Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Alex Hall
It depends on what you need. Advanced formatting, the ability to insert footers, all that? Pages is your cheapest bet. Something more basic, including fonts, links, and other rich text features (but not the advanced options of Pages), and Text Edit will do just fine. The latter is included on al

Re: 2 questions about email

2015-07-30 Thread gracewelln...@atlanticbb.net
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Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
Hello, Yes, but as I said in my original message, I want a way to separate notes into folders or notebooks. I don’t see a way of doing that in the Notes app, unless I’m missing something? -- Anything is possible, Brandon Olivares www.CoCreationCoaching.org

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Sunshine
What about features for writers? meaning making books and the like if you want to become an author? On 7/30/2015 7:14 AM, Alex Hall wrote: It depends on what you need. Advanced formatting, the ability to insert footers, all that? Pages is your cheapest bet. Something more basic, including font

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Jim Gatteys
Have you taken a look at Evernote? Haven't used it in a while but it seemed pretty accessible when I used it. Jim > On Jul 30, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Hello, > > Yes, but as I said in my original message, I want a way to separate notes > into folders or notebooks.

Re: login on a remote disc

2015-07-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Good point. I can't recall if the default is to show network drives on the desktop or if I changed that preference sometime in the past. CB On 7/29/15 5:36 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, Not sure why the Disconnect button is not working for you as I’ve used it myself in the past. further to wha

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Devin Prater
I'd think iBooks Author would be good for that. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Sunshine wrote: > > What about features for writers? meaning making books and the like if you > want to become an author? > >> On 7/30/2015 7:14 AM, Alex Hall wrote: >> It depends on what you ne

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Phil Halton
Notes certainly has the ability to create separate folders for categorizing your notes. > On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Hello, > > Yes, but as I said in my original message, I want a way to separate notes > into folders or notebooks. I don’t see a way of doing

Re: 2 questions about email

2015-07-30 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
when you get to preferences you want to go to accounts. after selecting whatever account you created you can then arrow or tab through the screen name password and smtp info. on mine the default sound was an air plane taking off when an email has been sent. did you hear that or some other sound

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Sunshine
no what i mean is for someone who is in the process of writing a book which word processor would be the best to use on a mac? On 7/30/2015 9:59 AM, Devin Prater wrote: I'd think iBooks Author would be good for that. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Sunshine

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
Thanks. Where is that capability? I cannot find it. -- Anything is possible, Brandon Olivares www.CoCreationCoaching.org Create a life of infinite possibilities! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cocreationcoaching

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
Never mind. I figured it out. :) Thank you. This will work fine. -- Anything is possible, Brandon Olivares www.CoCreationCoaching.org Create a life of infinite possibilities! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cocreationcoaching

RE: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread george b
How do you do folders then I looked and could not figure it out From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon A. Olivares Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 09:24 To: “Mac Visionaries“ Subject: Re: Notes App Suggestions Never mind. I figure

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
On the Mac, press command-shift-n, and it will create a new folder. -- Anything is possible, Brandon Olivares www.CoCreationCoaching.org Create a life of infinite possibilities! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cocreationcoaching

RE: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread george b
Cool I was looking on the iPhone and it seems that you can not make a folder From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon A. Olivares Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 09:44 To: “Mac Visionaries“ Subject: Re: Notes App Suggestions On the

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Phil Halton
Scrivener is an excellent drafting app. It is more suited to writing large documents like books etc. because it lets you outline and then fill in the outlines and's etc. Sent from my IPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Sunshine wrote: > > no what i mean is for someone who is in the proces

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Devin Prater
I can safely say that if you wait 3 months the notes app will be able to do folders, which could be notebooks. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Hello, > > Yes, but as I said in my original message, I want a way to separate notes > into fold

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Devin Prater
Is Scrivener free? Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Scrivener is an excellent drafting app. It is more suited to writing large > documents like books etc. because it lets you outline and then fill in the > outlines and's etc. > > Sent from my IPhone

Re: Skype

2015-07-30 Thread E.T.
Alex, Thanks. I do not plan to use it much either but decided it might be handy. I have a friend down under who wants to use Skype now and then. I want to make sure I have settings set properly. I think I do so I will give it a try soon. Is the Handoff and Continuity function only f

Re: login on a remote disc

2015-07-30 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I try to explain further: I new already that I could see connected servers in the finder e.g. with command+shift+k. And that I can delete them like a usb-disc with command+e. But the situation here is something else/more complicated: I want to mount my remote time-machine that is store

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread sadam . lists
No. It's a paid app. Sent from my iPhone -- > On 31 Jul 2015, at 3:34 am, Devin Prater wrote: > > Is Scrivener free? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Scrivener is an excellent drafting app. It is more suited to writing large >> docum

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Sunshine
how much is it and is it totally accessible On 7/30/2015 1:12 PM, sadam.li...@gmail.com wrote: No. It's a paid app. Sent from my iPhone -- On 31 Jul 2015, at 3:34 am, Devin Prater > wrote: Is Scrivener free? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Phi

Re: login on a remote disc

2015-07-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. I do network time machine backups to another Mac which shares out a disk image on its external drive so I can control the amount of space time machine sucks up. So my time machine backup volume just pops up on my desktop while running and then goes away. The first time I back up to this re

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Here in Australia it’s around $60. Not sure what that converts to where you’re located. Yes totally accessible with VoiceOver. > On 31 Jul 2015, at 4:30 am, Sunshine wrote: > > how much is it and is it totally accessible > > > On 7/30/2015 1:12 PM, sadam.li...@gmail.com

playroom

2015-07-30 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Does anybody play games on Quentin c's playroom with safari on a mac and if so how do you start a game? Jim -- 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

Re: Skype

2015-07-30 Thread Deb Lewis
Right. Handoff does not work with skype because it's not an Apple app. But generally I like Skype quite wel on the Mac. It's very accessible. On 7/30/15, E.T. wrote: > Alex, > Thanks. I do not plan to use it much either but decided it might be > handy. I have a friend down under who wants to

Re: Skype

2015-07-30 Thread Devin Prater
Does anyone know how skype can be made to work better with voiceover? Currently, incoming messages aren't read automatically, as they used to be. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Deb Lewis wrote: > > Right. Handoff does not work with skype because it's not an Apple app. >

Re: login on a remote disc

2015-07-30 Thread William Windels
hoi Chris and others, thx for the response. With command+k, I have just discovered that username@ip-adres brings also up the login as dialoge. But, the pasword, I can’t give as a parameter. But next to that, and if I understand well of you, the backups are not ready to browse in the finder if no

Re: login on a remote disc

2015-07-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Normally Time Machine will mount the drive, do the backup and then dismount the drive. There should be nothing preventing you from also mounting the same drive yourself and poking around in it. As far as URL formatting, if you really want to you can embed the password after the username separat

Re: playroom

2015-07-30 Thread May McDonald
Yes, I just started playing there. If you've already created the game then if you press tab it should put you in the game section and there will be a lot of buttons and the first will be start game. Let me know if you need more help. It's harder to explain how to do it via email, but will try

Re: playroom

2015-07-30 Thread Devin Prater
Turn quicknav off, and it works just like the client, mostly. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > > Hi Does anybody play games on Quentin c's playroom with safari on a mac and > if so how do you start a game? > Jim > > -- > You received this message becaus

Re: playroom

2015-07-30 Thread May McDonald
I don't have that on anyways, but good to know in case I accidentally turn it on, smiles. > On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Devin Prater wrote: > > Turn quicknav off, and it works just like the client, mostly. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: >> >> H

how to get maps from humanware for trekker breeze downloaded

2015-07-30 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I was wondering can anyone tell me how to use Safari to get files from an ftp site to download. I have the maps for the Trekker Breeze which I need to get. I tried Command plus Option Plus M and looking for a download option off the submenu and I also tried dragging and dropping

Re: Skype

2015-07-30 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey Devon. That's why I keep using Skype version 6.15 because as Apple's slogan says, everything just works. I get incoming messages using Growl, everything. I know Microsoft keeps threatening to not allow users to use older versions of Skype, but that's all they are. Just threats. And I hate ho

Re: Notes App Suggestions

2015-07-30 Thread Emilio
Hello everyone, Scrivener is not free, and I believe it is about $50. Another suggestion for notes that I like is using NV Alt in conjunction with Simple Note. NV Alt is free and can sync with your Simple Note account, which is a free app you can download to your iPhone. I have my NV Alt notes d

Re: how to get maps from humanware for trekker breeze downloaded

2015-07-30 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hello: You will need to use a Windows machine, not a Mac. > On Jul 30, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Scott Berry wrote: > > Hello there, > > I was wondering can anyone tell me how to use Safari to get files from an ftp > site to download. I have the maps for the Trekker Breeze which I need to > get. I t

ms office 2016 for mac

2015-07-30 Thread denise avant
Hwllo all, I am wondering about the overall accessibility for vo with office 2016 on the Mac. I am thinking of getting it since I use the windows version at work, and other major endeavors. I use pages and text edit for some other things, but still find there are situations when ms word is nec

Re: best word processor for mac and voiceover.

2015-07-30 Thread Phil Halton
Accessibility is quite good, that's the price you'll have to find it either on the air website or in the Apple Store, can't remember where it is. Sent from my IPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Sunshine wrote: > > how much is it and is it totally accessible > > >> On 7/30/2015 1:12 PM,

FS:mint Apple iPad mini with two cases and smart cover...

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backspacing

2015-07-30 Thread Stacey Robinson
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RE: mint Apple iPad mini with two cases and smart cover...

2015-07-30 Thread george b
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RE: ms office 2016 for mac

2015-07-30 Thread george b
Go to www.microsoft.com/office on that page you will find the entire seuite for office or you can get word and excel as stand alones. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of denise avant Sent: Thursday, July 30, 201

Re: mint Apple iPad mini with two cases and smart cover...

2015-07-30 Thread Becky Sabo
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Re: ms office 2016 for mac

2015-07-30 Thread eileen . misrahi
Hi Denise, >From my recollection, a hardcopy of MS office for the Mac won't be available >until the fall. The only way right now to have access to it is through Office >365. HTH. Eileen Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 6:20 PM, george b wrote: > > Go to > > www.microsoft.com/offic

Re: playroom

2015-07-30 Thread Jim Gatteys
I don't see anything about how to create a game. Wonder if Ihave something disabled? Jim > On Jul 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, May McDonald wrote: > > Yes, I just started playing there. > > If you've already created the game then if you press tab it should put you in > the game section and there wi

Re: mint Apple iPad mini with two cases and smart cover...

2015-07-30 Thread Cameron Strife
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word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi all, Is there a way to get a word count for files in text edit? I've looked in the menus and am not seeing anything. Thanks, Gabe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi! If you look for an app called word service it will let you install several services that work with many applications and one of them is a word count service. Also sorting is another handy service that I use quite a bit. Jim > On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Gabe Griffith wrote: > > Hi all,

Re: word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread Jim Gatteys
actually that's not where I got the word count. It is an apple script that I converted to run like an app. Not sure if I can post it to this list but if you want to email me I can send it as an attachment. Not sure where I got it. Jim > On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Gabe Griffith wrote: > >

Re: word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread sadam . lists
Hi Jim, Is this app available from the Mac App Store? Thanks, Sadam Sent from my iPhone -- > On 31 Jul 2015, at 1:38 pm, Jim Gatteys wrote: > > Hi! > If you look for an app called word service it will let you install several > services that work with many applications and one of th

Re: word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You can find and download the script from this website . > On 31 Jul 2015, at 2:10 pm, sadam.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > Is this app available from the Mac App Store? > > Thanks, > > Sadam > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > > >

Re: ms office 2016 for mac

2015-07-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
In my opinion, while the accessibility with VoiceOver has greatly improved since earlier versions of Office for Mac, it is still patchy and Pages and TextEdit are much better options. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubs

Re: word count in text edit

2015-07-30 Thread sadam . lists
Thanks Nicholas. Sent from my iPhone -- > On 31 Jul 2015, at 2:44 pm, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > You can find and download the script from this website. > >> On 31 Jul 2015, at 2:10 pm, sadam.li...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> Is this app available from the Mac App Store?

Re: playroom

2015-07-30 Thread May McDonald
Usually the option to create a room is the first option as soon as I log onto the client. > On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > > I don't see anything about how to create a game. Wonder if Ihave something > disabled? > Jim > >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, May McDonald wrote: