My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Hi all I now have both iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan public beta on my devices. While I cannot go into the specifics, I am really liking the program which anyone can sign up to so long as they have an Apple ID. Note! Since this is prerelease software, it's not for the faint of heart. The Feed

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Since it is a public beta, a person should be able to talk about what they find shouldn't they be able to? On 7/31/2015 2:26 AM, christopher hallsworth wrote: Hi all I now have both iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan public beta on my devices. While I cannot go into the specifics, I am really lik

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

I have been thinking about signing up for the beta program for a while now. If I install a public beta of iOS 9, will I be able to roll back to iOS 8? Will my iPhone backups, made with iOS 9 be backwards compatible with iOS 8 if I rollback? Thank you Sent from my iPhone > On 31-Jul-2015, at 12

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Hello, You should examine why you want to use beta software. If you have one device that is vital to be working at all time then don’t install beta software. Too many people are complaining about problems with beta software but they signed up to put up with bugs and report them to Apple so that

Re: playroom

The playroom web client works an awful lot like the Windows app, down to the various hotkeys. If you’ve never used that before, when you log in and access the web client, you should get a welcome message and you should be placed in a menu of a few buttons that you can navigate with the up and do

Re: word count in text edit

I have a widgit which does that for me quite nicely. Just google and it should come right up. 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 Jul 3

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

No. Even with public beta testing, we who are doing it are strictly precluded from publicly discussing what it is we are finding. So it plainly says when you sign up for it. I would, for my part, encourage you and all others who can to do so. That's all I can say right now until the day Appl

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Hi! THe only thing i found to be very strange is that the feedback assistant seems to complain about missing attached files even if you have attached them. I don’t know if its me doing something wrong or if its a bug in the feedback assistant itself. /A > 31 juli 2015 kl. 09:26 skrev christopher

Re: playroom

How does one access this client? I've not heard of it before. Donna > On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:06 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote: > > The playroom web client works an awful lot like the Windows app, down to the > various hotkeys. If you’ve never used that before, when you log in and access > the web cli

Re: backspacing

Somewhere in voiceover utility there is a setting that controls what voiceover will speak as the cursor moves. The state the setting can be set to speak the character you just passed over, or the character that you are about to pass over. Find that setting and you'll probably be able to correct

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

I will not be enrolling in future betas most likely for the simple reason that although the beta program is good they ship developers different betas than the public which makes no sense to me at all! Never mind that I still don't understand why people are hesitant to discuss public beta softwar

reclaiming space on hard drive

Hi everyone, I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like. I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space freed up like I expected. Only a couple hundred megs freed up. I have emptied the trash, and am not sure what I need to do to see this newl

Re: backspacing

Where is this setting? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Jul 31, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Somewhere in voiceover utility there is a setting that controls what > voice

Re: backspacing

Phil, I can’t figure out which box to check or uncheck? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Jul 31, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Somewhere in voiceover utility there is a se

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

Do you know the URL of the download? I don't have any experience with the device but you should be able to FTP down files from anywhere. CB On 7/30/15 5:52 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 h

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? CB On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: Hi everyone, I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like. I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space freed up like I expected. Only a cou

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

No it is empty. > On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? > > CB > > On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I li

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

Hello, Have you tried a disk cleaner such as Disk Doctor (free!, Quick Cleaner (free)? Just a thought. Best, Eileen Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: > > No it is empty. > >> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> wrote:

Trying to delete contact, but it is still stubbornly showing up in email address book

Good day/night all: I have (apparently) deleted a particular contact from both my iPhone and MacBook’s Contacts. Presumably, having done so, iCloud will sync the change properly. However, when I start typing in the email address of the recently deleted contact, it is still popping up, complete

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

Odd. Then your free space should reflect those files being gone. One handy way to figure out where you space went is to open your hard drive, make sure you are in list view (command+2) and then go to View Options (command-J). That pops up a window with extra options checkboxes. At the bottom of

RE: Trying to delete contact, but it is still stubbornly showing up in email address book

Open mail and a new email Type in the name and select the one you want to at this time send a mail to Now when selecttedinteract and do a command a to select all and then hit the backspace and it should disappear from the to edit field and stop interacting with the edit field Close mail and re o

Re: Trying to delete contact, but it is still stubbornly showing up in email address book

I tried several times, but it is still showing up. Very frustrating. Christine > On Jul 31, 2015, at 12:26 PM, george b wrote: > > Open mail and a new email > Type in the name and select the one you want to at this time send a mail to > Now when selecttedinteract and do a command a to select al

Re: playroom

Hey Donna. To access the Playroom web client, go to http://www.qcsalon.net and there should be a link to access the web client. And to the person that gave the suggestion to use the speech function of the web client, I actually used it for the first time and I found a problem. The speech is too

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

it may not make sense, but that's the way it is. NDA, and all that. in spite of it being public, ya still can't talk about it publically. now if something's released about IOS 9 from apple, then it can be discussed. I think that's the same for things that're released elsewhere. for instance cool

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

Ok, so I’ve downloaded and ran “Disk Doctor” as suggested by a lister. I’ve also enabled “calculate all sizes” and my applications folder is 17.28gb, Libraries is 5.17gb, system folder is 9.81gb, and my users folder is 17.43gb. Total space used should be down around 50gb, any ideas guys/gals? I’

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Hi I didn't have this problem this morning, I may do in subsequent submissions we'll see. Are you on the latest public beta? On 31/07/2015 12:41, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! THe only thing i found to be very strange is that the feedback assistant seems to complain about missing attached files

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

Hi No, go to beta.apple.com and read their FAQ very carefully. In there they answer what you can and cannot do in the public beta program. On 31/07/2015 08:57, Sunshine wrote: Since it is a public beta, a person should be able to talk about what they find shouldn't they be able to? On 7/31/20

Re: Trying to delete contact, but it is still stubbornly showing up in email address book

Hi! OK when in mail press either VO+m or Control+f2 to get to the menu. Then W to get to the window menu then arrow down to Previous Recipients and press enter. You should end up in a edit field just arrow right and you should find a table of all people you've emailed go in to it and just press d

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

That's not bad at all. There are some hidden things that can take up space. How are you finding the free space count? There are a few hidden things that can still throw off the overall math. The recovery partition and such take about 1GB. I have a hidden folder called MobileBackups which is abo

Re: playroom

I haven't tried the speech function. I just use regular voiceover and how my settings are works fine. So just try with your regular settings? > On Jul 31, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hey Donna. To access the Playroom web client, go to http://www.qcsalon.net > and there should b

Re: playroom

Thanks, Shawn. I found it. haven't decided yet whether to play, I have many of those games on my phone, so am not sure how often I would play them on the Mac. But thanks for the link, I'll hang onto it just incase. Best, Donna > On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hey Donn

Re: playroom

Hi Shawn, That’s funny, because I have the opposite problem, the speech is much too slow for my liking, especially if I’m playing with people who are very quick at taking their turn. Anyway, I have posted to the forum suggesting that a speed control be added, so if you’d like to reply and say it

Here Are Two Ways of Disabling The Built-in Trackpad on your MacBook Computer

Hello All, There are some MacBook users who prefer, for whatever reason, to disable the built-in Trackpad on Their MacBook computers. The following article describes how to accomplish this. The first method requires that you attach a mouse or other pointing device, to your Mac. However, the sec

Re: Here Are Two Ways of Disabling The Built-in Trackpad on your MacBook Computer

Hi, I can actually see this being useful if you have a setup with a magic trackpad and an external keyboard. I know I’d want to disable my internal trackpad for that type of setup. > On Jul 31, 2015, at 5:27 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello All, > > There are some MacBook users who prefer, for

Re: playroom

if anybody ever wants to play I am t-bone on playroom and rs-games as well. Jim > On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Thanks, Shawn. I found it. haven't decided yet whether to play, I have many > of those games on my phone, so am not sure how often I would play them on the >

Re: playroom

Thanks. I just posted a reply backing the request up. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Piotr Machacz wrote: > > Hi Shawn, > That’s funn

Siri on The Mac Anyone?

Hi all. After reading a review of Windows 10 from Cool Blind Tech and seeing how Microsoft has integrated their virtual assistant, Cortana into their OS, I've been wondering how Apple will respond. Is there a possibility that we might see Siri in a future update to El Capitan or in a future rele

Insert current date in Pages template?

Hi list, As promised, I'm back with another Pages question. I'm finally converting my bill and service report templates from RTF to actual Pages templates, as it'll be easier to fill them out this way. One thing I'd love to do is to have the current date inserted into a new document when I gener

Re: Siri on The Mac Anyone?

If Apple SticksToScript ... Siri won't likely Surface OnOSX Oops, I forgot TheCEO isn't SteveJobs anymore ... so, it's VeryLikely that Siri WillSurface InAFuture OSX UpDate/UpGrade ... TimCook is ReDifining Apple Because, SteveJobs (InMyOpinion) wouldn't have released iPadMinis, Larger iPhon

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

Something is definitely up, I’ve just deleted another 3 gb of apps from my apps folder, cleared trash, and ran Disk Doctor. Still shows 17.28gb as the size of the apps folder. Ideas welcome, meantime I keep googling. > On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:20 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: >

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

Sorry to keep spamming the list, but I’ve discovered something else now. When I go to my HD and do command i for information, interact with the scroll area, and it shows 74gb available, and only 45.91gb used. What is going on? Thanks for helping guys. > On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:20 PM, 'Chris Blouc