Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac LOL to all the one-siding around here. Im not willing to campaign for Windows simply because I hate some aspects of the Mac, which do include the glacial progress of VoiceOver, its true, nor am I willing to campaign for the Mac to the exclusion of Windows. I, for example, am using Mountain Lion on my iMac with XP in a VM because quite honestly, theres no going forward for me. In fact its entirely possible that if I move back to Windows, Id be going backwards from where I am now, to Windows 7, just to keep all the functionality I need. Having said this …Both platforms are good for different things. It is really true that Windows does more than you give it credit for, because you get much better guarantees of accessibility with arbitrary programs than on Mac or iOS, but only if you first neglect the fact that its a bitch to set up and use for basic tasks. That is one area where the Mac just wins, IMO, hands-down. Keep VMWare on your Mac, or a separate partition, and youll be able to use both Mac for the vast majority of your shit and Windows for the vast minority of it. That unless you begin to find, as I do in Yosemite, that even basic functions are becoming increasingly crippled in the name of Progress. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195997#p195997 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac I really, really wouldnt condone staying on XP to the exclusion of 7. I was concerned to begin with but I now find I can get along in 7 even faster than XP, I actually quite like the new style start menu though Ive no experience of the one in 8. Add to this that XP will no longer receive patches for security updates and wont support newer interface technologies, hell it doesnt even support SATA natively.I dont advocate upgrading just for upgradings sake but equally I dont advocate staying on a dinosaurian version of an OS when you have a viable upgrade path. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=196004#p196004 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Certainly, if I went back to Windows on hardware, Id be going with 7, no doubt about it. I might have my reasons to dislike it but what you say is absolutely true and it makes complete sense if youre going to use it in production to be on current software. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=196006#p196006 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Ok, I am writing this on my new mac. The thing that got me was the reg your mac dialog. For some reason, voiceover wasnt reading it to me. The only other problem was the tim zone. It didnt have a city within my time some listed in the combo box, or that is until I started typing in a city name within my time zone. I went and got dropbox, evernote, and VLC. Is there any good mudding software? How about some daisy software? Also, how accessible is Skype on the mac? One more thing for now, how about some good games? Ah, that will be one dont side. Just about every game I know about runs on windows. LOL. Just as long is this mac is a useful truck as Jobs compared it to. LOL. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195877#p195877 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Hey CW. As for mudding programs, Atlantis and tintin are good places to start. Daisy programs? I dont think there are any, but Ill do some research. You can play all the windows games you want with vmware fusion, and Draconis have two awesome games for the mac. Not to mension there is iBlink Radio for the mac! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195904#p195904 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Hey CW. As for mudding programs, Atlantis and tintin are good places to start. Daisy programs? I dont think there are any, but Ill do some research. You can play all the windows games you want with vmware fusion, and Draconis have two awesome games for the mac. Did I mension that there is iBlink Radio for the mac? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195904#p195904 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac sorry but I have to tell you. your problems on your Mac, just started... you go faster for windows than you thought... yosemite and voiceover, is loaded with bugs, and apple is not the solution. you can take life to report bugs to apple. You re never going to see resolved... voice over is stopped in time, and no future ...the screen readers on windows, are ten times better than the voice over ...cheers. cheers. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195919#p195919 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Hmmm. I am currently running 10.9.5. Yes that is the version it shipped with. To be more correct it shipped with 10.9.4. As for the voiceover not being as fast as jaws, I have in fact found it as fast as jaws at times. If you notest, I said at times. As for bugs, have you dug around in JAWS. I have found one or two in jaws at times. For example, try using the jaws cursor in firefox in windows seven. They might had fixed it in 16, but I doudt it. The whole interacting thing with voiceover does get some getting used to, but the item chooser helps out allot with page navagation when you know the page. There is the control plus option plus command plus h to go to the next heading for an example of something simlar to jaws. FS added touch screen support to jaws in 15, but the track pack navagation was in Voiceover before then and I still use word on windows with JAWS for now if you want to compare the two. LOL. If you really get down to it, you can find problems with any screenreader o n the market. As for Voiceover stopping in times, are you backing that up by with those bugs you see there? Are you sure? I am just saying. You are not the only one that has found bugs. I have heard about some kind of wifi bug here and I know for a fact that IOS 8 still have enough bugs in it. So, by your logic, IOS 8 will go off the market per say pretty soon. This means that there will be no more IPads and IPhone sold after a point because of NDroid doing what IOS is trying to do so much better. It looks like to me, it all depends on what each person does on their computer that desides the OS and screen reader of choice. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195923#p195923 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Mario, first off its still early days for Yosemite. By contrast Windows 8 has been around a fair while. Also have you any idea how bloated windows screen readers like Jaws are, much less how bloated Windows is? Im not saying macs are perfect by any stretch, I actually use Windows more than Mac OS both due to the age of my MBP and VipMud, but both are viable choices.Oh and you get both Pages and Numbers for free on Mac OS, they may lack some of the more exotic features of MS Office but for day to day use they do most of the things you could want. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195925#p195925 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac I AM USING WORD IN WINDOWS DO TO THE FACT I AM HAVING TO WRITE PAPERS AND THE LIKE. THOSE PAPERS CAN BE QUITE DEMANDING WHEN IT COMES TO THE formatting. Other then that, pages would do fine. Anyway, well said CX. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195942#p195942 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac skype on the mac is totally accessible. You can set it up to where it will tell you where contacts go online or go offline. It is almost like Skype talking for windows URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195945#p195945 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Getting up and going on a new mac
Getting up and going on a new mac I ordered a new mac around two weeks a go and had it sent to a family members house. I sent it to the house that I did to save money. Basicly, some places are cheeper to send stuff to in the US. Anyway, Im going to go pick it up from the house in question in the next day or so. Is there anything I need to know when I open the box? Is there any good apps for the mac? I have I pacmate with a forty cell display attached. I am thinking about using that display with that mac. I ordered a mac book pro with a 512 gb SSD in it. It also comes with 16 gb of ram and it has the I7 processer in it. Not that I will use it, but it has the retna display on it. From my point of view, the one thing that the mac has going for it is the accessibility during set up. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195746#p195746 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac
Re: Getting up and going on a new mac Just as a note Ive been able to deal with the Windows new computer questions bit using Narrator but no its not ideal.Just turn on and hit command F5, command is the key in the same position as alt on a Windows keyboard. From there you may as well do the tutorial if youre not familiar with Voice Over, it doesnt take long and it covers using HTML areas as well.As for software, remember Apples word processor Pages and spreadsheet Numbers are both free from the app store. As usual you may wish to run a check for updates but other than that everything you need should be there right away. If youre using an iOS device however Apples remote app can be useful, you can sit your macbook somewhere a little way off from you and still control iTunes using your iPad or iPhone. Very handy if you have a sighted friend you want to watch something with via your MacBook. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195798#p195798 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
