RE: Question on Remote Desktop with the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread Frank Ventura
Yes regarding JFW. However, I have been told, but haven't tried it myself, that if you have System Access (not SATOGO) running on the Windows side and have RDP set to route audio from host to client you should be able to get it to work. Of course if you do a lot of RDP from your Mac to a PC it

Re: Question on Remote Desktop with the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread hank smith
what about window eyes? also how can I connect to window eyes users from mac etc? - Original Message - From: Frank Ventura frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:23 PM Subject: RE: Question on Remote Desktop with the Mac

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread william lomas
hi You used it in french then? French is my 2nd language i ahve been learning it since i was six years old i like the french voic On 1 Oct 2009, at 00:00, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: Dear all, The first thing I saw, sorry, heard, was a demo video on Apple's accessibility page. It was

Re: Converting bookshare books to Audio in the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread william lomas
i doubt you can convert it to use alex really On 30 Sep 2009, at 23:01, Dr.Khalid wrote: Is there a way, though, to convert the book to Audio using Alex? - Original Message - From: Woody Anna Dresner To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:44 PM

Re: Saving a file in Iworks pages

2009-10-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Steve, You can save Pages documents as PDF, Word, RTF or TXT by going to the File menu and pressing Return on Export. You'll find a dialogue box with four radio buttons. Select the one you want and export the document in that format. Cheers, Anne On Oct 1, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Mac

apple tablet feature request

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, Things are getting exciting on the newton front. We were over here just thinking about a cool way of transferring files and making them open over a local network. Having a bunch of files on your tray which you swipe out of the screen to send it directly to the tray of another

Re: Converting bookshare books to Audio in the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread Greg Kearney
As a matter of fact there is a way to do just that. I have written a Perl program that will take a Bookshare XML file of a book and output a proper DTBook XML file that can then be used with DAISY Pipeline to generate a full text/full Audio book using Alex or other TTS voices on Mac,

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Rykiel
MessageDear Kevin, voice control is okay if you're alone in a silent place. But generally I don't find it a very discreet feature. I even wonder how voice control has been allowed in a world which is so obsessed with privacy. Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel - Original

8 bit sequencer

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, Ok, it's called 8bit1 micro composer and its 0.99 dollar, so it's cheap but someone has to try it out best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

RE: voice over instruction manuals

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Fogarty
thanks anna, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 2:39 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: voice over instruction manuals Hi Simon. The

RE: VPN revisited

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Fogarty
christina, A vpn is like a pipe or portal / tunnel openning between your machine and your place of work that wil allow you to acces your business / work area as if you were on your work network. mainly it sets up a tunnel and then you remote access anothe rmachine in your work or internet

RE: Question on Remote Desktop with the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Fogarty
I use RDP remote desktop all the time between work machines and work / home etc. and it's fine, both vista and xp as well as server 2008. it's all pretty easy to work with, and jaws can be both statted and stopped remotely so nothings really a problem. Infact I used rdp to burn a DVD of

RE: Question on Remote Desktop with the Mac

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Fogarty
I've not tried to a vm of xp / vista / windows but I don't see why you couldn't if you open rdp and click on the options button, it opens all tabs so you can setup more configurations under the local resources tab, make sure that bring sound to this machine is checked otherwise you wont have

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, I come from the Nokia world myself, and i have found no problems phoning folks while out and about. With some training, you should be able to master the virtual keybord quite well and as for phoning, there's at least 3 ways of doing it. 1: use the dial pad, a little slow in the

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-10-01 Thread Rich Ring
I agree, but political entities, whether they are governments, political parties, or the NFB don't tend to admit to their mistakes. Unfortunate, but true. - Original Message - From: kaare dehard kaare.deh...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 30,

expanding lists within song lists?

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi all, How do you expand lists in itunes? I've tried a combination of ctrl option command, right arrow, space and return but to no avail. I'd greatly appreciate someone helping me out with this Thanks, and best regards UYuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Ok, I've manipulated the dj program a bit more, and checked their keyboard shorcuts, and i'm happy to say that it's totally accessible, and the key bindings are very intuitive, reminiscent of a real mixing table. I haven't be able to try scratching without sighted assistance, but if one

RE: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello JP, A couple of things. First, you can also dial a number by selecting it from contacts. This is quite easy to do while on the move. Second, the iphone has a favorites feature that makes it easy to access numbers you call often. You can add people/places to your favorites list from

Re: expanding lists within song lists?

2009-10-01 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, The command to expand (or collapse) folders and lists is (on an English input keyboard) VO-Backslash, where the backslash key is the rightmost key just above the return key and below the delete key. This is one of the keystroke combinations that doesn't travel well to other

Re: Please advise about accessible statistics software

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
To my knowledge, the only statistics program that is accessible at all is SPSS with a set of scripts written by a fellow I think is named Peter Orem and JAWS. I would look at the FS web site or write to someone like Eric Damery who would know the status. On Sep 30, 2009, at 9:25 PM,

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
As far as I have been able to discern over the years, NFB doesn't play games like making up for a poor review by turning around and giving out a good one. I do not always agree with NFB positions but I do feel that they are consistent and intellectually honest when they comment on a

Re: VPN revisited

2009-10-01 Thread Esther
Hi, It's worth commenting as an addition to Dónal's very nice summary of VPN clients that there was a specific requirement for software to work with Open VPN, which is one popular version of VPN software that works cross-platform and which was the chosen VPN software version for his

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
Corporate slander is virtually impossible to prove in a US court. Also, can anyone imagine the Wall Street Journal headline, Apple Sues Blind Advocacy Organization Over Poor Review? I can already feel Apple PR people choking on their morning coffee as they read this example on this

Re: expanding lists within song lists?

2009-10-01 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Try vo back slash. On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi all, How do you expand lists in itunes? I've tried a combination of ctrl option command, right arrow, space and return but to no avail. I'd greatly appreciate someone helping me out with this Thanks, and best

Re: Please advise about accessible statistics software

2009-10-01 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, I recommend a program called octave. You can read more about it at http://www.gnu.org/software/octave . Matlab is the standard for technical computing and octave is matlab compatible. It supports functions for descriptive statistics, statistical tests, and numerical analysis just to

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, i'll answer your questions below: 1 okt 2009 kl. 19.45 skrev Christina: Since, you've switched from Nokia to iphone would you go back? Do you feel you can do everything and more with the iphone or are there some aspects and features of the Nokias that you miss that I should

new mac user with address book question

2009-10-01 Thread Rhonda Hornbacher
Hi Everyone! A brand new Mac user here! I have a Mac Book Pro using Snow Leopard. I have done the quick start tutorial and read the Getting Started Guide. Now I feel like my head is about to explode! I am quite overwhelmed with info and thought I'd try a simple application such as address

Re: new mac user with address book question

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Rhonda Would you be able to outline exactly where this issue occurs? If I remember correctly, the default behavior of Voiceover is to speak every character that you type. I used VO-V to set the verbosity preferences to what I believe is the default, and tried it out. Hitting

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Christina
Thanks so much. :) One of my biggest reasons for wanting an iphone is to support apple and their efforts for the blind and Visually impaired. This is a truly amazing thing for a company to make something accessible right out of the box at no extra cost. Wow! That still amazes me.

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Rykiel
Dear Christina, if I had to choose today I think I would go for an iPhone. I'm very happy with my Nokia for now and I think that the touchscreen interface is as disconcerting as it is seducing. But one thing you should consider is that if you want to get the same features from a Nokia,

RE: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Gibbs
JP, the sensitive touchscreen is here. Snow Leopard equipped Macs now have a touchscreen that recognizes the sensation of two or more fingers touching the screen at once. Different actions are executed depending on how many fingers you use. This is true both on the Mac and on the iPhone 3GS.

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I actually found having a trackpad helps you out a lot when you try out an iPhone, at least in my case since the gestures seem to be rather similar. Not to forget the Practice Gestures thing in 3.1, of course. Accessing that will be as familiar to you as would Keyboard Help in JAWS or

sensitive feedback

2009-10-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Rykiel
MessageDear Kevin, this is not what I was talking about. Sensitive feedback, I don't know if it is the right English term, is a system where you can feel changes on the screen's aspect itself when you perform certain things. A bit like Braille displays, but on the entire screen surface, so I

Re: NeoOffice problems when opening files

2009-10-01 Thread JC Helary
On 2 oct. 2009, at 00:51, Israel wrote: When I worked in windows, I was most comfortable typing and saving files in Word Perfect. More recently I used MS Word and saved my files as RTF to share with friends, but when switching to Mac, I moved all my Word Perfect files to the new Mac. I was

Thanks

2009-10-01 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, This is just a quick note to thank those of you who have responded thus far to my request for information pertaining to accessible statistics software. If I find out anything else from other sources, I will post the information here, in case any of you need accessible stats

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread hank smith
can you tell us how to do this? - Original Message - From: Yuma Antoine Decaux jamy...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:29 AM Subject: DJ 3 accessible Ok, I've manipulated the dj program a bit more, and checked their keyboard

Re: iPhone, my first impression

2009-10-01 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi Jean-Philippe. I agree with you that typing on the iPhone is not as fast as with a standard keyboard, but you would be surprised at how proficient you can become with practice. I have the iPod Touch. I have found that one of the tricks to becoming really proficient with the touch screen

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, Just spent a fun night playing around with dj3 So, as i spoke about the intuitivity of the keyboard layout, i will add that one can after a while, turn voice over off and feels his way through the commands. The layout is as follows: left side of keyboard has all the commands for

RE: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, can you tell me more about this program, does it have pitch control and all of that? Tell me more. How much is the program. Thanks, Jed -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of hank smith Sent: Thursday,

RE: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Jed Barton
wow, damn, any idea where to get it? Does it have built in processing and stuff? How does it know when to seg songs, or is it all done manually? Thanks, Jed -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread michael A. Babcock
hi; call me dumb, but, erm, where doeso ne find this software at? On Oct 1, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi jed, Yes, there is an on the fly pitch bend and hold feature for both tracks. The software is 49 dollars and some cents. Hope that helps Yuma

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
I don't know if it has multi processing for sl but it works on it, so i assume they do stuff in coco or have decided something along that way. You can load tracks from playlists, manually or take from your whole library, which comes from itunes. DJ takes the libraries you specify from

DJ3 addendum

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
This is a bit of a disclaimer. I say that dj3 is totally accessible, but don't expect voice over to go on all the buttons and tell you what it is, because it won't. What you need to know is that this is a sound program and voice over will hinder to the experience, so you need to read the

Re: expanding lists within song lists?

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi ester, Thanks again and again for your great response :) Now i can check radios WHOOPEEE best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, So far there are no vo settings as i just got it yesterday night, but i might look into the keyboard and trackpad commanders as they include calling applescripts. But this depends on time i got, as real life calls most of my time. Also, there are not really anything you might need,

Re: DJ 3 accessible

2009-10-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
its called DJ3 http://www.djay-software.com/download They got a 15 day trial, but personally, i really like it. It's fun to play with, and gets close to having a real pioneer dual cd player. Though i prefer the former, i can no longer browse through cds with braille and stuff to mix,