Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Sarah, First of all, if you are in your home directory you need to take the leading / off the path. / is the root directory and I don't think that's where you have your Pictures folder. There are a couple of ways to get there: cd Pictures/iphone pics cd Pictures/iphone\ pics The best

Re: reading down a table column when on the web

2010-08-18 Thread clarence griffin
are you interacting with the table first? GF On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Mary Otten wrote: This is probably easy and I'm overlooking something very obvious. I have not been able to figure out how to read straight down a column within a table o the web. If I interact with the table and

Visual Voiceover On-off Switch?

2010-08-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Is there a visual way to turn Voiceover on and off? I'll probably show my sighted husband how to use the keyboard, but I'm just curious. I notice that the Voiceover option is dimmed in the Universal Access menu. Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm when I tab after typing some of the path I get a ding. I'll keep trying. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok got the tab command to work. now to get the cat command to work. The file names have spaces in them so I assume I surround them with quotes? S Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast:

Re: Visual Voiceover On-off Switch?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. Set up vo so it will turn off trip click to turn it on and off if on an iphone. If on a mac it is cmd f5. Take care. S Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast:

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Can you rename it in finder? Find the folder from finder, press Enter, and give it a name without spaces? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did. Now I can't get the cat command to work. it sits there with no output or errors Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Mark

Re: Changing the order in which messages are displayed

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Busboom
Kevin, this is super; thanks! This is a VO command that I had forgotten about. It's beautiful! When I went into the Keyboard Help mode, it was announced as a VO command. I only wonder how many more hidden VO treasures I have either forgotten about or never even new existed. Thanks so much

Re: Magic Jack/Force Quiting An Application

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Busboom
Linda, I constantly receive help from others on this list, so it's always great to be able to reciprocate. I'm glad that my suggestions helped. Best regards from Austria, Mike On 15,Aug,2010, at 7:56 PM, Linda Adams wrote: Mike, Thanks much. Your preferred method is exactly what I

Re: Voiceover and Braille.

2010-08-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jesse. You can set up a command to mute the speech by going to VOiceOver move to the braille pane, choose the display tab, and go to the assign keys, and from there you can add a new row by pressing add, then you will ad a new row, then select the speech mute from the menu, you will find

Re: safari troubles

2010-08-18 Thread Greg Aikens
What is the command to refresh the page? I have had this problem every once and a while too. Also, I ran into a page that kept crashing safari but I think it might have been a voice over thing. I could work with the webpage until I moved the voice over cursor across a couple of spots on the

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread focus
Hi John! I do not know if this is also of use or even available with leopard, I use cmd u for the router left\right arrow for links\form controls\web spots\headers others. Then up\down arrows or type letters to narrow selection! hth Colin Skype focus_66 On 18 Aug 2010, at 04:59, John D. Lipsey

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, this feature did not exist pre snow leopard. All it did back then was list the links. Best, Erik Burggraaf Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and subscribe. On 2010-08-18, at

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, Most of theis worked on leopard. The headings and controls did for sure but some of the others were sketchy. By the way, what's the quick nav key for getting to headings? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. Visit

Re: reading down a table column when on the web

2010-08-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Mary, you have to switch to group mode for most tables to read properly. Best, Erik Burggraaf Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and subscribe. On 2010-08-17, at 8:32 PM, Mary

exporting music from itunes?

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
How does one go about doing this? I've looked in the menu system, but don't see an option to do it. I'm trying to export an m4a file as mp3, if that matters. Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-18 Thread Brandon Misch
one suggestion you could tell them is it would be good if we could read other people's status so we don't call people who aren't available or on do not disturb. On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:55 AM, focus wrote: Hi all! I've started to talk to Skype in regard to fix a couple of things for vo

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I would suggest, if we could get an answer button added to the call menu, so we would be able to create a hotkey for answering calls, and that again would make it possible to use a lot of wireless headsets. Best regards Annie. On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: one

ot playing m4a songs in Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Wasn't sure where to take this question, since it involves both Mac and Windows, so thought I'd start here. I am noticing that some of my m4a songs play just fine in Windows Media player, while others won't play at all. Anyone know what might be going on? thanks, Donna -- You

attention moderators, there are a lot of duplicate messages from the list

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
I'm seeing two and three copies of messages I send, and multiple copies from other members as well. Best, Donna -- 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: reading down a table column when on the web

2010-08-18 Thread Mary Otten
Yes, I am interacting with the table before trying to read down one of its columns. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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: exporting music from itunes?

2010-08-18 Thread focus
Hi Donna! I do not know if I'm barking up the wrong tree! But if you are talking about moving an file to another place like a mobile, [ not Iphone ] I use usb and export from hd library, so if you can convert to mp3 then find it in hd library you should be able to move it! That's of course if

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
Sarah, Hit control-c to shut down the cat util. It doesn't mater if a file name has spaces. you can saround it with quotes, escape the space with \, or use tab. The tab completion applies at any time. The cat command expects a file name, and if it doesn't have one in it's parameter list it

Re: exporting music from itunes?

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi coinl, Nope, you're barking up just the right tree. *grin* But what is hdlibrary, and how do you convert to MP3. The latter is what I really need to do, the Android phone really doesn't seem to like my m4a content. Best, Donna On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:51 AM, focus wrote: Hi Donna! I do

more on dpulicate messages

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I think the problem was on my end. I think my Mac woke up possessed this morning! :) At first I was only seeing the duplicates on this list, so thought the problem was on the list end, but then it started happening with other list too. Sorry for sounding off an alarm, and also for

Re: NIKE+

2010-08-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Mark. I am soon to get the sensor and the trainers that go with my I phone 4. So if I do not get any problems, I'll let you know. Kawal. On 18 Aug 2010, at 02:33, M. Taylor wrote: Hello Chris, I have the Nike Plus sensor and I can assure you that I have encountered almost every

duplicate problem still not going away, help!!!!!

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
OK, so my duplicate message problem is clearly continuing. Anyone know what I can do? Thanks, Donna -- 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

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh I did and I found out it might not work. I need another method of doing this with a gui. Is there a program that will merge mov files and be accessible. On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: Sarah, Hit control-c to shut down the cat util. It doesn't mater if a file name

Re: Safari and Google?

2010-08-18 Thread Linda Adams
Courtney, Another method that seems a little easier to me, is to press command L and arrow to the right two times which will put you in a Google search field. Even quicker is a short cut I learned from Esther, press command-option-F which will put you in a Google search field from anywhere

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but if all you are doing is concatenating files you can do the fallowing: cat file1 file2file3 That will merge file1 and 2 putting the contents into file3. You can type man cat to learn more about how to use it. There is also a merge

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Except the headers in teh *.mov files might be different so youtube might not play them. Basically I read an artical on how to merge *.mov files in QT but it involves draging and dropping. I've tried several other programs including imovie and tht didn't work. Take care. S On Aug 18, 2010, at

Re: Safari and Google?

2010-08-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have the same problem with google. Kawal. On 18 Aug 2010, at 01:26, Jesse Bollinger wrote: Hi, Not sure if this has been discussed but I figured I'd throw it out there. I recently upgraded to the latest version of Safari. Whenever I go to google.com and type in a search, Voiceover

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread Esther
Hi John, Teresa's suggestions of VO-Command-H to navigate headers will work for you to navigate web pages in Leopard. The most useful commands I found to use were VO-Command-H to navigate to the next header (with VO- Command-Shift-H to go to the previous header), and VO-Command-M to

More Navigation tips on Snow Leopard

2010-08-18 Thread Linda Adams
Teresa, Your tips sent me searching and, in addition to the ones listed in the Commands help menu, I began checking the keyboard to see if there were others that weren't listed. To my pleasure, I found that VO Command X will take you to the next list on a web page. This helps me a lot with a

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
Well, it is going to get a little more involved, but you can do the fallowing. this will strip the header from file1, contatinate it with file2, and write the final result to final_file: sed 1d|cat file2 /dev/stdinfinal_file This is assuming that the header is 1 line. you need to know how many

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread Linda Adams
Erick, Would you clarify your question about Quick Nav and headers? Linda On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:58 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, Most of theis worked on leopard. The headings and controls did for sure but some of the others were sketchy. By the way, what's the quick nav key for getting

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah I don't know how many lines the mov headers contain as I recorded them on my iphone. lol! On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: Well, it is going to get a little more involved, but you can do the fallowing. this will strip the header from file1, contatinate it with file2, and

Re: exporting music from itunes?

2010-08-18 Thread focus
Hi Donna! I hope you are sitting comfortably! I've gone through it on mine and this is what I have for you! To convert to mp3! 1, Open Itunes and select preference's by pressing cmd and , If it's like mine you should be on general if so very good, if not go to the tool bar and interact with it by

Re: exporting music from itunes?

2010-08-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Wow, Colin, thank you. I kept looking under advanced settings, which, of course, is why I didn't find it. :) Interesting about the HDLibrary. I've just been copying stuff from my itunes\music folder. Do you know if it makes a difference which folder you copy from? Best, Donna On Aug 18,

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah and Barry, First, Barry's instructions about using the cat command in terminal to concatenate files are quite accurate, but they won't solve Sarah's problem about how to join .mov files and end up with a playable result, and this has to do with the structure of these files. Such a

Re: navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

2010-08-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Linda, This morning in the original post that started this thread, John D. Lipsey wrote that he used quick nav to get to headings, but that the leopard machines in the school he works in of course don't have quick nav. That lead me to wonder if there is another way to perform object

Re: Safari and Google?

2010-08-18 Thread Justin Kauflin
Have you tried just doing a page refresh? I've found that that helps the issue. Justin On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni wrote: Hi Jesse, Yes, google is aware of this problem and they are trying to solve it. In the meantime, you can use the google search box on the toolbar of

Performance settings for voice over

2010-08-18 Thread James Marcus
Hi all, I am running voice over on snow leopard on 2.2 ghz with 2Gigs of ram. Voice over works great but generally after a while, it becomes sluggish and i have to restart to get it running smoothly again. Does any one have any suggestions for my settings in order to optimize voice overs

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
All right, Hear is a link to an apple script that might help. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070520003140185 It's an app lit, but if it's hard to use with vo it can probably be modified to work differently. I should have googled this before I responded to you because a lot of

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'll give that a go and hopefully post back with results. You ar ecorrect in saying that the header info will be a royl pain inthe but to edit. lol! a friend of mine last ngiht gave me a lecture on that. Take care. Oh and hoe much is QT pro? I am jsut curious. Thanks. On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:57

Re: joining mov files?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yikes what did I do in asking this question! lol! I'm Kidding. Thanks everyone for the valuable info and I'll keep you all posted. I'll take a look at hte stream thingy that ester sent. I sware she should work for an apple store or for apple themselves! *grins* On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:54 PM,

Mod note -- duplicate messages.

2010-08-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, I'm cross posting to confirm that a subset of subscribers report receiving redundant messages on both lists. The only common denominator that I can think of is Google since there are no list settings that affect this and its not happening to everyone. Please be patient

Re: Performance settings for voice over

2010-08-18 Thread Scott Howell
James, I have not seen this issue. So, what I am wondering is if there are certain applications etc. that you may be using or have used, where you notice this problem? You can use activity Monitor in the Applications/Utilities folder, which may provide some information about running

Re: Safari and Google?

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
At least google are aware of it. I have not tested on reas safari but I do hope they get it fixed. I also reported the bug to apple in case tha thelps anything. Take care. S On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote: Have you tried just doing a page refresh? I've found that that

a change in how to play Audible.com samples

2010-08-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi there, Just thought I'd post that the normal procedure we use to play Audible.com samples on the results page no longer works. I have called Audible about this. Now, to play a sample, it is necessary to actually click on the page for the given book from which you wish to play a sample and

Re: Performance settings for voice over

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Shaw
I believe this is an issue with all applications in general. I tend to find that Safari, iTunes and Mail can become a bit sluggish, as well as Voiceover. This is on a Macbook Pro that gets put to sleep more often than it gets shut down or restarted. A quick restart often fixes the problem.

the joining of mov files

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Well I managed to join the mov files using mp stream clip or what ever that software was called. I somehow misplaced a whole thread of messages on this. lol. for some reason I did not get any audio when exporting to avi and I know not why but it's my lack of knowledge on this subject that is

Re: Performance settings for voice over

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Wo! Youza! I don't' notice a performance degradation but I try and restart every week if i can and i do when I go in to windows. For the person having the issue try restarting the mac, the app, and or voice over. S On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: I believe this is an issue with

Re: Performance settings for voice over

2010-08-18 Thread Scott Howell
Kevin, I have a Macbook Pro with 4Gb of ram and a 500Gb hd. I generally end up bouncing the box every three days or so. Since I work from home three days a week I will leave the machine up during the day and just put it to sleep at night. I can't recall that I have left it without a reboot for

RE: a change in how to play Audible.com samples

2010-08-18 Thread Blake Sinnett
Good lord. I wish Audible would just put a sample link to the MP3. It's exposed if you view the source of the page, so why not just have a link? If you don't feel like messing with the mouse in any way, you can get the mp3 link from the source of the page. HTH, Blake From:

Accessible Tivo App with Snow Leopard

2010-08-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi all: I don't know if you remember me asking for help transferring Tivo shows from my Tivo to my Mac?I said that was the only thing I couldn't do on the Mac. Well, I found an accessible, Free app that will transfer, and decode. You can even enable the iPhone decoder, and the app will sync