I have not received my mac yet but I had the same problem in the store. Can
you change how sensitive the track pad will be? Just wondering. Heather
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Hello, I am looking for Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual because my
bookshare just ended. Please does anyone know if you can obtain it in
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Oh, thank you so much! I get my mac on Friday so I am trying to read
everything on it! I usually use the BRF format and read it with my notetaker!
Thank you again! Heather
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Hi David, I am trying to switch to the mac so I purchased a macbook pro
but, I still have my windows PC if I need it. I have been finding that I
use my mac more so far. So if you can either now or in the future, obtain
a mac to start using it and than you can use you windows pc, perhaps it
Hay, does anyone have this problem with the voice over guide. I downloaded
in the BRF format to read in kurzweil1000 but it won't open it and kicks me
out of the program! I wanted to read it on my windows desktop with k12 and
practice with my mac laptop that is on the desk. I just received y
Ah yes, my mom loves alex she cant stand jaws woe! Heather
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Yes, I have been a bookshare user for 4 or 5 years! We e-mail them the
braille file may be broken. Also the one on apple's side is broken too! It
comes in a winzip file and you abstract the files to get them to be .brf and
I use k12 to read them. It did not work on my k12 or braillenote. So
I was listening to a podcast that said the apple tv was not accessible and
they did not when it would be come accessible wit voiceover! I hope soon!
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I sent a message as well to mac accessibility about apple tv. Heather
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Hello, I use cdx but I think that is only a windows burning program. Cdx
allows you to burn in to mp3, ogg and wmb formats by pushing one of the
function keys. I have used easy cd creater as well. But I prefer itunes,
it does a better job. I just burn my music to mp3 format and than when I a
Ah, did not have coffee yet. Rip is the better term! Heather
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Yes, there is also voice operation as well! If you cant do the keyboard
commands, I think you can operate your computer through voice! I am not
sure how much, perhaps an experience mac user might chime in here. Heather
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Forgive my ignorance as I am really knew to the mac, there is two sets of
keyboard commands? So can voiceover users choose which ones to use or no?
Can someone explain what they mean two sets of commands, I only found one
using the braille guide. Heather
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I have taken to using both computers right now. I have a mac laptop and a
windows desktop. Grant it I use my windows desktop more but as I learn
voiceover, I hope to move between both systems equally. It is not about which
is better for it is a matter of perspective of the individual. I like
I am a very knew Mac user and feel that our state rehab departments are
favoring the windows based machines over the mac machines. Yes, our states
have all the money to give there blind consumers all this adaptive technology
while in school. However, after school, blind individuals struggle to
Hello, just wondering if anyone happens to know why k3000 has a mac partner but
k1000 does not? It does not make sense, they are made by the same company!
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Hello, I received a response from apple accessibility about the voiceover guide
in BRF format. For those who were having problems with the file, they have
fixed it now so the file works! I tried it today and it worked just fine.
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I like my training however, our store is so loud that I cant here the
voiceover or sometimes the individual at the store! I wish they had a
separate area besides in the middle of a noisy store to do one on one!
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Maybe someone should start a regular podcast on these issues. I know some
folks have done this in the past but not a regular show! It would be cool
if it was a live show that folks can call in to ask or text and ask
questions! I would pay for that podcast if it was good and addressed
differe
That should be illegal woe!
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Hay Mike, what is the name of your podcast? Heather
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I live in Austin Texas. We have an Apple corporate office here. The
university uses macs and some of the school districts too. I remember when I
had to use a mac, know one told me about voiceover. They simply said "macs are
not accessible so you cant take that class," and now the answer is,
Yes I signed up for appointments when the store opens now. It is good, I am
a morning person as long as I have my coffee! Heather
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The domain and there is not a table next to the store because, it is not in
a mall or rather it is in an outdoor mall. I think my next sessions will be
quieter as the store will have just opened. I hope! Heather
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I wanted a tec camp here in Austin to focus on apple products. They do this
with jaws and window eyes at TSBVI so, why not apple? We don't have a
qualified adaptive technology specialist at DARS to assist because, I asked
about it with my councilor. Well, smiles, they have problems with just
Thank you all for responding on and off list. I appreciate it. Heather
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That book is broken at bookshare and no one has got back to me about fixing it!
Just thought you want to know. Heather
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Hello, these are two different books so I wanted to make that clear. One,
apple accessibility fixed their Braille brf file so one can get off their
site and read it now. Bookshare has not e-mail some of us back about the
broken link for the
switching to the mac, snowlepard the missing manual.
Here is the link for the book, Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual,
Snow Leopard Edition:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804268/
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I sent them a message asking if the ebook would work with a screenreader or
if it was an imaged file. Heather
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If you have kurzweil1000 on the windows side, just run it through, if
nothing else works. But you should be able to open the file and do a save
as in to another format to read it! My teacher always seem to send me word
docs of a scanned worksheet, annoying! So I sometimes had to run it throug
I e-mail them yesterday evening about the eBook accessibility and they told
me that I can purchase in PDF or daisy. I asked them where to go so I am
waiting for an e-mail myself on the book! So when they e-mail me tomorrow,
I will pass it along! Heather
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I like vo but I was wondering if apple will allow other screenreader
programs to opperate on the mac. I was just thinking about this because, I
have jaws and NVDA on my windows computer. So when jaws is giving me grief,
I can switch to NVDA which usually tells me what jaws won't or when jaws i
I don't know about that but, I was thinking about when vo does not respond
or work in some applications, perhaps it needs some help. I am not using vo
right now as I am still getting new to my mac. I have been working through
the voice over guide and learning a little at a time. I like the fa
Ah yes, I love the mac and vo but was concerned that vo does not support
firefox yet. I use it on the windows side on my pc. I am reading up on vo
as I work on the mac. I have not used the internet,I want to be sure I get
all the other items down. I am playing with the track pad trying to ge
You know, I would not mind having the startrek computer voice on my mac!
Maybe I am being to geeky. Heather
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Ah, I see now. Thinks for explaining it to me! Heather
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Are you talking about paul and kate? Or the microsoft as well as ATNT
voices. I like paul and kate which i use in k12. Heather
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Well, it is up to you! I read braille all the time but personally don't
want another piece of equipment on my desk. Do you think the braille helps
you or do you think you will be faster relying on speech from the computer?
What do you get out of having a braille display along with the computer
Hello, I was given an extra daisy cd with the book on it! So if anyone wants
it, e-mail me off list! I is not the daisy with text, it is the cd for the
Daisy player. Heather
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I had to order over the phone because, it did the same thing to me! Heather
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It is not. Afterall, bill would not want to brake his record of
inaccessibility! Heather
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Bill is responsible for that robot they call narrator and he claims windows
is accessible. While our friends at Apple, actually have a real
screenreader built in to their system. So, Bill is not doing anyone any
favors by making us, windows users, go out an by screenreaders worth more
than t
AH yes, it sounds like an episode of Alex Jones, woe! Heather
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Oh, it works great. You just need to get used to it. I was wondering the
same thing, if anyone has experience with keynote. I have to create a
presentation for a class next month. Heather
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Can you still get your money back? If not, sell it on craig's list!
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Ah, Denver, great city and great transit system. I wish I could go to
Denver, I miss the mountain man knocking at my door. The best coffee shop
by Walmart in Englewood. Heather
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What about that I powel, I think it was called? I only saw it once a while
back at the NFB convention. Heather
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I was thinking today as I was using some of my items for the first time on
the mac, about a question. In windows, it always asks you if you are sure
about doing anything and you have to tell it yes or no. But I find that the
mac does not have a message saying are you sure about anything. For
On your trackpad, I think if you double tapp with three fingers on the
trackpad, it should turn it back on. Heather
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Thanks, for that tidbit! Heather
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If it does not work, here is the steps for unmuting speech with the
keyboard. vo-f8, (or on some it is fn-vo-f8) brings the voice over utility.
Hit s for speech and tab twice to the mute speech and deselect from there.
BY hitting vo with space bar. Heather
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Texas, there never in the office always in training and they get four day
work weeks. They spend loads of money on mass mailouts that never arrive on
time, usually after the fact. So I guess they have not heard of this little
thing called, "e-mail." I am starting to believe that because, mine
Oh, the link for the unarchiver did not work! Heather
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Well, judging by your post Ruud, I have a feeling that I will be hering a
podcast soon! Wellcome to the mac family! Heather
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Okay, there are so many choices so I am not sure what might be best! I want
to create an audio story of my family and be able to put it on my computer
in MP3 format. So I can send it off to them. Which devices allow to record
in mp3 format without having to convert the files? I have never re
I know if you have a macbook, I think you can use f12 to turn the volume
back up! But, I think I know what your saying, a button for muting and
unmuting. My dell used to have a button that did this at the top of the
laptop by the on button. Perhaps mac will consider this in the future.
Heath
You now have to pay for membership for RFBND unless you are grandfathered in
the system! Just wanted to let folks know. Heather
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My friend had to pay for hers but that was last year so I did not know about
the change. That is good to know! Heather
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I here there both pretty good but, I think some of use Abbyy Fine Reader.
It depends weather or not your scanner has mac drivers or not. You have to
contact your scanner's manufacture to ask or look online. Good luck!
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Well, the commercial on tv said otherwise. It compares the macair to the
netbook as the newer smarter and lighter netbook! Heather
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Yep I was surprised while I was watching the saints game to see this as
well! Heather
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NVDA is a free screenreader for the windows opperating system! Does not
Compare to the voice over for the apples! Heather
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I also have a braillenote and I like my mac as well. I was so happy when I
got it, I was speechless after I set it up with no sighted assistance. I
have not obtained my I phone as sprint is taking it's sweet time of getting
I phones. I cant wait to get rid of my q9c. My plan is up in dec so
Cant you use dxb after running fusion? That is how I can run my k12 while
I learn the mac OCR solutions. Heather
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Yes this solution works because I did not want to buy a new scanner or new
printer just for my mac. Perhaps in the future! Heather
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If you don't want windows near the apple, perhaps you can buy a cheap
computer from good will to do this. That is the only solution besides
running fusion. I know they have some cheap computers, think laptops, from
tiger direct for 50 dollars, crazy! If that is the only thing you need,
guess
That is good to know. Heather
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Hello Justin, thanks for that tidbit about reading tables in pages! I knew
there had to be a solution but I consider myself really knew to the mac and
pages, just made a month today of having my mac! Heather
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Oh I have the set from Bose, they work great. There about 6 years old and I
have never had any problems with them god willing, they will last another
six years! Heather
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I agree, all my apps, media and books are downloaded no cds! I actually
ripped all my cds to my external and gave the cds to someone else who is not
in this century who still has a tape player woe! I have not used a tape
player for five years or so! And at that, I had to check one out from th
Just remember to push some buttons so you don't have to listen to that add
before you get to the news or weather! Heather
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Yes, I wish sprint would get an iphone, my q9c is dying but I keep giving it
pet talks to make it work, smiles! Heather
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I know my stereo place mp3s and rewritable cds. It is like almost 20 years
old. So I was surprised at this! Heather
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Well, perhaps the knew cars will have usb plugs for your media. I hope
apple corners this market so it will have voiceover too! Heather
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Oh, thank you so much! I knew there had to be a way. Heather
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I am thankful we don't have that problem here in the US, yet! Congress is
trying to tax the internet and charge you for the amount of time your
online, woe! Heather
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They better, I already left voicemail messages that if they did not, I am
switching! Heather
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Ah yes, I did that this year woe. It took a lot of time. Now, smiles, mom
wants me to do it with her stuff, sheesh. I have to figure out how to get
the media off the records, vhs and tapes without braking the bank. I figure
it will take the whole year with my busy schedule. So any ideas how
Well, I was listening to some mp3 lectures using media player classic on the
pc side and itunes on the mac side. I wanted to know if there is a way to
speed up the media like there is with the digital players? Or is there
another program that would allow me to speed up the media. I guess I am
Ah, yes the apple store is down the street from me! So going for my classes
is really hard sometimes! Heather
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Woe, never put Alex in the same boat as jaws, jaws might be thrown overboard
and eaten at the supper table! That is real cool, never knew what those
emoticons looked like, w have to check out! Heather
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I was just wondering, how do you keep your computer cool if it is next to
the wall? I always wondered but I have never seen something like a tv or
computer mounted to the wall. Heather
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Hello, I wanted to know if anyone has experience with kids learning games on
the mac? I have a friend who wants to purchase a mac but she wants to be
able to use educational games with her 3 year old daughter but I told her I
did not know if they were voiceover accessible. Is there a way to fi
I have uverse or rather my mom does. Yes the cable only has it free for six
months here than you have to pay! I think cable is going by the way side, I
don't know anyone who has cable accept for some apartment dwellers who cant
get anything besides the cable. But even my friend who lives in p
So does winzip work with voiceover? Heather
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I had a question because, I could not tell by looking at apple's site which
iPod is going to do the trick! The first is I have both a mac and pc, until
the pc dies and I can justify an imac like I justified a laptop when the
Dell croaked. So I want to be able to connect either to one or the ot
Thanks for the info! So I can connect them to both computers without any
special software? Heather
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Well, can you take it in today, perhaps they can swap out or fix it. The
game does not come on till 305 and noone will have any problems there
turning it on. Although I prefer watching the game at the doam with some
good earplugs. Heather
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So if I have to, can I sink to my pc? Or does it only work on the mac?
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Oh, okay, I just need to beable to do both until my pc dies or I kill it
which ever comes first! Heather
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So, do you have to turn the voiceover on or is it already on? If you have
to turn it on, can you do it without sighted assistance? Heather
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yes they are! Heather
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Just wondering, the Ipod Nano sixth generation only comes in 16gb? Can you
expand it more? Heather
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Ah, I see, I was hoping for a 32 gb at least! Heather
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Serotek Corporation, the leading provider of accessible multi platform and
cloud-based solutions which can be accessed from anywhere, is proud to
announce the release of DocuScan Plus. This innovative software allows
persons to scan and read documents from any computer with an attached
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That is really cool to here! Heather
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Hi Heather,
I don't know, but Abisee has announced that the EyePal now works with the
Mac. Just got t
I don't know if any vo users can help because msoffice for mac does not work
on the mac with vo! If you have your one to one, I would have them install
it. Unless you are using msoffice on your mac in the windows partition
side, you have to have something like NVDA on a thumb-drive to know wha
Hello, I was wondering how easy it is to take pictures with an iphone? Also is
there a simple camera that can conect to the computer if one wants to take
pictures or video. I am trying to help my friend take pictures of her daughter
and we are both blind sosometimes the pictures don't come out
Well, seems like almost everyone wants a copy! I wonder if you can post it
to the list as an attachment. Of course with the monitors okay first!
Heather
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