what adium version should i try ?
I have 1.5.10 or 1.5.11 or 1.6 or 1.7
Which should i try?
the 1.5.10 is the stable build and the 1.5.11 b2 is a beta the 1.6 and
1.7 are nightly builds.
Which version should i try?
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If you're wanting to connect to Facebook, short answer is neither. Adium no
longer supports Facebook, and according to a friend of mine that has used it
for years, they no longer support Facebook through the Jabber protocol. If you
want a client for Facebook, my recommendation is Trillian. Other
So, now, I have even a more concerning issue.
This went from me being annoyed to now me being majorly pissed off! I
booted to the backup image I have of Yosemite, and reimaged it back over to
my internal drive.
That took what seemed like an eternity! Finally, it finnished. Once it did
how
I think we covered that already. Yes. All the tracks play fine on my
production machine where it was initially ripped.
Chris.
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From: Singing Sparrow
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: Major setbacks wi
Quite frankly, I reckon, based on your description of all that has befallen
you, you've got some mighty major core systemic issues which can only be
resolved by entirely replacing your computer.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray,
Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and App
It’s not really clear to me either. Prior versions of Mail.app didn’t do that,
but I’m fairly sure Yosemite was affected too. Other mail clients that are
engineered to tolerate disconnection don’t have a problem because all the state
is maintained locally. For now, my only suggestion for the
the hot spot your talking is on the help menu on the voice over on general then
hot sopt, it says to go to the next hot spot VO right bracket to go to previous
hotspot VO left bracket.
About safari i do have a lot of busy busy too since i am using late 2013 mac
book pro i7 15 inches.
> On 03 Oct
thanks but i already figure out the problem.i i just have to delete the other
partition that i accidentally created but i didn't see on disk utility. i have
to to the partition go see that other disk.
> On 03 Oct 2015, at 9:45 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> Installing OS X Yosemite converted most volumes
i installed my el capitan well because on the installation process voice over
won't speak, you have to open voice over at the time of the installation. this
is also hapen to me when i installed yosemite.
> On 04 Oct 2015, at 8:14 AM, M. Taylor wrote:
>
> Hello Craig,
>
> As a new Mac user, you
here's is the solution, delete all the messages on you trash. that did solve
my problem on yosemite and maybe here in el capitan too.
> On 04 Oct 2015, at 11:31 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>
> It’s not really clear to me either. Prior versions of Mail.app didn’t do
> that, but I’m fairly
I'm starting to wonder. I admittedly did finally! get the USB image to boot,
but, pardon my language, god! damn! is it going slow! I finally did manage to
completely wipe my internal macintosh HD while in the USB drive.
I'm going to therefore try one final time to get OSX reinstalled. Let's h
That's normal. Voiceover isn't gonna speak by default when the installer is
launched. It assumes by default you're sighted. Just hit command+F5, and
you'll be well on your way... well... according to my! situation, all I can
say is... let's hope! LOL!
Chris.
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Thank you, Mark, for your compliments. Actually, the reboot I performed was
more of an act of desperation than it was calculated strategy, so I don't
think the praise is entirely deserved, but I am appreciative of the
encouragement because so often, over the past few months, I have considered
retur
OK, step the first is to download the thing from the MAS. Go to the Mac App
Store, find the OS you want, and download. Once you have it, it will open
automatically offering to install; quit the Installer.
The next step is trickier. If someone has a graphical approach, post it now;
otherwise,
Yep, I've seen the busy thing. Also, when I first start up the computer, things
are pretty slow at first, like voiceover actually sees the Google Drive and
dropbox windows, which have no content, as they launch. Alex, and the premium
high, or enhanced, vocalizer voices are sluggish, very sluggis
how good is trillian? and how hard is it to set up?
On 10/4/2015 3:07 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
If you're wanting to connect to Facebook, short answer is neither. Adium no
longer supports Facebook, and according to a friend of mine that has used it
for years, they no longer support Facebook th
Well, this definitely has proven to be quite a nightmare!
I finally! managed to get Yosemite reinstalling to a freshly
partitioned/formatted internal drive. I'm really crossing my fingers here!
Chris.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
You'll love! Trillion! It is literally the only instant messenger client,
short of the Messages app, which I use with IMessage that I will touch! I
used to be a really big fan of Adium. In some ways, I still am, but the
time it takes to set up all your events manually by hand... It's so ungod
Shewww! I got Yosemite installed. I'm just finnishing up the setup
assistant now. Wow that was a close call!
See my previous thread on setbacks to El Capitan for more information on what
happened.
Chris.
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> On 04 Oct 2015, at 12:59 PM, Craig Werner wrote:
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> Thank you, Mark, for your compliments. Actually, the reboot I performed was
> more of an act of desperation than it was calculated strategy, so I don't
> t
Donna,
Have you tried opening each folder in a separate window? If you do this you
can navigate between the different folders with cmd accent. You can also close
one window at a time with cmd w.
Chris
> On Oct 3, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> Hi Ann,
>
> I'm running the latest v
Hi All.
I have had a night mare with my keychain for my Mac.
Yesterday after installing El Capitan on the iMac, I screwed up my Keychain and
today I had to wipe the disk and start over. Now however, I approved from my I
phone 6 Plus S as I managed to remove the other phone from my trusted devi
You can also leave folders as they are, but press cmd-n before navigating to a
new one. This way you can, say, leave your external drive open in one window,
then move from your downloads folder to your documents folder in another,
copying files from both over to the external drive.
> On Oct 4, 2
Keychain only needs that code once, unless you disable the feature later on.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 09:36, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I have had a night mare with my keychain for my Mac.
>
> Yesterday after installing El Capitan on the iMac, I screwed up my Keychain
> and today I had
When I got the code, I did not put it in. And when I went to the iCloud
preferences, it said key chain options. So am I to put the coding, if so, where?
Sent from my iPhone
> On 4 Oct 2015, at 2:43 p.m., Alex Hall wrote:
>
> Keychain only needs that code once, unless you disable the feature la
Hi Chris,
I've cunhecked the option to open files in Tabs instead of windows in Finder
Prefs, but that isn't doing it. I used to have my Mac set up so that files
opened in separate Windows, but somehow it's gotten changed. I'd love to have
it that way again. Is there something else I need to
Yeah, but the only way that seems to work for me is to select all my files. It
seems kind of unwieldy, but good to have as an option. As I said, I used to
have my Mac set up to open each folder in a separate window. If there's a way,
I'd love to go back to that.
Cheers,
Donna
> On Oct 4, 2015
Hey Scott,
I finally had time to take a look at this. Very nice guide, thank you for
taking the time to put it together, and for sharing it with us.
Cheers,
Donna
> On Sep 28, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Scott Davert wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I developed both a guide and podcast on this, so for those struggl
Hi all,
I am using the modular watch face on my Apple Watch, and have activity set to
one of the complications on the screen. Prior to updating to 2.0, if I tapped
on the activity complication, I saw a page that displayed a bunch of info:
active minutes, calories burned, steps, miles, etc. si
Hi!
How do i change the language in osx?
I know i can go to system prefs and then i should go to language and region and
in that dialog i can drag the prefered language to the top but how do i drag
an item with voiceover?
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When you enable Keychain in iCloud, you'll be asked for the code. If you don't
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to activate iCloud Keychain". If not, or if you missed it, just go back to
iCloud Preferences and enable Keychain again, though that may
I haven't tried this because I don't use other languages, but did you try
command-up or command-down? If not, there's another way to drag that I have to
use a lot in Xcode which may work here. Of course, the usual dragging method
(vo-comma to drag, vo-period to drop) may work as well.
> On Oct 4
If I double tap on the activity, I still get a screen that allows me to
review the activity. You might have to go to the page chooser or change the
page with a two finger swipe left or right, to see specific details for each
category, but it still works here.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Do
I heard that battery life was substantially improved under IOS9. Today I used
Blind Square, all features, under ios9 for an hour and was surprised to see the
battery usage was only 12%. Normally, that hour would have drained off 20 - 30%
under IOS8.
Maybe I won’t be needing the Mophie juice pac
Hi!
Ok, just one more question.
I have tried to download the el capitan but suddenly when the installer started
i was asked to install mavericks?
That was really odd because i have a file in my aplications folder named osx el
capitan installer app store download program.
Its only 306 kb so i don’
So do you still get the breakdown on the front page? I used to be able to see
calories burned, number of active minutes, and number of steps all by doing a
double tap on the home screen. Now more often than not, I do not get that
information on the first page.
Cheers,
Donna
> On Oct 4, 2015, a
It sounds like you may have picked up Mavericks, yeah. Try again; go to the
store and press Download after El Capitan. The App Store download is a partial
download in your Applications folder until it’s finished. You can also go to
the Purchases tab and look there to see how far it’s download
Hi Dona,
If you turn the pro it will scroll the screen, enabling you to see that info. I
just tried it and it works perfectly in watchOS 2.0.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> So do you still get the breakdown on the front page? I used to be able to
> see calories burned
Hi to the list,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I've reported some the bugs
mentioned to Apple.
Response is below.
Here's hoping they get to these issues in the .1 release.
Hello,
Thank you for your email. We appreciate the feedback and will pass this
on to the appropriate people f
Just their standard response.
> On 4 Oct 2015, at 20:11, Sadam Ahmed wrote:
>
> Hi to the list,
>
> Just wanted to let you guys know that I've reported some the bugs mentioned
> to Apple.
>
> Response is below.
>
> Here's hoping they get to these issues in the .1 release.
>
> Hello,
> Than
Yes. Feels like an auto responder.
Yours truly,
Sadam Ahmed
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>
> Just their standard response.
>> On 4 Oct 2015, at 20:11, Sadam Ahmed wrote:
>>
>> Hi to the list,
>>
>> Just wanted to let you guys know that
Which does not mean they are not going to actually read these
emails. I don't understand why people think that they are ignoring then.
Its standard business practice...and a good one too.
From E.T.'s Keyboard...
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
Many believe that we have been visited
in the past.
Not that hard at all. As Chris Gilland said, you'll need to create an account
with Trillian before you can set up your accounts to work with it, but that's
not hard since that's the first thing you see when you launch it, and no
there's no captchas at all. After that, you can just set up your ac
E.T. wrote:
>Which does not mean they are not going to actually read these emails. I
> don't understand why people think that they are ignoring then.
I expect they will read the reports; I've received a substantive reply in the
past by contacting them via that address.
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I am happy to report that Disk Maker X works again. I just helped out a friend
do a clean install of El Capitan the other night because her Mac kept freezing
and crashing on her and we were able to use Disk Maker X successfully. So to
those of you that don't want to use terminal because you're n
Shawn,
I dono why, but when I tried using it the other night to do El Capitan, it
gave me a message that the Apple event timed out, whatever that means. I
tried about 4 times, and even used a few different flash drives, just in
case one of them was either corrupted, or dammaged. Yes, they de
After using El Capitan for a few days and having this issue I am thinking about
rolling back. I am curious if others are having this issue when they go to
websites with a lot of links that VO constantly crashes and resets itself over
and over making the website basically unusable since VO will n
Hi,
Also using El Capitan, I had no difficulty accessing the hockey site for which
you provided a link.
Robert Carter
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Brian Fischler wrote:
>
> After using El Capitan for a few days and having this issue I am thinking
> about rolling back. I am curious if other
I am not having any issues with these sites either. Maybe, try resetting
Safari preferences or deleting your Safari .PLIST file from your user library,
~library/preferences folder.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 6:18 PM, ROBERT CARTER wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Also using El Capitan, I had no difficulty acce
For what it's worth, I went to the site in the original post, pulled up the web
rotor, and chose a link at random. I pressed enter, and was taken to the link,
after which the site, and VO, continued working normally. I just did the same
thing on Facebook, and had no problems either. I'm on a bas
Hey, that's cool! Clearly I need to start paying more attention to the crown
then I do. Thanks, Daniel.
Cheers,
Donna
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 1:10 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
>
> Hi Dona,
>
> If you turn the pro it will scroll the screen, enabling you to see that info.
> I just
Sabahattin and others,
The topic of braille support in OS X comes up occasionally but I
have not seen a list of the shortcomings. Is there one? I have used my
braille display mostly with iOS but am interested in putting it to work
under OS X. Then I can add my voice to the clamor and let App
Indeed, I'd love to have more specifics about braille under OS X to pass along
to the rest of the AppleVis team and to keep an eye on in future updates. I
don't have a display I can test with right now, unfortunately.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 18:30, E.T. wrote:
>
> Sabahattin and others,
> The to
Hey all, Thanks so much for the feedback and great to hear that it is device
specific. Guess I will try what John suggested and if that does not work ugh
clean install here we come.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I went to the site in the original post,
You’re welcome. The crown is definitely more useful for VoiceOver users on
watchOS 2 than it was in 1.0.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
> Hey, that's cool! Clearly I need to start paying more attention to the crown
> then I do. Thanks, Daniel.
> Cheers,
> Donna
>
> Sent f
Here's another which does not work for me:
ecommerce.nfb.org
you will get a certificate dialog but will not be able to go past it.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray,
Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user!
Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full access
I have a display but I may be hitting different bugs than others so I wouldn't
mind a list either. I have noticed that cursor routing is useless because there
is no separate braille cursor or braille doesn't follow the system cursor it
just moves the voiceover cursor which isn't what should hap
Hey there guys, it's Chris Gilland.
Listen, I really would like to publicly address on list the way that I acted
this morning with a few of my messages.
Guys, I really really messed up and was quite childish in how I reacted. I was
having major issues with my mac as you all know with installin
I do agree, I think Apple Braille support should be much better and farther
along than it is. As someone proposed, I wonder if there are no braille
readers on the various development or testing teams. Hard to believe but what
other excuse do they have?
> On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Anders Hol
I have one to add to this list,
When in the doc, let’s say I’m on mail and I type s to hit safari, when the
cursor moves it says mail again and then says safari. So it duplicates with
where you are to where you selected. Very small potatoes as a bug but a little
annoying.
> On Oct 3, 2015,
Hi all,
I use the default apple mail to work with my email. I have noticed that when I
interact with the messages column it drops me right onto the menu buttons,
which it did not do before.
I just updated to el capitan and it was a long ordeal. I am using a macbook
pro 2011 vintage.
Howev
Hey Chris. Just so you know, in your emails, all I see with my very limited
vision is black. Usually I can see enough to distinguish if there's any text in
the email, but there wasn't. I can see the text but can't read it which is why
I use Voiceover. Anyway there was no text at all, just black
Shawn,
I know what the problem was with my e-mail. It's been fixed. Does this look
better?
Chris.
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From: Shawn Krasniuk
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: My profuse apology to the list.
Hey Chri
Yes. Much better.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
> wrote:
>
> Shawn,
>
> I know what the problem was with my e-mail. It's been fixed. Does this look
> better?
>
> Chris.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Shawn Krasniuk
> To: macvision
That would be Windows for ya. I tried setting my display to high contrast.
Even though it's white text on a black background, Outlook insists that it
needs to send the message black on black no matter what setting I change. Just
another reason I love my mac over an unstable PC. LOL! If you
Hi All,
I just upgraded my macbook pro from os x 10.10 to 10.11. I now cannot
restart from the system prefs --> startup drive - bootcamp selector. When I
interact with the radio button controls of bootcamp or the mac os x drive,
they are dimmed. Has anyone seen this issue? If yes can this b
Not only do they read the reports, each report from a different individual
communicates the importance of the particular difficulty. Yes, they do keep
track.
Also, having worked in the industry, I know that there are often factors of
which we are not aware, that influence what may be done. Ofte
Have you tried selecting the startup drive in System Preferences and not in
Bootcamp preferences?
Shawn
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Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Juan H
The subject line says it all. Is this possible? Must you have a PC in order to
update this display?
Mary
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Hi!
Have you actually made sure to unlock your system preferences by choosing the
"Click lock to make changes" button?
If not, that usually causes them to be dimmed. First thing that came to mind.
Nicolai
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
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> Have you tried selecting the sta
That is where I am at. System preferences -> startup drive -> select startup
drive.
I am going to try the lock/unlock thing. I didn’t see that. Is that a new os
x 10.11 feature? That wasn’t there on 10.10 before.
Best,
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macv
Hi
Sometimes, you're required to unlock with a password to change preferences.
It's always been there, but I can't remember if it used to be required in that
category previously.
Nicolai
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
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> That is where I am at. System preferences -> sta
Hi Alex. I just read your blog post about the bugs in El Capitan and I found
your post about the character counter bug in the Twitter share menu. I don't
know if this really is a bug or not but if it is, try interacting with that
character counter. For me when I interact with it it shows the num
For those of you on more than one list to which this is being sent, I do
apologize for the cross posting. However, since this newly updated notes app is
so new, I did want to get the input from all possible people who might actually
have done this. Is it possible to make a bulleted list in the n
The short answer is no.
A PC is required.
Yours truly,
Sadam Ahmed
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> On 5 Oct 2015, at 12:57 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
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> The subject line says it all. Is this possible? Must you have a PC in order
> to update this display?
> Mary
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> -
No.
A PC is required.
Yours truly,
Sadam Ahmed
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> The subject line says it all. Is this possible? Must you have a PC in order
> to update this display?
> Mary
>
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Thank you, I'd never tried that. I tried looking for hints for everything,
tabbing, and everything else, but I missed this one. I'll update our bug list
with this new info.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 22:44, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
>
> Hi Alex. I just read your blog post about the bugs in El Capitan and
Yes it is possible. I have done so on my iPhone. I have not yet done so on my
iPad. On the iPhone, double-tap on the show toolbar and then double-tap on
create checklist. I suspect the procedure is similar, if not identical, on the
iPad.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Hello,
I’m running Yosemite 10.10.5 and when I go to switch startup disks from the
system preferences, such as to bootcamp or my external drive, I’m alerted to
insert my user ID and password for the admin account. So, now I have gotten
into the habit to unlock first by going to the bottom of t
Accepted, at least from me. Still and all, you brought up issues which I
believe merit serious consideration. As I indicated to you this morning, I
believe, based on your description of your problems, that you may yet have
extremely serious hardware issues which would more than justify your
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