Re: Top ten things

2010-07-16 Thread M. Taylor
Hi, You Wrote: I am interested in knowing anyones top ten things I should know or do before I open the boxes with the new Mac Book Pro in it and begin the journey into changing from my PC life into a Mac style of computing. Mark's Answer: My answer is a simple one: There are 2 things I strongly

RE: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Bryan Smart
Well, 4.01 came out, and I tried to install it. Half way through, iTunes gave me error 3004 (what-ever that is), and stopped. Now, the iPhone won't talk, won't reboot (black screen), and, when I attach it to the Mac, and iTunes starts, iTunes says that it is unable to connect to the iPhone

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Huckabay
Have you mabey tryed softe resetting the phone holding the sleep/wake butten down and the home butten at the same time? this may help you not sure though. On 2010-07-16, at 4:59 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: Well, 4.01 came out, and I tried to install it. Half way through, iTunes gave me error 3004

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Moore
H think I will wait until 4.1 On 16 Jul 2010, at 10:59, Bryan Smart wrote: Well, 4.01 came out, and I tried to install it. Half way through, iTunes gave me error 3004 (what-ever that is), and stopped. Now, the iPhone won't talk, won't reboot (black screen), and, when I attach it to the

Re: Voiceover training manuals

2010-07-16 Thread Rich Ring
The reason the paid version of MS Word doesn't work with Voiceover is that Microsoft didn't abide by accessibility guidelines when creating the software. Shame on them. - Original Message - From: cathyk cjkudl...@gmail.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent:

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; this is one of those things that is universal to computers and technology. ever since the heartache and pain i caused myself by upgrading to internet explorer 5.0 on my old windows xp machine I've had the additude of I'm not going to upgrade to new versions until they have been

converting mp4 to mp3

2010-07-16 Thread chad baker
Hi i am using tooble for downloading youtube audio. It saves it as mp4. Is there a way to convert it to mp3. thanks -- 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

Re: Top ten things

2010-07-16 Thread Pete Nalda
Good tips, except for me, I had to dump the windows box in order to buy the Mac. I now have a Mac that can run both, but Windows itself is too expensive. I could put Linux on here but I'm happy with this just fine :) On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:02 AM, M. Taylor wrote: Hi, You Wrote: I am

sinking, importing and exporting contacts from the iPhone to the mac

2010-07-16 Thread DJ Nezumi
hi all i was wondering if anyone could tell me how itunes actually sinks contacts? i think i have sinked my contacts on to my mac. it says that it uses mobile me which you have to apparently pay for. i was wondering if anyone could tell me how if i needed to, to export all my contacts back on to

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Neil James
Agreed. I'd much rather see the law suit challenging the monopolistic exclusivity deal between A T and T and Apple go forward rather then this silly law suit. As you said, you have 30 days to return the iPhone if you're not happy with it. On the other hand, the fact that Apple and ATT will not

Re: sinking, importing and exporting contacts from the iPhone to the mac

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Moore
You do not need mobile me to sync contacts. Syncing on the Mac happens between the address book on OS X and the address book on the iPhone, if you have the sync contacts ticked in iTunes then syncing will automatically occur. On 16 Jul 2010, at 14:45, DJ Nezumi wrote: hi all i was wondering

live commentary of today's Apple Press conference

2010-07-16 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi all. I know this is extremely short notice, but today at 1 P.M. eastern, 10 A.M. pacific, we'll be doing a live stream where we'll be giving commentary of today's Apple press conference. We'll start shortly before the conference. You can listen at the following streaming URL.

Re: list question

2010-07-16 Thread joseph
Hi Sarai, if i want to do so, i would go to the macvisionaries page then look for the mail in question, then i would click on reply to auther. just a thought. hth Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Sarai, THe only way I know how to do it is to interact with the message headers field and hit

youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread joseph
hi list members is there any voice over friendly version of the mentioned above? thank you in advance -- 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

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Carolyn
Brian: Please pardon the cleche, but I feel your pain. One thing I learned from my Apple trainers is, let everyone else muck around with those updates, until the bugs are discovered. I know, if we all did that, nothing would get done. Still, seems to me I know just enough to get into the

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Actually, that one just got class action status on July 10: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/10/apple_att_iphone_exclusivity_lawsuit_granted_class_action_status.html CB Neil James wrote: Agreed. I'd much rather see the law suit challenging the monopolistic exclusivity deal between A

ichat question

2010-07-16 Thread joseph
hi i tried to use ichat but i could not answer audio invitations to join a chat. is there a shortkey for accepting invitations? thank you in advance. regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. I just updated mine to 4.0.1 with no problems. The updater mainly said it was to address the incorrect signal bars calculation. I was hoping to have it fix a couple bugs. In particular: 1. If I'm sending and SMS message or a new email, I get stuck in the To: field. I start by making a

Possible ot: Audible up

2010-07-16 Thread Carolyn
Hi: I appoligize for cross posting this. Just a heads-up that Audible is starting to allow downloads. I had to initiate twice, but am currently downloading from my library after several days of being unable to do so. Carolyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
I couldn't find a simple single step way to do it. Had to download the video first, which is just mpeg4. Then loaded it into Quicktime 7 (which has a lot more Save As options) and saved it as Audio AIFF. That gave me a standalone sound file which I could load up into itunes to make into an

Re: live commentary of today's Apple Press conference

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
At least they are giving away a free case to all the iPhone 4 users. That takes care of the immediate problem. Seems like they pulled it off pretty well. CB Darcy Burnard wrote: Hi all. I know this is extremely short notice, but today at 1 P.M. eastern, 10 A.M. pacific, we'll be doing a

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, How'd you download it to Mp4? Courtney On Jul 16, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I couldn't find a simple single step way to do it. Had to download the video first, which is just mpeg4. Then loaded it into Quicktime 7 (which has a lot more Save As options) and saved it as Audio

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
If you have the video loaded on the youtube page in Safari, open up the activity monitor with option-apple-a. That is the list of all the pieces that make up the page in a table. If you hunt through there there should be one very large item (size is the second column) which is the video file

Voiceover Reading messages table after Mail has been hidden. Just today it started this.

2010-07-16 Thread Pete Nalda
So, today, for some reason VO was reading the message table after mail was hidden. I use Mail 4.3 in os X 10.6.4 on a macbook pro fwiw. I also have zoom turned on as was trackpad commander. Anyone else experience this? Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Is there not paogram called mactoobs or something like that? Take care. S On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, Well, there is something called Tooble which will allow you to download YouTube videos. Unfortunately, when you preview the application seems prone to

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
I could not find the url when I tried that youtube link. actually it was a different one. lol! but copying the address resulted in an error when I did manage to find it. S On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: If you have the video loaded on the youtube page in Safari, open up the

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Unfortunately the link I tried said it was only available for premium members and i tried to download it as an mp3. Um? did the site change? S On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: If you have the video loaded on the youtube page in Safari, open up the activity monitor with

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
That URL could be different based on where you are. They have a content distribution network so if you were in Toronto you would hit a server up there rather than hauling data from SanFranciso. The main thing is to look for a row which has a very large size. That should be the video content.

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yep i did it and it saved as an flv file. vlc was the only thing that would play it. lol! On Jul 16, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: That URL could be different based on where you are. They have a content distribution network so if you were in Toronto you would hit a server up there

Re: ichat question

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
I went to the window menu found the call and then found the answer button. Take care. S On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:32 AM, joseph wrote: hi i tried to use ichat but i could not answer audio invitations to join a chat. is there a shortkey for accepting invitations? thank you in advance.

Re: Top ten things

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ah I was ble to upgrade windows for 29 bucks as I am a student and took advantage of the upgrade price. good luck. On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: Good tips, except for me, I had to dump the windows box in order to buy the Mac. I now have a Mac that can run both, but Windows

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'll have to try that, then. I guess I haven't been looking closely enough. regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:00 PM,

Re: youtube to mp3 converter

2010-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah but I don' know what to do with it. amadeus won't open it and vlc media player converted it to the wrong format even though I said to convert it to mp3. quicktime wont' even touch it. lol. On Jul 16, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: That's a good step forward. At least you have the

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yes, I agree. I think that law suit is more important than this hack job. I really don't understand the purpose. What are they trying to gain? On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Neil James wrote: Agreed. I'd much rather see the law suit challenging the monopolistic exclusivity deal between A T

Re: converting mp4 to mp3

2010-07-16 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Chad, THe only way I know how to do this is through Amadeus. DOesn't Switch or Handbreak convert to mp3 also? I don't use Switch anymore, but I believe it does the trick. It's either Switch or Handbreak that will convert it from mp4 to mp3. I hope that helps. Allison My birds are winged