Heh old man, Don't drag me into this, lol. I'm gonna try and winnow
this down to the main points I know something about and chip in where
I may. See the quoted message below.
Best,
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On 7-Nov-08, at 1:16 PM, Dj Paddy wrote:
"Oh yes and although i heard Eriks when i stayed there in august/
September the sound system still blows me away on this!"
Dood, I knew you were in for a real treat there. I've got the new one
now, had it for about aweek, and damned if I don't forget what the old
one sounded like. When I turned it on for the first time I
immediately thought of you and what a treat you were in for, because
the sound on the new macbook is to the old one like the old one was to
my old turion. What an absolutely fantastic job they did on that
portion of the hardware.
3. Mail.
"Can I setup an apple mail account to use in there untill such time
that I may decide to migrate my various other mail accounts into the
Mac World?"
Hum, I think your web hosting is a lot like mine, in which case what
I'd recomend is switching to Imap. If you need a temporary email
account, get a gmail, or if you already have gmail, just enable the
imap server and go to town. The thing about imap is it makes it very
easy to migrate your mail, even keep your folder structure of saved
messages in tact. I switched to imap for that very purpose and
decided to keep it around so I could easily set up my email account on
my mobile phone as well as my mac.
"4. Voice Over and HTML.
Having used Windows Screenreaders I've gotten used to being able to
navigate these like I could in a word processor because of the
buffer the text is placed into. How to I intract with HTML like
this or...?
I've landed on several HTML Text in Help files and when I do VO Down
Cursor to Interact it just bongs at me. though I can Interact with
other things."
Actually, I've noticed this in some of the help pages myself. In
safari, webkit, adium, and other places where html areas appear, you
can interact with them. Once you've interacted with the html area,
you can then use vo+command+h for headings, vo+command+j for form
controlls, vo+command+f for frames and vo+shift+f for a big enormous
list of all the keys in that vain. You can also press vo+u for the
links list, or vo+i for the item chooser. The item chooser is the
most useful thing you could have for the web, especially because the
navigation keys aren't completely up to snuff yet in safari.
"Do I need to turn USB ports on in Mac OS? If so how? When I
plugged my USB stick in nothign happened. At first I thought this
was because it was FAT32, but was expecting something?"
You windows junkie you. No, the drive is probably working just fine.
Command tab to finder, and then press command shift accent. That's
the key above the tab on a north american keybord. What that will do
is take you to the finder window at the very back of the rotation,
which will be the desktop. Tab around the desktop and you should hear
macentosh hd, untitled dvd, and the volume label of your drive, such
as kingston, or removeable disc, or jump drive.
"7. Updates/maintenance
I have airport tuned on and it connected to my WIFI Network. Will
the system auto update and run cleanups or is there somewhere I can
go to configure this stuff?"
First, there's software update in the apple menue. Eventually it will
prompt you, but ods on you are a bit behind on your updates since you
only just took the thing out of the box today. Then there are disc
utilities for repairing permitions and scanning your disc's surface
for errors, but I forget where they are just now.
Further learning.
Any recommended resources other than the Voice Over Daisy manual for
teaching myself?http://www.lioncourt.com
http://www.screenlessswitchers.com
Voiceover compadibility list
http://w3.wmcnet.org/vo/index.php
Those are the ones I use most. I'm sure there are others. Oh yeh,
I almost forgot.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Thanks heeps for any and all answers, I knwo this is a lot but I'm
pressed for time as I was meant to have had this system 7 weeks ago,
(granted it means I got the new Mac Pro now), but I need to get up
to speed here as quickly as possible for final year projects.
Dj Paddy
