RE: looking for an app that will take a " pdf manual" and convert it to some kind of an audio book

2017-01-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
I know iBooks will read PDF files But what about the iBooks author app which you can install on your mac book / OSX From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CHUCK REICHEL Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 7:28 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Naming Your Personal Digital Assistant

2017-01-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
I've never thought of naming my computers or digital devices, I have been known to call them names mostly not very nice ones when things go wrong. In this situation I can think of a number of names that would be funny but probably upset femmonists or politically correct people, I do like M

Re: Back on the List with VMWare Question

2017-01-30 Thread christopher hallsworth
Well, if you can, wait for the Creators Update, as that will let you perform a talking install with Narrator. ANd you have heard that right. > On 30 Jan 2017, at 04:20, Sharon Hooley wrote: > > Hi all. It’s good to be back on the list, and I hope everyone is doing well. > > I’ve recently insta

Re: organizing safari bookmarks

2017-01-30 Thread Caitlyn Furness
thanks Tim! As always, you’ve been a great help! Cait > On Jan 29, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > The fastest way that I've found is to be in Safari, go up to the menu bar to > Bookmarks, then select Edit Bookmarks from the menu items. There will now be > a table with Fav

Re: Assembling .m4a files into an audio book?

2017-01-30 Thread Alex Hall
No, not that I can think of. Sorry. -- Alex Hall > On Jan 28, 2017, at 09:47, CHUCK REICHEL > wrote: > > Hi Alex, > Cool, > do you know of a app that will convert a properly formatted pdf manual in to > a audio book.. > Or I have heard of ghost reader that might do the same job but just u

Re: looking for an app that will take a " pdf manual" and convert it to some kind of an audio book

2017-01-30 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello. I use a very accessible and powerful application for this purpose called ghost reader plus, by Info vox. You can find it on the app store and on the info vox page for more information. Regards. Nektarios. > On 29 Jan 2017, at 20:28, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: > > Hi List, > Is there an app

Re: Accessible games for Mac

2017-01-30 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello there. Speaking of rs games, I installed the client and tried to play a couple of them, but it seems that the program skips various prompts and messages for some reason, making these games very annoying if not unplayable. Anybody else noticed this behaviour or am I doing something wrong?

Installing a softrware on another HD

2017-01-30 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all: My Mac mini has only 128 GB SSD, so I need to install any software to an external HD. When am instaliing, I found the install to, but I can not choose my External HD. so, what can I do to achieve this? Thanks -- Ramy MoustafaSaber Music instructor @: Faculty ofmusical education Music

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, that would work just fine. Just make sure that you turn off iCloud syncing for Contacts in System Prefs first before doing any wiping, otherwise, you'll lose it all. Also, when it asks if you want to keep a copy of your contacts on your Mac, say "No". This should help to make sure t

Re: Installing a softrware on another HD

2017-01-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Installing apps to another location is not recommended. In fact, for best performance, all apps really should be installed into the Applications folder on a Mac. The MacOS often starts to have problems when applications are run from elsewhere. It is better to store data on an external th

Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

2017-01-30 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello tim, Many thanks for your reply. you say the following for the account information for the iCloud mail box in the mail preferences accounts tab 1. Make sure "Enable this Account" is checked. 2. In the Status area, does it read On-Line and Available? 3. Under the eMail pop-up, does

Re: Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

2017-01-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Status area is listed just after the "Enable this Account" checkbox. At least in my Mail Prefs. So, when moving with VO-right going from the list of accounts, then the three tabs for Account Info, MailBox Behaviours etc, then Enable this Account, then the heading for Status, which sho

Re: Paypal buttons not working in Safari.

2017-01-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes i did but no luck. I could ofcourse use chrome but textfields are not spoken in chrome when editing. And i don’t want to use chromevox. /A > 28 jan. 2017 kl. 02:09 skrev Ray Foret jr : > > Question. Did you try tabbing to the button and just pressing the space bar > on it? Sometimes, I

Re: Installing a softrware on another HD

2017-01-30 Thread Dan D.
One possible solution is in terminal. One can create a symbolic link for an application or folder to another which resides at another location. This is done using the "ln" command in terminal. When the link is established the name of an app will appear in the applications folder but point t

Re: Naming Your Personal Digital Assistant

2017-01-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Hmm, i have named my both mac computers. So they probably will be the two first which are: 1. Spinning Jennie and 2 Lilla Louise where lilla is a swedish word for the small or litle. The therd name would be Kristina or Christina. /A > 29 jan. 2017 kl. 01:24 skrev M. Taylor : > > Hello Everyon

Re: Naming Your Personal Digital Assistant

2017-01-30 Thread Scott Granados
I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say Google is #1 Siri is #2 And computer would be #3. Not very inventive I know. > On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Hmm, i have named my both mac computers. > So they probably will be the two first which are: > 1. Spinni

Re: New Ios 10.3 beta 1.

2017-01-30 Thread Scott Granados
It also announces your cursor position now when editing. > On Jan 28, 2017, at 11:30 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I downloaded the latest Ios 10.3 public beta and was happy to find out that > the bluetooth was much faster in its response. > Also its getting faster to type both with and

Re: Installing a softrware on another HD

2017-01-30 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Thanks so much for this but how can I creat this? Thanks On 1/30/17, Dan D. wrote: > > One possible solution is in terminal. One can create a symbolic link for > an application or folder to another which resides at another location. > This is done using the "ln" command in terminal. > > When th

Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

2017-01-30 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello tim, Further to the below…. I have again gone to system preferences then iCloud and turned email off. I then exited system preferences and waited for a couple of hours before returning to system preferences and iCloud and turning Email back on. that fixed the problem and both iCloud emai

Re: Amadeus Pro: Working with Audio Unit Effects

2017-01-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I also recommend Jonathan Mosens book Becoming an Amadeus pro Maestro. Its not that expensiv either. /A > 30 jan. 2017 kl. 05:10 skrev Brandon A. Olivares : > > Hi everyone, > > I love Amadeus Pro so far. Just started using it a few weeks ago. > > However, is there a way to accessibly apply

Re: Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

2017-01-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Status area is listed just after the "Enable this Account" checkbox. At least in my Mail Prefs. So, when moving with VO-right going from the list of accounts, then the three tabs for Account Info, MailBox Behaviours etc, then Enable this Account, then the heading for Status, which sho

Re: looking for an app that will take a " pdf manual" and convert it to some kind of an audio book

2017-01-30 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Simon, Thanks that sounds like a possible solution. I've never used that app though. Do you use it? Any voiceover you tubes or pod casts for it? Thanks again Chuck On Jan 30, 2017, at 3:48 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > I know iBooks will read PDF files > But what about the iBooks author app whic

Re: looking for an app that will take a " pdf manual" and convert it to some kind of an audio book

2017-01-30 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Nektarios, Thanks i grabbed the app. I read the short manual but can't seem to insert tags to get it to change voices. Do you have any VoiceOver podcasts or youtube links for it? Can you drag like the manual says? Thanks Chuck On Jan 30, 2017, at 7:27 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. >

Re: Amadeus Pro: Working with Audio Unit Effects

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Marshall
What I have never figured out is how to apply unit effects in batch conversions? the sub menu is there but you can never get in there. > On 31 Jan 2017, at 6:47 am, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I also recommend Jonathan Mosens book Becoming an Amadeus pro Maestro. > Its not that expensiv eith

Looking for a good backup, and restore program?

2017-01-30 Thread maurice.mines
Good evening everyone, I have an interesting, and perplexing problem. I am looking to change which backup software I use. I have pours have Time Machine, for disasters. But I wanted to try installing carbon copy cloner, but the trial expired before I could install the trial. So that is out. I’m

Re: Amadeus Pro: Working with Audio Unit Effects

2017-01-30 Thread Ray Foret jr
Actually, you can. IF you take the steps I outlined earlier, then you open a batch processor, you need to select the actions tab. Now, there will be an empty table just off to the right. Immediately off to the right of this empty table, you will find an add action button. Just to the right o

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-30 Thread E.T.
Tim and all, I started working on this and have some questions. First, I found most of my contacts on the iPhone had been linked. Hopw did that happen? A change that came in iOS 10? On the Mac, disabled sync in all accounts. While there, I noticed in the Mac's Contacts preferences. each

Re: Looking for a good backup, and restore program?

2017-01-30 Thread Nickus de Vos
Hi I personally use Time Machine for local backups to external hard drive's, then I also use CrashPlan for cloud backups of my entire machine and all attached external drives. I believe if something is not offsite, it's not backed up, in other words a drive in your house with a Time Machine back

RE: New Ios 10.3 beta 1.

2017-01-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah installed this a couple of days ago, Gotta admit I'm not a fan of the default Kiwi voice and the additional ones aren't great, The new one is the default first voice you get when turning on voiceover, Sounds American But I'm really keen to try the new iCloud find my earpods feature that

voiceover and zoomtext

2017-01-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi List, I'm asking this for someone on another list who is a zoomtext user primarily and sometimes voiceover user, Has anyone got info that could help this guy? I've given him details on vo utilities for somewhere to start Cheers, Simon F I want to be able to use voice over and z

RE: looking for an app that will take a " pdf manual" and convert it to some kind of an audio book

2017-01-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Chuck, I can’t say I do, I looked at it a few years ago and then never followed it up, I would expect there to be podcasts or how tos out there somewhere. Sorry I can’t offer much more. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CHUCK REICHE