Hi,
Mentioned here earlier today was Night Shift, a program that does that
for you.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 24-Oct-08, at 3:53 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
OK Jacob, good enough. Can you please give me a link to get the
nightly builds of Webkit? Also, does anyone know if I could set up
a kron job that would automatically download a nightly build each
night?
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Lot's a questions, please forgive me.
Hi Chris
Ok, here's a few answers, but I don't have all of them.
First, regarding Linux. This is off topic, but here's the jist of
the situation. Your older Mac runs a PowerPC processor. This is
substantially different from the processors in PCs or newer Macs
which are compatible with PC architecture--the newer Macs use the
same processors in fact. Ubuntu does not have an edition for
these processors, so you'll have to pick another distribution if
you wish to try Linux on it. The subject of Linux goes way beyond
the bounds of this list, though, as it has nothing to do with OS X
or the accessibility of Macs at all. You'll want to check out the
speakup list and the orca list for Linux-related questions.
In mail you can, of course, get to a link simply by finding it in
the message and clicking it, as Voiceover will identify it as a
link when you get to it. VO+space will open the link as you'd
expect.
Regarding the ctrl-clicking issue, grab a webkit nightly build. As
of very recently, VO+shift+m is supported, so no routing or ctrl-
clicking is needed anymore.
Well, those're the ones I can answer, hth.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:02, Chris Gilland wrote:
Slau has strictly said, please don't consolidate lots of
questions into one e-mail, so I really hope she'll forgive me
this one time, and one time only, as I have enough questions, I
feel making different posts for all of 'em, really would be very
impracticle and would waiste a lotta inbox space.
I'm gonna try to keep this list as brief and to the point as I
can, but I do have a few things that need addressing. I've been
meaning to ask these things, but I've been so lazy, I just haven't.
Anyway, please read down the whole list, as if you don't know the
answer to one a these, you may know the answer to another one of
them.
k: here we go.
1. In Mail, under Leopard, if I get an e-mail which has a link
in it, or several links for that mind, I have been using the
item chooser list to get to them. Is there an easier way to
click them aside that or the vo+U links list?
2. If I wanna send a link to someone, but rather than in the e-
mail, it showing the URL as the link text, I'd rather it say
something like: click here to go to the site, is there a way to
make that happen? I tried using html markup, but it didn't work.
3. In Leopard, I know I can go to universal access in system
prefs, and turn high contrast on, and I also know that under
system prefs, in appearance, I can change the highlight color
from blue, to whatever, like now I set it to red, but, that is
only changing the highlight within a program. so let's say I am
at the desktop on my finder, and I hit vo m, then down arrow in
the Apple menu. Even though I turned it to red, that! highlight
in the menu on the menu bar's still a light sky blue color. I
was wonderring if I could change that to red, or dark purple, or
something like that a my choice.
4. I do not have a mouse on this machine, as I don't have room
on my desk for one. If I go to a link on a web page in Safari,
and then vo+command+F5, I then can't do vo+shift+M. I wonder
aside hitting control and then clicking the physical mouse, being
I don't have the resources of desk room to put a mouse up there
to do that, is there another way, or am I kind a screwed as faras
that goes.
5. My final question is: I have that old Mac system that I got
back in July that came with Tiger on it. I'm not talking my
quick silver running Leopard, I mean that other older one.
Anyway, I wanted to wipe it, and put Ubuntu Hartsy on it. my
only issue is, when I pop the CD in the drive, and reboot, and
hold down the C key to boot to CD, it won't boot. Yes the disc
is bootable, as when I put it in a windows based machine and try
booting to it, it works flawlessly. I'm just wonderring if
installing Linux on a Mac is a little more tricky than I think,
and if so, what've I gotta do?
OK, I'm done. That's all for now. Sorry for the huge list. I
feel I should a written a novel. LOL! Sorry bout that. Hey! I
did? warn ya though, did I not? LOL!
Chris.
