Re: Pages for the Mac.

2011-10-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I tried buying I work through the App store. but all were individual prices. Anyone know how to buy Keynote and Numbers together? What do you mean e-mailing docs to I Cloud? Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 23 Oct 2011, at 10:53 PM, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: DOn't quote me on

question: are the importing vo-settings problems since 10.7.2 already fixed?

2011-10-24 Thread William Windels
Hello, Since I would like to do a clean install of lion in stead off a upgrade from 10.6 to 10.7, I was wondering if the import of vo-settings is fixed already. Before, I think 10.7, I have tried a clean install of Lion but, after , I have discovered that I couldn't import all my vo-settings

Re: iCal and iCloud not playing nice - any suggestions?

2011-10-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. I too was a Mobile Me member, and after getting some kind assistance from Mark Taylor, I managed to migrate to ICloud. Now everything works like a dream! Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 24 Oct 2011, at 01:48 AM, Matthew Campbell wrestling.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have tried all of

IOS: accessible VO cloent

2011-10-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello guys. I am looking for an accessible Facebook client under IOS5. I Tried the official FB App and Facely HD too, but it was a very frustrating experience. Facely HD refreshers very frequently the screen, causing VO to loose focus. Write a note becomes a very challenging task and even

Re: Pages for the Mac.

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Kawal, You would spend the same if you purchased all of them together or separately, so buy one or buy them all. My advice is to e-mail the file to yourself for now. You can from within pages access the iWOrk site where you can upload documents. I have to play with this a bit more because when

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Mary, I find it interesting that folks would want to read books on the computer. I'm not saying it is right, wrong, or anything like that. It just seems to me that the iOS devices make the most sense as a way to read books. I wonder if sighted people read books on the computer? None I know do.

Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hey All, What do you all reckon about having Seri on the Mac? I myself would love it. Just imagine, rather than typing, dictating e-mails and more! Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: iCal Bug in Lion?

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
AH, something got confused in the thread somewhere on my end, so my apologies to Sarai. On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Scott! Sarai was probily saying that my suggestion did not work! Not yours! :) Colin Sent from my iPhone On 24 Oct 2011, at 01:23, Scott Howell

Re: iCal Bug in Lion?

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
DOn't know then because it works just fine for me. You can always do a VO-m as I stated in a subsequent message and go to info and edit the name there. However, if you plan to publish/share the calendar, be sure to do the edit prior to sharing. On Oct 23, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli

Re: iCal Bug in Lion?

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Sarai, sorry I have no idea why you are having this problem. Maybe some other folks could try the same steps and report on their success. Do you have someone sighted who can take a look? I'm just wondering if there is some sort of focus issue or something that is not apparent. On Oct 23, 2011,

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, I'm not Mary, but I can put in my two cents. I like to read from the computer with my Braille display while listening to a sports webcast. I suppose I can just as easily do it with my IPod, come to think of it. :) Old habits die hard. Teresa I'm a pantheist; I worship Pan. On Oct 24,

Re: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Moore
Well you have guessed it, it will be part of Mac OS x 10.8 (Lynx) :) Well I would not be surprised if Apple did licence more Nuance speech to text stuff for the Mac, and perhaps some built in OCR so we can read graphics and DVD menus just like JAWS 13 Let's hope VO gets a complete rewrite on

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread Joanne Chua
After reading on my iphone using IBooks, i agree with Scott, its definitely one of the best experience i ever have reading a book with fully control. However, i guess it is just some people prefference reading on the computer. I used to done that quite a lot few years ago, but now, i'm simply grow

Importing Documents.

2011-10-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi All. Just been messing around with Pages on my I phone. So, I went in to add document menu and saw the option of copying docs from I Disk, (as I kept lots of documents in I Disk) Bearing in mind that the I disk software is not on my phone, I copied a document in to pages! Wow! So now I

Re: Terminal problem: speech getting interrupted when new text appears

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Johanna, I'm still trying to track this down for you. Just wanted you to know I have not forgotten, but it may actually be in the Terminal APp options. Scott On Oct 22, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Johanna Herranen wrote: Hello, I am new to this list -- actually I am also a complete newbie with Mac. I

Re: IOS: accessible VO cloent

2011-10-24 Thread Doug Lawlor
Check out Focus for Facebook in the app store. Doug Sent from my iPhone On 2011-10-24, at 6:11 AM, Massimo Vettoretti mass...@vettoretti.net wrote: Hello guys. I am looking for an accessible Facebook client under IOS5. I Tried the official FB App and Facely HD too, but it was a very

Re: Terminal problem: speech getting interrupted when new text appears

2011-10-24 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! I do not know if this will help! But here is a couple of suggestions from people who know more about this than I When terminal is scrolling, but I want to read line-by-line (such as during a compile) I simply turn off cursor tracking with vo-shift-f3, and then when I'm finished, I press

Steps on how to download the lion Installer if you already have lion installed

2011-10-24 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Everyone, I am trying to help a friend of mine to download and burn a recovery install DVD for lion which he has already installed which was installed when it was purchased. When he goes to the app store it says to delete a file before he can download the installer but it does not

Re: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Red.Falcon
Well Star Trek here we come! Just do not say eject the core! So would people like the capability to name there Mac or just stick to computer! I like the idea to say! Thor send email to Fred Blogs execute! Colin On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:23, Chris Moore wrote: Well you have guessed it, it will be

Re: can't figure out iCloud on Mac

2011-10-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Mary. I am running Lion. I have discovered since I wrote the message last night that my bookmarks are messed up. Luckily, I have an appointment at the Apple store in North Park Mall for finishing what we started last Wednesday. I need to figure out now how to edit the ulrs on m y bookmarks

RE: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Missy Hoppe
Well, hopefully, if 10.8 happens, they'll release it soon. I realize I'm probably in the minority here, but as far as I'm concerned, Lion is like Windows me, and over all, I regret buying it. I'm still happily using what I believe some folks on here have referred to as the snowy kitty on my

RE: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Missy Hoppe
Yes! If this happens, giving the computer a name would be a nice feature. I could imagine it being in system preferences. That way, if folks weren't creative, they could just say computer, but if we had a name in mind, we could set that up. I think that should even be an option for the IOS

YoruFukurou

2011-10-24 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I downloaded YoruFukurou just a few days ago. It's working very well, but I have a couple of questions related to it. 1. How can you search for people, tweets, etc on YoruFukurou? 2. Is it possible to open a particular person's profile on YoruFukurou to check his tweets and stuff, like we

Re: iCal Bug in Lion?

2011-10-24 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: VOM doesn't' work wfor me either. I go to info, but still cannot rename the calendar. I might have to reinstall Lion. Safari is being goofy anyway. On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Scott Howell wrote: DOn't know then because it works just fine for me. You can always do a VO-m as I stated in

good media players that aren't iTunes?

2011-10-24 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I am looking for a good media player that is NOT iTunes. I don't want something to manage my music library, since I rely on the folder structure I have created to do that. I just want something to play the files, and the more gooddies the better (pitch changer, bookmarking in files,

Re: good media players that aren't iTunes?

2011-10-24 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi, VLC is what I use for playing media. It's an awesome little program. Brianna On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a good media player that is NOT iTunes. I don't want something to manage my music library, since I rely on the folder structure I

can't use safari ! please help

2011-10-24 Thread banu.bc
hello there thanks for your recommends. I'm learning a lot from Mike arigo's podcasts. still I can't use safari aficiently. I open safari, press commend L and write the address. for example. skype.com. I find and press mac in order to download skype. when I'm the home page It can read

Re: YoruFukurou

2011-10-24 Thread Shannon Dyer
Hi. To open a buffer for a particular person, type command u and type the person's twitter name without the at sign. I hope this helps. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Collection: a Celebration of Women In Music.

Re: Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'

2011-10-24 Thread Dan Roy
It's on audible, now. It must have appeared sometime during the night or vary early this morning. Unless I just totally missed itk, there was no mention of it last night. Well, it does;n't matter anyway, it wasn't released officially until this morning. Anyway, I snagged it first thing.

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, Well, Amazon has kindle for pc and Mac, so I assume they must think at least some sighted people would like to read books on a computer. Quite honestly, one of the reasons I would like to see IBooks on the computer is that I'd really like to read with the Alex voice and not the voices

Re: Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'

2011-10-24 Thread Teresa Cochran
I got an ad from Barnes and Noble that indicated it had come out, too. Guess it's just been published. Teresa Nobody ever tells me anything!--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Dan Roy wrote: It's on audible, now. It must have appeared sometime during the

ICloud and Voiceover

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Listers, In your experience, how accessible is iCloud with Voiceover? Is iCloud functioning fully for those of us who live in the UK? Thanks for any tips you share. With best wishes Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: ICloud and Voiceover

2011-10-24 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
Hi, iCloud on iOS devices works well, but the http://icloud.com web site has not worked for me at all at least with a Windows screen reader. Best, Mika On 10/24/11, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Listers, In your experience, how accessible is iCloud with Voiceover? Is

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello Scott and others, What about those of us who do not have ios devices? Although I do read my books on my BrailleNote, I would still like to have the option of downloading ibooks onto my Mac, seeing as some books are not available in Braille. Those that are available on Bookshare's

Re: IOS: accessible VO cloent

2011-10-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Lunedě 24 Ottobre 2011 13.23.56, Doug Lawlor doug.law...@gmail.com ha scritto: Check out Focus for Facebook in the app store. Thanks Doug, donwloaded, installed and tried out. It... works... in some way. Of course, it doesn't fully support FB features. You cannot Add or edit notes, you

Re: ICloud and Voiceover

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Yep, the iCloud site needs some help, so let Apple know. THey aren't perfect, but then no one is perfect. Write accessibil...@apple.com On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Mika Pyyhkala wrote: Hi, iCloud on iOS devices works well, but the http://icloud.com web site has not worked for me at all at

Re: A few verbosity withh Mail questions

2011-10-24 Thread John André Netland
Hi, If a message is the first to appear with this topic, you will only see the name of the sender. If there is a conversation going on, and you still have the previous messages stored, the number of new messages in the thread is shown. If there is only one new, the number will be 1. This way,

RE: A few verbosity withh Mail questions

2011-10-24 Thread Bill Holton
Thanks. I had found the disclosure triangle setting, and that helps. I was hoping I could find some way to change the rest, though. Currently in Outlook I have my screen reader saying re instead of red and f instead of forwarded and u for unread. Doesn’t sound like much, but it sure does make

iPod Touch

2011-10-24 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I have a 4th generation iPod Touch, but I am not being able to use it with VoiceOver. VO reads everything that's given on the screen, but I really don't know how to move forward. I have never used a device with a touchscreen before, so that could be the reason for the problem I'm facing.

Re: YoruFukurou

2011-10-24 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi Shannon, Thank you for your help. Wow, that really works! BTW, how can I search for things on YoruFukurou? On 24/10/2011, Shannon Dyer solsticesin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. To open a buffer for a particular person, type command u and type the person's twitter name without the at sign. I

Re: A few verbosity withh Mail questions

2011-10-24 Thread John André Netland
In some ways you can, by using the object label feature in VoiceOver. Interact with the message list when you have an unread message there, focus on the unread button, and open the label feature to enter whatever you want VO to say instead. Every time VoiceOver sees such a button again, it will

RE: A few verbosity withh Mail questions

2011-10-24 Thread Bill Holton
Thanks. Figured it was there, just couldn’t find it. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John André Netland Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:16 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A few verbosity withh Mail questions

Re: Newsstand problems

2011-10-24 Thread Caitlyn Furness
You might be able to get a refund, just use the link on your receipt where it says something like, report a problem.. this might not work, though. Just fyi, as an alternative to the dumb news stand thing, there is an app called zinio. It's another news stand type thing, offering all sorts of

Re: accessible apps from the mac app store

2011-10-24 Thread Badger, Nancy
go to www.applevis.comhttp://www.applevis.com Nancy On Oct 23, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Angie Giltinan wrote: Good morning all, As a fairly new Mac user, I'm very interested in obtaining new apps, to expand the possibilities of my Mac, also, I'm an iOs app junky, so I'd like to cary that obsession

Unable to read Mail with regular cursor keys

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
Question for you all. I read messages sometimes using the standard arrow keys, but for some unknown reason I am only able to read the first line of a message now. I have seen this happen on occasion, but generally logging out and back in wil resolve the times when it really has gotten out of

Re: steve Jobs in 1994.

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Original link is here: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steve-jobs-in-1994-the-rolling-stone-interview-20110117 CB On 10/23/11 10:34 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi All, I promised to share this, and I am sorry it took longer than planned. I must admit that since my dad's recent

Re: can't use safari ! please help

2011-10-24 Thread Robert Nelson
It sounds like you have cursor tracking turned off. VO-shift F3 toggles cursor tracking on and off. there are two separate cursors in Voice Over, the VoiceOver cursor and the keyboard cursor. Where the VoiceOver cursor is is what is read. The keyboard cursor must be on whatever

Problems Activating iCloud

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I am at my wits' end. I've spent many an hour trying to activate iCloud via system preferences as advised by Apple. There doesnt seem to be any other way of moving MobileMe to iCloud. When I press the button in system preferences that is supposed to begin the process of moving my

Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Gigi
Hi guys. I just got back from the Apple store, and I got a keyboard for my iPhone plus I downloaded Pages and Numbers to my iPhone. How do you save files in Pages on the iPhone? I got a file opened an d typed some text on the iPhone. If it matters, I have the iPhone 4. I can't get Siri yet. I

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
It seems you do not actually have to save it. Instead it is saved automatically. It is a new way of thinking about how you deal with documents. On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Gigi wrote: Hi guys. I just got back from the Apple store, and I got a keyboard for my iPhone plus I downloaded Pages

Resolved my Mail reading problem

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
SInce I cannot find my original message, I had stated I could not read messages with the regular arrow keys. SO, I decided to run Cocktail and do a little housecleaning and rebooted. THe problem is now resolved. DOn't know why this did't occur to me before, but hey it worked! Scott -- You

making an exact copy of my old exturnel hard drive to my new exturnal hard drive?

2011-10-24 Thread trahern culver
hey all how would i go about making an exact coppy of my old exturnle hard drive to my new external hard drive? thanks for your help kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Gigi
Hi Scott. Thanks for your response. Actually, my old BrailleLite 40 used to handle files in this way. Since I had the BrailleLite for nine years, I can get used to that. pretty easily I guess I didn't say it right. Once you have made a file and typed some text in there, how do you give the

Re: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
I would not be surprised if apple includes something like that in the next major release of their operating system, doubt it will come to lion. On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hey All, What do you all reckon about having Seri on the Mac? I myself would love it. Just

Re: good media players that aren't iTunes?

2011-10-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
By far, vlc player will be your best friend, I think the site is videolan.org, I sort of think of it as winamp for the mac, it plays pretty much everything. On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a good media player that is NOT iTunes. I don't want something

Re: making an exact copy of my old exturnel hard drive to my new exturnal hard drive?

2011-10-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Try either super duper or carbon copy cloner, both of those should do the trick. On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:17 PM, trahern culver wrote: hey all how would i go about making an exact coppy of my old exturnle hard drive to my new external hard drive? thanks for your help kind regards trahern. --

Re: Problems Activating iCloud

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
WHat you can try is going to http://www.mobileme.com/move and I found that just putting in my user ID, password, and clicking next a bunch of times got the job done. Honestly, this is one place I have needed to ping Apple on because the site is not very friendly. Of course if you have a set of

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Scott Howell
There is an info button, but I need to go play again myself and tell you. :) I'll check it out and send along instructions if someone does not beat me to it or you don't figure it out. :) On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Gigi wrote: Hi Scott. Thanks for your response. Actually, my old

cannot get e-mails in order i want

2011-10-24 Thread Denise Avant
hello all, I have a problem with my e-mail. i want the most recent e-mail firs in the list in all mail boxes. i have attempted to make this happen. but with no luck. so could someone send me the step-by-step process to get this done. i am probably missing a step. thanks. -- You received this

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Aser Tolentino
Hi Scott and others, The instructions for the iPad version are to tap and hold on the file name. I've never gotten this to work with VoiceOver enabled as it doesn't recognize the name as a separate object, so I too could use some enlightenment. Thanks. Respectfully, Aser Tolentino, Esq. (916)

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I can rename files but it's strange. I have to go to the name turn off voiceover and tap and hold. Voiceover doesn't respond to a double tap hold in Pages. On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Aser Tolentino wrote: Hi Scott and others, The instructions for the iPad version are to tap

Re: good media players that aren't iTunes?

2011-10-24 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I'll try it. Will it do ogg files? Right now, the mac thinks they are Unix executables, which is odd, and Quicktime won't play them. On 10/24/11, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: By far, vlc player will be your best friend, I think the site is videolan.org, I sort of think of it as

Re: Pages on iPhone

2011-10-24 Thread Gigi
Hi again guys. Ok, maybe I am missing something here, but how can you rename files if you have to turn off VoiceOver to do it? If I turn VoiceOver off, I'm big time lost. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Paul Hunt prhu...@att.net wrote: Hello everyone. I can

Re: iPod Touch

2011-10-24 Thread Alex Hall
Start by reading the FAQ's gestures section (and any other sections that you find helpful). Then I would find podcasts on places like blindgeekzone.com and listen to them. Finally, throw out everything you know about screen reading; the iPod does things differently, for the most part, and it is

Re: iPod Touch

2011-10-24 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Rahul, You can start with your home screen. You can explore it by moving one finger around on the screen. As you move, VO tells you which items are under your finger. Along the bottom of the screen are 4 applications. The home screen has different pages, but the four things at the bottom

Ejecting A Flash Drive

2011-10-24 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello Folks, How exactly am I supposed to eject a USB flash drive? I've tried Command E and that doesn't do it. I've looked : the menu bar, but do not see the option to eject. Any help is welcome. Thanks, Ezzie Ez Bueno Sent from my BrailleNote Apex Skype: sillyez Facebook:

Re: good media players that aren't iTunes?

2011-10-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, vlc will handle these. On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Thanks, I'll try it. Will it do ogg files? Right now, the mac thinks they are Unix executables, which is odd, and Quicktime won't play them. On 10/24/11, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: By far, vlc player will

Re: Ejecting A Flash Drive

2011-10-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Ezzie, if you bring up a context menu on the drive, you can choose the 'eject' option. YOu can either do a control click or VO-shift-M to bring up the context menu. HTH and have a lovely evening!… Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn