Group signup mystery solved?

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Blouch
I keep getting emails from folks that they can't sign up for the mailing list so I took a poke around in the settings. There was one called "Join the Group" which was set to "Only Invited Guests". Not sure exactly what that means but it didn't seem right. I have now changed it to "Anyone can as

Re: Prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Please forward the email address of anyone you know who has tried and failed to join the group to me. I'll get them set up. As I mentioned in an earlier message it seems that one of the settings for joining got changed to 'invite only' and I have now put this back. It's still not a public group

Re: Group signup mystery solved?

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Just approved one join request so at least one person has figured it out now :) CB On 10/24/13 10:44 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Wonderful, I will pass the news along. Thank you for your help. On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I keep getting emails from folks that they can't

Re: posting to group without gmail account

2013-10-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm not on gmail but I do have an account so I probably used that eons ago when I joined the group. If you let me know ahead of time I can add your new address to the list manually. CB On 10/27/13 8:41 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: Listers, If I were to give up my gmail account, would I lose th

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-28 Thread Chris Blouch
There's always AOL mail. Has supported IMAP support for about a decade. CB On 10/25/13 2:26 PM, Jeff Bishop wrote: There are a few: iCloud outlook.com (they now support imap and you can even bring your domain) office365 ($4 per month but a huge deal if you want to pay for email) -Origina

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-28 Thread Chris Blouch
here an accessible email client for mac? i love apple mail and enjoy gmail so I hope it can be resolved but it's good to look at alternatives just in case. Blessings! Maria and my guide Karly email bubbygirl1...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On 29 Oct 2013, at 8:36 am, Chris Blouch w

Re: Profissional piano tuner

2013-10-29 Thread Chris Blouch
I know nothing about piano tuning other than the $100 I pay to get mine done when it starts to sound bad. I did poke around in the app store and and found several and must say that those are some of the most expensive iPhone apps I've ever run across. For that price I guess it would be worth co

Alternates to Apple Mail

2013-10-30 Thread Chris Blouch
MacWorld had an article which reviewed a dozen or so alternate mail apps to try if Apple Mail just won't cooperate. Not sure how many of them are accessible, but it's a start for those who are ready to jump ship. http://www.macworld.com/article/2058525/ditch-maverickss-mail-other-email-apps-you

Re: App to copy CDs on mac

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Blouch
You can also do it with iTunes. My wife does it this way. It was easier for her as she already knew her way around and didn't have to learn another app. She just sucks in all the tracks, grabs everything from recently imported, makes a playlist from them and burns that playlist. Yes, I'm sure i

Re: App to copy CDs on mac

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Blouch
ty for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: You can also do it with iTunes. My wife does it this way. It was easier for her as she already knew her way around and didn'

Re: What Safari Extensions Do You Find Useful with Voiceover

2013-11-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Click to Flash disables any flash elements on the page unless you action them. Makes pages load a lot faster for me because all that Flash goo isn't running anymore. You have to first install the ClickToPlugin and then ClickToFlash. http://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ CB

Re: Burn App to copy CDs

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Blouch
If you google Mac OSX Burn the first link will be http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html CB On 11/4/13 5:24 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote: My student insists in copying CDs, and I can not find Burn, doe’s anybody have a link please? Thanks so much! Daniela Rubio T  Distinguished

Re: External Hard Drive Suggestions

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I also have used various WD external drives with no issues. The only problem with all these external drives is not whether the drive will fail, but when. That's why a lot of folks are opting for RAID and mirror drive setups. If you're putting stuff worth keeping on a drive then you need to be b

Re: MacBook questions

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Blouch
According to Apple's article you have to have the AC plugged in, a monitor and an external keyboard/mouse attached before closing the lid will not put the mac to sleep. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3131 CB On 11/4/13 9:55 PM, Rob wrote: Hi, I cant seem to find where to disable the MacBook g

Re: Anybody using Thunderbird with Mountain Lion?

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Thunderbird, like Firefox, is not accessible due to an ago old spat between Mozilla and Apple over accessibility APIs, which you can look up in the archives of this mailing list. Just for the fun of it I tried Thunderbird with voiceover just in case something has changed and all I could access

Re: Some Questions About Fusion 6

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Some of it depends on what your Mac has and how much of it you hand over to vmware when you set up the virtual machine. I think XP can run pretty well on 1GB RAM so if you have a 4GB Mac that should be fine. VMWare will take its overhead and you'll still have space for OSX to do it's thing. If

Re: locating hardware stats

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Blouch
You man the status of your Mac? For info on your hard drive, just select it and then do a command-I to get info. Somewhere in the general section are stats on Capacity and Available. You can find out how much RAM is in your machine by poking around in About This Mac under the apple menu. VO-M t

Re: Is Winamp accessivle on the mac?

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Looks like there hasn't been a new release since September of last year so I wouldn't get my hopes up. CB On 11/12/13 8:33 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Would not recommend it. Nothing like the windows version. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in!

Re: Is Winamp accessivle on the mac?

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Blouch
anks. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-11-13, at 10:26 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Looks like there hasn't been a new release since September of last year so I wouldn't get my hopes up. CB On 11/12/

Re: VM pricing, am I missing something?

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Blouch
When I checked on their web site: http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/pd/productID.285051300?src=eBIZ_PaidSearch_Fusion6_ProductPage_US&mkwid=sjQk34duX&pcrid=39350293503&kw=parallels%20vmware%20fusion&mt=b&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=parallels%20vmware%20fusion&utm_content=39

Re: fusion and windows iso

2013-11-30 Thread Chris Blouch
I had not heard of MS giving out ISO images. Would have been nice to know. From my reading of various forums and such I needed to purchase a full Windows 8.1 installer to make a virtual machine and that meant buying what they call a System Builder OEM disk. I ended up purchasing an actual DVD o

Re: Microsoft Office for Mac

2013-11-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Generally if an application uses standard controls they inherit most of the accessibility so that a button will identify itself as a button and and be operable though assistive technology. The developer would need to provide a label to describe the button but everything else is already hooked u

Re: emojis

2013-12-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Emojis are a font where each letter is an icon of some sort. They originated in Japan where, I assume, it was an easy transition from Japanese pictograph type of writing to a font that lets you also write with pictures. For example, here is an Emoji of a horse, if it comes through the email sys

Re: How To Delete Music From My iPod Touch

2013-12-03 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't think that's the way iTunes Match works. It just scans your local music collection and generates a list of all the tracks you have there. It then will allow any of your other devices, such as your phone, to sync the same set of music but the source will all be Apple's original 256kbps A

Re: Exporting KeyNote

2013-12-03 Thread Chris Blouch
I've never used an SD card for storage but doesn't it just show up as another volume in the sidebar table of the standard save dialog? Devices are listed at the very end. CB On 12/2/13 6:06 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: In KeyNote for OS 10.9 I created a presentation and chose Export to QuickTim

Re: auto system checking

2013-12-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Maybe you're referring to something else but the Mac does a hardware self-check each time it boots up. So if you do a shutdown (not sleep) and then bring it back up, when you hear the startup sound that means the hardware check passed. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_sta

Re: typesetting LaTeX equations in pages

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Did you try the Latexit package? It's supposed to add integration of MacTex into Keynote, TextEdit etc. http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php?lang=en I was going to fiddle with it a bit but it requires installing MacText which was 2.3GB: http://www.tug.org/mactex/ Even at my s

Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Project Gutenberg has about 42,000 books for free. They are archiving all the books which went out of copyright: http://www.gutenberg.org CB On 12/3/13 4:53 PM, Scott Rumery wrote: Not true. There are thousands of free ePub books available on the Internet if you are willing to just look for

Re: How To Delete Music From My iPod Touch

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
then delete them individually. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: I don't think that's the way iTunes Match works. It just scans your local music collection and generates a list of

Re: auto system checking

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
e problems with his page. Can you send a different one with the same information? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Maybe you're referring to something else but the Mac does a hardware self-check each time it boots up. So if you do a shutdown (not sleep)

Re: USb turntable help/reccomendations.

2013-12-10 Thread Chris Blouch
While I haven't played around with this, most USB turntables will not hook up to your line in/out jacks. The turntable will just connect via USB and have a built-in analog to digital converter. So it should just show up as a generic audio input device which you can record from using your favori

Re: A no mail question

2013-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Done. You can also choose Digest which gives you one big email a day with all the messages concatenated together. CB On 12/14/13 7:05 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: I can not see by the website how to set the list to no mail. Is it possible to set this list to no mail by email? Thank you. Î Angus

Re: New email

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Email me off list and I'll help you get the new address registered and remove the old one. CB On 12/14/13 3:47 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hi folks, I have activated a different email account. I'm not sure how to forward my conversations from this list to that account. I eventually want to s

Re: Terminal: VO and Alpine Mail?

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno about building it but it does not seem to be in Macports. Here was another discussion thread where somebody seems to have got it working: http://www.freelists.org/post/macvoiceover/Fwd-Brltty-for-the-Terminal-on-Macosx CB On 12/14/13 2:17 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Cheryl, Yes, I lo

Re: Dual booting on a Mac.

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Wonder if you'd be better served doing VMWare Fusion to host all these different variants. There are some quirks with CapsLock and a few other things but the overall experience is pretty good running Windows in a window. Then you don't have to reboot everything and set up partitions just to swi

Re: Dual booting on a Mac.

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Blouch
nification, narrator, or a cheap alternative commercial magnification/screenreader run ok in that, as I don’t think VO would be available there, much less Zoom with tracking. On Dec 15, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Wonder if you'd be better served doing VMWare Fusion to host all t

Re: Need help with VM Fusion and sound devices

2013-12-16 Thread Chris Blouch
If you are connecting your Mac Mini to a 5.1 surround sound system, can you just plug it in directly and skip the USB sound card stuff? Simpler might make it work better. CB On 12/7/13 2:14 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. I have installed my Bootcamp partion as a VM machine. I have done this on a

Re: Need help with VM Fusion and sound devices

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Blouch
;s sound. I do not understand this fully, but hey, it's working. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 5:15 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Need

Re: Need help with VM Fusion and sound devices

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Blouch
d I use? That certainly would make it more responsive, I would imagine. Thanks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:10 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: emojis

2013-12-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. I can't really imagine a way as they are real characters in the text. Sort of like asking to have voiceover ignore the letters B, M and S. That's just a level of configuration detail I've not run across in a screen reader. CB On 12/18/13 3:21 AM, May and Noah wrote: Trying once again.

Re: command for app delete.

2013-12-20 Thread Chris Blouch
App Delete is $8 and can be found here: http://www.reggieashworth.com/appdelete App Cleaner is another one which is free: http://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ App Zapper is another commercial one for $13: http://appzapper.com Clean App is another commercial on which is usually $15 but is on sa

Re: a word in defense of the Apple accessibility team

2013-12-20 Thread Chris Blouch
As an amusing aside, I knew a guy who used voiceover on his device to read long documents to him while he commuted to work. He had no vision impairments, he just found it useful to be able to have stuff read to him while driving. CB On 12/18/13 11:33 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: oh but of cours

Re: Changing Email Accounts For This List

2013-12-22 Thread Chris Blouch
If you need help with administrative stuff like changing your email address just let me know. You can email me off list at cblo...@aol.com. CB On 12/22/13 6:18 AM, BBS wrote: Hi everyone. I've CC'd this also to the Viphone mailing list because this is a question for both lists. Lately, Gmail w

Re: command for app delete.

2013-12-22 Thread Chris Blouch
impact so it's not worth my time to clean all that out. That said, if a free app might clean that up for me, it might be worth a try. CB On 12/20/13 10:06 AM, Janet Ingber wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for all these apps. Do you have a favorite one? Janet On Dec 20, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Chris

Re: website trouble

2013-12-22 Thread Chris Blouch
I kept hitting something called "Snowflake image" all over the page. Is the site somehow decorated in snow images? Once I managed to get past all the snowflakes I could get to the content just fine on OSX 10.8. CB On 12/22/13 10:12 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: hello group; recently i've started ha

Re: installing Bootcamp

2013-12-28 Thread Chris Blouch
What's wrong with the system builder flavor of Windows. I thought that's what you needed if you're not upgrading from another version of Windows. CB On 12/28/13 7:45 PM, Geoff Stephens wrote: You can always just call the store if you can’t find out how to get the ISO online. But don’t let th

Re: virtualization solutions

2013-12-28 Thread Chris Blouch
I thought Virtualbox was controllable through the terminal so you don't have to use the GUI. From the manual: "VBoxManage is the command-line interface to VirtualBox. With it, you can completely control VirtualBox from the command line of your host operating system. VBoxManage supports all the

Re: installing Bootcamp

2013-12-28 Thread Chris Blouch
, Chris Blouch wrote: What's wrong with the system builder flavor of Windows. I thought that's what you needed if you're not upgrading from another version of Windows. CB On 12/28/13 7:45 PM, Geoff Stephens wrote: You can always just call the store if you can’t find out how

Re: Time Capsule Backup - VMWare Fusion

2013-12-31 Thread Chris Blouch
As long as your VMWare Fusion is the same or newer than the VMWare virtual machine file that created it you should be able to copy the virtual machine file around just like any other document, albeit a very large one. So if you want to experiment with some new piece of software you can just dup

Re: windows virtual machine

2013-12-31 Thread Chris Blouch
To add a bit more, VMWare is an app like any other. When it is running a virtual machine it uses up CPU and RAM but once you quit it it takes up only disk space. The disk space, as previously mentioned, is allocated as you use it. So I usually give 60GB to my virtual machine knowing that I'll o

Re: find my phone?

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Try Find My Phone instead. That search should bring up the app as the first item. CB On 1/2/14 12:09 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Ray, I'm working on the same issue today. I just did a search in the app store for the Find my iPhone app, and it did not appear. I'm wondering if the iCloud interf

Re: find my phone?

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
ppy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Just did. I get a message saying your search had no results. Donna On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Try Find My Phone instead. That search should bring up the app as the first item. CB On 1/2/

Re: some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
While I'm not familiar with the particulars of how Disk Utility does it, most drives have a reserve of extra blocks that can be substituted if a bad spot develops. So by writing something to every block ahead of time, any bad blocks will get noticed and replaced with a spare. I would think that

Re: installing Bootcamp

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
, that you can be assured is a viable copy of Windows without paying the Microsoft price of $199 for the system builder version last time I checked. On Dec 28, 2013, at 11:01 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: When I was poking around the Windows store all I could find were upgrades. Either Windows

Re: installing Bootcamp

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
isionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: installing Bootcamp When I was poking around the Windows store all I could find were upgrades. Either Windows 8.1 from

Re: virtualization solutions

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
com/2012/08/30/create-manage-virtualBox-vms-from-the-command-line/ Gena On 29 Dec 2013, at 02:59, Alex Hall <mailto:mehg...@gmail.com>> wrote: That is very true, and a good point. Unfortunately, I was never able to find any tutorials or even manuals for getting started with the command

Re: virtualization solutions

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Let the unix variant geek wars begin! So the terminal or shell is where you type commands to be processed by the unix side of OSX. OSX is actually based on the Mach Kernel and NextStep, which was bought when Apple acquired Next and brought Steve Jobs back to the helm. Next Step incorporates som

Re: virtualization solutions

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
rkarounds on both of those. CB On 1/2/14 2:55 PM, Regina Alvarado wrote: So if I really wanted to run a program only Windows, I would have to have a virtual solutions program on my Mini. Most things one can do work fine on Mac, Right? reggie and Allegra On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Chris

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
According to the Apache web site, Apache Open office supposedly works with VO now, but last I tried it I could only access menu bar items and couldn't actually work with the text in the document. That's been a while so maybe they fixed it again. LibreOffice claims the same thing. Did you try th

Re: Ftp server using the server app

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Are you sure you want to do ftp and not sftp? ftp requires rather large swaths of ports to be opened before it will work. How did you enable ftp on your mac? CB On 12/29/13 9:55 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote: Hello, I am thinking about setting up an FTP server using the server on Mac. I've done this

Re: vlc and air play

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Used to be that you could add the Ogg codec to QuickTime so iTunes could play back those files automatically. Unfortunatly the QT component for Ogg hasn't been updated since 2009 and fails under 64-bit. If you're not running 64-bit it might still work for you: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/dow

Re: Tivo to mpg2 decoder

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't have a Tivo but Google pointed me here: http://code.google.com/p/ctivo/ CB On 1/2/14 7:29 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: Is there a Mac equivalent to Direct Show Dump Utility? This is a simple conversion app for Windows that lets me convert the .tivo format to .mpeg format. -- ¯

Re: vlc and air play

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
e non mavericks compatible. I just got another suggestion from somebody about vlc itself, so will try that. If that doesn’t work for us, guess I’ll just have to keep on giving the files to hubby to convert with gold wave. Cait On Jan 2, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Used to be that you coul

Re: Ftp server using the server app

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
he server app if you have it. And that can also enable the service. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Jan 2014, at 2:20 pm, Chris Blouch wrote: Are you sure you want to do ftp and not sftp? ftp requires rather large swaths of ports to be opened before it will work. How did you enable ftp on your mac?

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
n 2, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: According to the Apache web site, Apache Open office supposedly works with VO now, but last I tried it I could only access menu bar items and couldn't actually work with the text in the document. That's be

Re: Missing hard drive

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like you dismounted your drive. You can either unplug and plug it back in, power cycle it, or use Disk Utility to find the drive and mount it again. If you go the Disk Utility route you'll just launch Disk Utility from the Utilities folder (shift-option-U in finder) then find the dive in

Re: Internal vs External Fusion

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
So how long did it actually take from hitting play to being up and running? From the reviews of the LaCie Rugged 120GB SSD drives it should have about 112MBs read and 92MBs write on USB3 compared to 155MBs read and 150MBs write on Thunderbolt. So Thunderbolt should only gain you about 30-40% sp

Re: Capslock working as VO Key but not in Fusion?

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't believe it is possible to pass the mac caps lock key through to the virtual machine for Jaws. I think Jaws attempts something low level to intercept/detect that key which breaks the mirage of virtual hardware. Check the mail archive as there are a number of folks who have used Sharp Key

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: Have you tried the latest LibreOffice? It was not working with voiceover last I tried it but I just down

Re: Accessing other Macs on my home network

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
When I connect to another Mac I bring up the Network (command-K) and tab to Browse, hit space, then I get a list of networked computers. From there I up/down arrow through the finder network table list to find the machine I want to connect to. After that I hit Command-O on the machine which wil

Re: Which program can we use instead of dvdremaster pro.

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Are these personal DVDs or commercial encrypted ones? If they are commercial you're going to need something that can break the encryption to get the files off the disk first. Then maybe other tools can do what you want. CB On 1/6/14 11:34 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: Hi all. DVDremasterpro

Re: Ftp server using the server app

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
nload all private folders. Can I prevent that? 2. That port 22 thing is still a mystery to me. Can I open port 22, so that a user can get into my sftp server, but cannot log in using ssh and mess with my system? I don't get that yet. Regards, Paul. On Jan 3, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Chris Blouch wro

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Power down your machine, hold down command+option+P+R and keep holding them while you power up the machine. You should hear the startup sound after a bit. I usually keep them down until I've heard the startup sound a couple time - maybe three or four - and then let off the keys to allow a norma

Re: Internal vs External Fusion

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
re 4. jan. 2014 kl. 04:55 skrev Chris Blouch : So how long did it actually take from hitting play to being up and running? From the reviews of the LaCie Rugged 120GB SSD drives it should have about 112MBs read and 92MBs write on USB3 compared to 155MBs read and 150MBs write on Thunderbol

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
antages of doing this? I've heard a lot about it, but am not sure why one might actually need to do it. On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Power down your machine, hold down command+option+P+R and keep holding them while you power up the machine. You should hear the startup so

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
i so can't remove the battery or anything. On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The PRAM reset stuff happens as part of the hardware self-check, long before any boot loaders and other software is executed. What are the advantages of resetting the PRAM? PRAM is used to hold a lot of

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
ent at all after doing the PRAM reset, except that Spoken Items seems to respond faster the couple times I've used it. Still, anything to avoid a complete re-install of my OS (and, more to the point, all my apps and settings) is fine with me. On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Blouch
ter performance. Whatever Apple says, when a 2007 Mini running Lion feels way snappier than my 2011 Mini running Mavericks, we have a serious problem. On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hope it helps. I usually start having performance issues when I run out of RAM than anything e

Re: Resetting Prams

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Blouch
f lag, sort of like using a Windows screen reader with a large voice, but worse in some ways. Mavericks seems to have intensified those problems. On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Interesting. So it's not memory unless you're running something really memory hungry li

Re: Which program can we use instead of dvdremaster pro.

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au <mailto:gerryc...@optusnet.com.au> Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52 On 7 Jan 2014, at 4:11 am, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: Are these personal DVDs or commercial encrypted ones? If they are commercial you're going to

Re: Any last minute advice before upgrading to Mavericks

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Just the usual stuff. Backup beforehand, which you say you already did, and I'd do a disk repair ahead of time. The upgrade only changes the system files, not your apps or documents. So having a lot of stuff on there should have no impact on how long the install takes. If the drive or machine a

Re: Any last minute advice before upgrading to Mavericks

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Brian Fischler wrote: Hey Chris, What does a disk repair do? I have never done that before, so it might help. Yup all backed up. On Jan 7, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Just the usual stuff. Backup beforehand, which you say you already did, and I'd do a disk repair ahead of ti

Re: power saver sliders in system preferences (mavricks)

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Blouch
What version of OSX are you on? On my OSX 10.8 laptop the sliders read just fine. The first one is Computer sleep and the second is display sleep. CB On 1/9/14 12:39 PM, don bishop wrote: I see a couple sliders in the power saver section of system preferences. However they’re apparently not l

Re: A why, curious

2014-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Did it come from you or from MacVisionaries? As a subscriber its normal to receive all emails that go to the list, including your own. CB On 1/10/14 9:51 AM, regina alvarado wrote: Hmmm. Curious. Just saw my message in my inbox. I am on gmail. Never do my messages show on the lists. Why on Mi

Re: Time Machine question

2014-01-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Time machine kicks off about one an hour to backup anything that has changed. First thing it does is check to make sure the backup drive is there. If not it fails silently and tries again in another hour. So, as Tim said, the impact of leaving TM on should be pretty minimal. CB On 1/10/14 10:

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
The biggest snag with vi is realizing if you are in 'edit' or 'command' mode. By default you are in command mode until you hit an I for Insert. Then it works like any other editor. I've ruined many documents when I thought I was typing in text only to realize I'd just executed a couple dozen co

Re: Moving through tabs and Closing them in Mavericks Safari

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Command-W closes the tab you are currently interacting with. If it is the last tab then it closes the window. Never had command-W bring up mission control. I don't use that so maybe I haven't turned on something that is triggered by command-w, but that key combo has been around for years on mul

Re: Moving through tabs and Closing them in Mavericks Safari

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
This is a link on a page you are auctioning or a link you are typing into the URL bar? If you always want to open a link in a new tab that can be set in preferences under Tabs and set "Open pages in tabs instead of windows" to Always. If you are in the URL bar you can type in or paste the URL y

Re: Repairing Macbook AIr or recovering its data

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like it is possible to remove the SSD. iFixit has instructions for both the 11" and 13" models: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+11-Inch+Mid+2012+Solid-State+Drive+Replacement/12351 http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Mid+2012+Solid-State+Drive+Replacement/10961 Those

Re: Faith not Receiving messages

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I just checked her account and it was set to receive no email. Not sure how it got that way but I changed it to "All Mail" so that should be working now. CB On 1/14/14 9:46 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: Hey guys. Faith can send a message, as we saw, but is unable to see any messages from the lis

Re: Moving through tabs and Closing them in Mavericks Safari

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
can do is pressing the ctrl option cmd and press space bar then going to menu then pressing open in link in a new tab. is there a any shortcut for this? On 13 Jan 2014, at 04:43 pm, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: This is a link on a page you are auctioning or a link you are t

Re: Accessing other Macs on my home network

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
dual files, or can I give permission to share an entire folder at once? thanks! Caitlyn On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote: When I connect to another Mac I bring up the Network (command-K) and tab to Browse, hit space, then I get a list of network

Re: Fwd: OT: FW: GW Micro Announces Global Window-Eyes Initiative for users of Microsoft Office

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
"…to enable anyone using Microsoft Office 2010 or later to also use Window-Eyes for free" Wow, anyone using MS Office 2010 or later can use WindowEyes? Wonder how they got it working on OSX? CB On 1/14/14 2:45 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hello all, I know this is a bit off topic, but I though

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I suspect it is the ongoing evolution of the OS/platform. Back in the day people downloaded and installed Stuffit Expander or paid for shareware like ZipIt just to decompress downloaded files. Those apps are seldom needed today because the OS takes care of it. So the stuff that was new and inno

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Blouch
There are discussions of high CPU usage of the coreaudio process when Soundflower runs into issues here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23643199#23643199 Might want to try uninstalling it and see if that resolves the issue. Seems that the tool has gone dormant with the last update to th

Re: brltty on mac

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Blouch
This has come up before. Here was the last answer I could find: https://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg95537.html CB On 1/15/14 3:24 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Hello, I’m looking at building brltty on the mac. The first problem is compiling a version of screen with share

Re: O.t flip4mac pro question

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Flip4Mac lets you play some Windows proprietary formats as long as they aren't encumbered with DRM. Sounds like you need to install the WindowsMedia plugins to make it work. I think they are downloadable from Microsoft here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9442 CB On

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't use soundflower but supposedly it includes an uninstaller app, which is the ideal way to get rid of all the pieces. If you want to do it manually you apparently have to not only delete the app but also the Soundflower.kext in /System/Library/Extensions and reboot. CB On 1/15/14 7:28 P

Re: installing vinux on bootcamp?

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Blouch
From what I've read bootcamp was pretty much designed just to dual boot into Windows. If you want to boot into some linux variant or even triple-boot you'll need to use a different boot loader. There are a number of tutorials on the web how to do this. Here is one: http://www.davidlively.com/n

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
You can set up a mac to 'dual boot' where you partition your hard drive in two pieces with Windows on one and MacOS on the other. Then Apple's BootCamp tool lets you pick which one you want to start up. When running Windows this way it's no different than any other PC laptop and your Apple turn

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