Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
Didn't the NFB or ACB kind of force Apple to develop a screen reader in line with the ADA? This may be something I just read and so is pure speculation. On 31/03/2015 00:56, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: I wonder what the catalyst was for Apple’s ultimate choice to develop their screen reader? The education sector? Government? The mythical two blind sons? Certainly the APIs are now available for the development of an AT solution, so it’s entirely possible, technically. But it doesn’t surprise me to learn that the Jobsian quest for perfection extended further back even than Apple’s introduction of their own usable screen reader, to the exclusion of others; I had not heard that story, and merely assumed that OS 9 was the choice of blind musicians (one of whom I knew) because it happened to be accessible with OutSpoken. Although I’m not complaining that I didn’t have to pay for VoiceOver, there’s something to be said for diversification when it actually has the effect of giving the customer what they ultimately desire. For my current weekly bash at Apple, see: http://www.applevis.com/forum/accessibility-advocacy/suggestion-report-accessibility-bug-friday Sometimes it’s the little things, sometimes not so little. I only started it recently, because I think the situation for Yosemite is particularly disturbing, but many of those niggles go back to the very beginning. And yes I think iOS is starting to feel the effects now as well. It’s very fortunate that none of these issues currently make the platforms unusable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Group The Tech Zone
Awesome. Just joined. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:34 AM Subject: Group The Tech Zone Hi all, I will try and stay as on topic as possible, but if you want to join a friendly group with members across the board, please join my group The Tech Zone. While this is a general technology group, I certainly welcome discussions pertaining to Mac and iOS devices and their operating systems. So to join please send a blank email to the-tech-zone+subscr...@groups.io Thank you, I look forward to seeing you on there! P.S. The web interface of Groups.io is certainly very accessible with VoiceOver! The developers have ensured the site meets at least basic accessibility standards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Group The Tech Zone
Hi all, I will try and stay as on topic as possible, but if you want to join a friendly group with members across the board, please join my group The Tech Zone. While this is a general technology group, I certainly welcome discussions pertaining to Mac and iOS devices and their operating systems. So to join please send a blank email to the-tech-zone+subscr...@groups.io Thank you, I look forward to seeing you on there! P.S. The web interface of Groups.io is certainly very accessible with VoiceOver! The developers have ensured the site meets at least basic accessibility standards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Help me decide: Ecto vs. Mars Edit
Is Ecto still under development? I thought it had stopped being developed years ago. /Krister 31 mar 2015 kl. 01:28 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com: Guys, I must admit that I am fairly familiar with the Mars Edit application, but when it comes to the Wordpress side of things, modifying, editting, and composing content, what really are the main differences between Mars Edit and Ecto, aside the obvious of price? Does one of them gain or lack more features than the other, or is it more just mainly a matter of user preference? I'm very very much willing to try out Ecto and see how much I like it in comparison, but I'm just wonderring if any of you have used Ecto, and maybe can give me some pointers as to the differences, should there be any. I know for a fact that both of them are totally 100% accessible. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net http://www.clgproductions.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
Hi, I was under the impression that Berkeley systems got bought by Alva and, this is my own theory, they, Alva were more interested in Outspoken for Windows than they were of the mac version. Am i correct in any of this? /Krister 30 mar 2015 kl. 21:53 skrev David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com: Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house. Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com mailto:fassl@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now. I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Voice Dream Reader - Bug in latest Version?
Hello everyone, One of my favourite apps, if not !the! favorite one, is Voice Dream Reader, which I use every day. I am using the latest version of the app which, according to the Help documentation is version 3.30. I am also using the latest version of iOS8 on an iPhone 6 with 64 GB. I seem to have found a bug in the program, and I am wondering if this list is the place for reporting bugs in specific apps. The bug I seem to have encountered is with looking up words. In earlier versions, I was able to select a word and look it up in the dictionary. In the app’s current iteration, whenever I try looking up a word, the app says: “No definition found.” All is not lost, however, because the app still allows you to search the Web for the word. I am wondering if anyone else is encountering this issue. And while on the subject of Voice Dream Reader, does anyone know if there is a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of this app, as well as Voice Dream Writer? Thanks in advance, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Moderation of the list
Hi Chris, thanks for the info. If you're still in touch with Cara at all, you might suggest that if she's no longer engaged with this list, she might want to pass the mod hat onto someone else. Cheers, Donna On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:06 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: I know Cara Quinn was the one who set me up to do the account admin stuff. Whom else besides here I don't know. As far as I know this list is moderated under a 'management by exception' process. Generally all messages sent get immediately distributed to all members. This makes the list very responsive 24x7 as nobody has to wait for a moderator to get around to approving their posts. This also means a bad actor can temporarily post junk, but overall it's worked well for years. CB On 3/30/15 1:49 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Chris, Thank you! I was 100% confident that you would get to the bottom of this. Please might I ask going forward who the actual moderator(s) are? There is no need for you to apologize, as far as I see things. You simply were doing your job, and you have a life outside this list. Those who expected you to instantly do something frankly are the ones who were out of line, in my not so humble opinion. Anyway, as I said, thank you for doing this. It is very much appreciated. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:20 AM Subject: Moderation of the list Wanted to let you all know that the account in question is now blocked from the list. I should point out a couple things: 1. I'm not the moderator, I just help out with registering new users, as many of you already know. By nature of that role I can also help folks out by fiddling with their accounts. While I may be overstepping my role, it was obvious to me that this cup of sewage was spoiling our barrel of wine. 2. I went through the history of postings from when the account was added in 2011 and the screeds of late do not seem to be of the same person. I suspect the account somehow got hacked and the new owner decided to have some 'fun' by trolling our list. The original poster was usually on-topic up through December of last year and then went silent. Suddenly he pops up on the list with 27 posts in two days of a most unpleasant nature. 3. I'm not familiar enough with how this system works to know if we can delete the messages. I'll poke around and find out. That won't help your inbox but it might be some solace to the real owner of the account whose name is now associated with the recent unpleasantness. Sorry for not pulling the plug sooner. I'm not on my email as often on weekends. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Fwd: This Needs to Stop
can someone ban Shawn mário navarro skrev den 2015-03-29 19:17: I received this message from Shawn time: 2 minutes. This proves what I said in the last message I wrote to all read below: from Shawn Mensagem Original Assunto:This Needs to Stop Data: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:19:35 -0600 De: BBS bbssh...@icloud.com Para: mario@gmail.com Mario, grow the fuck up. Just because iOS and possibly OS X isn't going the way you want it to go doesn't mean you have to shit on everybody on these lists. I mean, Mac Visionaries and Viphone are family oriented lists. People should be able to write to these lists without having to feel alienated. Even kids right to these lists. You don't know that. Show some fucking common sense and stop this bullshit. Go fuck your best friend Pablo Morales. I bet he would like it. Oh and by the way, feet doesn't have an S. The singular word for feet is foot and the plurrel form is feet. Why don't you stop learning how to cuss people out and learn to speak proper English you dumb fuck. Oh yeah, you're probably fuking Pablo up the ass so you don't have time for that. Oh yeah, and if your tiny little brain can comprehend this, *DO Not* reply to this email 'cause I don't give a shit what you have to say and I'll delete it. Again, grow the fuck up. Shawn Sent From My White Macbook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: My Appologies
if someone are a idiot you are BBS skrev den 2015-03-29 19:56: Hey guys. I'm sorry for writing off list to that idiot Mario. If that ruins my reputation on this list and if you think I should be punished for it, I can accept that. I wasn't aware that he was gonna forward my email that was personally meant for him off list so again, I apologize and will just delete anything that he sends from now on. Shawn Sent From My White Macbook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Voice Dream Reader - Bug in latest Version?
This was very helpful, Alex; thank you. Mike On 31,Mar,2015, at 14:33, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I don't use the dictionary so haven't run into this, but I can say that emailing supp...@voicedreamapp.com mailto:supp...@voicedreamapp.com, or mentioning @VoiceDreamApp on Twitter, will usually get you a response. On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Mike Busboom mbusb...@gmail.com mailto:mbusb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, One of my favourite apps, if not !the! favorite one, is Voice Dream Reader, which I use every day. I am using the latest version of the app which, according to the Help documentation is version 3.30. I am also using the latest version of iOS8 on an iPhone 6 with 64 GB. I seem to have found a bug in the program, and I am wondering if this list is the place for reporting bugs in specific apps. The bug I seem to have encountered is with looking up words. In earlier versions, I was able to select a word and look it up in the dictionary. In the app’s current iteration, whenever I try looking up a word, the app says: “No definition found.” All is not lost, however, because the app still allows you to search the Web for the word. I am wondering if anyone else is encountering this issue. And while on the subject of Voice Dream Reader, does anyone know if there is a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of this app, as well as Voice Dream Writer? Thanks in advance, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Voice Dream Reader - Bug in latest Version?
I don't use the dictionary so haven't run into this, but I can say that emailing supp...@voicedreamapp.com, or mentioning @VoiceDreamApp on Twitter, will usually get you a response. On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Mike Busboom mbusb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, One of my favourite apps, if not !the! favorite one, is Voice Dream Reader, which I use every day. I am using the latest version of the app which, according to the Help documentation is version 3.30. I am also using the latest version of iOS8 on an iPhone 6 with 64 GB. I seem to have found a bug in the program, and I am wondering if this list is the place for reporting bugs in specific apps. The bug I seem to have encountered is with looking up words. In earlier versions, I was able to select a word and look it up in the dictionary. In the app’s current iteration, whenever I try looking up a word, the app says: “No definition found.” All is not lost, however, because the app still allows you to search the Web for the word. I am wondering if anyone else is encountering this issue. And while on the subject of Voice Dream Reader, does anyone know if there is a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of this app, as well as Voice Dream Writer? Thanks in advance, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Sharing videos, making them smaller
Hi, In QuickTime, use the Export feature. If you select iPhone, iPad and AppleTV, it will compress it considerably smaller. I had a 2.69 GB .mov file that would export to either 800 MB, 600 MB or 200 MB. Using those compression factors, you should be able to reduce the size of your movies considerably. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 31, 2015, at 18:39, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi all, I have two videos that my husband took that I’d like to share with someone. I zipped them in separate files and put them into dropbox. That was at about 1:00 this afternoon. They’re still uploading. Is there some way I can make them smaller and then send them to my friend via email? I saved them as mov files in quicktime but that didn’t change the size. One is 98 mb and the other is even bigger. All help is appreciated. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Sharing videos, making them smaller
I use handbrake to compress the videos I make. I just the default settings and it really backs them down to a reasonable size, around 60% of original size. I don’t really understand all the settings in handbrake, but there is a compression factor percentage that you can fiddle with to get even smaller videos. On Mar 31, 2015, at 9:33 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thanks Tim, I did that but it didn’t reduce them much. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com mailto:kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, In QuickTime, use the Export feature. If you select iPhone, iPad and AppleTV, it will compress it considerably smaller. I had a 2.69 GB .mov file that would export to either 800 MB, 600 MB or 200 MB. Using those compression factors, you should be able to reduce the size of your movies considerably. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 31, 2015, at 18:39, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi all, I have two videos that my husband took that I’d like to share with someone. I zipped them in separate files and put them into dropbox. That was at about 1:00 this afternoon. They’re still uploading. Is there some way I can make them smaller and then send them to my friend via email? I saved them as mov files in quicktime but that didn’t change the size. One is 98 mb and the other is even bigger. All help is appreciated. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Copying the contents of a pdf file into textedit
I don’t know of a way to select text in a pdf, but I can tell you how to get all of the text into rtf or plain. The easiest way is to create an Automator workflow like the following. 1. open Automator and choose the services template. 2. Interact with the work flow area and set the service to have no input and to only work with Preview. 3. Add the following actions to the work flow: run apple script, get specified finder items, and extract pdf text. You want them in that order. 4. Interact with the run apple script action and enter the following in the input field: on run tell application “Preview” path of document of front window end tell end run 5. Interact with the extract pdf text action and configure it to output plain text or rtf as you prefer. 6. Save it. That should get the job done. It should also show up in the services menu of Preview. I’m sure you can think of ways to fine tune this idea to better meet your needs. Note that I have found that the extract pdf text action doesn’t seem to work with multi lingual pdfs for some reason. On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Chris Moore chris.w...@gmail.com wrote: The subject says it all. When in the pdf viewer, how do I select text? I tried cmd+a which didn’t do anything. The next question is how to add textedit to the services menu in pdf viewer? TIA Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Copying the contents of a pdf file into textedit
Chris, when you open a pdf in preview, the default pdf viewer, you need to interact twice in the pdf content group. then you can VO arrow up and down through the text, or select the entire text with command-A. Just copy and paste into a textedit window and you have it. As to setting up text edit as a choice in services, go to system prefs and the keyboard pane. select the shortcuts tab, and then select services in the categories table. In the shortcuts table, arrow down to the text category and then further down to “new textedit window with selection”, . and Make sure it is checked. Now “new textedit window with selection” should show up as an option in the services menu. I think if you don’t have anything selected, you won’t see that option - have to select something first. BTW: the text category is way down the list and its easier to just jump to the bottom of the table and move back up until you hit “new textedit window with selection”. On Mar 31, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Chris Moore chris.w...@gmail.com wrote: The subject says it all. When in the pdf viewer, how do I select text? I tried cmd+a which didn’t do anything. The next question is how to add textedit to the services menu in pdf viewer? TIA Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: message question on the mac
Return should work on the Mac. You are seeing the conversation history on the Mac? Do you receive any error message when you press the return key? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Brian Howerton bshowert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, If I am trying to send a message from my mac in reply to a text message in the messages app, how do I go about sending the message? I tried pressing return, but that didn’t seem to work. Thanks for the help, Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac
Chris, afplay doesn’t produce any sound on my mac min running yosemite. Too bad because is seems like a handy utility. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
According to wikipedia Berkeley systems was bought out by Sierra Online in 1997 for $13.8M. Sierra was bought by Vivendi and apparently was then folded into iwin.com. I've met Peter Korn who was one of the primary Windows developers of outspoken. A very smart and gentle person. CB On 3/31/15 3:57 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that Berkeley systems got bought by Alva and, this is my own theory, they, Alva were more interested in Outspoken for Windows than they were of the mac version. Am i correct in any of this? /Krister 30 mar 2015 kl. 21:53 skrev David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com: Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house. Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com mailto:fassl@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now. I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Moderation of the list
In the meantime, self moderation would work just fine...if people were so inclined. From The Believer. . . By way of the Chariots of the Gods cameth the Aliens who dwelt amongst the humans, and bringeth much knowledge. On 3/31/2015 4:44 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for the info. If you're still in touch with Cara at all, you might suggest that if she's no longer engaged with this list, she might want to pass the mod hat onto someone else. Cheers, Donna On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:06 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: I know Cara Quinn was the one who set me up to do the account admin stuff. Whom else besides here I don't know. As far as I know this list is moderated under a 'management by exception' process. Generally all messages sent get immediately distributed to all members. This makes the list very responsive 24x7 as nobody has to wait for a moderator to get around to approving their posts. This also means a bad actor can temporarily post junk, but overall it's worked well for years. CB On 3/30/15 1:49 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Chris, Thank you! I was 100% confident that you would get to the bottom of this. Please might I ask going forward who the actual moderator(s) are? There is no need for you to apologize, as far as I see things. You simply were doing your job, and you have a life outside this list. Those who expected you to instantly do something frankly are the ones who were out of line, in my not so humble opinion. Anyway, as I said, thank you for doing this. It is very much appreciated. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:20 AM Subject: Moderation of the list Wanted to let you all know that the account in question is now blocked from the list. I should point out a couple things: 1. I'm not the moderator, I just help out with registering new users, as many of you already know. By nature of that role I can also help folks out by fiddling with their accounts. While I may be overstepping my role, it was obvious to me that this cup of sewage was spoiling our barrel of wine. 2. I went through the history of postings from when the account was added in 2011 and the screeds of late do not seem to be of the same person. I suspect the account somehow got hacked and the new owner decided to have some 'fun' by trolling our list. The original poster was usually on-topic up through December of last year and then went silent. Suddenly he pops up on the list with 27 posts in two days of a most unpleasant nature. 3. I'm not familiar enough with how this system works to know if we can delete the messages. I'll poke around and find out. That won't help your inbox but it might be some solace to the real owner of the account whose name is now associated with the recent unpleasantness. Sorry for not pulling the plug sooner. I'm not on my email as often on weekends. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Moderation of the list
I haven't heard from her since last June but that isn't to say she isn't still lurking. I can't really recall the last time we had had an issue like this so we want to be sure we're not changing something that works based on an exception. CB On 3/31/15 7:44 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for the info. If you're still in touch with Cara at all, you might suggest that if she's no longer engaged with this list, she might want to pass the mod hat onto someone else. Cheers, Donna On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:06 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: I know Cara Quinn was the one who set me up to do the account admin stuff. Whom else besides here I don't know. As far as I know this list is moderated under a 'management by exception' process. Generally all messages sent get immediately distributed to all members. This makes the list very responsive 24x7 as nobody has to wait for a moderator to get around to approving their posts. This also means a bad actor can temporarily post junk, but overall it's worked well for years. CB On 3/30/15 1:49 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Chris, Thank you! I was 100% confident that you would get to the bottom of this. Please might I ask going forward who the actual moderator(s) are? There is no need for you to apologize, as far as I see things. You simply were doing your job, and you have a life outside this list. Those who expected you to instantly do something frankly are the ones who were out of line, in my not so humble opinion. Anyway, as I said, thank you for doing this. It is very much appreciated. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:20 AM Subject: Moderation of the list Wanted to let you all know that the account in question is now blocked from the list. I should point out a couple things: 1. I'm not the moderator, I just help out with registering new users, as many of you already know. By nature of that role I can also help folks out by fiddling with their accounts. While I may be overstepping my role, it was obvious to me that this cup of sewage was spoiling our barrel of wine. 2. I went through the history of postings from when the account was added in 2011 and the screeds of late do not seem to be of the same person. I suspect the account somehow got hacked and the new owner decided to have some 'fun' by trolling our list. The original poster was usually on-topic up through December of last year and then went silent. Suddenly he pops up on the list with 27 posts in two days of a most unpleasant nature. 3. I'm not familiar enough with how this system works to know if we can delete the messages. I'll poke around and find out. That won't help your inbox but it might be some solace to the real owner of the account whose name is now associated with the recent unpleasantness. Sorry for not pulling the plug sooner. I'm not on my email as often on weekends. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
I worked in an educational environment and we had to get rid of our Macs during the period when there was no screen reader for the version of Mac OS that was current at the time. We weren't going to run an old version of Mac OS. We switched a lot, I mean a lot, of machines over to Windows and jaws. Assuming the same thing was going on at other educational institutions, it would have represented hundreds of thousands of sales in a market segment that had always been particularly important to Apple. My opinion is that you can directly attribute the development of voiceover to the federal 508 regulations that require computers in schools to have screen readers. The trend is now totally in the other direction. There is a Mac in the room with the tredmills in the gym at this institution if you can believe that. You can check your email after you're done with your workout, I guess. I would just use my iphone but ... On 03/30/2015 06:56 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: I wonder what the catalyst was for Apple’s ultimate choice to develop their screen reader? The education sector? Government? The mythical two blind sons? Certainly the APIs are now available for the development of an AT solution, so it’s entirely possible, technically. But it doesn’t surprise me to learn that the Jobsian quest for perfection extended further back even than Apple’s introduction of their own usable screen reader, to the exclusion of others; I had not heard that story, and merely assumed that OS 9 was the choice of blind musicians (one of whom I knew) because it happened to be accessible with OutSpoken. Although I’m not complaining that I didn’t have to pay for VoiceOver, there’s something to be said for diversification when it actually has the effect of giving the customer what they ultimately desire. For my current weekly bash at Apple, see: http://www.applevis.com/forum/accessibility-advocacy/suggestion-report-accessibility-bug-friday Sometimes it’s the little things, sometimes not so little. I only started it recently, because I think the situation for Yosemite is particularly disturbing, but many of those niggles go back to the very beginning. And yes I think iOS is starting to feel the effects now as well. It’s very fortunate that none of these issues currently make the platforms unusable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: message question on the mac
Hi, Pressing return is exactly what you need to do. If it is an iMessage, it should just automatically send. If it was originally a text from a non-Apple device user, then your Mac will be attempting to use the Continuity feature whereby it routes the message through your iPhone but it will still be a text. In the latter case, you need to ensure that your iPhone is on and connected to the same WiFi network. If the message is in reply to an iMessage, then it could be a network thing with your Mac. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 31, 2015, at 09:03, Brian Howerton bshowert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, If I am trying to send a message from my mac in reply to a text message in the messages app, how do I go about sending the message? I tried pressing return, but that didn’t seem to work. Thanks for the help, Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: m4b File Merging
The gpac package has a utility called mp4box that merges mp4s. To merge 3 files for example, you would do something like: cp file1.m4b file.m4b mp4box -cat file2.m4b -cat file3.m4b file.m4b This is discussed at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1900761. On Mar 31, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Emilio Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone know of an accessible program that would allow me to merge m4b files together that are of great length? For example, I have some books that I’ve merged with Audio Book Binder. Some of these books exceed the merging limit of 24 hours. Thus, I would like to merge the series of files together to have one file for each book, verses a couple of files for one book. Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac
Weird. It works on my MacBook. I did afplay ~/Desktop/Peace.mp3 and it started playing. Tried the same thing on my ancient MacPro desktop and it also worked. Both boxes are on OSX 10.10.2. Are you sure the audio file was correct? Did it give any messages? Normally there should be no text output and the audio just starts playing as soon as you hit enter. CB On 3/31/15 11:37 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Chris, afplay doesn’t produce any sound on my mac min running yosemite. Too bad because is seems like a handy utility. Chris -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
message question on the mac
Hello all, If I am trying to send a message from my mac in reply to a text message in the messages app, how do I go about sending the message? I tried pressing return, but that didn’t seem to work. Thanks for the help, Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: message question on the mac
Hi John, Thanks for that, I got it to work. Brian On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:08 AM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Return should work on the Mac. You are seeing the conversation history on the Mac? Do you receive any error message when you press the return key? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Brian Howerton bshowert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, If I am trying to send a message from my mac in reply to a text message in the messages app, how do I go about sending the message? I tried pressing return, but that didn’t seem to work. Thanks for the help, Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: message question on the mac
Thanks Tim, it worked. Brian On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Pressing return is exactly what you need to do. If it is an iMessage, it should just automatically send. If it was originally a text from a non-Apple device user, then your Mac will be attempting to use the Continuity feature whereby it routes the message through your iPhone but it will still be a text. In the latter case, you need to ensure that your iPhone is on and connected to the same WiFi network. If the message is in reply to an iMessage, then it could be a network thing with your Mac. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 31, 2015, at 09:03, Brian Howerton bshowert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, If I am trying to send a message from my mac in reply to a text message in the messages app, how do I go about sending the message? I tried pressing return, but that didn’t seem to work. Thanks for the help, Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, I suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing. Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution decided to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet been clear on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For example it is documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, but the screen reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken interface Preview). Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were simply not documented? And in which case, when did the documentation appear? It’s certainly available now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
Not exactly. When Berkeley Systems went bankrupt, Alva bought Outspoken during the assets sale for a good price because they wanted the Windows code. They let the Mac version die immediately and ported the windows code into their own projects. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 20:57, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that Berkeley systems got bought by Alva and, this is my own theory, they, Alva were more interested in Outspoken for Windows than they were of the mac version. Am i correct in any of this? /Krister 30 mar 2015 kl. 21:53 skrev David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com: Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house. Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now. I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
This information comes from the blog of the person who worked at FS at the time and was involved in the negotiation. He was for it. The boss would not be convinced. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 12:21, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: You gotta be kidding! regarding Apple and FS. Oh dear god! please tell me you are! LOL! Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 3:53 PM Subject: Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8 Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house. Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now. I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to theGoogle Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
wifi-problems with windows 7 under bootcamp
Hi everyone, Sorry if this is slightly ot but i am using my mac privately now as well as in a workrelated situation. For the last situation i use windows 7 under bootcamp for productivity reasons. I notice however, that while on the macside wifi works great on windows the connection is VERY unstable, the network connection cant be established or it drops everytime and you have to reconnect manually. My macbook air is from july 2013 bur a friend of mine who has an older macbook with bootcamp and win7 is running into the seem issues. I was wondering if more people have these and what your solutions are? Apparently bootcamp installs 3 wifi drivers and i was wondering if that might bring a conflict? I was wondering if an external wifi adapter might solve the issue? I think its weird still though because I have VERY good wifi on the macside and all the other stuff is working well when using bootcamp. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: history of voiceover (was: starting to get irritated by IOS 8)
Hello, Actually VoiceOver came out with Leopard, OS X 10.4 in 2004 I purchased my first Mac Mini in September that year and it was the first with VoiceOver fully implemented. On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com wrote: Well, I didn't really make a note of the dates. I can only give them based on dates of historical events. I believe that I was using jaws 4.0 at the time. According to wikipedia, jaws 4.0 was released in 2001. That coincides nicely with the release of Mac Os X also in 2001. So I am going to say my memory there is correct. But I was not a Mac user at the time and I was never directly responsible for the computer labs. Tiger wasn't released until 2005. So there would have been 4 years where there was no screen reader for Macs unless you wanted to run an obsolete version of the operating system. I know it's fair to say you could stick with Mac OS 9 up until tiger came out but I don't think that is realistic in many cases. For example, the manager of a computer lab in a school or university isn't going to want to stick with a version of an operating system that was obsolete 4 years earlier. It's easier to talk the administration into ponying up the money for jaws. I no longer work for the department that manages the computer labs here so I don't know when the switch back to Macs began. They're all over the place now, though. On 03/31/2015 01:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, I suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing. Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution decided to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet been clear on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For example it is documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, but the screen reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken interface Preview). Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were simply not documented? And in which case, when did the documentation appear? It’s certainly available now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I Player for the Mac.
I searched on Google. I can look for you if you cnnot find it. David Griffith On 30/03/2015 22:15, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: So where do you get this from? Kawal. On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:56, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: I use Get i Player Automaker. with this you download the files and can play them offline. Actually I convert the video files created to mp3. David Griffith play them off line. On 30/03/2015 19:09, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Has anyone used Iplayer for the Mac? I hope someone can tell me if it's accessible as the one for windows was not when I downloaded the I player for downloading things from the BBC. I was at work and so only had my work machine to test it. I will however download the Mac one to see what it's like. Kawal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac
Yes, it works on mp3 files. Chris On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Weird. It works on my MacBook. I did afplay ~/Desktop/Peace.mp3 and it started playing. Tried the same thing on my ancient MacPro desktop and it also worked. Both boxes are on OSX 10.10.2. Are you sure the audio file was correct? Did it give any messages? Normally there should be no text output and the audio just starts playing as soon as you hit enter. CB On 3/31/15 11:37 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Chris, afplay doesn’t produce any sound on my mac min running yosemite. Too bad because is seems like a handy utility. Chris -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Sorting alphabetically in numbers
Hi All, Thank you for your help and feedback regarding learning numbers. How do I sort alphabetically in numbers? I'm creating a table with a specific group’s first name, last name and contact information. how do I sort the names alphabetically? Thank you for all the help, Laura -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
putting the bottom back on a Mac Mini
I just updated the memory in my Mini. I didn’t have any trouble getting the lid off of the computer to put it in, but I can’t get it to go back on. It will seem to fit nicely, but will not turn and lock back into place. I’d rather not leave it lose this way, even though it sits on the lid, so at least it is closed. Can anyone advise me what I am doing wrong? Thanks. Kristeen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
FS is not a bad company. I think the main problem with jaws is that it's full of what programmers call cruft. Cruft is inefficient code that has accumulated over many years. I would think it is especially difficult to avoid cruft with screen readers since they are so intricately linked to the operating system. To avoid cruft, you have to have a solid commitment to rewriting stuff from the ground up once in a while and that is going to be really, really hard with a screen reader. On the other hand, it does seem as if jaws is particularly full of cruft even for a screen reader. I suspect that some of the early coding wasn't that good based on how often it used to crash. But, honestly, I think FS's customer support is as good as it gets. The only complaint I'd have against FS as a company would be that crazy licensing scheme they had. I am not sure they still do it this way but if you changed any of the hardware in your PC, you had to re-license. If you added ram or swapped out a CD-ROM drive, you'd have to re-license jaws. I guess I'll be finding out soon. I am going to have to start using VMware's vcenter client and it is optimized for jaws. On 03/30/2015 06:21 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: You gotta be kidding! regarding Apple and FS. Oh dear god! please tell me you are! LOL! Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - *From:* David Chittenden mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:53 PM *Subject:* Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8 Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house. Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com mailto:fassl@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now. I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options,
m4b File Merging
Hello everyone, Does anyone know of an accessible program that would allow me to merge m4b files together that are of great length? For example, I have some books that I’ve merged with Audio Book Binder. Some of these books exceed the merging limit of 24 hours. Thus, I would like to merge the series of files together to have one file for each book, verses a couple of files for one book. Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Copying the contents of a pdf file into textedit
The subject says it all. When in the pdf viewer, how do I select text? I tried cmd+a which didn’t do anything. The next question is how to add textedit to the services menu in pdf viewer? TIA Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Facebook for I O S: Is anyone else seeing this same issue?
Wow, weird. My IPhone 6 Plus with I O S 8.2 is what is exhibiting this issue. Strangeness. I've actually not tried with my IPad Air First Gen running 8.2, nor with my IPhone 5S running also, 8.2. It would be interesting to see how they compare. Chris. - Original Message - From: Joanne Chua To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Facebook for I O S: Is anyone else seeing this same issue? I have this problem with my iPad mini, 1st gen, running iOS 7.12, and the latest native facebook app. No problem with my iphone6+, running iOS8.12, and latest native facebook app. Joanne Chua Send from my iPad On 1 Apr 2015, at 8:04, Feliciano Godoy theblindman...@hotmail.com wrote: Facebook version 27 works fine on my yphone5 with the latest ios. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates Like my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow me on Twitter: Www.twitter.com/theblindman12v Sent from the Super-iPhone On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: OK, has my Facebook just crapped out, or is this a known issue? It seems like since the latest update, you no longer can flick around the screen. Everything has to now be completely done with touch exploration. You can't even flick through your news feed. If you touch one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen, I can't seem to flick between them either. I can sometimes get flicking to kind of work, but not reliably, and definitely not enough to make it be worthwhile. If others are having this issue as well, then what are you all using on I O S in the mingtime? Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Help me decide: Ecto vs. Mars Edit
i'm still using my copy of mars edit. best 20 bucks i ever spent works equally well with blogger or wordpress and on posts and pages good luck, max Maxwell Ivey Jr. phone 979-215-1770 Skype Maxwell Ivey twitter @maxwellivey as mr. midway www.midwaymarketplace.com email maxw...@midwaymarketplace.com as the blind blogger www.theblindblogger.net email just...@theblindblogger.net On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: It might have been, I'm not honestly sure. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:15 AM Subject: Re: Help me decide: Ecto vs. Mars Edit Is Ecto still under development? I thought it had stopped being developed years ago. /Krister 31 mar 2015 kl. 01:28 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com: Guys, I must admit that I am fairly familiar with the Mars Edit application, but when it comes to the Wordpress side of things, modifying, editting, and composing content, what really are the main differences between Mars Edit and Ecto, aside the obvious of price? Does one of them gain or lack more features than the other, or is it more just mainly a matter of user preference? I'm very very much willing to try out Ecto and see how much I like it in comparison, but I'm just wonderring if any of you have used Ecto, and maybe can give me some pointers as to the differences, should there be any. I know for a fact that both of them are totally 100% accessible. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Sorting alphabetically in numbers
Hi, Navigate to the column you wish to sort by, press VO-shift-back slash, VO-down once to Columns, VO-space on that, then press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu and down two times for sorting in ascending order. You’ll need to press VO-shift-back slash once more to take focus out of the header area and it should have done the job. Normally, you shouldn’t need to navigate to the desired sort column first, but I’ve found that, if I don’t, things don’t always work as I expect them to. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 31, 2015, at 15:00, Laura Bratton laurarbrat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thank you for your help and feedback regarding learning numbers. How do I sort alphabetically in numbers? I'm creating a table with a specific group’s first name, last name and contact information. how do I sort the names alphabetically? Thank you for all the help, Laura -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Facebook for I O S: Is anyone else seeing this same issue?
Facebook version 27 works fine on my yphone5 with the latest ios. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates Like my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow me on Twitter: Www.twitter.com/theblindman12v Sent from the Super-iPhone On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: OK, has my Facebook just crapped out, or is this a known issue? It seems like since the latest update, you no longer can flick around the screen. Everything has to now be completely done with touch exploration. You can't even flick through your news feed. If you touch one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen, I can't seem to flick between them either. I can sometimes get flicking to kind of work, but not reliably, and definitely not enough to make it be worthwhile. If others are having this issue as well, then what are you all using on I O S in the mingtime? Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Facebook for I O S: Is anyone else seeing this same issue?
OK, has my Facebook just crapped out, or is this a known issue? It seems like since the latest update, you no longer can flick around the screen. Everything has to now be completely done with touch exploration. You can't even flick through your news feed. If you touch one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen, I can't seem to flick between them either. I can sometimes get flicking to kind of work, but not reliably, and definitely not enough to make it be worthwhile. If others are having this issue as well, then what are you all using on I O S in the mingtime? Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: history of voiceover (was: starting to get irritated by IOS 8)
Hello, I goofed, it was Tiger, not Leopard. : On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, Actually VoiceOver came out with Leopard, OS X 10.4 in 2004 I purchased my first Mac Mini in September that year and it was the first with VoiceOver fully implemented. On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com wrote: Well, I didn't really make a note of the dates. I can only give them based on dates of historical events. I believe that I was using jaws 4.0 at the time. According to wikipedia, jaws 4.0 was released in 2001. That coincides nicely with the release of Mac Os X also in 2001. So I am going to say my memory there is correct. But I was not a Mac user at the time and I was never directly responsible for the computer labs. Tiger wasn't released until 2005. So there would have been 4 years where there was no screen reader for Macs unless you wanted to run an obsolete version of the operating system. I know it's fair to say you could stick with Mac OS 9 up until tiger came out but I don't think that is realistic in many cases. For example, the manager of a computer lab in a school or university isn't going to want to stick with a version of an operating system that was obsolete 4 years earlier. It's easier to talk the administration into ponying up the money for jaws. I no longer work for the department that manages the computer labs here so I don't know when the switch back to Macs began. They're all over the place now, though. On 03/31/2015 01:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, I suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing. Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution decided to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet been clear on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For example it is documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, but the screen reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken interface Preview). Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were simply not documented? And in which case, when did the documentation appear? It’s certainly available now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Podcast?
Hello; Listers, I have a question! How can I search and play podcast on the Mac using iTunes? Please help! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: putting the bottom back on a Mac Mini
Hi Kristeen, I did a memory upgrade on my mini in 2013. The back goes on but requires a fair amount of force to lock it in position. I probably used to hands and placed my thumbs in the two holes on the back cover. HTH Chris On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:25 PM, KristeenHughes khwi...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated the memory in my Mini. I didn’t have any trouble getting the lid off of the computer to put it in, but I can’t get it to go back on. It will seem to fit nicely, but will not turn and lock back into place. I’d rather not leave it lose this way, even though it sits on the lid, so at least it is closed. Can anyone advise me what I am doing wrong? Thanks. Kristeen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
history of voiceover (was: starting to get irritated by IOS 8)
Well, I didn't really make a note of the dates. I can only give them based on dates of historical events. I believe that I was using jaws 4.0 at the time. According to wikipedia, jaws 4.0 was released in 2001. That coincides nicely with the release of Mac Os X also in 2001. So I am going to say my memory there is correct. But I was not a Mac user at the time and I was never directly responsible for the computer labs. Tiger wasn't released until 2005. So there would have been 4 years where there was no screen reader for Macs unless you wanted to run an obsolete version of the operating system. I know it's fair to say you could stick with Mac OS 9 up until tiger came out but I don't think that is realistic in many cases. For example, the manager of a computer lab in a school or university isn't going to want to stick with a version of an operating system that was obsolete 4 years earlier. It's easier to talk the administration into ponying up the money for jaws. I no longer work for the department that manages the computer labs here so I don't know when the switch back to Macs began. They're all over the place now, though. On 03/31/2015 01:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, I suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing. Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution decided to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet been clear on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For example it is documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, but the screen reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken interface Preview). Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were simply not documented? And in which case, when did the documentation appear? It’s certainly available now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Facebook for I O S: Is anyone else seeing this same issue?
I have this problem with my iPad mini, 1st gen, running iOS 7.12, and the latest native facebook app. No problem with my iphone6+, running iOS8.12, and latest native facebook app. Joanne Chua Send from my iPad On 1 Apr 2015, at 8:04, Feliciano Godoy theblindman...@hotmail.com wrote: Facebook version 27 works fine on my yphone5 with the latest ios. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates Like my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow me on Twitter: Www.twitter.com/theblindman12v Sent from the Super-iPhone On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: OK, has my Facebook just crapped out, or is this a known issue? It seems like since the latest update, you no longer can flick around the screen. Everything has to now be completely done with touch exploration. You can't even flick through your news feed. If you touch one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen, I can't seem to flick between them either. I can sometimes get flicking to kind of work, but not reliably, and definitely not enough to make it be worthwhile. If others are having this issue as well, then what are you all using on I O S in the mingtime? Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Sharing videos, making them smaller
Hi all, I have two videos that my husband took that I’d like to share with someone. I zipped them in separate files and put them into dropbox. That was at about 1:00 this afternoon. They’re still uploading. Is there some way I can make them smaller and then send them to my friend via email? I saved them as mov files in quicktime but that didn’t change the size. One is 98 mb and the other is even bigger. All help is appreciated. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
