I haven't noticed this behavior, but if it is happening consistently, how are your cursor tracking settings configured? Just wondering if there could be an issue there.
On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Jenny, > > You wrote: >> When I upgraded to the iTunes 8 or whatever the most recent big leap >> was, I started having a problem with the sources table. >> >> If I was below the list section under iTunes store, like say my iPod >> or the playlists and arrowed up, once I hit anything in the iTunes >> section of the list like purchase, shopping cart, itunes store, ect. >> it would jump me up to the player controls and it was, still is very >> hard to get to the settings under library like music, audio books >> podcasts ect. > > You can try jumping to the top of the source list with the VO-Shift- > Home command or, since I think you're on a MacBook, VO-Shift-Fn-Left > Arrow. I press this sequence on my MacBook by putting my ring > finger on the Fn key in addition to pressing the VO-keys (Control > and Option) with the middle and index fingers of my left hand. I > sort of flatten the position of my fingers so that I'm contacting > the keys with the pads rather than the tips of my fingers, and I > slide all three fingers of my left hand up along the keys so the > middle finger and part of the ring finger presses the Shift key as > well as the Control, Option, and Fn keys, and then I press the Left > Arrow (for Home with Fn) or Right Arrow (for End with Fn) key with > my right hand to move to the top or bottom of the sources table (or > messages table in mail, or other lists that require scrolling). > > I find that if there are a lot of playlists in the sources table I > won't always easily get directly to the source I want if I don't > type quickly enough, and I may need to use a combination of VO-arrow > keys and typing the playlist I want. Also, while you can use item > chooser menu (VO-I) to search for "Library" as an alternative way to > move to the top of the sources table, that only works currently if > that item is in the visible part of the sources table -- if you have > lots of playlists and are positioned at one at the end of the > alphabet you won't be able to use item chooser menu to move to the > top library playlists (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, > Audiobooks, etc.) by searching for "Library" or "Music", etc. > However, using VO-Shift-Home (VO-Shift-Fn-Left Arrow on a laptop) > after interacting with the sources table should always take you to > the top library listings, and you can arrow down from there to > select items music, etc. > > >> >> Also is there a way to get LBC out of London to play on iTunes? I >> find >> their little flash player thing to be inaccessible. And I like to >> switch back and forth between the 97.3 talk station and 1152 all news >> station. > > I don't think there's an obvious LBC solution with iTunes, but a > Google search showed that there is an app for playing LBC radio on > the iPhone. This could be one of those situations where the iPhone > app is accessible to the Mac although the web pages are not. Maybe > one of the iPhone 3GS users can check this out? The app is called > LBC 97.3 from Global Radio: > > http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=297700808&mt=8 > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
