Re: accessible youtube to mp3 converter

2011-12-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Angela, but it's just for Windows as far as I could tell. Do you know a similar solution for the Mac? Also: Am I right that it just extracts the audio of a you tube video? Is anyone aware of a solution to download the video from you tube. I was used to use Safari itself for that purpose.

Re: mainstage accessible?

2011-12-19 Thread Vic
Hi, But are the sounds and plugins of Protools are in any way comparable to those of Logic Pro? One of the things that Logic is known are its amazing plugins; you just have to hear the demos on their site to see what I mean. Also, I've been told that with Logic installed, Garage Band should be

NAS Iomega StorCenter ix2-200

2011-12-19 Thread BalubaTheBrave
Hi folks. This can maybe be a bit off topic, but I hope it works anyway... Now, after long time, I've got my NAS Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 up and running, and it seems ok until now. But there are a few things that irritates me; I have checked the website for any update, but can't find if there

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-19 Thread David Griffith
No - I have to typed 60-80,000 words on my PHD thesis. So i estimate 100,000 words as a conservative estimate when taking into account note taking and drafting. Admittedly I already have a lot of material written but as you say off topic so I will end here. On 19 Dec 2011, at 03:25, Rachel

pairing Braille Sense with MBA (sigh)

2011-12-19 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi all, I can't get my BSP to pair with my MBA to save my soul. I've tried with the BSP in terminal mode, and with it not in terminal mode. I am pairing from within the Braille Tab in the VO utility. I've gotten to different error messages, one that the pairing was unsuccessful, and one

problem with PDF files

2011-12-19 Thread Laura Bratton
HI All, I cannot open two PDf files with VO. When I try to open each file, I get a message that says that preview has quit unexpectedly. When I turn VO off and have a sighted person open the file there is no problems. One file is 1.9 MB and the other is 3 mb. Does anyone know how I can open

Re: Recording the output from VoiceOver into Garage Band

2011-12-19 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! You could write the text you want to be spoken in say text edit! Then use the add to Itunes as a spoken track then if I'm not mistaken you can then import it to GB from there! Unless someone tells you different! There is a option for adding as a spoken track in the keyboard shortcuts in

A couple of questions

2011-12-19 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I recently downloaded an app called Focus for Facebook. So, when I open that app and try to use any of the features, it redirects me to a page which asks me if I want to allow this app to be used with my Facebook account. However, there is no 'allow button' on the screen. There are

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-19 Thread Esther
Hello David, I'll just add a comment stating that I also got a 17-key numeric keypad when I first wanted to experiment with NumPad Commander on my Mac laptop -- the Lenovo 33L3225 USB Numeric keypad, which is compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. At the time, nearly 3 years ago,

MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello list: When I try and eject a USB flash drive, it will not eject. I know I've got it selected. However, when I eject one on my sister's account, it ejects properly. Is there a setting I may have modified on my account that I shouldn't have? Thanks, Ezzie Ez Bueno Sent from my

Creating Groups On Facebook And Similar Tasks

2011-12-19 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello list: How can I go about creating a new group on Facebook? I've gotten as far as entering the group name, but can't click the create button. My guess is that VO cannot see this button. Has anyone managed to create a group without requiring sighted assistance? There are similar buttons

RE: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Ezzie, Command+E should eject the drive. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ezzie bueno Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:55 PM To: macvoiceo...@freelists.org; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: MBP

Re: downloading apps

2011-12-19 Thread Badger, Nancy
Scott, Thank you so much for your help. It was a great explanation and I did it with no problems! Nancy On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Nancy, Well if you download the files and have a DMZ, I'm going to be really impressed. :) You actually will have (I assume) a number of

Re: problem with PDF files

2011-12-19 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Laura, This just happened to me last night! Find the pdf then turn off voiceOver and hit command down arrow to launch it. Step#2 after its up turn on voiceOver again and it works fine! :) Whats weird is that after doing this it opens up just fine every time after doing this! Go figure! What i

Re: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Y'all. Command E does not always work for me, especially on thumb drives. I was told by Apple that if you are writing to the drive and it gets ejected too soon, you can mess up your thumb drive. Therefore, these days I always check to see if my drive is on my list of active devices before I

Re: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I guess I'm old fashion. lol. I prefer to bring up the context menu with VO shift M and just press enter on eject. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 19, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi Y'all. Command E does not always

Ejecting a USB flash drive with a keyboard shortcut [was Re: MBP Keyboard]

2011-12-19 Thread Esther
Hi Ezzie and Others, The usual reason that a drive fails to eject is that it is still in use. This could be either because a copy or write operation is still going on and transferring data, or because you have navigated into the file structure of the drive in Finder to query contents. I do

re: Ejecting a USB flash drive with a keyboard shortcut [was Re: MBPKeyboard]

2011-12-19 Thread ezzie bueno
Hello Esther and others, My thumb drive is not in use when I try to eject it. COMMAND E is not working. What else can be going on? Ezzie - Original Message - From: Esther mori...@mac.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date sent: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00:09 -1000 Subject:

speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Gigi
Hi guys. I have a question, and it is driving me crazy. I just called Apple Care about this, and basically, I don't think they believed me. I use the feature I'm describing all the time. Until two days ago, it was working just fine. If you're on a call and you want to go to speaker phone, the

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Jeff Berwick
I believe the correct way to make the phone go into speaker phone is to take the phone away from your ear and hold it as if it was sitting on a table. I.e. flat. It then thinks it is resting on a table and will go into speaker phone mode. Hth, Jeff On 2011-12-19, at 6:55 PM, Gigi wrote:

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread James Mannion
I have never heard of or experienced this change. Taking it away from my ear has been the way to put it in speaker mode, even after SIRI arrived. Apple care doesn't even know how speaker phone works? Sometimes I really truely just don't get it. Their in store people know nothing half the time,

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Gigi
Hi JeffThat's what I have been doing for almost a year now and since I can't find it in the new manual any more I was wondering if it was taken away. Apple Care kept insisting that taking the phone away from the like that was not the normal operation. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19,

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Jessica
Is this just supposed to automaticly supposed to do this by default any time you take the phone away from you ear? If that's the case, how do you turn it off if you either realize you didn't want it on, or you did, and you're done with it? Sorry to vere this subject off topic, just was

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Kevin Shaw
Try rebooting your phone. Hold the Sleep/Wake button for 7 sec and then tap the Slide to Power Off button. Wait for a minute or so and then hold the sleep/wake button agian. I've encountered a similar problem with my 4S and my old 3GS. It seems that the accelerometer needs to be whipped into

Re: problem with PDF files

2011-12-19 Thread Laura Bratton
Hi CHUCk, Thank you for your reply. I tried that and still got the same results. When I turn VO back on I still get the same message. Any Ideas what I am doing wrong or what else I could try? I am also using SL. Thanks, laura CHUCK REICHEL wrote: Hi Laura, This just happened to me last night!

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread peter apgar
this feature is still available. three things to try: 1 with the phone away from your face turn the volume up. often the speaker phone volume gets turned down. 2 wave a finger over the slot for the ear peace. occasionally something blocks the sensor. 3 reboot the phone. could be some sort

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This might be a silly question but, did you explain to them that you are a voiceover user? Because the feature your talking about is only active with voiceover on. If they are not voiceover users, and don't know that you are, I doubt the person trying to help you would know this. In my

Chase Free Email Alerts

2011-12-19 Thread Dan Roy
I don't know whether it's due to the recent changes on the Chase site, or an update that changed VO, I am not sure. However, I seem to be having a problem reading the table where you can change free alerts. Anyone who uses chase will know what the free alerts are. It will read the status of

Question about making itunes playlists

2011-12-19 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hello, all. I don't even know if what I'm wantting to do is possible, but I figured I'd ask on here to find out. I know how to buy music on Itunes, but so far, that's about all I've learned. What I'd ideally like to do is find a way to make a playlist containing all of my Christmas music, but

Re: Question about making itunes playlists

2011-12-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, What you ask is not possible. For a song to be in a playlist, it need to be in the main music playlist. But, there is a way you can have all the christmas music skipped if your just letting the music in your music playlist play. After you've moved your christmas songs to a playlist,

accessibility of audacity with voiceover?

2011-12-19 Thread Gerry Cook
Having tried to use audacity for converting a flack file to an mp3, I'm having accessibility issues with a lot of the buttons saying unknown, is there any way i can get voiceover to read any of the buttons,, is there an alternative to audacity to convert flac files to mp3? Gerry Cook cheers

Re: Chase Free Email Alerts

2011-12-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Yep, there is a work arround for your problem. It's a bit tedious. The only way to see everything you need to see is to just use VO+right arrow through the entire alert process. That's a bit slow, but, what they've gone and done is this. The Check boxes for your e-mail and phone are part of