April, About Safari remembering your password. If you don’t like that you can disable Apple Keychain. It is Apple’s new method to remember all your passwords. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro
2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 11, 2014, at 1:33 PM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Eileen, > > I'll keep working on understanding it. Maybe spending about 30 > minutes most days on it. No more, or it will overwhelm me, until I > understand it. It would be nice if in the afternoons, I could close my eye > and rest while listening to my daily updates. > > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:03:19 AM UTC-5, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hi David and and All, > > I just wanted to point out that these help items are available. I never > suggested a particular method on how I proceeded. In fact, I have used and > are still using a wide range of medias and techniques that include the > onboard help tutorials, podcasts from several sites, these list serves, real > time chat rooms, Apple accessibility (if needed), and a year's subscription > at the Apple Store. I have also complemented all of this when I have some > spare time in reading "Take Control Using Mountain Lion." This Mac is not my > first computer ever. I come from the PC world where I started with sight on > an old 8086, with only 300 MG hard drive and using dos. So, you all can see > that the Mac experience for me is like starting all over. We all have very > different learning styles and there is no right or wrong. I will try anything > once because it could be the difference of mastering this quicker. What's so > wonderful about today is the variety of options that we all have to draw on. > JMO. > > Best, > Eileen > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:11 AM, David Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would suggest a different approach. You should read the Getting Started >> Guide which is also in the help menu, and learn to use the commands help >> which is in the same place, or vi-h-h, in other words, hold down the vo keys >> and press h twice. This would explain much of this to you, and if you >> understand the logic, you’ll understand the terms. VO works well with Google >> Chrome, but not Firefox, you happened to pick an external browser which is >> not accessible, rather than start with what is built in, which is always the >> best way with Apple. You can do so much without getting any external apps >> and Apple ones often work best for most things for most people. Hope this >> helps. >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> >> On 11 Jan 2014, at 11:34 am, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Eileen, >>> >>> Thanks. I had run the tutorial three times. And nowhere did it mention that >>> I had to use a specific browser. It's also not very intuitive. I'm going >>> to create my own step-by-step manual, Because there's no way I will >>> remember any of those key combinations. I simply don't have the memory. >>> It's going to be slow, and I'll work on it a little bit four or five days a >>> week. I don't even know what half the terms mean. And I can't find the >>> definition anywhere. Strange terms that aren't used in regular computer >>> work such as auto web spot, web rotor, web spot, sweet spot. I have no >>> idea what these terms mean, or if I need to use them, or how, or why. And >>> that is to design websites. I can only imagine how somebody who has barely >>> checked their e-mail and maybe Facebook would feel looking at this. >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> >>> April >>> >>> On Friday, January 10, 2014 4:49:41 PM UTC-5, Eileen Misrahi wrote: >>> Hi April, >>> >>> I thought I would mention this to you. I have only had my MacBook Air for a >>> little over 4 months. when I first started, I accessed the Voiceover help >>> menu by pressing CONTROL-OPTION-H. This is the command to open Voiceover >>> help. If you arrow down to a submenu item called "Quick Start Tutorial," it >>> will present you with an interactive tutorial. The other item in the >>> Voiceover help menu that I have gone back to periodically is the "Getting >>> Started Manual" for Voiceover. >>> >>> there is also a Voiceover command help menu. This is accessed by pressing >>> CONTROL-OPTION-H-H (tapping the H twice quickly) This will open a submenu >>> of different categories such as general, keyboard, navigation, etc. When >>> you enter on one of these submenu items, it will open and delineate the >>> keystroke command and its description of what the command does. At the >>> beginning of all of this, I used this the most to commit the keystrokes to >>> memory. Be kind to yourself. It will get better in time. I rarely turn my >>> PC on these days. It's only for the programs that I can't run on the Mac >>> that I reach for the PC. I know in time I will probably venture to place a >>> virtual machine on my air, but that's for another time in place. HTH. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Eileen >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> 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 [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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
