Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread The Believer
This falls under the stuff happens category which means we find other things to occupy our time with. It gains us nothing to speculate on the causes except generate extra traffic and keeps the online news media in business.. From The Believer. . . By way of the Chariots of the Gods

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don’t believe this to be a planned outage. It appears to be, for the most part, world wide. I won’t bother speculating, other than to say, it’s down and you can’t purchase media at the moment. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 11, 2015, at 08:01, Shawn Krasniuk

10.10.3 beta tester feedback

2015-03-11 Thread dionipher Presas Herrera
to all the beta tester of the os 10.10.3 on the mac, do you still have the feedback on the dock? because on my dock, can’t find it any more. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [Bulk] more on VarioUltra

2015-03-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Katie, I didn't get to spend as much time with it as I would have liked. I can say that the keyboard is different and I suspect will take some getting used to. But the unit is very small and very light, and I think holds a lot of promise. Good luck getting one! Best, Donna On Mar 11,

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread John Panarese
Yes, they had outages all day worldwide from some kind of DNS problem. They have released an official apology as well. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
That's good that services are back up and running. Question still remains though, what's going on with the public beta for iOS? Are they still gonna release it today or are they looking at a different date? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Mar 11, 2015, at 4:18 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via

RE: 10.10.3 beta tester feedback

2015-03-11 Thread george b
Yes I still have it it is called feedback assistance -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dionipher Presas Herrera Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 13:14 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: 10.10.3 beta

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
So does this mean that we won't get the public beta for iOS today? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:29 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, they had outages all day worldwide from some kind of DNS problem. They have released an official apology as

firefox on the mac

2015-03-11 Thread Juan Hernandez
Hi All, Is firefox usable on the mac? Best, Juan M. Hernandez Access technology Specialist Braille Institute of America 4555 Executive Drive San Diego CA, 92121 858-452- Ext. 5020 juanhbi...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Are others still finding the mac app store is not responding? I get a message saying the service is unavailable. Is there any official word from Apple on this? Lisette On 12/03/2015, at 9:05 am, dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com wrote: i notice that when i upgraded my beta to

RE: 10.10.3 beta tester feedback

2015-03-11 Thread george b
Yes I have it it is called feedback assistance -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dionipher Presas Herrera Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 13:14 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: 10.10.3 beta tester

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Here's an article about the outage: http://www.macworld.com/article/2895397/outages-plague-app-store-itunes-and-other-apple-services.html CB On 3/11/15 4:38 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: So does this mean that we won't get the public beta for iOS today? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Mar

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread dionipher Presas Herrera
i notice that when i upgraded my beta to 10.10.3 now i can’t find the feed back on my dock. On 11 Mar 2015, at 16:35, The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com wrote: This falls under the stuff happens category which means we find other things to occupy our time with. It gains us nothing to

Re: can't find unread mail messages

2015-03-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Are you in standard layout? In the new layout, there is a pop-up box in the messages column to select sort order and one of the options is unread. In classic layout y I believe the status does do this, but I would need to test. On Mar 6, 2015, at 15:21, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com

Re: [Bulk] more on VarioUltra

2015-03-11 Thread Katie Zodrow
Hi, Donna. Thanks for the update about VarioUltra. I read the discussion about this yesterday. I'd love to get my hands on one to see what it looks like. Wish I went to CSUN last week, but I was too busy. I emailed David Bradburn back in November to order the VarioUltra 40. Unfortunately, I

Re: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, When my volume on my iPhone has gotten turned down I just did a two finger swipe down to get VO reading the page and then press the volume up button. Regards, Gabe On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:57 AM, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: Chirs mail me off list and I can help you -Original

Re: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
VoiceOver not speaking only happened to me once, but when it did, nothing worked except going to Music and having my husband fix it. I’m glad it worked easier for you. I do know someone who had this happen to him more. That’s how my husband knew what to do to fix it. As I said, this has never

Re: firefox on the mac

2015-03-11 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Short answer is yes. At least it did back in Mavericks and I don’t see why it would be broken. It’s not perfect but it is usable. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 11, 2015, at 15:40, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Is firefox usable on the

Audio back again.

2015-03-11 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Actually i’v got audio on my mac back again. Thanks to those who was trying to help me. Its a bit of a mystery. I may have lowered the volume my self. Its a bit to easy to do sometimes. I actually also unplugged the dongle for my logitech h800 and raised the volume. /A -- You received

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread mattias
but outlook seems to work you can navigate messages and reed Christopher-Mark Gilland skrev den 3/10/2015 10:18 PM: I don't think he can! get it to work. I think what he means is, if you could disable that, then it would be worth it, although, as said in my first message, I don't understand

Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread Chris G
Hi, I have an ipad where I can toggle on voiceover using siri, but VoiceOver doesn't speak. I think the volume is down on the machine. Besides the buttons is there a way to turn up VoiceOver speech? Thanks, Chris -- Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Too bad Open/Libre office doesn’t work either otherwise we could have edited word documents directly there instead of having to export to word format like you have to do in Pages. That in my not so humble opinion is just as big a deal breaker for Pages as the fact that in Open/Libre office,

Re: Listview on my macbook air

2015-03-11 Thread Aleeha Dudley
For your first question, press command 2. I am not sure for the second question. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi, I have two questions. First, how do I view everything in list view? Second How do I make new folders open

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Eileen Although I realize that you had use word for a long time, I suggest that you consider gradually learning pages. The 2013 version is a lot better for voice over. How long it would take you would depend on how complicated your work is, of course. It did not take me very long to learn

Listview on my macbook air

2015-03-11 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, I have two questions. First, how do I view everything in list view? Second How do I make new folders open in a separate window? I want each folder to have its own window. Thanks, Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread Piotr Machacz
I just had a brief play with the various office apps and I think the problems aren't very big and can still be fixed. Before people cut my head off, you need to keep in mind that this is still an early preview which will continue to get updated and it looks to me like Microsoft is still

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread William Gallik
Would not Dream Writer resolve the problem of needing to access Word documents? - Bill Leader Dog Holland - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) - Original Message - From: Eileen Misrahi

Re: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I had this happen to me on an iPhone, and I think it was iOS 7. When it happened to me, the only way I could get speech back was to have my cited husband go into music, and turn the volume up while in the music application. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Mar 11, 2015, at 7:10 AM, Chris

Re: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread William Gallik
Keep in mind that speech can be muted even though VoiceOver may be active. I guess this is what you are implying, but I know that on the iPhone a specific gesture can mute speech despite the presence of VoiceOver. I would imagine other iDevices would have the same gesture. - Bill Leader

Re: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread Chris G
Hi, This is true, but VoiceOver was never launched on this iPad to my knowledge. I wasn't physically at the location to try the 3 finger jester, will be there on Saturday. We used Siri to toggle VoiceOver. Thanks, Chris Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341

Re: Disabling the Document Pane in Office Word 2016 Preview?

2015-03-11 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi, The way I see it from trying to get Office 2016 to work is the integration of the voiceover screen reader into the software so there's full speech feedback and navigation within the software. When I used it yesterday, I did get a word count indicating that my word processing was there, but

RE: Voiceover not speaking

2015-03-11 Thread george b
Chirs mail me off list and I can help you -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris G Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 05:10 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voiceover not speaking Hi, This is

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Or, and this is just speculation, they could be getting ready to open registrations for the iOS Public Beta. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Mar 11, 2015, at 8:58 AM, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: Ray why don’t you have your cup half full and maybe they are working on the servers

RE: Listview on my macbook air

2015-03-11 Thread george b
Hold down the command key and double click on the folder From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 06:18 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listview on my macbook air For your

Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi, By now, I'm sure you all have noticed issues connecting to verious Apple services. I went to reset my Apple TV box only to discover that no matter how many times I tried to enter my Apple ID password, I could not sign in. Many others around the world are having the same issues. My

RE: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread george b
Ray why don’t you have your cup half full and maybe they are working on the servers for updates coming after Mondays presentation From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 06:50 To: Mac Visionaries

more on VarioUltra

2015-03-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Just passing along my latest communication from Baum, this time from David Bradburn of Baum USA. He says that the back order issue should be resolved by the end of this month. He also writes the following regarding the hardware issues that Mika asked about yesterday: 3. As

RE: off topic speak on

2015-03-11 Thread wayne coles
hello ed thanks I was looking for the word download so that might explain why I dod not see the link From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward Green Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:37 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

GTK and Voiceover

2015-03-11 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
I’m trying to run an application that uses Python’s PyGTK. It’s a pain to get PyGTK installed, so before I try, I wanted to know if anyone knew whether this would work with Voiceover. I’m guessing it’s not since it’s probably not using native controls, but just wanted to check. Peace, Brandon