RE: Mark on Apple TV 4th Generation, A Quick Follow UP

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Mark, Very mistaken, I can't get over how good the gen four device is. With the extremely fast rewind and fast forwards, The easy access to extra features etc And the ability to download apps from the store. I'm not really into games but twould be interested to hear what you find in the gam

RE: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah I find the air great, I wish they could up spec them more but then my specs would probably melt the keyboard. I currently have a 2013 11 inch air with I7 1.7GHZ processor, 8GB ram, 512GB ssd It’s a great machine. I wouldn’t go less than this. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:

RE: IOS update

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Kind of my thoughts to, I have the beta setup on an iPod touch and that's enough for me. My phone is to important to me for daily useage. I didn't realise you could remove the beta testing profile that way, I was under the impression that you had to wipe the phone to get rid of beta profiles. -

RE: Backing up a NAS

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Krista What raid config were / are the drives in befoe the drive died? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Sunday, 10 April 2016 11:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: peel-the-a

RE: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Donna, Yeah I'm looking at upgrading later this year but I’m stuck on staying with a mac book air config or upping to a mac book pro for a bit more power and ability to run multiple VM machines at one time. But it's early days yet. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegrou

Re: Mail Signatures

2016-04-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kat, To check that your signatures have been assigned properly, open Mail Preferences and go to the Signatures pane. Select an account in the lefthand table and navigate right to the list of signatures for that account. If there is nothing there, no signature has been assigned to that acc

RE: Backing up a NAS

2016-04-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Krista, If your going to setup a raid aray between the two disks you really want them the same brand / size / model etc. keeping everything the same makes the aray stronger they say. However if your going to backup the data on the remaining disk then obtaining 2 new disks of equal size / m

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Sadam Ahmed
I already have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with 2.5GHZ CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD drive. Most likely if I can get the Air on sale will get the 128GB model. Just want to take the machine for traveling when I go to Dublin later this year. Best regards, Sadam Ahmed LinkedIn: https://au.li

Re: Backing up a NAS

2016-04-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I don’t know exactly the name of the configuration but i have one disk mirror the other one so to speak. Don’t really know what the different configs are, and man do i feel stupid when i answer this as i don’t know the first thing about this, but i had it set up as was when my Readynas ultra 2 c

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Basioli George
simon, could you write me off list i would like help with v m > fusion, please. thanks > On Apr 11, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > Yeah I'm looking at upgrading later this year but I’m stuck on staying with a > mac book air config or upping to a mac book pro for a b

Re: El Cap output sound

2016-04-11 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Press option f12 and there you go. /A > On 10 Apr 2016, at 22:00, E.T. wrote: > > Google was helpful. Put the volume icon on the menu bar and then to get the > extra options. this may require the mouse tracking deal so will try that > later. The normal way to do this is to hold the option

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Sadam and all. I probably will be upgrading to a newer MacBook myself, but I'm gonna wait until WWDC to make my final decision. I'm waiting for that time to see if OS X 10.12 will be able to run on older MacBooks like mine. If Apple says it will, I'll stay with this thing for one more year. I

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Simon, I don't run any VM machines right now, so that isn't an issue for me. I'm going to see what Apple does with the next upgrade. If there's something worthwhile, I'll probably upgrade, too. I like to upgrade while I can still sell my old machine. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:

accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Hello All, Has anybody found a good way !read BRF or DAISY text files on the Mac with a braille Display? Thanks, Aleeha -- 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 fe

Re: Mark on Apple TV 4th Generation, A Quick Follow UP

2016-04-11 Thread Scott
+1 to this, I love my 4th gen apple TV as well. Youtube is fantastic. We’ve been taking my drone videos and the stuff my friend is shooting and displaying it on a large screen for editing etc and it’s fantastic. The only thing I wish the 4th generation had was 4K output. I realize it doesn’t

Re: Mail Signatures

2016-04-11 Thread waterwogster
That is what's strange. The signature text is there. Everything looks as it should, but there's no option to select it in the pop up button when you go to compose a new message. Kat > On Apr 11, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Kat, > > To check that your signatures have bee

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. I read them with my braille display in either i text express or in sasarafi, depending on the format of the book. some say you have to have your display set for computer braille.. hth, Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Al

Re: Backing up a NAS

2016-04-11 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Arq will resume just fine. It only uploads objects that are not already there. It will purge old objects according to your thinning preference, cleanup interval and budget. See the help for full explanations, but it’s basically very much like Time Machine. -- The following information is im

Voiceover acting very oddly

2016-04-11 Thread Tim Emmons
Ok folks, I have a weird one and I need some direction. I’m running the latest El Capitan release 10.12. whatever It think I can’t remember the number exactly, but running a Mac book pro with 16 Gig of memory and a pretty hefty hard drive. I noticed this this morning and this has never happened

Jumping to top or bottom of messages List in Mail

2016-04-11 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi all, I did a clean install of el Capitan on a new drive and now the option down arrow and option up arrow keystrokes do not move me to the bottom or top of the message list respectively. Is there a setting that I have forgotten to enable? Thx, Jeff -- The following information is importan

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Bill Dengler
Hello, Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to this as well… Thanks, Bill > On Apr 11, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Hi, > I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. > > I read them

Re: Jumping to top or bottom of messages List in Mail

2016-04-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jeff, The Option-Up or Down Arrow works for me, but some people find they have to do Cmd-Option-up or down arrow. Cheers, Anne > On 11 Apr 2016, at 19:42, Jeff Berwick wrote: > > Hi all, > > I did a clean install of el Capitan on a new drive and now the option down > arrow and opti

Re: Mail Signatures

2016-04-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kat, The text should be at the righthand side and the name of the signature in the centre panel. If there’s nothing in the centre panel, no signature has been assigned. Cheers, Anne > On 11 Apr 2016, at 16:46, waterwogs...@gmail.com wrote: > > That is what's strange. The signature te

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Ugh!! sorry about the horrible typo.. I meant safari.. Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Bill Dengler wrote: > > Hello, > Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? > Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to > this as well… > > Thanks, > Bill >> On Apr 11, 201

Re: Jumping to top or bottom of messages List in Mail

2016-04-11 Thread Jeff Berwick
Thanks…That works. Strange! Jeff > On Apr 11, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Jeff, > > The Option-Up or Down Arrow works for me, but some people find they have to > do Cmd-Option-up or down arrow. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > >> On 11 Apr 2016, at 19:42, Jeff Berwick w

question about clean install of 10.11

2016-04-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello everyone, I remember in 10. 10 and 10.9 there was some accessibility issues with downloading the OS from the recovery partition, specifically while using wifi. I was wondering if this issue has been resolved. I’m thinking of doing a clean install and the fastest way for me would be erase

Re: question about clean install of 10.11

2016-04-11 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If you’re talking about the menu extras in the top right of the screen, then it’s now accessible, yes. This only works if you have a talking recovery environment. It doesn’t work if you are in the Internet Recovery pre-boot environment, which is in firmware and isn’t voiced, sadly. So, yes, a

Re: question about clean install of 10.11

2016-04-11 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! No i don’t think its been resolved. If you have a usb drive you can use DiskMaker to put the osx on the Usb drive and do the install from there. /A > On 11 Apr 2016, at 21:26, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I remember in 10. 10 and 10.9 there was some accessibility issues wit

Unlocked Phones

2016-04-11 Thread E.T.
Scott G, you probably can answer this easily. I am on a family plan now but may need to go on my own. If I buy an unlocked iPhone (likely the 6s) from any source, any capacity, can I choose any plan from any carrier (likely Verizon)? Reason I ask is I just looked at their site and did not se

Re: Mail Signatures

2016-04-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
You actually have to drag the signature or signatures from the right panel into the Email account you want them active on. This is a bit difficult because if you have cursor tracking on, then when you move to the mail account on the left it selects that account and thereby unselecting all the s

Re: Unlocked Phones

2016-04-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
With unlocked iphones, you can definitely choose at&t or t-mobile, with verizon and sprint it's a bit more interesting, unless this has changed, you need to have the model of iphone designed for these two carriers. > On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:52 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Scott G, you probably can answe

Re: Unlocked Phones

2016-04-11 Thread Scott
Mike, this was true last century.:) Actually a little more recent than that but is no longer the case, sort of.:) First, yes, you can most definitely buy an unlocked iPhone from Apple directly for example and slap a Verizon SIM in the phone and join the network no problem. Is this officially

no taps with notifications on Apple Watch

2016-04-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have my phone locked, but I do not get taps on my wrist when notifications appear on the watch. I have the haptic alert to high. I see notifications if I swipe down, but do not get a visible alert or vibration when they come to my watch. Any ideas? Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/

Re: Unlocked Phones

2016-04-11 Thread E.T.
Thanks Scott. I will stay with Verizon for its been reliable. So I'll check out their plans and go from there. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/11/2016 5:20 PM, Scott wrote: Mike, this was tru

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Carter Temm
Hi, How does i text express work, and where can I get it? I would love to have a way of accessing bookshare books on the mac as well. On windows there is another program you can use called read out loud, but don't think their is a mac equivalent. On 4/11/16, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > Hi, > I downl

Re: El Cap output sound

2016-04-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Actually, the System settings are a bit tricky to use with Apple Script even if you are using UI Scripting. I was able today to put together an AppleScript that clicks on the System Sound tab in the Menu Extras area, but it appears there is no way to perform a option click in AppleScript eith

RE: Mail Signatures

2016-04-11 Thread Kat DeNicola
Thanks… Looks involved, but I’ll give it a go! Kat “Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” ~Brene Brown – Rising Strong From: macvisiona

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Gerry Cook
hi piet last night it took me 22 minutes to get those mail boxes back i decided to reinstall from a time machine backup and they were all where they are supposed to be I hope you don’t mind. giving me a short call, and see if you through a screen shot locate the offending file but I needed to g

Re: Unlocked Phones

2016-04-11 Thread E.T.
Scott, Its been quite a while but seems when I checked carrier status, it would announce 3G. It no longer does, so what am I getting? Its not LTE for its not enabled. Just curious because of what you told Mike and I realized I had not heard 3G in some time. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancie

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

2016-04-11 Thread Gerry Cook
i apologise for sending the wrong message disregard. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52 > On 12 Apr 2016, at 2:23 PM, Gerry Cook wrote: > > hi piet last night it took me 22 minutes to get those mail boxes back i > decided to r