Humour; [Re: Apple's Catalogue Of Errors]

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Kevin This is actually quite a funny story; or it would be if it weren't so serious. :) Yes, I agree. As a visually abled user, I obviously need a monitor in order to use the machine unless it's one of those times I'm deliberately using VoiceOver. But Apple promotes environmentally

Re: Mac Mini Server question.

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jim Yes, and no. The server software is different, and requires that you have more technical knowledge. Lynne On 27 Jul 2011, at 23:56, Jim Noseworthy wrote: Hi Folks: Is the server software on the Mac Mini fully accessible? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Answering calls for help

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sandy You are correct, this had absolutely nothing whatever to do with general spelling. Somebody has twisted it to suit their own ends. It was aimed at those who are taking no care when presenting URLs in messages. We are very well aware that some people have literacy skills which vary

Re: Humour; [Re: Apple's Catalogue Of Errors]

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Kevin On 28 Jul 2011, at 11:29, Kevin Barry wrote: • Well, then, a server doesn't require a monitor which is not what was stated before. Our late 2009 server will not function correctly if there is no monitor connected. You can argue till you're blue in the face but some people won't

Re: Mac Mini Server question.

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jim On 28 Jul 2011, at 11:36, Jim Noseworthy wrote: • Can the initial server setup be accessed with Voiceover? Yes. But as I said earlier unless you know quite a lot about your network and unless you have your serial number, you can't use it. Also, bear in mind that if you change

Re: voice for login password

2011-07-28 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Michael Yes. You need to log in as root and then change the default configuration. Lynne On 28 Jul 2011, at 15:09, michael weaver wrote: can the voice be changed for the login dialogue? i have tried to do a fresh installation of lion but the voice it seems to have selected for login is

Re: Drop Box Beta

2011-07-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
to work at all. Growl! Take care.On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello all Apparently this works under Lion so it might save you all some headaches if you use Drop Box. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644 Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac

Making a Lion DVD is easy!

2011-07-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello everybodhy I'm pleased to say that making a Lion DVD is a piece of cake. I'll outline how on our blog if anybody wants to read it. But it works. Lynne --- 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 a

Re: Drop Box Beta

2011-07-26 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
for the terminal to show up.. Now I did the same thing with the old dropbox installer and the installer showed up after about 5 or so seconds so not sure what happened.. Take care. On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: hello Sarah What I actually said was that your system must

Re: mission control: Huston we have a problem?

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Donal This has to do with full screen apps. If you open anything full screen you will get this message. Lynne On 24 Jul 2011, at 23:22, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something that's crept in over the past few days. I've obviously hit a button, or set a preference somewhere

Re: Full Screen Apps

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I might also add that this is not a bug, it is by design. Lynne On 24 Jul 2011, at 23:57, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: yep iTunes was just for illustrative purposes. On 24 Jul 2011, at 23:55, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hmm cmd ctrl f toggels that. I don't have iTunes running but you might be on to

Super Duper; Just a reminder in case you don't yet know

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody This is just a reminder that Super Duper! that excellent backup utility for OSX, was recently upgraded to be Lion-compatible. The trial and registered versions will both now work under Apple's latest offering. But even if you're one of those who has made the choice to stick

Reading using Trackpad

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello all I've been playing with the trackpad using the trackpad commander in VoiceOver. Maybe I'm doing something wrong; actually I think I must be because I just can't get the results I would expect to get. So please forgive the seemingly basic questions; but as somebody who has vision this

Re: Reading using Trackpad

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Colin On 25 Jul 2011, at 11:58, Red.Falcon wrote: • Just by chance have you got the vo cursor or the mouse cursor following each other! Yes. Lynne --- 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 a

Re: Reading Webpages with Trackpad; [Revisited]

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Nic OK, maybe I didn't explain myself too well; so let me try again. :) I was trying to read webpages with the trackpad, for better to understand how it worked so that I could assist my disabled employee with her situation. I tried to read a website using the Trackpad with Trackpad

Drop Box Beta

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello all Apparently this works under Lion so it might save you all some headaches if you use Drop Box. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644 Lynne --- 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 a

Installing Drop Box Beta

2011-07-25 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I should have added that you use the same installation procedure as previously described here. Highlight the file in your /Applications folder and bring up its context menu. Show the package contents, and navigate to the Macos folder. Find the Dropbox executable and run it. A Terminal window

Re: Reading a webpage using a trackpad

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Colin This is interesting. But I have to say that it seems a little odd if you're using a magic trackpad which doesn't even necessarily have to be used within a few meters of the computer. Lynne On 23 Jul 2011, at 22:21, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Gordon or Lynne! :] Just slightly different

Re: OS X server?

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Kevin Just buy the regular version of OSX and then do a from the ground up install and zap the server completely. Lynne On 23 Jul 2011, at 22:21, Kevin Barry wrote: Could you be a bit more specific? I'd prefer the regular version of OSX but the hardware I want comes with Server. ---

Re: Installing Dropbox

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Chris We have it installed under Lion but as yet it doesn't work properly. The menu icons are broken, for example. You have to open the package contents and manually install it. Lynne On 24 Jul 2011, at 01:57, Christopher Sims wrote: When someone gets this installed under Lion, Please report

Re: Installing Dropbox

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
what it is called please? Thanks TC :) James On 24 Jul 2011, at 12:59, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Chris We have it installed under Lion but as yet it doesn't work properly. The menu icons are broken, for example. You have to open the package contents and manually install

Re: Installing Dropbox

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
excitable file with no extension. On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:37 AM, James AUSTIN wrote: Thanks Lynne, I'll look again, I must have mised the app file. TC :) On 24 Jul 2011, at 13:16, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello James From memory; open the package and then the contents folder

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-24 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Kevin On 24 Jul 2011, at 20:23, Kevin Barry wrote: Nope, DVDs are gone from all new Minis. Actually you're correct. I was inadvertently looking at a cached page. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Magic Trackpad; [Revisited]

2011-07-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Firstly may I thank those who have written to me privately expressing good wishes for Gordon's recovery. He's home now and resting for the most part having lost quite a bit of blood. Anyway, on to the reason for writing, hence the subject line. Yesterday we received the two

Question from somebody who doesn't use VO all the time

2011-07-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I'm just curious to know, from the perspective of somebody who has experience of using VO in a limited fashion how useful people find the new QuickNav Commander. For those who haven't yet found this, it's in the VoiceOver utility. Gordon finds this function extremely useful but

Re: BRAILLE SUPPORT IN LION

2011-07-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Christopher Lion's Braille support is now excellent for English. There are severe issues in other languages; but for English it's absolutely superb. A s somebody who recently learned Braille so that she could utilise this particular form of writing which her husband news to use all the

Magic Trackpad

2011-07-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybodyh I have a question as we are expecting a pair of Magic Trackpads soon. Forgive my ignorance; I'n not a full--tile Voiceover user. When you read web pages with the Trackpad do you have to turn on Trackpad Commander on the Mac? Or does VoiceOver somehow detect the website and

Re: Autor Correction and writing URLS on Ipad

2011-07-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane If you just keep on typing don't you find it work Lynne On 22 Jul 2011, at 08:49, Dane Trethowan wrote: No, that's the first thing I did. --- 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 a

Re: 1 Password Pro for Iphone/Ipad doesn't appear to be accessible

2011-07-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
The extensions in Lion have caused us all kinds of problems to be honest, so I disabled it for the moment. I'm sick of getting the Master Password prompts. On 22 Jul 2011, at 08:54, Dane Trethowan wrote: Subject line says it all and that's a great shame, anyone had any success in using this?

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-07-22 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Anne On 22 Jul 2011, at 10:15, Anne Robertson wrote: • Apart from the additional choices in the rotor, the gestures used by the Trackpad Commander are the same everywhere. However, you can add your own gestures by going to VoiceOver Utility and selecting the Commanders category. Select

Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Why, oh why, does this always have to happen to us! On Monday of this week, I ordered us a new mac Mini server machine, in order to replace the old PowerPC which has been running since 2005 24/7 but which fell victim to the ravages of time late last week and failed. The new

Magic Trackpad

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I'm wondering whether the magic Trackpad might help Gordon when navigating web pages. Somebody mentioned this a while ago; but we've forgotten how it works. Could somebody remind me? Also, I'm wondering whether the trackpad might be better if it were external rather than the

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane On 21 Jul 2011, at 08:00, Dane Trethowan wrote: • Why oh why don't you take this up with Apple? I am! I don't recall saying I wasn't going too; I just mentioned it so that others may avoid the trap that we fell into. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Take Control of Using Lion; We're on it's trail

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello On 21 Jul 2011, at 09:48, KliphSharrie wrote: The two books together cost about 7 US Dollars if you get it from us. That's just a guess; as I haven't converted. Lynne How much is it, and what formats will it be available in. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Magic Trackpad

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane Gordon dislikes the inbuilt trackpad because of the fact that it's so sensitive. To be honest with you, we very rarely use the web browser on the iOS devices. We can use it, of course, but usually we are within range of a Mac when we want the web. However, I just ordered us a

Re: Apple Customer Services for UK, Ireland and Europe

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Donal Yes; Apple is still in Cork. I have looked high and low on their site but they don't quote any email contact at all. I also clicked on the Call me now link in the Express Lane I waited, and I waited, and I waited, and still nothing has happened. Lynne On 21 Jul 2011, at 10:43,

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Kevin With all due respect, I think you're totally missing the point, as did Dane. This may have been known to you. But not everybody has the time or the resources to spend looking around rumour sites. But even were it known that it was going to happen soon, Apple should have offered us

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
updates hit and if you can RMA or otherwise get the newer Mini model then I suspect you'd absolutely see the benefit -- especially in a 24/7 server box. Garry On 7/21/11, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Kevin With all due respect, I think you're totally missing

Nightmare! Upgrading to OSX Server

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody; me again. Those of you who saw this elsewhere in Gordon's name will understand why. ;-) I just attempted to upgrade to OSX 10.7 Server in the app store. Well, I used the Apple Up to date programme as I bought a computer just a week ago. Actually, I'm a bit miffed about that

Re: Question about upgrade from Leopard 10.5.6 to Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dan You can purchase Lion but if you're running Leopard I\m not sure how you'll ge to the App store. ion is a full installer, so no worries once you have it. Lynne On 21 Jul 2011, at 17:44, Danny Leung wrote: Hi all, I am very new in Mac. I hope you don't mind for me to ask the

Re: accessing the menu bar

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:01, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi all, I just noticed something. Hs the ctrl-f2 key combination disappeared? It doesn't seem to bring me to the menu bar any more. It works fine here Donal. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please

Re: Take Control of Using Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Contact the support address supp...@mac-access.net and we'll let you know the score. Lynne On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:28, KliphSharrie wrote: Where do we go to get it, and what's the cost? Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com

Re: Tae Control of Using Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Jom For completeness, please use the support address. We don't take requests on the list. There are good reasons for that. lynne On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:44, Jim Noseworthy wrote: Lynn: I would like to snag a copy of that book please? Cheers. - Original Message - From: Gordon Lynne

Re: Take Control of Using Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Again, contact us off list. On 21 Jul 2011, at 22:04, Kristeen Hughes wrote: I keep hearing about the take control books,but have never known quite how to get them. Kristeen n Jul 21, 2011, at 4:28 PM, KliphSharrie wrote: Where do we go to get it, and what's the cost? Kliphton SR

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Kevin On 22 Jul 2011, at 00:28, Kevin Barry wrote: • Perhaps Apple should have warned you. But they didn't and I think typically they don't. Still, best to call them and ask, nicely if you can, if there is anything they can do for you. I have no intention of being nasty or unpleasant

Re: XLD query

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah You are aware, aren't you, that you have the facility to label buttons with VoiceOver yourself? On 22 Jul 2011, at 01:45, Sarah Alawami wrote: They are not and I talked to the dev and since he can't speak or understand english it was hard to get across to him what I wanted to

Re: Gordon Lynne Fall Victim To Apple's Changes Once Again!

2011-07-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
I'll call them today I think. Lynne On 22 Jul 2011, at 01:57, Kevin Barry wrote: Given the rather significant stepup in hardware I'd say it would be worth the hassle. And, it will come with Lion on it. Kevin At 08:21 PM 7/21/2011, you wrote: Hello Kevin On 22 Jul 2011, at 00:28, Kevin

Re: Lion is now available

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jim all I hope you enjoy the new features of VoiceOver. Lynne On 20 Jul 2011, at 14:56, Jim Noseworthy wrote: Yep: It's happening as we speak. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent:

Re: Lazy Ways

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Nic This is yet another example of people being too lazy to change the subject lines. And this is yet another example of why it's confusing when propel are lazy. Lynne On 20 Jul 2011, at 19:06, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Dane, I'm a little confused by your subject line, then, since

Re: Lazy Ways

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Nic I hope that people will consider this a gentle reminder, nothing more. I'll reply later to your other points. Lynne --- 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 a monthly formatted archive of

Re: Lion; be aware!

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Chris I agree about the responsiveness. It's better than in SL. Don't get me wrong; vast majority of things that have changed in Lion are excellent. But there are a few niggles. Lynne On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:02, Chris Moore wrote: Any bugs that spring to mind I installed it earlier,

Re: Blue Tooth Keyboards

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
my new trackpad it named it from my account and not the other one! Colin On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:01, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Anne Yes; that's what Gordon said. Thank you for the confirmation. Lynne On 20 Jul 2011, at 19:56, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Lynne, Each

Re: Drag Drop in Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
if you're in Column view, you might like to try List view and see if it works better. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jul 2011, at 21:03, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Anne That's very interesting because I've tried moving a few files from A to B using this method and they just get copied

Re: MOving files in lion...

2011-07-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Jonathan Now that is useful! I will experiment. Lynne On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:16, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: According to Tidbits you can now use command-option-V to move instead of copy a file. Also for those experimenting with drag and drop in all versions of Mac OS since at least

Re: Burning Data

2011-07-18 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
hello Krystal On 18 Jul 2011, at 14:53, krystal watson wrote: • some one said mpeg stream clip there has to be a way to do this I think it depends upon what kind of video content you want to produce. I think you could probably do is with iDVD but I'm not 100% sure. Of course, that doesn't

Re: Burning Data

2011-07-17 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Krystal That's a very different matter. For that, as I understand it, you need DVD authoring tools. All SimplyBurns does is what the other burning apps do, burn your files to the DVD. Lynne On 17 Jul 2011, at 14:26, krystal watson wrote: • trying to burn a dvd so it will play in a dvd

Re: Ccleaner

2011-07-16 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane So in other words, it does exactly the same as Cocktail does. I noticed that the MS version is £20.00 GBP so I would think they'll charge for the Mac version when it goes out of beta. Lynne On 16 Jul 2011, at 12:22, Dane Trethowan wrote: I short it cleans up what you tell it to

Re: Ccleaner

2011-07-16 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Dane Yes, I'm not pre-judging, and I am going to look at it. I've never encountered the problems you outline with Cocktail to be honest. But you'd be correct in saying that I do use it without VoiceOver so it isn't really the same. Lynne On 16 Jul 2011, at 12:46, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 Versus Pages; [Revisited]

2011-07-16 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody I have just finally got around to playing around with Nisus Writer Pro which we upgraded a couple of weeks ago. I am now of the opinion that Nisus Writer pro definitely handles Microsoft Office documents more efficiently and effectively than does Pages. The conversion rate is

Re: Roxio Toast titanium, is it accessible or not?

2011-07-15 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello No, for the most part it isn't accessible. Lynne On 15 Jul 2011, at 17:54, Dan Eickmeier wrote: Hi, A friend of mine who is on this list as well, is trying to figure out a way that she can burn videos taken on her iPhone to DVD, for relatives to have, that do not have a computer. We

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