Re: How to check to see if Flash is turned on?

2016-07-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Donna, In Safari, go to Preferences, then choose security tab and then find the checkbox "enable plugins". Having insured it is checked, immediately to the right of it is "plugins settings" button. Press it and you will be in a new window. Examine it as there are various functions there.

Recording audio and picture from Safari on Mac

2016-08-24 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, Is it at all possible to record a TV programme of film one is playing in Safari so that both picture and sound are recorded in one file? I thought it might be done using Quicktime and tried and failed last night. In fact, I don't really know what I was doing in Quicktime. Any suggestions

Re: Recording audio and picture from Safari on Mac

2016-08-25 Thread Andrew Lamanche
> -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche > Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2016 8:49 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Recording audio and picture from Safari on Mac > > H

How to tell who's on chat on Facebook

2016-08-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, When I go to Facebook on my mac, I often hear VoiceOver announce "chat" followed by a number. This number, I assume, refers to the number of my friends who are currently available on chaat. Is this correct? In which case, how can I tell which friends are available? If I click on chat bu

Re: Apple mail issue

2016-09-05 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello, Have you by mistake collapsed your inbox? Place Vo on Inbox and press right arrow key which hopefully will reveal your individual accounts. I've had a similar experience and it took me some time to realise what had happened. Best wishes Andrew > On 6 Sep 2016, at 03:22, denise avant

converting .mov video file to Windows compatible format

2016-09-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, This is important for me. I have a short video which a friend of mine had taken on my iphone. It has .mov extension. I need to give it to somebody who has a Windows machine to view. Am I right in thinking that it would have to be converted to a different format so that it can be viewed

Re: converting .mov video file to Windows compatible format

2016-09-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
verter program is VidConvert by www.reggieashworth.com. > It costs $7.95 and is totally Vo accessible. > HTH Jeff > > > On 9/7/16, Andrew Lamanche wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is important for me. I have a short video which a friend of mine had >> taken on

iPad losing battery power rapidly

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I am somewhat puzzled as to why my iPad 2 loses power so rapidly. I would charge it fully, and then overnight, without even using it, it would lose about 20% battery power. I have switched off all the unnecessary services except for location servcie. I make sure I remove all applicat

How do I switch from sheet to sheet in Numbers?

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I've added a new sheet to my spreadsheet in Numbers and now I can't work out how to move from sheet to sheet to add entries to them. Is there a shortcut key to do so or is there an area I need to interact with to accomplish this? I can't seem to be able to locate it. Thanks for any

Questions about Menu Tab Pro

2012-04-27 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I know that some of you have been using Menu Tab Pro for Facebook. I wonder whether you might clear a few things up for me. I've just installed and started using it. I'm not sure whether there are any settings to adjust but I frequently - when going through various posts - get thrown

Solving a capcha problem

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, How can I deal with a capture on a web page? Can it be done without sighted assistance? Thanks for any suggestions. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegr

Opening files from dropbox on iPad

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear All, I have installed dropbox on my iPad. I have also installed Pages. However, when I'm truing to open a .rtf file in my dropbox I get a message that there is no application available to open the file. Does anyone know why it is and how I can open .rtf files on my iPad? Many thanks Andrew

Double NAT problems in network setup

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I need your help badly. I have a DSL modem router. I have connected to it via an ethernet cable a time capsule through which I have created a wireless network in my home. I have just tried to enable back to my mac via the Airport utility but as zoo has I have done so, I get a messag

Combining more than one base station on my home network

2012-07-03 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I wonder whether I might have your opinion / thoughts on the following: My family has kindly given me a present of an airport extreme latest model. This was prompted by the difficulties I had with my original time capsule which I bought in 2008. It has 500 GB disk, and as I now have

.me and icloud accounts

2012-07-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, When iCloud became reality, I still had .me account. I switched to icloud but in the Mail applications, I got both .me account and iCloud account. Now that .me is no longer, can I delete the .me account? It seems rather futile to have both in my Mail accounts list. Is there any reaso

Partitioning an external drive under mac os Lion with Voiceover

2012-07-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear listers, I thought I'd post my experience of partitioning an external usb drive under mac os Lion in case somebody else needed to do this in the future. I've bought a 1 TB external hard drive, and I wanted to partition it so that it has two different volumes. This is how I accomplished it in

Non-English braille tables in Mountain Lion

2012-07-27 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I'd like to ask those of you who use non-English tables whether the problems reported under Lion have been fixed in Mountain lion? Best wishes Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: A question about iTunes syncing

2012-07-27 Thread Andrew Lamanche
You'd better backup and get your music migrated. I am not sure about the method you describe, but all of the articles I've read recommend that you backup and then migrate. If you lose your iTunes library, I'm not sure how you'd get yourp your purchases back. Andrew On 28 Jul 2012, at 05:47, Jam

Re: Non-English braille tables in Mountain Lion

2012-07-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
it under Mountain Lion. The general focus issues with >> Braille displays, regardless of the language table are, I sincerely hope, >> improved. >> >> Harry >> >> On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Andrew Lamanche >> wrote: >> >>> Dear

Re: Wonderful wonderful wonderful!

2012-07-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Kawal, I want to add to your message my full support. I've been a strong supporter, advocate for Apple products ever since I began to use them in 2008. Apple deserves a big thank you. Whilst I have been asking Apple accessibility to improve various aspects of Voiceover including Braille tables

Re: Mountain Lion Is Awesome!

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
How do you update the voices? Are the Nuance voices the free voices that Apple provides for Voiceover users? Forgive me if these questions appear to be rather basic. Thanks Andrew On 29 Jul 2012, at 12:32, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > The nuance issues are indeed fixed, keep in mind though t

Re: Ttrackpad gesture to open notification center in ML

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Go to the following link where you can find the guide to how to use Voiceover with ML. One of the appendices will give you all the shortcut keys and gestures you can use. help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/English.lproj/index.html Andrew On 29 Jul 2012, at 15:28, Brian Miller wrote: > Wh

Can't activate "find my mac" feature on OS Lion

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Listers, In system preferences/iCloud, the "find my mac" service option is dimmed. When I activate"more" button, I get the following message: "find my mac requires a recovery partition. Some configurations, such as a software or hardware RAID, do not support a recovery partition and can’t

Re: Mountain Lion Installation Question

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
you need at least 8GB drive in order to make it a bootable start up volume. Best wishes Andrew On 30 Jul 2012, at 00:31, David Tanner wrote: > Hi, > > How big a USB drive do you need for making the USB bootable disk drive? > > - Original Message - From: "Robert Carter" > To: > Sent:

Re: Can't activate "find my mac" feature on OS Lion

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
rt McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-07-29, at 2:35 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Hello Listers, >> >> In system preferences/iCloud, the "find my mac" service option is dimmed. >> When I activate"more" button, I get the following mes

Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, Since the news of Mountain Lion - I still run Lion - I've been reading a lot about how to make sure I install it as well as possible. Jo Kissell in his "Take Control of upgrading to Mountain Lion" strongly recommends verifying one's disk for possible errors because if an error is

Can't eject a cd from external superdrive

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, Please help! I've inserted a cd into my external superdrive connected to macbook air. The drive nor the disk show up in the finder - there must be something wrong with the disk. How can I eject it? When I pulled the usb connection out of the macbook air, I got a warning message and ins

Re: Can't eject a cd from external superdrive

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
and to all the others too. Andrew On 30 Jul 2012, at 18:56, Alex Hall wrote: > Plug it back in, then go to /volumes in finder. Is it there? What about the > eject menu in the extras menus (vo-m twice)? > On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Andrew Lamanche > wrote: > >> Listers, &g

Re: Can't eject a cd from external superdrive

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
xt field "/Volumes" without > the quotation marks and press return. (That's slash followed by "Volumes"). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Thanks, Alex for such a swift reply. The desp

Can't launch safari after reinstalling Lion

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi All, I have had to reinstall mac os 10.74 Lion. Having done so, every time I attempt to launch sAfari, it crashes and I get the familiar problem reporter window. Has anyone else ever had this problem? What could possibly have happened? I can successfully use Google Chrome but SAfari? No way.

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

2012-07-31 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Just to help, if you wish to paste a piece of text from a web page into Text Edit and not have the formatting or links present, once you've pasted the text, press command+shift+t to convert to text. All the formatting and links or images will be gotten rid of and you have your plain text to save

group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, Is there a group for audio buffs on the mac amongst voiceover users? I need to ask some specific questions with regard to converting iTunes music tracks I've bought via the iStore into mp3 so that I can burn them onto a cd rw. It would appear iTunes won't let me burn any tracks I have

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
n burn that list to an audio CD with no problems. I was also able to > use iTunes to convert the AAC files to MP3 and then burn those to an Audio > CD. So far I can't seem to reproduce an issue with burning playlists. > > CB > > On 8/1/12 8:22 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: >&g

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
files to MP3 and then burn those to an Audio >> CD. So far I can't seem to reproduce an issue with burning playlists. >> >> CB >> >> On 8/1/12 8:22 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: >>> Listers, >>> >>> Is there a group for audio buffs on the m

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
. > > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1711?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US > > HTH. > > Later... > > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-01, at 9:46 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Dear Chris, >> >> I want to put t

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
l get all the options you can set to show and > of course remove! just tick the ones you want and uncheck any you don't! > One of the options is [Kind] so that will say if it is MP3 or ACC and so on! > There is a lot of options in there! > Hth Colin > > On 1 Aug 2012, at

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
us message and burn things to a CD then re-import. In both cases, I'd >> create a Playlist with just mp3s so that they are easily distinguished. >> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1711?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >>

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
a song.. Go to the link below to >>> see about iTunes Plus and click the View Eligible Songs link to see which >>> songs in your Library are upgradable. Otherwise, you'll need to do as I >>> mentioned in my previous message and burn things to a CD then re-import.

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
laylist, create it to match the Kind to be MPEG. You will still > have duplicates in your main Music Library but the playlists will remain > discriminated. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-01, at 9:48 AM, Andrew

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
characters needed to put one in as I don't use many. I'll check into it > though if that's what you're looking for. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-01, at 11:32 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Ah, ye

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
started out as the audio track for the original MPEG1 standard. It's a > patented format and Apple pays a license fee for use of the encoder in their > products. Lots more info here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 > > CB > > On 8/1/12 1:35 PM, Andrew Lamanche

Re: Partitioning and External Drive

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Chris, I've recently posted a message to the list describing my experience of partitioning an external drive with Voiceover. I will paste the content of that message below. although I chose to accept the default partition sizes, I believe that as you go through the steps I describe, rather than

Re: group for audio buffs?

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
s is likely immaterial here but the > Live Updating is handy as it will automatically add things to this playlist > as you add items to your Library. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-01, at 2:23 PM, Andrew Lamanche w

Re: Partitioning and External Drive

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
t; > thank you so much for this. I must have missed your original message. I > appreciate your patience in answering a question you have already answered. > > Chris > - Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lamanche" > > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 01,

Makin more than one smart playlist in iTunes

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I've now got my smart playlist of mpeg audio files only in my iTunes. Thank you for helping me to accomplish this. I've learnt an awful lot from this experience. Now I've limited the size of my smart playlist to 700 MB so that I could burn it to just one cd. However, I will want

Re: Makin more than one smart playlist in iTunes

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
e original one. You'll probably wish to burn the playlist then recheck the > items in the first playlist if you wish to play them in iTunes later though. > > Hope this works for you. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-02, at

Re: copying album artwork file

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
May I ask what 'art work" actually practically means? Is it to do with cover pictures/design, or also does it include text of songs which - when purchasing in a shop - cds sometimes include? Andrew On 2 Aug 2012, at 14:51, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Another option you could use to make sure

Re: Makin more than one smart playlist in iTunes

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
> Actually, if I were to start this topic from scratch, I'd suggest that the > most efficient way to proceed with what Andrew wants is to use AppleScripts, > such as the QuickConvert AppleScript from Doug Adams' AppleScripts for iTunes > site. > > HTH. Cheers, &g

Re: Makin more than one smart playlist in iTunes

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
se AppleScripts, > such as the QuickConvert AppleScript from Doug Adams' AppleScripts for iTunes > site. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Dear tim, >> >> That's great! I did think

Re: Apple ID and AppStore

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
It would appear to me that you have more than one apple ID. It is not uncommon to have one ID for the iCloud/mobileme and another one for iTune store. I am in the latter category. Go to iTunes, sign out of the currently active account and sign in with the other ID you may have. This is a rather

Re: Dropbox alerts driving me nuts

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Lamanche
The way I do it under Lion - and I haven't updated to the latest dropbox yet, is to find the file I wish to have a link for in my folder, press vo+shift+m to activate contextual menu and arrow down to "copy link" and press vo+spacebar on it. In this way the link for the file will be placed to yo

Re: finder frustrations

2012-08-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Alex, Just a thought on this. How do you open your folders and subfolders generally? I always make sure that my subfolders are collapsed and I always open them with command+down arrow so that I am sure that I am within the folder I want. Therefore, when I start typing the first few letters of a

Re: connectinng to my Ethernet port on my router

2012-08-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
You can get an usb to ethernet adaptor for macbook air. On 7 Aug 2012, at 02:44, Alex Hall wrote: > Well, that's something you may want to research. The ones I've seen have > them, but I can't promise they are the latest generation. I know the Macbook > Airs have no ethernet, but I thought the m

Re: how to drag the dmg image?

2012-08-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I have accomplished this by downloading and running a free application called Lion Diskmaker 2rc2.app. They welcome donations but you are not obliged to pay. Once you paste this application into your application folder, open it. It will locate your .dmg file and will ask you on which drive you w

Re: Mac and startup repair or equivalent

2012-08-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Yes, if you run Lion or Mountain Lion, you can start your computer from the hidden recovery partition. Shut down your computer. Power it back on and immediately hold down command+r keys. The computer should boot from the recovery partition. Note! Give it some good while because at this stage yo

sorting randomly tracks in playlist before burning

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Listers, I've created an mp3 playlist of over 100 tracks to be burnt to a CD. Is there a way of randomly arranging these tracks so that they do not appear as albums? What I'm after is something akin to a shuffle situation where when you listen to your cd the songs do not play according t

Can't see my folders under iCloud account in Mountain Lion

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, I am beginning to experiment with Mountain Lion. In Mail, I can't see any of my folders which I have under my iCloud account. I went on the web and connected to my iCloud account via the browser, and I can see all my folders are there but when I open Mail in Mountain Lion, I can't see

Software update under Mountain Lion

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, In Mountain Lion, when I select software update, I am taken to the app store. My question is, does this also check for any possible updates to drivers and other pieces of software, does this only check for the apps I have purchased through the appstore? In Lion and previous operating s

Re: Can't see my folders under iCloud account in Mountain Lion

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
case, my Work and Home accounts are listed > above the iCloud one so I have to go way down to confirm that iCloud is > expanded. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-08, at 11:04 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >

Re: Can't see my folders under iCloud account in Mountain Lion

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
; Work > Home > blah blah > > Later.. > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-08, at 2:27 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> That's my dilemma: I can't see on my mac nor is there anything listed below. >> I also have a gmail

Fermware password on the mac

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I read in the take control of mountain lion that it is possible to set a firmware password. This results in the relevant screen appear sooner in the booting process than usual. Does that mean that we can still access it with Voiceover? Or is this feature unablable? Also, does an

Re: Listing all folders

2012-08-11 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Antonio, Many of us have had a problem with this. Try to interact with the mailboxes list and arrow or vo+arrow down to see your gmail again and then press right arrow or vo+| key combination to expand your mail account. Then you should be able to see all your folders/mailboxes. Best wis

Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, I don't seem to be able to activate spotlight with the control + tripple m shortcut key in Mountain Lion. Is it gone? What's in its place, please? Thanks a lot. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to thi

Re: Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
e honest, I thought pressing VO triple M > was a bit much. > > JMO. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Lamanche > wrote: > >> Listers, >>

Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I am now firmly committed to Mountain Lion, and I feel a kind of buzz around me. But one of the problems that I have immediately encountered is multiple copies of messages which get downloaded from macvisionaries group. I seem to remember that this has been discussed here but I ca

Re: Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I've recently discovered that there is also not > an accessible way of creating a gmail account. > > I hope this helps. If you need mroe specific instructions, let me know. > > Harry > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Andrew Lamanche > wrote: > >> Dear List

multiple messages from macvisionaries group

2012-08-13 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Everyone, I've already asked before about the problem of receiving multiple copies of messages from macvisionaries group. Harry has offered me suggestions to do with labels in gmail (which is the mail provider for me) but they haven't sold the problem. I vaguely seem to remember that I ha

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

2012-08-13 Thread Andrew Lamanche
tings do using Gmail. I also use > labels in Gmail and never received any duplicates of the messages in my > inbox. Good luck > Ioana > Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online > stores. > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Andrew Lamanche > wr

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Lamanche
urned all labels off in gmail? > > Just trying to get a picture of your setup to see what can be done. > > Best, > > Ioana > > Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online > stores. > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Andrew Lamanche

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Lamanche
2, at 7:21 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >>> Would be great if someone could post how they set everything up in >>> gmail or mail, as I am still coming to the group and using auto >>> webspots to navigate. Would love to get the group thread through mail, >>>

Re: Mail in Mountain Lion

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I'm not sure what setup you used to have before upgrading to mountain lion but I will tell you how i've sold my problems which were similar to yours. Firstly, in Mail preferences, I chose to view my messages in classic view. Secondly, in order to see all your mailboxes, interact with the list o

Viewing reminders with Voiceover in ML

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, I know I have reminders present as I have made a few over the past weeks/months. I can't seem to find a way of viewing them in Mountain Lion. In Lion, I used to be able to tab to a list of reminders where I could interact with the table and arrow up an down all the reminders. Any sugge

Customising favourites bar in Mountain Lion

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I've been trying to customise my favourites bar in ML. I've succeeded in dragging and dropping one of my mailboxes there but when trying to remove "send" mailbox and one other mailbox which I had dragged into it previously under Lion, I've received the following error message: "Mac & Voiceover

Re: Customising favourites bar in Mountain Lion

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
pressing > VO-cmd-f5 then using the Trackpad to press down and drag my finger to the > bottom of the Trackpad then letting go. This effectively removes the item > from the Favourites bar. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-0

Re: Viewing reminders with Voiceover in ML

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
, Yahoo, etc.) > > HtH, > Teresa > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Andrew Lamanche > wrote: > >> Listers, >> >> I know I have reminders present as I have made a few over the past >> weeks/months. I can't seem to find a way of viewing them in Mo

Re: Customising favourites bar in Mountain Lion

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
>>> buttons. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Ioana >>> Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online >>> stores. >>> >>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Andrew Lamanche >>> wrote: >>&

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Lamanche
If a table is long, to get to the first cell in the first row, press fn+vo+left arrow. To get to the last cell of the table in the last row, press fn+vo+right arrow. Also, if you have a few tables present, to move to a table on a page press vo+command+t. You can do it repeatedly to move quickly

Re: ultralingual dictionary

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Lamanche
When you open Ultralingua, you have your toolbar first with which you can interact, and in there you will find to the far right your search field. This is where you type your search item, and you press enter to activate search. To the right of the toolbar, there's a table of various dictionary

Re: ultralingual dictionary

2012-08-18 Thread Andrew Lamanche
oolbar bug with the tables. Thanks for the help. Is > the iPhone app accessible? What to the abbreviations mean in your entry list? > On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> When you open Ultralingua, you have your toolbar first with which you can >> interact,

Re: Customising favourites bar in Mountain Lion

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Andrew for your response. The only thing I'd add is that the >>> "Click" is not anything you hear out of your speakers, there is just sort of >>> a click as you press firmly down on the Trackpad so that you know yo

Re: ultralingual dictionary

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
function to function. Andrew On 19 Aug 2012, at 00:42, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > I say the table thing is a bug. The iPad app is $20. Thanks for the help. > On Aug 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> Dear Sarah, >> >> Iam not quite sure whether wh

Re: Shortcuts for text input

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Lindsay, As ricardo has said, you can disable the existing spotlight shortcut key combination in system preferences, keyboard pain. Then you can assign to spotlight window a different key combination. I have done so successfully. It is fairly easy. Remember though, if you wish to create a new k

Can't see iCloud button in Pages on my iPad

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, In Pages on iPad, there's an add document button. Once it is pressed, you get a choice of where you want to add the document from. Now, my problem is that I had saved a document into iCloud in TextEdit on my mac, and want to add it to Pages on my iPad. but in "add document" dialo

Re: Can't see iCloud button in Pages on my iPad

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
, at 17:37, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Do you have Icloud settings enabled on the iPad? You' may have to do this > first in settings. > > Teresa > On Aug 19, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Andrew Lamanche > wrote: > >> Dear Listers, >> >> In Pages on iPad, there&

Re: Help with the Find command

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello, I assume you wish to search in Mail in the trash mailbox. Position Voiceover cursor on the mailbox you wish to search, then move left to the toolbar and interact. You will find the search field on the extreme right. Type your search terms/words and then move your down arrow down through

Re: cool discovery in mail

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Gigi, I've been successfully able to use vo+command+spacebar to select non-contiguous items but I always have to interact with the table first in list view in order to do so. I've never had to select more than 5 to 10 items though so I can't comment on selecting a great many items. Andrew O

Re: Speakable Items staying on

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Seems to be working well for me. I do tend to turn it off once I've finished dictating by pressing the same shortcut key once and then I hear a little blip which I am guessing tells me that it has gone off. The only thing is that it switches itself off if I have a longer passage to dictate. I do

Re: Deleting Bookmarks

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
In order to delete a bookmark, 1. Bring up your bookmarks in Safari by pressing command+option+b 2. If you vo+arrow keys round this area, you will see various tables and groups. To the left of the search field, which is probably where you land first after bringing up your bookmarks, you have a t

Boom for mac and Voiceover

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, Has anyone ever used a mac application called Boom which amplifies the sound output of a mac computer? The application during the installation process needs to modify your system. I am a bit nervous in case it causes some problems with Voiceover. Any comments or warnings would be ver

BBC iPlayer on iPad

2011-12-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, Has anyone been able to get to work successfully BBC iPlayer on iPad with Voiceover? I can't seem to make anything work nor can I see any buttons in the window when I launch it. Best wishes Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Duplicate mailboxes after moving to iCloud

2011-12-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I have just moved .me account to iCloud. After the successful completion of the move, I notice that in my list of inboxes I have .me mailbox as before and iCloud mailbox and all the mailboxes which I had created under .me account are now duplicated under the iCloud account. Does this

Writing on someone's wall in Facebook

2012-01-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Listers, how can I write something on a friend's wall in Facebook? I don't seem to be able to work it out at all. I've looked through Facebook help pages but they don't make sense to me. Look forward to any suggestions. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

New application from Mac-paw, Gemini

2012-02-25 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, Mac-paw has just released a new application called Gemini. It is a duplicate finder application. Do check if you wish to buy it whether it runs oj on 32 bit processors. the one I've bought is for 64 bit processors. It looks accessible with only one "unknown" button. It is supposed to

Re: Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Anne, That is the strange issue: I'm trying to save to the hard drive the way I've always done. And suddenly this message when trying to do it in TextEdit. It threw me completely. Maybe it will settle down. If you don't know what might have gone wrong with your experience, I think it m

Re: Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-23 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Chris, Tim and others, Just to clarify, I'm trying to save files on the hard drive of my macbook air. That problem had never arisen until fairly recently, that's why I'm confused. After I had read your responses, I experimented a bit and tried to change a file name in one of the folders of m

Can't read entire message on Facebook with Voiceover

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, When I get send a message on facebook and go to the website to read it, I can only read a few lines of it. I can't find the way to read all of the text. Is there something I should know about how to accomplish this with Voiceover, or is this another Facebook quirk? I have chosen to ha

Re: A question with Pages exporting to word documents

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Daniel, I've found a work around this issue. When you vo+right arrow through the "unknown" field, stop on each one and then route your mouse to Voiceover cursor with Vo+command+f5 and then Voiceover will read the label of the unknown field. This is weird but it works. Not ideal but try it. A

Re: Mail Programs

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Angus, I had purchased MailMate a few months ago. Many of the features of this interesting application are accessible but some - maybe important to some, certainly to me - are still inaccessible to voiceover. Let me say a few things about my experience with MailMate. I have a few iMAP acc

group list membership with other than google account?

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Listers, I've had a google account for email for a long time. Due to the recent changes to google interface, I find it almost impossible to monitor or change my settings, and it is so consuming that I feel it is no longer viable for me to keep my google/gmail account any longer. My question

Re: Stability of the Mac

2014-04-01 Thread Andrew Lamanche
All I have to say is that Mac is much much more stable than Windows with a screen reader. If things go wrong, I rarely feel I'm out of control. I am very rarely left in the middle of doing something without speech whereas on Windows it was and still is a frequent occurrence. I feel much more in

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