Re: Track Pad, how to assign a key stroke to a gesture?

2012-08-02 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Eric, I invested the life changing sum of twenty bucks for ML, but alas it's not yet installed on my mid 2010 MBP. This is because like Sarah, I always install a new OS on a clean partition, and have finally gotten around to backing things up, but I digress. So much for disclaimers, but I

Take Control Title Owners; Please Read

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon, Lynne Tracy
Hello to all Take Control title owners who have bookshelves here on our servers. Just a quick note of apology. It has come to my attention that after yesterday's power outage when we were forced to close down all of our servers, I neglected to restart the bookshelf server. Please accept my

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Mark You obviously misunderstood. :) It isn't possible any longer to create an operating system DVD with Mountain Lion. You need to create a thumb drive instead. Gordon On 1 Aug 2012, at 19:48, Mark Furness flintma...@gmail.com wrote: I followed most if not all the messages regarding how

Re: iPhone calendar question

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Sarah, The month calendar view does indeed work as you describe. However my problem is not what events are happening on 10 August but rather I have a dentist appointment sometime in mid August but cannot remember when. For this purpose the list view is ideal if it would start at a sensible

Using an iPad 2 - really new to this

2012-08-02 Thread Mary Stores
Hello, everyone. I am using an iPad 2 from work. I have the iPad users guide installed, and it seems you would have to be a pretty good navigator just to read it. Even when I find what I'm looking for in the table of contents, it doesn't read it right away. Does anyone have suggestions how to

Re: Using an iPad 2 - really new to this

2012-08-02 Thread chris hallsworth
There should be a link that says for VoiceOver users click here. Double tap on this and the fully accessible version of this guide should load. - Original Message - From: Mary Stores msto...@indiana.edu To: mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:56 PM Subject: Using

Re: iPhone calendar question

2012-08-02 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'll have a look when I get home in about 10 or so hours. I would look in the prefences and if it is not there then I guess look at th emac world blog to see if they have any hints regarding that. lol! On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:06, Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk wrote: Hi Sarah, The

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Sarah Alawami
According th the life hacker article I sent, or I hope I sent, Internet is flaky at my location, you will need a dool layer DVD to accomplish this. It's probaly easier and fastrr to burn it to a flash drive anyways as DVD is slower, way slower then the flash drive by about a few minutes. At

Re: Using an iPad 2 - really new to this

2012-08-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi to help with the typing! You can keep your finger on the pad and when you get to the letter you wish to type just tap with another finger either on the same hand or the other! Also you can change to touch type! When on the edit field use the rota to select typing flick up to touch then change

Re: Using an iPad 2 - really new to this

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hello Mary, Welcome to the list. Is this your first experience with a touch screen device? You might find it easier to read the iPad User's Guide on the web browser of your computer, first. You can find a copy at: http://help.apple.com/ipad/5/voiceover/en/ You can review the sections under

Re: iPhone calendar question

2012-08-02 Thread Thejazzden
Hi Paul This may help with your origimal question. have you tried using the list tab which just lists all your events down the centre of the screen? So you can swipe right to hear each one read out, or just Drag a finger down the screen and you will hear the word you're looking for. Hope this

Re: Using an iPad 2 - really new to this

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Mary First suggestion would be to help you with typing. In the Rotor, you need to change the typing mode to Touch Type. That would do away withy the need to double-tap to enter a letter. As soon as your finger is on the letter you want, just lift your finger off the screen slightly and

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Sarah Could you please try just a little bit harder to make your messages legible. Just about every word is miss-spelled at the moment and it's really difficult to figure out what you're trying to say. Not criticising, folks, before anybody jumps on their high horse. :) Gordon On 2 Aug

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
OK, if I understand this correctly, Sarah is advocating the use of a dual-layer DVD. Guess what folks, I suggested that from day one. :) Although actually, it may be that even that doesn't work. I tried it and got errors. I think the image has to be the right size, although I could be wrong

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Josh Are you talking about a USB thumb drive or a SD card? I would presume the former. If you use the recovery tool, you'll have no trouble. I think this one is just one instance where people sometimes make it more difficult for themselves, purely unintentionally, of course. :) But yes, by

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread michael weaver
could someone explain what a thumb drive is? i presume they are not the same as sd cards and that they don't just fit in the slot on the macbook pro which is just above the headphone socket. - Original Message - From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread michael weaver
every those the same as usb sticks like the things that sometimes get used as keyrings? - Original Message - From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Date sent: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 21:12:53 +0100 Subject: Re: can not burn ml Josh

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hello Michael, Yes, a thumb drive is the same as a USB memory stick, and can be plugged into the USB slot of your MacBook Pro. Esther On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:53 AM, michael weaver wrote: every those the same as usb sticks like the things that sometimes get used as keyrings? --- Mac Access

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread josh gregory
Yep exactly Michael! :) There in rectangular shape, with a little thing at the end that goes in either of the slots next to the safe charge port thing. They allow you to have more memory and such. hth! On 8/2/12, michael weaver weavermi...@googlemail.com wrote: every those the same as usb sticks

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
A thumb drive is a little USB stick, about the length of your thumb (hence the name Thumb Drive). Gordon On 2 Aug 2012, at 21:45, michael weaver weavermi...@googlemail.com wrote: could someone explain what a thumb drive is? i presume they are not the same as sd cards and that they don't just

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Josh I'm not quite sure what this was in reply too. The below doesn't quite seem to make sense to me. I never mentioned disk utility at all. Gordon On 2 Aug 2012, at 21:30, josh gregory joshkar...@gmail.com wrote: Gordon: If you mean disc utility, you don't have to go through the trouble of

DVDRemaster 8 currently on sale at the Mac App Store for a limited time

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hi All, In celebration of the new version 8 release of DVDRemaster Pro, the developer has put this app on sale at the Mac App Store for $9.99 for a limited time, reduced from its usual price of $49.99. This application allows you to extract audio or video tracks from DVDs and also to

Re: Burning ML to SD card.

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hi Geoff, Did you format the SD card as GUID? I think that's necessary, although I haven't gone through these steps. There's also a way to create a bootable image that used Carbon Copy Cloner that I can dig out, HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:

Re: can not burn ml

2012-08-02 Thread josh gregory
I know you didn't... what I meant was this: Through the recovery tool, you can access disc utility. You can also access it, though, in the utilities folder. When you menntioned the recovery tool, I thought you meant using disc utility in that. Maybe you didn't, :) On 8/2/12, Gordon Smith

Re: Burning ML to SD card.

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hi Geoff and Others, Here's the link to Dan Frakes' Macworld article, How to make a bootable Mountain Lion install drive. (Use Safari reader with Command-Shift-R to read the article): http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_install_drive.html I don't think

Re: New iMac user with wi-fi/bluetooth problems

2012-08-02 Thread Esther
Hi Phil, Can you describe what you're using for your Wi-Fi network? What model server, and protocol? (8.0211N or G, WPA or WEP encryptions, etc.)? I don't have an iMac, and probably someone else will be able to answer this, but that's the kind of information that will help to troubleshoot.

ML issues.

2012-08-02 Thread Danny Noonan
Ok, I'm getting the feeling my drag drop mail box issues in Mail are just 1 symptom of some system wide instability. I'm getting lots of apps crashing like the SendSpace wizard, whilst reading the Ars Technica MountainLion review which was on aprox 22 pages, at least 15 times, Voiceover