Alert! Fake email from Apple

Hi Everyone, I’ve just received two fake emails with the Subject line "Apple Service ID unlock it now before you lose it”. This sort of thing has happened before. The email tells me that my icloud account associated with itunes is going to be locked unless I follow the link in the email. Whe

Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

Guys, once again, Apple has done it! They have exceeded my expectations by far! I'm very very impressed! So, here's the medium length version of the Sauga. I have two iPhones, a 7+, and a 6S. What I wanted to do was, I wanted to take the sim cards, and reverse them. So the 6S goes in the 7+, t

Re: iPhone headset recommendations

Hi. I use the Sony SBH60 Bluetooth stereo headset and it’s good for calls and has plenty of base which is good for listening to EDM. They also supply a 3.5m audio code so you can plug your headset in when the battery dies. Battery life is good with 10 hours of playback time. > On 15 Nov 2016, a

Re: iPhone headset recommendations

I generally really like the Apple earpods and the design is fairly good in my ears. I am losing some low frequency hearing though and as a good bit of my job involves phone calls, I need to maximize my listening ability on said phone. Granted the best headset in the world isn’t going to make som

Re: iPhone headset recommendations

I am lusting for the Airpods. Enough said there. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com > On Nov 17, 2016, at 1:52 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > > Yes, that is what I am waiting for. I currently use my earpods, and my cheap > Bluetooth earpiece when necessary. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRC

Re: Battery draining quicly on ipod touch latest generation

You don't actually understand how a screen works, right? Actually, I googled it and it does make sense. So a touch screen works by filtering phosphorescent light. It's likechristmas lights. They are just white lights with a colored transparent plastic bulb. The screen aligns crystals to filte

Re: Battery draining quicly on ipod touch latest generation

My explanation is exactly what you said, you use matrixes of transistors to move the liquid crystals in to different charged states that filter white light. I’m not going to argue with you because you’re to dense to listen and it’s a waste of my time but you literally confirmed everything I said

Re: Battery draining quicly on ipod touch latest generation

I have to apologize. I missed some of your message. You're right. I'm wrong. I am really sorry. Technically, I may be violating my pledge not to go OT but I think this message does not violate the spirit of the pledge. On 11/17/2016 07:44 AM, Scott Granados wrote: My explanation is exactly w

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

Chris, that’s wonderful. I wouldn’t even know how to remove my simcard. Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:53 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Guys, once again, Apple has done it! T

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

There is hope for Apple yet. (shakes head in wonderment) From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/17/2016 12:53 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Guys, once again, Apple has done it! They have exceeded my expectations by far! I'm very very imp

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

I’m not sure why there wouldn’t be hope for Apple, this is pretty common behavior although you’d have to be pretty odd to be ripping off parts of the tray that’s already installed. I can sort of understand how this might happen though as sometimes the components feel different than you might im

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

That was somewhat a tongue in cheek comment. Think Don Rickles. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/17/2016 7:55 AM, Scott Granados wrote: I’m not sure why there wouldn’t be hope for Apple, this is pretty common behavior although you’d hav

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

I always new I liked you E.T. Don Rickles is the man. I saw him open for Frank at Foxwoods Casino when I was much younger. :) > On Nov 17, 2016, at 11:13 AM, E.T. wrote: > > That was somewhat a tongue in cheek comment. Think Don Rickles. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Without H2O there is

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

Heh. Its been ages, last I remember him was a TV ad I think for carpet. All you could see was his head on top of the floor and probably saying something being walked on. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/17/2016 8:15 AM, Scott Granados w

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

Hi! It does not read my roland FA 08 keyboard screen. Sadly. /A > 16 nov. 2016 kl. 07:41 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > Yeah use my KNFB reader all the time for reading notebook screans and if > needed my desktop screan. > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: Amadeus Pro from app store or not?

Hi! Ok. Thanks for that one. /A > 16 nov. 2016 kl. 21:00 skrev Rachel Feinberg : > > You'll want the version from the website. The app store version, because of > Apple's "sanboxing" approach to apps, takes away some functionality. Such as > being able to save in some formats, or missing some o

Re: KNFB Reader on Iphone

I really like the sounds on that board but how do you find it as far as ease of use goes without being able to read the display? I assume there is no accessible editor/librarian like there is with the Yamaha Motif series... On 11/17/16, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > It does not read my roland

Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Hi guys. Well, the subject says it all. I need an FTP client that will work well with voice over. In windows many years ago, I used to use filezella and it was working very well with jaws. Any help is very much appreciated. Nektarios. -- The following information is important for all member

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Remember with the Mac you have the full compliment of unix tools. You can go to terminal and use the good old ftp client ftp. Also SCP and the complete suite of ssh tools are also available for remote login and moving files. Hope that helps. > On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Nektarios Mallas

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Well, the subject says it all. I need an FTP client that will work well with > voice over. lftp will definitely work. You should be able to install it by first installing HomeBrew, then installing the lftp package. Finally, run it from a terminal. The cls command is th

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Hi Scott. Well, i’ d rather not. As much as I used to work with Unix in the past, I was really hoping for an accessible graphical user interface for this task. I really don’ t want to have to type long file names. Thanks any way. Nektarios. > On 17 Nov 2016, at 19:40, Scott Granados wrote

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Scott, may I ask a silly question...perhaps? Does voiceover work the same in terminal mode as it does with the rest of the system? meaning your functionality, voice choices, remain when you are in terminal? thanks, Kare On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Scott Granados wrote: Remember with the Mac you

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Hi Kare, yes pretty much it does. You drop in to a window with a prompt reminiscent of the old windows days for folks non familiar but with a unix type prompt instead and a bash shell. The voice stays the same and the features pretty much stay the same. I like it, others run a virtual environ

Re: A question about the Sonos

I appreciate all of the great posts on this subject. It does work beautifully on my iPhone, and it also works well using a line in cable from the Mac mini. Thanks again. Kristeen > On Nov 13, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > You are in good hands, my friend! I use Son

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Well, i’ d rather not. As much as I used to work with Unix in the past, I > was really hoping for an accessible graphical user interface for this task. > I really don’ t want to have to type long file names. With lftp, you get tab completion, so you don't have to typ

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

very much Scott, thanks for providing that information. Shellworld is a Linux /UNIX shell service. Currently I can log in here not from windows, and have access to all the things I store and use as part of the service. I had wondered, if I ever manage a workable mac environment , How I woul

The control-G vm fusion question again

Hi, I wanted to confirm this. When I run fusion and boot a VM, is it control-G that is supposed to allow me to gain access to the vm interface? I just get a bonk sound when I press this combo and nothing happens. In most cases, in full screen mode I can’t enter the VM and in zoom reduced mode

Re: A question about the Sonos

This post was extremely helpful and well-written. Thank you for it. Kristeen > On Nov 13, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Yes. Absolutely you can. > > 1. In the app, near the top of the screen, you'll find a button that is > labeled with the name of the room that is c

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

ScottI don’t know about control + g. What sometimes helps is to switch to full screen mode with cmd + control + f. Then turn it off with the same keystroke. I also tend to disable voiceover once I am safely in the VM with cmd + control followed by cmd + f5. HTH Chris > On Nov 17, 2016, at 1:

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Thanks for that. I will definitely take a look. Nektarios. > On 17 Nov 2016, at 20:43, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Nektarios Mallas wrote: >> Well, i’ d rather not. As much as I used to work with Unix in the past, I >> was really hoping for an accessible graphical user inte

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

Scott, I do not see that command in my list of shortcuts. When I load my VM and wait long enough to let Windows fully load. I press Cmd-G to grab the keyboard and then Cmd-Ctrl-F to enter full screen. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/1

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Hi, For a GUI option, take a look at Transmit. Totally accessible, unless they've broken it in the latest version. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:00, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Thanks for that. I will definitely take a look. Nektarios. > On 17 Nov 2016,

Re: Alert! Fake email from Apple

Another great, and very reliable way to distinguish the malware from the genuine article is to examine the link they want you to click. If it doesn't end with "apple.com," it's most likely bogus, though Apple does maintain other domains, e.g. icloud.com. I like to report these kinds of phishing at

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

I have never found a reliable way to get into and outof the guest vm. For me this is a significant frustration. To my mind this functionality is a feature we should demand of VMware. I'm not sure where to file the RFE, but if someone knows or posts one, please share so that others of us can add our

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Hi I use Transmit and love it. It is very accessible with Voiceover. I don't remember how much it costs but if you do a google search for it you'll sometimes find coupon codes to save money. Hope this helps! Jeff On 11/17/16, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > For a GUI option, take a look at Transmit

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

I misspoke I meant command G not control G. Command G doesn’t seem to do anything for me, maybe I’m using it at the wrong time, not sure. > On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:01 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Scott, > I do not see that command in my list of shortcuts. When I load my VM and > wait long enough to le

Re: Alert! Fake email from Apple

Just to be clear exactly how important this topic is and how careful people should be, this is how the hackers were able to gain access to John Podesta’s email and leak many of Hilary’s email transactions. They seemed to have gotten other administration folks this way as well. What this illust

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

It does and I’ll do some googling on the command g feature, maybe I can shed some light on this by playing with it more myself. Thanks as always ET. And good comments from Janina this might be worth some communication with VMWare once I’m more confident it’s not the user behind my keyboard that

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

Scott, Ok here is what I think would be worth studying. I was just in my VM and my frustration level is still a bit high so will not run it again for now. Seems Command-G was on the menu when I first started using VMware. Its no longer there yet it seems to still work. I want to play wi

How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Hi. This is a bit off topic but I have to ask this question. I received an e-mail today to my me account as I only use that account for personal things and you may know I use my alias for stuff like this list. Well, today I received an e-mail today to my me account, I will put this e-mail belo

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Kawal, This is phishing. Its a common ploy to steal one's information. Its also how the scumbugs plant their tools in one's computer so they can take it hostage and demand a ransom. The best defense is simply to be extremely skeptical. And delete these emails permanently as soon as you

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

My rule of thumb is, if I don’t know the sender, then I don’t open it. A lot of websites like PayPal, e-bay, and amazon have sellers, or people who know how to get a hold of mass email lists, and sends out this kind of stuff. > On Nov 17, 2016, at 4:37 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Kawal, > This is ph

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

Scott, I do not remember what version of Fusion I started with. I do not think the force grab function was brought over to version 8. It used to be on the Virtual Machine menu. I looked at version 8 release notes and found nothing. If we can find out what replaces the force grab, we mig

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Oh thanks ET. Will delete it now. I wish people didn't do this kind of thing. > On 17 Nov 2016, at 21:37, E.T. wrote: > > Kawal, > This is phishing. Its a common ploy to steal one's information. Its also > how the scumbugs plant their tools in one's computer so they can take it > hostage an

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Oh I do too but I hear more and more creative scams on the news. Latest one is virtual kidnapping. The woman this happened to said the caller warned her not to hang up but follow directions and her daughter would be safe. She was to drive to Western Union and send 10 grand in some form of cu

Accessible ftp client for mac.

Hi guys. Well, I tried transmit and indeed it works very well with voice over. It is rather on the expensive side for what I need, about $35, however it is much more than a simple client. I have a week to decide. Will see. Nektarios. -- The following information is important for all member

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

You have to think why would somebody who does not know you want to give you ready cash? It is obvious a fishing email which should go straight into the trash. As to how they get your email address they apparently have engines which churn out thousands and thousands of user names sequentially

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

The Blues are a plastic band. They necessarily have some flex, but I broke at least 2 pair and one side went out on the third. According to Aftershokz there was a manufacturing defect that has been corrected since and my wife has a pair that has held up, but they just sit on the table most of

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Kawal, this is a scam, run and don’t walk and get away from it.;). They find your email addresses from things like this mailing list. All mailing lists are indexed and can be scraped for email address by bots or even by hand and they send you these mails. It’s called fishing, similar to the fa

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

You’d be surprised how successful these are. Scamming like this is one of the largest industries in Nigeria for example. > On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:39 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Oh I do too but I hear more and more creative scams on the news. Latest one > is virtual kidnapping. The woman this happened

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

Very good. For a goof I just tried parallels with their trial option. Talk about less than useless. Completely and utterly inaccessible. I was hopeful that over all this time things had improved but no such luck. > On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:07 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Scott, > I do not remember

Podcasting on the Mac?

Hi, all. A site I’m affiliated with is tossing around the idea of doing a podcast. I’m using a macbook pro, and have no idea what accessible software is out there for this purpose. Can someone please advise? Thanks in advance. Shannon -- The following information is important for all members

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

I use Amadeus Lite and others use Amadeus PRO. http://mosen.org/become-an-amadeus-pro-maestro/ hope this helps (note, i can also take care of the technical podcast requirements, e.g. audio editing and establishing your podcast; email: mich...@your

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

My head shape doesn't suit the blues 2's so mine were used maybe 20 times. If anyone wants to make me an offer. Danny Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Nov 2016, at 10:50 am, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > The Blues are a plastic band. They necessarily have some flex, but I broke > at least 2 p

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

I am not surprised one bit. Why? Because there is no real threat against these scammers. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/17/2016 4:05 PM, Scott Granados wrote: You’d be surprised how successful these are. Scamming like this is one of

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

Thanks for this. I’ll definitely let you know once the site manager figures out exactly what she wants to do. Shannon > On Nov 17, 2016, at 7:31 PM, michael babcock > wrote: > > I use Amadeus Lite and others use Amadeus PRO. > http://mosen.org/become-an-amadeus-pro-maestro/ >

Mac won't boot from anything but cd and dvd

Hey all, For some odd reason, my friend Michelle's MacBook Pro, Which is from mid 2009, Will not boot anything unless it is from a CD/DVD. I have tried redoing the USB thumb drive/ SD card, both with terminal using the MacWorld article, And the disc maker ex six release candidate version that i

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

I ran VM a bit ago and this time I did not execute command-g. I did not do a lot but found things worked just fine. Will need to do more experimenting. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/17/2016 4:07 PM, Scott Granados wrote: Very good.

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

A podcast consists of a collection of audio or video files and an xml document that describes them. If there is an easy way to generate the xml file, I have never seen it. I wrote a perl script that generates a podcast xml document from the tags in a set of mp3 files in a folder. In other words

Re: Mac won't boot from anything but cd and dvd

Hi, I believe that Sierra is not compatible with that machine. When you start up from the CD or DVD, is the Macintosh HD visible? If so, then the HD is likely OK. There are cases when the HD is visible to Disk Utility or the installer, but the installation will fail. In those cases, the HD

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

Does Amadeus create the podcast xml file? I found that creating the audio file was only half the job. Creating a valid podcast xml file was the other half. This was a couple of years ago but I was surprised that there didn't seem to be any software for generating that xml file. On 11/17/20

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

There are plenty of ready-made solutions for publishing your audio file as a podcast. You should not have to generate the XML for yourself unless you’re planning to write all your own software for publishing. A web search on the topic will turn up all kinds of solutions, but accessibility is a

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

Parden, Amadeus is just for audio editing; i personally use Libsyn to host the files and generate any xml files i need for my podcasts. (i’ll admit i’m in love with Libsyn’s stats) > On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Todor Fassl wrote: > > Does Amadeus create the podcast xml file? I found that creat

Re: Another phenominal story to tell you all about Apple Accessibility!

Again, I never said there wasn't hope for Apple, nor did I say that what I did was a smart move. Honestly, I feel pretty stupid! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Scott Granad

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

I really like transmit, although, lately it's going really slow for me, and I've yet figured out why. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Nektarios Mallas" To: Sent: Thursday,

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

um, I thought cls was the command in dos that cleared the screen, which in unix is simply just, "clear". I think the command you're thinking of is just "ls". And, if you don't want anything but just a straight list of files/folders then you can do, "ls -1". It's kind a like the "dir" command

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Another one that is really good by the way, from what I hear is Ciberduck. I've never tried it, but I know people who have, who say it's quite good. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - F

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

Remember. There is always tab completion, so you don't have to type a whole long file name, or whatever. Just type the first bit of it, then hit your tab key. This said though, I agree with you, and figured that was what you wanted, hince why I suggested transmit. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

For the most part, yes. Editting conf files can be a little bit dicey in places, but it's definitely doable as long as you pay close attention to what you're doing. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

They've not broken it as far as accessibility, but I'm still pulling my hair out trying to figure out why things are moving so slow both on the upload, and download sides. Especially the former. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone:

Re: Accessible ftp client for the mac.

I think it was like, $29, or $39. Can't remember. http://www.panics.com --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "jeff `greene" To: Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 2:59 PM Subject

Re: A question about the Sonos

Very very welcome, as always. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Kristeen Hughes" To: Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 1:45 PM Subject: Re: A question about the Sonos This p

Re: A question about the Sonos

Glad we all could help. Let us know if you need anything further. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Kristeen Hughes" To: Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 1:37 PM Subject: Re:

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Don't do it! I get these type things all the time. They are a hoax, and surely will fraud you once you give them your account info. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Kawal Gucuk

Re: Podcasting on the Mac?

Are you wanting tools to listen to the podcast, or more for creating the podcast? Let's start there. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Shannon Dyer" To: Sent: Thursday, Novem

Re: Alert! Fake email from Apple

You're correct, Scott. Two factor can be annoying, but it's tolerable in my experience, and can be fully accessible. And, it definitely makes things more secure. For the sake of illustration, my Google account is setup for access with two factor. I put in my account name and press on next. I'm the

Re: How does one get to know your e-mail address?

Exactly. If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. E.T. writes: > Kawal, >This is phishing. Its a common ploy to steal one's information. Its also > how the scumbugs plant their tools in one's computer so they can take it > hostage and demand a ransom. > >The best defen

Login Issue

A friend is unable to login to his Mac after his local Apple store reset it. He thinks they left the user account set up which he cannot log into. While googling, I find articles about Single User Mode. Is this accessible? Or is there anther way he can change that account or create his

Re: Login Issue

Hi Don't know, but do know single user mode is not accessible because VoiceOver is not loaded in this mode. There might be a way in recovery mode to manage a locked account. For example in Terminal you can type resetpassword press return and you can reset the password for the local account. >

Re: Universal Keyboard on Sierra

Hello Am still waiting ur help Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 16, 2016, at 12:52 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > > yes > >> On 11/15/16, E.T. wrote: >> Remy, >>Is Bluetooth enabled on both devices and