ah, I solved that with an airport express hooked into my surround sound receiver.
----- 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: Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:04 AM Subject: Re: how to setup first apple 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > > > >
