RE: Wifi VS. Cellular?

Cellular data is not the phone connection, Think of the cellular network as a number of layers in a shelving rack. If you turn off the mobile data layer it doesn’t turn off the phone layer. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Ho

RE: MODERATOR NOTE: RE: Wifi VS. Cellular?

O, Ok, You guys get all kinds of crazy holidays. Waw really a holiday for electing a muppet in to a position of power? It really doesn't matter which one wins, the worlds in danger -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

RE: 2016 Macbook Pro

Yeah I have to admit I'm thinking of the 13 inch with touch bar, Can't see the point in going backwards when things change. I'm in an industry where learning about these things is needed so why not jump rather than be pushed. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [ma

RE: Macbook Pro 2010 Hardware Upgrade questions

Yeah I put 16 gig ram and a 480 gig ssd into an I7 2012 MBP and it started like an MBA My neace took it to use for university even though it had a cracked screan she didn't care, it was only the cover on the front not the actual LCD panel so o visual issues. -Original Message- From

RE: 2016 Macbook Pro

I Helgar, The USB C or thunderbolt 3 will allow you to use an adaptor to connect older USB devices if you need to. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Helga Schreiber Sent: Friday, 4 November 2016 11:09 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.c

RE: Macbook Pro 2010 Hardware Upgrade questions

Hi When it comes to SSD I prefer to go to the Samsung ssd drives They tend to show more reliability performance. I’ll use crucial ram as that is what apple use in their machines or at least it was. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scot

RE: Here comes a new adopter: I'm a really! really! happy camper

I've got the 7+ 128 gigi and I can't complain about ti. It's very quick and responsive Now if I just had the available funds I'd be purchasing a new MBP 13inch with all the bells and whistles -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups

Re: Radium

Thanks Mary for this information. Really sag but good to know. Jürgen Von meinem iPad gesendet > Am 04.11.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Mary Otten : > > I got a response to my email to the folks at radium regarding the recent > message that the app needs to be updated for iOS 10, and it is not good new

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

Hey Simon. Ok I understand. Hey I hve a question, how one wil use windows on the Mac computer without function keys? Just wondering! Do you hve any idea> I look forward in hearing from you soon. Thanks and God bless! Helga Schreiber Group Moderator for the IPad help for the blind ipa

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

I forgot to ask you guys, so that means here willl not be any more uSV drives? If so, how do people will transfer informations? Just wondering! Thanks! i use my mac for school! And I think carrying an adaptor will not work so well sometimes! Tht is only my opinion. I never heard of USV C or Thun

Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

Good Friday Morning All; As suggested by the subject line, I have a question concerning scheduling automatic Time Machine processes Specifically, while parusing the Time Machine Preferences I located a check box for turning on automatic backups, but I wasn’t able to figure how to select a spec

Re: braille translation for the mac

Hi Becky, there is a free program called louis that should work with El Capitan. Braille Blaster is also free, but when I went to the site to try to download it a couple of weeks ago, the only way I could do it was if I was willing to be a beta tester. Duxbury Systems also has software for the M

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

Hi, There will still be drives, just the interface for accessing the drive is changing for the moment. I doubt USB will die immediately, it's just an evolving sort of thing. Consider that people probably wondered similar things with the demise of the floppy disk. Things change and new produc

Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

Hi, The GUI for Time Machine is not that granular. It is automatically set to backup every hour unless it can't find the backup drive. In those cases, it will just try in another hour, and so on, until the drive is available. There are methods in Terminal to change the backup schedule, but i

iTunes match questions

Hello everyone, I am a current apple music subscriber, and wish to possibly invest in iTunes match but had some questions. I understand that the service matches your library with what it has in the store and provides you to download the matched song. I also have a lot of songs I have added with

Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

Uncheck the automatic backup option. Check it when you want to run a backup. Not ideal. I let mine stay checked. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/4/2016 6:08 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: automatic backup -- The following information is impo

Re: iTunes match questions

Hi. You do not need to be invested in the separate iTunes match service anymore. They incorporate the matching functionality into Apple Music. So if you upload all of your songs to iCloud music library that weren't iTunes, they will remain on all your devices. As far as duplicates, what I usua

Re: iTunes match questions

Hi, Apple Music and iTunes Match are different, complementary, but also similar. Apple Music does pretty well everything iTunes Match does, but a little differently and with a few restrictions. • both Apple Music and iTunes Match store your entire iTunes Library in iCloud. That is, they both

Numbers: Cell selected

Hello, I have a Numbers Sheet with a table with 259 rows and 14 columns. It’s a list of customers. since Sierra I experience two different issues: 1. I navigate through the rows by pressing VO + up / down or just the arrow keys without the VO keys. Suddenly VO starts to tell „Cell selected“. I

Re: Numbers: Cell selected

Hi, I believe that it has to do with the VO keys. If, for some reason, your finger is a little lighter on the option key, then your Mac is doing what it is supposed to. That is, ctrl-up goes to the top of the spreadsheet. Similarly for ctrl-down to go directly to the bottom. I've found, on

Re: Numbers: Cell selected

Thanks Tim. I’ll try that definitively out. Jürgen > Am 04.11.2016 um 16:29 schrieb Tim Kilburn : > > Hi, > > I believe that it has to do with the VO keys. If, for some reason, your > finger is a little lighter on the option key, then your Mac is doing what it > is supposed to. That is, ctr

all my files

I think my last post on this wasn’t clear. When I used finder with Yosemite “all my files” was one of the options in the sidebar. Since I upgraded to El Capitan I no longer see this option. How do I search to get my files listed? Marie Lyons -- The following information is important for all me

Re: iTunes match questions

The reason for me to initially have iTunes match is for me to get higher qualities of music I had added to my library. And the other major problem is with apple music songs, I am restricted to only having them available on apple products and in iTunes on windows. I want to be able to not only ha

Re: iTunes match questions

Tim is exactly right. Both services are not necessary unless you are going to play some some that you don’t want to have a copy of. I like iTunes match, cause it shows up on all my devices, including my appleTV. They allow you to have up to 100 thousand songs in your iCloud music library, An

Re: iTunes match questions

It is disconcerting to lose all the music that was compiled if one happens to cancel their apple music subscription. Given this fact, it might be more advantageous to just keep iTunes match, and purchase individual songs or albums as one sees fit. I would hate to lose too much music in c

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

Helga, the Mac still has function keys they are just accessed through the touch bar rather than physical keys. Thanks > On Nov 4, 2016, at 4:40 AM, Helga Schreiber > wrote: > > Hey Simon. Ok I understand. Hey I hve a question, how one wil use windows on > the Mac computer without function ke

Re: Macbook Pro 2010 Hardware Upgrade questions

Really, you don’t like the Mikron drives? Interesting. Samsung does make a good product I’ve just found the Mikron to be very good as well but could be convinced to use Samsung I’m not in the tank for Mikron at all other than they have treated me well personally but always up for something di

Re: MODERATOR NOTE: RE: Wifi VS. Cellular?

We don’t get election day as a holiday, things are pretty much open. Sometimes they close the schools because they may use schools as polling places but that’s not a universal thing. > On Nov 4, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > O, Ok, > You guys get all kinds of crazy holidays. >

Re: all my files

Marie, With Finder open, do a Command comma. Interact with toolbar and select Sidebar. Stop interacting and select All My Files. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/4/2016 9:14 AM, Marie Lyons wrote: I think my last post on this wasn’t cl

Re: MODERATOR NOTE: RE: Wifi VS. Cellular?

Those of you who vote, do you get templates on your ballot paper in a braille format? Of course you can only have one of those if you go to a local polling station. How do blind people vote in America if they have no useful vision? May be you can reply to me off list so as not to jamb people'

to the list moderator...

Hi. I'm seeking permission to post an iMac and a few other Apple related things for sale in a single message. If this is cool, please let me know. Thanks, Cameron. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns abou

RE: 2016 Macbook Pro

Hi Helgar, That is a great question, I at this point don’t know. I hope they have touch bar drivers for the windows side of things From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Helga Schreiber Sent: Friday, 4 November 2016 9:41 PM To: macvisionari

Re: Macbook Pro 2010 Hardware Upgrade questions

Hi: Should I upgrade the Ram as well? I didn’t think about that. > On Nov 4, 2016, at 2:31 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi > > When it comes to SSD I prefer to go to the Samsung ssd drives > They tend to show more reliability performance. > > I’ll use crucial ram as that is what apple use in

Re: Macbook Pro 2010 Hardware Upgrade questions

Hi, For normal use, the 8 GB should be fine. The only time you need 16 GB is if you're doing lots of graphics rendering or virtual machine stuff like Scot does. I think that you'll be fine with 8. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 4, 2016, at 15:54, Sarai Bucciarelli wro

Re: iTunes match questions

Good choice. Cause iTunes match is a annual fee, so once a year. And if you cancel, your music stays on your system. I love it though, car play works with it flawlessly. > On Nov 4, 2016, at 1:06 PM, aliFaisal wrote: > > It is disconcerting to lose all the music that was compiled if on

Re: all my files

Thanks, my disappearing files are there. Who knew, again thanks for the tip! Marie Lyons > On Nov 4, 2016, at 2:48 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Marie, > With Finder open, do a Command comma. Interact with toolbar and select > Sidebar. Stop interacting and select All My Files. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard

Re: MODERATOR NOTE: RE: Wifi VS. Cellular?

I get cited assistance from a poll worker. They take my ballot, read it to me, and Mark my selections for me, and then insert the ballot into the reading machine for me. I think of it as the same kind of relationship as that between priest and penitent. They don't judge me for my choices and I h

Re: Radium

The only reason I continue to use Radium is that it syncs through iCloud and is usable on both the Mac and iPhone. I may be moving back to a PC due to dissatisfaction with the new Macbook hardware. If I do that I will likely abandon Radium since I'm really depending more and more on Tunein Premi

Apple Cuts Price On USB-C Adapters, Peripherals Amid MacBook Pro Customers Backlash

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2016/11/04/apple-cuts-price-on-usb-c-adapters-peripherals-amid-pro-users-backlash/ XB -- 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: Braille translation App for Mac

Hi there, Duxberry for Mac is back, so that is what I would use if I needed it. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my Macbook Pro Contact: Phone: Private: +27 (0)60 525 9181 For technical support with iOS: +27 (0)78 120 5013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com

Re: Here comes a new adopter: I'm a really! really! happy camper

Bluetooth works fantastically. I'm using my Aftershokz Bluez 2S headset with my 7+, and I'm very very impressed. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Michelle's Home Emails" To:

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

I ordered the 13 inch, non touch bar model, with the 2.0 processor, 256 gigs of storage, and 16 gigs of ram. A few days ago I wrote an extensive post on Apple Vis, about what went into this decision; I have copied and pasted some of that post below; I’m sorry that it’s a bit long. You can re

Re: 2016 Macbook Pro

One of my favourite arguments from blind people about using the keyboard is: many sighted people use the keyboard. It is faster than mouse / touchpad / touchscreen. This argument is actually a fallasy. First, the sighted people I know use the keyboard and shortcut keys, rather than the mouse. T

Trouble Using Braille Display with Sierra

Hi, All. I'm trying to use my Braille Sense u2 running firmware 8.5 as a braille display through USB with my mac air running Sierra. I had no problems when I did this on El Capitan. But now, what shows up on the braille display often is not what is in the voiceover focus. For instance, voiceove