Re: finder with el capitan

2016-05-05 Thread Brian Fischler
Not sure why you are having this issue as I am running my finder in list view and the side bar is there just as it always has been there. If this is not the case then check the view menu to make sure you have not hidden it. > On May 4, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I believe the si

Re: Voice-memos in Itunes.

2016-05-05 Thread Brian Fischler
menu. Good luck. > On May 4, 2016, at 5:24 AM, Ben J Bloomgren wrote: > > How does one connect Voice Memos to Dropbox? I know about, and I use Dropvox, > but how would one do so with just the standard Voice Memos app? > > Ben >> On May 3, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Brian Fischle

Re: Has Anyone Gotten Activities to work consistently in El Cap

2016-05-06 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey I am running a brand new machine running El Cap from the factory and the minor bugs are mind boggling. Nothing major but the amount of minor bugs is very troubling considering it was released 8 months ago. > On May 6, 2016, at 6:03 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > I downgraded to Yosemi

Re: Focus Bug in El Cap

2016-05-06 Thread Brian Fischler
to have cursor tracking turned off maybe? > /A >> On 27 Apr 2016, at 21:17, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Curious if anyone else has had this happen and if they know the cause or a >> fix. I do a VO shift D to go to desktop and command N to open a new finder >> wind

What am I missing with Notes

2016-01-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Been haring people love the updated notes app so figured I would give it a try using it on both the mac and iPhone. Would love to hear what I am missing here as I tried creating a number to do list and when I go to delete something from the list you cannot easily highlight the text to

Safari Search fields What is going on

2016-01-20 Thread Brian Fischler
I hope this is just my machine but all of the sudden whatever I type in to a search field is not being read and not working properly. I have had this occur on the AppleVis site which I know would read what I was typing. and just checked Google and the search box also no longer reads what I am ty

Re: What am I missing with Notes

2016-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 21 Jan 2016, at 09:27, Brian Fischler wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Been haring p

Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Was not around for a few days so just started going through my list mail and read about these awful malicious emails taking out VO. I am assuming they are further down in the mailbox where all my list mail is. If you do not open the email does it affect you? I typically let VO read lit

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
t; On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:17 AM Brian Fischler <mailto:brianfisch...@me.com>> wrote: > Hey all, > > Was not around for a few days so just started going through my list mail and > read about these awful malicious emails taking out VO. I am assuming they are > furthe

Re: Malicious Email how to get around question

2016-02-15 Thread Brian Fischler
glegroups.com> > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 1:26 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Malicious Email how to get

Numbers Has Gone Backwards with VoiceOVer

2016-02-16 Thread Brian Fischler
I am still running Yosemite and the last update to Numbers has made it once again almost unusable with VO. I am constantly losing focus as I can be down 30 rows hit the down arrow and instead of going to row 31 I am kicked back to the header cell. Additionally VO has stopped reading my columns a

Re: Numbers Has Gone Backwards with VoiceOVer

2016-02-16 Thread Brian Fischler
hecked the app store for the latest update and didn't see anything for > numbers, so I assume that you're picking up a version from a while ago or > something. What version are you running and is it a recent update? > > Sent from my IPhone > > >> On Feb 16, 201

Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Had not fired up my Mac Air in awhile and I do not keep that much on it but all of the sudden it is almost full and I have no clue what is taking up so much space. Does anyone know of an accessible program that will analyze your hard drive and tell you what is taking up so much space.

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
d the Trash? I would > look at that first. > > 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 2/29/2016 11:44 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Had

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
about this Mac. One > utility that I recommend to clean up disk space is Onix. Try Googleing and > you could easly find about it. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 29, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> I am a unix dummy and do nor want to mess aroun

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
ote: > > Check what's taking op the most storage "going in to about this Mac. One > utility that I recommend to clean up disk space is Onix. Try Googleing and > you could easly find about it. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 29, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Brian Fisch

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
t to search on google yourself. > /A >> On 29 Feb 2016, at 21:10, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> I am a unix dummy and do nor want to mess around in there. Yes, emptying the >> trash was my first troubleshoot. Read about what to do on cnet and macworld >> or one of tho

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
e Pulse. > I think it can do what you want and for me it was quite accessible. > I don’t remember their site now but i can check it out for you if you don’t > want to search on google yourself. > /A >> On 29 Feb 2016, at 21:10, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> I am a unix dum

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

2016-02-29 Thread Brian Fischler
tp://www.blindinsider.com/> > Technology news, podcasts, videos and lifestyle for blind and visually > impaired > >> On Feb 29, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Brian Fischler > <mailto:brianfisch...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately I could not find the program you

Re: Finally figured out how to not have every email in a thread read to me

2015-09-20 Thread Brian Fischler
n Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > >> On 18/09/2015, at 11:15 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I apologize if this has been posted before as I just stumbled on to by >> accident. On

To any Bank of America customers

2015-09-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I have a client who is attempting to use the Bank of America website with VO but has run in to a bunch of issues with the site. I am not a BofA customer and am a Citibank customer and have found that Citibank’s website does not work well with VoiceOVer and wanted to find out how the Ba

Re: To any Bank of America customers

2015-09-30 Thread Brian Fischler
he > issues they are having I would be glad to provide pointers if you have some > idea the issue. > > Thanks > Scott > >> On Sep 30, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I have a client who is attempting to use the Bank of

My initial impression of El Capitan curious bugs or device specific

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Been using El Capitan for a little bit and am curious if some of these might just be me or if other people have noticed them as well. Overall I am impressed with the quickness of El Capitan, as most apps seem to be running very smoothly and quicker than they were in Yosemite. I am runn

Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Amazing as I have been a mac user for 6 plus years but never have really used Spotlight search as I have found it not very useful. With the new additions to it I am trying to use it but not sure what is the best way to navigate it. I typed in pizza to see what came up and got a lot of old mail m

Hating Dropbox Upload Photos

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
time I plug in my iPad or iPhone. Any clue? It has gotten to the point where I am going to get rid of Dropbox but do not really want to. Thanks, Brian Fischler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from

Awful Mail Bug in El Capitan

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Is anyone else having this issue in mail in El Capitan? While going through this list and deleting messages, I am constantly getting error messages that mail cannot move messages to the trash. Strange why not and very annoying. Quitting mail causes me to get a ton of these messages and I had to

Re: Awful Mail Bug in El Capitan

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks it makes no sense and all the messages reappear. It seems to happen with my iCloud account. Ugh, what a bad one. > On Oct 3, 2015, at 5:13 PM, joseph hudson wrote: > > Hello, I'm experiencing the same bug. >> On Oct 3, 2015, at 4:12 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >>

Re: Awful Mail Bug in El Capitan

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
e not upgraded my Mac yet. And hearing about this, I have to say I'm >> sorry for you but glad I haven't done it. I am curious about one thing which >> is, is this just your iCloud account or is it all your accounts such as >> Gmail? >> Mary >> >> S

Curious if device specific as safari in El Capitan is unusable on many sites

2015-10-04 Thread Brian Fischler
After using El Capitan for a few days and having this issue I am thinking about rolling back. I am curious if others are having this issue when they go to websites with a lot of links that VO constantly crashes and resets itself over and over making the website basically unusable since VO will n

Re: Curious if device specific as safari in El Capitan is unusable on many sites

2015-10-04 Thread Brian Fischler
r >> library, ~library/preferences folder. >> >>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 6:18 PM, ROBERT CARTER wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Also using El Capitan, I had no difficulty accessing the hockey site for >>> which you provided a link. >&g

Re: Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-05 Thread Brian Fischler
Chris, if you use spotlight let us know what key commands you use with it? Example tab VO and arrow, just arrows. What is the easiest way to navigate search results. Thanks, > On Oct 5, 2015, at 5:24 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I think one of the main advantages is suppo

No way to Post to Facebook through Notification Center in El Capitan

2015-10-07 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I hope to hear that I might be missing something but here is yet another bug I have discovered in El Capitan asI just got my social networks back in to the Notification Center and tried posting to Facebook which is now a nightmare as you no longer can interact when writing something to

Re: No way to Post to Facebook through Notification Center in El Capitan

2015-10-07 Thread Brian Fischler
Jeffrey >>>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Tim Emmons >>> <mailto:temmo...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> You’re not, if somebody finds a way please let me know as well. I’m stuck >>>> and can’t get that post button to show. What

Re: No way to Post to Facebook through Notification Center in El Capitan

2015-10-08 Thread Brian Fischler
gt;>> <mailto:jawswiz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> I just found a way, I hope it works for others as well. >>>>>>> When you are in the edit box and you have finished wr

Anyone successfully use Abby Fine Reader since upgrading to El Capitan

2015-10-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Well after a week still cannot use my scanner or Abby Fine Reader pro since upgrading to El Capitan. Cannot figure out where the issue is, as I used to be able to press the scan button on the Canon scanner to wake it and then use Abby Fine Reader, but now when pressing the scan button nothing ha

Re: Anyone successfully use Abby Fine Reader since upgrading to El Capitan

2015-10-10 Thread Brian Fischler
tp://www.abbyy.com/finereader/pro-for-mac/tech-specs/ > Hope this helps, > Jeffrey >> On Oct 10, 2015, at 6:40 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Well after a week still cannot use my scanner or Abby Fine Reader pro since >> upgrading to El Capitan. Cannot figure out where

Re: Anyone successfully use Abby Fine Reader since upgrading to El Capitan

2015-10-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Oct 2015, at 9:55 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Doesn’t look like El Capitan is supported yet. Just found this link on the >> ABBYY website. >> http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/pro-for-mac/tech-specs/ >> Hope this helps, >> Jeffrey >>> O

Re: Anyone successfully use Abby Fine Reader since upgrading to El Capitan

2015-10-12 Thread Brian Fischler
gt; <mailto:jawswiz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Doesn’t look like El Capitan is supported yet. Just found this link on >>>> the ABBYY website. >>>> http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/pro-for-mac/tech-specs/ >>>> <htt

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guy, Thanks so much for pointing out this is why it is great to wait to the next version of an operating system comes out. Wow, what a original novice concept that has never ever been pointed out on this list. Ok, now that that is out of the way. I want to thank everyone who has posted ab

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Oh yeah, and I can’t tell you how much I love the new mail bug when I delete a thread of messages and then a few minutes later a error message pops up telling me the previous batch of messages can’t be moved to the trash. Way to go Apple that is an impressive one. Why would anyone want to delete

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 16 Oct 2015, at 4:46 p.m., Devin Prater wrote: >>> >>> They should really hire a blind software engineer. I think that's about the >>> only way we'll get any progress. >>> >&g

Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, So I started my roll back to Yosemite and am stuck. I was able to erase the El Crapitan from my hard drive but do not seem to get VO running when I try and boot up with my bootable USB Install Yosemite drive. Everything I have read says you have to restart your computer and hold the op

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
> Don't arrow. That's your problem. You wanna hit the tab key when in the > boot menu. Tab and shift tab. Don't arrow. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Brian Fischler" > To: > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 7:29 PM &

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
try several times, but eventually, it should come up. > > I hope you're not running into the same nightmare I ran into. > > Finally, I wound up having to reformat and just install from scratch with a > bootable USB drive, and not run a disk backup image. > > Chris

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
-Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:52 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck >

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
> 6. > Now, enable VoiceOver and you're good to go. > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 5:01 PM > To: macvisionaries@g

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
u want, press the Enter key. > It may take as long as 5 minutes for the computer to boot into the USB key. > Once it does, you can then enable VoiceOver via the key combo Command+F5. > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [m

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
everything back on to the computer. Thanks all for the advice. > On Oct 16, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > If nothing else, have them tell you what the screen shows, and let us know. > > Chris. > > - Original Message ----- From: "Brian Fis

Clean Install and Rol Back to Yosemite has ruined computer

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Fischler
So much for a clean install fixing things. My computer is now utterly useless as VO will read for a few seconds then stop for 3 to 5 minutes then read for a few seconds and stop again making the computer a giant freaking paperweight. The funniest thing about all this is I am supposed to be at an

Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck

2015-10-17 Thread Brian Fischler
select the USB key in which you want to boot when the computer restarts. >> >> 5. >> Restart the Mac and it will boot directly into the USB key. >> >> 6. >> Now, enable VoiceOver and you're good to go. >> >> Mark >> >>

Re: Clean Install and Rol Back to Yosemite has ruined computer

2015-10-17 Thread Brian Fischler
y again. Keep trying until you get it right. >>> >>> When I was learning how to do these things, sometimes, I had to make the >>> attempt as many as three times before I was successful. Each time through, >>> however, I learned something new about both

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hi Jamie, I had serious safari bugs with VO being extremely unstable meaning sites that i personally visit a lot fantasy pros and Facebook two that come right to mind constantly would cause VO to crash. When I say crash VO would turn off as I would hear the click VO makes when you turn it on an

Re: Clean Install and Rol Back to Yosemite has ruined computer

2015-10-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks all, will have to review these steps and how to fully delete the partition as I am thinking that is what caused my severe issues. I spoke to a fantastic Apple Accessibility guy this morning, really great as we went over everything I did and the issue of the weird sound that sounded like t

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Chris, After two days since the debacle of a clean install going back to Yosemite from Capitan, and doing a time machine revert after the clean install debacle, I am very happy to say everything is running great again in Yosemite. I guess moral or the story is before upgrading or downgrading ma

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Brian Fischler
/Text. > > Cheers, > > Anne > : > >> On 19 Oct 2015, at 14:30, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Chris, >> >> After two days since the debacle of a clean install going back to Yosemite >> from Capitan, and doing a time machine revert after the clean

New podcast iAccessVO

2015-10-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, With a few of the podcasts for the blind community going away over the past year, my colleague and I just launched a podcast all about Apple and VoiceOVEr. We plan to be critical of Apple when it calls for it, as well as complimentary of Apple when they deserve a pat on the back for ac

Re: New podcast iAccessVO

2015-10-20 Thread Brian Fischler
: "Joe Quinn" >> To: >> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:59 AM >> Subject: Re: New podcast iAccessVO >> >> >> What podcasts have gone away? I hadn't really noticed any significant ones >> leaving. >> >> Sent from my iPhone

What's the word with the update for El Capitan and VO

2015-10-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Have not seen a lot of traction about the El Capitan update that dropped yesterday. Is anything fixed in safari? When you use your arrows to go from link to link are the next links consistently read? Anyone having issues with VO stability in safari as this was a major issue for me and I rolled b

Re: These Simple Facebook Shortcuts Will Save You Time

2015-10-22 Thread Brian Fischler
If this worked it would be fantastic but I cannot seem to get the keys to work. I have tried these key sequences with both quick nav on and off but no luck. Tried control option and all the numbers but nothing happens, wonder if there is a conflict with VO and these keys. If anyone can figure th

Microsoft Office for Mac 15.14 update question

2015-10-23 Thread Brian Fischler
I do not use Microsoft Office as Pages and Numbers work great for me, but I have a client who has to use Microsoft Office for work and is on 15.14 which I found does not work very well with VO when attempting to navigate page layout as some pages show and some do not. Did I read correctly that 1

Re: What's the word with the update for El Capitan and VO

2015-10-23 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for the heads up will be staying put on Yosemite for good now. Captain and my experience was just awful real big step backwards as far as accessibility. And I am not surprised as I met with someone from Apple yesterday and was stunned to hear that none of the higher ups have a real under

Re: What's the word with the update for El Capitan and VO

2015-10-23 Thread Brian Fischler
>> not the people implementing excess ability have a clue. If Tim Cook doesn't >> really understand all that much about how voiceover or assistive touch >> works, that really is good. He doesn't need to know that kind of thing. >> Mary >> >> Sent from

Re: What's the word with the update for El Capitan and VO

2015-10-23 Thread Brian Fischler
Very well put Sabahattin. Agreed with everything you said. Just because we use VO we should not be afraid to call Apple out on bugs especially when they keep getting worse and worse. Why should I feel I should have to settle for mediocrity with just because I am a VO user.I still feel Apple is d

Re: A Question to A T & T Wireless Customers with an Unlimited Data Plan, Regarding WiFi Calling

2015-10-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Mark, You should be fine using WiFi calling as I am on the same AT&T plan as you Grandfathered in to unlimited data and am now using WiFi calling. Honestly on the 6S I think the call quality is better when not on WiFi calling which was surprising to me. I actually had to just bump up my pla

Anyone using Kobi.TV

2015-11-06 Thread Brian Fischler
A buddy of mine mentioned Kobi.TV to me yesterday and it seems pretty interesting as you can get a ton of content from it. I installed it on my 2010 Mac running Yosemite but get nothing but busy busy messages. Probably yet another client that just does not work well with VO but wanted to see if

Re: Anyone using Kobi.TV

2015-11-06 Thread Brian Fischler
Sorry about that damn names Kodi.tv here’s the link and yeah works on Windows actually all platforms http://kodi.tv > On Nov 6, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > A buddy of mine mentioned Kobi.TV to me yesterday and it seems pretty > interesting as you can get a ton of

Re: Anyone using Kobi.TV

2015-11-06 Thread Brian Fischler
ithout it, you will just hear clicks. The screen reader is not perfect, as > it will sometimes interrupt itself, although the developer is very interested > in making it better. It is very basic, but it has some review keys. Still, > they are not very extensive. > > Nicolai >

Re: Anyone using Kobi.TV

2015-11-07 Thread Brian Fischler
it it again, >>> then install the service via the method described in the link above. You >>> can install it from within Kodi, but you can't do that accessibly, so >>> copying files is the easiest method. As I mentioned, though, Kodi isn't the >>> ea

Re: Good News About Downloading Music from Amazon to your Computer

2015-12-10 Thread Brian Fischler
I played around with the Amazon music player a few month’s ago and unfortunately on the mac found it to not work with VO. Yet another disappointment from Amazon as I would have loved to have put some of my Apple music in to the player so I could enjoy on the Echo. > On Dec 10, 2015, at 8:00 AM,

Re: Problem with VoiceOver looping using Safari on el Capitan

2015-12-12 Thread Brian Fischler
I have downgraded to Yosemite as my iMac is old and had a ton of issues with earlier versions of El Capitan so not sure if this will work for you but am hearing that resetting your VoiceOver preferences to factory and then resetting them to the way you like them fixes a lot of issues in El Capit

Re: Apple TV 4th Gen

2015-12-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Like many have said it really depends on what you are looking to use it for. As far as streaming movies from iTunes it is fantastic as I have been ripping all my DVDs to an external hard drive. Considering all my DVDs have been sitting in boxes for 7 years because I can no longer read what each

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

2015-12-23 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey John, Not sure of the format you are looking to convert from but pretty sure Mac DVD Ripper Pro could do it as they list a ton of formats and I know you can rip to DVDs although I have only ripped from DVDs check it out as it seems to be fully accessible and the developer is very responsive.

Re: How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

2015-12-23 Thread Brian Fischler
One thing as I have been ripping all my DVDs with Mac DVD Ripper Pro and I switched from DVD Player to Mac DVD to launch, and noticed that DVDs being recognized really slowed down if the DVD Player does not launch. This could be because I am dealing with DVDr and not DVDs that I bought at the st

macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

2013-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I must be the first voiceover user to ever order his phone online and call AT&T to upgrade my iPhone. AT&T is telling me I need to come in to the store so they can open the iPhone to see the SIM card number to activate my number. What, I know this is wrong. Now I am no longer getting A

macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

2013-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
ector > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOV

macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

2013-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
gt; Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > >

Re: adding links to mail signatures

2013-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Actually Teresa this is much appreciated as I have been following the thread and will probably eventually enter my Facebook and Twitter in to my signature so thanks for posting your findings. Best, On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Ok, I realize that I'm replying to myselves,

macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

2013-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
and picked it up. smooth as silk. > > Hopefully you get it working the way you want it soon. > > Take good care and I wish you enough. > > Patrick > On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey John, >> >> Back on the phone with AT&a

Problem from Re-Labeling an App

2013-10-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I am curious if this has happened to anyone else as I have now experienced it on an iPhone 4S and 5S both running IOS 7. This problem also occurred in IOS6. When I use the two finger tap to rename an app, for example an app was just called football, and I wanted it called CBS Football,

Re: Problem from Re-Labeling an App

2013-10-20 Thread Brian Fischler
ed controls, but it's not designed to let you give an app > another name, and will give unpredictable results if you use it in this > unintended way. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > &g

Re: Problem from Re-Labeling an App

2013-10-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Nick. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought why not relabel a generically named app so I know what it is. On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > For what it's worth, Bryan, I've had the same issue as you. It's really > annoying. I reset my iPhone and restored the

Downcast Synching

2013-10-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, Hopefully this will get read in between all the Mavericks emails. I am trying to sync downcast on multiple devices. I just got a 64gig iPhone and have been changing my podcasts to download only problem is when I do so they change to download on my old iPhone 4S where I want them to st

Re: Downcast Synching

2013-10-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nick, Thanks. Let me know what you hear, been real busy so haven't had a chance to contact the developer but will probably do so next week. I have tried multiple times turning off settings sync but the individual podcasts still both change from stream to download when I change it on one dev

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nick, You summed up my thoughts exactly. I use email more than anything and am a Gmail and Godaddy email user, so this Gmail issue is causing me not to upgrade to Mavericks. This has to be a big deal between Apple and Google. It almost seems to me that Apple is trying to force people to use

Re: os 10.9, is it worth it?

2013-10-26 Thread Brian Fischler
As someone who has read everyone of these Mavericks post, and has yet to update, the answer to this question for a gmail user seems to be No. I usually upgrade to the new operating systems in the first week or two, but from what I have read, I can't seem to find one thing that makes Mavericks wo

Anyway to get mail to follow rules in IOS

2013-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I am sure I am not the only one experiencing this. I use a Mac at home still running Mt. Lion, yes no reason for me to upgrade with all the gmail nightmares I have heard about. Anyway I have rules set up for this list and other lists I am on on my desktop and laptop to send all these m

Re: Anyway to get mail to follow rules in IOS

2013-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
ur devices. You set up a rule on the Mac, it only affect messages on your > Mac. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey al

What Safari Extensions Do You Find Useful with Voiceover

2013-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I never have made a lot of use of extensions in safari, as I found awhile back that a lot of them had some difficulties with voiceover and made the web browsing experience a little clutter some. I wanted to see if anyone had any extensions they thought added to the voiceover safari bro

Re: Anyway to get mail to follow rules in IOS

2013-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
> your devices. You set up a rule on the Mac, it only affect messages on your > Mac. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >

Re: What Safari Extensions Do You Find Useful with Voiceover

2013-11-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Nick, will have to check those out. On Nov 1, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > 1. Rumola > 2. Amazon Wish List > 3. 1Password (this last one isn't so much useful as necessary for 1Password > to do it's thing.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Apple testing Mail update for OS X Mavericks to fix Gmail, stability, and smart mailbox issues | 9to5Mac

2013-11-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Jamie, Thanks so much for sharing this. The gmail issue is the single biggest reason why I haven't update to Mavericks and don't plan to until there is a fix. LEt us know if you hear anything else, of course I am sure it will be all over the boards once the fix is released. On Nov 1, 2013,

External Hard Drive Suggestions

2013-11-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I know we covered this awhile back but amazingly I couldn't find the thread. I am finally getting around to getting a external hard drive as the last one I got wouldn't mount properly so I had to return it. I had gotten a seagate but with all the issues I had with it, I don't think I

Re: External Hard Drive Suggestions

2013-11-02 Thread Brian Fischler
but > not >> thunderbolt still plenty fast and not a major costly drive. It comes with >> software for both windows and Mac though I have never used the software I >> run time machine. They have smaller sizes if 2 gig is more then you want. >> >> -Original Messag

Re: External Hard Drive Suggestions

2013-11-02 Thread Brian Fischler
sired. For the Air, which has no firewire port, I bought a > thunderbolt/firewire adaptor > BTW: I have it partitioned into 4 partitions, one each as a boot partition > for my iMac and MacbookAir, and two data partitions which I don't currently > use. > > On Nov 2, 2013,

Help How to expand Favorites in side bar

2013-11-04 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I had a buddy using my computer and he collapsed the favorites in the side bar where all of my folders I quickly use are. I am still on Mt. Lion and nothing I seem to do will expand this folder. I have tried interacting with it nope VO right bracket doesn't work VO right arrow, and com

Re: Help How to expand Favorites in side bar

2013-11-04 Thread Brian Fischler
Yes, I have tried right arrow with VO and command and then just right arrow alone which does nothing. Nothing seems to expand it On Nov 4, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hi, > try right arrow. > Max. > On 05/11/2013, at 9:08 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all,

Re: Help How to expand Favorites in side bar

2013-11-04 Thread Brian Fischler
o Marx > > On Nov 4, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Agent086b wrote: > >> Hi, >> try right arrow. >> Max. >> On 05/11/2013, at 9:08 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I had a buddy using my computer and he collapsed the favorite

Re: Apple releases fix for OS X Mavericks Gmail bugs to customers

2013-11-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, Would one of you be so kind as to list the boxes you need to fill in to move mail from this list to a mail folder. I must have not listed something correctly as I am still getting the mail in my main gmail mailbox and yes I did check the box to archive mail of this kind. Thanks, On No

Amazon Add to My Cart Safari Plug In

2013-11-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Would love to know what I am missing about this, as I installed the plug in, it is in my tool bar, it never asked me to log in to Amazon, so now sure how this works. I went to Apple's page just to test it out went to iPad Air page went back to the tool bar VO spaced on Add to my amazon wish list

Re: Amazon Add to My Cart Safari Plug In

2013-11-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nicholas, Just wanted to say thanks and yes, I wrote cart instead of wish list. I seem to have gotten further as I am now getting a demo pop up from Amazon, guess I will have to play around with it further to get it working but at least I am now getting a pop up just have to figure out how t

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >