Re: playing blueray in to mac computers

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Last I checked into it, no. You can check archived posts but apparently Apple/Jobs felt Blueray was still a bag of hurt because of all the DRM associated with it. CB ahmed alomran wrote: Hi all i am a new member to this list and this is my first message. I am wondering whether any of Mac

RE: New Group member

2010-02-02 Thread Linda Adams
John, Thanks so much. It gets a little confusing with the different tool bars and menus and your explanation helped a lot. Linda -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John André Netland Sent: Monday, February

RE: Adding Items to the Dock

2010-02-02 Thread Linda Adams
Jessi, So glad I could contribute. Linda -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessi and Goldina Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 10:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Adding Items to the Dock

Re: DVD CD copy

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. Just tried it on UP from Pixar and it gave me an error when I went to create the disk image (input/output error). CB louie wrote: Not sure of title. I don't watch being a total. Do the copy for wife. When she gets back, I will ask. On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:

A message for the moderation team

2010-02-02 Thread James Nash
Hello everyone, I would like to apologise for sending this message to the list instead of directly to the moderators, but I am unsure of the correct address. I am sending this on behalf of Lynda AROUN, as she has recently changed her subscription E-Mail and would like to subscribe with her

voiceover with braille displays

2010-02-02 Thread ahmed alomran
Hi all I am wondering about the possibility of muting voiceover while reading braille with out turning off the speech completely. I really get distracted when i try to read in braille and voice over speaks what i read. Kind regards. ahmed. -- You received this message because you are

usb drives?

2010-02-02 Thread Josh
Hi Can you use an external USB dvd-rw drive with a macbook? Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com my blog is at http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net (updated frequently). Tired of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers? try out NVDA, get a mac--, nvda--for Windows, or try out and

Re: voiceover with braille displays

2010-02-02 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. YOu can configure a shortcut to this feature on your braille display in the Vo utilities. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Feb 3, 2010 kl. 3:10 AM skrev ahmed alomran: Hi all I am wondering about the possibility of

Re: usb drives?

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Blouch
In general Apple has controlled the hardware/software package so everything just works. The downside is that when you want to use a 'whatever' brand drive it can be hit or miss whether the Apple drivers will recognize it. There have been folks who hacked the drivers to support more 3rd party

Re: DVD CD copy

2010-02-02 Thread Kieren
This is due to the several different anti-piracy methods used to protect dvds and blu-ray discs. You cannot tell if a disc has copyright protection until you try to duplicate it or dump it to your HD. I recommend Rip It which will create an entire disc copy and works with 99% of discs. I think it

Re: DVD CD copy

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Blouch
I was playing with MacTheRipper but I don't really want to re-encode the video/audio. I just want to dump the DVD verbatim to my hard drive. I don't even care particularly if I can burn a copy from the files since that's not my intent. I've not heard of RipIt. They say they have verified that

Re: New Notational Velocity desktop release has sync support for SimpleNote on iPhone [was Re: Appending text to clipboard]

2010-02-02 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi. The other interesting thing about Notational Velocity is that you can, as long as you're not using its single database file but configure it to use html or rtf or txt, manipulate its files behind its back and have it notice. What's so great about that? Well, I'm trying to switch from

Mac VO resetting itself

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Rowe
Hi all. If my iMac does this again, I will go mad. Over the last month or so, VoiceOver has reset nearly all its settings spontaneously and with out any warning. Everything bar my numpad commander customisations get reset to factory defaults. I make quite a lot of changes mainly in the

Re: Mac VO resetting itself

2010-02-02 Thread James Nash
Hi Danni, What version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard are you running? 10.6.2 seems to have a variety of weird bugs. I've not heard of this one, but there's no harm in reporting it to Apple. Before this happens the next time, perhaps when you've set up all your preferences again, you could make a

Re: Mac VO resetting itself

2010-02-02 Thread Jim Gatteys
James, you never sleep *grin*. On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:35 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Danni, What version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard are you running? 10.6.2 seems to have a variety of weird bugs. I've not heard of this one, but there's no harm in reporting it to Apple. Before this

Re: Mac VO resetting itself

2010-02-02 Thread Jim Gatteys
James! do you happen to know which file the voiceover preferences are stored in? Interesting idea. Jim On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:35 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Danni, What version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard are you running? 10.6.2 seems to have a variety of weird bugs. I've not heard of this

Re: Mac VO resetting itself

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Rowe
I really must remember to use reply all when replying to an e-mail list. Oops. Anyway, Here's my reply that I meant to sent to the whole list not just to Jim. I completely forgot that you can save your settings to a file. thanks for reminding me and I've just done it. For those of you asking

where do widgets go

2010-02-02 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
hello; i downloaded a widget for sending and receiving sms messages and it installs but I can't find it again when i make an error. is it on the doc? if so, is there a keyboard shortcut to get to the doc? thanks, max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: where do widgets go

2010-02-02 Thread Wes
max, yes, It's CTRL+F3 to get to the doc, or Vo-D. HTH, Wes. -- From: Maxwell Ivey Jr. maxwelli...@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:03 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: where do widgets go hello; i downloaded a widget for