Good for you Mike and you are indeed welcome! You can use controll-option-v to change your punctuation and get rid of all those nasties that clutter your ears when you are reading continuously. You can make the change permenant in vo utility in verbosity.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Arrigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:49 PM Subject: I now have a mac Hi all. I don't think my original message made it to the list, so I'll try it again. I now have a mac, I ended up getting a mac mini. I couldn't see paying extra for the 20 inch screen on an imac, and I love the mac mini's portability. I'd like to thank David Poehlman for the help he has given me, I don't think I could have made it this far without his help. So far, I've installed all the software and firmware updates, set all of the system preferences, browsed the web a bit, and started to read the getting started guide, I'm hoping to finish that tonight and set up my email, I'm still typing this message from my PC. One question about voice over, when reading continuously, is there any way to prevent it from saying space or new line? That's a bit distracting when reading the user's guide. Going from windows to a mac has actually been much easier than I thought. The only strange thing I've encountered, when I first fired up the mini for the first time, I ended up at a window where I couldn't even launch voice over, the system would just play the error tone. Tabbing a few times and pressing enter got passed it, but I have no idea what that window was. Any way, I'm really enjoying my macintosh, and I'm sure it will only get better.
