Universal Keyboard on Sierra

2016-11-15 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all: I know how can I use the contuity or what it called Hand off, on IOs and mac, and I can write an email and complete it on my mac. but til now I tried using the universal feature but couldn't. I wrote something on my mac, I hit copy with Command C, then I went to my Iphone and nothing t

KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello, of cores everyone is searching to find the best accessibility tools to help surviving in life, and I read about the KNFB reader on Iphone, the only thing that will make me buy it is, does it read the computer screen, if I found something that I could not read with Voice over? this is the m

Re: Good Scrivener Tutorials?

2016-11-15 Thread Chris Gilland
You know… I bought Scribiner back in the days, and was super impressed with it. Like you however, it wasn’t so much that I found the internal help to be too visually oriented as much as at times, I found it a slight bit overwhelming. So I’m totally with you here! If anyone knows of anything, ple

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread Scott Granados
I have had luck with this as well as reading screens of devices with dedicated LCD or LED screens that don’t have any sort of accessibility features. To be honest, KNFB reader always surprises me with what it actually reads. The iPhone 7+ does a very good job as well but I’ve had remarkable res

Can't open powerpoint in virtual machine

2016-11-15 Thread Eric Brinkman
Hello all, I am working on my MBA, and my professor has been using power point presentations that go along with his lectures. When I try to open them in my virtual machine, powerpoint crashes and Jaws freezes. Any ideas how I might be able to resolve this? Thanks, Eric -- The following inform

Re: Emergency Text Messaging

2016-11-15 Thread Scott Granados
Verizon is one of the best engineered networks for disasters which is one reason they are used so heavily by governments and municipalities. T-Mobile is building out for this business as well though so competition is on the way but you’re in pretty good shape if you’re using VZ. Always a good

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread becky knaub
Hi, I'm not sure if it will or not. Sometimes things like that will but if there's any kind of glare or anything it won't. I would suggest if you need to read the computer screen using TapTapSee, Be My Eyes or BeSpecular. I have used TapTapSee and Be My Eyes to read things on the computer that V

Re: Universal Keyboard on Sierra

2016-11-15 Thread E.T.
Remy, Is Bluetooth enabled on both devices and are they within range of each other? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/15/2016 12:13 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Hello all: I know how can I use the contuity or what it called Hand off, on IO

Using a mac as a bluetooth keyboard

2016-11-15 Thread aliFaisal
hello everyone, Is it possible to use a mac as a bluetooth keyboard? There are some applications on my phone that requires lot of writing. I do not currently possess a bluetooth keyboard hence me wanting to use my mac as a bluetooth keyboard to enter in text on my iPhone. Thanks -- The fol

Re: Using a mac as a bluetooth keyboard

2016-11-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, There's a Mac app called Type2Phone that allows for this. There may be other ways, but this is the one I've used in the past. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 15, 2016, at 09:16, aliFaisal wrote: hello everyone, Is it possible to use a mac as a bluetooth keyboard?

Re: Mac Mini as a windows machine?

2016-11-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Virtualbox is less expensive? I guess one can do it from the terminal but not sure. /AD > 12 nov. 2016 kl. 10:12 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > It's not as easy as VM fuson, But it's doable it just took some playing to > make sure I got things correct, > I also made sure that I had my settings cor

Re: Battery draining quicly on ipod touch latest generation

2016-11-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Screen curtain does not help saving battery from what i have heard. But i am not sure. /A > 13 nov. 2016 kl. 19:17 skrev Anne Robertson : > > Hello, > > The battery drain problem is a known issue and would appear to be fixed by > the second release of iOS 10.1.1. It has nothing to do with us

Re: Battery draining quicly on ipod touch latest generation

2016-11-15 Thread David Chittenden
According to Apple, screen curtain has no effect on battery life. Screen curtain sets all the pixels to black. It does not turn the backlight off. Kind regards, David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 16/11/2016, at 06:42, Ander

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread Saqib Hussain
Hi. Eye Of Providence is a app that matches the KNFB Reader for accuracy when it comes to scanning results. 10 pics free and then you can by a bundle of 100 pics. > On 15 Nov 2016, at 13:27, becky knaub > wrote: > > Hi, > I'm not sure if it will or not. Sometimes t

Re: Using a mac as a bluetooth keyboard

2016-11-15 Thread christopher hallsworth
Yes. I use Type2Phone although I do not have it on this mac yet. > On 15 Nov 2016, at 16:16, aliFaisal wrote: > > hello everyone, > Is it possible to use a mac as a bluetooth keyboard? There are some > applications on my phone that requires lot of writing. I do not currently > possess a blu

Problem with Owc Thunderbolt dock under Windows 7 with bootcamp

2016-11-15 Thread Scott Davert
Hi all. I thought, at the time of purchase, this would be the ideal solution for me. I have an eleven inch Macbook Air, and so I'm limited on how many peripherals I can connect. So, I purchased a Thunderbolt dock to offset this challenge. It works fine under Mac OS, but will not work under Windows

Re: Good Scrivener Tutorials?

2016-11-15 Thread Singing Sparrow
/I would also like to know this as well./ On 11/15/2016 5:48 AM, Chris Gilland wrote: You know… I bought Scribiner back in the days, and was super impressed with it. Like you however, it wasn’t so much that I found the internal help to be too visually oriented as much as at times, I found it

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
Funny you should mention this today. I had an issue with my computer and did use KNFB Reader to read the screen. In cases where that doesn’t work, such as if there’s glare coming in the window or the screen is just not reading for whatever reason, I use a combination of TapTap See, KNFB Reader a

Re: Problem with Owc Thunderbolt dock under Windows 7 with bootcamp

2016-11-15 Thread Daniel Miller
Thunderbolt requires windows eight and leader, unfortunately. Looks like you'll be upgrading to that version of Windows. Sent from my iPhone 6S Plus > On Nov 15, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Scott Davert wrote: > > Hi all. > I thought, at the time of purchase, this would be the ideal solution > for me. I

iPhone headset recommendations

2016-11-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention when this thread came up earlier but now I have a need for a specific type of headset. I use my iPhone 6S for work calls and I need a good headset, money being a minimal concern here, that has both a volume control separate from the phone and a control for bass

Re: Universal Keyboard on Sierra

2016-11-15 Thread Ramy Moustafa
yes On 11/15/16, E.T. wrote: > Remy, > Is Bluetooth enabled on both devices and are they within range of > each other? > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... >Without H2O there is no life! > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 11/15/2016 12:13 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: >> Hello all: >> >> I know how ca

RE: A question about the Sonos

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah they updated it for some reason, believe the cones are better in side as well. I got rid of the 5 I had and dropped to play 1 devices I can't remember where the connect button, I believe on the older device it used the power / volume like the play 1 & 3 does. But it was 18 months ago I g

RE: I know we have several people from New Zealand on list

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi scott and all, As of today the earthquake has been increased in strength to a 7.8 from the original 7.5. Currently trapped tourists are being moved out of Kaikoura by either Helo and as of this afternoon the NZ navy HMNZ Canterbury There is a US naval cruiser and a Canadian frigget and a

RE: Emergency Text Messaging

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
I know there were thigns like this in the older Symbian devices where you could send a quick message to people. I thought IOS had a similar type setup, I’ll have to check that one again, From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent:

RE: I know we have several people from New Zealand on list

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Donna, Very safe in my case, sitting on the reclining chair with feet up watching news on tv. Thinking of food, Where as 500 to 600 Km north of me are a couple of thousand people struggling to sleep or eat due to the damages from the quake. Then in the capital city wellington the worse

RE: I know we have several people from New Zealand on list

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi yes approximately 2000 after shocks thus far, A couple on Tuesday afternoon local nz time that were up in the 5 range, Yes lots of people went to work but of course that depended on your location, a lot of damage in the closer towns / cities but Wellington city has a good couple of blocks

RE: KNFB Reader on Iphone

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah use my KNFB reader all the time for reading notebook screans and if needed my desktop screan. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of becky knaub Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2016 2:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KN

RE: Mac Mini as a windows machine?

2016-11-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Virtual box is free fusion isn't I would recommend spending the money and buying fusion but it's not my money. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2016 6:07 AM To:

Re: Emergency Text Messaging

2016-11-15 Thread David Chittenden
There are apps in the app store which do this. Otherwise, one can add up to 10 people to a message group. After sending a message to those people, do not delete the group. Then, any time desired, open the message group and type the message in the edit field, and the message will be sent to all t