Hey everyone,
Just recently, I've been running into a strange situation on my MacBook
Pro. Sometimes when I boot up, I can load applications like Mail and Safari,
with no problems but when I press Command Tab, it only brings me to the Finder
window. The only way I can get back into the
Anybody know how to access the playlist manager in VLC? I can press VO+shift+p
and VLC says playlist but, there's supposed to be an elipsys there implying a
submenu or other controls and I can't bring it up. Is what I want to do not
possible using VLC?
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted
Hi Sarah,
What is command shift c doing? Command plus c will copy, ready for pasting
later, but what is command plus shift plus c that you mentioned?
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From: Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:14 AM
Hi List,
Just a quick question on adium,
Does adium work with the jabba protocol / as a jabba chat client?
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Sent: Monday, 23 August 2010 11:59 p.m.
To:
Yes it supports Jabber, simply go to the File menu and click on add account and
you will see Jabber in the sub menu.
iChat also supports Jabber too.
Chris
On 25 Aug 2010, at 10:11, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Hi List,
Just a quick question on adium,
Does adium work with the jabba protocol /
When this happens, how many applications are running?
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote:
Hey everyone,
Just recently, I've been running into a strange situation on my MacBook
Pro. Sometimes when I boot up, I can load applications like Mail and Safari,
with no problems
Hi List,
Just wondering if anyone has tried using google calanders rather than Ical,
or inconjunction with I cal.
Even further would be using google calanders with ical and say a nokia
mobile phone?
I'm in a situation where I need to use different cal's for different things
and was
Hi,
Theres a thing called spanning sync which does the ical google cal syncing
which is pretty cool, but google cal users cant edit your calendar.
I myself am setting a google apps cal i want to sync with ical for different
groups and churning cogs to this effect
good luck
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Jerry,
How do I find the article listed in this email? I went online but I can't
find the article? What might I be doing wrong or not doing? thanks
Isaac
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From: Brett Campbell blindinnova...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 24,
Hi Justin.
I'm also having that situation and have a Mac Book Pro and also run Fusion with
Windows 7. So I wonder what it is. It's fine if I restart but I don't do that
very often because I use Time Capsule which continues to back up.
Kawal.
On 25 Aug 2010, at 07:09, Justin Kauflin wrote:
Hello Anne,
Is there a demo of iworks 09? Where might it be? Thanks.
Isaac
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From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: iwork
Hello Scott,
You can get the information about
If you do a search for your eyes without the quotes, it will take
you to the first line of the article there by skipping all the rubbish
thats before it.
It's a pretty interesting read, although I don't really agree with the
hole most iPhone apps are inaccessible thing. Also, did anyone notice
One great way to find the article if you are using Safari is to use the reader.
Just press Command+Shift+R. They should have mentioned that in the article,
too. It is a great tool to get to the meat of the page.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
If you do a search for your
Why don't you agree with the notion that most apps for the iPhone aren't
accessible? It seems pretty accurate to me. There is over 100,000 apps in the
iTunes store. You think there is at least 50,000 accessible apps? Keep in
mind a lot of these apps are video games.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:55
Because the way that it was written implied that they should be
accessible. I know that it's possible to make audio games on he
iPhone, but I don't think that the average developer should have to
make a completely different game using methods that there not
experienced with just so that blind
I have been looking ont he web and have found no shortcut key to lock
the virtual machine window when I am in it. For example when I press
the shortcut commandoption+tab, it send the command to the mac and
switches me to another mac applicaiton window. I would like to set it
up so that every key
While Mobile Me may fulfill the needs of some, it does not offer the ultimate
solution for all. I have yet to find a way to sync contacts and calendar items
to a Symbian device utilizing Mobile Me, which is the only factor that is
preventing me from obtaining the service. When the light switch
Thank you Scott for the great suggestion. I do indeed have this setting checked.
On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
This may be a long shot, but do you have timezone support turned on? I had a
similar problem at work and turning this on seemed to take care of the issue.
You
Hi, I'm not Sarah, but I can tell you she is talking here about Command Shift
C. This is the finder keystroke to take you directly to the computer area
where-in are mounted all of your drives and drive images.
So suppose for example that you put in a dvd full of data and now you are in
One great way to find the article if you are using Safari is to use the reader.
Just press Command+Shift+R. They should have mentioned that in the article,
too. It is a great tool to get to the meat of the page.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
If you do a search for your
Hello Isaac,
You can download a 30-day trial copy of iWork from:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 Aug 2010, at 13:37, Isaac Obie wrote:
Hello Anne,
Is there a demo of iworks 09? Where might it be? Thanks.
Isaac
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Right, I am one extraordinarily irritated individual now. I was just
computing along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden voiceover turned
off then back on, and had reverted to all the default settings. This is the
fourth or fifth time it's happened to me in the last couple of
No problems Eric.
On 25 Aug 2010, at 16:43, erik burggraaf wrote:
Right, I am one extraordinarily irritated individual now. I was just
computing along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden voiceover
turned off then back on, and had reverted to all the default settings. This
is
Yes, I think this has been happening to me lately in iTunes and Safari. I'll be
working and Alex will be chattering away and all of a sudden he'll get quiet,
then after a few seconds VO announces VoiceOver On. I haven't gotten
proficient enough with VO to do any real customization, so I can't
Hi Sarah.
I tried your method Sarah re Skype hang up call but it didn't work. Not sure
what I'm doing wrong.
Kawal.
On 24 Aug 2010, at 23:33, Sarah Alawami wrote:
But a script as far as I know has to be launched from the keyboard and i've
tried some keyboarding tools and you must include
This happened to me yesterday. Luckally I had backed up my settings a few
months earlier as it was doing it quite often. But I had changed a few more
things since then so I'll have to boot off my backup drive, export the settings
off that and import on my original installation. Most
This is part of a set of finder navigation shortcuts related to the Go
menu. Command shift A takes you to the applications folder while command
shift U takes you to utilities. In a similar way D is for desktop, H is
for your home folder and since D was already taken, O is for Documents.
CB
It's definitely happening to me and it's quite annoying. I don't know how to
solve it.
Ronit
On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
No problems Eric.
On 25 Aug 2010, at 16:43, erik burggraaf wrote:
Right, I am one extraordinarily irritated individual now. I was just
Yep I have that problem every once in a while. what I do now is export my
settings once I get them right via file menu in the vo utility, vo f8 and
reimport them. Works great.
Sarah Alawami
MSN: marri...@gmail.com
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website: http://music.marrie.org
youtube:
cmd shift c gets you to the computer icon which lists all of your drives and
dmg files that are mounted. It is a faster way to eject a drive as you just hit
cmd e after selecting the dmg to eject.
Take care.
Sarah Alawami
MSN: marri...@gmail.com
aim: marri...@gmail.com:
website:
Hmm really? Yeah it should work. Just copy the menu item which looks like this
Hang Up
to the clip board and link that to cmd shift h to the skype application from
with in the keyboard shortcuts, applications section. You want to edit in the
table to the right.
Take care.
Sarah Alawami
MSN:
I am but I don't know under what conditions this happens. It happened to me
last night after I had done a windows session and had to reboot but sometimes
it will happen even when I just turn on the thing wit out being in a windows
session.
On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote:
IN my case 2 lol! and it will happen right at boot up. you will just hear
desktop and thats it, or just finder and that's it.
Take care.
Sarah Alawami
MSN: marri...@gmail.com
aim: marri...@gmail.com:
website: http://music.marrie.org
youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
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Morning all,
Some of you probably know me from other lists and I've joined this one
being an owner of a new Macbook Pro. I have been a JFW user for going on 14
years now but have never used a Mac until 2 days ago. I'm wondering if folks
can give me a good starting point for orienting myself
Welcome aboard, Scott. this is a great list, I think you'll find it very
helpful.
Take care,
Donna
On Aug 25, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Morning all,
Some of you probably know me from other lists and I've joined this one
being an owner of a new Macbook Pro. I have been a JFW
Hi
Are there any programs for the mac that will let me convert youtube videos and
videos from google video into standard audio mp3?
Josh Kennedy
jkenn...@gmail.com
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Try going to www.video2mep3.net
On 25 Aug 2010, at 18:37, Josh Kennedy wrote:
Hi
Are there any programs for the mac that will let me convert youtube videos
and videos from google video into standard audio mp3?
Josh Kennedy
jkenn...@gmail.com
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Ever find anything? The volume level difference between VO and Jaws is
substantial. Only workaround I could think of was to turn the VO volume
way down so that Jaws is about the same and then bring the overall
system volume way up.
CB
Scott Howell wrote:
Mike are the volume levels the same?
Hello,
I've noticed that a few list members use DJ apps etc. I'm hoping someone can
provide tips tweaking the equalizer settings in iTunes. I recognize listening
preferences is entirely individual, so I'm asking that someone explain what
each setting changes in the sound. I count a total of
Hello Scott,
I too am trying to make friends with a new MacBookPro and probably need to
pretend that my XP machine is not here when I'm using email or the web.
I found the voiceOver documentation lacking in that instead of describing the
regular system commands for performing functions, they
Hi, check this out. I learn something new every time I read it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
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Hi Chad Baker,
This happens to me as well. In safari, when reading ahead, voice over
crashes and restarts itself.
I cannot solve your problem, but I just want to let you and others know that
the problem is not unique to your mac. I have my welcome message turned of,
but voice over seems to
I thought I was losing my mind. I'm having this same behavior as well.
Is there a fix?
I need to use google.:)
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From: Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: safari troubles
Hello all,
My school uses the Blackboard platform for accessing course materials such as
power point slides and course assignments. I can access the site and navigate
fine, but I cannot figure out how to download the files I need for my courses.
When I pull up a context menu on the link to try
I just tried three different Google searches and am not seeing this behavior.
Weird.
Donna
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
I thought I was losing my mind. I'm having this same behavior as well.
Is there a fix?
I need to use google.:)
- Original Message -
Hi Scott:
I'm going to clean up and recycle a post from earlier this month wherein I
tried to answer a few questions and give another lister a couple things that
helped me in getting started with the Mac from JFW. Hope these help some.
Having cleaned it up, I also appologize to Geoff and
Is there a way to restore VO to factory defaults?
Maybe a refresh is in order, or cache clearing?
- Original Message -
From: Donna Goodin goodi...@msu.edu
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: safari troubles
I just tried three
This is great, thank you and everyone else.
What did I do before the Internet to learn things?
Amazing, thank you all again.
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From: Carolyn
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:44 AM
Subject: Fw: For Scott G. Out of
Hi Paul:
I think it was a case of something that got messed up with an update. Best fix
I've come across is to install webkit and open it before attempting to run
Safari.
HTH
Carolyn
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From: Paul Erkens
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday,
Welcome Scott, great th see you on here.
I suppose you know how to interact with tables? Also you will see a command
key on the left of the space bar. So for instance, if you want to copy any bit
of text, you can hold the command key, high light the text with shift command
(let's say if you
he all,
I am very satisfied about safari and I have downgraded to 4.5 but I have still
some troubles.
About crashes of voiceover:
Perhaps you can report that to : accessibil...@apple.com with the following
info:
so, could you please send us the following files so that we can analyze the
Where do you get webkit?
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From: Carolyn
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: safari troubles
Hi Paul:
I think it was a case of something that got messed up with an update. Best
fix I've come
Hi, so I have vmware fusion in my download list, I find a clear button and a
1 downloads button. How do I start the process?
I don't see a download button.
Thank you
Scott
P.S. Thank you for all the help, I'm starting to get oriented and starting
to really dig safari.
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the boxes with the lower number of HZ, on the left side, adjust the
amount of bass; the next four or so will tweak the midrange of a
sound, and the last few will adjust the high end or treble of a
sound. You can't do any damage; you can always turn it off again or
just not save the
Hi Scott.
There is no download button. Fusion is the best as I use it for my windows
needs.
Your file should download once you press enter on it. Then interact with the
download list, by interacting with VO shift down arrow. Then if you vo right
arrow to the right, you will see an
Interesting, so my download seems hung up. I'll keep experimenting.
Boy this is onehell of a learning curve but I can already tell the effort is
well worth it.
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From: Kawal Gucukoglu kawal_gucuko...@sent.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday,
This issue is being worked by the folks at VMWare. I have filed a bug report
and they stated they would be in touch as soon as they could determine how to
correct the problem. Needless to say, it will be in a software release.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Ever find
Scott,
Just remembered, if the download does not work, can you do voiceover shift M
and arrow down until you get the file to download? Voice over M is like shift
F10 on a windows keyboard or the application key to bring up the context menu.
Tell us if that helps.
Kawal.
On 25 Aug 2010, at
I think this is just a voiceover gremlin. :). It strikes at unpredictable
intervals. It hasn't happened to me in a very long time though. (knock on
wood) I suggest exporting your VO settings and saving somewhere so if and when
it happens again, you can just import them back to voiceover and
Hi there
is there an easy way to just see your new messages in main since google seems
incapable of actually deleting messages and not shoving them back into my mail
ap again and again. I have almost 1000 messages in my in box and am abotu ready
to just blow them all away and start over IF I
has anyone found a more recent version of adium that actually works with growl?
the beta I downloaded a bit ago doesn't have it's growl stuff wrking yet, so
doing irc with it is a real pain to in fact I'mstill using a windows machine
to do irc chat pretty sad since I have a mac and fiugred
Hi Scott,
Great to see you on here.
I think this link should start the download of the latest build of webkit
WebKit r65825
hth
On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Where do you get webkit?
- Original Message -
From: Carolyn
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hello go to the date column and sort down with vo shift backslash then go to
view, hit enter on sort by thread and view and collapse by thread. Now when you
go to the top of the email table you can just read the new ones by opening
the thread with the right arrow and collapse it with left
Hi Ricardo.
I'm not sure what Web kit does. Should it compliment Safari? Or does it
replace Safari? Is it easy to use and is it better than Safari?
Kawal.
On 25 Aug 2010, at 23:35, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi Scott,
Great to see you on here.
I think this link should start the download
I dunno since i don't use the beta and i uninstalled growl. If you can go back
to th elatest version which was Adium 1.3.10
Take care.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:
has anyone found a more recent version of adium that actually works with
growl? the beta I downloaded a
Hi scott,
You can reset voiceover to the default settings by opening voiceover utilities
with control option F8, then press control f2 or control option M to go to the
menu bar. The setting to reset is found under the file menu.
hth
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Is
There is no context menu in the download list as far as i can see. I had
hung downloads wherein I had to serf back to the site and re download then
clear the .zip.download or what ever it was.
Sarah Alawami
MSN: marri...@gmail.com
aim: marri...@gmail.com:
website: http://music.marrie.org
Hi Kawal,
I recommend webkit if you find safari acting up like the behavior some list
members are describing. Webkit is the underlying engine that safari runs on if
I understand it correctly. Installing the nightly build of webkit has many of
the bug fixes that will find its way into safari
Hello,
Have you tried pressing option enter on the link that contains the file you
want? This works often for me.
hth
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hello all,
My school uses the Blackboard platform for accessing course materials such as
power point slides and course
Nice, thanks I'll check that out. Don't think I have much set though but it
may clear out mistakes. I think the safari issue is something else that
others are experiencing here. Today not so much, I'm happy it's working so
far.
Once I get Fusion up and running I'll at least have a familar
Oh and i'll follow up. I forgot to add to my reply to create rules. you can do
this from with in the message or while you are pointing to it.
1. highlight the message and hit cmd ca-ma.
2. tab or shift tab to rules button and vo space on it.
3. tab to or vo right to add and vo space on it.
4.
Oh,
and I recommend exporting your voiceover preferences. Sometimes it will just
reset on you for no reason. Open up the VO utility and you will find export
settings in the file menu. If you ever need to get your settings back, you
just go to VO prefs again and go to import under the file
Scott:
If I'm understanding your question correctly, you're showing download list,
and then perhaps some names of files, and then the message about clear/delete
files that have been downloaded. When you get this message, you wouldn't know
it, but the download is already going on in the
Kawal, this worked perfectly.
Thanks!
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From: Kawal Gucukoglu kawal_gucuko...@sent.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Downloading in safari?
Hi Scott.
There is no download button. Fusion is the best as I
Hi Scott:
First of all. Keep in mind that Jaws isn't like Voice over, and Snow Leopard
isn't like Windows. In orther words, they'll behave differently, so take all
your preconceived expectations, and shelve them. You will be able to learn what
is necessary without expectations.
Second, go to
Scott, congrats on the new MBP. Good to see you here from the MSP list. I got
my MBP back in December and really do love it. At first, patience will be your
best bet. From what I know of you from other lists, you will have no trouble
at all.Have you made the jump to iPhone yet, or just
Hi list,
I was just wandering if it is possible to read bookshare books on the iPod
touch.
any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks all,
Rafaela
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This morning I had a weird issue. Neither my MBP, nor work laptop could connect
wirelessly to the Linksys WRT54G router. I reset the router and modem. The
Windows PC could connect, however the MBP said Airport has assigned itself the
IP address 192.169.254.xxx. Failed to connect to the
Nope. they are in dasi 3.0 while the dasi reader on the apps store only
supports dasi 2.0. Sorry to be the barrer of bad news but it is what it is.
Sarah Alawami
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Thanks Sarah, but i've heard about this indaisye app?
do you guys know what it is? it doesn't read bookshare books does it?
thanks again,
Rafaela
El 25/08/2010, a las 20:39, Sarah Alawami escribió:
Nope. they are in dasi 3.0 while the dasi reader on the apps store only
supports dasi 2.0.
No i have no clue. That's the first I've heard of it. If it doesn't support
dasi3 it win't read bookshare, rfbd and nls.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Rafaela Freundt wrote:
Thanks Sarah, but i've heard about this indaisye app?
do you guys know what it is? it doesn't read bookshare books does
it seems it does, i read on the app store it supports standard daisy 3 but i
don't wanna risck˚ $20 something if it won't work.
oh and something else. Do you guys know if there is another way of reading
bookshare books on the mac not using safari?
because when i'm reading a book in safari and
It can be just one window or 4. It doesn't seem to make a difference. Very
strange thing.
Justin
On Aug 25, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
When this happens, how many applications are running?
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote:
Hey everyone,
Just recently,
Do any of you see a pattern to this, cause in my tired mind I can't. The only
fix for me and it looks like everyone else is to reboot.
Take care.
Sarah Alawami
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