Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

Thanks much, Kieren. Google truly is a deity of epic power and majesty. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

I installed the component in the applications folder, but no luck; am I doing something wrong? Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Obtaining sound effects files was Re: "New Mail" sound

Try wavcentral.com and a google search will bring up all sorts of storehouses for cartoon sounds, Start Trek / wars sound, you name it. Everything' been sampled and bye-sized. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://Mar

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

I moved it there, but Quicktime says "this file isn't a movie," and Itunes remains stubbornly silent. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

Did that, still no joy. When no joy, get more coffee. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

I second that; a restart did not make any difference in its behavior, nor did another flac file. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

Thanks much; will investigate this when I get back from stuff. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

plying FlAC files

Well, this is a step in a direction. After installing the importer component in the !library/quicktime folder, Quicktime comes up and claims the files are 0:00:00 long, thus won't play anything. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My ho

Re: playing FlAC files

Indeed, I do have both components there, and I have restarted the whole machine. No joy Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

I can open them in Quicktime, but apparently QT thinks they are empty files of length 00:00:00 ... Useless. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

That worked like a charm! I'm not sure why it worked on a FLAC file when it's supposed to work on OGG files, but I'm glad to be able to play these media now! Sweet! Thanks a lot :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://M

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

Also works on actual OGG files, so I'm a happy camper! :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Probably a simple question.

As a corollary: I've tried to use the items chooser menu when not in Safari, say for finding my place in an E-mail. It doesn't seem to work; does items chooser only work in Safari on a web page? Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home

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

I, too, like the items chooser, but I find that if I try to use it to navigate in Mail to a certain spot in the message, it won't work. Here's my scenario: I have an E-mail with a bunch of links in it or downloading material. I want to download from a link which is almost at the end, and t

Re: jumping on the itunes store

Mr. Macky; that's funny, nnkay? :) But if it's stuttering like that, try doing software update to the newest version. Otherwise, you might have to rename your computer to Ms. Chokes on disks. ... Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My ho

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

That's amazing. Wonderful example of intuitional / experiential problem solving. I didn't think of using VO F to find the item; I've only had my mac six months and I'm still in the wonderment stage at how powerful and right-feeling this intuitional OS thing really is. :) Mark BurningHawk

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

U. I only use that hotmail account as an MSN passport; I doubt it's still active. Note to self to qualify that in future signatures... Thanks. *bow* Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--

medical transcription on the Mac?

Is anyone out there doing medical transcription on the Mac? I have a USB foot pedal, but wonder about word predictors and medical dictionaries and the like. With the Mac's better sound card, I might try transcription again... Curiously, Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk19

Re: safari 4.0.2 seems to get stuck

Sometimes I find that I'm interacting with the tool bar, even though I didn't tell VO to; simply stopping interaction with the toolbar allows me to navigate more freely. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHa

assigning songs to playlists in Itunes

If I assign a bunch of songs to a playlist, and later delete the playlist, do the songs get deleted, or do they go back onto their original playlist? Silly question, but safer to ask first then whine later. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmai

Re: assigning songs to playlists in Itunes

Exactly; thanks for confirming what I assumed to be the case. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub

adding sounds to the system sounds library

I've coppied a few sounds in .eav format and want to know how to add them to the general library for app sounds. What's the path? Thanks. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~

Re: itunes something very annoying

I think if you check it as "part of a compilation," this will go away. I have a couple of sound tracks and compilation disks that got mangled that way until I figured it out. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBur

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

They are oat the end of both those paths, but they're *.wav; what converts to mp3 or aiff? I'm astounded wav doesn't work. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

That's a new one on me; I thought *.wav files, which are older than windows, are digital wave form representations. I'll grab flip and figure it out; thanks. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

I have added the file airhorn2.wav to both the path /system/library/sounds and /users/mark/library/sounds and neither file shows up when selecting to change a system sound, such as Mail or Ichat. When I try to change the tweet sound in Syrinx, there's an option to open a sound on a path, but

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

all I know is Itunes plays them and yet OS10 doesn't recognize them as valid system sounds, even though they're right there on the path. Maybe I'll get flip anyway. Ironically, one of the sounds I'm trying to incorporate is a cartoon flip sound. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: Burn

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

I'm glad to hear you had no trouble with it. Things are different here. D Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

Thanks very much, Kieren! In fact, I now have the sounds working, though I don't know what I did, other than quitting and restarting apps and, eventually, the computer herself. I should try and duplicate this with more sounds. :) All sorts of chaos may ensue. Mark BurningHawk Skype and

Re: selecting text you are interacting with

Selecting text from a web page doesn't seem to work this way, however, if in an E-mail, pressing VO Enter turns on selecting, and pressing it again toggles it of. This works similar to the "block," function in older word processors like wp5.1. Remember you still have to copy in order to

Re: Help, lost Vo Speech

Try turning VoiceOver off and on again with command F5 and function Command F5, if all else fails. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

Re: Help, lost Vo Speech

This is the HUGE advantage to having Voiceover integrated as part of the basic OS; if for whatever reason you need to, you can just restart it. I've done it so many times that, when VO restarts, I've got it saying, "Oh, have we started again?" Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: Burning

Re: question about using apple mail with gmail

When you do command N for new message, if you tab past the subject field, you'll hear the name subject of the current server in use, as part of a pop-up button. VO space on this button and you'll have the choice of using any other active E-mail account that Mail knows about. This lets yo

duplicates in Itunes library

I've noticed lots of duplicate entries in the "Itunes Music," folder, and wonder if Itunes has a way to clean these up, so that there's only one file of each song or whatever? Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBur

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

I'm trying to avoid weeding it out by hand, given how huge that folder is. I suppose I could search for every song that has a (1) in it, but that's hit-or-miss at best. Oh well. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://Mark

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

Thanks, Jenny. This is what I was afraid of. One must be careful with this procedure. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

Thanks very much for this very helpful description and fix! I'll get on this and my hard drive will thank you... Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

I haven't been to the site, because I just woke up, but if AudioQuake is not featured and highly praised on this site, I will be sorely disappointed. Audio Quake, from http://www.agrip.org.uk/ is, from what I've seen, still the best audio game ever devised. The only first-person shooter ga

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

I really wonder why no one's heard of AudioQuake with MindGrid. The project has somewhat stalled out over the past two years, but the "Jedi Quake," version, written by Cara Quinn and others, is the best 3D audio simulation I've seen. I can't speak for the parallel- processing audio capac

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

One of my aims, should I ever get up the money for an Iphone 3GS, is to write apps that use the built-in compass and GPS locator and WIFI to scavenge data and provide constant heading feedback for blind walkers. This might have to be done using 3D sound, meaning a headset, so I don't know

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

Just to throw out the rest of my ideas for Iphone apps, what I'd really like to do is develop a way for blind people to build up a "map," of their area/environment and, using the Iphone's inertial guidance capacity (accelerometer, compass, tilt meeter, GPS when available, etc.) to Place,"

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

Yes, the Iphone uses an OOP--in fact, from what I understand, you can program in anything--C++, for example, so yes; the architecture of the objects would have to swap data back and forth, but it's pretty modular. One way around the processing load might be to establish a link back to the

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

I get an "internal server error," with that site. 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

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

Why would you want to disable VO? 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 Google Groups "

Re: Copying from an email

Place your cursor before what you wish to copy. Press VO Enter to turn on highlighting. Move your cursor to the end where you want to stop copying, then press VO Enter again to turn off selecting. Press command C, and you're good to go. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1

Re: Steve Ballmer calls Apple's Mac growth a "rounding error"

I defy anyone to purchase a comparable computer *WITH* screen-reader, to this MacBook Pro15 with 4G of RAM and a 2.4G processor. This thing is faster than *ANY* MS_based laptop I've ever seen for half again the price, and that's *WITHOUT* the screen-reader, which costs another computer's

Re: Adding AIM buddies in iChat

You need to be logged in before you can add a buddy; that's the only thing I can think of right off the top of my head. AIM might not think you're on line. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net

Re: This may be a very stupid question, but... was Re: Adding buddies in iChat

Ichat does not create accounts for you on any chat servers. If you don't have the account, you won't be able to set it up in Ichat. There should be a status button near the top of your screen that might say "disconnected," or "connected," or whatever. If it doesn't say Connected or Surf

Re: question

Itunes will rip CDs. Look in preferences. Mark BurningHawk Baxter 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: copy voiceover text to clipbord

VO shift C is your friend. Mark BurningHawk Baxter 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 "

Re: Group mode? safeway.com, Facebook?

I've used Safeway.com for my home delivery as well, but only with that other operating system which shall not be named, and that other screen- reader which also shall not be named put out by that company who shall not be named ... I found it hella confusing that way, and haven't tried it w

Re: mail busy?

When you do a backup with Time Machine, does it back up old E-mail messages? I've never look. In preferences, you can set Mail to empty deleted messages every two weeks or week or whatever. Find me if something else is going whacky and maybe we can talk our way through it. Mark BurningH

Re: A wordpress and safari question for all bloggers out there

Can you set Xjournal or something to upload to your own domain? I never thought about posting a blog on my own domain, and I'm really not sure why. I use LiveJournal, now: http://livejournal.com/users/BurningHawk if anyone cares. Maybe it'd get people coming to my domain, http://MarkBurning

Re: JAWS License and Fusion

Jaws probably thinks that a different memory allocation means a different machine, virtual or not; I wonder if you could change the simulated processor speed or chipset emulation and get a similar response from Jaws. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burnin

Re: Keyboard Help

This is the major drawback to VO for me; on a Macbook, there is only one control key, on the left side. This means that, unless you've got seven fingers or are strangely double-jointed, sometimes you have to cross your hands at the wrists. This doesn't happen very frequently, though, and

Re: Keyboard Help

I just did VO shift D with one hand just to see if I could, but it's ...inelegant. Not symmetric. Can't think of the right word. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~

Re: Keyboard Help

Hey, I'm a guitarist, so I know about good finger twists. And this ain't that. :) Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: sending attachment from a PC to a Mac

I have my PC and Mac talk to each other through a router; I set one drive for sharing and use the other computer to pull from that drive whatever I need and transfer it. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBu

Re: sending attachment from a PC to a Mac

Partition the external hard drive with a phat32 partition; both PC and mac can read this. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

Re: Audio Editor

I might also suggest Audacity; there's a free version, but I'm going to invest in Amadeus Pro one of these days. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: working with the downloads folder?

Donna: You can't delete the downloads folder, as it is a system standard. Anything that's put there==by Mail or Safari or anything else that downloads stuff from the net--follows the same behavioral laws as does any other file or folder on your system. What do you mean by "work with it?"

Re: working with the downloads folder?

You only need to move the application file itself to the applications folder, unless it says otherwise in the unpacking instructions. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~---

Re: Voice Over and reading IM messages.

Interact with the chat frame and then use shift function VO right arrow which will move you to the bottom right corner of that list, then VO left arrow ack through the most recent messages. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home

Re: snowleopard shipping friday

So, then, if I got my Macbook Pro15 last January, through the State of CA's DOR, and they'd instituted apple cares, how do I find out the best/cheapest way for me to get Snow Leopard? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page:

Re: weather widget?

I've used it on occasion, it's temperamental but it can be done. It's called ... wait for it ... wait for it ... Weather. :) Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Using FTP

First place to look for bugs is in the sharing and permissions of the computer you're trying to connect to. Then investigate the router through which they all connect. I'd wonder whether FTP is the best way to do this. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: bu

Re: status menu?

VO shift M twice will bring you to that menu. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: "On My Mac" Mailboxes

Once you expand the "on my mac" section once, you should be able to use OS navigation and not VO. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage

On related note, is there a way to navigate by "visited links," on a webpage? In a certain other screen reach which shall remain shamefully nameless (but not namefully shameless), you just hit V; what's the VO equivalent, if any? Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk19

Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage

Great; just another thing to drool about until I get the new kitten. First, I gotta get a new litterbox. :) Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~-

Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage

Ah yes, the obvious keystroke that would be the one that I miss. :) Thanks much. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Re: Web Navigation Commands in VoiceOver [was Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage]

Thanks so much! There's a lot of useful stuff here that I didn't know; and I thought I was handy with web navigation. :) Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~--

getting two or more copies of each message

I'm getting two and sometimes three copies of each message from these two groups, and three or more from the VIphone list. Is this a list problem or some Gmail problem, and if the latter, where / how do I go about tracking it down and fixing it? Thanks much. thanks much. thanks much... Ma

Re: Adium

You can expand those collapsed columns with VO backslash, they should display fine thereafter... Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

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