Re: A couple Terminal questions

2020-04-02 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Andrew: Wednesdays are my very busy day and I frequently don't get to list traffic on Wednesdays. Also, this particular question is arguably well off topic for this list, as the distinctions between the Debian ISO that installed Mate for you and the tarch iso that would give you a pure consol

Re: OT: anybody on the list using Linux in VMWare or on a separate machine? Pls answer off list

2020-04-02 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Maurice: OK, I do understand. Let me just add that if you can't afford $200-$400 for a second machine, you also can't afford VMware, imo. That isn't free software. Best, Janina maurice mines writes: > Good morning, unfortunately there were many reasons in my world where Windows > must stay. An

Re: OT: anybody on the list using Linux in VMWare or on a separate machine? Pls answer off list

2020-04-02 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Mark: My response went before I saw this post from you. I agree it's off topic for this list. Best, Janina M. Taylor writes: > Hello All, > > Please take this topic, off-list. > > Do not reply to this post or to this thread. > > Thank you, > > Mark > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.

Re: facebook on the mac

2020-04-02 Thread 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
It depends. What do you want to do on Facebook? Do you want to just chat with people or look at news feeds and stuff? If just chatting, I recommend Trillian. If doing both chatting and news feeds, Menutab Pro for Facebook is good. Regards, Shawn, Sent from Sophia, the MacBook Air Want to join m

Re: facebook on the mac

2020-04-02 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Shirley, Have you tried to use m.facebook.com on your mac? This is the mobile website and is way easier to navigate then the facebook website itself. If you want to chat with people, facebook messenger app for the iphone works well here. HTH, Caitlyn > On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:18 AM, Shirley He

Re: Advice Please, Setting Up A New Router

2020-04-02 Thread John Panarese
As long as the app is accessible, I would assume setting up a simple home network should be pretty obvious and straight forward. I’ve not used this yet, but I Think and Think is the important word that I read somewhere that it is accessible. I could be thinking of another router though. Tak

Re: Advice Please, Setting Up A New Router

2020-04-02 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Hi There John. I do hope you are well. This is a question for anyone to answer. At the moment I am using an AirPort Extreme and I’d like to know do these meshes do the same thing as Airport Extremes? Are these things wireless? So if you get one, how and where do you put these things as my Ai

Re: Stopp ads loading

2020-04-02 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! There’s a setting to stop live regions to update in VoiceOver utility in the web tab. /A > 1 apr. 2020 kl. 19:49 skrev Brad Snyder : > > Just realized you may be using an iPad. > To invoke Reader View on and iPad or other iOS device, locate the Format > Options button, somewhere along the t

Re: OT: anybody on the list using Linux in VMWare or on a separate machine? Pls answer off list

2020-04-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
I thought this thread is closed? On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: Maurice: OK, I do understand. Let me just add that if you can't afford $200-$400 for a second machine, you also can't afford VMware, imo. That isn't free software. Best, Janina maurice mines wr

Re: Stopp ads loading

2020-04-02 Thread Jessica Moss
Is this available for IOS as well? That’s actually where I see the worst of it, due to these ads constantly refreshing, and as it’s loading, it disrupts VoiceOver from speaking, but the sound for the ad is muted, so I just happened to have found out by accident one morning that an ad was loadin

Re: Stopp ads loading

2020-04-02 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! There isn’t but you could use adblockers for safari. /A > 2 apr. 2020 kl. 20:05 skrev Jessica Moss : > > Is this available for IOS as well? That’s actually where I see the worst of > it, due to these ads constantly refreshing, and as it’s loading, it disrupts > VoiceOver from speaking, but

Re: Stopp ads loading

2020-04-02 Thread David The Computer Guy
Ever heard of the application/extension called ad block+? That is what I use on my system including Safari. Sent from David The Computer Guy 707 759 7586 > On Apr 2, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > There isn’t but you could use adblockers for safari. > /A > >> 2 apr. 2020

Re: OT: anybody on the list using Linux in VMWare or on a separate machine? Pls answer off list

2020-04-02 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Yes, it is, Karen. Janina had explained in her final response why she’d missed the mod’s email. I apologize for starting it if it upset anyone. > On 2 Apr 2020, at 17:48, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I thought this thread is closed? > > > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionarie

Re: Advice Please, Setting Up A New Router

2020-04-02 Thread Joy Cyr
Thank you, reassurance is much appreciated! I was assured that the app was excessible and had gotten (for what they are worth) good reviews. Since I'm currently having internet problems (hence the need for a poorly timed change of router) I was unable to do my own research. I really hope it i

Catalina Clean Install

2020-04-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر
Hi all: DO not know if my question is right or not, but i need to make a clean install for my mac mini, i have Catalina, but my machine is getting slower and slower, sometimes VOiceover did not respond, do not know if it will solve some of my problems or not, but i think i will give it a try. m

Single-Letter Searching for Filenames

2020-04-02 Thread Dave Carlson
Here’s something I miss from the MS-Windows days. In a list of files in a folder, I want to find a file starting with the letter “B”. I press the “b” key and up comes the first file starting with that letter. From old habit, I then press the “b” key again and realize that I will not jump to th

Re: Single-Letter Searching for Filenames

2020-04-02 Thread Brad Snyder
I'm not aware of any setting that changes this behavior. I have gone all through the Finder preferences, and have never come across any such setting. This is just the Apple way of doing things. - Brad - On Apr 3, 2020, at 00:44, Dave Carlson wrote: Here’s something I miss from the MS-Wind