RE: Questions about Two-Factor authentication

2016-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Helga, Yes Under setting, Then icloud Then under your name / apple icloud details, Then click on password and then work your way down and you should find two factor authentication It’s not obvious but ti’s there. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]

Re: youtube on the mac

2016-10-06 Thread David Griffith
Try in Safari 1. Turn Quick Nav off. Now Try using 2. Pressing K to pause 3. Press L to skip forward 4. Press J to skip back. David Griffith On 06/10/2016 04:23, Faisal ali wrote: so what youtube apps or any do people use and recommend for the mac? I have tried to use safari, but it

Re: Reading kindle books on Mac OS or converting to other formats

2016-10-06 Thread David Griffith
The last time I tried I could get no Voiceover output book reading using the Kindle app and there appeared no MacOS Accessibility TTS plug in as available on Windows. I believe some people use Calibre via command line interface to make the Kindle books accessible. I would welcome step by sep

Re: Questions about Two-Factor authentication

2016-10-06 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hi simon. How are you? Thanks so much for the steps. However, I can't find it at all! On my apple devices. I just went to iCloud on my mac,and it says it is off, but I can't only find tha teh two- factor authentication on my Mac, not on my my IOS devices at all. And guess what, when I pre

Mail app

2016-10-06 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I am wondering if there is a setting where I can permanently expand all conversations in a particular mailbox. Thanks. -- 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 y

Re: youtube on the mac

2016-10-06 Thread Faisal ali
Thanks will try that. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 6, 2016, at 3:21 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > Try in Safari > > > 1. Turn Quick Nav off. > > > Now Try using > > 2. Pressing K to pause > > 3. Press L to skip forward > > 4. Press J to skip back. > > > David Griffith > > >> On 06/1

Re: youtube on the mac

2016-10-06 Thread Alex Hall
You can also use 1 through 0 to skip to 10%, 20%, 30%, and so on. Up and down arrows will change the volume, though you must have the VO setting to pass arrows directly to the webpage enabled (I suggest a keyboard commander). > On Oct 6, 2016, at 06:22, Faisal ali wrote: > > Thanks will try tha

Re: Reading kindle books on Mac OS or converting to other formats

2016-10-06 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello David etc. It’s a very clunky experience and I’m probably making it harder for myself than necessary. 1. Buy a book from Amazon 2. Open Kindle for Mac and press enter on my new purchase so it is pulled down on to the Mac’s HD. 3. Open Kindle DRM removal and select the new book and remove

I need my mac to stop sleeping, and how can i know the time on the fly?

2016-10-06 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all my friends: Now, I checked the system preferences, energy saver, and made computer sleep slider to never, and my screen to 30 minutes. but my mac still sleeping after a while, even while copying etc Is there a way to prevent this from Happening? I found an app called Cafeieen, http://li

Re: I need my mac to stop sleeping, and how can i know the time on the fly?

2016-10-06 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, 2, Option T. Gena > On 6 Oct 2016, at 16:30, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > > Hello all my friends: > > Now, I checked the system preferences, energy saver, and made > computer sleep slider to never, and my screen to 30 minutes. but my > mac still sleeping after a while, even while copying et

Selecting text from web pages in Safari

2016-10-06 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
Before the latest update to Safari in El Capitan, I was able to use shift and arrow keys to select text on a web page and copy it to the clipboard. This could be done on any text, not just that inside of edit boxes. After the upgrade, this almost never works. pressing the arrow keys doesn’t y

Re: I need my mac to stop sleeping, and how can i know the time on the fly?

2016-10-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Ramy, Is this on your laptop, or Mini? Note that on a laptop, there are two different categories for Energy Saver, one for on battery, and the other for when you're connected to power. They are independent of each other. I recommend that you do not set it to never when on battery power, but

Re: I need my mac to stop sleeping, and how can i know the time on the fly?

2016-10-06 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello Georgina and tim: regarding the time and date? must I set the keyboard commander to on? Concerning sleeping, it's my mac mini, and I set the sleep to never, but it always sleeps, and asks me to enter my password from time to time. On 10/6/16, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Ramy, > > Is this on yo

Re: I need my mac to stop sleeping, and how can i know the time on the fly?

2016-10-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The password being asked is just because the screen went to sleep, not because the computer did. So, even though it asks you for your password, the computer should still be doing things in the background. That is just a security thing to help keep your Mac more safe. Yes, the Keyboard co

Time Machine and Sierra

2016-10-06 Thread E.T.
Tim, you might know the answer here. I have Sierra running well now and have things mostly set up. TM works but apparently needs disk space. I want to preserve the data I backed up the day before the clean install but TM is not seeing anything prior to yesterday when I enabled it. I could wi

Re: Time Machine and Sierra

2016-10-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you've been having consistent Time Machine backups for a length of time, there's no good reason why you shouldn't see older backups. Though, if your computer is working well, and you feel like you have everything from the migration, and, you have the CCC backup, I'd just go ahead and wi

Re: youtube on the mac

2016-10-06 Thread aliFaisal
Hi Alex, How would I go about setting that up with the keyboard commander? > On Oct 6, 2016, at 6:34 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > You can also use 1 through 0 to skip to 10%, 20%, 30%, and so on. Up and down > arrows will change the volume, though you must have the VO setting to pass > arrows dire

Re: Time Machine and Sierra

2016-10-06 Thread E.T.
Ok thanks, its history now. Next is to figure out the changes that Sierra brings. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/6/2016 11:30 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, If you've been having consistent Time Machine backups for a length of time, the

MenuBar Stats

2016-10-06 Thread E.T.
Someone had recently mentioned MenuBar Stats. I am curious to know if it really adds functionality. Its just $5 but I still wish to hear more feedback. Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all

Speaking Bar in IOS10

2016-10-06 Thread Marcia Yale
I have noticed, since updating to IOS10, that often when I exit from the AT Bat app by pressing the home button I get a message with two buttons: "minimize speaking bar" and "stop". Does any of you know what this refers to? If I press the first one, it changes its name to "expand speaking bar", but

CapitalOne App

2016-10-06 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli Hi guys: Besure to download today’s version of the CapitalOne app! They fixed the bug with transferring money. Those guys are very responsive. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Please Join Me in Making an iOS Feature Request That Will Greatly Benefit Low Vision Users

2016-10-06 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, Please join me in requesting that the "Appearance" feature, currently available in tvOS, be added to iOS. In an effort to reduce redundancy, you will find more details on the Appearance option in the request that I have already submitted to apple which you will find below my signa

Some MP4 Videos Will Not Play on Apple TV 4th Generation

2016-10-06 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, I'm not certain if this has been discussed, on list, but for whatever reason, some of my mp4 videos won't play on my 4th gen Apple TV. The funny thing is that they play just fine in both the Mac and Windows versions of iTunes and, moreover, on all of my iOS devices. After searchin

Re: Some MP4 Videos Will Not Play on Apple TV 4th Generation

2016-10-06 Thread Kliphton Miller
You might want to consider the infuse app. There is a free version, and the pro version costs 10 bucks. It is well worth it though. You can play any format of video, MP4, MKV, AVI, DVIX, and more. And the best part? If you have a NAS, or USB drive connected to your router, you don’t need yo

Re: Some MP4 Videos Will Not Play on Apple TV 4th Generation

2016-10-06 Thread E.T.
Mark, I do not have a 4th. Does this happen with the 3rd? Curious if the videos that will not play have something in common, such as where you got them, if they were ripped/converted, etc. In the next day or so I can try this as part of testing my new Sierra installation. From E.T.'s

Re: Clean my mac 3 and sierra.

2016-10-06 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Maybe its the beta thats the problem. I will investigate further in this. /A > On 5 Oct 2016, at 05:30, E.T. wrote: > > Anders, > I just finished a clean install of Sierra yesterday and have been putting > apps back. Just now I ran Clean My Mac and it works as it did before. Both > from t

Adding Message Sender to Contacts in iOS 10

2016-10-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi List, In iOS 10 Messages app, how do you add the sender of a message to Contacts? I used to tap on the more button in the top right corner, then there would be a more contact info button or something like that, and then there would be the options to create new contact or add to existing cont

Re: Selecting text from web pages in Safari

2016-10-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Larry, I use various strategies for selecting text in Safari because different pages behave differently. 1. Using Quick Nav, set the rotor to Lines and hold down the Shift key and press the Down Arrow. 2. Without Quick Nav, press VO-Return to start selecting text, navigate right with the

Re: Adding Message Sender to Contacts in iOS 10

2016-10-06 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hi Nicolas. how are you? To answered your question, if you go to the message app and go to the right top corner you will find more info button. I just try it and I am I'm running iOS 10 on my iPhone sixeS. And after you double tap on more info button, you will flick right or swipe right un

RE: Some MP4 Videos Will Not Play on Apple TV 4th Generation

2016-10-06 Thread M. Taylor
Hello E.T., To say that such a thing does not happen on the 3rd generation would not be necessarily accurate as, once upon a time, back in 2013, I believe, there were problems upgrading from the 2nd gen to the third. A more accurate answer is that the videos that will not currently play on th