Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Not sure about how serious the issue is but the IT folks where I work have asked everyone to upgrade their iOS devices. CB On 2/24/14 6:35 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: is this message for real? has anyone checked it out yet? Jim On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: All, This is no

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Blouch
According to the article you can just go to the website gotofail.com to test if your browser is susceptible to the bug. I went with my Safari 6.1.1 on OSX 10.8.5 and it said my browser was fine. So maybe some other update fixed it on OSX. CB On 2/24/14 10:41 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: so what

Re: OS10.9.2 is out!

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Blouch
For those fighting with gmail in Apple Mail, there are these bits: Improves compatibility with Gmail Archive mailboxes Includes improvements to Gmail labels Includes general improvements to the stability and compatibility of Mail CB On 2/25/14 2:57 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, There was a link

Re: PDF documents and filling in PDF forms.

2014-02-26 Thread Chris Blouch
Just a little tip. I've had folks who received a PDF I filled out with textEdit say that the stuff I filled out wouldn't print. Not sure why that was but I cheated and re-printed it to a PDF on my end and that seemed to fix it. To do that, even if you don't have a printer set up on the Mac, you

OSX 10.9.2 Mail fixes article

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Found this little summary from the fine folks at TidBITS: Mail Improvements in OSX 10.9.2 http://tidbits.com/article/14547 CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving ema

Re: PDF documents and filling in PDF forms.

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
formal what you have printed it to PDF as I had problems filling out a form yesterday. I had to email it to my work address and do it on Windows. On 26 Feb 2014, at 06:23 pm, Chris Blouch wrote: Just a little tip. I've had folks who received a PDF I filled out with textEdit say that the st

Re: OSX 10.9.2 Mail fixes article

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Blouch
e an account. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Found this little summary from the fine folks at TidBITS: Mail Improvements in OSX 10.9.2 http://tidbits.com/article/14547 CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: how to clean vmware virtual disk?

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
You can help this process along by running the disk cleanup and defrag utilities on the Windows side before doing the VMWare disk shrink. CB On 2/28/14 4:22 PM, Phil Halton wrote: First, shut down the VM, then go into the general settings for the VM (command E and select the general button).

Re: SD Card slot

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Funny, I just tried this for the first time last week and, yes, the card does stick out about 5mm or so. That makes sense as you would need a little bit to grab for pulling the thing back out when you're done. CB On 2/28/14 4:05 PM, Robert C wrote: On the Macbook Pro, does the SD card slide in

Re: transferring from mac mini to macbook

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Might want to fiddle with the Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder. It's supposed to copy over any apps and data from one machine to another. CB On 3/3/14 4:34 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman wrote: HI guys. I might be getting a new macbook today or within the next couple of days. what's

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
How do you know it didn't mount? CB On 3/4/14 1:47 PM, Jane wrote: I *think* this started after upgrading to the newest Mavericks, but not sure. Whenever I put in a CD, or a DVD, or whenever I plug in one of my four thumb drives or the one external hard drive, I have to manually go into Disc

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
else. The Mount button is not greyed out. When I mount it by pressing that button, it pops up on the desktop and anywhere else I have it set to show external drives and discs. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: How do you know it didn't mount? CB On 3/4/14 1:47

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Last time this came up, in 2009, I found a hack by editing the voiceover plist settings to go more than normal. Haven't tried it since but maybe it still works: https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@macvisionaries.com/msg49064.html CB On 3/4/14 10:45 AM, nolimitsforl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: transferring from mac mini to macbook

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
TIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Mar 3, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Jessica wrote: how do you use it with voiceover? i've tried before but gotten nowhere. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2014, at 5:22 PM,

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like weirdness. Have you tried the usual things like rebooting and repairing permissions? CB On 3/4/14 4:01 PM, Jane wrote: Nope, they are just normal drives. I mean, I have plugged them in before for a long time with no problems. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch

Re: converting mp3 to ogg

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
If you like hacking around in the terminal, the Sox package in macports will do the job as well. Once installed you just do: sox inputfile.mp3 outputfile.ogg you could even do a shell script to bulk convert some files. Here's one I found on another forum: for i in $(ls *.mp3 | sed -e s/\.mp3

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
So if you just install the updates from Apple I think this gets resolved. CB On 2/24/14 11:52 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: how to patch mine, it said my browser was receptable to virus On 25 Feb 2014, at 05:17 am, Chris Blouch wrote: According to the article you can just go to the

Re: Recommendations For BT Keyboard For Mac Air With Page Up/Down & Home/End Keys

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
If you're willing to go wired, you might as well go all the way and get a buckling spring keyboard. Unicomp bought the rights from these original IBM designs. Noisy but far better than anything else out there. I miss my old one which got replaced with an Apple USB some years ago. http://pckeyb

Re: converting mp3 to ogg

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
, OSX is also just a unix variant. CB On 3/5/14 2:42 PM, May wrote: That's definitely something I have no idea how to use. Seems simple, would hate to screw something up though. On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: If you like hacking around in the terminal, the Sox packa

Re: Mac Mail Syncing Issues With Accounts Other Than Gmail

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
Interesting. My wife uses cox for email on her phone. So what kind of issues did you run into with IMAP. She is using POP now and gets annoyed because her laptop slurps up all the email from the account when she checks it there. I might try to switch her to IMAP but I don't want to step into mo

Re: transferring from mac mini to macbook

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
Didn't realize it was a BacBook AIR which would not have a wired Ethernet connection. If you do plan to go that route the Apple USB to Ethernet adaptor is only USB 2.0 so throughput will be limited to about 30-35MB a second. For a bit more money you can get USB3 one which is limited only by the

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Blouch
when it comes to security, there shouldn't be an end of life. This is, of course, my opinion. -eric On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: So if you just install the updates from Apple I think this gets resolved. CB On 2/24/14 11:52 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: how to patc

Re: A SCHEDULER

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Seems like you should be able to do something with the terminal. In terminal you can do diskutil repairPermissions / to repair permissions on all folders starting at the top level. Then you could set up a cron job using the cron scheduler to run the above command at certain points in time. Th

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Blouch
at Apple has End of Lifed support for those, but when it comes to security, there shouldn't be an end of life. This is, of course, my opinion. -eric On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: So if you just install the updates from Apple I think this gets resolved. CB On 2/24/14 11:5

Re: Notifications Arriving in Big Bunches Every few Days

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Blouch
I thought notifications were supposed to go to all the devices you have registered to your AppleID. So at least the part about getting the same notification on your phone and your Mac makes some sense. Not sure about why there are delays though. CB On 3/6/14 6:37 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi

Re: effects in Garage Band

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Blouch
I can verify that in Garage Band 11 I also can't get to the effects. Seems that those controls are not accessible in Voiceover, at least under OSX 10.8. CB On 3/6/14 6:15 PM, Scott Berry wrote: I am not seeing the effects in Garage Band 10. How do I get to where I can see them. I went unde

Re: Limeade 18000 MHA Pack

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
I think I picked this up in an airport in London on my way to Madrid one time but I really like it: http://shop.fujifilm.co.uk/world-adaptor-green.html The Fuji World Adaptor is one of those universal plugs except that instead of changing heads for different outlet shapes there are four slide

Re: need help converting m4v to mp4

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Re-encoding compressed audio or video is a lossy process which will make it worse as you go. If you're sure you really want to do it and you don't mind playing around in the terminal, the ffmpeg package can do this for you pretty easy: ffmpeg -i sample_iPod.m4v output.mp4 I can't recall if ff

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
llowing mush to pull up any of the configuration windows like the output config, the plugins, triggers, aliases, etc. Whenever we try to do it even manually going through the menus it crashes. Take care, Shannon Gerdts -----Original Message- From: Chris Blouch Sent: Wednesday,

Re: viewing the cash?

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Not sure why you would want to look at the cache. Most processes are either CPU bound or IO (input/output) bound. So if things are going slow I'd check whether your CPUs are busy or if your hard drive is being pounded. Most of what you might want to know is in the Activity Monitor which is an a

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
fice 2010 suite. On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: Even the lowest MacBook Pro has a dual core i5 CPU which runs as four processors as far as OSX is concerned. So from a Fusion standpoint I'd try bumping the CPUs up to two. Many threads I read

Re: Primitive speech synthesis

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Didn't notice any other replies to this. Might be a problem flushing the buffers from tail. Other threads suggest using an awk flush between to help. So something like tail -f source.txt | awk '{...; fflush()}' | say Worth a try. CB On 2/14/14 7:03 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi list: I am pl

Anybody going to CSUN in SanDiego?

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Would be nice to have a MacVisionaries meet up for lunch. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegr

Re: internet keeps disconnecting

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Blouch
Is this on wifi? How do you know you're disconnected? What kind of wireless router are you on. At the same time, connecting to wifi shouldn't change just by upgrading the OS. CB On 3/8/14 12:31 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: can somebody help me with my internet, after the upgrade of mav

Re: Audio Recorder  Version 3.2 (322) need basic audio recorder recommendations

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm still on OSX 10.8. Does Audio Recorder die on Mavericks? That would be too bad as I like its simple UI and that it usually just works. I guess there's always making audio recordings with Quicktime. CB On 3/9/14 2:30 PM, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: Hi List, Is there a basic audio recorder like "A

Re: Notifications Arriving in Big Bunches Every few Days

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
soon as I turn it on I get days old notifications being read to me. Yes, kind of strange. On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: I thought notifications were supposed to go to all the devices you have registered to your AppleID. So at least the part

Re: deleting multiple files in one go

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Select all and then command-delete, or are you saying the AVIs are mixed in with their MP3 versions? CB On 3/9/14 10:34 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: Hi guys, I have a large directory of AVI files that I converted into mp3, but for some reason the AVI files are still there. How can I delete them

Re: joining mp3 files

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
If you don't mind hacking around with unix, the Sox package will do this just fine. CB On 3/9/14 11:30 AM, Shannon Dyer wrote: Hello. I'm looking for something that can join several small mp3 files into one large file. Does anyone know of such a program that is accessible with VO? Any help

Re: internet keeps disconnecting

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Blouch
The two shouldn't have any impact on each other as they are different radio frequencies and different chip sets inside the computer running them. I have a Mac Mini on wifi with a bluetooth keyboard and it works fine. I did have trouble getting dropped from my WiFi one time when I 'upgraded' to

Re: deleting multiple files in one go

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Blouch
It's also doable from the terminal. So if your videos folder was on your desktop you could do find ~/Desktop/videos/ -name '*.avi' -type f -delete to be safe you can test it by leaving the -delete off the end and then scroll through the output: find ~/Desktop/videos/ -name '*.avi' -type f C

Re: iPhone and iOS messages

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I suspect you answered your own question. Moderation of this list is a really light touch, pretty much just managing by exception (exceptionally bad behavior). That said, I think the name is a bit of an anachronism as iOS devices were not really accessible until voiceover came out back in the 3

Re: Audio Recorder  Version 3.2 (322) need basic audio recorder recommendations

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup, but GarageBand seems like a lot of complication just to record an audio track. CB On 3/10/14 3:45 AM, Apple boy wrote: Or Garageband. Regards Chris Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! On 10/03/2014 03:38, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm still on OSX 10.8. Does Audio Rec

Re: Is removing Drm from songs legal?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think there was any. Where did you get the DRMed music? I don't think iTunes does DRM on audio tracks anymore. Might be something where, if you got it from iTunes, downloading a fresh copy might get you an unencumbered version. That said, I think in the states the DMCA says the mere ac

Re: pages 13 and ms-office compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I'd say fonts are one of the most common formatting problems I run into between Office and Pages. Not that Pages can't do it correctly but Office installs a raft of them and unless you also have Office on your Mac, Pages will have to substitute a 'similar' font for the Microsoft ones and that d

Re: Entering Today's Date and Current Time in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
When you put in the =today formula the cell is populated with the current date. When you copy it actually copies both the formula and the results of running that formula (the current date). When you paste it usually pastes the formula again but if you "Paste Special" that tells it to paste the

Re: internet keeps disconnecting

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Blouch
The one I had so much trouble with was a DLink DIR-628. I just couldn't get anything to stay connected for more than a few minutes. After a bunch of fiddling I finally threw in the towel and spent a lot more on an Apple Wifi router and all the problems just went away. Maybe I should have spent

Re: Is removing Drm from songs legal?

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
tch. If I delete all music from my iphone, & use the purchased section to download it again, will they be Drm protected or not? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2014, at 10:58 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I don't think there was any. Where did you get the DRMed music? I don't think iTunes do

Re: Is There a Slacker Radio equivalent for European listeners?

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
I wonder if the AOL Radio app is available in the UK. The US version is somewhat usable with voiceover and it's powered by Slacker. CB On 3/13/14 5:45 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: Hi. No, I have not tried using Pandora. I will download the app. Do you know if there is a Wiki or "How to" to get s

Re: Apple Script saving .aiff file

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm no AppleScripter but the say command takes a parameter to say where to save the aiff audio output instead of playing it through the speakers. Normally you could do say -f input_text_filename.txt -o output_audio.aiff there are lots of other parameters to the say command which you can find

Re: Apple Script saving .aiff file

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Blouch
ng wrong. Thanks for the help, Traci On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm no AppleScripter but the say command takes a parameter to say where to save the aiff audio output instead of playing it through the speakers. Normally you could do say -f input_text_filename.txt

Re: OpenOffice/Seeking Beta Testers to Test accessibility

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmmm. Doesn't mention much in the way of Voiceover bugfixes, but I guess that wouldn't be a major feature. Just 64-bit support for OSX. iAccessible2 is a windows/linux accessibility API so that's not going to matter for OSX/Voiceover. CB On 3/14/14 1:11 PM, isaac wrote: I would love to test

Re: Resizing objects in the latest version of Keynote

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Is this different than the old version? I haven't upgraded to Mavericks yet so I can't get the new iWorks. On the old one you could add a text box by going to the Text Box button in the toolbar or choosing TextBox under the Insert menu option. Once inserted it's basically an empty box. I get dr

Re: accessible thesaurus

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Blouch
On the Mac, if the app uses the standard text edit widget you can select a word using option-shift-left or right to select the word to the left or right of where you are. Then you can pull up the contextual menu with control+option+shift+M an the first item will be Look Up "word_you_selected".

Re: program to batch extract audio from video files?

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Blouch
If you don't mind terminal you can use macports to install the ffmpeg package and do ffmpeg -i some_video.mov just_audio.mp3 which will extract the audio from the video and write it out as an mp3. Then you can use a script to do a batch. Something like this: for x in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i "$x"

Re: How to whiten the view for tiles in bookmark

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
How far does it get? I have some bookmarks with fairly long names (over 50 characters) and it read them just fine. CB On 3/18/14 9:30 PM, Antonio Guimaraes wrote: Hello there, New question about Safari bookmarks. I am looking at my bookmarked sites, and voiceover does not read the complete

Re: Searching Safari bookmarks

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
If there is one in Safari I've never found it but bookmarks do show up in Spotlight searches (command-space from most anywhere) so I guess that could get you to where you want. CB On 3/18/14 9:28 PM, Antonio Guimaraes wrote: Hi, I am looking for a website I've bookmarked. I have too many boo

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
As far as I know, such a key combination does not exist in numbers. Would be nice in a very large spreadsheet to jump to Y472 to jump to column Y row 472. There is a Find feature if you know what you are looking for and command-J will jump you between the matches in your find results, but not a

Re: an annoying little problem

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Otherwise, the analog way with an external mixer works. I've even gone so far as to run Jaws in a virtual machine with Skype on the Mac and and an external mic for doing demos of how stuff works with multiple screen readers (VO and Windows). The mixer also let me tweak things in real time for l

Re: Anybody going to CSUN in SanDiego?

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Donna On Mar 7, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Would be nice to have a MacVisionaries meet up for lunch. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving email

Re: Airplane Mode on i5S

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Blouch
I think on all iphones Airplane mode turns off all wireless communications. You can then manually turn wifi back on if you want wifi but no cellular data/voice access. CB On 3/19/14 9:00 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: I was wondering what radios are turned off in Settings/Airplane Mode on the i5

Re: Voiceover And MathML

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Blouch
What OS is this on? For OSX 10.8 it was pretty bad. Maybe they finally fixed that on OSX 10.9. CB On 3/19/14 8:44 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: Hello everyone. For any who may be interested, I was curious as to how well vo would respond to MathML and I found a page with some sample equations at h

Re: program recommendation to capture audio/video from an internet stream.

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Blouch
Might not be exactly what you want but the quicktime Player app lets you make a screen recording to a file which you can then play back again later. CB On 3/20/14 5:48 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: Ok, I didn't think I'd ever need anything like this, but can anyone recommend a program that will cap

Re: Google Chrome?

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Chrome and Safari are actually built on the same base render engine so they are very similar in many respects. Main difference is Chrome is available on most any platform while Safari is just on Apple devices. CB On 3/21/14 9:40 AM, David Taylor wrote: Hi, If you google google chrome, you w

Re: program recommendation to capture audio/video from an internet stream.

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Blouch
ssibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: That's probably exactly what I'm looking for, won't that record the audio as well? On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:55 PM

Re: program recommendation to capture audio/video from an internet stream.

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Blouch
I do other stuff with the computer while that's recording? Aside from that, I can't figure out if I managed to get it up and running or not; still playing around with it. On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Launch the app then choose New screen recording from the file menu

Re: Google chrome installation problems

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Blouch
It's been a while since I installed Chrome as it self-updates once you have it. Once you open the DMG or DiskiMaGe file you should have an additional fake drive show up. In that fake drive will be the Chrome app. You copy that, go to your Applications folder, and paste. That copies the whole th

Re: Finding Headings in Pages?

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm on OSX 10.8.5 so my Pages isn't the latest but I can reproduce the problem. Pages knows stuff is a heading when I set it from the toolbar because I can insert a table of contents and it will pull those headings into the list with page numbers. In the document inspector under the TOC tab it

Re: stopping programs from launching at start

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Blouch
When you say you closed Amadeus, did you Quit the app (command-Q) or just close the document window? Closing all the documents usually doesn't actually close the app. CB On 3/22/14 8:29 AM, Jenine Stanley wrote: Well, this just got a little more complicated but possibly I might have the answe

Re: for anyone interested in downloading more dashboard widgets

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Seems that you pasted the whole page's contents rather than a link to the page. That URL is http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ CB On 3/19/14 7:13 AM, Jessica wrote: Apple - Downloads - Dashboard Hi, Here is the link to download dashboard widgets. If you get this to work, and can find

Re: iCloudless skies, the world is a cyber desert.

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Blouch
While I do agree with the fragility and lack of ubiquity on a global basis, the basis of the internet backbone architecture was to be able to route around outages. Of course that all depends on multiple possible routes to any particular node and that tends to fail at the last hop - the wifi con

Re: program recommendation to capture audio/video from an internet stream.

2014-03-23 Thread Chris Blouch
nk I managed to do something with it, but there's no audio there when I open the new file, so I'm guessing it just took the screenshot only. I thought this was supposed to do both. Am I missing something? On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: You don't have to k

Re: for anyone interested in downloading more dashboard widgets

2014-03-23 Thread Chris Blouch
the 4th page if you action the 4 etc. CB On 3/22/14 4:52 PM, Jessica wrote: How do I use it? I can't get anything to open or download. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: Seems that you pasted the whole page's c

Re: for anyone interested in downloading more dashboard widgets

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Blouch
oad? If I can figure this out, it could potentially be very helpful. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com <mailto:jldai...@gmail.com> On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:52 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Wow! That has to be one of the most inaccessible interfaces I've run across in a while. I didn't actually try

Re: for anyone interested in downloading more dashboard widgets

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Blouch
ar 24, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Jim Gatteys wrote: I just downloaded one called Juice Bar and it has a recipe of the day. Just did it to see if it would work and it does. jg On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Which widget were you attempting to download? As others have said

Re: desktop texting apps?

2014-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
If you are running any variant of AOL's AIM (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Web etc.) you can SMS with somebody by adding a buddy named with a plus sign followed by their phone number. So adding +1551212 would send and receive SMS messages from that phone number. Not sure how this works inte

Re: CD/rewritable drive possibly not functioning properly on mac book pro.

2014-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
Are you sure you have the write side down? Only one side of most CDs is writable. If it really is failing on multiple disks maybe you got a bad batch. I have a spindle of discs right now which is having about a 50% fail rate, which is unusual. I usually have one or two in a hundred fail. If you

Re: desktop texting apps?

2014-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
a On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Can you text using the I message App on your Mac? I didn't know that. I thought you could only I message with the Mac application. Kawal. On 26 Mar 2014, at 01:28 pm, Chris Blouch wrote:

Re: group list membership with other than google account?

2014-03-27 Thread Chris Blouch
If you get totally stuck and can't get your new email address subscribed or get your old email address removed feel free to ping me off list and I can do some of that through the admin account. Of course my preference is that you try to do it yourself first before asking for help, but help is h

Re: best batteries for Apple bluetooth keyboard...

2014-03-27 Thread Chris Blouch
They are just AA batteries so I assume you could use whatever ones you want. I use the cheapie store brand ones and they last long enough that it's hard to recall how often I change them. Probably twice a year or less. CB On 3/27/14 2:14 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: Hi. I am using Alkaline batteri

Re: IOS apps and TV access

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
This is probably what the sales person was confused about. You can get an Apple iPhone app to control the TV but that's not AppleTV. That said, this is the battle currently being waged. Should the TV be 'smart' and support apps, web surfing etc or should it be a dumb screen which you connect to

Re: iPad drops contact with shared library

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
As some background, years ago I had an 802.11B or G router (can't recall which) that would drop connections when I used my particular Panasonic wireless phone. Apparently that phone ran on the same 2.4GHz radio band as the Wifi which is also the same band as my microwave oven. In other words, t

Re: iPad drops contact with shared library

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
1 Apr 2014, at 6:04 am, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: As some background, years ago I had an 802.11B or G router (can't recall which) that would drop connections when I used my particular Panasonic wireless phone. Apparently that phone ran on the same 2.4GHz rad

Re: iPad drops contact with shared library

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
upplied by your ISP? If so, maybe you can contact them about dropouts. They might have a few suggestions. CB On 3/31/14 5:53 PM, Agent086b wrote: Hi, the router is a Billion BiPac 7300G running 802.11G. Thanks again for the help. Max On 1 Apr 2014, at 8:24 am, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@ao

Re: Simulating a Mac on a PC

2014-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
There used to be things called a Hackintosh which was basically OSX installed on a generic PC. There were even companies which would sell you one but they have pretty much all been sued out of existence. Apples OSX license doesn't let you install on non-Apple hardware since, at some level, it's

iWorks update fixes more AppleScript

2014-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Just rand across this article which says the latest patches to iWorks has fixed a pile of AppleScript issues and added more hooks. http://www.macworld.com/article/2138687/latest-iwork-update-is-another-win-for-applescript.html CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subsc

iSee - eBook on how to use Apple products from a blind perspective

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Just stumbled upon this. Apparently it came out from Vision Australia in January. http://www.visionaustralia.org/living-with-low-vision/learning-to-live-independently/using-technology-and-computers/blog---accessibility-and-assistive-technology-blog/blog/accessibility-blog/2014/01/17/isee-all-you

Re: iSee - eBook on how to use Apple products from a blind perspective

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Blouch
k the link. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Just stumbled upon this. Apparently it came out from Vision Australia in January. http://www.visionaustralia.org/living-with-low-vision/learning-to-live-independently/using-technology-and-computers/blog---accessib

Re: mac learning curve

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
For Apple devices, if the printer is hooked up to a Mac or Airport you can share it out on the network, even if the printer itself is not network aware. CB On 4/3/14 6:34 PM, Devin Prater wrote: Speaking of printers, I have a question which surely must be on-topic for this thread. I have a pr

Re: help with audio recording

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Also, an external mic. If you're a recording junkie and already have a nice mic you ca connect it with any number of XLR to USB adaptors. CB On 4/2/14 1:17 PM, alberto wrote: I believe either audio high jack pro, or audacity may meet your needs. I don't know how good either one of these two

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I've always thought of PDF as a consumption format rather than an editable document. Sort of like an mp3. You create an audio file in something with multiple tracks that you edit and such and when you're done you export to an mp3. Likewise you edit your document in Pages or the like and when yo

Re: alex skipping, and ready boost

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
From what I've read ReadyBoost used a USB thumb drive or the like for virtual memory swap. This didn't really work out as intended because USB drives take a lot of CPU and have low throughput. So while you could play around in terminal and make another swap space on an external device, the bett

Re: using virtual box

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
While you can do everything for VirtualBox in the terminal, even if you get a virtualPC up and running you'll still have to install Windows on it and such. It's a non-trivial bit of work. VMWare has a nice GUI which makes this easier. Here are a couple virtualbox terminal tutorials I found: ht

Re: bluetooth speaker question.

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Some windows have a metal film between the panes to help reflect away heat and there is also insulation in some walls that has a metal foil. These could all interfere. Bluetooth is just designed to go a short distance. CB On 4/12/14 12:43 PM, Kayaker wrote: Hi, It's not just steel that's th

Re: yet more regarding youtube

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Blouch
As to #3, not sure how Apple could fix Flash as Adobe has refused to connect it to Apple's accessibility APIs. Instead, Adobe wants Apple to implement the same API Windows uses so they don't have to do any more work. Unsurprisingly Apple has not been to interested in implementing a second acces

Re: Windows on a Mac

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Unless you just have to have the absolute fastest performance I'd go the VMWare route. The alternative (bootcamp) requires you to partition your hard drive and then boot into Windows or OSX, so there really isn't any integration. VMWare just runs a virtual machine in a window which means you qu

Re: US Public Broadcasting system Site and videos

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Blouch
The whole video player and controls are written in Flash which is not accessible. Wish sites would stick to using web standards instead of proprietary stuff that breaks the web. CB On 10/15/13 2:58 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, I used to be able to go to the videos on pbs.org and play t

Re: US Public Broadcasting system Site and videos

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Blouch
rd to HTML 5 as a web standard, however. :) Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Oct 16, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: The whole video player and controls are written in Flash which is not accessible. Wish sites would stick to using web standards instead o

Re: US Public Broadcasting system Site and videos

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Blouch
button for each video. Thanks, teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Even with click to flash turned off, the video does not autoplay so it's the way PBS has coded their player. I pok

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Sorry for the delay. I was traveling this weekend and am just now catching up on email. Anyone can join the group, there is just an approval process to weed out spammers. I have not found any join requests in my inbox to approve. It's been years since I joined this list so I'm a bit fuzzy on t

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Here's a web link to the same info: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/apple-makes-os-x-mavericks-a-free-upgrade-available-today/ CB On 10/22/13 1:42 PM, Shen wrote: Yep, we can all laugh. And, it's true. I'm watching the Apple event live right now and they made the announcement about 20 minutes

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