Re: Hiding A Window From Command+Tab

2013-10-26 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi David et al, Let me raise my issue and see if you have a better way of solving it, other than hiding the windows, which, as I've found so far, is not possible. As you know, the Iranian government has censored lots of websites. To that end, I ssh to a friend's PC in the UK and create a

Question about upgrading to mavericks and thanks

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Carello
Hello all. I was just curious if it is better to upgrade to mavericks via the mac app store or software update on the mac? Also I wanted to thank those who answered my question about CCleaner and i went with onyx it works really well. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Voiceover Sluggishness

2013-10-26 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi Sarah, Thanks for the reply. Is it Samantha compact or just Samantha? Thanks. On 10/25/2013 8:52 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: 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

Re: Question about upgrading to mavericks and thanks

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, For all practical purposes, either upgrade method is the same, they get you to the same place. Software update was traditionally used, but it doesn't matter. Best, Zack. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Matthew Carello mcarell...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all. I was

iBooks on the mac.

2013-10-26 Thread Ian McNamara
Hello all, how do I take a book back to the beginning in iBooks if I want to read from the start of the book again. I am wondering if anyone finds mavericks a little sluggish with voice over. Ian McNamara --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your

Re: Question about upgrading to mavericks and thanks

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Carello
Thank you Zack. I had a feeling that was the case but just wanted to make sure. On Oct 26, 2013, at 1:32 AM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: Hi, For all practical purposes, either upgrade method is the same, they get you to the same place. Software update was traditionally used, but

Re: iBooks on the mac.

2013-10-26 Thread Chris H
Ian no Mavericks work just fine on my Macbook Pro. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 26/10/2013 07:37, Ian McNamara wrote: Hello all, how do I take a book back to the beginning in iBooks if I want to read from the start of the book again. I am wondering if anyone finds

Re: Airdrop

2013-10-26 Thread Andy Collins
Air drop lets you share your contacts with another iPhone user. It needs to be turned on in both phones, you can do this in the control centre. So, if you wanted to share all of a contacts details with somebody, you'd find that contact in your own phone, tap the share button. This will open

Re: interval for checking for mail in mavericks

2013-10-26 Thread Chris H
Perhaps automatic means check when there's new messages on the server or check when Mail opens. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 25/10/2013 21:48, don bishop wrote: Hi, I had the mail checked every 1 minute prior to upgrading to Mavericks. After upgrading it was set

Re: Hiding A Window From Command+Tab

2013-10-26 Thread David Griffith
You probably know about this but in situation I would use Application Chooser than command tab. This, as it name suggests, will list the applications running on your mac. However if I press right arrow on any application whilst in Application Chooser this will reveal up a list of all the

The Pages Word Processor

2013-10-26 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay, time to drag out Pages again and give it another try, up until now my word processor of choice has been Nisus Writer Pro. Its been a while since I used Pages and obviously - from looking at the screens which present themselves - there have been quite a few changes which seem all for the

Question about vm ware fusion

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Carello
Hello all. Does anyone know of any podcasts that show how to install windows using vm ware fusion and a screen reader while being totally blind? I did see one a while back but the file had been removed. Thanks for any help. Matt --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post,

sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Maggie's Dobermail
Hi, Is anybody else having the issue of the “swoosh” sound for sending mail not playing when you send a message? If so, how do I fix this? I do have the option checked in the mail prefs. running mavericks. thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please

Re: sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Did you go into VOiceOVer Utility, Sounds section, and uncheck the “Enable Audio Ducking,” option? It’s possible the sound is playing beneath VO’s speech and so you aren’t hearing it. I’d look into this. Best, Zack. On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Maggie's Dobermail caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com

Re: sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Terry Clasper
ah I suspect the issue here is that after your upgrade sounds are being ducked in voice over, hence the sound is playing but very quietly. Go to voice over settings, with vo f8 down to sounds, and uncheck the first check box! That should fix it for you. On 26 Oct 2013, at 17:25, Maggie's

Re: sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Chris H
It's probably playing but maybe the audio is being ducked by VoiceOver. This is new and can be turned off in the VoiceOver Utility in the sounds section. It is a check box. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 26/10/2013 17:25, Maggie's Dobermail wrote: Hi, Is anybody

Re: sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Sarah k Alawami
It plays for me about 99 percent of the time. Make sure you go to general in mail prefs and then to the sounds category. If you are unsure show the mail activity button in the main window and look for the progress bar. Once that disappears your mail has been sent. Tc. On Oct 26, 2013, at

Re: interval for checking for mail in mavericks

2013-10-26 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Tha’ts what i”m thinking.I actually sent mine to manual as I don’t want mine pinging my server as some of my mail is hosted on a shared server of my web site. Tc. On Oct 26, 2013, at 4:03 AM, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps automatic means check when there's new messages on

Re: Airdrop

2013-10-26 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Not just contacts. it can do articles from umano, voice memos, videos, pictures, and more. I’ve used it to share videos back and forth between my mom and my phone as my camera is broken at the moment. I think I even used it to air drop a link to an app to someone once but I can’t recall. On

Re: interval for checking for mail in mavericks

2013-10-26 Thread Chris H
Same here as want to check mail when I want one reason to go with Pop3. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 26/10/2013 17:56, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Tha’ts what i”m thinking.I actually sent mine to manual as I don’t want mine pinging my server as some of my mail is

Re: sounds in mail?

2013-10-26 Thread Chris H
If you use VoiceOver on iOS then this audio ducking will be very familiar to you. Basically the volume of the audio lowers, or ducks, while VoiceOver is speaking. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 26/10/2013 17:43, Maggie's Dobermail wrote: Hi, Uh.. no, I didn’t go

Re: interval for checking for mail in mavericks

2013-10-26 Thread David Griffith
I believe Automatic may refer to the imap capacity for push notification. In other words your email client will be alerted when a mail arrives on the mail server and simply download it rather than downloading at time intervals. David Griffith. David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com On 25

has this always been there, oris it new in IOS7.03?

2013-10-26 Thread meadowlark77
Hello y'all, I'm curios about something. I just updated to the latest Voice Dream and of course, a few days back, updated to 7.03 of the operating system. There's something in Voice Dream that I never noticed up until now and wonder if this has always been. What it is, is this. I went

strange problem installing Mavricks

2013-10-26 Thread Terry Clasper
Hi I had no problem installing Mavricks on my mac, it installed and downloaded no problem. However not the case with my wives 11 inch air. I left it downloading and installing however the install hasn’t happened. When I now go to sofrware updates it sees that the upgrade has been downloaded

Re: has this always been there, oris it new in IOS7.03?

2013-10-26 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hi that's a iOS 7 benefit the voices in voice dream are now free and they use the voices that come with your iPhone if you pick them wish they would give me my money back for purchasing all those voices grin! Sent from my iPhone On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, meadowlark77 meadowlar...@cox.net

Re: strange problem installing Mavricks

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Check the rest of the windows on your screen. It’s possible the installer popped up and you didn’t notice. Best, Zack. On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Terry Clasper terry.clas...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi I had no problem installing Mavricks on my mac, it installed and downloaded no

Re: Airdrop

2013-10-26 Thread Esther
Hi Dane and Others, As Andy noted and as Sarah expanded on, Air Drop on iOS 7 can be used to share all sorts of items. This is an iOS version and extension of the Air Drop feature that was first implemented in Lion, to allow file sharing between supported (generally late-model) Wi-Fi enabled

Re: strange problem installing Mavricks

2013-10-26 Thread Terry Clasper
Nope sadly not the case but thanks anyway On 26 Oct 2013, at 19:25, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: Hi, Check the rest of the windows on your screen. It’s possible the installer popped up and you didn’t notice. Best, Zack. On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Terry Clasper

Re: has this always been there, oris it new in IOS7.03?

2013-10-26 Thread meadowlark77
Boy, that's fantastic! Because the book I have right now, is perfect with that built-in voice. Absolutely awesome. Do you suppose they'll make it so we can read with the male voice of Siri as one of them? Now, let me tell ya, I'd love that. Take care, Brenda mailto:meadowlar...@cox.net -

Re: strange problem installing Mavricks

2013-10-26 Thread Sarah k Alawami
All I did for me was just to install it from the app store. I never did the upgrade from the app store, mainly because I like to keep the app files on my external drive for safe keeping in case I blow up my computer. Tc. On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Terry Clasper terry.clas...@btinternet.com

Re: Airdrop

2013-10-26 Thread Sarah k Alawami
It’s too bad I can’t use air drop between my mac and my phone, yet. You never know though what apple has up their sleeves eh? tc all. On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Dane and Others, As Andy noted and as Sarah expanded on, Air Drop on iOS 7 can be used

chess on the mac

2013-10-26 Thread John Gallagher
Hi all Well I looked on the shredda site and found a mac demo called chess classic but I downloaded it but just cannot get it to run. When I get time I must see why. really strange. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Problems with new Pages

2013-10-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I seriously hope I’m wrong about this, but I can’t find the merge fields anywhere in the new Pages. This makes it very complicated, if not impossible, to use Pages for mail shots and invoices. Another problem I’ve found is the lack of hotkeys for setting styles. Where have

Re: strange problem installing Mavricks

2013-10-26 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hello, I had a similar experience when downloading Google Chrome to my Air. I went into the doc to downloads there and saw that it was still downloading. Maybe the OS software didn't completely finish downloading correctly and that's why it states dim. Just a thought. Eileen Sent from my

odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
evening all, Here’s a strange one. Under previous versions of OSX, the terminal prompt on my mac looked like: DonalFitzpatricksMacbookPro:~dfitzpat$ which is all very normal. However something very strange is happening under Mavericks. If I run terminal, the prompt now looks like:

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I noticed it as well. Not sure why, it seems strange, but also pretty obviously deliberate. Odd decision on Apple’s part. Best, Zack. On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: evening all, Here’s a strange one. Under previous versions of OSX, the

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Zac, The confusing bit is how / why the prompt changes. I’ve just checked on my main (ML) partition, and this doesn’t happen. it’s caused me no end of grief actually trying to get mysql running. At least, I suspect it was that though I’m possibly wrong there. Dónal On 26 Oct 2013, at

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I suspect something with the network settings. It’s not just the prompt as far as I can tell, it’s the hostname. I’d start poking around System Preferences. Best, Zack. On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: Hi Zac, The confusing bit is how /

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
you’re dead right I just mored my .bash_profile and it has the prompt specifically set to include \h which is the hostname. Most interesting indeed. On 26 Oct 2013, at 23:43, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: Hi, I suspect something with the network settings. It’s not just the prompt

Post to Facebook And Twitter From Notification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Dane Trethowan
Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 Hi! Have these features been removed from the notification center under IOS 7? Can't seem to see them anywhere when the notifcation center is displayed by tapping the status bar and swiping down with 3 fingers, is there anything I have to do to display

Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter From Notification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Josh Gregory
Think these of been removed. Sad I know. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 26, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 Hi! Have these features been removed from the notification center under IOS 7? Can't seem to see them

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I wonder if it has something to do with it not opening bash, from /bin/bash but maybe is openning some other shell instead. Chris. Visit my Audioboo page for freely available music which I have recorded. http://www.audioboo.fm/chrisgilland For updates to my Audioboo page, you also are more

Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
The host name I think is in: /etc/hosts Maybe have a look in there? Chris. Visit my Audioboo page for freely available music which I have recorded. http://www.audioboo.fm/chrisgilland For updates to my Audioboo page, you also are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter.

Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter From Notification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I definitely don't see them either which I found a little weird, but certainly not much of a problem, as I normally just use Siri for that sort of thing. If I need to do something which is private that would require me typing, I open up Siri, then start composing an update, dictate maybe 2 or

free email services simalar to gmail and yahoo that are easy to use.

2013-10-26 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi does anyone know of any service that works like gmail and Yahoo that I could access from anywhere. The reason I ask is because since upgrading to mavericks i’m not happy with gmail under it. I did read the article before upgrading that was sent but as there were a few features people told me

Clear notifications very quickly in I O S?

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I dono about you guys, but very often, I completely forget, or just become lazy, and don't clean out my notification area of I O S. For this reason, sometimes I have notifications literally speaking dating back a month or two. You can imagine how cluttered this gets. I mean, even with the

Re: free email services simalar to gmail and yahoo that are easy to use.

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Do you have your own top level domain name? Like my name dot com? If so, and you're willing to switch the dns name servers at the registrar over to our servers, I can get you set up with an account for free that will give you up to 3 e-mail addresses you can check via IMap, Pop3, or webmail,

The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I would welcome advice regarding one question here. Are there many apps which would no longer run on the old original iPad 64GB? Gordon just walked into the room with this in his hand and we had totally forgotten that we still had it. He found it in a cupboard whilst going to

Re: Clear notifications very quickly in I O S?

2013-10-26 Thread Ben J Bloomgren
Chris and all, My only solution is just to clear each section as you come to it. It can get annoying if things are coming in as you're clearing them out, but that's why Clear Section is a godsend. If you don't want to clear them out, just use the missed tab on the far right to have it just

Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter From Notification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Ben J Bloomgren
I, like Chris, didn't really use those options as much as I just used Siri and Twitterrific. Since these options are available on Mavericks still, it is odd that they're gone in iOS 7.0.3. Ben J. Bloomgren Manager CLG Productions Http://www.clgproductions.com 704-256-0067 Hours: Nonday

Getting frustrated

2013-10-26 Thread George Cham
I'm getting frustrated with apple mail, pop3 and imap. I've tried using both imap and pop 3, to download messages, but when they are downloaded from the server, they are not being cleaned out on the server. I've set it in the advance section of the account, to delete when moved from inbox,

Notification Ceenter Mavericks Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter From Notification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Josh Gregory
Hello, since we're dealing with Mavericks, I guess it is okay to do this. If not let me know… In Mavericks, I cannot seem to get the two fingers swipe on the trackpad to work to access notification Center, every time I do it just makes a little ding sound that means that an action can't be

Re: The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yeah! In one word: Facetime! Sorry Lynn, no you can't watch your hansome husband on it. LOL!! Sorry, I couldn't resist. Chris. Visit my Audioboo page for freely available music which I have recorded. http://www.audioboo.fm/chrisgilland For updates to my Audioboo page, you also are more

Re: Getting frustrated

2013-10-26 Thread Zachary Kline
George, Are you storing your deleted messages on the server or on the Mac? That would also be in the advanced settings. Also, are you using Gmail? Mavericks has some known issues with it at the moment. Please give us as much detail about your email setup as you can. Thanks, Zack. On Oct 26,

Re: Notification Ceenter Mavericks Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter FromNotification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Are you talking about with using trackpad commander? Chris. Visit my Audioboo page for freely available music which I have recorded. http://www.audioboo.fm/chrisgilland For updates to my Audioboo page, you also are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter.

Re: Notification Ceenter Mavericks Re: Post to Facebook And Twitter FromNotification Center in IOS 7

2013-10-26 Thread Josh Gregory
Yeah that's right. I do have it on yes. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 27, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland ch...@clgproductions.com wrote: Are you talking about with using trackpad commander? Chris. Visit my Audioboo page for freely available music which I have recorded.

Re: The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris Why, oh why, would I ever….ever…..ever…..ever want to watch my other half, (he’s saying better half – but he’d better watch his step if he wants to eat again today! LOL. Anyway, why would I want to watch him on FAceTime which, I confess, neither of us has ever even used on our

Re: The Good Old Original iPad

2013-10-26 Thread Josh Gregory
LOL Lynn, war indeed. Be careful. LOL. Who wouldn't want to do that, the best thing in the world besides seeing them. LOL. Anyway, to get back on topic, I've had people say that not a lot of things work under iOS 5 anymore… I guess that holds true because support is starting to fade for it, just