Amadeus Pro guides?

2015-01-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I think someone said something a while back about making audio guides for Amadeus Pro? If so, did I miss them, or are they not up yet? If they are, where cold I find them? Thanks in advance. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the money, or if Audacity will do just as well. -- Have a

Re: having 2 windows open when moving files

2015-01-01 Thread Chris G
Hi, I believe it is 4gb not 7. Chris Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Phone: (716) 803-8528 web: www.mysticaccess.com Accessible Gadgets mailing list: > > http://lists.mysticaccess.com/listinfo.cgi/accessiblegadgets-mysticaccess.com Podcast:

Re: need some advice installing windows on mac

2015-01-01 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
bootcamp. sorry i fforgot to include that On 31 Dec 2014, at 08:43 pm, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hi, > > How are you installing Win 8.1! Is it through BootCamp or VM Fusion? When I > did install Win 8.0 on a Mac with Mountain Lion, I didn't need to uninstall > ML before installing Win 8.0. I had

Re: having 2 windows open when moving files

2015-01-01 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, you're absolutely right. Sorry about that - I hit an extra dot and didn't catch it. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Chris G wrote: > > Hi, > I believe it is 4gb not 7. > Chris > > > Mystic Access > Where the magic is in learning. > 733 Delaware Rd 341 > Buffalo, NY 14223 > Phone: (716) 803

RE: a couple of questions

2015-01-01 Thread Marcia Yale
I can answer the third question, regarding Voiceover reading email subjects when new messages arrive, regardless of what you are doing at the time. If you don't want to hear this information, simply navigate to the Notification Centre and remove Mail from the list of programs in your notificatio

Re: a couple of questions

2015-01-01 Thread alia robinson
now if they would get rid of the ‘one row added’ annoyance when you’re reading email. I *hate* it. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Marcia Yale wrote: > > I can answer the third question, regarding Voiceover reading email subjects > when new messages arrive, regardless of what you are doing at th

finding the library folder in the home directory

2015-01-01 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I am having finding the library directory in the home folder. Is it a hidden folder? If not, where do I find it? -- 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

Re: finding the library folder in the home directory

2015-01-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, it is normally a hidden file. You could do a number of things to access it of which I’ll mention two. First, you could go to the Finder, then up to the menubar, over to the Go menu, and with VO keys down, navigate down to the Library folder. Second, you could go to the Finder, press

accessing the shared menu in safari

2015-01-01 Thread Faisal ali
Hi all, I know one can access the shared options via tools but I’m wondering if there is a quicker way of getting to it, perhaps with a keystroke? I do’t mind going to tools and getting to it that way, but ideally, I would prefer having less steps especially if sharing multiple items. Thanks --

XiphQT

2015-01-01 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I am trying to install XiphQT extensions so that I can play ogg files. I’d prefer it be system wide but I am uncertain on how to do this and I feel that the realm instructions are just a bit vague. I know that I have to install this in Library/Components but do I have to make oth

Re: accessing the shared menu in safari

2015-01-01 Thread Alex Hall
You could always set your own keystrokes for the sharing options you use a lot. I think cmd-i is already email, but you could assign shortcuts to any other sharing items. If you need specific instructions, let me know, I think I have a guide on it somewhere on AppleVis and I can dig up the link

Re: accessing the shared menu in safari

2015-01-01 Thread Faisal ali
Hi Alex, Yes, that would be great. I would like to set one up for Facebook. Thanks > On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > You could always set your own keystrokes for the sharing options you use a > lot. I think cmd-i is already email, but you could assign shortcuts to any > other s

Re: in Safari, how do I access info popped up via the mouse hover?

2015-01-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christina, Sorry for the delay in replying to your question. I’ve just tried this on the Huffington Post site and all you have to do is bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5 and the new items become accessible with VO. I’ve tried this in both DOM and Groups modes and it works in both cases. Che

Re: Copy text from terminal.

2015-01-01 Thread DD
Someone asked: "My problem is the following. I have a Python script to launch within the terminal. The script exits with a quite long and detailed error which has a long traceback. I would like to copy all this output from terminal in the clipboard in order to past it within an e-mail, and ask

Re: Copy text from terminal.

2015-01-01 Thread Alex Hall
Why not just pipe it directly? python myScript.py > output.txt 2> errors.txt will place any output (that is, print statements) in output.txt, and any errors (anything printed to stderr) to errors.txt. Of course, you can play with the paths or anything else you need. Or, you could put file-writi

Re: XiphQT

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Dunno if I would trust this, at least the installers I found were from 2009: https://xiph.org/quicktime/ That said, I checked my Library/Components and found the Xiph install I did years ago is still there after umpteen upgrades so I guess it doesn't hurt anything. Assuming it works at all, in

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The tricky part is you give up the economy of scale by adapting a mainstream interface. Sure, somebody could make a one-off version of a GUI OS without the GUI but then every time some new product or other comes out, how well would it function under the special OS? For those who have read much

Re: A question about messaging on the Mac

2015-01-01 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Actually i don't have any of these problems with messaging on the mac. So something must be wrong here. /A > 31 dec 2014 kl. 01:51 skrev Mary-Jo Lord : > > Okay then. I'll wait for the next update and try again. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mai

converting iso video files

2015-01-01 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi, Was just wondering if anybody knew of an app to convert iso video files to m4v. i’m thinking the newest version of IMovie could do it, but I’ve never used it before. Thanks Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscr

playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
I thought I understood how to do this because I have been playing individual files. I go into the context menu and choose “open with” and then I can pick one of my players. when I tried this with a folder that option wasn[’t present. how is this done? Thanks. Lorie -- You received this messa

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Probably the easiest way to do this would be with the QuickLook function. Open the folder from within the Finder, press cmd-a to select all the items within that folder then just press the spacebar once. The music will play and you can arrow through the songs if you wish to skip anything.

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
what player opens when you do it that way? I’d like to be able to choose vlc. I tried going into it and doing it that way but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Probably the easiest way to do this would be with the QuickLook functi

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-01 Thread Jason White
BobH. wrote: > I think a lot of us have said for a good while, that modern 'puters are 99% > eye candy or effects; and maybe as much as 1% real work, though doubt it. > > DOS worked so well, cos it did none of that. Boring to the sighted, but > even they were more focussed on getting real inf

Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10

2015-01-01 Thread Agent086b
Hello, I have downloaded the zip file hosts.zip. I can not see a hosts.txt file. There is Hosts executable licence.txt mbvps.bat privacypolecy.txt and readme.txt. Please what am I missing. Thanks for any help. Max > On 1 Jan 2015, at 12:49 am, DD wrote: > > > Someone asked: > > "This is a

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Spacebar on any file invokes the OSX quick look, which isn't really an app. It's meant to quickly preview files without waiting for the usual app launch process. CB On 1/1/15 7:01 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: what player opens when you do it that way? I’d like to be able to choose vlc. I tried g

Re: Amadeus Pro guides?

2015-01-01 Thread Janet Ingber
Hi Alex, Here’s the link to an excellent Amadeus Pro podcast. http://www.iblindtech.com/democast/episode-37-podcasting-with-amadeus-pro.html I like Amadeus Pro a lot. Happy New Year. Janet > On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I think someone said something a while ba

Garage band

2015-01-01 Thread Hope Paulos
Hi all. I’m trying to play around with Garage band. I was told that I didn’t have the selected drum kits and instruments and asked if I wanted to download it. Hopefully it didn’t charge me, right? Does anyone know of any good podcasts for the latest version of Garage band? I would like to use

Re: converting iso video files

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
ISO is a disk image, so it depends on what is inside that disk image. Is it a DVD image or just some random data files? CB On 1/1/15 6:40 PM, jeffrey greene wrote: Hi, Was just wondering if anybody knew of an app to convert iso video files to m4v. i’m thinking the newest version of IMovie cou

Re: converting iso video files

2015-01-01 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi Chris I suspect its a dvd image. Its like 7.66gb. Thanks, Jeff > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:53 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > ISO is a disk image, so it depends on what is inside that disk image. Is it a > DVD image or just some random data files? > > CB > > On 1/1/15 6:40 P

Re: applescript or command line which should I us

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The open-source Sox package can convert audio files to ogg. If you need to convert a whole pile of them then you can just make a loop in a shell script. Googling around I found this: for i in *.wav; do sox "$i" "`echo $i|sed 's/wav$/ogg/'`";done In the above example the source files are assum

Re: converting iso video files

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Seems like you should be able to open the iso to mount it on your desktop and then use Handbrake to convert the video files to whatever you need. CB On 1/1/15 7:55 PM, jeffrey greene wrote: Hi Chris I suspect its a dvd image. Its like 7.66gb. Thanks, Jeff On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:53 PM, 'Chris

Re: converting iso video files

2015-01-01 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi Chris, That’s a great idea but hand break doesn’t work with Yosemite. I have a program for windows called total video converter, I’ll give it a shot! Jeff > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:59 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Seems like you should be able to open the iso to mount it

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread David Griffith
If you are asking how to open a folder for playing inVLCit is very simple. 1. Press command a to select all the music in the folder. 2. Press command down arrow to open selection. 3. VLC will now interpret the folder as a temporary playlist. Use normal navigation in VLC to play the contents of th

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The player that opens will be the one that is the default set for that file type. This can be changed. I use VLC as my default for most music and only use iTunes when I have iTunes itself open or on purpose want to play something in iTunes. So to set vlc as the default for a filetype, I find a f

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Does this automatically play the whole folder? What I suspect is that if you have subfolders all of these will just try to open in finder and either nothing will open in vlc or only files contained in the top level of the folder system will be included. But for a simple folder the cmd-a to selec

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
do you activate quick look first? otherwise you’d have to do it from within the folder you want to play, I think. 1 of my folders has sub folders. the other one doesn’t. 1 has a variety of file extensions which is why I need to use VLC. > On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:03 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I

Re: Copy text from terminal.

2015-01-01 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Terrific, Alex. This is the nicer one. Tanks. Gabriel. -- 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...@googlegroups.com. To post to

Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10

2015-01-01 Thread The Believer
There is no hosts.txt file in the zip. Just hosts with no extension. Rename it with the txt extension to edit it then remove the extension when done. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/1/2015 4:24 PM, Agent086b wrote: Hello, I have downloaded

Re: Amadeus Pro guides?

2015-01-01 Thread Alex Hall
Thank you, that was a very helpful podcast and exactly what I was looking for. I'm not sure I like how multiple tracks are handled, but at least now the overall layout and procedure makes sense. Now, to see if I can do my 30-day trial over again, armed with this new understanding. :) > On Jan 1,

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, What I'm trying to induce here is the sense that no matter the graphic outline, everything starts graphicsless and elements are pulled out of the lower layers, such as kernel, login daemons etc. The graphics layer itself cannot be omitted since it is also the core of a lot of coco framework

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-01 Thread Joanne Chua
What about if we start asking Apple to make some products that is specificly for voiceover, and don't worry about GPU at all hey? Won't it be great? Maybe, someone might want to bring this up on this year NFB convention? On 02/01/2015, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi, > > What I'm trying to induc

Re: playing a folder of music

2015-01-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
I tried finding some files with different extensions that I want to use vlc player for. after “Open With” in the information area there was preview and sharing and permissions. I can’t find the players listed anywhere. making the playlist in terminal sounds like a good idea but I’ve never done