Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Florian, On 4 Feb 2011, at 23:51, f10r14n wrote: As a matter of fact, I agree with both sides on some account. Before you shoot me for it let me explain. First, Kevin's side. He has been trying to transition to the mac, for example for his school needs I think. For this, he has tried

Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad iTouch

2011-02-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Brandt, If you are unable to locate Marcel's Apps in your country's App Store, please send him a brief friendly email at: i...@chess-wise.com In my experience, he has been very quick to respond in a polite and helpful manner. Also, one other suggestion given to another individual from

IOS4 Game: How to Fire in Soul Trapper?

2011-02-05 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, folk, I'm liking what I hear in this game. The setting is very rich and fun. The actions, however, are very challenging for me. I've tried with and without Voiceover on my ITouch. I've finally figured out how to aim, but how do you fire? I'm almost hoping this solution is not a spoiler,

Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread f10r14n
Hello Anne and others, Let me first say that if Kevin's issues are resolved no longer seems the general subject of this thread. This is why I jumped in in the first place. Let me first disagree with you on one point Anne. Formatting documents may not be necessary for quick 'n dirty edocument

Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad iTouch

2011-02-05 Thread brandt
I don't use duch as my language, thus no go. I will send that email. Regards, Brandt Steenkamp MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 - Original Message - From: Bryan Jones

IGG Software | Mac finance software, personal money management and small business applications for OS X

2011-02-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
Subject line says everything, think some people were looking for accessible packages along this line? http://www.iggsoftware.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad iTouch

2011-02-05 Thread Scott Howell
Brand, let me make something very clear to you, I am not mistaken at all. I have no access to the store in your country and I am only reporting what the developer told me. Now if you have a problem, with locating the app in the store, I suggest you send Marcel an e-mail to i...@chess-wise.com

Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Anne, I think you have hit the nail on the head. THe problem for most people who are using windows and windows screen readers is they have received some form of training. I for example since switching to Microsoft Office 2007 have struggled to accomplish a lot of formatting tasks. My

Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad iTouch

2011-02-05 Thread brandt
I have emailed Marcel, now let's hope things happen. This happened with boath aurifi and soultrapper as well, and haven't seen anything happening on that frunt for months now. Regards, Brandt Steenkamp MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com AIM:

Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad iTouch

2011-02-05 Thread Keith Watson
This may already have been answered down the line, but you are not searching for the correct item. Search for quote chess dash wise quote. And yes I spelled out the entire line so that VO would say it correctly. On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:27 AM, brandt wrote: I am sorry to say that you're mistaken.

iToons the iPhone and Audio Books

2011-02-05 Thread Keith Watson
Hi all, I am trying to convert a series from mp3 to m4b so that I can listen to them on the iPhone. I would like to have the series name on the iPhone with all the books listed under that series. For example: Broke by Glenn Beck Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

Re: iToons the iPhone and Audio Books

2011-02-05 Thread Jane
When I did that, I simply put each book as a separate track under the series name. for instance, I have six books in what I call the Belisarius series. So I named the book itself Belisarius Series for the book title. Each book in that series is one track. So, you'd see Book 1 Book 2 and so

Re: trouble with xmradio site

2011-02-05 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, The developer of Pulsar, Rogue Amoeba, explained that Sirius and XM have merged their site in to one site and this has broken pulsar. They are working on a fix. It is interesting that the iPhone app did not break. Robert Carter On Feb 5, 2011, at 12:17 AM, chad wrote: hi has anyone had

Re: iToons the iPhone and Audio Books

2011-02-05 Thread Keith Watson
Well I thought I had it. I named the Album Inheritance Cycle and then the title the name of each book. Then I told iToons that there were 1 of 2 tracks and 1,2,3 of 5 discs. This embeded all the tracks under the Album name but did not give me the track name. Still working on it. Thanks for

Re: KeyNote: Details of Goal

2011-02-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Kevin, Sorry it took so long to respond to your plea for assistance. I'll do my best here, but I'll admit that my expertise is in server administration, networking and am not the most proficient at Keynote. I primarily use it to read PowerPoint and Keynote presentations that others have

Kudos to the SimpleNote Developers

2011-02-05 Thread Robert Carter
Hi All, There is a very nice application called SimpleNote which allows one to create text notes and have them sync across multiple devices. In other words, you can write a note using the iPhone app and have that that note automatically show up on your Mac. SimpleNote just came out with an

Re: trouble with xmradio site

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, it looks like they have gone to an all flash site, if you uncheck the option to enable plugins, the only thing the page says is a link to get the flash player. On Feb 5, 2011, at 12:17 AM, chad wrote: hi has anyone had trouble with the xmradio site i tried to listen online and got a

Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

2011-02-05 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, Does anyone on this list have a copy of OS 10.5 (Leopard) for the PowerPC, that they might want to get rid of? I want to upgrade the operating system on an old iBook G4, and I believe 10.5 is the last version of the Mac OS that Apple released for PowerPC machines. Thank you. Rafael

proud new owner of a ipad

2011-02-05 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello listers, my wife and I have been looking at getting a new computer. Her laptop is about to kick the bucket and I wanted to get something to play games on, and I didn't want to regress back to a windows machine and deal with jaws again, well atleast the hacked version of it that I was

Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Scott, I have the luxury of being married to a Mac expert and when we both have time at the same time, we put together user guides for VoiceOver users. Unfortunately for this list, they are usually in French, since the people we teach are themselves French. I've got Kevin more or less

Re: KeyNote: Details of Goal

2011-02-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Tim, It really is difficult choosing an equivalent theme for a Keynote presentation when one has been given the name of a PowerPoint theme. Luckily for me, my husband uses both Powerpoint and Keynote and was able to suggest Showroom as an equivalent for Aspect. Cheers, Anne -- You

Re: Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

2011-02-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yep that's correct, OS10.5 Leopard is the last edition which will run on Power PC's but two things to bare in mind here and this is from my own personal experience with Leopard on a G4 Ibook. Performance is very sluggish compared to the Intel machines. Second, if you can I would certainly

Mac Name

2011-02-05 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Hi all, just a quick one, and I'm sorry I've not done to much digging around for this, but time is rather short for this particular task. both my Mac Book Air and iMac have assumed names based on my name, i.e. Neil Barnfather's Mac Book Air etc, I do not ever recall being asked what I wish the

Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Anne: What you've said here is very well thought and very well put. I've been at this over a year, and still feel half the time like I'm learning on the fly. There are some systems being developed in the US for training with Voiceover. But, they're not easy to find when you're just

Re: Mac Name

2011-02-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Neil, Upon setup, your Mac usually just places your name prior to the model of the computer as you've noticed. It is, though, extremely easy to change the name. Simply do the following: 1. Go to the system Preferences. 2. Select the Sharing System Pref. 3. Press tab to get to the

Re: KeyNote: Details of Goal

2011-02-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Anne, Thanks for that info. I actually had chosen Showroom, mostly because it was the first one in the list that wasn't just plain white. Lucky guess. Have a good one. Later... On 2011-02-05, at 1:38 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Tim, It really is difficult choosing an equivalent

Re: Mac Name

2011-02-05 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Tim, Great thanks a tonne, can I just ask, by changing the name of the machine do you know if this will necessitate the resetting up of my Time Machine backups etc. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @NeilBarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero

Re: iWOrk: VoiceOver Falls Short

2011-02-05 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm working on Kevin's Numbers assignment now but I have to stop for the day. I will continue with things tomorrow and post my suggestions. I'm not a Numbers expert either but know a little more than the basics. Let's hope it's helpful. Later... On 2011-02-05, at 1:36 PM, Anne

Re: Mac Name

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, this can be changed, open system preferences, and choosing sharing, you can change the name of the computer on the screen that will open. On Feb 5, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: Hi all, just a quick one, and I'm sorry I've not done to much digging around for this,

Re: MacMini Without a Screen

2011-02-05 Thread Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
The screen issue is exactly why I unfortunately returned mine. I did not know that buying a screen would resolve my issues. Antonio On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: yeah can we say stupid! I thin it's pathetic that we can't have a way around it since we have screen

Re: What is a script

2011-02-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
You install scripts in the scripts folder by to my knowledge pasting there. You can write scripts but the language for me is a bit complex. You can have it record keystrokes but it will reocrd the alt tabs and everything so that probably is not a good idea. S On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:46 PM,

It seems the first Verizon iPhone has been delivered to its customer.

2011-02-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
How could this happen when apple didn't even start shipping to VZ yet? http://bit.ly/ePT7MM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

Can't get airport express to join wireless network, help please?

2011-02-05 Thread johns.kary
Hi guys, I'm having trouble setting up my airport express, hear's the steps I'm following, if anyone has any suggestions what do do I'll be most grateful. I'm trying to get the airport express to join my existing netgear wireless network. I've installed the CD that came with the airport

Re: Can't get airport express to join wireless network, help please?

2011-02-05 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, If you want to join the network, and you are trying to extend your netgear's wireless network, you need to hook it via ethernet. Airport express doesn't extend a third party vendor's wifi network as its base band for one is different and if you go to the apple support page airport express

best way to send sms messages using your mac??

2011-02-05 Thread trahern culver
hey all i have a macbook pro i would like to know the best way to send sms text messages using a mac?? your help with this question would be most welcom!!! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: best way to send sms messages using your mac??

2011-02-05 Thread Rob Lambert
You can send them thru mail. For example if you have a friend on Verizon, you could send a message to 1234567...@vtext.com. For ATT it would be txt.att.net, I'm not sure about Sprint, but for T-Mobile it's tmomail.com. Be sure to include the area code in your number, even if it's local. On Sat,

Re: best way to send sms messages using your mac??

2011-02-05 Thread Scott Granados
Sprint is messaging.sprintpcs.com On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Rob Lambert wrote: You can send them thru mail. For example if you have a friend on Verizon, you could send a message to 1234567...@vtext.com. For ATT it would be txt.att.net, I'm not sure about Sprint, but for T-Mobile it's

Re: It seems the first Verizon iPhone has been delivered to its customer.

2011-02-05 Thread Scott Granados
No orders ahve already been shipped. On Feb 5, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: How could this happen when apple didn't even start shipping to VZ yet? http://bit.ly/ePT7MM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: best way to send sms messages using your mac??

2011-02-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
Various ways of doing this. One of the best ways is to use one of the many web SMS services that most telephone service providers offer these days, you type i nthe message on the web site and your mobile phone number is used so that when people reply the SMS coms up on your mobile. There's