Hi Ed,
What is espn? I saw it but what does it do?
On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:07 AM, ezzie bueno wrote:
> The ESPN widget works for me. I also downloaded the Quote of the Day widget
> and it is awesome. DO NOT download the Roller Coaster widget. I
> accidentally got it last night and it was reall
ep?
>
> Thanks so much.
> On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> 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
s, Paul! Will it work well in WordPress
> when I add widgets to my blog?
>
> Ezzie
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Paul Erkens To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Date sent: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:25:43 +0200
> Subject: Re: Installing Lion
>
> Hi
Hi Lindsay,
To find out what the problem is, it would be helpful if you could provide some
more detailed explanation on what works, and what does not work. Can you use
quitter at all yet? One possible cause could be a problem with the keys you
press or have configured.
On an average windows ke
Hi Ray and Teresa,
Did any of you try the new Skype connection to Facebook? I don't know if it is
just me, but I'm having a hard time using the normal Facebook webpage. I'm
hoping that it will be easier to do from Skype. Any experiences with that?
On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Hi Gigi,
Can we actually edit the braille table in use?
On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:16 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> I sure wish that when I wrote Apple they had saiD back to me there indeed is
> a way to display in computer braille. I have found that you don't have to go
> to Unified Braille. For all I
Hi Jenny Wood,
Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now usable. If
you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will have noticed
that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. That was not the
case a while ago, so that is a nice improveme
ly question at this point is, I
>>>>> still have a folder containing many files on the website. I would love
>>>>> to have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them. They were placed
>>>>> there by another dropbox user who I had invited
Hi, Iona and Teresa,
Apart from searching for messages containing my search term anywhere, I haven't
gotten any further either. Some people say that a menu appears below the
toolbar where your search term is. This is true on my machine sometimes, but it
is not as easy as that, to search for info
Hi Banu,
When I first got my mac, the problem I had, was that, when moving from windows
to mac, I didn't have a clue on the simplest tasks. It seemed a hell of a job
to find out every little thing yourself. Like: how do I open a folder on the
mac? Well, you get an answer to this if you ask for i
;s still usable. If
> it costs too much money to fix it, I just may need to use my other display on
> the Mac. At least I won't have to install Windows just for that now.
>
> Regards,
> Gigi
>
> On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:53 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi Gigi,
&g
Hi Johny Angel,
What can you read in the mac online bible? Is it religious, or is it a thorough
guide towards the mac?
Paul.
On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well has anyone on the list had any experience with The Online Bible for the
> Mac?
>
> Perhaps I don't
Hi Mark Baxter,
This is going to work somewhere in the near future. Thanks a lot for giving it
to the group. Very interesting, also as studying material.
Paul.
On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> Okay. I'll paste it in below. Below that, I'll give instructions for
> e
Hi Banu,
I don't know if this has been said already, but you can get to all the
voiceover settings using control option f8.
Hth,
Paul.
On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:49 PM, banu.bc wrote:
> hi all
> sorry about this silly question but I couldn't open vo settings. I
> press control option+x activity choos
Hi Eugenia, or ji ji , or is it Gigi,
When you have a message open that has an attachment, you can go into the mail
file menu, vo m, arrow right to the file menu, and then arrow down to save
attachments. You will get a new dialog there, where you can choose the location
to save to. Once you hit
> Most of the other symbols that you are talking about include control M for
> carriage return, control L for page break, control I for tab, and control J
> for form feed. You probably won't see, in a braille file, most of the other
> control characters.
>
> Regards,
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your quick answer. I can use my own. wave files, Thanks to Amadeus
pro. I'll deal with this little issue.
On Oct 1, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> Let me know if you need the wave files associated with the "afplay,"
> statements in the timer. Otherwise,
ow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 25 Sep 2011, at 19:19, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi An,
>> Wonderful and simple solution. While trying it out, I notice I have trouble
>> selecting the return plus linefeed combination. How can you do this? Or
After having copied a bunch of files to your thumb drive, finder is usually
still busy after the screen says the process is done. You can verify this by
inserting the thumb drive so that it mounts, and then ejecting it. You may find
that in that case, you only have to eject just once. If that is
Hi Esther,
I experienced a problem with dictate, and I know there's no such equal thing as
in Android, but maybe you know if there is a work around.
When I speak into Dragon dictate, of course there is the voiceover issue, where
it talks while the recording is already happening. This can be over
Hi Iona,
To add to this, when you download an app from the app store and you hit install
in the store, it will automatically be download, and be put into your
applications folder. When you install other, single file apps yourself, you do
the same thing manually. In other words, you can either do
Michael Dailey,
Yes you seem to be a member. Your message got through to this list.
Paul.
On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Michael Dailey wrote:
> I went to the discussion page, and it said I could not post because I was not
> a member.
>
> I am getting email updates daily, I filled out the applicati
Hi Austin and Christer,
Option clicking and control clicking something, can indeed be done using the
trackpad, and it isn't a problem for voiceover users, although it is, with some
other screen readers.
1. With the vo cursor, find the element that you want to option or control
click on.
2. Now,
Hi Ioana,
I'm using Apple mail on Lion in the new look, classic view off. I tried the
suggestion, but when on the message table, without any interacting, it won't
work. Each key press of the search text sends a bang from the speakers. Could
it be that you are reading mail in classic view?
Reg
, but I'll write them about it
and see what I get back.
Paul.
On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
> I am using classic view indeed. Really dislike it downloading and marking
> messages as read as I scroll through them.
> Best,
>
> Ioana
>
> On Oct 5,
Neil,
I would turn voiceover off and on to see if it helps, because it does,
sometimes.
On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Please forgive me if this has been picked up on previously...
>
> I had originally thought this was the fault of one web developer w
Yes if you go to podcasts inside the iTunes source list, then you can perform a
control click so that a menu pops op where you can choose to export. Set the
file type to opal and you can share it with another iTunes user, or even a
windows user running the juice pod catcher.
Hth,
Paul.
On Oct 7,
Hi Banu,
Don't be frustrated. There is ample stuff to get you started. If you go to
www.blindcooltech.com, you will find 13 wonderful podcasts about the mac. These
are so well done, that I felt sort of at home on a mac even before mine
arrived. Look for the search term "Mike Arrigo" and, among a
William, Cody and others,
Same issue here. After upgrading from sl to lion, I got a lot of busies in
safari. Now after a lion clean install, that is almost entirely solved.
Paul.
On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Cody wrote:
> Ok guys,
>
> I've been using Safari on my mac pro with lion 10.7.1. Browsin
Iona,
If you have Lion:
1. In mail, go to the mailboxes table and interact with it.
2. Go to the mailbox name you want to drag over to favorites and hit vo comma
to tell voiceover what you want to drag.
3. Stop interacting with the mailboxes table, move over to the favorites bar
and interact with
Dear listers,
I just got growl 1.3 from the mac app store. I have been using 1.2.2 for a
while, and I removed it using a script provided on the growl.info site. Then, I
rebooted and installed 1.3 from the store and rebooted again to give growl a
chance to load its new preferences pain, and dete
l Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:19 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: new growl 1.3 usage
>
> Dear listers,
>
> I just got growl 1.3
Blake,
Are you running windows on the mac using bootcamp, or do you do it using fusion
from vmware?
Paul.
On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Blake Hardin wrote:
> Hi, I installed windows on my mac but I can't figure out how to use
> the mouse under windows. Like I can't figure out how to use the jaws
>
Hi Blake,
As David also described, there are a number of problems with bootcamp and
windows. Would it be an option for you to start running windows under fusion?
On Oct 9, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Blake Hardin wrote:
> hi im actually using bootcamp
>
> On 10/9/11, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>
Hi Iona,
When you are in the message content table, interact with it and find the
message you want to send a private reply to. Then, you will find 2 areas: the
message header, and the text of the message. Put your vo cursor on the header
area and interact. Now, you are inside a few lines of text
Hi Iona,
Command shift y does that. It adds the sender of the currently highlighted
message to your address book, and it does this without asking questions. You
won't know that command shift y did anything at all, until you check your
address book and you see that the sender along with the email
Hi Johny Angel,
Interact with the message text, hit down arrow until you her the link and hit
vo space to open it.
Hth,
Paul.
On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Johnny Angel! wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> In Lion mail, how does one invoke an embeded URL link in an email I sent
> myself from my home Windows
Hi Denise,
First off. If you did not yet complete the lion installation, then the lion
installer app file is still in your applications folder, command shift a. First
I would look in there, and if you happen to find it, run it and lion will begin
installing if you follow the instructions on scr
gt;>
>>> hi im actually using bootcamp
>>>
>>> On 10/9/11, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>> Blake,
>>>> Are you running windows on the mac using bootcamp, or do you do it using
>>>> fusion from vmware?
>>>> Paul.
>>>
Dear listers,
I did a clean install of Lion, installed growl 1.3, and unlike in the previous
growl version, I can no longer find my preferences for growl. They used to be
in the system preferences, Has any of you got growl 1.3 running under a clean
lion install? I saw in the growl 1.3 welcome
enu bar better. I hope this part of
> the menu bar becomes more accessible in future, and yes, I will write Apple
> accessibility about this.
>
> Teresa
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> I did a clean install of Lion,
Hi Gigi,
Siri is a feature on the new iphone 4 s, where you can talk to your phone as if
it were your pal. Rather than using a specific format, you can ask it to do
several things in normal speech, and what you can do is really cool. Like: text
my dad that I'm running late and that I'll be home
app. You'll see your preferences.
> Darcy
>
> On 2011-10-11, at 10:17 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> I did a clean install of Lion, installed growl 1.3, and unlike in the
>> previous growl version, I can no longer find my preferences
Hi Iona,
Did you check to see if the driver location on disk that you are browsing to,
does contain .sys and/or .cat files? I've had this problem as well, and it
usually means that I need to go one more level down the folder tree, like into
a folder x86, 32-bit or something similar.
Hth,
Paul.
O
Hi Craig,
Yes all apps must be closed before you can shut down. I had a similar issue
that was nagging me, and the solution was to use the voiceover application
chooser, to find out what was running. I discovered that a program was still
running, that I was not aware of. Moreover, this program h
Hi Marco,
Amadeus is wonderful. Especially its batch converter is amazing. Not only can
you convert from one file format to the other, with all your options for the
target format in place such as tag info and even album art, but it also lets
you perform file operations during the conversion. For
Hi Ann,
I'm not a user of pages but it makes me wonder. Why do you need a template at
all? There are none in text edit either, nor are there in other text editors I
know of. In ms word, they are also not manatory. What does a template do in
pages?
Paul.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Anne Robertso
s appropriate elsewhere in the world.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 12 Oct 2011, at 17:06, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi Ann,
>> I'm not a user of pages but it makes me wonder. Why do you need a template
>> at all? There are none in text edit eithe
Dear listers,
I just noticed that I have voicemail from skype. I turned it on, and I thought
I would get a notification inside Skype if a new voicemail arrives. However, I
now see that, on my spambox, I have a message from skype saying I received a
new voicemail from a list member here. I looked
Dear list,
I would like to have a solution for the following. I often find video stuff
that my partner would like to watch on tv. I download a video on my iphone, and
I can play it there, but that is not very comfortable for her. Is there an easy
way to plug something into your iphone, so that t
Thanks Mark that worked right away. Very nice.
Paul.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> Find the name of the person who sent the voice mail; it will either be in the
> the table right below the tool bar or, if it's very old, in the history list
> table. Select it and
Hi John,
The program to access ntfs with read write access from a mac, is called ntfs3g.
You will need the supplementary program called mac fuse for it to operate.
Ntfs3g runs under sl, but not under lion. There is also a commercial version
however, and that one works in lion too.
Hth,
Paul.
On
Dear listers,
For anyone interested, I was pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the latest
podcast called VoiceOverOn. A few very well informed people, will talk you
through what is new in iOS 5, they inform you about iCloud which is also mac
related, and because one of the guys is a beta test
Hi Louis,
The pro 13 inch highest model gives a very good experience, just like the air
does, from a daily user's perspective, and from what I understand in my
experiences compared to those of a nearby friend who has an air, they don't
differ very much in usability speed. The air has a solid sta
Dear listers,
For a friend of mine not on the list, the following question. Part of itunes
10.5 is no longer visible on the screen, or at least it is no longer accessible
with voiceover. From left to right, after the full volume button, voiceover
makes a sound, indicating it cannot move on to th
Hi listers,
I added some content to my itunes library on the mac, and I was hoping it would
show up on the iPhone because of icloud. My phone and mac seem to be subscribed
to icloud. It does not seem to be happening. Any idea if I'm missing something
here?
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Kevin,
The installer for lion will land in your applications folder, command shift a
to get there. Once the app store prompts you to install lion and you want to
wait till later, as you wrote, simply command q close the installer, find it in
your applications folder tomorrow and run it then.
Hth
Synch will occur when you attach IPhones to ac power.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote:
>
>> I believe that only works for calendars, contacts, and things purchased from
>> the apple store. I don't think that works
> been able to get things to synch automatically?
> On Oct 16, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul Hunt,
>> Well, your hope, in I hope this helps, was fully justified. Wow. It works, I
>> found both the sync over wifi option in iTunes, for the list it is
#x27;t had my IPhone on the charger all day. When the battery
> runs down I'm going to plug it in and see if it synchs automatically. We'll
> see.
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>> No I didn't wait for to sync automatically but
Dear listers,
I just bought 2 albums from the itunes store. it is much easier to do than I
thought it would be, even being a VoiceOver user. I would like to burn these to
CD's. I googled and this is what I found so far. I need to create a playlist,
add the tracks I want, and then burn. This wor
r
>
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 02:57, Nektarios Mallas wrote:
>
>> I am not sure what you are trying to do here.
>> If you have the column browser enabled and display all your albums, all you
>> have to do is to locate your specific album and then all your tracks will be
Hi listers,
Burn is a mac program that, among other things, can burn audio CD's outside of
itunes. If your music is in the itunes library, then it is simple to do it from
itunes, but I had an album in the flac file format that I wanted to burn, and
rather than firing up fusion and windows, burn
Dear listers,
I have skype and growl installed. Growl is configured to throw out skype
messages via the speech growl theme. However, inside skype, when configuring
notifications, I can choose between skype's own built-in or growl
notifications. I would like growl to notify me, because I have gro
Hi Anouk,
I'm not a great multi people podcaster myself. So far I only did podcasts with
my usb microphone, but from what I know, when 2 people skype together, they
each record their own audio stream, so that it is of high quality, and not of
skype quality. I don't know how Kevin Ciao does it wh
Hi all,
On an iphone, you can sort the itunes library by artist. On my mac, I only see
tons of songs, and if I want to delete an entire album, or all songs from 1
artist, I need to carefully select each of them, and then delete them from the
itunes library. Is there a better way on the mac, to
hi,
An alternative to burning an audio cd in itunes is burn. Burn is a program for
the mac that yu will find on google. It has a very very straight forward
interface, and all you do is launch it, hit add, select your tracks and hit
burn. Set the speed to burn at, and you have an audio cd. I disc
Hi Mike,
I think I remember reading somewhere that vlc is also capable of acting as a
server to do streaming audio. Do you know if that is true or not?
On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
> Think I will stick with vlc, it plays most if not all of the formats that
> winamp does and is
source list, you should eventually encounter
>> buttons that allow you to group by artist, album, genre etc. Select which
>> one you want and then keep scrolling until you hear VoiceOver say "grid
>> view, one item selected" or something similar. Interact with that and you
music table, by selecting an
album using the command b music browser. Any idea why shift arrows does not
work? It would be the easiest way to find and get rid of tracks.
Best, thanks in advance.
Paul.
On Nov 6, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi Esther,
> Thanks for your as always th
Dear listers,
Because of the questions about dropbox alternatives, I did some googling, and I
stumbled upon quite a few. I went over the reviews on most of them, which I
found in an online Dutch magazine, and all of them are okay. Wuala, spelled w,
u, a, l, a, is a very secure one, see below, a
anything is still not clear.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 09:41, Paul Erkens wrote:
>
>> Hi Esther,
>> To clarify my last message, I forgot to add that once I have found an album
>> using the music browser, itunes will not let me select
Three finger double tap.
On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hello everyone. My track pad commander is of and my speech is off but
> voiceover is on. How do I turn it on ia the keyboard?
>
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Very useful basic info Esther, thanks a lot. That filled some holes in my
knowledge. I never knew about using these shortcuts from within save as
dialogs. Awesome.
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Dear list,
I'm trying to use a normal headset microphone on my mac, but I can't make it
work. It is not a u s b microphone or headset, but it is a headset with 2 jack
plugs.
One jack plug takes the sound output from the computer so I can hear it on the
headphones. The other jack is the micropho
Hi list,
Given an s c p t file, like I have here a move file dot s c p t, how do I
execute such a file? I can open it, but then I fall into script editor. I
that the thing to run a script in?
Kind regards,
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Hi Ester,
When entering terminal mode, I'm having problems with VoiceOver focusing on
where my cursor is. Would you say terminal is accessible? If it is, then
what am I missing that makes operating it so difficult? I'm a starter in
terminal mode on the mac, but I do know of complex command lin
ne
with Terminal". Here's the link to the description from the Take Control
web pages:
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On May 20, 2011, at 06:55, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Ester,
When entering terminal mode, I'm having problems with VoiceOver foc
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