Hey there David, how are you doing?
I hope your well.
The surround sound adapter I mentioned is a box that provides inputs
for surround sound. basically, it is a device that sits on your desk,
and is powered via a firewire cable. Once plugged in, it becomes a
external sound card, providing you the needed connectors to plug in
sub, center, and rear speakers in it.
Take care
fonzie
On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:25 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
What is a surround sound adaptor?
Also, a couple of things I didn't mention. I usually have all my
cursors
tracking one another but sometimes, it is necessary to turn cursor
tracking
off but there is a toggle for this.
I use icon view for folders most of the time but if I want to drill
deep, I
use column view.
I turned off spring loaded files and folders and set scale effect.
I found long after I started using the mac that I probably didn't
have to do
this nor did I really have to disable the screen saver either but
coming
from a windows background, I found it helpful at least in the
beginning.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fonzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: how to setup first apple
Hello dan, I hope your well.
As far as setting up your mac to maximize it's efficiency, it comes
down to personal preference. Out of the box, I left my mac the way it
is. About the only tweak I made was providing materials that were not
given to me, such as a surround sound adapter and such. I use the
mouse on ocasion, when VoiceOver will not do the prefered mouse action
I am looking for. Overall though, I left Safari the way it was, and
only enabled the universal access help. To find this, go to Safari,
and while in Safari, press and hold down the command key, and then
press the comma key. This will bring up your preferences. Do vO +
Home, to Navigate to the top, should you not be there already. VO +
Right Arrow until you hear Toolbar. Interact with VO + shift + Down,
and then VO + Right arrow, until you hear Advanced. VO + Space, and
uninteract by pressing VO + Shift + Up. Afterwards, you will use VO
navigational keys, and the first area you will come accross is
Universal Access. Navigate until you hear, Press Tab to highlight
each item on a webpage. VO + Space on the check box, and this will be
enabled. This will allow you to tab through links, and such on a
page, just like other screen readers you may be familiar too.
Other then that, search engines, and taking things off Safari is
always up to you. My personal preference is to leave everything as
is. I like the way it was already presented to me, so I have no
desire to change it.
I hope everything is well.
Fill free to ask anything of the list.
Take care.
Fonzie
On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Vicki Manley wrote:
Hi Dan,
It's great to know you've purchased a mac and are enjoying using it.
I brought mine a few months ago and I was amazed to take it out of
it's box and start using it straightaway. Yes VoiceOver has a way to
go to be as advanced as Jaws for example but Apple really haven't
done bad.
Anyway as for what you asked, I can not really comment on mouse as I
am totally blind therefore don't use the mouse!!!
As for Safari I have it set to Google however I'm sure you could set
it up to start with other search engines, I think this is down to
personal preference though.
If you need any more help I'll gladly try and be of assistance.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch and good luck with your new
Mac!!!
Best wishes,
Vicki.On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:00, Dan Geise wrote:
I have been using my "new" computer for several months now, I was
wondering how all of you have things such as the mouse setup. SDo
you have it follow the v.o. cursor or do you have it set to do
nothing... Other things like how do you have safari setup. Do you
have it set to google or is there a better search engine to use
with voice over. should I turn off the extra things in safari like
all the extra bars that read off the favorites.
Just wondering how I can maxamize my efficency in using my new mac.
all comments welcome.
Thank you as a new appler.
Dan
