Re: Boot Camp, talking installer.
Hi Paul, That’s a problem. It’s quite a story, but I’ll tell you all I know. I have bootcamp installed and it went successfully on my mac mini late 2012. However, on a macbook air from a friend from 2013, it did not work at all. Yes you can boot Bryan’s DVD and you will get to a windows desktop soon where NVDA is running indeed, but you have no drivers, so that interaction with the system is impossible. There is no keyboard driver inside Bryan’s DVD, that supports your macbook air keyboard. Likewise, there is no compatible mouse driver so you cannot use the mouse. Likewise, the talking DVD does not have the macbook air sound driver as far as I’m aware, so you won’t hear anything from NVDA at all. I tried plugging in a USB keyboard, a USB mouse and a USB sound system, but with no luck. If the talking windows installer DVD can be used on a macbook air at all, I hope we will hear how to work that thing, for on other systems, it is very usable and useful. What follows is my experience on my mac mini late 2012. If that’s not what you think can help you, by all means skip the rest. You will go through these steps: 1. Get and burn Bryan’s dvd. 2. Go through the bootcamp assistant and at the reboot, turn off your mac. 3. Install windows using Bryan’s DVD. 4. Finish the rest of the installation, either with a sighted person or using fusion. Regarding step 1: Bryan’s DVD. I would advise you to use the large Bryan archive, as that contains a working installer for an entire windows 7 system. Once you have the iso image, have a capable program burn its contents on to a dvd. Then leave that DVD for a while. Regarding step 2: running bootcamp assistant. Before going ahead, first have a USB flash drive, stick or key ready, and format it as fat32. >From the utilities folder on your mac, run the bootcamp assistant. It will let >you perform these 3 tasks, and I would advise you to let it do all of them. A. Unfortunately, it will ask for a USB drive or USB stick, onto which bootcamp assistant will then copy the windows installation files. Just to satisfy the bootcamp assistand on the mac, you will have to let it do this, or you won’t get your bootcamp partition created afterwards. You won’t need this windows installer because we are going to use Bryan’s, but bootcamp wants you to go through this. Bootcamp assistant wants an iso file, or a physical DVD with an official windows installer, supposedly to proove that you indeed own one. It reads windows off of your dvd or iso file, and transfers those files over to the USB flash drive, which again, you don’t really need. b. Windows does not know how to listen to your keyboard on your mac, nor how to listen to the mouse, or how to send sound out through your mac speakers. For all kinds of hardware, windows drivers are required. Once you run the bootcamp assistant, you can enable a checkbox that lets it download the specific set of drivers for your very mac. Just check that box and let it do that, because once done, you will have a windows installation USB flash drive, that also has a directory on it for the bootcamp, i.e. mac hardware in windows drivers. And you need those after installing windows. You will also need nvda, so download that and put it on the USB flash drive for later. I would rename the official NVDA installer to NVDA.exe. c. Next, bootcamp installer will ask you how much space to allocate to windows on your hard drive. That space is taken away from OS 10. There is a slider that lets you devide your disk, and after each nudge of the slider, you move off of it, to read the labels telling you how much space is now set aside for windows. Then, the bootcamp assistand utility will reboot your mac. Normally, a sighted person would then continue the installation from the USB key, and then, after windows is installed, install the bootcamp drivers, to enable all mac hardware functions inside windows. However, for us that is a different matter. What I do when the reboot comes, is turn off the mac entirely, and then boot from Bryan’s DVD. If you have not seen Bryan’s dvd in action, here’s what it does. After you boot it, you will land on the windows 7 desktop. But this is a very minimal system. What’s great about it, is that NVDA is already running. You can do all sorts of things like inserting a USB drive, running programs from it etc. Besides, you will find the windows 7 installer right away through the computer icon, in xp that was my computer, so from there it’s easy, because you now have speech during the windows installation. But on a mac, it’s not that easy. On my mac mini where all went fine after all, I had no sound initially, after I started from Bryan’s DVD. So, I plugged in a pair of usb speakers and booted the dvd again. This time, still no sound. The USB external speakers are functioning, but with a volume of zero. So I attached my braille display, an Alva bc 640, which did not work either,
braille input IOS, question
Hi active iphone braillers, Does the iphone support contracted braille in other languages than English? I’m Dutch and I still remember grade 2 Dutch braille from elementary school, but its vocabulary has some inconsistencies and I don’t know if it was ever standardized to fit our modern age. Is any one of you using contracted braille on the iphone in a language other than English? Curious. Paul. -- 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.
baby monitor 3g?
Hi, Has any of you ever used the baby monitor 3g app? It’s something you install on the iphone that’s always with you, and another app on a device near your baby or dog at home. Then, from anywhere, you can listen in, to the sound in your home. I think it can also give you a notification on your IOS device if the sound at home rises above a level you specify, and you can then contact home using the app, and listen in. You can even talk to your child through your iphone, so that the computer or ipad at home makes your voice heard to your child. I’m interested to hear your experriences with it, because as with any app, either the iphone version, or the mac or windows version, may not be accessible. Please let me know if you are using it successfully. Thanks in advance. Regards, Paul. -- 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: amadeus pro recording and punch-in?
Hi Phil, Thanks for the suggestion. I know about editing fortunately and indeed, Mosen’s book about amadeus pro is wonderful. It helped mee as well. Thing is: the functionality I’m looking for, I still have not found. Do you happen to know of another audio editor that allows to start recording during playback, thereby overwriting the rest of the file after record was pressed? Regards, Paul. On 20 Aug 2015, at 16:06, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe there is a punch record facility and Amadeus Pro. The best method I have found to handle such errors is in the editing process. When I make such a mistake is that, instead of stopping and rewinding the file, I simply leave a short space and then resume from where the mistake was. I then go back and cut out the error. It's really quite simple to do. If you're not familiar with editing and Amadeus Pro, you really should get Jonathan motions audio tutorial on Amadeus. It really helped me understand how to use this program. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear amadeus pro-familiar users, Project I’m working on is a short audio book, being read by a family member. The problem I’m facing is this. When the reader makes a mistake, I have to stop recording, then rewind a little bit, start playback so the reader can chime in at the right moment, and then I need to resume recording, right from playback. Can Amadeus pro do just that? In other words: when I am playing back audio, is there a keystroke one can hit so that recording begins at that very moment, thereby overwriting the tail of the file where the mistake was made? Hoping to hear back from you. Since I’m on the mac, I have not found the solution to this issue yet. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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.
amadeus pro recording and punch-in?
Dear amadeus pro-familiar users, Project I’m working on is a short audio book, being read by a family member. The problem I’m facing is this. When the reader makes a mistake, I have to stop recording, then rewind a little bit, start playback so the reader can chime in at the right moment, and then I need to resume recording, right from playback. Can Amadeus pro do just that? In other words: when I am playing back audio, is there a keystroke one can hit so that recording begins at that very moment, thereby overwriting the tail of the file where the mistake was made? Hoping to hear back from you. Since I’m on the mac, I have not found the solution to this issue yet. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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: word count in text edit
Hi Jim and others, What a wonderful tip that is. I have been running into mac versus unix files since I’m using mac and windows side by side. Word count, sort lines, convert from mac to windows formatting etc, wow. Thanks a lot. And for those interested: yes, it’s in the mac app store. Still exploring all its capabilities. Hth, Paul. On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:38, Jim Gatteys jgatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! If you look for an app called word service it will let you install several services that work with many applications and one of them is a word count service. Also sorting is another handy service that I use quite a bit. Jim On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Gabe Griffith gabrielgriff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to get a word count for files in text edit? I've looked in the menus and am not seeing anything. Thanks, Gabe -- 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.
productive calender app on mac or ios?
Hi list, When I need to make an appointment at work, I don’t have much time. Probably 5 seconds to say yes or no to someone’s request if they can come back then or then, and another few seconds to plan the appointment before life goes on. I used to have a note taker that did the job, but its life time is over now and I’m doing the job in notepad or text edit. Obviously, the iphone app is way too slow. It involves finding the day in a grid, double tapping it, checking the available time slots by hand while you hear nah teh ele twelve wah to thre foh five as you flick as quickly as you can. Then when planning the appointment, you find your add button, find the text entry field, type or dictate, check or set the exact date and time, click add. For those of you in tight time circumstances: what do you use to maintain your calendar? A dedicated mac app, or something very efficient on ios? Curious. Siri could be an option, but it is way too verbose and its speed is way too slow in order for it to do the job in just a few seconds. If siri had the speed of voiceover, that would help, but you may have better options. Paul. -- 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: garage band
Hi Johny boy, I think more than a few folks here are interested to know how to edit using garage band. It would be awesome if you could write down the tips and tricks you mentioned, or indeed you wouldn’t mind creating a podcast on it. That would be interesting and very helpful. Hope you will consider it. Paul. On 17 Jul 2015, at 00:45, Kjsc Radio kjsc.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I do a lot of audio editing with GarageBand, and it works quite well. There are some tips and tricks that you have to know, but it is easily accessible if you think of it. Jonnyboy! Iphones rock! On Jul 16, 2015, at 08:01, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Audacity is very accessible, once you learn it. I use it for all my editing, and aside from one bug, it works well. On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:02 AM, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I need to last minute audio editing for a project. I saw on apples that audacity is not accessible. I was reading on the internet that one can edit audio files with GarageBand. I see the only to open your audio file in gb is to drag and drop it. I see no other open method. I want to buy amadeus pro, but that’ll have to weight until I have money on friday. Any help would truly be appreciated. Best -- 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. -- 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: ftp client for the mac
Hi Caitlyn, Just to add to this: if you need the ftp protocol onlyt to download stuff from elsewhere, then finder can do the job as well, and then you won’t need a dedicated ftp client. Just hit command plus k when you are in finder. This opens a dialog where you enter a url. This url can also start off with ftp colon slash slash, rather than with http colon slash slash. So, say you want to connect to a server called ftp.somewhere.com http://ftp.somewhere.com/. Here’s how to do it. If the port for ftp is the standard one, i.e. if it is simply 21, then you hit command k, you then type ftp://ftp.somewhere.com ftp://ftp.somewhere.com into the text field, and you then hit connect. Your username and password will be asked for. Enter them and you will be in. To get a list view, hit command plus the number 2. This remote ftp server then looks just like a normal finder window. You can copy files by hitting command plus c on them, you can traverse folders etc, and then if you go to your desktop, downloads folder etc, then you can hit command v to paste and download the files you selected, from the ftp server. If the ftp server you are connecting to uses a non-standard port that it’s listening on for your incoming ftp connection, then you simply append a colon, and the port number to the name of the server. So: command plus k, and then: ftp://ftp.somewhere.com:4094 ftp://ftp.somewhere.com:4094 where 4094 is the non-standard port number the server requirees, if applicable. Hth, Paul. On 06 Jul 2015, at 19:45, Caitlyn Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest a good ftp client for use with the mac? I’ve heard about one called transport or something like that, but can’t find it in the app store.. thanks! Caitlyn -- 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: Crashplan Accessibility
Hi, I’m using CrashPlan and all I can say is that I’m satisfied. It’s true that the settings button is inaccessible, but I had a phone call with one of their support people and they set it up remotely. At least, they helped me get into my settings. If you are just beginning to use CrashPlan though, everything is accessible. I’m disappointed indeed, that after years of asking by members of our community, the settings button is still not accessible. My advice: keep asking. The more people do, the better. CrashPlan is wonderful, and it never bugs you unless things stop working. Hth, Paul. On 06 Jun 2015, at 23:42, Justin Mann w9...@me.com wrote: I’ve tried crash plan, and I find that back blaze works better. -- 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.
help with dropbox web interface and deleted file recovery
Hi all, I have a shared dropbox folder with a friend. He accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff that was only present in our shared folder, and I, rather we, would like to get it back. From the dropbox web interface, we can recover those files, but here’s a question. I do see all the files that were deleted from the folder in question. Everything from the last month is there, so that’s beautiful. Problem is: I don’t know how to undelete these files, nor how to mark them for undelete and then restore them in one go. I know that dropbox allows us to undelete files and folders right from its own web interface, which is what I need right now, but what do I click to achieve it? I can navigate to the dropbox folder in question using the dropbox web interface, and next to each file I want back, it says deleted audio, or deleted video. But clicking that does not bring the file back. If you know how to do this with VoiceOver, please let me know. Regards, Paul. -- 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: alva bc640 ot question
Hi, I have one too. It charges via USB as well. Hth. Paul. On 27 Mar 2015, at 02:04, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a stupid off topic question. Does anyone have an optelec alva bc640 braille display? I seem to have lost my power adapter, and want to know if anyone on this list has one and could describe it to me? I have a bunch of adapters, but can’t remember which one is it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best, -- 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: the Burn app
The burn app burns either an audio or a data CD. Problem with audio CD’s I found, is that it creates clicks between tracks when you play back the CD on a normal CD player. This happens if thelength of the input wave files is not a multiple of the CD sector size. So in short, it burns. You can rip using itunes, or something like max.app. Kind regards, Paul. On 02 Mar 2015, at 02:25, Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com wrote: does anybody here know what “copy” does in the Burn app? is it a ripper of sorts or something else completely? Thanks. Lorie My Youtube Channel: “www.youtube.com/LorieMcCloud -- 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: GarageBand
Hi Scott, Reading the garageband messages with great interest, I was just thinking about possibilities to extend my knowledge, so yes, I’d like to participate in a voice chat, if possible. I am in gmt plus 1. Kind Regards, Paul. On 24 Dec 2014, at 02:54, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Well if we are starting to requests on how to use Garage Band let’s see how many people would like to learn it. Then we can do a voice chat some where. So I have two people so far who want to learn do we have more people who would like to learn? On Dec 23, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to know how to use it as well. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: I’d be happy to. If you have Skype it would make it much easier as well. On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:36 PM, ernest mccullough ernest.mccullo...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps when I upgrade, you can show me how to use garage band. On Dec 23, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Scott Berry wrote: Yeah and Garage Band is pretty darned awesome in Yosemite as well. I use it for music and love it. The only thing I have found that I am uncertain how to do is stretch my loops. On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:37 PM, ernest mccullough ernest.mccullo...@gmail.com wrote: O! Well, I guess I'll upgrade. Thanks guys. On 12/23/14, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: Hi, Pages is perfectly accessible under Yosemite and it was working just fine under Mavericks. I can assure you as I am also a heavy pages user and rely on it for school. Thanks On Dec 23, 2014, at 12:10 PM, ernest mccullough ernest.mccullo...@gmail.com wrote: I understand though that accessabibity has been broken in pages. I'm heavy into word processing. On 12/23/14, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: Hi, I can understand wanting to play it safe but being two major OS X versions behind is going to be extremely problematic as you will encounter compatibility issues with commonly used apps not to mention missing out on VO enhancements in later versions of OS X. I would at least upgrade to Mavericks to insure app compatibility issues are reduced. HTH On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:55 AM, ernest mccullough ernest.mccullo...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to upgrade, but I've heard horror stories about the latest operating system, so I was trying to play it safe. On 12/23/14, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: Ernest, You’re 3 operating systems out of date, I wouldn’t know what to tell you. Maybe you might consider upgrading? On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:17 AM, ernest mccullough ernest.mccullo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: Under Lion, which version of garage band is mostly accessible? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- 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. -- 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
Re: Boom was Equalizer for the mac.
To add to this: if you use VLC regularly, it has its own equalizer built-in. It's pretty good. Paul. On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Thanks Matt. Will take a look at it. /A 6 okt 2014 kl. 18:36 skrev Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com: Hi all. There's a great equalizer called digital power station. Its $20 for the full version. It sits in menu extras, has different types of speakers for built-in, headphones and desktop speakers, and I use it pretty regularly. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com On Oct 6, 2014, at 12:20, Colin Matthews velocity.focu...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi! I got Boom as part of a software package and although what it says it can do unfortunately its one of those that sits in Menu extras and when you VO space on it there is no VO feed back apart from it saying at one point Menu! Turning of Quicknav you can change the volume! But no access to any settings! HTH Colin On 6 Oct 2014, at 14:23, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Don't know if this is accessible but Boom sounds like what you are looking for. They have a free trial so you can give it a whirl. http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/ CB On 10/6/14, 6:28 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! This might be a dum or odd question but is there an equaliser for the mac that can increase the treble of the system sound? I know there's an equaliser in iTunes but i want one for the whole system including the voiceover voices. I have a small hearing loss and to be honest its sometimes hard to hear the speech. I could of course lower the speed and getting rid of the voices i have and use something else but i must say i do like the vocaliser synths because they're so responsive. And they can be used on a very high speed level. /A -- ¯\_(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. -- 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: Keyboard focus in Amadeus Pro
Hi Agent 6b, I learned the solution from a podcast by Eric Caron, long ago. If the scroll area in Amadeus pro looses focus, which becomes apparent when you notice that the arrow keys left and right no longer rewind and skip, then do the following: 1. Stop interacting as far as you can, until tvo dings at you. 2. Now find the scroll area using VO left and right. Donot click, just move over to it. 3. Now, click here with the mouse and focus is back. To click: a: Hit VO plus command plus f5. This routes the mouse cursor to the spot where the VO cursor is. You just went over to the scroll area, so the mouse pointer will be routed there. b: Perform the click with VO shift space. After that, you will find that the arrow keys etc will work as expected, and focus is back to the scroll area. Hth, Paul. On Oct 2, 2014, at 6:18 AM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks Ray, the problem is that I need to get keyboard focus in to the sound area of the program. As I say I can not get keyboard focus reliably into that area. Max On 2 Oct 2014, at 1:52 pm, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Try this. 1. Navigate to the part of a sound file you want to drop a marker in for editing. 2. Now, Rout the insertion point to the play head by pressing Cmd+y. I think this is where you're going wrong. 3. Drop a marker by pressing p. There is a more envolved way to do this but p is the quickest. 4. Navigate to the end of the portion you want to take out. 5. Now, Press Cmd+left arrow to select to the marker you dropped before. Now, press the delete key. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am using Amadeus Pro version 2.1.7 (1576). I am trying to edit a piece of a sound file. I have a problem not being able to bring the keyboard focus to the mouse and VO cursors. I have been using FN CTRL Option CMD and F4 to bring the keyboard to where it should be. This is not working reliably. Anybody know what I can do? Thanks as always for any help. Max. -- 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.
iphone tip: accessing home network files
Hi all, Thought I'd share this with the listers, as it is a very handy app, giving a solution to a problem many of us like to do from time to time. Often, you may want to access audio files using your phone, stored on a computer in my home. As long as you are inside the house, i.e. on your own lan with the iphone, the following app is excellent. Name is: file browser, by Stratospherics if I remember well. This app gives you instructions on its own website, on how to make files available to the phone, stored on home computers. Then, from the app, you can connect to the computer, browse it, and either download or stream whatever audio you want. The app lets you connect to local network shares, so if you have a windows machine with stuff that you'd like to listen to on your phone while you are at home, then follow the instructions on the website to first make the files available to the lan on the computer in question, and then simply connect and listen with file browser. Same goes if you have a mac with files you want to listen to or download on your phone. But that's not all. The file browser IOS app also has support to let you access a time capsule, so if you have audio, video, text or whatever stored there and you want to listen, view or download that into your phone, you can. A time capsule is neither a mac nor a windows pc, but file browser has support for it, so you can access its stuff just as easily as another network share. So much for internal files on your lan. Also, if there is an ftp server out on the net that you have access to, you can download files from it, and then listen, view etc locally. I used to use an app called ftp pro to access ftp servers and get stuff from them to listen to on my phone, but file browser now does that as well. Even better. If you have dropbox on your phone, file browser has access if you give it. So what I do from time to time, is move stuff from dropbox over to the local machine in my house, disk and folder, where I'd like to store it, to free up space in my dropbox when I need it. Of course you can do these things from your computer, but having the ability to do it from the phone is sometimes handy. As a side note, there is also an IOS app out there for a few dollars, called winzip. That thing can also take stuff from dropbox, and then zip it up and store it back in dropbox. Handy if you have a folder somewhere, that you want to zip and then share to someone using dropbox. I then first use file browser to put the folder into dropbox, from whatever local network share it happens to sit in, and once up in dropbox, I zip it up with winzip, and then use the dropbox app to share the single zip file. I wish file browser could zip as well, but as far as I've seen, it can't for now. Of course, first uploading an entire folder to dropbox takes time and bandwidth. Then, using the IOS winzip app, you are in fact re downloading that folder to the phone, zipping it there, and then re uploading the zip. It is somewhat tedious, but at least it can now be done from our phones. This is especially useful if you have a vpn server running inside your home. There are numerous ways to do that. If you run a vpn server at home on one of your machines, then you can connect to it from outside while you are about somewhere, and to your phone, it will then look as if it is simply part of your local home lan, while in fact you are out and about. So once that vpn connection is up, you can even get to stuff on all your machines from outside on the net. If you have stuff on a drive at home, and you want to put that into your dropbox while you only have your phone at hand, this is one solution. To give you an idea about the app, here's an explanation. Say you want to copy files from a local computer into dropbox. When you open file browser, you get to choose where you want to connect to. This can be a local windows or mac machine, a time capsule, dropbox or an ftp server somewhere. For this example, we choose to connect to our local computer Once connected, you will see your files stored there, and you then can hit a select button at the top of the screen, and then tap the files and folders you want to copy. Next, you tap the file browser toolbar, where you'll find a few buttons: copy, delete etc. Once you hit copy, you return to the file browser start screen, select a new location to connect to, dropbox in our example here, move into the folder where you want to paste, and then hit paste on the toolbar in file browser. The files will then be copied or moved etc. To clarify on how to select, copy and paste: once you are seeing the local folder name you want to copy, you first hit select, then you tap the folder in question, and now that this folder is selected, you hit copy. Then you move into your destination folder, wherever that is, and then you hit paste there. The copy and paste buttons are both in file browser's toolbar
how can I best set up a server?
Dear listers, I have a great number of Dutch radio plays, that I collected over the last 25 years, that I'd like to share over the internet with a small group of very interested people. I once had an ftp server under windows, but that software is hopelessly outdated now, and I'd like not to use windows anyway because I now have 2 macs in my home, which is why I'm asking here. I'll describe what I'm hoping to do below. The folders I would like to share out, reside on different drives. In my windows server software, I could create path mappings to deal with that. The windows server had some 90 members, each with their own user account, password and privileges. That was very handy, because for a few very close folks, I could allow them access to more material, and I myself could even add material to the server remotely. I once tried setting up an sftp server using just my mac, having enabled outside access through my router, and then enabling remote login. The big problem with that method, was that as a client, I could climb up outside my initial home directory, and do all kinds of stuff all over my system remotely. Not good if you open that up to the world. What would you advise me in this situation? How do I make a large file collection across multiple drives available to the outside world securely, while having a separate user login account for each user? Do I need to get the server OS10 software for this purpose? Which server method and software for a mac would you recommend? I'm very interested to have a server back online, because my collection keeps growing over time and people keep asking for access. I'm now dropboxing all the time, but this is way too intensive on my part. I'd rather have something automated running, from which registered people can get what they are interested in. Any ideas? Regards, Paul. -- 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: how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?
Hi Georgina and Sabahattin, Thanks so much. The problem is solved. Mavericks now runs freshly on my macbook. With ml and earlier, it was easy to simply unpack the big dmg file for the operating system, found in the downloaded app bundle. to a USB drive. This new way of doing it was unknown to me. This time I did not have to go through these hoops, but I'm definitely saving your messages for future use. I found out about an interesting change in disk utility in Mavericks, when compared to the older mountain lion version, just for those interested. In ml and earlier, if you booted from the recovery mac partition, command r after the chime while turning the computer on, then we could not delete the macintosh hd partition with disk utility, as long as it was still encrypted. The process was tedious. I used to have to boot up normally, turn of filevault, then let it do its decryption process which takes hours, and only then can you reboot into the recovery partition, and delete the macintosh partition from there. Now with Mavericks, this is different. Whether or not macintosh hd is encrypted, you can now wipe it using disk utility, before doing a reinstall from the recovery partition. Paul. On Aug 16, 2014, at 10:08 PM, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello Paul, Yes you can. What you need to do. Go to your app store on the ML machine. Download Mavericks and when the installer starts, press cancel. Then you can provide a command line to write it to a USB stick greater than 7.9 Gb. Many of us did this when Mavericks first came out and discussed it here. So you can look through this list archives. Or just use your favourite search engine. I think there are a few utilities to automate the procedure, if that is what you want. In reading Mac World's guide. They suggest you should boot up your machine in recovery mode and use disk utility to attempt to repair the disk firstly to ensure it is functional. Article link below. However, you should be able to sort it out yourself, I suspect. The machine doesn't know your wireless access details. Either open up your wireless or use a ethernet cable to link the Pro to the router. http://www.macworld.com/article/2056543/installing-mavericks-our-complete-guide.html Good luck. Gena On 16 Aug 2014, at 20:06, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already. This afternoon, the Mavericks macbook somehow died. It won't boot. My wife tells me there's an infinite beach ball, and the system has been used so intensively, that I wanted to reinstall Mavericks anyway, and start anew. That is because my macbook had lion, mountain lion, and then I updated that to Mavericks, and the macbook deserves a fresh install. Unfortunately, the macbook won't boot anymore. I thought I would first restore my latest macbook time machine backup. This went, but failed before getting to 1 %. If I start up the macbook from its recovery partition and I then try to reinstall OS 10, it asks for my Apple ID, and it won't get passed that, even though there is a wifi connection according to my sighted wife. It keeps saying: signing in to the app store, for 15 minutes. Then I gave up on that. So now, I would like to create a Mavericks USB stick, and reinstall Mavericks from there. My macbook running Mavericks, won't boot, nor recover, so that machine is not an option to create the USB recovery drive with. I'll have to create a Mavericks USB recovery stick using my mac mini, which runs Mountain lion. From what I discovered, I can indeed create a recovery USB drive, using my mountain lion machine. I downloaded the Mavericks installer app, I downloaded the diskmaker program, but when I run disk maker, it tells me that it can only create a mountain lion USB recovery disk, and not one for Mavericks. This is because disk maker detected mountain lion running on the system. So, is there any way you can think of, that I can use to create a Mavericks USB bootable installer drive for Mavericks, using my mountain lion machine? I could update this mountain lion machine and be out of trouble right away. However, I bumped into numerous Mavericks issues that don't occur on my current mountain lion installation. So, if possible, I'd like to keep using ML for a few more months, until we have Yosemite. I'm very interested to hear your solution if there is one. Regards, Paul. -- 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
facetime on mavericks setup question
Dear listers, Is facetime for Mavericks on the mac an app that we have to buy these days? It used to be free. Here's what happens on my machine. I am running the latest version of mavericks. I open facetime, and it gives me a button to turn facetime on, so I clicked that. Next, I was asked for my Apple ID, so I typed and pasted it, then VO spaced on the sign in button. A new dialog appears. Here, I chose the phone number that I wanted associated with outgoing facetime calls from my mac. When hitting the next button here, I was asked for my Apple ID. I gave it, and had to select an outgoing called ID phone number etc. So I kept going round in circles. Finally, I found a learn more button in the phone number dialog, and there, I saw a buy button, for facetime. And yes indeed. If I do go to the mac app store using this button, it gives me a safari app store page, where I can buy facetime for 89 euro cents. Did any of you experience this yourselves? Is facetime no longer free, or will the purchase give me the facetime audio feature? Regards, Paul. -- 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: Dropbox on the Mac
Hi Pamela, Dropbox won't show you anything useful when you launch the app from your applications folder, as someone else already wrote. A way to determine if dropbox is currently running, is to check your finder status menu, using VO plus m, as in mike, twice in succession as you hold the VO keys down. Once you are in the status menu bar, find dropbox using VO left or right. If dropbox is running, you will find its menu item here. If not, the dropbox item won't be there. Once you are on the dropbox menu item, hitting VO space won't help. On my Mavericks system, it did the trick to hit VO command plus f5, followed by VO shift space. This command VO f5 keystroke will take the mouse pointer right to where you are working with the VoiceOver cursor. Then, you can let VoiceOver perform a real mouse click, using VO plus shift space. One way you might want to remember this keystroke is the following: VO plus space clicks as usual, where the click is performed at the screen location of your VoiceOver cursor. The real mouse pointer stays where it is in this case. Whereas, if you hit VO space combined with shift, so VO shift space, then VoiceOver clicks on the screen for you, at the spot where your real mouse pointer currently is. Having said that, now the dropbox dialog should be open. Now, go all the way to the end of the screen, and you will find a settings button there. Try VO space clicking this. If a menu does not appear, then do the same trick as above. Route your mouse pointer to this settings button using VO command f5, and have VoiceOver do the real mouse click for you using VO shift space. On my Mavericks system, the context menu then opens. From it, I can see how much dropbox space I'm using, and there is also a menu item to quit dropbox if you need that. Regarding what you can share and what you cannot share: Dropbox starts you out with a certain amount of storage, something like 2 gigabytes. So, anything larger than that, obviously won't fit, so you cannot share anything larger than your storage space in dropbox. If you want, you can increase your dropbox space in a number of ways. The 2 free ones I know of, are: 1. You can use the dropbox website, log in there with your email address and dropbox password, and then you can refer some of your friends to dropbox, hoping they will start using it. If one of them installs dropbox, then both of you will get extra space. I don't know how that currently is, but it used to be 500 mb. So, starting out with 2 gb free dropbox space, referring dropbox to 2 friends already gives you an extra 1 gb. As I said, it is not enough to refer. Only if they really download and start using dropbox, you will gaign extra free space in your own dropbox. 2. If you have an iphone or ipad, and you have dropbox installed on it, you can go into the dropbox settings there, and then turn on camera uploads. What that does is, that when you take any picture or video with this I device, it will automatically upload straight into your private dropbox folder. I don't know why dropbox gives you bonus space if you turn that on, but it did indeed increase my dropbox space. Once you have dropbox running, then in your finder home directory, command shift h, besides all your other stuff like documents, music, movies etc, you will find a new folder called dropbox. If you want to share a file with someone else, here is one way to do that. First, place the file you want to share into this new dropbox folder. So, command c on the file, then go command shift h to land in your personal home directory, and then go into your dropbox folder. Once there, hit command v to paste the file and it will be there. Once the file is in this folder, the dropbox program that was installed on your mac, sees this new file coming in. This will automatically start the upload process. The file will then go from your mac dropbox folder, over to the dropbox.com website. Once it is stored on dropbox.com, other people can download that file, but only if you give them the link to that file. A way to do this, is the following. To get the link to your file on dropbox.com, simply go into your dropbox folder on your mac, hit VO shift m to open the context menu, and beside menu items like open, move to trash etc, you will also find an item labeled share dropbox link. Hit that, and safari will open with the dropbox site. Take a close look at this site, and fill in the email address of the recipient of the file. There will also be a button like send, okay or something alike. Once you complete this form on the website, your recipient will receive an email message, containing the link to the file on which you hit VO shift space, and chose: share dropbox link. Once your recipient receives this email message and clicks this link, their browser will go over to dropbox.com, and get the file there, downloading it to your recipient's computer. That is one way to share a
how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?
Dear listers, I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already. This afternoon, the Mavericks macbook somehow died. It won't boot. My wife tells me there's an infinite beach ball, and the system has been used so intensively, that I wanted to reinstall Mavericks anyway, and start anew. That is because my macbook had lion, mountain lion, and then I updated that to Mavericks, and the macbook deserves a fresh install. Unfortunately, the macbook won't boot anymore. I thought I would first restore my latest macbook time machine backup. This went, but failed before getting to 1 %. If I start up the macbook from its recovery partition and I then try to reinstall OS 10, it asks for my Apple ID, and it won't get passed that, even though there is a wifi connection according to my sighted wife. It keeps saying: signing in to the app store, for 15 minutes. Then I gave up on that. So now, I would like to create a Mavericks USB stick, and reinstall Mavericks from there. My macbook running Mavericks, won't boot, nor recover, so that machine is not an option to create the USB recovery drive with. I'll have to create a Mavericks USB recovery stick using my mac mini, which runs Mountain lion. From what I discovered, I can indeed create a recovery USB drive, using my mountain lion machine. I downloaded the Mavericks installer app, I downloaded the diskmaker program, but when I run disk maker, it tells me that it can only create a mountain lion USB recovery disk, and not one for Mavericks. This is because disk maker detected mountain lion running on the system. So, is there any way you can think of, that I can use to create a Mavericks USB bootable installer drive for Mavericks, using my mountain lion machine? I could update this mountain lion machine and be out of trouble right away. However, I bumped into numerous Mavericks issues that don't occur on my current mountain lion installation. So, if possible, I'd like to keep using ML for a few more months, until we have Yosemite. I'm very interested to hear your solution if there is one. Regards, Paul. -- 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.
VoiceOver into the meet of the matter
Hi listers, After listening to the tech doctor podcast, hi Robert, Excellent job, I now have a very useful ibook on my phone, of which I wanted to make you aware. To begin with: it is free. A sighted guy, named Tim Sniffen if I remember correctly, did a book on mastering the mac. His audience is mainly veterans, but the book is amazing, especially when you go through the chapters for pages and numbers. The author wants to contradict the reasoning, that the mac is okay for home use, but for more advanced office applications and uses, people have to revert to windows. He talked to people asking them what it is, that the mac cannot do, where windows is the tool of choice. After reading these chapters, you may well feel differently about this. Creating a default pages template, using custom templates, hanging indents, inserting and formatting pictures, working with tables, styles, specific accessibility issues, it's all in this book. I've been reading and working through it all day, and I just wanted to point you to it if you would like a good and structured read on how to use these apps from a voiceover perspective. The author starts kind of easy, but then really gets up to speed. Just a tip. Search for Sniffen in the ibooks store on your phone or ipad, and it will be among the first few results. Hth, Paul. -- 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: VoiceOver into the meet of the matter
Hi Andrew, The exact title is: Mastering the Macintosh with VoiceOver. The author is: Tim Sniffen. Just go into the ibooks store, using the ibooks app on an IOS device, type Sniffen, and you will find this book. Hth, Paul. On Aug 8, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Andrew Lamanche ioani...@me.com wrote: Hello, What's the exact title of the book? Is the subject line the actual title? I can't find any other ibook by Tim Sniffen apart from the already discussed Mastering... I'd very much like to learn more about Pages Numbers and productivity in general. Thanks Andrew On 8 Aug 2014, at 16:05, Kawal Gucukoglu kgli...@icloud.com wrote: That is excellent. Now I have two Braille Displays, I will be able to read the book and work through it. Thanks so much. On 8 Aug 2014, at 03:32 pm, Daniela Rubio mabuha...@gmail.com wrote: That is a good read definitely for all who are interested in using mac as a unique tool. I use it for productivity at all times and I love it. For me, it gives me a much profesional outcome than the results I got with Windows. Interesting finding! Thanks! Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 08/08/2014, a las 09:19, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com escribió: Hi listers, After listening to the tech doctor podcast, hi Robert, Excellent job, I now have a very useful ibook on my phone, of which I wanted to make you aware. To begin with: it is free. A sighted guy, named Tim Sniffen if I remember correctly, did a book on mastering the mac. His audience is mainly veterans, but the book is amazing, especially when you go through the chapters for pages and numbers. The author wants to contradict the reasoning, that the mac is okay for home use, but for more advanced office applications and uses, people have to revert to windows. He talked to people asking them what it is, that the mac cannot do, where windows is the tool of choice. After reading these chapters, you may well feel differently about this. Creating a default pages template, using custom templates, hanging indents, inserting and formatting pictures, working with tables, styles, specific accessibility issues, it's all in this book. I've been reading and working through it all day, and I just wanted to point you to it if you would like a good and structured read on how to use these apps from a voiceover perspective. The author starts kind of easy, but then really gets up to speed. Just a tip. Search for Sniffen in the ibooks store on your phone or ipad, and it will be among the first few results. Hth, Paul. -- 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. -- 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.
fision audio editor question
Dear listers, Fision is an audio editor that lets you split m4a files losslessly, among many other things. Rather than reading and decoding an m4a, editing it, and then re-encoding it with the usual loss of audio quality, this editor leaves the audio compressed and intact. It just arranges the compressed audio frames, so that you can trim an m4a, aiff etc. That is very cool, and very useful. I've been trying to work with this editor from Rogueamoeba, but it seems that not everything is accessible. For example, the set sel ection dialog, which should be very straight forward with select from and select to, ok and cancel, does not seem to have edit fields. Fision seems a great tool, and it has a trial version. Could any of you tell me if it is at all possible to enter information into the edit fields in this dialog? Interested to know. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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: reinstalling mac OS10
Hi Isac, Thanks for your reply. A flash drive is probably the way to go. I'll get disk maker x and then take it from there. I'd rather not go into the discussion why I would like to continue using mountain lion, because I do understand the obvious reasons why not to use Mavericks, such as cost etc. I'm going to give it a try. I'm happy to hear that it is at least still possible to do this. Kind regards, Paul. On Jul 25, 2014, at 9:36 PM, isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: The only way I know how to probably reinstall mountain lion is to probably create a bootable flash drive with mountain lion. On Jul 25, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi listers, I still run mountain lion. When I try to reinstall clean, it wants to give me Mavericks. Is there a way still, to do a clean install of mountain lion? Here's what I did: Reboot the mac. After the sound, I hold command r to boot from the recovery partition. Then, I use disk utility to clean the macintosh hd partition. Then, I install the OS, using 1 of the 4 choices from the recovery partition. This menu has things like restore from time machine, reinstall OS10 etc. That's how I tried to reinstall, hoping I would get mountain lion. Instead, it tries to get me over to mavericks. Is there any way you can think of, to get a fresh mountain lion install instead? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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: using batch processing in Amadeus Pro
Hi Jenine, I've had difficulties myself as well, and I found out how to get things going. To batch process files in amadeus pro, do the following. First, fire up amadeus and to begin with, hit command shift n to open the batch processor. The layout of the window is actually simple, once you understand the basics. There are 4 tabs: format, actions, meta data and artwork. For now, forget about the last 2. If you just want to batch convert, then only the format tab is important. By default, after you open the batch processor, you will already be inside the format tab, so skip all tab stuff for now. Next, you will want to select the files to work on. However, even though this is the logical way of doing it, you first need to set a number of options. This is because once you have selected your source files, amadeus will immediately begin cranking away, without you having the chance to set conversion options first. So, first set options, and then hit select files. Let's go through the options. Resulting format is the first option you need to set. Just select your desired destination format from this popup menu, like mp3, m4a etc. To be clear: this is what you want your source files to become, once amadeus converted them. Once the destination file format is chosen, use the button next to the format chooser, to specify your settings. For example, say you want your source files, in whatever format they are now, to be converted into mp3 files, with a bitrate of 256. Then first select mp3 from the resulting format menu, and then hit the settings button next to it, so you can select 256 kilobits for your resulting mp3 files. There's a whole lot more to know, but this will get you started. After you choose your desired bitrate, or other destination file options from the settings dialog, be sure to hit okay there, and you will return to the amadeus batch processor. The next option in the batch processor is called destination location. In short, this is straight forward. The popup has a few preset folders for you to choose from, but of course you can also point to a folder of your own choice. Again: this is the folder where you want your converted files to go. Next option is delete original. This is a checkbox. If you are totally sure that your batch processor conversion options are correct, which take some experience, only then would I advise you to turn this thing on. If you find that you are satisfied with your converted files, you can always delete your source files manually, so that you are in control. Next is: change name to. I never use this, and now that I'm looking at it again, I wouldn't bother. Same goes for filter files, which is the next option, and I'd also not worry about entering regular expressions. Next is: open subfolders recursively. This affects your selection of source files. With this checkbox off, only files, single files from 1 folder that you select, will be converted. With this checkbox on, all subfolders of the source will be traversed and converted. To clarify: let's say you have a folder called big store, full of audio. It doesn't matter where this imaginary folder is on your mac. Just imagine that big store, contains audio files, and also imagine that big store has subfolders, also containing audio. So we were looking at this checkbox labeled: open subfolders recursively. Now. If you have this checkbox off, then amadeus will look in this big store source folder, and if it finds any audio files at its top level, only those will be converted. If you turn this checkbox on, then amadeus will also go through each and every subfolder inside big store, and all audio it encounters there, will also be converted. Keep in mind that it is up to you, to determine what happens to the original audio. If you have set a destination folder for conversion, different from the source folder, then the original audio will still be safe and unaffected, and it won't be overwritten by the converted files. Next option: retain folder hierarchy. The folder hierarchy is simply the layout of a particular folder, with all subfolders beneath it. Of course, only if you chose to recursively go through lots of audio folders, there's the question how to store all those files on your destination. You could either choose to throw all resulting files into one single folder, it being a collection of all the files gathered from all source folders recursed, or, you can choose to have amadeus recreate the entire folder hierarchy at your destination. If you do that, then you will see the entire folder tree on your destination as well, just like you have it on your source location, and then each converted file will be in a location you recognize. Again, only turn this box on, if you are recursing your source folder tree. Finally, there's the option: drag files on this area to process them. This used to be slightly cumbersome, but it is not anymore. We used to have to
reinstalling mac OS10
Hi listers, I still run mountain lion. When I try to reinstall clean, it wants to give me Mavericks. Is there a way still, to do a clean install of mountain lion? Here's what I did: Reboot the mac. After the sound, I hold command r to boot from the recovery partition. Then, I use disk utility to clean the macintosh hd partition. Then, I install the OS, using 1 of the 4 choices from the recovery partition. This menu has things like restore from time machine, reinstall OS10 etc. That's how I tried to reinstall, hoping I would get mountain lion. Instead, it tries to get me over to mavericks. Is there any way you can think of, to get a fresh mountain lion install instead? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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: mvware fusion questions
Hi Maria and Joe, Did you create any snapshots with fusion? A snapshot is a certain moment in time that you captured, when windows was still just fine. Every week, I create a snapshot in fusion, as long as windows is healthy. This way, if something like this does happen, then you can always go back to the latest snapshot, and all you loose, is data from the time the snapshot was taken, until now. Of course, you can backup windows using its tools, but a snapshot really is a great benefit. So if you did make a snapshot, then simply restore it and you're good to go again. For those interested: at any given time, you can make a snapshot of the current state of windows. It is like a full backup, but done by fusion, and therefore it is blazingly fast, without sacrificing anything a full backup gives you. While windows is off, and you know it's still healthy, just go into the fusion menu bar with VO plus m, go to the right over to virtual machine, and then down to snapshots. Once the dialog opens, use the toolbar to create a snapshot. That's all you need to do to make a full backup of your vm. If you get in trouble, return to this dialog. You'll see a list of previously created snapshots if you made any, and if you select one from that list, just hit restore in the toolbar and windows is back to the state it was in when you took that particular snapshot. Unlike a backup, which takes minutes to restore, restoring windows to a previous fusion snapshot is a matter of seconds. The snapshots are stored in your fusion folder, together with the data that contains your virtual windows. If you see that your snapshots are taking up too much mac disk space, you can easily get rid of them from the fusion interface. Hth, Paul. On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: HI listers. All of a sudden, I am having problems with vmware fusion. I am using an older version of vmware with windows 7. Until now, everything has worked fine. Tonight though, it said windows was running, but I got no log in sound or anything. Does anyone have any idea of what could be happening and what I can do to fix it? thanks Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@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. -- 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: Good iPhone app for recording audio snippets
Hi Mike, I was wrong. I checked my own message to see if I said list recorder would record in mp3. Yes I said that, but it is not true. I'm sorry about that mistake. All my list recorder files are in mp3 indeed, because I routinely convert them with amadeus pro. I accidentally mixed those 2 things while writing my message. Regarding stereo recordings: there is a setting in list recorder to record in stereo or mono, but that's the only thing I know about it. Not all iphone stereo mikes will work with the list recorder app. I listened to recordings made with iphone stereo mikes, but the few iphone stereo mikes I encountered were not especially great. The noise floor is too high for quiet recordings to call them good. Of course, what you get is okay, like the internal iphone microphone, but with an iphone stereo mike, I was hoping that my recordings would be taken one step further, nnot just by mono becoming stereo, but also in terms of mike noise becoming less of an issue. And that did not happen. If you are used to really high standards quality recordings, as you can make with things like the Olympus ls100 hand held recorder, then no, the iphone will not win you over. But that is usually not what you need. I would say: just try the internal mono iphone microphone, and see how you like it. For most uses, this will really suffice. It has nice highs and good mid range, but not a lot of base. I don't know where the cutoff frequency is exactly, I think it is around 250 hertz, but I'd like it to be lower. Absence of lows is what gives the internal iphone mike its typical sound, which is not always desirable. But in general it's okay. If you understand audio compression, limiting etc, then you will notice over time, that the iphone does a lot of that, and for most circumstances, does it well. With most other recording devices, the recorded audio either clips easily if you turn all processing off, or its compressor is so terribly agressive that the audio is pumping up and down volume wise all the time, which is very tiring to listen to after a while. The iphone by comparison, does a great job there. It has hefty compression, but the outcome is still rather smooth. If you record soft sounds, then you may find the iphone's own hiss a bit much, but even insects are recorded. On the other hand, loud audio is also well recorded, without it even clipping, because IOS processes that audio well. After you know the do's and don'ts of the internal mike, if IOS audio processing in terms of compression does get in your way, and you really need more manual control, then there are audio recorder apps that allow you to turn off IOS processing. But then, you are responsable for the audio recording levels yourself, and especially in the beginning, you will notice that it's not easy to get that right. It takes experience and patience. The recordings you then get though, are worth your effort. Still, everything is mono. Recording in stereo is possible, but as I said, I don't know of an external iphone microphone that fits all our wishes and hopes. At least I myself would like a mike with a low noise floor, one that is not bulky, one that does not force me to use headphones to hear voice over while the mike is pligged in, and I'd also like the audio app I'm recording with, to be voiceover accessible and simple to use. It is possible that such a thing does exist. I just did not come across it yet. Hope this answers your questions. Paul. On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Mike Busboom mbusb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Paul, Since I wasn’t looking for a recording app, I almost deleted your message before even reading it. However, I’m very, very glad that I didn’t. I purchased List Recorder from the Austrian app store yesterday and thus far, I am delighted with the app. It was also a real pleasure hearing Neal Ewers once again—a real bonus. In your note, you mentioned that List Recorder recorded in MP3 format. When I went into the settings I was unable to find the setting for MP3 recording rates. Could you let me know, please, if those settings are somewhere, other than the other recording settings where WAV and M4A are options? Another question: I have done virtually no recording with my iPhone 4S. Are the unit’s built-in microphones good enough for decent stereo recordings and, if not, is it possible to use binaural microphones with the unit? Thank you very much in advance for your input, Mike On 22,Jun,2014, at 17:31, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If looping audio is not your priority, and you are just looking for a good recorder for your iphone that lets you organize your recordings into nice folders, and which is also completely VoiceOver accessible, then you could take a look at list recorder. I'm using it all day. To rehurse my tenor parts for the choir I'm in, to create short shopping lists, I keep a list of how
Re: Good iPhone app for recording audio snippets
Hi, If looping audio is not your priority, and you are just looking for a good recorder for your iphone that lets you organize your recordings into nice folders, and which is also completely VoiceOver accessible, then you could take a look at list recorder. I'm using it all day. To rehurse my tenor parts for the choir I'm in, to create short shopping lists, I keep a list of how to operate our washing machine which has a display, how to operate the dish washer etc, notes on things to do or remember etc, or send an audio event I happen to be in, to someone else by email or IMessage., like a private audio boo. It records in wav, in mp3, in m4a and in caf. Also, moving recording from the phone to your computer can be done via dropbox if you want. When I need more space on the phone, I just upload stuff to dropbox from list recorder, so that I can delete it there. Once it's in dropbox, I can clip and edit it on the mac and then store it for future use. List recorder was created with lists of recordings in mind. I initially used it as such, but I found it to be such an excellent, multi-purpose handy tool, that I use it whenever recording something near me is appropriate. It's by sixth mode solutions. The developer is devoted to providing good VoiceOver support. Just look in the iphone app store. Hth, Paul. On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:36 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: What about the app Jimmy Fallon used with Billy Joel on the Tonight Show called Loopy? Dunno if it's accessible though and it's $8. http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5532944/jimmy-fallon-billy-joel-sing-duet-with-ipad-app http://loopyapp.com CB On 6/18/14, 10:08 AM, Jessica D wrote: What about garage band? It can do this. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I want to record short guitar riffs and progressions on the iPhone, and then be able to easily play them back - perhaps looping them if desired. Kind of like an audio scratchpad with looping capabilities. The built-in voice recorder app is not quite up to speed for my needs, but something like that app would work. -- 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. -- 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: Amadeus Pro file joining question
Hi amadeus users, Joining files is easy. Here's how I do it: 1. Open amadeus, the sound menu and then join files. This dialog has a listbox and 2 buttons. To begin with, of course all files you are going to join, must be in the same audio format. 2. Hit the add button. If it's not labeled, use the first one after the listbox. An open dialog opens. 3. In the open dialog, simply select the first file by highlighting it, and then hit the open button. The open dialog disappears. 4. You are now back in the join files dialog. The listbox that was empty when you hit add, should now contain the first filename you just selected. 5. Keep adding files one by one as described, until you have them all in the listbox. 6. Now that all files are in place and in order, according to the listbox, hit the join button and Amadeus will go to work. 7. Amadeus will work a while, depending on the amount of audio you gave it, but it will still finish relatively quickly. Once the job is done, you are then thrown back into amadeus, into the normal edit view. What you have here, is one big audio file, with all files joind. Just skim through the file to make sure the joints are okay. Note: once in the open dialog, you do not need to select each single file one by one, going through the open dialog for each file. Instead, you can also choose files contiguously, by holding the shift key as you arrow down the list. So, focus on the first file, hold shift, and then slowly arrow down. Not VO down, but just down arrow, while holding shift. Each file you land on is selected. If you then hit open, all files you selected will be in the listbox and then you can hit join. Hth, Paul. On Jun 15, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Much Jonathan. I could not remember for the life of me the end of file command. I'll try this with the mix paste as well, as I like that transition better than a straight paste in many instances. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On Jun 14, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Hi Jenine, I'm sure this isn't the only way to do this, but usually what I do is open the first file, then the second, select all the contents of the second file and copy it to the clipboard, go back to the first file and press option+End to get to the end of the file, and paste. Not only does it work all the time, but the other reason why I like it is that if you want to, you can do a mix paste to get just the right join between the two files that you want. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 15/06/2014, at 12:14 pm, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: Oh this is interesting. I deleted my efforts, not all of the originals but my combinations, but now I'm insirpred to try it again and see. Thanks. Awaiting wiser heads too. :) Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On Jun 14, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Jenine, I'm no expert on this, but sometimes I've done exactly what you describe, listened back and only heard the one file. When I've saved as .wav and listened in preview, all the files are, in fact, there. It may be something to do with Amadeus Pro only playing a section or the selection. You might find the files are actually all there. I've not really read Amadeus Pro manuals, so others will have more informed comments. But just be sure the files are really not all there. HTH Lisette On 15/06/2014, at 8:41 am, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: So I have 6 files I need to join together to make one single larger file in Amadeus Pro. I first thought maybe creating a new project and copying each into it would work but it did not. No matter where I pasted the new file into the project, it and only it was there when I listened to the final result. Then I saw Join files on the Sound menu and thought this might work. I can't quite figure out how to get my list of files in order to join. There's a drag and drop area but I'm a little stumped on how that works. Anyone use this feature and can you explain it? If not, how can I join these files together to make one larger file? Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@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. -- 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
Re: Accessible Open VPN
Hi, Yes I tried 2 solutions, both of which do work. I'll add some explanations for those who are curious what vpn can do for you. But in short, these are usable for us: www.proxpn.com, iphone as well as mac, and: www.getcloak.com . So what does vpn do for us, normal iphone users? An example. If you are at a coffee shop and you get your mail from an old server at your provider, then your phone must log in to the mail service, so you can get your own mail. To do that, the phone in your hand needs to send your email credentials, i.e. your mail username and mail server password, over to the email server from which you want your mail to be sent to you. By design, email protocols do not encrypt anything. Normally, that is not an immediate problem. But when you are on a wifi hotspot, to your phone that is the same thing as if you connect to your private wifi lan at home. And at home, every computer can see and connect to all others. Likewise, In a coffee shop, all devices on the coffee shop's same wifi spot, can see each other as well. With a specialized program running on a laptop or on an Android phone from someone else in the shop, folks are able to see all traffic from all people, including from your own phone, that runs by inside the coffee shop's wifi network. Your phone is transmitting your email username and password through the air, so everything and everyone around you, can catch that, if they know how to do that. And it's not hard. If people have your email password, they can visit sites, and ask for a password reset by email. And because the stranger now has access to your mail, they can change your password on your important sites, and that account of yours is then hacked. You don't want that to happen, do you? Luckily, modern email servers allow you to set up an encrypted connection, starting from your phone all the way through the wifi and through the net, over to your mail server, so that's a better deal if you can have encrypted email, because no one along the way can read your traffic if it is encrypted. For that to work, your email provider must support secure mail using something called ssl. If you use ssl connections to get your mail while you are on an untrusted wifi network, then you're good to go. Unfortunately, not all and every internet service supports encrypted connections, so it would be nice to have a general solution, that covers not just your email traffic for your phone, but all traffic from and to the phone. And that's what vpn can solve. A vpn eliminates this problem. Let me explain it this way. At home, your network is safe, because you own it. So, how awesome would it be, if you could make an encrypted connection from your phone in the coffee shop to your house, and then get safely on to the internet from there.Then, no one can look at your traffic. Well of course they can, but they will only see static noise, rubbish, garbage coming by, because that's what encryption does. If you had a vpn server running at home, then you could connect to it using your phone, while you are in a coffee shop, or in anotheruntrusted wifi network, and because it's vpn, virtual private network, your phone encrypts your traffic, sends it home, and the vpn server there, then throws it on to the internet just as usual. So if you had a vpn server yourself, you could communicate through it in a very safe way, because folks around you cannot see what you are doing, and therefore not get a hold of your passwords as they fly through the air, from your phone to the open wifi. Unfortunately, running a vpn server at home is not easy. I've tried it, and boy is it frustrating. For me it worked, and then it stopped working. I managed to fix it, and something else broke. You can have a vpn server using a windows xp box at home, and you can also do it on a mac at home, and probably on windows 7 or 8 but I'm not sure of those, but most people will agree that it is troublesome. So therefore, commercial companies exist that do a good job. The principle is the same. Now, you make an encrypted vpn tunnel using your phone, not to your house, but into the commercial vpn server, run by the company you choose. From there, your traffic is decrypted, and then sent on, through the regular internet. To the service you are using, it will lokk as if you are physically located at the same place where the vpn server is. It's not very expensive, a few bucks a month ranging from 3 or 4 to ten, depending on who you choose. And it's a nice way to protect yourself from other machines seeing your traffic. I was in Turky, and from my hotel, I could not listen to Dutch radio streams. But when I turned on my vpn, which was allowed, my tunnel ended in the Netherlands, and from there, the hotel could not block me from listening to my favorite local news stream, because the vpn connection is encrypted, so filters inside the hotel wifi prohibiting me from doing stuff, can't
editing a pdf
Hi listers, I've heard that pdf pen is supposed to let you edit a pdf. Does anyone here have experience with editing pdf files? Regards, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: Ftp server using the server app
Hi Chris B, I've been investigating sftp a while ago, but I gave up because I did not find it to work properly for me. In my case, any user was able to do a cd .. and get into folders all over my system. Is the sftp daemon in osx to be taken seriously? Can I use it to do a functional server for some 75 or more users that I once had on my old ftp server? These were my issues with it: 1. Users can get to all of the files on the serving mac, because I didn't find a way to lock them into their, or just a, specific home directory. You don't want everybody who wants radio plays from you, to download all private folders. Can I prevent that? 2. That port 22 thing is still a mystery to me. Can I open port 22, so that a user can get into my sftp server, but cannot log in using ssh and mess with my system? I don't get that yet. Regards, Paul. On Jan 3, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Depends on which vintage of OSX you are running. FTP was dropped from the sharing control panel a while ago but some variant of sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist will get it going again. The port issue will still exist along with security problems with FTP in general. It's been a while since I checked into this but in addition to opening port 21, once the connection is established the FTP server will do all future connections through one or more other ports chosen from a pool of available ports, usually ports 1024-5000. So you have to have in and out traffic allowed on all those ports in your firewall, which is why security people frown on FTP. sftp only needs port 22, which is the same port as ssh. Also ftp sends all text in the clear such as usernames and passwords while sftp encrypts everything. Just some stuff to google and think about. If you're just doing this on your own internal network the sftp advantages disappear. CB On 1/3/14 8:16 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote: There is two ways to enable it. One is to go in to the terminal and type in a command which I forgot at the moment. But the other one is, to go in to the server app if you have it. And that can also enable the service. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Jan 2014, at 2:20 pm, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Are you sure you want to do ftp and not sftp? ftp requires rather large swaths of ports to be opened before it will work. How did you enable ftp on your mac? CB On 12/29/13 9:55 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote: Hello, I am thinking about setting up an FTP server using the server on Mac. I've done this before, but I have failed. Due to incorrect Port forwarding, I have forward ports 21 and other ports to make the FTP server work. But when one of my other machines connects to the network via FTP, it doesn't want to allow the connection. Is there any other ports that I should forward? Sent from my iPhone -- ¯\_(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/groups/opt_out. -- ¯\_(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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
1password
Dear listers, I'm running into some interface issues with the new version of 1password. How can I create a new password in 1password version 4? Here's what I'm trying to do. I open 1password, and just as in version 3, I can go to the sidebar, interact, and find the passwords item there. Once selected, I stop interacting and I then open the file menu and choose: new password. A new dialog comes up. Here, I land in a field where I assume I can specify the purpose of the new password. I see 4 items here: from left to right an image, then an edit field for the purpose, then a favorite checkbox, and a share button. Obviously, all I need is the edit field, so I type in what this new password will be for. After typing that in, I'd like to generate a secure password, which gave no problems at all in the previous version. Now, I stop interacting, to broaden the focus of things I can look at. I then find, that I'm on favorite, unchecked checkbox, so I move right. I then hear the sound of a popover appearing, and I'm stuck. It says that my password is 1% strength, which is bad of course. So how can I proceed from here? I don't see a password at all. I used to see a field with the newly generated password, and some sliders beside it, to adjust its complexity. Now, I'm stuck in this popover, and my focus in VO is randomly being reset to just before the toolbar, so I'm being flung away from where I was looking. If you know how to get around this, please let me know. Thanks, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with voices and dates
So just out of curiosity, what does the Australian date format look like? Americans use month month dash day day dash year year, as far as I'm aware. In our country, which is the Netherlands in Europe, we use day day slash month month slash year year. Because my computer is always set to language US, but the region is Netherlands, I'm not surprised the voices are having trouble speaking dates, because on my machine, I created the date conflict myself because I want my machine to be US, but not my dates, to communicate naturally with my fellow native Dutch speakers. How do you write your dates in Australia? Paul. On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you Americans start writing your dates the right way around then you wouldn't have any problem. ;) Seriously though, changing the date format in system preferences might solve some of your problems. If Mail displayed the received/sent date in the Australian format, then Karen would read it correctly. However, she would still mess up dates that are in the US format in other places. On 12 Nov 2013, at 12:47 pm, alia robinson ali...@gmail.com wrote: That’s kind of what I thought. It says mail I got two days ago is october 11 since it is reading the 9 as october and the 11 which should be november as the day of the week instead. Alia On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I don’t think that is the problem. Most Nuance voices do their own date formatting whenever they think they need to, which gets very annoying. Not only are dates formatted differently for different regions, but often the date formatting is inappropriate. For instance, I currently have Dropbox 2.4.6, which Ava says normally. Serena, though, always told me I had Dropbox “the second of April, 2006” or something similar. To answer the question, though, I am pretty sure there is nothing to be done since the logic for dates, money amounts, and so on is all part of the individual voice. -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: Time Machine Backup failed
Hi, I had this happen to me a few months ago, before Mavericks came out. It appeared that my computer got renamed. Just once, I saw a dialog, saying that my computer name, mac mini, was already on the network. That message was in error, because all I did was reboot my mini, and when it came on and attempted to join the network, the rename happened. It's now called mac mini (2). Since that day, my time machine gave errors, and what solved it for me, was to re select my destination backup drive. Hth? Paul. On Nov 12, 2013, at 12:46 AM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I’m getting this message in my notification center repeatedly. I have it set to notify me when old backups are deleted. It says the current backup is supposed to be 168 gigs. That doesn’t quite sound right. I upgraded to Mavericks the day it came out, but it’s taken this long for this problem to crop up. What can I start doing to pin down the problem? Disk repair? Exclude items from the backup? Ideas? :) Thanks, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
blind developer: programming on the mac
Listers, Until 20 Years back, I used to be a visual basic for DOS programmer. I've been out of business because of medical issues since 1993. I would love to get back into coding, but so far, I have not been able to find an accessible programming environment on the mac. I used to code in an IDE, that's the integrated development environment, and now, 20 years later, I've tried several IDE's on the mac, all with no luck. What happens most of the time, is that the environment itself is not accessible, or at best very partially. Some have no windows to voiceover, some have menus but they don't open when you click an item, in some you can't see the code editor using voiceover, and that list goes on. One of the reasons I'd like to work in an IDE, is that the editor is then syntax aware as opposed to a separate, general purpose editor, you have an integrated step debugger, variables inspection windows, language and error help at hand, and the IDE itself can put together your executables. Does any of you have experience programming on the mac in modern, event driven basic? I took a look at real basic, objective basic, and pure basic, but due to their inaccessible IDE's, I'm hoping to find something better. All advice is welcome. Even learning a new language is okay for me. It's the result that count. regards, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: serena
Over here in the Netherlands, Serena is in the vo utility as well. Paul. On Nov 2, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: That’s odd. When you go to VO utility, speech, customize voices, in the search field type english. Serena should be in those results. I had her in both Mountain Lion Mavericks. I’m in the US, not sure if that makes a difference. Traci On Nov 2, 2013, at 10:12 AM, jean parker radiofore...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All: Well, my problems restoring my computer are deminishing. The biggest problem I have at present is that I followed the directions to find the voice called Serena and she is not in the customise voices location. It is likely that she bit the dust when everything else did. An internet search revealed that she reside on the UK Apple site. When I tried to go there to get her back I was told that Safari couldn't find the server or some such nonsense. Perhaps one of the UK people has an idea of how I can get her back? Jean -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: getting mac to see other pc's on my home network
Hi Don, One way to browse your lan with a mac, is to hit command k from finder, which brings up a connect to server dialog. You will land inside an edit field, where you can type your destination and protocol directly, but there's also a browse button. If your windows pc's don't show up right there, you can also enter the protocol prefix plus the server address yourself into the edit field. Say your windows pc is called JohnPC, and you have a share set up on it in windows. Then, you will have to tell the mac to access that computer using the SMB protocol, which is the networking protocol that windows machines use to communicate. After hitting command k from finder, you could type: smb://JohnPC Then, if you hit connect or enter, and your mac did find the JohnPC on your lan, you can log in and it will ask you which volumes you want to mount, or in windows wording, which shares you want access to. Select them in the listbox, and they will mount on your desktop. Note: if the computer name does not work, you can also get your windows machine's IP address, and connect to it this way: From finder do the command k. In the dialog, you land in the edit field for direct access. Type: smb://192.168.0.5, which will do the same thing. Of course, the IP address I mention is arbitrary for the example. File sharing should only be turned on on your mac, if you want to be able to access your mac's files from one of your windows computers. So, from the mac going out to windows, file sharing need not be enabled. Only if the mac shares out files, then turn file sharing on. Hth, Paul. On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:49 PM, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Hi, I have att UVerse as my provider and using the router they provide. The imac connects to it just fine and writing this on it now. However, I also have 2 windows pc’s on the network. They can “see” each other just fine, but I can’t get the mac to see them. I don’t see anything on the imac in network settings which I should change, but I’m still rather new with the mac so might be missing something. Also looked at the sharing options on the imac and believe they’re set correctly. Btw, using Mavericks here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Don -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
bootcamp without sight on a macbook air
Hi All, Having installed windows on a bootcamp partition on my own mac mini machine, I was hoping to help a blind friend of mine, who has a macbook air late 2012, in doing the same. To cut a long story short: We did not succeed. Neither her keyboard nor trackpad works, once in the windows setup. To begin with, The bootcamp utility asks for an iso file of the official windows installation dvd, which she both has, the physical disk, and an iso created from it. Second, bootcamp assistant wants a USB flash drive,. It will then take the windows iso dvd file, copy that over to the USB stick, make the stick bootable, and it then adds the bootcamp support software to the stick as well. This support software is necessary after installing windows, and it contains all the necessary windows drivers for the specific mac hardware. Finally, the bootcamp assistant shrinks your current mac partition to make room for the new windows partition. Sizes are of course adjustable. After bootcamp assistant made its partition and copied everything to the USB flash drive, it required us to restart the mac, boot from the USB stick, and run the windows setup program from there. After the first screen of windows setup appears, where you choose your language and locale, we found that the mac keyboard, as well as the trackpad, as well as a USB mouse that we plugged in, are not willing to work. So essentially, we're stuck after booting the bootcamp assistant created windows installation. Of course, we found out about this, after getting sighted help to see how windows was acting when we pressed some keys. Nothing. Has any of you experienced the same issue, where the macbook air late 2012 model will not function in the initial windows setup? We looked on the Apple support site, where we learned that the USB flash drive should be put into the left USB connector on the macbook air. Interesting, but if they say that'll work, okay we did that. But to no avail. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot for writing, Paul. On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Georges, Your answers have been most helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in the gaps. I've been busy installing bootcamp windows, and it's all set now. The win PE package is just awesome. I now have windows 64-bit installed, home premium, while I never thought this was possible at all without sighted help, but it is. Your latest answer contained exactly the missing bits of info I still needed, and now as I type, windows is doing all its updates in the background. I have the bootcamp partition, imported it into fusion, and now I can do lengthy tasks like updating, from OS 10, while also having the benefit of natively running windows for audio production if I need to, off of boot camp. Best of both worlds. :-) If I need to drag out my wave files from the bootcamp partition, I can now do so from os 10, and then amadeus them further as needed. Sometimes, a digital life can have nice surprises. Best, Paul. On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Georges Zaynoun humorlessg...@samobile.net wrote: Paul: I did this on a macbook white from the year 2009. Basically when this dvd reaches the desktop you have two possibilities either it talks which is what you want or it doesn't talk. In both cases you MUST use usb headset. I connected a loud speaker to the USB adapter I have and turned the volume high to the maximum. I noticed a little hum when usb audio was initializing whether NVDA spoke or not and it became silent when the desktop reached. I exited NVDA with capslock and q I heard nothing but when I pressed enter I heard the chimes from NVDA. Now since I don't know where is the focus I pressed command+m to be sure I am on the desktop then pressed n by itself to focus the NVDA icon then RETURN and voila NVDA started. When I did the install I did not use the install windows icon he provided on the desktop since there is a bug there, I browsed from his dvd to the setup.exe for Windows in the installers folder and the folder inside it I don't remember its exact name but you will find it setup.exe or use your own real windows dvd if you have one, just remember once you want to eject a dvd while win7pe is loaded on the mac you cannot use the eject key on your keyboard, you MUST open the computer folder from the first icon on the desktop then highlight the dvd and eject it from the menus, you activate the menus with the option key. As for why I used the recovery partition is because I wanted to make sure which startup disk I wanted to use next time. So for example after the first phase of installing Windows with speech when Windows wanted to restart as soon as I powered the mac and heard the music I ejected his dvd, powered off the mac, powered it on again and kept option depressed and counted to say five or ten in my heart
Re: Screen reader in Virtual machine
Hi Geoff, I can't help you with the keys, but here are a few things you might want to consider. 1. If you want to go with bootcamp, you can call Microsoft to have them transfer your windows license over from your vm to the bootcamp installation. That could solve one of your problemsw. 2. Once you have your bootcamp partition up and running, and let's suppose that you delete your existing virtual machine, only to avoid confusion, then you could import your bootcamp partition into fusion. It will then not become a vm on its own, but you can then indeed run your bootcamp windows installation through fusion as well. So, if you need the bootcamp benefits, like for audio editing where you cannot have latency, you boot windows from bootcamp. Whereas, if you just want to happily switch back and forth between windows and OS10, as long as you do not have critical time tasks, you can also use the same bootcamp installed windows from within fusion. 3. If you are willing to give up capslock and use an insert key instead, remember that you can create a fine insert key from fusion's preferences. I have my accent key mapped to do insert, while I run a virtual machine. In both jaws and NVDA, you can do everything you can do with the capslock key, as long as it is a modifier key for the screenreader. 4. If you are annoyed by constantly falling out of fusion if you hit alt tab in windows, that is configurable in fusion settings under keyboard and mouse. 5. If you would like to swap the alt and the windows logo keys, you can do that in fusion, from preferences, keyboard and mouse. That is: on a windows keyboard, the key to the left of the spacebar is alt, and the one next to that, is the windows key. On a mac, these are swapped around, so that if you were used to true pc windows, this won't feel very comfotable. In bootcamp, I don't know of an easy way to change that, but in fusion, it's easy: keyboard and mouse pref. Hope that helps. Paul. On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am brand new to the Mac OS, having just purchased a Macbook Air. My goal for doing so was that I really think the PC itself is quite reliable and usable for what I want to do. I would like to have a way to use both Mac OS and Windows interchangeably. Obviously, a lot of others have had the same idea. I first installed Windows 8 in a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion 6, thinking this might be a vial option. Although I was somewhat happy with the performance, I was not happy enough to continue without Bootcamp. However, one of the things I noticed after remapping the caps lock key to act as the VO keys and consequently allowing me to use the laptop keyboard layout in JAWS in the virtual machine, was that I had a strange problem with the keyboard that I'm hoping someone can help me puzzle out. I'm using the latest Macbook Air. When I used caps lock with the keys on the left side of the keyboard, everything worked as expected in the virtual machine. However, when I tried to use the caps lock keys for key combinations on the right side of the keyboard for things like routing the JAWSCursor, reading by word, character, etc, they did not work at all. I used the suggested method detailed on Applevis with KeyRemap4Macbook and PCKeyboardHack to disable the caps lock and reconfigure the VO keys. I have since deleted the virtual machine so can't pinpoint the exact keys that did not work at this point. I decided to go with Bootcamp and now have it installed and successfully working with JAWS. However, in my zeal to experiment, I now have an unactivated version of Windows 8 since I had first installed as a virtual machine and then installed with the same key on the Bootcamp partition. Nevertheless, I am contemplating setting my Bootcamp partition as a virtual machine to have the best of all possibilities, and M hoping someone has encountered this keyboard oddity with a Macbook Air and can advise me how to proceed to get the keys working as they should. I'm sure I will also have lots of questions regarding VO use with the OS X side of things, and I also have some questions about keyboard remapping in Bootcamp/Windows with which I seem to be having trouble and Sharpkeys does not seem to have the answers. But I'll save all those questions for future posts. This is my first meaningful post using Apple Mail. I really like it so far! -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you
Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance
Hello Georges, Your answers have been most helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in the gaps. I've been busy installing bootcamp windows, and it's all set now. The win PE package is just awesome. I now have windows 64-bit installed, home premium, while I never thought this was possible at all without sighted help, but it is. Your latest answer contained exactly the missing bits of info I still needed, and now as I type, windows is doing all its updates in the background. I have the bootcamp partition, imported it into fusion, and now I can do lengthy tasks like updating, from OS 10, while also having the benefit of natively running windows for audio production if I need to, off of boot camp. Best of both worlds. :-) If I need to drag out my wave files from the bootcamp partition, I can now do so from os 10, and then amadeus them further as needed. Sometimes, a digital life can have nice surprises. Best, Paul. On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Georges Zaynoun humorlessg...@samobile.net wrote: Paul: I did this on a macbook white from the year 2009. Basically when this dvd reaches the desktop you have two possibilities either it talks which is what you want or it doesn't talk. In both cases you MUST use usb headset. I connected a loud speaker to the USB adapter I have and turned the volume high to the maximum. I noticed a little hum when usb audio was initializing whether NVDA spoke or not and it became silent when the desktop reached. I exited NVDA with capslock and q I heard nothing but when I pressed enter I heard the chimes from NVDA. Now since I don't know where is the focus I pressed command+m to be sure I am on the desktop then pressed n by itself to focus the NVDA icon then RETURN and voila NVDA started. When I did the install I did not use the install windows icon he provided on the desktop since there is a bug there, I browsed from his dvd to the setup.exe for Windows in the installers folder and the folder inside it I don't remember its exact name but you will find it setup.exe or use your own real windows dvd if you have one, just remember once you want to eject a dvd while win7pe is loaded on the mac you cannot use the eject key on your keyboard, you MUST open the computer folder from the first icon on the desktop then highlight the dvd and eject it from the menus, you activate the menus with the option key. As for why I used the recovery partition is because I wanted to make sure which startup disk I wanted to use next time. So for example after the first phase of installing Windows with speech when Windows wanted to restart as soon as I powered the mac and heard the music I ejected his dvd, powered off the mac, powered it on again and kept option depressed and counted to say five or ten in my heart then pressed left arrow then RETURN and waited until recovery came then started VO and selected that I wanted to start from Windows. Maybe this was not necessary and it was enough to eject his dvd but I have a tendency every now and then to use this recovery partition as a talking startup disk since I am totally blind and have no sighted people around. Finally I started windows it finished setting itself up of course without speech then restarted by itself, it is up to you, no need to halt it to select it from the recovery partition it will start in Windows then you press command+u to get narrator talking from usb and you tab/shift tab to ok to make windows setup. Once setup is done you install your bootcamp drivers and after that you never need usb speakers and you can use the eject key to eject dvds. In one word you do the first phase of setup with dvd in the machine and you get speech when windows wants to restart eject your dvd and let it restart and wait until it restarts again then use narrator to set it up. Original message: Hi Georges, This looks like a very to the point answer. Thank you so much for pointing this out. There are 2 little things that I don't understand yet. Would you please clarify the following: 1. How can I exit NVDA? I don't yet know where windows maps its insert key in bootcamp. On a US keyboard, where is insert? I would then do a insert plus f4. That should bring up the NVDA exit dialog. Is this correct so far? And which key is insert, or is there another way? 2. You said: I used the mac recovery startup disk each time I wanted to boot from this Megadvd. What does this mean? To boot into windows, do you start your mac, then hold down command plus r, so that it boots into the mac recovery partition? But then how do you continue? I hope I'll hear back from you, because this seems exactly the bit of missing information that I'm still looking for. Thanks for your answer thus far. Please do reply. Paul. On Oct 8, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Georges Zaynoun humorlessg...@samobile.net wrote: Folks, I used the Win7PE successfully twice to
bootcamp and windows without sighted assistance
Dear listers, Installing windows without sighted help on a mac is easy as 1 2 3 if you use fusion, but what a job it is, without sighted help for bootcamp. If you have experience with this, then I hope you can help. There are a number of podcasts and guides on installing windows into a bootcamp partition on a mac. Unfortunately, none of them seem to give the entire, complete picture. In my specific case, I'm running into an error message, which of course falls outside the scope of podcasts. There is a helpful, very short written guide on the net, done by a blind user, who explains in detail how to do it. He of she wrote, that after booting the mac from the windows installation dvd, you first have a screen where you select the language, the advice is to press enter and that works, while the next screen has a button called: install now. That is true, but I'm getting the error: a required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, cd, dvd, or usb flash drive, please insert it now. This message comes up after hitting install now, and I found no way to continue. Google gave an article where you should be able to hit a button called disk options, format your destination partition first, and then go on with the installation. Sounds very logical and acceptable, But that turned out to be true for windows 8, not 7. According to my wife, I don't have the disk options button, just install now, or repair. So after hitting install now, on the second screen, I'm getting this. Any idea how to work around this? The bootcamp driver software is supposed to be installed after windows is up and well, not before hand. There are more questions, but if you can help me with this one, that would be awesome, as I can then at least continue normal windows installation, given sighted help. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance
Hi listers, To add to this: Bryan's medadisk doesn't talk on my mac. I just burned Bryan's talking windows pre-installation environment, which is what it's called, on to a dvd, and I booted it. Of course, mac hardware is not pc hardware, and although Bryan did include a vast number of audio drivers into his environment, I'm suspecting that a mac audio driver is not yet in there. The only reason I'm thinking this, is that after booting the mega disk in my mac, it did spin up, spin down, spin up etc, so it must have booted a long way, but after a few minutes, the drive went silent, and I did not have speech from NVDA through my mac mini speaker. If anyone has more details or a way to fix this, please write back on the list, so we all can benefit. Bryan has done an amazing piece of work and I'm impressed that he got this far already. I'm hoping we as mac users will be able to use this on our machines as well, so if I'm overlooking something, and his mega disk does work on a mac, or at least maybe a few up till now, please let us know. Paul. On Oct 8, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: That makes sense. Windows and Mac can read FAT and FAT32 formatted devices. However, Macs cannot write to NTFS devices, and Windows cannot write to devices formatted with the Mac file system. So, you need a format that both OSs are happy with, and your best option is FAT32. On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi If memory serves, the external hard drive/usb device must be FAT or FAT32 i.e.. the device that Windows drivers is downloaded to. These drivers should be installed from this external usb device after Boot Camp installation. At my system the Boot Camp installer would not download the Windows drivers to an NTFS formatted device. Only FAT or FAT32. Take care 7. okt. 2013 kl. 23:31 skrev Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com: Why would you want to reformat A portion of your drive? Boot Camp utility will do that automatically when you do the install. Be careful what you do without reading about it first. You can really cause some big problems if you don't know what you're doing. And, I'm not sure that using windows from a Boot Camp installation will work any better then Windows in llfusion. It sounds like more of a problem with your screen reader then with the Windows installation. Good luck. Sent from my IPhone On Oct 7, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Although windows via fusion works fine for many situations my braille display seems to be buggy if i use it with nvda. But is it possible to do an unattended install under botcamp as a blind person? I , unfortunately do not have any sighted assistance to do this procedure with. I thought it would be better to format part of the drive as ntfs but this is not possible with the bootcamp utility, can you do this with unattended install? Thanks in advance for any help, 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To
Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance
Hi Georges, This looks like a very to the point answer. Thank you so much for pointing this out. There are 2 little things that I don't understand yet. Would you please clarify the following: 1. How can I exit NVDA? I don't yet know where windows maps its insert key in bootcamp. On a US keyboard, where is insert? I would then do a insert plus f4. That should bring up the NVDA exit dialog. Is this correct so far? And which key is insert, or is there another way? 2. You said: I used the mac recovery startup disk each time I wanted to boot from this Megadvd. What does this mean? To boot into windows, do you start your mac, then hold down command plus r, so that it boots into the mac recovery partition? But then how do you continue? I hope I'll hear back from you, because this seems exactly the bit of missing information that I'm still looking for. Thanks for your answer thus far. Please do reply. Paul. On Oct 8, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Georges Zaynoun humorlessg...@samobile.net wrote: Folks, I used the Win7PE successfully twice to install on bootcamp and I did it alone just today and I am totally blind. What you need to do is you MUST use usb speakers or headphones and if NVDA doesn't speak to you just exit it without speech and answer yes to the question you don't hear, the confirmation you will get is the NVDA exit sound. Once that is done you can simply hit the letter n making sure you are on the desktop then enter and NVDA will start speaking from your usb device and you will be able to install Windows. I used the mac recovery startup disk each time I wanted to boot from this Megadvd. -- Georges Zeinoun Timmerv. 6A, SE54163 SKÖVDE Tel: +46500482929 Mobile: +46739861743 E-mail: humorlessg...@samobile.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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
subscribing to the list
Hi listers, We've been searching the web some time now. How can I get a friend to join this list? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager
Hi Massimo Vettoretti, I tried it all out and some I can confirm. I'll comment sequentially. 1. I did not know you could use the rotor to select a field on a contact card that you want to edit. I tried it this way: I open contacts, open a random card, hit edit, and then I turn the rotor. No contact specific information is in the rotor. Is there supposed to be any contact related stuff in the rotor that you know of, once you are editing a card? I can no longer try it out on IOS 6, because I only have one IOS device and I'm on 7 now. Also, I did try to edit a name and a family name, both with no luck. That surprised me. But what happens here, is that even when having the rotor on characters, it is impossible to move the text entry cursor across a family name or first name field, character by character. Flicking up or down with the rotor set to characters, just bonks at me. In IOS 6, it used to move the cursor one character at a time with each flick. That no longer happens, making it impossible to edit a contact's first or family name. 2. Regarding the cursor to start and cursor to end issue: it only says cursor to start of edit field, but as I said above, there is no way to move the cursor, so I cannot check at all whether or not the text cursor is at the start or at the end of the field. But that it's now broken, that is a fact. 3. On a contact card that did not have an address yet, while flicking across the card from top to bottom, I did indeed find an address field that was blank. This is what one would expect. I double tapped the address field, and bang, I was thrown out of the contacts app, back to my home screen. If that is what you meant when you said the phone app crashed, then yes, it happens here as well. Only difference on my side is, that I was editing my contact card off of the contacts list inside the contacts app, and I was not doing it using the contacts tab inside the phone app. Did you report the issues to Apple accessibility yet? Best, Paul. On Sep 25, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Massimo Vettoretti mass...@vettoretti.net wrote: Hello folks.. Here I am to report some accessibility issues under IOS 7 and contact manager. 1. It is impossible to use the VO rotor to edit some contact information, such as name, family name, salutation etc... Notes, phone number, e-mail address, web site fields are not affected. using a bluetooth keyboard with quicknav off doesn't solve the problem. 2. In the edit field affected by the bug reported above, when performing a single finger double tap to move VO cursor to the beginning or to the end of the field's content, causes Voice Over to announce Insertion pointed start even if the cursor is at the end of the text. The cursor position changes, but this is not reported by Voice Over. 3. It's impossible to add an address field to an existing contact. Trying to do that causes the Phone application to crash. The only way to do that is tapping the button with Voice Over turned off. Can you confirm? -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: ITunes and sequencial track number tagging
Hi, What I use is fusion, and a little windows utility called mp3tag. It allows you to select a bunch of tracks, who's filenames have been nicely numbered. It looks at each file in turn, numbering it in sequence. Of course, your filename numbering must be correct, in order for mp3tag to match your track numbers accordingly. But that is very effective. You select your files, and then you tab across the mp3tag windows dialog, filling in general information that you want applied to each track. For example,you can fill in the artist and album name from within the mp3tag program window, and apply that to all selected files. You then select renumber as a second operation, and mp3tag fills in the track number field inside each mp3 file's meta data. If you then import those mp3 files into itunes, your metadata, i.e. the mp3 tags, will be just fine, so that itunes knows how to handle each mp3 file and move it into your itunes library. Hth, Paul. On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Ray Foret jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Ah, I had thought perhaps that if I checked the Keep Library organized or something like that, you know the one? Maybe then if I used a wild card like 1* or 1+ that might work, but, no go. You can't enter special stuff like * or + in to the track number edit box because they are not allowed. So much for the wild card character idea. Okay. Looks like I'll have to go to a third party renaming app. I'd prefer one that I can set up to start putting track numbers in to the proper locations in the meta data taging info and then just let it go. Only one I found so far is File Renamer. Costs $19.95 though. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That would be an interesting and advantageous function. I don't believe that iTunes has that ability at all. No auto tagging features that I'm aware of. But, if you learn of something, I'd like to learn about it as well. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-09-24, at 5:31 PM, Ray Foret jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Okay. Now that I've finally made peace with the ITunes library system and actually come to love it, I am faced with a slight delima. Is there any way I can cause ITunes to write tags for track numbers sequencially? Say, for example, I've got an album consisting of 63 tracks (I'm not kidding). Now, instead of having to go in to the info for each track individually and do track number 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 ETC all the way to 63, is there a way of making ITunes assign track numbers through the entire album? I know I can select all the tracks in an album and write info for multiple items: however, how do I deal with numbering each track? Do I write it like this 1: 63 and specify in the track count that there are 63 tracks in the album? I really do not want to sit up all blessed night doing each number by hand. Thanks. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
mac numbers and basic operations
Hi all, If I would buy numbers, does any of you know if basic operations are possible in it with voiceover? I know that numbers does have accessibility issues, therefore I'm asking. What I want is create a spreadsheet with a few columns, each column having a text header, and then being able to sum up each column vertically, and also sum up the column sums horizontally. In other words: each column contains numbers that need to be added up. Is that doable with voiceover, creating a formula at the bottom of a column? And secondly, if you have those results, they will show up from left to right. In a column called total, on the right, I'd like to add up all column sums to a toal, using a formula in numbers. This is very basic stuff. Can VoiceOver handle numbers thus far? Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: Restoring a Macbook Air to Factory Defaults
Hi Jonathan, Yes, the process is accessible. I assume you won't need the details below, but I'm writing them down for anyone interested. If you start up your mac and you hear the initial sound right after turning it on, then press and hold both command and the letter r while the sound is still playing. Hold for some 5 seconds and then let go. The mac will boot from its hidden recovery partition, instead of its normal boot partition. It depends on a few factors how long it takes to boot, but after 30 seconds or so, just start pressing VO plus f5 with an interval of a few seconds, until VoiceOver comes on. It should not take longer than 3 minutes on a slow machine. You won't hear Alex, it will be Fred. You can now take it from there. Fred will speak very quietly, but you can crank it up a little bit using the normal mac volume control with f12 or fn f12, and also the usual voice controls will work as well if you hold down command, then going to volume using left or right arrows, and then increasing volume with the up arrow key. You'll see an interactable table with some choices, one of which is to reinstall OS10. If you prefer, you could first wipe the Macintosh HD partition using disk utility. Disk utility is in the interactable table as well. If you have an SSD drive and you did not encrypt your drive, then there is a good chance that some of your stuff is still somewhere on the drive. This is of course true for a normal hard disk if you just wipe out its partition table, but even more so for an SSD, because of a mechanism called wear leveling. What that means is that if you, for example, were using your SSD for just a few files, wipe it, rewrite a few files, wipe it etc, you would only use the first bit of memory on the SSD. Because those chips have a finite number of writes, it would wear out the first bit of the drive, and render it unusable rather quickly. To overcome this, new SSD's have wear leveling, where new stuff is written to new locations on the SSD all the time. This means that we as a user, cannot tell where specific stuff is being stored on the SSD, making it impossible to wipe out stuff on an SSD, as you would from a traditional hard drive. I got this bit of useful knowledge from Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte's podcast: security now. Their advice: when you start using a new SSD, make sure encryption is on before you add your personal stuff. Also, Don't forget to unauthorize your old machine from itunes before reinstalling it, and if I remember well, there are a few other useful steps to take when selling or giving away an older mac. Apple has an article on it. With a macbook air, I would like to warn you for a situation that I ran into, while helping someone else do it over facetime. I only experienced the following just once. First a note on wifi. After you boot from the recovery partition, you'll have to connect to wifi, but the status menus are not available with voiceover. The wifi stuff is indeed available to us, but it is in the normal pulldown menus, I think it was under utilities. Once connected, you should be able to proceed normally, and accessibly. Should, because here came the problem. You have to give your Apple ID to have the mac check for its eligibility to redownload the OS. Even though the ID was cprrect, we were hitting continue forever. The button did not go disabled as you would expect, so then you want to hit it again. However, things would not advance from then on, and she had to take her machine into an Apple store to have it fixed. Unfortunately, they did not explain how they fixed it, so I can't tell you either. However, on my machine, I never had a problem reinstalling OS10. Hope that helps. Paul. On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Hi everyone, I normally don't mind experimenting with things but I am a bit chicken to take this one on without asking for people's experiences. I have just upgraded from a 2012 Macbook Air to a 2013, and want to restore my old machine to the state it originally came in, IE erase all my data and leave a fresh copy of the OS on the system. I've read about starting the Mac while holding the option key and selecting the recovery partition. My question is, is this an accessible process? If so, at what point can I turn VoiceOver on? Is it just a case of pressing down-arrow, then return, to get to the recovery partition? Any help, or a URL that explains all this from a blindness perspective, would be very much appreciated. Thanks a lot. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org -- 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
IOS 7 without the eye
Hi All, A number of issues that came by on this and other lists, have already been addressed in a wonderful and very recent book by Jonathan Mosen. His book is called IOS 7 without the eye. I bought it yesterday and it is absolutely a great read. If you are an iphone user already, this will tell you all you want to know about what's new, and which are the bugs in VoiceOver for the moment. This book specifically touches on all important new things that a blind user may want to be made aware of. Even for me, being a non-native speaker, everything is clear. It was written from a blindness perspective, and I would like to encourage you whole heartedly to go buy it. Just google for mosen ios without the eye and it will come up as one of the top results. I payed using paypal, so that is also an option. If you want to get up to speed with ios 7 as well, it's all I needed. Hth, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mac Mini without a screen
Hi Richard, No I've got a slightly older one. Paul. On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Are you using the 2012 Mac mini? I ask because I’ve seen some others report that they don’t have this issue with the newest Mac mini’s from 2012. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Sep 11, 2013, at 4:10 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Aman, I don't have bootcamp experiences but without a monitor plugged in, my mini is very slow, saying it's busy busy busy all the time, especially in safari. I hooked up a very old VGA monitor and now the busy's are over. An alternative is to buy a miniport to ntsc converter, but I have none of those. But without anything attached, it's going to be looking for a monitor all the time, being busy busy. Hth, Paul. On Sep 11, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. This issue comes up here every once in a while, indeed, I think I may have brought it up myself, but I don't think I've ever seen it discussed about the newest Mac Mini. I would like to use the Mac Mini without a monitor plugged in. Will this work with the newest unit? Further, will it have any issue running without a monitor under Windows using Bootcamp? Thanks. Aman -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mac Mini without a screen
Aman, I don't have bootcamp experiences but without a monitor plugged in, my mini is very slow, saying it's busy busy busy all the time, especially in safari. I hooked up a very old VGA monitor and now the busy's are over. An alternative is to buy a miniport to ntsc converter, but I have none of those. But without anything attached, it's going to be looking for a monitor all the time, being busy busy. Hth, Paul. On Sep 11, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. This issue comes up here every once in a while, indeed, I think I may have brought it up myself, but I don't think I've ever seen it discussed about the newest Mac Mini. I would like to use the Mac Mini without a monitor plugged in. Will this work with the newest unit? Further, will it have any issue running without a monitor under Windows using Bootcamp? Thanks. Aman -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: reaper?
Hi Maria and Joe, I don't have your specific answer, but here's something you or others might want to know. If midi is all you want to work with, and you want to use a vst synth as well, then QWS inside a windows virtual machine is fine. Qws was programmed and is still being maintained by I think it is a totally blind guy. I'm using it on my mac under windows 7. I have fusion to run win7, and qws is installed in windows. You can attach an external midi keyboard or controller, and as long as you go with external sound sources while programming your midi file, qws is fantastic, and very easy to use. If you use the internal sound device, which has an mme driver rather than an asio one, latency is indeed an issue. Not during playback of course, but it is a problem when playing live on the external keyboard, and then having qws send its data to a software vst synth, which in turn uses the VmWare fusion virtual sound device for audio output. That audio path has latency because of fusion itself, and because of the MME driver in windows. Just something to think about as an alternative. Hth, Paul. On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. just wondering if reaper for mac is accessible? thanks Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: reinstalling os x mountain lion on macbook air
Hi Phil, Is it a necessity to use lion diskmaker? What if I have the mountain lion installer app, I extract the ESD image file from it which is about 4 GB, and then use something like super duper to restore that dmg to a USB drive. I'm just curious. Does diskmaker do something different, or will this approach work just as well? Regards, Paul. On Aug 26, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I think you have two options: one) you can get an ethernet to thunderbolt adapter and then connect to a router. Two) you could make a thumb drive installer For Mountain lion using lion DiskMaker. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I recently got the new macbook air. The last one i owned i sold and reinstalled in march 2012 (it had mountain lion on it). I could not do this without sighted assistance however because i had no wired network and you could not access the wifi functionality within the system utilities prior to install to turn on and connect to your preferred wifi network (so that your system could dl the installation from the internet). I guess that at some point sooner then later i will have to reinstall THIS nww macbook air as well and i was wondering if this problem has been solved yet? 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button next to the list box, you can get rid of them. In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is called the utility manager in windows. This is a program for assistive technologies, and if you run that, it also happens to invoke narrator. To start narrator this way, simply hit windows logo, plus the u key, as in utility manager. Be aware though, that you now have 2 programs open, the utility manager and the narrator. If you then alt tab to the utility manager, you can safely close it, without loosing speech, because narrator is still running, and so you no longer need utility manager to be running, because you only used it to invoke narrator. In windows 7, I found that the easiest way to get narrator to talk, is by hitting alt plus r, typing narrator followed by enter. You can still use utility manager, but I don't know its keystrokes. Once narrator is running, you need a way to get NVDA or any screen reader of choice, to run in windows. To do that, you could use a USB stick, but there's an easier method. You can access your mac files, from within windows, using a service that fusion gives you. If, during the windows setup in fusion, you chose to set windows up more seamless, as opposed to more isolated, then in seemless mode, there is an icon on your desktop called vmware shared folders. Technically, this is a virtual network connection, but in practice, this takes you into your mac file system, and if you have NVDA downloaded there somewhere, then you can easily install it. If you move to windows 7 from xp, which is wise in the near future given the fact that security updates will no longer appear after april 14th 2014, then if you install NVDA, it may seem to hang during the installation. This is in fact not true, but what I had to find out about before being able to install NVDA, is that on the screen, but in the background, there is a user access control window, asking you if you really want to install a new peace of software. UAC protects you from installing unintentional things, by popping up a warning if windows sees that stuff is being installed, and that's all fine and good, but not if you are not aware of this window appearing in the background, while you are awaiting the finish of the NVDA installation. What you can do is, simply alt tab to this UAC window, say yes, and immediately NVDA goes on and installs. Hth, Paul. On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi, eventually i have at long last got vmware up and run with windows, but can anyone tell me what do i do from there? getting narrator or nvda up and run would be a good thing, but how? all
Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File
Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks are all messed up. I'll try to explain what is going on, and then give you the solution. Each character in a text file is a 1-byte value. In the old days, we called them ASCII values. In this character to numbers mapping, an A was 65 in our decimal system, or 41 in hex. Just remember that each letter has its associated value. These days, there is unicode next to ASCII, bug the idea is the same. Each printable character gets a number assigned, so the characters can be stored in computer files. Now, a line break is also a number: 10 in decimal, or 0a in hex. In unix and mac text files, if you manually hit enter in a text file, then a byte with the decimal value of 10 is inserted as the line break. Windows and dos on the other hand, use 2 characters to signal a line break, being 0d 0a, or the 2 bytes together, having values of 13 and 10. 13 Is a carriage return, while 10 is a line feed. Carriage return comes from the old type writers, where you push the carriage back, ready for a new line to be typed. The line feed, stands for pulling the handle on the left of the type writer, so that the paper advances one line down. See how old unix actually is? In short: mac uses one byte, 0a, as a new line, and windows uses the carriage return and then line feed pair, 0d 0a. So the cause of the problem is, that linebreaks look different, in mac files and windows files. Wordpad in windows is aware of this, but notepad is not. So, while on a mac text file inside windows, use the application key to bring up the context menu for the file, choose open with, and then choose wordpad. Alternatively, you can also first open wordpad and then hit control o to retrieve the text file. If you use wordpad to open the file, its lines will be nice the way you expect them. What I usually do is hit space and then backspace, so that wordpad will ask me to save the file once I hit alt f4, and if you save it, even over the mac copy, then you will have a nice windows file, where after each linefeed 0a, wordpad nicely adds the windows carriage return for you. So, for each messed up text file from the mac that you are seeing in windows, use open with, choose wordpad, save it back, and you're done. I haven't yet found out how to get rid of the carriage return pair to go the other way from windows back to mac. In text edit, I keep seeing carriage return linefeed pairs, but text edit is smart enough to handle these nicely. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi All, I am working with a file that I have created on my Mac and I need to access it on my Windows machine. The line endings are all messed up though, so that returns are not being honoured. Does anybody know a quick way to make sure that the file can be edited on both a Mac and Windows machine? Thx, Jeff -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you have windows on, do the following. Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, for close window. Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button next to the list box, you can get rid of them. In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is called the utility manager in windows
Re: Keyboard shortcut iCloud tabs?
Hi Tracey, I don't have the answer, but because you seem familiar with icloud tabs, I hope you know how I can delete all of them. How do I get rid of all icloud tabs, so that I can start from scratch with them? Interested. Paul. On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just did some googling with no result. Does anyone know if there is a keyboard shortcut to quickly jump to the iCloud tabs in Safari? Thank you, Traci -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
secure ftp and ssh
Hi listers, If I set up a secure ftp server, then what happens to secure shell? I'd like to set up an sftp server, without allowing secure shell for users outside my network. How can I do this? Can I have one without the other? Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: 1password passwords: where do they reside?
Dear all, After having created a new, secure password using 1password, and hitting the save button, can anyone tell me where it gets saved? I can't find the newly generated password inside any of the vault items. To Nick Parsons: thanks for the tip on command shift p. Didn't know that one yet. Kind regards, Paul. On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, YOu can get to generated passwords through the Go menu or by pressing Command-Shift-P. Once I generate a password, however, I usually just copy and paste it into a new login item or whatever I'm creating. Best, Nic -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
using the iphone personal wifi hotspot
Dear listers, When we're out and about, my wife often wants to use my iphone wifi hotspot, because I sometimes have better coverage on my carrier. Everything works just fine, but there's one thing I'd like to change. The wifi network, being set up by my iphone as soon as I turn the wifi hotspot feature on, has my first and last name as the SSID. Is there a way to change that to something less obvious? In the same regard, I also have another similar problem. I lended my bluetooth keyboard to my neighbour, and when I got it back, it now constantly calls itself Neighbour first and last name, keyboard. How can I change the bluetooth name being broadcast by the iphone Apple keyboard, back to my own name or custom string of text? Any ideas about either question? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: reading .docx documents on the mac?
Hi Anouk, Adding to this: when reading through dot DocX files, especially when using braille, formatting sometimes looks weird. What I usually do, is command shift t inside text edit with the DocX loaded, to have it instantly converted into plain text. That removes the formatting, which is not always necessary to read a document, and it can get in the way when following along on your braille display. Most stuff I receive in DocX, reads well in text, whereas it looks kind of messed up before conversion. Hth, Paul. On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I got some .docx documents that i need to read. Id rather not open windows to do it but apparently pages cant do this as standard. Is there a plugin or something that i can use to get this working? 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
1password passwords: where do they reside?
Hi listers, When inside 1password, one can generate a new password and then save it. Where are those stored? On the mac, when I arrow down the sidebar, I don't find a passwords item. It's not in secure notes, not in any other category, and it looks as if the generated passwords are not in 1password. However, when I type the purpose of the password in the search box, then the sidebar has no selected items, and the search result, being indeed the password I was looking for, is then found. But how do I find such generated passwords in a list, like all other categories? Could it be that I accedentially hid a sidebar item? Hope to hear back. Paul. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader
Hi Anne, What is your workflow when scanning with vuescan and fineReader express? Do you first scan all pages with vueScan, and then hand them all off to FineReaer to do the OCR? If so, would VueScan store all pages in one big image document such as pdf, or will I get 80 loose files out of vuescan that I'll feed into FineReader? Kind regards, Paul. On Jun 29, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Donna, I haven't got a scanner with an automatic document feeder so I can't test this. However, ABBYY FineReader for Mac is an express version so doesn't have all the options. For those of us with simple scanners, the advantage of VueScan is that it's much more efficient than FineReader for scanning. Cheers, Anne On 29 Jun 2013, at 14:47, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Anne, so I have a scanner with an automatic document feeder that holds approx 50 pages. Is it not possible to start a scan in ABBYY and just have it scan continuously as long as there is paper in the document feeder? It is possible to do this in Windows, so it seems like it ought to be possible on the Mac as well. Best, Donna On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Christina, It isn't actually necessary to use VueScan with FineReader, but it makes scanning multiple pages much easier and quicker. You can scan multiple pages with ABBYY FineReader, but you have to perform several actions between pages whereas with VueScan, you can either set it to autorepeat or press Cmd-n for each scan, then Cmd-g to tell VueScan that you've scanned the final page, and it will close the file and open FineReader so that FR can perform the OCR. Cheers, Anne On 29 Jun 2013, at 03:24, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Why do folks suggest that we buy both? What are the benefits to scanning with vuescan and then using Abby fine reader for the OCR? Why can't we just use fine reader for the scanning as well? Thanks, Christina -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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/groups/opt_out.
question for the geeks: sftp
Dear geeks on here, After doing some research, I understand that I can host my own SFTP server on my mac. To do this is a bit of a challenge, and I have a couple of questions in advance that you may know the answers to. 1. As I understand it, SFTP is a protocol that runs inside, or over, SSH. All I've seen from SSH, is that it is a nice way to terminal into another mac. How can SFTP be done over a back and forth text connection? FTP is mostly binary, at least almost always for file transfers. Clearly, I'm still missing some basics here. 2. Is it true that SSH and SFTP both use, and only use, port 22 on the listening server? In other words, do I need to forward other ports besides 22? 3. Can I have one without the other? In other words: if I need an SFTP server to function, can I still prevent folks from logging in, to do terminal like things over ssh? I'm asking because, if you turn on remote login from within the sharing item of system preferences, then not only do you turn on SFTP, but also SCP and regular SSH. Using telnet or in this case its secure version ssh, someone could go virtually anywhere. Using SFTP however, I can restrict which folders other users see. I'm still piecing the concept together in my mind. Is it possible to run an SFTP service while blocking regular SSH terminal sessions out? 4. Is it a good idea to choose a different listening port on my router, that other users can SFTP into? Usually it is 22, but to obscure the SFTP server a bit, I could choose another listening port, correct? Are there any technical disadvantages that I should keep in mind when choosing an alternative incoming SFTP port? 5. An interesting part. To allow a user to do SFTP, and this is what I don't understand, I need to go into the user's advanced options, and then set the user shell to /bin/bash. Why should I do this at all? I want them to SFTP, I don't want them to do SSH commands. So first, what means /usr/bin/false and why does it need to point to bash instead? 6. I also need to set the user's home directory. I have a lot of stuff to offer, but if I gave each user his or her own home directory, then how do they get to my files repository from there, once they are logged in? 7. There is a reserved username called ftp. What is this being used for, and what if a random user attempts this as a username on my system? Hoping for answers. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Java-based Applications
Hi Harry, I can't solve your problem but as you asked, yes I have limited success with java applications on the mac. I can read parts of their interface, and routing your mouse and clicking, seems to be the way to go, as opposed to using the default action from voiceover, i.e. vo spacebar on the item. As long as you can trigger actions by routing and clicking, it's doabler, but agreed, far from nice. Hth, Paul. On May 2, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, has anyone had luck with java-based OSX applications? I have managed to get them working somewhat using the trackpad and by routing the mouse pointer and clicking, etc. but it isn't perfect. The applications I am trying to work with are OmegaT, Heartsome Translation Studio, and Gant Project. I would rather work with OmegaT because is the most well know of the three, is free, and supports many file formats, but it is the one that is giving me the most trouble, for whatever reason. All of these programs are translation software for translators. Thanks for any tips/advice for dealing with java. Harry -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: time machine: finding a specific file
Hi John Panarese, Thanks for your reply. I have that in my answers archive now. The problem I'm trying to solve though, is this. What if I have no idea about the date or time when a file was deleted. I just know that it has existed somewhere in time on my machine, and so it should now be present somewhere in my time capsule. Question is: how do I get to it? If the backups that time machine makes were not stored inside big backup archive files, but instead would have been stored as plain files and folders, then, what I would have done to find a file from the past, would be a simple filefind on the entire disk. But with time machine, this seems impossible. Do you happen to know a way to have time machine search all backups, i.e. all that it has, for my computer, and then find the file I lost? Kind regards, Paul. On May 2, 2013, at 7:24 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, After you open up Time Machine and hear that sonogram sound, you need to use the Window Chooser menu to go to the Time Machine Controls. In there, there is a scroll area that you must interact with and go back in time. When you are at the spot you want to view, you then have to use the Window Chooser menu to select the view of that date. I have not used this in conjunction with a search, but I am assuming it will work the same way. 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 Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On May 2, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled it and I tried the following. 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to begin with. Problem is though, that it could have been in many places, because it was a work in progress. So I went to the desktop for a start. 2. I then went into the extra menus, vo and then twice the letter m as in Mike. I went to time machine, and clicked on open time machine. 3. In this window, I'm stuck. I type in the search criteria, which in my case was just the filename Rutter 11.txt, hit enter, and hoped for the file to turn up, but it does not. I typed my search into the finder toolbar in this time machine window. I think time machine wants an exact date when the file was still present, but I just don't know when it got deleted, or why. So, I'd like time machine to search its entire backup set for my mac mini, and then come up with the latest version of that file. So how do I do that? Regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: time machine: finding a specific file
Hi Gigi, I'm not sure I understand your suggestion. I did use finder to look in all conceivable places on my mac, but I cannot find the file. I even indexed all my external hard drives with spotlight and did a search again, but no luck. So, the only hope remaining, is the time capsule. I don't know the date when the file got lost. You discover that when you need the file and then notice it's gone, but having no idea why it went, because I tend to archive my stuff very carefully. Are you saying there is a way to have finder go through all backups on the time capsule in one big go? That would be the solution for me. If you know how to make that happen, please describe how one can go about this. Again, I don't know when the file got lost, so going to a specific date with time machine is not a good option in my case. If anyone else can chime in, please do. Kind regards, Paul. On May 3, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Paul You may have already tried this, but have you gone into Finder to see if you can find the file? The way I understand things, you don't have to know the date it was put on there if it was on your computer say at the last update or maybe you could check a specific date you know for sure it was on there. Just a thought. Regards, Gigi On May 3, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John Panarese, Thanks for your reply. I have that in my answers archive now. The problem I'm trying to solve though, is this. What if I have no idea about the date or time when a file was deleted. I just know that it has existed somewhere in time on my machine, and so it should now be present somewhere in my time capsule. Question is: how do I get to it? If the backups that time machine makes were not stored inside big backup archive files, but instead would have been stored as plain files and folders, then, what I would have done to find a file from the past, would be a simple filefind on the entire disk. But with time machine, this seems impossible. Do you happen to know a way to have time machine search all backups, i.e. all that it has, for my computer, and then find the file I lost? Kind regards, Paul. On May 2, 2013, at 7:24 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, After you open up Time Machine and hear that sonogram sound, you need to use the Window Chooser menu to go to the Time Machine Controls. In there, there is a scroll area that you must interact with and go back in time. When you are at the spot you want to view, you then have to use the Window Chooser menu to select the view of that date. I have not used this in conjunction with a search, but I am assuming it will work the same way. 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 Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On May 2, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled it and I tried the following. 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to begin with. Problem is though, that it could have been in many places, because it was a work in progress. So I went to the desktop for a start. 2. I then went into the extra menus, vo and then twice the letter m as in Mike. I went to time machine, and clicked on open time machine. 3. In this window, I'm stuck. I type in the search criteria, which in my case was just the filename Rutter 11.txt, hit enter, and hoped for the file to turn up, but it does not. I typed my search into the finder toolbar in this time machine window. I think time machine wants an exact date when the file was still present, but I just don't know when it got deleted, or why. So, I'd like time machine to search its entire backup set for my mac mini, and then come up with the latest version of that file. So how do I do that? Regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post
time machine: finding a specific file
Hi list, Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled it and I tried the following. 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to begin with. Problem is though, that it could have been in many places, because it was a work in progress. So I went to the desktop for a start. 2. I then went into the extra menus, vo and then twice the letter m as in Mike. I went to time machine, and clicked on open time machine. 3. In this window, I'm stuck. I type in the search criteria, which in my case was just the filename Rutter 11.txt, hit enter, and hoped for the file to turn up, but it does not. I typed my search into the finder toolbar in this time machine window. I think time machine wants an exact date when the file was still present, but I just don't know when it got deleted, or why. So, I'd like time machine to search its entire backup set for my mac mini, and then come up with the latest version of that file. So how do I do that? Regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Transfreing old contents to new virtual machine, is it possible?
Hi Krister, Well you can exchange files between 2 virtual windows machines, yes. You can not easily transfer all your apps. You would need to reinstall them in windows 7. What you can do however, is transfer data from the old xp vm to the new win7 vm, using file sharing built in to vmware fusion. For those who don't know how to set that up, it's easy. Here's how to do it. First off, what I'm describing here solves the following problem. The windows vm in fact running on your mac. Beside having normal access to a c drive in windows, it is sometimes desirable to have access not just to the windows drive, but also to other files, stored on your mac, outside the virtual windows machine. For instance, if you have stuff in your mac documents folder, then usually, and especially if you installed windows more isolated during installation inside fusion, it is not so obvious how to get windows access to your mac documents folder. In windows, you can see your c drive, and other external disks you attach after windows was started, but how can you access the mac downloads folder, the mac documents folder, or, for that matter, any other files that your mac has access to, but windows has not. This is where fusion's sharing options come in handy. If you enable sharing, which is an option in the toolbar in fusion, then you can select which folders from the mac file system you want to make available in windows. Once fusion knows which folders to show to windows, they will appear as a network drive inside windows. Normally, to access a network drive in windows xp, you would go into the my network places on the desktop, then entire network, then your workgroup, then the machine where you want to access a share, and then you would click on the share itself. This way you can have access to files on another windows machine's hard disk. Now back to your mac shared folders, they will be accessible through in a similar fashion. On your xp desktop, a new icon will appear called vmware shared folders. Fusion installs that icon on your windows desktop if you turn on sharing in fusion and then ad 1 or more folders. To access your mac data from windows, simply open this vmware shared icon from the desktop and you will see the name of each folder you shared. If you go into one of these, the files stored on your mac's hard drive will be accessible in xp. So what you can do from then on, is save all files that you want to retain from xp into a folder on your mac, so that the data resides outside all virtual machines. Later, when inside windows 7, you can share the same folder over to windows 7 using fusion, and pull the data back in. It's easiest to do this with your documents. Then you have your favorites, which will also work I think, but I haven't tried that myself. If you were using outlook express in xp and you want to move your mail data to windows 7, you're faced with a new problem, because you will be forced to use anything other than outlook express. OE is no longer present in windows 7. Windows live mail is an option, because you can also pull in your address book if you want. Finally, to enable sharing in fusion for a particular vm, do the following. Open fusion, make sure the vm is loaded. It doesn't matter whether or not it boots up, but it's easier, voiceover wise, if the vm is not running. Then hit command e to access the vm settings. The settings window appears. After the add device button, there is what voiceover calls a scroll area. Interact with that and click on sharing. The sharing dialog appears. This is a very simple interface, with a listbox and 2 buttons. The first button is add, the second is remove. Hit add, then browse to, and put your cursor on, the folder you want to share, and hit add. Then hit command w to close the settings window. Now, if you fire up windows, you will find your mac stuff in the vmware shared folders icon on the desktop. Note: if you have difficulty finding your way to the folder you want to share, remember this. Go over to the list or column view and don't go into the sidebar. To go up 1 level, hit command up arrow. So if you're inside your mac documents folder and you want to go 1 level up, to your home directory where you have documents downloads etc, hit command up. To dive into a folder, hit command down arrow. Hth, Paul. --- Hi all, I have Vmware Fusion with one virtual XP machine and one windows 7 machine. I wonder if it is at all possible to transfer the contents of the XP machine to the one with Win7 in a way that preserves the functionality of installed apps etc? Thanks for any help. /Krister -- 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
terminal question: wildcards
Dear listers using terminal, How do I match all files starting with a period? I thought .* would be simple enough, but if I do ls .* on my external drive, which is os extended journaled, then all files in that dir show up. If I do the same command in my normal home directory, then the same thing happens. What I'm trying to do is delete all files starting with a dot in the root of an external drive, because that's an advice I found in another forum for a different problem I'm having. Why do all files seem to show up when doing ls .* rather than just those whose name starts with a dot? I think I'm missing something. What is it? Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Help with VMWare Fusion
Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening the normal menubar with vo plus m, m for menu as a mnemonic. Then, vo arrow right until you find the item called virtual machines. Hit vo space to open this menu, and then vo arrow down. You will either find a dimmed text item that says: windows is running, or windows is off. If you find that windows is off, vo down arrow some more, and you'll ind the option that reads: start windows. Easy, isn't it? 2. If you are inside windows and you are still using the default settings in fusion, then you may run into several strange issues. One of them is, that the key next to your spacebar, is functioning as the windows start key, and the mac option key, which you would love to have as your windows key, instead functions as an alt key in windows. That can be confusing. If you are used to the layout of a windows keyboard, then the way fusion has it is not what you want, because by default, on a fusion virtual windows, your alt is windows key, and the windows key does alt. To change, or swap this, you need to go into fusion's preferences. When fusion is up, and windows is off, hit command comma to get to tfusion preferences. Once in there, there are many settings, devided into different screens. You can switch among these different screens, using the toolbar at the top of the screen. Interact with it, and hit vo space on keyboard and mouse shortcuts. The screen for that will open. Stop interacting and look at the screen. Now, I think you will find out how to handle the interface here, but let me tell you this in advance. You have a listbox here, that tells fusion what to do when a certain mac key is pressed. For example, here you have the command key, defined to perform the windows logo key function, which is what you want to get rid of. Further more, fusion also assigns command c to do what control c does in windows, which is copy, but you don't want alt c to be the same as control c in windows, do you? So, clear out all definitions in this listbox and start over with what you want yourself. Next to the listbox with key definitions, you will find 2 unlabled buttons, button, button. The first is add, the second is delete. Put the vo cursor on the second one, and hit vo space until the listbox is empty. Now, all key definitions are gone and you must create some of your own. Hit the add button, being the first unlabeled button next to the list box. The add key definitions dialog appears, and here, you have a from, and a to, field. In the from field, to defind command to be alt in windows, in the from section for this key, check the checkbox that says: command. For the rest, leave the entire from section for what it is. You only need to check this command key box. Now in the to field, find the checkbox that says alt, check it, and hit okay. There you have your command key, the one next to spacebar, defined as alt in windows. All you did was hit add, check command key in the from section, and make that key do alt, in the to section. Now, go on with the option key, to do the windows logo key function. In other words, when you are inside windows later on, and you then hit option, the second key to the left of the spacebar, you want that key to become the windows key, that opens the start menu and search field. To do this, hit add again, check option in the from section, and in the to section for this definition, find the unlabeled checkbox. That very unlabeled checkbox, holds the windows logo key. Hit okay. So now, alt and windows key feel natural. Your next question, Yolanda and Phil, was what to do to prevent you from falling out of windows into the mac side, i.e. into fusion, thereby loosing track of what you are doing. If you hit alt tab, for example, what happens by default, is that you are switching away from fusion, and you will likely land in finder, the applications window, the mac desktop or any other place. This is because by default, the command or alt tab key combination, if you don't do anything about it, will be sent to the mac, and not to windows. To correct this, look in the fusion preferences, the third tab sheet, which is reachable via the toolbar, is called mac os shortcuts. In other words, when you fire up fusion and windows is still off, hit command comma to open fusion's preferences, find the toolbar, interact, find mac os shortcuts, hit vo space, stop interact. In this window, there's a simple checkbox that you can turn off, labeled enable mac os keyboard shortcuts. . This will turn off Exposé keys, as well as command tab. Hit command w to close the fusion preferences window and save your new key mappings. From now on, if you alt tab while you are in windows, then windows will obey, instead of os 10 sending you into the woods, unintentionally. Another thing you will want to do in windows, assuming you
finder crashes when opening external disk
Dear listers, I have a Western Digital 1tb drive attached to my mac. Its file system is mac os extended, journaled, so that should all be fine. However, when I go to this drive in finder, by simply hitting command down arrow on its volume icon on the desktop, finder crashes. Voiceover says I'm still on the desktop, but my wife says she sees a window with 2 buttons: reopen, or cancel. I cannot reach this window myself using command accent, nor with vo twice f1, nor by turning vo off and back on. If my wife clicks the error window, then yes I can see it with vo. While googling, I found a solution that advises to delete all mac files from the root. I think they mean, delete all dot files and let os10 create those from scratch. But I have no way to get into the drive. This is a fresh mac os10 installation, and I haven't been in terminal since, but when I open terminal and then press my braille display up key, VoiceOver says last login, and then a date. I should normally be able to read the previous line in terminal, i.e. the result of my commands. I need to find out how to get terminal on its feet again, but that's a different problem. I'm hoping to find a way to solve this finder crash when opening the external drive, starting by deleting the files on its root that start with a period. According to a post I found on the net, that may solve finder crashes when opening an external drive. I tried command g, go to folder in finder, but that command crashes finder as well, when I type in /volumes/macserver1. macserver1 is the volume label of the external drive. Any ideas? What can I do to let finder open this drive? CrashPlan is backing it up just fine, so it should be accessible to the os. It's just that finder has problems with it. Any advice? Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
itunes and buying songs today
Dear listers, In the mac itunes store, I used to buy music and that would then be downloaded into my computer. I think this is no longer the case. Is it true that I can only stream a song from itunes from the Apple servers, and not have it in my possession on the hard disk? What I want is an m4a file for real when I buy something. Is this issue known to any of you? Can I change something in itunes, so that all my new tracks will download to me? Thanks for an answer in advance. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings
Hi Gavin, Yes that exactly did the trick. Thanks a lot. Paul. On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Gavin Grundlingh g.batw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, When you press the Advanced button, a drawer opens immediately to the right of the OK button. If you have VoiceOver set to mute its sound effects, nothing will appear to happen when you press this button because no new windows or dialogs pop up. This drawer has 3 items. The Additional Command Line Options check box, the Overrides All Other Settings check box, and a text field where you can specify the additional command line options you want. Hope this helps. Regards, Gavin Grundlingh Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 Email: g.batw...@gmail.com Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za Skype: Batworx Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/batworx Twitter: http://twitter.com/batworx On 15 Feb 2013, at 8:52 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear amadeus users, When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the lame encoder, but I think VoiceOver won't let me access the advanced dialog. I have a file ready in amadeus pro. I then hit command shift s to save as, give filename etc, choose mp3 as output, then I hit settings, and there is a problem. I can set the bitrate, choose encoding type like cbr, ABR etc, but when I hit the advanced button, nothing seems to happen. Does any of you know how I can access this dialog? One of the things I'm trying to achieve, is add a crc to each frame, because an old player that I have likes it. If I don't, then a file may stop playing in the middle. But that's just a side story. I'm hoping one of you can tell me how to access the controls in the advanced dialog when saving an mp3 in amadeus pro. Any ideas? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings
Dear amadeus users, When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the lame encoder, but I think VoiceOver won't let me access the advanced dialog. I have a file ready in amadeus pro. I then hit command shift s to save as, give filename etc, choose mp3 as output, then I hit settings, and there is a problem. I can set the bitrate, choose encoding type like cbr, ABR etc, but when I hit the advanced button, nothing seems to happen. Does any of you know how I can access this dialog? One of the things I'm trying to achieve, is add a crc to each frame, because an old player that I have likes it. If I don't, then a file may stop playing in the middle. But that's just a side story. I'm hoping one of you can tell me how to access the controls in the advanced dialog when saving an mp3 in amadeus pro. Any ideas? Kind regards, Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: program that will back up macintosh drive and bootcamp drive on osx?
Hey Hank, You will need 2 separate programs to do this, as far as I'm aware, but a cloner might be able to access your bootcamp partition as well. I don't use bootcamp. Can you see your windows partition from within finder? Command shift c takes you into a list of volumes accessible from finder. If so, then a cloner like super duper, which has a free demo, and carbon copy cloner, will be able to back that up as well. If you can not see your bootcamp partition from within finder, then you will have to back that up from within windows itself. For windows, a very handy tool is called snapshot. It's at www.drivesnapshot.de. It's a tiny, no nonsense utility, that makes an image of your windows partition, and writes that out to a dot s n a file. After the image has been created, you can do with the file what you want, i.e. move it over to a usb stick etc. Snapshot is a demo, but it's not free, though very accessible and worth having. One thing I'm wondering about myself, is how you would restore any backup, back into bootcamp. How would you boot into an operating system, from which you can then run the restore utility? I don't know Hank, but maybe someone else can chime in on this. As far as your macintosh hd is concerned, you can always use super duper, which makes a bootable backup, so that you can always boot off of the backup, and then restore your entire macintosh hd partition back to your internal drive from there. Hth, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 6:07 AM, hank smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net wrote: Hello I am looking for a back up program that will back both my macintosh drive and my bootcamp parttition to a external drive is there such a beast that can do this and also allow me to restore both successfully? Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?
Hi Esther, Thanks for your clear explanation. The one thing I don't undersand though is, why itunes is involved here. In other words: what happens, so that a converted file ends up in itunes? Are you saying that if I find a third party app to convert a file from one format to the other, that supports either a command line syntax or an automator or apple script interface, the resulting file will always end up in itunes, even though I do not specify so in the Apple script, shell script or automator work flow? Seems interesting. How did Apple put that together? Paul. On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Dear Paul, There is already support for the action of converting a wav file to 256 kbps m4a (aac files) from Finder under Mountain Lion and Lion, if you select/highlight your wav files and use VO-Shift-M to bring up the context menu, then select Encode Selected Video Files. The Encode Media dialog window will have a Setting: pop up menu button that you should VO-Space on and change from 480p to Audio Only. (Under Lion this is under Encode Selected Audio Files under the Services menu.) If you want to make your own Service for converting to 256 kbps mp3 files, you can do so with Automator. Automator and AppleScript can be used to do the kind of operation you describe, where you select files and then select a menu option option to run an Automator service or workflow, or run an AppleScript, but these only work for applications where the developers have supplied the hooks to make them AppleScriptable, work with Automator, or support terminal command line usage so that they are shell scriptable. What this means is that although it is very easy to create an Automator service to convert files you select in Finder to 256 kbps mp3 files with just a couple of Automator action steps, the basic assumption is that you want the results to appear in iTunes. You can even construct a folder action that will automatically put converted files into into the same directory folder or a separate one of your specification, but the converted mp3 files always get added to your iTunes library folder. This is fine if you use iTunes to organize your music (as I do), but I suspect this is not what you want. There isn't an action to automatically delete the tracks from iTunes. So it can be very easy to use Automator or AppleScripts within the context of the default supported actions, and this can work for a lot of applications on the Mac, but in general you can't use these with a random third party app. And it doesn't mean that it isn't doable (at least with AppleScripting) -- it just isn't going to be transparent or simple to implement. I don't have any recent detailed descriptions of Automator actions on this list, since I only usually take a look at this when questions come up. The last fairly detailed post I made about using Automator was on the mac-access list, which is also archived at the Mail Archive web site. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 21, 12:15 am, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, Often, I have a file that I want to perform a specific action on. For example, this could be a stereo wave file, that I want to convert to a 256 kilibit stereo mp3 file. Is there a way you can think of, that I can add a new menu item to the vo shift mcontextmenu on a file, and then select from a few user defined actions? Of course, the program in question must support this way of getting commands, but I'd first like to know iffinderlets us do this type of thing. So, I go to a wave file, I'd like to hit vo shift m, and then select convert to mp3 256 with amadeus. Is such a mechanism available? What about services? I have no idea yet how they work, nor how to use automator. Please shed some light and knowledge on this if you have it. I'm very curious because it could be a huge time saver. Thanks a lot in advance. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: A couple of questions
Hi Matt, Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch audio converter that can do this. Not only does it convert audio from one format to the other, but one of its power functions is that it can grab a dvd, and spit out audio in the format you want. Hth, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all., I was just wondering if there was a way on the Mac to convert just audio files from dVD discs., If so, please write me back. Also, I was wondering if there was a way to convert .AVI files into MP3 Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: A couple of questions
Hi Matt, What do you mean it was a devil? The app is payed, yes, but it does what you want as far as I'm aware. Regards, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:32 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul. Just wondering , Isn't this app paid? I think it is, because I tried it out once, and it was a devil. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-01-27, at 12:29 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch audio converter that can do this. Not only does it convert audio from one format to the other, but one of its power functions is that it can grab a dvd, and spit out audio in the format you want. Hth, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all., I was just wondering if there was a way on the Mac to convert just audio files from dVD discs., If so, please write me back. Also, I was wondering if there was a way to convert .AVI files into MP3 Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up
Hi Michael, So to summarize, ios 6.1 is just around the corner. Second, as soon as that comes out, then shortly afterwards, it is likely that the untethered jailbreak for ios 6.1 is ready as well. Did I miss anything important? It's a lot of talking, isn't it? Smile. Regards, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: From what I am learning at the video below, Apple just released iOS version 6.1, Beta number five. This beta version looks like the version that Apple releases before they release a public version of their iOS software. This means, Syria had Akley within the next week, we can hope to have iOS six point one out. This video also answers any questions related to jailbreaking iOS six: http://youtu.be/Huho9Ps-hxY http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up
Hi Mike, I hope jailbreaking will still be as simple as: 1. Hook up the phone to the mac or pc using the usb cable. 2. Start the jailbreak util. 3. Hit start and wait, then enjoy. Do you think it'll still be that easy? Regards, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: It is, a lot of talking, but it has given me a good grasp of the understanding of what's going on with iOS. Yes, you understand that the same way that I do. I am kind of excited, simply to see what changes if any invoice overcome with iOS 6.1. In addition, I am kind of a geek, and I like to do weird things. Therefore, the intriguing idea of jailbreaking my phone in iOS 6.1 is Very exciting, and I can't wait to see what can be done with it. I will record a brief tutorial as soon as I get information about how to jailbreak, that explains the jailbreaking process, and demonstrates how it can potentially be done accessibly. Here's to hoping that the software is accessible, I am working on writing a blog posting and going to tweet that blog posting to this group. That way, we can hope that they consider accessibility towards the beginning of releasing it. At least, this is my hope. http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, So to summarize, ios 6.1 is just around the corner. Second, as soon as that comes out, then shortly afterwards, it is likely that the untethered jailbreak for ios 6.1 is ready as well. Did I miss anything important? It's a lot of talking, isn't it? Smile. Regards, Paul. On Jan 27, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: From what I am learning at the video below, Apple just released iOS version 6.1, Beta number five. This beta version looks like the version that Apple releases before they release a public version of their iOS software. This means, Syria had Akley within the next week, we can hope to have iOS six point one out. This video also answers any questions related to jailbreaking iOS six: http://youtu.be/Huho9Ps-hxY http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
time capsule port mappings don't stick
Dear listers, I'm helping someone to set up their time capsule and all is fine, except for one thing. When I enter port mappings and save, the time capsule reboots as usual, but then when checking back on the port settings I made, the text fields for the port numbers are empty. In other words, the port mapping entry in time capsule exists, but it doesn't work when testing. So, when going back into time capsule settings and editing the port mapping, the fields that should still contain the port numbers to map, are empty. After editing, this is what the dialog looks like: Firewall Entry Type: IPv4 Port Mapping, dimmed pop up button. Description: for serv-u passive, port 33250. Public UDP Ports: edit text, blank. Public TCP Ports: edit text blank. Private IP Address: 10.0.1.250, 250 is selected, edit text. Private UDP Ports: edit text, blank. Private TCP Ports: edit text, blank. Cancel, button. Save, dimmed default button. So as you can see, where I entered the tcp port numbers, in both fields it is 33250, the values vanished after the save and reboot on time capsule. Anyone an idea what is going on here? Does any of you have working port mappings with a time capsule, while having the router mode set to dhcp plus nat? Is there a work around for this flaw? Paul. -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: curser and selection problems, any ideas?
Hi William Windels, I sometimes experience strange VoiceOver behaviour like you described. Sometimes, my navigation gets stuck, even though quicknav is off. This is due to things your cursor comes across, that voiceover has difficulty with. Even an attachment I send in a mail message freezes navigation. That is, after the attachment is inserted, and I then review the message and I then come across the spot where the attachment was inserted, voiceover freezes navigation. In other words, hitting up down left right no longer gives feedback, neither audio nor braille feedback. What I do is command f5 twice, to turn voiceover off and back on again. If that doesn't help, you can turn it off, move the cursor a little bit, by tapping up arrow once for example, and then turning vo back on. It helps for me. Hope it helps for you. Paul. On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:14 PM, William Windels william.wind...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I discover sometimes very strange problems with osx 10.8.2 on my recent macbook air 11 inch): Because of a strange reason, I can't navigate anymore in textedit while quicknav is off. When I put it on, I can navigate again an also when I put it back off after some seconds, I can navigate again. Can this be a bug? also, perhaps related to it: when I am on a middle of a line in textedit and I want to select to the beginning of the line, sometimes voiceover says or shows nothing in my braille display about the selection. But when I do command+x, the part that should be selected, is gone. So, it was selected but I didn't know it. Some idea's? kind regards, William Iwndels -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
tip for amadeus pro
Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've seen many descriptions, most of them mentioning that you have to set a marker. But what I do works quick. Say I want to cut off the start of a file, say the first minute. I play and skip till I'm at the right spot, I then get the cursor over to the playhead with command y, then do command left arrow to select from here to the beginning, and then backspace to delete. Done. Likewise, to cut off the end of a file, I skip and play till I am at the spot where I want to cut the audio, then you do command y to get the edit cursor over to the playhead, then command right, which selects from here to the end of the file, then delete or backsppace. Gone. Quick and clean. So go to the spot, command y, command arrow, and backspace. Hth. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?
Dear listers, Often, I have a file that I want to perform a specific action on. For example, this could be a stereo wave file, that I want to convert to a 256 kilibit stereo mp3 file. Is there a way you can think of, that I can add a new menu item to the vo shift m context menu on a file, and then select from a few user defined actions? Of course, the program in question must support this way of getting commands, but I'd first like to know if finder lets us do this type of thing. So, I go to a wave file, I'd like to hit vo shift m, and then select convert to mp3 256 with amadeus. Is such a mechanism available? What about services? I have no idea yet how they work, nor how to use automator. Please shed some light and knowledge on this if you have it. I'm very curious because it could be a huge time saver. Thanks a lot in advance. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: tip for amadeus pro
Hi Garth, Good to know. So when you set the marker, which of the available keystrokes for that do you use? Also, is there an easy way to skim through an audio file in amadeus pro, in larger increments than with the right arrow alone? Or do we have a way to configure the right arrow jump increments? Paul. On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Paul This is exactly right. There is no need to set a marker for this sort of thing. I briefly showed the technique in a recent podcast. It also applies when cutting a bit of audio out of the middle of a track, you only need to set a marker at one end of the section you want to cut, than go to the other end and command Y to bring the insertion point to play head and command arrow to the marker at the other end. You will than have the desired section selected and ready for deleting or whatever you want. Garth www.iblindtech.com/ Search for iBlindTech in iTunes or your favourite pod catcher to subscribe to the iBlindTech Democast. Send email to iblindt...@gmail.com Follow me on twitter @iBlindTech or @iBlindTechDemo for just the podcast info. On 21/01/2013, at 8:07 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've seen many descriptions, most of them mentioning that you have to set a marker. But what I do works quick. Say I want to cut off the start of a file, say the first minute. I play and skip till I'm at the right spot, I then get the cursor over to the playhead with command y, then do command left arrow to select from here to the beginning, and then backspace to delete. Done. Likewise, to cut off the end of a file, I skip and play till I am at the spot where I want to cut the audio, then you do command y to get the edit cursor over to the playhead, then command right, which selects from here to the end of the file, then delete or backsppace. Gone. Quick and clean. So go to the spot, command y, command arrow, and backspace. Hth. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Browsing FTP servers with iOS
Hey Chris, Well, what I use all the time is a thing called ftp on the go pro. It's not free, but I love it. It's accessible averywhere, as far as I discovered. I can upload, download, create and delete folders locally and remotely etc. There's one thing you should be aware of though, because files you download can get lost in the app. That is to say, its data grows, but you cannot find the file you downloaded. This happens, if you do not choose a destination local folder to begin with. So, if you are going to download, first double tap the saved files tab, which is one of the five buttons across the bottom row, and from saved files, create a subdirectory there. I call mine test. Go into it by double tapping its name, and you have an empty folder. Now, if you go back to the ftp tab, select your file by swiping to it, then find its menu button which is one flick to the right from its name, and tapping that, you will get the option to download. The file will then fall into your saved files, inside ftp on the go pro. You can even batch download an entire directory tree. In the downloads tab, you can then monitor the progress. Don't lock your screen during transfers; Just let it do its thing. It's a wonderful tool, also for voiceover users on the iphone. Hth, Paul. On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:26 PM, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an accessible client that I could use on my iPhone for browsing FTP servers, downloading, and uploading certain files? I really need something as soon as possible if there be such an animal. Thank you much. Chris. Chris Gilland Founder of CLG Productions E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com http://www.clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern time except weekends and holidays -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
reasons to make mac stuff accessible
Hi list, Many developers on the mac platform are open to input. Some more than others, but it seldomly happened to me that I got no response at all. I'm using a program that has room for improvement, when it comes down to accessibility. What do you yourself tell developers, as good reasons to make their stuff accessible to the blind community as well? Is there any substantial advantage for them to do so, like more revenue? I'm hoping to convince them to prioritize accessibility ore than they do now, but I'm mailing with a representative and I don't have a straight line to the developers yet. What can you advise me to do, to build this contact, so that we can all benefit? I'd rather do this carefully, and give them the right arguments for accessibility. We need it, but not everyone is convinced of course. I'm Interested to hear your thoughts on this. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: time machine basics
Hey John, Thanks a lot. I got the hang of it now, and it works beautifully. Thanks for your clear explanation. Paul. On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: There are two ways to view Time Machine backups. 1. You can open up your backups folder in Finder from the Time Machine Partition you are using. This will show you a chronological list of folders that contain backups for that date and time. It will be like looking at your entire file system in the present, but it will, instead, reflect the specific date or time you have opened. This is the way I will often use to fish out files I have deleted in the past and need to recover. It's probably the easier way to do it. 2. YOu can use the Open Time Machine option from the Dock or the Status menu. This will be based on what last had the focus. So, if you were in Finder, it will relate to Finder backups. If you are in Mail, it will be in regard to previous versions of that mailbox. When you open Time Machine like this, you should here a strange sound that is like a sonogram for a few moments. Then, use the Window chooser menu with VO-F2 twice. YOu will see an item, Time Machine Controls. VO space on that and navigate to the slider that will have your Time Machine incremental backups. Interact and choose the date and time you want to view. YOu use the Window Chooser Menu to select the actual backup from the time you have chosen. So, for example, you will see your Finder as it had looked back on November 3, 2012, or something like that. You just close the window or hit escape when you want to close the Time Machine controls. I hope this helps. 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 LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear and clever listers, There is something very basic with time machine it seems, that I cannot get my head around. I have backed up for months, and I restored an entire machine once. That went well. But, what if I want to browse what is on my backups? When I choose open time machine from the status menus, I land in the finder. Now, I'm not a complete fool, because several parts of me are still missing, but I suspect that this cannot be the finder, and has to be part of my backup. A number of questions I have. 1. How do I know when these files were backed up? 2. How do I get to an overview of my macintosh hd, earlier in time than what is initially displayed? 3. Can I search my entire time machine disk for a certain file name or a bit of contents, and then get an overview from which I can restore? 4. How does the restore process work? Can I command c, close all and command v? I didn't see any questions or answers to this as of lately, so I think this is clear to anyone. I'm using time machine, and it already saved my day once, because I restored an entire machine with it, having booted off the recovery partition. But I'd like to use time machine to have access to my entire backup set. Please explain how you go about this. Thank you in advance for your time. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: help with hand break?
Hi Kliphton, I cannot answer your question, but since you say you figured out most of the stuff, could you please explain how handbrake works together with vlc? If you want to rip a dvd, then what do you do? Do you play the video with vlc single speed, and can handbrake capture that in some way? Or can vlc convert files from one format into the other, so that when you make vlc play a dvd, it can also spit out a decrypted file format that handbrae in turn can understand, so that handbrake converts that into avi or similar formats? In other words: what is the general idea behind vlc and handbrake working together? Thanks in advance, Paul. On Jan 1, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Kliphton A M kliph...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, have been playing around with handbreak, think I have most things figured out except one. How do you add more than one selection to your q? I want to select all the video tracks, since it's a TV show DVD, but can't figure out how. Thanks. Kliphton Senior (EmailiMessage) kliph...@gmail.com (TwitterSkype) kliphton72 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com (Life Journal) kliphton.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: time capsule
Hi, You can configure your time capsule, using a utility that comes on every mac. It is called airport utility dot app, and it sits in the utilities folder, which is a child of applications. Command shift a gets you into applications, but instead using command shift u takes you into the utilities folder. From there, find and start airport utility. Carefully look at the interface, and interact if you think you can. It takes some finding out, but everything inside airport utility is accessible, so you will find your way around it. You will be able to configure the time capsule, its access point and its drive. Hth, Paul. On Dec 30, 2012, at 2:29 AM, wayne coles wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list I have just bought the 3tb time capsule but can not get it to show up on the desktop so how do I do this thanks in advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
time machine basics
Dear and clever listers, There is something very basic with time machine it seems, that I cannot get my head around. I have backed up for months, and I restored an entire machine once. That went well. But, what if I want to browse what is on my backups? When I choose open time machine from the status menus, I land in the finder. Now, I'm not a complete fool, because several parts of me are still missing, but I suspect that this cannot be the finder, and has to be part of my backup. A number of questions I have. 1. How do I know when these files were backed up? 2. How do I get to an overview of my macintosh hd, earlier in time than what is initially displayed? 3. Can I search my entire time machine disk for a certain file name or a bit of contents, and then get an overview from which I can restore? 4. How does the restore process work? Can I command c, close all and command v? I didn't see any questions or answers to this as of lately, so I think this is clear to anyone. I'm using time machine, and it already saved my day once, because I restored an entire machine with it, having booted off the recovery partition. But I'd like to use time machine to have access to my entire backup set. Please explain how you go about this. Thank you in advance for your time. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: mac mini
Hi Cheryl, Encrypting a disk is easy, even as a voiceover user. After it's done, you boot your machine, and after the mac sound, wait a few seconds and hit command f5. You will hear one beep. This single beep indicates that the cursor is now on the name field. Enter your user name and hit enter. If the user name was recognized, you will hear 2 beeps, and then the cursor will be inside the password field. But if the username you entered was incorrect by accident, you will hear a single beep again, meaning that you need to enter your user name again. So after the 2 beeps, where the cursor is in the password field, enter that and hit enter. Again, if it is correct, you will now hear 3 beeps and the system will boot to the desktop. If the password was incorrect, you will hear the password entry prompt, by means of 2 beeps, again. Just go into system preferences, then security and privacy, and there into the tab sheet called file vault, turn it on and follow its instructions. It works like a charm, and I have never experienced any slow downs after encryption was turned on. I don't know how Apple does that, but it's fast, and transparent once you have it set up. By the way, TrueCrypt is another way to secure your drive, but I'm still trying to find out how that works for us. Filevault is okay though. One last note about it: I had to turn off my mac after it hung a few times. Normally, you need to worry about your file system being damaged, but even with filevault turned on for the entire drive, I haven't noticed any data loss or file system corruptions. It's a nice system. Hth, Paul. On Dec 28, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: So glad yuou found a solution! When voiceover first came available several years ago, some people had problems getting voiceover to start up. So with the first two minis I got, I ended up having to reinstall completely just in order to get started the first time - talk about making a newbie sink or swim! I could have waited for sighted help but I, like you, was impatient and didn't want to do that. So I'm not surprised that you took the course you did and I'm glad it worked for you. I've never encrypted but i may give it some thought after your description. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 28, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cheryl, I sort of solved the problem, and thanks for the pointer to the checkboxes in sysprefs, bluetooth, advanced. I wasn't aware of those. So yes, I did fix the problem, but really differently. I gave up on logging in. I restarted from the recovery partition, wiped the macintosh hd partition, installed os10 from there, updated it, and was back where I was. However, this time, I encrypted my disk, so that I would get my login prompt way before any bluetooth stuff would pop up. As it is now, the mini asks for my credentials 1 second after boot up starts, because that's the way filevault handles encryption for the whole disk. After you enter them, it boots straight to the desktop and there's no further authentication windows. So now, I was already logged in, but I did still get the dialog asking for a trackpad or mouse. These are gone now, thanks to your explanation. But I was impatient to get going with it yesterday I'm afraid, but again, I learned something. Thanks for your response. Paul. On Dec 28, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Did you solve this yet? I can tell you how to keep it from happening in the future if you are able to log in. Go into System Preferences Bluetooth. In Advanced are two checkboxes: one opens bluetooth setup assistant if no keybopard is detected; the other opens it if no mouse or trackpad is detected. You probably only need the second one but you can decide that. As for logging in, if you haven't solved that, when bluetooth setup assistant pops up, try one of the following (these aren't necessarily in a herarchical order): command-tab instad of doing cmd-q vo-f2 twice to see if you get a window chooser though I think maybe not. vo-f2 twice in the window that says authentication has no windows) turning voiceover on and off in that authentication has no windows area. Or just log in with both a keyboard and mouse attached and you shouldn't get that window at all. Then you can fix the problem in System Preferences as described above. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple
Re: mac mini
Hi Cheryl, I sort of solved the problem, and thanks for the pointer to the checkboxes in sysprefs, bluetooth, advanced. I wasn't aware of those. So yes, I did fix the problem, but really differently. I gave up on logging in. I restarted from the recovery partition, wiped the macintosh hd partition, installed os10 from there, updated it, and was back where I was. However, this time, I encrypted my disk, so that I would get my login prompt way before any bluetooth stuff would pop up. As it is now, the mini asks for my credentials 1 second after boot up starts, because that's the way filevault handles encryption for the whole disk. After you enter them, it boots straight to the desktop and there's no further authentication windows. So now, I was already logged in, but I did still get the dialog asking for a trackpad or mouse. These are gone now, thanks to your explanation. But I was impatient to get going with it yesterday I'm afraid, but again, I learned something. Thanks for your response. Paul. On Dec 28, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Did you solve this yet? I can tell you how to keep it from happening in the future if you are able to log in. Go into System Preferences Bluetooth. In Advanced are two checkboxes: one opens bluetooth setup assistant if no keybopard is detected; the other opens it if no mouse or trackpad is detected. You probably only need the second one but you can decide that. As for logging in, if you haven't solved that, when bluetooth setup assistant pops up, try one of the following (these aren't necessarily in a herarchical order): command-tab instad of doing cmd-q vo-f2 twice to see if you get a window chooser though I think maybe not. vo-f2 twice in the window that says authentication has no windows) turning voiceover on and off in that authentication has no windows area. Or just log in with both a keyboard and mouse attached and you shouldn't get that window at all. Then you can fix the problem in System Preferences as described above. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and I shut down the mini. A few hours later I came back and booted. VoiceOver support comes when I hit command f5, but I can change that later on, so that VO comes on even at log on. But what happens now is, that I boot, and then try to click my user name and enter my password, but at that time, a dialog pops up, saying the mini is looking for a keyboard or mouse via bluetooth. I have a usb keyboard though, and no mouse. This dialog states that I can get rid of it, i.e. stop the mini from looking for a mouse or trackpad, simply by hitting command q. Hit command q if you don't have a trackpad or wireless mouse it says. But when I do that, I am not returned to the dialog where I can enter my username and password for log on. Instead, I land in a window where it says: authentication has no windows. From here, I can indeed turn on or off voiceover, but there is no way to enter my log on account info to go on. I tried vo f1 twice, but it dings at me, instead of telling me how many apps are open. Maybe, you can only use vo f1 f1 from the desktop, or from one of its children I suppose. So what do I do now? Can I still log in? Is there any way to get around this issue, or did I just screw up the device, and do I need to completely reinstall it using a usb key with mountain lion on it? That is no problem at all, but it takes time I'd rather use for more productive things than reinstalling a new device. Did any of you exprerience this situation? How did you all get around this problem? Was it stupidity not to get a wireless mouse or magic pad? Kind regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received
mac mini
Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and I shut down the mini. A few hours later I came back and booted. VoiceOver support comes when I hit command f5, but I can change that later on, so that VO comes on even at log on. But what happens now is, that I boot, and then try to click my user name and enter my password, but at that time, a dialog pops up, saying the mini is looking for a keyboard or mouse via bluetooth. I have a usb keyboard though, and no mouse. This dialog states that I can get rid of it, i.e. stop the mini from looking for a mouse or trackpad, simply by hitting command q. Hit command q if you don't have a trackpad or wireless mouse it says. But when I do that, I am not returned to the dialog where I can enter my username and password for log on. Instead, I land in a window where it says: authentication has no windows. From here, I can indeed turn on or off voiceover, but there is no way to enter my log on account info to go on. I tried vo f1 twice, but it dings at me, instead of telling me how many apps are open. Maybe, you can only use vo f1 f1 from the desktop, or from one of its children I suppose. So what do I do now? Can I still log in? Is there any way to get around this issue, or did I just screw up the device, and do I need to completely reinstall it using a usb key with mountain lion on it? That is no problem at all, but it takes time I'd rather use for more productive things than reinstalling a new device. Did any of you exprerience this situation? How did you all get around this problem? Was it stupidity not to get a wireless mouse or magic pad? Kind regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Drobo Accessability
Hi Neil, That clears it up. Thanks a lot for your info. Beautiful. So are the drives inside your Ready nas ultra unit hot swapable as well? That would just seem to good to be true. How come other folks sell similar functionality for twice the price? Best, Paul. On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:10 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav for...@talknav.com wrote: Paul, Sorry, you are correct… during my rite up I mentioned several times the Ultra NAS, but only once ReadyNAS…. The unit is indeed the Ultra NAS which Ultra is part of NetGear's ReadyNAS line up. I have the top end 4 bay Ultra NAS. Duel ether net sockets, iScsi, File Server, USB 3 x 3 and more. Like I say, in my view its half the price of the DroBo, accessible, quieter to operate, just as well made, has multiple plug-ins already installed and ready to go, e.g. Time Machine and iTunes Server et al… I think you get way more bang for your buck with the NetGear ReadyNAS line up… noting there's no DroBo exclusive on their Beyond RAID technology, NetGear have the same thing just labelled X-RAID. Which can use multiple disks of differing size and spin speed. Need more space, just remove the smallest drive, insert a new larger one, wait for the unit to sync up, and repeat where needs be. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 25 Dec 2012, at 11:52, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Neil, Very good to know there are alternatives for an inaccessible drobo dash board. I was looking to buy a drobo, but I won't for now. Thank you for pointing out its lack of accessibility. Otherwise I too would have run into serious problems with its operation. You say you have the Netgear ultra nas. I could only find something called ready nas. Is that what you're talking about? There are a number of models, some with 512 MB of internal memory, some have 1 GB, some have a slower processor than others, some with USB 3, some with 2, etc etc. Did I look at the right stuff, or is it a different product line that you mentioned? I'm asking because ultra nas, I couldn't find. Regards, Paul. On Dec 24, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav for...@talknav.com wrote: It is, or was not, accessible last time I tried it mid this year. I bought a NetGear Ultra NAS four bay model, very well made device, takes anything from 1 to 4 drives and is in my view as good as the DroBo. It has the same beyond RAID technology although NetGear call their version X-RAID. You can enable double or duel disk redundancy provided you have enough disks installed and the units within the range are all very well made. The important bit, the interface is HTML through Safari and as such, accessible. You can also configure Time Machine to backup to a NetGear ReadyNAS as I do, this works perfectly without third party software, which you have to do with a droBo. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 22 Dec 2012, at 06:08, Emilio Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am considering purchasing a drobo for backup purposes that will give me the option of dual redundancy. Has anyone on this list had any experience with the drobo software in terms of its voiceover compatibility? Welcome andy feedback or thoughts on the topic. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email
