Re: [Mac-access]: does any one know how i can get rid of my hot mail account?

2015-03-29 Thread Jason White
Adrian Leong adrianle...@rocketmail.com wrote: Does any one know how i can get rid of my hotmail account. from my mac? I don't have a Hotmail account. However, try looking under System Preferences - Internet Accounts. A table of accounts should be shown, and you should then be able to select the

Re: [Mac-access]: Problems updating my Facebook profile

2015-03-21 Thread Jason White
Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk wrote: Any thoughts? I guess I could try starting Windows under VMWare but don’t really want to do that. You could try reporting the problem to Facebook. Someone sent me a link to an article recently which claimed that they've been working on their Web

Re: [Mac-access]: Apple Mail question

2015-03-08 Thread Jason White
Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk wrote: So what is the technique on Yosemite to access multiple messages in the same conversation? Right arrow to expand the conversation, left arrow to collapse it. Once expanded, your message table is modified to include an entry for each individual

Re: [Mac-access]: List of hot keys for OSX?

2015-01-03 Thread Jason White
Ann Byrne ann...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I found a list of VoiceOver keystrokes which is maybe complete. Is there somewhere a list of keystrokes for OSX, as well? http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your

Re: [Mac-access]: help with a terminal error regarding makeinfo

2014-12-26 Thread Jason White
Laurel laurel.stock...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Travis, Thanks so much for your response. I do have the latest version of Xcode, I double checked to make sure. What other tools from the Apple developer website would help me here? I want to make sure I know how to proceed correctly. I realize that

Re: [Mac-access]: help with a terminal error regarding makeinfo

2014-12-26 Thread Jason White
Laurel laurel.stock...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I got as far as typing in the configure make sudo make install command, only like the 4th one you listed. I have the texinfo-5.2 folder installed fine in terminal, but I can't get any further. When I type in the configure make sudo make install

Re: a question about sharing files between two partitions

2014-08-16 Thread Jason White
Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com wrote: I could be wrong, but I don't think you can share files between partitions. You can, however, create symbolic links that span file systems. For this to work, the file systems on both partitions need to be mounted. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot

Re: Accessible firewall for the mac?

2014-08-15 Thread Jason White
Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote: am on the lookout for an accessible firewall preferably free so i can scan and block any applications that I don't want connecting to the Internet and there is a lot of them.

Re: Accessible firewall for the mac?

2014-08-15 Thread Jason White
Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the link. do you know of any apps off the top of your head? It's all built into the operating system according to this and a couple of other articles I found, so no apps required. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to

Re: Accessible firewall for the mac?

2014-08-15 Thread Jason White
Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote: how do i go about blocking a program from connecting to the net? http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1810 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an

Re: Closing A Programme Before Deleting It

2014-07-23 Thread Jason White
Eleanor Martha Burke eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote: I have Bit Torrant Sinc running and I want to remove it but I cannot remove it from the Applications folder as it is open. http://www.wikihow.com/Force-Quit-an-Application-in-Mac-OS-X --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply

Re: Should I move to Mavericks?

2014-07-19 Thread Jason White
Ian Harrison harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karoo.co.uk wrote: I am looking for opinions as to the pros and cons of upgrading to Mavericks at this time and whether my mac mini will be better or worse with the upgrade. By upgrading, you will receive the latest security-related bug fixes. Prior

Re: Should I move to Mavericks?

2014-07-19 Thread Jason White
Andy Collins a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: I haven't upgraded yet, I only got this Macbook Air a year ago, running Mountain Lion, and wanted to get familiar with it before having to start to learn more new stuff under Mavaricks. One thing I'm not sure of if I upgrade, is if I don't back up

Re: free book on using Mac with voiceover

2014-07-19 Thread Jason White
Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com wrote: Check out this book on iBooks I managed to download the book under iBooks with OS X 10.9.4, and I can read the introduction, but I can't find the table of contents and there are unlabeled buttons in the interface that should be properly labeled. Am I

Re: free book on using Mac with voiceover

2014-07-19 Thread Jason White
Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com wrote: I was able to read it just fine. In order to get to the table of contents, double tap on list view, and then swipe to the right threw the options. When you get to the one you want, then double tap and it should begin reading. this works on my

Re: free book on using Mac with voiceover

2014-07-19 Thread Jason White
Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: Jason, The current version of iBooks for OS X is not as accessible as you might want. The table of contents can be opened with command-t. You’ll need to turn off cursor tracking, or possibly use the Item Chooser, or another method to choose the

Re: Administrator priveledges

2014-07-13 Thread Jason White
George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net wrote: What I want to do is create another user on the Mac, what I want to know is, does VoiceOver announce what the users are on the login screen? You have to enable it in Preferences. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post,

Emacs accessibility under OS X

2014-06-24 Thread Jason White
A few notes for those who haven't tried this yet: 1. The graphical (i.e., Cocoa) version of Emacs 24.3 is not accessible with VoiceOver. I can run emacs.app, but VoiceOver only identifies the name of the Emacs buffer. It can't access the text or the echo area of the editor window, for example.

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-24 Thread Jason White
Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote: Thanks for this link. My pleasure. Another solution to have a good system with good support for textbased enviroments is to install a virtual machine with linux and for example speakup. Yes, I have friends who have done this, but they

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Jason White
Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote: One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will see, that VoiceOver sometimes

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Jason White
Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Jason, I also wish to install EmacSpeak if it uses the Apple speech to learn it. Is there a simple how to guide on configuring the Mac and EmacSpeak? http://e-mac-speak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/e-mac-speak-howto.org The speech server for OS X is

Re: Text edit problem

2014-06-22 Thread Jason White
Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: No. it's part of the mac. You cannot download text edit from the mac store. you can however download iText express from the mac app store. I actually use it in place of text edit some times. I also noticed that OS X comes with both Emacs and Vim

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-22 Thread Jason White
Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Jason and all. The commands you have outlined are standard Linux/Unix commands. They do not control the history of outputs. when I refer to history of outputs, I am not talking about the history of commands. I am talking about when you use vi-up

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-21 Thread Jason White
Actually, some of the Emacs keys, such as ctrl-a to move the cursor to the beginning of a line, ctrl-e to move it to the end of a line, ctrl-k to delete from cursor to end of line, ctrl-b and ctrl-f to move back/forward by characters, etc., are supported in OS X, according to this page:

Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-20 Thread Jason White
Dear all, This is my first post to the list, with a new MacBook in hand and an unfamiliar operating system to learn. I'm approaching this from a UNIX background - mostly Linux, but I also had an account on a SUNOS (later Solaris) machine for a number of years. I'm also familiar with both Android

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-20 Thread Jason White
David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: I did google it and apparently the embedded numpad has been withdrawn from recent MacBooks but the following may be of interest that I copied from a Apple support page.result. Thanks. I may be able to achieve what I need with VoiceOver commands

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-20 Thread Jason White
Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Jason, Hello Sean, thank you for the advice (comments below). Commands I use: vo up and down arrow to navigate through the history buffer vo left and right to move by word shift vo left and right is by char of course. vo l - read current line.

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-20 Thread Jason White
Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net wrote: And I haven't found any that will take me to the first or last line in the buffer. Ctrl-option-fn-left arrow and ctrl-option-fn-right arrow, respectively, move to the top/bottom of the text in the terminal, if I'm understanding correctly. Ctrl-option-b