Can I get my mackbook to be a little more patience when waiting for a command

Hi all. I've purchased the book Janet Ingber - Everything You Need to Know to Use the Mac and this is in txt format on my computer and JAWS is reading out the chapters for me. I'm at a section titled Configuring Your Mac to Work Well with VoiceOver. This highlights several changes that I

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Hi John, Thank you. This is really helpful and good to know. I'm hoping I can just install Word, and not have to deal with the whole office suite, but I am not sure about that yet. Just curious, is there anyone on list who has experience with both using Word for the Mac, and running Word in W

Re: Silently toggle voiceover

Hi Dan, There is one possibility! Turn sound down to zero, “function eleven” repeatedly, and then “command five” to toggle speech off. “Function ten” can turn “muting on, but this action is also announced. Cheers. Stan ZA amista...@gmail.com > On 09 Apr 2017, at 2:06 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

I use Word on the Mac just because I’m more familiar with it, having used it on Windows for nearly 20 years. You have to make some adjustments for apple keystrokes, but it is usable. Item chooser is a good way to get to the ribbon controls. Some of them you work with by VO-shift-M and other’s

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Oh and yes the office installer will allow you to install only the programs you want. I don’t know if they sell the programs themselves separately anymore and suspect that may not be the most economical solution if available. Could be wrong on that though. > On Apr 9, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Donna

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

I have never used word on the Mac, I really have no need since text edit does what I want it too. As it comes to outlook and apple mail? I have to give the thumbs up to apple mail, it organizes by thread, gives you a unified in box, and I love the jump to favorites feature on the Mac, wish th

Re: Can I get my mackbook to be a little more patience when waiting for a command

I have only experienced this when a new window is created and focus changes to it. Were you giving vo-M as an example multi-step command, or was that the specific command you issued? Also, what application were you in while doing this? Generally, I have seen no place to adjust timeouts in the Vo

Re: Can I get my mackbook to be a little more patience when waiting for a command

Hello Andy, Your Mac shouldn’t be going back to the desktop all the time. Where are you trying to make the changes? Perhaps you’re touching something such as the trackpad without realising it. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Apr 2017, at 15:11, Andy wrote: > > Hi all. > > I've purchased the book

Re: Silently toggle voiceover

Hmm, Could this be done with Audio Hijack or Sound Flower? Basically have one of those apps steal all sound and route it to /dev/null? I guess another possible solution would be to create another sound output device controller and go into VoiceOver Utility and re-route VoiceOver output to that d

VPN questions

The recent discussion about VPN got me interested but I was not ready to look into it at the time. I know the setup is done in Network prefs but where does one get information on VPN servers etc.? Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteri

Re: Support for word processor styles in VoiceOver under Mac OS

Can you get the style from the ribbon? We were talking last week about pages and it was mentioned that putting a hotspot on the style area could have pages speak the style as it gets updated. I would expect that the same could be done in Word, though I don't have my system around to test my theo

Re: VPN questions

well, depending on whether you use a free or paid service will make a difference in both service quality and setup. I use a paid service myself. It's $7 a month and is fairly reliable. I have tried some free services, but they are mostly hit and miss and are not always as secure. the service I u

Emergency SOS

Is this still planned for the US under iOS 10? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- Th

Re: VPN questions

Eric, I just want to correct one thing. The elimination of the ISP can't collect traffic rule here in the US essentially does not change anything. Congress can not actually shutdown entire rules without Agency changes unless they are brand new rules. The privacy rules were I believe supposed to

Re: Emergency SOS

Not sure exactly what you are talking about. IOS 9 and 10 do have government alerts for tornado and amber alerts, along with Presidential alerts. But I believe you might be talking the other direction something like the petronas app? Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 9, 2017, at 12:44 PM, E.T. wrote: >

Re: Emergency SOS

No. 10.2 introduced this feature in India and perhaps other regions. Press the sleep/wake button 5 times and you get connected to 9-1-1 even if the phone is locked. I very much want this. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all t

Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

Hello all, I've always been disappointed by how choppy and breaky Jaws is when running in VMWare fusion. I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and Jaws is still choppy. I will be reading a line and Jaws will suddenly stop, sometimes with a bit of a stutter, and will resume but miss a few

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Hi Larry, Thanks for all this. I'm not a huge Outlook fan, so would probably just install Word. I'll keep in mind what you said about turning off cursor tracking - that's a good thing to know up front. Again, thanks. Donna > On Apr 9, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > I use

Here is an Informative Article on How To Extend Battery Life on iOS and Android Devices

Hello All, The following article, the link to which is located at the end of the text, is an Informative piece on how to extend battery life on iOS and Android devices. Enjoy, Mark How I added four hours of battery life to my smartphone every day for free By Jennifer Jolly, Special for USA TODA

Re: VPN questions

not a problem. there are other reasons to use a VPN. However, 2 things I do when using google: 1. I am not signed in 2. I always use a VPN when searching. Also, of late, I have been having some trust issues with my current ISP. It seems that they sent me a notice of copyright infringement about

Re: Mac want shutdown or restart

Is there a command to show me all the apps that are running in the background? > On Apr 7, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Michael Marshall > wrote: > > that i did not know. > thanks a lot. >> On 8 Apr 2017, at 8:39 am, Matthew Dierckens > > wrote: >> >> Hi, you can also force

Re: Mac want shutdown or restart

Cmd-Option-Ctrl-Power button. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 4/9/2017 1:55 PM, R

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

Hi Erric, I only have this problem when jaws first loads at the login screen in windows 10. I do notes that jaws can be choppy from time to time, but not sure if it is from vmware or windows itself. HTH. Matthew On 4/9/17, 2:14 PM, "Eric Brinkman" wrote: Hello all, I've alw

Feedly as colomns

I have Feedly installed in Safari 10.1 (11603.1.30.0.34) in OS 10.11.6. All I seem to see is a list of RSS Feed’s and a Follow button. Can I get the RSS Feed I subscribed to in colomn 1, Headline in Colomn 2 and a Preview in Colomn 3? For example, BBC World News in colomn 1, The Latest Headline

Re: Mac want shutdown or restart

Hello,Here are some options to see what’s running.http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac/how-find-background-tasks-on-mac-3635406/Regards,GenaOn 9 Apr 2017, at 21:55, Robert Cole wrote:Is there a command to show me all the apps that are running in the background?On Apr 7,

Re: VPN questions

Interesting discussion. Much food for thought. I will study the VPN site you suggested. One thing you mentioned to Jonathan was that you disabled SSID in your router. How does that affect your Wifi network. Can your devices still see the network? I certainly would not mind hiding from th

Re: Mac want shutdown or restart

Thanks, I used the Activity monitor to quit apps like box, drop box, And a few more, but the system will not shut down. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 9, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote: > > Hello, > > Here are some options to see what’s running. > > http://www.macworld.co.uk/featur

Re: Mac want shutdown or restart

This keystroke Freezes the system the same as pressing shut down. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 9, 2017, at 5:15 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Cmd-Option-Ctrl-Power button. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > "God for you is where you sweep away all the > mysteries of the world, all the challenges to >

Re: VPN questions

So if you hide from your neighbors then your router can’t avoid your networks around you’s interference nearly as effectively. If everybody is broadcasting then there are scheduling systems that kick in that avoid collisions. If every body isn’t then you’ll slam in to their network traffic and

Re: VPN questions

Ok, so you don’t have to go that nuts to secure your WiFi but you’ve found something that’s very important to point out. Dollars to Donuts I’m betting you had WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) enabled. What this does is provides a mechanism for machines to join your network either by each end simulta

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

Are you using an SSD or rotating disk? Also, how many cores do you have and how many cores and memory do you have dedicated to the VM? Most people don’t edit the default settings and they are under powered. > On Apr 9, 2017, at 2:14 PM, Eric Brinkman wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've always be

Re: Emergency SOS

The watch has this and I know it’s showed up in the betas before but I haven’t seen it recently you’re right. > On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:08 PM, E.T. wrote: > > No. 10.2 introduced this feature in India and perhaps other regions. Press > the sleep/wake button 5 times and you get connected to 9-1-

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

I am using an SSD and have eight cores. Four are dedicated to the virtual machine. Fusion does not recommend I dedicate any more than four cores to Windows. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 9, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Are you using an SSD or rotating disk? Also, how many cores

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

How much memory? This sounds like a good config so far. I asked Eric because usually when I check these people have 1 core dedicated with 512 megs of memory. Clearly you’re a more power user than that and have more experience. SSD is also a good thing to check off that you’ve done. I get 0 c

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

I have 16 gigs of RAM and have dedicated 12 to the virtual machine. I previously only had eight allocated to the VM but thought allocating more might fix this. Clearly it's not an allocation issue. How do I go about updating the drivers? Might this problem have to do with me having upgraded from

Re: Jaws very choppy in VMWare fusion

You can look at the application settings I believe it is which gives you the option to upgrade the VM. It will tell you whether it’s necessary or not. Another thing to try is uninstalling vmtools and reinstalling since that’s where the video intercept and other support takes place. Honestly th

Re: VPN questions

well, when I turned off SSID broadcast, it was a little harder to get new devices to connect. basically, it takes inputting the SSID and other particulars manually. once connected, there is no trouble. -eric On Apr 9, 2017, at 3:54 PM, E.T. wrote: > Interesting discussion. Much food for thou

Re: VPN questions

That’s not my point though. My point is even with out putting in your particulars I can still pull that information out of the air with out having to enter anything. The SSID is also used for avoiding interference. The networks are really indicated with their MAC addresses so your access poin

Re: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

HI. how accessible is word for mac nowadays? Maria > On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:45 am, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > I use Word on the Mac just because I’m more familiar with it, having used it > on Windows for nearly 20 years. You have to make some adjustments for apple > keystrokes, but it i

RE: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Chris, I kno this is late but what I can say is that Outlook is a lot better on the IOS platform than it is on the Mac OS platform, I still think Mail is better on the OSX side. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Beha

RE: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

This is only if you are running a Skype for business server otherwise office 2016 doesn’t involve skype for business. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2017 9:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com S

RE: Outlook 2016 or Apple mail

Hi Donna, I have to admit I’m more a windows user than a mac user, But the times I have tried to use word 2016 on the mac, I’ve found it more of an issue than the windows version, Part of this I think is familiarity of the product, But my question would be why do you have to use word when pages