Um.. I don't know how that song got attached to my previous post. Am very, very
confused. If it went through, and you like
it, I guess that's OK, but I didn't attach anything deliberately. I wonder if
my computer is possessed! I'm tripple checking
this message, and there definitely are not any
Hello,
You need to turn voiceover off before performing option click. When you turn
VO back on the file browser will be in VO focus.
hth
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter Skype: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
Hi,
I think
Lol,
Thats what I'd like to know. This definitely didn't work for me in snow
leopard, leopard, and now Lion.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter Skype: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
On Oct 13, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Gavin wrote:
I thought writing to NTFS partitions was impossible
Hi John,
The program to access ntfs with read write access from a mac, is called ntfs3g.
You will need the supplementary program called mac fuse for it to operate.
Ntfs3g runs under sl, but not under lion. There is also a commercial version
however, and that one works in lion too.
Hth,
Paul.
Hi All.
I can't seem to move my Mobile Me data I Cloud. I cloud website is not
accessible. Anyone else having this problem?
Kawal.
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Yup,
the iCloud site is an accessibility nightmare. But my contacts are there.
Ricardo Walker
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On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi All.
I can't seem to move my Mobile Me data I Cloud. I cloud website
So how to move everything to that website?
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Oct 2011, at 09:27 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote:
Yup,
the iCloud site is an accessibility nightmare. But my contacts are there.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter Skype: rwalker296
OK, when I sign in with my me.com ID, it asks me to move my data. I press the
move button. I get taken to the website. put in my username and password, check
the box and sign in. I get taken to the I Cloud Website. There is one button, a
pop up button with no label and then Image image image
All,
I upgraded two iPads and two iPhones so far. I think a lot of the problems
people are having is the incredible number of downloads and despite Apple's
best efforts, demand can just overwhelm the hardiest of servers/server farms.
I had a number of problems and including one instance when my
I lost absolutely nothing despite how dicy things got.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Aser Tolentino wrote:
iPad 2 updated, but lost all media along the way. Are all the English voices
other than defaults compact only?
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Brett C.
Dear listers,
For anyone interested, I was pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the latest
podcast called VoiceOverOn. A few very well informed people, will talk you
through what is new in iOS 5, they inform you about iCloud which is also mac
related, and because one of the guys is a beta
Hi Scott,
Well, I took in the baseball playoffs, took a nap and then started the upgrade
at around 10:30 last night. All went well, no errors, and apps were restored.
The only thing I found rather odd was that a number of my apps had to be
updated from the App Store. Some of them went back
Okay, I've tried everything. Deleting all my accounts from apple mail.
Googled iMap settings for mobile me,
and still can't receive from my me.com address. It will let me send using my
gmail server, but no sending. I've even set my account up in iCloud. Does
anyone have any other
I totally love listening to Ivan and Kevin. They just provide the plain truth
good or bad.
No nonsense, just how I like it being british.
Ivan, if you are reading, really happy you have managed to regain some useful
vision. Hope this does not mean you will no longer be helping us improve VO
Hi guys,
When downgrading to Snow Leopard, would I be able to take the iLife apps that
came preinstalled with Lion and copy them to Snow Leopard like I can with any
other application? I don't see the point of having to buy iLife all over again
just because I'm reformatting my hard disk.
I don't think so. There aren't any disks in the box, just a bunch of manuals.
On 13 Oct 2011, at 3:13 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
Didn't an iLife DVD come with your Mac?
Ricardo Walker
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www.mobileaccess.org
On Oct 13, 2011, at 8:20 AM,
If anyone does not know and some areas have not got it yet!
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Hi Ricardo,
I've just double-checked my Mac's box. There appears to be a disk-sized sleeve
included, but it has no disk in it. Whether this is because I have a 2011
MacBook Pro, or because the DVD's aren't included with Macs in South Africa, or
even because of an error on the part of the
Hi,
They stopped including DVD's with the 2011 models in all countries,
unfortunately. The good news is, when you reformat your mac, your iLife
purchase are tied to your app store account, so you can just redownload them
again, unless you're going back to snow leopard for some unexplainable
Voice Over not starting at start up? I'm not finding that on my
machine. It's always started up fine.
On 13/10/2011, Missy Hoppe melis...@fuse.net wrote:
Um.. I don't know how that song got attached to my previous post. Am very,
very confused. If it went through, and you like
it, I guess
Hi all,
Can anyone help with this?
I went into ICloud settings on my phone, and entered the address I wanted to
create. I was never prompted for a password, and when I sent an email to that
address, it came back as undeliverable. Now, when I turn on and off mail in
iCloud, I am no longer
Help!
I updated my iPad2 first. Went through the sign in process, and miss the button
that said sign in with your Mobleme account first. I signed in with my iTunes
account. I cannot get my Moblme settings to sync. It asks me to create an
account, not sign in. I also receive a backup failed
I cannot locate any podcasts after episode 24 from 10/1.
Christine
Sent from my iPhone
On 13/10/2011, at 5:15, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear listers,
For anyone interested, I was pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the
latest podcast called VoiceOverOn. A few very well
Hi Donna,
As far as I can tell, your password for iCloud mail is just the password for
your apple ID. I'm just making a semi-educated guess, but I think It's just a
part of your iCloud account and probably can't have a different password for
technical reasons. If you look in the mail app,
Hi Neil,
I just wanted to say hi and that it was nice to meet you even though we
never really met.
It was fun talking with you on Skype. It seemed like we've known each other
for years.
Thank you for arranging for Martin - he was such a pleasure. Also, thank
you for arranging the lovely
I kept getting the cannot restore error message. Then I had a thought. I went
into my app switcher and made sure to close everything. Then my iPhone
upgraded just fine. I should have done that to begin with but sometimes I
forget about it. I felt dumb for not doing that to begin with even
Hi,
Did you mean to send that to macvisionaries? If so, it's completely off
topic.
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I'm not sure about the errors, but you can go to setting iCloud,
select your account, and delete it. Then sign in with the MobileMe
settings instead.
On 10/13/11, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote:
Help!
I updated my iPad2 first. Went through the sign in process, and miss the
Not seeing it here either. Looking forward to listening to it when it does
become available though. :-)
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On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Christine Grassman wrote:
I cannot locate any podcasts after
How long did everything take from start to finish? Also, is it normal for
iTunes to have no windoes once the update begins? It says not to interrupt, but
what if happenstance dictates an interruption, though unintended? Will thi
result in damage of any kind? Just paranoid . . . :)
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Well, let me tell all y'all the real weird thing that just happened to me. I
padded in here to use my Mac to check my e-mail; and, when I pressed the
control key to bring my machine out of screen saver, I got Screen saver busy
over and over and my fan went hyper on me. I had to do a hard
It took a good 30 minutes which kind of surprised me. Apparently it
fully wipes and reloads the phone OS and then restores all your apps and
data from the iTunes backup. This restore runs in the background so you
can keep the phone tethered and use it while the rest of your media
comes back. I
So exactly what kind of pictures are on your screensaver that causes the Mac
to catch such a fever? grin
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For me, the upgrade was worthwhile as was the switch from SL. The upgrade fixed
a bug with Launchpad that i had talked to Apple about so that's great.
/Krister
12 okt 2011 kl. 23:00 skrev Missy Hoppe:
Well, for me at least, the lion update wasn't worthwhile. The midi issue
still hasn't been
Strange, i have never had that issue.
/Krister
13 okt 2011 kl. 00:57 skrev Allison Mervis:
It also looks like they still haven't fixed the issue of VO not launching on
startup. Not a huge deal, but still an inconvenience.
Allison
-Original Message-
From:
I just ran Software Update and installed Itunes 10.5. Now, when I try to open
Itunes, it says This version of Itunes has not been correctly configured, and
quits when I hit the okay button, which is the only choice. No information
about how to fix it, or what. I'm running Snow Leopard on a
I could be sarchastic and reply, how the hell would I know?, but no. I aint
gonna do that. the simple fact of the matter is that it happened, and, know
what else? This is the first time that happened ever. Also, as an asside, I
noticed that under 10.6, my Mac would start up and be fully
My phone is restoring from a back-up after an apparent successful upgrade to
IOS 5. I must leave soon; can I hit stop and resume at home?
Christine
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my external backup. I am *SO* glad Apple's OS is flexible enough to do that.
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Hi Justin,
I think something's messed up. I actually called tech support, and they said I
had to have a mobile me account. I signed into the ME site with my Apple ID,
but that didn't help either. I think I'll go into the Apple store this weekend
and see if they can sort it out.
Donna
On Oct
Hello,
You do not need a MobileMe account.
I just set my iCloud account up and it works just fine. You need to confirm
your email before it's written in stone. If someone else has the same
someth...@me.com address, you will need to choose another one. Also, remember
that this is a one-time
Thanks, Dan. It looks like it's been accepted, i.e. when I go into my icloud
account, it shows up as an email address, but I can't send any mail to it.
I've tried from two different addresses, and both messages come back as
undeliverable. Also, when I open Mail on my phone, I get an error
Hello,
See if you can remove the iCloud account. It's the last option in the settings
menu where you set all that stuff up. Just make sure it's the iCloud account.
HTH.
Dan
On Oct 13, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Goodin, Donna wrote:
Thanks, Dan. It looks like it's been accepted, i.e. when I go into my
I found this out accidentally, so I don't know if it's documented anywhere. If
you're using the preview pane, and you want to navigate from mailbox list to
message list to message content, use control-tab. At least as far as I'm
concerned, tab doesn't work anymore for that purpose. I'm thinking
I've noticed that tab no longer works to move to the messages in a thread as
well.
Brett C.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
I found this out accidentally, so I don't know if it's documented anywhere.
If you're using the preview pane, and you want to navigate from mailbox
Hi,
Its probably too late now, but no, I really wouldn't do that if I were
you. iTunes isn't always 100% truethfull about what its doing what
stage its at in the process - e.g. It says its restoring the firmware
when its actually upgrading it, so I really wouldn't feel confident
enough to remove
Talking about restarting, after I upgraded last night, I was putting on my
headphones so as not to disturb anyone and my machine did a really weird thing
that I thought a Mac would never do. When I put the headphones on, I
experienced my sounds and voice over skipping like a broken record or
Hi all!
Well my local Apple store sorted the phone in 10 minutes and when I plugged it
into the Mac the backup just started and put all stuff back!
And so I put the next Iphone on and its done the lot in under half a hour!
Talk about different experience's Thanks for all your suggestions!
All the
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Date: 13 October 2011 22:42:47 GMT+01:00
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Hello Kawal, et al.
I decided to move all of my Contacts, Calendar Appointments, etc from my
beloved Mobile Me account to the iCloud earlier today.
Instead of using either my Mac, PC, or IOS device, I launched my browser of
choice, Internet Explorer 8 (Windows 7), and pointed it to:
Kawal,
The images to which you are referring are the various things you are
choosing to move such as Contacts, Calendar, etc.
I believe VoiceOver reads parts of these images as clickable. It can be
extremely frustrating, to say the least.
Mark
-Original Message-
From:
Hi Paul.
I had to find out. My husband said he used Visual Basic. He said he was not
familiar with Python.
Regards,
Gigi
On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
What language did he use? Python is a great cross-platform language
that he may want to look into. Using the wxPython gui
Hi Guys.
dI just found out by accident that return also works to get a message to read
these days. I used to do that in Windows, so I got desperate and tried it. It
worked.
Regards,
Gigi
On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Brett C. wrote:
I've noticed that tab no longer works to move to the
Tab doesn't work for me either, but I thought I was too tired and was
doing something wrong. However, the vo-j keystroke mentioned a few
days ago works perfectly for me, and does not even read out that
maddening table/root cell information that tabbing would!
On 10/13/11, Eugenia Firth
Well Python is cross-platform and is easy to use. Tell him from me that:
Python is object-oriented, using functions and classes. In Python,
absolutely everything is an object, even methods. I could therefore
have an array of function names and call one by using funcs[2](args).
This is very
Hi!
Since I updated to ios5 on my ipad2 yesterday when somebody calls me
they hear the ringing signal but I hear no ringing tone noor any
indication in text or the like, I have uninstalled skype and
reinstalled it severral times but the results are the same,
notifications are on I must add,
Hi, guys,
As you will find out, I've figured out how to use signatures in Mail. However,
I don't know how to make them apply globally to all mail accounts. When I try
adding a new signature for all accounts, the popup menu is dimmed. If I try for
an individual account, it works fine. Is there
Hi all,
I just upgraded to Growl 1.3. I was getting a message that incompatible
plugins were being disabled in mail. It was referring to growl mail. As a
result, I ran the uninstaller, removed growl mail, growl safari and hardware
growler. After that, I installed Growl 1.3. Unfortunately,
Hi:
Tried that. Received a message saying to go to me.com to move MobleMe to
iCloud. I left it transferring to iCloud but receive same messages on iPad and
iPhone.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
I'm not sure about the errors, but you can go to setting iCloud,
select your
Hi:
It isn't working for me. I keep seeing moving data. That was 8 hours agai.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, M. Taylor wrote:
Hello Kawal, et al.
I decided to move all of my Contacts, Calendar Appointments, etc from my
beloved Mobile Me account to the iCloud earlier today.
Instead of
You are absolutely correct, Theresa; and what a disappointing failure of
7.2.
The breaking of the Tab key as a navigation key in Mail was well documented
before the release.
Thank God for Control-Tab but I wouldn't get too used to it, were I you.
Sometimes it feels as though all the
The problem with using the VO+J command, Alex, as far as I am concerned, is
that it, in many cases, causes you to automatically interact with the text
of the message; if this is all you wish to do then fine; but, if you merely
want to hear the contents of the message then quickly skim other
Hello,
It's been saying moving data for over 8 hours/
OK:
1.
Assuming that you initiated the move from the web via Safari, Firefox,
Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc, closing the browser would make no difference
as all of this takes place at Apple's end of the proverbial connection so,
if you
Hi all,
Lately, I'm having a hard time moving items to the dock. Lol, I've
successfully done this before, but just recently I must be messing up.
I'd appreciate some troubleshooting tips, or guesses on where I'm going wrong.
Thank you,
Traci
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Hi Tracy, i'm assuming you're wanting to do this on the mac. IF you want to
put anything on the doc, find the folder, application, or whatever it is you
want to put on there, and hit command shift-t, hope this helps.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Traci wrote:
Hi all,
Lately, I'm having
If you would like to move an application to the doc, open the app, find it on
the doc, use VO shift M to bring up a menu, open the options submenu and select
add to doc.
If you want to have a folder on the doc, highlight the folder and use command
shift T to add it.
Brett C.
On Oct 13, 2011,
All right. Given that, what would you recommend as being the fastest way to
move through message threads? I find that when I'm focused on a message in the
message window, and that message is part of a conversation, pressing return
does not open all of the conversation.
Sincerely,
The
Did Apple acknowledge the bug and/or give a reason for the change? Control tab
isn't listed under the keyboard shortcuts and really doesn't make any sense in
my opinion. Weird.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 9:19 PM, M. Taylor wrote:
You are absolutely correct, Theresa; and what a disappointing failure
Hi Anne.
This Mac newbee discovered something that those of you who know what you're
doing may not have discovered because I don't think you would mess around on
the keyboard with as much I guess desperation. I discovered that although the
tab doesn't work like it did before, it does in fact go
Hi Guys.
I think this Mac newbee may have discovered something you experienced guys
might not have thought of because you experienced guys would be less likely to
mess around on the keyboard in desperation. I found that, although the tab
didn't work like it did before, I could go from message
Sorry guys for sending information twice, but I did not know the first one got
sent.
Let me tell you guys that this Mac new bee just discovered another way to crash
Mail. don't do what I did, or you might crash yours.
I went into Trash because I decided to reply to a message I had just
Hello. i am planning on purchasing a mac for my first year of college
next year. i am currently learning voiceover and I prefer it to the PC
screenreaders available. I have a few questions that hopefully you
kind folks can answer to help me make a more informed purchase.
1. What macbook would fit
Hi Louis,
It sounds like a MacBook Air would be your best bet, though I don't know what
kind of specs it has. I've also heard that the MacBook Air has a similar price
to the 13 inch MacBook Pro, which you could also try. If you don't want to
spend too much, you could also go for the ordinary
Yes, this is very useful information. I am leaning more towards the
macbook Pro. Are there reasons why the pro is better than the air or
vice versa?
On 10/13/11, Gavin g.batw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Louis,
It sounds like a MacBook Air would be your best bet, though I don't know
what kind of
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