IOS 7 without the eye

2013-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi All, A number of issues that came by on this and other lists, have already been addressed in a wonderful and very recent book by Jonathan Mosen. His book is called IOS 7 without the eye. I bought it yesterday and it is absolutely a great read. If you are an iphone user already, this will te

Re: Restoring a Macbook Air to Factory Defaults

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jonathan, Yes, the process is accessible. I assume you won't need the details below, but I'm writing them down for anyone interested. If you start up your mac and you hear the initial sound right after turning it on, then press and hold both command and the letter r while the sound is still

Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Massimo Vettoretti, I tried it all out and some I can confirm. I'll comment sequentially. 1. I did not know you could use the rotor to select a field on a contact card that you want to edit. I tried it this way: I open contacts, open a random card, hit edit, and then I turn the rotor. No con

Re: ITunes and sequencial track number tagging

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, What I use is fusion, and a little windows utility called mp3tag. It allows you to select a bunch of tracks, who's filenames have been nicely numbered. It looks at each file in turn, numbering it in sequence. Of course, your filename numbering must be correct, in order for mp3tag to match y

mac numbers and basic operations

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, If I would buy numbers, does any of you know if basic operations are possible in it with voiceover? I know that numbers does have accessibility issues, therefore I'm asking. What I want is create a spreadsheet with a few columns, each column having a text header, and then being able to

subscribing to the list

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, We've been searching the web some time now. How can I get a friend to join this list? Kind regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

bootcamp and windows without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Installing windows without sighted help on a mac is easy as 1 2 3 if you use fusion, but what a job it is, without sighted help for bootcamp. If you have experience with this, then I hope you can help. There are a number of podcasts and guides on installing windows into a bootcamp

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, To add to this: Bryan's medadisk doesn't talk on my mac. I just burned Bryan's talking windows pre-installation environment, which is what it's called, on to a dvd, and I booted it. Of course, mac hardware is not pc hardware, and although Bryan did include a vast number of audio dri

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Georges, This looks like a very to the point answer. Thank you so much for pointing this out. There are 2 little things that I don't understand yet. Would you please clarify the following: 1. How can I exit NVDA? I don't yet know where windows maps its insert key in bootcamp. On a US keyboar

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hello Georges, Your answers have been most helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in the gaps. I've been busy installing bootcamp windows, and it's all set now. The win PE package is just awesome. I now have windows 64-bit installed, home premium, while I never thought this was

bootcamp without sight on a macbook air

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Erkens
site, where we learned that the USB flash drive should be put into the left USB connector on the macbook air. Interesting, but if they say that'll work, okay we did that. But to no avail. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot for writing, Paul. On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:5

Re: Screen reader in Virtual machine

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Geoff, I can't help you with the keys, but here are a few things you might want to consider. 1. If you want to go with bootcamp, you can call Microsoft to have them transfer your windows license over from your vm to the bootcamp installation. That could solve one of your problemsw. 2. Once y

Re: Hard Disk Utility Manager

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, So easy and so useful. Thanks for that tip. I got rid of many cluttering things this noon. Thanks a heap. Paul. On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:46 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > One thing I've found useful when trying to figure out where all my disk space > went is to turn on "Calculate All Sizes" whi

disk is working all the time

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, My hard disk is working constantly, without me knowing what the heck it's doing. To my knowledge, I don't have disk intensive background stuff deliberately turned on. I know I'll have to get this from activity monitor, but I don't know how to find the info I'm looking for. No matt

Re: disk is working all the time

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Erkens
process with the highest byte count last. You can > do a "man iotop" for more details. > > CB > > On 12/11/12 10:45 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Dear listers, >> >> My hard disk is working constantly, without me knowing what the heck it's >> d

fusion drive?

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm thinking about buying a mac mini, to replace my old windows box that holds a lot of mp3 data for us. I'm very satisfied with regular hard disks. Some are still alive after 8 years of continuous spinning 24 7. I heard that the flash memory though, which is also part of a fusion

accessing java on the mac?

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, I started using CrashPlan. It's an off-site backup solution, not expensive, and very attractive. The idea is that you have all your stuff automatically and continually backed up, just like you can do with time machine, but now to a data center that holds your data. If something woul

basic garage band questions

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After firing up garage band, I would like to start recording from the internal mac microphone, just to play with it. I now know that I can hit r to start recording. When I do this, the metronome ticks away. I can turn that off and from then on it's gone. But there are several trac

Re: Crashplan accessibility?

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Alex, It is mostly accessible, but not entirely. In the interface, it is not easy to click any buttons. You have to route the mouse and then click, so vo command f5, and then vo shift space to click. But some buttons, like the one that reads: disable inbound backup, is a hard one. You cannot

Re: accessing java on the mac?

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Erkens
on in VO > Utility. > > I hope this helps. I do not know if it is Java specific, though. > > Please let us know how it goes. It sounds like a wonderful service, and I > particularly appreciate the back-up option. > > Harry > > On dic 13, 2012, at 2:27 p.m.,

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Neil, Very good to know there are alternatives for an inaccessible drobo dash board. I was looking to buy a drobo, but I won't for now. Thank you for pointing out its lack of accessibility. Otherwise I too would have run into serious problems with its operation. You say you have the Netgear

mac mini

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
t; TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple > iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your > accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com > Pho

monitor for mac mini?

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Does a mac mini require a special type of monitor, i.e. minimum resolution etc? Or are most new monitors likely okay with it? Thanks in advance, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: mac mini

2012-12-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Then you can fix the problem in System Preferences as > described above. > Hth. > > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > &g

Re: time capsule

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, You can configure your time capsule, using a utility that comes on every mac. It is called airport utility dot app, and it sits in the utilities folder, which is a child of applications. Command shift a gets you into applications, but instead using command shift u takes you into the utilitie

time machine basics

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear and clever listers, There is something very basic with time machine it seems, that I cannot get my head around. I have backed up for months, and I restored an entire machine once. That went well. But, what if I want to browse what is on my backups? When I choose open time machine from the

Re: mac mini

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Cheryl, >> >> I sort of solved the problem, and thanks for t

Re: help with hand break?

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Kliphton, I cannot answer your question, but since you say you figured out most of the stuff, could you please explain how handbrake works together with vlc? If you want to rip a dvd, then what do you do? Do you play the video with vlc single speed, and can handbrake capture that in some way

Re: time machine basics

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Erkens
t;I hope this helps. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION > > AUTH

Re: Browsing FTP servers with iOS

2013-01-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Chris, Well, what I use all the time is a thing called ftp on the go pro. It's not free, but I love it. It's accessible averywhere, as far as I discovered. I can upload, download, create and delete folders locally and remotely etc. There's one thing you should be aware of though, because fi

reasons to make mac stuff accessible

2013-01-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Many developers on the mac platform are open to input. Some more than others, but it seldomly happened to me that I got no response at all. I'm using a program that has room for improvement, when it comes down to accessibility. What do you yourself tell developers, as good reasons to m

tip for amadeus pro

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've seen many descriptions, most of them mentioning that you have to set a marker. But what I do works quick. Say I want to cut off the start of a file, say the first minute. I play and skip

how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Often, I have a file that I want to perform a specific action on. For example, this could be a stereo wave file, that I want to convert to a 256 kilibit stereo mp3 file. Is there a way you can think of, that I can add a new menu item to the vo shift m context menu on a file, and t

Re: tip for amadeus pro

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
or @iBlindTechDemo for just the podcast info. > > > On 21/01/2013, at 8:07 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, >> >> Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've >> seen many descriptions, mo

time capsule port mappings don't stick

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm helping someone to set up their time capsule and all is fine, except for one thing. When I enter port mappings and save, the time capsule reboots as usual, but then when checking back on the port settings I made, the text fields for the port numbers are empty. In other words,

Re: curser and selection problems, any ideas?

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi William Windels, I sometimes experience strange VoiceOver behaviour like you described. Sometimes, my navigation gets stuck, even though quicknav is off. This is due to things your cursor comes across, that voiceover has difficulty with. Even an attachment I send in a mail message freezes na

Re: program that will back up macintosh drive and bootcamp drive on osx?

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Hank, You will need 2 separate programs to do this, as far as I'm aware, but a cloner might be able to access your bootcamp partition as well. I don't use bootcamp. Can you see your windows partition from within finder? Command shift c takes you into a list of volumes accessible from finder

Re: how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
ed descriptions of Automator actions on > this list, since I only usually take a look at this when questions > come up. The last fairly detailed post I made about using Automator > was on the mac-access list, which is also archived at the Mail Archive > web site. > > HTH. Cheers,

Re: A couple of questions

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Matt, Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch audio converter that can do this. Not only does it convert audio from one format to the other, but one of its power functions is that it can grab a dvd, and spit out audio in the format you want. Hth, Paul. On Jan

Re: A couple of questions

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
and it was a devil. > Matt > Sent from my mac > Twitter: matt692 > > On 2013-01-27, at 12:29 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch >> audio converter that can do this. No

Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Michael, So to summarize, ios 6.1 is just around the corner. Second, as soon as that comes out, then shortly afterwards, it is likely that the untethered jailbreak for ios 6.1 is ready as well. Did I miss anything important? It's a lot of talking, isn't it? Smile. Regards, Paul. On Jan 27,

Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
cessibility towards the beginning of releasing > it. At least, this is my hope. > > > http://empoweringtheblind.com > Empowering the blind, one step at a time. > > > On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> So to summari

amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear amadeus users, When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the lame encoder, but I think VoiceOver won't let me access the advanced dialog. I have a file ready in amadeus pro. I then hit command shift s to save as, give filename etc, choose mp3 as output, then I

Re: amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings

2013-02-15 Thread Paul Erkens
.za > Skype: Batworx > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/batworx > Twitter: http://twitter.com/batworx > > On 15 Feb 2013, at 8:52 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear amadeus users, >> >> When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the

itunes and buying songs today

2013-02-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, In the mac itunes store, I used to buy music and that would then be downloaded into my computer. I think this is no longer the case. Is it true that I can only stream a song from itunes from the Apple servers, and not have it in my possession on the hard disk? What I want is an m4

Re: GarageBand

2014-12-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Scott, Reading the garageband messages with great interest, I was just thinking about possibilities to extend my knowledge, so yes, I’d like to participate in a voice chat, if possible. I am in gmt plus 1. Kind Regards, Paul. > On 24 Dec 2014, at 02:54, Scott Berry wrote: > > Well if we ar

finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have a Western Digital 1tb drive attached to my mac. Its file system is mac os extended, journaled, so that should all be fine. However, when I go to this drive in finder, by simply hitting command down arrow on its volume icon on the desktop, finder crashes. Voiceover says I'm

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening the normal menubar with vo plus m, m for menu as a mnemonic. Then, vo arrow right until you find the item called virtual machines. Hit vo space to open this men

terminal question: wildcards

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers using terminal, How do I match all files starting with a period? I thought .* would be simple enough, but if I do ls .* on my external drive, which is os extended journaled, then all files in that dir show up. If I do the same command in my normal home directory, then the same thing

Re: Transfreing old contents to new virtual machine, is it possible?

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Krister, Well you can exchange files between 2 virtual windows machines, yes. You can not easily transfer all your apps. You would need to reinstall them in windows 7. What you can do however, is transfer data from the old xp vm to the new win7 vm, using file sharing built in to vmware fusio

time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled it and I tried the following. 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to begin with. Problem is though, that it

Re: Java-based Applications

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Harry, I can't solve your problem but as you asked, yes I have limited success with java applications on the mac. I can read parts of their interface, and routing your mouse and clicking, seems to be the way to go, as opposed to using the default action from voiceover, i.e. vo spacebar on th

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
9 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > >

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
ur computer say at the last update or > maybe you could check a specific date you know for sure it was on there. Just > a thought. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On May 3, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi John Panarese, >> >> Thanks for your re

question for the geeks: sftp

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear geeks on here, After doing some research, I understand that I can host my own SFTP server on my mac. To do this is a bit of a challenge, and I have a couple of questions in advance that you may know the answers to. 1. As I understand it, SFTP is a protocol that runs inside, or over, SSH. A

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Erkens
sword > that is still on the clipboard. > 10. Press command e again to tell 1password that you are finished editing. > > You now have the password changed on the site and also updated in 1password. > You can trash the text edit document and all is now right with the world. > >

Re: Editing software for the mac

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, Wow this sounds very cool. how can one manipulate audio from the command line? Can you play audio, set markers interactively, nodge markers, cut copy and paste, mix tracks etc? The idea is interesting. How is this done? If you want to perform whatever function on a file, like mp3ing, nor

Re: removing Carbon coppy Cloner

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, If I'm not sure whether or not an application is leaving files behind when simply deleting its dot app component from my applications folder, I use app zapper. It looks for related files and gets rid of those as well. It costs I think it was some 15 dollars but it works. Not everything on t

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
ally generated and make sure that both the username and password > are filled in. With 1password in focus, pressing command+shift+l will put you > in the window where the list of logins that you have created and stored in > 1password will be displayed. > > Robert > > >

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
ari. In > other words, when you are in safari sitting on a web page for which you have > created a login entry in 1password, you can press command+backslash to have > 1password automatically fill in the username and password and log you in to > that site. > > Robert

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Erkens
s command+backslash to have > 1password automatically fill in the username and password and log you in to > that site. > > Robert Carter > On Aug 25, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear Robert, >> >> I don't seem to get it all yet. Please allow

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Erkens
he right till you are on the Web site url and then double tap. That > will open the browser inside the 1password app and log you in. Or at least > bring you to the page and fill in the user id and password. Then all you have > to do is hit the login button. > > Keith > > On

Re: 1Password for Mac

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rod, I'm still exploring the 1password interface on the mac. The first thing you should know about, is that 1password consists of 2 components, each with its own interface. The main part is a very accessible mac app that goes into your applications folder, called, you guessed it, 1password.a

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Erkens
ith > > On Aug 26, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Robert and others using 1password, >> >> Do you use 1password on your iphone as well? The interface looks a lot >> simpler than that of the safari extension on the mac. As I'm still a >

Re: 1Password for Mac

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
It worked great on the Mac. > My biggest concern is being able to access my banking apps, audible, etc. on > my iPhone after upgrading to more secure passwords with 1Password. > Time will tell if I can get it all to work for me on the Mac and iPhone too. > Smile > Rod > &g

Re: 1password accessibility

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Erkens
I am not sure has been discussed on list: >> Can anyone use the wallet successfully? >> >> THanks for your valuable tips. >> >> Ioana >> >> Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online >> stores. >> >> On

Re: Lastpass Accessibility

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Teresa, Do you use an iphone with lastpass as well? If so, how does lastpass deal with password sync from the mac to the phone and back? 1Password uses dropbox. Which are the sharing methods, if any at all, for lastpass? Also, can you have your own vault, i.e., not one online but one in an e

Re: airdrop

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Erkens
the destination >>> computer and then press Vo period to drop the file. >>> With this, you will here the dragging sound and then the send dialog will >>> appear to ask if you want to send that file. You hit Send and there you go. >>> I hope that I am more clear on

Re: OS X rocks!

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Another way to see how much disk space you still have, while working in the finder, is to show its status bar. X items, x free. Also if you turn on the path, then you will always know where you are working, even in places where that's not immediately apparent. Paul. On Aug 27, 2012, at 11:1

Re: Question about using text edit for html editing

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Bill, I don't know if this is something that interests you, but on a recent podcast, named mac power users podcast, I heard about markdown. Mark down is a way to mark up your text in an easy to read format, that can then be saved into rich text, html and other variants where you need formatt

Re: Key remap question

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Bill and Eric, If a key remap works on one keyboard and differently or not at all on another, then what the problem is, is likely the scan code that the keyboard generates when you touch the key. I don't know how key remap handles them, but that's probably a thing to look at. Paul. On Sep 2,

1password storing attachments with an item

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Robert Carter and hopefully others, I'm finding more uses and work arounds for 1password every so often, and I'm looking for one now too. I can't seem to store a file attachment with an item in 1password for mac. I have a software license that I'd like to store, and filling that out and havi

Re: In search of accessible password vault

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, By the time of this writing, 1Password is accessible, as long as you stick with the app itself, and don't bother with its safari extension, other than auto filling in a login once you are on that page. You can easily google 1password, but to answer your questions: yes it is multi platform,

Re: Sink iPhone to Mac

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Max, First, after connecting your phone to the mac, make sure itunes is open. If it did not come up when you connected your phone, then there's a setting inside itunes that you can always switch to on, so that itunes automatically starts when you hook up your iphone. Once itunes is open, you

mountain lion clean install still wants app store access

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After having crated a usb installation stick for mountain lion, off of which I can boot just fine, I booted the mac book pro from the usb drive, turned on voiceover, wiped the macintosh hd partition using disk utility, and started the mac os10 mountain lion installer. A few very s

getting started with garage band

2012-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I found a few podcasts about getting started in garage band, and I've listened to these carefully. I'd like to be able to do a few different things with it though, for which I did not really find a lot of stuff to get me started. Can anyone please answer some or maybe all the foll

Re: Arrangement Track in GarageBand

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Nic, I'm learning garage band and would like to know what an arrangement track actually is. Getting to know garage band is not easy, as there is no ideal documentation for voiceover users for this highly graphical piece of software as far as I know. So getting it together by bits and pieces i

ftp sites in finder and read write mode

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I often mount an ftp site using the finder, by hitting command k, then typing ftp://, that is f t p colon slash slash, then the address of the ftp server and then enter. If you need to connect to an alternative port on the ftp server, that is also possible, by adding a colon, and

time capsule access from windows?

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, How should I access my time capsule built-in disk using a windows box? Does a time capsule understand or speak samba at all? It won't work when I try to access time capsule using the smb colon slash slash prefix. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

here's a tip on how to not miss mail

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, I just found a tip that I think is worth sharing. I have 19 forums that I'm subscribed to. I ask and answer numerous mails on each of them. On my secondary email address, I sometimes receive stuff that tends to go into the big bit universe and I'll never ee it, even though it did co

Re: How to skip forward in Amadeus Pro?

2012-10-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Gavin, This is a question that I'm seeking the answer for as well. Knowing how this works will be very useful for me and others. Could you be a little more specific? I don't think I understand the complete picture yet. I know that I can use space to start, pause and resume playback. The arro

Re: playing music outside of iTunes on the Mac ...

2012-10-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Ricardo, Do you know if it is possible to skip ahead in an audio file if you are listening to it using space from finder? Thanks, Paul. On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > if you just want to find a music file in finder, and listen to it, you can > just press sp

windows 7 forum anywhere?

2012-10-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm currently exploring windows 7 in a virtual machine on my mac, but I have a lot of questions. Can you point me to a forum for windows 7 users with a screen reader? That would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Using carbon copy cloner for backup, help.

2012-10-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Nektarios, It's just fine to have a hard disk with 2 tb of storage, and then devide that into 2 or more partitions, or volumes. Of course, as you mentioned, if you have a 320 gb drive to back up to 1 of those volumes, then that volume's size need not be bigger than This 320 gb. This leaves y

Re: windows 7 forum anywhere?

2012-10-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Phil, Chris and Chris, That has been helpful. I just subscribed to the windows 7 forum. Paul. On Oct 28, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > > I'm currently exploring windows 7 in a virtual machine on my mac, but I have > a lot of questions. Can you po

reinstalling os10 non-English

2012-11-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm reinstalling someone else's mac at his request. His keyboard layout is Belgium, i.e. not English, that's the point, and the braille table is European, not US. This was the case right before the reinstall of mountain lion, but strangely, it is still the case even after the rein

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi rvr, What can you do with the Apple universal remote 2.0 ap that you mentioned? - Original Message - From: "RvR" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:33 AM Subject: RE: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1 Apple just released their new Remote 2.0 app. It's universal this time, so it

Re: URGENT: Updated Information & Detailed Instructions FCC Cell Phone Accessibility Comments Due Thu 9/30 Agency Now Accepting Comments By Email

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Cara, Can you explain just a little bit more on the FCC? Indeed. Sending an email is way more doable than working in a website with all kinds of official terms, where English is not my native language. I want my voice to be heard, for sure. And, that Apple has now relaxed its accessibility d

Re: some general question

2010-10-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Robert, How do you perform a control click? I've been looking for the answer this week. I now have ways to get around it but the actual control click using voice over still is a little mystery. How do you do it? - Original Message - From: "Robert Hooper" To: Sent: Friday, October

Re: some general question

2010-10-02 Thread Paul Erkens
ontrol key and actually click the mouse. I hope this helps:) Robert Hooper On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:29 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Robert, How do you perform a control click? I've been looking for the answer this week. I now have ways to get around it but the actual control click using voice

Re: Burning an AVI file to play on a standard DVD player

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Mike, There is someone on this list who did a podcast on a program called prism, and that was the one for me. Prism is actually a video file converter, letting you have, say, a mov, and convert it into a, say, an avi. I am using its windows version, and with that I got a number of shortcuts

Re: mac verses pc

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Heather, Mike Arrigo has posted a podcast on www.blindcooltech.com explaining how to put a daisy book on to your SD card, using a mac, playable on the victor reader stream. It is very easily done. Hopefully someone out here knows which of his 13 mac podcasts this is in, but he demonstrates it

Re: viphone and dropbox

2010-10-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi William and all, Here's an observation concerning dropbox which I find alerting. I am using it on a laptop with a u s b dongle, so that I have a 3g internet connection on my laptop. Thanks to te dongle, I can see the upload and download activity of my machine. Now when you start dropbox, it

Re: accessibility of MacBook Air

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Mike, This sounds very interesting. How would I go about sharing the drive on my macbook, so that an air could use it to install its OS? - Original Message - From: "Mike Arrigo" To: Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:31 AM Subject: Re: accessibility of MacBook Air You can share t

Re: Skype test call

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Joshua, just add the contact name echo123 and you can call that for a test. - Original Message - From: "Joshua Loya" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:27 AM Subject: Skype test call Hi, I am using the most recent nonbeta version of Skype. Skype Test call is not in my list o

new member intro

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Please let me introduce myself in my first message here. The person who brought this list to my attention is Anouk Radix, also a list member, and a friend of mine here in Holland. I'm Paul Erkens from the Netherlands, 38, blind from birth, and very excited about the mac since I

test

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Erkens
I'm trying to post to this list, but my messages don't seem to come through as I don't get them back as list traffic. Testing 1 2 3 . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googleg

new user asking skype help

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Lately, I attempted to get some knowledge from a mac user over skype, but that turned out not to work because we have been trying to have a skype session for days, and it just hasn't happened. Therefore, I'm turning to the list for help. I'm a beginner on the mac, though not so much a

vmware and key combinations

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I installed vm ware a few days ago, but I am not happy with it. The keys I press don't do what they normally do in windows, and obviously there are good reasons for it. I checked the vm ware website, but there is only a half accessible pdf file, that doesn't contain the info I need. I

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