Hello everyone, this is Chenelle! I changed the language settings to ration I am my iPad mini last week because I was learning Russian and now I want to revert back to English? What should I do in order to change it back to English again clash thank you so much have a great day Sent from my iPhone
> On 17 Apr 2014, at 12:33 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's topic summary > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics > > slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project. [2 Updates] > Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month? [2 > Updates] > Pages improvement [4 Updates] > Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader? [3 Updates] > Status Menus Are Gone [2 Updates] > Keynote Aglore! [1 Update] > Topic: reading brf files on the mac [5 Updates] > looking for accessible trivia and word games for mac [1 Update] > Tips on Abbyy Fine Reader? [1 Update] > Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac [4 > Updates] > slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project. > Caitlyn and Maggie <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:05AM -0400 > > thanks! > I hope this gets off the ground! > I’d shell out for it myself. > Cait > > > > Christine Grassman <[email protected]> Apr 17 12:29PM -0400 > > Definitely. Sign me up. > > > > Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month? > Daniel Hawkins <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:07AM -0500 > > I too have the same question. I tried setting to the second saturday every > month. It ended up on doing the same date number, not the second Saturday. > > Also, on the Mac how do you delete dates? cmd delete did nothing and I can’t > find anything under the menubar. > > Thanks! > Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > > > Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:24AM -0600 > > hi, > > You should be able to set events like that in within the Custom area of the > Repeat options. So, after activating the date/time link, > > • choose Custom from the Repeat Every pop-up. > • Select Monthly. > • Select the “On The” radio button. > • Select the proper day, eg. Third and Tuesday. > • close the window. > > Not sure why it wasn’t working that way for Daniel. Regarding the deleting of > an event, when in Month view, you can navigate to the event then go up to the > Edit menu and choose Delete. I believe that in some other views, you are able > to use the Delete key and/or some other commands. > > Later… > > • > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > > > Pages improvement > Anne Robertson <[email protected]> Apr 17 04:27PM +0200 > > Hello everyone, > > The latest update to Pages brought a big improvement. There is no longer any > need to interact with the Paragraph styles button to hear the name of the > style. This means that we can now set a hotspot on that button and consult it > from within the document. Also, we can find the short cut for a given style > by interacting with the styles table and the short cut is shown beside the > name. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > isaac <[email protected]> Apr 17 09:37AM -0500 > > How do you set up hotspots? > > > Anne Robertson <[email protected]> Apr 17 04:50PM +0200 > > Hello Isaac, > > To set a hotspot, go to the place you want to put the hotspot and press > VO-Shift-plus a number from 0 to 9. To jump to the hotspot, press VO-number. > To consult the hotspot, press VO-Cmd-number. > > So, in Pages, if you set a hotspot with the number 1, you can press VO-Cmd-1 > anywhere within your text and hear the name of the paragraph style currently > active. > > You can also jump straight to the Paragraph styles button by pressing VO-1 in > this case. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > Jessica <[email protected]> Apr 17 12:19PM -0400 > > When did pages get an update? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader? > Phil Halton <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:01AM -0400 > > I use a compatible scanner, there are lots of them, and after scanning, FR > Pro recognizes the scanned pages and then opens a save dialog. I save the > pages using the default file name “untitled”, and then the document opens in > textedit where I can read the doc. I have the format set to RTF and that > triggers Textedit as the default app. I suppose if i set the format to .docx, > it would open in pages. > > There is no viewing facility in FR Pro, but quickly saving it in a throw-away > file will open it in an app were you can view/edit the file. > > > > Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> Apr 17 07:43AM -0700 > > Hello, > > I have been following this thread out of interest regarding Fine Reader Pro. > I have not yet purchased it, but I believe from all of the current posts and > other discussions in the past that this app for the Mac is the most friendly > user with voiceover. Would like to suggest a solution for wanting to quickly > scan an envelope, which I do and then use another scan and read on the PC > side to OCR an item that needs more attention. I use my iPhone and Text > Detector app to sort my mail. The other app on the iPhone would be Prizmo > that doesn't save the image if you rescan immediately. If the mail needs more > attention, I use the scan and read OCR on my PC, but you could interchange it > by using your scanner and Fine Reader Pro on the Mac side. JMO and an > alternative. HTH. > > Cheers, > Eileen > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > Alex Hall <[email protected]> Apr 17 12:09PM -0400 > > I have those iOS apps, but they are rather finicky and slow when all I want > to know is what an envelope or sheet of paper says. I suppose a scanning > stand would help, but if I already have a scanner and Mac, it seems an > unnecessary expense. > > Having the file open automatically is helpful. Plus, so long as you name the > file the same thing each time, I guess it will keep overwriting the last one > so you don't end up with hundreds of files with random text in them. How do > you set this to RTF though? Or is it right in the Save dialog if you choose > to export to Word? > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > > Status Menus Are Gone > Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> Apr 17 09:07AM -0600 > > Hi, > > Don’t rush to the reformat, that is a drastic and usually unnecessary task. > Try to do a repair permissions first. To do so… > > • Go to the Finder. > • Press cmd-shift-u to open the Utilities folder. > • Navigate to the Disk Utility app and open it. > • From the table of disks, select your Macintosh HD. > • Stop Interacting with the table and select the First Aid tab. > • Navigate to the Repair Disk Permissions button and press it with VO-space. > • Wait patiently as it does its task. > > Sometimes this needs performed more than once to fix most permission errors. > In some cases, you’ll need to perform this from the Recovery Partition, but > I’ll wait to see if this does the job first. By the way, what exactly happens > when you press the VO-m-m command? Is there an alert sound or simply takes > you somewhere but no Menu Extras are available. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > > > Jane <[email protected]> Apr 17 11:45AM -0400 > > It just says Apple menu and then puts me back wherever I was before. I always > try from the desktop. > > Jane > > > > > > > Keynote Aglore! > Daniel Hawkins <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:39AM -0500 > > Hello everyone! > > Ok, I have been trying to learn how to make my own keynote slides. So far I > am getting the hang of it somewhat. But one of the biggest problem my friends > told me that the Body area is very very small print. I know how to make > larger print by cmd+, but they explained to me the square where the print is > in is very small. > > What I want to do is have a title and in the middle of the slide to have some > lists. I was wondering how do you make it bigger? > > Thanks! > Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > > Topic: reading brf files on the mac > Devin Prater <[email protected]> Apr 17 07:42AM -0500 > > In my experience, it can't work well with italics or any other kind of > formatting. It only works with plain text files. > > Devin Prater > Sent from my iPod 5. > iMessage, facebook, and face-time: [email protected] > email: [email protected] > Google Talk/keychat: [email protected] > > > > Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> Apr 17 06:12AM -0700 > > If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes > sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little more > problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 in > computer braille, putting a period before each word instead. > > Personally, even with programs such as Kurzweil, I always found back > translation to be less than desirable. There are too many variables, and > sometimes there are strange results with it. Saying this as primarily a > braille reader, there are very many more books available in audio and other > formats than in Braille. In my personal experience, I've started keeping brf > files in their format and using a Braille display to type in them, rather > than back-translating. Of course, I have the luxury of having a braille > display. > > Teresa > > Teresa Cochran > [email protected] > Facebook > > > > Devin Prater <[email protected]> Apr 17 08:52AM -0500 > > Ah, thanks. So how would I convert a pages file to HTML? I didn't think Pages > could export to HTML. > > Devin Prater > Sent from my iPod 5. > iMessage, facebook, and face-time: [email protected] > email: [email protected] > Google Talk/keychat: [email protected] > > > > Caitlyn and Maggie <[email protected]> Apr 17 09:58AM -0400 > > I agree with this! > I looked at nfb trans yesterday and was totally overwhelmed by what you’d > have to do to get it running! > Thanks for the Louis link! > Cait > > > > Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> Apr 17 07:34AM -0700 > > I haven't actually done that conversion before. Sometimes I convert documents > by simply pasting text in, but then you lose all your formatting. With things > like epub or mobi, Calibre command-line can be used. > > Teresa > > “The golden age of science fiction is twelve.”—Pete graham > > > > looking for accessible trivia and word games for mac > Jessica <[email protected]> Apr 17 10:15AM -0400 > > Hi, > I am interested in and looking for accessible word and trivia games for mac. > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I prefer that they be free. > > Jessica > [email protected] > > > Tips on Abbyy Fine Reader? > "Terje Strømberg" <[email protected]> Apr 17 12:49PM +0200 > > Html is good for receipts for example. You need to go to finder and find the > receipt you saved and open the html receipt from finder. Then you can usally > move like in a table up-down and left-right. This is through for most > receipts, but not all. Something with the paper and print maybe. > > Take care > > > 16. apr. 2014 kl. 17:53 skrev Jenine Stanley <[email protected]>: > > Thanks. I wondered about this the first couple times I did it and you > described it very well here. > > Another question: has anyone used the html option for a quick look at > something? If so, how did that go? I’m all for testing it. > Jenine Stanley > [email protected] > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac > Chris Apple boy <[email protected]> Apr 17 07:20AM +0100 > > There is a Teamtalk for Mac Os X but have no idea of its accessibility. > > Regards Chris > > Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! > > On 16/04/2014 22:30, Kerri wrote: > > > David Taylor <[email protected]> Apr 17 08:49AM +0100 > > TeamTalk for Mac is mainly usable, but hardly accessible. You really have to > know what you are doing, but most things can be done. Many of these things > are extremely fiddly and slow to do due to the lack of accessibility, but if > you know your way round a server, a lot can be done. If you are an admin, or > can't be bothered with a lot of fiddling, then you need the Windows TeamTalk > to be honest. I've had many hours of fun with the Mac one though. > > > > Piotr Machacz <[email protected]> Apr 17 11:05AM +0200 > > It’s clunky, and got slightly worse with the 4.6 update which breaks keyboard > tracking. But the good news is that soon there will be a completely new > client, called TeamTalk VI that a friend of mine is working on. We got > permission from the developer to write it and it will be using his SDK > license and will be available on the official bear ware site. Apart from the > interface using native controls, it will have more speech events, a few more > chat commands to EG. switch audio devices, and it might even be scriptable so > you will be able to write lua scripts that you can run. It will come out on > Windows as well. Work is progressing nicely, for now the basic interface is > done and the SDK has been completely wrapped, so work on the actual program > is starting. You can view the source here: > https://github.com/Flameborn/TeamTalkVI > > > > > "Blake Sinnett" <[email protected]> Apr 17 05:06AM -0500 > > Hi, > > This is fantastic! Will it include the video functionality? There's also an > Android client, but it's very alpha right now. I'm hoping for all mobile > platforms to be supported at some point. > > Blake > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Piotr Machacz" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:05 AM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for > Mac > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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