Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Josh Gregory
See this is why you should never compose late-night emails, in retrospect, yes, that's exactly what I meant. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: System prefs? OK, I will look but Im not sure how you'd do it from there. Are you sure

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Josh No worries, I'll go take a look right now. It would be nice to be able to write in grade 2 Braille sometimes, much as I love the keyboard on my new MacBook Air, and this external one. The brand new Apex is sitting next to me crying out to be used. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith ---

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Josh Gregory
Don't worry, it will soon be crying because it can't keep up with mainstream technology, but it's good for what it is used for. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:11 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Josh No worries, I'll go take a look right now. It would be nice to

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Josh It'll do what I want it to do. Actually it fits in well with my employer's scheme of technologies. They are a school with tens of these things and it would be helpful to know how they config before I go. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone:

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Josh Gregory
It should all be doable with him VoiceOver utility. That's the nice thing about the Mac, it just works. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Josh It'll do what I want it to do. Actually it fits in well with my employer's scheme

Help understanding/organising bookmarks in Safari

2013-04-20 Thread Catherine Turner
Hi, I'm struggling to understand how the bookmarks are organised in Safari and wonder if anyone can help me. Am I right in thinking that in order to get to any bookmarks not contained in the bookmarks bar I need to choose show all bookmarks from the bookmarks menu? I would like to create

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
to make it more seamless you can edit your vmware file to have sound come through the system faster. I have instructions in another email I got years ago. I still works and should still work in vmware 5 latest version. My guest os does not lag as much anymore. Take care. On Apr 19, 2013, at

Re: Downloading files in Safari

2013-04-20 Thread Catherine Turner
Hi all, Thanks this does help, will press Command option l in future and see what's going on. Catherine On 4/19/13, trevor trevor.sco...@btopenworld.com wrote: Sorry, That was meant to be command option l. Cheers, Trevor -Original Message- From: trevor Sent: Friday, April 19,

thinking of upgrading my mbp to 8 gigs but how?

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello to all. I'm thinking of upgrading my mac book pro to 8 gigs instead of the 4 it came with. How can I do this if apple charges an arm, a leg, and one of my teeth for this? I could get memory from crucial, but I am a klutz at installing anything hard ware wise and I don't feel comfortable

Re: thinking of upgrading my mbp to 8 gigs but how?

2013-04-20 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Sarah, How old is the MBP? Mine is a 2009 model and it took all of about 15 minutes to update memory and change the HD. It's dead simple. Dónal On 20 Apr 2013, at 11:00, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all. I'm thinking of upgrading my mac book pro to 8 gigs instead of

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Gordon Smith
You are so so right! We migrated to OS X for everything of importance and haven't looked back with the exception of my play out software which has to be Windows. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907

Re: BrailleNote in Terminal mode

2013-04-20 Thread Josh Gregory
Very good, and it's a lot more accessible to. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: You are so so right! We migrated to OS X for everything of importance and haven't looked back with the exception of my play out software which has to be

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Phil Halton
I don't understand the need for the bootcamp support software, if, in fact, you installed the OS in VMWare. Isn't the bootcamp support software only used for a bootcamp installation? - Original Message - From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Phil What gets used are the hardware drivers. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209

Buying a mac

2013-04-20 Thread Matthew C
Hello all. Well I ordered a refurbished mac book pro last night. It looked like it was a good one to me. I plan on putting windows on it mostly to be able to use my station playlist and other windows programs. I won't go into that any further here at least not on list. I will be looking for an app

Re: Buying a mac

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
There is the trainer. Use it when you get the mac. In fact there is a nice little prompt that talks about it at the beginning. here is a gander of what the truing mode sounds like. If you ever need to access it again simply from any ware hit control option command f8. I didn't finish the

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I actually ran a boot camp setting from vmware and I did not like it. The virtual machine took 15 minutes to boot up and the way I have it set up now it only takes about 2 to 3 to boot my guest os. and at the time the mac was only 6 or so months old lol! but if you want I can paste an excerpt

Archived Mail

2013-04-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all I have some irreplaceable data in our Archives mailbox. However, since the reinstall of OS X yesterday, the archives have gone. Please, please don't tell me they were client specific! We had over 2000 massages and attachments stored in there! Kind regards --- Gordon Smith ---

Re: thinking of upgrading my mbp to 8 gigs but how?

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
lol. You're talking to someone who almost cut their finger off on a band saw, cut their thumb twice whilst making a meal for 40, and crossing a street at the wrong time because she was not paying attention. I think I'll stay away from computer hardware. lol. Well maybe I can find a college

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hello Sarah: I for one would be very interested in any information about using windows with a Mac; because I do have a MacBook Pro that I have not tried to use Windows with yet and I'd like to get that set up. thanks for any information you can provide. Maybe a podcast! Sent from my iPhone On

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
go to http://tffppodcast.com/listen and do a search for boot camp. It had better be up there. I have several eps missing that cannot be replaced. so if one of them is boot camp there's not much I can do lol! I have it now set up with vmware but I don't feel like doing it again as the set up

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread cait furness
Vm fusion is the way to go, imho. Caitlyn On 2013-04-20, at 1:47 PM, Mickey Quenzer mickey.quen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sarah: I for one would be very interested in any information about using windows with a Mac; because I do have a MacBook Pro that I have not tried to use Windows with

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Stuart Young
Hi Sarah. does this work in fusion5?. Many thanks. Regards. Stuart. --- 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 archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own

App store on the mac

2013-04-20 Thread George Cham
A month ago, I was receiving notifications on new updates from the Mac app store. For some reason, this has stopped. Where do I go on the Mac, to see if the app store has alerts enabled? Typed with Fleksy reply://george.c...@outlook.com George, Sent from my iPad --- Mac Access At Mac

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hi Sarah: It looks like you've lost another podcast as I look For Boot Camp, and could not find it at all. thank you for letting me know that you had had created one maybe I'll find it somewhere else. Sent from my iPhone Ont Apr 20, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
No the podcast is down for 24 hours due to the protest against sispa. I hope. No what I mean is it's down. what I meant to say was I don't' know if I have it up there lol! Check back in about 24 hours as that's when the protest ends. I'll also look locally and give you a dropbox link unless

Re: App store on the mac

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
go to system prefs , then notifications and see if it is there. Sometimes how ever apps do not get updated for months at a time. Good luck. On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:09 PM, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: A month ago, I was receiving notifications on new updates from the Mac app

Re: Virtual Machine observations

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Here are the instructions. Begin instructions: 1. navigate to the .vmware file of your os that you installed with vmware google where the files are stored on a mac if you can't find it 2. when on the .vmware file e.g win xp.vmware right click and show package contents 3. find (os name) .vmx

Wireless keyboard playing up

2013-04-20 Thread George Cham
I'm having trouble with the keyboard, When I'm in a window, I press the down arrow, the curser does not go down when I'm navigating folders. VoiceOver says vertical splitter It keeps going to the top of the window Typed with Fleksy reply://george.c...@outlook.com George, Sent from my

Re: Wireless keyboard playing up

2013-04-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
You are in quick nav mode. press left and right arrow to turn that off. if that does not work press control option semi colon to unlock the vo keys. Good luck. On Apr 20, 2013, at 6:29 PM, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: I'm having trouble with the keyboard, When I'm in a window,

Re: Wireless keyboard playing up

2013-04-20 Thread George Cham
Thanks Sarah, I had quick nav on. George, Sent from my iPad On 21/04/2013, at 11:31 AM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: You are in quick nav mode. press left and right arrow to turn that off. if that does not work press control option semi colon to unlock the vo keys. Good

Accessible DLNA iPod / iPhone app?

2013-04-20 Thread Adrian Beech
G'day all, I'm looking for a Voice Over friendly DLNA app for use on both my iPhone and iPod Touch and would greatly appreciate recommendations. What I'm trying to do is connect the app to a media server (hosted on my router) and stream MP3/FLAC audio as well as the odd video. Thanks for