Re: vmware and key combinations

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Erkens
ed off when running a virtual machine. I have used both Fusion and other applications on my mac at the same time. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Dec 17, 2009 kl. 7:43 PM skrev Paul Erkens: > Hi all, > > I inst

Searching help

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Still somewhat a newbie to the mac. When in help for, say, voice over, how do I search the entire help for a word or a set of words? Tonight I was browsing voice over help. V O H from the deskdop, and of course the html page came up just fine. However, the topic I'm looking for is not

vmware fusion command and option keys

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, When inside windows xp in vmware fusion, the command key is now my windows logo key, and option acts as alt. I'd rather have this the other way around, so I looked in vmware preferences. There is a keyboard and mouse screen there, but it poses a problem. Once keyboard mappings are ena

reading text in the mail program

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, When composing a new email message to this list, just to know how to do it I'd like to find out how I can spell out text on the screen char by char. According to the v o manual, I should interact with the text to read, then hold v o plus shift, and then arrow across the text to read it one

sharing vmware across user accounts

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, I have vmware fusion and xp. In my own account, xp runs fine. Now, I would like to share this xp installation with my wife, who is on the same mac laptop, but on another account. Is there a way to do this? When I try to open my xp virtual machine from my wife's account, the computer says th

Re: Help with audacity

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, As far as one track editing goes, what would you say is a better choice as an audio editor: is that amadeus pro, or the accessible version of audacity? My problem with amadeus pro that I installed last week is still, that the spacebar just won't even start or pause playback. Command y

Re: Setting up file Sharing, Was: Re: found a solution for command k not working dialog

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
> > Basically, I want to access my entire C drive on my windows machine both with > read and write access trustees, from my mac, and I'd like from my windows > machine, to also have read/write trustee access to my Macintosh HD volume, or > if nothing else, at bare least, read ac

Re: VMware fusion and JAWS

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rod, In fusion, you have 2 choices to remap keys. One is sharp keys and the other is fusion itself. If you do it in fusion however, the keys you define will work in all virtual machines you have. If these are all windows, there is no problem. Regarding the fusion way of doing it: go into fus

amadeus pro manual reading

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, After having installed amadeus pro, I was trying to read its manual. However, having to do it in quick view doesn't seem to be the most practical way to read it, because words sometimes run together and a quick search is not simple. . I would like to have a version in plain text. I tri

Re: deleting sections of audio in Amadeus pro?

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jurgen, Where did you find the m key for amadeus pro? Would be interesting to see more shortcuts for it. Interested to know. Paul. On Aug 13, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Courtney, > > you don't need the upgrade for deleting audio. > > Set the insertion point on the left posit

Re: Looking for a good unzipping program.

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul, If you need an archiving shell that unzips, zips etc, I had better zip from the app store. If you want to unrar, you can install the trial version of rar for os10. Worked like a charm. I have not used it since Lion is installed though, but perhaps just take a look. Betterzip zips and un

Re: Looking for a good unzipping program.

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Erkens
unzip RAR files? > Thanks. > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> If you need an archiving shell that unzips, zips etc, I had better zip from >> the app store. If you want to unrar, you can install the trial version of >> rar for os10

Re: garageband jampacks and other plugins?

2011-08-18 Thread Paul Erkens
Something odd about garage band. I once got garage band with snow leopard, on the installation dvd set. Now however, I have a working clean install of Lion, done from a USB stick, without the additional ilife software. I looked in the app store, and garage band seems to cost 12 euros, which is s

turning off trackpad on macbooks

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Is there a way to turn off the trackpad entirely, while using a macbook or macbook pro with Lion? When accidentally touching it, even when I am in VmWare fusion inside windows, a whooshing sound may be heard, which means I am in dash board. Of course, you can turn that off, but is ther

Re: Mac Mail Question

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Linda, If you have 2 mailboxes and you want to easily switch between them, here's how to do it. If you need more help, let me know. First, you will want to have both mailboxes in your favorites bar. You can do this using the new drag and drop procedure in voice over. First, look where the f

Re: turning off trackpad on macbooks

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Erkens
ingers in an anti clock >>> wise direction on the track pad, it'll be turned off. I got that from >>> studying the voiceover guide. >>> cheers gerry skype gerry.cook1 >>> - Original Message - From: "Paul Erkens" >>> To: >&

safari address bar copy url?

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, When attempting to copy the contents of the safari address bar to the clipboard, command c for copy seems disabled. I first navigate to the address bar with command l. Then I turn quicknav off. Then, I move the cursor to the start of the line with command left arrow. Then, I select the e

Re: Avout Radium

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Fransisco, I didn't find a directory listing either, but if you type a station name in the search field, it will come up. You will find a checkbox beside it to make it one of your favorites. From then on, press command left and right to go through your favorite stations. Paul. On Aug 25, 2011

Re: safari address bar copy url?

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
o just do Command-L Command-C and be done. If you do interact with the > text and then want to select all the text again, rather than navigating > around just use Command-A for "select all" and then copy. > > CB > > On 8/25/11 10:16 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Hi all,

filevault Lion experiences

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, Just passing on my experience with Lion's file vault. I thought it'd be difficult but it's not. Carefully read the dialogs and you're all set. No complicated setup. Encryption takes a while. Only thing you are going to sacrifice is a voice over supported log in. With encryption enabled,

Re: Mike H a question regarding you toob and the mac.

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Mike, On youtube, you can find a link to download flash for mac. It's from Adobe. Just install it, forget about it and enjoy hearing youtube. Paul. On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:09 AM, Mike Huckabay wrote: > Hi there dus anny one know of a good utility for the mac to play, manage > subscriptions and mor

Re: dropbox for mac

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Does any of you know if the new mac dropbox accessibility that is present in the beta, has been appearing in the latest stable dropbox for mac version yet? Paul. On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:41 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > Hi, > This should help and all the steps do work correctly (well they did fo

Re: Avout Radium

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
y of radium. I would appreciate someone > advising me where I can locate the trial copy. > thanks > On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Fransisco, >> I didn't find a directory listing either, but if you type a station name in >> the searc

Lion mail search interface and vo

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear list, Question is: Once you go to the search field in the toolbar in Lion mail, and type something in, 1. Do I press enter afterwards or not? 2. What exactly can I search for? Through subject lines and in the message body seems apparent, but can you also search message headers, or find mess

device manager present on the mac?

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, When I connect a USB scanner, even before having installed its drivers, is there a way to verify that the mac sees a USB device? Is there sort of a device manager present in os10? I suppose there will be. In windows, one can see which devices are detected, but have no drivers installed

Re: creating different voiceOver activities

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Another way to switch languages on the fly is to use the vo command arrows. If you have both an English and the Spanish voice installed, hold down control option command, and use the left and right arrows to choose an aspect of the voice you want to change. One of them, among pitch etc, is the v

Re: dropbox for mac

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
that still true? Paul. On Aug 25, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > What accessibility are you referring to? > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Paul E

Re: trackpad commands lost, pls help!

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi William, Maybe it is a good idea to recreate your settings for the time being. If Jurgen has not received a response, it could take a while until this bug in voiceover is going to be fixed. If you now save your vo prefs under lion, you will likely be able to import those again later. It cou

Re: device manager present on the mac?

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
hed to it. > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> When I connect a USB scanner, even before having installed its drivers, is >> there a way to verify that the mac sees a USB device? Is there sort of a >> device manager p

Re: dropbox for mac

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
't remember it for the life of me. You might be > able to find it in the archives. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi

Re: Lion mail search interface and vo

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Erkens
and > then get further choices like all mail boxes or the one I'm in like trash > then choices like sent from subject whole of message then at the end the > table of results! > Then I just interact with that table and scroll through! > hth Colin > > On 25 Aug 2011, at

Re: assistance moving mailboxes to the favourites bar

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Another thing people have had success with, is to position your vo cursor just to the right of the inbox that was already there on the favorites bar. It seems to matter, where on the favorites bar you drop the mailbox you are dragging. So go to the mailboxes table and interact with it, then find

Re: zipping

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
The mac can unzip just fine. All you need to do is hit VO spacebar on the zip file and it will extract in the current folder. So, say you have a file called book.zip, it ends up as a new folder inside the current folder, named book, with the zip contents inside it. Hth. Paul. On Aug 27, 2011, at

Re: all these issues

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Teresa, Do you happen to know if the Lion installers are personalized with a serial number or something else? I.e., once I have my Lion installer downloaded, can I install that without any trouble on to someone else's mac, to avoid having him download all of it? Just wondering. Paul. On Jul 21,

Re: Spaces keyboard shortcut disabling

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi keith, First, yes you can disable that in Lion. Go to the apple menu, then system preferences, and there go to keyboard. Once opened, move over to the second tab sheet called keyboard shortcuts and hit it with VO space. Now, you have a dialog with 2 tables. In the first table, select mission

Re: shortcut to the desktop

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Erkens
If you do want to make an alias on the desktop, you can. Go to the applications folder, find the program, use vo shift m to get to the context menu for the program and choose make alias. The alias will be created in the same folder the program is in. For example, making an alias for Skype.app, c

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Simon, Yes I'm having the same issue when having documents open in 2 languages at the same time. When translating from German into Dutch for example, it would be nice to have just 1 braille table, that can display Dutch accented letters as well as the German ones, at the same time. Bu

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
I am starting to use mac adapter. The version I had until last week was very accessible. But since the update, it has become more cluttered. Probably not worse then it was, just more cluttered with stuff in its window. I'm getting used to it. You can find adapter for mac on google. Hth, Paul. On

Re: Avout flash Player

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Fransisco, It should just work after you install the flash player from Adobe. Try to play a youtube item. Hth, Paul. On Aug 30, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Francisco Salvador Crespo wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Flash Player, but i don't find how can integrate this with Safary > for play flash content.

Re: all these issues

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
ial > numbers or the like. So you can install a single image onto multiple machines > and they trust you will do the right thing as far as purchasing licenses. > > CB > > On 8/27/11 8:45 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Teresa, >> Do you happen to know if the Lion installe

Re: upgrading ram and VM fusion

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
John, Be careful when attempting to do audio editing in fusion. You will experience a lag. Cuts and pastes are difficult if the moment you press stop to cut, is not going to be the place in the file where the cut will actually happen. I wrote vmware about this and I'm awaiting a response. Don't

Re: all these issues

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
tedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Chris b, >> Thanks for the info. Regarding license issues, we did the right thing but it >> was terribly cumbersome. In the time slot where lion was

Re: Avout flash Player

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
: > Yes, i can play Youtube's videos > the problem is when a want play an audio from a website, that with Jaws on > Windows i can play this > El 30/08/2011, a las 16:08, Paul Erkens escribió: > >> Hi Fransisco, >> It should just work after you install the flash pl

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to make a hole in vmware, by simply sharing the root of the drive on the mac side. Go to fusion and then into settings, sharing. There, you can designate a folder or any drive for that matter, to become ava

Re: mail question

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Teresa, Are you using classic view in lion mail or not? I'm also curious how to find the message numbers, but I'm in the message column and interacting with the message table, and in conversation view on the view menu. When find a conversation and I press tab, I just land on a list of message

Re: all these issues

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Erkens
y!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Ray, >> No he bought a macbook pro at the time lion wou

Re: mail question

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
l! >>> You might have to check the checkbox in the collums sub menu in the view >>> menu! in vo+m or control+f2 there are options for you to add or remove and >>> one of them is number! >>> hth Colin >>> On 30 Aug 2011, at 20:56, Paul Erkens wro

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, How are these Apple braille tables out of date? Where does their out of dateness show? Paul. On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Annie, > > The Braille tables in Lion are from Duxbury and are out of date. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 31 Aug 2011, at 12:06,

twitter on the mac?

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I just downloaded twitter from the mac app store, but the main window seems to be invisible to voiceover. Can any of you confirm this or is there a way to get it working? I'd be interested to use twitter on the mac beside using tweetlist on my iPhone. Anyone experience with the twitter c

Re: Convert video formats

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Someone called Gwenna, or Allison I don't remember well, once pointed us to a program called prism. I used it on windows and it was an accessible video file converter, but I don't know if it does what you want in particular: having a movie file, burn it to dvd, or maybe just convert it to a

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
in braille as a c cedille in French. They are 2 distinct characters for the sighted, but one and the same symbol in braille. Why is it, that we don't yet have a unified unicode utf8 braille table? Any idea? Paul. On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Pau

reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear list, I have a question for us mac users. If anyone thinks it is off topic, if you have an idea where to better ask this, please let me know. Shortly, I will attend a discussion with one of our national funds that help blind people buy a computer. If a blind person living in the Netherlan

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul Henrichsen, Well if you use max, which is free, then you can either rip cd's, or convert a bunch of audio files from within the finder using max. Hth, Paul. On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Thanks, Eric. I'll have to see how much Amadeus pro lite would cost. Sixty > d

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Johny Angel, You can turn on extensions in the finder presences. In finder, press vo comma. On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote: > Hi Simon and all, > > Well I am still having trouble placing the VLC application into the > applications folder. After cmd downarrowingon the VLC fold

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, Can the same thing be achieved in text edit as well? Garth posed an interesting question that I'd also like to know about, but if this can be done in text edit, that would suffice for me. Can it be done the same way? Paul. On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Gar

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Esther, Regarding podcast feeds. If I want to subscribe to a given podcast, of which I know there is a feed for it, do I always do that in iTunes? I don't suppose that all podcasts on the web can also be found in itunes. So my next question is, like you have juice on windows as a podcatcher,

difference quicklook and preview?

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, What is the difference between quick look in finder and preview? Isn't it true that these are actually the same thing? That once you open a file in finder with the spacebar, finder calls it quicklook, while in fact preview is being started? I'm a bit confused because from the super dupe

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Could it be that you want the vo f3 command? This reads you the contents of the voiceover cursor. Hth, Paul. On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Traci wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the keyboard command to read what I have written? Say I'm filling > out a form, and want to check what I wrote inside an

Re: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Christopher Mark Zack, I think you may already know this because the message I'm replying to is a bit old, but you can install growl and then install growl safari, so that you get a spoken message, once a download is complete. If you want to know whether a download is in progress, just check if

Re: Audio conversion program

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Or perhaps a dropbox link so the list can try it as well. Interested to see it in action. On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:55 AM, james Walton wrote: > hi > i would like this program > i see it in the message body but can't download it > could some one email me off list with it attached? > thanks > > -- >

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Sep 2011, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> So, given the 4-byte representation of characters in utf8 unicode, a braille >> table could easily be made up based on that character set. This would of >> course imply that some braille dot patterns would occur more than once in >> uni

to air users: where is the power button?

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi macbook air users, My friend Anouk, also a list member here, just got a new macbook air. We wonder where the power button is. I have a different machine and there seems no power button in the top right of the flat top surface where the keyboard is on her mac. I'm not at her place, so I can't

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Kirsten, Yes it is possible to run windows, xp vista 7 etc, on your mac. Why not stop pondering and get it, smile. It is worth it. Now your questions. You will indeed need a screen reader like jaws inside windows. You first boot up your mac into os10. Then, you have voiceover support. With i

Re: Windows On A Mac

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, I would say, go for fusion, not parallells. Parallels is not as accessible to voiceover as fusion. Under fusion, you won't need any sighted assistance to get windows up and running. On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:56 AM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hello List, > > I am seriously considering installing Window

Re: to air users: where is the power button?

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
rs. Simply tap and hold for a second or so. > > > On Sep 3, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi macbook air users, >> My friend Anouk, also a list member here, just got a new macbook air. We >> wonder where the power button is. I have a different machi

Re: Backing up with VM Fusion

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
HI Eric, One solution to back up your windows partition from bootcamp, is to use a windows imaging utility like drive snapshot. www.drivesnapshot.de. You can download the 150 kilobyte program. It can run in windows so that you can backup your windows partition, even while it is being used, and y

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Tracey, Well, each case where you want to have sound on the mac is indeed possible, but you will have to know what to do. For example, Eric Caron already wrote about the progress bar that you can follow while a file is downloading. But growl is another option. To answer your questions: growl

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Eric, Don't worry about the version of fusion. You can update any time by going into the menu bar, vo m, then one vo right arrow to the fusion menu, then vo down to check for updates. That should give you the latest and lion compatible version. I'm running it just fine. Regarding the vmware

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
IE, I should not delete this disk image? > > Once I open the disk image, then go over to the preference pain, I'm done? > Should I close that window and go over to system preferences to begin setting > up Growl? > > I'm looking forward to figuring this out f

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jorge, The person who I owe a lot to, here, is Mike Arrigo. He did 13 podcasts about the mac, one of which was about fusion. And that was so clear, and so complete, that it took me less than a day to get going. Mike, great job, for many of us. You can find mike's podcasts on www.blindcooltech

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Eric Caron, Your first question, what to do about a non-existent insert key inside a virtual machine, is quite a story if you want to know the ins and outs. Along the way, we will get there. Here you go. First off, it is true that you have no insert key on the mac, while you often do need o

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
aded but > don't seem to be able to get it to work. > Is there a way to re map the keys in VM fusion? > > And another tip where do I make sure the ram allocation is split to 2 GB each > for my 4 gb machine? > > Thanks so much for this help folks! I'd be lost w

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
I don't have. > Another nudge forward would be greatly appreciated. > Bill > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens > Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 2:58 PM > To:

Re: pdf files to text

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi May, On the mac, if you need this often, then abbyy fine reader is a good solution. Its interface has a combobox where you input where your image is coming from, so either a scanner or a file, and the next combo box lets you decide what to convert it to. It is that simple, but it does cost 80

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
re out. > > Traci > On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Tracey, >> Let's explain that step by step so you don't get lost. >> >> First off. A disk image is a normal file on your hard drive. If you click >> it, os10 will mount it

Re: Windows On A Mac

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Bill, Could it be thet you haven't swapped your command and option, or alt and winlogo keys yet? Paul. On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I am struggling trying to get Fusion to work with Lion. Is there an expert > or two on this list who's brain I can pick? > Currently, I h

Re: pdf files to text

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi May, On the mac, if you need this often, then abbyy fine reader is a good solution. Its interface has a combobox where you input where your image is coming from, so either a scanner or a file, and the next combo box lets you decide what to convert it to. It is that simple, but it does cost 80

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
ial. Thank you very much. > > Under Growl display options, should I select speech instead of any visual > choice? Does this mean speech will give me notifications? > > This is fun to try to figure out. > > Traci > On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >>

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul Henrichsen, As I think it was Eric Caron pointed out, max could be a good choice. Max is free. On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Hi, Esther. I thought of Amadeus pro, but $60 is a bit more than I want to > pay since I am just converting files; not editing them. > Will

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to make a hole in vmware, by simply sharing the root of the drive on the mac side. Go to fusion and then into settings, sharing. There, you can designate a folder or any drive for that matter, to become ava

how to continue a draft in lion mail?

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, I think I found the solution to the question how you can continue working on a draft, after you quit it. 1. Open mail and begin a new message. Type some text. 2. Now if you want to do something else and continue working on this message later, you press command w to close this new messa

filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, Just passing on my experience with Lion's file vault. I thought it'd be difficult but it's not. Carefully read the dialogs and you're all set. No complicated setup. Encryption takes a while. Only thing you are going to sacrifice is a voice over supported log in. With encryption enabled,

Re: Mac Mail Question

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Linda, If you have 2 mailboxes and you want to easily switch between them, here's how to do it. If you need more help, let me know. First, you will want to have both mailboxes in your favorites bar. You can do this using the new drag and drop procedure in voice over. First, look where the f

Re: garage band assistance

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Ricardo, Your podcasts, links quoted in message below, are so cool and helpful. I wanted to send you a big thanks for your knowledge, efforts and time taken. It's wonderful, such a series of podcasts . Paul. On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:25 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Its just a copy and paste

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
out investigating my > system but, perhaps somebody else has had this problem and can identify how > they solved it. > > Thx, > Jeff > > On 2011-09-05, at 11:32 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Tracey, >> >> In growl, found via system preferences and

Re: Skype

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Fransisco, If you install growl, then you can let growl monitor Skype, and you can configure it to announce via speech, when someone signs in and out. Hth, Paul. On Sep 5, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Denise Barajas wrote: > You want to know who signs online and offline? > On Sep 3, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Franci

Re: filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
windows system and >> while I did not use it before i got my mba, i like it a lot and it makes me >> feel a lot more secure. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> Op 5-9-2011 17:59, Paul Erkens schreef: >>> Hi all, >>> Just passing on my experience with Lion's fil

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
; volgende geschreven: > >> Hi. >> I read and replied to your other message before this, so thanks for already >> sending a description on how to swap those keys. >> Bill >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: more system sound feedback?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
gt;> Yes. I have done all that. This is why I was wondering if there was a >> hidden trick that I couldn't find or didn't know about. >> >> Jeff >> >> On 2011-09-05, at 12:08 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >>> Jeff, >>> You can inst

Re: VM Fusion and missing function keys?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Eric Caron, First make sure that on the mac side, you have your dashboard keys turned off in system preferences, keyboard, keyboard shortcuts. Then, make sure that in fusion, as I described yesterday, you turn off mac os10 keys so that they can be seen by windows, and won't be intercepted by os1

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
loaded Max from their site making sure I had the stable version. > Thanks. > > On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Paul Henrichsen, >> As I think it was Eric Caron pointed out, max could be a good choice. Max is >> free. >> On Sep 1, 2011

Re: petential mac user switching from jaws with boring first questions

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Ioana, For switchers and other newcomers to the mac, Mike Arrigo did 13 or 14 podcasts on the mac. They are introductory, helpful and later on advanced. You can find them on www.blindcooltech.com. Hth, Paul. On Jul 22, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > > I am thinking of tak

Re: filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
t 9:28 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi, > > A newbie question on the encryption. Actually two. Does it have any latency > once encrypted on an ssd drive? And how does it play with drop box? > > > Best regards, > > Yuma > On 6/09/2011, at 7:24 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: &g

Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Annie, Are you saying that fine reader express is not a sufficient scanning and OCR solution? Interested to hear your thoughts on that, as I'm about to buy it. Any info or experience appreciated. Paul. On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi. > > I have tried contacting t

Re: filevault Lion experiences

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
ht try it out but will read up on it a bit more. > > Cheers > > Yuma On 6/09/2011, at 8:02 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Yuma, >> I'm experiencing no latency on the encrypted drive. I now know that ssd is a >> lot faster than a normal hard drive, and because

Re: Mac Cleaner plus dock icons

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Sonnia, A question unanswered is how to remove an item from the dock. Go to the dock, vo d, move to the item you wish to remove, vo right, bring up the context menu for the item, vo shift m as in Mike, arrow down to options, vo down, go into the options submenu, vo right, arrow down to remove

ftp in finder is read only

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, When opening an ftp server on the internet from within finder in Lion, it is perfectly possible to download stuff. Command k to input the server name like ftp://ftp.somewhere.com, and I'm asked for my credentials. Using an ftp client, I have read and write permissions there. However,

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
rwise you could not > run VM Fusion with a single core chip. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens > Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:06 AM > To: macvisionaries@googleg

Re: Does VM Fusion work with JAWS?

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Eric, I'm aware that people sometimes have issues with jaws when importing their bootcamp partition into fusion but I can't tell you what is wrong. Can't you remove the authorization from bootcamp, and then reinstall it into fusion? Hth, Paul. On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Eric Caron wrote: > L

Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I'm wondering in this regard, which scanner has proven to be a good device with accessible and non intrucive drivers. If you listers own a scanner, and you can work well with things like abbey fine reader, with image capture and so on, without being disturbed by an inaccessible driver w

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