Daisybooks on the mac, witch app do you use?

2012-02-20 Thread Ewoud
Hi all, i wanna read daisy books on my mac, but the app i use, Readhearpro, does not work fine here. it stops sudden and the rate doesn't go up or down. Is there an app that you could reccomand better? Curious, Ewoud -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: voice quirks was Re: Mountain lion and what we would love to be changed.

2012-02-20 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 19 Febbraio 2012 17.42.59, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com ha scritto: I have also problems with some danish letters the 3 last æ ø and å. I have also reported these bugs to apple, but they have not solved the problems yet. There are problems with the italian

Re: Remoting two Macs

2012-02-20 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Good morning Ricardo. Unfortunately, Dropbox wasn't already installed on here. I don't know if it comes standard on the plastic MacBooks but I heard that the MBP has it on there standard. Perhaps it may have been on here, I don't know. I've had to reformat this thing twice last year to get

Re: Bug With Message Beta

2012-02-20 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. All is well. Messages is behaving as it should. The problem is that I've never used Ichat for anything because I have always used Adium for an IM client. I'd like to have Messages as my only client but it sounds to me like getting my MSN to work with it is very hard due to that stuff

Re: a probably silly question about the IPhone

2012-02-20 Thread Garth Humphreys
Do a triple tap on the shift. If this doesn't work for you, go into settings, General and Keyboard and make sure you have the Caps Lock feature enabled. Garth @BlindTechMusing On 20/02/2012, at 3:18 PM, Jeffrey Wheatley wrote: This sounds very useful, but I have been unsuccessful getting

I am having problems selecting test in safari since upgrading to 10.7.3

2012-02-20 Thread Dean Adams
Hi All, I have tried several things to select text in safari if I only want certain sections of the text in a website I can't just shift and right arrow to select the text I want I have had to copy all the text on the website and paste iit into text edit and remove the stuff I don't

Is there an alternative to Winscp for the mac that is accessible

2012-02-20 Thread Dean Adams
Hi All, I have found most apps that I need for my tasks on the new macbook pro but the only thing I am missing is an alternative to a windows program called Win scp so I can ssh into several servers I have to upload files to on a regular basis . I am trying not to touch my windows

Re: Question about a monitor on my mac mini

2012-02-20 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, The problem I am having is that the screen will not stay on. I tried detected displays and it is still off. I will keep messaing around with it and see what happens. Matthew On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hmmm. In System Preferences Displays at the very end of the

Re: transfering n.l.s. books to the mac:

2012-02-20 Thread Frank Tom
Unless the policy has changed, you will not be able to read NLS books on your Mac. Each device, like the BookPort Plus and the Victor Reader Stream, must have an authorization key to read NLS books. At this time, there is no key. Tom Frank On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Gigi wrote: Hello Well,

numbers

2012-02-20 Thread May McDonald
Good day everyone. Well, I guess I can't avoid it any longer. Drn school stuff. Is there a place where I could find tutorials on how to use numbers? Or can anyone recommend a good program that handles excel files if numbers is not the best to use? Thanks, May and Prince Noah cell:

Re: Matais keyboard on sale

2012-02-20 Thread Frank Tom
Sorry about that. The spelling is Matias. The Matias Tactile Pro is a full size keyboard with function keys and numeric keypad. The function keys are in groups of four just like older keyboards. Also, the keys are like stadium seating, each row is slightly higher than the row below it so

Growl (again:-)

2012-02-20 Thread Jean-Claude Provost
Hi all, I read all the message about folks having problem with Growl (Lastly Jenny's), , although the explanations I've read seemed all clear, I can't get this to work. I installed ( upgraded to 1.3.3. When starting Growl, I can't add applications to it. When selecting applications from the

Re: numbers

2012-02-20 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
If your spreadsheet needs are not very complicated, you might wish to consider Tables. It's the spreadsheet app that I use on the Mac, and I really like it. It has all the usual functions, and you can enter your own formulae, as well. You can save your work as xl files, too. Creating graphs

Re: Growl (again:-)

2012-02-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
When I start Growl prefs from the System Prefs here, it opens the 32 bit version of Prefs. I'm running Snow Leopard, not Lion, but I'm wondering if Jen and others who are having growl issues don't have that 32-bit preference pane anymore now that everything's 64-bit? I thought the latest

Re: a probably silly question about the IPhone

2012-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Wheatley
Perfect - I had the keyboard setting for caps lock turned off… With it turned on, both triple tap of shift, and split double tap of shift enable caps lock. Thanks! On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote: Do a triple tap on the shift. If this doesn't work for you, go into

Re: Growl (again:-)

2012-02-20 Thread Jean-Claude Provost
Actually, I forgot to mention: I'm running Lion with the latest Apple-pushed update. Cheers, Jean-Claude Provost jc.prov...@dansmacave.com On 2012-02-20, at 12:39 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: When I start Growl prefs from the System Prefs here, it opens the 32 bit version of Prefs.

Re: How to open the addressbook.

2012-02-20 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Jessica! Well I've set a keyboard shortcut for mine! So I only need to press right option key plus R [R for reply] because A is set to adium! But you can also launch it from the doc by either return or vo space or even vo+shift+m and find open in that menu! Mind you the address book has some

Re: Color Identifier for the iPhone 4S

2012-02-20 Thread peter apgar
Good afternoon, I have not had positive results with this program. for example, i have two colors of sox, black white. it can't identify them. it comes up with brown almost every time. i have followed their instructions for using white beside the item being scanned. tells me that a

Re: Color Identifier for the iPhone 4S

2012-02-20 Thread Jeff Berwick
I am receiving the same results. Basically, my $.99 has allowed me to know that everything is White/Grey/brown. What a boring World! Jeff On 2012-02-20, at 2:46 PM, peter apgar wrote: Good afternoon, I have not had positive results with this program. for example, i have two colors of

Ios: Rearranging apps on home screen

2012-02-20 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi Listers, I was reading that you can use Itunes to rearrange items on your iphone. When I select apps in itunes after making sure source is my iphone, i can't seem to move them in any way to change screens or move them into folders. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks. Marc -- You

Re: Ios: Rearranging apps on home screen

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Marc, I've never been able to rearrange Apps using iTunes using VO. I believe that it is using elements that VO doesn't recognize. I find it quite easy to do though directly on the iPhone itself. Simply do the following: To create a folder: 1. Double-tap and hold on the one of the Apps

Typing Tutorial for the Mac

2012-02-20 Thread Les Kriegler
A colleague has inquired about any typing tutorials to learn the Mac keyboard. Any suggestions. I know one can explore the keyboard with VO K, but are there any typing drills that are accessible and available for the Mac? Thanks. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Ios: Rearranging apps on home screen

2012-02-20 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
I've also done this on the phone, but I would welcome a way to do it in iTunes with a grid list type layout. It can get tricky if you have full pages and a lot of apps. Its do-able but just not the best experience. Best, Mika On 2/20/12, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi Marc, I've

Re: Ios: Rearranging apps on home screen

2012-02-20 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi Tim, Thanks for the useful explanation. I will stop tryint itunes for now. I noticed that sometimes it is really tricky to find a folder to drag an item into. But i guess that is just practice. I also imagine it is helpful to get a good idea of the page layout before dragging apps so you

Re: Ios: Rearranging apps on home screen

2012-02-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
One thing I do a lot is move something out of the dock temporarily, then, if I'm moving an app say, three pages on, I move it to the dock and go to the page I want to move it to and drag it out of the dock again. Because the dock is always present on each page, this can make for fewer gestures.

Re: Color Identifier for the iPhone 4S

2012-02-20 Thread Anne Robertson
I've just tested it again in pretty bad artificial lighting where it had to use the flash and it identified red, blue and green, as well as calling fawn grey. Could you be holding the iPhone either too close or too far away? Also, I'm using an iPhone 4, not the 4S. Cheers, Anne On 20 Feb

Re: Changing Sounds in Apple Mail

2012-02-20 Thread David Griffith
According to what I read in a book about switching to a Mac from Windows you will not find this customisation option available on the Mac. Personally I am happy if this provides a stable machine. I think this is one of the trade offs fsfor the increased stability of the Mac.. There is not the

Unmounting flash drives in terminal

2012-02-20 Thread .dan.
I have recently been fooling around with flash drives in terminal for downloading nls digital books. When a flash drive is inserted in a usb port the name of the product appears in /Volumes like a directory. Because I have two flash drives I renamed the brand name of each to another to

Re: Typing Tutorial for the Mac

2012-02-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Thats weird. I mean, except the modifier keys, the keyboard on the Mac is the same as every other qwerty keyboard. What's there to learn? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: A colleague

Re: How to open the addressbook.

2012-02-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think she is having problems accessing the contacts in address book not actually opening address book. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Jessica! Well I've set a keyboard

Re: Typing Tutorial for the Mac

2012-02-20 Thread Les Kriegler
Ricardo, I'm assuming this individual requires keyboarding drills. On the Windows side, there were tutorials created for this purpose. Les On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Thats weird. I mean, except the modifier keys, the keyboard on the Mac is the same as every other

Re: new version of motion gps drive

2012-02-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
It should not take a separate app to do this though, this is something navigon should change. On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:05 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: When I type in addresses in Navigon, I use Navigon Now which allows for typing in addresses on one line and then launch Navigon from the Now App.

Re: Typing Tutorial for the Mac

2012-02-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
ah! I see. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: Ricardo, I'm assuming this individual requires keyboarding drills. On the Windows side, there were tutorials created for this purpose.

Re: new version of motion gps drive

2012-02-20 Thread Les Kriegler
Agreed. But with the 4S and the ability to dictate in the addresses needed and then to be able to launch Navigon from the same screen makes the process more than manageable. On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: It should not take a separate app to do this though, this is something

any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
HI all, Sugject says it all. How can I know when a download is complete. I liked that feature in windows. Bedst, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Ioana! Well I don't know if this will fit the bill! But someone else said that they had a growl item added to growl for Safari [funny enough ] called growl for Safari! And they said that with this growl will tell them when a download is done! And I know that in growl you can set sounds if you

RE: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Missy Hoppe
I have the growl for saphari plug-in installed, and it's activated from within the applications tab of growl preferences, but so far, it's never notified me when downloads are complete. That was something I was really looking forward to, because it's all but impossible to know when downloads are

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Red . Falcon
Sorry I remembered the custom sounds was in Skype! Not Growl! But you can still use one of its own or get it to tell you! :] Hi Ioana! Well I don't know if this will fit the bill! But someone else said that they had a growl item added to growl for Safari [funny enough ] called growl for Safari!

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Red.Falcon
I'm sorry Missy! I had a look at my old Emails and it was you who said that Safari growl would say when a download was finished! So I suppose from what you've just said this is not the case! Oh well back to square one! Colin On 21 Feb 2012, at 02:22, Missy Hoppe wrote: I have the growl for

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Loana, When you are in safari once you have started a downlload press command option L this will open the download folder in safari VO right arrow to the list and interact with the list VO right arrow to the download and interact with the item being downloaded this will give you the

How do I find dmg file for app store installs?

2012-02-20 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I was looking up growl safari and they say that it is hidden in the dmg file. I cannot find it however since it came in the appstore. Any tips? I also read somewhere that it needs the simbl plugin. I looked it up but there was only a snowleppard one. Thanks, Ioana Please check out

RE: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Missy Hoppe
I guess I posted that prematurely. I assumed that it would work, but so far, it never has. I should try to do a bit more testing, but I rarely download stuff on the mac. Of course, this is the main reason why: having no way of knowing when downloads are complete. If I discover anything new, I'll

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, command option L no longer does this in Lion. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:51 PM, Dean Adams wrote: Hi Loana, When you are in safari once you have started a downlload press command option L this

Re: How do I find dmg file for app store installs?

2012-02-20 Thread Esther
Hi Ioana, None of the apps that come from the Mac App Store arrive in .dmg files. That format is only used for download distributions you get from the developer's web site. Sometimes those downloads contain additional components in their unpacked folders that are not distributed with the

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Esther
Hi Ricardo, Command-Option-L will show you the Downloads window in Safari, but only if your Safari toolbar is not hidden. I think this was a relatively recent fix (maybe November or December). If your toolbar is hidden, VoiceOver will tell you that it is opening the Downloads folder, but no

Reading PDFs?

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Are there any tricks to reading PDF's with OS Lion? I wasn't able to review anything, I could just let preview read the entire document. I could go word by word with the track pad,but that is not a very pleasurable way to go through a long document you need to read slowly. Figured there

Re: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Cool! Thanks for the clarification. I had no clue this change was made in Lion. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Ricardo, Command-Option-L will show you the Downloads window in Safari,

RE: any way to make lion give a sound notification when safari download complete?

2012-02-20 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! I've been tinkering around with this for the past half hour or so, and it just doesn't seem to work. I downloaded that growl fork thing from the mac update site so that all the growl extras would be fully up-to-date. I then went through the prefferences under the applications tab in growl

Re: Question about a monitor on my mac mini

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Blouch
How is your mini connected to the screen? Maybe the resolution/frequency selected is not supported on that display so the display can't sync and gives up. CB On 2/20/12 9:38 AM, matthew Dyer wrote: Hi, The problem I am having is that the screen will not stay on. I tried detected displays

Re: Is there an alternative to Winscp for the mac that is accessible

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Blouch
If you bring up terminal I think you will find everything you need there. Just use the man command to get more info on all the unix commands including ssh, sftp, scp, rsync etc. CB On 2/20/12 8:19 AM, Dean Adams wrote: Hi All, I have found most apps that I need for my tasks on the new