Sound Studio Skype

2009-10-14 Thread John JD Denning
Anyone know if I can use Sound Studio to record Skype calls? I know I can with Audio Hijack pro, but I'd rather not buy another piece of software just for this. - JD - John Denning Facebook: www.facebook.com/jdiver AIM: denni...@me.com A+ MCSA MCSE ITILv3 And glad to be a Mac snob

Presentation Program Accessibility

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I've been asked to co-present a program about Macintosh and VoiceOver at the ACB Mid-Atlantic conference on 10/30 in Baltimore. I have not yet tried the presentation programs in either iWork or OpenOffice, does anyone with experience using such have a little time to help me get

continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Hi everyone. I'm using lepard and would like to know how to get it to read continuously? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Søren Jensen
You can only do this in snowleopard. The command for this is Vo b. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:39 PM, May McDonald wrote: Hi everyone. I'm using lepard and would like to know how to get it to read

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Actually you can do it in lepard to. I just forgot what the command was, but I have it now. Now I jst meed it to start where I am and not at the beginning, lol. On 14-Oct-09, at 5:56 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: You can only do this in snowleopard. The command for this is Vo b. Best regards

burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Did I read on this list that you can do this? If not, what are people using? Thanks, and sorry for the repeat thread, I know this has come up on this list before. Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've never seen it. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:59 PM, May McDonald wrote: Actually you can

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Smile, actually it does that too. I just got that info from the other list I'm on. Thanks anyway. On 14-Oct-09, at 6:15 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've never seen it. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger:

MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Bob Hill
Hi all, I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and demonstrating access using VoiceOver and the Macintosh. We're thinking of purchasing a MacBook Pro. I am wondering what your thoughts are on which model might suit the needs for us. I envision needing a word

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas McMahan
Yes you can, but you can also set up a folder and burn through the finder as well. Or where ever your constructed folder may be if it's a (burn folder.) On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, Did I read on this list that you can do this? If not, what are people

Music from PC and Mac onto the iPod

2009-10-14 Thread David Hole
Hello guys. Wich method are you out there using to drag albums, artists and so on onto the ipod - using itunes both in windows and on the mac? I got my ipod touch today, and would like to have the great music on it :) Kind regards David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

taking iphone for long-term visit to Britain, do I get it unlocked?

2009-10-14 Thread Rebecca Redmile
What are the dangers both technically and financially of doing this? Please don't anybody write and suggest I get a roaming plan, ... I havea three-year contract already and would like to keep costs as low as I can. But I don't know anythig about unlocking a phone. Any suggestions?

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Thank you, Thomas, that's handy. I had looked through the menus in Itunes, but it hadn't occured to me to look in Finder. Best, Donna On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: Yes you can, but you can also set up a folder and burn through the finder as well. Or where ever your

USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
Hello, I'm hoping someone on this list can cast light on a problem that I'm having with my USB drive. It often fails to show up on the desk top when I start my Mac. I have to restart the machine, or to turn it off and on again, before the USB drive shows up. Any suggestions as to how to

Re: burning CD in Itunes?

2009-10-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Just curious, how do you burn from Itunes? I didn't see it in the menu options. Donna On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: There are advantages each way depending on what you want to do. Back a year or two ago using the finder to burn was a lot easier, I-Tunes has caught

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I think this is a bug in sl. mine does the same thing. I find the easiest way to get to it if it doesn't show up is to open up a new finder window and go to the sidebar and look under devices. you'll see it there and can then access it. On 2009-10-14, at 7:53 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote:

Re: Gmail Filters and the IPhone

2009-10-14 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
Hi, I just spent most of yesterday setting up Gmail filters and although I'm hardly the expert, I thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Definitely check the skip inbox checkbox, I didn't do this and it wasn't until much later in the day that I found the box and had to go back to edit all my

Re: taking iphone for long-term visit to Britain, do I get it unlocked?

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Blouch
What provider do you currently have? I'm heading to Madrid next week and I ended up just getting another phone for that period of time. The costs for my iPhone ATT US plan to use it overseas was crazy expensive per minute and the data charges were worse. I'll still have my iPhone but turn off

Re: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Seems like you could do this on most any flavor of Macbook. Only thing that might narrow your choices would be what your audio production software requires. CB Bob Hill wrote: Hi all, I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and demonstrating access using VoiceOver

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Søren Jensen
You can maybe do it by pressing VO a, but this command will read from the top of the text, and it doesn't work on webpages. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, I'd be

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, that was the command I was referring to. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: You can maybe do it by pressing VO a, but this command

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
Thanks for your prompt reply. Actually, the problem occurs on computers using in Tiger and Leopard (I don't have Snow Leopard yet). I will try your suggestion to open a new finder window, however. Hopefully, that will work for me, too. Rafael On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Jessi and Goldina

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Rafael Bejarano
I'll try that. Thanks. Rafael On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:22 PM, louie wrote: Check /volumes. I had the same trouble and the external usb drive showed up in /volumes. On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: Hello, I'm hoping someone on this list can cast light on a problem that

Re: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Bob, On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Bob Hill wrote: I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and demonstrating access using VoiceOver and the Macintosh. We're thinking of purchasing a MacBook Pro. I am wondering what your thoughts are on which model might suit the

Re: Presentation Program Accessibility

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Thanks. As it's a blindness conference, we do not need anything flashy, just the bullets for people to take home to review later if they care to. Word and PowerPoint work together really nicely so all composition of the text can be done in Word and exported to PP but I can't find

Tips on burning CDs and DVDs in iTunes [was Re: burning CD in Itunes?]

2009-10-14 Thread Esther
Hi Donna, • Choosing Burn Playlist to Disc from a playlist menu or from the burn button in iTunes There are a number of ways to start burning a disc (either CD or DVD) from iTunes. Since you need to create a playlist to specify the items you want to burn to disc, when you select a

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
/volumes? just cuz I'm curious and like to absorb as much info as I can about the mac and VO, how do you get there? On 2009-10-14, at 10:44 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: I'll try that. Thanks. Rafael On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:22 PM, louie wrote: Check /volumes. I had the same trouble and the

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread Jessi and Goldina
oh, weird!! I dunno then! I could see my drive from the desktop fine when I was using leopard. it's only since upgrading to snow leopard that it's been a bit flaky. still, try a new finder window, or / volumes, I'm sure either one will give you access to it. On 2009-10-14, at 10:43 AM,

Re: USB drive not showing up

2009-10-14 Thread louie
command + shift + g then type in /volumes. On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: /volumes? just cuz I'm curious and like to absorb as much info as I can about the mac and VO, how do you get there? On 2009-10-14, at 10:44 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: I'll try that. Thanks.

Annoying / weird web page.

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
hello, This is one I have never seen before. The voice over cursor will not move off of close button for the web-site: http://usa.hrteamplus.com/user/requirement.aspx%20%20edit%20text How can this happen? I tried another page off of this site, and I could tab around to text entry and

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, In fact, that is set automatically when you run VoiceOver for the first time on Snowy as default I believe. You can, however, change it so that it reads them 0.5 seconds after speaking the item you're focused on in the VoiceOver UtilityVerbosityHints tab. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme

Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread Christina
Thanks so much Anne and Ester. I think I have a clearer picture. I just want to confirm that I understand. Vuscan is used more for the actual task of scanning, sort of like the driver/software that comes with the scanner ; while read iris is a better or more robust OCR software? So,

Re: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Christina
:) You're right, mine is set to automatically read help tag if the vo cursor sits there for a bit. :) Christina On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, In fact, that is set automatically when you run VoiceOver for the first time on Snowy as default I believe. You can,

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
Sorry if this goes through twice. My mac died before I had a chance to plug it in, lol. All I know is it read for me and did what I asked it to do both on the web and in a text file. I'm definitely not going to complain if it's not suppose to work, smile. On 14-Oct-09, at 2:08 PM,

Bootcamp

2009-10-14 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello everyone, Can Bootcamp be used to install ubuntu on the Mac? Thanks. Rafael Bejarano --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Bootcamp

2009-10-14 Thread hank smith
I to would be interesrted in this - Original Message - From: Bejarano, Rafael P. beja...@hsu.edu To: Macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:19 PM Subject: Bootcamp Hello everyone, Can Bootcamp be used to install ubuntu on the Mac? Thanks. Rafael Bejarano

Re: Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread John J Herzog
Hi all, Has anybody tried Kurzweil 3000 for the mac? I know that K 3000 and k 1000 are closely related, so that program should have both good OCR and good scanning in one interface. Is this VO accessible at all? And, other than price, are there any show stopping bugs that would prevent

new hearing aids and my Macbook's audio output

2009-10-14 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have recently gotten new hearing aids, which come with an Icom streamer, which is a device for patching the audio of a device into the hearing aids directly. However, after about five seconds of inactivity, the Mac turns off its audio circuit, which causes the streamer to beep madly

RE: skype and voiceover

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Weird. My Skye version is 3.8.088 something. Where would I even find version 2.8x? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What are you reading continuously? I can read mail continuously, but not web pages. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:00 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Also, your options as to what audio production programs are accessible with VO are very limited just yet. So, that will take its own research. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Wednesday,

RE: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Some of you may recall that I had asked about this in Leopard in terms of cruising around on my wife's Leopard equipped powerbook. I'll try interacting with text and using VO A to see if I can read more than one paragraph at a time in a news article and get back to you all. Kevin -Original

Re: Vuscan and OCR software was Vuscan free?

2009-10-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christina, On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Christina wrote: Vuscan is used more for the actual task of scanning, sort of like the driver/software that comes with the scanner ; while read iris is a better or more robust OCR software? So, the two are used together. That's exactly right.

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread May McDonald
I was reading a text book and then I also tried it on the web. Both worked fine. On 14-Oct-09, at 10:11 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: What are you reading continuously? I can read mail continuously, but not web pages. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com