Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Erkens
scanning really many books. I am not satisfied with the results i get with > fine reader express. > > But of course the fine reader express is a good price. > I hope in the future that we will really get a scanning program, that really > works great. > > Best regards Annie.

Re: Does VM Fusion work with JAWS?

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Erkens
st knowing someone else > has Lyon working with VM and JAWS is helpful. I'm close to having this > working! Perhaps there is just a setting I need to fix in one of the > machines. > > Tips are greatly appreciated. > > Eric Caron > On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Pa

Re: reading emails with braille

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Anouk if you interact with the text of the message you can read it just fine in braille. Hth, Paul. On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am exploring the new mail for the first time. I am a heavy braille user and > while the message table and conversations itself wor

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
sion. > Too bad Amadeus costs so much just to have the batch conversion feature. > > On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Paul Henrichsen, >> Amadeus costs. Max is free. Max, however, is a cd ripper in the first place, >> but it can convert au

Re: downloading & running scripts

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, There's a script called movefile.scpt to move files in snow leopard, and there is also an accessible program called move addict. Depending on how long you want to stick with snow leopard, you could consider these. The move file script is free, but I've never used it. Move addict is so

Re: FTP

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, The finder can be used to connect to an ftp site. Just use the ftp:// prefix, that is f t p colon slash slash, and then enter the ftp site url in the box, that comes up with command k in finder. Command k is connect to server and you can fill in the details there. Only problem I'm sti

Re: twiter client on the mac

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Alex, I downloaded and installed yorufukuru, but I still don't understand its interface. If any of you have more success than me with it, please share some howto's and info on the list here. Very interested. Paul. On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Ive heard that Yourofukurou is g

Re: downloading & running scripts

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
n Sep 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Rachel magario wrote: > Great. I'll look for it. Do you know if this problem gets solved in lion? > RM > On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Rachel, >> There's a script called movefile.scpt to move files in snow leopa

Re: ftp in finder is read only

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Erkens
FUSE framework > http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ > > Macfusion FTP plugin > http://macfusionapp.org/ > > CB > > On 9/6/11 5:58 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Hi listers, >> When opening an ftp server on the internet from within finder in Lion, it is >

Re: question about saving attachments

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Denise, In the file menu in mail, you have save attachments. Hth, Paul. On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Denise Barajas wrote: > Hello all, I'm wondering how do you save attachments you get in the mail > client for Lion in an easy manner? I thought there was something in a toolbar > in Snow Leopard

Re: Differences in MAC OS 10.6 and 10.7 for a new Voiceover user?

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Jared, The new Lion voiceover is downward compatible so what you learned will also work in Lion. Of course, there are new features, but once you get a mac with Lion, you will encounter them soon enough. But: your knowledge will work on Lion as well. Sure. Hth, Paul. On Sep 9, 2011, at 3:06 PM, J

porting mail base to new system

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I installed something that I cannot get rid of. What I want to do now, is backup my system entirely, then reinstall lion fresh, which I've done before, and then restoring my email database with all messages, contacts, rules in place. Is this possible? How do I do this? Paul. -- You re

is this a script guys?

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, I was once using a usb dongle modem to connect to 3g to have wireless internet. But no more. However, I would like to uninstall the driver for this modem. I got a text file with it, but can I run this, or what should I do with this one? Here is the file. Interested to see if you know h

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Ricardo, Is there a way to subscribe to any future podcasts you do in itunes? On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yeah, That works. The problem with this method is, you can only select what > is in the voiceover cursor. It can get tedious jumping from spot to spot > copy

Re: deleting stuff in mail

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, Each time you have read a message, once back in the message table, hit backspace. To clean up trash folder, hit command shift backspace and answer the dialog. Hth, Paul. On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi everyone, > Is it possible to delete stuff in mail without inte

Re: simulating double mouselcick (doubleclick)

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, Route the mouse over to the vo cursor with command vo f5, check to see that the mouse is indeed on the spot you want with vo f5, then perform a physical double click by pressing the lower left corner of the track pad twice in quick succession. Hth, Paul. On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:46 AM, An

Re: is this a script guys?

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
t; chmod a+x uninstall.txt > ./uninstall.txt > > Hope that works. It might prompt you for your root password since it's > running the sudo command (super user do). > > CB > > On 9/12/11 10:46 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I was once using a usb

moving mail messages to new system

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, Is there a way to restore my mail messages from a full macintosh hd backup? I have Lion newly installed and I'd like to get my mail base back. Is there something I can simply copy in, or is it more complicated? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: moving mail messages to new system

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
in the folder that "Application Data" > folder in your Library folder. Some programs use sequences like > "com.apple.mail" as their names. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi listers,

Re: jumping to end of message list in mail

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
VO shift home is beginning, vo shift end is end of messages table in lion mail. Hth, Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > I would like to know the same thing, as I can't figure it out myself. > > Matt > Sent from my macbook pro > > On 2011-09-14, at 8:02 AM, Yuma Decaux wro

Re: Data Detector

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
I wrote Apple accessibility about the data detector issue, and it has been passed on to the right people they answered. Curious for the next update. I would like to turn this off as well. Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote: > Hi All > > Can you please tell me what it mean

Re: Finding a downloded dmg file

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Johny Angel, 1. Spotlight can be invoked with command space. At least, that's what I use all the time. There is another possibility but to be honest I don't know about the extra options. 2. Where is your downloaded dmg file? Most likely, it is in your downloads folder. If you have Lion, press

Re: jumping to end of message list in mail

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
will say: message column group. Then, you interact with that. Leftmost is sort by date, rightmost is the message table. Interact there. Now, you can use vo shift home and end. Hth, Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Not working > > > On 15/09/2011, at 12:3

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Bill, James and others, Super duper is equal in its functionality as far as backing up and bootable backups go. CCC is free. Super duper costs 30 dollars or so. Super duper has an extra bit of functionality though, that I really love, now that I messed up my system installing the wrong drive

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
g USB drive so I can > use it both to use SuperDuper and have space to swap it to my Windows PC to > back it up with a PC backup program? > Thanks. > Bill > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.c

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
t; > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:04 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external d

Re: VMWare Fusion 4 is out and accessible

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Is this a free update and do you only pay as a newcomer? Interested. Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hello my fellow Mac users. > VMWare has just released VMWare Fusion 4 today. For those that don't know or > who are new to the mac, Fusion lets you run windows on you'

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
inal Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:13 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives > > Hi Bill Ho

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
nking a virtual Lion could make a nice sandbox for testing, and if I > screw something up I can just delete the virtual machine and set up a new > one. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: how to uninstall old version of fusion

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
In the disk image that you download fusion in, there's an app called uninstall fusion, or something similar. It should do the job, at least for version 3. Hth, Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, I have a demo of vmware fusion 3. I want to buy vmware 4 now, can i just > d

Re: changing os language in lion on my new mac

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi An, Is option up arrow a global hotkey that works everywhere, or just something local to this very list in language and text? On Sep 15, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Ioana, > > To change the language, go to System Preferences and select the Language & > Text pane (Langue&T

lion mail: add sender, and write new message

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, In Lion mail, I would like to add a sender to my address book. I googled for it, and I found this to be command shift y. That works. No further questions asked. I tried adding the same contact again, but no questions asked, and no dupe contacts created in address book. So that is n

Re: lion mail: add sender, and write new message

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
ld > will populate with matches as you type. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> In Lion mail, I would like to add a send

Re: Image capture, ocr?

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Johnny Angel, The mac can create images from a scanner and from its internal camera. I suppose you could attach an external camera as well. But if you want OCR, then the quickest way I have found so far, is to use fine reader express. It is in the mac app store and it costs 80 euros, I think

Re: Mail changes resulting from latest security update

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Marc Workman, To begin, I have no solution, unfortunately. However, I have, or rather had, exactly the same issues you described. Sluggishness in the message content table, mail reading message numbers inside a conversation rather than the sender, and mail kept saying mail busy busy busy busy

Re: Mail changes resulting from latest security update

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Marc, I forgot to add that mail also quit unexpectedly just once. So here, same thing. Paul. On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Marc Workman wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a security update through software update this morning, and it > seems to have resulted in some changes to Mail, changes I'm not

Re: VMWare Fusion 4 is out and accessible

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jurgen, Which version are you using, fusion 3 or 4? In fusion 3, I know that the snapshot menu is accessible. Maybe you meant the resulting dialog if you hit the snapshots menu item? Paul. On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Jørgen Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hello > I think, that the snapshot menu in fus

Re: changing os language in lion on my new mac

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Erkens
> tables but, a good portion of them you will find in apps and settings on the > Mac. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi An, >> Is

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fil

Re: smart mail boxes

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, That one I know, because I had the same question 2 days ago. A smart mailbox is just a way to group messages together. Say you have a giant inbox, but you only want to see the messages from your class mate because he sends you useful attachments. Then, you can create a smart mailbox.

Re: smart mail boxes

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
o show up. Smart, isn't it? Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Rachel magario wrote: > Paul, do you know the difference between the smart mailbox and the smart > folder? > I was just wondering. > Rachel. > On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> H

Re: hotspot in yorufukurou?

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
A hotspot is simple to set up. Just go where you want the hot spot and hit vo shift plus the number of the hotspot, 1 through 0. vo shift 1. To jump to that hotspot hit vo 1 without the shift. You can even include hotspots inside a voiceover activity so that you have your hotspot automatically a

Re: good (un)rar/(un)zip prog for os x lion

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, You can have the unarchiver from app store to unzip unrar etc. But if you also want to create your own archives, an option is to install better zip from the app store. It does cost a little. But with better zip and with the command line rar tools in place, you can easily create your ow

Re: Need help partitioning a disk

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Bill, The filesystem, like fat32, mac os extended journaled etc, is chosen while you create the partitions. First choose the number of partitions from the drop down. 1, 2 3 etc. You want 3, right? Then, interact with the scroll area, vo space on the first partition, stop interacting, and then, o

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
y excited newbie. >> >> >> (Sent from my phone) >> >> Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. >> >> On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >>> Hi Iona, >>> I don't think you need the apple id o

Re: Running a Mac with Windows on

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jeff, Here is the text you requested. --- 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 m

finder document, what is this?

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, In most cases, a finder item can be either a folder, where it has no size in the finder size column, it can be a file with an extension, and in that case the file of course does have a readable size, but what, if finder says document, in the kind, column? Is this a file? Is this a

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
ser settnngs or can I > set everything from scratch? I want to set os language and other such things. > > Thanks, > > Ioana > > (Sent from my phone) > > Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:08 AM

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Allison, One way to share files between windows 7, is what I think you have, and a mac, can be done, but it is a 2-way configuration. I haven't played much with accessing mac files from a windows computer, because I always work on my mac since I have it. Because once you go mac, you'll never

Re: Image capture, ocr?

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Erkens
Angel! wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Okay great! I own an Epson 1660 photo scanner that works wonderfully with > OpenBook on a Windows machine. Do you know of a list of scanners supported > by Fine Reader? > On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Johnny Ang

Re: finder document, what is this?

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Erkens
mand is a standard UNIX/Linux commands. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> In most cases, a finder item can be either a folder, where it has no size in >> the finder size column, it ca

Re: changing os language in lion on my new mac

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Erkens
ww.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Ricardo, >> So, will option up arrow move you to the top of the list, or will it move >> the current item to the top of the list rather than just the cursor? >> On Sep 15, 2011, at

Re: going to beginning or end of document in pages

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Erkens
Doesn't command up and command down work in pages as well, to move you to the beginning or end of a document? Paul. On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Rachel magario wrote: > Interact with the body of the document and then use fn vo shift plus left or > right arrow, depending upon if you want the star

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, Interesting. What is AFT? Where can one set it up? Paul. On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > Alison, > > I hope to be helpful. However, I am no network expert. I have only seen > others setting it up. > To share with mac users on your net work, you need to choose AFT

Re: Your contacts

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Eric Burgraaf, Very interested to learn about this as well. I would like to know what you need to do in order to have your mac address book synch with google contacts. Paul. On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > Eric, how do you sink contacts? Thanks, > Rachel. > > My phone doe

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Allison, One way to share files between windows 7, is what I think you have, and a mac, can be done, but it is a 2-way configuration. I haven't played much with accessing mac files from a windows computer, because I always work on my mac since I have it. Because once you go mac, you'll never

Re: good (un)rar/(un)zip prog for os x lion

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, You can have the unarchiver from app store to unzip unrar etc. But if you also want to create your own archives, an option is to install better zip from the app store. It does cost a little. But with better zip and with the command line rar tools in place, you can easily create your ow

Re: how to uninstall old version of fusion

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
In the disk image that you download fusion in, there's an app called uninstall fusion, or something similar. It should do the job, at least for version 3. Hth, Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, I have a demo of vmware fusion 3. I want to buy vmware 4 now, can i just > d

Re: sorting the order of message in mail with the most reasont message at the top of the list?

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Trahery, In Lion mail, if you go to its preferences with vo comma, you can find the view most recent message checkbox in the viewing tab. After going into mail preferences, go to the toolbar, interact, move to viewing and hit it with vo spacebar. There is the checkbox. Hth, Paul. On Sep 20,

Re: ACCESSIBLE WORLD TEK TALK PRESENTS PETER CANTISANI, IOS APPS, SEPT. 19, 2011

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Esther, Wow. That was a very useful one. I'm always struggling with podcasts if they are not in iTunes and the advanced menu, option subscribe to podcast, I overlooked. I've done it now and it works beautifully. Thanks. On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi All, > For those who want

see more from, in lion mail

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, In the old days, before July this year, lol, we used to see all of the incoming message text we received. Nowadays, this is no longer true. If you hear: see more from, and then a name, how can you unhide that part of the message text, that Lion mail so neatly hides to unclutter the

Re: Mail basic questions for getting started

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Iona, Here's an answer to your first 2 questions. 1. To go to the top of the message list in Lion mail with classic view off, it's vo shift home for top, and vo shift end for bottom of message list. If you have a laptop, then home is fn plus the left arrow, and end is the fn plus right arrow. 2

Re: Addressbook fields

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Tracey, Why doesn't that seem right? I use the iphone field to tell myself that this person has one, and I use other labels like home or work to designate a normal, non iphone number. Because if someone does have an iphone, you can try to facetime them. Is that a verb? Well anyway. Hth, Paul. On

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi John Sanfilippo, This is interesting. I thought that, when quitting text edit, you should always do a command s, to make sure that the latest changes are saved into the file. What is the difference between saving a version with command s, or quitting text edit and hoping the last changes are

Re: Addressbook fields

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Erkens
7;t seem right, because when I first tried it, it didn't work. Lol! > I'll try again. Does the iPhone field always appear? > > Traci > > - Original Message - > From: Paul Erkens > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 2

Re: Installing Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Could it be that installation simply resumed without noticing it? What does it say when you go to the apple menu, and then about this mac? On Sep 22, 2011, at 6:43 AM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hello List: > > I bought Lion through the Mac App store. It said it was installing Lion when > I las

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi musiclady, To answer your question. A clean install is not the upgrade. Initially, you need to have snow leopard to download the lion installer. In fact, after downloading, it will offer to upgrade from snow leopard to lion immediately. This retains all your files, settings, installed progra

mission control and voiceover

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm thinking that mission control could be useful in some situations for a voiceover user. Has any of you found out how to make useful use of it? Is there a benefit for us? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To pos

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
its. That's how it works. I do > not understand any more than that. > > js > > > On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > > Hi John Sanfilippo, > This is interesting. I thought that, when quitting text edit, you should > always do a command s, to m

Re: should I switch to Lion?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Nancy and Amy, Lion is indeed voiceover friendly. There are a few minor issues, that, once you know about them, won't be a show stopper. Midi playback, I haven't got to work yet, but otherwise Lion is fine. Some programs don't yet function on lion. For example, there is something called mac fuse

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
ntly XP, isn't > backed up or anything since I just use it to test stuff but the Mac is on > Time Machine so anything I store there is relatively safe. > > CB > > On 9/19/11 4:54 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >> Hi Allison, >> One way to share files betwee

twitter filtering

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, When using the yurufukuru twitter client on the mac, is there a way to filter tweets I don't want to see? In this case, there are interesting people I'm following, but some tweets I just don't want to see, as they contain words like the f word, hell, sh star star and other things tha

Re: near disaster

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Gigi, The window chooser menu is a voiceover feature, brought up with vo, and then f2 twice. Hth, Paul. On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Thanks John. But what which one is the Window Chooser Menu? > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Sep 21, 2011, at 5:56 PM, John Panarese wrote: >

Re: should I switch to Lion?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
> Sent from my iPhone > > On 22 Sep 2011, at 01:08 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Nancy and Amy, >> Lion is indeed voiceover friendly. There are a few minor issues, that, once >> you know about them, won't be a show stopper. Midi playback, I haven't got >&g

Re: vmware fusion allocate 1 or 2 cores?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, For now, allocate one, and then see if you need more resources. If you think you do, allocating the second core may improve windows performance, so it is worth giving it a try. If you only use 1 core for windows, then the other one is left entirely for Lion. So far, at least with fusio

Re: navigating the vo getting started guide with webrotor

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, That was indeed a very helpful one. Thanks. The quicknav thing works nice. Paul. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > Anouk, > > Ok, bear with me and I hope I make sense. > If you are in the table of contents, just vo space will not take you to that > chapter, you have

Re: changing default download location wasRe: torrents and the mac

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, Hmm. Interesting. I experienced the very same issue here. Cannot change download location inside u torrent. Yes you can change it, but it does not seem to take effect. Paul. On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, Well for some reason i cant change the default downloa

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
connect to\\ip_address_of_mac\Documents and then choose connect > using a different user name to put in my mac login credentials. That should > make your documents folder show up on your PC. > > CB > > On 9/22/11 8:31 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >> Hi Chris B

Re: caps lock key in vmware fusion?

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, As far as I know, you are now running fusion 4 isn't it? If so, there is a procedure on how to do it in fusion 3, but I'm afraid not too many of us have yet upgraded to fusion 4, so this bit of knowledge is not yet readily available I think. In fusion 3, it's in the fusion prefs, comma

Re: File sharing with Lion

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Bill, Is the fat32 drive, that is connected to your mac as you wrote, indeed part of the shared folders list in sysprefs, sharon, shared folders? Hth, Paul. On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > Trying to get at the fat 32 formatted drive partition on my Mac from my Win 7 > com

Re: Disk Restore, drag and drop problem in Disk Utility

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Sun shine, Ricardo Walker knows how to do this. He did a podcast on creating a lion bootable usb stick. I created one for myself, and I remember it was something with control click, but I don't remember anymore how that worked. You can be sure that it can be done though. Hope Ricardo will be

ftp server usable in os10?

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have an ftp server running under windows. It has over 50 user accounts now, but the machine is very old, and some day sooner or later, I will have to replace it. Do I need ftp server software on a mac, or is it already built in? If it is built in, can it have separate user account

searching for book: applescript 1-2-3

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Has anyone heard of a book called Applescript 1-2-3, written by Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheesman? I'm hoping to get hold of this book because I'm willing and ready to learn Apple script. I have experience in assembly for 80 086 processors although that was back in the 90s, and I work

Re: ftp server usable in os10?

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Mark Baxter, If transmit is capable of making ftp servers available in finder, then that is just the solution I've been hoping for. I'm going to try it. Chris Blouche, thanks for your help along the way for mac fuse, mac fusion and finder. I'll let you know how transmit turns out so that we all

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Neal and others, To add to this, if you're looking for a specific word, you can also do a vo f for find, then type in your term, and hit enter. If it finds, then the vo cursor jumps on to it. If not, you will hear a soft sound to indicate failure. Hth, Paul. On Sep 24, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Dan Ro

Re: Disk Restore, drag and drop problem in Disk Utility

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
ut, also a bootable installer from Snow Leopard. > > This part of SuperDuper is free. > > Hope this helps. > > > > On 9/23/11, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Hi Sun shine, >> Ricardo Walker knows how to do this. He did a podcast on creating a lion >> bootable usb st

Re: installing lion

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Cody, The longer you wait with the upgrade to lion, the fewer people will know how to do it because the experience vanishes from memory, being replaced by other knowledge. And if you don't use it, you loose it. That's just how it goes. I'm not unwilling to help someone install windows 98 with

Re: Installing Lion

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
mac app store? Hth, Paul. On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:15 PM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for my late reply. > When I go into "About This Mac", it says that it's running version 10.6.8. > > Ezzie > > > - Original Message - > From: Paul Erken

Re: commands for editing and reviewing text?

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, Are you writing or reading when pressing command up or down? I think that only while writing, and having a text cursor, the command up down left right stuff will work. If I'm wrong, please chime in listers. Best, Paull On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > I wonder why

Re: searching for book: applescript 1-2-3

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
tml > > Colin > > On 24 Sep 2011, at 13:16, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> Has anyone heard of a book called Applescript 1-2-3, written by Sal Soghoian >> and Bill Cheesman? I'm hoping to get hold of this book because I'm willing >> a

question on doing some text magic

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, As you have helped me tremendously before, I'm making progress in a lot of areas, and I'd like to ask again. I have a text document that has a return, newline, announced by voiceover, after each and every line. While reading this text from top to bottom, it being more than one me

Re: working with recovery partition

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, Yup, voiceover will work there but it won't start up automagically. You have to manually turn it on with command f5. Fred will be your host. The following is something I think I remember correctly, but I'm not entirely sure. If you boot from the lion recovery partition, and you can onl

application wants to make changes, window

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear list, >From a few applications so far, I got an os10 message saying that the app >wants to make changes and I have to approve. What changes are involved when >you see this type of dialog? I just installed dropbox and it's asking yet >again. Dropbox wants to make changes. Please type your us

Re: Reordering files and folders in the finder window

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul, To add to this, if the sorting is by name but it is in reverse order, you can correct that by clicking the column header for name, with the mouse. We, voiceover users, have a shortcut to do the same thing. Moving the vo cursor to the column to reverse, you then press vo shift backslash.

Re: Installing Lion

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
> to be completly installed (or so my computer says). > This will be my first time ever using Lion. Any tips that any of y'all > believe to be helpful are welcome. > > Ezzie > > - Original Message - > From: Paul Erkens To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Adding to Mike's answer: what option command q does, is make the application discard its current state of its windows. Next time you open this app, it won't auto load a dozen things you happened to have open. To read where I got this: http://www.macworld.com/article/161366/2011/07/override_resume

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, 1. Open a beautiful document to edit. 2. Edit it and make a mess. 3. You don't want to save the mess of course, so: 4. Hit the file menu, and choose: revert to saved. 5. Then choose the last opened version, button, from the dialog that came when you hit revert to saved. Now you got what

Re: question on doing some text magic

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
> On 24 Sep 2011, at 21:21, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >> I have a text document that has a return, newline, announced by voiceover, >> after each and every line. While reading this text from top to bottom, it >> being more than one megabyte in size, this gets very annoying.

Re: Countdown timer?

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Mark, As a script is text, could you please post it here? This way, many can benefit. Thanks for considering. Paul. On Sep 26, 2011, at 4:43 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Theresa Ford wrote me a great countdown/loop timer script; I can send it to > you as an attachment. > > > • Mark

Re: Countdown timer - found it

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Ryan, That is a useful goody. I used it this morning to get my eggs boiled just right, and it works like a charm. Small, accessible, and the free version gives you more than enough to have a decent countdown timer. Thanks a lot. Listers, if you want it, search for howler in the app store. Pa

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