Hi Donna,
Well, I assume you mean devices on the audible website, and I always thought
that this referred to a portable device. Mine has been set to book courier for
a long time now, even though I'm no longer using that device. I will certainly
see if Mac is listed in there. I thought only porta
Well, in devices, there are only two choices, both devices I've had selected at
one time or another, the book courier and a Zen Nano. There isn't a big list to
pick from like I recall seeing previously. There must be somewhere else to go
to see the list of all currently supported devices.
Mary
I found the link for adding a new device, and it does have settings for
platform and internet connection, so you can pick Apple and the Mac platform,
but when it comes to the actual device, all there are under there are various
flavor of Ipod and Iphone, and I don't have either of those yet. So
Hi Janes,
I have my account activated. Itunes plays files just fine. But they're just not
importing directly when I download them.
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Hi Caroline,If you are referring to setting where downloads go in Safari
preferences, I have done that, but I have it set to the downloads folder, since
I do want things other than audiobooks from Audible going there. I don't see
any sort of downloads manager in Itunes. If I'm missing something
Interesting. If open trusted files is checked, I can see how Itunes would
import the file, but it will also start reading, so if you're downloading
several files at once unattended after the downloads start, that could get
interesting. I could try this, but it seems a shame to have to have open
Hi Les,
Nope, there is no audible manager for the Mac. Its Itunes. I mean, it uses
Itunes in lieu of the audible manager software. That's why I thought it should
be simple to get books to go there automatically as it is with the manager
software in Windows.
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Hi all,
I just signed up for the 2-day free trial of sky.fm's premium service. Once
logged in, there is a link for my sky fm, and that page contains a link for
preferences. On this page, you are able to set your default player, type of
stream and bit rate. usingvo I can't find where to do these
Hi Mark,
I'm having a similar problem to the one you answered, when you said that the
person should be able to open the mp3 in Itunes. What happens to me is that I
can open the file in Itunes, but it doesn't show up anywhere that I can see in
Itunes if I want to click it again. In my case, its s
Hi Mark,
Ok, I clicked on the smooth jazz 256K mp3 stream at sky.fm. It downloaded and
opened i Itunes. I hit command L and vo said go to current song, but I didn't
go anywhere. I was still sitting on the music library in the sources table,
which is where I am when Itunes first opens.I know this
Thanks, Mark. You rock! Itunes let me make a playlist with the current song, so
that should do it.
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Thanks to both Esther and Ricardo for your helpful messages on this topic. One
of the really good things about this list is the expert knowledge so many of
you have, your willingness to share it with the rest of us and the lack of "you
should have known" flack.
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Hello folks,
I've been gradually moving tasks from Windows to the Mac. The next phase of
this move involves word processing. I don't have to do a lot of complex
document composition myself, but I do have to be able to read MS Word documents
that may include tables, and I also have to be able to
Thanks, James, for that speedy reply. I have not yet bought any application for
word processing hoping to benefit from others' experiences and just get one app
that will do the job. I don't mind tables on the Windows side in Word with
Window Eyes or Jaws. But prior to the implementation of good
Hi Matt,
According to what I read on audible's site, there is no audible manager
software for the Mac, separate from Itunes. I've been using audible manager on
the pc for a long time, so when I got the Mac, I checked out what Audible had
to say and they don't seem to have any separate software.
Hi Robert,
Do you have Safari set so trusted files automatically open once downloaded?
That could certainly account for their automatic entry into Itunes. If you
don't have that set, then its a great mystery to me what the difference could
be. Perhaps there was some little glitch when I activat
Hi Robert,
Yes, I am quite sure that books don't show up in my itunes library after
download. I checked the audio books section after downloading and found
nothing. Importing them makes them show up there. And prior to that, they are
in the download folder, where I would expect downloads to go n
MaryHi Ricardo,
My itunes library is not saving to an external drive, although given the amount
of things being accumulated in there, that was probably shortsighted on my
part.
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Is there a way to add to an existing playlist that is not a smart play list? I
just made a play list that has all the songs I've bought from the itunes store
in the jazz genre. I'd like to add to that if and when I buy more songs in this
same genre. My first idea was to use a smart play list, bu
Thanks, Ricardo. I went about it backwards. I went to the playlist and brought
up the context menu looking for an add to play list choice but didn't find
one.But I experimented with selecting songs and then doing the context menu and
it is as you described it, add to playlist is there with the s
Hi All,
I finally have my airport express connected to a stereo. Set up was a snap. So
I can use airfoil to send from various audio sources on the Mac to the stereo.
From reading about sound flower, I got the idea that I might be able to operate
the Mac with a bluetooth keyboard, assuming the ke
MaryThanks, Darcy, for this advice. I will experiment with it. I'm thinking it
could at least be useful for selecting music sources when not at the Mac, when
a delay in hearing VO response might be a little inconvenient but not a show
stopper. Wouldn't want to do word processing or anything el
Hi again Darcy,
I just checked and system audio is dimmed as an audio source. I definitely did
install sound flower. The first time I tried it, I got an error, so had to
retry and then it installed ok. Any ideas why system audio should be dimmed?
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Well, maybe I spoke too soon. I see two system audios in the audio sources
listing, and the first one is dimmed, but the second is not. That leads to the
question of why this choice should appear twice in the audio sources menu.
Interesting.
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MaryJosh,
Have you used this scanner on a Mac running fine reader? I ask because the
blurb about the Mac version says that FR express supports only scanners that
don't use emulated drivers. If its not directly supported, you have to use
something like viewscan and then do ocr on the images aft
Hello Anne,
In your reply on this topic you said to control click to bring up the context
menu after doing vo command f5 to bring focus of the mouse to the sender's
name. Do you mean a physical control mouse click? I tried this with vo shift m,
and I got the message context menu, not anything re
There was recently an interchange on the subject of removing the preview pane
in mail. I'm curious why somebody would want to do that? I find the preview
pane the quickest way to get through lots of messages. Vo j gives immediate
access and a quick way to move between the preview pane and messag
Hi all,
Is anyone on this list familiar with this disk utility? I'm amazed that it is
free; it seems to do a lot of the things that Cocktail does, at least at first
glance. The price is sure hard to beat. But there is the old saying about
getting what you pay for. So I thought I'd ask about peop
Hi Scott,
I'm not Linda, but I had to respond to your note to her re the differences
between moving around on a page among elements with Window Eyes or Jaws and
Voice Over. You said that you didn't see much difference between pressing h by
itself or pressing 3 additional keys in addition to h to
Yes, I realize that quicknav is one of those very useful additions to VO in
Snow Leopard. I would add, however, that the rotor with quicknav is not as fast
as simply typing a mnemonic to immediately get you to the form element or other
control you want. You have to cycle through the rotor to get
Hi Eric,
I've mostly been using a combo of the quick nav and the keypad to avoid using
the many-key keystrokes. But the heading one is one that, for some reason, I
keep using the multi-keys. Maybe its a function of too many choices.
Mary
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What application do I need to get that will open a file with a .sit prefix? I
downloaded a free program called Macjanitor but it is a dmg with this added
suffix, and my Mac mini wants to open this with text edit, clearly not the
appropriate app for this task.
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Thanks, Esther, for your response to my .sit file extension query. The program
is a simple maintenance utility called macjanitor that is suppose to enable you
to run the scheduled maintenance task for the unix that that is the guts of
os10 as I understand it. If you leave your Mac off at night,
Hi all,
I would like to know how to get vo to spell a word when you're in an html area.
This has to be simple, but I'm not finding it.
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Thanks, Anne. Multiple layers of interaction are something I tend to forget
about. Interacting with the html gives you the web rotor, and then I forget
about possible further layers.
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Hi Mike,
I have a Basic D and getting it to work with my Mac is on my to do list. I had
heard it was pretty complicated, however, and that Ibraille hadn't been updated
in ages. Are you using Snow Leopard? I think Ibraille came out when Tiger did
and may not have been updated much since then. I'v
No, Ibraille works exclusively with Index embossers. Its a product of the Index
company and it, like its sister Winbraille for the windows platform, is free to
people who purchase an Index embosser but doesn't work with any but index
devices.
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Hi all,
I was looking at the IPad page and saw that the tech specs say the 3g model has
what they call assisted gps. It didn't say anything about a gps receiver being
built in, and the blue tooth spec didn't say much either. What is this assisted
gps? And does anybody know if the bluetooth capab
This sounds interesting. But I'm trying to figure out how one might use this as
a pedestrian, especially since one must interact with the screen with navigon
to get info while walking. If there were more automatic announcments available,
and you could have the thing work while not holding it in
Hello all,
I know there is a text search field associated with the tool bar in the mail
viewer window, where you can type a word and get all messages containing that
word. My sighted friend who owns a Mac says that right under that field, once
the search has been entered, there are choices which
Thanks so much, Esther. You are truly amazing!
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According to what I read on the Abby site, if you can find a scanner with twain
drivers that are not emulated, Abbyy should work directly with that scanner. To
me, that implies that you wouldn't need another app to do the actual scanning
process, such as viewscan. thus far, I haven't heard of an
Hi William,
According to the Plustek website, there is no Mac driver support for either of
the scanners opticbook 3600 or 4600, which is a shame, since they are such
excellent scanners.
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Hello folks,
I am in the process of putting my rather large cd library into Itunes, and I
have noticed that occasionally, items are classified as a music genre that I
think is incorrect. I'd like to change the genre. Is there a way to do that?
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With the update to Itunes prior to this most recent one, I found that focus is
not properly reported by VO when Itunes is first started. Keyboard focus is
there, but VO doesn't know it. I wonder if the latest update has fixed this
problem. I'm somewhat reluctant to try it, given the reports some
The only way I've found radio shift to work reliably is to route the mouse to
vo and click with the physical mouse. and a lot of stations simply don't play
at all even when you do that. I've been disappointed with this app. I love
airfoil, but radio shift has proven to be a waste of money becaus
There is a lot more in radio shift's database than there is in Itunes.
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The radio guide has over 100,000 entries according to the rogueamoeba site. Of
course, many of those are programs, not separate stations. You can do a lot
more with radio shift than just listen to stations, since you can set it to
record programs when you're not going to be around. I have found
I have not upgraded to the latest version of Itunes. Just yesterday, I started
noticing something that hadn't been true until then and, to the best of my
knowledge, I have not made any changes to cause this to happen. Now, when I'm
in the sources table, if I arrow to the Itunes store and then wa
Scott,
I think your point about the mini as a good entry point for potential switchers
is an excellent one. I never would have laid out the $ for an Imac. We have
plenty of monitors around here, so buying a monitor was not a issue We also
have mice, so ditto there, no need to get one. Yes, I did
I am really looking forward to hearing about keyboard access with vo. Since
there is none with an iphone, since you can't use an external keyboard with
that device, I hope that limitation hasn't also been imposed on the Ipad.
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Wow! $300 for voices from AT&T> Has anybody heard them? How many are there for
that price? Are they multiple languages? I've never seen reference to anything
like that in hunting for voices. I'm always on the look out for quality voices
inespecially in Russian.
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Thanks for the clarification about the AT&T voices. too rich for my bloodd, as
they say. But it'd be cool if those voices could be made available separate
from the sdk somehow, to work with VO and offer an alternative to the Infovox
ones.
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Hi Esther,
Yes, I bought the Aliona russian voice just after I bought my Mac. I'd like a
male voice. I've heard one from another company, I think its a capella but it
might be Loquendo, I can't remember, that is the best one I've ever heard, but
its not available for use on a mac or with a Windo
Wow, thanks Esther. I did everything you outlined except for double
interacting. that must be where I went wrong. No time now, but I'll sure try
this later. Not the first time I've been burned by the double interact thing.
If there is one thing I could change, it would be all this interacting st
Oh I would love these to come to the IPhone/.IPod with the next os release. For
book reading, Samantha would be kind of a drag.
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With the advent of accessible Ibooks on the Ipad and this summer on the IPhone
and IPod, I could envision these higher quality voices being made available as
an add on for the Ibook reader, or perhaps bundled with it, but not for use as
general system voices with VO. then, of course, it might be
The keyboard on the two air models seems exactly the same to me, except that
the function keys on the 11-inch are narrower from top of key to bottom of key
than those on the 13.
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In case there are folks on here who want to listen to the NFL on sirius/xm on
line, I'm happy to say that the games are available via accessible application
Pulsar from rogueamoeba software.
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sirius site is still usable. You use to be
able to get listings there. Or you could listen on your xm or sirius radio and
wait for the announcement of the game listings to come up on their barker
channel, whose number I forget now.
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So, Donna, you got the 13 inch MBA? I ask because you mentioned getting the 256
gb of storage, and I thought that was only on the 13 inch. That is one
expensive upgrade for the 128 to the 256 gb of storage!
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Access. In the case that
one of these suits the needs of the perspective user, the cost of a Mac mini
plus needed accessories will not be less, even in the long run, than a
comparable pc and one of the above named screen readers.
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byy's fine reader express,
vuescan etc. But none of them have anything like the array of features or
flexibility offered by the K1000, admittedly for a higher price, of course.
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nning and ocr parameters and you have a
choice of 2 ocr engines etc. Whether you need all that and the other features
offered by the more expensive K1000 is up to you, of course.
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OTHER SCANNING APPLICATION
WOULD DO VERY WELL WITH IT.
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r you need those features is something
only you can decide for yourself.
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No neither abbyy FR nor vuescan is free. FR is in the app store. Last I knew,
vuescan is not.
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Yes, k1000 is a Windows program. YOu could run Windows on your Mac if you felt
that the feature set K1000 offers was what you need.
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Sorry, but no IBooks on the Mac. I would love it if that would change, but thus
far, no go.
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Are you running Lion on your Mac? You can't do ICloud on SL. Lion only on the
Mac.
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Ricardo, You can bring up the item chooser with a bluetooth keyboard by hitting
vo plus i, just like with the Mac. I've done that with the IPad and the Apple
keyboard.
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The app is on the mac app store and there is a note about improved
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the "buy" button and am hoping for the best.
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I just searched for 365 and came up with no stations, so I guess the answer to
the question about the live 365 stations is no. That is, of course, unless my
search somehow was messed up.
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I'm sending the below for a friend, who has put ITunes on an xp machine
preparatory to getting an IPhone 4s and has encountered the following problem.
I will forward any responses to my friend, and thanks in advance.
Hi. I've installed the latest version of Itunes on a windows XP system with
all
Well, this is from a public source. So hopefully it's OK to post here. Bummer.
This and the loss of the ability to return to the previous app you were in from
another app or unfortunate. I use that last feature a lot to go back to mail
when I've gone to a website. I wonder why they're doing this
ad as I love that gesture and
> used it all the time.
>
> I’d be curious to know the reasoning behind removing such things as
> multi-tasking when those are the very things people really want and, I
> assume, the competition has had for a while now.
>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 7:
The impression I got from the article was that this button goes away in ios11.
11. Maybe I misunderstood what I read. I hope I did, because I use that a lot.
And I'm aware of the app switcher. I'm also aware that the home button is
apparently going away completely in terms of a physical feelable
titasking is one
> of the features apple was pushing for the newer devices and os’s
>
> But I do see that the app switcher using the double tapping of the home
> button is still there.
>
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
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s don’t have a home
> button and Talkback will tell you when your finger is on the home button.
>> On 1 Jul 2017, at 02:29, Mary Otten wrote:
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>> The impression I got from the article was that this button goes away in
>> ios11. 11. Maybe I misunderstood what I read. I
I have a bunch of music in iTunes on my Mac, both purchased and ripped from
CDs. I would like to get this music into the Google cloud so I can use it with
my Google audio Chromecast and send it to multiple rooms in the house at once.
I think Steve talk about how to do this using windows. But I c
Thanks, Chris. I will check it out. Even if it's not accessible, for a one time
thing, I can get my sighted spouse to help.
Mary
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> On Jul 5, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Chris Moore wrote:
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> Mary,
> Perhaps this might help although I have no idea whether the mac app is
> accessib
s of your music. The app on windows
> is the same way, you need sited help to sign in. But once it’s done, your
> good to go!
>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
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>> I have a bunch of music in iTunes on my Mac, both purchased and ripped from
>&g
I don't use Outlook myself, but I thought this would be of interest to those
who do.
Outlook for iOS updated with redesigned navigation, conversations, and more
9to5Mac / Michael Potuck
Microsoft has today announced an update to its Outlook app for iOS that brings
a variety of changes and im
I finally got around to adding a second card for Apple Pay in my wallet. I
thought there was a way to tell it which one you wanted as your default, but I
am sure not seeing any such thing. Maybe it's in settings, where I never
remember to look. So I guess I should go do that. But if it's not the
; You can set it in settings in the wallet app itself or under the master
> settings under wallet and Apple Pay.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>> On Jul 13, 2017, at 8:17 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
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>> I finally got around to adding a second card for Apple Pay in my wallet. I
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I guess the subject line says it all. The tool that humanware put out is for a
PC. So if you want your displayed to have the latest firmware and you have an
iPhone or Mac, how do you make that happen? I have looked on their site to no
avail.
Mary
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a lot of work
> for little gain.
>
>> On Jul 14, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli
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>> You can't. Has to be done with Windows.
>>
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Hi all,
For those of you who use the VDR with a braille display, can you comment on the
fluidity of reading? I know it's great with speech, you just hit the play
button and it plays. Seamless reading. How about with braille? I assume you
can't hit play, but would have to rely on voiceover instea
Well, here's what I want to know. How about a blind test. How about the sighted
guy doesn't know which adapter he's using, and can he still hear the
difference? I have some very excellent wired headphones from B and W and
Audese, and I think they're fine with the lightning adapter. Maybe that's
If you don't want the full blown capability of a very expensive blindness note
taker, such as the new Polaris, you might consider the varrio ultra. That has
the ability to transfer files with a USB stick. And it also has note taking
capability. It has an excellent warranty. Some people also find
including the ultra or overpriced. The ultra
> the last time I checked for the 40 so my will cost her about $4000. Not worth
> it in my opinion for what you get. Anybody who buys a blind is no taking
> device is really paying premium for it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>&
I know that in the past, there have been fairly serious issues regarding the
writing of braille on an iPhone when you use a braille display. I haven't
really kept up with this, but now, I am interested to know if braille input is
more reliable, or if displays, such as the humanware, still lock u
"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 7/25/2017 7:43 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
>>
it." --Carl Sagan
>>>> E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/24/2017 8:39 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mary,
>>>>>
>>>>> In my opinion, all the no takers including the ultra or overpriced. Th
t;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
way 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
>>>>>>
I have a Samsung smart TV which I bought at the end of last year. It does what
you are saying you would like yours to do. I can't swear that they all do it.
Mine has three HDMI inputs, all full. And if I start doing something on one of
the devices that's plugged into one of the HDMI ports, it s
>
> 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
>
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