Media Server To Replace iTunes?

Hi guys, and especially those with NAS products or other similar do-it-yourself mass storage inclinations. :) Unless my research has misled me, the only solution Apple offers for the increasingly common situation of needing access to a central media library with multiple devices around the hous

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

Not until BBC iPlayer gets rolled out and has the same coverage as their dreadful web player. But that, of course, is just me. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

Like many have said it really depends on what you are looking to use it for. As far as streaming movies from iTunes it is fantastic as I have been ripping all my DVDs to an external hard drive. Considering all my DVDs have been sitting in boxes for 7 years because I can no longer read what each

Optimising voice-over for use with Dragon?

hi all, I have recently acquired a copy of Dragon five for Mac OS X for use on university course, is there anything I can do to optimise voice-over for use with DragonDictate? Your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards Trey. -- The following information is important for a

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

Be aware that the technique of using split and cat, while certainly effective, is not actually the same thing as producing what the current zip tools call “Split” (or, before then, “Spanned”) archives. For the production of the former from an already-created zip file, see zipsplit(1), which is

Re: How to create a multi part archive compressed on the mac.

My understanding is that it will create the splits to contain whole files. So if you are compressing a folder full of little files then zipsplit can work well. If you are trying to split a single large file, like a video file, then zipsplit won't be able to break it up. It's also limited to 2GB

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

BBC iPlayer was released for Apple TV 4 a couple of days ago, complete with live streaming of BBC channels, and audio description. It's awesome. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org > On 17/12/2015, at 2:22 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu

Most efficient way to read emails

Hi all, I’d like to here how people read their emails in Mac Mail. Personally, I’m finding it rather cumbersome & time consuming. Here is what I typically do… Hopefully, y’all have a better way. I use classic layout. Quick-nav is off & I hit right arrow to open the message thread. I navig

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

My guess is, I have to be in the U K to use it though, no? Chris. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Mosen To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 10:34 AM Subject: Re: Apple TV 4th Gen BBC iPlayer was released for Apple TV 4 a couple of da

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

Hi all, I use the original mac default to read my mail by unchecking the classical mail box. this is found i “viewing” Then by using the jump command (voj) I can move between the message list and the text itself. When I get to the messages table I can then delete messages. When I was using t

RE: Most efficient way to read emails

Hello Traci, I am a huge fan of the Mac Mail application. In fact, I think it the absolute best resource that the Mac has to offer. With it, I can go through hundreds and hundreds of messages in just a few minutes with a minimum of keystrokes as VoiceOver automatically reads each message as i

RE: Apple TV 4th Gen

Jonathen, I do a search in the app store BBC iPlayer, and I get a bunch of choices like radio things which do I pick to get the t v things From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 07:35 To

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

Hi George, you'll need an account in the UK App Store. And you'll also need technology to overcome the geo-blocking of the content. In the case of Apple TV, that would have to be a DNS redirection service such as UnoTelly or Unblock-US. My audio book, Imagine There's No Countries, covers both su

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

That's kind of what I suspected. Thanks for the heads up. Chris. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Mosen To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Apple TV 4th Gen Hi George, you'll need an account in the UK App Store.

RE: Apple TV 4th Gen

Thanks for the heads up From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 09:21 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple TV 4th Gen Hi George, you'll need an account in the UK App Stor

my impressions of El Capitan

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words about the upgrade pod cast, glad you enjoyed it. el Capitan works well, the only bug I've found is, in finder windows such as the hard drive or your home folder, if you hide the tool bar, that setting does not stick, at least not when using list view. I've

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Yeah, I am definitely a fan of the standard way of voiceover interaction. Trying the new ways seems weird to me after being used to the standard way for so long. Brian > On Dec 16, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words about the upgrade pod cast, glad

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

I am still on Yosemite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this new way of interaction simply a choice? If so, that would seem to be the best of all worlds, since people who like it can have it, and those who can't don't have to. I can certainly see times when it would be better to do the new wa

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Definitely is a choice. Brian > On Dec 16, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > I am still on Yosemite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this new way of > interaction simply a choice? If so, that would seem to be the best of all > worlds, since people who like it can have it, and those who

IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

I am sending this to both lists because it is possible there are some iPod touch users on the Mac visionaries list who are not on the VI phone list. I am interested in your experiences with iPod touch sixth generation using Bluetooth or airplay. Using my iPhone, I have noticed some strange anoma

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

Hello, I too am a fan of the Apple mail. I do not use classic view., I have 5 lines showing. I just curser down and 5 lines is enough to judge whether I want to open it. Most messages I don’t bother. I just hit the delete key. This is using the wired keyboard. I only expand the thread I want t

RE: IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

The stero function with the mega boom speakers and Bluetooth do not work -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:34 To: VIPhone 'Carol Pearson' via ; macvisionaries@goo

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

HeyMike, Have you EVER recorded a PodCast in which you demonstrated VO (VoiceOver) with Apple's iWorksSuite (Pages,Numbers,& KeyNote,etc.)??? JustWondering And, if not, would you be interested in doing so? I presume since they are FREE with the purchase of an iDevice and/or Mac, that would

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Sorry if this has been covered before, but what is the "new way?" I'm still on Yosemite as well. Cheers, Donna > On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > I am still on Yosemite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this new way of > interaction simply a choice? If so, that would seem t

Re: Language switching, what makes that happen?

god if only language switching would work on the mac, i would love the german voice to read german words and then switch back to english as you have been able to do on JAWS since 2003 > On 16 Dec 2015, at 2:24 PM, David Chittenden wrote: > > My understanding is, if the language is set to a spec

Re: Mail saying no sender

This sounds basic, I know, but have you restarted Mail, or even the whole computer? If something weird like that happens to me, a restart usually clears it right up. > On Dec 15, 2015, at 21:06, Agent086b wrote: > > Hi all, > since the latest update to OSX when arrowing down a list of messages

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

For what it's worth, I also use the five-line preview. Often, this is enough to let me read the entire message, or at least most of it. If I need to open it, I press enter, and VO reads it automatically. I can press vo-a to speed up the reading process, but that's not usually necessary. When don

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

Hi Tracy, you might leave try using command delete. This will also delete a message. I also use enter, to open a message. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9

Re: Mail saying no sender

Hi, yes first thing I tried was quit Mail then re-load. When this did not work I re-started the Mac. Further to this when I started the Mac today I now see the senders for each email. I only noticed this problem since the latest update to OS X. Anyway doesn’t matter at the moment as working prop

Re: IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

Hi George, are you talking about the mega boom and stereo not working on the iPod touch? In general? Or where? It doesn't fact work just fine with an android device. I know, because I have two of those speakers and I can play stereo just fine. Even on the iPhone, it tries to work, but the volume

Multiple documents open in iOS

Is it possible to have Multiple documents open in either iPhone or iPad. I want to be able to edit Multiple documents much like you would in TextEdit on Mac OS X. What pages for iOS allow Multiple documents to be open at once are there any other programs that would allow this Sent from my IPhon

Persistence of hot spots

Hi, Am I correct in recalling that hot spots are saved? By that I mean for a given application they persist each time it is opened? Is there a hot spot preference file that could be saved and reused or some other method to prevent manual setting each time an application is opened? Thanks.

Re: IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

I have the same experience. Though I have audio ducking off, I notice a huge airplay sound improvement when I turn voiceover off with a home button triple press while the music is playing. > On Dec 16, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > I am sending this to both lists because it is possi

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Hi Mike. After listening to your podcast, I decided to do a clean install of el capitan and I find that things run much better. I have how ever one question, When doing the reformat, I selected the main drive not the macintosh HD partition that was already and select ed. Should I have done so

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

You can cmd-delete, that'll work. Just plain delete will do the same thing, and is quicker to hit. Unless there's a difference between the two commands which I don't know? That's definitely possible. > On Dec 16, 2015, at 14:56, joseph hudson wrote: > > Hi Tracy, you might leave try using comma

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

I have tested, that you can change the order the columns in the standard view of mail using AppleScript. Jonathan Cohn > On Dec 16, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > For what it's worth, I also use the five-line preview. Often, this is enough > to let me read the entire message, or at

Re: IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

Hi Brett, Do you have a phone or an iPod touch or both? I'm just trying to narrow this down to see if it is phones only, or if it also affects iPod touches. I don't know why it wouldn't affect both, but I also don't know anything about the hardware design. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

It's a choice, yes. Original message: I am still on Yosemite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this new way of interaction simply a choice? If so, that would seem to be the best of all worlds, since people who like it can have it, and those who can't don't have to. I can certainly see times w

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Voiceover provides an option when for example, you move over a toolbar, you don't have to interact with it, all of the items will be presented, you then simply move to the next thing on the screen. Original message: Sorry if this has been covered before, but what is the "new way?" I'm still on

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

If you selected the drive itself, which is what I did, you need to choose guid partition, and the format should be mac OS extended journaled. It provides a place to type in a name for your volume, if you don't type anything, it will call it untitled. I've done this process with all 3 of my macs

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Funny you should mention that Mike. I just got my Mac back from the shop and they formated the drive to Journaled rather than Mac OS extended Journaled. Should I be concerned about this? Am I necessarily loosing anything by this? and, one final point, if I wanted to reformast to extended Jou

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

Hi, I just use the default mail view. vo will read a few lines of the message without opening the message and it is usually enough to decide what I want to do with the message such as delete or reply etc. If it is a thread of messages, I just press enter to open each message and cmd w to clos

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

Thanks, Mike. I just upgraded, so I guess I'm about to find out whether I like the new way or not. :) thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Donna > On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Voiceover provides an option when for example, you move over a toolbar, you > don't have to int

Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac - VHS to DVD Conversion Software

Hi all, I have been thinking of my old VHS tapes in storage & would like to take another look at them. Possibly preserve some of them. Has anyone tried such a project on the Mac? It looks like the below software is the favorable option. Any thoughts? > http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/ea

Re: Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac - VHS to DVD Conversion Software

I am curious to hear more on this as my partner has a lot of her horse competitions on tape. It be nice to put them onto DVD for her. Vaughn On 12/16/15, Traci Duncan wrote: > Hi all, I have been thinking of my old VHS tapes in storage & would like to > take another look at them. Possibly preser

Re: Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac - VHS to DVD Conversion Software

My friend actually got this exact app for her mac, and said it worked really well. Now, that said, she's sighted and practically knows next to nothing about Voiceover, so I can't vouch, nor can she, for accessibility, but over all, the program does work, provided it's accessible. Chris. ---

Re: Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac - VHS to DVD Conversion Software

Wow! Someone who competes in horse competitions! That is awesome! If she's blind, I'd like to hear more off list about this, and how she does it. My little second cousin does that kind a thing, but granted, she's sighted. Anyway, let's get back on topic. LOL! My private e-mail is: clgilla

Re: IPod touch sixth generation and Bluetooth or airplay

I use both. The experienced I shared is with the iPod touch 6. > On Dec 16, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Hi Brett, > Do you have a phone or an iPod touch or both? I'm just trying to narrow this > down to see if it is phones only, or if it also affects iPod touches. I don't > know w

Re: Media Server To Replace iTunes?

Hi, I am thinking Tonido on a raspberry pi. I should be able to report more on this after christmas. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Dec 16, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi guys, and especially those with NAS products or other similar > do-it-yourself mass storage inclinati

google drive mac os10 problems please help.

hi all, my university uses google drive for uploading course documents ECt. I downloaded the google drive app to my mac and i'm trying to find the setting to change my account but i can't find the google drive menu any where its not in the status bar does any one know what the problem is and ho

Re: google drive mac os10 problems please help.

I've not used it, but Google Music puts itself into System Preferences. perhaps Drive does the same thing? See if there's a preference item for it; it will probably be near the end of the list of buttons in System Preferences. > On Dec 16, 2015, at 21:06, Trahern Culver wrote: > > hi all, my un

Airplay weirdness with iPhone running iOS 9 .2

I was using my phone to play radio tunes via airplay through my stereo, which as an airport express connected. I had turn voiceover off, because I believe that the quality of the airplay is better when voiceover is not there. When I was done playing radiotunes, I wanted to turn voiceover back o

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

Hi Jonathan, this is quite exciting to me. So does that mean you could write a script that puts the subject column first, and that upon running that script, the change would stick? If so, I would be super interested in such a script. It would be even better if the settings were folder specific,

Re: Airplay weirdness with iPhone running iOS 9 .2

Hi Mary, I've personally not seen any evidence that turning off VoiceOver gives a better AirPlay Experience, so have never done this. But if turning VOiceOver back on causes it to be sent to the AirPlay device, you could use your rotor to choose the audio destination option, and set it to your p

Re: google drive mac os10 problems please help.

I have to go to work shortly but I've just opened google drive app on my mac. It has no windows as such to navigate round, but once opened, I have found an icon for google drive in the menu extra. Activate menu extra with vo+m pressed twice quickly and then use vo+arrow to move round the menu.