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2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Guess it’s someone that isn’t happy with the list. Oh well thank god for delete keys! From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of d.pra...@me.com Sent: Monday, 15 February 2016 8:43 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: nigger help wit

RE: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Mail sender, Thanks for your input, but if we’ve done something to offend you please just let it go and leave the list. We’re a list trying to help each other, we don’t require your offencive behaviour. But thanks for your input Regards, Simon F From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [m

RE: How to activate a link in a tweet?

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi List, I'm assuming Mark and the other mods have got what's going on and are working to deal with it. For now we just have to ignore it until they can. Their intelligents is obviously of a sub antarcticlevel So I'd highly recommend either deleting the messages one by one or to setup a rul

RE: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Chris and Ray, I’m on a number of google groups and the others so far haven’t received this type of thing. To me it’s localised to this group. However I find it difficult to believe that the mods would have allowed this clown to join although we all know there are ways around subscriptions

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2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
It's also happening in outlook 2013 on my windows machine as well, I'm trying to view the headers but it's playing havick with jaws so might have to resort to narrator -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Oy

Re: Real quick question about Google Crome

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Awesome. Thank you for the help. Chris. - Original Message - From: Kevin Chao To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 1:30 AM Subject: Re: Real quick question about Google Crome Type following into Omnibar: chrome://version/ Or, navigate to

RE: Moderator Note - Thanks, and an Official Apology

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi List, Apologies for my posts after the fact. But being on the other side of the planet to y you most I get the mail before you do so I therefore reply after the fact. Thanks Cara for the work done by yourself or Mark etc. I think we all appreciate it -Original Message- From: m

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Anne Robertson
In fact, I think it affects Apple voices in general as I use Fred and it shut that voice down too. Switching to a French voice didn’t help either. I wound up restarting my Mac four times before I got rid of all the offending messages. Cheers, Anne > On 15 Feb 2016, at 05:25, Mary Otten wrote

Roboform

2016-02-15 Thread Chris G
Hi, Has anyone used the Roboform password manager on the mac? I tried it last night and it seems to crash, however my mac mini is 7 years old and very slow. I am specifically asking about roboform from roboform.com Thanks much Chris -- Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in lear

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It shut down my Alex also. Had to reset my Mac and now am using the US English Tom voice which it seems not to effect. Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidanc

Double contacts on the iphone.

2016-02-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! It seems that my contacts is doubbled for some reason. Not even on the Iphone but also on my mac. Why is this happening and is the only sollution to logout from Icloud and back in again. /A -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have a

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Just in case anything like this happens again, I found that it did not impact my iPhone. So by switching over to my phone to deal with mail, I was able to get rid of all his messages. Thank you, Cara, Chris, and Mark for getting on this so quickly. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 5:24 AM,

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Alex Hall
Just for the record, it seems to impact the Alex voice on iOS. The main difference is that you can simply restart VoiceOver and everything is fine, but on the Mac, the entire system becomes useless until you restart. On iOS, if you use Samantha, a Siri voice, or other Nuance voices, you'll be fi

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Ah, yes, that would be the difference - I use Samantha. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:23 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Just for the record, it seems to impact the Alex voice on iOS. The main > difference is that you can simply restart VoiceOver and everything is fine, > but on the Mac, the e

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Alex Hall wrote: > Same with the Mac, but Alex is default on the Mac whereas Samantha is > default on iOS. The default varies by country/region, but I think it's always a Nuance synthesizer under iOS. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If y

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Basioli George
i contactted apple senior tech this morning and they had me send them a email forward with the dreaded er string in the subject line. they told me to let all know that suggestion is to change your defalt from alix and that they should have the issue fixed by wed otr thursday of this week. said y

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Nice. Thanks for doing this. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Basioli George wrote: > > i contactted apple senior tech this morning and they had me send them a email > forward with the dreaded er string in the subject line. > they told me to let all know that suggestion is to change

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Andrew
y screen reader stopped talking and I had to force shut the ocmputer. Yes, we are grateful for helping us with this unacdceptale action. Andrews problem. On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 4:05:24 AM UTC, Chris Gilland wrote: > > Mark, > > Don't beat yourself up over this. > > You're doing the

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn F
Hi how do you fix this problem doesn't only affect the Alex screenreader my mac is completely useless right now and all I have to work with is my iPhone thanks a lot Caitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Andrew wrote: > > y screen reader stopped talking and I had

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Basioli George
do the following command f8 to open the voice over utilities in the table inter act and arrow down to speech and stop interactting v o right errow to the defalt voice pup up menu and it will read alix since this is your defalt set voice v o spacebar on this and arrow down to a new voice and do v

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Caitlyn, Just restart your Mac. Once restarted, do not reopen mail. Go into Voiceover and change to a non-Apple voice, such as Eva. If you don't have one of the non-Apple voices installed, you can download them in Voiceover Prefs, under Speech, then Voices. Once there, select customize and

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn F
Hi thanks for your input my computer isn't talking at all and I have no vision so I can't do what you suggested any other ideas thanks Caitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Basioli George wrote: > > do the following > > command f8 to open the voice over utilities

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello George, First of all, the command to open the VO utility is VO-F8. Then, it is not only the Alex voice that is affected. I do not have Alex on my Mac! I use Fred and quite a few other voices in Various languages. Switching to a French voice did not work for me. I had to do a restart to ge

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, As has been said multiple times, the way to fix it is to either read those E-Mails on your phone using a different voice other than Alex or something else to get those ones deleted, or restart your Mac by using the power button to shut it down and then turning it back on, and when doing tha

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn F
Hi Also I restarted my computer several times and I still don't have speech Caitlyn Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello George, > > First of all, the command to open the VO utility is VO-F8. Then, it is not > only the Alex voice that is a

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Caitlyn, After restarting, if you don't get speech, press Command F5 to start Voiceover. That should work. I did have to do that once. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Caitlyn F wrote: > > Hi > Also I restarted my computer several times and I still don't have speech > Caitlyn >

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Caitlyn, I was actually able to just quit mail, and then press the power button for a couple of seconds then press Enter. This will shut your computer down. If for some reason that doesn't work, just hold down the power button for about 5 seconds. Your computer will force shut down. By the

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Anne I'd never heard of the Cmd-Option-Ctrl power shut down option. Thanks for sharing that. What a useful trick when you find yourself in a situation where forcing shut down is the only option. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Caitlyn, > > Try p

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Caitlyn, Try pressing Cmd-F5 to get VoiceOver back. I was able to delete all the messages using my Mac, but I have the preview pane disabled, so messages do not open automatically when I land on them. Yet another reason to dislike the preview pane. Also, having shut down your Mac, you cou

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Jeff Berwick
Alternatively, you can hold down vo command and use your right and left arrows to get to the speech setting. You can then switch to using the up and down arrows with vo + command pressed to cycle through the options. Just a little easier. Hah, Jeff > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Basioli Geor

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Just fyi, this trick also works on the desk top mac, but it’s then control, option, command eject instead of power.. hth, Caitlyn > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Anne > > I'd never heard of the Cmd-Option-Ctrl power shut down option. Thanks for > sharing that. What a

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi Ann, thanks for your suggestions. I managed to get my own i mac speaking again by doing the vo f5 command. I did go and change my default from Alex to Moira, just in case. My husband’s mac is still fubar, and I’ve restarted it several times. It makes a bonking noise when I try to go into

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Just tried this with the other machine also, and only get bonks. Weird, and annoying!! Some people really have a lot of time on their hands these days! Caitlyn > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > > Alternatively, you can hold down vo command and use your right and left > arr

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
thanks Donna. Cait > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Caitlyn, > > After restarting, if you don't get speech, press Command F5 to start > Voiceover. That should work. I did have to do that once. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Caitlyn F >

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Donna Goodin
That makes sense. On the MacBook Air, the Power button and the Eject button are the same. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Just fyi, this trick also works on the desk top mac, but it’s then control, > option, command eject instead of power.. > hth, > C

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Basioli George
also on the new mac book pros 2015 and newer with no optical drive there is no power button and the old eject button is now the power button > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > That makes sense. On the MacBook Air, the Power button and the Eject button > are the same. > Chee

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2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Is there a way to shut down mail via terminal? the computer I am currently trying to fix from this stupid malicious code thanks Cait > On Feb 14, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > If you get caught by the very long strings that kills Alex and aren’t using > another synth o

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Stacey Robinson
Can someone explain to me what this person did and how to keep it from happening again? I’ve had to restart several times but vo with Alex is working for me now. I’ve also had to delete massive amounts of mail. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:s

using terminal

2016-02-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Just wanted to let people know that they can also use terminal to quit a particular app. You do this by typing vo space, then typing terminal. this will open terminal You’ll probably have to enter your pass word, then type: osascript -e quit app app name, then hit enter this is how I coul

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2016-02-15 Thread John Panarese
What I’ve found is to change to a different non-Apple voice temporarily in VoiceOver and then delete the offending messages. This is what I’ve done. I’v switched to the Australian voice, Karen, on the Mac, as David indicated this worked on his iPhone. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Ma

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hi all! How are you al!! I'm glad that I did not use my Mac to find those scam emails! I actually use my iPhone 6S and I do have Alex on it and it was getting crash all the time! And I did not know what was happening! And I needed to check important email messages! I actually delete my gmail

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
OK, so it looks like com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd deadlocks when this happens. Anyone else want to try deliberately reproducing this, and then, using Terminal, try “sudo killall -9 com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd”? You should find that it comes back again shortly after you execute that

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
What I wanna know is how the heck you manage to have Apple fix a bug so quickly! Every time I've reported a bug to Apple Accessibility, it hardly ever gets squashed, and yes, I'm very professional about it when I do so. I provide logs, crash reports, audio mp3's demoing the situation, etc. I

Re: Re:

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
yup. sudo killall mail hit enter. type your administrator password. Hit enter. Boom! Chris. - Original Message - From: "Caitlyn Furness" To: Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 10:32 AM Subject: Re: Hi, Is there a way to shut down mail via terminal? the computer I am currently try

Re: using terminal

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
VO+Space opens terminal? Since when? You sure you don't mean command+space? Also, realize something important here. If you have something like Onyx or what not, like I do, and've disabled Spotlight, then... well? you're kind a screwed. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Caitlyn F

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Eric Oyen
it isn't so much that they have a lot of time on their hands. It's that they have no ethics and also no emotional control. Believe it or not, there are those of us (who are still hackers) that have ethics. we are few and very far between. I am not a coder, so I don't deal with that end of things

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2016-02-15 Thread Stan ZA
Hi, What I found, also works, is; When re-opening the computer, and "mail", go to "message table" and interact, right arrow to "from column", up and down arrow, till you find the offending sender, and hit delete. Do not, up or down arrow, in "subject" column. Stan ZA amista...@gmail.com On 15

Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Was not around for a few days so just started going through my list mail and read about these awful malicious emails taking out VO. I am assuming they are further down in the mailbox where all my list mail is. If you do not open the email does it affect you? I typically let VO read lit

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Alex Hall
The string that causes the problem is in the subject of many of them, so you'll be affected even if you don't open them. The best thing to do is just use a synthesizer that is NOT the Alex voice or any of the older Mac voices (Fred, Ralph, etc). This bug doesn't affect any Nuance voice at all, o

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Chao
Workaround: Use a non-Apple TTS (e.g. Nuamce). Unfortunately, VoiceOver will crash (Alex, Fred, etc.) even if message isn't open, as offending text is in subject and preview. On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:17 AM Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Was not around for a few days so just started going

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, Wow what kind of an whole creates a bug to knock out VoiceOVer that is a whole new kind of jerk. I only have the stock voices my mac came with. I read it might be easier to get around on the iPhone? Any words of wisdom on how to get through this the easiest way with only having stock

I just sent an email to Apple accessibility regarding spam messages

2016-02-15 Thread nicholasacosta775
Sent from my iPhone hello guys, I would ask everyone on this list to send an email to Apple accessibility. I sent them this email because I wanted to tell them about what was going on with the Alex TTS voice. This had to do with the spam that was being sent to the list yesterday. I explained t

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that he can no longer log in to his account. And you'll never guess

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread erik burggraaf
May I suggest: http://www.downpour.com http://www.tantor.com http://www.booksinmotion.com http://www.emusic.com/book-genres/audiobook/ Also, while I'm not a fan of physical media too much any more, many books that can't be purchased drm-free can be purchased as mp3 cd's. http://www.audiobookstand

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Sharon Hooley
I value how-to material and generally prefer to keep them on my Victor Reader. All other kinds of books I read I am less likely to care about retrieving again. That might be one way to protect yourself from losing as much valuable content, unless of course storing them this way would be ille

Txt expansion

2016-02-15 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello all , I wondered if any use txt expansion on their IOS or Mac? While I can input my abbreviations myself, it seems it is a very Painful exercise using Apple's shortcut options in keyboard shortcuts. Is there an app that has predefined routines? A common method is to not type vowel letter

RE: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread BBS
Hi Anne. Are these French voices you have made by Acapela? I’m about to write a report to Assistiveware about this because the voice I was using when the hacker attacked the list was an Acapela voice and my Mac was unusable when it encountered the message. Stacy, what happened was somebody type

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Thanks for the list Erik. Actually, I’m familiar with some of these, particularly Downpour, but because Audible often turned up stuff not available there, I’d be come a bit complacent in checking. Will be far more vigilant going forward, of course. I still buy CDs, if it means avoiding DRM, a

Re: Att Bill: Legit message

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Nothing, it's someone trying to get a rise out of us. On Feb 14, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > ACPI? What's that? Admittedly, I've never heard that term before. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Bill Dengler" > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 5:

RE: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread BBS
Bryan, you can download the Nuance voices to your Mac by going into the VO Utility and select ustomize. On the iPhone, as long as you’re not using Alex, you should be fine. Shawn Sent from my White MacBook Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Skype Username:

Re: Att Bill: Legit message

2016-02-15 Thread Bill Dengler
http://enwp.org/acpi Bill > On Feb 14, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > ACPI? What's that? Admittedly, I've never heard that term before. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Bill Dengler" > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 5:02 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Sean. How do I know which the nuance voices are, I thought they just had the names for the voices. I assume if you are running Alex and the subject of the malicious email is read it then knocks out VO? Was this virus written to target blind VO users? So bizarre and really evil. Thanks, >

RE: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread BBS
Hi Bryan. The Nuance voices are Samantha, Tom, Ava, those voices. The string only effects Alex and other voices but if you use Samantha, you’ll be fine. Shawn Sent from my White MacBook Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper F

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Dolores Myers
Hi, I am a very new Mac user. I went to the VO utility and then to customize voices. I found Samantha and selected it. I closed the VO utility and nothing happened. Do I have to download this voice first? My Mac only has Alex, Fred and Bruce. I just want to be prepared if something like

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Alex Hall
'Yes, you have to let it download. It should become active automatically, but if not, go back to where you were and select the voice again. To check the status, (again) go back to where you were and open the list of voices. Any that are still downloading will indicate that in the list and cannot

Re: How do I turn a mac into a full fledged ftp server?

2016-02-15 Thread erik burggraaf
I could, but then users would have full accounts to the mac that was serving, all be it restricted ones. I just don't think I want to go that rout. I'm not even sure I'll be able to do what I want to do with a mac at all, but it would make my life much simpler if I could. Best, Erik Burggraa

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Marie Lyons
My v/o keeps shutting down. What can I do to fix it? Marie Lyons. I had called disability support and they couldn’t figure it out. Help greatly appreciated Marie Lyons > On Feb 14, 2016, at 10:55 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I became aware of the offensive emails and the d

Re: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Thanx so much for posting this; I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I had this weird issue last night where I was checking my e-mail, and all of a sudden it was reading an unopened message, then voiceover, using Alex, just suddenly studdered, then crashed, and now does the same thing whenever mai

Re: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
I'm surprised with that being the case, that he could've possibly messed up my system, considering the fact that I didn't click any strange links, and didn't start getting his messages until today, sense it started messing up last night and I couldn't figure out how to fix it until I did a googl

Re: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, as an addon, how to semi-fix it, sense Alex still crashes whenever I launch mail, so things aren't totally fixed. On Feb 14, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > I doubt he has a large number of IP addresses at his disposal. To begin with, > they would have to answer to a validated NX so fa

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Alex Hall
Simply switch voices to Samantha, Ava, Tom, or any of the other Nuance voices. Alternatively, use a Windows computer, or iOS device with any voice other than Alex, to delete the messages that contain the string which crashes Mac speech synthesizers. > On Feb 15, 2016, at 20:19, Marie Lyons wrot

Re: I just sent an email to Apple accessibility regarding spam messages

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
I didn't even open a message and that somehow happened to me. I have no idea what message popped up, but Alex started reading me the subject line, then studdered then crashed altogether and no longer works when I try to launch mail, so unfortunately have no idea what to tell them. Can someone

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
What is drm, and what do you find wrong with it? I've heard that mentioned, and think I found something with that extention when I used to transfer music files onto my windows mobile phone, when I used to use one, but never opened them. On Feb 15, 2016, at 3:00 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > May

RE: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread BBS
Hi Jessica. You'll have to use Tessa or whatever Nuance voice you prefer until you finish deleting all that crap that that person sent. There's no other work around unfortunately. Shawn Sent from my White MacBook Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Skype Username: b

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
That was actually the same thing I thought of. I find it extremely childish that people would do something like that. I remember someone posting something on zonebbs.com, that apparently was immediately taken down, but talked about a lot, that someone pretended was a game, but was a long stri

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Amen to that, These lists get hacked all the time, so what can you do? On Feb 14, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Mark, > > Don't beat yourself up over this. > > You're doing the best you can, and that is all anyone ever could ask of you. > > On behalf of the whole list,

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
I downloded that one as well, and it said the same thing. On Feb 11, 2016, at 11:34 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Ok try this link. > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ok9cd3uml496rqz/AADqdQPvc14LposjElfwVRePa?dl=0 > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook > Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk > Twitter Hand

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Ryan Mann
DRM stands for digital rights management. If music or audio files are protected by DRM can only be played on computers that are authorized to play them. This means that you can't just copy these files to a flash drive and copy them to another computer. Does this make sense? PS, did you go to t

O/T what is drm was Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Jessica, DRM stands for digital rights management. In other words, digital licencing strategies that restrict how media is distributed online and policies that govern how you access your data. DRM's usually take the form of security encryption that prevents you from making copies of digita

Re: Help with message are extremely offensive

2016-02-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Wait. I think you may be confused about something. We're not dealing with a virus here: rather, we're dealing with a special string of characters which, if you type them without any spaces, causes a buffer overrun thus crashing Alex. A more infamous version of this sort of thing used to happ

Re: O/T what is drm was Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Of course in the states we also have DCMA which says that the mere act of breaking encryption (the basis of many DRM schemes) is illegal. So if you buy a DVD and wish to make a copy so you can extract the audio tracks, copy it to your favorite iDevice or just have a backup in case the original

now have 3 different voices

2016-02-15 Thread Marie Lyons
Does anyone know how I can confine it to 1 voice? I went to change my default voice and Alex remained with the addition of Veronica and another male voice. It’s driving me nuts!!! Marie Lyons -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have a

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
DRM, Digital rights Management. Chris. - Original Message - From: Jessica Moss To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 9:25 PM Subject: Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil What is drm, and what do you find wrong with it? I've heard tha

Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
Hello. I'm Dora. I'm from British Columbia, Canada. I'm 24, totally blind and single. I hope to make new connections as time goes on. Thanks. :) Dora Speck [Sent from my iPhone] -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions o

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread joseph hudson
Hi, welcome to the group. Are you getting a MacBook Pro? Or iMac? Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 Twitte

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
I actually have a Mac. It is a MacBook Pro 2012, 13 inch with four giggs of RAM. Dora Speck [Sent from my iPhone] > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:05 PM, joseph hudson wrote: > > Hi, welcome to the group. Are you getting a MacBook Pro? Or iMac? > Joseph Hudson > Email > jhud7...@gmail.com > I device su

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread joseph hudson
Oh okay cool. Well I hope you enjoy your stay. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 Twitter https://twitter.c

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Bill Dengler
Hi Dora! Looks like your membership request worked after all. Happy exploring! Bill > On Feb 15, 2016, at 11:09 PM, joseph hudson wrote: > > Oh okay cool. Well I hope you enjoy your stay. > Joseph Hudson > Email > jhud7...@gmail.com > I device support > Telephone > 25

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
Hi, Yes, Bill, it did work! Just as I had asked you about it on Skype, I checked my email, and there it was! But glad to be here. Has the spamminess stopped now? Can I be brave and switch back to Alex now? Dora Speck > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:20 PM, Bill Dengler wrote: > > Hi Dora! > Looks like y

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread joseph hudson
Yes, the spam is gone. Expect Alex until further notice. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 Twitter https:/

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
Thanks. Just switched. What Macs do you all have here? I've already stated which 1 I have. I've had it for 3 years now. I did get my first 1 in 2012, but for some unknown reason, the command key stopped working so I switched it out for this 1. > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:36 PM, joseph hudson wrote:

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread joseph hudson
After 13 inch MacBook Pro that came out in 2013. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@gmail.com I device support Telephone 2543007667 Skype joseph.hudson89 facebook https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 Twitter https://twitter

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yup, sounds like the same system I have. I love that thing! Chris. - Original Message - From: Dora Speck To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Hi my name is Dora! I actually have a Mac. It is a MacBook Pro 2012, 13 inch

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Hi Dora. Glad to have you on the list. Welcome. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Dora Speck" To: Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 11:03 PM Subject: Hi my name is Dora! Hello. I'm Dora. I'm from British Columbia, Canada. I'm 24, totally blind and single. I hope to make new conne

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
Thanks so much! Glad to be here. I've always wanted to be a part of something, and it looks like now's my chance. :) > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Hi Dora. > > Glad to have you on the list. Welcome. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "D

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
How many of you have had to downgrade from the recent opperating system? I haven't, although it tends to be slightly laggy. It took me a bit to get things going propperly this morning. I seriously hope they fix that in whatever update comes next! > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Christopher-Mark

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, Dora, my name is Ray. I use a mid November 2009 15 inch Mac book pro with only 4GB ram and a 500GB drive on it. The voice I'm using is the Nuance Tom voice (the high bit rate version); This is owing to the events of yesterday when that toxic character string showed up to crash Alex. It

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

2016-02-15 Thread Dora Speck
Oh trust me, as I looked at all the posts. I saw all of those. O course that didn't stop me from joining! I just simpley switched to Samantha compacked so as to not crash! Bill was the 1 who told me about this, so yeah! I googled you all, and here I am! I'm impressed at how long Macs can last f

RE: To The List About The Recent Spam

2016-02-15 Thread Debbie April Yuille
Hi Caitlin To restart your mac without voice over talking. Press the Control plus Command Plus the eject key. Debbie From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn F Sent: Tuesday, 16 February 2016 1:30 AM To: macvisionaries@google

Voiceover Voices

2016-02-15 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hi all!How are you all? I just wanted to ask yu, can anyone tell me here why are the steps in adding new voices to the Mac besides just having Alex on the Mac? I'm just wondering since I would like to add some Voiceover Voices, like the Samanta Voice that I have on my iPhone 6S. And I a

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