Paul,
I would be glad to help you with APpleScript. I learned by tearing apart a few
applescript's and also by reading the Apple help documents available in the
Applescript editor help menu.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi Colin and Darcy,
>
> Tha
WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have
told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as a
class of "quicktime player" and so it is assuming the word movie is actually a
variable (identifier) but in syntactically a class is requir
my _movie -- starts playing
end tell
On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
> WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have
> told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as
> a class of "quicktime player"
I had high hopes for Account Edge. But as soon as I started the demo I started
running into non-readable fields. I understand that Money Guru is a standard
accounting package and not a checkbook program, so perhaps that is accessable
and has the features you need.
Let us know, and also let me
I have only one point of help for you.
You should be able to select an entire row or column if you go to the extreame
edge using the touchpad commander, and thenclicking on the item found. I have
not had much luck with navigating, but I wonder if the standard command down
would do the trick?
I would be suprised if there was not a way to get a list of the URL's via
AppleScript.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
> Hi, sorry if this gets posted double but this kept staying in my drafts
> folder.
> Is it possible to export your list of subscribed podcasts from itunes to a
There is a text recognition command to send the current e-mail. I believe I
could set up the equivalent for you in an AppleScript if you want.
Jon
On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:40 PM, bill holton wrote:
> Hi.
> So it looks like I would have to construct a macro to press the send key and
> then assign
The only solution I have heard that really works is to use a terminal window
within emacsspeak. I have not tried this, but I have terminal fairly under
control.
The first thing to know is that by default terminal continually keeps the full
scroll back by default, so after 20,000 or so lines of
Sounds like you have the twitter safari extension. Look in your extensions tab
of safari preferences and you should be able to turn it off or delete it.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> Hi all!
> I was also getting a Twitter page turning up and I do not
Yes you can override them in the keyboard shortcuts. At least I have
intentially overridden cmd-W to do another function.
Jon
On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> No no no no!
> Not that one Ricardo! lol!
> I was looking for it in the keyboard shortcuts as you suggested!
> It looks
Kim,
It would help to know what the dialog boxes say. There is a permissions issue
with the current iTunes and your AppleID account if you do not use the computer
as an administrator. I saw some notes on how to fix this, but I have not done
this yet.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 27, 2011,
I I believe the converter is called a pre-amplifier. External microphones work
OK, but the signal is too small for the line-in to recognize it.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Wow, they've been doing this for a few years now. I wonder what the conv
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>
> I too am interested. H
I would trust Chris on this, he does has more experience than I do... However,
I would have expected that if the HTML had indicated that the content-encoding
was UTF-8 which I believe all Macintoshes use, then I would have expected the
accented characters to be displayed correctly on the web pa
Well, some of it is already there, and has been since before Voice Over, before
OSX and possibly even before Steve Jobs was kicked out by the board.
Macintoshes have had a speech recognition system. It does not work as flexibly
as Siri, but you can have it understand several hundred commands p
Becky,
THe built in speech recognition on the Macintosh does not recognize words, it
recognises phrases. So you could for example hold down the escape key and say
"switch to system preferences" You would then hear a click and System
Preferences would be launched. If you want dictation, then y
There is a application called "Address Book". Starting it up, and hitting
command-N is the way to do this by scratch. Also when you are reading an
e-mail message and you hear data detector near a phone number, VO-shift-M will
bring up a contextual menu item including add to address book. Some
All songs in iTunes have a count of play times and count times. Though
generally, the play count is not displayed. Also, there is a remember location
and skip on random check boxes in the iTunes info box.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Daniel Montalvo Charameli wrote:
>
First may I recomend that you reconfigure your mac GMAIl to use IMAP.
Otherwise, when you delete from one system it may not delete from the other.
Now on to the IOS issue...
1. By default GMAIL does not delete, but archives e-mails. I am not sure if
this is important for you, but when you arch
Did you get a solution? I found that if I composed the message on myMac, and
then logged into GMAIL and went to drafts and sent from the web interface
e-mails that were not getting to Verizon started working again. If ISP's keep
this up, soon we will all be using Facebook which would be unfort
I believe that if you create a new header
"return-receipt-requested"
with a value of your e-mail address, then this will do the same function. I
believe that RFC822 does not however directly define this header and that the
results are not predictable.
JOn
On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Marlaina
How b about creating the signature in TextEdit, and then cutting it into the
signature pane. THis might be good also since then you could save the sigs
independently if you need them in a new account.
JOn
On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Yep I hope they fix this in another
> Here is the apple suggestions on battery life. From my experience with a
> iPod original, I know that use of only a fully charged battery does
> reduce Lithium ION battery life.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
Jon
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most likely maintenance on your ISP side, or a blocking issue. There is a
Connection Doctor in the windows menu of the mail application. This will give
specific information.
Best of the holidays,
Jon
On Dec 24, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Out of the blue one of my m
It shouldn't. Mac's use "alias" which is more powerful then UNIX symlinks or
Widows links. One of the advantages of the Apple HFS.
Jon
On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Will that kill the shortcut link in the doc though if you r app happens to
> reside there as well though?
The commands you are looking for are under "jjump" in the VO commands. go to
botomost item and go to topmost item. These will maintain your column position.
Jon
Jump
On Dec 26, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Wow, I did it. This is fabulous. I'll have to play more with this. O
First make sure the network control panel is unlocked. the Lock is the last
item in the control panel.
Now, select the advanced button and you should find under the Airport tab a
table of defined networks.
Select
the networks from that table that you want to delete. Then stop interacting
w
The most direct though not necessarily the most obvious is to open up the
dictionary of objects available to AppleScript within the AppleScript editor...
command-shift-O
Then select VoiceOver and hit enter.
There will be a window with two tables and a HTML document.
THe HTML document
Just before Steve Jobs came back to Apple they did do this, and the results
were less then Stellar. When Apple owns the complete hardware and operating
system, then they can do better quality control, and that directly effects
their ability to support customers as well as they do. I have to sa
I got the following to compile and run with no error on my computer..
THe code you used had 3 basic differences
1. wrapped the entire script in a try block. Try blocks are used so that if
any part of the script fails it does not abort, but handles it. Since you
didn't catch any errors in the c
>> On a completely unrelated issue, how do I open the various folders
>> which are on my Dock?
>> Cmd+o, enter, and VO+space have all failed to do the expected thing.
>> Any information on these two initial questions would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> I'm starting to like the system already and w
Did you notice a speed difference? Between the upgrade to the new SnowLeopard
and the fact that I don't regularly exit Mail, I was not sure if there was a
difference. Certainly I am having VO do a couple busy remarks when opening
mail.
Jon
On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
T m then arrow to open. Good luck.
>>
>> On 07/01/2011, at 6:55 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> On a completely unrelated issue, how do I open the various folders
>>>>> which are on my Dock?
>>>>> Cmd+o, enter, and
They are easier to buy, and perhaps Apple has certified them to some level,
just as they do for iPhone Apps. The other major difference is that Apple
receives a significant cut of the sale. Apple has also (just as they do with
IOS devices) allowed you to migrate the licenses to newer systems
On the boot disk, the Macintosh will de-frag on the fly any file <2MB if it has
more then 8 fragments. There is an excellent article at
http://www.osxbook.com/software/hfsdebug/fragmentation.html
This article discussed 6 month old 10.3 systems and they were 99% fragment
free. HFS+ also has a
WHen using IMAP, by default the Mail application only downloads the message
when you select it.
In the preferences panel under Accounts' Advanced tab there is an item called
Keep copies of messages for offline viewing:
There are options to download Messages and Attachments, Just messages or to
e a good chunk of free space
available on the computer.
Jon
On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:54 AM, AZ wrote:
> Hi
>
> The free space can be fragmented too, Mac OS x doesn't defrag it or optimize
> drives
>
>AZ
>
> 09.01.2011 18:30, Jon Cohn writes:
>> O
Yes, you can set up an apple script to run as an alarm for ical. There is a
runscript option in the alarm pull down menu.
I don't know what would happen if you are not logged in when the Alarm occurs.
And if you are logged in and reading mail right now it would quit you out of
mail, so you m
Well, in my personal opinion, your office is doing things wrong. Any Private
WiFi Network in an office environment should not be advertising its ID to the
world, they should instead require that the SSID be entered into those
computers that are authorized to use the NetWork. This probably doe
rse. I want to try and do as much as I can on my own. that's
> the best way to learn. lol!
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>
>> Yes, you can set up an apple script to run as an alarm for ical. There is a
>> runscript option in the alarm pull down menu.
&
Question here that you might not be able to answer...
WHen you use the option 8 it tells the Mac to enter the 'bullet' character.
Does pages turn a set of paragraphs each starting with the bullet character
into a 'bulleted list'? The best way to tell this would be to save as HTML and
then vi
If you believe it could be preference item, the best way to check this is to
set up an additional account in syste preferences and see if you get the same
results there.
I have read one recommendation to set up a Guest account, since then everytime
you log in it is a clean set of files / pr
Spotlight should still be able to find these, if the MP3 tags specify the
Artest / Album / Work correctly.
On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Colin M wrote:
> Hi Yuma!
> Whilst going through my Itunes problem sorting out my mess!
> I found a couple of my albums have a different name in the hd than the
Yes this is some process associated with the Quicktime framework. I found some
discussions of this process constantly increasing thread counts until it
crashed. So with multiple processors and multiple threads, the CPU levels can
go above 100%, though each thread can only use up to 100%.
Jon
You probably have an extra character in the Try. I generally interact with the
error message and find the quoted text of what it found and then single
character through that.
Jon
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If you open the apple script editor there is a link to the Language Guide in
the Help menu. The Language guide has two full pages defining classes that are
available and what they mean and what parameters you can use.
Jonathan
On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Jane wrote:
> Anyone got a link to
1. Open the folder
2. Hit command-option F to put the cursor in the find selector
3. Enter Sour cream
4. Stop Interacting with the tool bar
5. Hit VO-Right three times
6. You should be on a radio button that says "This Mac"
7. One more VO-RIght and you will be on recipes. Hit this radio butto
gt; end try
>
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>
>> You probably have an extra character in the Try. I generally interact with
>> the error message and find the quoted text of what it found and then single
>> character through that.
>>
>>
That is because the F key is no longer a F key once you have changed to a non
latin keyboard. I played around a little with Hebrew layouts and discovered
the same thing. I suggest getting / using a numeric keypad, and then
configuring that for the functions you need,
Best regards,
Jon
On J
Scott,
I believe you are thinking of a DSL modem or Cable modem, both of which are
supplied with a ethernet output. Traditional modems use a phone line with a
RJ11 connector, and there is no RJ11 jack on the current versions of Apple's
Airport line of Router/BaseStations.
On Jan 12, 2011, a
ine, etc. but found “end tell”.
>
> Here is the revised one with the quotes. it seems to barf after the activate
> thing.
>
> tell application "skype" to activate
> end tell
> do shell script "./clisk"
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Jon Cohn wrote
tell application "Skype"
activate
end tell
do shell script "open -a Terminal ./clisk_mac"
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>
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>
>> Scott,
>>
>> I believe you are thinking of a DSL modem or Cable modem, both of which are
>> supplied with a ethernet output. Traditional modems use a phone line with a
>> RJ11 connecto
Actually, I have found just hitting return on a podcast will cause it to be
queued for download...
Jonathan
On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Jane wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Make sure the view is set to text list view in iTunes. It's a radio button
> you'll find when you use control-option-left or righ
I have tried several ways to adjust the order of columns in Mail and none were
successful. I believe I used to do this when I I had sight. I believe the
process was to either drag the column headers (which can be found with the
trackpad commander) or dragging the line between columns. I would
itting one?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13 January 2011 19:11, carlene knight wrote:
>> It might just be easier to arrow down to the podcast you want to download,
>> then press vo/shift+m and then arrow up once to download episode. Press
>> return, and you'r
I would edit that information before doing the import.
1. Insert CD
2. Select all items on the CD
3. Hit Command-I and A warning will let you know you are editing multiple
items. Fill in the common information such as Album Title Number of tracks..
4. Save
5. Go to each track and edit the son
I believe it was $150,000 but I have read too many descriptions this morning.
JOhn
$150,000 / year so yeah
On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
> Wow this must be a pretty good paying gig, that's quite a skill set.
>
> I have the unix and ACL management down but wow.:)
>
>
> On
Yes this is associated with HP printers.
I looked at a startup item I had and besides the permissions you need to have
the User as system and the group as wheel...
On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Thanks John and Carolyn,
>
> Repairing permissions had no affect. I'm not sur
Two more notes on terminal.
by default terminal does not clear out scrollback items, so your entire
terminal session will be in both the terminal window and the VoiceOver text
block. You can change this in the preference panels or by hitting command-K
when you are about to start something
You can start textedit and open the program. I don't know about setting up a
default but if it is possible it would be the same basic process as for PDF
files. Also there is the command-line (terminal) command "open"
so to open file funnybone
open -a textedit funnybone
will open the file in
with thefollowing commands in terminal you should be able to do this.
find and/or for
mv (the unix rename command)
3. dirname a command that returns a file name w/o the extension)
Jon
On May 10, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> Is this possible under the current O
Lower down in your Account settings window, you will see a outgoing mailserver
item with a pop-up button. click the pop-up button and you will find a edit
SMTP serves line. Select this and you should be on your way...
Jon
On May 13, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I set up
You are getting these errors because the Adobe plugin is still in your system.
In either:
/Library/Internet PLugins" or /Library/Internet Plugins"
You should find a item from Adobe hthat should be removed. ..
On May 13, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Terry Klarich wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> In a previous
There was a article on how to do this in Tidbits 1-3 months ago. Do a search
on tidbits.com, they went into detail of how to set things up and what issues
might arise for example each system will download podcasts.
Best regards,
Jonathan
On May 1, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Do you run a software or hardware firewall?
You might need to open ports to the programs in question if you have the
software firewall enabled.
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There is a half off special from mac update today for a PDF converter. Haven't
had time to look at it, but perhaps there is a free demo version, and then if
it does what you need then you could purchas it.
On May 17, 2011, at 12:38 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
> Erik:
> With all due respect, I don't
I have done this with TIFF and PostScript files.
Even though I got a copy of Abby (old version) with my scanner, the new Abby
does not recognise my Epson Perfection scanner.
On May 18, 2011, at 1:21 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
> Hi:
> I'm debating about purchasing Abbyy for my Mac to access it's
First note that the terminal gives you a UNIX shell and accepts most BSD UNIX
commands with no major issues.
In terms of cursor tracking as long as you "interact" with the text you should
not have many problems especially if you read my note from last week.
Best regards,
Jonathan
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>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> First, you might want to read Jonathan Cohn's reply from last week on
> terminal usability:
> On May 13, 2011, Jon
On May 20, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote:
> Hi Annie!
>
> Has this program a function for making references to sources? Like I wrote
> about for a cpouple of days ago regarding Pages?
> I seriously need this tool, since it would make some of my papers so much
> easier to hand
ng to
>> buy that app, I don't want to have to jump through lots of hoops to use it.
>> I have to say this is one area where accessibility really could use a
>> proberveal kick in the pants--Ok, upgrade.:)
>>
>> I absolutely hate having to tell people I need to u
What type of file is the main file? If it is a RTF with attachments, then the
file is actually a "package". So you can open the contextual menu and request
"View package contents".
Jon
On May 22, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Denise Avant wrote:
> hi all,
> i saved an e-mail on my mac to the documents f
I would expect that Voice Over is very sluggish for you. Usually when
something is between 93-110 percent CPU I have found that one of the threads
of the process is in what computer scientists call Infinite Loop. Yes, I know
that Apple HQ is at 1 Infinite Loop, but still this is not a good t
process
> Nothing can use 106% of your cpu.
> ash
>
> On 22/05/2011 19:35, Jon Cohn wrote:
>> I would expect that Voice Over is very sluggish for you. Usually when
>> something is between 93-110 percent CPU I have found that one of the
>> threads of the proces
/TCoYourPaperlessOffice-1.0-sample.pdf
Jonathan
On May 21, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Kestrell wrote:
> What is the title and author of this book?
>
> Kestrell
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Well, I found it on the main site when I clicked over to my profile and then
clicked on the link "186 friends"
On May 23, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> You know, if Facebook would just do the right thing and make their main site
> more accessible, we wouldn't have to go through all thi
Sounds like you are working on the symtoms. If you can hear the fans when the
computer gets hot then it is doing the right thing in terms of heat control.
Things to look at:
1. Are there any stuck processes. (look in force quit dialog for applications
that are not responding or in Activity moni
experience is that the User Agent switches back to "Default" when you open a
new tab or window. It is usually not a good idea to fake a User Agent in the
browser because certain JavaScript routines behave differently in the various
browsers, and complicated web sites like LinkedIN and FaceBook
What is your end goal? To activate Bluetooth on login or to have a script be
able to enable blue tooth audio?
It appears that launching the application "BluetoothAudioAgent.app" will enable
bluetooth audio. If this is the case, then the following APpleScript might do
the trick or you could se
Well, here is a start... This does not fully work because the "make new"
functions are not actually making a new window / tab .
Also a shell script (UNIX) using curl and say would be only three lines and
would be a little more responsive, though you would need to get a little fancy
with "sed"
That article is a little old now. There are some things that GMAIL has changed
and there are weirdnesses that Apple has done with SPAM / Junk folders in
10.6.5 I believe. Except for possibly the use of the Spam folder, I think
most of the article will still work. The big change on the GMAIL
Hmm, I don't encounter this much any more. I believe that there is a link
after the first 5-6 names if it is like other address fields then it will
probably show up as a button that you have to route the mouse to and then do a
vo-shift-space or mouse click in order to expand.
Best of luck,
J
THis can happen on POP servers if if you keep messages on the server and one
of your mail preference files gets corrupted. I have seen some applescripts
perhaps even mentioned on this list that will analyze your Inbox and delete
duplicates.
If the duplicate count is below 50 messages then It
Too many questions... I will answer just one.
Indeed there is a one line apple script to open a URL with your default
browser...
it is:
open location "http://www.tidbits.com";
Let me know if you need help converting your URL into an AppleScript executable.
Jonathan
On Jun 4, 2011, at 7:06 PM
Hmm, are you talking ASCII here? Might be a little bit of a problem since Macs
use UNICODE which is a superset.
Try turning on full puncttuation on this message however and see what follows:
Gabi גבריאל יונה Cohn• å é
On Jun 4, 2011, at 12:44 PM, John Sanfilippo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm
Basically, long story
> short, I know nothing.
>
> You're gonna have to start from the beginning.
>
> LOL! Smile.
>
> Chris.
>
> - Original Message - From: "Jon Cohn"
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> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:23 PM
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If you insert the disk that has Snow Leopard on it, either the purchased one or
the DVD that came with your computer, you will find an installer for xCode 3 on
it. This should be sufficient. XCode 4 is needed for development of Lion
and/or IOS 5 applications, to the best of my knowledge.
Jo
I believe you are talking about the 4 Daisy files right? Do you have a Book
Sense or Victor Reader? Otherwise there are a few possibilitities to read
daisy on a Macintosh.
JOnathan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Ed Worrell wrote:
> Hello Listers, I have had the Newsline paper that you get in
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