Re: Hi some font advice!

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Chris, The shortcut key you are missing is control-F6 Move focus to floating window. This can also be used for the Help window. This is set in systempreferences keyboards keyboard shortcuts keyboard and text input. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:

Re: VmWare, screen raiders, and the apple keyboard with numeric keypad.

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I regularly plug my apple USB keyboard with numeric pad into a windows system. 1. The numeric keypad works mostly as expected, though they keys used for left/right mouse buttons are shifted one position clockwise from my PC keyboards. 2. The insert key in the 6 pack is described on my mac as "Hel

Re: Scrolling the dock from a visual perspective

2013-05-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The dock will shrink to fit all the icons into it. There was also a feature to zoom the icons directly under the mouse. this is called magnification and is available to turn on in the Apple menu. Best wishes, Jonathan On May 3, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Chris Gilland wrote: > Hopefully one of you

Re: accessible RAM freeing app for OS X

2013-05-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Lion and Mountain Lion extend this a little in that they will actually quit relaunch applications that are idle. There has been some discussions of this and also a program called: THere is also a program called AppTamer that Tidbits recommended. I have a licensed copy from two years ago but I n

Re: Terminal and tab completion

2013-05-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, This is rather a complicated question, since the terminal invokes a shell and the shell is then invoking other programs and there is no mechanism in UNIX to have those other programs tell the shell what arguments they will accept. On the other hand bash and zsh and tcsh shells will all d

Re: yurufukurou twitter shortcuts

2013-05-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hmm, I believe "A" brings up referenced users. Also, the short cut key command-option -` (accent) should pop you over to the drawer. Best wishes, Jonathan On May 10, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, the list of users that are mentioned in a tweet will be located

Re: Terminal and tab completion

2013-05-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
e: >>>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> In this case, typing something like "cd ~/doc" then hitting the tab key >>>> should complete "cd ~/documents" This is not happening. How do I fix the >>>> problem? >>>&g

Re: using bootcamp with a disk image

2013-05-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The dd command is used to copy disk images. It is a unix command that has available for more twenty years. I would do a search and see if the dd command can do the work. Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi all. > I was just wondering, can I use a disk

Re: Using Eclipse on the Mac

2012-09-03 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
John, Sorry for the late response. I don't do a lot of looking at this list anymore. Eclipse is written by IBM so there is a bit more of a chance that it is accessible. It is written in java, however. You should be able to download it from developerworks within the IBM site. Eclipse is a f

Re: without passing through router?

2012-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This will just work on most Macintoshes without any special configurations. You might need to turn off wireless, since the two machines will see each other over both wireless and direct cable. I believe that some OS versions will prefer the wireless to the wired even though that is not sensibl

Washington Post articles?

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I am currently having problems in both webkit and Safari with the Washington Post web site. from http://washingtonpost.com I click on "Metro" and then "Virginia POlitics" The site which I believe is voices.washingtonpost.com/VirginiaPolitics never fully load. Before reporting this to Apple a

New scanner sounds interesting.

2010-11-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I just read a review of a Fujitsu scanner that scans double sided at a page every 3 seconds. The review was fairly positive. I'd love to know if anybody has other words to say? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111003172_pf.html Jon -- You received this

Problems with VoiceOver and Bluetooth Jabra Halo

2010-11-29 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, In 10.6.4 I was using my Halo on occasion to work with VoiceOver, and found that it worked better than in earlier versions. Last, week, I upgraded to 10.6.5, and had the first need to work with headphones this weekend. I had significant problems: 1. VoiceOver / Alex started stuttering

Re: Ipod Nano sixth generation

2010-11-29 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
That should be impossible. By default iPods will pull all the data from exactly one computer. There is a way to customize this, but I don't recommend this. There is a way to move iTunes material over your network using "Home sharing" and that might be your best alternative. Jon On Nov 21, 2

Western Digital "my Passport" .. skip the bundled software.

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It would start doing its own back up when the VO cursor passed over the "backup" button without pressing it. On my disk that I got on Black Friday from Apple, it appears that the software actually on the disk is incompatible with Snow Leopard, so I downloaded a version much newer, installed th

Adobe ignores us again...

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I just attempted to download the flash installer for correcting several (about 30) security flaws in flash. Don't bother attempting to install this, Adobe uses a non-standard installer that has no buttons to push and no labels to speak of. If you are concerned with the security of your machin

Re: weird announcement all the time

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There is a verbosity setting for text attributes. You can get access either via the VO-V rotor, or the Verbosity area of the Voice Over utility. VO-F8 Jon On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Scott Ballard-RidleyScott Ridley wrote: > Hi all > > i have a bit of a strange problem. i seem to keep gett

Re: using facebook with safari

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The problem with facebook is that it expects a lot of interaction with the mouse. I believe that when you point the mouse at a picture some more details about hat person appear. (This is called a mouse over) So when the mouse is tracking the voice over cursor Facebook keeps changing what is o

Re: why can I not see my full mac on my bootcamp partition?

2010-03-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is all dependant on the version of file system drivers that are loaded on the specified operating system. Windows and Macs look at files in very different ways. A Mac can read Windows files that are created with the "FAT" file system, but not the "NTFS" file system. And Macintosh "HFS" and

Ester's note about arrow keys...

2010-04-18 Thread Jonathan C . Cohn
My testing seems to indicate that if you hold down a arrow key and press one of the keys on the number row it acts like the equivalent numpad commander key. I also found that control F5 is a toggle. Best regards, Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Introduction from Jonathan Cohn

2009-07-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello fellow Macintosh Users, I live in Northern Virginia, and have been using Macintoshes since the late 1980's. I have RP and have not needed full time voice until after Tiger came out. My current Macintosh is a e-Mac 17" running the latest Leopard and Safari. My goals over the next fe

Re: smart mailbox question

2009-07-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Think about smart mailboxes as instant SpotLight searches and you shouldn't have too many problems. For example, if you have the "unread" flag in the Smart mailbox and then you read the message you really don't want that message to instantly disappear from the mailbox do you? So I believe

Help with below e-mail

2009-07-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
OK, here is an example for reading long messages. Generally when I am reading e-mail I turn off cursor tracking which allows me to use numpad-6 to read a message in the reading pane of Mail. When I get a message like the below I often want to skip ahead. In this case to the article about ac

Re: Help with below e-mail

2009-07-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
vo j to jump to the reading window, cursor tracking on, interact > with the text and then vo arrow until i find the right line. > i hope i understood well your question..... > rossy > Il giorno 11/lug/09, alle ore 16:43, Jonathan C. Cohn ha scritto: > >> OK, here is an examp

Re: an accessible mac application, MailSteward 8.2.3

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I don't understand what the purpose of this program is. What additional functionality can I garner. Thanks, Jon On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Michael Babcock wrote: > > Please, read about this wonderful application to help with your email, > on my article: > an accessible mac application, MailS

Re: any telnet client compatible with voiceOver?

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I believe that terminal will do this. BTW interesting nme, so close to mine. Where are you from? Jonathan Cohn On Jul 6, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: > > Hello, > > does anybody know a telnet client compatible with voiceOver? I need a > telnet client with ansi suport and VT100 > > >

Re: MacBook Pro

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
On the new MacBook Pro's however, there are 10 screws in the back cover of variying lengths. So you would need to know whch screw belonged to which hole. Jon On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Well you are not supposed to replace them yourself, but if you again > can obtain

Re: FaceBook and VoiceOver

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I don't think this will get to the list my postings seem to die. I too use the mobile version more then the standard version. I have found with group navigation turned on, and using a bit of the item list, I can find a grouping with all of the statuses from the FB home page. I do find tha

Re: Selecting multiples with VO

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
VO-F6 does the reading of selected items quite well, just make sure your VO cursor is on the table you are doing the selections from. Jonathan On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: > The annoying thing about selecting multiple items in Leopard > currently is that when you shift up

Hello from Jonathan Cohn / Virginia

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello fellow Macintosh Users, I have sent 4 or 5 messages to Macvisionaries in reply to other peoples posts, and I have not seen them. I live in Northern Virginia, and have been using Macintoshes since the late 1980's. I have RP and have not needed full time voice until after Tiger came o

Re: Firefox and Flash

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I use "clicktoflash" on my Safari and have found it good at speeding up several slow sites. ClicktoFlash intercepts Flash requests with its own plugin. It adds a menu item in the Safari menu to load the flash on the current / all pages. There is also a way to disable Flash scaled font re

Re: Selecting multiples with VO

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This works as long as you don't have VO or Voice Over lock turned on. The only thing I found interesting is that if you do shift up 2 times and then shift down once, you will select 4 items the 2 above the current selection and one below. Another option is to use VO-Command-Space (which wor

Circus Ponies Notebook and Introduction

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, I just became a member of Macvisionaries, and have not yet reviewed any of the archives so my questions will wait. I have been a Macintosh user since the late 1980's, though I have only been using Speech since it came out in Tiger. I started using JAWS around the same time at wor

Re: updarting on my mail problem

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, Because of the wide existance of SPAM and generally no security on the original mail protocols used on the Internet, most ISP's block access to their mail servers from outside their managed network. What this means is if you are on Cox and attempt to send or receive e-mail from Ro

Jump scroll mode.

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have gotten a question about this, so I am elaborating. If one types VO-shift-J then one enters jump scroll mode. I discovered via the VoiceOver help that apparently the only options are then VO- arrow: to move to the visible edge of a region or VO-Shift-Arrow to move tto the edge of a regi

Re: importing to the address book

2009-07-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If these are coming from a Microsoft box, I suggest you use Plaxo as an itermediary. You can load them into Plaxo on their web page, and then get the Plaxo agent for macintosh computers that will automatically sync your on-line contacts in Plaxo with your address book on your Macintosh. W

Re: Query about plain text in Apple Mail

2009-07-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There is a option to view a message as plain text. To do this in the menus is "View->Message->Plain Text Alternative". The default key binding is command-option-p. This of course can be changed in the keyboard section of system preferences. There is no way in the default configuration to

Re: Mail automations for Victor Reader?

2009-07-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I was unclear on some of your message. You mentioned a web based newsline download? I am not familiar with the ability to do that. I have started work on a AppleScript that will save all messages from the automatic e-mail to a folder. The next step would be to create an action on the mou

Re: Query about plain text in Apple Mail

2009-07-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
That is probably still the case. What I believe it is doing is looking at "multiple-part/alternative" choices in the "MIME" mail body, and presenting the plain text alternative provided there if it exists. Why are you so concerned about reading in plaintext. Generally HTML styled e-mails

Re: downloads stacks

2009-07-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
YOur assumption is 100% correct. If you use the VO-shift-M option you can change the view from stack to folder and I think that is a lot more accessable. On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:32 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi all > > > How do I open the downloads stack ont he dock? I assume that this

Re: downloads stacks

2009-07-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The other option I have check is list. On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:08 AM, william lomas wrote: > > no it is still not opening even under folder > > On 17 Jul 2009, at 13:06, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> >> YOur assumption is 100% correct. If you use the VO-shift-M option

Re: searching for specefic text on a webpage

2009-07-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
My main complaint with item chooser is that it does not work properly if VO lock is enabled. The find command accespts letter keys as letters when in VO-lock while the item chooser just beeps and won't even let you turn off vo-lock. Since I am running on a 5 year old Macintosh this is a pr

Re: Could you please explain how Item chooser more powerful?

2009-07-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Mark, Sometimes I find that if I use VO-L to read the line just after doing a scenario like you describe that there is more likelyhood that I will actually be at the link. The trouble with cursor tracking on is that sometimes the wrong cursor takes precedence. So, when the keyboard focus

Re: archive and install

2009-07-20 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
That was the case for both Tiger and Leopard installs. The take control books will have a Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard which if experience is any clue will come out on the release date of Snow Leopard will describe the advantages and disadvantages of any install options. Jon

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This brings up an interesting question that I have been meaning to research. I have a copy of XP ready to install on a computer here. If I install in bootcamp, how easy is it to move to Fusion. Also, if I install in a VM can multiple users on the box have access to the XP (obviously not

Re: Question about downloading audio files linked from web pages in safari

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I did a little digging and I believe I found the solution. Open system preferences. Go to Quicktime tab. (let me know if you need help navigating to this.) Under the "Advanced" tab there is a section on plugin preferences. In there is a "MIME types" button. Hit that button. There is table.

Re: tables on websites

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is one place where "group navigation" really works well. Even if you use "dom navigation" for most web pages, I would suggest switching to group navigation for this site. (too bad there is not a way to customize this on a per a site basis). Jon On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Woody Anna

Re: selecting specific tracks in itunes

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
1. Turn off cursor tracking. (VO-shift-F3) 2. Go to first item to select and select it (VO-Return) 3. Go to additional rows and select with (VO-shift-space) 4. Turn Cursor tracking back on (VO-shift-F3) You can hear the selected items with vo-shift-F6. I was on the USAJOBS web site yesterday p

Re: keyboard shortcuts for Skype

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You should be able to set this up in the system preferences. Under Keyboard and mouse there is a tab called keyboard shortcuts. By default there are no skype shortcuts, but below the table are two buttons the first is add and the second is remove. I did not actually try this myself, but when

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are completely different protocols for sending versus receiving e-mail. I am not familiar with AIM mail but you need to determine if it uses the POP or IMAP or some other protocol to download messages. Sending is almost always done with SMTP> For gmail you first have to enable iMa

Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have had no problem with connectiong my Victor Stream to my Macintosh that is not running windows. there is even a small program called iStream that can assist with putting files in the correct directories on the Stream. Jon On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:54 PM, matthew T dyer wrote: > > I think

Re: mac mini without monitor and set up

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Some if not all LCD TV's have a DVI or VGA input port in addition to the video inputs. I am pretty sure the Polaroid TV's sold by target have computer inputs. Jon On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > I just bought a Mac Mini. I had to buy a special adapter to

Re: question about using apple mail with gmail

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are instructions for optimal use of GMail with Apple Mail if you want to use imap. The advantage of iMap is that your tags in GMail will become folders in Apple Mail and the structure will be identical between the two systems so if you have a item tagged as Family in GMAIL it will sh

Re: Making special characters

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You got it right but were probably confused. Option e followed by a vowel will give you that vowel with a acute accent. option i does the same thing but for a circumflex accent. I have forgotten what the grave accent is on the US keyboard. Used to be you could go into keycaps and figure this o

badly formed HTML forms

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I was at my alumni registration page today, and noticed that it confused Safari quite a bit. The autoforms put my Last name into the Last Name, Date of birth and Student ID fields. Can anybody look over the HTML at https://my.gwu.edu/mod/alumni/register.cfm and provide me comments that I c

Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
First you need to go to advanced preferences and turn on the develop menu. Note: this just tells the remote site you are something other then you are. It does not actually change the javascript interpretation. Jon On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:04 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi how do I emul

Re: Finder warning dialogs not speaking

2009-07-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I generally have not had a problem with these. They do not take focus, but you generally get a message saying Finder has a new window. Sometimes there are "groups" that you need to interact with that VO just says "Unknown". I don't think Leopard has any in the system software, but I did c

Re: something is a miss here.

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I had to run Disk Warrior once on my childrens's e-mac computer. The disk had enough errors that it took 3-4 days to recover data. There were 100's of files (mostly system files) that it could not recover, but I was able to reteive most of their documents. I then did a full format and re

Re: new ocr mac application

2009-08-02 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have been using the older version that came bundled with my epson perfection scanner. Any chance of getting a discount for an upgrade? The version I have is not written in Cocoa I believe. I am able to get minimal functionality. When I open the main application, there is a box that comes

Re: Opera 10 beta

2009-08-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I tried this beta out yesterday on my a intel MacBook. I tried using the site: "ApplicationManager.gov" and was unable to interact with any of the tables. The item list did not let me select items within the tables either. Has anybody used this successfully>? Thanks, Jon On Jul 29, 2009,

Re: when closing lid

2009-08-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
1. Hibernate is called "safe sleep" in the Macintosh and I believe it is always enabled. 2. THere are ways to run the mac with the lid closed. I found a detailed discussion at: http://www.j4mie.org/2006/06/21/macbook-can-work-in-lid-closed-mode-without-a-mouse-and-keyboard/ Jon On Aug 4, 200

Re: new 10.5.8

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
One thing that might be immediately usable is: Improves compatibility with some external USB hard drives. There were folks out there with issues on their reader's not showing up as disks. I will be loading this update in the next half hour. Jon On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wr

10.5.8 fixes my #1 annoyance with Safari.

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
OK, I have finished the upgrade. I did just one check and that was worth it for me. The bug where if you are in the toolbar of a Safari 4.02 page, and bring up the item chooser to select a web element. Then when chosen the web element is not in the Voice Over cursor is fixed. I haven't b

Re: Keyboard Peoblem

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Try renameing your Library folder to Library.save and see if that solves the issue. Library has your preference settings, your Mail items and lots of other sutff. Depending on your patience and how much your system goes nuts, you could either duplicate the Library and then start taking out

Re: exiting a widget

2009-08-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Donna, The list windows function in widgets will allow you to switch widgets. The command VO-command-F2 should ask you if you want to close the widget. Jon On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hello all, > > A while back I was playing with the translation widget. I cannot g

Re: Undownloaded podcasts in i-tunes.

2009-08-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Bringing up the contextual menu (vo-shift-M will have an option " On Aug 8, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Jesper Holten wrote: > > Hi. > > I try to use i-tunes to download podcasts, however, even though I > have set > I-tunes to retrieve all episodes for a podcast it will only download > the > latest epi

Setting up SMB on the macintosh.

2009-08-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
setting Dear Friends, These instructions are just the overview. I assume the reader is familiar with configuring system preferences. 1. Go to sharing system preference pane. 2. Select file sharing in the "Services" table. 3. Click the options button (if problems make sure the system prefer

Re: Setting up SMB on the macintosh.

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
rive. On that note, do you > know if I am able to append $'s to the share names so that they are > hidden like I do in windows? > Once again, thanks. > > On 10/08/2009, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >> setting Dear Friends, >> These instructions are just the o

Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Anna, Have you tried with the new OSx upgrade? There were some fixes for this type of issue supplied with it. On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Were you able to find out anything from your Humanware connection > about why the Stream has trouble connecting

Re: some mail question from n00b who wants to be prolific

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
My process when reading a lot of e-mail. is to turn cursor tracking off, and then have the Keyboard focus on the table of messages and the VO cursor will drop to the headers of the message each time you delete. If you then use Keyboard navigator 8 it will read the message. If you want to

Re: google mail synching

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are two protocols for getting mail into the mail app. One will synchronize and the other will not. To use GMail with mail in a syncing format look at the below tidbits article. The tidbits-talk discussion list also had a debate about some of the settings. that were discussed in that

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Ah, the problem of the automatic login. You could boot with the Leopard disk and reset his password, but that will probably lock him out of all his keychains. Check the accounts pane, and see if you can change his password there. Also, it is well advised for security reasons, to not use t

Re: time machine

2009-08-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are some web applications that will do this. Tidbits has reviewed them on occasion, and I believe there was mention of one in the last 2 weeks. Also the take control of backups on Leopard does discuss online backups. Jon On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:46 PM, william lomas wrote: > >

Re: time machine

2009-08-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
tidbits.com the site is a bit confusing, but there is a search box. Jon On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:51 PM, william lomas wrote: > > what th website for tidbits i ahve a look at it > > > On 16 Aug 2009, at 17:49, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> >> There are some web

Re: tag editor/file renamer

2009-08-19 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If the MP3 files are in iTunes, then you can do a mass edit. Select all the MP3 entries you want to modify and then hit command-i. Any update you do there will be global. I wouldn't be surprised if Rogue Ameoba had a tool to do this also. Jon On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:14 PM, erik burggraaf wrote

Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac?

2009-08-20 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have heard that the same software that works on Linux works on the Macintosh. I don't know if it is accessable. I at one point (about 4 years ago) was looking at a product called iTV that was able to convert analog TV signals into a USB stream and also included DVR abilities. Jon On Au

Re: Has anyone ever booted from tdm?

2009-08-21 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
1. You should be able to do this as once you enter Firewire Target disk Mode, the e-mac is just a firewire disk and both machines are PPC G4's or so I would expect if the ibook is a white one. In terms of Tiger vs Leopard, I find Leopard not only to be significantly more visually friendly t

Re: Voice Over and reading IM messages.

2009-08-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It might help to turn off cursor tracking while in the chat program. I do this for iChat. Then my voice over cursor does not move when I am typing. It probably would be enough to go to the VO utiltity and uncheck VoiceOver follows keyboard focus. Best, Jon On Aug 22, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Cha

Skype problems Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Donna, I am getting that warning every-time I launch the new skype too. I have tried clearing a few things in my Library folder, but the message indicating that Skype is a newly downloaded program continues to appear. I will try a full install after deleting all tell tales from my old S

Re: Skype problems Re: sorry gang, still stuck on the DMG problem

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
OK, a bit more research and things are straight. I am running the same version. I installed it as an admin user, but only ran it in my own account. Once I ran it once in the admin account the message indicating that this software was downloaded from the internet went away. There are also a

Re: Logging into Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If you can get new email but nothing else works, then the Mac must know your password. You can retreive that password as follows: 1. Open Keychain access from your utilities folder (command-shift-u) 2 Hit tab and enter pop.gmail.com into the search text field. 3. Hit tab a few times, and you sh

Re: curious observation re Cut command

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The cut command is not available in read-only boxes and lists. The copy command should be available in this case. Also, I don't think cut is available in file browser, because generally a cut item is only in the paste-board once cut, and if you cut something else that file would be lost.

Re: Not seeing any of my gmail fioklders in mail.

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Are you talking about Gmail mail labels? I assume you are using iMap... When you create the GMail account, there will be a entry in the mailbox table with the account name of the gMail account. When you expand this you will see all your Gmail labels as folders here. You should configure th

Re: switching graphics card, macbook pro

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I believe I read about this on Apple Insider yesterday. My memory is that you switch using system preferences, but then need to logout and in in order for the change to take effect. On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:14 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > > May I ask why you think it will come with 2 cards? At

SL delivery dates.

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This question has come up on the list. I got an e-mail from Apple today stating that they would deliver Snow Leopard to my door on Friday with no shipping cost if I order today. Bestregards, Jonathan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: my macbook pro is here, problems with internet

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There is a network setup dialog which I (though I am an Internet engineer) found very easy to use. Generally if you are connecting directly to a DSL modem then you just need to enable PPPOE. If you are connecting to a cable modem, then the problem is probably that your modem is loc

Re: my macbook pro is here, problems with internet

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Chris is right here. In the US, these boxes have a battery, so pulling the plug and replugging it will not work. You need to find the reset button, on the Motorola boxes I have used you need a unfolded paper clip to reset the box. Your cable vendor should also be able to do this remotely. Y

Re: "On My Mac" Mailboxes

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It appears you need to use the VOICE Over cursor navigation commands while navigating the Mailboxes table. I Guess this is a bug. Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To po

Re: why is openoffice accessible and neoofficeenot

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hmm, in the windows world, there was a java access bridge that interfaced between Windows accessability and Java Swing. Is there anything like that for the Mac? I wonder how hard it would be to port. (I am not a good enough programmer to do this right now.) Jon On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:20 PM,

Take control books on Snow Leopard now available...

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
> From Tidbits - Adam ...Good day, everyone! > > Snow Leopard ships tomorrow! But you can start reading about it > today with our new "Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard" and > "Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard," both > available now. > > (Those who own an earlier e

Re: 2 Questions: Dialogs and SMTP

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
1. It depends on the kind of dialog and if you have cursor tracking on or not. Some dialogs are linked to windows and h those can be more difficult if you have cursor tracking off. I think if you route VO cursor to keyoboard you should be OK> 2. What is happening when you send out e-mail? Ar

Re: 2 Questions: Dialogs and SMTP

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
> choose > a server, send with the selected server, try later, etc. > > Thanks again, > Terrence >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: 2 Questions: Dialogs and SMTP >> From: "Jonathan C. Cohn" >> Date: Thu, August 27, 2009 2:20 pm &

Re: why is openoffice accessible and neoofficeenot

2009-08-29 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Chris, What are the requirements for emacs speak? When last I used emacs regularly on a Ultra-2, I had no need for a screen reader, just setting my fonts at 28 pt and reverse video (thanks Kyle Jones for the help). I know there is a copy of emacs in /usr/bin and I think it might even be

Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Mark, Probably off topic, but what are you using the Network groups for? I havn't spent much time configuring macs for use on a shared network, but since I am going to buy a large disk drive soon, and have intentions of allowing family to float from computer to computer without losing thei

Re: embedded voice commands

2009-08-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Take a look at: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Speech_Synthesis_Manager/Reference/reference.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/constant_group/Speech_Channel_Information_Constants This is for Objective C, but I expect the objects exist in java too. Essentially a parame

banking software.

2009-08-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
greetings, I have been playing today with iBank, and have found it missing definitions for several buttons and a propensity for having Leopard's voice over have to restart every time a combo box fill in is completed. I would love to take over the day-to-day accounting for my wife, but I h

Re: apple script and vo

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, you need to use the scripteditor to edit your apple scripts. Is there a specific function you are interested in? A very basic apple script is: tell application "Mail" activate end tell These three lines would start the mail application and make it your current application. Best wishe

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is also configurable if you don't like the default key stroke. Look under "Keyboard Navigation" Category in the Keyboard and mouse - Keyboard shortcut section of system preferences. In more depth: 1. VO-m (menu) 2. enter (enter the apple menu) 3. arrow down to "system preferences" 4. Go

Re: apple script and vo

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
nd the apple script editor. all there > is in my apps folder is a folder called apple script and I cannot open > this folder no matter what I do. used to be able to in leopard, not in > SL. > > On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> >> Hello, you

Re: VPN client.

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There is some built in VPN software for the macintosh under the network tab of the system preferences. There is the ability to configure L2TP over IPSEC and PPTP If this meets your university requirements, then go to the Networking area of system preferences, click add service. select VPN a

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