help with embossing on the mac

hi, I have an index basic D which up until now I have been running from an old pc but I want to be able to braille directly from my mac. I have tried Louis but got rubbish out. I then downloaded instructions from the index website only to have the mac tell me that my computer did not support th

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, Yep, sure did. Cheers Dave > On 9 Feb 2015, at 2:37 am, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi. Did you allow cellular calls from FaceTime on both your Mac and iPhone? > You have to have the latest version of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in order to do > this. > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook >

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I mean on OS X Cheers Dave > On 9 Feb 2015, at 2:20 am, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > You mean get Alex for the iPhone? Well, first, let's start by informing you > that you absolutely MUST have at the very least the iPhone 5S. Nothing less > than that will do. Now, assuming you do have that, do

anyone have any success at creating an ali-express account?

hello group, has anyone here had any success with this site? I tried every conceivable way to create an account there. Firstly, Rumola wouldn't recognize the captcha there. Not on any of the browsers I can use here. Then I tried going around by way of the Facebook sign in process. Got stymied th

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi guys I just sent accessibil...@apple.com some information from my computer, at their request, after I crashed VoiceOver with command w followed by command q when I wanted to hang up a call made on my Mac. It worked fine when I went to End or close, but when I made the fatal mistake of pressi

Re: Clamshell Mode on MacBook Air

Hi, A little program I use called "NoSleep" works well. I can close the lid of my MacBook Pro, and the computer doesn't sleep at all. I also know this program works well on the latest MacBook Air. It also works on battery power and while plugged in. Once installed, this program adds a button to

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, To make mobile calls from your Mac, the process is quite simple. On your iPhone's FaceTime preferences, area, you need to enable the option that allows cellular via FaceTime. On the Mac side, the same option needs to be enabled. Also, note that both devices need to have their Bluetooth radios

Re: Adobe Flash Installer launched in the background

You can control this somewhat in system preferences, this is annoying. When I installed version 10.10 of the operating system, I did not even bother with flash player because I no longer needed it, and it's not accessible on the web anyway. Original message: Hi: every time I start my Mac it te

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi, Verry interesting to look at all your replies. On the subject of delayed responses using software speech, one has to consider the possibility that Apple may in fact employ private API's that are non-published, and therefore are undocumented. Remember that Apple controls the entire software st

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi everyone, like Dave, I have found no difference in the way Alex sounds in Yosemite versus Mavericks, but I agree responsiveness is excellent and this makes me want to give it yet another go. I've been lucky for some reason as I've not been affected by any lag issues since Yosemite. Well, at l

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi, How would one go about deleting all the other voices other than Alex? > On Feb 9, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hi everyone, like Dave, I have found no difference in the way Alex sounds in > Yosemite versus Mavericks, but I agree responsiveness is excellent and this > makes me

Amadeus Pro: how to know the play head position.

Hi all. Is there a way, in Amadeus Pro, to know, especially the position in time of the Play head? And, if possible also the position of the insertion Point. Thanks. Gabriel. — Namasté! Sent from my iMac27. (Libero) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: Amadeus Pro: how to know the play head position.

Hi Gabriel. The most reliable way of doing this that I've found is to move the insertion point to the play head, then press command-G. This brings up the "go to" dialog and the position is reported there. Jonathan Mosen, Mosen Consulting Blindness technology information, eBooks and training http

Changing the way itunes handles cd-s.

Hi! Is there a way to make itunes not to start evrytime i inseart a cd? THe only thing i can find is show cd and import cd and import and eject cd. Very annoying when ripping books with Audiobook Builder. /A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisiona

Views in iTunes 12

I am looking to change from grid view to list view when browsling movies in iTunes 12.1. Cannot seem to find it. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: Changing the way itunes handles cd-s.

System Preferences, CDs and DVDs. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/9/2015 10:05 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is there a way to make itunes not to start evrytime i inseart a cd? THe only thing i can find is show cd and import cd and import a

Re: Amadeus Pro: how to know the play head position.

Thank you Jonathan. 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 this group, send email to

Problem with internet radio in iTunes

Hi all. I am using the latest version of iTunes on yosemite. All is well until I try to use Internet Radio. If I try to expand any category iTunes goes busy and I eventually have to force quit it. Is anybody else experiencing this behavior and/or does anybody have any idea of what is going on a

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, How strange. I use calling on my Mac with no problem and Bluetooth is disabled on my phone. Matthew Sent from my iPhone. Skype: graduater2004. Email and face time/iMessage: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com > On Feb 9, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Erik Heil wrote: > > Hi, > To make mobile calls fr

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, Yes, you are correct. Bluetooth is not needed for this to work. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18756 Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:06, matthew dyer wrote: Hi, How strange. I use calling on my Mac with no problem

Re: OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

Right, the home screen does not go into landscape mode on iPhones and iPods so nothing will happen there. This is not the case for iPads which will rearrange when turned sideways. CB On 2/8/15 10:30 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: I'm just trying it on the home screen. No luck. Best, Erik Burggr

Recording audio

Hi guys. The previous app that I used, in conjunction with Sound Flower, a program called Ladio Cast, seems to have disappeared. I did notice that the program formerly called Audio Highjack Pro, now has come out with osmething called audio highjack. No more pro anything at the end of the program

Re: Views in iTunes 12

HI, Just to the left of the Scroll area, there should be a pop-up menu that announces “Movies”. VO-space on that, then Interact with the table and VO-space on the “Movie List” item. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:14, The Believer wrote: I am looking t

seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

hey all, i have a TV with a 3.5MM headphone jack witch i used to connect to the mike port on my windows computer and record the sound. on the mac i have run into some significant difficulties with this. Obviously the Mac has no dedicated microphone jack witch can be overcome with the iMike USB in

Re: Views in iTunes 12

Thanks that was it. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/9/2015 11:34 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: HI, Just to the left of the Scroll area, there should be a pop-up menu that announces “Movies”. VO-space on that, then Interact with the table and VO

Re: Recording audio

Hello. Audio hijack 3 works fine. Once you figure out how to use it, and Alex hall has done a terrific podcast on AppleVis regarding this. Take a look at the do, you can record for 10 minutes until there will be noise in your recordings. Is Rogue Amiba not selling audio hijack pro anymore? Creati

Re: Changing the way itunes handles cd-s.

General preferences and import settings would do this. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Anders Holmberg wr

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

Hi, On a Mac, the headphone jack doubles as a line-in jack. You should be able to go direct using 3.5 to 3.5 from the out on your TV to the jack on the Mac. Using an app like Audio Hi-Jack Pro would do the recording for you nicely. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 9, 201

Re: Recording audio

Hi Keith, Rogue Amoeba have done a fantastic job of accessibility in Audio Hijack, and they're very open to feedback. Here's the Audioboom I did introducing people to the concepts. Exploring Audio Hijack 3 for OS X from @RogueAmoeba with VoiceOver

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

Related to this, there are four audio electrical levels. Mic levels are tiny signals that come out of a mic and usually need to go through a pre-amp before they can become usable 'line level' signals. Line level is typically for signal routing such as patching the audio output from a DVD player

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

hey, if i connected something in to the headphone jack of the mac i would get no sound. the new macs only have one jack. thanks Michael > On 10 Feb 2015, at 7:49 am, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > On a Mac, the headphone jack doubles as a line-in jack. You should be able > to go direct using

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

hey, thanks for the stuff on electrical interference. USB devices are particularly prone to interference i have found. This is the one major mistake that Apple have made. All maxed should have three Jack's microphone, headphones and line-in i believe. Michael > On 10 Feb 2015, at 8:10 am, 'Chris B

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hey. Noticed that no one else replied to this so to delete a voice, go to the Mackintosh HD in your finder, then go to system, library, speech, then voices. There you can delete any voice you wish. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi,

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

The earlier Macbooks had headphone out and line-in. line-in is probably the most common as mic-level preamps are delicate noise-prone things, probably not something Apple would want to spend money on for the handful of folks who would actually use it. For those who do care you can get all kinds

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

do you think line-in would be the best option for mac recording? thanks Michael > On 10 Feb 2015, at 9:01 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > The earlier Macbooks had headphone out and line-in. line-in is probably the > most common as mic-level preamps are delicate noise-prone t

Speaking Headers in Numbers?

Hi all, I'm working with Numbers again, which I haven't done since last year. I seem to recall that, in the past, VoiceOver would speak the first cell in a row as I up or down arrowed, or in a column as I left or right arrowed. This way, I could be told what information a given cell referred to,

Editing Media Information

In iTunes 12.1 I am editiing some information such as genre. I am working with the mvoies right now. I did a batch and now want to do some one at a time. When I highlight a title then cmd-i to bring up Get Info, I am on a title that is already done. If I cancel and highlight another titl

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I can’t use Fred at all; he mumbles too much. I don’t even think he’s actually a formant synthesiser at all, though that’s rather hard to tell just from listening to it even at faster rates. But no, Alex, you’re not imagining it; Alex has gone back to his old, glorious self from the Snow Leopa

iTunes match revisited

Hi all, I have another question regarding iTunes match. After the songs on your library’s been matched, what happens to the original songs that were in the library? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from t

Re: iTunes match revisited

Hi, you have to remove the songs locally from your library in order to gain access to the match conversions. If you don't, iTunes will continue to play the version that you have stored in your library. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi all, > I have an

Re: iTunes match revisited

Hi, Just to be clear, you go ahead and remove the songs locally after iTune has finished matching your library? Thanks > On Feb 9, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi, you have to remove the songs locally from your library in order to gain > access to the match conversions. If you d

Re: Editing Media Information

Hi! OK I think this is a VO highlighting problem! I find when doing a track at a time I always use VO+shift+m and select get info from there when sitting on the track I wish to edit! HTH Colin On 9 Feb 2015, at 23:36, The Believer wrote: > In iTunes 12.1 I am editing some information such as

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

I’m afraid I don’t recall a procedure for doing this from Terminal. I did a quick look through my current defaults, and don’t see a setting for this. Sorry. :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

I know there's an AppleScript command, but it was broken in Mavericks and I'm not sure if it is fixed now or not. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of? > On Feb 9, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > I’m afraid I don’t recall a procedure for doing this from Terminal. I did a

Re: iTunes match revisited

Yep, then you'll have access to the match versions. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi, > Just to be clear, you go ahead and remove the songs locally after iTune has > finished matching your library? > Thanks >> On Feb 9, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Daniel Mille

urgent, lost all speach

Hi all, So I'm not sure what I done, but now I don't have any voiceover speech on my mac. I believe its muted somehow, but I can't figure out how to unmute it. I tried doing a three finger double tap on the track pad but nothing is happening. Can anyone help? Thanks -- You received this messag

Re: Speaking Headers in Numbers?

Numbers will speak the data in the last header row, or last header column. if you have a table with, say, 3 header rows, then the data in row 3 will be used as column labels and will be spoken as you arrow right or left across a row. the data in rows 1 & 2 will not act as column labels. simila

Re: Speaking Headers in Numbers?

I meant to add that you should check the number of hheader rows and columns in the table menu and make sure its what you expect. again, if the labels aren’t in the last header row or column, they won’t act as row and column labels. This happens to me sometimes when the number of headers gets ou

Re: Amadeus Pro: how to know the play head position.

there is an icon in the toolbar that gives the playhead position. it just says a time value and doesn’t have a label, but I think it does have a help tag to identify it as the playhead position icon. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: > > Hi all. > Is there a way, in Amad

Re: Editing Media Information

Colin thanks. That works but it seems a bit more difficult. I will try another batch later and see what happens but its good to know we can do something more than one way. Also I found that editing a title from Get Info seems different from editing filenames in Finder. I could not just m

Re: Editing Media Information

Hi, It is indeed a tracking sort of issue. If you’re in a table and have a specific item selected that you wish to modify the info of, do that modification then attempt to VO navigate to the next item, the keyboard does not appear to follow the VO movement. When this sort of thing happens, I

Re: Editing Media Information

Hi Tim! OK that works I turned off quicknav and did only use the arrows and sure enough which ever track I stopped on and did command+I took me straight into that tracks info for me to edit! Thanks! Colin On 10 Feb 2015, at 02:22, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > It is indeed a tracking sort of i

Re: urgent, lost all speach

You might have muted your computer. If you have no sound whatso ever (not even music or system sounds), hit F10 once. If you still have nothing, hit it again to toggle mute off again, as the problem is elsewhere. Of course, if your computer is set to require pressing the Function key with the F

Re: Speaking Headers in Numbers?

Thanks for the help. Now that you say this, it's starting to come back. Still, I'm new to this. I thought I had header set up. In my Header Rows menu, 1 is checked, as it is in Header Columns. I created this spreadsheet around 18 months ago, so is there something I might need to do to tell Numbe

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi Alex, I had system sounds. It even made the normal VO clicking sounds but no speech what so ever. Even when I rebooted my machine, VO clicked like it does when it activates, but still no speech. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > You might have muted your computer. If you hav

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Well then, at least your system sound is working, that makes it easier. Do you have a Mute Speech command set up in any commanders? I've done that before - hit the hotkey and forgot I did so. Is speech volume all the way down? Have you hit cmd-f5 four or five times very quickly? Sometimes this c

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi Alex, I don’t have the commander for muting speech. I thought that there was a VO command for muting and unmoving speech. As it turns out, there isn’t. I tried restarting VO several times with no success., > On Feb 9, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Well then, at least your system so

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi, With VO on, try this: • press VO-f8 ()add the FN key to this combination if you can normally change your volume without holding down the FN key) • press cmd-6 • VO-right once. • press VO-space. What you’d be doing here is opening the VoiceOver Utility, going directly to the Sound pane, the

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi Tim, Thanks for this. I’m wondering if its possible that I did something when I deleted voices from my system folder? I didn’t think it would affect Alex, but I guess anything’s possible. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 7:45 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > With VO on, try this: > > • press VO-f8 ()

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, All this was already done. Cheers Dave > On 9 Feb 2015, at 2:47 pm, Erik Heil wrote: > > Hi, > To make mobile calls from your Mac, the process is quite simple. On your > iPhone's FaceTime preferences, area, you need to enable the option that > allows cellular via FaceTime. On the Mac s

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi folks, I guess I'm way behind the times. I've used Alex for the most part. I do enjoy him. However at times he freaks me out when he breathes. I didn't realize one could put another companies voices on a Mac. I thought anything that was in voices under speech, was Apple's property. How does

Navigation commands

I cannot seem to get a handle on navigating lists in List View. How do I move to the first or last item in a list? From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I'm with you about not using Fred. It's very hard to understand him. He's too quiet, even though Voiceover's volume is at 100%. As for Alex going back to the way he was in Snow Leopard, I wouldn't go that far. He does sound a lot better though. He's an upgrade to Eloquence or eSpeak, the two mos

Re: Speaking Headers in Numbers?

do you have the column titles in row1, and the row titles in column1? I don’t know, maybe try setting headers to zero, and then back to one again. I don’t think there’s any setting that controls the speaking of titles, but there might be somewhere in the inspectors, or perhaps VO utilities. > On

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, Sometimes, you need to turn the feature off on your iPhone, restart your iPhone then turn the feature back on. If that doesn’t do it, do the same on your Mac. On occasion, they just don’t talk to each other properly until things have been fiddled with a time or two. Later... Tim Kilburn

Re: Navigation commands

Hi, There was a thread a couple of days ago discussing this sort of thing, but with respect to iTunes. The concept is the same though, the tables in iTunes are similar to the tables within List view of a window. So, you can arrow up and down through these lists, expand with arrow keys and suc

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Tim, surely, you meant to press CMD+3 after entering the Voice OVer Utility? Then VO+right three times then press VO+space? That's where I find the mute speech check box. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my M

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi, I guess that it is possible. I’ve never bothered removing any of the built-in voices before, so you may have confused the speech engine. If you still don’t have any voice, try going into Recovery mode, try turning on VO there. It should work for you then if you re-install your MacOS, the

Re: Color schemes

Your friend can customize her desktop background. Not sure whether or not she can customize the Font color. Command option F5 will take you to the accessibility menu where toward the bottom of that menu is an invert colors checkbox. I personally like that feature they recently implemented give

Re: Navigation commands

is this the same for standard Mac keyboards? I have one on my Mac Mini. it’s not bluetooth. anyway, I’m not even sure I can get all those keys at the same time. am I correct that fn is what you would call “home” on a windows pc? the top middle one in that little 6 key group? Lorie McCloud lorice

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Hi Ray, Thanks for this. You are correct. My instructions toggled the VO sound effects whereas cmd-3, then VO-right three times, then VO-space like you said should toggle the speech on/off. Good catch. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 9, 2015, at 21:58, Ray Foret Jr wr

Re: Navigation commands

Hi, Yes and no. The instructions I gave work for the keyboard without the NumPad or a laptop keyboard where the FN key is in the lower left. If you have the extended keyboard with your Mac, the FN key is where the “Insert” key would have been on a Windows keyboard, top left of the six-pack.

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Also, I've noticed with Yosemite that if you delete a voice and that certain voice is checked when you go to the customize menu under speech, the voice will redownload until you uncheck it. I know it does this with Alex and the Nuance voices but not sure with the other built-in voices. Shawn Se

Re: Amadeus Pro: how to know the play head position.

Phil Halton, alle 02:47 del 10/02/2015, digitò: there is an icon in the toolbar that gives the playhead position. it just says a time value and doesn’t have a label, but I think it does have a help tag to identify it as the playhead position icon. O Thanks Phil, I'm going to show my Toolbar the