Re: growler helper app?

2010-10-15 Thread Rafaela Freundt
hi Colin, All the notifications are enabled when i click the configure button when adium is selected. I don't quite understand the other thing, do you mean that I should change the thing that says use default starting position to use custom starting position? because in skype it is set to defaul

reripping cds with iTunes 10 issues

2010-10-15 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi all: Due to the issues with iTunes not organizing all of my music properly from being ripped in Windows. I've taken on the task of reripping the cds. I think I've lost my mind. I've set iTunes to rip and eject a CD upon insertion. I'm ripping in AAC iTunes+ format 256KBS stario. The files are

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Ian McNamara
To be fair though with vo you don't really need a back up from what i've seen so far genraly i find if it frezes all i have to do is turn it on and off and it is fine again. Ian McNamara. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Charlie Doremus
change the subject line please, this has nothing to do with the next Apple event On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Cheree Heppe wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > A > re you currently using VoiceOver? > > I think that the non-indegrated systems including the speech engines are > superfluous on an Ap

Re: test, again please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
giving up if this doesn't do it. I'll have to hire some dear sweet soul to fix my filters. (Where are you, dear sweet soul?) :) Just kidding. Carolybn Carolyn Haas chaas0...@gmail.com On Oct 15, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Colin M wrote: > Hi Carolyn! > Yes its me again, it slipped past me b

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Apple I don't think is blocking development of other products other than since they offer their features for free who would want to play in that market. The ones who need to worry are the JFW Window Eyes bunch who charge a lot for their tools. Look at what the IPhone did to CF, Apple products

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread heather kd5cbl
I don't know about that but, I was thinking about when vo does not respond or work in some applications, perhaps it needs some help. I am not using vo right now as I am still getting new to my mac. I have been working through the voice over guide and learning a little at a time. I like the fa

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: A re you currently using VoiceOver? I think that the non-indegrated systems including the speech engines are superfluous on an Apple machine. I suspect the speech engines would indroduce glitches. Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPad On Oct 15, 2010, at 16:32, "heath

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread heather kd5cbl
I like vo but I was wondering if apple will allow other screenreader programs to opperate on the mac. I was just thinking about this because, I have jaws and NVDA on my windows computer. So when jaws is giving me grief, I can switch to NVDA which usually tells me what jaws won't or when jaws i

Re: apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread joseph
hi list, i would like to see arabic tts in the new update as well as well accessibility improvement to garage band. best chad baker wrote: > Hi i would like to see some enhancements to garage band. > I want to be able to assign samples to different keys. > Also a female voice like the quality o

Re: test, again please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! Yes its me again, it slipped past me before! You said you set it to b c c yourself, that could be the problem go back to that button and select it you should have an option to change it to c c field do that and make sure its on automatically c c yourself still and that should finall

Re: growler helper app?

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Rafaela! and Eric! I do not know if this is of help, but under growl settings the applications tab there is an option to set custom start button! And also Rafaela in that menu you might look at if adium notifications are set ok! Hope this helps :] Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at 21:30, Rafaela Freund

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Linda! I think you have to go to viewing button in the tool bar and select that, one of the options in viewing menu is headings mine is set on default, one of the others is none that's what I think you have to set! hth Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at 22:56, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi Linda. > > It

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Linda, It is in the Mail Preferences that you need to change the Header view to None. When in Mail: 1. Press cmd-comma to open your Preferences. 2. Interact with the Toolbar. 3. Select the Viewing tab. 4. Mail will automatically stop interacting with the toolbar and move you to the Heade

Re: apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You can already assign samples to keys in garageband, it's just not accessible. The problem is you need someone to drag the audio file on to the key you want. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:07 PM

Re: USB to Serial ADAPTEr and terminal software?

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Thank you very much for the pointer. That's 2 for keyspan and I like mine I've used before. Thanks for the quick response. Scott On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I use the KeySpan adapter on the Mac with ZTerm. It works pretty well. > > Teresa > On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:18 P

Re: USB to Serial ADAPTEr and terminal software?

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Allison, this does help. I will give one of these a shot. I've used them in the past and they worked out well. On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I use the Keyspan Serial to USB adapter. I have never used it on the Mac, but > I have used it with the BrailleN

Re: USB to Serial ADAPTEr and terminal software?

2010-10-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
I use the KeySpan adapter on the Mac with ZTerm. It works pretty well. Teresa On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Hi, so I use console ports on network devices daily and I'd like tomove this > work over to my Mac. What USB to Serial adapters do people suggest? Also, > is ther

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Most of the safari problems you listed are corrected by using webkit. Not the navigation so much but the voice crashing and other slowness issues. It's not perfect but it's much better than what's included stock. Thanks Scott On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Windels William wrote: > Hello all, >

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Linda. It's a long time since I did it so can't remember the exact steps. I still find the Mac complicated! On 15 Oct 2010, at 20:57, Linda Adams wrote: > Kawal, > > Would you give me some more directions? I have my Macvisionaries list > messagesorganized by thread. I press enter t

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Windels William
Hello all, I agree that tables isn't handled very well in pages. Also numbers, is accessible but it's missing some navigation-features for everyone like you have in ms excel. Kenotes isn't very accessible at this moment... Safari is very bad at this moment : braille in formfields, voiceover is

Re: USB to Serial ADAPTEr and terminal software?

2010-10-15 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Scott, I use the Keyspan Serial to USB adapter. I have never used it on the Mac, but I have used it with the BrailleNote and Window-Eyes. You can purchase this on Amazon for about $28. The adapter I use is Keyspan High Speed USB Serial Adapter I hope this helps. Musically, Allison My birds

Re: mac verses pc

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Heather, Mike Arrigo has posted a podcast on www.blindcooltech.com explaining how to put a daisy book on to your SD card, using a mac, playable on the victor reader stream. It is very easily done. Hopefully someone out here knows which of his 13 mac podcasts this is in, but he demonstrates it

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Carolyn and list, Make certain that you are *NOT* interacting with the table of messages in a mail box. You can turn off the auto interact when tabbing feature in the VO utility in the Navigation dialog. I must have tested tab when I was interacting -- I just interacted with the table and

USB to Serial ADAPTEr and terminal software?

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, so I use console ports on network devices daily and I'd like tomove this work over to my Mac. What USB to Serial adapters do people suggest? Also, is there any terminal software designed to work with serial ports that is suited for VO? Thank you Scott -- You received this message becaus

right and left mouse clicks in VM Fusion?

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, I posted this before but I don't think it made it so I'm trying again. Sorry if this is old news. I'm interested in learning how you right and left mouse click in fusion? I use sharpkeys and don't see a means to define mouse clicks to keys. On my Dell I use 2 keys on the keypad which are

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Justin Ekis
I have three enhancements that I'd like to see in voiceover with the release of 10.7. I don't expect VO to be covered in that much detail during this particular event, we'll probably read about the VO changes on the web site as the release gets closer. I'd like to see them make it possible to a

Re: growler helper app?

2010-10-15 Thread Rafaela Freundt
I know, but it just doesn't make sense. it should work, it is configured to display messages as speach. El 14/10/2010, a las 20:35, Eric Oyen escribió: > I had the same prolem. I simply turned off cursor tracking in adium's chat > window and then used the chime to announce a new message. at that

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Ian McNamara
It's hard being so new to mac to think of anything really big that needs doing yep i would like to see garage band become more acccessable. Also it would be nice to see a more accessable mud client like vip mud for windows. Ian McNamara -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread chad baker
Hi i would like to see some enhancements to garage band. I want to be able to assign samples to different keys. Also a female voice like the quality of alex. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, I would like to see some added features in garageband as well as accessibility, I would also like the ability to cut and paste and not just copy and paste files. I would like selecting and copying text from the web to be a more reliable task. It seems to just work when it wants to.

Re: Test, please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Colin:Well, I did that too, and I didn't get the test except below your post here. I guess I can set up a filter that will allow it to go to a group mailbox. In any case, not to belabor this or add to traffic, I guess I'll have to put on my big girl panties and deal with it!:) Carolyn Haa

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Linda Adams
Kawal, Would you give me some more directions? I have my Macvisionaries list messagesorganized by thread. I press enter to open the thread but I then have to interact to read each message. I looked under the Mail View menu but couldn't find where to set headers on None. Additional hel

test, again please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
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Re: vm ware fusion and key mapping

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Google for a tool called sharp keys. I can attach it if you can't find that assuming that's with in the terms of the license which I think it is. (it's freeware) This allows you to remap keys with a simple 2 and from field then you apply, reboot the VM and you should be good. Sharp Keys 3 is

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
check www.appleinsider.com and www.applerumors.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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Ryan! Even with the speed of inter web these days apparently it still takes a while for them to roll it out! At least you know it's coming On 15 Oct 2010, at 20:19, Ryan Mann wrote: > How did you get 10.6.5? I have 10.6.4. I ran Software Update and it told me > my software was up to date. >

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Geoff: Think I missed something here. How do you tab to the preview pane. If I don't interact with messages, I just get the row. The preview pane is in a scroll area below, and I'm using Vo-j to check it out. Sometimes, I can hit enter, and it reads. At other times, I'll hit enter and th

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Ryan Mann
How did you get 10.6.5? I have 10.6.4. I ran Software Update and it told me my software was up to date. On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Hayri Tulumcu wrote: > in this new snow leopard 10.6.5 update, there is a fix for voiceover and > safari > - Original Message - From: "Teresa Cochran"

vm ware fusion and key mapping

2010-10-15 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I am wondering if anyone has experience with remappling keys in virtual windows. i am running vm ware fusion using windows 7 and windoeyes version 7.2. i am going to need to remap the keys when i am in the windows environment. for example, i need to use the alt key, as well as semilate

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread GEOFF WAALER
John, This is great -- sure beats either vo-j or control-touch. And imho vo-a kind of sucks because one must totally remove the right hand from the home keys to pull it off, unless you want to remap an option key to the right on a Macbook and confuse people when they need to use it. Two finge

Re: Aborting send during spell check.

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Geoff! After 3 experiments sending mock emails to myself I think I might have a suggestion, going by what you said you've noticed you have something to change during your spell checking\send so vo+shift+m scroll down to spelling and grammar sub menu and in there should be hide spelling and gr

Re: Test, please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Colin: Well, I did that too, and I didn't get the test except below your post here. I guess I can set up a filter that will allow it to go to a group mailbox. In any case, not to belabor this or add to traffic, I guess I'll have to put on my big girl panties and deal with it!:) Anyhow, tha

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
A 2. VO-A will generally work the same as read from cursor. (I think of it as read all, as a mnemonic), but that is probably from earlier versions of VoiceOver. Jon couple of points here. 1. Using the tab / shift-tab works well from shifting between the preview and the list of mail items. On 1

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
in this new snow leopard 10.6.5 update, there is a fix for voiceover and safari - Original Message - From: "Teresa Cochran" To: Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Apple's event next wednesday It would be great to see VO not reset itself (as mine does at least twice

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
It would be great to see VO not reset itself (as mine does at least twice a day) and to have Safari and Webkit play nicely with VO in a more stable fashion. If it isn't addressed in this specific presentation, I hope it'll be addressed soon. :) Teresa On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Daniel Rowe w

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Granados
Maybe a little tighter integration with safari as well. I still see more data in explorer in some cases. WOuld like to get the data available even if in a different form to be similar. On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > I would really love to see other voices in oth

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I would really love to see other voices in other languages and that they ditched those trinoids, good news, bad news, boing and other nonsence voices that belonged in the days when they didn't really know what to do with synthetic speech, because they hadn't a screen reader then. Nowadays, t

Re: Got my recording program.

2010-10-15 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Ian, Congratulations on Amadues Pro. I think it will be great for you. I use it every day and I love it! Amadeus pro can be purchased from http://www.kagi.com It costs about $40 I believe. Have fun with it. I have some podcasts on it as does Erick Caron. If you want to check out my podc

Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-15 Thread Daniel Rowe
Hi all. As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X 10.7. So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS

iphone: dropbox and file editing

2010-10-15 Thread William Windels
Hi all, I was wondering if I could edit office documents on my iphone. I can transfer them with dropbox, but, there seems no way to write in documents that are opened from inside the dropbox. I also have file app pro but I don't know if this program allows me to edit office-documents. Also, filea

Aborting send during spell check.

2010-10-15 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Greetings, I have "check spelling before sending" selected in the edit menu. In Outlook if I realized that I didn't address my note properly or could have phrased something differently I could abort sending during the spellcheck process. I have nmot found a way to accomplish this in AppleMail

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread GEOFF WAALER
I tried this technique, but decided to restore the default of showing the headers because for me it seems more efficient to exploit the preview pane. Under the navigation tab of voiceOver utility I unchecked the box labeled: "Automatically interact when using tab key". This way I am not interac

Re: Test, please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! Ignore you never! :] Anyway in address book select your card, and then go to the menu vo+m scroll right until you get to card then scroll down and there should be an option to [ make this my card ] vo+space bar that and that should be it! hth Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at 17:19, Carolyn Ha

RE: rar extractors

2010-10-15 Thread Cameron
Have you tried TheUnarchiver? It's free... -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chad baker Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 4:54 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: rar extractors Hi is there a accessi

Test, please ignore

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Ok, let's see if I've fixed this. Thanks everyone.:) Carolyn Haas chaas0...@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 unsubscribe from this group, se

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Colin: I believe I have a card there. I'll check, though. I also tried messing with a filter, but it didn't look very promising. Thanks Carolyn Carolyn Haas chaas0...@gmail.com On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Colin M wrote: > Hi Carolyn! > Have you set up your own card in address book! > I

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! Have you set up your own card in address book! If not that might also be the problem! Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at 16:41, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Ok, even stranger: I set up to bcc myself, and I'm still not getting them. > Guess It's time to learn more about filters?:) > > > Thanks e

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Carolyn Haas
Ok, even stranger: I set up to bcc myself, and I'm still not getting them. Guess It's time to learn more about filters?:) Thanks everyone. Carolyn Haas chaas0...@gmail.com On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Colin M wrote: > Hi Geoff! > I think that setting might be set by default, I'm still

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Geoff! I think that setting might be set by default, I'm still using my gmail from when i installed it and never new about that setting until this thread was brought up! So if you have not gone in to compose in the tool bar that setting might be set that way for you! Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
I'm not sure, I use to use pop with gmail, and I got my sent messages back too. Total head scratcher. :) Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Oct 15, 2010, at 11:09 AM, GEOFF WAALER wrote: >>> Strange! I exclusively use the gma

Re: Receiving one's own posts to googlegroups -> was My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread GEOFF WAALER
>> Strange! I exclusively use the gmail server and never cc myself, yet >> receive all posts in the folder (aka label) I set up for the list, so maybe >> a filter is the answer after all? >> >> >> On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Colin M wrote: >> >>> Hi Carolyn! >>> Ricardo is right you might wa

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Neil. When you go to the view Menu, make sure that the headers are none so when you open a thread your message reads automaticly and you do shict command h and you voice over lect arrow to get to your headers and interact if you want to know who the message is from. Kawal. Kawal Gucukoglu

Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
All, is it possible in Mac Mail to have mail items sorted into conversation view, in OutLook what this does is thread each set of messages by subject, so that you can delete entire threads if you wish. I use this view all the time in OutLook for dealing with the mail address I have subscribed t

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Yes it certainly is. SImply go to the view menu, and check organize by thread. On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > > > All, > > is it possible in Mac Mail to have mail items sorted into conversation view, > in OutLook what this does is thread each set of messages

RE: Got my recording program.

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Ian. Where did you get it and how much does it cost? Thanks so much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian McNamara Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:02 PM To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Cc: macvisiona

Re: My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Colin M
Hi Carolyn! Ricardo is right you might want to look at the compose button inside the tool bar of preferences you can set it to cc yourself! Otherwise Annes suggestion could be the one! Colin On 15 Oct 2010, at 04:27, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I think it might be a gmail setting. But I bel

rar extractors

2010-10-15 Thread chad baker
Hi is there a accessible rar extractor? I currently use stuffit expander but its been crashing lately when extracting rar files. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@google

Re: Got my recording program.

2010-10-15 Thread Eric Oyen
good. now go learn that puppy! I want to hear you being a pro in 2 weeks! :) -Eric On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Ian McNamara wrote: > Hello all, well i've finely done it i have just bought amadayus pro. I have > to say i am really happy with it all i have to do now is learn how to use it > pr

Re: My dumb question for the day

2010-10-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Carolyn, This is far from a dumb question. However, I have the answer for you. The problem is with GMail. If you send your message through a different SMTP server rather than the GMail one, you'll see your own messages, but when you send through the GMail SMTP server, you don't. Cheers,