Hi.
On Windows, I use the “minimize to tray” functionality for apps such as
messengers, so that they won’t be in my way when alt-tabbing.
Is there such a thing in Mac? If so, what is it called?
Thanks.
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This I have to admit to being a damn good question on behalf of a friend who
wants to send some ring tones he's made to his wife's iPhone and iPad.
Both devices are Stand Alone devices meaning that they're not associated with
any computers of any kind so the iPhone and iPad are used as
M possible without iTunes I am afraid.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 Oct 2013, at 09:14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote:
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This I have to admit to being a damn good question on behalf of a friend who
wants to send some ring tones he's made to his wife's iPhone and iPad.
Hi all
Well amazingly I got the update on my mac book pro but amazingly it
took about an hour to do it.
I am really getting to like the mac more and more wish I was better
on the web and I wish I could find a real good quality chess program
but thanks to you on the list I am learning.
never
Shame! wonder of Apple will think about changing the status quo in the future
given that so many people use IOS devices as Computers.
On 25 Oct 2013, at 7:24 pm, Chris christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
M possible without iTunes I am afraid.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 Oct 2013, at 09:14,
John, Chess should be on the Mac already, and it is totally 100% Voiceover
accessible. Do you not see it in your applications directory?
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So, here's the deal. I want to set up an activity for Pages. The thing is,
I want to have my verbosity set in such a way that when reading through a
document, be it line by line, or with a say all, doesn't matter, if it hits
text that is say centered, or right aligned, or maybe that is bold
Hi Chris and John,
I think John is looking for a more advanced level of chess playing. My
suggestion would be to contact the people at Shredder Chess. That's certainly
among the top chess programs for iOS, and it's also one of the programs that
was made accessible to VoiceOver users through
Never mind guys. I figured it out.
I didn’t realize that there was a setting in the text tab of Verbosity that
does precisely what I was wanting to do.
Now, I'm feeling really, utterly stupid.
Chris.
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I just hope I can do track changes, since I assume when your essay is returned,
any comments in red, will be either ignored, or changed as to what the tutor
would like you to insert. If we cannot do track changes, how are we supposed to
know what our teacher comments are, and what changes I
OK, this is so! getting reported on bug reporter. Has anyone noticed that in
Safari, more specifically, in Mavericks, if you have multiple windows opened,
now, let me be very very clear here, I literally mean separate windows, not
tabs, but anyway, if you have more than one window opened, then
There is a hide command in the app's menu. Go to the menu bar, open the
app's menu and there will be an option to hide the app. Substitute the
word app with the actual name.
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On 25/10/2013 08:39, Parham Doustdar wrote:
Hi.
On Windows, I
Yep the IOS version of this is really good. I have played it a few times
although i'm not the best chess player.
Ian McNamara
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Hi Chris,
I had seen that option. However, when I hide the app and press command+tab, the
first item is the application itself. So, it’s not being hidden.
On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a hide command in the app's menu. Go to the menu bar, open
Hi Chris,
The announcement you mentioned also happens when you have multiple tabs open.
Try opening a new tab and pressing command+w.
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OK, this is so! getting reported on bug reporter. Has anyone noticed that in
Hi,
I found a temporary display. While this has made the “Busy” announcement in
AppStore go away, the issue with FaceTime is still there.
When I open FaceTime, I see only close, minimize and zoom. Going into the menus
and choosing preferences (or pressing command+comma) tells me “Preferences…”
Hi,
I had spoken to a friend regarding the sluggishness I’m experiencing with my
Mac Mini, even though its processor is core I7 and it has 4 GB of DDR3 ram. He
had guessed that it may be related to the lack of displays. However, right now
I’m finding that it is, in fact, not.
Yesterday when
Ouch! You're right! OK, let me get this in to Bug Reporter, so they can
look at it.
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Ok then. So all, what exactly does this hide command do? Any responses greatly
appreciated. Thanks!
On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:52, Parham Doustdar parha...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
I had seen that option. However, when I hide the app and press command+tab,
the first item is the application
Hi all
An updated version of Fusion 6 was released on 24 September 2013. For the
benefit of any member wishing to download this, I am placing the files in our
DropBox and will submit direct URLs to the group shortly. This is a courtesy
offering so that people do not have to navigate the
hey listers,
i’m wondering if anyone knows of any sites that have mac audio games? i was
thinking about it today. i’m not a big player of card games or puzzle games but
i thought i would ask because there were some decent games back in my windows
days.
thanks for any help
Michael
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On 25 Oct 2013, at 12:22, chris christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok then. So all, what exactly does this hide command do? Any responses
greatly appreciated.
The Hide command only hides the window of the current application. The Hide
Others command hides all of the other
Check out the games from Draconis Entertainment in the Mac App Store.
There may be others I am unaware of.
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hey listers,
i’m wondering if anyone knows of any sites that have mac audio games? i was
Your observations are quite interesting.
I have observed a slight delay between the time a key is pressed and the time
Voiceover responds but its nowhere near 0.5 seconds, about 0.25 seconds would
be far more accurate in my case.
I'm using an iMac Quad Core I5 machine but I'm not using any of
Hi Dane,
I haven’t really been able to measure the delay accurately. However, the 0.25
that you mention seems to be about right. Maybe it’s that I’m not used to words
being missed as I arrow around quickly through a text.
I have been able to
fix the issues a bit by switching to Vocalizer
Hi all,
Is it possible to reorder the columns in list views, particularly in mail? The
columns which mention how many messages are in a thread and whether that thread
is read are at the very end and I’d like to move them to the beginning.
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OK I'm not sure if this does the trick but their is the minimise command
[Command+M] that sends the app your in to the doc!
Could that be the one!
HTH Colin
On 25 Oct 2013, at 13:10, JAMES AUSTIN james.aus...@mac-access.net wrote:
Hi Chris and all
On 25 Oct 2013, at 12:22, chris
Hello everybody
These links will be active for a week or so. The first is a direct download
URL for VMware Fusion 6.0.1 Full. Note that this version also contains the
McAfee antivirus stuff and other add-ons for use in the guest operating system.
If you don’t plan on installing these, skip
Hello Georgina
Hum! I think we’d better stick with what we know, to be honest. This stuff is
way way over my head I’m afraid. I know it’s pretty simple to the LINUX experts
amongst the group and yes that’s an area where Gordon really needs to start
learning properly, if only to further his
No. All that does is to hide all the windows that are currently opened
within the app focussed in the foreground. The difference in that from hide
all/show all is that the hide all only puts the app in the dock. If you
minimize, then not only will you have the app in the dock, but at the far
Maybe providing it is also not in the command tab list or as one pointed
out app switcher which i never think of that on a mac for the sake of
ambiguity.
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OK I'm not sure if this does the trick
I use samantha and even in my basic tutorials when I use allis for demo stuff
there is a slight delay. I have since switched to samantha for responsive in
the tutorials and in m my daily usage of the mac. lol!
Tc.
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Hi,
Hi!
OK I had a play and unfortunately the Apps still appear in Command+tab!
So that is not what you want!
Colin
On 25 Oct 2013, at 17:16, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe providing it is also not in the command tab list or as one pointed out
app switcher which i never think of
This would be off topic for this group. The Fritz! Box is not Apple-related but
for the application Dane described which would be in order. If you want to
discuss the Fritz!Box, please either go private or to Techno-Chat.
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I think we just have to accept that the Mac does things differently.
On Windows you can cycle through multiple applications and open windows
within those applications with alt tab.
This causes massive potential for confusing multiple alt tabbing through
multiple windows from multiple open
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Not at this time. I think they plan to make it more so with the next major
update.
Best,
Zack.
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One thing that doesn’t work at all is headings. If, for instance, you have an
Office document, and it has multi-level headings, VoiceOver does not read them.
It does, however, now read lists extremely well. That, at least, is a very big
improvement.
Kind regards
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Updated my copy of Pages on my iPhone 4s.
So far so good.
Was able to add some text to a blank template I used to create a new
document.
Was then able to send a copy of this document via mail which sent it as
an attachment.
Retrieved the attachment on my Windows 7 64 bit laptop.
Opened the
Hi Gordon,
Yeah, headings are still important to indicate. I should note that this seems
distinct from the headings in Pages, which are read properly and even split
into their own section. I guess they didn’t account for headers in the body
text.
Best,
Zack.
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Hi
I should make the point that although the operating system is now public, what
went on in the test phase is very much still non-public.
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Hi all,
Yesterday I installed fusion5 and vinux 4 and I discovered that there were some
conflicts for example, there is no contects menu key and there is no way to use
the caps key for an orca modifier. Is there a way to change this in fusion
preferences? Thanks.
matthew dyer
sent from my
Hello all. I was just wondering what areas are safe to clean with CCleaner for
the mac? I have seen a few articles on this but non were absolutely sure.
Thanks for any help.
Matt
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thanks for that, i will look at the games at some point.
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may be others I am unaware of.
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I would use Onyx seems safer and knows exactly what to clean. This is
free but not in the Mac App store. Try
www.macupdate.com
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Hello all. I was just wondering what areas are safe to clean with
Hi,
I had the mail checked every 1 minute prior to upgrading to Mavericks. After
upgrading it was set to automatic instead. What’s the difference between a
time interval and automatic?
Thanks,
Don
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Hello all,
Ironically, one of the trickiest things I'm finding to do with my iPhone is
to end a phone call. If I call someone using Siri then two finger double
tap seems amazingly unreliable.VoiceOver seems either to shut up or be
very quiet.
Is it just me or is there a reliable way
Evening folks,
Turned out that the distortion experienced on audiobook playback was
generalised. On a hunch I check the EQ and it was both on, and set to small
speakers. Turning it off fixed the issue. This may not affect anyone else but
it might hence passing it on.
Cheers.
Dr. Dónal
Hi Chris,
One thing to be aware of is that the phone may lock while you’re on the call.
It’s possible you’ll need to unlock it first before your two-finger double tap
will work. More over, if you aren’t using headphones, the screen is shut off if
you hold it close to your face, which is why I
Hi all,
I wonder if the good old night-owl (YoruFukurou) is still under development as
there hasn’t been an update in ages. Anyways, has anyone else noticed that it
won’t let you follow someone?
I’ve tried typing “follow (username)” a few times now and the tweet gets posted
rather than the
Yeah, kind a, but in my personal opinion, it isn't quite as feature rich.
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Would that be why when I tried creating a table and I tried making the top
row of the table be a header row, VO didn't indicate this? I thought maybe
it was because I really hadn't made a table header row, and didn't know
completely what I was doing. Could it be that in actuality, I did
Wo! Jart'll open .pages files? Oh my God! I gotta try this! Oh, you just
saved me a heck! of trouble, if so!
Chris.
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Gordon, if you'd rather me write you about this off list on the support
address instead, I'll be happy to refrane further from doing so on here, but
just one extremely quick question about those books: What format are they
in? Are they EPub? Would I use something like IBooks, or Stanza to
I can sum that up in one word. no.
On 26/10/2013 05:18, Chris H wrote:
Subject says most of it. Is it accessible like Twitterrific for iOS?
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Gordon, With the utmost of respect, why would that be non-public if you
don't mind me asking? I could see it being so during the testing phaise,
but it's been released at this point, the things that went on in testing are
things in the past. It would be like someone dies on the operating
Is it true that people who're sighted without Voiceover don't have the thing
go to speaker phone when moving the phone away from their ear? If that is
indeed correct, then why on earth would Apple hav made this happen with VO
turned on? The only logical thing I could think is it's gonna be
Hi Chris,
I’m not sure about this. I’ve never had occasion to try using my phone with Vo
off, certainly not on a call. Interesting question, but I doubt the behavior is
an accident.
BEst,
Zack.
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Is it true
Hi!
I'm a CCleaner user myself across platforms.
Firstly I haven't used this utility for the Mac of late, it han't been updated
for a while as far as I'm aware though I'm going to have a look once I've
finished writing this eMail smile.
Secondly, before anyone uses CCleaner or anything else
That is not a night owl issue. that is a twitter api v 1.1 issue. it’s been
going on since june or so. What I do is hit cmd option single quote to get to
to the drawer, then just open the actions menu go to follow status and hit
follow.
Take care.
Btw I did not mean single quote I just
No I don't think Jarte provides this support. You have to make it Word
format from Pages.
David Griffith
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Oh, ok. Well, even still... that's not bad.
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Hi Chris
You’re more than welcome. I use the big brother of this app, CleranMyMac
which, sadly, isn’t free. But I find that it does a terrific job as well. I
guess others will say “So does Cocktail”, “so does boa boa boa”. Well yeah, I
guess that’s true. I just happen to like this suite
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Hi!
Can someone explain how this is supposed to work?
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If you mean the iPhone then all you have to do is unable it for contacts, Ok I
recommend this for safety reasons.
Then choose what ou want to sure and wait for one of your contacts to appear.
you need to be with in 30 feet of them per my findings. click share then wait
for them to appearing
Hello to all. I decided to share this with as many people as I could as I know
some of you are on linked in. I can’t believe how many bugs there are. in the
iOS app. It’s usable but there are some major changes that need to be done to
make the app 100 percent accessible. here’s the link to
Hello to all. I notice that for example under accounts and mail box behaviors
it will not retain my draft settings. I unchecked the save drafts on server as
I don’t want them there as I always get dupes and they never go away. I uncheck
that, and hit save when the dialogue comes up when I
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