Re: App for blocking numbers iPhone

2013-01-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I once saw a ringer that was a five second silence. I never got it uploaded to my phone where I could see it, but I do put in specific ring tones for some annoying callers. Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com (703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On Jan 28, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Dann

Re: Single user mode?

2013-01-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Overview of Single user mode: Think of DOS in 1984. Or Apple 2 computers. More details: Single user mode is the mode where UNIX operating systems only have access enabled on the console and have just enough processes running so a sighted person can interact with the computer. If there are add

Re: My Spotlight is out

2013-02-03 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
What happened when you hit VO-M three times? WHich version of the OS are you running? Best wishes, On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Richard Ring wrote: > I can no longer use Spotlight search. When I press command space, nothing > happens. I tried vo m 3 times, no joy. Then I repaired permissions

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This should work. tell application "VoiceOver" tell commander to perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor" end tell see http://www.cbtbc.org/tools/asvo/voec.php for details. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gr

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Oh, to play a sound there is definitely a way to do this, and the shutdown unix command can be used for restarts and shutdowns. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 6, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wonder wether it was very complicated to create 2 scripts for the follow

Re: Cookies in Safari

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are three options for cookies. Allow, don’t allow third party and disallow. This is currently and I believe for a while has been in the privacy area of the Safari settings. Best of luck, Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
can understand the script there's no action defined for that. Is > that true? > So I wonder wether you are willing to add the lines to perform a click. > Thanks and all the best > Jürgen >> Am 07.11.2014 um 06:30 schrieb Jonathan C. Cohn : >> >> This should w

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I caught airdrop on mac to iOS only worked with Max greater than 2012. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > did you switch off "Do not disturbe? on the iPad. Sorry, I don't know the > correct term on an english machine but it should be quit

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
uot;mouse" is a variable and not defined. > > If I just right > >> click once > > Script Editor tells me there was an error 4. > > So that didn't work. Do you still have an idea? > > Thanks and all the best > Jürgen > > > >> Am 07.1

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I know there have been some recent posts about bootcamp and startup so I won’t answer those. If you want or security of FileVault for your Macintosh disk than every time the computer power is turned on, you need to login via File Vault because the encryption key for the disk must be opened. Not

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sorry, now I remember what else I wanted to say. If you turn off file vault, then the macintosh will start decrypting your files, and once that process is done then the Macintosh will prompt for UserName / Password after the OS is running so that VoiceOve and other services are available on th

Re: does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have used both Firefox and Chrome with speech. Sometimes ChomeVOX the chrome screen reader will work better than VoiceOver on a specific page. Also, don’t forget to report your crashes to Apple! Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Scott Berry wrote: > Hi there, > >

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Could this type of transfer also be done with the new iCloud functionality? Perhaps we could get VoiceStream developers to create a Macintosh version that allows continuity transactions to transition reading from Macintosh to IOS. I have read a bit about the process continuity uses to transitio

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, so you should probably look up a recent technical document. The boot partition in Yosemite uses the t

Re: The latest version of Microsoft Outlook appears to be accessible

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I might be speaking out of lack of knowledge, but HTML generally ignores line breaks in the BODY and instead uses a specific tag to indicate breaks and/or change of paragraph. I have not looked specifically at HTML based mail, but I would expect the same behavior. Also, at least in Outlook

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Delay is the applescript command for a pause. I believe its argument is in seconds. If you really need, I can look that up for you. Also, I discovered the error in my previous post about the mouse click. It should have been tell mouse cursor to click twice The twice can be once, twice, or thri

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
>> On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >> Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp >> assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on >> Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, s

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-12 Thread Jonathan C . Cohn
>> On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >> Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp >> assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on >> Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, s

Re: Mail Time format different than computer

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I just verified in 10.9.5. I changed my 24 hour clock in Language and Region, and then went to the next message in the message list and indeed the time changed from using PM to 24 hour notation. Were you noticing the time in the message itself, or in the list of messages. For a short while I cha

MacUpdate deal on disk utilities

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Just an FYI, MacUpdate send me a notification that tools that allow read/write of NTFS disks on Macintosh and also HFs+ on Windows and a disk partition utility that allows more controls then Apple disk utility are being sold by them as a bundle. If you are one of those folks often moving materi

Re: cal lender question

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, the sighted just drag appointment to where they want it. You might be able to do this with the VO , commands. I always use the command-i option that brings up the details and then edit from there. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan On Heshvan 22, 5775 AM, at 14:37, Faisal ali wrote: >

Re: cal lender question

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
the time. > On Nov 15, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> Well, the sighted just drag appointment to where they want it. You might be >> able to do this with the VO , commands. I always use the command-i option >> that brings up the details and then edit

Re: Chess Server Client for Mac

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The Macintosh chess program that has been on my computer since MacOS 10.0. has some sort of game sharing component built in. I was unable to view the help documentation because GameCenter kept popping up in front of Chess and I could not cancel or fully login to Game Center. Best wishes, Jonat

Re: mac terminal

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Since there were no further mentions of OS or application one other hint is if you are on UNIX most applications can have standard out piped to pager program like more or less. (Those are two separate programs and Less has more features than more). Also when I was doing builds using the terminal

Re: Strange things happen when i copy files on my mac

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Are you sure there is no dialog kiting the progress of the copy? Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 27, 2014, at 14:54, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi there. > I’m in the process of making a music library and another for my books on my > NAS. When i have copied some files, the NAS just goes down and

Re: Daisy File Conversion

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are a couple of daisy readers that work on the Macintosh, but I do not know their capabilities. Daisy files have at least one SMIL file that synchronizes each type of material (voice, text, HTML) in a chunk of text. I believe there is also a file listing each SMIL file that is being used.

Re: Possible Bug in Yousemity?

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, I believe two things are being talked about here. 1. Date and Time script accessed with keyboard commander and T. This script will use either the default voice of the system or VoiceOver depending on if VoiceOver Scripting is enabled. 2. Regularly scheduled time announcements defined in

Re: VMWare Fusion 7 and JAWS 16

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
On my Citrix based machines, where I encountered similar issues, I was able to drop a “Shortcut” file to JAWS into a directory close to: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Startup Items\” I know there is at least one other item in the path listing above, but than this is not a JAWS list. Good Luck,

Re: OT: WebEx

2014-11-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have online meetings at my office using WEBEX usually there is both a phone number with bridge ID and a web link. The WEBEX software itself is written in JAVA, so if depending on the components they use you should have success. I generally have only used WebEx on a Windows Machine using JAWS.

Re: how to save please help?

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Another thing to note about the control key. The control key will continue playback after you have hit it a second time.so in other words it acts like a pause/play button rather than a stop button. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > I’m pretty sure that

Re: My Network

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You might be able too get to the drive with url like smb://myoldcomputer/public Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Hello guys > I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out. I can’t figure out > which computer, or maybe both of them, is causin

Re: iTunes 12 importing media slow?

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You don't use match by any chance?g Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 13, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, Kliph, > > I would suggest that with large imports like you’re doing, that the iTunes > Database is possibly the issue. The number of files tends to be as big of an > issue as

Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
One thing that might speed up gmail syncing and save space on your computer would be to reduce the number of messages that Google iMAP allows to be downloaded. My memory is that there is a checkbox with a default of 2000 messages. So supposedly if you checked this you would only have the 2K most

Re: selecting text from one particular point to end

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Another possibility is to set up a smart folder. You can set up a smart folder that has the rules folder: retail Age > 2 weeks ago. Then you would be able to just select all and delete every once in a while. I certainly do this for the MacVisionaries since otherwise my system gets slow syncin

Re: headphone balance drifts from the center in mac os10 yosemite how can i stop this from happening? kind regards trey.

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is a feature that I had forgotten about. It lets you know where on the Macintosh screen the VoiceOVer cursor is currently located. This can be turned off in VoiceOver Utility under the Sounds area there is a checkbox called Enable Positional audio Best wishes, Jonathan On Dec 11, 201

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith to be available in one place but also to read them from your Inbox than a Smart Mailbox is the way to go. If you want all the messages from John Smith to disappear from the Inbox and Appear in their own folder than you

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, When I went to the apple store to get a iPone 6 replaced, they moved the SIM card from the old phone to the new phone. I then had to call into Sprint to have the new phone activated. I am not really sure how SIM cards and CDMA networks interact, though it might be that Sprint / Verizon

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
. I'd like, for example, all of the messages from > John Smith to disappear from th inbox using message rules. How do I do this? >> On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >> This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith >>

Re: Zip files

2014-12-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Probably the easiest solution would be to create a compressed disk image and place your book folders in that disk image. If you are severely short on disk space you need to be careful, since at least until the compression has finished and possibly been verified you will not be able to delete the

Re: VO pronouncing Spanish Accent marks strangely

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Can you add the word and you dictionary? Please send an example. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Since upgrading to Yosemite, VO says “combining acute accent” whenever it > encounters a accent mark in a spanish word. If I switch to the spanish voice >

Re: How do i get my contacts from my computer to icloud

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You might try export and import. Or select all and paste to your iCloud group gif you export your current list you will have a base of contacts to work. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I hope somebody can help me figure out what it is I've neglected

Re: How tyo scroll in textEdit

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
My memory of this as a partially sighted person. Is that,A single tap of the keys will bring you to the top of the bottom of the screen in the second tap will move to by a page. down. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:31 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > Or on full sized keyboard optio

Re: Aspects of VoiceOver not working - Read All, Read down, VOJ and Scroll

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello Building from areformatted disk will not fix your issue. Has this ever worked for you. If poassible reply directly to jonathan.co...@va.gov as I don't read this list during work. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:08 AM, April wrote: > > Hello. I don't add people to Skype I d

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I thought that NTFS was readable by Max but not writable. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 AM, Aleeha Dudley wrote: > > Unfortunately, this is correct. There are free programs you can get to read > the drive, but there are also paid programs. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Bill G

Re: Voiceover Accessibility of DevonThink 2.8.2

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I thought it sounded like a great concept 3 years ago, but I never quite figured out the interface. There are a couple of Take Control books on using this application and others like it to reduce your dependence on paper records. At least some versions of the package include Abby Fine Reader to

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
There is actually an option for a double click with the VO “mouse cursor” object I tested the below and it seems to work for me. tell commander perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor" delay 1 end tell output mouse summary (* Above outpu

Re: Fujitsu ScanSnap | Accessibility of ScanSnap Manager with VoiceOver

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Hmm, can somebody elaborate on the performance of SnapScan with Abby in terms of pages per a minute? I have found that the TWAIN drivers for flat bed scanners seem to limit one to 3 minutes for 1 page. I seem to remember that the SnapScan’s can work with 10 pages a minute that could go a long

Re: Unwanted List traffic

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
This is a question for the moderators and not the list. It is best for all if you don’t reply to these items and get them pushed back onto the list. In all likelihood the moderators quietly took care of this abuse. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: Is Setting Styles Fixed in Latest Pages? Now that AppleScript has been extended again. What are other things you were interested in having AppleScript do to make your life easier?

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > VO users have always been able to set paragraph styles in Pages, the problem > is setting short cuts and this is still broken in the latest release. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 8 Jan 2015, at

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Microsoft UIA also has properties associated with a specific control. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:08 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi Devin, > > This is exactly how the program is structured. In trees. Theres nothing new > there. Nothing changes to the way you handle thin

shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I was able to get to control button for renaming a style or creating a shortcut by hitting command-control-option-J (jump to next control) I believe this will work from anywhere in the style table, but I was also attempting combinations of vo-spacebar or vo-command-shift-spacebar. I am fairly

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
> not the latest one. In your version, there is no problem getting to the menu, > but this is broken in Yosemite where we are now up to version 5.5.2 (2120) of > Pages. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 12 Jan 2015, at 02:15, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I verified my pages version it was upgraded on January second, so was exactly one version older than the current version. In any case, I am glad that Barry was able to confirm! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jan 12, 2015, at 07:41, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > I upgraded to Yose

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
all wrote: > > Let me ask this: is any of this doable with ApleScript? It seems like, with > so many convoluted keystrokes and command sequences, scripting would be a > huge help here. >> On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jonathan C Cohn > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>>

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
gt; >>> Let me ask this: is any of this doable with ApleScript? It seems like, with >>> so many convoluted keystrokes and command sequences, scripting would be a >>> huge help here. >>>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jonathan C Cohn >>> <mailto:jon.c.

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
:37, Alex Hall wrote: > > I just had a look through the Pages scripting dictionary. Oddly, I didn't see > anything about styles. Might it be called something odd that I'm not thinking > of? >> On Jan 12, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Jonathan C Cohn > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gma

Re: Avoiding Duplicates in Smart Folders?

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I can’t test this right now, but what about the tags area of the side bar? It is an expandable area and has items for the couple of tags I have used. I don’t have Time Machine on this system so I can’t see if it gets included in the listing but I would be surprised if it did. Also can’t you limi

Re: Coast to Coast am. app

2015-01-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
They obviously don't understand screen readers. Is this an app or a web page? I am not sure about event handlers for touch, but if they had used a standard button you would not have problems. make sure they know that you are using the app and let him have an introduction to voiceover. Does ap

Re: Changing iTunes location

2015-01-21 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You need to start iTunes while holding down the option key. I believe you can use commandoption-downArrow todo this, but I am not positive right now. Both iTunes and iPhoto will prompt you for a library location when double clicking the mouse while holding down the option key. I expect if you co

Re: BT keyboard stops working on iMac

2015-01-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello Donna, I saw something like this a few times since I have upgraded to Yosemite. I turned off quick keys and that seemed to mostly help. I have noticed issues that I can't yet fully explain with panels asking for passwords and the VO keys not allowing me to actually type into the username

Re: Turbotax application

2015-01-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Are used TurboTax last year and a couple of other years. Mostly my wife does the taxes and I just review what she's done. I have not had issues. Our family has been using turbotax for mac for over a decade. You can contact me off list if you have need for help. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan

Re: Turbo Tax for 2014

2015-01-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If you used theTurboTax in a previous year , then you should be importing that information so you should start over with an import. Otherwise you should be OK. Check a W2 to make sure. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Hi guys > > I haven’t gotten

Re: Powered USB hub

2015-01-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Get a drive with its own power supply. I find these more reliable. Or find a hub with a higher amp rating. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:49 PM, The Believer wrote: > > It appears that the USB 3.0 hub I am using cannot power two external hard > drives at the same time. Are th

Re: open windows and folders

2015-02-04 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I seem to remember a finder preference to open new folders in new windows, but I could not find that now. I generally use the column view in finder, that if you arrow left or right you change folder levels and up and down for the current folder. > On Feb 3, 2015, at 16:36, Lorie McCloud wrote:

Re: upgrading?

2015-02-04 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Yes, first upgrade iTunes. I would recommend doing at least one back up. Personally I make sure Time Machine is up to date and then use SuperDuper to make a bootable image of my boot disk. The next step is do go to the App Store and download the installer, this shows up in your applications f

Re: email headers

2015-02-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The easiest thing to do is turn off smart mail addressing in the viewing section of mail preferences. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m having trouble reading message headers. somebody sends me an email and > also sends it to another person so we

Re: Getting email to sink up

2013-03-03 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Did you get any help? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2013, at 5:57 PM, "Jed Barton" wrote: > Hey guys, > > OK, I'm hoping someone can help me out. > I wanna get my email to sink with my iphone, but appear to be having some > imap and setting issues between my mac and iphone. Is anyone around >

Nightly Webkit and VO-space

2013-03-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, I haven't been on the list much since I am primarily working on a Windows system at work and haven't had much personal computer time. I brought up my Lion MBP (2009) system today and upgraded WebKit and am seeing a behavior I don't remember occurring. When I use VO-space VoiceOver says

Re: Storage questions

2013-03-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Try the df -k command in terminal and verify what it says about free space. You can also try the following command du -s * | sort -n This command tells you the size of every file/folder in the current directory and sorts them by size so the largest is at the bottom. One other question did yo

Re: a chess question

2013-03-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have not played with the chess app for 5 years. I was once able to get speakable items to work with it. You probably need to turn on speakable items in the speach system preference. Generally when this is on any commands that are currently known for the given app will show up in a speakabl

Re: Wireless.

2013-03-23 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Yes, All new macintosh's have built-in wireless except perhaps the top of the line MacPro which is designed as desktop machine for those that need the most power and flexibility. If your home wireless is older than five years then you might want to upgrade that. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2

Re: Extremely irritating problem when playing DVD's.

2013-03-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sounds like the DVD controller might be popping up. Triple click the touch pad with fingers to mute VoiceOver. If you have a braille keyboard than you can still read that while watching your video. Also, if you do not touch the touch pad the controller should not pop up. Sent from my iPhone

Re: Battery Status.

2013-03-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are some AppleScripts that can speak battery levels if you more flexibility. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > Hi Aneta, > > To check battery status, go to the extras menu by pressing vo+M twice > quickly. If you vo+right and left arrow, you'll

Re: Weird login prompt appears on my Mac Mini

2013-03-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You have a idle lock screen enabled. Try looking at security settings. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi all. > > Suddenly, my Mac Mini from 2009 comes up with a weird login prompt when I > haven't used it for 10 minutes or so. When that happens, it ha

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-02 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, If this is important to your workflow, I could create something fairly quickly. 1. Create a "Activity" group for mail. 2. Create AppleScript command to either move VO cursor or speak specific information. 3. Use keyboard commander to link scripts to keys. To start open up mail then go

Re: Accessible accounting software

2013-04-02 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I worked a small bit with AccountEdge last year to try and get them accessible, but did not get very far. I would love to see something though. Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com (703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On Apr 2, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Brandt wrote: > Hi there folks, >

Re: Factory Defaults.

2013-04-02 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I don't believe there is a supported way to do this. Some possibilities: 1. Delete every com.apple.VoiceOver file in your personal preferences. 2. Create a new account, insert a USB flash drive and enable VoiceOver portable preferences then go back to the original ccount. 3. make VoiceOver cras

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
to find but so often mac solutions and > info is fragmented and or so highly technical and or obscure that less > advanced users can't understand or implement them. > > > > Danny. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 03/04/2013, at 6:30 AM, "Jonathan C. Cohn"

Re: using the back button in safari and other apps

2013-04-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, the control-F5 button moves to/away from the toolbar as a standard Macintosh command. In my browser, the forward and delete are a group of buttons in the second position of the toolbar. So if I hit control-F5 and then tab, I end up on the back button. If I then use either the left or rig

Re: Porting software written in C-sharp two the mac

2013-04-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I do not believe that a C sharp program will work in the Macintosh environment. C-Sharp was developed by Microsoft and I have only heard of it running on their platforms. I would not think a chess timer should be too complicated, so perhaps one could write it in less then 200 lines of code. The

Re: First post

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The AI Squared group recently released a version of ZoomText for the Macintosh. I have not seen much about it but I did use ZoomText on other platforms for several years with IDE's, so it is very probabable that it could help you on the Macintosh side. When I used it for code development, I use

Re: iAd Producer a11y framework, best practices, and stamdard

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Kevin, First, I probably would have missed your post since you started it with a reply to a post that I would have ignored, except I recognized your name and I am fairly up to date for a change on this list. I am not familiar with the package you mention, is this a new web development Also,

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I am fighting a bit with ApppleScript and message / thread views in Lion. AppleScript does not seem to support this type of window completely. If somebody with mountain lion could check the "contains" area of apple script or else run a very specific 1 line AppleScript for me then I could determi

Re: Reading List

2013-04-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
THere is a button in the bookmarks bar, you might need to enable it in preferences first. Also your reading list should be synchronized between all iCloud systems except those running Lion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: Couple iWorks Questions

2013-04-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have herd that table are not usable. Try using textedit to view the tables you created in pages. Also is there a two column mode that does not use tables. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:21 PM, des delgadillo wrote: > Hello, all: > Few questions for you guys regarding accessibilit

Re: iTunes odd way of organizing music?

2013-04-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, There should be a flag in iTunes that marks the song as a collaboration This is how Chicago was inserted into the system for me when I bought the soundtrack. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2013, at 11:53 PM, "Kliphton" wrote: > Okay, windows media got this right. When iTunes see’s th

Re: A couple of questions

2013-04-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
inches and the line spacing at 0. I expect there is no way to print the ZIP code bar code though. Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Craig J Dunlop wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone Is there a way to a sign programs to open certain file &

Re: cleaning up a mess with Iphone syncs

2013-04-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Your WIFI password should be in the Keychain on your Macintosh. MIght be a bit hard to find, but once you find the key from the keychain, hit command-I and then click reveal password checkbox. After entering your password for the computer you should be able to view the WIFI password. Best wishe

Skip links might work better now in Webkit.

2013-04-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Good Morning, The WebKit updates indicate that issues we have seen with skip link links not working might be resolved. If you have had issues with this, it would be great to see if they are now resolved. For the techies out there see: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/148481 Best wishes, Jonat

Re: manage dashboard widgets

2013-04-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
On the Weather widget this plus button is called "Info". I am not sure if this is a global name or not. In any case, use the VO gestures to scan buttons. I am not sure You can use the B key if you have QuickNav enabled with WebKeys. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 15, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Jake Tex

Re: cleaning up a mess with Iphone syncs

2013-04-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
antly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Jonathan C. Cohn" wrote: > >> Your WIFI password should be in the Keychain on your Macintosh. MIght be a >> bit hard to find, but once you find the key fro

Re: Very slow Internet on one Mac, but not another.

2013-04-21 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
One other thing to look at is traceroute timings. Traceroute is an area in the Network Utility. Pick a well known server that has dfferent speeds for the two computers and try to do a traceroute to it. This is a way to ask the network how you get to the server. Generally the first 3-4 lines sho

Re: alfred

2013-04-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It is a application that is very similar to LaunchBar it is similar to spotlight except it does not just do searches. For example you might be able to type nm jon in the text entry box to have it create an email to me. The developer for Alfred has stated on twitter that the next version should

Re: manage dashboard widgets

2013-04-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
gt;>> where you can then see a list of your widgets with a check for each to show >>> or not show. This button is what I can't find, I'm beginning to believe >>> that it is inaccessible. >>> >>> In any case, what I really want is a way to show/

Re: Slow start-up and log-in

2013-04-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This can sometimes occur with a bad disk partition that is being read from. If this is the case, disk utility will probably not catch it,but disk warrior (which I don't believe is accessible) will. Installing the OS onto an erased hard disk partition did wonders for my system performance. But if

Re: Facebook chat

2013-04-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
TO login to SKYPE with facebook, logout of skype and then click on the link or button to sign in using facebook. Once you are logged in via facebook, you can then link it to your Skype account if you want. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 25, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > i'd like to

Re: synchonizing gmail address book with mac apps (mail agenda etc)

2013-04-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I had trouble with Google address syncronization when I was on Snow Leopard. Also just as an FYI, apple has a iCloud control panel available for WIndows 7 that will drop your icloud calendar contacts and todo items into Outlook. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:25 PM, anouk radi

Re: Installing Flashplayer

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I believe the last couple of times I was able to install directly from the downloaded app without first going into the bundle. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been trying to install Flashplayer for the last few days > withou

Re: Encryption Question

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have never seen an option from the finder to encrpt a physical disk. I have seen it for disk images. There are two versions of File Vault full disk encryption and user level encryption. Every discussion I have seen recommends using the full disk encryption of file vault. One truly amazing par

Re: smc fan control for leopard,

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The say command certainly has some special processing when encounterring information in double brackets. That is why you can change the speed when using the save text as MP3 contextual menu. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Interesting. I wonder if t

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