Re: Couple Safari Questions

2012-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
can then copy that URL by pressing VO-Shift-c which copies the last > spoken phrase to the clipboard. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 31 May 2012, at 22:49, Steve Holmes wrote: >> That's one thing I miss from the Windows and Linux browsers, the >> abil

Reverting Files in Text Edit

2012-06-04 Thread Steve Holmes
What is the easiest way to revert a document while using Text Edit and VoiceOver? When I choose File -> Revert, I get the dialog with a button for revert to most recent save and another button for viewing all past versions. the problem I have is viewing past versions. At least when I tried this,

Re: Couple Safari Questions

2012-06-04 Thread Steve Holmes
e the develop menu turned on by >> checking the "Show Develop Menu in menu bar" checkbox in the Advanced >> section of preferences. In that menu is a Disable JavaScript option. With >> that checked option+enter worked as expected. Just had to remember to turn >&

Re: Reverting Files in Text Edit

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Any ideas on how to do this with VoiceOver? Saw no replies to original message. On 6/4/12, Steve Holmes wrote: > What is the easiest way to revert a document while using Text Edit and > VoiceOver? When I choose File -> Revert, I get the dialog with a > button for revert to most rec

Re: question for all voice over trainers: trouble interacting with items

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm fairly new to the Mac world but I had been exposed to the concept of interacting from previous podcasts and discussions. So I didn't really have that much trouble with the concept of interacting. But that doesn't help your student. What I learned concerning interacting is when using the VO a

Re: Mail Threads

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Furthermore, after disabling the placement of newest message first, if you keep threading on you can move up and down in the message list and notice a treeview with collapsed nodes for the thread. Just right arrow on that node and the neoldest message in that thread should be up first. I forget e

How to Revert Files?

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Anyone know how to revert a file while in Text Edit using VO? I asked earlier but it would appear that noone has ever had to revert to a prior version or something. I can't seem to find the older versions in the list. Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: Organizing the mailbox list (Lion)

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
The organization of mail boxes and folders in Mail is an interesting challenge indeed. I while ago, I some how got some folders out of wack and perhaps even into the wrong mail account. Anyway, I thought things to be a big enough mess that I just deleted the entire mail folder under ~/library but

Re: interacting was question for all voice over trainers: trouble interacting with items

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
One other big deal with interacting is generally at the lowest level, you will be interacting with a text element at which you can spell the word or words even letter by letter and that is often impossible at upper levels of navigation. On 6/6/12, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > There is no WRON

Re: interacting was question for all voice over trainers: trouble interacting with items

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
On 6/6/12, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > This is one way in which VO is a little bit awkward; that sometimes you have > have to interact two levels down just to get to the ability to spell or > phonetically sound out a word. I wish there was a "spell current word," > feature; I guess I could m

Re: Renaming Files

2012-06-07 Thread Steve Holmes
I think this is where the Duplicate file command comes in. Unfortunately, they don't have a hot key assigned to this yet but you can get there from the File submenu. When you choose that option, you should be prompted for a new file name. As a side note, I heard a lengthy conversation about "Save

Re: Renaming Files

2012-06-07 Thread Steve Holmes
the feature > in Numbers though. I can't say if it works differently in other > applications. > > -Greg > On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> I think this is where the Duplicate file command comes in. >> Unfortunately, they don't have a ho

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-07 Thread Steve Holmes
I had a similar problem earlier this month with the PDF files I downloaded from Best Buy. One thing different from what Esther suggested was once the URL was obtained from the header with Command-L, I tried Option-Enter and that actually downloaded the file for me. In my case these were PDF's and

Re: Can't get out of Flash update!

2012-06-17 Thread Steve Holmes
I hate flash so much, I won't install it on any of my systems, regardless of the operating system. Adobe writes such shotty software, full of security holes and a11y problems! Just say "No." On Jun 9, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Thanks so much, Tim. I did eventually think of hitti

Re: Trying to recreate account as imap in Mail.

2012-06-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, I got some stuff messed up a while back and since I'm a bit of a geeky guy and occasionally live dangerously, I went and deleted the entire mail folder in ~/library. then started over and none of any previous junk was around. You might try that if you dare. Personally, I did it from the

Re: mail question

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
If your list is very long or if you have a large number of mail box folders, you may need to also add the shift key to these key combinations. Remember that fn + VO + arrow keys will go to top and bottom of a list that is visible, where including the shift key will get you to the absolute top

Re: Mountain Lion in one word: AMAZING!

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
Silly question here, but this is the first time I've ever bought an OS or OS upgrade through the Mac app store. I clicked the purchase button and followed that with the Convirm purchase button. I now see a button that is dimmed but says "Downloading." I can't see any progress bars or dialogs;

Re: Mountain Lion in one word: AMAZING!

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
Matthew Campbell. > > > On 2012-07-25, at 10:08 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> Silly question here, but this is the first time I've ever bought an OS or OS >> upgrade through the Mac app store. I clicked the purchase button and >> followed that with the Convirm p

Re: mail question: arrowing to message marks it read?

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
Actually, that didn't work for me. I wondered why that behavior reverted on my setup recently. I had to move the mouse pointer on to that vertical slider and double click the physical mouse to close the preview pane permanently. With VO keys, I could position the mouse with VO-Command-F5. I the

Re: mail question: arrowing to message marks it read?

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
When you are on the message list pane or in the inbox, uninteract from it and vo-right; you should hear vertical slider to the left of the message list one to the right of it. After that, you should hear something like message content group and then going further to the right should yield a horriz

Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
I just tried to use my RefreshaBraille 18 display this evening and it doesn't work here anymore. First off, I had previously defined it under Lion and successfully used it several times. Tonight after the ML install, it would never connect. So then I removed the device from the bluetooth list

Re: Bug when expanding mail messages

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
When I use Mail, I have the preview pane completely closed so for me to open messages individually or a whole thread, I use Command-O to open a new window and Command-W to close and return me to the message list. I did this in Lion and I still do it in Mountain Lion. On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:36 P

Re: Bug when expanding mail messages

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
lose the preview pane? That could be an interesting way to go > about it, but I also rather like seeing a preview of the message before I > read it. > > Harry > > On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> When I use Mail, I have the preview pane

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
had the thing with him down here, >> and it was working great on LIon at that time, so who knows about M L >> though. I hope it works, as if not, that'll be a deal breaker for him, >> seeing that he's an interpretor/translator. >> >> Chris. >&g

Re: Mountain Lion Mail

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
Dunno about getting rid of unwanted controls but what I do in the modern view to hop between the mail box list and the list of messages is press VO-J; it toggles me back and forth cleanly between these two lists. I have the preview pane closed down completely so VO-J won't pop me in there. On

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
t;> display, but I know for a definite it worked in Lion, as he just left here >>> from out of town about two days ago, and had the thing with him down here, >>> and it was working great on LIon at that time, so who knows about M L >>> though. I hope it works, as if

Is Twitter Down?

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
Sorry for off topic post, but I can't seem to connect to twitter from my iPod nor a windows browser here at work. either they are blocking access to twitter at my office or twitter is down. any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: Is Twitter Down?

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
gt; > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:00 PM > To: macvisionaries > Subject: Is Twitter Down? > > Sorry for off topic post, but I can't seem to

Re: 1 Message Conversation?

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
I've been seeing this too. I don't know why though. On 7/26/12, Brandon Olivares wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday, and love it. > > But now, mail seems to see 1 message as a conversation, because sometimes it > says, "1 message conversation collapsed disclosure triangl

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
l thing. I have a focus > 40 which is not a Bluetooth. It is doing fine. > Regards > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: > >> Hi, Steve, >> >> I am using a BrailleNote over here, and it works fine with blue

Re: Weird mail problem with Mountain Kitty

2012-07-27 Thread Steve Holmes
One wierd thing I noticed last night with Mail is the mailboxes that VO says are at level zero had to be expanded or collapsed with VO-backslash but the other boxes with higher level numbers could be expanded and collapsed with right and left arrows like I always do. It was just the top level (leve

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-27 Thread Steve Holmes
ou all know. >>> >>> I wish Mountain Lion was available on a memory stick as I bought Lion on >>> a >>> stick from the Apple Store. Alas! >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 02:01 PM, Steve Holmes >>> wrote: >>

Re: Braille Support Broken in Mountain Lion!

2012-07-27 Thread Steve Holmes
a display, > that display will not be allowed to work with any other device until > the first device "lets go". That's my (limited) experience anyway. > > On 7/27/12, Steve Holmes wrote: >> As a final update, I got the RB 18 to pair this morning. I'm not sure

Re: partisioning a drive with data already on it?

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Holmes
Actually, I was able to mess with the size sliders a while back when I partitioned a 2 TB external drive . I'm trying to remember exactly what I did but I believe I interacted with the slider itself. It may have been awkward but I was able to manipulate it just the same. On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:

Re: iMap mail

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Holmes
I converted from POP to IMAP quite some time ago as gmail implemented IMAP a while after POP was going. Any messages you have on gmail's server will remain probably in the All mail folder on gmail. I'm not quite sure on the computer side; you might wanna backup that mail folder(s) separately.

Re: Keystroke for moving between windows within same application

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Holmes
Another approach I often use when there is a bunch of windows open like in the finder, is to press VO-F2 twice and just move up and down the list of windows and open the one I want. Sometimes I find this to be faster than rotoring around with Command-` key. On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Simon

Re: Help with changing Tabs in YoruFukurou

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Holmes
I've used both Yorufukurou on the mac and Tweetlist on the iPod. I like tweetlist better because it supports twit longer and tweet marker and instapaper. These three features are missing from Yorofukurou. I really wish the developer would integrate these. Presently, if I switch back and fort

Re: Has anyone got fix for voice over space bar failures or voice over F5 toggle not working in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-11 Thread Steve Holmes
I hear so much talk about VO-Spacebar not working on Mountain Lion. I haven't experienced much of that at all here on my mac mini. I also am using a bluetooth keyboard. I only recall running into that space bar issue once on a web page in Safari. Everywhere else, it seems to work fine for me

Re: utterly in barest: question about mail Olmac OS X 10.8 Mountain lion

2012-08-11 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not sure what to say here. I use a conversation view and I explicitly collapsed all threads to begin with and I use standard view with the preview pane completely closed. I can arrow up and down the message list and use the left and right arrows to collaps and expand conversations with no

Re: Trick for Expanding Messages in Mail

2012-08-11 Thread Steve Holmes
I only use quick nav for web content in Safari or in help windows for apps. I don't use it anywhere else. On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: > I thin this has been mentioned by another/or others, but now that I have > stopped using Quick Nav, I am noticing only advantages. I am

Re: Reading brf files on the mac.

2012-08-11 Thread Steve Holmes
Also, if the Braille display has an input keyboard, you can toggle speech on and off by holding down the space bar and pressing the letter m (dots 1 3 4). At least I can do this on my mac and iPod with my Refreshabraille. On Jul 27, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > If you have keyboa

Re: Question about pages latest update on Mac and Time machine backups

2012-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
Can't answer your question about Pages but as for TimeMachine nothing should change. It should just perk along like no change. After all, the file formats didn't change and your data files like documents and music should continue to be available like always. I would think however, that system

Re: Having Mail not automatically mark a message as read when I move to it

2012-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
Sorry for such a late reply here but yes, I also use the Command-O to open the message and close with Command-W. For me, VO-J toggles me back and forth between the message table and the list of mailbox folders; that's perfectly fine for me. On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Ye

Re: Color me stupid, but dashboard is accessible.

2012-08-13 Thread Steve Holmes
Hey, thanks for talking about the dashboard. I've had this mini since last January and I never got into the dashboard. It just never occured to me to even try it out. this looks like another barrel of monkeys to play with. I didn't see a real easy way to exit a widget once opened. But I jus

Re: Automatic updates

2012-08-13 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, Powernap is that new ML feature that will do some updates while your computer is in sleep mode. I understand this will only be available with machines with SSD drives so it is probably not available on Macs with spinning hard drives and even if SSD installed, I think the machine needs to b

Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-13 Thread Steve Holmes
A couple things here. If you are reading this mail on other devices too like your iPod or whatever, then you need to use IMAP all around. The second thing would be to get on your iPhone or iPod and check the mail there; if the old messages are still around on there, then they should still be a

Re: merging several PDF files into one.

2012-08-13 Thread Steve Holmes
I own docuscan plus too and I know while scanning docs from a scanner, you can accumulate the pages into a single thing and save that on their cloud. From there you could save it to your computer probably as an RTF file. What I'm not sure of is if you can do "scan next page" with PDF scanning.

Re: A way to renable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari

2012-08-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I have fairly limited experience with all of Safari but I have always used the Commend-arrow keys to go back but I use tabs as much as possible. I believe Safari under Mountain Lion does more with tabs instead of opening new windows. I usually go back by pressing Command-w to close tab or wind

Calendar Appointments on the Mac

2012-08-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I have a question about the list of appointments possible in Calendar. On IOS devices, you can see a full list view of all appointments, past and present in a single view. I was thinking since Mountain Lion's approach in many apps is more closely similar to their IOS counterparts,, that list c

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

2012-08-14 Thread Steve Holmes
;> of all when creating a new event, it seems like we are forced into >> creating a quick event, but what if you want to be more detailed? When you >> are finally able to interact with the inspector, I have noticed a focus >> issue bug when selecting the time of the rem

Re: vo repeating rows in mail?

2012-08-15 Thread Steve Holmes
It also happens quite a lot at the beginning when you just opened Mail and it is updating and fetching from the IMAP server. Just best to sit and wait a bit when you start up Mail. On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that this has to do with GMail and iMap. As

Re: Solution to Multiple Messages in Mail.app and a question about VIP's

2012-08-15 Thread Steve Holmes
As far as I'm concerned, setting up the rules / filters on gmail is the only way to go because I use IMAP and want the same configuration available on all computers and mail clients that I use. Mail works fine with the separate folders and I'm not finding a bunch of duplicate messages or any of

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

2012-08-15 Thread Steve Holmes
AM, Chris Moore wrote: > That is the thing, the full list is present in the day view. > > I could understand if some of the table and row stuff was actually relevant, > but you don't hear iOS reading it all out, and I can't find a way to switch > it off. > On 14 A

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-16 Thread Steve Holmes
I see that no-one has so far discussed tables with you. While interacting within a table in HTML content, use the VO-Arrow keys to move around in the table. So to move up and down, hold down the VO keys and use up and down arrows. That should move you down in the same column and not push back

Re: Two more dumb Safari questions

2012-08-16 Thread Steve Holmes
I just checked my instance of Safari where I have two tabs open but only one window. Pressing Ctrl-Tab does rotor me through the open tabs. Pressing VO-F2 twice opened the window chooser where only one window is showing. So I think for this purpose, use Ctrl-Tab to move between open tabs in S

Re: Saving Files in TextEdit

2012-08-17 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not aware of any such wizard happening every time I open Text edit but then again, I've left it running for some time so I have been just command-tabbing into it. I haven't used the editor a lot lately so Haven't determined if there is a way to change the default save directory. On Aug 12,

Re: turning on attachments viewing in ML Mail

2012-08-17 Thread Steve Holmes
I just thought I'd take a look at the View menu for my instance of Mail and most of the options under Message Attributes are dimmed. I'm wondering when these are really supposed to take effect. I tried this while I was sitting on a single message in the message list table and interacted with i

Re: cool e pub reader for the mac

2012-08-21 Thread Steve Holmes
Hey thanks for the mention of bookle. I haven't listened to Dr. Carter's podcast but will have to check that out for sure. Now what would be really nice would be iCloud integration between bookle on the mac with ibooks on the IOS platform; then you could sync up book libraries and bookmarks. But

Re: cool discovery in mail

2012-08-21 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not sure about reverting your multiple selections; perhaps just using the arrow keys without VO modifiers would do it. To clarify the question of starting a multiple non contiguous selection, pressing VO-Command Space the first time begins the mode but also unselects the currently highlighted

Re: Can't see iCloud button in Pages on my iPad

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
Problem here is sandboxing. This means anything created in Textedit can only be accessed by other machines running Textedit. Further problem here is Textedit isn't available on IOS. So stuff created in Textedit can only be shared by other macs. I wish Sandboxing could be expanded to include

Re: Mountain Lion User Administration

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
You might try some command line tools from the terminal with an admin equipped user. Example: type 'passwd USER' where USER is the ID you're trying to fix. You should be prompted for a new user. Try entering a new password and see if it takes OK. You won't get any messages if successful. Then

Re: Strange ML Mail jumpy problem

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
And for those with the Apple bluetooth keyboard or using Macbooks, press FN along with VO-Shift-Left or right for home and end respectively. The only time I've experienced any cursor jumping in the message list is when I reply to a message in this forum or other email lists that turn back your rep

Re: Podcast App for Mac

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
This sounds really cool! All he would need to do after that is set up iCloud access so we could sync up our shows between the iToys and the Mac. I would *LOVE* that. On 8/20/12, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey Mark, > > I can confirm that indeed Downcast is working on a app for the mac, as > they re

Re: Firefox and Webvisum Keyboard Shortcuts?

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
What I recall from my use of this on Linux is the "Solve CAPTCHA" option can actually be found in the Tools menu. Is it not there in the Mac version? I haven't done anything with this on the Mac yet. On 8/20/12, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > I've gotten WebVisum installed with Firefox. No

Re: Badges in YoruFukurou

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Holmes
First of all, I never have quick nav on while in anything that does not use HTML so when using Yorufukurou, make sure quick nav is turned off. Also, I had the same issues but when I uninteract with the list of tweets, I can arrow up and down *without* VO modifiers I can then act upon the right twe

Re: Hi

2012-02-05 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 01:33:23PM +, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > the mac mini is a really nice system to go for but there are a few slight > disadvantages here as a few users have noticed. one issue is that the mac > mini when using voiceover needs access to a monitor. this is a hardware and

Re: Hi

2012-02-05 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 04:57:49PM +, chris hallsworth wrote: > Thanks Lu, ar I see. Well the Mac Mini I will possibly pass on then > if VO requires a monitor. Well, the only issue I see without a monitor connected to the Mini is you have to force VO back on with the Commend+F5 key after loggi

Re: time machine?

2012-02-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Being quite new to this mac stuff, I know very little about time machine; is there any way to have time machine backup to a cloud service like Carbonite or something? I know you can use a local hard disk or whatever but I think I would prefer a remote store for better security. Is this possible?

Re: my itunes is terrible since updating Lion.

2012-02-05 Thread Steve Holmes
I've only been on the mac a few weeks now and that means I haven't seen any other OS but for Lion. I thought I could always see the library folder you speak of here. Now my primary user account is still admin based; haven't set it down to standard user yet. Dunno if that makes a difference or no

Re: redownloading lion from app store

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Surprisingly, when I did a re-install using the recovery partition, it did use my previous system settings so it went on to my wireless LAN without incident. Since this was a first for me, I was very pleasantly surprised and shocked that the recovery partition would include VO; usually such enviro

Re: Bugs in Mail

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Holmes
I find with gmail and IMAP, the best way to "Delete" messages for good is to Move them to Trash while in a mail client. Yes, there is a delete function on the web site which actually deletes messages (if trueth be known, it moves them to trash too). Anyway, that's what I do in mutt, thunderbird,

Re: Bugs in Mail

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Trash to truely be rid of them. On 2/6/12, Chris Westbrook wrote: > That's weird, I'm using imap with gmail and when I delete a message thread, > not sure where it goes lol but it is gone from my mailbox at least. > On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >>

Re: Hi

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Holmes
> > 1. Do I need to have a nomitor connected? >> > 2. If so does it need to have power applied and if so does it >> need to actually be turned on? >> > >> > 3. without a monitor how does the accessibility change? Does the >> screen

Re: Slow boot time with Lion. Opinions wanted.

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Due to my newness to the mac, I can't compare with prior versions of OS X but one observation I do concur with is the lack of focus to the desktop when VO is started. I found a work-around for that one though and I never suffer that one anymore. I added at least one item to my list of items to la

Re: Slow boot time with Lion. Opinions wanted.

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Holmes
more mysterious. > Missy > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:52 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Slow boot time with

Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!

2012-02-12 Thread Steve Holmes
I just installed Dropbox this afternoon on my new mac mini. I thought it installed OK and it even synced up my files from the host but now I constantly get "Finder busy" all the time whenever I open *ANY* window in the finder! At this point, the Finder is completely useless while the Dropbox app i

Re: Possible bug in Lion

2012-02-12 Thread Steve Holmes
I have a similar problem when I reboot, I have to turn my function keys back on to software instead of the default hardware. this is when I use a blue tooth keyboard. I don't think it was a problem with my wired keyboard but when I started using an Apple blue tooth keyboard, this started happenin

Re: Possible bug in Lion

2012-02-12 Thread Steve Holmes
Another thing that would free up at least one port would be to try using a blue tooth keyboard. I don't know what kind of mouse you're using but I believe the magic trackpad is a blue tooth, isn't it? if so, try that and you can free up two ports. Just a thought. On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:41:28

Re: Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!

2012-02-13 Thread Steve Holmes
he time no matter what folder I try and go into. Reminder: as soon as I kill or disable dropbox from running, it gets all good again. Any other ideas? On 2/12/12, Steve Holmes wrote: > I just installed Dropbox this afternoon on my new mac mini. I thought > it installed OK and it even synced

Re: Super frustrated trying to read table

2012-02-13 Thread Steve Holmes
Sorry for butting in here but I think she has an outstanding delivery already in the system and she is trying to modify that. If I'm right, there would be no shopping cart involved. Christine, am I interpreting this correctly? Esther, I really appreciate your detailed explanations I've been seei

Re: Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!

2012-02-13 Thread Steve Holmes
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:23:33PM -0600, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Do you have the mac mini connected to a monitor, if not, it may cause this > kind of behavior, the monitor does not need to be turned on, just connected. No, I don't have one. I purposely didn't buy one because I didn't want to spend

Re: Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!

2012-02-14 Thread Steve Holmes
On 2/14/12, Chris Blouch wrote: > So have you removed dropbox in the Users & Groups Login Items list? That > would at least solve the immediate problem. The Mini to VGA to NTSC > converter still seems to do the job until Apple gets a fix in. Yes, that's exactly what I did; that's how I isolated t

Re: instructions on how to use pages with voice over?

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Holmes
Being new to the Mac and all, just what format does Pages support? I mean, are the documents compatible with MS Office or OpenOffice or LibreOffice? Or is Pages yet another proprietary format of documents? I'm curious because I've begun proofreading some RTF documents from Bookshare and I can't see

Re: LibreOffice 3.5.0

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Holmes
That's interesting about this product because I found the 3.5.0 version in Linux to work a little better for me than its prior versions. I like it in Linux but I'm sorry to hear that it is poor in Macdum. Thanks for the bug report reference; I may follow that bug myself also. On Wed, Feb 15, 201

Re: fn key on the full sized keyboard

2012-02-22 Thread Steve Holmes
The full size keyboard I have *DOES* have an FN key; it is in the upper left corner of the 'nine pack' of keys just above the 4 arrow keys. The FN key is still needed to overide the default hardware uses of some of the function keys like F1 thru F4. Now, you can go into the system preferences und

Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-22 Thread Steve Holmes
What are people using these days for office productivity like word processing, spreadsheets, etc.? I am aware of iWork but I thought Open Office or probably now, Libreoffice would be even better. Which of these solutions ore most accessible now days. I heard some old podcasts recently where Open

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
h better for that. > > I can't compare Pages to Word on a PC because I've never used a PC. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > On 23 Feb 2012, at 01:58, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > What are people using these days for office productivity like w

Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm looking for a single hot key to open a link to a new tab instead of replacing the current window. right now, I use Shift-VO-m to open a context menu and then choose 'open in new tab.' Is there a single key to do this like VO-Space? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: Found this from Apple on Minis

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah and additionally, I learned on one of these lists that VO won't turn back on automaticdally at login time unless a monitor is connected. My communications with Apple support was all by phone but I did get a phone acknoledgement that their engineers were able to reproduce this problem and indi

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
Newbie question here... What do you need for a server to work with Expandrive? Does it merely use something like sshfs or sftp? I have a linux machine sitting at my permanent residence, over $800 miles from where I'm staying right now and the main way I connect to it now is via ssh sessions. and f

Re: Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I think you press command enter or, command shift enter. Someone please > correct me if I'm wrong. Yes, it's Command-Enter. I just tried it. Thanks for the suggestion. This is much better. I like tab browsing and use

Re: Dropbox ishu

2012-02-27 Thread Steve Holmes
>From what I've seen so far, I haven't had any discrepencies with files and directories but I did only see one context menu option on the dropbox folder; that was for going to the dropbox website. No thanks, I don't like their website much. I wish there were more options on the folder. Dunno if

Re: leaving music in a particular folder for iTunes to pick up

2014-02-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not in front of my Mac just now so I will have to guess the exact path but the folder you are asking about definitely exists and I use it all the time. I believe it is something like Music/iTunes/iTunes media/Add to iTunes. I might not be exact on the path but the folder you want for sure is c

Re: How does conversation threading work on the Mac?

2014-02-20 Thread Steve Holmes
I also like this method of quickly going through a series of messages in a thread. Only problem I have from time to time is when people have images attached to their messages. It breaks my rhythm because I then have to interact extra times in order to get back into the message itself. I always get

Re: Bad News About iBooks

2014-02-26 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, with serious bugs like this by all means, contact the a11y folks at Apple. I've had them tell me several times that the more pings they get the higher priority a problem is given. I haven't upgraded to Mavericks yet so cannot report this one yet. The other improvements make it sound like I can

Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, I've been seeing some unpleasant behavior by Safari. Allow me to explain what I'm getting here. I have Safari open and running with maybe one or two tabs open. I then go into Yorufukurou to read through some tweets; I then hit the letter l to open a link. I w

Re: e-mail issues

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
With the 10.9.2 changes, gmail works a lot better now. I just upgraded to Mavericks and after a very long sync, I think Mail.app is working OK for me. I find it to be more sluggish than before but at least workable. On Mar 6, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I can't help with Gmail, except

Re: Calendar in iOS

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
If you want to see all events over a longer period of time, You first need to go down to a particular day. It doesn't matter, just open a day view. then double tap the list button. All scheduled and past events will show up in a vertical list. double tap the list button again to turn this off an

Re: Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
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Re: database app for Mac

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Another thing that you can look at is absolutely free on every Mac. From the Terminal app, look at sqlite3 the man page explains how to use it. Yeah, this is on the geeky side and may not really meet your needs but it appears to be a good SQL based system that is freely available. I think I wil

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