Re: a file vault question

2014-04-02 Thread Earle
I use the name of my home directory. It is different than my account name. So when I hear the first beep I type my home directory name then hit return. Then I hear 2 beeps and type my password and hit return. Then I hear 3 beeps and Iā€™m logged into my Mac. ā€” Earle On Apr 1, 2014, at

Re: a file vault question

2014-04-02 Thread Earle
I just tried an experiment. You can either use your account name or the name of your home directory. Both will work. I just tried it. ā€” Earle On Apr 1, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: ah since all I have is myadmin account, the others are for users who log

Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread David Griffith
After purchasing QCast for my Windows machine I noticed that I was also entitled to install it on my Mac for no extra fee. My initial observations of QCast on the Mac side is very positive. It is designed for use with Voiceover for visually impaired people. I was able to import my feed OPML from

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Christopher gilland
David, I'd be incredibly! interested if QFeed works well on the Mac side of things, as since they got rid of my rss reader in the Mail app, I've been trying to find a good reader. RSS Menu is an app I tried, and it used to kind of... ish!... work, but it's become way worse over the last year,

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Catherine Turner
Hi, I'd be really interested to hear about your findings with QFeed. I want to find an RSS reader for the Mac. Last night I installed Readkit but am not getting on well with it. Ideally I want a reader where I can easily save articles for future viewing. I really like lire on ios but want

QFeed RE: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread David Griffith
I post the message I sent earlier on QFeed. Unfortunately the headline is that it is a far better product I think on Windows as it contains its own browser. Some initial comments on QFeed. The application on the Mac is not as slick as in Windows. Importing your Feeds is straightforward

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Travis Siegel
There is a news reader on the softcon pages http://www.softcon.com/mac/ It's called a news reader, but it's not for newsgroups, it's an rss reader, and last time I used it on snowleopard (I have regular leopard here) it worked really well. It works on leopard too, but not as well as it did

TrAnsfering voiceover preferences

2014-04-02 Thread Joe Quinn
I have a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Mini. I want to transfer my voice over preferences from the Mac Mini to the Mac Pro. How do I go about doing this? I put my preferences on and external flash drive, but then all that happens when I connect it is portable preferences comes on, and then when I

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Vienna works grate for an rss reader and as a podcatcher if you want it to. and it's free and open source. The devs as always are wonderful to work with and I've had the chance to test things in beta. before. They are good on that side as well. Tc. On Apr 2, 2014, at 4:46 AM, Christopher

Re: a file vault question

2014-04-02 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Thanks. that's what I wanted to know. As usually when you are asked to at least on the mac side supply your admin credentials, you supply the full name of your account for example john d smith and your password what ever that might be. rather then maybe for example myaccountusernameisjohn and

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I personally use down cast for osx, and vienna for my rss reader. I have my own personal reasons why I will not get QCast, but thanks for the review. On Apr 2, 2014, at 12:49 AM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: After purchasing QCast for my Windows machine I noticed that I was

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Christopher gilland
Yeah Travis. I use Mavericks, but I'll give it a gry, and see how it goes. Chris. - Original Message - From: Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Qcast There is a news reader on

Re: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Christopher gilland
Where would I go to download Vienna? Chris. - Original Message - From: Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: mac access list iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Qcast Vienna works grate for an rss reader and as a

Re: QFeed RE: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Geoff Stephens
I will check out QFeed as I am always on the lookout for an accessible RSS reader. Vienna is quite wonderful and can be downloaded from: http://www.vienna-rss.org On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:06 PM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: I post the message I sent earlier on QFeed.