Re: Parallels

2014-11-14 Thread christopher hallsworth
That's because Parallels is horrible in terms of accessibility. In other words, inaccessible. Vmware is the total opposite though. Go figure. > On 13 Nov 2014, at 23:49, Grant Hardy wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hear a lot of people talking about VMWare on this list but don’t hear a lot > of discus

Re: Tracking changes in Pages

2014-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Grant, Here’s a quick explanation of tracking changes with VoiceOver. Turn on Track Changes in the Edit menu. A Change tracking and annotations toolbar will appear. This contains the Previous and Next buttons and tells you how many changes have been made. In this toolbar, you can accept or

Amadeus Pro Tutorial

2014-11-14 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I have attempted to search online, but my efforts are fruitless. I am in search of a particular podcast that is an Amadeus Pro tutorial. This podcast is produced by a fellow named Garth from the Blind Cool Tech team. If anyone has this podcast in their archives, or if anyone knows h

Having a strange issue when installing Yosemite onto my macbook air

2014-11-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi people. I’m trying to install the released version of Yosemite onto my Macbook äir where there’s a beta version of Yosemite installed. When i try installing Yosemite from the purchased items page of the app store, i get a dialog that says that i couldn’t complete the purchase, yosemite is alr

Yosemite issue on Macbook air solved.

2014-11-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Ok, the issue i had before with the continue button that wasn’t there when i tried to install Yosemite is now solved. I had to update to the latest beta versions, then i could proceed to updating to a sharp one. Feeling stupid for asking for help in the first place, but ah well, these things

Re: Amadeus Pro Tutorial

2014-11-14 Thread Janet Ingber
Hi Emilio, Here is the link: http://www.iblindtech.com/democast/episode-37-podcasting-with-amadeus-pro.html It’s a great podcast. If for some reason the link doesn’t work, do a google search for i blind tech Amadeus Pro podcast. Hope this helps. Janet > On Nov 14, 2014, at 6:04 AM, Emilio Her

Re: Parallels

2014-11-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
Unless something has changed, parallels is not accessible with voiceover and the company seems to have no interest in fixing this. Original message: Hi all, I hear a lot of people talking about VMWare on this list but don’t hear a lot of discussion about Parallels for Mac. Is anybody using Pa

Re: Playlist browser in the latest itunes?

2014-11-14 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, Tim! Perfect, and not obvious, at least to me, the first time through. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

Re: Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us

2014-11-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The attack assume jumping one fairly substantial hurdle and that is you must jailbreak your phone to install apps that don't come from the Apple app store. I don't know what percent of people actually do this but I suspect it's small, which makes the attack surface small and the injury somewhat

Re: Getting your Macbook to wake up when the lid is closed

2014-11-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Last I heard the only way on current MacBooks was to have an external monitor hooked up. Maybe some of the tricks from the MacMini external monitor bug would work here as well. CB On 11/13/14, 6:47 PM, Grant Hardy wrote: Hi all, I’d really love for my Macbook Pro to do a bit of work for me w

updated garage band tutorials?

2014-11-14 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
Hello is there any updated garage band tutorials? the ones that I have a several years old thanks Hank -- 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 macvisio

Re: Anyone else having trouble downloading Files in Safari running Yosemite?

2014-11-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi, Gigi, thanks. I've never downloaded a file that way. but it worked like a charm. Cheers, Donna > On Nov 13, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > No, and I have downloaded a lot of them lately. I have been doing it with VO > shift m to get to the menu and going down arrow to download

Re: Parallels

2014-11-14 Thread Grant Hardy
Thanks all for confirming that Parallels is not accessible. That will make the purchasing decision easier. :) Grant Sent from mobile On Nov 14, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Unless something has changed, parallels is not accessible with voiceover and the company seems to have no inter

Re: Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us

2014-11-14 Thread Chris G
Hi, Actually, under security in Android there is a check box that is unchecked by default. The check box says something like unknown sources, allow applications from both known and unknown sources to be installed. If the user leaves this box unchecked they can only install from the play sto

Re: Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us

2014-11-14 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Chris, You do not have to be jailbroken to be infected with malware using the Mask Attack flaw. The malicious app is actually installed using iOS’ enterprise provisioning features which would normally allow you to, say, install an app from your company’s secure server, or else beta test an a

Re: Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us

2014-11-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. From the Reuters article: "Such attacks could be avoided if iPad and iPhone users only installed apps from Apple's App Store or from their own organizations, it said." http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/13/uk-apple-cybersecurity-dhs-idUKKCN0IX29P20141113 So that seems to imply that in

Re: Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us

2014-11-14 Thread Grant Hardy
As the Reuters article states, there are two places a non-jailbroken user can get apps from: Apple’s App Store, "or from their own organizations”. There is in fact a way that private companies can distribute their own in-house apps without submitting them to Apple’s App Store, by using the enter

question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Juliette Swiler
Hello, I know when I set up my Mac for the first time that it asked for an administrator name and password for logging in, as well as if the screen goes to sleep. This was working fine until I upgraded to Yosemite. Since then, it appears that I am now logged in as a guest user. How would I go ab

music streaming services

2014-11-14 Thread Juliette Swiler
I was wondering if anyone knew if any of the streaming services had accessible apps for the Mac? I am referring to Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, Beats Music, etc. I did download Radium, and that does seem to be pretty accessible. Also, I am looking for something accessible for Twitter and Facebook for

trouble with quickNav

2014-11-14 Thread Juliette Swiler
This is strange. All of a sudden my QuickNav is giving me problems. When I turn it on with the left and right arrow keys, I can only left and right arrow through options. If I bring up a menu, I can’t up and down arrow through the choices without turning QuickNav off. Anyone ever seen this? Tha

Re: question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I really don't know under what circumstances you would have been logged in as guest unless you accidentally chose that user when logging in. What happens if you shut down your computer and restart it. I don't think you would be allowed to login automatically as a guest. You should come to a logi

Re: question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Juliette Swiler
I just tried to shut down, and it prompts me that if I shut down, my files will be deleted and can not be recovered. > On Nov 14, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I really don't know under what circumstances you would have been logged in as > guest unless you accidentally chose that u

Re: question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, anything you have done as a guest will be deleted. If your real username is still there, those files will not be deleted. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for m

Re: music streaming services

2014-11-14 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hello. YoruFukurou is a great twitter client for the mac. Also, for pandora, Hermes is great too. The site for Jango radio "www.jango.com" is alright in terms of accessibility. HTH. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email

Mail Time format different than computer

2014-11-14 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi all. I have my computer set for 24 hour time, however, my mail keeps announcing times in 12 hour time. Is there a way that this can be fixed? Thanks. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.

Re: question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Juliette Swiler
Problem solved. I was able to log out, and then use VoiceOver at the log-in screen to select my name as the user and then enter my password. > On Nov 14, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Juliette Swiler wrote: > > Hello, > I know when I set up my Mac for the first time that it asked for an > administrator nam

Re: question about log-in options

2014-11-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh good! After I posted I realized I should tell you that you could log out without restarting but hadn't gotten back to post it! Glad everything is intact! -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new

Re: Tracking changes in Pages

2014-11-14 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Anne, Thanks so much for the prompt reply. I’m unfortunately still having a lot of trouble with using these track changes features, particularly with comments. 1. The only way I’ve found to move to the next or previous comment is by interacting with the “Change tracking and annotations” too

Outlook for Mac

2014-11-14 Thread Edward Green
Hi, I saw a thread earlier in the week suggesting that the latest version of Outlook was accessible using Voiceover under OSX. However, I can’t find any references online to anything more recent than Outlook 2011, and when I search for Outlook in the App Store, I can’t find it. Is Outlook 2011