Re: PDF reader for Mac?

I have seen some postings that seem to indicate some kind of built in OCR in Catalina. I have not investigated this. Jonathan > On Jan 30, 2020, at 10:34 PM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Raoul, > Docuscan Plus, Abbey Fine Reader, or Prizmo. I think that’s it, unless you > install VMWare Fusion an

Re: Books on Mac going busy

Hmm, I wonder if it will be worse when you get 90% through the book. It would be interesting to bookmark your current location and jump forward . Try just being patient with VoiceOVer and seeing if it consistently becomes unbusy after a specific time. Jonathan > On Jan 31, 2020, at 2:51 PM, P

Re: Can't log into Macbook Air

It is slightly possible that your account has not been enabled for File vault logins. I remembered there being a dialog in ElCapitan systems where one could list the users that were allowed to login at the file vault screen or something similar to that. I couldn’t find that. But in any case, whe

Re: How to stop and start recording within the same file using Quicktime?

Donna, Quicktime does respond to pause and resume commands from Apple Automation, I could easily create these if you want to try and have more flexibility about the keystrokes to pause / resume recording. I didn’t test things out, but they would probably just be 1 liners. “tell application “quic

Re: Safari on a Mac

I can’t test this right now, but there is a checkbox for autofill password and user names in the Password area of the Safari preferences. > On Feb 5, 2020, at 12:55 AM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > is there a way to prevent Safari from suggesting a password when I'm signing > up for something on

Re: Writing Documents using Catalina

luded in a bundle of applications that costs about the same as Microsoft Office. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 7, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > > Hello, > Many thanks for the suggestions on this. However I am now more confused! > > When I w

Re: setting time / date from terminal

Don't forget to turn off any NTP stuff then… Or if you are using NTP, but the clock is too far off for an initial set, then you should be able to use ntpdate to set the clock based off of a NTP server. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 9, 2020, at 4:58 A

Re: Layout issues using VoiceOver

combo but if it works for you somebody on list can give instructions on adjusting one of the commanders to give you quicker access to that command. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 10, 2020, at 10:11 AM, Daniel Chavez wrote: > > Hi, > Maybe someone els

Re: using email tips

Hello, To the best of my knowledge there is no VoiceOver or Apple Automation commands to manage the “pasteboard” used for copy and pasting, so you would not be able to use the numbed commander to do these commands with or without AppleScript. If you don’t like the standard command X, Y,C keystro

Re: customising VO

Well, not really VoiceOver configuration, but I usually turn off LaunchPad and mission control keyboard shortcuts. Some of these override VoiceOver shortcuts and some are just annoying. They are in the Keyboard system settings panel. > On Feb 8, 2020, at 9:50 PM, hemaka...@gmail.com wrote: > >

Bluetooth keyboards and Web sites in IOS

Is there anyway to simulate a what the tab key does in web pages on Computers while using a Bluetooth keyboard connected to an iPad? There has been some mention of “Full keyboard Access” in the accessibility menus, but I can’t find that. Thanks! Jonathan -- The following information is impor

Re: Accessibility of duolingo or similar software on iPhone

I stopped using DuoLingo after my trip last May, but in the year prior to that it was constantly getting better for me to use. Especially with Braille support. Around Jan 2019 they put in features that made keyboard input switch languages based on if the answer was supposed to be in Hebrew or En

Re: Mail Rule for Auto-Forwarding

I’m sure that I could create or help you create an AppleScript to send that attachment through using a AppleScript based rule. I haven’t done anything like that but I know what all the code points would be. > On Feb 14, 2020, at 10:24 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > I’ve broached this subject be

Re: Controlling books on OS X with voice commands

Well, I can’t test here.. 1. If buttons are properly labeled, one is supposed to be able to click on them with VOice Commander by just saying the appropriate phrase. That being said, the Books application is one of those that is essentially a IOS application wrapped in MacOS clothes, so I have n

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

If you type "zip" into the search field and then press down arrow a couple of times you should find a menu item for zip archive. Also note that unlike Unix and Google searches, apple meta data searches can accept partial words. HTH! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn &

Re: Editing and comporessing videos

I understand that Quicktime can join videos together and I have also seen references to compression techniques in its AppleScript dictionary. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 15, 2020, at 8:55 PM, ⁨Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر⁩ > <⁨ramy.moustaf...@g

Markup / markdown editor

>From This weeks Top Tech Tidbits… This app purports to be more powerful than others and is accessible: http://bit.ly/2SEYXHh -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running o

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

Hello, I was doing this with command-F while in a finder window. Once you have a selector picked, you should be able to find a radio button group to select entire computer, home directory or current folder. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 15, 2020, at 10:27

Re: Controlling books on OS X with voice commands

. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 14, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > I tried assigning the read next sentence and read prior sentence commands to > single keys in the Quick NAV and keyboard commanders, but they don’t function > and text field of iBooks for som

Re: Getting photos described

There is also a feature in Seeing AI to review your photos. Open the app, switch to scenes and then go into the menu at the top and the first item should be Browse photos. You get a listing of photos s that by default will just give the date, but if you double tab on one, it will send to Micro

Re: Getting photos described

There is also a feature in Seeing AI to review your photos. Open the app, switch to scenes and then go into the menu at the top and the first item should be Browse photos. You get a listing of photos s that by default will just give the date, but if you double tab on one, it will send to Micro

Re: Apple podcast episode length

Jonathan Mozen just reviewed a new podcast listening app that works almost like a mail app. I believe his review was about 40 minutes in length. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 17, 2020, at 8:33 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > I don’t like the Apple stock Podcast

Re: Getting photos described

Great idea, but I couldn’t find a way to do that. After a picture is analyzed there is a “explore “ button near the bottom of the screen. If you press this, then Seeing AI will divide the picture up into objects. This would be an ideal place to have an action to identify a person. I do believe t

Re: Searching in mail

Well, I start by typing control-option F while in a message list. You should then be able to start typing, once you have a couple of letters in then you should be able to use downarrow to find a list of completions. . > On Feb 21, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > > Hello, > I’m trying to

Re: Accessible Terminal

Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 22, 2020, at 2:49 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > If you find the terminal sufficiently accessible with VoiceOver, then > obviously you don’t need to do anything further. In my experience, the > termina

Re: Inspect element in Chrome

This might be one of those cases where turning off cursor tracking is required. Generally, I avoid chrome with Mac except for testing that specifically requires it. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 23, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Nebojsa Tasic wrote: > > > I hav

Re: Bluetooth keyboards and Web sites in IOS

Well, my lab is supposed to put the beta on my iPad. This will be the first time in five years that I have used Mac beta software. Guidance? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 13, 2020, at 11:07 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi J

Re: Bring back your Mac's startup chime with this simple terminal command, 9 to 5 Mac

Well, I believe that sudo nvram SystemAudioVolumeDB=%f5 Is where my MacBook volume is set to. You might want to try just increasing the volume in settings center first and see if that follows through to the startup chime. Also, I have not read any notes any where about the above command, so do

Re: Bluetooth braille using Catalina the 10 point.15.3. Please read below?

I answered this on the Braille Users list. The important thing here is understanding what to do when the notification pops up on the Braille Note. One has to click a routing key and then click yes and finally accept in order to tell the BrailleNote Touch it is OK to connect to the Mac. Jonathan

Re: Bluetooth braille using Catalina the 10 point.15.3. Please read below?

Actually, it is just asking you to confirm that the number is the same on both sides. Jonathan > On Feb 25, 2020, at 3:43 PM, maurice mines wrote: > > What I’m saying here, is you must enter in that six digit code exactly as it > appears on the screen on the device within 10 to 15 seconds any

Re: Bluetooth braille using Catalina the 10 point.15.3. Please read below?

OK, I’ll try tonight with my Catalina machine, but I expect to have no problems. Once you click pair in the VoiceOver dialog did you get a chime on your BrailleNoteTouchPlus? If so at this point hit any braille routing key on the braille display. Then answer the next two question in the affirmati

Re: Bring back your Mac's startup chime with this simple terminal command, 9 to 5 Mac

ow would you do this? > Thanks Jürgen > > >> Am 24.02.2020 um 22:51 schrieb Jonathan Cohn > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>>: >> >> Well, I believe that >> sudo nvram SystemAudioVolumeDB=%f5 >> Is where my MacBook volume is set to. You might w

Re: Bluetooth braille using Catalina the 10 point.15.3. Please read below?

process. Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 27, 2020, at 1:16 PM, maurice mines wrote: > > An update on the situation. I spent about an hour on the phone with tech > support for human wear. And unfortunately the same problem existed even with > the support professional. This issue has

Re: How do I find the USB3 port on my Mac?

System Information. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 27, 2020, at 6:24 PM, 'Rob' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Dear List, > > I have a question I hope that you can help me with. > > On my 21inch late 2015 iMac, I need to find wich por

Re: Getting Access to What SIRI is Showing Me

Just to be sure, are you talking about Siri on the computer or on IOS? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 8, 2020, at 9:44 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Tim, > Sorry, that was not the question. I do get a response from SIRI, telling me > “here’s the infor

Re: Getting Access to What SIRI is Showing Me

Siri creates a dialog which then if you interact with it you will find a contacts snippet and if you interact with that you will find most of the details. There is a place in the contacts detail to click and open in the contacts app, but it is not very well labeled. Jonathan

Re: List for discussing audio described content?

The ACB tries to keep a listing of all available shows on its site. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 8, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Eric Brinkman wrote: > > Hi all, > > Do you know of any lists for discussing the availability of audio > described movies and TV

Re: After upgrading to Catalina there's no sound when pasting an attachment into body of email

I tried at all three verbosity levels I copied a file of random type and VoiceOver said paste when I typed command-V in low, medium, and high verbosity. You did not mention iexactly how you were pasting. Did you use the Edit menu? Actually, I just tried edit->paste and the contextual menu for pa

Re: Group wisdom on upgrading to Catalina?

will definitely see differences in Catalina. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 11, 2020, at 7:32 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Now that I’m back on list I have a bit more confidence about upgrading. > > I’m wondering if the group feels

Re: Incoming email sounds on the Mac

Well, one can certainly add sounds to Mail rules. I don't know if they need to be a specific type or not. Traditionally, Mac system sounds were AIFF files, but I expect that the there is a bit more flexibility these days. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visi

Braille input device.

Interesting idea, but now that Braille can be entered directly on screen on IOS devices will there be much of a market for this device? How many folks who grew up with a learning braille would find this more useful than typing directly on screen or with a standard keyboard. Although I have tried

Re: AIFF file converter

n the System and is not usually accessed by the day-to-day user. >>>> I can't remember for sure, but I may have even needed to disable System >>>> Integrity Protection to do it. After all this, it still didn't work. The >>>> tone choices did appear

Re: (Auto-reply) Apple Support

There is also a Apple support IOS app which includes a chat functionality. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Petrus Tuerlings wrote: > > Hi all, > I wanted to email apple to asked if there was a way I could put my purchased > alert

Re: Question regarding VoiceOver hotspots

You do realize, I hope, that almost all search fields on the Macintosh are reachable via either command-f or command-Option-F. command-F can be used to search a mail message for content, and command-option-F puts you in the mailbox search field. And of course there is also the Voiceover search

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

Also, I believe that Macs with T2 chips by default will only boot Windows and MacOs. There is a way to turn off this integrity protection. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 20, 2020, at 3:30 AM, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > > I believe there is a function within lin

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

minal has access to the full disk. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 20, 2020, at 1:42 PM, matthew dyer > wrote: > > Hi, > > Correct, the option you are referring to is called DD which is disk image > mode. I am wanting to install fresh on an

snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

Hello, On my iPhone 7, if I press volume button or power (side) button when an alarm is goin off, it snoozes. If I press the home button with a finger that supports touch ID, the alarm is dismissed. What is the equivalent for iPhone 10 and newer? Jonathan -- The following information is importa

Re: snoozing vs dismissing alarm with FaceID.

ze enabled, so just have to either >> press the side button or the button on my Apple Watch. >> >> Later... >> >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Jamf Certified Tech >> Apple Teacher >> (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >&g

Re: Where is icloud in terminal

One can always navigate to something with the finder and then copy an item there and when you paste into terminal you will get the file path. Things do get a bit strange in the Library directory because of all the sandboxes. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 24, 2020,

Re: Zoom, and Voiceover accessibility information

tarts Zoom without a panel, they won't be able to spy on you. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:31 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Does anyone know whether the rather nasty security flaw in the 2019 Mac > Zo

Re: A couple Terminal questions

Well, for the first question just interact a few times with the window and you should be able to use the voiceover cursor to review and select things. VO-return should start selecting and vo-return a second time should finish the selection operation. Also, double tapping with mouse will select

Re: Email signature storage

Well I discovered: ~/Library/Mail/v6/MailData/Signatures I have 2 mail signatures and there are 4 files in this directory. The .mailsignature files appear to be a modified HTML file and then there are two plist files. Apple uses plists files for configuration. They are essentially XML files.

Re: Apple Magic Trackpad 2

Hello ET, There was a long article in tidbits.com this week discussing trackpad usage with the latest IOS and iPads. I believe you need the newer trackpad if you want to use it with the iPad. Not sure of if that would be useful to us, but interesting none the less. > On Apr 9, 2020, at 3:08 PM

Re: Apple Magic Trackpad 2

For my my bluetooth headphones, battery level is listed in the sub-menu of the device in my menu extras area. Jonathan > On Apr 10, 2020, at 11:04 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Does the Mac have ability to check battery status of connected Bluetooth > peripherals as iOS does?

Re: Clean install of Catalina OS X refresher

One thing I discovered recently after my son wiped out his disk drive, is that time machine backups of Catalina include a recovery partition with a Catalina installer. You might find this very useful. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 12, 2020, at 6:40 PM, P

Re: Catalina Clean Install

If you do this your computer will be in essentially the same sate as it was before you did the clean install. Why are you looking to do a clean install? There might be less drastic actions you can take. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 12, 2020, at 4:52 PM, ⁨R

Re: Headings in Mac pages or Word

The book is published by Jonathan Mozen. I believe his sight is mozen.org <http://mozen.org/>. Try: https://mosen.org/mymacpages/ <https://mosen.org/mymacpages/> Jonathan C. Cohn Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 13, 2020, at 4:09 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche

Re: Catalina Clean Install

n you tell me some tricsk, that may help? for instance, the Text edit > app got busy some times, and also, some other apps. > If there are any tricks like what we do in windows to clean the cash etc, > please give me a hand. > Thanks in advance > > >> On Apr 13, 2020, a

Re: Cleaning up Mac clutter

ET, How does this compare with App Cleaner? I know you have talked about Clean My Mac features in the past, but it would be great for a new review. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 16, 2020, at 11:37 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Lot

Re: Two specific bugs in numbers OS X

, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 16, 2020, at 9:10 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Stan, could you be more specific? What problems are you experiencing > specifically? What version of the OS and of numbers are you using? How long > is these problems persisted for you etc. Thanks it’ll help a

Re: Help with saving files in Pages

u that is before the toolbar or in the file->revert to… menu. If you revert to a previous version, then the current will be saved so you could go back to that. . HTH! Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 18, 2020, at 10:52 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > In the File menu, if you hold down the O

Re: Apple Script to mount networked drive

still have a file that when opened will connect to the server. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 15, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > You can save the file anywhere. I chose to save it to applications, since its > a app. > Just open the app with com

Re: Numbers

Just vo-space on the cell you want to edit and work away. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 18, 2015, at 11:11 AM, waterwogs...@gmail.com wrote: > > Wondering if anyone knows how to do in-cell editing in Numbers? > > -- > You received this messa

Re: Editing Formulas in Excel for the Mac

. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 20, 2020, at 9:47 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > I notice that VO does not play well with Excel. When I do tap F2 to edit a > cell, the formula displayed is always the previous one I visited for editing. > I consistently need to press Esc and t

Using option key in menus.

diagnose tool, the channel and country of channel for the router and bunches more and the volume menu extra allows you to pick input and output devices. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: question for anyone who uses the Starbucks app, can you view your card balance?

Hello, close to the bottom is "scan in store" button. Click this button and you can review all your StarBucks cards and their balences. (Note, I upgraded my SB app today.) Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 28, 2020, at 11:48 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via M

Re: Designing an accessible website for my Music Studio?

Hello, The WIX site for creating web pages by consumers has an accessibility statement. I have no idea if it is accessible in reality or just in theory. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 28, 2020, at 4:58 PM, ⁨Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر⁩ > <⁨ram

Re: question for anyone who uses the Starbucks app, can you view your card balance?

ishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 29, 2020, at 6:45 AM, > wrote: > > Yes. > Scan tab then move to middle of the screen and flick up. > > From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:35 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: Catalina mail app too verbose

You can still do this if you interact with a row and move over to the subject field. Then when using regular arrow buttons only the subject is spoken. > On Apr 30, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Ian Harrison wrote: > > Hi all, > having upgraded to Catalina I now find that voiceover reads out every detail

Re: the new iPhone SE

It is almost the same size as my iPhone 7. Most commentators compare it to the iPhone 8, but it has a single lens camera in the back, so the bump is not as noticeable. Yes, it has a finger print sensor. However, it has much better battery life than my 2 year old iPhone 7, and doing a read all at

Re: Right Command Key

Good Morning, I believe we lost your answer. Also, to see if it is a physical / mapping issue turn on Keyboard help for VoiceOver (vo-k) and press your modifier keys, they should each speak what they do! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 1, 2020, at 9:40 PM, Du

Re: the new iPhone SE

If you have owned your iPhone 8 for more than a year, you might want to check the upgrade options. My carrier allowed upgrades with their lease plans after a year. Take Care! Jonathan Cohn On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 15:35, Lorie McCloud wrote: > I have an iPhone 8 that isn't quite paid for y

Re: VLC media player

access in order to work. I hope this is not the case, because then VLC could effectively control just about anything on your system. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 2, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I guess I don't know how to navigate Sys

Re: Controlling Audio Output

An application can but I am not sure how many noisy applications actually do… I believe that Rogue Ameba the of Audio HiJack has an application to manage sound from various Apps. Jonathan > On May 5, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > There’s audio settings in the system p

Syncronmizing passwords

Menu Etras, but I was lazy this time. How can I get FV password to be synced again with my Mac password. Thanks! Jonathan Cohn -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: Question About E-mails from Ramy

one writes multi-lingual text on Mac and have VO recognize it. BonJour Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 5, 2020, at 4:01 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > You shouldn’t really notice any change unless you land on text that

Re: Very Strange security problems appeared

its knowledge of the current time to your web browser. If the time is not accurate enough, than your machine will declare the certificate invalide. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 6, 2020, at 8:09 AM, ⁨Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر⁩ > <⁨ramy.moustaf...@g

Re: Remoting into a Crome book via the Mac.

hough Simon would probably know more about that. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 6, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > That’s been the same thing here, and we had to have a meeting with her home > room teacher, and it was really unpleasant to hear

Re: Syncronmizing passwords

I can just push a new password to the BIOS for FileVault. Luckily, I don't have a T2 chip enabled computer, so I am not too worried about bricking the system. I'll followup tomorrow. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 6, 2020, at 4:50 AM, Simon A Fogarty wrot

Re: Giving Apps access and battery life

Hello, On my SE 2 iPhone, when I press volume up and the right side button, I get a dialog with three items: 1. Power Off 2. Medical ID 3. Emergency SOS The focus started on the power off button. I expect the same happens with the iPhone 10 and 11 systems. Jonathan > On May 7, 2020, at 10:52

Re: Syncronmizing passwords

Well, I was going to start changing passwords, but decided to do a reboot and this time my new password was required to unlock File vault. So, I don't know what happened. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 6, 2020, at 4:50 AM, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > &

Re: Giving Apps access and battery life

. , Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 7, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > No i only have the power off and imergency thing. > /A > >> 7 maj 2020 kl. 18:11 skrev Jonathan Cohn > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>>: >> &g

Re: Very Strange security problems appeared

I would discourage “less secure mode” unless you know for sure that you are on a system that is not supported by modern security protocols. For that matter, I thought these errors were occurring in the Browser and not in Mail. This is definately a failure of some kind with the SSL handshakes, bu

Re: An old apple keyboard

bably a 4th generation iMac still with CRT and PowerPC chips until the keys started to be unresponsive. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 8, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, > > We have rediscovered an old Apple USB keyboard. Is this somet

Re: Very Strange security problems appeared

Ah, DNS. I currently set up with a google router and it overrides the I S P recommended DNS with their own by default. Before that, I used to use 1.1.1.1 as my default DNS server, I can't remember now who runs that. This can be configured either on your router if it sends DHCP to your lan, or el

Re: apologies WAAAAAY OT

Hello, DOwnload to computer and edit with Numbers? OK, OK for the Mac I understand Chrome works better than JAWS, and you probably want to turn on Braille support even if you are not using a braille display. Note, I have only studied this not practiced it. Well, I need to move things from Share

Re: Podcasts OS X app

.groups.com.apple.podcasts/Library/Cache/A67A91B0-FC4E-452B-92BB-1F6E6B2D22A7.mp3 Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 13, 2020, at 7:43 AM, Ronald van Rhijn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been trying to get up and running with the new Podcasts app on > Catalina,

Re: Urgent please, m y wi-fi is not configured on mac, what can i do?

You need to click the add service button and add WI Fi back in. > On May 18, 2020, at 9:48 AM, Ramy Moustafa Saber > wrote: > > Hi all: > > Personal hotspot is not working here, so, i went to network, and i > found a delete button, i clicked on it, and now, i cna not connect to > any wi-fi. >

Re: Urgent please, m y wi-fi is not configured on mac, what can i do?

back up and running. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 18, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > > Ok i clicked add, but cannot do anything , can us give me steps plz? > > Ramy moustafa saber > licturer at: > faculty of musical education >

Re: Urgent please, m y wi-fi is not configured on mac, what can i do?

afa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر⁩ > <⁨ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com⁩> wrote: > > Wow, it’s more than easy, do not know why i did not configure that it’s a > popup box, sorry for disturbance, and THanks for helping. > > >> On May 18, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Cohn > <mailto:

Re: Variety of Mac questions

I would recommend reading the article from Tidbits about the new systems. https://tidbits.com/2020/05/04/updated-13-inch-macbook-pro-dumps-butterfly-keyboard-doubles-storage/ Essentially you

Re: How do I use the new COVID-19 tracking feature in IOS 13.5?

You got further than I did, I can't find anything in my Privacy settings about the app. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 21, 2020, at 10:48 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > The Learn More dialog doesn't really tell y

Re: How do I use the new COVID-19 tracking feature in IOS 13.5?

One of the features that Apple and Google proposed was to only allow health workers to mark somebody as being exposed to the disease. This way, one can't freak out everybody that went to the Fraternity party with you last week. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May

Re: VoiceOver And iPhone Migration

Oh, and make sure screen curtain is off on your old phon! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 22, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Pete De Vasto wrote: > > Hello all, > > I’m upgrading from my iPhone 7 to the new iPhone SE, and the new phone is > arriving today. I was

Re: Joining Zoom meetings more efficiently from Mac using Chrome

Well, if you are often going to the same meeting then you can just open the Zoom Application. In terms of going to the dialog, you can try vo-J or vo-shift-J and see if either of these go to the dialog. . Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 22, 2020, at 9:47 AM, Rau

Re: Figured out Apple Pay problem

I understand they just expanded the options for Apple Cash, something about debit cards, but I think to transfer money out of cash, there is a charge of about 1.5% . HTH! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 3, 2021, at 15:49, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionar

Re: Editing secure note using 1 password on Mac

ow you can use VO-VO-shift-tilde (the key to the left of the 1 key on the US English keyboard) If you pay for 1 Password on a monthly basis, you can also edit things on the web site, which I generally find fairly accessible. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 7, 2

Re: Figured out Apple Pay problem

you can also set up something where you deposit $500 into an account that will then issue you a debit card with a $500 credit limit on it. This second situation is usually used for people who are first establishing a credit history. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn >

Re: Keeping an open app in the doc in big sur?

. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 8, 2021, at 15:15, Chuck Reichel > wrote: > > Hi List, > I just started moving to big sur and can’t seem to get a contextual menu open > in the doc for an app thats currently running. > What is the trick to keep an app in the doc these

Re: Running Mac OS as a virtual machine

If you get VMWare player you should be able to run a guest MacOS from within a Mac computer. I believe currently the license just says you must be running it on Mac hardware. If you create a VM there is an option to create a MacOS VM, and then you can install what ever copy of Mac OS you need. Tidb

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