Re: Focus blue Braille display not working properly on iMac

2011-06-24 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi All USB ports are not created equal. Sometimes a usb port can't deliver enough power to operate the hardware you plugged in. A braille display takes a lot of power and maxes out the limited ability of a usb port to deliver. So it sounds to me like the USB ports on your mac aren't

Re: drop box

2011-06-24 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, This is picky. In order to get it to come up, you have to interact with the browser and use the voiceover curser to find the file or folder you want. Then hit control option shift M an d you should be golden. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on

Re: Safari, highlight the address bar

2011-06-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I misunderstood the question sorry. Sent from my iPhone On 23 Jun 2011, at 11:06 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: With all do respect, enlighten me. What's that gotta do with the Safari address bar? You've los me. Chris. - Original Message - From:

Re: Focus blue Braille display not working properly on iMac

2011-06-24 Thread Naama Shang
Hi, While this is possible, it is happily powering the pacmate braille display. Maybe it takes up less pwer than the focus blue. If this is the case, it is rather disappointing, since I really wanted to use my focus blue. I wonder if I connected it via a hub, it it would work better. On 24 Jun

Re: EMusic download manager

2011-06-24 Thread Bobert
Hello everyone. I'm a product manager at eMusic. We have a beta version of a completely new download manager. I'd like to hear how it works for you. You can download it here: http://labs.emusic.com/2011/05/26/emusic-download-manager-v5-beta/ On Jun 20, 8:08 pm, Ben J Bloomgren

removing usb-discks when going in standby

2011-06-24 Thread William Windels
Hello, Because of powersaving, I turn off the electricity during the night from my computer after closing the screen (going in to standby). Since there is a backupdisk attached to my macbook, it's not properly removed automatically when I close the screen. I haven't seen any option in the

Re: Fusion and switching between operating systems

2011-06-24 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
Jeff, Are you switching to full-screen mode when you are focussed on VMWare? You should generally need to do this once when you first start your VM. On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:44 PM, joseph wrote: hi i tried your method but i still had to quit voice over to get to the virtual machine. am i

Re: Moderator note -was- Re: brouzing history?

2011-06-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Cara, you did completely misread my tone. It just seems totally logical to look in the menu bar, especially when there is a menu specifically called history in Safari for doing exactly what cliff is trying to do. Maybe I could have worded things better, but I honestly was only trying to help.

Re: Focus blue Braille display not working properly on iMac

2011-06-24 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. It is something that has been changed, apple is working on a solution, focus 40 blue with earlier firmware works fine. Use bluetooth to pair with your computer. Hopefully it is fixed in lion. Best regards Annie. On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:18 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, could it be a power

Re: brouzing history?

2011-06-24 Thread Ricardo Walker
Wow! How obnoxious and rude. If the question offended you that much, why did you bother answering? I never understood posts like this. All it does is make the person feel bad. But, IDK, that might have been your goal? If a person can't answer a simple question with a simple answer without

Re: Moderator note -was- Re: brouzing history?

2011-06-24 Thread Ricardo Walker
Oops, Sorry, I Read this after my post. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jun 24, 2011, at 2:18 AM, Cara Quinn wrote: People, please! trying to moderate eachother's behavior is really the job of the moderators. :) On a list

iWorks - moving from MS Office

2011-06-24 Thread Vince Mistretta
Hi, I'm contemplating on moving my day-to-day productivity work over to the Mac and was wondering from those whom had used MS Office under Windows felt about the ease of use of iWorks. I've never used Office versions later than 2003 so my experience is limited to those related to that and later

Re: removing usb-discks when going in standby

2011-06-24 Thread Doug Lawlor
I'd be curious why you would have to do this? Doesn't the disk properly initialize when the computer is turned back on in the morning? My mac seems to do all things properly here when going into any type of power save mode. Doug On 2011-06-24, at 11:25 AM, William Windels wrote: Hello,

Re: EMusic download manager

2011-06-24 Thread Justin Ekis
Hello, I just downloaded the beta version. From an accessibility perspective, this is a total nonstarter. When I first run the downloaded application, I get a setup window, but Voiceover can not read anything. I have tried using standard Voiceover navigation commands, as well as using the tab

[Mac-cessibility News] The Mac-cessibility ROund Table Podcast #14 - The Macateers Make Their Picks

2011-06-24 Thread Maccessibility
The Mac-cessibility ROund Table Podcast #14 - The Macateers Make Their Picks In this episode of the Mac-cessibility ROund Table Podcast, our knights are magically and revolutionarily transformed into Macateers, braving the Mac and iOS AppStores to bring you their favorite third-party software

IMAP configuration for Yahoo mail on a Mac

2011-06-24 Thread Marc
I have a Yahoo! Plus email account and am trying to configure my MacMail to access it. *I do *not* want POP access. Does anybody know if it is possible to set up MacMail with a Yahoo account for IMAP? I cannot find any good documentation online. I searched the archives of this group but mostly

Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office

2011-06-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Vince, I haven't used MS Office, but I know a bit about iWork09. It works very well apart from handling Tables in Pages. If you wish to put a table in a Pages document, you have to create it in Numbers, then copy and paste it into Pages, where you can't see it for what it is. It will

RE: iWorks - moving from MS Office

2011-06-24 Thread Kimberly
One thing I think you can't do is track changes. If you use this function a lot, as I do, you'll have to have your windows os with ms word to do that. Kimber -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Anne Robertson

Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office

2011-06-24 Thread Rose Morales
Pages does in fact handle track changes. I can't comment on said featre though, since I haven't actually used it myself on the Mac. Still, it's worth giving it a try.u On Jun 24, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Kimberly wrote: One thing I think you can't do is track changes. If you use this function a

Re: [Bulk] Anyone having this problem with Facebook: links not posting to status

2011-06-24 Thread Ray Foret Jr
This morning, I couldn't update my status at all. The only way around that was to focus on the share button and then rout the mouse to it and then VO+shift+space on it. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook:

magic prefs

2011-06-24 Thread Yuma Decaux
For those who have trackpads and like controlling stuff with swipes and swoops http://lifehacker.com/5815238/magicprefs-gives-your-magic-mouse-and-other-multitouch-peripherals-custom-multitouch-gestures Enjoy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

hot keys?

2011-06-24 Thread KliphSharrie
Could someone please remind me how to assign a short cut key or hot key to a application? Thanks in advance. 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

Re: drop box

2011-06-24 Thread Jeff Berwick
Amazing what you find when you interact first...I just tripled the number of options in my menu... Thx, Jeff On 2011-06-23, at 11:27 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Jeff, What view are you using for your Finder window? I suspect you might need to interact with the browser or table before the

Re: hot keys?

2011-06-24 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Kliphton! vo+f8 then command8 select Keyboard tab and then add button! Select the letter of choice and then go to custom and select applications find the one you want in the file field and then select open default button! And you should be done! hth Colin On 25 Jun 2011, at 00:40, KliphSharrie

new patent reveals interesting concept using audio

2011-06-24 Thread Yuma Decaux
Seems perfectly fit for the blind. TRUE multitasking for VIPs at last! http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-patent-replaces-eyes-with-ears-2011-6?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29 Enjoy -- You received this message because you

Re: Simple reminder app?

2011-06-24 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: iCal will work for what you want. On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Doug Lawlor wrote: Hello list: Does anyone know of a simple reminder app that does something like the following: 1. launch the app and a screen pops up asking you for the text of the reminder, time you want it to go off,

Re: new patent reveals interesting concept using audio

2011-06-24 Thread Pete Nalda
Sounds cool! From here we go to in-air gestures. In the movie Minority Report, they didn't have real screens, just holographic displays, they could move files and photos around just by waving their arms and hands. Same type of thing in the movie Johnny Mnemonic, but in that case data gloves

Re: new patent reveals interesting concept using audio

2011-06-24 Thread Yuma Decaux
What interests me the most, as stated on my comment, is that the audio cues input and output will, after a bit of training i suppose, allow us to really feel the multitasking capabilities of IOS or the MAC OS. I don't think apple's hired the creator of THX's dolby surround sound tech for

average ram for a blind user?

2011-06-24 Thread KliphSharrie
Okay, I am still on a few windows screen readers lists, since I teach a few basic classes about JFW and know a lot about the windows side of things. Anyways, someone said on this list that the average blind user needs no more than 4 gigs of ram, at best anything over 8 would be a waste. I'm

Re: average ram for a blind user?

2011-06-24 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, Considering that voice synthesis takes on average 400 to 800 megs per voice and it has to be placed in RAM cache, reason why higher quality voices can't yet be included in IOS versions, the more ram you have, the smoother the audio experience. Nowadays ram isn't the only criteria, a good

Re: average ram for a blind user?

2011-06-24 Thread CJ Daniel
Kliff, I was a programmer for years, starting back in the mid-80's. I got my first PC in, about, '90 or '91, when we were all using DOS 3.5. I've gone through all the successions. I.E. various versions of DOS, Windows 3.1, '95, '98 SE, ME, XP, Vista now Apple Mac. I suppose there can come