Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Scott, Thanks for the Siri help. I can't wait to try it out! Blessings, Johnny On Dec 24, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: > Hi, > > The autolock setting can be found in Settings, General Autolock. > > If you enable Siri via the Siri Settings, then you'll see (hear) a "Dictate" >

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Gavin, That did it. Thanks so much for the help. Johnny On Dec 24, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Gavin wrote: > Hi Jonny, > > You can disable autolock entirely if this is what you want, or you can change > the amount of time the phone waits before locking itself. To do this, open > Settings, go to G

Using Siri with dictation withRe: Another Dictation Breakthrough

2011-12-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi all, How does one use Siri to produce a dictation message on the IPhone? Thanks much! Johnny Angel On Dec 24, 2011, at 2:04 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Brett, > > Your question is an excellent one and, by the way, thank you for alerting > the developers of the VoiceOver challenges. >

Re: Merry Christmas

2011-12-24 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi all! :] And a even better New Year! Colin On 25 Dec 2011, at 00:29, CJ Daniel wrote: > Gavin, > > Thank you very much & the same to you. I hope the Lord blesses you & that > Santa stops by…LOL. > > Merry Christmas, > > CJ > > > On Dec 24, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Gavin wrote: > >> Hi guys >

Re: Merry Christmas

2011-12-24 Thread CJ Daniel
Gavin, Thank you very much & the same to you. I hope the Lord blesses you & that Santa stops by…LOL. Merry Christmas, CJ On Dec 24, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Gavin wrote: > Hi guys > > Just writing to wish you all a very merry Christmas all the way from sunny > South Africa. It's about half pa

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The autolock setting can be found in Settings, General Autolock. If you enable Siri via the Siri Settings, then you'll see (hear) a "Dictate" icon to the left of the space bar on the standard keyboard. Simple double tap this item, and use a two finger double tap to stop. At which point, u

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread James Scholes
Johnny Angel! wrote: > How do I change the timer for the auto locking mechanism. Right now it seems > to go into lock mode in less then 30 seconds. Open Settings > General > Auto-Lock. Once there, you'll be able to choose to have the phone auto-lock after 1 to 5 minutes or never. > Also, is the

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Gavin
Hi Jonny, You can disable autolock entirely if this is what you want, or you can change the amount of time the phone waits before locking itself. To do this, open Settings, go to General, and double-tap Autolock. There, you will be given the following options: 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4

New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi and a blessed Merry Christmas to everyone! I'm wondering if someone on the list can give me a few pointers as a VO user of a new IPhone 4S. How do I change the timer for the auto locking mechanism. Right now it seems to go into lock mode in less then 30 seconds. Also, is there a way to se

Merry Christmas

2011-12-24 Thread Gavin
Hi guys Just writing to wish you all a very merry Christmas all the way from sunny South Africa. It's about half past midnight on Christmas morning here. Hope you all have a good one! Regards, Gavin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
if open office could receive some much loved care in terms of stability tweaks, voiceover functionality, etc we would be laughing. If I could fit in time, I'd love to team up with open office devs and give them a much loved kick lol but time's money lol. I'm surprised that we haven't had any le

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Sabato 24 Dicembre 2011 21.42.45, Mike Arrigo ha scritto: However, for my every day tasks, using itunes, web surfing, email, word processing, it's mac all the way. There are several accessible word processing choices, text edit works well. Pages is also useable, there is another one c

Re: WordPress

2011-12-24 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
i use mars editor; but i'm a mac user. it cost about 20 dollars, but its a one time purchase. the set up was very simple too. take care, max On Dec 24, 2011, at 2:53 PM, ezzie bueno wrote: Hello List, Which app do you all use for posting on WordPress? Posting online has become somewhat

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Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
I guess it depends on what you want to do. Before I got my first mac, I was a dos windows user as well, when I got my first mac, I used them both, now I no longer have a pc and have no desire to get another one. I use windows for a couple things, only because I have to, and I use windows at work

Re: Another Dictation Breakthrough

2011-12-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You will see I got sent the file and reply. On 24 Dec 2011, at 20:20, Brett C. wrote: > Hi, if you haven't already, check your downloads folder. The link didn't > appear to do anything when I clicked on it, but a download did take place. I > hope this is the same for you. > > Brett C. > > > O

Re: Another Dictation Breakthrough

2011-12-24 Thread Brett C.
Hi, if you haven't already, check your downloads folder. The link didn't appear to do anything when I clicked on it, but a download did take place. I hope this is the same for you. Brett C. On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > If anyone has managed to download the Air Dictat

Re: Another Dictation Breakthrough

2011-12-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
If anyone has managed to download the Air Dictate receiver, please let me know as the link will not open on my Mac. I will e-mail the developer. On 24 Dec 2011, at 07:04, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Brett, > > Your question is an excellent one and, by the way, thank you for alerting > the develo

Re: iPhone and Mac question

2011-12-24 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Thanks James. Hopefully that will be pretty easy. I'm hoping he has an easy time learning the Mac. On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:28 PM, James Scholes wrote: > On the Windows side, copy the contents of %UserProfile%\My Music\iTunes > (Windows XP/Windows 7) or %UserProfile%\Music\iTunes (Windows Vista) t

Re: accessible facebook chatting applications for mac?

2011-12-24 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Jessica! This should be what you need to do to get Facebook chatting! hth Colin Qapla! 1. go to facebook.com and go to your account! 2. open account settings and select change user name [ even if you do not have one] 3. Facebook should give you some options and just after them will be a more l

Re: accessible facebook chatting applications for mac?

2011-12-24 Thread Jessica
Can we talk off list about that? I haven't been able to get that to connect with anything aside from my Aim acount which I rarely use anymore, and I know I've typed my password correctly, so don't under stand what's wrong with it. - Original Message - From: "Eric Oyen" To: Sent: Fri

Re: iPhone and Mac question

2011-12-24 Thread James Scholes
On the Windows side, copy the contents of %UserProfile%\My Music\iTunes (Windows XP/Windows 7) or %UserProfile%\Music\iTunes (Windows Vista) to ~/Music/iTunes on the Mac. Note: If the iTunes library on the Windows computer references files not in the iTunes folder, you'll need to open Edit > Pr

Re: accessible facebook chatting applications for mac?

2011-12-24 Thread Jessica
I'd like to figure out how to use IChat as well, so if anyone could give me some tips, I'd really appreciate it. - Original Message - From: "Blake Hardin" To: Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 2:30 AM Subject: accessible facebook chatting applications for mac? Hi, well as I don't use

Re: Looktel Money Reader For Macintosh (OSX)

2011-12-24 Thread Jessica
Oh cool, how exactly do you use the ap itself? - Original Message - From: "Anne Robertson" To: Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 12:17 AM Subject: Re: Looktel Money Reader For Macintosh (OSX) Hello Jessica, The camera is located in the screen surround at the centre of the top. It fe

iPhone and Mac question

2011-12-24 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi all: I've purchased my Dad a Macbook Pro for Christmas. Shh. Don't tell. He always connects his iPhone to his Windows machine. What do I need to do to connect it to the Mac, and not lose his data? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: Spotify on the IPhone

2011-12-24 Thread Charlie Doremus
It all comes down to choice, i guess. It's great that we live in a time where all these options are offered. Im old enough (and damn proud of it) to have owned and played records that spun at 78rpm and if you dropped them you were screwed. At one point I owned the entire Rolling Stones catalogue sa

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
Hi, I totally agree with you there. as I speak, I'm refurbishing a HP Proliant G3 server which is taking some time, some vicious system hacking and a heck of a lot of patience to do. The mac to me is my tool and weapon of choice for all my IT work and I love it. I couldn't move back to a windo

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Gigi
Hi folks. This user, who is neither a programmer, developer, or anything techy like that would like the KISS system. You know, the Keep It Simple System! The reason I switched to the Mac was that I was getting tired of updaes it seemed like every five minutes, updates I had to get my sighted Wi

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Scott Howell
Vic, Very well stated. This is an intelligent post that captures what I have been saying for years. I find way to many messages on this and other lists that blame VoiceOver for all matter of problems and rarely do I ever see any comments about the application itself. Nothing is perfect no matte

Re: Spotify on the IPhone

2011-12-24 Thread Kevin Mattingly
Song writers are the ones who hurt more from services like this. They do pay royalties but like Ricardo says, they aren't making much. The quality of the stuff I've been listening to is pretty darn good and the selection is huge. You can listen to a song as much as you like, so its just like pur

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I global , I find mac and voiceover very nice to work with, more stable then a windows-system and jaws or window-eyes and indeed, a lot of the programs are useful: twitter, textedit, vmware, iTunes, garageband (I don't use it at the moment), pages , a little bit numbers and key note

Re: pretty advanced bootcamp question

2011-12-24 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
just a thought on this.. what version of windows are you installing? if it's windows XP and above then using the fat partition, convert it to NTFS through the DOS installer method. that may require sighted assistance. if it's anything above XP, not sure. my experience doesn't hover over vista o

Re: pretty advanced bootcamp question

2011-12-24 Thread Gavin
Hi Florian, Firstly, and forgive me for going slightly off topic, but how were you able to boot a Vinux live CD on your Mac and have sound? When I tried that on mine, the system booted perfectly, but no sound would work. Second, regarding your Windows partition, my suggestion is that, if ther

Re: pretty advanced bootcamp question

2011-12-24 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
Hi there, OK, if you're constructing a multi boot platform as you seem to be, you have another option to explore. this is the firewire boot to external HDD to run another OS. I do this on certain occasions where necessary as I don't like having windows on my macbook pro. I'd rather have window

pretty advanced bootcamp question

2011-12-24 Thread f10r14n
Hi, Perhaps any of you guys have done something similar to this and may have some insights. Here's the situation: - I started off with a mac OSX partition, windows partition, the always existing EFI partition and the recovery partition, detailing 4. - I shrunk the HFS (mac OSX) partition to make

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread f10r14n
Hello Vic, Well thought out message you have there. Let me comment on it a bit, though. Victor Tsaran wrote: > Hello "VoiceOver On" guys and everyone else on the list, > First of all, I'll start by saying that I am not a Mac fan or anything-one > else's, for that matter. I am only a fan of myse

Re: Spotify on the IPhone

2011-12-24 Thread Ricardo Walker
lol, To some it is. I honestly thing they are getting there moneys worth anyway. Artists basically give away there music on streaming services. a song has to stream 100 times for the artist to get payed a dollar. So, for a penny a listen, it is what it is. Don't get me wrong, the record in

Re: Spotify on the IPhone

2011-12-24 Thread Charlie Doremus
Lynn I would like to take a few moments of your time to explain just how Spotify works. You can us the service in conjuncion with Face book but that seen to lead you into a jumble of low quality pressings of re-recorded vinyl discs with very pool audio and track arrangements of albums you thought y