Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Sure, Whatever would work best for you. Either which way, there are ways to restore your system without a DVD. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 20, 2011, at 1:43 AM, brandt wrote: I don't know about most, my choice would

Re: multiple personality ipod shuffle

2011-05-20 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Jorge, that male voice you hear when you sink the shuffle to the Mac is called Alex. Unfortunately that voice is only available when you sink it to the Mac. When sinked to a PC, you hear that female voice you speak of. There's a youtube video that explains that entitled MS Sam Vs. Mac Alex.

Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. Nisus writer pro 2 is out. It seems rather accessible. There is a lot of new functions, it has been made easier to make a table of content, save it as epub or HTML. One interesting thing that has been added is a function in the spell checker that lets you correct all. I will

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Kestrell
Facebook changes it's interface pretty regularly: in my experience, about the length of time it takes a blind computer user to become familiar with the previous incarnation of the interface. Actually, my sighted friends complain about these constant changes, also. Kes - Original Message

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
What is that Annie? Sent from my iPhone On 20 May 2011, at 12:02 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Nisus writer pro 2 is out. It seems rather accessible. There is a lot of new functions, it has been made easier to make a table of content, save it as epub

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Colin M
Hi all! Ok I do not know how many of you have use m.facebook on your phones! So I was wondering could you set that link on the phone and then when you go to it on your Mac you should be ok! If this is one of those things that change back after logging out! Then that wouldn't be much help either!

ProTools 9 first look

2011-05-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Found this free in the App store, when I was trying to find out how much ProTools 9 would cost, which I still don't know--anyone? ... Doesn't seem to work with VO at all, so I'm wondering if anyone else's gotten anything out of it. Thanks. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. It is a wordprocessor. It was the first wordprocessor I bought for the mac, and the wordprocessor that I like best. In my opinion most functions are easy to use. Another thing is that nisus writer pro can handle really many formats, that I often have difficulties with e.g. in pages. Best

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hi Annie! Has this program a function for making references to sources? Like I wrote about for a cpouple of days ago regarding Pages? I seriously need this tool, since it would make some of my papers so much easier to handle. Best regards Thomas Mail MSN: t...@coolfortheblind.dk website:

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Thomas. I think you should install the demo, and we can try to figure it out together. I would suggest you to send the question about references in apa standard, that I do not know much about to the nisus team. www.nisus.com. Best regards Annie. On May 20, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Thomas Byskov

Question about using Adium

2011-05-20 Thread Dawn Benbow
Hi everyone, Someone recommended Adium to me for a chat program. I installed it with no problems. My question is, how do you get VO to read you messages? Thanks, Dawn Dawn Benbow email:d-ben...@live.com Messanger: d.ben...@sbcglobal.net Messanger: d-ben...@live.com Twitter:

My Itunes question

2011-05-20 Thread Dawn Benbow
With all this talk about adding files to itunes I thought i would mention the little problem I'm having doing that. Maybe you guys have some ideas how I can fix it. I had a *large* music collection, about 35 GB at the moment, and always growing. I moved it into an external TB drive that we have

Re: My Itunes question

2011-05-20 Thread Ashley Cox
1. is any of it in WMA? 2. Instead of copy and pasting it, do the following: Delete the itunes folders form your music and/or home folder, so there are no libraries left. startup iTunes, follow the prompts to create a new empty library when iTunes is running, go to fileadd to library... find

Re: My Itunes question

2011-05-20 Thread Dawn Benbow
Hi, Some of them are WMA files. On May 20, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Ashley Cox wrote: 1. is any of it in WMA? 2. Instead of copy and pasting it, do the following: Delete the itunes folders form your music and/or home folder, so there are no libraries left. startup iTunes, follow the prompts

terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Ester, When entering terminal mode, I'm having problems with VoiceOver focusing on where my cursor is. Would you say terminal is accessible? If it is, then what am I missing that makes operating it so difficult? I'm a starter in terminal mode on the mac, but I do know of complex command

Re: Question about using Adium

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hello! After you have received a message you can press vo-left arrow once. Here it should say: Uknown. Interact with this area and go to the bottom of the window. Depending on your Mac you can press shift-FN-vo-right arrow, if you have a laptop. If you got a desktop then press vo-shift-end

pages the program and columns

2011-05-20 Thread richard watson
Hi Listers, This one is for all of you pages experts out there. I have recently gotten a mac and love it for email and the web!. I am a converting windows user and usually use ms office. Some of my documents require columns (I am a pastor and need this feature when doing church bulletins.)

Re: terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Jon Cohn
First note that the terminal gives you a UNIX shell and accepts most BSD UNIX commands with no major issues. In terms of cursor tracking as long as you interact with the text you should not have many problems especially if you read my note from last week. Best regards, Jonathan -- You

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread William Windels
Hello Annie and others, I have just downloaded the demo to give it a try but: Why should I use this while pages has nearly the same features, or is this wrong? And, about tables, if voiceover is not supporting this, we can not use it in the program? Thx for your answers, best regards,

Re: terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Esther
Hi Paul, First, you might want to read Jonathan Cohn's reply from last week on terminal usability: On May 13, 2011, Jon Cohn wrote: Two more notes on terminal. by default terminal does not clear out scrollback items, so your entire terminal session will be in both the terminal window

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Christina
On the first night that I encountered the big change with FaceBook I got lucky and noticed the having trouble go to the nontouch site link. So, it works as it used to for me. Someone posted a suggestion for the busy busy busy problem and it has worked wonderfully for me and in fact I prefer

Re: terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Esther, It feels like the terminal is way more technical than DOS used to be, but wanting to get to know it means I'll have to start somewhere. The post from Jon doesn't make that much sense to me at this time. Hopefully, you can explain some about the following things: 1. What are scroll

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi William. I think it depends of your needs. I am not using tables much. I am not quite sure if tables is not supported in the new version. Best regards Annie. On May 20, 2011, at 7:52 PM, William Windels wrote: Hello Annie and others, I have just downloaded the demo to give it a try but:

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi again. I see now that your are right, tables is not supported, I will write it to nisus, and hopefully they will fix it. Best regards Annie. On May 20, 2011, at 7:52 PM, William Windels wrote: Hello Annie and others, I have just downloaded the demo to give it a try but: Why should I

Tables in nisus writer pro.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. I will encourage you to send the feedback to nisus, that we need tables to be accessible. I have just done it myself. The way I did it was to download the program, and go into the help section, there you have a send feedback option. You can also do it on their website www.nisus.com

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Christina
Is this more accessible than pages? Why do you prefer it over pages? Thanks so very much, Christina who is considering purchasing a word processor as my needs extend past text edit. I'm wondering which to buy. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Jon Cohn
Paul, As I mentioned in the last post, the terminal gives you access to commands in a UNIX shell. Except for the addition of Mac control commands like default s and open mostly what you can do in the terminal is the same as on Linux or BSD UNIX Ester's book reference is quite good. In the

Re: Question about using Adium

2011-05-20 Thread Dawn Benbow
Thanks very much. *grin* It worked! Now I'm just trying to figure out why my windows live/ accounts don't want to connect, and how to use the twitter feature. *smile* On May 20, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote: Hello! After you have received a message you can press

Re: terminal and voice over

2011-05-20 Thread Esther
Hi Paul, I'm going to let Jon respond to some of these points, but some of the details you reference are in response to a previous question and not specific to your question. Terminal configuration will make more sense if you read Travis' post (that I linked) and go through setting up your

The Productive Macs Bundle

2011-05-20 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hi. I just wrote a post about the Productive Macs Bundle. It includes reviews of all eight programs: Textexpander, Pathfinder, Socialite, HoudahSpot, Today, Blast, Keyboard Maestro, and Mail Act-On. Enjoy. I welcome comments or corrections.

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Jenny Wood
Thanks, Christina, for this suggestion. Actually, I rather like it. Since the big change to their page, I still cannot comment or like statuses if nobody else has, even with going through the context menu to open a new window. There simply is no link to open, even if I go directly to the

Scrivener 2 for writing documents with references.

2011-05-20 Thread Jon Cohn
On May 20, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote: Hi Annie! Has this program a function for making references to sources? Like I wrote about for a cpouple of days ago regarding Pages? I seriously need this tool, since it would make some of my papers so much easier to handle.

Re: The Productive Macs Bundle

2011-05-20 Thread Esther
Hi, Interesting review. I'd have said that the apps in this bundle were mostly geared to intermediate level users, though TextExpander is something that can work very well even for doing simple things -- like custom-defining signatures, or almost anything that you would spend time typing.

german to english converter

2011-05-20 Thread louie
Hi all, I have a document written in german and I want to convert it to english. Is there a voice over friendly way of doing this conversion? louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Christina. I simply can not figure out to use pages. To me nisus is much more easy to use. I know that is different from person to person. Another thing that nisus has made in the new release is a function, so you easily can navigate between items in your toc, that is great. You can setup a

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Christina
Has anyone tried teh item chooser to see if that non touch option shows up on there. That really stinks that it was there one day and now it's gone. I just got lucky and it was right after the see more stories link. On May 20, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Jenny Wood wrote: Thanks, Christina, for this

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Jenny Wood
I have definitely tried the item chooser a number of times, and there is no such link, unfortunately. In fact, there are no other links available after the last status update and associated options. -- Jenny Wood Phone: (972) 989-3894 Email: kc5...@gmail.com Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Colin M
Hi there! I suggested to have a look on the site with your phones! Someone rightly said it was made for phones! So could that link show up better on the phone? I do not have a Iphone and the layout could be different than my nokia! If you already tried this then I'm stuck! I'll have to try your

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It aint there. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On May 20, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Christina wrote: Has anyone tried teh item chooser to see if that non touch option shows up on

Re: Question about using Adium

2011-05-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Adium has the ability to automatically speak messages, you will find it in preferences, I think it's in the events section, you can configure it to speak events, messages being one of them. On May 20, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Dawn Benbow wrote: Hi everyone, Someone recommended Adium to me for a

issue with Skype 5 during phone calls

2011-05-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I'm running the latest everything. When making a Skype call out to a phone line, or when receiving one, about five minutes or so into the call, the person I'm talking to reports that I start breaking up with an intermittent, regular clicking sound. Has anyone else experienced this or know

Re: abby fine reader express question

2011-05-20 Thread Kimberly thurman
Actually, I didn't think it took terribly long to process, but I just don't know if I want to drop $299 on it right now. I just wish there was another solution on the Mac that didn't require using to applications to get a scanned document, as is the case with needing to use Vuscan and then

Re: issue with Skype 5 during phone calls

2011-05-20 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Mark. By the way, you have a superior first name, if I do say so myself. (Smile) I have not experienced any degradation in my Skype calls with the latest version of Skype. Mark On May 20, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: I'm running the latest everything. When making

Re: what is up with the Facebook mobile site?

2011-05-20 Thread Kimberly thurman
Facebook is starting to remind me of my mother-in-law. Every time I visited, she had moved the furniture around. lol Seriously, Facebook would be a lost cause for me right now if not for the windows running in the virtual machine. It works pretty well on the iPhone though. On May 20, 2011,

Re: abby fine reader express question

2011-05-20 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Kimberly: Melissa, my Apple partner is going to get a copy of Abby, trial version and check it out for me. I did the same thing you did and lost my trial. I don't mind paying for a good scan/OCR program, but I don't consider the mac solutions offered to be worth it. To pay for an

Re: abby fine reader express question

2011-05-20 Thread Jenny Wood
Yes, Abby Fine Reader is $99. Hmmm, what type of problem were you having with it? I am assuming you already have the correct driver and software installed for your scanner? And you're right, it would be ideal to have access to a program that would allow you to scan, recognize and read all in

Re: abby fine reader express question

2011-05-20 Thread Kimberly thurman
Honestly Jenny, I don't really remember what my issue was with ABBYY Fine Reader. I was under the impression you needed to scan with Vuscan, and then open the file in ABBYY Fine Reader to do the OCR on it. Is this correct? On May 20, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Jenny Wood wrote: Yes, Abby Fine Reader

Re: BrailleSense with iphone

2011-05-20 Thread David Tanner
Glad to hear that. I am going to be working on my project this weekend. I hope I have just as good luck. - Original Message - From: Donna Goodin goodi...@msu.edu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:31 PM Subject: Re: BrailleSense with iphone Hi

Re: abby fine reader express question

2011-05-20 Thread carolyn Haas
If I remember correctly, people often used a different program to scan because Abbyy is not good at making friends with a lot of scanners. So, people find it easier to scan with iPhoto or Vuescan and use baby for it's superior OCR and multi-lingual capabilities. Carolyn On May 20, 2011, at