Voiceover disappearing and Audio Hijack update

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Folks, As some of you may remember, I noted that Voiceover did not begin randomly disappearing until I upgraded the system audio plugin on Audio Hijack. I used App Zapper to try to remove it, but somehow, the plugin or what it did to the system audio has remained in the system. Any ideas or

Re: Voiceover disappearing and Audio Hijack update

2011-07-09 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Chris, I uninstalled Audio Hijack by moving it to the trash, but first used its plugin window to uninstall the plugins, as recommended by the documentation. Thus far, I've not had a crash in over a week of frequent use. Before, they came fairly regularly. Hope this helps, Zack. On Jul 8,

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
I've used both pop and Imap with Gmail and they both work. I'm really liking Imap, because I'm using online labels and filters so I don't get tons of mailing-list messages on my IPod, and I can simply check whichever label I want to online. HTH, Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Cakes wrote:

Re: Permanently Removing Downloaded Apps From all Devices

2011-07-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
Perfect, Carolyn; thank you. I didn't even notice that apps playlist in the library. Then I had an adventure with the apps displayed, because I'd somehow gotten them into a grid view. Once I switched them to a list, everything went great. Thanks again. Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:06 PM,

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
I think I'm going to attempt the upgrade and also make a dVD in case it goes snafu. It is meant to be an upgrade, and I'm not sure I want to mess with moving all my files around more than I need to at the moment. Advice is duly noted and appreciated, though. Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:57 PM,

Re: voice over hints question

2011-07-09 Thread Scota Bess
Hi You can do VO and v and you get options for typing echo, numbers verbosity etc which you move through with the left right cursor keys. When you get to the one you want you use up and down cursor keys to select the right value. return selects it and escape takes you back to whatever you were

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Andre Nuno Soares
Hello, I second that. POP is a protocol meant for the downloading of all the messages that the server as received for you, since the last time you connected. It has no notion of folders or message status. IMAP was designed to synchronize messages between your mail client and the server, so

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
As for me, I will wait until RX is compatible with Lion. Just can't stand to be without my favorite app. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Scott

Boot Camp version question

2011-07-09 Thread Vince Mistretta
Well I'm taking the plunge and installing Win7 HP on my late 2009 iMac. I've already reduced the size of my partition on my 1TB drive to accomodate the other partition which went quickly and easily. I was looking at the version of Boot Camp on my iMac and it's version 3.0.6. Did I read

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Jon Cohn
If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning, downloading and deleting of e-mails on your e-mail providers server. Actually my first sentence is a bit off, IBM and Microsoft provide

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Jon Cohn
Two more quick notes specificallly about GMail... 1. In addition to the previously mentioned Tidbits.com article about using IMAP with GMail, there was a more recent series of three articles about how to handle large amounts of e-mail using the GMail web client. The Web client updates things

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Jon Cohn wrote: If you like to keep your folder structure of e-mails the same on all of the systems then IMAP is the only stand solution. POP just allows scanning, downloading and deleting of e-mails on your e-mail providers server. Actually my first sentence is a bit

Re: apple script 4 u

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This might be a silly question but, why would one need an apple script to do this when you can just assign this task to a command with the keyboard commander or the trackpad commander? thanks. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On

Re: Restoring files from a Time Machine Backup

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, But you can always just turn that off and backup manually. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 8, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: True. So it's a bit smarter about that then I described. Still the end result of backing

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
This is a great point Scott. I guess just doing an upgrade is fine, and if you see that your experiencing some crazy behavior, you can always just do a clean instal afterwards. Doesn't make sense to go through the extra work if you don't have to. lol Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Why not just run lion and snow leopard until the apps you like are updated? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 9, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: As for me, I will wait until RX is compatible with Lion. Just can't

Re: external soundcard for macbook

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, How about the M-audio fast track or fast track pro? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:25 PM, anouk radix wrote: Hello, I am intending to use either protools or garageband once I get a macbook pro so I will

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Scott Howell
Well now you know come to think of it, no pain no gain. :) For those of you who have never upgraded, the process is very painless. You should not have any problems with VmWare or virtual machines for that matter; however, you are strongly encouraged to backup, backup, and backup. There are

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-09 Thread Scott Howell
I will chime in and say that you should avoid pop like the plague. Most ISPs that offer pop only offer insecure pop, which is sending your password in the clear on port 110. Also pop just sucks in general since I have never seen a case where you remove messages from the server and they end up

RE: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Missy Hoppe
I think that's what I'm going to do too: just upgrade to Lion. If it works, great. If things start acting exceptionally oddly, something which I might not even notice due to unfamiliarity with how mac is supposed to behave, then I can always work out how to do a clean install at that point. I

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I am supposing that I'd have to partition my drive to do that. Aint got much of a clew how to do what you're suggesting; but, I'm sure that before long, somebody will sure tell me how. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name:

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yes, I assume you have an external drive? You can make a partition with disk utility. Just make sure the partition is formatted so it can be used as a start up disk. Then you can just pop in your snow leopard dvd and install to the partition or, you can install a time machine back up

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
Let us know what your cousin says. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com Sent from my IMac On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: I think that's what I'm going to do too: just upgrade to Lion. If it works, great. If

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Thanks. Worth looking in to. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Yes, I assume you have an external drive? You can

itunes question

2011-07-09 Thread Denise Avant
Hi all, when you rip a cd in itunes, i notice that there is a playlist as long as the cd stays in the drive. is there any way to somehow make this playlist permanent so it is still there after the cd is removed? thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Ashley Cox
Hi all, For those of you who don't know, qwitter is a free twitter client, written in python. It's an accessible twitter client, but is only written for windows. http://www.qwitter-client.net Now to my question. For those of you who are experienced programmers, would anybody be willing to

Re: itunes question

2011-07-09 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Copy that playlist and paste it onto the music, playlist, where it becomes a permanent folder. Otherwise, you end up like me, ripping, ejecting without making permanent, cursing, ripping, forgetting again... • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN:

a couple of trackpad commander questions

2011-07-09 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I've finally decided to spend some time messing with the trackpad commander, and have a couple of questions. 1. Is there any way to view a list of commands? when I go into the assign Commands table I can see the gestures, but none of the commands are displayed. 2. How do I navigate

Re: itunes question

2011-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi Denise, When you insert a CD (e.g., for ripping) and this automatically gets selected in the sources list of iTunes, the songs table shows you the contents. To save this as a playlist in your iTunes library, the fastest way is to navigate to the songs table while the CD is inserted and

configuration for VM fusion?

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
Okay, got windows all installed thanks to my sited wife. The thing that is getting me, when I go to assign the ram and hard drive space, it's not showing me my choices in ram or GB's, it says something about 1024 MB and 32.26 percent. Is there a way to change this? I mean, everyone

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Hello, there are some problems to develop a ported version of Qwitter: * keystroke management is very different in OSX than Windows... We have to rewrite all modules about keyboard * window dialog management is very different in OSX. * there are few diferences in IO file system for OSX and

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, There's apparently been some work done on a mac port of Qwitter, but if I recall @Mongoose_Q's tweets correctly, there's some issue with keyboard intercepting on the mac which is making it a problem. I don't know where there's any official status on this. There's a mac list on the

Re: configuration for VM fusion?

2011-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, KliphSharrie wrote: Okay, got windows all installed thanks to my sited wife. The thing that is getting me, when I go to assign the ram and hard drive space, it's not showing me my choices in ram or GB's, it says something about 1024 MB and 32.26 percent. Is there a way

Re: a couple of trackpad commander questions

2011-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi Donna, 1. There's a section in the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide (Chapter 11 on Using VoiceOver Gestures) that describes using TrackPad Commander. Use VO-H to bring up the help menu and press g to go to the Getting Started Guide and return. Open the web item rotor with VO-U and press g e

Itunes and syncing: was permanently removing downloads

2011-07-09 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Teresa: Welcome. And I have a question: I have Navigon on my computer, but can't get it to sync back to the phone. I don'teven see a way to affect a change in the checkbox. I'd like to have it back on my phone to try again and make friends with it. Can anyone give me a clue why it won't

Re: itunes question

2011-07-09 Thread Denise Avant
hi, when i press command-shift-n, is there to be some sort of dialog box. i did select all my songs, and pressed the next keystroke and nothing happened. On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Denise, When you insert a CD (e.g., for ripping) and this automatically gets selected in

Re: One more note about my podcast

2011-07-09 Thread matthew Dyer
Thanks Chris, i managed to copy the url for the podcast into itunes and have listened to it and a very good job with it. MMathew On Jul 8, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I think I mis-spelled part of it unknowingly, so look carefully at how I spell this, but it's called

Re: configuration for VM fusion?

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
Latest build, think it's 3.2 or something like that. Sent from Minister Miller's IPhone On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, KliphSharrie wrote: Okay, got windows all installed thanks to my sited wife. The thing that is getting me, when

Formatting problem in Pages and Text Edit + Sharing with MS Word users.

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Loya
Hello Folks, I currently write a monthly column for my mother's web site, and I have unrelated projects I'll be submitting for publication in the very near future.. I'm using a Mac, and my mother is using a PC with Jaws. When I send her Word documents that I have created with Pages, many of

Audio tutorials and demos for Mac/iOS was Re: Accessible MIDI Sequencing

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Loya
Thanks for sharing this. It's very helpful. I know there are email lists, but is there a repository of audio tutorials and demos for the Mac? It would be great if there was a clearinghouse for all Mac/iOS software and hardware. I don't know of anything besides www.icanworkthisthing.com,

Re: Audio tutorials and demos for Mac/iOS was Re: Accessible MIDI Sequencing

2011-07-09 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I hear that Vision Australia has some good tutorials as well. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Welll I got my Mac in November of 2010. And since people are going to attempt the upgrade, that's what I'm going to do as well. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

BBC Iplayer and Voiceover

2011-07-09 Thread Scota Bess
Hi all I have never been able to work the TV Iplayer, radio no problem. I know there's a great big button in the middle of the screen you are supposed to click on, but I can't see it and I can't see how I can get Voiceover to find it. I searched this site and found a reference to someone with a

Re: external soundcard for macbook

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Loya
I have an MAudio Fast Track Pro. It works great with GB, Amadeus, and Pro Tools. I have the USB version, but I am pretty sure MAudio also makes a fire wire version as well. HTH, Joshua On Jul 8, 2011, at 5:25 PM, anouk radix wrote: Hello, I am intending to use either protools or garageband

Re: Audio tutorials and demos for Mac/iOS was Re: Accessible MIDI Sequencing

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Loya
Ah yes. I forgot to mention Vision Australia. I also forgo to mention Blind Cool Tech, if anyone else is collecting VO tutorials and demos. On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: I hear that Vision Australia has some good tutorials as well. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter

Re: Itunes and syncing: was permanently removing downloads

2011-07-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hmm, I wonder if you can just manually copy and paste it into the IPhone playlist in Itunes? Also, try double-checking the sync settings. Definitely have everything displayed in listview in ITunes; it's much easier to navigate in that mode. Teresa On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:55 AM, carolyn Haas

Re: itunes question

2011-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi Denise, Sorry about that, you're going to need to select the tracks from the ripped information that is in your iTunes Music Library in order to create a playlist for your Library. After you've ripped your CD, you can find the tracks you just ripped if you select the Recently Added smart

ASF streaming format won't play in anything I have.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I've never come across this *.asf streaming content format, but Itunes, VLC and Quicktime all choke on it; anyone deal with this particular beastie tell me now? :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: •

Re: Audio tutorials and demos for Mac/iOS was Re: Accessible MIDI Sequencing

2011-07-09 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Joshua, there is always my podcast. Granted, I cover way more than just Apple related things, but having said this, I do demo quite a few things Apple related. Just go to the app store and search for Eclectic Jukebox Note that I accidentally mis-spelled the word ecclectic when I created the

RE: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Missy Hoppe
I agree. Would love a version of qwitter for the mac. Sadly, I know absolutely nothing about programming, so am unable to help with the project, but if registering an interest helps at all, definitely count me in! Missy -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Formatting problem in Pages and Text Edit + Sharing with MS Word users.

2011-07-09 Thread Missy Hoppe
I'm interested in an answer for this as well. I don't think I've ever encountered the problem in text edit, but in pages, words are frequently split between lines, and that bothers me a lot. I've looked everywhere for some menu or preference option that would enable wordwrap or some sort of

Re: configuration for VM fusion?

2011-07-09 Thread Andre Nuno Soares
HelloKliph, I'm not using Fusion currently, but maybe the RAM configuration is just showing in megabytes instead of gigabytes? 1 Gigabyte (GB) is 1024 Megabytes (MB), so to give 2 GB of RAM to your VM, for instance, just specify 2048. This has the advantage of allowing you to specify less

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Justin Ekis
You know, I am a huge fan of qwitter, and it has done a truly amazing thing for windows twitter users. I'm still devoted to it, and still volunteer to maintain the Readme even though I'm almost exclusively a mac person now. Having said that, I'm not sure I see why it is necessary to have a mac

Re: configuration for VM fusion?

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
that was a great help, thanks. Think I can get rolling now. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com Sent from my IMac On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Andre Nuno Soares wrote: HelloKliph, I'm not using Fusion currently, but maybe

errasing history items in the new Skype

2011-07-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Say, anybody got any notion how to erase history items or deal with them in the new Skype. Interacting with an item in the history seems not to be possible; nor is deleting an item. No short cut menu either. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Re: errasing history items in the new Skype

2011-07-09 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Once interacted with them, hit command W to close the conversation. They gone! • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

last fusion question, I hope!

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
Okay, this might be a dumb question, but this experience is new to me. Does the drivers and utilities get installed the same time the OS does, or do you have to fetch them from another disk? Or perhaps download them yourself from the internet? Reason I'm asking, is I installed windows 7

drop box

2011-07-09 Thread May McDonald
I thought I saved the messages regarding drop box, but I guess I deleted them in my mass delete. I could use some help. I'm trying to share my books folder, but it's saying the the each file is 0 bites which I know is not correct. What am I doing wrong, help help!! May and the famous Prince

cleaning up mac?

2011-07-09 Thread KliphSharrie
Okay, how do you defrag your hard drive? And what other tools can I use to get rid of things I'm not using and have already uninstalled? I am having an issue with my available space. I had over 700 gb avialble before I tried to install windows with vm fusion, realized that I did somethings

Re: Formatting problem in Pages and Text Edit + Sharing with MS Word users.

2011-07-09 Thread Esther
Hi Joshua, Hyphenation is automatically set to on in Pages, and to turn it off on a document wide level you need to go to the Inspector in the toolbar, then select (VO-Space) the Document radio button (first entry), and on the Document tab (1 of 3) you'll find a checkbox for Hyphenate that you

BootCamp, so far so good.

2011-07-09 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi, Yesterday evening I made two installations of windows xp one on the imac mc508 and that was the English version and another on the mac mini and that was the Swedish version. Must tell everybody to my surprise the mouse and keyboard that came with the imac worked all the time during xp

Re: [Bulk] Re: Will It Be Easy To Install Lion?

2011-07-09 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I've also discovered that my 2010 Mac Mini, which I bought to learn VO last December, only has 2GB of RAM. Do I have to upgrade to 4GB of RAM to run Lion? And, do I have to find my iWork disc to reinstall after Lion? What about migrating mail, docs, etc? -- You received this message because

Re: cleaning up mac?

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Normally you won't need to defrag the drive on OSX. Just to check the basics, did you empty the trash after you got rid of the virtual machine? CB On 7/9/11 11:01 PM, KliphSharrie wrote: Okay, how do you defrag your hard drive? And what other tools can I use to get rid of things I'm not

Re: last fusion question, I hope!

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
VMWare installs something called VMWare Tools after you have installed whatever Windows or Linux OS you wanted. These tools make the video/audio/mouse etc. hook in better with the Mac. It's been too long since I did a Win7 scratch install but I suspect that until the VMWare tools are installed

Re: ASF streaming format won't play in anything I have.

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Generally having Flip4Mac installed will allow QT to handle .asf streams unless they are encrypted (DRM). In that case Microsoft has not released their stuff on Mac so it can only be unencrypted on Windows. The joys of proprietary copy protection. CB On 7/9/11 5:43 PM, Mark BurningHawk

Re: lion

2011-07-09 Thread Kevin Gibbs
The only external drive I have is my time machine drive. Can I use the time machine drive is my external drive to back up all my stuff that might need to be reinstalled post lion? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this