itunes and a lot of mp3 files

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, I am trying to find my way around itunes but I can't get done what seems so easy. Many books over here are being sold right out of the normal book stores. If you buy one, you get a bunch of normal audio CDs. No copy protection. Any one can buy audio books in this form. More and

Re: downloading/reading bookshare books

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Mike Arrigo, This makes me wonder. Do you know of a program for the mac that lets you create rar files? - Original Message - From: Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:21 AM Subject: Re: downloading/reading bookshare

Re: safari bookmarks

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Esther, Ricardo, This is wonderful, as always. Thank you so much. This has been a pain since I got my mac a year ago. All is clear now. Paul. - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:48 PM Subject: Re: safari

Re: itunes and a lot of mp3 files

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. what i do in itunes is select the files and hit cmd I and say yes to editing a bunch of info. then I set the artist and album info if I can and set the jeanra to audio book spoken word and hit ok. Good luck. On Sep 3, 2010, at 23:43, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: itunes and a lot of mp3 files

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Sarah, I've been trying but I don't succeed. Could you be more verbose please? I opened itunes, but found command i to do nothing. I went through the menus, but command i is get info and it is grayed out. I reread your message and you said that you selected the files before pressing command

backup solution question

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I am now using super duper as my mac backup utility. Mike Arrigo demonstrated it in his podcast series somewhere. I bought it and I'm very happy with what it can do. However, some of you on this list use carbon copy cloner. Does any of you know an advantage of using carbon copy

Re: backup solution question

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
You can make a bootable image of your hard drive with carbon copy cloner. I can find several advantages to this. For example, you can make this and boot in to your os with your settings from a school mac and eject your drive when you are done. Take care. S On Sep 4, 2010, at 1:33, Paul

Re: accessible pdf readers

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne Robertson, I remember someone on this list explaining how you can have a document from text edit being read aloud into an itunes track. Is this what ghost reader does as well? Take a document, have it read aloud by a synthetic voice and recorded in mp3? I was looking at convenience

Re: MobleMe Help!

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
Sarai, I knew you would get this sorted, so good for you. Now you can make good use of the service. On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: I had to interact, and mouse click the PC, then move over a cell in the table to unrigister. After unrigistering all computers, and

Re: a few new mac questions

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
MJ, I am going to assume that you are referring to switching the function keys to perform software functions instead of hardware functions. If that is the case, you will find this setting in System Preferences, keyboard, and look for the following: Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard

Re: itunes and a lot of mp3 files

2010-09-04 Thread William Windels
Hi Paul, When you have some audio-cd with audiotracks, first you need to import them in the format you prefer. You can find this setting in the preferences menu. After importing all this cd's , go to the folder in your sourceless named: recently added. There you will see all your tracks. I

Re: Go to page in Text Edit

2010-09-04 Thread Linda Adams
Teresa, thanks for the information. Sarah, I'll check out the ruler. I've looked at it a couple of times but haven't tried working with it. Linda On Sep 3, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: As far as I know, there's no specific command in TextEdit for go to page. If you have page

Re: backup solution question

2010-09-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, SuperDuper! can do the same, though. :) 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 Sep 4, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: You can make a

Re: Funny Issue with Mail

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Granados
Sure, what is the address top level domain you're sending from. Is this your own mail server, do the reverse and forward records in DNS match? Is there a PTR record present for your mail server if it's your own? One possibility is that the mail server your writing from isn't properly

Re: MS Word's lack of access with VO

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Granados
Actually, you'd be surprised how receptive both IT departments and your management are to this sort of thing. At least where I work which is a medium sized company of about 500 employees or so there was no resistance at all. We already did have a relationship with Apple but when I pointed out

Re: iTune questions, sort of

2010-09-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You can also just uncheck the episodes you don't want to copy. I think this is the easiest way. On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: lol. You might try mpegstreamclip for that little second task and if you check the manage music manually under your iphone settings scrol

Re: Funny Issue with Mail

2010-09-04 Thread Michael Busboom
Justin, I have had this problem before and still do from time to time. I have narrowed it down to something that may have nothing to do at all with Apple Mail, but here is how I live with the problem which I have thus far been unable to solve: For several days, work colleagues were not

Work around fix for non-working Automator workflows in iTunes 10 [was Re: add to itunes as a spoken track with itunes 10]

2010-09-04 Thread Esther
Hi William, There's a work around for the problem of workflows, such as adding to iTunes as a spoken track, no longer working in iTunes 10. The issue is that Automator workflows may check the version of iTunes before running workflow actions to make sure that features used are

had to restart on Macbook, but not on Imac

2010-09-04 Thread Ryan Mann
My Macbook and Imac both run Mac OS 10.6.4. When I ran Software Update to get the new release of Itunes, my Macbook needed to be restarted to finish the update. My Imac did not need to be restarted. That is not a problem, but I just thought it was weird that the update behaved differently on

Re: had to restart on Macbook, but not on Imac

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
Ryan, are you sure there was not another update you may have missed in the table? Just before iTunes there was a security update. I installed iTUnes 10 on my Macbook and my wife's iMac and did not need to reboot either. However, the security update I mentioned did require a reboot. On Sep 4,

Re: a few new mac questions

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Howell
You can use the hardware keys, but unless your using a keyboard that does not have a fn key, you won't have this problem. Keep in mind if you do not have a fn key, your going to have to either reach to the machine to perform this task (i.e. if you have an external keyboard with a notebook) or

an odd thing when I tab bwtwwen subject and body in apple mail

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello all. Now when I tab between subject and body in apple mail the headers section is totally gone, but when I vo left and right it is there. What's going on? It was fine yesterday and I did not as far as I'm aware make any changes, I don't think. -- You received this message because you

itunes on the mac

2010-09-04 Thread Conrad Bennett
how do i check the status of something for example if i'm downloading app updates i no on a windows computer i can but i can't figure out how to do that so that i will know when it is done or what the progress is. please help thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: had to restart on Macbook, but not on Imac

2010-09-04 Thread Ryan Mann
I ran Software update again on my Imac nd there were no security updates. On Sep 4, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Ryan, are you sure there was not another update you may have missed in the table? Just before iTunes there was a security update. I installed iTUnes 10 on my Macbook and

Re: MobleMe Help!

2010-09-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Oh I love it! I just hope I don't have a repeat when renewing next year. On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Sarai, I knew you would get this sorted, so good for you. Now you can make good use of the service. On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: I had

Re: backup solution question

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Granados
I might just add that Carbonite is another option as well. I believe they have a Mac offering, if not someone please correct me. I know the Windows side is accessible. The advantage is offsite backup. Regardless of the solution you use offsite backup is important. Even something as simple

Re: Funny Issue with Mail

2010-09-04 Thread Scott Granados
The problem is your provider probably hosts spamming customers so their IP ranges end up in black lists. Spam Haus is a good example of these services that track spam based on IP addresses. Also note if you run your own SMTP mail server on mobile IP space or space that's known and recorded

Re: itunes on the mac

2010-09-04 Thread trahern culver
in itunes when your download starts go to the sorses table go the right you will find a scrol erreor called downloads interact with it then find the table called downloads interact with it interact with it again then go to the right then you should here download status reports you can go up and

What have we done? Please help

2010-09-04 Thread Carolyn
Hi mac brothers and mac sisters: I just downloaded iTunes10 to my mbp, and it seems to have rendered poor Alex speechless, or at least turned him into a stuttering M-M-M-br-br-broken mess I know someone talked about reducing some of it's clutter, but I'm clueless as to how to proceed at this

Re: Funny Issue with Mail

2010-09-04 Thread Justin Kauflin
Scott, To be honest, a lot of what your asking is a little beyond me. I have my Gmail account setup, and I'm assuming it was done right, as most of my messages are getting sent out. So far, all I know is that the message is being registered as being sent out, as the e-mail is moved to

Re: -- SPAM -- What have we done? Please help

2010-09-04 Thread David McLean
I'll start with the obvious: Have you tried rebooting? Can't imagine why Itunes would cause a problem with Vo once it isn't running at all. On Sep 4, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Carolyn wrote: Hi mac brothers and mac sisters: I just downloaded iTunes10 to my mbp, and it seems to have rendered poor

Re: What have we done? Please help

2010-09-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hate to say this, but, it sounds to me like you might want to revert to one of your time machine backups; or else, barring that, do a re-installation of your OS. When I downloaded ITunes 10.0, I had no issues at al. VO still working fine for me. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Re: a few new mac questions

2010-09-04 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: You'd have to have an FN key, wouldn't you? I have a wireless keyboard for Apple and its FN key is at the far left edge on the bottom most level or row of keys. My Windows NetBook has an FN key, second key in from the far left on the bottom most row. Regards, Cheree

editing on a bluetooth keyboard.

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hey I can't remember if I sent this message or dreamt I did but I am having trouble editing with my bt keyboard on my iphone. I read a line and it will partially read it that is miss words. Also I'll sometimes read and it will act like there is no space between words, for example between

Re: editing on a bluetooth keyboard.

2010-09-04 Thread Carolyn
Hi Sarah: Until the os with the vo commands for keyboard comes out, I've found it a little cumbersome but very doable to edit just using arrow keys. Fortunately, iPhone messages tend to be short, so, it usually works out ok to do that. Not very helpful, I guess. But, that's what I've done.

getting the mac to recognize an sd card

2010-09-04 Thread Carolyn
Hi Mac Family: Ok, now that Alex has settled down a bit, I have a question, as the subject reflects. I'm putting a new sd card into the card reader, which I want to use to download books for use with the Victor Reader Stream. The Mac doesn't even appear to see a card. Is there some way to

Re: getting the mac to recognize an sd card

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Try going to the disk utility found under utility and mount your sd card by locating it under the table and pressing cmd shift m. On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Carolyn wrote: Hi Mac Family: Ok, now that Alex has settled down a bit, I have a question, as the subject reflects. I'm putting a

Re: editing on a bluetooth keyboard.

2010-09-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah that's what I'm doing but it misses words in a line. I can't show you in this email but there you go. and it will read a period plus the next word as a word. Take care. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: