Thanks for checking into this for me.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
> Well, my son just informed me that a revised website will roll out on
> December 9 for JetBlue. There may also be an iPhone app as well coming
> around the same time. What's unclea
I have heard that tinkertool has a "knob" for this. I don't have it on my Lion
machine yet, so I can't test.
Jonathan
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NO, the speech recognition built into MacOS is just for clicking on buttons and
running scripts and/or macros. If you need dictation dragon is, I believe, the
only alternative
On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Becky Knaub wrote:
> Hi all,
> does anyone know if you can use this option to dictate ins
Is the automatically cc check box in the composing pane of mail preferences
selected?
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> This is for those who just use Me.com mail so those do not you can delete
> this message.
>
> If I write mail using m
This is a mark up editor I have not tried it but I did talk to the developer
and if there are accessibility issues with VoiceOver he would be interested in
correcting them.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> Begin forwarded message:
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IT sounds like from my recent readings that the fujisu scanners are well liked
by the OCR manufactures of Mac software.
I have been playing around with devInc pro office which is a paperless office
solution which costs about $150. It uses Abby as its OCR engine, but can
automate with any scann
Tidbits.com who also publish the take control books, talked a little about ePub
books on the Macintosh yesterday. Apparently the iTunes store now allows
purchases of books, and I believe they had two suggestions about reading those
books on your non-IOS Apple device.
Best regards,
Jonathan
O
Hmm, you can not purchase any version of Apple software. You can purchase the
right to use it. This is true with almost any software you "purchase". THough
I believe what you are trying to say and believe me we have heard you and at
some level I expect 95% of the readers of this list agreee i
Be warned there is a older version of Abby that is distributed in such a way
that it shows up as a folder in your applications directory. It also for some
strange reason has the word "Sprint" in its name. I had bad experience with
this one. The buttons did not respond to VO, but there was a c
There is a preference item or two about picking the account. THere will also
be a pop-up button that you can arrow through to change the From: field. If
you have not checked the only use the specified SMTP server for this e-mail
account check box in the account preferences then there will also
Have you recently done a permissions fix in disk utility. I know folks that
swear this helps, but I have doubts that it really should.
I would expect that doing the following might be more useful but a bit
dangerous.
In terminal run the following commands.
1. cd /Users/
2. sudo chown -R
IN terms of boot camp, I am not the expert but nobody else has answered yet.
In the Utilities directory there is a program called bootcamp assistant .
When you run this program it will partition your hard disk and perhaps do a
little more setup.
At that point you will need to install the OS
The MacOs has the standard UNIX suite of commands.
ntpdate - set the date from an NTP server.
ntpd - run an NTP server (requires a config file to list NTP peers to use Also
if you use ntpd you should ensure it gets autostarted via launch or rc init
files.
ntpdc and ntpq - commands to query an
Are you having issues?
First of all there is not always a junk folder. By default the Mac just puts a
flag indicating the message is junk, but leaves it in the inbox.
However if you enabled the junk folder in your preferences then command-6
should open the folder. Note: however that GMAIL ha
Ok, go into the mailbox list and listen for "collapsed" expand that folder and
see if the new one is there. By default MacMail puts the folder crated as a
sub-folder of the currently selected/opened Mail folder.
On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote:
> Okay, I've created a new fold
I believe you should be able to do most things in Safari. I haven't seen that
message this year. Last year I did quite a few Federal applications. Some of
the sights that are using the Monster based application tool did refuse to let
me go any further until I faked them into thinking I was ru
Read the warning near the bottom before you proceed with this procedure.
There is an option when you boot from the DVD.
1. put DVD in computer while it is on.
2. Reboot the computer and hold down the "C" key until it starts to boot.
3. I believe that Voice Over will come on after a few moment
Perhaps vo-shift-command-b to search in reverse?
The other possibility is that vo-command-c might help you out.
Jon
On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:21 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi, I'm stuck. I've got to look at some information on the web where
> certain elements are marked in bold. So, I tooled
Yes you will lose something but it is not data. What you will lose is access
to the APple Keychain that holds all of your stored passwords forMail, Safari,
WebKit Skype and probably other tools too.
Jonathan
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Eleanor Southwood wrote:
> Thanks, thought not, but the
The Migration assistant can also use a Time Machine image to create a copy of a
users files
JOnathan
On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Other than cloning the drive, I'm not familiar with any utility that would do
> what you're asking. There might be a way that
Well, setting Priority is fairly easy.
. When composing a message click on the "customize header button" There is an
item to check in there for priority. I suggest using High priority minimally,
To get a return receipt there are actually two styles of return receipts if you
read http://en.
I think it is worthwhile to understand SUID as this is a file that circumvents
standard UNIX user protections.
A SUID file will run as the user that owns the file rather then running as the
user that started the program running. There are several programs that need to
be SUID so that they c
The terminal command
open -a Mail TheFileName
should do the same thing. And you can get theFileName by selecting it in the
finder and then typing command-c for copy. Then when you hit paste (command-v)
in the terminal the POSIX path of the file should be entered.
Oh, and the apple Script
With the full facebook client just one or two "clicks" and you can remove
Friend and/or application updates. I believe it might be an unlabeled link,
but if you click on it then wait a second a list of choices appear asking if
you want to ignore the person or the type of message.
JOn
On Jun
I once got this and it was resolved by rebooting the cable modem. If you have
COX they won't directly help you fix the problem because they don't support
routers. Also you did not perchance change where the ethernet cables are
plugged in did you? There is one place that is marked as WAN and i
I wonder if you are having issues with one of the preference files? I looked
around on my Macintosh, and did not find anything in ~/Library/Preferences with
"spell" in the name. There is a "spell" directory within the library that has
your private dictionary. Perhaps if you move that director
The last step in installing bootcamp is to insert your Snow Leopard disk into
the system while you are running windows. This should ask you to install the
boot camp drivers.
Did you do this?
Jonathan
On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:10 AM, James Malone wrote:
> Hi folks, yesterday I decided to install
If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the
systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning,
downloading and deleting of e-mails on your e-mail providers server. Actually
my first sentence is a bit off, IBM and Microsoft provide Domino/
ist if you want to know how to configure this.
Jonathan
On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
> If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the
> systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning,
> downloading and deleting of e-m
I believe the folks at MacSpeech had an application for this.
Jonathan
On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> does anyone know if there's an app that will convert an mp3 file to txt? I
> know it's probably a long-shot, but I figured that if it exists, someone on
> t
Scott,
I would suggest using the bridge mode on the Apple routers. Generally only
tunnelling will cause you issues, but any VPN will probably use tunneling. You
should still be able to block MAC addresses in one of the manual airport
controls even with DHCP turned off.
My problem with NAT i
In the blue tooth system settings you will find a table of known devices.
Select your headset and hit the delete key.
I usually get to the blue tooth system settings by going to the bluetooth
status menu and selecting the last item in the menu.
Jonathan
Just for completeness there is another w
Mark,
My blue tooth headset has decided to stop working on me, so I have nothing to
test with right now. My memory however is that there is a helper program of
some kind that is started when you select a bluetooth audio device.
Some possibilities
1. The volume / sound status bar item will
I do not think this is your issue, but take a look at the following:
1. Open up the System Preference Pane for energy Saver.
2. Click the schedule button near the bottom.
3. Review all the settings in this dialog.
HTH,
Jonathan
On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi Christina,
This depends on if you are using IMAP or POP for your mail protocol.
Check in theaccounts section of mail preferences if you don't know. Also when
setting up your gmail did you follow the instructions from the tidbits.com
article that Esther and I have referenced before?
Best,
Jonathan
O
ages->move menu.
Best regards,
Jonathan
On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
> when i set up my gmail account, i had no idea about the list. But I am using
> imap for my mail prtocol.
> On 2011-07-16, at 1:08 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>
>> This depends on if you
1. This is not really new to Lion.
2. There is the unix "reboot" command and there is also another command line
commmand that supports configuring next boot options.
But I believe that the command-R boot is almost like the C boot, except it will
boot off the restore partition in your hard disk
How much have you actually looked at AppleScript? The Voice Over set of
commands just allows you to script the various VoiceOver functions if you want
access to the menus or different graphical widgets an application that has been
available in the Macintosh environment longer then VoiceOver has
Yes, you can select play sound as one of the items in the Mail rules. Just
select add new action and then there should be a drop down for play sound.
Once you select that a second drop down will appear with the sounds in your
library sounds directory. THere might be a browse button too, but I
Did uou try a window list? Double click on the right side of the track pad
with track pad commander on. Also Control-Option-F2 twice...
Jonathan
On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> HI Riccardo,
>
> I've experienced this within Safari as well as other applications where
> Voic
Make sure Garage Band is not in full screen mode.
On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:44 AM, chad baker wrote:
> hi i'm trying to drag a bunch of loops i purchased a while back into gb
> when i cycle through windows gb don't show up
> any suggestions
> thanks
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I assume you are talking about getting extended options in the bluetooth,
airport and other status menu bar items?
I do this by the following process:
1. Hit vo-m twice to get to the status menu items.
2. Make sure quick nav is turned off.
3. Hold down the option key with your left hand and use l
I think that is an option with the option key. :-) though I also believe that
Esther's solution might be a bit easier to control.
Jonathan
On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
> Hi, I can't get my output device to switch from my internal mic to line-in on
> my macbook air. I've
iTunes gets updated anytime there are interesting new features for iPhones or
new media types or a security hole is found. The problem with iTunes right now
is that it has to manage too much...
1. Sync music, contacts, photos, home page,and applications to every type of
iPhone and iPod touch.
This is mission control at your command. YOu can disable these keystorkes in
the system preferences.
Jonathan
On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:52 PM, carlene knight wrote:
> Hi:
>
> When I hit the VO keys a lot, such as in Facebook, I either get the dashboard
> or finder popping up as one has a hotkey
In the accounts section of Mail Preferences there is a "e mail address" field.
Setting this will change what happens with replies. Note: some SMTP mail
servers (the systems that send mail out) limit what you can place in the from
line. Google for example only lets you use your gmail account u
Wait a while and try again. The Apple always says try setting the password
when the login fails, even if the mail server says I am too busy to handle your
login, or account locked because of too many connections to account.
If problem continues for more then 1 hour, and there is no friendly p
My son has one of these. there are occasional updates, but there are no apps.
Also, I am fairly confident that the radio does not have voice over, so when
using that you won't be able to have the radio tell you which freq. you are
listening too.
The size is quite small compared to my 5GB ipod
I have often used the JUMP mode within voiceover.
If you type VO shift J while in a table. This puts you in jump cursor
mode.
Jump cursor mode gives an error for almost every key, but the
following keys work.
Left move to the begining of the colum
right move to the last column.
Up move to th
I believe somebody posted a link to something like VO helper. I
thought I had kept a copy of it, but I can't find it now.
Jon
On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> I know there are screen sharing things like VNC but most of them
> don't do audio or have good VO support since t
The chat is accessable w/ VO if you change from Group to DOM mode. For
whatever reason, DOM mode works much better for HTML content that is
getting updated. This might be one of those places where using
AppleScript with VO might make sense. If there is a call back when
windows change that
I believe that the macintosh's firewall is advanced enough to be able
to support this ability, but the simplified interface to it provided
by "System Preferences: is insufficient to do this.
Your choices are:
1. Look at a separate piece of hard ware (ie Airport Base Station ) or
other wirele
Well I looked around a bit, and MicroCenter has a $200 off coupon or
rebate on the MacBook. I wonder if this applies to other Mac
equipment. It would probably be worth looking into.
Jon
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I use and am quite happy with a Jabra Halo headset. There are a few reviews on
line. In terms of voice over however, I can not really recommend its use.
This is I believe because of a Apple issue.
Essentially the problem is that the connection drops to save power and then a
half word of tex
I don't Quite a few folks on the list use a dedicated multichat program. There
is also a area within the iChat application to tell it to read aloud new
messages using the default TTS. 1. Start iChat
2. type command-, to bring up the preferences pane.
3. Interact with the toolbar and select ale
You might want to see what google can provide you for address syncing if you
trust them, and you want all contacts synced.
I don't know what they provide on the PC side, but
1. There is an option within the Apple Address Book preferences to sync with
Yahoo or Google.
2. If you configure yo
Hey somebody should write a quick apple script to toggle this and then it could
be assigned to a hot key or menu item.
On May 23, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Hello. turn off voice over, hit option command h and then command G and then
> turn vo on and you are good to go.
>
> S
> O
Frank
Selecting the rename group option actually works, though you have no feedback
that it is working.
Try this...
Select rename group ]
2. type a right arrow several times and then hit the delete several times.
3. Type the new name
4. quit address
book
5. start address book.
I am pretty sur
I have not tried either s5 or Audible, but a couple things to try:
1. Turn off cursor tracking. Some sites do a lot of javascript when the mouse
moves over a specific point, or the insertion point changes. This can wreck
havoc when all three track each other. Facebook is on my bad behavior lis
WHat is the IMAP server? Gmail recently changed a couple of things...
Jon
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Does it make any difference if you switch web viewing methods? I had one site
that was quite slow in Group mode, but was usable in DOM mode.
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k there is nothing displayed until you enter a search
> term.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jon Cohn
>
> Hi, Jon,
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I still can't read anything in column mode, but I
> can read the names in card mode when I search for them. Anyone e
The pod casts are saved in your iTunes LIbrary in a folder called podcasts.
You should be able to navigate to that directory and then find what you are
looking for.
Jon
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There is always the "mv" command in theterminal. I don't believe you can move
directories, but there might be a "-R" or "-r" option that would do that.
Bring up terminal, and type
man mv
and the command will be described for you.
Best,
Jon
On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wro
I just set up file sharing and noticed that the buttons are mislabeled
if you attempt to customize what is shared and to whom.
If anybody has a need to know about this let me know and I can walk
you through the steps.
By default when you turn file sharing on it is only enabled for
computer
Don't forget when formating the disk there is an option to safely clean out old
data. If you need me to search up specifically ow to do this, I can. I would
love to move up to a MBP< though right now my budget won't allow it.
Best regards,
Jonathan
On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:21 AM, erik burggraa
My memory about the new mini's is that the server version and the low-end
version do not have a GPU and that the mid-tier version does have thededicated
graphics processor.
So it might be that the only the medium tier mini has issues with no display
attached. Sounds like a fun experiment...
There is one other option for deauthorization of computers.
If you have five (the max) authorized computers then you can deauthorize all
computers in the Apple Store. This is described in the iTunes help.
I hope this helps.
So the process of making a computer safe for resale should be.
1. Ma
Quicklook can also be used to listen to audio files...
When you quicklook an audio file the playback will be paused if you switch to a
different application on the Mac and then will resume when you jump back to the
finder. Quicklook can also be used for HTML files in exactly the same way as
PD
It is fairly straight forward in textedit to do non-stylized changes ie there
are shortcuts to Bold, Underline, Italic, Center, Justify, increase font and
decrease font.
(Most of these shortcuts work in any richtext based Macintosh application) What
pages does is set up or allow you to setup sev
There are a few options. The easiest is to use the Subscribe to podcast in the
advanced menu of iTunes.
If you goto the feed: url in Safari, then you should be able to review the
podcast there. there will also be a subscribe in mail button on the Safari
page. If you subscribe in mail then th
I generally use VO-L (read line) some of what you want to use will depend on if
you are interacting with the input field. If you are not-interacting with the
input field then VO-F3 should work. If you are interacting then the commands to
read from beginning will give you the entire field. (VO-
You can build this under fink...
fink install re-alpinoperations-center:~ root#
operations-center:~ root#
operations-center:~ root# fink install re-alpine
Information about 10441 packages read in 2 seconds.
WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 19 days. You should run
'fink se
s podcast using
> iCatcher?
>
> Maybe the official podcast name would help since there is the ability to
> search for podcasts. Does anyone know the official name of the podcast?
>
>
> - Original Message - From: "Jon Cohn"
> To:
> Sent: Thurs
I am afraid you will have to be a little more specific.
1. In Lion by default every program that was running when you logout or
shutdown the computer will be restarted.
2. You can mark programs to start at login via the DOCK and/or system
preferences.
3. Several utility programs are started by i
OK, just to make sure you are using GMAIL right?
If you followed what appears to be current best practices and configured your
systems to retrieve e-mail via "IMAP" and not "POP", then where ever you create
the folder it will appear automatically in
a) Your GMail WEB Client
b) Your iPhone / i
Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard commander
is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the image in
the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote:
> Hi everyone, On the pc I could sol
The two sets of instructions do exactly the same thing, they modify the
properties file of the application which is sorta kinda like the registry in
Windows, though by no means as global.
So using the defaults command adds a new item to the appropriate plist file
using Apple standard operatin
I believe you can also put MP3 files in your sounds library with success if you
don't feel like converting them. The worst thing that could happen is that the
sound file does not work.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Traci wrote:
> Oh, I change other formats to .aiff. Ya
In snow Leopard, I usually select a chunck of text and then do a contextual
menu select and find create task. I am not sure if this is a mail contextual
menu, or a general text one.
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
> Nothing in file for a to do list. Looks like the
I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this...
And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX
port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command
line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download
(
I find that sometimes a disclosure triangle is "part of a group" (like in the
mailbox list in Snow Leopard. In these cases, you need to interact with the
group before the right arrow will work. (It might be that there are ways the
developer could have the group just feed the arrow keys to th
Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find the
option to partition the disk?
Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one has
a tap to modify the partition table.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
OK. Information in
/System/Library is only supposed to be Apple items.
Items in /Library/ are items available to all users of the computer.
Items in /Users/myUserName/Library are generally only available to myUserName
If the computer is only being used by the owner, then there is no real
dif
Some Snow Leopard folks actually deleted all the fields in the messages table
and then re-added them in order they wanted. Tables including this one have a
column header that a sighted person can see, and that VO's trackpad commander
can access if you go to the top of the column with a single f
I had some minor success wit but I had no desire to really create a website.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
sandvox
On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
> Hi, Unfortunately i have no knowledge of html at all. I can upload stuff via
> ftp if need be but dont know anything about programming.
I reviewed some of our taxes in Turbo Tax last year using VoiceOver. I did
very little data entry, so I am not sure about how well that works, but
TurboTax 2010 certainly was navigatable using VoiceOver, and our family will be
using the 2011 version too, so I can report back on that in a few m
Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear.
There is a program called sandvox sandbox but the b as in bravo has been
changed to a v as in Victor. This program seems to allow some interesting HTNL
editing, but I did not spend much time on it. You can download it for free,
and
On Snow Leopard, the mail messages are stored in the "~/Library/Mail" folder.
This folder defintately has all of the e-mail messages and I am fairly certain
that the Database that indexes the folders is also stored there. If it is not,
then it would be in the folder that "Application Data" fo
Version 7 just came out and I have seen no mention on the Blindness lists about
it, so it is probably too early to say. Earlier versions of Parralel did not
allow display chaining or as I understand it, and so were useless for jaws
users.
Jonathan
On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Anouk Radix w
1. If you hold down the control key during boot, I believe it will first eject
the Disk.
Second, Don't you have Lion installed? perhaps you can use the Lion recovery
partition to install the OS.
Jonathan
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I have heard good things on another list about emacs speak working under the
Macintosh. They told me to look in the archive to find out how, and I have as
of yet not done that.
Jonathan
On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm playing a little with Lynx and Alpi
Well, there are actually "Smart Folders" in Mail app directly too. They are
just a way to merge several Smart Mailboxes much the way that the Inbox folder
collects all of your different Inboxes into one view. If the "Smart Mailboxes"
allowed a bit more control in their selection criteria then
If there is a command line interface to compress the files but no GUI and the
person wants something in the contextual menu, then a short automator script
should be able to enable this. I am not personally very agile at using the
automator, but there is certainly the ability to "do shell script
It is a document that the finder does not have a translation to describe what
it is. Generally every application has a "plist" file within the application
that lists file extensions that the application supports and also gives a
descriptive name to the file extension. This is how Word document
Well, this is not exactly what you want, but default folder X is supposed to
allow you to have keyboard shortcuts and additional neat features in the file
dialog boxes. I have heard people rave about it, but I have personally never
tried it.
http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.ht
Are you running Snow Leopard? I don't know theconfiguration of signatures
for Lion.
To create a folder there is a button at the bottom of the list of folders.
Clicking this button is the easiest way to create a folder. I believe you can
also create one using a contextual menu on any fo
Kevin,
What I do is the following:
After typing a bit of a name I stop. Voice over then announces "new window" I
then make sure quick nav is turned off and just use the down arrow key. Also,
if the name mentioned is the one you want, then it will be completed by typing
a comma.
Best wishes,
I have had Snow Leopard ask me if I want to apply rules to the currently active
folder. If you say yes then it will do this.
After creating the rule there is also a menu around I think in the messages
contextual menu that allows you to apply rules.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 21, 2011, at 2
Actually if you are going to set it up as a key stroke, you might want to go a
little more complicated.
property RunState
if RunState is equal to "stop" then
tell application "AUdio Hijack" ... .. to run
set runState to "running
else
tell application "Audio Hijack" to stop recording ..
set
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