Tjhere is a message on this before the one I wrote about clocks and alarms. I cannot do anything with them, but they do sort of speak.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gilland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:41 PM Subject: Re: nano update: You got clocks and alarms to speak? I couldn't get that to work at all, unless I am missing something. BTW, where do I go in the Nano menus to shut off cover flow? Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:57 PM Subject: Re: nano update: >I got the authendication dialog just fine. It just took a while to >generate > the spoken menus as you ention. > > I think there are some new selections in the podcast settings tab but > cannot > be sure. That wouldn't affect the nano as far as spoken menus though. I > looked through the items and didn't find anything except the rotate and > cover flow. Now I did play a bit with clocks and alarms and some of this > seems to be a bit different but I don't mess with them enough to know. > > ----- 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: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:01 PM > Subject: Re: nano update: > > > Well, I must say I'm very happy to be able to shut off the cover flow > rotation. Something I did notice is that, while the Nano was synching, > it re-generated all of the spoken menu entries. So far I haven't found > anything that speaks now that didn't before, but I'll keep looking. I > haven't changed the system voice or anything like that, so not sure > why the spoken menus were regenerated except to think there might be > something new hidden in there. If anyone runs across some spoken menus > that weren't there please keep us all informed. > A slight note about installing the update, an authentication window > comes up asking for an administrator's password. On my system this > window did not come to the foreground and I had to use vo's window > chooser to get to it. VO didn't otherwise indicate that a window had > popped up in the background--it usually does, so this was a bit odd-- > so if your update seems to be stalling this is likely what's happened. > > > On Nov 13, 2008, at 15:53, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi Jacob and all, >> >> I ran the update and synced my nano and noticed the cover flow >> (rotate) >> option because it was pointed out in the note I got but I'll see if >> there is >> anything else when I do some work with it connected later today. >> >> On the experience: >> >> I was somewhat disapointed because the information about the update >> was not >> available being "unknown" with no way to read inside it. er than >> that, the >> update went well and I noticed when syncing, it took quite a while >> to update >> the speech. >> >> ----- 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: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:34 PM >> Subject: Re: nano update: >> >> >> I didn't know there was an update. Thanks for letting me know, I'm >> going to install it right now. Have you noticed any other >> improvements? >> >> >> On Nov 13, 2008, at 14:51, David Poehlman wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've not seen anything here on this but have you all gottten the >>> update for >>> your nano? wegot something we have discussed. we can turn off >>> cover flow. >>> >>> -- >>> Jonnie Appleseed >>> With His >>> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >>> Reducing Technologies disabilities >>> one byte at a time >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
