Re: Magnification and VoiceOver at the same time

2017-08-26 Thread michael dailey
I use them both all the time. Make certain that Magnification is checked in accessibility preferences. Mike Dailey mpd...@gmail.com > On Aug 25, 2017, at 11:00 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > > I thought it was possible to use VoiceOver and zoom at the same time. > However, my friend says that w

Re: Sprint is offering new and existing customers a free ticket to Jay-Z's 4:44 Tour

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
Come on Simon, the music back then was great, no question but it is now as well. Having actually worked in the music game for a while pre my time as a network engineer, some of the most musically skilled and diverse folks I’ve met were in the hip hop game. I’ve seen Pink Floyd live by t

Re: Sprint is offering new and existing customers a free ticket to Jay-Z's 4:44 Tour

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
I’m right there with you Lenron, in my collection I have everything from Snoop Dogg to Sinatra, Andre Watts to Dr. Dre, Johny Cash to King Crimson. You get the point. About the only thing I’m not really in to is the modern country music, I like the classic stuff the current crop is just a litt

Re: Ahead of iPhone 8, Virgin Mobile extends 'all you can eat for one year for $1' deal to switchers

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
Google’s project Fi looks interesting because ictuses both Sprint and T-Mobile together and switches to the best network connection available. I wish you could do that with all 4 carriers.:) > On Aug 26, 2017, at 1:22 AM, lenron brown wrote: > > Sprint is bad enough, so there is no way I woul

Location of the dash symbol on my Macbook

2017-08-26 Thread Andy
Hi all. I'm reading a very good book titled, Janet Ingber - Everything You Need to Know to Use the Mac, which I purchased from AP H and going through chapter 2 on setting my Macbook up, so it will perform easier using VO. I've already done the F key bit and the bit that lists items as lists b

Re: OT: we're pulling for you folks in the south

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
I didn’t realize you were in that neck of the woods. Hopefully things went well for you over night. Seems like the coast got it pretty bad, it hit category 4 before reaching land. Hope you’re all holding it down there, be careful and I’m hoping for the best. > On Aug 25, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Jo

Re: OT: we're pulling for you folks in the south

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
Good duck hunting in your part of the world. Glad you’re outside the blast radius. > On Aug 25, 2017, at 9:28 PM, lenron brown wrote: > > Yeah it looks pretty bad. I am a bit to the east of the storm. I am in > south Louisiana about 45 minutes from Baton rouge and about 4 and a > half from Hous

Re: vpn services

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
Few ways you could do this. My router has Open VPN built in, it’s a Netgear Night Hawk 8500 and it has all the certs and everything pre built. Very easy to set up. I can then either just connect to my home network and send everything else in the clear or tunnel everything through the home con

Re: Wifi Behavior

2017-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
By the way this is called band steering. Modern routers support this and I agree, make everything one single SSID. > On Aug 25, 2017, at 11:06 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Thanks Tim, I understand now. I just made the change in the router and will > monitor things. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . >

Re: Location of the dash symbol on my Macbook

2017-08-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, The dash or hyphen is to the right of zero. If you add the shift key, it becomes the underline symbol. Press VO-k and you can test all the keys. Press Escape to get out of the keyboard help. Cheers, Anne > On 26 Aug 2017, at 15:32, Andy wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm reading a v

Re: Location of the dash symbol on my Macbook

2017-08-26 Thread Andy
Hi Anne. Hypen! Obviously, now that you tell me! What a dimwit I am. Very best wishes. Andy. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Location of the dash symbol on my Macbook Hello

Which audio book player to use?

2017-08-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi good people. When i used Android a short while there was an app called ”smart audio book player” that looked very nice and promising. I wonder what is the best audio book player for iOs that can be used with audio books in .mp3 format and that can be used even outside the US? The reason for t

Re: Sierra Contacts

2017-08-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, this must have been programmed in so it is a feature. On the other hand, not a very good choice of things and if they did it there they should have done it in Mail signatures too. In any case, quickly finding out what groups / Tags an item is in when it is selected could be useful in a few

Re: vpn services

2017-08-26 Thread michael babcock
Would it be worth rolling an OpenVPN install on a cloud service like Linode? > On Aug 26, 2017, at 6:38 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Few ways you could do this. > > My router has Open VPN built in, it’s a Netgear Night Hawk 8500 and it has > all the certs and everything pre built. Very easy

RE: Which audio book player to use?

2017-08-26 Thread David & his pack of dogs
I personally use VLC as my video and audio player. The audio is a lot clearer than other audio players. The video is crisper as well, but, that is a mute point if one is blind. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behal

Re: Screenshot with Voiceover

2017-08-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Wow, I was beginning to think that PRAM resets were only good for fixing startup with no sound issues. You always see folks suggesting to do this, but I rarely have seen anybody declare recently that this actually solved an issue. I believe newer MACS don't call the firmware used to boot the sys

Re: Screenshot with Voiceover

2017-08-26 Thread E.T.
What led to the PRAM reset was that while trying to work out the VO-shift-z issue, the system stopped responding to commands, getting the klunk sound. I had to do a forced shutdown. I've a mid 2012 MBP. Would love another newer Mac to see if a certain audio issue was still present but its no

WIfi debugging / statistics .

2017-08-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
First, when option clicking on the WIFI menu extra it provides information about signal and noicse levels. I used to bring this up by going to the next item over in menu extras and then using option and an arrow key to go back to the WiFi menu extra menu. I couldn't get that to work toda

Re: vpn services

2017-08-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Michael, What is your purpose? VPN gets confusing because one can use the technology for stealth purposes or to access services securely when not local. If your desire as the original poster was is to access "home" devices while on the road then your not going to want to use a cloud service.

Re: Jumping to the top of inbox in Mail

2017-08-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
> On Aug 25, 2017, at 6:50 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > What about function key ctrl and up arrow to go to top of page./ document. > I.E. control home? I don't think I have seen that work on non-microsoft products on the Macintosh. -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: Which audio book player to use?

2017-08-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I use iTunes. Everything syncs across Apple devices and works well for organizing the media. Later... Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 26, 2017, at 9:28 AM, David & his pack of dogs > wrote: > > I personally use VLC as my video and audio player. The audio is a lot clearer > than other

Re: vpn services

2017-08-26 Thread michael babcock
Jonathan: Thanks for all of this information. Right now I’m using OpenVPN to give me a dedicated IP from my Linode box. However that’s the only reason I’m using it, not to secure anything but to allow IPTables to be locked to one IP no matter if I’m on my home network or mobile. That way the SIP

Re: Sprint is offering new and existing customers a free ticket to Jay-Z's 4:44 Tour

2017-08-26 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Simon, I totally agree! Its just "SD&R" "Sex Drugs & Rap"! He should try to "write the rhyme not the "slime"! :) Any body can steel a loop and "grind" it out! :( "Ancient Aliens" for the deluded, is when you brush aside all the Beauty of the world, all the evidence that points to Our intell

How to De-Authorize All Computers in iTunes

2017-08-26 Thread M. Taylor
OS X Daily - Friday, August 25, 2017 at 12:04 PM How to Deauthorize All Computers in iTunes iTunes Authorization grants the ability to access your own stuff obtained from iTunes, but each Apple ID has a maximum limitation of five computers per Apple ID that can be authorized. Because of that five

How to Change Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot Password on iPhone or iPad

2017-08-26 Thread M. Taylor
OS X Daily - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 12:18 PM How to Change Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot Password on iPhone or iPad The Personal Hotspot feature of iPhone and iPad cellular equipped models allows you to use the devices mobile connection as a wi-fi hotspot for other devices and hardware to connect

airpods and apple watch

2017-08-26 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi guys: I have issues connecting airpods to apple watch. When I choose airplay and my airpods apple watch says failed to connect. I have to power cycle the watch each time. When they finally get a connection, they keep switching between my iphone and apple watch. Is there away around both issues?

Re: airpods and apple watch

2017-08-26 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi, I have had very little luck connecting my AirPods with my Apple Watch. When I spoke with tech-support, they said this is a known bug. Cheers, Donna Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 26, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Hi guys: > I have issues connecting airpods to apple wat

Can I change the name of a user installed App on my iPhone?

2017-08-26 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I have recently installed an App from the Apple App store on my iPhone 5S running the latest IOS 10. The App has a rather unhelpful name which I would like to change. I have moved it into my travel folder. I can see how to change the name of a folder but I cannot see a way to change the

Re: Can I change the name of a user installed App on my iPhone?

2017-08-26 Thread Daniel C
Paul: As far as I'm aware, I don't think that there is an option to rename applications. I could be wrong, and if so, could someone correct me? -- 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

Re: Magnification and VoiceOver at the same time

2017-08-26 Thread Ben Constantini
They do work together . I use them together on my new mac as well as my 2011 mac . Ben C. > On Aug 25, 2017, at 11:00 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > > I thought it was possible to use VoiceOver and zoom at the same time. > However, my friend says that when she has VoiceOver turned on, she cannot use

Re: Can I change the name of a user installed App on my iPhone?

2017-08-26 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, No, I'm pretty sure there is not a way to change the name of an app. What I did on an app that I didn't like the way it was pronouncing was to go in to the pronunciation settings in speech under VoiceOver and give it a new way of being pronounced. You'll need to type the name of the app jus

RE: airpods and apple watch

2017-08-26 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Darn! Sarai D Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 2:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: airpods an

Re: Can I change the name of a user installed App on my iPhone?

2017-08-26 Thread E.T.
Same way, double tap and hold with 2 fingers until you hear the tones. 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.

Re: Which audio book player to use?

2017-08-26 Thread Alex Hall
I suggest Voice Dream Reader, if it’s available in your country’s App Store. It can handle MP3 audio books, as well as books or other media from iCloud, Dropbox, your clipboard, and so on. I like it for its easy navigation of content, its ability to handle daisy files as well as regular audio, P