Re: Off Topic: Poll on how to make paper money accessible

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Everad, They put a device out now that is free and reads the bills. Thanks, Alex, On 24-Mar-09, at 1:53 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: The Canadian approach, also known as a waste of taxpayer money, was to put braille on the bills. One full braille cell representing $5, 2 for $10,

Re: Upgrading VMWare Fusion

2009-03-25 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Dave, The major advantage of vmware fusion 2 is faster performance, both for the mac and windows. Fusion 2 uses much less ram and system resources, so you don't notice any sluggishness on the mac side while running windows. Also, if you play windows games like I do, then you'll notice

Re: FS: Mint Mac Book Pro for sale.

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, It is a good computer. Cara, This isn't off topic is it? Thanks, Alex, On 23-Mar-09, at 10:30 PM, Cameron wrote: Hi. Please write off list for more info or if you'd like to purchase it. I accept payment via paypal and I will only ship to a confirmed address in the

RE: VmWare Fusion and mac...

2009-03-25 Thread Simon Fogarty
I'm in the exact same boat, parallels caused nothing but headaches, and thus far fusion works like a chalm. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2009 9:33 a.m. To:

Re: Raspberry Reader set to launch after the summer

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Not yet as I can't get a hold of Sandi lately. Greg, our problem with Raspberry is developers. We are short and we hope to fix this by having trainees on board this summer. But as always we can never have enough developers. Thanks for the feature request. We shall look into page

extracting audio from .avi files?

2009-03-25 Thread Jessi Rathwell
hey guys I was just looking through a random folder of stuff on my external hard drive and I found a video of a live version of my favourite song ever, ready for love. by India.Arie. don't ask me how I forgot I had a live version of my favourite song, lol. it was tucked away in a folder

Re: extracting audio from .avi files?

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Jessi, You can do this using a jumper driver like Sound Flower but that involves some setup. BTW: Happy Belated Birthday. Lol Thanks, Alex, On 25-Mar-09, at 1:32 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: hey guys I was just looking through a random folder of stuff on my external hard drive and I

Re: new mac

2009-03-25 Thread Peninnah
Thanks Alex, I am interested in whatever you find out. I appreciate your effort on my behalf. - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:40 AM Subject: Re: new mac Hi, There is Bible

Re: new mac

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, I asure you it is in the works. Thanks, Alex, On 25-Mar-09, at 6:29 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: speaking of compiling software, how's i speak doing? haven't seen updates in weeks? On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, There is Bible softwear. I can't remember it

Re: new mac

2009-03-25 Thread Brandon Misch
that's good. can't wait to see it in action when it's ready. On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, I asure you it is in the works. Thanks, Alex, On 25-Mar-09, at 6:29 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: speaking of compiling software, how's i speak doing? haven't seen

Re: new mac

2009-03-25 Thread Wendy
Hi, thgis link siad couldn't display the page. From Wendy. - Original Message - From: kaare dehard To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:24 PM Subject: Re: new mac we can't forget mike's mac series at http://www.blindcooltech as well, he

Re: Raspberry Reader set to launch after the summer

2009-03-25 Thread sandi sørensen
hey. Still working like a mad girl on the espeak project... it is not as much ... if it works more... can the blonde see the logic behind the madness? Greg I'll assure you ill cheer up more than usual when it works but the examples simply dont make sense. Or if they do i am missing the

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Marshall Scott
Hi Folks, Make it 4 votes. I really don't want another list. I fear that people will have something that just has to be cross posted to every list even vaguely related to a topic. I can use the delete key quite effectively if the subject is not of interest. Marsh On Mar 24, 2009, at

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Jessi Rathwell
I agree. I don't think it's a huge deal to go through and delete messages. I think we should be mindful of how many offtopic posts we post and the huge majority should be mac stuff, but if there's the odd offtopic post that someone thinks would be interesting to all, especially if it

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Count me in amongst those who agree, and we have the VoBs list as well why should we have another one? /Krister 25 mar 2009 kl. 16.10 skrev Marshall Scott: Hi Folks, Make it 4 votes. I really don't want another list. I fear that people will have something that just has to be cross

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread chantel cuddemi
Exctly. What's the point of having three mac lists? On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Count me in amongst those who agree, and we have the VoBs list as well why should we have another one? /Krister 25 mar 2009 kl. 16.10 skrev Marshall Scott: Hi Folks, Make it 4

Re: Raspberry Reader set to launch after the summer

2009-03-25 Thread Ryan Mann
I have a few questions about your scanning software. What types of documents will the program be able to read? Will it have something like Buck Scan in Open Book? What OCR engine will you be using with your software? The engine that Open Book uses has really good recognition. When I

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm certainly guilty of being off topic and worthy of the ban. At the same time I'd like to think some lenience for off topic posts which have broad appeal to this list's readership has some positive benefit to the community. For myself this is one of the few public mailing list I subscribe

Re: Need a Spreadsheet Program

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Blouch
My understanding is that if the developer uses standard user interface widgets then those expose accessibility information to VO (more or less) automatically. That implies that Microsoft has implemented their own custom controls for Office but did not implement the communication to the Apple

creating filters in mail

2009-03-25 Thread Dean Adams
Hey All, I want to be able to filter all my email into different folders so that each person or group I am in like macvisionaries or wayfinder access etc into there respective mail boxes so that it makes it easier to go to what I prefer to listen to first I do this at the moment with

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Cara Quinn
smile Are you guys *trying* to make my life difficult? lol! The vote on this already happened last week and everyone was told about it in advance. the results came in and I posted them. So please, can we simply get back to the topics at hand?… I'm posting this to the list now

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Justin Harford
We had a poll where we could vote between letting this list go unmoderated or keep it moderated, and there were a majority who voted to moderate it. So its curious that now suddenly there are people coming out of the woodwork saying that they would like it unmoderated. It's one or the

Re: new mac

2009-03-25 Thread Wendy
Hi i've downloaded a couple of the podcasts onto my computer, my windows one and going to listen through them and make notes then i can really get stuck into it. From Wendy. - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Jessi Rathwell
agreed, Chris. well said. On 25-Mar-09, at 10:32 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm certainly guilty of being off topic and worthy of the ban. At the same time I'd like to think some lenience for off topic posts which have broad appeal to this list's readership has some positive benefit to

Re: Need a Spreadsheet Program

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Malyszka
Hi there, One other thing enters the accessibility equation. Carbon, or legacy Apple controls, are not accessible either. This is why the rewrite of the entire Mac OS X and applications in Cocoa is so great. It uses the modern controls and development framework. ...b On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at

Re: extracting audio from .avi files?

2009-03-25 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I've actually done quite a bit of this. What I always use is a free program called MPEG Streamclip It's basically got an export to audio command that's perfect for this --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: extracting audio from .avi files?

2009-03-25 Thread Jessi Rathwell
ooh, free and the exact thing I need it for! heck yeah!!! googling this!!! thanks!!! On 25-Mar-09, at 1:42 PM, Yvonne Thomson wrote: I've actually done quite a bit of this. What I always use is a free program called MPEG Streamclip It's basically got an export to audio command that's

xcode issue

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Babcock
hi mac users; have any of you seen this issue? When ever i attempt to open Xcode it crashes with out even appearing to open. Any ideas? With best Regards Michael A. Babcock work site: http://gwhosting.net blog: http://gwfans.net twitter: creepyblindy aim: ginnyslove2007 yahoo: blindy_2004

iniciate links menu causes VO to crash

2009-03-25 Thread Justin Harford
Strage thing for you guys to try. Go to http://www.universia.net/ Interact with the HTML content and press VO U to bring the links menu up and VO crashes. I'm using the latest build of webkit. Regards Justin Harford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already

Re: iniciate links menu causes VO to crash

2009-03-25 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I'm using the Safari 4 beta, and it worked fine here. Although the weird thing was, VO said interact with group, and I'm not even in groups mode. On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Justin Harford wrote: Strage thing for you guys to try. Go to http://www.universia.net/ Interact with the HTML