See Finance vs. Quicken?

2009-10-25 Thread Jess Smith
Hi all,I have found a financial program called See Finance, and it looks pretty good. Was just wondering if anybody has compared it to Quicken as far as features, and if so, which program is better? Thanks Jess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Trouble copying text from preview

2009-10-25 Thread Jessie Kirchner
Hi list, I know I'm supposed to be able to select and copy text in Preview, but I can't seem to do it correctly. I've turned the text tool on in the toolbar as instructed in the help file, but after selecting my text with the VO-enter toggle and verifying with VO-f6, I can't copy

The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Folks, I have had my iPhone for about two weeks now and I'm enjoying all the benefits a great deal. I however am a little concerned about the battery life, which going into this I knew was not going to be quite as good as what I had been experiencing with my Motorola Q9 running

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Scott. Have you set the brighness to 0? That helped a lot on my phone. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Oct 25, 2009 kl. 11:58 AM skrev Scott Howell: Folks, I have had my iPhone for about two weeks now and I'm

Filling out PDF forms on the Mac?

2009-10-25 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, is it possible to fill out a pdf form on the Mac with Preview? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

HD info

2009-10-25 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, Is there a fast way to figure how much disk space one has on his drives? I know you can check the capacity of a drive, by choosing a drive in finder then VO right arrow. Thanks, and best Yuma Decaux Light has no value without darkness Skype: shainobi1 twitter:

snow leopard server admin reference ebook

2009-10-25 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Everyone, I have been looking for some ebooks pertaining to the new snow leopard server advanced administration but can only find hardbacks, Does anyone know where i could find some relevant ebooks on the matter? THanks, and best Yuma Decaux Light has no value without darkness Skype:

Re: HD info

2009-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Yuma, To find out all about your hard drive, just do Getinfo (Command-I) on it, and you'll find all the information there. The Space Available comes after the Capacity. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Trouble copying text from preview

2009-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jessie, I've just tried copying text from a PDF book and it worked like this. I have it set to single page continuous. I did nothing with the Text Tool. I interacted with the text and used VO-Return to start and stop selecting text. The passage I selected this way copied quite happily

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread peter apgar
for the same results three finger triple tap and it will turn on screen curtain. this will give you the same battery life extension and if you ever want someone to look at some thing all you need to do is three finger triple tap and it will be back to full brightness. Pete On Oct 25,

Re: See Finance vs. Quicken?

2009-10-25 Thread kaare dehard
Hi there, who makes this and is there a demo available etc? On 2009-10-25, at 4:37 AM, Jess Smith wrote: Hi all,I have found a financial program called See Finance, and it looks pretty good. Was just wondering if anybody has compared it to Quicken as far as features, and if so, which

Re: safari help

2009-10-25 Thread Pete Nalda
On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello May, Tabing is not the best way of navigating websites or anything else on the Mac with VO. In SL, you can now use Quick Nav to go through everything on a website or in a window using just one hand. You can also have VO read the

Re: making TextEdit the default word processor

2009-10-25 Thread Pete Nalda
On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Even quicker way to get to Home folder is to type Command-Shift-H from the Finder. It's what I do all the time. Cheers, Anne Even quicker still is to go to the finder then Cmd+shift+O to open the documents folder directly. Your

Readind pdf documents in Snow leopard

2009-10-25 Thread graham
Hi, Since I installed SL on to my Macbook, I've struggled reading pds such as the take control books etc. I used to have preview set up to read single page continuous however since I installed Snow Leopard this doesn't appear to be an option because as soon as I try interacting with the

Snow Lepoard: Audio CD Burning Programs?

2009-10-25 Thread James Fettgather
Hello to the list. I am wondering if there are any programs that work well with Voice Over for burning audio CD's? I would prefer not to use Itunes and have to create play lists, so perhaps someone knows of a separate accessible program for this purpose. Thanks a lot.

Re: making TextEdit the default word processor

2009-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Pete, On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: Even quicker still is to go to the finder then Cmd+shift+O to open the documents folder directly. Your advice helped me to find this. Nice find! Thank you. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Thanks for the thought and no actually I hadn't set it to low, but I'll check on lowering it and take the auto mode off. The only reason I did not lower it to zero is if I needed to show something to my wife or there was an issue I wanted her to see or of course if she needed my phone,

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Hey Pete, good point, I wasn't sure that would really help since I think someone had brought this up for discussion a while back where laptops were concerned and it was determined that the screen curtain didn't offer much in terms of battery savings. Perhaps the screen on the iPHone is a

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread peter apgar
it gave me 25-30% increase to battery life. PeteOn Oct 25, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Hey Pete, good point, I wasn't sure that would really help since I think someone had brought this up for discussion a while back where laptops were concerned and it was determined that the

importing cd

2009-10-25 Thread May McDonald
Hi, how do you import a cd to the ITunes library? I can't find that info, thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Readind pdf documents in Snow leopard

2009-10-25 Thread Christina
I too have frustrations with reading pdf's right now. I often have to read pdf documents. I am using preview. I get so frustrated that anytime I leave the window if I return I am back at the very beginning. G, this wastes a lot of time when I then have to find my place again. This

Re: Free public transport app for Denmark [was Re: navigation on iphone.]

2009-10-25 Thread Abdul Kamara
hehe... Will there are times I think you type a bit too fast, such that it takes a bit of decoding to figure out your messages :) To answer your question, there are a number of apps specifically geared toward transport for London. As I recall, you are in Conventry, so this may be of no

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Abdul Kamara
Hi Scott, On your point about screen curtain on VO and the macbook not reducing battery consumption, there is a good reason for that. Screen curtain only sets the color of the screen to black. It does not turn off the backlight. To get the best of both worlds on your macbook, that is,

Re: importing cd

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Normally once you insert the CD, you are prompted as to whether you would like to import the CD or not. If you have disabled this feature, once the CD is inserted, it will show up in the sources list and once you have selected that item, you can navigate to the right, passed the songs

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Now I'll be damned, that is pretty significant. I'll give that a try and see how my results are. You know something occurred to me and that is if you are in an area where coverage isn't so great, would this possibly put additional strain on a phone? Maybe a silly question, but I'm not an

Re: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Ah, okay, well not having read a lot on the location services yet, I guess there is a lot to be studied here. I'm assuming the screen curtain on the phone behaves differently from the computer? I can see how turning the screen to black may not benefit battery life, but if on the phone it

help needed with some finder commands, please

2009-10-25 Thread a radix
Hello, I would like to copy some music from my mac to my external hd/reconfigure my music library putting it in folders instead of one big directory. Can someone give me the commands to select individual tracks to the clipboard in the finder so that I can copy them? I tried command down arrow

Re: Filling out PDF forms on the Mac?

2009-10-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
And if preview can't do it, is there an app that can? /Krister Skickat från min iPhone 25 okt 2009 kl. 12.57 skrev Dan Eickmeier va3...@yahoo.ca: Hi, is it possible to fill out a pdf form on the Mac with Preview? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

RE: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Wouldn't a three fingered tripple tap turn on the screen curtain, which would turn the screen off and also conserve battery life? I guess that's what Soren meant by turning the brightness to zero. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: safari help

2009-10-25 Thread Portia
Dom can mean Document Object Model. However, there could be other meanings. Smiles, Portia. Pete Nalda wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello May, Tabing is not the best way of navigating websites or anything else on the Mac with VO. In SL, you can now use

RE: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Maybe shoot a question to accessibil...@mac.com and they'll tell you whether the screenc urtain would make a diference in battery consumption. They're the ones who have the specs, after all. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: help needed with some finder commands, please

2009-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Anouk, You can find any command you need by pressing VO-H twice and looking through the commands menus. When you find a command you want, you can also press Return to apply it. Cheers, Anne On Oct 25, 2009, at 10:20 PM, a radix wrote: Hello, I would like to copy some music from my

Re: making TextEdit the default word processor

2009-10-25 Thread Pete Nalda
You're welcome. I didn't say how I found that, I went to the goto menu, which is quite handy as it lists all the places you can go and their keyboard shortcuts. On Oct 25, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Pete, On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: Even quicker

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
I'm sorry you feel that way. I would appreciate it if you would not mis-represent what we're doing. If you had actually read previous messages, we were mainly discussing the problem that some folks, in some parts of the world, or with some wireless carriers in the US and elsewhere, have to

Usenet Reader Accessible with VO and Zoom for offline reading?

2009-10-25 Thread Pete Nalda
Anyone know of such a thing? Tried Hogwasher but it's totally inaccessible, Unison is nice but no offline reading, I heard One coming I think it's called Nemo but I don't know what the status is. Anyone else got any ideas? TIA Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Josh, there's no reason to apologize. I'd steer away from such arguments, but you know sometimes it's just difficult not to chime in. First there's no reason why you can't offset your cost if any as you see fit. YOur providing the service, someone doesn't like how it's managed, they can

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Howell
Josh, there's no reason to apologize. I'd steer away from such arguments, but you know sometimes it's just difficult not to chime in. First there's no reason why you can't offset your cost if any as you see fit. YOur providing the service, someone doesn't like how it's managed, they can

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
OH NO! You send two copies of the same message! Somewhere, some limited bandwidth user has just been bankrupted by your careless use of your unlimited band width, you bourgeoise fat cat capitalist! Go buy $5 million in carbon offsets or you will surely burn in hELL! Mark BurningHawk

RE: The IPhone and Battery Life

2009-10-25 Thread Simon Fogarty
It definitely does, I used the curtain all the time on my Iphone and I really did notice a difference in battery life. But I also had location services turned off as well as wireless till I neded it and also turned 3g off so I had it running on next to nothing. I managed to get just under 3

Re: mudclient wasRe: my 2 months with a mac

2009-10-25 Thread KehzaFox
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the feedback on this. It's interesting to see how some folks' systems won't give the VO feedback, and then some systems don't seem to want to have anything to do with running the software in the first place! When you first start up JamochaMUD and get the world connector

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Tyler Littlefield
So we all know what to do. Lets all create a site as successful as josh and force people to click so we can become ritch just like josh. sarcasm On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: I'm sorry you feel that way. I would appreciate it if you would not mis-represent what

Re: mudclient wasRe: my 2 months with a mac

2009-10-25 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Has anyone tried running something like TinyFugue straight from terminal? I don't have any accounts on any of the MUDs left--though TinyTim might have my player on file somewhere, I'm sure LambdaMoo has deleted me long, long ago. Else, I'd get back into it. I never did get Second Life

Re: Usenet Reader Accessible with VO and Zoom for offline reading?

2009-10-25 Thread Buddy Brannan
Hey Pete, Try Unison, which is made by the same folks who make transmit ftp. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: Anyone know of such a thing? Tried Hogwasher but it's totally inaccessible, Unison is nice

Re: mudclient wasRe: my 2 months with a mac

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas McMahan
Ok, Jeff, that then explains not being to interact with the browser. Will try the (don't connec) button and then see what it does at that point then. As for different systems and their reactions, that seems to be somewhat common, just as voice over quite often has multipal ways to

Re: mudclient wasRe: my 2 months with a mac

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas McMahan
I can't say I've tried that. Understand though it was quite good in the past though, but wasn't mudding back then. On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: Has anyone tried running something like TinyFugue straight from terminal? I don't have any accounts on any of the

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread michael A. Babcock
hi; i have to jump in here. We have limited bandwith here where i live, and we have six computers on the network. SOutheast alaska isn't the best for internet. Josh, thanks, for not posting the entire messages, as i know this would limit our bandwith even more, even if it's something i

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread peter apgar
Michael, so my argument is to place a few more KB's in a mailing. This will eliminate the MB's associated with surfing that it often takes to locate the given articles in their entirety. Mail tend's to be less of a hog then surfing. as for much of the extra mailings that