recording lps & tapes

2009-10-16 Thread christos hux
you might want to take a look at cdspindoctor from roxio.com however there is not a demo version of this software. It will cost you $39 to purchase. In Leopard it was very voice over accessable. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because y

installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread christos hux
hi May I would advise whatever route you go about for the snow leopard to have all important data to you backedup. its not a problem for you until you experience lost data that you can not get back since it was not backedup somewhere. With the snow leopard upgrade now you onl

very painfully slow safari

2009-10-28 Thread christos hux
I was reallysupprised about how sluglish safari was after I did the upgrade to snow leopard. It drove me crazy so I went & switched browsers. I now use a older browser called: icab which is shareware based. Its fully voice over accessable. It costs $20 for a license & its

mail and yahoo

2009-03-22 Thread christos hux
yes if you are a subscriber to the yahoo mail plus system then when you start/setup mail with a yahoo.com address the mail program knows on its own to go out and grab the incoming and outgoing mail server addresses for you. It does the same thing with google mail. --~--~-~--~~--

reading digital braille files on mac

2009-03-27 Thread christos hux
well you can also do this with Gregs braille translation program which is totally free and easier. I convert the brf files to text files and then either read then as they are with text edit or convert them into audio files with iSpeakIt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

need ocr for epson vx30/300 scanner

2009-04-08 Thread christos hux
Hi to the list. I just purchased a Epson flatbed scanner model vx30 because of its low cost compared to other scanners. I wanted one that was affordable to scan my mail. The only kind of ocr software that came with it is the Abby Fine Reader version 5. It is not very useable in my view and t

need ocr for epson vx30/300 scaner

2009-04-09 Thread christos hux
thanks to mark and now alex for replying to me. I did try using vuscan on my 1.8ghz mini which has 1 gig of ram in it. Vuscan just kept saying busy when it was running or crashed on me a lot. I tried a few other programs that i discovered from my search for ocr on macupdate.com. I have ord

mac mini

2009-04-12 Thread christos hux
My mac mini is a delight to use. its a 1.8ghz intel model. I have traveled a few times with it when I have moved or gone to conventions with it. The brand new models are a bit faster, have 1 more usb ports then mine having now 5 usb ports instead of the 4 that mine has. They are a great

installing readiris help

2009-04-22 Thread christos hux
Hi out there to the list. Today I received my purchase of readiris version 11.6 and attempted to install it. There is no installer app for it since its its own program. After the first screen which you just hit continue to get to on the next screen where you select your language which had

readiris help

2009-04-23 Thread christos hux
as suggested to me via a reply I did try interacting with the vertical scroll bar & nothing happened by scrolling to the very top or bottom the status of the continue button never changed from its dimmed status. This is very frustrating to spend money on a application to help you be more i

readiris ocr installed

2009-04-25 Thread christos hux
thanks to the help here I was finally able to get past the intro screens and install this ocr program. However when I went and launched the real actual readiris program it ask you for a serial number so I will have to waite for sighted help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

how to drag and drop

2009-05-05 Thread christos hux
The way to perform a drag & drop operation using Voice Over is to find on your internal hard drive the desired file or folder. In this case you are wanting to copy over your itunes folder to a external drive. so you will be on your internal drive, find the folder which in your case is itu

voice over on ipod touch

2009-06-19 Thread christos hux
to answer this question as best as I can tell from what I have read this should work. If you pay the $10 for the iphone os version 3.0 software to run it on a ipod touch then you would have voice over on it just like it is on the actual iphone, with vo access to the apple

voice over on ipod touch

2009-06-20 Thread christos hux
well I did not mean to cause problems here. I am sorry if I was wrong just going on info I had read. Its a real downer if voice over is tied only to the brand new iphone 3gs model. I do now have a local Apple store in my city finally & I would have gone down there in time to see if voice o

virtual box 3.0

2009-07-02 Thread christos hux
i downloaded & installed the newist version of virtual box which is up to 3.0. It has had no voice over access improvment at all to the program. It still just says unknown for all the areas inside the app. so I would use either vmware fusion or apple bootcamp instead for running wi

brf files

2009-07-04 Thread christos hux
as already mentioned here I also use Luuy to transfer to a text file a brf file. I do this with the nls braille magazines since I do not wish to fill up a room with them in hardcopy braille & as already mentioned I can not afford the overpriced braille display just for reading elec

brf files

2009-07-05 Thread christos hux
alex what is the bs09 app you refered to in a posting of yours? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To

preorder of snow leopard

2009-08-01 Thread christos hux
I as well today got the amazon preorder email. I went ahead & did this. Yes from what I have read since placing the order it may take a bit longer to get my dvd disk sent to me. However by that time if any bugs have been found I will have read on-line about them. I do now

new ocr mac application

2009-08-02 Thread christos hux
There is now a new ocr application avilable for the mac platform. it is the abby fine reader express version for the mac. it costs $99 & I did email the us based sales company & got back the answer from the parent company that the app had been tested with vo

printer sharing

2009-08-30 Thread christos hux
Hi out there has anyone done a printer sharing setup with the apple airport express base station? I am looking into doing this for the very first time. On the apple airport express webpage it just says that you plug in the printer to the usb port on the back of the base stat