RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Petrus, Yes the SE is able to run 13.x I’m using one here for a work phone. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Petrus Tuerlings Sent: Monday, 23 March 2020 7:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a question about voiceover voices on IOS? That depends on wha

RE: PowerBeats.

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
I have a feeling that the wire has a small controller on it as well. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, 23 March 2020 10:57 AM To: 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: PowerBeats. Hi! Yes. >From what i understand they h

RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
That probably counts as a 5s -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen Sent: Monday, 23 March 2020 11:35 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a question about voiceover voices on IOS? its an iphone 5c. On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Ro

RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
They do have a headphone jack of sorts. You get a set of headphones that have the lightening connector on it rather than the 3.5 mil jack. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen Sent: Monday, 23 March 2020 11:42 AM To: 'E.T.' via MacVisiona

RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
You could look under setting, general , about this phone and see wht model it is and check that in google.com -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen Sent: Monday, 23 March 2020 11:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a qu

RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Petrus, I’ve looked at androids and I’ve only found a couple of voices for them, Might be that we don’t get the same range down here but I thought they were more limited. You ready for lock down? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Petrus Tuerlings Sent: Monday, 23 March 2

RE: The Google News for iOS App, Give It a Try

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Mark, Just to add to this for Petrus, Yeah we get kind of somewhat over looked here in Nz, Small nation that keeps our heads down and not worth apple looking at, 4.5 million people and no apple stores other than 3rd party retailers who have no real knowledge of their products. It will be in

RE: Remoting into another Mac?

2020-03-23 Thread Simon A Fogarty
I've never used team viewer between mac machines but I can't see why it wouldn't work. You could also try zoom or even vnc or log me in rescue Each one wthough will have it's moments as they are designed for sighted folks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Beh

RE: Remoting into another Mac?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Ssh definitely works - command line only, of course. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Matt Turner Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 2:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Remoting into another Mac? Hi folks. I’d like to help someone with the

Re: Remoting into another Mac?

2020-03-23 Thread Brad Snyder
I have used Team Viewer while working with Aira. From what I have experienced, it is accessible using VoiceOver on my Macs. - Brad - On Mar 23, 2020, at 01:35, Matt Turner wrote: Hi folks. I’d like to help someone with there Mac. I’ve heard of using TeamV vewer , and wondered if anyone had a

Re: PowerBeats.

2020-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! >From what i understand its on the right earpeice. Not sure as i haven’t got them yet. /A > 23 mars 2020 kl. 09:15 skrev Simon A Fogarty : > > I have a feeling that the wire has a small controller on it as well. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On > Be

Re: Hard Drive Buffering

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, To access your Library, you'll need to add your computer to the Apple TV so that it is available to it. I am able to access my Library on my MacPro as well as the Cloud content using the Siri remote. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recogniti

Re: Mail in Catalina

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I have not noticed this at all. Moving messages behaves just the same as it has in previous iterations and is not slow at all. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 22, 2020, at 13:03, Eric Caron wrote

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I use AudioBook Builder. Perfectly accessible. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 22, 2020, at 18:11, Dave Carlson wrote: Anders, This is Dave. I use Audio Book Binder. Works very well. Dave Carls

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, Just curious, why do you use an app like Audio Book Builder or binder, rather than just pulling the book into an app like Voice Dream Reader? Just wondering what the benefits are. Cheers, Donna > On Mar 23, 2020, at 11:00 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > I

Re: Mail in Catalina

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Tim, I had the slow move happen once before after upgrading and after a period of time it seemed to improve. This time I finally noticed that the response time in mail was improved to almost normal if I didn’t have a lot of mail windows open. Somehow while I work in mail I end up w

Re: Mail in Catalina

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi Eric, Yes, that machine should handle things just fine. What process do you use when opening mail messages? Do you have multiple mail accounts that you're accessing or just one with many messages? Myself, I do have five main mail accounts that I'm accessing at any given time. I use the r

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I tend to prefer the Apple stock apps for reading my audio books, thus when I use AudioBook Builder to "build" the audio book, it automatically places it into proper location and makes it the proper m4b format. I guess that it's entirely possible that VoiceStream Reader does the same thing

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
That makes total sense, Tim. Thanks for responding. Cheers, Donna > On Mar 23, 2020, at 12:13 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > I tend to prefer the Apple stock apps for reading my audio books, thus when I > use AudioBook Builder to "build" the audio book, it automati

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I think its great but a bit cluttered. /A > 23 mars 2020 kl. 17:00 skrev 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > : > > Hi, > > I use AudioBook Builder. Perfectly accessible. > > Later... > > > Tim Kilburn > Jamf Certified Tech > Apple Teacher > (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) > Fort McM

Re: Hard Drive Buffering

2020-03-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Already did that and things were fine. I made no changes so not sure what is going on. I get no dialog on the ATV, it just sits there. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 3/23/2020 8:59 AM, 'Tim Kil

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Donna, When using the iPhone, you could play books by simply placing them into your music folder as MP3 files, or other audio file types. The problem with that is that they could be affected by the shuffle feature, so chapters may not play in sequence. Also you don’t have a convenient way to sto

Re: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Yes, we just set up my wife’s work computer in our office, it’s a bit of a tight fit as she has two monitors and a docking port for her laptop, but we made it fit. I Weill still have to go to work fro for the foreseeable future unless I get sick, but at least I won’t have to catch the bus to wor

RE: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread Karen Lewellen
Not without a risk of illness while trying to figure out how to even find those things. On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Simon A Fogarty wrote: You could look under setting, general , about this phone and see wht model it is and check that in google.com -Original Message- From: macvisiona

Re: a question about voiceover voices on IOS?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, If Petrus wasn't so far away, I might have to linch him ;). Couldn't fly down there right now either, so I guess you're in the clear Petrus. Hope all is well down there for you. My wife is in the high-risk category, and my daughter just made it back from the UK early Sunday morning, so we

Re: Hard Drive Buffering

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
HI, Does it just sit there for everything, or just when you attempt to access your internal Library? Did you mean that it worked for a bit, but stopped working now? If so, restart the Apple TV. If it's all froze, just unplug it, leave it unplugged for about 20 to 30 seconds, then plug it bac

Re: Hard Drive Buffering

2020-03-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
It sits after I select Computers. I can back out and I can still access Settings. Will work with it a bit later and see what happens. Will then do a restart if need be. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were tr

snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, On my iPhone 7, if I press volume button or power (side) button when an alarm is goin off, it snoozes. If I press the home button with a finger that supports touch ID, the alarm is dismissed. What is the equivalent for iPhone 10 and newer? Jonathan -- The following information is importa

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Oh, that makes sense, Dave. I still get a lot of books from Bookshare, and those can be downloaded as Daisy files, so import nicely into Voice Dream. But I can see how if you just had a text file, this would make for a better reading experience. Cheers, Donna > On Mar 23, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Dave

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, My understanding is as follows: 1. If Snooze is disabled in the specific alarm settings, just press the side button or one of the volume buttons to silence the alarm. 2. If Snooze is enabled, use the Home gesture to dismiss the alarm, or the side button or volume buttons to snooze. Myse

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread Agent086b
Hi, how do you turn of snooze for alarms etc in a 10S? Thanks for any advice. Max. > On 24 Mar 2020, at 8:00 am, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > My understanding is as follows: > > 1. If Snooze is disabled in the specific alarm settings, just press the side > button or

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, If you don't wish to have snooze at all, open the Clock app, select the Alarm tab, double-tap the Edit button, double-tap the alarm you wish to edit, swipe through the choices and just after the alarm sound/song, the snooze option should be there. Double-tap on it to toggle on/off. Note t

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Yes, I tried using the feature to play a track from my music library and it would have worked if the track in question wasn’t 20 minutes in length. That is where I discovered that the alarm stops Automatically after 10 minutes. So I ended up creating a shortcut so I could play that track each mo

Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Hi all, I have a dum dum question, I’ve done it once before and totally forgot how to do it. I’ve got an external DVD drive plugged into my Mac book and am trying to find a CD with some MP3 files on it and I’ve not got them labeled. How do I find the DVD drive so I can see what is on the CD?

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread John Panarese
It should show up on your desktop when the CD is inserted and the drive is connected. Just open the volume and you should be able to navigate the files on the CD. It will probably mount in icon view. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfor

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Sorry, silly question but at the moment focus Is on the Applications so is it in that list or do I need to put focus on the Desktop which I can’t remember how to do?j > On 24/03/2020, at 12:54, John Panarese wrote: > > It should show up on your desktop when the CD is inserted and the drive i

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread John Panarese
VO-shift-d to get to the desktop and it should show up as, Untitled, unless you have labeled the disk in some way. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIO

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

2020-03-23 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Are you talking about disabling the snooze feature for an alarm or turning the alarm off when it is raining? Jonathan > On Mar 23, 2020, at 5:09 PM, Agent086b wrote: > > Hi, > how do you turn of snooze for alarms etc in a 10S? > Thanks for any advice. > Max. > >> On 24 Mar 2020, at 8:00 am,

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread Brad Snyder
If you don’t find it on the Desktop, do CMD + SHIFT + C, to open a Finder window that should show all the available resources (Macintosh HD, etc…) on your Mac. HTH - Brad - On Mar 23, 2020, at 19:03, John Panarese wrote: VO-shift-d to get to the desktop and it should show up as, Untitled,

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
VO Shift D is the one I couldn’t remember, thanks. > On 24/03/2020, at 13:03, John Panarese wrote: > > VO-shift-d to get to the desktop and it should show up as, Untitled, unless > you have labeled the disk in some way. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind >

Re: Finding the external DVD drive

2020-03-23 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Thanks again, found the CD I was looking for. I should really get round to putting Braille labels on the rest of my CDs one day. I know I have my entire music collection in my iTunes library b ut I’m old fashioned and like to have the CDs as well. > On 24/03/2020, at 13:07, Brad Snyder wrote:

Re: Catalina: How Would I Put Audio Books on my iPHone?

2020-03-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Donna, I don’t get audio books in text format. They are usually MP3. These can be played like any music file, but need to be processed into M4B in order to play properly in the books app or on an iPod. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The follo