an odd mail error

2010-04-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
command not supported in read only mode. Press escape to leave this mode. That's the error I get every once in a while when reading a message in mail. What does this mean and how can I avoid it. Sorry about the cross posting. Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com msn: chell...@hotmail.com

RE: text elements and clickable

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Carolyn, I have to ask, but is there any chance you might let the list have the link to that page with the training information So those of us that may be very basic / beginnerusers could possibly benefit from the information as well? If not then hay tat would be fine as you probably paid

RE: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread Bryan Smart
Office on the Mac is fairly inexpensive when compared to the PC version. Mail won't do any of that stuff. Apple doesn't want to license the full tech that would be required to completely integrate with Exchange. It would be nice if they did, since Exchange isn't going away for a very very long

RE: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread Bryan Smart
Yes, but there are actually two interfaces. There is a rich client and a simple client. The rich client is a powerful web app, but depends on Windows features in order to work. The simple client will work on the Mac, but, since it's targetted at cell phones, it lacks a lot of features,

Re: About iTunes 9.1.1 VoiceOver and other fixes

2010-04-28 Thread william lomas
what problems lol On 28 Apr 2010, at 00:43, William Windels wrote: Hi dan, you are right. I'll do also. best regards, William Op 28-apr-2010, om 01:35 heeft Dan het volgende geschreven: Hello List, I am really pleased with what Apple has done in terms of fixing the several problems

Re: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I just use Mobile Me. it synchs everything I could ever want with my iPhone and between my Mac, mainly because I need that kind of functionality every day. Maybe I'm dense to Exchange, but doesn't Mobile Me do exactly what you want? As you said yourself, paying 100/200 isn't a big deal, as

RE: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
Olivia Yes from what your saying, mail me does sound very much like MS exchange. Exchange is a mail / messaging / calendaring server. Outlook for mac is men to allow you to sync with exchange as outlook on a pc / windows machine will. But mac mail in OSX10.6 will also sync with an exchange

Re: an odd mail error

2010-04-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarah, I get this message, to, but just ignore it. It doesn't affect anything. Cheers, Anne On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: command not supported in read only mode. Press escape to leave this mode. That's the error I get every once in a while when reading a

booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Recently, it seems like my MacBook takes *forever to boot. It used to boot really quickly. Anyone have any ideas as to what could cause this, and how I might fix it? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Focus Blue display 40

2010-04-28 Thread James Gallagher
hello all. sorry for the question can anyone tell me if the Focus Blue display 40 will work with Snow Leopard I have been up to the Apple site and it is not listed so I believe maybe not. but worth a try to ask just in case. some one here is using it. my thoughts are of getting one to use with

Re: Finally got my Mac Book Pro, and, freeware recommendations anybody?

2010-04-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Simply burns for your dvd burning and possibly max for ripping. I also like vlc over ITunes. Many will disagree. Best, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 Visit my all new website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Email:

Re: Focus Blue display 40

2010-04-28 Thread olivia norman
I'm not sure. I believe that at the moment, the iPad doesn't support braille displays, though this should change with 4.0. Olivia Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower, Steve Jobs On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:58 AM, James Gallagher wrote: hello all. sorry for the question

WWDC is June 7 to the 11 in San Francisco

2010-04-28 Thread olivia norman
Just wanted to let you all know that according to cult of mac, WWDC will be June 7 to the 11 in San Francisco, so we should hear about the new iPhone officially, among other things. Olivia Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower, Steve Jobs -- You received this message

Re: an odd mail error

2010-04-28 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I only get that in specific cases, usually when I try doing something with a VoiceOver setting that doesn't support that particular command. So usually, it's because I for some reason think it'd work. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger:

Re: Focus Blue display 40

2010-04-28 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, He was talking about the Mac. :) It's a good chance that the Mac does not support that particular display yet, as I believe it has just recently been released. An update to the operating system most likely has to be released before it will be included, and the driver has to be written for

Re: text elements and clickable

2010-04-28 Thread Carolyn
Hi Simon: I was actually thinking of sharing the information. I just want to be certain it doesn't violate any sort of contract with the Apple Store. When I'm next on my mac, I'll forward the info. Thanks for asking. Carolyn - Original Message - From: Simon Fogarty To:

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. I had the same issue until I saw a weird application was starting up together with the os. I think it was called something like CT helper and then some digits. You can remove or disable these apps in the accounts settings in System preferences under your account and under login items. Best

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Carolyn
Soren: Thanks for this. I'll check it out as well since I've noticed the slower boot. Carolyn - Original Message - From: Søren Jensen To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:12 AM Subject: Re: booting taking forever? Hi. I had the same

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Søren Jensen
You're welcome. I hope this will fix your issue. I have no idea where this weird helper app came from, but it didn't helped me. Lol. Or, it did then I removed it. :) Please let me know if that fix your issue. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website:

Re: transmit 4.0 (ftpclient for the mac) is here

2010-04-28 Thread Courtney Curran
What's an FTP Client? On 28/04/2010, at 12:44 in the morning, Sarah Alawami wrote: It is I believe 17 dollars and it is an ftp client that I love and live by. Take care. On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: I'm a new Mack user, so what is Transmit 4.0, and how much does it

RE: switching from windows, some questions?

2010-04-28 Thread Kerie doyle
Hi nic, Carollyn, Chriss and all, Thanks so much for all your patience, and answering all my questions, I just have 2 more, I've installed adium and thank god found the set up assistant, and now, I cant figure out how to read messages! Could someone tell me how to do this, please? I also

the slow boot

2010-04-28 Thread Carolyn
Soren: I had a minor crash and lost the info on the program to delete under preferences/accounts. Could you please repost it. Thank you. Carolyn CH:) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: transmit 4.0 (ftpclient for the mac) is here

2010-04-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
ftp is a term tha tmean file transfer protocall. You can transfer files to a computer or web server using an explorer like interface. I'm sure there is a google article that explains it better then that. Take care. S On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: What's an FTP Client?

Re: an odd mail error

2010-04-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
In my case I was closing a message with command w. I don't get it all the time. S On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, I only get that in specific cases, usually when I try doing something with a VoiceOver setting that doesn't support that particular command. So

Re: About iTunes 9.1.1 VoiceOver and other fixes

2010-04-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
actuall I'm not satasfed as the download a specific podcast option is gone from the right click. This using itunes 9.1.1. I don't notice any changes at all. S On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Dan wrote: Hello List, I am really pleased with what Apple has done in terms of fixing the several

saving location in vlc?

2010-04-28 Thread Hypnotic Consulting
Erik wrote, I also like vlc over ITunes. Many will disagree. Hey Erik, is there a way of saving your place in an audio or video program in vlc? I tried using the bookmark feature but i didn't seem to do it right. Jorge -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Eyetv and recording.

2010-04-28 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. Can I make a schedule for eyetv, so it starts to record at a speciffic time, I have been looking in the manual, but I could not find something about that. Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Søren, Can you be more specific about how you got to this setting? I looked under system preferences, then accounts, but don't see anything like that. TIA, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi. I had the same issue until I saw a weird application was starting up

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread James Nash
Hi Donna, In the accounts reference, there will be a tab called login items you should be able to fin any application that start when Mac oS X start here. TC James, Lyn, Nash Twinny On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:47, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Søren, Can you be more specific about how you got to this

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi James, Soren, and all, OK, I just found that. The only item that was in the table was Itunes Helper. I deleted it, but my Mac is still taking a long time to boo. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:44 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Donna, In the accounts reference,

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread James Nash
Have you tried clearing your System caches etc? TC James, Lyn, Nash Twinny On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:59, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi James, Soren, and all, OK, I just found that. The only item that was in the table was Itunes Helper. I deleted it, but my Mac is still taking a long time to boo.

Re: an odd mail error

2010-04-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarah, I get it too when closing a message with Command-w, but it doesn't happen that often. Cheers, Anne On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: In my case I was closing a message with command w. I don't get it all the time. S On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Nicolai

RE: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread Bryan Smart
Well, sort of. Mobile Me is kind of the light version of that sort of thing. Mobile Me can sync your calendar, but you can't access the calendars of other people in your org. Mobile Me has no server-side filtering of e-mail. This means that it can't sort messages in to folders based on e-mail

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I do that? Thanks, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:50 PM, James Nash wrote: Have you tried clearing your System caches etc? TC James, Lyn, Nash Twinny On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:59, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi James, Soren, and all, OK, I just found

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread James Nash
Not dumb at all. First though, have you tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility? You really should avoid touching the System caches if you can avoid doing it. TC Jame, Lyn, Nash Twinny On 28 Apr 2010, at 20:07, Donna Goodin wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I do

Re: A Question Regarding MS Office for Mac

2010-04-28 Thread olivia norman
This makes sense. Thanks for the clarification! Olivia Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower, Steve Jobs On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: Well, sort of. Mobile Me is kind of the light version of that sort of thing. Mobile Me can sync your calendar, but you

IPod Nano sync problem

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, well I have tried absolutely everything to solve this and its still not fixing so hoping you all might be able to shead some light on it. I am using a fifth gen IPod Nano under windows 7. Every time I sync the device, even if it is only an update of say, a 20 mb podcast, the sync

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread marie Howarth
I use a great app called Onyx to help clean up the system. I think this may help you. On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:57, James Nash wrote: Not dumb at all. First though, have you tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility? You really should avoid touching the System caches if you can avoid

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
I repaired permissions a couple of weeks ago, but maybe I'll give it another try. Thanks, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:57 PM, James Nash wrote: Not dumb at all. First though, have you tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility? You really should avoid touching the System caches if you can

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Marie. Where did you get it? TIA, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:28 PM, marie Howarth wrote: I use a great app called Onyx to help clean up the system. I think this may help you. On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:57, James Nash wrote: Not dumb at all. First though, have you tried repairing

iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread Sean Tikkun
Hey folks, One of my students just jumped and convinced his grandparents to get him an iPad. As his teacher I obviously need to support him. Our district is willing to get a bluetooth refreshable braille display, but I have no idea which ones might/will work. Not only that, they want to

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread marie Howarth
I'm afraid I don't have the link any more but I'm sure if you enter onyx mac OSX in google it should come up. it's free and very usable with voice over. On 28 Apr 2010, at 20:46, Donna Goodin wrote: Thanks, Marie. Where did you get it? TIA, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:28 PM, marie Howarth

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread marie Howarth
as it stands, I don't think braille refreshable displays will work currently with the iPad. I do believe, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong that this functionality will not work until the iPhone OS 4.0 is available on the iPad which won't be until the fall. HTH On 28 Apr 2010, at 20:35,

Re: booting taking forever?

2010-04-28 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. You can try the following: Restart your RAM by holding down option, command and the characters p and r while the machine is booting up. you have to hold down these 4 keys just after you've heard the Apple chime sound, and keep holding the keys down until the sound has been repeeded 3 or 4

Re: the slow boot

2010-04-28 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. Go into your system preferences, select yur account and see if you can find the tab called login items and delete wat you don't want there. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Apr 28, 2010 kl. 6:42 PM skrev Carolyn:

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Durieux
Hi, At the moment, there is no refreshable brailledisplay support on iphone os 3.1.x and 3.2. In 4.0 there will be support for it. It will come available on iphone in summer and for ipad in fall. Hope this helps, Kind regards -Peter Op 28-apr-2010, om 21:35 heeft Sean Tikkun het volgende

Re: Itunes hanging and crashing after update

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Standard Mac repair answer - did you try repairing permissions, if so you might want to delete your iTunes-related preferences. CB Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: Did not know that--thanks! When I force-quit it the third or fourth time, I choose relaunch, and it asked me for the library.

Re: parelells a complete waist of my time

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As far as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi sean, your student is going to be brailleless for a little while longer yet. When braille arrives in IPhone OS4, there's not a guarantee that it's going to be as functional as say, braille on the mac, although it will almost sertainly support bluetooth which mac OS didn't support until

Re: test driving an iphone?

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno if this was mentioned in the reviews but the first time a friend and I tried a 3gs iPhone was at the ATT store and it was a bit hard to hear from the built-in speaker. Lots of ambient noise in some stores. You might want to bring your favorite headphones along to really be able to tell

Moderator Note - Thank you All, and Congratulations to our two newest mods!

2010-04-28 Thread Cara Quinn
Hello All; As you may have guessed from the subject, Josh and I have decided to take on two new moderators to assist us with list tasks between the VIPhone and MacVisionaries lists. We'd like to welcome and congratulate Olivia Norman and Geoff Waaler as our two newest moderators!

removing widgits

2010-04-28 Thread chad baker
Hi how do i remove widgits? I pressed f12 and i seen the running widgits. I bought the window chooser menu but how do you close the widgit out? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Itunes hanging and crashing after update

2010-04-28 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
This issue was fixed by the 9.1.1 update which came along yesterday; thanks though. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Download link for the Unarchiver

2010-04-28 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
As there's been a bit of interest of late on the list concerning the Unarchiver, an awesome app for unarchiving just about everything, I thought I'd post the direct link. The Unarchiver's official page can be found here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver I've also uploaded the program to

Re: removing widgits

2010-04-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Press control option command F2. Then you press enter to delete or, escape to cancel. On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:57 PM, chad baker wrote: Hi how do i remove widgits? I pressed f12 and i seen the running widgits. I bought the window chooser menu but how do you close the widgit out? --

Re: Finally got my Mac Book Pro, and, freeware recommendations anybody?

2010-04-28 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
Hi, I confess I haven't done much more than basic audio editing with Amadeus. I can say that if you choose an effects plugin, you're usually presented with a dialog box in which you can specify parameters. Scrubbing is doable although could be better in my opinion, arrows basically scrub.

Re: removing widgits

2010-04-28 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
OK, do you want to close the widget or get rid of it completely? Closing the widget will not cause Dashboard to load it, but it will remain available under your widget bar should you ever need it again. Uninstalling it completely, well, uninstalls it completely. :) To close a widget, i.e. one

What torrent is used

2010-04-28 Thread Scott Howell
Folks, what Torrent are folks using on the Mac and this is for Snow Leopard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Download link for the Unarchiver

2010-04-28 Thread Courtney Curran
Thanks for the link, it was very helpfull, I appreciate it. Courtney On 28/04/2010, at 6:08 in the Afternoon, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote: As there's been a bit of interest of late on the list concerning the Unarchiver, an awesome app for unarchiving just about everything, I thought I'd post

Re: What torrent is used

2010-04-28 Thread Kaare Dehard
I'm using utorrent, don't need a lot of features and I get the goodies. On 2010-04-28, at 6:24 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Folks, what Torrent are folks using on the Mac and this is for Snow Leopard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: What torrent is used

2010-04-28 Thread Scott Howell
Thanks, I shared that info with a friend of mine. I'll have him track it down. thanks On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Kaare Dehard wrote: I'm using utorrent, don't need a lot of features and I get the goodies. On 2010-04-28, at 6:24 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Folks, what Torrent are folks using

Re: audio highjack pro help

2010-04-28 Thread Justin Thornton
hi there I would like my whole system audio including voiceover now if there is a way to highjack system audio without having voiceover there that would also be nice to know but obviously when I set things up my system gets muted when I highjack it thanks feel free to contact me off list below