Re: concerning VUScan

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Ann Robertson has recently posted the instructions on how to set up Vuescan. I'm pasting them below my signature. Simon === Below are the settings for VueScan. Cheers, Anne 1) Select Input; 1.1) Task: Scan to file; 1.2) Source: Your scanner; 1.3) Media: Text; 1.4) Media size: Auto; 1.5)

iTunes syncing selected podcasts

2011-06-13 Thread Shen
Sorry if this has been talked about in the past. I just realized today that I can't select certain podcasts to sync. So I have my podcasts set to sync selected podcasts. Then you see this table with all your podcasts that you would check if you want it to sync and uncheck if you don't. For some

Re: Growl Skype Status Messages.

2011-06-13 Thread Colin M
Hi Geoges and Kliphton!If you get Skype 5. something! Growl will come along with it! And should install itself! Another software you might find useful is Adium! The announce when someone comes online or goes offline and others like you have a incoming call from.. Can be set up in Skype itself!

Re: empty app windows?

2011-06-13 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, In this case I don't believe kliphton's apps are non responsive. I think he's just closed the window in the app. On the Mac, closing a window does not close the app. Go to the menu bar and look under the windows menu to see if their is an option to open back the window you desire in the

Re: navigation tips for yourukufu?

2011-06-13 Thread Ronald McEwan
There is no need to interact with the table. Just use keys J and K to move thru the tweets when VO is focused on the table. Key L will open a link if it is in the tweet. In the Journey, Ron On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: hi, Just arrow up and down the table to

VoiceOver at log on screen

2011-06-13 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Doug, I don't know which OS you are running of Snow Leopard. I have or should I say had the latest version on my Macbook. In order to get VO to start on log on, I had to go to VoiceOver settings which is done by pressing VO which are the control and option keys with F8. Arrow down to

Flashdrive for Christine

2011-06-13 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Christine, I had this problem once before too. BUt it wasn't with music, it was with any file. THe only way I resolved the issue was to format the drive. YOu can accomplish this in Disc Utilities. Open your applications folder and then type U T for utilities and hit command O on it. THen

Vuescan a disappointment for OCR

2011-06-13 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Who ever said they got good results with Vuescan OCR, I'd like to know how you set it up. All I know is this. With Vuescan 9.45, (the 32 bit version), the following things happen after I set it up according to the instructions. 1. Text editor refuses to open when the scan is completed. This

Re: [Bulk] VoiceOver at log on screen

2011-06-13 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Allison, are you sure you're not talking about speak greeting after log in? I have the latest version of Snow Lepard and I can assure you that Voice OVer at log in is not among the general options of the VO Utility. It's in the Account section off system prefs like he said. Sincerely, The

Re: Flashdrive for Christine

2011-06-13 Thread Christine Grassman
Darn. Wish I had seen this earlier. Last night, I managed to get half of my music from my media folder onto the drive, but for the life of me, I cannot get the rest on it. I cannot figure out why the media folder works, but not the music in my regular iTunes library. The most current

Re: Vuescan a disappointment for OCR

2011-06-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, As I already pointed out, VueScan does not take care of orientation, unlike ABBYY FineREader. You can use Cmd-L to rotate left, or Cmd-R to rotate right. However, from what you say, I think the document is upside down, in which case either Cmd-L twice or Cmd-R twice should fix the

quick time question

2011-06-13 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
hello list; I've made some progress today with quick time, but I could use just a little help. I figured out how to select audio and video. I can copy segments from the beginning or end of a file. I can select the part in the middle i want, but I can't figure out how to save the piece i

power recommendations?

2011-06-13 Thread KliphSharrie
So, I have the new Imac, what recommendations do you guys have for putting screen and mac to sleep? When screen saver should pop up and all that. Thanks. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Google Voice) 657-229-2105 Sent

Re: power recommendations?

2011-06-13 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
personally, I set my iMac and any computer for that, to never auto shut down, but turn the monitor off at 10 minutes as well as the hard dribes to sleep when possible. I do not bother with screen saveers etc. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav

Re: empty app windows?

2011-06-13 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Ricardo, I agree with you; I think the issue in question is that the application is still open with all windows closed. Generally, when I accidentally close all windows in an application, I use the key-combo command+1 to open the primary Window. In the mail application, for example,

Re: Vuescan a disappointment for OCR

2011-06-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I believe this bug of an external program not opening despite you telling it to by checking the appropriate checkbox has been around since v8.x, but i could be wrong and it's me who does something stupid. /Krister 13 jun 2011 kl. 15.35 skrev Ray Foret Jr: Who ever said they got good

Re: Flashdrive for Christine

2011-06-13 Thread Christine Grassman
Oh, I know. Thing is, first time I went to my music folder and copied, it said 430 items which was correct, but it didn't paste correctly. So I went to my media folder where I've got a lot of things saved that aren't on my iPhone any more, just in my media folder, and tried there. Here, there

Some VueScan results and observations

2011-06-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Firstly, thanks to Anne R for posting her VueScan settings and to Sandy T for setting a good example of tenacity when it comes to mastering a scanning / OCR application. I've spent some time with Vuescan now and am liking the results so far. I'm using the 64 bit trial on a 1.6GHZ MBA with 4GB

Re: Flashdrive for Christine

2011-06-13 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Christine: At the risk of sounding archaic, you might just go ahead and burn a CD from iTunes, and .:) It would be a lot fewer headaches. The fact that you got half of your music to copy makes it seem as though a reformat isn't the answer. Carolyn On Jun 13, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Christine

Windows VM slowing to a crawl

2011-06-13 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hello List: I am noticing on my system that my Windows VM under Fusion tends to slow to a crawl after using it for a while. I have it set up to use one processor core and 2 GB of ram. I am running Windows 7/64. What is the best version of Windows 7 to run under Fusion? I've heard some people

Re: Windows VM slowing to a crawl

2011-06-13 Thread Ashley Cox
welcome back to windows! :) how many processor cores do you have? if you have 4 cores, give windows 7 2 cores; it'll speed it up nicely. also, with only 2GB ram dedicated to the vm, I'd use 32 bit windows 7. other than that, not sure what to suggest; it works fine here. unless you have some

Re: navigation tips for yourukufu?

2011-06-13 Thread Ezzie Buenito
hi, Would anyone happen to know how to prevent this app to automatically download tweets as they come to the timeline? Could I have new tweets downloaded every three minutes or so? It gets annoying when VO interrupts my tweets as I'm reading them with One row added. Ezzie - Original

Re: navigation tips for yourukufu?

2011-06-13 Thread KliphSharrie
In the preferences tab, there is a pop up menu that gives you the option to change this. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Google Voice) 657-229-2105 Sent from my IMac On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Ezzie Buenito wrote: hi,

just submitted report to Vuescan Dev regarding Text edit

2011-06-13 Thread Ray Foret Jr
For the benefit of those of us having issues with Text edit not opening automatically, I just sent a report to the developor regarding this matter. I assume, of course, that I am not the only one and that others here have submitted a report. Just in case I'm the first, I would encourage

Re: just submitted report to Vuescan Dev regarding Text edit

2011-06-13 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Ray: Thanks for taking the initiative to do this. He is pretty good about at least reading and considering feedback. I'll do the same when I try Vuescan again. Take care Carolyn On Jun 13, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: For the benefit of those of us having issues with Text edit

Re: Vuescan a disappointment for OCR

2011-06-13 Thread Kimberly thurman
Is it possible your document was upside down? I made sure mine was right side up. I know that automatic orientation would be a great feature, but it is often easy to tell which end of a document is the top by a staple, or possibly even having someone orient documents for you before you throw

Re-asking a Garage-Band question.

2011-06-13 Thread Phantom.Vader
Hi people! I asked this a while back, but then I was away from the list for a while so I never heard the answer. Oops! And I did a search of the list archives, but, if there was an answer, I can't find it. Anyway, I'm wondering if it's possible to make the metronome's count-in in Garage-Band

My musical typing's on the frits!

2011-06-13 Thread Phantom.Vader
Uh, help? So when I first started playing around with Garage-Band, the musical typing function worked fine once I downloaded all the necessary Apple sound stuff. But then I deleted a track from the piece I'd been experimenting on, and it hasn't worked properly since! At first it would work in

Re: just submitted report to Vuescan Dev regarding Text edit

2011-06-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Thanks Ray, I just submitted one also. I consider it a minor issue as VueScan has been creating the RTF files and I've just been Command-Tabbing to Finder and opening them from there. While troubleshooting this, I removed the 64 bit version and tested the 32 bit version and while I did feel

I Book app on the mac?

2011-06-13 Thread KliphSharrie
Hello, I searched for I Books in the app store on the mac, came up with no results. Is it not available in the app store, or is it coming on a future date? I was under the impression that it was going to be available on the mac. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please. Kliphton SR (twitter)

mac sword new name?

2011-06-13 Thread KliphSharrie
What's the new name for the bible app formally called mac sword? thanks. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Google Voice) 657-229-2105 Sent from my IMac -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: I Book app on the mac?

2011-06-13 Thread Mary Otten
The books are in the store in ITunes, but the IBook app to read the books is not available on the Mac, and there is no indication that I am aware of that it will be. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: just submitted report to Vuescan Dev regarding Text edit

2011-06-13 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ed and I are still trouble shooting this one. I've sent off two screen shots and the latest .log file. I also informed him that in version 8 of VueScan, this issue did not exist. If anything developes, I'll post it here. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and