Re: Purchasing an iMac

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Mine came with a physical remote that lets you do some features. Main problem is it is an IR rather than RF and the IR receiver is located on the USB dongle so it's easy for other things to get in the way of the remote's beam of light. They did include a little 6" USB able so you can move the U

Re: text edit and braille margins

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
cters and lines for plain text in preferences, then print according to the window layout instead of the page margins, as I outlined in a separate post. Cheers, Esther On Feb 27, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: This is a perfect example of the kind of stuff you can do in the unix shell of t

Re: Purchasing an iMac

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
The eyeTV USB thing is a digital TV tuner just like in a standalone TV so you should be able to tune in any digital broadcasts that a regular tv can. That said, your cable provider might scramble things or require a decoder box which would limit the utility of the USB tuner. If you are just usi

Re: Purchasing an iMac

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Kriegler wrote: Hi Chris, Okay, sounds like a call to TWC is in order. I may be switching providers later this year, we'll see. If Fios comes into our area, I'll probably switch. Les On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The eyeTV USB thing is a digital TV tuner just like in a

Re: Lynx for mac terminal

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
You might want to set up Macports on your machine. From there you can install any number of (about 13000) unix packages including lynx 2.8.7 which has dependencies on openssl so I assume it allows the use of https: http://www.macports.org/ lynx port page: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=n

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Odd. Do you have something special set up that might make it think you want the Australian store? I know some US folks found changing to English (Australia) gave a different intonation that they found more understandable, but I don't think that does anything anymore, although picking British En

Re: 2 more questions about the mac mini

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
As far as the AVIs go, it depends. AVI is a container like Quicktime which can contain any number of tracks encoded in any number of formats. So some AVIs you can play with QuickTime and some might have proprietary codecs you'll never be able to play. One add-on I use called Perian allows Quick

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
You could also give OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice a whirl. Seems that both have broken VO support with Lion but previous versions of OSX worked pretty well with OpenOffice. I still had issues getting their spreadsheet to announce rows and columns but many other things were accessible. Worth a t

Re: To anyone attending CSUN

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm here as well (not like I'm a big attraction or anything) so it would be nice to meet up with any other folks from the list here. I'll try to pop by the Looktel booth. For once I'm not presenting so I can just relax and learn this year. Had a little trouble finding it on the CSUN site as it

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
. I was going to put some money on an App store card while here, but I'm not sure if the gods in Cupertino will let me do this. :) Mike On 28,Feb,2012, at 7:05 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Odd. Do you have something special set up that might make it think you want the Australian store? I

Fwd: Re: Voiceover text edit Save As bug

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Well, at least they are investigating the bug. Since it's reproducible I suspect it would get resolved pretty easily. CB Original Message Subject:Re: Voiceover text edit Save As bug Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:43:09 -0800 (PST) From: accessibil...@apple.com To: c

Re: AVI Videos (was Re: 2 more questions about the mac mini)

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
interface with version 2.0 is even more so. hth On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: As far as the AVIs go, it depends. AVI is a container like Quicktime which can contain any number of tracks encoded in any number of formats. So some AVIs you can play with QuickTime and some

Re: Wouldn't it be nice if Apple built a rugged version of the iPad?

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Since iPads have no moving parts (other than a couple buttons) they are much more durable than the laptops of yore. The main issue is dropping it so it lands on it's corner on something hard, like concrete. You can't put much over the screen as the capacitive touch display would stop working. S

Re: Watching Sports Games On The Mac

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Probably because it is doubtful that the NBA has sold broadcast rights to anyone other than ABC or ESPN and caught up with whomever was doing it. CB On 2/29/12 5:14 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Hey guys. I'm having a bit of a problem. I've been using a site called stream2watch.com to watch sport

Re: To anyone attending CSUN

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Blouch
It's the 27th annual international technology and persons with disabilities conference which is organized by the California State University Northridge center on disabilities. Just easier to call it the CSUN conference: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/sessions/index.php And Cara Quinn is j

Re: Watching Sports Games On The Mac

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Blouch
I was trying to find something like this for the NFL but they have locked everything into DirecTV or the regular broadcast TV networks so there was no (legal) online option to be found for any amount of money, unless you lived outside the USA. Didn't know if the NBA did something similar. That

Re: scientific calculator after some use

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think the built-in calculator will do it. The only Deg button is just to switch modes from degrees to radians. There are a jillion calculators in the app store so you might want to take a poke through there. The LXVII calculator is one of those HP RPN calculators which should do the tri

Re: moveing the itunes library

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Just grab the whole iTunes folder from your current drive and copy it to the external. Then hold down the option key when you launch iTunes to make it ask you where the library is. Point it to your new copy on the external drive and you're done. After that you can toss the old iTunes folder tha

Re: Libre and Open office

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Open office used to speak as I type but I haven't tried it for a while, so I don't know if 10.7 broke it or an update to Open Office did. Maybe somebody on OSX 10.6 could try OpenOffice as a tie breaker. CB On 3/7/12 9:42 PM, Becky Knaub wrote: Hi guys Is it normal that these two programs do

Re: IOS 5.1

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
What does the 'speak hints' feature do? CB On 3/8/12 3:43 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: it's not a bug, it's a new mod for voiceover. call it a slight enhancement. there are some new features in voiceover including speaking hints, etc you'll find these settings in voiceover settings. I'm findi

Re: IOS 5.1

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Apparently this is a 4S or iPad2 only feature as my iPhone4 and 1st gen iPad didn't get the extra key on the keyboard. CB On 3/8/12 9:31 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi guys. I really thought I had broken my iPhone last night. My husband was already asleep since it was real late at night, so I co

Re: Should I choose Airport Extreme?

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I had an old 802.11G router and wanted to upgrade to 802.11N because time machine backups were taking too long. I got a D-Link DIR-628 and after much fiddling I finally gave up on it. My wife's old Macbook and my MacBookPro both would randomly drop connection only to have it return a minute lat

Re: Viewing videos

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think it's an extension. You opt-in for html5 video by going to www.youtube.com/html5. I think videos with ads still flip over to the flash version but all others should play in the html world. CB On 3/13/12 12:07 PM, irid domnori wrote: Hi, try to look for youtube5 extension for safa

Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Agreed. Or all your DVDs went bad at the same time :) Hopefully whatever is in there isn't scratching up your disks. Another test could be to boot off the installer, launch Disk Utility and then try putting in a DVD. If it won't mount then it's a hardware problem because all the software involv

Re: Need to confirm the number of songs in iTunes library post MusicMatch

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Maybe it's one of the settings in your phone sync. You don't have to get all the songs. When you have your phone connected to iTunes check the Music tab to be sure the "Entire music library" radio button is checked. If you choose Selected playlists, artists, albums and genres then you might not

Re: Using your air in public.

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I bought a backpack so when I'm not using my MacBook I just pop it in there. If I usually sling it over one shoulder but if I need both hands I can put it on all the way. In other words, I don't lock it down, I keep the laptop with me. If you must lock it then you might want one of these: htt

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Oddly enough when I was at a restaurant in SanDiego three weeks ago the waiter told us about the Over 40 app because it was what he used to read receipts. So apparently it does work. Both illuminates and magnifies for $1. CB On 3/18/12 7:46 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, there are a number

Re: Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I thought that was only on iOS devices. On the Mac you can have both turned on but I'm not sure zoom will follow the VO cursor, even if you have the mouse set to track VO. CB On 3/18/12 6:58 PM, Gigi wrote: Hi guys It seems to me that I remember that you can't run zoom and voice over togethe

Re: adding audio and WMA to itunes

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
For the first one you should be able to just cut and paste the file into iTunes. For the WMA files, you might want to try the Perian and/or Flip4Mac plugins: http://perian.org/ http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv These add support to QuickTime f

Re: looking for a good temperature monitoring app

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Blouch
I've not played with it but iStat is a widget which will give you temperatures of various components. It's free so give it a whirl: http://islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ I also found two temp monitoring apps in the app store which show the various system temps, but they were not free: Temperatur

Re: Mac Mini Home Theater Setup

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Blouch
I like the Apple wireless devices for controlling our MacMini hooked up to a TV. I don't use the OSX gesture stuff much so that wasn't an issue for me. Not everything is accessible such as eyeTV for DVR but the Apple DVD player works fine along with iTunes. I use the optical outputs to the home

Re: copying a wedding dvd

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
Is this a video DVD or is it just files on a data DVD? If it's just files then you can copy them like any other files. If it's video then it's a little more work as the copy has to be formatted as a DVD with everything just so. CB On 3/24/12 8:30 AM, wayne coles wrote: Hello all because this

Re: iMac Questions

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
I know I had a DLink DIR-628 router that would drop the connection about every 10 minutes for no apparent reason. Then about a minute later it would come back. I eventually gave up on it and bought an Apple Airport Extreme. Haven't had issues since. CB On 3/26/12 3:36 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:

Re: copying a wedding dvd

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
just selecting all the pictures and then pasting them where I don't know so thanks in advance wayne -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: 26 March 2012 11:38 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com S

Re: copying a wedding dvd

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
ISO file or DMG file. after it's done, stick in a blank DVD and burn the ISO or DMG from within the app. simple as that. no need to copy directory structures, event functions, etc. just a simple app to do a simple job. lew On 26 Mar 2012, at 21:04, Chris Blouch wrote: Well, if it's j

Re: iTunes/Apple TV remote issues

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Blouch
I think you need to do what they call "Pairing" your Apple Remote so it only works with on or the other. Apple has a doc on how to do that here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1619?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US CB On 3/27/12 3:06 PM, Ed Worrell wrote: HelloListers, I am have ingsome issues wi

Re: MacBook pro description of connecters

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Do you know what vintage? The connectors down the left edge have changed over the years. Easiest thing is to do About This Mac under the Apple menu. If it is running OSX 10.7 there is a More Info button to get details. On mine, after the "computer icon image" it says MacBook Pro 16-inch, Mid 20

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Since OSX is Unix underneath, there is always MacPorts which has a nice little installer system to bring all those unix tools you might be familiar with to a terminal app near you. http://www.macports.org/ They currently maintain a library of 13758 ports and both Alpine and Pine is in there u

Re: QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, so you meant this one: http://qt-project.org/ Rockbox sure sounded like something AV that might make use of QuickTime. At least with VirtualBox pretty much everything could be done via the command line so the inaccessible UI was less of a show stopper. Most folks have ponied up the cash

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Blouch
. CB On 3/30/12 1:16 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: what I would like to do is replace the java that OS X installs with the command line version in macports (its newer and can do more). I am just not sure how. -eric On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Since OSX is Unix underneath,

Re: hard time reading man pages in terminal

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Blouch
This was posted previously on the list to load up man pages using Preview: man -t bash | open -a preview -f Maybe that would do a better job. Of course you would replace bash with whatever command you actually wanted man pages for. I found it was somewhat readable with VO but sometimes jumped

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
I suspect doing this in today's heightened awareness of consumer tracking and privacy, probing people's machines to discover if they were using voiceover would be full of legal landmines. Many do not want to self-identify as having a disability or have that info pried out of their system config

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Just have to tackle each task one at a time and ask here if you can't find a tool or technique. As far as networking goes, it's all TCP/IP on the internet so there really is no such thing as a 'mac' network or a 'windows' network. Granted Windows does some proprietary things for discovery but

Re: What is the difference between the reminder and the calendar on the new update on the IOS 5.1

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
One nice feature of Reminders that people aren't always familiar with is the geofence trigger. You can not only set a reminder to ping you on a certain date or time but you can also trigger it when you leave a location or arrive at a location. I was in a brainstorming session for a new accessib

Re: What is the difference between the reminder and the calendar on the new update on the IOS 5.1

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
were not? On 2 Apr 2012, at 05:11 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: One nice feature of Reminders that people aren't always familiar with is the geofence trigger. You can not only set a reminder to ping you on a certain date or time but you can also trigger it when you leave a location or arrive a

Re: hard time reading man pages in terminal

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
my archived post: • Re: terminal: prompt: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg60660.html However, as I stated at the end of that post, it's really easiest to just use bwana instead. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 30, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: This was pos

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
2012, at 16:46, Chris Blouch wrote: I suspect doing this in today's heightened awareness of consumer tracking and privacy, probing people's machines to discover if they were using voiceover would be full of legal landmines. Many do not want to self-identify as having a disability or ha

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 2 Apr 2012, at 20:05, Chris Blouch wrote: I think if it came out that Apple was probing your system to figure out if you are using assistive technology (which probably means you have a disability) and did this without asking you first, the press and v

Re: Enter: the VGA Dummy--another way to trick your Mac into thinking that a display is attached

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Glad to hear it all worked out. My original message from 2009 (yes, this is not a recent problem) is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg14056.html where I list a couple of sources for dummy plugs and, oddly enough, the same soerennielsen.dk address. I guess th

Re: ftp client needed

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
If you don't mind using the command line there is a perfectly good ftp and sftp built into the unix terminal side of OSX. CB On 4/3/12 3:49 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: Hello group; i finally managed to purchase a new macbook pro to replace my four year old macbook. I'm enjoying it greatly, but

Re: ftp client needed

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
appy typing. CB On 4/3/12 3:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: forgive my innocent nose...but does vo work with the terminal / port programs, or would one need another screen reader? sort of tie this question to the one producing pine wisdom before. Karen's nose On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Bl

Re: ftp client needed

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
n ftp Happy typing. CB On 4/3/12 3:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: forgive my innocent nose...but does vo work with the terminal / port programs, or would one need another screen reader? sort of tie this question to the one producing pine wisdom before. Karen's nose On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Ch

Re: Mac Book Air & cooling fan?

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Depends a lot on what video codec they use. Most modern macs have GPU hardware which can decode h.264 (mpeg4) HD video without breaking a sweat. Of course any other codec will just pound on the main CPU to do the job. So maybe the Netflix videos are no h.264 or the neflix app bypasses the regul

Re: Drobo dashboard, is it accessible?

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Curious what throughput you get. I just bought the smallest cheapest drobo with a single 3TB drive and got about 35 MB/s throughput, which seems kinda slow but was good enough for my home media setup. I'll add another drive when I can fit it into the budget so the thing stops pestering me with

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
BTW, I just got a software update to Java SE 6 1.6.0_31 which is the latest, so you should be all up to snuff if you just run the standard OSX software updater. CB On 3/30/12 12:18 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The Java version in OSX isn't horribly old. When I do java -version it says (

Re: FTP problems

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
You should be able to get this out of the whois database for your domain. You can use the URL http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/apple.com and just edit the end part to take out apple.com and put in your own. CB On 4/3/12 5:23 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: I used to use Transm

Re: accessible iMovie?

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
I didn't see an answer to this question. Did you mean .wmv since you are talking about video? .wma is an audio format. That said, assuming you meant .wmv, you can convert after the fact using QuickTime Pro which lets you open a video file and SaveAs .wmv format. Hope this helps. CB On 3/7/12

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
le2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Well, I'm not sure it would pass the 'yuck' test for many people if they found out Apple was identifying their disability by probing their device and not asking permission. Personally identifiable or n

Re: Material for showing Apple accessibility solutions

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Can you just demo using voiceover on a phone? Sometimes a real demo is worth far more than a lot of slides. Especially when you can emphasize that it's based into every iOS device so anyone can use it without additional cost. CB On 4/4/12 1:01 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote: Hello all: I have just

Re: accessible iMovie?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
ks so much. On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I didn't see an answer to this question. Did you mean .wmv since you are talking about video? .wma is an audio format. That said, assuming you meant .wmv, you can convert after the fact using QuickTime Pro which lets you open a

Re: High contrast on and off?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I think this conflicts with voiceover which grabs anything with a control+option combo. You might have to turn VO off first, turn on high contrast and then turn VO back on again. CB On 4/4/12 10:11 PM, Michael Malarsie wrote: Greetings! So in Universal Access is says that in order to

Re: command-shift-a

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Wonder what it's chewing on. Maybe it's time to do a permissions repair? CB On 4/4/12 8:34 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: Hi Anne! I didn't think I had and when I checked just now there were no keystrokes defined. I just get a finder busy error and my fan spins up and finder just sits there and whe

Re: command-shift-a

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I guess you can ignore my previous message then :) It does sound like there is something corrupted. CB On 4/4/12 5:14 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: Hey Mark! I've done that both from Utilities and from the command-r at startup to get disk utility from there. Its weird and I see no reason why it sho

Re: help with video

2012-04-05 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like you still have high contrast mode or inverse colors turned on when playing video. Unlike Windows, Mac HC mode is implemented on the video card so everything gets treated the same way, including whatever video you are playing. Take a poke at the Universal Access section of Preference

Re: farily urgent! Regarding Flash Back

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Terminal is an application in your utilities folder. Command-Shift-U from the finder to go there, type "te" to move focus to the terminal app itself and then Command-O to launch. From there you should be able to type commands or paste them from email. CB On 4/6/12 10:42 AM, Jennifer Perdue wr

Re: farily urgent! Regarding Flash Back

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Some details about the FlashBack trojan here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402685,00.asp which claims about 550,000 macs were infected. Glad to see Apple put out updates to get the latest Java installed which squashes the vulnerability. Just a bit sad that Java had been fixed in Febru

Re: Spotify with VoiceOver on the Mac

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Just tried it and found it totally unusable with voiceover. CB On 4/6/12 12:08 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: unfortunately, spotify isn't very voiceover compatible. I ran into this problem a while ago and have since reported it as a bug to the company. now, this was a year ago and since I am still on

Re: About my Mac/storage

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
I guess that would be everything else that's not Audio, Movies, Photos, Apps or Backups. For me it's 123.4GB. Seems I have a lot more stuff :) CB On 4/6/12 5:04 PM, Traci wrote: Hey all, I was looking at the about my mac and checking out my storage. I understood all the regular items music, a

Re: navigation and formatting questions

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
The paging keys are just the arrow keys with the Function key added. So function+up/down is page up/down while function+left is home and function+right is end. Are you asking about how to type bullets or how to make a bulleted list. I don't use Pages all that much but generally typing Option+8

Re: 5:1 sound output on a mac?

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think you have to switch it. If I plug in an optical cable to my 5.1 receiver the Mac just switches over to optical output. If I plug in a mini to RCA cable and run that to my receiver for just stereo sound it uses that. One odd thing is that when running digital optical output I can no

Re: Frotz

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
In case you have any trouble finding it, you can download Zoom from here: http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html CB On 4/7/12 11:24 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, I have zoom interpreter here and it searches the IF archive, but I've never been able to automatically load a game. Of c

Re: 5:1 sound output on a mac?

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
hone? ----- Original Message - *From:* Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Monday, April 09, 2012 2:40 PM *Subject:* Re: 5:1 sound output on a mac? I don't think

Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm always interchanging power bricks and they all worked just fine. If you use a small low-wattage one it will run most laptops but you won't be able to charge your battery at the same time. Last time I needed to buy one was when my wife found one of the kids sucking on the plug. He was unharm

Re: navigation and formatting questions

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
. Kirsten. On 7 Apr 2012, at 04:18, Chris Blouch wrote: The paging keys are just the arrow keys with the Function key added. So function+up/down is page up/down while function+left is home and function+right is end. Are you asking about how to type bullets or how to make a bulleted list. I

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
You might also try Ripit which will compress into several device friendly formats or just a plain old m4v. http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/ CB On 4/10/12 9:04 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: Hello, I would like to know: is there any program, utility, which allows me to convert a dvd into avi,

Re: How do I switch from sheet to sheet in Numbers?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
According to the keyboard shortcuts list: http://www.apple.com/support/numbers/shortcuts/ Command PageUp and PageDown switch you from sheet to sheet. CB On 4/10/12 8:54 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: Dear Listers, I've added a new sheet to my spreadsheet in Numbers and now I can't work out how t

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
I think the default m4v format compression should work for youtube but I've never tried it. The main buttons are Rip, unlabeled, unlabeled and Compress. The first unlabeled will eject the DVD. The second seems to do the same thing as Compress. CB On 4/10/12 10:11 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: d

Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat older Macbook?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
you can use any laptop power brick that delivers sufficient power. E-bay is probably a good source, as you say. Cheers, Esther On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm always interchanging power bricks and they all worked just fine. If you use a small low-wattage one it w

Re: scientific calculator after some use

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
ur suggestion might stick once i've understood the layout Thanks again Yuma On 1/03/2012, at 7:25 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I don't think the built-in calculator will do it. The only Deg button is just to switch modes from degrees to radians. There are a jillion calculators in the app

Re: scientific calculator after some use

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
actually wrong and not just rounded wrong. It showed the 19th digit as 4 when it should be 6. Yes, for a while I memorized another digit of pi for each birthday but stopped that silliness after 22. It was a moment of geekness. CB On 4/10/12 11:10 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: If you're going to go

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
iMovie. Even if you don't edit it at all you can upload it strait from there to YouTube. Mike Malarsie On Apr 10, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I think the default m4v format compression should work for youtube but I've never tried it. The main buttons are Rip, unlabeled, unlabele

Re: Some help with vlc

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Just catching up on some old mail and didn't see a answer to this. What about just using the afplay command? You can do afplay -h to get the parameters but basically you do afplay something.mp3 and it starts playing it. Should handle any format QuickTime can do. CB On 3/5/12 8:05 AM, .dan. wr

Re: hotmail and Safari

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't use Hotmail but I should clarify that JavaScript and Java are two different things which, unfortunately, share a similar name. Javascript is an interpreted language and the engine is baked into each browser so Safari uses one that is not the same as Chrome. They all adhere to a common s

Re: Apple TV, dvd extras & chapters?

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Blouch
I think RipIt grabs everything. If you do the compress option I think it will drop it into iTunes but I've never tried that. CB On 4/11/12 5:21 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, You'll need to rip the extra features as well if you wish access to them. Normally, when you rip the DVD, all that is ri

Re: hotmail and Safari

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Blouch
DK, JRE and other related packages from the OpenBSD project ports tree? since both OS X and OpenBSD have the same genetic OS roots, and the execution environments are essentially the same from a developer's point of view. This is something I may need to look at. -eric On Apr 11, 2012,

Re: Mirroring a Folder

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I used to do this for my itunes folder with rsync in the terminal but then I got tired or it and just copied my whole folder over to the external drive. There is an article on doing this with rsync here: http://extrafuture.com/2007/06/07/how-to-back-up-your-itunes-music-with-rsync-on-mac-os-x/

Re: Mirroring a Folder

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Blouch
n Apr 12, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I used to do this for my itunes folder with rsync in the terminal but then I got tired or it and just copied my whole folder over to the external drive. There is an article on doing this with rsync here: http://extrafuture.com/2007/06/07/how-to-ba

Re: anyone heard of rock melt

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Blouch
I suspect it's more a play on "wow" which is an interjection of amazement. That said, I've heard of Rock Melt but never got around to downloading it. Seems to have a few big names attached to it. You can read me in the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockMelt or download the p

Re: VO and Wikipedia

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Blouch
It seems to jump to the right column which is one long table. Not sure why they marked it up that way but it means VO will announce a lot of useless column and row info because they used a table for layout rather than modern markup. That said, if the stuff in the table isn't interesting you can

Re: Mac to PC network -- is it possible?

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something unusual set up here. They typical way things are configured is you have a DSL or cable hookup which goes to a combo router, firewall, hub and wifi box. From that box all your devices either connect to the wifi or are hardwired to network ports on

Re: That GOD aweful screen!

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Which screen are you talking about, the authentication login screen? If so you just need to go into the System Preferences and then Users & Groups, the 4th set of preference buttons under System. Once in there go to the Users, Groups and Login Options list. Login Options will be the last item i

Re: Replacing an ordinary hifi, but with what?

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
The Libratone Lounge setup seems nice bout for $1300 I have to wonder if a more old school setup wouldn't sound better. I have my mini connected to a nice Dennon receiver and JBL speakers. The speakers I bought at auction when the media production place I was working for went under and love the

Re: ILife Apps

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
The only thing you would need to buy down the road is any upgrades, if you think the features/fixes would be worth it. Generally there isn't an 'upgrade price' since the things are bundled for free or cheap to begin with. While iWorks may have its issues compared to office, you certainly can't

Re: fs: Intel Xeon W3530 quad-core processor and internal storage

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm curious about your upgrade. In the past CPU upgrades were kind of diminishing returns since you then just hit bottlenecks in other parts of the system, such as RAM, system bus, drive IO and video IO. Are you doing something that is compute intensive but low bandwidth? Just hoping you aren't

Re: That GOD aweful screen!

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
turn on my computer so I don't know what's going on. Could you be a little more specific, cause I'm still pretty new at this. Jenny On Apr 16, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Which screen are you talking about, the authentication login screen? If so you just need to go into th

Re: Intel Xeon W3530 quad-core processor and internal storage

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
ecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm curious about your upgrade. In the past CPU upgrades were kind of diminishing returns since you then just hit bottlenecks in other parts of the system, such as RAM, system bus, drive IO and video IO. Are

Re: Intel Xeon W3530 quad-core processor and internal storage

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Blouch
:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I was googling around and the upgrade process sounded non-trivial with acetone used to clean the heat paste off the old heat sinks to re-attach them to the new processors. Dunno if I would attempt that. CB On 4/18/12 12

Re: Intel Xeon W3530 quad-core processor and internal storage

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Blouch
just have to do reading beforehand. In this case, all parts will fit together properly with no extra modification needed. Just today, I installed and SSD hard drive and added 16 gigs of ram my computer. So I'm used to all of this. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Ch

Re: speakers

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Blouch
Right, the analog output of your mac is just left/right or a blended version of the 5.1 surround if you're playing a DVD. To get the six separate sound channels out you have to use the digital output of your Mac and run that to the digital input of a home theater receiver. The digital output is

Re: speakers

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Blouch
of these things and a system like that is a bit out of my price range right now. Is there a way I could just get two extra speakers and plug them in to the back of my computer and listen to those and the ones that I have hooked up to the stereo at the same time. Thanks. On Apr 19, 2012, a

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