Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Scott Howell
Kevin, I tried Chrome with the speech and I have to tell you that I'm just not impressed. I wonder if there are some settings I should/need to change, but the experience is not quite what I expected. For example, when I type something into a text field, the speech babbles on without a way to

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi I know this is only different opinions and probably a matter of preference but i'll never stop using voiceover and probably will not begin using chromevox because of it's clumcy navigation, especially when it comes to tables, so if Chrome worked well with vo, and i mean just as well as

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Alex Hall
As I understand it, though, you don't need ChromeVox except for Google apps, and VO works the rest of the time? Of course you can use ChromeVox all the time, but is it necessary? On 10/10/11, Kevin Chao kevincha...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, personally, I mainly use Chrome/ChromeVox and absolutely

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Blake, As David also described, there are a number of problems with bootcamp and windows. Would it be an option for you to start running windows under fusion? On Oct 9, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Blake Hardin wrote: hi im actually using bootcamp On 10/9/11, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: moving through folders in mac?

2011-10-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
I agree 100% It just easier for me to press the right arrow to open and left arrow to close a folder. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Oct 10, 2011, at 1:05 AM, David Griffith wrote: The easiest way I have found it to put your folder in

RE: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Jeff Bishop
Can you access the Downloads window with Chrome? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Chao Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 10:24 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

2011-10-10 Thread Blake Hardin
actually yes it would be posible for me to do that. Sorry when i read his message i got the impression that He was talking generally more about the wireless side of things not the internal things On the mac. Anyway is there a way to do this under fusion? And let me get this straight there is no

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

2011-10-10 Thread Blake Hardin
actually yes it would be posible for me to do that. Sorry when i read his message i got the impression that He was talking generally more about the wireless side of things not the internal things On the mac. Anyway is there a way to do this under fusion? And let me get this straight there is no

Re: Open office

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Blouch
x86 means it's for machines using Intel CPUs which any mac laptop since 2006 will be. I haven't played with going 32 or 64 bit but first I'd check if OpenOffice does what you need. CB On 10/7/11 5:24 PM, Oriol Gómez wrote: Hm, why x86? I am running lion on a mid 2010 macbook pro. Should I

iPAD As iPhone?

2011-10-10 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi. If I put a sim card in my iPAD that has data and voice capabilities can I dial any contact and speak to like on a normal cellular? Can I also take incoming calls to the number in the iPAD? Thanks. -- Georges Zeinoun Timmerv. 6A, SE54163 SKÖVDE Tel: +46500201623, +46500482929 Mobile:

anyway to make Mail go full screen automatically?

2011-10-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay, Going full screen on Mail seems to have solved the problem I pointed out yesterday. Thanks to whom ever suggested it. Now, here's the thing. I never had to make Mail go full screen before; but, I was always able to use VO+J to jump between just the message content area and the message

Re: Trash

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Secure empty trash actually writes over the deleted file with random data so it can't be recovered. can't is a squishy word which probably means by typical methods. Details here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh475.html CB On 10/6/11 11:00 PM, ezzie bueno wrote:

Re: anyway to make Mail go full screen automatically?

2011-10-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
In reply to myself, it now appears to be the case that if I go in to the window menu and select to bring all to front, it solved the problem also. Now, Both verticle and horizontal sliders are set to zero, BTW. Also, I went back in to the windows menu and pressed space on Zoom. Not quite

Re: iPAD As iPhone?

2011-10-10 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
No. I think the closest you'll get is if you were to jailbreak, use something like my3g and then always have a voip application like skype open. On 10/10/2011, Georges Zaynoun humorlessg...@samobile.net wrote: Hi. If I put a sim card in my iPAD that has data and voice capabilities can I

Re: iPAD As iPhone?

2011-10-10 Thread Doug Lawlor
You will need a SIP client and an account with a VoIP provider to get this functionality. A good client ihave been looking at is Counterpath's Bria client which looks very accessible. A VoIP provider is used to route your calls over the 3G data network. When you are connected to a wifi network

Re: Problems with VO

2011-10-10 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, Firstly, I would like to thank you all for your valuable views. VO doesn't read anything when I type on Google, Twitter, Gmail or Facebook. I've tried changing all the settings, but it still doesn't read anything. However, I'll still try to make some of the changes that you guys

Re: a new strange behavior in my mail

2011-10-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Ray. Whenever this happened to me where I got nothing, I have pressed command 1 to take me to my Inbox and then I go down my list of folders. I could probably can command 2 or 3 or something, but I have found that command 1 with pretty good to get back into my folders table. Since I am using

Re: Safari sluggishness

2011-10-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Richarj. I'm not sure if this help, but when I've done downloads say from BARD, I have found a button and pressed control option space and it does the download lickity split. In fact, I couldn't believe how fast it did it. Now the only thing was I couldn't figure out how to get up there and

adding sender do address book

2011-10-10 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
HI all, What is the way to add the sender of a message to address book? Am using mail in lion. Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To

Re: adding sender do address book

2011-10-10 Thread Candie Stiles
Pressing command Y will add a sender to your address book. On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: HI all, What is the way to add the sender of a message to address book? Am using mail in lion. Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: adding sender do address book

2011-10-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Use command-shift-y while you are highlighting a message. HtH, Teresa On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: HI all, What is the way to add the sender of a message to address book? Am using mail in lion. Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are

sending message to list member off list

2011-10-10 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
HI all, Sometimes I just want to write a quick thanks to someone for a good tip but don't know how to send to the sender only. Command r would reply to list. Thanks for our help in helping me thank people off list! Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: braille development?

2011-10-10 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, I found that if you are interacting with a message text as it is being read the braille display is following the read text. I am not sure if this is what you are wondering about in the last message. Take care, Iona On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hi. I am waiting

How to Copy Mail's autocomplete database to a new Mac

2011-10-10 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
http://www.macworld.com/article/162910/2011/10/copy_mails_autocomplete_database_to_a_new_mac.html#lsrc.twt_macworld Copy Mail's autocomplete database to a new Mac by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com Oct 10, 2011 7:30 am You’ve just started using a brand-new Mac. You launch Mail.app and start to

Re: adding sender do address book

2011-10-10 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
Hello Ioana, Command shift Y should do what you wish. On Oct 10, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: HI all, What is the way to add the sender of a message to address book? Am using mail in lion. Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: sending message to list member off list

2011-10-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
While you're in the message text, VO till you get to the message headers and interact with it. The first line is usually the sender. Press VO-shift-m to bring up the contextual menu. Choose copy address from this menu. Open a new message with command-n or reply using command-r. Paste using

Help with my iPhone for?

2011-10-10 Thread Maurice Mines
Hello, Seer is my problem in a nutshell I hope, when playing music on my iPhone, I am hearing pieces of other musical selections in the loo of actual songs that are in my library, what could be caught in this? Is it better to wipe my phone a wall music, and simply we sync the device? Or does

Re: Problems with VO

2011-10-10 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Hi, I am Jenny and I am a brand new mac user. I can't answer your questions cause I don't know how to do those things either, but I am having the same feelings as you are. I am a former jaws user and can't seem to get the hang of Voice Over. I just wanted you to know that I, if no one

Re: sending message to list member off list

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Iona, When you are in the message content table, interact with it and find the message you want to send a private reply to. Then, you will find 2 areas: the message header, and the text of the message. Put your vo cursor on the header area and interact. Now, you are inside a few lines of

Re: Problems with VO

2011-10-10 Thread John André Netland
Hi, If you are running Lion and have both QuickNav and the one key navigation feature turned on, you will experience no ability to enter text in textfields on web pages. Both QuickNav and one key navigation are great features, but if you use them both, you have to either press left and right

Re: adding sender do address book

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Iona, Command shift y does that. It adds the sender of the currently highlighted message to your address book, and it does this without asking questions. You won't know that command shift y did anything at all, until you check your address book and you see that the sender along with the

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi all, Do you guys have both browsers installed on a single Mac? Or do you have to first delete Safari before installing Chrome? Thanks, Johnny On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Kevin, I tried Chrome with the speech and I have to tell you that I'm just not impressed. I

Re: Help with my iPhone for?

2011-10-10 Thread Doug Lawlor
Ok, if I understand correctly, you launch the iPod app, find a song you want to play, but the whole song doesn't play. Instead, a piece of the song you select plays then switches to another song that a piece of only gets played? I can't seem to replicate this here at the moment. Doug Sent

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Blouch
You can mix and match. While removing Safari might have bad side effects, Chrome is just another app which you can install, use and remove at will. So that also means you can have them both launched concurrently. CB On 10/10/11 5:22 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote: Hi all, Do you guys have both

Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard

2011-10-10 Thread Gavin
Hi listers, Does anyone have any experience with downgrading from Lion back to Snow Leopard? There are a number of things in Lion that are seriously irritating me, one of which is that my computer came preinstalled with it and, because Lion is only available through the app store or on an

RE: Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard

2011-10-10 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! Before I installed lion, I backed up my SL install to an external drive using Carbon Copy cloner. Once I discovered that I wasn't happy with lion, I reformatted my macbook's internal drive and used CCC to get snow leopard back onto it. If you didn't make a backup, though, I'm assuming you

Re: Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard

2011-10-10 Thread Gavin
Thanks for the quick reply, Missy. Unfortunately, I don't have a Snow Leopard backup. I guess I'm going to have to buy a Îretale Snow Leopard DVD and do a completely clean install. Ah well, it'll be worth it! Regards, Gavin On 10 Oct 2011, at 11:52 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hi! Before I

Re: Help with my iPhone for?

2011-10-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Doug. Have you tried restarting your iPho by holding down the power key until VO says for you to double tap to choose quit. Somebody me that Apple had told her to do this about once a geek. When I restart mine, I hold down the power key and count to five, then release it. It will take about

Re: Help with my iPhone for?

2011-10-10 Thread Maurice Mines
Hello, no it plays the entire musical selection, such as a song from the Grammy 2011 nominees CD for instance. Then before the next song, or in lieu of the next song. It will play about 35 to 40 seconds of a continuous drum type tapping sound. Then they will repeat this random playing several

Re: Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard

2011-10-10 Thread James Scholes
Hi Gavin, The below solution should work, although please note that I have not tried it myself and that I have only been using a Mac for a week. This method will not keep any of your files, settings or applications, so be sure to back them up to an external drive, optical media or online

Re: Problems with VO

2011-10-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jenny and other new folks. I'm not a very old-time user of the Mac. I got mine in July. VO is my fifth screen reader to learn. The first computer I learned was an Apple 2 E back in the eighties. You should have heard me screaming also when I was learning Windows with Jaws. Maybe you do

Re: New audio list

2011-10-10 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Recardo, I somehow lost the send to address to the Audio Bus list I joined a couple of months ago. Would you please be so kind as to send it to me? Thanks sir, Johnny On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi guys, I just wanted to let you all know there is a new audio

installing lion

2011-10-10 Thread Denise Avant
hello, i have purchased, downloaded and successfully burned lion to a dvd. but i want to start the actual install. how do i restart the install since i apparently closed the window with the continue installation button. thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Download folder

2011-10-10 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi all, Well here's yet another newbie question for you all: Well I interacted with a podcast link in one of Recardo's posts and pressed the keys to bring up the context menu. I pressed enter on download link file to download the file to my download folder. But, when I went to look for the

Embeded

2011-10-10 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi folks, In Lion mail, how does one invoke an embeded URL link in an email I sent myself from my home Windows computer? Thanks again all! Johnny Johnny Angel! beefca...@neo.rr.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post

Re: Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard

2011-10-10 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hey guys! Do you all agree that this is a good idea for us to do? Just curious in Erie On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:25 PM, James Scholes wrote: Hi Gavin, The below solution should work, although please note that I have not tried it myself and that I have only been using a Mac for a week. This

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Kevin Chao
Hi Scott, Google accessibility has a great, thorough, and complete feedback form that they monitor constantly, add issues to bug tracker, and based on demand/priorities, will address very rapidly. Please visit: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/accessibilityfeedback/ and provide Google

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

2011-10-10 Thread Kevin Chao
Chris, Alex, and others: There are many things that i use a computer for, both professionally and academically. Unfortunately Safari/VoiceOver doesn't work effectively or efficiently for me. So, Google Chrome Web Browser and ChromeVox addresses most of these things very well. For example, Docs,

Selecting, Copying, and Pasting text with a Keyboard on an iOS device [was Re: Copying and pasting]

2011-10-10 Thread Esther
Hi Jenn, Yes, the Think Outside Stowaway Keyboard is a good keyboard for doing editing with select, copy, and paste. I'll cc this reply to the macvisionaries list, since the same actions used to select, copy, and paste text with a Bluetooth keyboard on an iOS device will work on the Mac. Since