[Mac-access]: Status Update: Please Read

2015-03-08 Thread Mrs . Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello everybody I debated long and hard as to whether I should post this message. I have ultimately decided that, because of the fact that so many of you have shown an interest, (for which we thanks you most humbly) in our plans for system upgrades and overhaul, I would post and give you the

Mac Access Dot Net; E-Mail Server Evolutions | Mac Access Dot Net

2014-08-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Gordon has just wasted the best part of an hour writing the text linked hereto. yes, it’s true. But all the same, I suppose it does serve a useful purpose, so I shouldn’t really ridicule him over much at this time. Seriously though, things are starting to happen here at Mac

iTunes FLAC

2014-05-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody It would appear, and I discovered this quite by accident, that iTunes can now play .FLAC format tracks directly, without any form of plug-in whatsoever. This, for us at least, is a huge huge break-through, as it’s our format of choice and has been for several years. I’ve just

Our Cloud Access

2014-04-06 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Good morning everybody As you may know if you’ve read our recent mail on the subject, we now have a lovely 8TB of cloud storage available, and that will shortly be almost doubled as we are investing in more hardware this afternoon. Would anybody be interested in trying out our cloud services?

Little Snitch for Mac

2014-03-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I haven’t been around for a while as I’ve been incredibly busy. But I wanted to alert you all to an application which you may be tempted to buy. Although this is a totally genuine application, it works very well as long as you’re not a VoiceOver user. The configuration utility

Re: Little Snitch for Mac

2014-03-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah I write from personal experience, nothing more. I bought the application when it was on promo from Mac Update. I wish I hadn’t. I can tell you that we have tested with and without VoiceOver. When VoiceOver is on, the configuration application is totally invisible. That does not

Re: Little Snitch for Mac

2014-03-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
, at 6:39 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: If anybody knows of a way to configure this with VoiceOver, please share the info. I’d love to be wrong on this occasion. But our testing has shown no accessibility whatsoever with the exception of the installer and uninstaller

Re: Lewie Braille Translator for OS X

2013-12-27 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Esther This is my first time on the Internet for a millennia, so please do excuse me for my tardy and probably outdated responses. I did find this actually yesterday, and you’re quite correct it doesn’t seem to be under active development. The good news, however, is that there’s another

The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I would welcome advice regarding one question here. Are there many apps which would no longer run on the old original iPad 64GB? Gordon just walked into the room with this in his hand and we had totally forgotten that we still had it. He found it in a cupboard whilst going to

Re: The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris Why, oh why, would I ever….ever…..ever…..ever want to watch my other half, (he’s saying better half – but he’d better watch his step if he wants to eat again today! LOL. Anyway, why would I want to watch him on FAceTime which, I confess, neither of us has ever even used on our

Re: good alternative to iTunes for ripping CDs

2013-10-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Georgina Hum! I think we’d better stick with what we know, to be honest. This stuff is way way over my head I’m afraid. I know it’s pretty simple to the LINUX experts amongst the group and yes that’s an area where Gordon really needs to start learning properly, if only to further his

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Brenda My apologies for the belated response. Gordon and I are really having a hard time keeping pace with mail these days which is gratifying because this list has now become a quite high volume forum. On 13 Oct 2013, at 15:04, meadowlark77 meadowlar...@cox.net wrote: • Hit Home

Re: Is VMWareFusion on topic on this list?

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Phil To join Techno Chat, send a message to: techno-chat-requ...@techno-chat.net and to join Windows Access, guess what, send another message to: windows-access-requ...@techno-chat.net I hope that helps. Warm regards Lynne On 13 Oct 2013, at 18:56, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: good alternative to iTunes for ripping CDs

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Gina On 13 Oct 2013, at 19:43, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: • Although you want a lovely GUI interface. I would suggest that you look at abcde. Which stands for a better cd encoder. It's a very light weight set of scripts run from the terminal. Via Mac Ports. I used to

Re: smtp and pop imap settings

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello George The only way we know of is to highlight an account and then go to the advanced options SMTP Server. Temporarily change the server to the one you don’t want, click on Edit and then remove that server. Then change back to the one you want and click OK. I hope this helps. Lynne

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Brenda Actually it was I, rather than Gordon, who responded; but no problem. iOS7.02 certainly brings up some issues regarding accessibility. What Gordon does like about it though is the messaging applet. It’s now far easier to quickly edit, respond too and delete messages than it used

1Password Interchange File

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I have a question. If you have a 1Password file which contains order details for a specific website, how are you supposed to view its contents? I tried doing the obvious thing, clicking on and opening the file. It does open up 1Password but it doesn’t reveal the contents it

Re: 1Password Interchange File

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Dane To be more specific here. The file contains the output of a website from where I bought a MacUpdates promo. We never managed to complete the download owing to the site going down. So I need to try and download the whole bundle as a single disk image which is what the order offered

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-19 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Brenda Actually Gordon says he remembers you from a few years back. Yes, we’re always absolutely inundated with work both related to and not related to the project. We know that it’s appreciated by most if not all of our members and we are happy to do the job because we believe that we

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Caitlyn Please forgive my shoddy response. Gordon and I ares only just managing to sit down now and respond to mail. Our work load has been excessive over the last few weeks. iOS7 is very visually appealing if you like colourful and pretty icons. Functionally, even on our old iPhone 4S

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah I am seeing that my question provoked a lot of responses which is great. Thank you for your input. Again though, it is a very colourful and pretty OS from the visual perspective. That was why I asked the question. Gordon has been using iOS7 for some time and finds it very easy to

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dónal Gordon hardly ever uses Safari in iOS, primarily I think because he gets a bit impatient with the mobile browser. But I think it is an area he needs to become more accustomed too as he might need that for work. Thank you for your well thought through input. Warm regards Lynne

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Tommy I need to try this for myself. So, from the main screen in iOS with VoiceOver active, how do you bring up the app switcher? I can switch apps visually and it’s really nice actually. But how do you initiate the app switcher with VoiceOver active? All or most of the gestures change.

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Zack This seems to be Gordon’s opinion too. Like you he’s been using it for some time and had no problems. He is saying that he has never encountered the focus loss issue which others have mentioned. We all, that is to say Tracy, Gordon and I, have iPhone 4S models but I am seriously

What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Firstly, let me just say that I’m not interested in what the “fat cats” and the professional analysts say; I’m looking for genuine user opinion here. I just wondered what you all make of iOS7.02 now that it is public, in terms of accessibility primarily, and functionality as a

Coriolis Systems Blog

2013-10-01 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody We thought some might appreciate this as it fixes what has for us been quite an irritating problem at times. Under OS X, you cannot directly modify a zip file without re-archiving the whole thing over again. This software allows you to manipulate zip files just like a folder.

Re: 8 Dot Braille With Apex and the Air

2013-10-01 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Eileens In VoiceOver Utility, (VoiceOver+F8), scroll down to the Braille category and look under the Layout tab. There you will see q checkboxes; Use Contracted Braille, and Use 8-Dot Braille. Modify their status to suit your needs. You might also want to turn off the status cells.

DropBox Sync

2013-09-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Is there a way to synchronise files which live outside of your DropBox master folder so that they appear on other devices? Thank you. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find

Seeking Reminder; [How To?]

2013-08-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody We recently lost a lot of files, including almost our entire movies collection bought from iTunes. I’m pretty miffed about this, not so much for my own sake, but for Gordon’s. He has lost some of the movies he enjoys watching over again now and then. Is there a way to recover

Sound Forge Pro ® 1.0 for Mac

2013-07-29 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody We are now able to report on our findings with Sound Forge 1.0® Mac. There are quite a lot of unlabelled controls on the main toolbar. Gordon and I plan to sit down and try to label them using VoiceOver at our convenience. However, all is not lots. Recording is pretty easy, as

Re: iTunes And Duplicate Items

2013-07-29 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Sarah That's not far short of what we have here actually and the vast majority of it was created from CD or CD image by us personally. But the point here is that even those songs which we did buy from iTunes are being duplicated and, looking at one directory of files here, I see that

iTunes And Duplicate Items

2013-07-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Does anybody know whether it's possible to stop iTunes from downloading duplicates of every item in our iTunes library? This has to be a bug, what sense does it make to clutter up hard disk space with duplicates? They also seem to show up in a playlist which brings me on to

Logic Pro X Accessibility

2013-07-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Does anybody know whether the new version of Logic Pro X is accessible? I see it is in the App store, and I'm wondering whether we'd get better results with an editor like that which is designed for the type of work Gordon wants to do. Thoughts, please? Warm regards Lynne ---

Re: Logic Pro X Accessibility

2013-07-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Donal My only excuse here is that we are just catching up on mail. If nobody else has tested this, I will and let you know. Lynne On 17 Jul 2013, at 16:30, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: Hi Lynne, *smile* I asked exactly the same question last night. thus far

Re: Logic Pro X Accessibility

2013-07-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I'm referring to the brand new version just released. Lynne On 17 Jul 2013, at 16:45, Isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: What version of logic are you referring to? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You

Re: Humanware BrailleNote Apex and iOS Devices

2013-07-13 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Desi OK, Gordon is banging his head on the wall now and doing all kinds of crazy things. No, we didn't have the Apex in terminal mode, we were trying to pair it as a native BlueTooth device. But this explains a lot. I'll get him to calm down in a minute and we'll try that. Thank you.

Humanware BrailleNote Apex and iOS Devices

2013-07-12 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Does anybody happen to have a BrailleNote Apex and either an iPad or iPhone which they have managed to get working? I know this is supposed to work, but for some reason when we go to the SettingsAccessibilityVoiceOverBrailleBraille Display, and then put the BrailleNote into

Re: Article: Apple loses its shine

2013-07-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane, Mike, Josh and all I also wonder whether this chap is in breech of his NDA, assuming he's signed up for one of course. There are only so many times you can re-shape the wheel before it become round again. Apple is traditionally very secretive about its plans, and why not. So who

Re: Take Control Books from mac-access list

2013-06-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Cathy We would be happy to process this for you if you decide to go ahead. We can then make your books available to you for indefinite download at our secure site. Please let us know by contacting supp...@mac-access.net if we can be of assistance. Lynne On 6 Jun 2013, at 23:09, Cathy

PrivacyScan Seek Destroy Privacy Threats For Mac OS X to Cover Your Tracks and Secure Delete Threats

2013-05-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Given that we have recently gained quite a few new members as well as losing a small number of old ones, I thought I'd post a link to this website, just featured in MacWorld UK as one of the top Mac security products. Don't let anybody kid you that you're 100% safe using your

Outstanding Support Issus

2013-03-29 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Just a note to the over 50 authors of support messages which we have received in the last few days. We have had the most amazingly busy week, especially Gordon. Therefore, we haven't been able to allocate response time for non-commercial E-Mail. We apologise for this

Re: This really is going to hurt a lot of blind people I think, read it!

2013-03-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Zack My point here is that it may take some blind people away from having the ability to podcast. Images were, until now, always optional in a Podcast. Bas it wasn't a strictly implicit requirement. But now, well, I have to admit that I don't know too much about how you would go about

Re: This really is going to hurt a lot of blind people I think, read it!

2013-03-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris Respectfully, I think you're point is, whilst valid in respect of consistency, somewhat presumptuous. yes, I do see your points regarding websites, Facebook etc. However, the images have to be a specific size and conform quite strictly to standards. Yes, it may be possible for you,

Re: This really is going to hurt a lot of blind people I think, read it!

2013-03-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody There is one aspect which nobody has touched on yet. That being the server configuration requirements. How is the average man in the street supposed to handle that, assuming they don't pay a provider to do it for them? Lynne On 22 Mar 2013, at 10:55, Sean Murphy

Re: This really is going to hurt a lot of blind people I think, read it!

2013-03-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris Come on, no need to be so touchy. :) Sean was simply offering a contrary opinion. We don't need to fight just because somebody disagrees with us. There are lots who disagree with me on lots of things. But that's fine, it's what provokes thought and, by definition, engenders further

This really is going to hurt a lot of blind people I think, read it!

2013-03-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody We just got this from iTunes. I think it's going to kill a lot of visually impaired people's podcasts. SNIP New Cover Art Requirement iTunes has been completely redesigned and there are new requirements for podcast cover art. To be eligible for featuring on iTunes Store, a

Re: anti virus and the mac

2013-03-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Terry This kind of post comes up very frequently. May I suggest you do a search in the list archives? There has been some pretty extensive discussion on this point already. Don't be afraid to ask, but I encourage you to check the list archives. There are links to both of our archives at

Re: Mac Mini Server and a bluetooth keyboard.

2013-03-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jim We use that all the time, and it works fine here. Stop or pause the playback with the space bar, for instance. That works exactly as it should. In fact we don't have a wired keyboard in use on any of our 9 mac Mini servers. Lynne On 17 Mar 2013, at 11:45, Jim Noseworthy

Re: Bento busy?

2013-03-15 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah On 13 Mar 2013, at 20:41, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: • Do the devs know about this? I don't use the program as I dont' need to any data base work, how ever I think it woudl be a good idea to contact the devs about this as I know some other list members use bento on

A Major Announcement Affecting The Future Of Mac Access And Subsidiary Groups

2013-02-15 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Good evening all Just to say that I am in the process of writing up a major announcement which will affect every member of all of our groups, and especially every client for whom we host services. I do not wish to post to the group as a whole because it would take me off topic and it would

Re: WavePad and Amadeus Pro, [Was Audio editing programs]

2013-02-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Has anybody discovered how to mark up files and save them along the markers? We tried to do that with Amadeus Pro but each time we open it directly or indirectly with a wave file, it crashes. When we tried with WavePad, we couldn't figure out how to insert markers while a file

Re: Lynne To Review Cute FTP Pro 3.0 For Mac

2013-02-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sean I did a very quick review of the app; but will try to improve on that somewhat very soon. I will update the entry on our blog when I do. Lynne On 10 Feb 2013, at 09:03, Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Thanks for that. I am an old Linux hack user and FTP under Mac is

Re: WavePad and Amadeus Pro, [Was Audio editing programs]

2013-02-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Roger Actually I've visited their site on a lot of occasions. But we still can't quite find a solution to the problems because the videos won't play. On the whole, WavePad is a good editor but it would be lovely if we could resolve a few issues we are having, such as: 1. How to set the

NCH Software: Zulu DJ

2013-02-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Has anybody had any luck with, or even tried this? We're interested because it seems to work totally independently of iTunes and it also handles FLAC which is our preferred audio format. Comment? Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please

Re: Lynne To Review Cute FTP Pro 3.0 For Mac

2013-02-08 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
and holidays. - Original Message - From: Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 2:43 AM Subject: Re: Lynne To Review Cute FTP Pro 3.0 For Mac Hello Chris I think we posted a blog link

Re: Lynne To Review Cute FTP Pro 3.0 For Mac

2013-02-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris I think we posted a blog link. yes it's accessible, it seems to work fine. Lynne On 6 Feb 2013, at 15:18, Christopher-Mark Gilland ch...@clgproductions.com wrote: Oh my God! Cute FTP has a mac version? That's my favorite ftp client for windows! I'd be honored! to try it on the

Re: Lynne To Review Cute FTP Pro 3.0 For Mac

2013-02-04 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello John We shall soon see. The latest version is re-written in Coco and now uses OS X standard controls. I will do the review and let you know. Lynne On 4 Feb 2013, at 21:07, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote: I didn't know it was even accessible. I used the Windows version

Re: Mail Query

2013-02-04 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah The concept here is really simple. For an account Gordon needs to use for work, he requires that a photo be attached to all mail. This is one way that the company can validate the sender of mail, and it's their policy. Of course, we know that there are better ways; but that's how

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Anne, Phil and all I think this, perhaps, is one of those occasions where it is only fair to shed a little light, if you will pardon the pun, on things. Actually, Pages does quite a lot more for the new Office standards than is possible with VoiceOver. It seems that this is another

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jamire To avoid repeatedly discussing the same topics on list, could I suggest that you might like to view the list archives which contain extensive discussion related to VMWare Fusion. Fusion is a popular virtualisation application which allows you to run virtual machines within Mac OS

Re: Sparkle radio via Safari

2013-01-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Paul The page is entirely HTML and, as such, works fine here. Sometimes in Safari we have found that you need to press enter, rather than VoiceOver+Space to activate links and that isn't restricted to our site. The Listen link works fine. Try doing a reload of the page once you've

Re: Sparkle radio via Safari

2013-01-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jamie I only mentioned it in passing because Paul was trying the pages with Safari. The station is our own project and we're trying to develop a place where people can broadcast and have fun. They don't have to be radio wizards or anything, just want to have fun. Nobody will laugh at

Re: OpenOffice: Should I try it?

2013-01-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris My apologies; we are both way way behind on mail at the moment owing to lots and lots of work for both. Anyway, as I understand it, OpenOffice is still not accessible, or at least not fully so. The way paragraphs are concerned, for instance, they are read and handled very

Amusing Apple Error

2013-01-10 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody When loading iTunes just now, I noticed an amusing little typo. I thought Apple was above putting things in their software like Cick Continue, as is what happens when you're prompted to enter your Apple ID and password, then Cick continue Chuckling. Lynne --- Mac Access At

Pictures

2013-01-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Does anybody happen to know where I can get some quality pictures of Apple's iOS products? By that, I mean the iPad, (current and previous generations), iPhone 5 and 4S, and iPod Touch 5th generation. We want some pictures which we can use for a web project. Thank you in

Social Networking

2012-12-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Can somebody tell me please what's the best way of creating a FaceBook account? I know it's now synchronised with the operating system like Twitter is, so I wonder what has to be done. Also, what utilities if any do people use for FaceBook? We are still using Syrix for Twitter,

Re: Social Networking

2012-12-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
in to from the main page. Good luck. On Dec 28, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Paula Well, we are looking into the possibilities we have. We're more concerned with OS X at the moment rather than iOS; although I am sure that Apple has don what

Re: Off topic, iTunes coupons

2012-12-11 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello John Not off topic at all; this is a perfectly valid query as it is iTunes-related. :) As far as I am aware, you should be able to redeem a gift card in any country as long as your account in the iTunes Store has a payment option associated with it. Lynne On 11 Dec 2012, at 15:21,

Re: Not off topic, iTunes coupons

2012-12-11 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Oopse! Forgot to change accounts again. On 11 Dec 2012, at 16:33, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: hello Sarah iTunes music is no longer protected. There are probably some applications not available in different countries but songs, that's a different ball game. I'm not, of course,

Re: People: Please Stops Forwarding Messages!

2012-12-09 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Glenn Actually, there was a forward on Friday. Lynne On 8 Dec 2012, at 17:59, Glenn glenner...@cableone.net wrote: I haven't received any forwarded messages that I know of. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Re: Playing M3u playlists from Internet stations

2012-12-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah I think we should have been a little more clear regarding our requirements. So, let me try again. We are looking for a fail-safe method of opening on-the-fly .m3u playlists whose source is an external URL. The reason for this is that we are compiling a website and we'd like to

Playing M3u playlists from Internet stations

2012-12-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I am not sure if there's a way to do this, but we need to play an m3u playlist from the Internet. Can you paste the URL anywhere in iTunes or anything like that? I thought there was a way but I cannot find it at the moment. Thank you. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net

Re: Fusion question.

2012-12-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Danny you could try our Techno-chat group, or our Windows-Access group. Usual subscription method applies. Lynne On 5 Dec 2012, at 22:49, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net wrote: My brother is currently working on getting fusion 5 working with JFW and Windows 7 and I will be soonish.

Re: iTunes 11

2012-12-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jim On 2 Dec 2012, at 23:18, Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com wrote: • I'll be looking forward to your findings. For the most part, I didn't have any trouble. I was able to navigate and perform local searches with VoiceOver enabled just as easily as before. The only

iTunes 11; [Our Findings Regarding VoiceOver]

2012-12-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jane Actually, we have had chance now to play around with this both with and without VoiceOver being active. Whilst we, Gordon and I, both agree that there are some seemingly odd definitions of controls in places, there isn't anything which is not navigable, useable, or which is

Amadeus Pro; Inserting Markrs

2012-12-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Somebody reported a while back that one could insert a marker at the point of the insertion head in Amadeus Pro, whilst recording an audio file by pressing the letter T. if so, then this doesn't seem to be working for us for some odd reason. We want to do this rather quickly

iTunes 11

2012-12-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I know that my perspective may not be the same as that of a VoiceOver user; and I promise that I will be sure to try it from that perspective tomorrow. However, from the viewpoint of somebody who has vision, the new iTunes interface is absolutely and totally awesome, one might

Re: iTunes 11

2012-12-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Helo Zack Well, I couldn't wait till tomorrow after all having read your message. Chris made the assertion earlier that Apple should have renamed some of the iTunes controls as tabs, rather than radio buttons. I agree with that point. Although it is still very easy to navigate with Voiceover,

Re: Urgent help needed with VMWare Fusion V5

2012-11-29 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris Fusion is, as far as I am aware, still as accessible as ever with VoiceOver. Yes it has changed since version 3 but, once you become familiar with the interface, it does offer a credible and viable alternative to Boot Camp and, to be honest, I do not believe that there is any other

Re: GarageBand [Revisited]

2012-11-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
as there compatible formats you can add third party fx loops and vertual instruments. Danny. Sent from my phone On 25/11/2012, at 11:31 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody I wonder whether somebody could answer me what is probably a stupid question

GarageBand [Revisited]

2012-11-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I wonder whether somebody could answer me what is probably a stupid question. In GarageBand and Pro Tools, does the user have to have a specific instrument such as a guitar or drums in order to add guitar or drum sampling to an audio track? or can GarageBand simulate the

Re: My experience when ordering take control books

2012-11-15 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Damashe We are totally delighted and humbled that you found the experience a pleasant one and I hope that we can serve you again in the future. We are aware that there is room for improvement; we would love to be able to automate the entire process and that is something we are looking

Re: Take Control titles.

2012-11-08 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Danny On 9 Nov 2012, at 05:07, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net wrote: • I just wanted to thank Gordon and Lynne for such a quick, painless and friendly experience purchasing some Take Control titles via there 80% discount offer. You're more than welcome. I am please to hear that

Accessible Version Of Take Control Catalogue

2012-11-01 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I am pleased to be able to repot that I am now at an advanced stage of producing an accessible and complete catalogue of the Take Control publications. This catalogue has been tested by an external and independent VoiceOver user whose judgement we know to be sound. The document

Accessible Version Of The Take Control Catalogue Now Available

2012-11-01 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Alright, I hope this meets with your approval. I have done my very best to ensure that this document is both accessible and informative. I hope also that this document will fill the void for those of you who are interested in the books, but were unable to locate the exact names

Take Control; A Question

2012-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Those interested in the Take Control titles, could you please answer me a question? Would anybody find it beneficial if I were to create an accessible catalogue of the Take Control titles and put it up on our website? This is a huge ask, but I'm willing to do it if there is a

Re: Take Control; A Question

2012-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I'll let the list know as and when of developments. Meanwhile, thank you to the two people who bought from us today for your support. Be assured that we make absolutely no profit from this; we merely do it as a service to the community. Lynne On 26 Oct 2012, at 18:15, wayne coles

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-09 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
. Christopher Hallsworth On 05/10/2012 19:05, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello everybody Have you ever used a virtual CD-RW drive under other operating systems, and wished that you could do the same thing under Mac OS X? Well here is some great news which might interest you - you can! A small

Virtual CD-RW

2012-10-08 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody OK, i have received a lot of response to this. So I'm going to tell you more. First, I should also let you know that the registration method for this app is slightly different to what you might expect. They use a totally separate application for this function which is in the

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Travis OK, just to explain a little more. This software emulates the CD driver so that a virtual disk is created. In effect what you have is 2 internal CDRW drives. You can write to, delete from, close and eject this drive just as you can a CD. The obvious difference being that there is

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello David and all I know that a number of people, including Travis, have already located this. I didn't give you the web page because we are still awaiting confirmation of accessibility to the registration and a very small number of other functions with VoiceOver. However, in essentials, it

Re: Why doesn't my Macbook accept a serial key

2012-10-06 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Trevor A couple of suggestions here. Firstly, make sure that there are no blank spaces at the end of the line if you are pasting your serial number via the clipboard. This sometimes happens when you import the key via a text editor such ass TextEdit. Some software expects the last

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Orin On 5 Oct 2012, at 19:20, Orin orin8...@gmail.com wrote: • I'd certainly be interested. So noted; thank you. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah On 5 Oct 2012, at 19:48, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: • Can this thing also open virtual css like ISO files similar to what another program on another platform does? I presume you meant virtual CDs. Well, I'm not sure I quite understand that because if I am correct, you

Re: Virtual CD-RW for Mac

2012-10-05 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Travis You're totally missing the point. A virtual CD is not at all the same as a CD or DVD image. What this utility does is to create a virtual CD drive so, for example, you can burn a CD to it using iTunes. Once the virtual CD is burned, you can then play/rip the audio tracks into whatever

Re: scrivener

2012-10-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
There is a Take Control book on this software. You may like to consider buying it but please get it from us to obtain the 80% discount. Lynne On 3 Oct 2012, at 18:04, krystal watson krystalwat...@bluebottle.com wrote: does any one know if scrivener works with voice over thanks --- Mac Access

Re: How do I find out if my Macbook pro is 32 bit or 64 bit please?

2012-10-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
again, TrevorOn 3 Oct 2012, at 20:04, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Trevor Put simply, if you're running a recent MacBook Pro and you're running Mountain Lion, your machine has 64-bit architecture. I hope that helps. Lynne On 3 Oct 2012, at 17:50, trevor

Re: Making The Most Of Your Accessible Tools; A Passionate Rant [Was so wish apple had done this]

2012-09-30 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
in a million years will I go back to using other screen readers and the other platform. Take care all, Lyn, Canelle Epi On Sep 29, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Missy I think that is a fair and reasonable perspective. I'm certainly

Re: InfoVox Voices

2012-09-30 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
-access.net] On Behalf Of Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:24 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Making The Most Of Your Accessible Tools;A Passionate Rant [Was so wish apple had done this] Helo Missy Did you know that you can modify the pronunciations

Re: Network analyser

2012-09-29 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Donal Try the tools at http://sustworks.com Lynne On 29 Sep 2012, at 12:22, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: greetings humans, Sorry for the possible length of this mail. I have a wireless network consisting of an Airport extreme which is connected to the ADSL modem,

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