Oh snap.
I knew that thing came off some how, but I was reluctant to pull on it
in case I pulled the rong way and snapped it off, but I never thought
farther than that.
Thanks,
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On 26-Apr-08, at 8:12 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Eric,
The bigger power cord is an extension for your MacBooks power
supply. Look at the power brick for your MacBook. The prongs fold
down into slots for travel. While they are folded inside, slide the
corner of the power brick in the direction that the prongs are
pointing while folded down. The corner will slide off, and you can
slide theextension cord into the vacated place. This gives you a
longer reach with your power cord for your MacBook.
HTH.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 26 Apr, 2008, at 10:44 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi man, I don't know what the plug is like on the mini, but I
really love the one on the pro. It has a magnet on the computer
connection for one thing. You can pull it out accidentally, but
you can't break the guts of your powersupply doing it. For another
thing, it fits a regular-sized wall outlet. Most of my other
laptop cords needed an extention to fit a regular wall outlet. The
only thing that puzzles me is there was a huge power cable-ish
thing in the box for my laptop and I can't figure out what it's
for. Maybe plugging in an external monitor or docking station or
something.
Best,
Erik
erik burggraaf
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On 25-Apr-08, at 7:22 AM, John Heim wrote:
I finally took the plunge and bought the low-end Mac Mini. First,
2 quick questions... Is there a way to get vo to read the entire
contents of a dialog box like hitting Insert+b in jaws? Also, can
I get it to say the title of a data entry field?
I am still in the setup program and when I press the continue
button, it goes to the next dialog box but it doesn't read the
box. You know what I mean? You press the continue button after
entering whatever data it's asking for and it goes to the next
data entry screen but it doesn't say anything. So I've been
pressing tab and then shift+tab to get it to read the title of the
data entry field. But I would guess there's more text in the
dialog box than just the titles of the data entry fields.
On to my story. You may or may not find this interesting. I'm not
complaining. I'm just telling my story. Well, maybe I'm
complaining a little bit. But I haven't even gotten though the
setup program yet so I'm sure I'll have lots of positive things to
say once I get going.
I bought the low-end Mac Mini last week Thursday. I'm not even
through the set up yet. But a big part of the reason for that is
that I opened the box at work last Thursday and took out the
pieces. And then I couldn't get them back in the box and
accidently left the power brick in my office. So Friday I stuffed
the brick into my backpack and when I got home, I discovered that
I had also left the power chord extension in my office. So then I
couldn't do anything all weekend either. It's an extremely minor
complaint but Apple should have made that chord a standard power
chord.
Another minor complaint is that I had to take a printer/scanner/
copier along with my Mac. I'd have rather they'd taken $50 off the
price.
I took Monday off work so I couldn't pick up the power chord until
Tuesday. Tuesday night I got the thing powered up but then I
couldn't get it to talk. Maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to
boot but I wasn't getting any speech. I started pressing keys
hoping to remember the hotkey for starting voiceover. I finally
got on my Windows PC and googled for it. Command+F5. It started
talking but in French or German. I dunno. I putzed around with
that for a while and then turned it off.
Wednesday I turned it back on and it came up speaking in English.
But it didn't seem to want to do anything. I have a standard USB
keyboard and I thought maybe I needed an Apple keyboard. I was
told my standard keyboard should work I was listening to the Apple
tutorial on voiceover on my Windows PC but none of the keys did
what it said they would.
Thursday, I borrowed a bluetooth Mac keyboard from my boss. She
told me i'd probably need sighted assistance to set it up. That
may be correct but as it turns out, the problem I was having was
that the Mac wanted to run some kind of system check probably
because I had just cut the power to the thing the day before.
That's my theory anyway. I pressed enter, it played some funky
music, obviously was running some program, and then came up
speaking English. In fact, it asked me which language I wanted. So
the first time, I must have accidently selected another language.
I can't explain it but I sure didn't hear it ask me that the first
time. This time I selected English and was able to get through
several pages of the setup procedure. As I mentioned, my problem
right now is that I am a bit uncertain of what it's asking me
because I don't know how to get it to read all of the instructions
in the dialog boxes.
For example, it asked me for my email address but it doesn't seem
to like what I've entered. It's asking for my mac.com email
address and I don't know what that is.
