Sadly it is not accessible, I made the same mistake last year and now I am
using VM Fusion which is fully accessible.
On 17 May 2011, at 06:58, Jenny Wood wrote:
Good day all. So basically, I am just now toying with running windows inside
of OS X. We already happen to have a copy of
Ah, bummer. Thought that might be the case. But thank you so much for the
response! I think we were just hoping to save some money, but I think we'll
have to go ahead and bite the bullet and get Fusion. In fact, I listened to
the podcast on using Fusion just the other day, which is in part,
Hello Brandt,
I have two computers on my desk and one has no floppy drive. there's a n
occassional need to transfer a single file between the two units. I use a
thumbdrive for this.
I use the same thumbdrive to transfer files between my pc and macbook. So I
am already using jthis format.. I
I have a pile of blank CDs, to be honest I can't see me using them, I do not
even create MP3 or Audio CDs anymore. The only thing I have on Disc are DVD or
Blu-ray, but with my Apple TV I can see them being boxed up and placed in
storage soon. Can anyone remember how expensive blank CD and
True, but look at it from the big corporation's point of view, what's
cheeper, 100 copys of whatever OS on CD, or 100 copys of the same OS
on thumb drives, or SD cards, or what have you.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you
No, maybe you don't stick a disc in an iPhone, but neither do you stick a
thumb drive in your iPhone. You can't back up your phone without using a
computer, thus your comparison is irelivant.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can
The reason why you can't stick a thumb drive in your iPhone is because the card
slot would take up valuable space, and of course if you could supply your own
memory, then you may not buy the more expensive higher memory models of phone
or be in a hurry to upgrade your phone. And yes you have
Hi fangirl.
I like max for my ripping needs. It does a good job, will integrate with your
itunes library, supports a stupid huge array of file formats, rips to two
formats at the same time, and really rocks in every way except for the way it
handles ripping a cd to one file. I'm not really
Well, you're still thinking small business. Shipping 5 CDs verses 20
USB thumb drives doesn't save on anything. Do the research and find out what
it costs to produce 100 thumb drives, pack them in the stupid packaging
usually used for thumb drives and shipping them, verses the same
Savings are also made by no longer having to provide a laptop or desktop with a
internal DVD drive, this results in the device being able to be made smaller
and lighter, saving on materials and manufacturing. Accept it, the spinning
disc is dead.
On 17 May 2011, at 13:27, brandt wrote:
Well,
Ok, let's agree to disagree on this point. I won't even bring up the non
computer devices sutch as my CD player on my bedside cabinet, the stereo in
the lounge, the PS 3 in my little brothers room, the 2 DVD players in the
house, the 2 6 disk CD changers in the 2 cars owned by the family, the 7
Hi Annie,
There should be two apps, one is the louis braille translator and the other is
the emboss utility.
I actually abandoned this in disgust at one point because well, I need a test
embosser and they haven't added usb support to the thing yet which makes it
tough. also, they've
Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo
systems for home audio, home theatre and car that enable you to drop your ioS
device into them? The likes of Sony and Microsoft are looking at the
possibilities of ditching there internal drives and provide content down
I can see you are an american, thus thinking like an american with high
spead, uncapped broadband internet access. Places like South Africa whare I
live and even New Zealand still implements data caps. Thus downloading a 3
or 4 gig file on a whim ain't gonna happen.
Warm regards,
Brandt
Wrong, I am British :) I am sure South Africa will catch up in time. After
all it was not so long ago that all those CD devices you were talking about
were cassette.
In the UK broadband speeds are up to 100mb via cable and they are currently
testing 200mb. It is nothing compared to South
Never even heard of 4g, let alone seen any plans. The fastest available
broadband here is 4 mB. They are currently bringing in 10 MB some places.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in
to my show, an Eclectic mess every
Right, 4G is wireless mobile broadband for your phone etc. Do you have 3G
mobile network?
On 17 May 2011, at 14:29, brandt wrote:
Never even heard of 4g, let alone seen any plans. The fastest available
broadband here is 4 mB. They are currently bringing in 10 MB some places.
Warm
Yes, but the access is shabby, mostly still GPRS.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in
to my show, an Eclectic mess every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by
going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info
Contact me:
Skype:
Well the future is heading your way, sounds like it may take up to 5 years or
so, but you best look after your CDs in the meantime. Over here music
downloads out sell physical CDs and once Apple add the ability to re-download
music you have already bought, the same way you can with apps, then
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
supposedly going to be part of Lion.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/16/listen-to-the-nuance-text-to-speech-voices-found-in-mac-os-x-lion/
If this means that Alex will be gone, then I'll not be upgrading.
These voices, at least to my
Don't panic, these are additional voices you can download as they are quite
large. Alex is going no where, and like you I prefer him. I am really not a
fan of Nuance voices.
On 17 May 2011, at 15:10, Howard Dupuis wrote:
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
Hi Guys:
I think we've sort of lost track of our purpose here in favor of a chat about
costs. This really doesn't have anything to do with accessibility or
voiceover. But, rather to speculation.
Please close the thread down now.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Carolyn
On
hello there
I want to buy a new lab top. I'm not sure to buy mac. I've got many
questions
1. how do you copy cd's. for instance I'm using nero... how do you
copy them?
2. I'm using fine reader for scanning. what do you use and is it free?
3. I heard that office sweet doesnt work wit voice over.
hey howard, don't worry. Alex is here to stay. The nuance voices are decent,
but I don't think any voice will go over alex.
On 2011-05-17, at 10:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
supposedly going to be part of Lion.
Thanks Eric for that, I've ben wondering about how to get Louis to work myself.
To open up a .app extention, hilight the app and press vo-shift-m. Then go down
to show package contents.
You'll find a folder which says contents, and then press command-o to open it.
On May 17, 2011, at 9:07 AM,
Hi list,
I was wondering if there is an app that will convert pdf files to text files
like pdf2txt on windows. Thanks.
Matt
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1. Hilight louis.app.
2. PRess vo-shift-m and go down to show package contents. Press enter.
3. You will find a single folder named contents. Press command-O to open it.
4. Locate the resources folder, and press command-O.
5. Go down until you get to Louis.pdf. Press command-O and that will open
Yes, I just listened to Samantha and Serena. They do sound a little more
artificial then Alex. They have a little burbling sound to them. Not bad, but
I too, like Alex better.
On May 17, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
Hi:
Seems like Samantha's gotten a little face lift (or higher nitrate.:)
She sounds pretty good on the Mac. But, I'm with you guys. I would definitely
not take her over Alex, even on her best day.:)
Carolyn
On May 17, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
hey howard, don't worry. Alex
Hi Matt and others:
I believe you can do this with pages, and possibly with Stanza, though someone
with more experience can verify this. I have a related question:
If someone sends a mail attachmentthat appears as pdf images, and I don't have
Abbyy, is there any way to access it's contents
Sertek Docuscan Plus?
On 17 May 2011, at 15:57, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi Matt and others:
I believe you can do this with pages, and possibly with Stanza, though
someone with more experience can verify this. I have a related question:
If someone sends a mail attachmentthat appears as pdf
Well, for my part, I think Serena's kinda sexy, and would use her over
Samantha. I use Alex as the system message and alert voice, figuring I'll need
to understand it the first time if there's a message, but would switch from a
surgically altered Fred (speeded up and lowered in pitch until he
Our car stereo has a USB port. I transfer music to a thumb drive, plug it into
the stereo, and I have 16 gigs of music blasting away. I'm just waiting for
the 32 gig USB drives to come down in price a little bit more and I'll have
twice the amount of music on a tiny little device I can hold
That price is off set by the price of the optical drives installed in every
computer, not the price of the DVD the os would be on. And the purchase and
installation of a optical drive is more than a thumb drive.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren?
grin
Isaac
- Original Message -
From: Kimberly thurman kimthur...@insightbb.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or
Hi.
What's preventing you from building pdf2txt from source? I'm pretty sure it'll
build cleanly under OSS. Thanks to gnu autoconf and friends. If you're not
comfortable with building from sources, the fink project may have what you
want. By default, it installs stuff under /opt/sw. So if you
So it is only a matter of time before we switch to digital distribution. This
reality has become more possible with the introduction of the Mac App Store
too. It is not uncommon for Apple to be bold and make the first step to ditch
legacy peripherals. For example when they introduced the
Its funny,
I have only used pdf2txt in Linux based systems, so smiled at the windows
reference.
Others here will provide the applications.
Still you can use a wonderful convert service via e-mail regardless of
platform.
gives me a chance to share this with the list.
writing to:
Oh I loved 8 track! and I still miss record scratching on my Technics. I best
shut up, as I will have the MOD telling me off again :)
On 17 May 2011, at 16:28, Isaac Obie wrote:
Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren?
grin
Isaac
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I heard the Tom demo and think it sounds pretty good.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On May 17, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
hey howard, don't worry. Alex is here to stay. The nuance voices are decent,
but I don't
Hi, I've never understood why you would want to convert pdf to txt, since there
are often good reason's why something is a pdf, but as long as it's not some
useless embedded image, why couldn't you just open it in preview and then save
as text?
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Well voices are really subjective and everyone will have there preferences, but
I think it's a serious step backward implementing nuance voices in lion.
Nuance has outrageously bad pronunciation. It falls to pieces when you speed
up the rate, and the cadence is nowhere near as nice as alex or
It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk for
the past 20 years or so. In my opinion, there are
no better than Paul and Betty. If Fonix would provide them for Mac OS, I'd
purchase them.
Terry
On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:10:58 -0700 (PDT)you write:
Just read about
Hmmm really got to disagree here, great voices at the time, but Betty? You'll
be asking for the inclusion of the speak and spell voice next.
On 17 May 2011, at 16:47, Terry Klarich wrote:
It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk
for the past 20 years or so.
Gotchya, but I don't have $300 at the moment.:)
Was hoping for something more immediate.:(
Thanks anyhow.
Carolyn
On May 17, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Chris Moore wrote:
Sertek Docuscan Plus?
On 17 May 2011, at 15:57, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi Matt and others:
I believe you can do this with pages,
chat forum anyone?
On May 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Isaac Obie wrote:
Wy didn't you keep some eight tracks to show your grandchildren?
grin
Isaac
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 17,
Hi Erik:
I like Samantha ok if she's fancied up enough. But, I agree. Wonder who has
the patent on eloquence? Even the old Dectalk voice would be preferable to
some of the nonsense that's in snowleopard now, (excluding Alex, of course.)
I wonder if there's any point in giving feedback to
Erik:
With all due respect, I don't think I have enough know how to do that. I'm
just a fledgling geek with big ideas.:)
Or, perhaps I have my hands full enough with things as they are.:)
On May 17, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Erik Heil wrote:
Hi.
What's preventing you from building pdf2txt from
Hi Terry:
I didn't catch the dectalk in your message because Alex spelled out the first
half. But, I'm glad to know who owns those voices.:)
I, too wish they could come over as an option.
Carolyn
.
On May 17, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Terry Klarich wrote:
It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were
Hi there,
I was trying to do a right-click to bring up the menu to convert music files to
play in Itunes. It was working, but when I tried to do it the other day,
nothing would happen. If I do Command I, I'm asked if I want to E-Mail the
page which is one of the choices. If there are some
One of my favourite natural voices is Ivona Eric. The Keynote SA was also a
great synth, just a pity that Keynote gold multimedia is not available any
more.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in
to my show, an Eclectic
Greetings,
Sadly it seems that a reminder is in order that the number of subscribers and
volume of list traffic is not conducive to off topic chat group messages.
The discussion of recordings in computer readable format and/or distribution
of media playable on the MacOS and IOS platforms are
Yes, i agree. I've never been a fan of the nuance voices.
now if they could come to some agreement, and include iVox...
On 17/05/2011 17:55, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi Erik:
I like Samantha ok if she's fancied up enough. But, I agree. Wonder who has
the patent on eloquence? Even the old
Where is you problem?
Pierre
Am 17.05.2011 um 06:21 schrieb Gail the U. S. Male:
Ok, maybe I'm dense! This didn't really make sense to me! Anyone willing to
talk me through this! Thanks.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up and
gets all clicky. I've found that speeding Fred up is helpful while speeding
many of the others in SL up just distort them more. I'm hoping I can speed
Serena up a tad and that she won't go all clicky on me.
•
Hi all,
I came across a pretty good app bundle from Apparent Software. Purchased
individually, the eight apps are valued at $221 total, but you can get them all
for $29 through the bundle. I was planning on picking up Text Expander anyway,
which is normally $35, so this app alone makes it
The new DecTalk is terrible. I love the DecTalk that was with access 32 and the
express in the 90's.
Sent from my iPhone
On 17/05/2011, at 11:47, Terry Klarich te...@klarich.net wrote:
It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk
for the past 20 years or so.
Yeah definitely, serena is nice. I can't wait until we get these voices with
lion in the summer hopefully.
Sent from my iPhone
On 17/05/2011, at 14:14, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote:
That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up
and gets
Wonder if there is Eloquence for the Mac? Yes, Nuance makes that too now,
but it works good.
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From: Matt matt.dierck...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion
The new
There is a half off special from mac update today for a PDF converter. Haven't
had time to look at it, but perhaps there is a free demo version, and then if
it does what you need then you could purchas it.
On May 17, 2011, at 12:38 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
Erik:
With all due respect, I don't
its the hig quality tom, no the one that ships with jfw.
On 2011-05-17, at 11:35 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
I heard the Tom demo and think it sounds pretty good.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On May 17, 2011, at 10:40
Hi, I'm running alex at 80 per sent with no click to be heard.
How fast do you have to be going?
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf,
1-888-255-5194
http://www.erik-burggraaf.com
On 2011-05-17, at 2:14 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter
When I speed him up past 60%, he sounds very choppy, super-fast and all clicky.
*shrug* may be my MBP.
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Personally, I'm sort of excited about the Irish and Scottish voices on
offer...Not voices you see routinely, so for that reason, I'm intrigued. Can't
recall their names at the moment however.
On another note, how do all of you prefer your voices? For instance, I know
someone who is almost
Having a hearing problem, I think, contributes to the style and speed of voice
I use. I speed up and add testosterone to the Fred voice because I find I can
listen to long strings of it and comprehend it. However, I would prefer that
all my devices spoke in sexy female voices, just cause ...
I think having a number of voice options is a very good thing, though I do like
Alex very much. Personally, I have trouble hearing certain voice timbres, such
as high female voices, so baritone and bass males are my preferences.
Teresa
On May 17, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote:
Hi Matt:
Ok, I'm definitely outdated, because I was picturing the old ductal express
voices from the 90's and what they would be like on a Mac. I believe those
voices are still used by Noaa all hazards radio, which is available as an
iPhone app.
Carolyn
On May 17, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Matt
Quite honestly, I can hear the guys better, I mean, the guy voices.:) But,
then again, it may be selective hearing. The women voices almost always seem
too soft, though the Samantha demo was pretty good quality.
On May 17, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote:
Personally, I'm sort of
it would be nice to have jaws's ellequence on the mack.
best
On 17 May 2011, at 19:14, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
That's my problem with Alex the minute you speed him up, he just breaks up
and gets all clicky. I've found that speeding Fred up is helpful while
speeding many of the
Hi!
If this is kind of topic, then please e-mail me privately and I do apologize in
advance.
I'm writing an educational report, which has to contain some references to
other publications according to the APA-standard.
Is it possible to create these things in Pages? I know it is doable in
I have always chosen male voices also, even before I developed the hearing
impairment I now have--the mid-range male voices are definitely easier to
hear. I also choose a Brit voice whenever possible.
Kestrell
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From: carolyn Haas chaas0...@gmail.com
To:
Hi Matt, Caroline, Erik, Jon, and Others,
Tim Kilburn answered this question a couple of months ago, but at the time
someone was looking for a command line tool. The message was short, so I'll
just paste it in:
begin quote
From: Tim Kilburn
Subject:Re: converting pdf
Greetings y'all,
To quote Shameless, the subject says it all. I'm considering acquiring a tv
receiver box. I got one several years ago before the US switch over to the
digital frequencies, but the required companion software was marginally usable
with JFW.
I therefore thought it wouldn't
Well, it would be even cheaper to just down load everything from the
internet. I have 2000 movies, and 15 thousand songs, all on a nas server
connected to my router, and I can stream it all to my TV, or PC. So yes I
think physical CD's and DVD's are on their way out. As for my movies, I get
Most cars are being made with iPod connections, and you can buy little lcd
screen's to put on the back of seats when you travel. Who wants to limit
themselves to just six discs, when you can have your whole library with you?
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Sorry, had a lot of messages and didn't see this before I replied.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carolyn Haas
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:17 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Mod note: was
Hi. Didn't someone post to this list that Alex sounded different in lion? A
little robotic even? I still got to wonder what this person said. I hope that
they didn't take out the whole breathing thing, I thought that was cool. And I
for one am glad that Samantha's coming to Mac, I wish she
So I got a question. Do you all think that the new Mac OS will still be shipped
in a DVD or will it ship in a thumb drive? Or, like someone said, will it be
digitally distributed in the App Store? I hope it'll be the 2 above the one I
just asked because the people that don't have credit cards
Hi!
This may be a silly question, but, because of recent concerns about the
supposed changes with Alex, I'm wondering if the current Alex speech
program in Snow can be extracted from the os and saved separately for
future use?
Thanks,
Johnny C.
On 5/17/2011 7:24 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Hello all. I am having issues with certain commercial web sites when trying to
register and refine search results.
On more than one site, when signing up, when the secure edit text comes up to
choose and then verify a password, the clicks do not always sound, and I am
constantly getting a
Yes, parallels is not accessible with voiceover, fusion from vmware is a much
better choice.
On May 17, 2011, at 12:58 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
Good day all. So basically, I am just now toying with running windows inside
of OS X. We already happen to have a copy of Parallels, so we decided to
Is Alex going away? I definitely don't want him to.
Teresa
On May 17, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Hi. Didn't someone post to this list that Alex sounded different in lion? A
little robotic even? I still got to wonder what this person said. I hope that
they didn't take out the
I think Alex will still be there, speech is a subjective thing, though I would
not base my upgrade decision on whether or not a single voice was included.
On May 17, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
supposedly going to be part
Well, before I heard about there being real sounding voices out there, my
favorite voice for Eloquence was Rocko and for DecTalk it was Paul. Then I
played around with the Neospeech voices, which I think should be one of the
voices that comes here to Mac. Then after I heard that Tom was the
Hi Christine,
I've occasionally ran into the issue of text not being entered into forms
properly. It seems to be very site-specific, and only happens when using the
VO cursor to move around from field to field. I can't pin anything down, but
what I usually try and do in this case is tab and
I'm looking forward to playing with the nuance voices, I have no preference
between male or female, as long as I like the voice in general, that's what
matters.
On May 17, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote:
Personally, I'm sort of excited about the Irish and Scottish voices on
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Thanks, Mike. I will definitely look into getting Fusion as soon as possible.
Now it's just a matter of working it into the infamous budget. :-) Good
podcast on running windows on the mac, btw. It's much appreciated.
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Hi folks,
Well it looks like I will be soon getting a 15 MBP with a 500mgb hard
drive and an i5 processor. My question is business related. I have
hundreds of customers in Excel in a windows 7 environment. Will I be
able to fairly easily import this database into Numbers on the Mac using
Hi,
In most cases, Excel to Numbers works great. I haven't had any problems doing
this myself although most have not been complicated spreadsheets.
Later...
On 2011-05-17, at 8:03 PM, Johchi wrote:
Hi folks,
Well it looks like I will be soon getting a 15 MBP with a 500mgb hard drive
1. Hilight louis.app.
2. PRess vo-shift-m and go down to show package contents. Press enter.
3. You will find a single folder named contents. Press command-O to open it.
4. Locate the resources folder, and press command-O.
5. Go down until you get to Louis.pdf. Press command-O and that will open
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