document", then tap the cmd key, it will repeat my command and sometimes complete the task, sometimes complete it quietly without me realizing that it actua

Re: no luck with enhanced dictation

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Tim, Thanks, for the info. It does seem to work much better than speakable items did, once you figure out that you need to check to get confirmation that it did what you wanted. :) Cheers, Donna > On Oct 21, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > I haven't played with it very m

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! SO far so good with Yosemite on my mac. However its still spinning up the fan while running safari and another aplication at the same time. This is not a big deal but i guess its because my mac is a mid 2011. Note that i've reset the smc. No go with that though. /A > 21 okt 2014 kl. 16:31 skre

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yeah and I had a bad moment when it asked me if I wanted unencrypt and restart. I knew I wanted to unencrypt and restart, so I said yes. I thought it was to unencrypt first, but no. Then I thought I would get unlucky and get that screen again demanding my password. That's what got me in trouble

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Mine is a Mac Book Pro early 2011, and it hasn't done that fan thing since Yosemite finished its installation. However, I had my memory upgraded to 8 gigabytes. Do you have 8 or 4? When I got my computer in July, 2011, it had 4 gigabytes. Gigi > On Oct 21, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Anders Holmberg

Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Another completely strange occurrence, I now just updated a 2014 Macbook Air to Yosemite, and spotlight searches for Starbucks turns up everything, Bing, Wikipedia, map results, everything you would expect. The computer on which there were no results whatsoever was a 2012 Mac Mini. Very interesti

Annoying search fields and Safari address bar

2014-10-21 Thread Joseph
Hello folks, Is there any way to stop the rather annoying echoing of search fields and Safari address and search fields? I hope this can be stopped because it's really a bother. Previously, I was able to type a space before typing and things went just fine. But now it keeps repeating what I type

Computer Renamed after upgrading to Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Barry Abbott
Hi all. For years My computer name has been "Barry's iMac. For some reason it now shows up as "Barry's iMac (7)" I have no ideas as to why or how this happened but just noticed the change today. I can't seem to change it back. I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite last week. Any ideas? For

Jumping to the top of the message list in Mail/Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Edward Green
Hi, Under Mavericks, Mail retained my place in the message list more often than not when new messages arrived. However, under Yosemite, I am jumped to the top of the message list when I receive new mail. I can obviously use the command to jump to the bottom of the list, but this still means I

Re: Computer Renamed after upgrading to Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, This sort of thing happens when your Mac detects another computer on your local network with the same local host name. Of course, in your case, there probably wasn't another computer with exactly the same local host name, so, it was likely a holdover somewhere else. When this happens, you

Re: yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-21 Thread John Panarese
Hi Pam, The Take Control series of books are really good reads. They cover a wide range of topics and you can't go wrong with those books. The results for spotlight now appear to show in a table. You can use table navigation to read them. However, what I tend to do is use more specific

bootcamp and fusion

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
Hi All, I was running fusion 5 on my macbook pro, and I upgraded to yosemite. I had to upgrade my fusion to version 7. How can I add my bootcamp to fusion so I can access it from with in the mac? One question I have is the guide on AppleVis, when it said to import my bootcamp partition into

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
Did you ever get your chess question solved? Perhaps try a fresh game? > On Oct 19, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > alex, can you message me on my skype so that i can show you the problem, my > skype is dionipher, thanks. i don't change the setting of my chess > On 19 O

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
Ordinarily, I'd tell you to switch to Classic View, in which you can sort the headers of the table manually. I did this in Mavericks, and while you do lose the message preview from Standard View, you *can* set the subject to be read first if you want. In 10.10.0, however, there's a bug where Vo

Re: bootcamp and fusion

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
Alright All, never mind my below questions. In fusion 7, the process to access the bootcamp volume as a virtual machine has changed. I will try and add a comment note to the current guide on apple vis in the next few days. Best, > On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Juan Hernandez > wrote: > >

Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
On my mid 2012 Macbook Air, doing a Spotlight search for Starbucks tells me about a local Starbucks, plus the web results and all the rest, for what that's worth. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:48 PM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Another completely strange occurrence, I now just u

Re: Jumping to the top of the message list in Mail/Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
This doesn't happen to me. I'm curious if you interact with the messages table or not. I don', so if you do, it might be worth trying it without interacting. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Edward Green wrote: > > Hi, > > Under Mavericks, Mail retained my place in the message list more often tha

Where to get VMware fusion version 6?

2014-10-21 Thread Vivianna
Hi All. Does anybody know where i might obtain a DMG of fusion 6? I can't seem to figure out their website. :)Thanks much. Vivianna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
I just love this list! I learn so many things here, even after five years on a Mac. I never knew you could search that way. Thanks, John! Cheers, Donna > On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:56 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > Hi Pam, > The Take Control series of books are really good reads. They cover a wid

Re: bootcamp and fusion

2014-10-21 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
if you could it would be appreciated can't figure out how to do this myself On 10/21/2014 12:53 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote: Alright All, never mind my below questions. In fusion 7, the process to access the bootcamp volume as a virtual machine has changed. I will try and add a comment note to

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-21 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
nope, i don't know why i can't do a lot moves on chess. and by the way alex is mixing when the computer moves. how can i fix this? i don't want to just press what was the last move of the computer. thanks Il giorno 21/ott/2014, alle ore 09:41 PM, Alex Hall ha scritto: > Did you ever get your c

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread David Griffith
Personally I have just turned off threaded conversations in standard view. Actually I am quite enjoying the change. Although I have lost the threaded conversation I find that my efficiency has increased as preview is available on all messages which used not to be the case in conversation thread

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
I'm confused now. Alex will say the move the computer makes, unless you selected a game type of computer versus computer. There is a checkbox that controls whether the Mac says the move you make, but even then, it will only say the move after you make it, not move for you. Again, this assumes yo

Re: One More iTunes Library Question

2014-10-21 Thread Grant Hardy
If the applications folder is empty, it can be safely removed. If it is not empty, I would recommend removing all the apps from within the iTunes UI first, otherwise all those apps will still show up in your library but iTunes will not be able to locate them. As for synchronization and backups,

Re: Where to get VMware fusion version 6?

2014-10-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
I have it, I can transfer it to you using skype in the evening. Yes, the vmware site is very difficult to navigate to say the least. Original message: Hi All. Does anybody know where i might obtain a DMG of fusion 6? I can't seem to figure out their website. :)Thanks much. Vivianna -- You

question re iTunes downloads

2014-10-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I have iTunes Match, and have downloaded some, but not all Match copies of songs to my library. Does anyone know if there's a way to tell whether the copy on my Mac is my imported CD copy or the Match copy? TIA, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

installing yosemity

2014-10-21 Thread Regina Alvarado
Hello all, can someone who has put yosemity on their Mac give me step-by-step instructions on how to install. I am a new Mac owner with a Mac Mini, and though I have done updates to Mavericks I am extremely nervous about installing Yosemity. Some say it should be done with a clean install, but I

Re: Where to get VMware fusion version 6?

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
Maybe because fusion 7 is out they won't have fusion 6? I have a dmg of fusion 7 pro, the free trial if you want I can send you a dropbox link > . If you can't find it let me know. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Vivianna wrote: > > Hi All. > Does anybody know where i might obtain a DMG of fus

Re: installing yosemity

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there When you say you are a new Mac user, how new? If you're super new, then you may not want to take remote instructions on how to do this. This is because it takes a very, very, long time. When I got my Mac, I had had it for three days when we went from Lyon to Mountain lion. I got very ch

Re: starting a new conversation in messages

2014-10-21 Thread Faisal
That’s what I tried originally, but it wasn’t working. I wasn’t finding the person whom I was trying to message. It kept bringing up someone from my Facebook contacts and couldn’t find a way to go through the search results with contacts with the same name. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Tim Kil

VO announcing incoming mail

2014-10-21 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, When I am on a web page or reading something VO announces when an email arrives. I hear the subject and sender. I suspect that something flashes up on the screen. Anybody else have this since installing Yosemite? If so how can I stop this? Thanks for any help. Max -- You received t

Re: VO announcing incoming mail

2014-10-21 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi Max, I am running Mavericks and have the same thing happening. I believe it has something to do with notifications, and if you go into system prefs you can change this behavior. Jeff On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hello all, > When I am on a web page or reading something V

How to perform secure empty trash on my Mac?, and how to change voice on my iPad/iPhone?

2014-10-21 Thread Eleanor Roberts
Hi all Wondered if anyone could help me with these 2 quick questions. Firstly, could anyone remind me how to perform a secure empty trash on my MacBook please? I've done it once before but have forgotten. Secondly, I've just upgraded to IOS8.1, and wanted to look at the different voices I c

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, I have been using the new os for several days and have no problems here. I have one question though and it has been on my mind for a while. When I boot up and come to the login screen and vo comes up it fades in and so it sounds kind of strange as if core audio has not fully loaded and so

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Keith Watson
Johnathan, So after reading this thread I see that nobody has an answer for you. I am sorry to say that neither do I I would be very interested in finding a solution to this issue as well. Its so damned time consuming that I find myself blowing away all the messages in the mailbox after the fir

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Agent086b
Hi, as I think somebody suggested turn off group messages by conversation. > I have done this now. At least I can read the messages. Max > On 22 Oct 2014, at 9:21 am, Keith Watson wrote: > > Johnathan, > > So after reading this thread I see that nobody has an answer for you. I am > sorry to

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Deb Lewis
When you have a lot of mail, that's a very unacceptable solution I'm afraid. I'm going to be sending in a suggestion to apple regarding this because I don't want to give up reading by conversation. On 10/21/14, Agent086b wrote: > Hi, > as I think somebody suggested turn off group messages by conv

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Keith Watson
Hi, The issue with that is that in order to find the answer to a question posed is that you then have to wade through god knows how many emails to find any replies. Again, not very efficient. By grouping a conversation you can quickly get to any responses that may or may not be relevant. I woul

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Keith, I hope you'll join me in dropping Apple Accessibility a friendly note about this. It's certainly suboptimal from an efficiency perspective, and turning off group by conversation is not the answer. It needs to work efficiently. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks

Finereader works again.

2014-10-21 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. I am glad to tell you that finereader works again, there is an update out at least on the app store version, I guess that it is also out for the version bought from their own site. Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVi

Re: installing yosemity

2014-10-21 Thread Pete Nalda
Ok, I’m not a VoiceOver user, as I have some vision, and so, could put the screen close enough to me to see what was going on. I can tell you, that It takes about an hour and a half, the first half hour which downloading from the app store, then the next hour is split between installing on the

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, Yes it does and it works well. I have always loved mail from day one and would never look for another client as I think it is the best one I have ever used. Matthew matthew dyer sent from my 27 inch iMac. facebook, facetime and iMessage: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com Skype: graduat

Re: installing yosemity

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hello again Let me see how much of this I can remember because I can't go back and look since I have already done it. That's the problem with some of us remembering the step-by-step procedure. You first have to go to the app store. However, before you do that, you want to doupdates on Mavericks

iBooks and pdf

2014-10-21 Thread Faisal
I’m having trouble opening pdf files in iBooks. When ever I try opening a pdf file in ibooks, it launches preview. I can’t get it to open in iBooks. what am I doing wrong here? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe f

Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I would be really surprised if the differences in what people are finding in their spotlight searches is a function of the model of computer they have, though I suppose it's possible. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the t

Re: iBooks and pdf

2014-10-21 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks. 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 ClamXav Antivirus! > On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:

Re: my own feedback about Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
how does one get VO tok begin talking at the login screen? I have to keep turning it on at the screen. If Iknow how to make it startup, I can confirm/deny what you are reporting. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:16 PM, matthew Dyer wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using the new os for several days and h

notes search

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
Hi All, Have anyone noticed that the notes search does not work at all? I cannot perform a search in the notes edit box. nothing allows me to write text into it. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciate ed. Best, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: iBooks and pdf

2014-10-21 Thread Faisal
Ahh okay, I thought that iBooks was able to open pdf files. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks. > > > Sincerely, > the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! > Sent from my Mac, the on

Braille screen input

2014-10-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
i just updated my iPhone this evening, and I can finally get it to work. So far, I am not as fast as I was with mBraille, but I am getting better. I am brailling this email, and I must say I am as quick as using the on-screen keyboard. I did try grade 2 and it sort of worked. H any of you gotten

Re: Conversation Participants being Spoken in Yosemite mail

2014-10-21 Thread Keith Watson
Jonathan, Without a doubt. That was actually the next thing I did after posting my rant. They must hate me there as I bombard them with every little thing I find that I think needs fixing. Keith > On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi Keith, I hope you'll join me in dropp

Re: One More iTunes Library Question

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. So, to be sure I have the process right: 1. Move the entire library to somewhere iTunes can write to (by copying it out of the Time Machine location). 2. Open iTunes with the Option key held down, and browse to my newly copied library folder. 3. Locate the apps folder from within iTunes

Re: starting a new conversation in messages

2014-10-21 Thread Alex Hall
If it's anything like Mail, as you type, suggestions will pop up. Down arrow (no VO keys, and with Quick Nav off) from right within the text field, and press enter when you hear the one you want. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Faisal wrote: > > That’s what I tried originally, but it wasn’t work

fusion and hotkeys

2014-10-21 Thread Juan Hernandez
Hi All, I wanted to know if there is a way to setup fusion so any of the windows commands are passed into the vm, not into the host mac computer? At times I switch into full screen, but if I alt+tab, or what ever it’ll flip mac windows. I wish I could have it while i full screen that all com

Re: iBooks and pdf

2014-10-21 Thread Barry Abbott
Have you tried select ting a PDF file then pressing "command i"which gives you information about the file but you can also choose to associate the file with an app and continue tabbing to apply the change to all PDF files. For example, I have docuscan plus open my PDF files. I'm going to see if

ibooks

2014-10-21 Thread Wayne Coles
hello is it possible to have continuous read and if so please let me know thanks in advance -- 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 ma

Opening PDF files in iBooks on a Mac

2014-10-21 Thread Barry Abbott
Well, I decided to attempt to open a Take Control PDF Book. Using "Command i" I first selected the file then pressed command+I changed my default choice from Docuscan Plus to iBooks and applied the changes to all PDF files. Yes, iBooks opens and Preview opens in the background. The actual file

Re: question re iTunes downloads

2014-10-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, When viewing the Table of music, you can tell iTunes what columns you want visible in the Table. Press cmd-j to bring up the View Options pop-over then VO-right to the pop-up menu just after the Sort by pop-up menu. In this menu you'll be able to check or uncheck the columns you wish visi

Re: Yosemity & Itunes

2014-10-21 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, I've just updated to Yosemite and am having a bit of trouble with iTunes. How do you see songs in your playlists? I can select the playlist in the table, but can't find the actual songs. I'm not finding these iTunes changes particularly wonderful, as it's slower to navigate around, but I gu

Re: Braille screen input

2014-10-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, contracted braille works as well as 6 dot braille. I always use 6 dot braille because I am now philosophically apposed to contracted braille being the default. Now that we have electronic braille, braille is the same size as print in electronic form. And, blind people who have always used

iOs 8.1 performance on iPhone 4S

2014-10-21 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi list, I am using a 16GB iPhone 4S. I updated to iOs 8 and had a lot of issues so had to downgrade back to 7.1. My phone got a lot slower, apps like whatsapp and messenger kept constantly crashing and VO randomly restarts it self. i had many accidental touches, accidental calls, etc. I wish to kn

download osx 10.10 help

2014-10-21 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
Hello when downloading osx 10.10 where is it putting the downloaded file to? I checked under aplications folder and am not seeing it. am I missing something? Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group a