Re: acapella voices

2011-03-27 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, thanks so much for all the help. I checked out the Acapella voices and was blown away. IMO, $99.00 is not a lot of money for one language pack of that quality. I couldn't quite figure out how much two packs, British and American English, would cost. Anyone know? Maybe when I finish my

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Scott, I use the 6 key on my Connect to move down the options and the 3 key to go the other way. Les On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Sarai, He is not able to hear the tones, but aside from this it seems he may have an older model or at least the steps I recall using

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Scott, A slight correction. The 3 key is indeed used to cycle from the top of the menu structure down, but the 4 key is used to go in the opposite direction. The 1 key definitely does not move anywhere on the Connect 24. Les On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Sarai, He

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Howell
hi les, Thanks I was not sure which keys, so Thanksfor correcting my error. Scott Howell Sent from my iPad On Mar 27, 2011, at 3:20, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Scott, I use the 6 key on my Connect to move down the options and the 3 key to go the other way. Les On Mar

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread James Gallagher
Hello Sarai well Sarai that got it I am in the Advanced menu and I put Bluetooth on and My MacBook Pro found the Brailliant 40 on the Bluetooth and been using it great. May I ask another question Please if i may I got an e-mail from a member saying that this Display is not supported in IOS4

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Isaac Obie
Hello James, How are you? Is your brailliant40 working now? My brailliant24 is okay. Write when you can. Isaac - Original Message - From: James Gallagher To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: It's supported, definitly supported. On Mar 27, 2011, at 6:16 AM, James Gallagher wrote: Hello Sarai well Sarai that got it I am in the Advanced menu and I put Bluetooth on and My MacBook Pro found the Brailliant 40 on the Bluetooth and been using it great. May I ask another

Re: Bluetooth on Brailliant 40 Display

2011-03-27 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: On the older units, press dots 36 to access menus, then press dot 3 to move through options, the newer displays use the instructions I provided below. On Mar 26, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Sarai, He is not able to hear the tones, but aside from this it seems he may have an

Re: adium 1.4.1 won't add msn contacts even when the e-mail addresses are correct any one know what's up?

2011-03-27 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey I use the Samnet Socializer at the University but when I use it, I don't get an authorization request there. Only with Adium do I get an authorization request. And that's cool about them fixing these kinds of issues in their new version, I hope they'll also have contacts signing in and out

RE: Drop Box

2011-03-27 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Recardo. Thanks so much. I got Dropbox set up. Even the windows side I had to use the JAWS cursor to install it. How about the status menu? I tried to find it but it's not where I would expect it to be. Thanks so much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Printers and scanners

2011-03-27 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi listers: I am amazed at the simplicity of my Mac. I have a Cannon MX 320 printer/scanner. When I first connected to my Windows PC, I had to install this driver disk which required mousing around just to get it installed and it took several minutes just to install. When I plugged the thing

Blue tooth headset

2011-03-27 Thread louie
Hi all, I just got a new bluetooth headset. it's the M100 by plantronics. The headset when turned on tells me that power is on and it tells me the talk time that is left before it binds with my Mac mini. When the power is turned off the headset tells me power off. These announcement are spoken

Turning off all-caps spelling

2011-03-27 Thread Victor Tsaran
Hello guys, I reckon the answer to my question would be this is currently impossible, but I thought I'd risk asking the list anyway... Oftentimes I come across the heading or a line of text where each letter is capitalized. In these instances Voiceover spells each letter which ,as you can imagine,

Re: Blue tooth headset

2011-03-27 Thread Mary Otten
I looked up this plantronics m100, but it looks like it does not include a2dp. I understood that one needed that in order to hear voiceover. Perhaps I missed it, but I did look on two different websites of vendors who carry this product, and the description for the m100 didn't reference a2dp.

Re: Blue tooth headset

2011-03-27 Thread louie
Marry, It works with voice over. My wife got it from the apple store. She checked that it would work on my Mac mini and that it worked with voice over. On Mar 27, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Mary Otten wrote: I looked up this plantronics m100, but it looks like it does not include a2dp. I understood

Default Applications?

2011-03-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
I have both Open Office and Pages on my Mac Mini. I'd like to have Word documents open with Pages instead of OO. How would I do this, aside from uninstalling OO? I'm not quite ready to do this yet. Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Blue tooth headset

2011-03-27 Thread Mary Otten
I wonder if that business about a2dp and voice over applies just to the i-devices? not the Mac? but why would it be different? 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

Are two drives alike?

2011-03-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, Recently a friend found a 500 GB Passport at the Apple store for twice what I paid for my 1TB drive last year. It said that it was for MacOS, but since my MBP has no trouble finding or reading my drive, I didn't see this deal as a bargin exactly. This afternoon I searched the

Two unrelated inquiries: Garage band accessibility and unlabeled Flash Player buttons on Web site

2011-03-27 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello, folks. I've got two today: 1. I was told that one could make ringtones from one's music using Garage Band. I launched Garage Band, selected ringtones and discovered that is as far as I can apparently go. Apparently, according to sighted assistance, I can move around the screen, but VO

Re: Default Applications?

2011-03-27 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Select a word document, and hit cmd-i to open the Get Info window. There is an item to pick which application opens the file, and a Change All button next to it which will make all subsequent Word files open via the same program. Hope this helps, Zack. On Mar 27, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Teresa

Re: Two unrelated inquiries: Garage band accessibility and unlabeled Flash Player buttons on Web site

2011-03-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Can't help with the garage band issue since I don't use it, as far as flash goes, unfortunately, it's not accessible on the mac, Adobe has been unwilling to make flash accessible on the mac. Hopefully, in time, html5 will replace flash. The html5 player on youtube, for example, is very

Re: Turning off all-caps spelling

2011-03-27 Thread Kevin Shaw
when Voiceover reads caps as individual letters, it thinks the caps form an acronym. Weird, especially 'cause there are vowels in the headings. I haven't found a workaround, but for common text, I'd put the word in the pronunciation dictionary and mark it as case sensitive. Kevin -- You

Ordering songs within an itunes playlist

2011-03-27 Thread Daniel Montalvo Charameli
that's my problem today. I'm trying to set a specific order within a playlist and I don't know how yo do it. I've been playing with the track number but Itunes not always cares about this and does not respect the number of tracks I have selected for the different songs. I have tried the drag

Re: acapella voices

2011-03-27 Thread Johchi
On 3/26/2011 6:21 AM, AZ wrote: Hi. You can go to http://www.assistiveware.com/purchaseonline.php and buy for example one of english voices and get Heather for free which looks like Samantha. Nuance doesn't sell voices directly, but they'll come in the next release of Mac OS X. AZ

Re: Are two drives alike?

2011-03-27 Thread Bryan Jones
Hey Geoff, Both of your examples will work fine with a Mac. The non-Mac version is NTFS and will need to be formatted as HFS+ or whatever format you want. The Mac version does come with some mac backup software, and there's mention of disk encryption, but if it's just going to be used to house

Re: Printers and scanners

2011-03-27 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Joseph, I would connect the device and give it to your Windows VM. You would need the driver disk, I imagine. Windows, virtualized or not, isn't smart enough to be able to use all functions of all devices without manufacturer support. Of course, the same is true of macs, but it might

Re: getting an apple e-mail account with out subscribing to mobile me?

2011-03-27 Thread M. Taylor
I do not think it is possible to get an Apple email address without either being an Apple employee or paying for a mobile me account. Mark On Mar 26, 2011, at 1:31 PM, trahern culver wrote: hey all i have an apple id but ide quite like an apple e-mail address how do i get one with out

Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-27 Thread Johchi
Hi folks, I'm not a Mac user yet, but I am learning sooo much by gtleaning from this wonderful list. My question has to do with convincing the PA State agency that getting VO and the MacBook for me is a better choice then the traditional Windows screen reader setup. But I want to be

Re: Ordering songs within an itunes playlist

2011-03-27 Thread Kevin Shaw
You can use cut and paste within an iTunes playlist to reorder songs. Kevin -- 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, send email to

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-27 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Well, You could point them to the 500+ users on both list serves, and show them the list archives. You can go to www.applevis.com. Personally, I'll never go back to Windows. I have been a Mac user for 11 months, and can do everything on a Mac that I was doing on Windows. On Mar 27, 2011, at

Re: Two unrelated inquiries: Garage band accessibility and unlabeled Flash Player buttons on Web site

2011-03-27 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Christine -- Regarding the Irish lessons website, do you have the Click To Flash extension installed in Safari on your Mac? The reason I ask is that I just tried the demo on the site and didn't seem to have any problems, so perhaps it might be my clicktoflash extension doing it's thing. Just

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-27 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Johnny, Welcome to the List! Perhaps you could help us to help you by giving us a list of the specific tasks you need to be able to perform with a computer. While the Mac is good, it's not the best tool for everything and there are some things that just are not possible on the Mac.

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-27 Thread Chantelle Griffiths
Hi Johnny, I can totally see where you're coming from regarding your Mac and VO queries, but it's difficult to say, in your particular situation, whether the Mac would be the right choice for you because we don't know what you want to use it for. For example, if you're wanting to be able to

please may i have an Amadeus Pro skype practical session with some on?

2011-03-27 Thread trahern culver
hey all i'm looking to started with Amadeus Pro please could some one give me a Amadeus Pro skype practical to get me started? if any one help my skype name is treymantan your help with this request would be most welcome!! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are

canseling an axidently created apple i d?

2011-03-27 Thread trahern culver
hey all when i called apple care in the u k an apple i d was axidently created for me my question to you all is this how i counsal it?? your help with this question would be most welcom!! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

short cuts to get to the top and bottem of the message list in mail?

2011-03-27 Thread trahern culver
hey all what are the short cuts to get to the top and bottem of the message list in mail? 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 group, send

Users guide for keystrokes for the apple bluetooth keyboard to use it with the Iphone

2011-03-27 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a users guide or know where I can download a users guide for the apple bluetooth keyboard mainly the keystrokes that can be used for the iphone once paired. Regards Dean !!!Thoughts become things so choose the good ones because Life's to short to be a

Re: short cuts to get to the top and bottem of the message list in mail?

2011-03-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, hold down the option key and press the up or down arrow to get to the top or bottom of the list. If your Mac makes that bong noise, just ignore it and keep holding down the 2 keys for half a second longer. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296

Re: Users guide for keystrokes for the apple bluetooth keyboard to use it with the Iphone

2011-03-27 Thread wes smith
I seam to remember Josh wrote something on Maccessibility. Someone else will have to find the link, cause I can't seam to find it. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Dean Adams d...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a users guide or know where I can

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-03-27 Thread Johchi
Hi Brian, First thanks for the kind welcome. Well, my life is pretty simple. As a piano tuner, I need a straight forward database program, - which there is no real solution for screen reader users in windows to date. A simple checking/accounting program. In Windows there is a good check

Re: Drop Box

2011-03-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, The status menu is not accessible with voiceover with installed 3rd party apps. Their is a work around for this though. Problem is, in the latest version of dropbox, they have some how managed to make the preferences window totally inaccessible with voiceover once you've used the work

Re: short cuts to get to the top and bottem of the message list in mail?

2011-03-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
This is quite brilliant. Thanjks, Ricardo! On 28 Mar 2011, at 04:35, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, hold down the option key and press the up or down arrow to get to the top or bottom of the list. If your Mac makes that bong noise, just ignore it and keep holding down the 2 keys for half a

Can't reply to messages on the list

2011-03-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, Over the past couple of days, when I try to reply to a message posted on the list, my reply bounces with the information that I may not be allowed to post to the group or that the group may not exist. Does anyone ever have a problem like this? Simon -- You received this message