Re: App to organise notes?

2014-05-20 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, take a look at Notebooks 7, that app is very good to use with VoiceOver. Maybe this is what you are looking for. there is also a Notebooks app for mac OS and the content can be synced between several systems, but unfortunatly the Mac OS app isn't accessible yet. I spoke with the

Re: Blind square and into sections

2014-05-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes it does. That's probably the best thing about it in my opinion. It's really useful. It says, for example, “Nearest intersection is Smith Street and Jones Street, 20 metres at 1 o'clock.” Of course you can customise whether it uses metric measurements or imperial; compass directions or clock

Re: App to organise notes?

2014-05-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I actually really like the Notes app which is native to OS X. It allows for multiple folders, good searching, seamless syncing between all your devices etcetera. Really very simple and easy to use. Otherwise, I just use txt or rtf files and save them in Dropbox. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot

Re: Pages with Mavericks

2014-05-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
It's not a bug, but that's how it works now. You should only need to interact twice though: first with the document layout area, second with the particular page you want to work in. More clunky than it needs be, granted, but not all that much hassle after all. Still, if I need to write

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Travis Siegel
Seriously folks. When you forward an email, mail (by default) includes all the headers. This is so that if you're forwarding to an admin or something, and your problem is something to do with the message path, the admin will have all the info they need to track down the problem. It only

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Laurie Mehta
With all due respect, this kind of answer (below) is not helpful to the person who made the original query, or to anyone else for that matter. If you don't know how to help that person, please don't increase their frustration by telling them that what is irritating to them is just fine and

An interesting observation regarding points of interest availability between blind square and RNIB navigator

2014-05-20 Thread William Lomas
hi all i noted with interest, that when i use blind square not many points of interest are coming up, yet, when in rnib navigator loads are present. why is this, does anyone know? just curious. Will Sent from my iPhone --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Esther
Hi Laurie, You're welcome. I thought Zack had provided Eric with an answer to his question about not having to read forwarded headers earlier in this thread. It turns out that you can toggle on or off the viewing of the detailed mail information with Command-Shift-H, as Zack stated, but this

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Actually in my case it does not. it just has a blank line where I can type my stuff and then under that it begins begin forwarded message then the text of the message. I'm not selecting any text before I begin either. It's actually quite convinenetn and I want to know how I set this up, 4

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
actually now that you mension it I do have it set to none. Maybe tha'ts why? in the viewing pain? Iv'e had it set like that for 4 years now. Maybe this is why when I forward a message I don't get original message from blah blah blah. x mime and all of that stuff. Hmm. experiements are needed,

Re: Pages with Mavericks

2014-05-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I normally start by hiding the formatting pain to make ti easier to edit. I do my formatting last. You can do this with cmd option I. ¬ Good luck. On May 20, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a bug, but that's how it works now. You should only

Re: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread Gordon Smith
I think it’s the old adage here, you gets what you pays for, you takes your choice. Personally speaking, if I want to use DAISY on the Mac, I use ReadHear. it was updated quite recently with a lot of the quirky bugs ironed out. For instance you can now return to your library without having

Re: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread Andy Collins
Hi - I just searched for read hear, and got to the sellers website, but couldn't find a price for the software; can anybody advise me of how much it is? - Andy On 20 May 2014, at 19:47, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: I think it’s the old adage here, you gets what you pays for, you

Re: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
I found a daisy reader for the mac called Emerson. I have it installed on here now, but don’t have any content to try it out with. It’s open source, just google emerson daisy reader. hth, Caitlyn ps-It was free. On May 20, 2014, at 3:42 PM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: If

Re: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread Andy Collins
Hi - I just searched for the Emerson DAISY reader, and find different version for different machines. There is one for the Mac 32 bit, and 64 bit; I don't know what my Mac book air is, where would I look to check if it is a 32 or 64 bit machine? - Andy On 20 May 2014, at 21:39, Caitlyn and

RE: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread David Griffith
According to Google Apple provide a page on this. I think all modern Macs are 64bit but you could read the following. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696 -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent:

Re: Daisy files on the Mac

2014-05-20 Thread Andy Collins
Thanks David, yes this is a core i5 - Andy On 20 May 2014, at 22:05, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: According to Google Apple provide a page on this. I think all modern Macs are 64bit but you could read the following. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696 -Original

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Esther and others, This worked! I changed the setting to default and now just have the usual headings. I suspect that as a new Mac user in 2009 I probably changed the setting myself when trying to get mail to show me something or do something for me. I then transferred the setting each

Re: Mail forwarding, Can we avoid the unneeded info?

2014-05-20 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah that's cool, and I learned something new. I love to learn new things. Tha'ts what I love about ossx. You are always learning something of vallue, or relearning it. On May 20, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Eric Caron eric_ca...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Esther and others, This worked! I changed

Re: An interesting observation regarding points of interest availability between blind square and RNIB navigator

2014-05-20 Thread Deb Lewis
Yes. GlindSquare gives you points of interest based on the distance you’ve set in the search. The RNIB app is going to give you a radius distance that you can’t change. If you set blindSquare to the top of this threshold they’ll be very similar. I generally prefer the blind square method

adding and removing apps from dock in maverick.

2014-05-20 Thread Ian McNamara
Hello all, How do I add to and remove from the doc in Maverick. I have been trying but can’t work out how to do it. Thanks very much. Ian McNamara --- 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