Re: Airplay weirdness with iPhone running iOS 9 .2

2015-12-17 Thread Don Breda
I have had this happen. Use your roter and you will find audio destination. Swipe up or down to set the audio route for voiceover where you really want it. This will fix the problem. Don On 16-Dec-15 10:47 PM, Mary Otten wrote: I was using my phone to play radio tunes via airplay through

upgrade to El Capitan successful

2015-12-17 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, for those of you still hesitant to upgrade to El Capitan, I just thought I'd share my experience. I upgraded yesterday. I did not do a clean install because I don't have the time to mess with restoring everything. The upgrade went flawlessly. I agree with those who have said that El

problem responding to text messages in latest Watch update

2015-12-17 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'm noticing the following since the latest Apple Watch update. After I dictate a text message, the focus no longer goes automatically to the done button. this means I have to find it myself, and the Voiceover drivel that is part of that process is ending up in my text message. Anyon

iPhone versus iPad

2015-12-17 Thread Phil Halton
Is there any great advantages to using an iPad versus an iPhone? I see that there will be a larger screen area but that's about the only advantage I can see. This will translate into perhaps easier access to sections of an app like numbers or pages, but besides that is the iPad worth buying? Se

Re: iPhone versus iPad

2015-12-17 Thread Kaare Dehard
Hi, I haven’t found it to be so, there are a few apps I’ve seen around that are iPad exclusive, and the layout for things like the keyboard is a bit different. Sometimes having more working room is it’s own advantage, but unless you need one of those exclusive apps, off the top of my head, I’d s

Re: iPhone versus iPad

2015-12-17 Thread Mary Otten
The iPad battery life is really good. If you find yourself using your phone a lot, and you would like to have a second I device, you could consider an iPod touch, if the larger real estate of the iPad does not interest you. But the battery life is good, and the sound is better. Whether that's wo

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

2015-12-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
The operating system will only install on a journaled drive. You could disable journaling and things might be a bit faster, but that's up to you. Original message: 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

Well That Didn't Last Very Long ...

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
In building my old new Mac Mini server I thought I’d install the command-line tools and regenerate the manpage indexes using makewhatis for the developer tools and server software. Surprise, surprise—System Integrity Protection broke it. Buh-bye, SIP. Not at all a pleasure meeting you. Inter

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

2015-12-17 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! This new setting you’re talking about, where can this be found? I want to try them out as i begin to be tired of interacting evry time. /A > On 16 Dec 2015, at 20:13, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words about the upgrade pod cast, glad you > enjoyed it. > el Capita

Re: Language switching, what makes that happen?

2015-12-17 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes that would be nice. But it sure will come i hope. /A > On 16 Dec 2015, at 20:46, Michael Marshall wrote: > > 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 s

Connecting a none supported braille printer.

2015-12-17 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have a Breailletec Btec 100 braille printer. Its a very very small one and works like a charm on windows 7. On Windows i use Duxbury but i have not tried to install the printer on the mac. The problem is that it requires an ftdi driver for some odd reason. If it was hid i guess it would be ea

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Matthew Janusauskas
I have heard mention several times of this efficiency recipe that Mark has for quickly reading through large amounts of mail using mail.app on the Mac. I would be interested in the details. Perhaps a short guide on AppleVis would be helpful to many? > On Dec 16, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Jonathan Mose

Re: iPhone versus iPad

2015-12-17 Thread Alex Hall
Or, instead of an iPod Touch, consider the more expensive iPad Mini (the newest generation). It's powerful, offers Touch ID and--if I recall right--Apple Pay, and more. > On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:07, Mary Otten wrote: > > The iPad battery life is really good. If you find yourself using your phone

RE: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Matthew, It’s been quite a while since I produced a demonstration podcast. Frankly, until very recently, no one on the list has ever expressed an interest in my method for using the Mail application. I can tell you that I have fought long and hard with apple to retain the validity of

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Alex Hall
Mark, I'm guessing you use Classic Layout? I just did a very quick test in AppleScript: set columns to "" tell application "Mail" set my columns to visible columns of first message viewer end tell display dialog (columns as string) In classic layout, this works fine. In modern layout, th

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Matthew Janusauskas
Hi Mark, I wasn’t suggesting a podcast, but more of a short written guide on how to set it up and the key benefits in efficiency that it offers so as many might benefit from the information as possible. Matthew > On Dec 17, 2015, at 3:02 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Matthew, > > It’s been

new lyft app

2015-12-17 Thread Jean
Hello All: Has anyone had a look at the new app for lyft to find out if it is still accessible? Lyft issued an email today advertising an “upgrade” and “new look” to the app. This is always a caution signal so I thought to inquire whether anyone has downloaded it yet and find out if it is still

Re: new lyft app

2015-12-17 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, I just installed it a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be excessively just fine. I haven't gotten any updates in the App Store for it so it should still be the one that I installed a couple of weeks ago. Good luck with it. Gabe Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Jean wr

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Jonathan, return I believe that would be possible. Currently I do not have a Macintosh to use full-time, so I need to use my wife's. Computer. I will try this out while I'm on vacation next week. best wishes Jonathan Cohn Jonathan Cohn > On Dec 16, 2015, at 11:56 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Mary Otten
I know it takes time to write up guides, but I would be interested in your method, Mark. And I think a short step-by-step guide would be more helpful than a podcast or a conference call, which all might not attend. I like written guides, because I can access them and start and stop or review or

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hmmm, based on mark's clear description already, O'm not sure what everyone is expecting him to add? He's using the standard layout, not classic, with five lines of preview, and VO+J to jump into the full body of the message where necessary. I think that's what a number of us are doing. Works we

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Mary Otten
I think I must have missed Mark's original message, or accidentally deleted it or whatever. Sorry. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Hmmm, based on mark's clear description already, O'm not sure what everyone > is expecting him to add? He's us

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Great, learn something new every day. Even in the modern view, one can first interact and then the cursor key navigation allows you to read by the column you’re viewing. Thanks Jonathan. But I still prefer the classic view, with the preview pane off. I like the clean and tabular layout, Voic

Re: iPhone versus iPad

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Before the 6 Plus, I’d definitely have said yes, there was. I have had, over the years, full-sized iPads starting with the first and, later, the second-gen mini iPad. But now? For just one device, get the 6 Plus. Good battery and plenty of room to do touch-typing and braille input on. If yo

Re: my impressions of El Capitan

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Finder has never remembered my viewing preferences for as long as I can remember now. I gave up long ago to get them right, and now simply set it up one time for all the common folders I visit and hope for the best. If I land in a view I don’t like, I press Command-3 and I’m back in column vie

Re: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I actually got that tip from this very list. It's a massive time saver. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org > On 18/12/2015, at 12:12 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Great, learn something new every day. Even in the modern vie

Re: Media Server To Replace iTunes?

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
After two days on this, I’m about ready to surrender. For whatever reason, Apple clearly does not want you running a media server from which one can stream and download on its iOS devices: it’s either the cloud—Apple’s cloud, natch—or streaming only. And of course it has to be iTunes for your

Re: upgrade to El Capitan successful

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I expect you’ll run into the delightful bugs, sooner or later, but yes, responsiveness is particularly wonderful. Try turning sounds on, if you had habitually turned them off for latency reasons. Now entirely possible, and useful. -- The following information is important for all members of t

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Thanks Jonathan. Awesome! Guess that’s me sold then. I’ll check out my brother’s Apple TV when I next visit—he’s got one—but from your description of it I’ll probably be buying. BBC iPlayer was the major blocker. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionari

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

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Chris, Well, my point was simply more that zipsplit generates split archives that are compatible with WinZip etc. I think 7zip already knows how to “Combine” selected files, but the standard way to indicate split zip files, as indicated by the zip format itself, is with this zip 2.0 extensi

Re: Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Changing the progress indicator to sounds helps, however the reason you are hearing the indicator is that the page is, in fact, stuck at whatever percentage. And since the most usual cause of these slow loading elements are ad servers and social media buttons, I suggest you grab and install AdB

Re: Confusion about Drives for Macs

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Sharon, Yes, that was me. I was just saying that some DVD drives will not be sufficiently powered to boot by a MacBook, and that Apple had worked around this with their particular SuperDrive. As for drivers, OS X supports all the hardware you’ll want to plug into it every day, with very fe

RE: Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

2015-12-17 Thread george b
Hi there why don't you have the email your responding to / replying to in the message so we know what the heck your replying to, please. thanks -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu Sent: Thur

Netiquette - Was Re: Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

2015-12-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
On 18 Dec 2015, at 01:57, george b wrote: > Hi there why don't you have the email your responding to / replying to in > the message so we know what the heck your replying to, please. People on blindness lists don’t seem to like it very much when I do that … I try to paraphrase what I’m replyin

Re: Media Server To Replace iTunes?

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Perhaps you've found that an iTunes Media Server doesn't meet your needs, but my Synology NAS broadcasts itself on the network as an iTunes Media server, making all the media on it searchable and playable from within any iTunes on the network. It also has some absolutely brilliant iOS apps, whic

Web Browsers

2015-12-17 Thread Keith Hinton
Hi folks, I was just curious, but what web browsers on the Mac platform tend to be the most accessible these days? I know Safari obviously is, but I was just curious if any of you have tried others such as Firefox, etc? Also, I was just wondering if anybody knows how to reset Safari back to factory

RE: Most efficient way to read emails

2015-12-17 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Jonathon and thank you for your kind compliment in describing my previous post as being clear. Actually, I do not use a 5 line preview pane, although I do use the standard view. The primary beauty of the technique I use is that, if setup properly, one does not have to jump into each in