Re: Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Baxter
I have a few questions: Is this station transmitting just the audio, and there's no video portion on the screen, and why, if every show is described, did I just watch a few un-described show? I still think it's a great site, and I can stream it on my Ipad, which is just too cool for words, but

Re: Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Baxter
Hey Kawal: I can't get enough of this coolness, but I"m streaming this site on my Pad. You could do this with an Iphone or Pod with WIFI and not be tied to the computer. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page

Re: Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Baxter
Hey Caitlyn, can you use the external media player that's a link on the home page? It has next and previous channel buttons, so you can flip through them easily enough using the Tab key. Just • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotma

Re: Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Baxter
That's just it; the secondary channels may be carrying descriptive content, but a totally blind person who lives alone and does not have sighted help, such myself and numerous others, cannot access it. If I am wrong, please point it out to me and demonstrate to me how I can get the Charter Cabl

Re: Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Karen: I was on several of the WGBH pilot survey panels and so on discussing DVS. That was back about 1993 or 1994, I was living in the area then. Secondly, I know for a positive fact that every episode of Star Trek the Original Series and The Next Generation *IS* described, at least on the D

Re: some big bang for alex, was Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Hey Karen, you cannot possess your pastry and consume it simultaneously (well, you can, but you can never know which you are doing at any given time … seems like a buzz kill to me, but…) By which I mean to say that you cannot talk about the law as applicable to everyone in the same way, then tu

Re: some big bang for alex, was Blindy.tv - Please spread the word about it

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Tivo can do this and has been able to for years. The closest I ever got to skipping commercials was video-recording something and then hitting fast-forward and counting out about 18-20 seconds and then hitting play. Guess work, but often it came out uncannily close, so much so that I could pla

Re: Cursor Tracking within an activity

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Yes, this can be done. However, you will notice that there is no choice to do it in the Activities table. What you have to do is UNCHECK all the "voiceOver Cursor follows," and "keyboard cursor follow," boxes within the custom voice for that activity. This has the same result as toggling curs

Recording in VLC: Tell me more please?

2013-01-22 Thread Mark Baxter
Tell me more about this CMD-Option-R in VLC? You say you can record a video stream, like, from your lid cam? Can you give me a nudge as to where to start to set that up? I know I can do video streams, at least short ones, with Photo booth, but I'd like a simple way to capture video in the fas

Re: blindy.tv question.

2013-01-22 Thread Mark Baxter
I think the confusion is coming here because Jess expects each M3U file to be called "I love Lucy," or "Blue BLoods," or whatever, Dot mp3, right? But, if you think about it, since the content is streaming, there's no way to update the downloadable file every time the stream changes. Unfortu

Re: Using my new mac for email

2013-01-22 Thread Mark Baxter
Hi, Gena: Don't know about Thunderbird, though would suspect it is accessible. Yes, Mail can easily handle all your accounts. This is done through System Preferences (command Comma) in the "accounts," tab," by clicking the "add," button. If you need more help than this, let me know. • Mar

Re: blindy.tv question.

2013-01-22 Thread Mark Baxter
Try hitting enter on a link, not clicking or VO space bar 'ing. I've gotten it to play through Safari on both Mac and Ipad 3, though I don't have an airport thing. yet. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page:

Re: Looking for old Outspoken demos for vintage Macs

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Baxter
Wow. I wrote my first novel-length work back in 1002-3 on one of those. I doubt you could use it for much these days, but it's sure be nostalgic; I wonder how much of the commands I could re-figure out. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghaw

Re: Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Mark Baxter
I would be very sure this isn't a scam or hoax of some kind. So far as I"m aware, Mountain Lion is not susceptible to foreign ware of any kind; you MUST give authentication and a password before anything install on your computer. If this is *NOT* the case, and it's some sort of java-based atta

Re: Skype hotkeys?

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Baxter
Command Shift H will hang up your call; other than that, I do not know of any hot keys from within a Skype call or from within Skype, other than to change screens between main window, Dial Pad, Contacts Monitor, etc. I also don't know of a way to assign such commands to shortcut keys, either in

Re: WOO HOO!

2013-02-13 Thread Mark Baxter
In the VoiceOver Help menu, under in the command help menu, there are some Braille commands. The Braille Sense keystrokes for keyboard control should bel listed in the manual or quick reference card, and if not, all of the commands can be found in the Voiceover Utility, in the "braille," categ

Re: Switching tabs in Safari

2013-02-17 Thread Mark Baxter
Command + Accent switches tabs. Accent is to the left of the#1 on the keyboard, to the right of the escape key on laptop keyboards. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You

Re: Switching tabs in Safari

2013-02-17 Thread Mark Baxter
Not sure I understand the difference here, but i"m sorry for posting inaccurate information. Please excuse. *bow* • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this me

translating a document into grade II for faster editing with a Braille Display

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
I have a lot of longer writing projects that are in either text or RTF files on my Mac. I can transfer them over to the Braille Edge 40 via the SD card and sneaker-net, but when I open them on the Edge, they're grade 1 Braille. I'd like to read them in grade II and edit them more precisely, but

Re: translating a document into grade II for faster editing with a Braille Display

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
all I can find on the Brailleblaster project page is its specs. Where is the actually sour app for this project? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this mess

Re: translating a document into grade II for faster editing with a Braille Display

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, GGigi. I've tried changing the file name also. I figured the translation was being done by VoiceOver, thus the need for some sort of translator thing. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://

Re: translating a document into grade II for faster editing with a Braille Display

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Gigi: What I have are novella and novel length text files or RTF files on my Mac, that I want translated into Grade II Braille so I can work with them on the Edge. I don't think TextEdit is going to work for manual translation of "and," to "&" and so on. *grin* • Mark BurningHawk Baxter •

BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Hmm. Okay, I got the zip file, installed Java RunTime, and opened Brailleblaster.jar … and got this: The Java JAR file “brailleblaster.jar” could not be launched. Not very helpful. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My h

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
Okay, and here's what I get when I try and launch it from terminal: ror at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessCont

Re: Yosemite: The ghost in the machine?

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, Jeffrey; I didn’t think to do a forget and restore on the WIFI, but removed a lot of networks I will never connect to again recently. I have done about three permission repairs, and I, too, had no luck toggling VoiceOver repeatedly, thus my shutting it down cold by holding down the powe

odd cursor behavior with VO and Mail tables

2014-11-07 Thread Mark Baxter
I’m having an issue with Voiceover’s operation within Mail under Yosemite. I read my mail by interacting with the messages table and cursoring down through subject fields. When I want to read the text of a message, I use VO-J to get to the message content area and read it. Now, though, when I

Playlist browser in the latest itunes?

2014-11-10 Thread Mark Baxter
How do I get the playlist browser back in the latest version of Itunes? It’s set up in grid format and I want the classic view back. I checked Classic Equalizer, but it didn’t make a difference. Thanks. :) \ • Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message

Re: Playlist browser in the latest itunes?

2014-11-14 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, Tim! Perfect, and not obvious, at least to me, the first time through. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

how to block previously accepted contacts in Skype for iPad running IOS 8.1.1?

2014-11-27 Thread Mark Baxter
Subject says it all, really. I want to block someone I added to my Skype contacts lists on my iPad, but that list is bloody HUGE!, so then how do I do that? Happy Thanksgiving, for all those are doing anything about it. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You receiv

after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

2014-11-29 Thread Mark Baxter
I got a notice for a Yosemite update available, and downloaded and installed it, then repaired permissions. It informed that that my Mac was being set up for iCloud, and when I went to system preferences and expanded the iCloud section, VoiceOver identified the “services group.” In that group

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

2014-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
Hi, Tim. Yes, I did consider an American civil-religious-calendar marketing ploy or conspiracy when I heard that noise, but rejected the notion after the realization that the aliens in charge of the Earth would never allow it. :) The gobble-gobble noise comes from whatever element is just to t

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

2014-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
Yeah, I was able to jostle the cursor out of that weird screen zone, and I”m glad someone else has encountered it. Still want to know what it means—does it represent a data stream? is it a weird icon that has a fancy visual glitzy thing? Is that supposed to be what it sounds like inside a clo

Re: after the last Yosemite and iCloud update

2014-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
I have the standard 5G of storage in iCloud, and see this information as well. Then, just to the right of that, is this area of the screen which seems to act sticky in terms of the cursor, and it makes that very odd noise. I ought to record the noise somehow and attach an MP3 of it. To the rig

Itunes on Mac launching when awake

2015-01-02 Thread Mark Baxter
Ever since I synced my new iPhone 6 to Itunes 12 on my MBP15 running Yosemite, every time I wake my Mac up to do something, Itunes launches without my manually launching it. I’m not using Airplay or WIFI sync. What causes this? Thanks; Be well, and happy New Year! • Mark BurningHawk Baxter

Re: locating attachments in mail.

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Baxter
VO M to the menu bar, F for File. Pull that down, and somewhere there should be a "save attachments," option. Click it and you'll get the normal file browser, specify where you want it to go. If I can help more, let me know. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1

Re: Facebook Chat with VoiceOver

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Baxter
I do facebook chats with either Skype or the AIM client; in fact, I usually use both at the same time for FB chats, since Skype doesn't make the "new message," sound if you're hovering in the message window, but AIM does, two it alerts me to an FB chat coming in to Skype (and AIM, if Skype shoul

displaying only Unread messages regardless of mailbox?

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Baxter
Just like that. I have an unread message somewhere, but it's not in my inbox. Is there a way to get Mail to display all unread messages, as if "unread," were a mailbox, not a message condition? Thanks! • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk

Re: displaying only Unread messages regardless of mailbox?

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Baxter
I thought of that. The problem is, at the level of sorting, all messages are Unread, thus the condition is universally true. I merely went through all my mailboxes til I found the sneaky bugger. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@h

Re: Can anyone help with mail

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Baxter
My first wonder is if you need to find the box that says "Include this account when checking for new mail," and check it, especially if the Mac can send but isn't receiving. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home

Re: More on this mail problem

2013-03-05 Thread Mark Baxter
You tell it to get new mail, and do you hear a little chinking sound that indicates no new mail, or what? I'm curious if somehow the port is not set to port 25 any more. Jed, have you gone through and played with the ports for POP3 and SMTP, or the port for IMAP? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Baxter
I use my Edge with b both Ipad and Macbook Pro15 quite successfully. It allows me to do fine editing and acts as a BT keyboard when I need one. I haven't had any problems, but my one suggestion is that you go through and memorize or customize what all the chorded Braille display keystrokes do

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Baxter
Hi Jamie: I'm using the Braille Edge with an Ipad 3 running the latest IOS 6.1 dot whatever. Works as if charmed. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this m

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Baxter
I'll second that part about needing to sneaker-net files from the Mac or PC to the Edge via the SD card. A while back, I started a thread about Braille translation, so that I could put grade 2 Braille files on the SD card and sneaker-net them to the Edge for working with. I never DID find a w

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Someone here please correct me if i"m wrong, but the only way to move a file from your computer onto the Edge is to take out the SD card, transfer it to an independent card reader, whether it be in your computer's structure or a USB device, and copy whatever you want onto the card, then replace

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Yes, in fact, I have. I believe this was one of the central themes of that thread in fact… • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are s

Re: braille Edge with Apple devices

2013-03-08 Thread Mark Baxter
It's not that it's hard to do. The PacMate you can at least Bluetooth transfer your files from one to the other, or transfer via the USB bus. I'm trying to sell my PacMate actually. It's just the principle of the thing--in this day and age, it makes no sense to have to sneaker-net files or wh

Re: mail shortcuts

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Just as command 1 is the shortcut to the inbox, command 2 through 0 can be shortcuts to other mailboxes. I"m not quite clear on how to arrange them such that a certain command numeral brings you to a certain one, but they're all there. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter:

Re: mail shortcuts

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Command N will start a new message without having to go to the tool bar. Your not an idiot and shouldn't imagine or project yourself that way. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.n

Re: a little trick i found on my new mac

2013-03-19 Thread Mark Baxter
Holy … moly. that's a neat thing that … wow. I learned something. *bow* That's cool. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: Keyboard Commander

2013-03-26 Thread Mark Baxter
I might just add here that simple F8 (or Function F8, depending) will open Itunes, so there should not need to be a reason to use up a shortcut key on it with Commander, and that would also obviate the library opening confusion. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk

Iphone and Ipad on same cell plan?

2013-04-01 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm posting this here until my Gmail subscription request to VIphone gets approved, as I unsub'ed, thinking it would be instantaneous … I have an Iphone 5 activated and working sweetly on my Sprint cell network, with unlimited data. My Ipad has a sprint chip in it for cellular data, but I neve

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-02 Thread Mark Baxter
Vo J will jump you between the messages table and message body in Mail, thus allowing you to very quickly navigate to the table where that information is stored. tab and Shift Tab, with VO navigation, will also do the same thing. And, no, I don't think hot spots or landmarks stick in other tha

Re: Great Twitter client for iOs + Has filters?

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Baxter
I like Syrinx for Mac because it has filters so you can block unwanted tweets, if you build up a huge following database full of spam like I accidentally did. Is there a Syrinx equivalent for Mac, so I don't have to see all those spam tweets? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitt

Re: Jumping in with using a Mac

2013-04-06 Thread Mark Baxter
If you get stuck, please remember that I work for a very good accessibility training company, www.blindaccesstraining.com and we will happily provide one on one support over Skype. Let us know if we can help; I think I do all the Mac training for them now, but you never know. • Mark BurningH

pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Baxter
Can this be done? whenever he goes t accessibility/voiceover/braille, it only sees a "braille edge 0102," and cannot successfully pair. Any ideas? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHaw

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Baxter
It's an Ipod, I would assume it's running IOS^.1.3 adapted for Ipod touch. I have no idea, I don't own a Pod. Pad, PHone, no pod. What the heck is wrong with me. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • h

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Hi, Gigi: Yeah, we went through all those steps, even turned off the laptop in the other room that it *WAS* successfully paired with, to eliminate interference. I don't know what version IOS the Ipod is running. I was trying to help him over the phone with the mediation of a health worker, an

Re: Apology

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Can I just say here that promotional materials for accessibility training businesses and so forth come across both this and the VIPhone list all the time, including the one I work for? I specifically asked about this when other such businesses began promoting and advertising, so why is it off t

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Neither have I had any problems with the Phone or Pad and pairing the Edge. I love that thing! I do not own a pod, as I've said, and I hope he gets it straightened out because until I get a pod and a chance to learn its quirks, I can't help any more than I have. :) Thanks; we'll just keep our

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
In my case, I tailored my entire IWRP around becoming an accessible technology trainer and, once I proved my aptitude in a few "test cases," both California and Oregon's Rehab departments have so far played ball; Oregon just recently purchased this here Iphone 5 that I"m in love with, and in 200

Re: Reply directly to the sender of an email?

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Command R replied to the sender of the E-mail, with the caveat that if the sender is a list serve, your message will go to the list. If you want to reply directly to the sender of a message you get from a list serve, you can obtain the individual E-mail address of the sender by interacting wit

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
The counter argument to this is that those PCs are out of date, and the copies of Jaws come with out of date SMA's which may cost to upgrade. Stockpiling does not sound like much more than a cop-out. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1..

answering a Skype call from a locked Iphone screen

2013-04-12 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm posting this here, because I"m waiting for my re-subscription to VIPhone List to come through, STILL! (This means you, Raul *grin*). Okay. When my Iphone 5 is in the locked screen, and I get a Skype call coming in, I cannot seem to reply in time to catch the call. The "Slide to View," bu

Re: answering a Skype call from a locked Iphone screen

2013-04-12 Thread Mark Baxter
Yes, and mine says Slide to View, not to answer, so that's different also. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: answering a Skype call from a locked Iphone screen

2013-04-12 Thread Mark Baxter
Hmmm. I shall look to make sure the next time it happens, but I have not noted a Slide to *answer* specifically. Although, today, while doing a Skype video tour of my town for my friend in Montana, I got a cell phone call and found out that getting a cell call on your iPhone 5 while on a skype

Re: answering a Skype call from a locked Iphone screen

2013-04-13 Thread Mark Baxter
Okay, but whenever I open the conversation in Skype, the call gets declined before I can answer it. I have to be IN sSkype at the time if I want to answer, apparently. This is a bummer. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com

Skype annoynaces

2013-04-14 Thread Mark Baxter
My greatest annoying thing about Skype is that the speaker volume is very low. Even pressing the Speaker button doesn't seem to let me raise the volume of the sparker, which seems to be mimicking a telephone handset, even when on speaker. For this reason, no one at the market believes me when

Facebook in Notification Center

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Baxter
I've set up Facebook in Notification center and allowed it access, etc. It makes the cool RPG noise when I post, but my post doesn't show up on my wall. Nor have I received any notifications of … anything at all, really. Anyone have better success with this? :) Thanks. • Mark BurningHawk B

problems playing OGG files with VLC

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Baxter
When I try to step forward or backward through an OGG file in VLC, my place in the file jumps randomly. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/

Re: how to tell if running 64 bit under ML?

2012-09-30 Thread Mark Baxter
Wouldn't you just to go "about this Mac," and it should tell you your processor type, and then go look that up on Google? If it's 64-bit capable, and you're running newest latest softest warmest kitty, you're running a 64-bit system. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: Burni

Re: problems playing OGG files with VLC

2012-10-02 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm apparently only at 1.0.3, even though I vividly remember upgrading to what I thought was 3.0. Probably the problem. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received t

Re: typing at fast speeds with the Alex voice ...

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Baxter
Why would anyone want to have a typing echo at all, unless one were learning the keyboard for the first time? In which case, the lag won't really matter, as typing speed will be negligible. For anyone typing faster than 50-60 WPM, much less 120 or so which most people type at, having typing ec

Re: typing at fast speeds with the Alex voice ...

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Baxter
I apologize for the inaccuracy of my estimate? --LOL • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisi

my CF card reader won't show up on the desktop

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm trying to use a USB card reader I got at Radio Shack to format/write to a 4G CF card using Mountain Lion. It won't even show up as a drive in Disk Utility, nor on the desktop. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN:

Re: my CF card reader won't show up on the desktop

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Heh. Yes, there's a CF card in the reader, and I've tried all two ports on my MBP, and don't have another computer to test the reader. The card reads fine in my old PacMate, just not when plugged into the reader into a USB port. Oddly, Disk Utility brings up all the DMGs I have on my hard driv

Re: my CF card reader won't show up on the desktop

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Then I have *TWO* bad card readers, as I've tried that card in both of them. *shrug* stranger things have happened to me. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received

Re: my CF card reader won't show up on the desktop

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Just to be sure, I just checked, and all the check boxes are checked, … So. Check. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: my CF card reader won't show up on the desktop

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Nope, no write-protect tabs, and as I said it worked fine in another unit, both read and write/delete. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message becaus

USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
When I use the system information utility (I don't have a system profiler) This is what I *THINK* is my USB card reader: Mass Storage Device: Product ID: 0x6366 Vendor ID:0x058f (Alcor Micro, Corp.) Version: 1.00 Serial Number:058F63666471 Speed:Up to 480 Mb

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
The card, in my PacMate, shows up as having an old version of my "Documents," folder, with some stuff deleted, which came from my Mac's HD, and at one point the USB reader did show up on the desktop with the card in. Right now, I can't even reformat the thing, which is all I really want to do--

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Oh, so the answer to your question would be that it's Probably a FAT32 format. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
I'd LOVE to reformat it, but I can't control the USB divide! how do I format it when I can't issue commands to the USB reader? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You rece

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Sorry, no windows here. I have a PacMate which has Pocket PC on it, but it chokes when I give it a 4G CF card, and I can't find a format option anywhere there. No other windows exists. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Baxter
The card does not show up in Disk Utility at all. only my internal HD and my CDR show up. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: USB card reader not showing up anywhere

2012-10-10 Thread Mark Baxter
Nope, nothing like that. I think the reader's a bad job. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ma

Newest VLC and Shoutcast TV?

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm up to VLC 2.0.3 2.0.3 and I don't any longer see an option to import Shoutcast TV server lists? I want ShoutCast TV stream lists; can someone remind me how to get them again? Thanks. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.c

Re: Transfering NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Baxter
•1) Download the books from BARD to the Downloads folder. *2) Acquire a USB SD card reader and plug it into an available USB port. *3) Make sure all the zip files are unzipped into their book folders. •4) Go to the Desktop on your Mac (VO Shift D from Finder). Navigate until you find somet

Re: Transferring NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm sorry, but I do not know what DT is. Thus, my experience is that the folders are named something like, "DB 91743" and then the name and author of the book. In which case, no need to rename anything, unless you're using a player that's not an NLS player and doesn't recognize that format, wh

Re: Transferring NLS Books to SD card

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
The DB is an integral part of the book number. stands for Digital Book. I think the NLS player needs that file name protocol so when you go into "bookshelf mode," (holding down the play button till it falls off or says Bookshelf), it can identify them. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype

Re: Two Safari questions

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Baxter
I believe that Command Left Bracket (or the backspace key) will take you back a page, and I believe that VO Command V will jump you to the next visited link. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://Mar

Re: Lost brightness on screen

2012-10-27 Thread Mark Baxter
F1 and F2 alone control brightness. try pressing F2 without the VO keys and see if that fixes it. If not, try Function F2. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received

Re: VoiceOver behaviors in Safari

2012-11-10 Thread Mark Baxter
Do you have the latest Safari, 6.0.2, that I just received in an update yesterday? Toggling VoiceOver is a fix for a few things that get lost when switching states or modes. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home p

Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Baxter
Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My

Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Baxter
Well, I see you're right, but I do not understand that preferences pan at all. not a bit. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: how to use external microphone in MacBook Pro? + cheap mixer? where?

2012-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
So, where do you get such a "cheap mixer," that handles 3.5 MM (1/8 inch) or 1/4 inch (Presumably 7 MM?) i/o? I'd LOVE to mix my stuff before it goes into my 2.1 system, or into my hearing aid streamer box, for better volume equalization particularly. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype

Re: how to use external microphone in MacBook Pro? in Skype

2012-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
What I do for this, at least at the moment until I get a USB mic or a smaller 3.5MM mic input that doesn't burn out when I hook it straight to the line-in on the Mac, for now, I use my guitar amplifier to boost the signal from an old Shore concert mic--ball and stick, heavy as hell, but I can no

Re: short cut for notifications center?

2012-12-01 Thread Mark Baxter
YOu could use Keyboard Commander on a full sized keyboard to launch the app that is notification center, except I can't find it on a quick search. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHaw

Re: mail problem with voiceover.

2009-03-03 Thread Mark Baxter
How could Safari affect the behavior of Mail? Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: vo curser jumping, cut within finder, and selecting multiple items

2009-03-08 Thread Mark Baxter
Why can't you just you VO enter to start selecti n where you want to start, and then when you come to an item o you don't wish to be included in the selected group, hit VO command space? and then proceeding Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.c

Re: mail, how to get to the other end of my list of messages

2009-03-09 Thread Mark Baxter
This frustrated me for a long while, and when I got it to work I was happy, so: Be sure to interact with the messages table. Now, to get to the top of the list, press VO Shift Function left arrow. Replace with right arrow for the end of the list. Keep in mind, this will take you to the

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