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> On Aug 21, 2014, at 13:25, [email protected] wrote: > > > [email protected] Google Groups > Topic digest > View all topics > advanced voice over? - 6 Updates > final cur pro and other programs - 2 Updates > with some explnations please, how can i share my hard disks with mavericks? - > 2 Updates > Accessible FLV video converter? - 3 Updates > Searching in a large table with voiceover - 2 Updates > Remapping keys with VM fusion - 2 Updates > Odd behaviour with arrow keys. - 2 Updates > DVD Player for the Mac - 1 Update > a question with regard to ClamXav and scanning e-mails - 2 Updates > can't figure out how to open NFB Newsline email attachments - 1 Update > Haptic Feedback Technolegy - 1 Update > icloud mail questions - 1 Update > advanced voice over? > "John D. Lipsey" <[email protected]>: Aug 20 08:32PM -0600 > > Jonathan: > > This hot key to know how many characters are left in a tweet when in > YoruFukurou sounds like a dead useful feature. Having never created a hot key > for this, or any other purpose come to think of it, could you give me some > instructions on how I might accomplish this task? > > Thanks in advance. > > -John > Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]>: Aug 21 02:39PM +1200 > > Hi John, the trick is to create an activity for Night Owl so you have a > unique series of hotspots for that app. Then locate the area where the > character count is shown and assign that area to a hotspot. If you're like me > and like pneumonics, reassign the hotkey for the hotspot to something > logical. I have mine on the right Option key with C, for character count. > Works a treat! > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]>: Aug 21 09:05AM +0100 > > Aha! Thanks Jonathan, I thought that performance bug with activities was just > me, but evidently not. Yes, very annoying; put a complete damper on Nuance > for me, since I have Safari automatically initiate my web activity, and of > course Safari is almost always open which means simply pressing Vo D to get > to the dock will produce an annoyingly long pause before I can do anything > else. Sincerely hope it gets fixed and I'll dash off a note to Apple > Accessibility about it now too. > "Christina C." <[email protected]>: Aug 21 10:15AM -0600 > > How do I know if it’s a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance > voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely > noticed that when I want to change voices it is a very sluggish process. I > usually just stick to Ava. I want to try activities. If I use the same voice > for all apps, will performance still be sluggish? Is there a work around or > do you just have to live with the sluggish behavior? > > Thanks, > Christina > > Alex Hall <[email protected]>: Aug 21 12:58PM -0400 > > Most every voice is Nuance, yes. Alex is not, and the older voices (Fred, and > the other old-style synthesizers) are not, but any you have to download are. > Yes, the bug is present even if the activity does not change the voice in > use. No, there is no workaround I know of; keep emailing > [email protected] and using www.apple.com/feedback. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > Tim Kilburn <[email protected]>: Aug 21 11:08AM -0600 > > Hi, > > I wonder if this has something to do with announcements. When using the voice > Alex, if you switch in or out of the app that you have an Activity applied > to, VO announces “VoiceOver Settings Activity along with a view other App > notes. If you use a different voice, non-Apple, then this phrase is not > announced but silence is not golden. Sometimes, if I press ctrl twice to make > VO be quiet, then this announcement/pause is eliminated or decreased. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > Back to top > final cur pro and other programs > Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected]>: Aug 21 12:59PM +0200 > > i am ust browsing the spec on my computer, it said i do have final cut pro > and Aperture, but when i check my computer i haven't installed it. how can i > install those? when i go to apps store i need to buy it, but why do i have to > but it if it already pack on my computer? > Chris Blouch <[email protected]>: Aug 21 12:29PM -0400 > > What spec are you checking? Final Cut and Aperture usually aren't > included on a machine unless you made special arrangements. > > CB > > On 8/21/14, 6:59 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Back to top > with some explnations please, how can i share my hard disks with mavericks? > > ramy moustafa <[email protected]>: Aug 21 04:32PM +0300 > > Hi all: > sorry for asking this question again but really i can not do it, i have my pc > that runs windows 7, and i need to see teh contents that are on my hd, i need > to see them from my mavericks, because on mac i don't have enough space on my > hd, > with step by step, how can i do this through mavericks? > in windows everything is ok, i share my drives and i can access them through > any other windows computer. > thanks so much for your help > > Ramy moustafa saber > Musicc instructor at: > faculty of musical education > music arranger and sound engineer > Sent from my iPhone > Chris Blouch <[email protected]>: Aug 21 12:05PM -0400 > > If your windows box is already set up for sharing then you should be > able to connect to it from your Mac using Connect to Server (command-K) > from the finder. You type in the URL like this: > > SMB://servername_or_IP_address/share > > Obviously you need to change what I have above to the actual IP address > of your windows box or the DNS name. The share is whatever the Windows > share name is. It should then prompt you for the Windows > username/password and the drive will show up on your mac. You can also > try the Browse button instead of typing in the URL but I never seem to > get that to work. > > CB > > On 8/21/14, 9:32 AM, ramy moustafa wrote: > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Back to top > Accessible FLV video converter? > Phil Halton <[email protected]>: Aug 21 10:04AM -0400 > > I understand that FLV is the preferred format for many online video sites > such as YouTube, and that most of these sites convert uploaded videos into > FLV format. I want to do the conversion myself and upload the FLV video to > avoid crappy conversion results. Is there a good app that will let me convert > iMovie videos .M4V format into FLV? Preferrably free of course. > Chris Blouch <[email protected]>: Aug 21 11:58AM -0400 > > FLV or Flash Video is a container which can hold any number of video > formats. The older ones used the Sorenson or On2 codecs while the newer > ones now support h.264 (MPEG4). So FLV in of itself may or may not have > the old junky video formats. One quick way to tell is to just rename the > .flv to .mp4 and try to open it with Quicktime Player. Most content > sites have moved to MPEG as the other codecs are not generally supported > on mobile devices. So if you have an FLV, there is a good chance its > something pretty old and probably in one of the old codecs. > > All that said, Handbrake should be able to convert old FLVs to MPEG so > you can use them on modern platforms. > > https://handbrake.fr > > CB > > On 8/21/14, 10:04 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Kliphton Senior <[email protected]>: Aug 21 12:04PM -0400 > > Chris B, could you email me off list? > [email protected] > Back to top > Searching in a large table with voiceover > Colin Matthews <[email protected]>: Aug 20 11:46PM +0100 > > Hi! > I’m not sure if this will help but using the item chooser [VO+i] should bring > up everything and typing the 1st couple of letters of the podcast [if you > know them] will narrow down the selection, and vo space should put you on > that one and you can arrow from there to others near that one! > HTH Colin > > Tim Kilburn <[email protected]>: Aug 21 09:36AM -0600 > > Hi, > > If you know the title of your Podcast, you can type the first few letters of > it to move directly to that Podcast. This works best when in List view and > when focused on the Table but not Interacting with it. Otherwise, Item > Chooser like suggested earlier. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > Back to top > Remapping keys with VM fusion > Eric Caron <[email protected]>: Aug 20 09:35PM -0400 > > Also, > > You may want to consider using Keyremap4macbook and its PC counter part. I > use this to turn my capslock key on the Mac into VO keys and on the virtual > machine it turns my caps lock into a insert key for PC screen readers. > > Just another option to consider. > > Eric Caron > > > "Bill Holton" <[email protected]>: Aug 21 11:31AM -0400 > > Hi. > Are there instructions on how you can use both without conflicts? When I > used the Mac version, it always kept the remaps in my VM Window. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Caron > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion > > Also, > > You may want to consider using Keyremap4macbook and its PC counter > part. I use this to turn my capslock key on the Mac into VO keys and on the > virtual machine it turns my caps lock into a insert key for PC screen > readers. > > Just another option to consider. > > Eric Caron > > > > > That is correct. You can download it on the mac, but it will have to be > installed on windows. > > >> On Aug 20, 2014, at 2:36 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Thanks! > >>> Cait > > >>> On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Kliphton Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>>> That's why I prefer the sharp keys way. > > >>>> Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want > quick > >>>> efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to > contribute? > >>>> Then come join a list where questions are always answered, and we are > always > >>>> Subject: Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> Couple of points here. Firstly, if you delete all the built in > keystrokes, > >>>> you have to do a lot of finger contortions that you don't actually need > to > >>>> do, given that the mac keystrokes are much easier to reach than the > windows > >>>> ones. I would advise people to keep them, they can actually come in > really > >>>> handy. Secondly, and more importantly, if you swap the windows and alt > keys > >>>> round in Windows, how can you command-tab away from Fusion, as command > is > >>>> now alt, so would give you the alt-tab keystroke in Windows? Yes, it > takes a > >>>> little getting used to the fusion arrangement, but it gives you far > more > >>>>> lets > >>>>>> you use insert rather than caps lock for your screen reader's > >>>>>> commands, so let's concentrate on insert, and I will leave caps lock > for > >>>>>> you do need to open with vo space, because you need to select the > >>>>>> item named insert. However, you should only walk to it with the > >>>>>> voiceover cursor, and you should not press vo space. This is the > oddity > >>>>>> There are nine others, and some of them I have turned off, for > >>>>>> reasons explained below. > > >>>>>> Unity: this makes one space out of the windows desktop and the mac > side. > >>>>> I > >>>>>> have this off, to avoid accidentally dropping into unity. > > >>>>>> Also off are cycle through windows, and cycle through windows > reverse. > >>>>>> let windows get your keystrokes as much as possible. > > >>>>>> The same goes for settings, the next key to turn off, which in fusion > >>>>>> is command e. I hear you thinking. Usually command comma is for > settings. > >>>>> 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 > >>>>> 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 > >>>> 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]. > >>>> 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]. > >> 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]. > > -- > 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. > Back to top > Odd behaviour with arrow keys. > Anders Holmberg <[email protected]>: Aug 21 09:11AM +0200 > > Hi! > I sometimes find that when i have my braille display (papenmeier els-40) > connected to my mac mini mid 2011 i get odd behaviours when using voiceover > to navigate. > I can sit and navigate through a dialogue or table and suddenly the mac gets > crazy and arrows through the table on its own. > Its like someone is sitting next to me holding down the arrow key and don't > stop until i press ctrl for example. > It seems that it only happens with the braille display connected. > So i wonder if someone else has experienced this? > /A > Eugenia Firth <[email protected]>: Aug 21 08:23AM -0500 > > Hi there > Never yet. That's one I never heard of. My first thought is that there is > something wrong with your display. > > Gigi > > Back to top > DVD Player for the Mac > "Jim Fettgather" <[email protected]>: Aug 21 08:16AM -0500 > > > Hi, I tried VLC for the Mac, and honestly, I could not figure it out, the > interface just did not seem to make any sense to me at all. > I’ve been trying to access the titles in 3 ways from the built in DVD player. > . > 1. Going to the Go menu, arrrowing down to titles, using right arrow, > selecting a title, and either using 1 of 3 methods, spacebar, enter, or > command control option F5 and clicking the mouse. > Or, usint Control Shift Option M to bring up the right click menu, arrowing > down a bit, and all the titles are listed there as well. > This is the first DVD where I have encountered this problem. > Nothing seems to work, this is driving me mad. > I would download the entire TV series from Itunes, but only season 5 is > available. > This is just so strange. > > > From: Cheryl Homiak > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: DVD Player for the Mac > > VLC very well may work. But as far the the titles, are you going into the > menus with vo-more and looking under the titles? > > > > -- > Cheryl > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi! > Have you tried vlc? > Don't know if this would work but its worth a try. > /A > 19 aug 2014 kl. 15:46 skrev Jim Fettgather <[email protected]>: > > > Hi to the list. > > > > I have run onto a situation where I have purchased a DVD, but the go > > menu will not let me properly select an episode title. > > No matter what I try, it keeps defaulting back to episode 1, I've > > tried cursor tracking on and off, routing the mouse pointer with > > control option F5 and doing a mouse click, hitting both enter or space > > bar on the selected title, this is driving me nuts, I've never > > encountered a DVD like this before. > > There seems to be no keyboard shortcuts in DVD player to let you > > advance by title. > > > > I could sure use some suggestions on a way to get this to work > > properly, or perhaps a more VO friendly DVD player. > > I have tried Softcon DVD player, but I cannot seem to get the titles > > list to show in that program either. > > > > Any suggestions will sure be appreciated. > > > > -- > > 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]. > 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]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > Back to top > a question with regard to ClamXav and scanning e-mails > Eric Oyen <[email protected]>: Aug 20 08:15PM -0700 > > its a hell of a lot better than AVAST (on windows). In fact, I would > recommend ClamZav for any platform you choose. there are a couple of > unlabeled buttons on the main screen, but if thats the only issue, its a very > minor one. :) > > -eric > > On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Chavez wrote: > > Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]>: Aug 21 08:40AM +0100 > > FWIW, Sophos AV for Mac is also free and mostly accessible. Of course, it has > a commercial counterpart in the Windows world, and Sophos are eager that you > should be dependent on them. I used it with success to clear up my virus > collection from my Windows days. > > My personal recommendation is not to bother with AV on OS X at all, but to > simply practice safe computing. Services like VirusTotal mean that you can > scan files of uncertain provenance if you have the need, which should almost > never be the case if you're downloading from trusted sources and have done > your research properly. > Back to top > can't figure out how to open NFB Newsline email attachments > "Jonathan C. Cohn" <[email protected]>: Aug 20 10:30PM -0400 > > If you have a Victor reader or other leader for Daisy books I can help you > because I wrote a script couple years back that I can bring back to life that > will do most the work for you. Contact me at my email address of Jon.C.cohn > @Gmail.com. For more information. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Back to top > Haptic Feedback Technolegy > Barry Hadder <[email protected]>: Aug 20 08:03PM -0500 > > Good point. > Thanks for the further clarification. Localized vibrations seem to be what > Apple is going for from what I’ve read. It will be interesting to see what > happens with this. > > Back to top > icloud mail questions > matthew Dyer <[email protected]>: Aug 20 05:37PM -0400 > > Hi, > > I am using iCloud here with no problems. I also have a gmail address > forwarding to my iCloud address and it works just find here. I think that so > far it is very stable. > > Matthew > > > Back to top > You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. > You can change your settings on the group membership page. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an > email to [email protected]. Hello everyone, this is > Chenelle I haven't been out here for a while. I wanted to know when you're > using your iPhone five ass voice memo application to record a voice memo how > can you converted to MP3 in order to send it to your Hatley instructor thank > you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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