Re: Query regarding using aliases

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Cavendish

Dear Barry,

No I haven't done so yet. I shall do it straight away. Thanks.

With best, Simon
On 29 Jul 2009, at 21:57, Barry Hadder wrote:


   Simon,

 Have you tried putting your alias in to email field of the acount/info
 panel?  If it is set up on the server, this should enable it to show
 up in the list.  You just want to separate it from your other address
 with a cama.

 On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Dear Esther,

 Thank you for these steps regarding aliases. I indeed thought that it
 should be the case: i.e. one should be able to vo+arrow to the from
 button and there choose the alias one wishes. However, the difficulty
 is that the one I've created doesn't seem to feature. My main .me
 alias is listed but the other ones are not. I've just subscribed to a
 news letter using my alias - for argument's sake - s...@me.com, and I
 have just received a confirmation e-mail from the news letter  
 website.
 I tried to reply to it as an exercise but my alias doesn't appear in
 the from list. It's strange.

 With Best wishes

 Simon
 On 27 Jul 2009, at 22:59, Esther wrote:


 Hi Simon and Barry,

 Here's the way I use aliases. You don't need to do anything to sync
 after you set them up, but you might need to restart mail if you set
 up your aliases at the MobileMe web site while your mail app is
 open.  The following should work from your Apple mail app.

 1. Command-R to reply to a message and type in your response
 2. VO-Left arrow to the mail header.  Normally this would take you
 to the From: field.  You should now have a pop up button that
 lists the various mail aliases and the associated names.  For
 example, you could have an email address that you use only for
 mailing lists like simon_c AT me.com and another one for business
 related correspondence like s_cavendish AT me.com, and these can be
 separate from your main email account.  Dot Mac users who started
 services can use these with either the mac.com or me.com extensions,
 but new users can only use me.com.
 3. Command-Shift-D to send the message.

 Barry, I suspect the reason that creating mail aliases is disabled
 for trial subscriptions is that created aliases cannot be re-used by
 anyone.  So if you create lots of aliases and then discard them,
 you're taking those names permanently out of circulation for all
 current and future users.

 Having aliases is a great way to separate out your activities.
 MobileMe does a good job of spam filtering (so does Gmail), but if
 you don't want to give your primary email address when you sign up
 for a trial software use or in order to download Stuffit Expander
 from Smith Micro, you can give a mail alias designed for this
 purpose and set up a smart mailbox to keep these messages separate.

 HTH.

 Cheers,

 Esther







 


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Re: Query regarding using aliases

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Cavendish

Hi Barry,

Success! I've followed your advice, and indeed, my alias appears  
straight away in the from field. In fact, it was immediately chosen  
when I tried to reply to the subscription acknowledgement message I  
had tested on yesterday. I had no idea one had to add aliases in in  
the account info part of the preferences for the particular account.

Many thanks, Simon
On 30 Jul 2009, at 01:51, Barry Hadder wrote:


 Simon,

 I just added a list of aliases separated by comas in the acount/info
 email field and I'm getting them in the to list in the new message
 pain.  HI can't use them of course as I don't have them on the
 server.  owever, I think it will do it for you if you make sure you
 are sinking your email settings.  I neglected that before because I
 was thinking that it only sync between computers.  However, it
 occurred to me that it is also syncing with the on-line mail app.

 You would be doing me a small favor if you try it and let me know if
 it works as I'm trying this out at the moment.  As I stated before,
 aliases aren't available to trial members.
 Thanks.


 On Jul 27, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Dear Listers,

 I've created a new alias under my .me account. I understand from the
 manual that I should from the point of creation of such an alias have
 an option under from field to choose which alias appears in the
 field on the recipient computer. When I activate the from button, I
 can't see my alias. Should I be able to see it? I thought the idea of
 having an alias means that you can choose a different e-mail address
 so that the main .me address remains hidden from view. Is that right?

 Thanks for any clues.

 Best wishes

 Simon




 


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SV: american braille

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel K. Gartmann
 
Hi,
 
Does this mean that it's possible to install a different table?
 
If so, how is this done?
 
I would like to use Danish braille but Apple so far has not been very
forthcoming in this matter, so it would be great if I could just put it in
myself on mhy own machine.
 
Thanks
 
Daniel
 

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Til: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Emne: Re: american braille


Hello Anowk,

Apple only provides American Braille, both contracted and uncontracted. My
husband has provided French and Norwegian uncontracted Braille, but if you
want Dutch Braille, please send me the code and my husband will provide it
for you. We need the 8-dot patterns with the corresponding unicode symbol
list.

Cheers,

Anne


On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:00 AM, a radix wrote:



Hi, I only tried the imac briefly in the apple store last week, but it can
it be possible that it runs american braille? I dont mean the braille table,
i sometimes use an american brialle table myself but I eman braille in
general. I once got a brailleletter from the states and found it difficult
to read, so I am guessing european and american braille mightr be different.
Greetings, Anouk,









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Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into  
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live mocha

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

hi has anyone tried
www.livemocha.com
with voiceover? it is a site to elarn languages online and I just  
wondered how accessible the courses where?
Voiceover for me even when navigating the main page keeps throwing me  
out of the HTML aea if this is not fixed in snowleopard it makes  
navigating so much more effective on hate to say it, windows :)


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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Cavendish

Hi will,

Go to menus in Safari and under develop menu, find user agent submenu  
and it is there.

By the way, did you mean to send your query to the macvisionaries  
list? It came to my private mailbox.

Best, Simon
On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:04, william lomas wrote:


   hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething


 


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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

i did send the message straight to mac visionaries


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don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

Hi I am upset that alex is not used on the i phone. I would ahve  
thought apple would want to incorporate alex, as it gives the best  
quality
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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Marie Howarth

Alex takes up way too much ram as I understand it. and there is  
another reason apple didn't or rather couldn't incorporate alex. I'm  
quite fond of Samantha. Alex may have been a little too soft to hear  
when out in busy places.

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   Hi I am upset that alex is not used on the i phone. I would ahve
 thought apple would want to incorporate alex, as it gives the best
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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Cavendish

No it is not, not on my Safari and I have the latest.
On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:17, william lomas wrote:


 develop menu has gone

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:14, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Hi will,

 Go to menus in Safari and under develop menu, find user agent submenu
 and it is there.

 By the way, did you mean to send your query to the macvisionaries
 list? It came to my private mailbox.

 Best, Simon
 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:04, william lomas wrote:


 hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething








 


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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

lol so do i how strange

On 30 Jul 2009, at 10:03, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 No it is not, not on my Safari and I have the latest.
 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:17, william lomas wrote:


 develop menu has gone

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:14, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Hi will,

 Go to menus in Safari and under develop menu, find user agent  
 submenu
 and it is there.

 By the way, did you mean to send your query to the macvisionaries
 list? It came to my private mailbox.

 Best, Simon
 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:04, william lomas wrote:


hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething











 


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the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Yuma Decaux

Hey everyone,

I was just looking at a guardian tech article on the best iphone games
for this summer, and thought it interesting to start a discussion on
the concepts of gaming for a blind/visually impaired user.

All of the technologies bundled into the iphone (touch screen,
gravitometer, stereo audio) can probably allow us to use all these
cues as a foundation for some interesting gaming experience.

Imagine playing a sims game where you can actually direct your sim to
move around place with gestures and create situations which will be
fed back into the audio environment.

There's this game on pc called sound RTS. in which you command an army
and build villages to feed your barracks and send them out to the
enemies. It's also a multiplayer game. The whole thing works on audio
cues. Add the gestural commands and touchscreen integration and i'm
sure we can get a few kicks out of a lot of different games to adjust
to our needs.

Another game which, to my knowledge, is very text based but with
locational navigation, is The secret of monkey island. You can move
the character around and unlock puzzles which are primarily
combinations of an object with another or with dialogues in which you
can get info for said objects.

Wouldn't it be great if games such as this could be available for blind people?

Here's the link to the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/gallery/2009/jul/30/games-iphone

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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn

First you need to go to advanced preferences and turn on the develop  
menu.

Note: this just tells the remote site you are something other then you  
are. It does not actually change the javascript interpretation.

Jon

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   hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething


 


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Re: Finder warning dialogs not speaking

2009-07-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn

I generally have not had a problem with these. They do not take focus,  
but you generally get a message saying Finder has a new window.  
Sometimes there are groups that you need to interact with that VO  
just says Unknown.  I don't think Leopard has any in the system  
software, but I did come across these occasionally when running Tiger.

Jon

On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:


 Hi,

 I moved a portable drive while copying some items to it, and it got
 disconnected. When I tried to do other things with Finder, I got
 warning messages saying the operation couldn't be completed. This
 would be fine, except that the warning dialogs didn't speak, nor did
 the buttons needed to deal with them. The only reason I know they were
 there is because my sighted husband helped me with them. Is there
 anything I can do to make these types of dialog boxes speak should I
 run into a similar situation in the future?

 Thanks,
 Anna


 


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Podcasting patented

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Blouch

Since a large amount of traffic on this list involves various folks 
sharing good info through podcasts I though you might be interested in 
this article about volomedia getting a patent on podcasting. Of course 
most of the discussion I've seen has revolved around lots of prior art 
that should have nullified the patent, but none of that has been proven 
in court yet.

http://newteevee.com/2009/07/29/volomedia-awarded-the-patent-for-podcasting/

CB

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Re: Finder warning dialogs not speaking

2009-07-30 Thread Marshall Scott

Anna,There are a couple of things you can check:

1. In Voiceover Utility, go to the Verbosity item and click on the  
Announcements tab.  Make sure the Automatically speak text in dialog  
boxes checkbox is checked.

2. In System Preferences, go to the Speech pane and select Text to  
Speech.  See if the Announce when alerts are displayed checkbox is  
checked.

HTH

Marsh


On Jul 30, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:


 I generally have not had a problem with these. They do not take focus,
 but you generally get a message saying Finder has a new window.
 Sometimes there are groups that you need to interact with that VO
 just says Unknown.  I don't think Leopard has any in the system
 software, but I did come across these occasionally when running Tiger.

 Jon

 On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:


 Hi,

 I moved a portable drive while copying some items to it, and it got
 disconnected. When I tried to do other things with Finder, I got
 warning messages saying the operation couldn't be completed. This
 would be fine, except that the warning dialogs didn't speak, nor did
 the buttons needed to deal with them. The only reason I know they  
 were
 there is because my sighted husband helped me with them. Is there
 anything I can do to make these types of dialog boxes speak should I
 run into a similar situation in the future?

 Thanks,
 Anna





 



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Re: american braille

2009-07-30 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen

Hi.

I am also interested in how to make danish braille for my mac. Where
is the tables located on the mac, and how is the tables made. I found
a little about it on the internet, but it is not very good described.
I hope someone can help me.

Best regards Annie.

2009/7/30, Daniel K. Gartmann li...@danielgartmann.dk:

 Hi,

 Does this mean that it's possible to install a different table?

 If so, how is this done?

 I would like to use Danish braille but Apple so far has not been very
 forthcoming in this matter, so it would be great if I could just put it in
 myself on mhy own machine.

 Thanks

 Daniel


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 Sendt: 21. juli 2009 07:24
 Til: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
 Emne: Re: american braille


 Hello Anowk,

 Apple only provides American Braille, both contracted and uncontracted. My
 husband has provided French and Norwegian uncontracted Braille, but if you
 want Dutch Braille, please send me the code and my husband will provide it
 for you. We need the 8-dot patterns with the corresponding unicode symbol
 list.

 Cheers,

 Anne


 On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:00 AM, a radix wrote:



 Hi, I only tried the imac briefly in the apple store last week, but it can
 it be possible that it runs american braille? I dont mean the braille table,
 i sometimes use an american brialle table myself but I eman braille in
 general. I once got a brailleletter from the states and found it difficult
 to read, so I am guessing european and american braille mightr be different.
 Greetings, Anouk,









 


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Re: Finder warning dialogs not speaking

2009-07-30 Thread Woody Anna Dresner

Hi Marshall,

I had no idea about those text to speech options in System  
Preferences. Thanks so much - I bet checking the alert options will  
help a lot.

best,
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Format Utility

2009-07-30 Thread Keith Bucher

Hello,

Is there a program that runs under Windows that will format an
external USB drive in Mac OS format?



Keith

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Re: Format Utility

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Chesworth

Hi Keith,

Macdrive from www.mediafour.com can do this.  It's a paid for product,
but if you only need to do this once the trial version should do the
job.

There's usually about 1000 different ways of skinning each cat, so if
it's not urgent wait a while and see what else the list comes back
with, might be a free alternative that's as reliable and rhobust.

Hth
Scott

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 Hello,

 Is there a program that runs under Windows that will format an
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virtual Windows keeps requiring login

2009-07-30 Thread Woody Anna Dresner

Hi,

I'm running Windows XP via Fusion. If I switch away from it for a  
while, it requires that I log in before I can start using it again. I  
checked the Power settings in Control Panel, and it's set to never  
power off disks and never go into system standby. I also unchecked the  
Prompt for Password when computer returns from Standby check box. Is  
there something I need to do in Fusion as well?

Thanks,
Anna


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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Baxter

I haven't been to the site, because I just woke up, but if AudioQuake  
is not featured and highly praised on this site, I will be sorely  
disappointed.  Audio Quake, from
http://www.agrip.org.uk/
is, from what I've seen, still the best audio game ever devised.  The  
only first-person shooter game that is not a side-scrolling two- 
dimensional only game, its basic design was vastly improved upon by  
Cara Quinn and others in 2007-2008.  Look upon this game, ye blind,  
and enjoy. :)


Mark BurningHawk

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MSN:  burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstader

I don't know of this game or if it's on audiogames.com but I'm sure  
those guys would add it if it isn't already there.

If you're looking for first person shooter, David Greenwood's Shades  
of Doom is amazing on Windows.  He has some other 3D games that are  
masterfully crafted as well and all have free demo versions.

Being a theorist and former VP of Software at Freedom Scientific (I  
left almost five years ago) I have been working with some other  
egghead types to figure out how a game can use 32 simultaneous audio  
tracks without overwhelming the user but a screen reader can only  
provide a syllable, a pause or a beep at a time.  Why can't we build  
systems that exploit 3D audio for productivity and academic/scholastic  
purposes?

I published an article in AFB's Access World on What Screen Readers  
can Learn from Audio Games a few years back.  If you are interested  
in a lay version of this new science, read that piece as it covers a  
lot in a relatively short read.

Happy Hacking,
cdh




On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Mark Baxter wrote:


 I haven't been to the site, because I just woke up, but if AudioQuake
 is not featured and highly praised on this site, I will be sorely
 disappointed.  Audio Quake, from
 http://www.agrip.org.uk/
 is, from what I've seen, still the best audio game ever devised.  The
 only first-person shooter game that is not a side-scrolling two-
 dimensional only game, its basic design was vastly improved upon by
 Cara Quinn and others in 2007-2008.  Look upon this game, ye blind,
 and enjoy. :)


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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Buddy Brannan

Yeesh, is there ever a time you're not complaining about something?  
I'm just sayin'.
On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:35 AM, william lomas wrote:


   Hi I am upset that alex is not used on the i phone. I would ahve
 thought apple would want to incorporate alex, as it gives the best
 quality
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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Alex Jurgensen

Hi,
Will,

I think it is under Advanced in Safari Preferences. You have to enable  
the Develop menu and it is under there.

Regards,
Alex,


On 30-Jul-09, at 1:04 AM, william lomas wrote:


   hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething


 


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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Matthew Elliff

hi. i'm just curious. how do you change the voice in the iphone in
case i wanted to hear what they're like? can't find this anywhere.

On 7/30/09, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

 Hello Will and anyone else interested in changing a voice on the iPhone,

 Have you tried the other English-language voices? I use the British
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A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Christian

Hi all,
i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already been asked but i 
just want to know.
Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been using a Windows 
mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the actual phone on 
like the calendar and so on?
Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
Many thanks,
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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread Randy Stegall

William, in safari's preferences you can check the checkbox for show  
develop menu in menu bar.

Hth,

Randy


On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:17 AM, william lomas wrote:


 develop menu has gone

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:14, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Hi will,

 Go to menus in Safari and under develop menu, find user agent submenu
 and it is there.

 By the way, did you mean to send your query to the macvisionaries
 list? It came to my private mailbox.

 Best, Simon
 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:04, william lomas wrote:


 hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
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Re: SV: american braille

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniel,

On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote:
 Does this mean that it's possible to install a different table?

 If so, how is this done?

 I would like to use Danish braille but Apple so far has not been  
 very forthcoming in this matter, so it would be great if I could  
 just put it in myself on mhy own machine.
To add a Braille table, you need to have the dot patterns and their  
related Unicode characters. These have to be incorporated into a  
Conversions table.

If you could send me the Danish uncontracted Braille code, my husband  
can make a Danish Braille table for you. He's already made French and  
Norwegian tables. Unfortunately, he hasn't yet managed to work out how  
to make contracted Braille work for other languages.

Please send any Braille codes to:
cons...@anarchie.org.uk

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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Baxter

I really wonder why no one's heard of AudioQuake with MindGrid.  The  
project has somewhat stalled out over the past two years, but the  
Jedi Quake, version, written by Cara Quinn and others, is the best  
3D audio simulation I've seen.  I can't speak for the parallel- 
processing  audio capacity of the brain, but immediately this game and  
its maps made me start thinking about mobility orientation,  
applications.  Having only ever encountered a mobility orienting  
instructor for the first time in memory last year, I don't know much  
about how most blind people do it, but I'm sure my skills aren't that  
different from the norm, and I saw implications for map-making and  
environment-learning, which is where I wanted to go with apps for the  
Iphone.  I still have a Windows laptop running XP; I'll check out  
shades of doom.


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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Matthew Elliff

ah ok thanks. i'll have to see what that's like.

On 7/30/09, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

 Hello Matthew,

 On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Matthew Elliff wrote:
 how do you change the voice in the iphone in
 case i wanted to hear what they're like? can't find this anywhere.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There are
 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

 Cheers,

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Re: Emulate

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

thanks randy and all all working
you rock

On 30 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Randy Stegall wrote:


 William, in safari's preferences you can check the checkbox for show
 develop menu in menu bar.

 Hth,

 Randy


 On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:17 AM, william lomas wrote:


 develop menu has gone

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:14, Simon Cavendish wrote:


 Hi will,

 Go to menus in Safari and under develop menu, find user agent  
 submenu
 and it is there.

 By the way, did you mean to send your query to the macvisionaries
 list? It came to my private mailbox.

 Best, Simon
 On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:04, william lomas wrote:


 hi how do I emulate another browser in safari for certain sites?
 I am using 4.0.2 but can't fin the option to tricking sites into
 thinking safari is IE or osmething











 


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Re: A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

i think the phone and PDA functions are all as one but I could be wrong
WIll

On 30 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Christian wrote:


 Hi all,
 i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already been  
 asked but i just want to know.
 Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been using  
 a Windows mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
 Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the actual  
 phone on like the calendar and so on?
 Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
 Many thanks,
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searching

2009-07-30 Thread louie

Hi all,
How do I search for all files within a folder with a particular  
extension?
Thanks you for any help.

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question about teathering with an iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Mickey Quenzer

Hello all:

I am considering getting an Iphone.  I would replace an ATT 8525 which 
I currently have with ATT.

I would like to have a couple of questions answered please!


1. Can you tether an Iphone to a laptop?

2. Can the Iphone be used as a wireless router?

I am needing to have internet on a computer at church and want to use 
the 3G network connection.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

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Re: searching

2009-07-30 Thread Esther

Hi Louie,

louie wrote:

 How do I search for all files within a folder with a particular
 extension?
In Finder, start off at the folder you want to search (e.g., navigate  
there by selecting places in the sidebar and your arrow keys, or by  
using standard shortcuts for specific folders like Command-Shift-D for  
Desktop, Command-Shift A for Applications, Command-Shift-H for Home,  
etc., or by using Go to Folder Command-Shift-G and typing the path,  
which could be to an external hard drive).  Then go to the search  
field in the toolbar (I use Command-Option-F, but you can navigate  
with your arrow keys, etc.).  Type in a search term, stop interacting  
with the tool bar (VO-Shift-Up arrow).  Then VO-Right arrow to the  
table. You'll now hear Search This Mac Your Folder Contents  
File name.  Your Folder will be the selected radio button.  Your  
search term will be matched to any of the contents entries, which  
could be name or kind.  You can press the File name button to match  
file name.  VO-Right arrow past the file name to the + button and  
press it (VO-Space) to get pop up buttons for more search terms like  
Name ends with and type in your argument. You can add more  
selections by continuing to VO-Right arrow and press the + button,  
then add arguments like Kind is Music or Last Modified Date is  
within the last 2 days, etc.  When you finish adding rules, VO- 
right arrow to the table of results, interact, and examine the  
selections.

HTH

Cheers,

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Re: question about teathering with an iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Blouch

 From what I've heard tethering is a feature supported or not by the 
carrier, not a limitation of the iphone. In the US ATT is the only 
carrier and they do not allow tethering. That said there are iphone apps 
(for now) which allow you to share your iphone data connection out as a 
wifi hot spot which you could then connect to via your laptop. Here is 
one article about that:

http://lifehacker.com/5086490/the-best-way-to-tether-your-iphone-to-your-laptop-for-free

CB

Mickey Quenzer wrote:
 Hello all:

 I am considering getting an Iphone.  I would replace an ATT 8525 which 
 I currently have with ATT.

 I would like to have a couple of questions answered please!


 1. Can you tether an Iphone to a laptop?

 2. Can the Iphone be used as a wireless router?

 I am needing to have internet on a computer at church and want to use 
 the 3G network connection.

 Any help with this would be appreciated.

   

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Re[2]: A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Christian

Hi,
I will only be able to try it in the store so let's hope it will work.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2009-07-30 at 14:05 Chris Blouch wrote:

Right. AFAIK there is no built in training so start reading through 
those online tutorials and listening to podcasts before you go. Note 
that the typical way to get VO turned on is to sync the phone with a mac 
that has VO turned on. Otherwise you'll need sighted assistance to turn 
it on in the preferences. When I first went to the ATT store here the 
demo units were not VO enabled. That makes some sense since it makes the 
gestures different and most potential customers will want the silent 
version.

CB

Christian wrote:
 Hi Chris,
 Many thanks for that info.
 We'll see how i like the iPhone tomorrow. When I turn on voiceOver for
the first time, there is no training mode it just starts speaking and you
are in the accessibility menu of the phone?
 Many thanks,
 Christian

 On 2009-07-30 at 12:53 Chris Blouch wrote:

   
 So you're asking about whether you can disable incoming/outbound
calling 
 but still used the other features? If so then you are probably talking 
 about 'airplane mode' which turns off the wireless functions of your 
 phone. You can also turn wifi back on in airplane mode but you can't do 
 bluetooth.

 Voice memo records in the lossless m4a only so if you need something 
 else you'll need to convert it after synching it to itunes or the like 
 or use a different recording app. One review reccommended something 
 called Retronyms but I don't know how accessible it is.

 CB

 Christian wrote:
 
 Hi all,
 i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already been
   
 asked but i just want to know.
 
 Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been using a
   
 Windows mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
 
 Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the actual
   
 phone on like the calendar and so on?
 
 Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
 Many thanks,
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Re: A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Right. AFAIK there is no built in training so start reading through 
those online tutorials and listening to podcasts before you go. Note 
that the typical way to get VO turned on is to sync the phone with a mac 
that has VO turned on. Otherwise you'll need sighted assistance to turn 
it on in the preferences. When I first went to the ATT store here the 
demo units were not VO enabled. That makes some sense since it makes the 
gestures different and most potential customers will want the silent 
version.

CB

Christian wrote:
 Hi Chris,
 Many thanks for that info.
 We'll see how i like the iPhone tomorrow. When I turn on voiceOver for the 
 first time, there is no training mode it just starts speaking and you are in 
 the accessibility menu of the phone?
 Many thanks,
 Christian

 On 2009-07-30 at 12:53 Chris Blouch wrote:

   
 So you're asking about whether you can disable incoming/outbound calling 
 but still used the other features? If so then you are probably talking 
 about 'airplane mode' which turns off the wireless functions of your 
 phone. You can also turn wifi back on in airplane mode but you can't do 
 bluetooth.

 Voice memo records in the lossless m4a only so if you need something 
 else you'll need to convert it after synching it to itunes or the like 
 or use a different recording app. One review reccommended something 
 called Retronyms but I don't know how accessible it is.

 CB

 Christian wrote:
 
 Hi all,
 i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already been
   
 asked but i just want to know.
 
 Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been using a
   
 Windows mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
 
 Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the actual
   
 phone on like the calendar and so on?
 
 Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
 Many thanks,
 Christian


   
   
 
 





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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Peggy Fleischer

I LIKE THE AUSTRALIAN VOICE. IT'S NICE AND CLEAR.

Peggy Fleischer
peggyfleisc...@bellsouth.net

Jude 1:24  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to  
present you
faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
1:25  To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty,  
Dominion
and power, Both now and forever. Amen.


On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:


 Hello Matthew,

 On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Matthew Elliff wrote:
 how do you change the voice in the iphone in
 case i wanted to hear what they're like? can't find this anywhere.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There are
 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

 Cheers,

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searching

2009-07-30 Thread louie

Ester,
This is very cool and it works to good. I just want to search the  
folder that I am in and not subfolders of the folder that I am in.

louie
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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Donna Goodin

Just curious, does changing to a different regional voice impact any  
of the other region settings?
Donna

On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Peggy Fleischer wrote:


 I LIKE THE AUSTRALIAN VOICE. IT'S NICE AND CLEAR.

 Peggy Fleischer
 peggyfleisc...@bellsouth.net

 Jude 1:24  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to
 present you
 faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
 1:25  To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty,
 Dominion
 and power, Both now and forever. Amen.


 On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:


 Hello Matthew,

 On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Matthew Elliff wrote:
 how do you change the voice in the iphone in
 case i wanted to hear what they're like? can't find this anywhere.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There are
 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

 Cheers,

 Anne





 



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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Buddy Brannan

I'm told that the date format is affected by the regional settings, so  
if you're a north American and change to UK (perhaps Oz as well?),  
you'll get European date format, i.e. day/month/year. I actually  
prefer this, so no big deal to me.

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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Robertson

Hello Donna,

On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:


 Just curious, does changing to a different regional voice impact any
 of the other region settings?
Not as far as I can tell. I'm in France and use the UK setting for the  
voice some of the time, and the French voice at others, but nothing  
else seems to change,

Cheers,

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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread william lomas

oh so changing the region will just change the voice not the language  
of the whole OS

On 30 Jul 2009, at 20:25, Anne Robertson wrote:


 Hello Donna,

 On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:


 Just curious, does changing to a different regional voice impact any
 of the other region settings?
 Not as far as I can tell. I'm in France and use the UK setting for the
 voice some of the time, and the French voice at others, but nothing
 else seems to change,

 Cheers,

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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstader

Including the two textbook chapters (one entirely on games and another  
with a portion on audio games), a couple of peer reviewed articles on  
the matter, a pile of blog articles (http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com 
)  and the odd item here and there, I have studied a handful of audio  
games in depth, fooled around with a few others and talked to a lot of  
their authors but the breadth of my knowledge is far more narrow than  
a dozen hardcore gamers I know and rely on for brief descriptions for  
new entries  so I can quickly ascertain how they may move the science  
in a new and/or different and interesting direction.

As I said this morning, I am far too boring to actually build a real  
game and, when you scratch beyond the surface, you will find that  
first and for mostly, I think about putting technology in the hands of  
blinks that will provide them with the tools they may choose to employ  
in a job or school situation.


If you are interested in mixing sound and tactile feedback, get a look  
at a Falcon 3D tactile controller.  I think they have an SDK for Mac  
and they do .5 mm tactile resolution (most humans can feel no better  
than .1 mm) so you can do extraordinary things with this device and  
they only cost about $ 100 (really).

I like the idea of using the iPhone for orientation and to provide  
information about one's surroundings.  I'm not especially impressed by  
the iPhone's Maps application but its location services are pretty  
excellent.  I thought of this while walking through Harvard Yard after  
lunch today and wondered how a student new to the university would  
find the library as opposed to the historical center next door as none  
of these buildings have traditional street addresses and are arrived  
at by foot paths.  Your idea could give a student a lot of good  
information and can be used as a fallback if they get confused.

Cool idea.
cdh















On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:


 I really wonder why no one's heard of AudioQuake with MindGrid.  The
 project has somewhat stalled out over the past two years, but the
 Jedi Quake, version, written by Cara Quinn and others, is the best
 3D audio simulation I've seen.  I can't speak for the parallel-
 processing  audio capacity of the brain, but immediately this game and
 its maps made me start thinking about mobility orientation,
 applications.  Having only ever encountered a mobility orienting
 instructor for the first time in memory last year, I don't know much
 about how most blind people do it, but I'm sure my skills aren't that
 different from the norm, and I saw implications for map-making and
 environment-learning, which is where I wanted to go with apps for the
 Iphone.  I still have a Windows laptop running XP; I'll check out
 shades of doom.


 Mark BurningHawk

 Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
 MSN:  burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
 My home page:
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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Blouch
I've heard there is a lot more to spacial placement than just fiddling 
with the pan to adjust volume levels. At least this seems obvious to me 
when a little pan to the left makes the sound fly way off to the left of 
the sound field. Probably a lot more going on in the ear that isn't 
fooled by that trick. So, that said, do you have any idea if the 
VoiceOver positional audio is doing real sound field magic or is it just 
a subtle pan?

One underrated feature on the new iPhone is the compass. With this an 
application can not only know where you are but also which way you (or 
at least your phone) is pointed. This makes possible real walking 
directions from where you're at using left and right rather than 
assuming the user has their cardinal orientation correct. Even feedback 
to say what is in front of you in the direction you are pointing. Should 
be good things coming.

CB

Chris Hofstader wrote:
 Including the two textbook chapters (one entirely on games and another  
 with a portion on audio games), a couple of peer reviewed articles on  
 the matter, a pile of blog articles 
 (http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com 
 )  and the odd item here and there, I have studied a handful of audio  
 games in depth, fooled around with a few others and talked to a lot of  
 their authors but the breadth of my knowledge is far more narrow than  
 a dozen hardcore gamers I know and rely on for brief descriptions for  
 new entries  so I can quickly ascertain how they may move the science  
 in a new and/or different and interesting direction.

 As I said this morning, I am far too boring to actually build a real  
 game and, when you scratch beyond the surface, you will find that  
 first and for mostly, I think about putting technology in the hands of  
 blinks that will provide them with the tools they may choose to employ  
 in a job or school situation.


 If you are interested in mixing sound and tactile feedback, get a look  
 at a Falcon 3D tactile controller.  I think they have an SDK for Mac  
 and they do .5 mm tactile resolution (most humans can feel no better  
 than .1 mm) so you can do extraordinary things with this device and  
 they only cost about $ 100 (really).

 I like the idea of using the iPhone for orientation and to provide  
 information about one's surroundings.  I'm not especially impressed by  
 the iPhone's Maps application but its location services are pretty  
 excellent.  I thought of this while walking through Harvard Yard after  
 lunch today and wondered how a student new to the university would  
 find the library as opposed to the historical center next door as none  
 of these buildings have traditional street addresses and are arrived  
 at by foot paths.  Your idea could give a student a lot of good  
 information and can be used as a fallback if they get confused.

 Cool idea.
 cdh















 On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:

   
 I really wonder why no one's heard of AudioQuake with MindGrid.  The
 project has somewhat stalled out over the past two years, but the
 Jedi Quake, version, written by Cara Quinn and others, is the best
 3D audio simulation I've seen.  I can't speak for the parallel-
 processing  audio capacity of the brain, but immediately this game and
 its maps made me start thinking about mobility orientation,
 applications.  Having only ever encountered a mobility orienting
 instructor for the first time in memory last year, I don't know much
 about how most blind people do it, but I'm sure my skills aren't that
 different from the norm, and I saw implications for map-making and
 environment-learning, which is where I wanted to go with apps for the
 Iphone.  I still have a Windows laptop running XP; I'll check out
 shades of doom.


 Mark BurningHawk

 Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
 MSN:  burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
 My home page:
 http://MarkBurningHawk.net/


 


 
   

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Re[2]: A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Christian

Hi,
OK, any good tutorial or podcast i may listen to?



On 2009-07-30 at 17:10 Chris Blouch wrote:

Well, with voiceover on you can then follow the instructions here to 
turn it back off:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3577

CB

Christian wrote:
 Hi,
 OK, but how do i close an application so that i can turn voiceover off
before I leave the store? smile. Don't know what they will say if i leave
that on, hahaha.


 On 2009-07-30 at 16:12 Chris Hofstader wrote:

   
 Turning the iPhone to Aircraft mode will turn off all wireless  
 activity including the phone.  If you want Blue Tooth, WiFi or 3G,  
 though, I think the phone needs to be on as well.
 On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:37 PM, william lomas wrote:

 
 i think the phone and PDA functions are all as one but I could be  
 wrong
 WIll

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Christian wrote:

   
 Hi all,
 i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already been
 asked but i just want to know.
 Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been using
 a Windows mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
 Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the actual
 phone on like the calendar and so on?
 Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
 Many thanks,
 Christian


 
   

 









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Re: something is a miss here.

2009-07-30 Thread Esther

Hi Erik,

One quick question: when you run Disk Utility what reading do you get  
when you select the hard drive above Macintosh HD on the sidebar?   
That is, when you VO-Up arrow to something that says (for example,  
232.9 GB Fujitsu etc.)  Use item chooser menu to go to selected disk  
image and then VO-Right arrow and interact with the part that begins  
Disk Description.  There should be an announcement of S.M.A.R.T.  
Status:  Does it say verified after that announcement?

You can sometimes recover from this with Alsoft's Disk Warrior but  
there are accessibility issues running from the DVD, I think.  If it's  
on a cloned disk you can run it on your home disk drive through the  
clone. If you have a local Apple Store nearby, they can probably run  
this as a diagnostic on your hard drive.  They might be willing to go  
ahead and run it on your hard drive if you bought a copy of the  
software from the store (though it's slightly cheaper from the web  
download.)  And you should probably have a new hard drive to copy to  
before things get seriously worse and unrecoverable. Disk Warrior does  
work to recover in instances such as you describe, although given the  
circumstances I would ask at my local Apple Store and try to have them  
run this.  I'm sure that every Genius bar has a copy of this.  They  
can run the diagnosis for you even if they won't run the recovery.   
You should know that there is a possibility of introducing problems in  
doing the recover mode, but in most instances it just works, and the  
problems are minimal.  In that case, if your disk has really gone  
south the amount of work you'd have to do to get the problem areas  
fully recovered without these glitches is quite major, and probably  
beyond your scope.  Disk Warrior does work very well, although I  
haven't had to use it for quite a while -- since first upgrading to  
Leopard.

Cheers,

Esther

erik burggraaf wrote:


 Hi friends.  I think something is rong with my apple hardware.

 3 or four weeks ago I started having checksums fail when I coppied
 things across the network from my old turion notebook to the macbook
 here.

 I thought it might be the disc on the other machine failing.  It is 4
 or 5 years old now after all.  But I've also noticed I can't run
 digital voices like alex or ryan any more.  The system doesn't stand
 for it.  Even when I'm using fred or bruce vo restarts often, programs
 hang, and some times the whole system seems to go dead for a minute,
 the dvd drive resets, and then the system comes back to life as if
 nothing had happened.

 Yesterday I loaded up my windows vm here and tried to mac catalog my
 music folder and the wimdows system told me some fo the files couldn't
 be read.  I repaired the permissions on my drive, but I checked the
 log thuroughly and nothing in my home folder had corupt permissions.

 I did a verify disc on the hard drive and everything came back OK,
 even though I sorely suspect that not to be the case.  So, I loaded up
 off the cd and tried the varify, and it still says everything is OK.
 I suspect though that the hitacci hard drive in my macbook pro is
 failing.  Is there any recorse for me somewhere in between disc
 utility from the install cd and dropping my macbook off at the apple
 store for a couple of days?  A hitacci diagnostic that runs on mac
 OS10 for example, or another more thurough apple friendly third party
 diagnostic?

 Thanks,

 erik burggraaf
 A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
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Re: A question about iPhone

2009-07-30 Thread Esther
Hi Chris,

Thanks for that link.  I didn't know there were Apple Knowledge Base  
instructions for turning VoiceOver Off on the iPhone 3GS.  When I  
tried the iPhone 3GS and VoiceOver for the first time in the Apple  
Store, I stuck on the gesture for scrolling down to the accessibility  
screen (so that I could turn VoiceOver off before I left), and had to  
google the iPhone manual and read up on the three-finger scrolling  
gesture.  Good thing it was easy to look this up on any Apple computer!

Cheers,

Esther

Chris Blouch wrote:

 Well, with voiceover on you can then follow the instructions here to  
 turn it back off:

 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3577

 CB

 Christian wrote:

 Hi,
 OK, but how do i close an application so that i can turn voiceover  
 off before I leave the store? smile. Don't know what they will say  
 if i leave that on, hahaha.


 On 2009-07-30 at 16:12 Chris Hofstader wrote:


 Turning the iPhone to Aircraft mode will turn off all wireless
 activity including the phone.  If you want Blue Tooth, WiFi or 3G,
 though, I think the phone needs to be on as well.
 On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:37 PM, william lomas wrote:


 i think the phone and PDA functions are all as one but I could be
 wrong
 WIll

 On 30 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Christian wrote:


 Hi all,
 i have just subscribed to this list and maybe this has already  
 been
 asked but i just want to know.
 Tomorrow I am going to have a look at the iPhone. I have been  
 using
 a Windows mobile phone for some time now and have a few questions.
 Is it possible to use the phones features without turning the  
 actual
 phone on like the calendar and so on?
 Also, in the voicememo, is it possible to change recording format?
 Many thanks,
 Christian










 


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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Fonzie,

On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Fonzie wrote:
 Where would one find the extra english voices?   Was curious about
 them and what was offered.

I posted this reply just a few hours ago, but here it is again.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,  
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There are  
 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

I tried a few other countries, but they all gave me the US voice.

Cheers,

Anne


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Re[2]: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Christian

Hi anne,
an you try swedish? it should speak swedish but i just want to be sure.
many thanks,
Christian


On 2009-07-31 at 01:18 Anne Robertson wrote:

Hello Fonzie,

On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Fonzie wrote:
 Where would one find the extra english voices?   Was curious about
 them and what was offered.

I posted this reply just a few hours ago, but here it is again.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,  
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There are  
 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

I tried a few other countries, but they all gave me the US voice.

Cheers,

Anne






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Re: something is a miss here.

2009-07-30 Thread ben mustill-rose

Before you or anyone else does anything, make sure that you've cloaned
your drive. Software wise, hsf is some what of a nightmair to recover
files from so before any data recovery apps try and mess with
anything, its important that you have an at least partially working
copy of your harddrive stored someware.

On 30/07/2009, erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote:

 Hi, thanks for all this.  Smart status does in deed say varified.

 Do you remember off hand how much the apple store might charge me for
 disc warrier?  I'm looking it up on the apple store online now, but if
 it's not expensive, say, under the $100 mark, I might just buy it from
 the apple store and let the geneus handle it.

 Best,

 erik burggraaf
 A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
 Phone: 888-255-5194
 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com

 On 30-Jul-09, at 5:33 PM, Esther wrote:


 Hi Erik,

 One quick question: when you run Disk Utility what reading do you get
 when you select the hard drive above Macintosh HD on the sidebar?
 That is, when you VO-Up arrow to something that says (for example,
 232.9 GB Fujitsu etc.)  Use item chooser menu to go to selected disk
 image and then VO-Right arrow and interact with the part that begins
 Disk Description.  There should be an announcement of S.M.A.R.T.
 Status:  Does it say verified after that announcement?

 You can sometimes recover from this with Alsoft's Disk Warrior but
 there are accessibility issues running from the DVD, I think.  If it's
 on a cloned disk you can run it on your home disk drive through the
 clone. If you have a local Apple Store nearby, they can probably run
 this as a diagnostic on your hard drive.  They might be willing to go
 ahead and run it on your hard drive if you bought a copy of the
 software from the store (though it's slightly cheaper from the web
 download.)  And you should probably have a new hard drive to copy to
 before things get seriously worse and unrecoverable. Disk Warrior does
 work to recover in instances such as you describe, although given the
 circumstances I would ask at my local Apple Store and try to have them
 run this.  I'm sure that every Genius bar has a copy of this.  They
 can run the diagnosis for you even if they won't run the recovery.
 You should know that there is a possibility of introducing problems in
 doing the recover mode, but in most instances it just works, and the
 problems are minimal.  In that case, if your disk has really gone
 south the amount of work you'd have to do to get the problem areas
 fully recovered without these glitches is quite major, and probably
 beyond your scope.  Disk Warrior does work very well, although I
 haven't had to use it for quite a while -- since first upgrading to
 Leopard.

 Cheers,

 Esther

 erik burggraaf wrote:


 Hi friends.  I think something is rong with my apple hardware.

 3 or four weeks ago I started having checksums fail when I coppied
 things across the network from my old turion notebook to the macbook
 here.

 I thought it might be the disc on the other machine failing.  It is 4
 or 5 years old now after all.  But I've also noticed I can't run
 digital voices like alex or ryan any more.  The system doesn't stand
 for it.  Even when I'm using fred or bruce vo restarts often,
 programs
 hang, and some times the whole system seems to go dead for a minute,
 the dvd drive resets, and then the system comes back to life as if
 nothing had happened.

 Yesterday I loaded up my windows vm here and tried to mac catalog my
 music folder and the wimdows system told me some fo the files
 couldn't
 be read.  I repaired the permissions on my drive, but I checked the
 log thuroughly and nothing in my home folder had corupt permissions.

 I did a verify disc on the hard drive and everything came back OK,
 even though I sorely suspect that not to be the case.  So, I loaded
 up
 off the cd and tried the varify, and it still says everything is OK.
 I suspect though that the hitacci hard drive in my macbook pro is
 failing.  Is there any recorse for me somewhere in between disc
 utility from the install cd and dropping my macbook off at the apple
 store for a couple of days?  A hitacci diagnostic that runs on mac
 OS10 for example, or another more thurough apple friendly third party
 diagnostic?

 Thanks,

 erik burggraaf
 A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
 Phone: 888-255-5194
 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com





 


 



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Re: something is a miss here.

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Howell

I imagine Apple will charge the same as the vendor online, $99.95.   
Ironically, I found a message someone had sent to another list about  
this product and it apparently is the real deal.  So, I'm giving some  
thought to purchasing it myself.  I've been very lucky in that I have  
not lost any drives and I do have backups, but there is always that  
one chance and with a kid, well, hell, anything is possible.
On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:05 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:


 Before you or anyone else does anything, make sure that you've cloaned
 your drive. Software wise, hsf is some what of a nightmair to recover
 files from so before any data recovery apps try and mess with
 anything, its important that you have an at least partially working
 copy of your harddrive stored someware.

 On 30/07/2009, erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote:

 Hi, thanks for all this.  Smart status does in deed say varified.

 Do you remember off hand how much the apple store might charge me for
 disc warrier?  I'm looking it up on the apple store online now, but  
 if
 it's not expensive, say, under the $100 mark, I might just buy it  
 from
 the apple store and let the geneus handle it.

 Best,

 erik burggraaf
 A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
 Phone: 888-255-5194
 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com

 On 30-Jul-09, at 5:33 PM, Esther wrote:


 Hi Erik,

 One quick question: when you run Disk Utility what reading do you  
 get
 when you select the hard drive above Macintosh HD on the sidebar?
 That is, when you VO-Up arrow to something that says (for example,
 232.9 GB Fujitsu etc.)  Use item chooser menu to go to selected  
 disk
 image and then VO-Right arrow and interact with the part that  
 begins
 Disk Description.  There should be an announcement of S.M.A.R.T.
 Status:  Does it say verified after that announcement?

 You can sometimes recover from this with Alsoft's Disk Warrior but
 there are accessibility issues running from the DVD, I think.  If  
 it's
 on a cloned disk you can run it on your home disk drive through the
 clone. If you have a local Apple Store nearby, they can probably run
 this as a diagnostic on your hard drive.  They might be willing to  
 go
 ahead and run it on your hard drive if you bought a copy of the
 software from the store (though it's slightly cheaper from the web
 download.)  And you should probably have a new hard drive to copy to
 before things get seriously worse and unrecoverable. Disk Warrior  
 does
 work to recover in instances such as you describe, although given  
 the
 circumstances I would ask at my local Apple Store and try to have  
 them
 run this.  I'm sure that every Genius bar has a copy of this.  They
 can run the diagnosis for you even if they won't run the recovery.
 You should know that there is a possibility of introducing  
 problems in
 doing the recover mode, but in most instances it just works, and the
 problems are minimal.  In that case, if your disk has really gone
 south the amount of work you'd have to do to get the problem areas
 fully recovered without these glitches is quite major, and probably
 beyond your scope.  Disk Warrior does work very well, although I
 haven't had to use it for quite a while -- since first upgrading to
 Leopard.

 Cheers,

 Esther

 erik burggraaf wrote:


 Hi friends.  I think something is rong with my apple hardware.

 3 or four weeks ago I started having checksums fail when I coppied
 things across the network from my old turion notebook to the  
 macbook
 here.

 I thought it might be the disc on the other machine failing.  It  
 is 4
 or 5 years old now after all.  But I've also noticed I can't run
 digital voices like alex or ryan any more.  The system doesn't  
 stand
 for it.  Even when I'm using fred or bruce vo restarts often,
 programs
 hang, and some times the whole system seems to go dead for a  
 minute,
 the dvd drive resets, and then the system comes back to life as if
 nothing had happened.

 Yesterday I loaded up my windows vm here and tried to mac catalog  
 my
 music folder and the wimdows system told me some fo the files
 couldn't
 be read.  I repaired the permissions on my drive, but I checked the
 log thuroughly and nothing in my home folder had corupt  
 permissions.

 I did a verify disc on the hard drive and everything came back OK,
 even though I sorely suspect that not to be the case.  So, I loaded
 up
 off the cd and tried the varify, and it still says everything is  
 OK.
 I suspect though that the hitacci hard drive in my macbook pro is
 failing.  Is there any recorse for me somewhere in between disc
 utility from the install cd and dropping my macbook off at the  
 apple
 store for a couple of days?  A hitacci diagnostic that runs on mac
 OS10 for example, or another more thurough apple friendly third  
 party
 diagnostic?

 Thanks,

 erik burggraaf
 A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
 Phone: 888-255-5194
 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com












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Re: don't like the voice on the i phone

2009-07-30 Thread Fonzie
Thanks for the information Ann.

Was amazed to find a lot of languages there.  Preetty neat if you ask  
me.

Take care of yourself.

Fonzie

On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:

 Hello Fonzie,

 On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Fonzie wrote:
 Where would one find the extra english voices?   Was curious about
 them and what was offered.

 I posted this reply just a few hours ago, but here it is again.
 Go to Settings, then General, then International, and finally,  
 Region Format. There you'll find a long list of countries. There  
 are 3 English-language voices, US, UK, and Australia.

 I tried a few other countries, but they all gave me the US voice.

 Cheers,

 Anne


 


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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Yuma Decaux

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the amazing response and information pertaining to this
indeed very intriguing field. I can't get the concept out of my head
as this promises many new applications for the visually impaired
provided the technologies discussed herein are actually possible
within the API set of the iphone's SDK.
I agree that one of themoreimportant aspects of a true audio is
positional audio.
For the example of a audio based RPG/adventure game, the tactile
experience adding further dimension to the experience comparable to a
wii interface can be extremely satisfying as there is a contextual
assimilation of imaginary interpretations within the application.

I think i will document myself extensively on the iphone SDK and
figure some avenues yet to be explored for the blind community.

If anyone is interested in brainstorming over this subject, and if
anyone has some previous experience little or lots on the SDK, you can
contact me on skype as shainobi1 and triple7 for twitter.

Again, thank you so much for the varied responses and i hope this
discussion can generate some form ofdevelopement of a new gaming
experience in the future to come.

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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Baxter

Just to throw out the rest of my ideas for Iphone apps, what I'd  
really like to do is develop a way for blind people to build up a  
map, of their area/environment and, using the Iphone's inertial  
guidance capacity (accelerometer, compass, tilt meeter, GPS when  
available, etc.) to Place, a blind person on this map.  I've even  
thought about using RFID tags, if the Iphone can transceive at the  
right RF frequency, which a blind person could mark, their  
environment with.  This would allow the blind user to add various  
details to a larger map or build a separate one for inside buildings,  
etc., places where GPS doesn't reach yet.  Another direction to take  
this would be the use of 3D sound and brief sonic cues to get a sense  
of where a person is.  I haven't figured out yet whether the camera  
may be used to give additional cues, and all this depends upon the  
Iphone being held in a stable position, and I haven't even gotten into  
the SDK yet, so there's my brain storm, for what it's worth.


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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Baxter

Yes, the Iphone uses an OOP--in fact, from what I understand, you can  
program in anything--C++, for example, so yes; the architecture of the  
objects would have to swap data back and forth, but it's pretty  
modular.  One way around the processing load might be to establish a  
link back to the user's home computer--desktop, laptop, whatever,  
which might be able to do some of the work, depending on band width,  
comm reception, etc.  Thanks for the reading matter; I'm going to have  
to look into this further.  Since I don't have an Iphone, nor a job to  
generate the money for one, I'll have to find someone's Iphone to  
field test the stuff on; I intend to contact Apple about beta testing  
some stuff, too.  Right now, I'm sorta in a stuck mode, spinning my  
wheels (which makes my dog look at me funny), though. working on that,  
too...

Your description of tactile interface  between environmental  
components and the user leads me to wonder, How will the computer  
know to produce a splashing sound for water, or rustle of leaves for  
plants? That kind of pattern recognitions and intuitive guess work is  
far beyond anything I've ever seen done with a computer.  This is one  
of the major problems with an environment like Second Life, even  
with Max the Guide Dog's assistance; too hard to recognize ambiguous  
environmental components.  Definitely got some reading to do.


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Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Yuma Decaux

For the subtle interaction of tactile search and audio feedback of
components, i revert to shape actions i used a lot for interaction in
flash. The secret of monkey island used to be a comic 2d style of
graphics. I believe it has made the jump to 3d but wouldn't it
possible to associate a second layer comprised of rgb values to which
the area of tactile search would ignite a sound? I see a problem in
this as a game of the scale of monkey island (i term this game a lot
so that the discussion stays consistent) would be having a huge
library of predefined sounds from which the program would pick. But
when you are in a linear style of adventure gaming, there is so much
to cue oneself from.

I also have a lot to read on, and i also see a logistics issue which
needs to be adressed were i to get into this.

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Iphone and deleting gmail

2009-07-30 Thread Kim Carmichael
OK, I've done some research, and have figured some things out.  From what I
can tell, I am not getting messages in my inbox that I have already deleted.

 
First, I went to gmail's instructions for setting up an account on the
IPhone.  It told me to go to add account, which I did.  Because I always
read the instructions as a last result, I clicked on the gmail icon and
entered my gmail account info.  I went back to the instructions to see what
I needed to do next and found out that it instructed me not to click on the
gmail setup icon because e-mails would be handled differently if I did.  As
it turns out after reading further, e-mail works exactly as we want if you
use the automatic setup for gmail.  I tested this by sending myself an
e-mail to my gmail account.  I saw it in my Outlook gmail inbox as well as
on my IPhone.  I deleted the e-mail from my IPhone then looked at my Outlook
account.  What I found was that the e-mail went to the trash folder, which
will not reload in your inbox.  Those e-mails will stay in the trash for 30
days, at which time they will delete.  I'm thinking that maybe some people
actually followed the setup instructions and clicked on other instead of
the automatic gmail setup.  If that is the case, I would delete the account
and start over.  If this is not what happened, then I'm at a loss because
mine is working exactly as I want.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Kim
 

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