And, though it's off topic, I've tried to get the media access group
at wgbh to market their dvs videos to sighted folks as well, for
exactly those same kinds of reasons. Watching a movie in the car
while going to work? Wow, helping adhd kids concentrate on what's
going on? check, helping
Your mileage may vary, but I've personally never gotten mud walker to
do anything useful as far as vo is concerned, so (imo) it's a waste
of time.
On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:14 PM, michael maslo wrote:
Has anyone tried to use mud walker with lion? I tried to run it but
I got a message like it
For those who like this sort of thing,
The open source components for OS X 10.7.2, Xcode 4.2, and iOS 5.0
have been posted to the open source website.
http://opensource.apple.com/
Enjoy.
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To add shortcuts for vo operations, you need to enable the numpad
commander, then you can assign keys on the numpad to any vo command
in the list, you can move the commands around, assign them to any
key, including regular, command, control, shift, and option keys.
If you don't have a
No, there isn't, and this is something I've complained about as
well. There really needs to be a toggle as to whether new speech
should interrupt existing speech, or go into a cue to be spoken when
the current speaking is finished.
You'll get used to it, but it sure is irritating,
If you use column mode in finder, when you have a file highlighted,
simply vo-right arrow, and it opens the info window automatically,
which will show the duration of the file. A vo-left arrow will close
the window, and you're back at the file you were already looking at.
hth.
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There's repair guides for the iphone 3gs at ifixit.com. Their guides
are fantastic, and have worked many times in the past, both for me
and others I've pointed them to. The one for the iphone 3gs is
located at:
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone_3GS
They've even got all the toolkits to
Whether or not the files are properly tagged in itunes has nothing to
do with what program did the ripping. It's a result of which tags
are physically located inside the mp3 files themselves. If you used
a fairly full featured mp3 converter, then all your tags are correct,
and importing
If you have itunes configured to keep your library organized, it will
copy the files for you when you add them to the itunes library.
Again, the easiest way to tell if all the info is there or not is
just to import one or two of them. Then, you can see if all thee
desired info is present or
There's sample triggers, aliases, and mud logins in the muddle.sample
file.
After you load the file into text edit, just save it again (don't
change it's type, it's a plain text file, and needs to stay that way)
You'll need to take a look at the entries in the muddle.sample file,
since
Muddle is a terminal app, this means that you need to edit terminal
files to use it.
Text edit will edit these files, but it will require a little manual
work.
First option is to load the muddle.sample into text edit, change your
aliases, triggers, and connections, then save it again, rename
If you know html well, and don't mind tweaking html, then taco html
editor is a great editor. It has helper applets with it, so that you
can insert prebuilt bits of code (such as tables, forms, and the
like) It's not really all that expensive (24.95, and upgrades are
free. It works well
The one I use is called muddle, and you can find it at the softocn
pages located at:
http://mac.softcon.com (under the terminal applications)
I'm working on adding both mip and mcp protocols to it, but having
trouble with the wrap around buffer it uses for it's text output, it
likes to dump
Tables is one that a lot of folks have used successfully with vo. I
use one called sc, but I never share with others, so I don't need to
worry about compatibility. Sc runs in terminal, and the one I ported
was shamelessly swiped from a slackware distribution of linux, and
can be found on
I have a yahtzee game for osx located at:
http://mac.softcon.com
You can check out all the mac programs there, including the games
folder, which contains yahtzee, and some I ported from other oses.
Enjoy.
On Oct 2, 2011, at 1:33 PM, michael maslo wrote:
Hi list:
Was wondering if anyone
You can try opening it in dashboard. I've discovered dashboard is a
much better editor than xcode. :)
No idea why, but it works well under tiger and leopard, I see no
reason why it wouldn't work under lion as well.
hth.
On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hi all,
Subject
When you launch an application via terminal, (whether in ssh or not)
the program will execute on the machine that contains the terminal
session. Therefore, launching text edit using the open command via
terminal will launch text edit on the remote host you're logged in
through. Since the
When you're interacting with the sdef files, I've found no way to
jump to sections, headers, and the like, I simply go down the column
that lists the functions, then simply go across the row when I hit
one I want to know more about. Once you interact with the table in
question, regular vo
Why not use a shared itunes library over the network, then just plug
your stereo into the headphone jack of your mac. That would allow
you to play anything on itunes through your stereo, and you'd still
have econtrol over everything. There's no device required, only a
patch cable to go
I don't (yet) use lion, but this should work for any version of safari.
As you noticed, creating groups is easy enough.
When you try to save a new bookmark, it pops up a dialog asking the
name of the bookmark, and where you'd like to place it. By default,
I think it selects the book marks
If you change the location of your media library to a location on the
non ssd drive, itunes should then import all files into the new
location.
You can change this in the preferences.
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On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Kevin Chao wrote:
I'm not aware of any other PDF reader, other than Preview and Digital
Editions. Travis and others, I'm very curious to know what else is out
there and works with VoiceOver on OS X Lion to read PDF's?
I don't know about Lion specifically, but there
Well.
I didn't see anything in the message that would indicate he was
telling lies. Everything he said was as straightforward as he could
make it. I agree that some of the points probably weren't completely
accurate (I.E. you must use an apple provided hdmi cable) but he did
state that
jpg and jpeg (for those vo users who love vo's acronym expansion,
read those two letter-by-letter to see the difference) are the same
file format, just different extensions. You can rename a JPG file to
JPEG or vice versa, and there will be no difference. On the other
hand, png is a
Multiple methods of doing this.
First, you can use itunes to import the cd, which will (hopefully)
label the songs, author, and such all for you.
Secondly, you can just copy the aiff files onto a folder on your hd,
then use a utility like switch to change them to another format.
You can use
You can easily do this using a crontab entry, and a simple shell script.
Write your script to zip, tar, gzip, or some combination thereof that
compresses the folders in question, then copies the file to a
location of your choice. Then, after that, create a crontab entry
that will simply
What do you mean by preview isn't reading them right.
A bit more information could help folks to explain a work around, or
(if absolutely necessary) another app. There are other programs for
reading pdf files, but my experience is that rarely are they necessary.
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Here's the biggest problem with the screen reader interpreting for
itself what is on screen.
Let's say you're reading a book on a topic that has multiple acronyms
(such as a science book, or a computer programming book).
Now, let's say the screen reader is programmed to speak a particular
On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
Hi Gordon,
This is something that the Infovox voices do, not Apple's. In fact,
if you switch to a voice by Apple, Alex or others do not interpret
this wrongly. I'm guessing in some places this is another way to
format the dates, and
Collin, you said that your vo said sun for my sun that was in the
list. Mine says sunday. This is what I meant when I said different
voices, and different osx versions will treat the same text differently.
This more than anything is why I want an option to turn this
interpreting stuff off.
It would seem my previous message was only part of the story.
I've done some digging since sending the last message, and while the
post was accurate (as far as it goes) it wasn't the whole story.
Pgp was indeed released as freeware initially.
It then (after some legal rangling took place)
I forgot to mention, the page where this is talked about (well, some
of it anyhow) is at Phil Zimmerman's site itself, located at:
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/findpgp/index.html
hth
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When you have share my itunes library selected, there's no need to do
anything at all on itunes, apple's web site, or anything of the like.
When you have share my itunes library selected, and that machine is
on, and itunes is running, when you load itunes on another machine,
the computer
Best is a relative term, but if you're looking for a full featured
database program with an accessible gui, then you'll want to invest
in bento.
If gui isn't important to you, then mysql is free, and works
perfectly. Of course, it takes quite a bit of typing, unless you can
design your
If this occurs again, there's two things you can do to assist with
the drag operations.
First, maximize the windows where the dragging operations need to
take place. This helps them be more vissible even if they are behind
other windows.
Second, close all finder windows that are not
I never got zoom to work on *any* version of osx.
I use a terminal version of jzip to play the inform games.
If you navigate to the softcon pages at:
http://www.softcon.com/mac/
and go to the games area, you should find it there. I don't have
things broken out into games, and game executers,
Paul, you can simply set up the account as imap, and simply never
send anything while using that account. That will allow you to read
all the messages, but as long as you don't delete them, they will
still show up on the other computers pulling that account as well.
Apple mail always checks
On Aug 16, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
Is there an app similar to audiohijack pro, but for the IOS devices?
I don't know of a program similar to audio hijack for ios devices,
though I do know several programs have some of the functionality
(I've seen requests on the ios
On Aug 15, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Thanks, can I easily change between inputs with Audio Hijack Pro and
send the output to another USB sound card for output?
Thanks
You sure can. Audio hijack allows you to route your inputs and
outputs anywhere you like.
I haven't used the
Excellent post Esther. I've never tried redirecting man pages to
preview, though I have dumped them to the printer.
There's a program I use that allows me to go to safari, and type
man://man
(for example)
and it feeds the man output into safari directly.
It's called bwana, and can be found
As far as I know, there is no limit to the number of audio devices
that can be connected.
Once you have them connected, assuming they're all recognized by the
mac as output devices, you can switch between them as often as you
like from system preferences.
If however, you just want to mix the
On Aug 15, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
But what she's trying to do is to get an output form the external
command /usr/bin/certtool.
It's unfortunate that this has to be such a messy issue. You'd
think that you could simply dump it to a text file.
You can do this, but the text
On Aug 10, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Jane wrote:
The Yahtzee game doesn't work. It gave me one of those error
messages.
What error was that?
I've tested it on every machine I've had access too, and not gotten
any errors, so I need the error to try to fix it.
Please send it directly, (it's not
And, let's not forget the excellent resources at ifixit.com.
Those guys are great at explaining how to upgrade apple products.
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You can find a monthly formatted archive of
And, speaking of ifixit.com, they've recently done a teardown of the
new macbook air, and found quite a bit of improvements over the
previous model. Their entire report is located here, go have a look.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-Mid-2011-Teardown/
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I'm still a big fan of ncftpd server software, it allows virtual
users, and 100 bucks gets you a lifetime registration, and you can
have unlimited users, so there are no built-in limitations of any kind.
It's of course not a gui interface, but since there's only two
configuration files, you
When terminal is scrolling, but I want to read line-by-line (such as
during a compile) I simply turn off cursor tracking with vo-shift-f3,
and then when I'm finished, I press vo-shift-f3 again, and vo now
follows the system cursor again as usual. This method has always
worked well for me,
ouch!
Sorry about that. The url is:
http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
This takes you directly to the download page to save time, so hope
this helps.
To install the plugins, simply copy the .qt file into your /library/
components folder on your mac. If you don't want them to be usable
Yes, they have an osx version, as well as a linux one, windows, and
probably several other *nix type environments. :)
hth.
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I was hunting for something else when I came across these quicktime
plugins to allow ogg files to be played in quicktime, which means
itunes will play them natively as well.
They're from the maker of the ogg format directly, so you know they
work well. :)
So, without further ado, the url
I was able to change to and list the Apple_Stuff directory, but I
used the command-line ftp program, so don't know about any other
access method.
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I've never tried using the jump to time option, but just for
reference, I've never gotten the backup or rewind functions (or
whatever vlc calls it) to work, in *any* version of vlc with any
version of osx.
I don't think you're experiencing anything new, but it could just be me.
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Unfortunately, the dvd menus are graphical, so there isn't any
software that can read them that I know of. However, if you go to
http://mac.softcon.com
you'll find softcon dvd player, and it will allow you to use the up/
down arrow keys to navigate between items on the dvd, thus allowing
Filename
will remove the warning you get about a file coming from the internet.
There is not a man page for xattr that I could find, but the -h
option does let you know the arguments available.
Will you share your adventures?
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:06 AM, Travis Siegel wrote
When you have the audible book you want burned in a list, just vo-
shift-m, then select burn selection to disk.
Be advised though, he audible method of burning is really horrible
when it comes to cd breaks, since it just goes until the cd is full,
then backs up 30 seconds or so, then begins
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