Help please command W keeps opening Mission Control

2012-02-23 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. Not sure what I did but somehow I've managed to have Command W act like a hotkey for Mission Control. Now I can't close app windows without quitting them. I tried setting my hotkeys back to defaults in System Prefs but that doesn't seem to work. How do I get Command W to behave like

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Steve, I'm about to have a firestorm land on my head for saying this, but Pages works just fine for me, except for tracking changes, which I never have to do anyway. To use Pages efficiently, you need a thorough knowledge of VoiceOver. Make sure that the mouse cursor is set to ignore the

expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Esther, I have tried both trial versions of expand drive and webdrive and for some reason I can not login to a server I up load to on a regular basis I checked on my windows laptop and with winscp it logins straight away. I have entered the domain and usersname and password and port

whats the advantage of two cursors in amadeus Pro?

2012-02-23 Thread Egbert
Hi Folks, i managed to cut some audio, get me markers right and be happy. but one question still remains. Why does amadeus use two cursors? there is the playhead and the insertion point? In the old days, when i used tapedecs, i could understand the idea. ut here? Can someone explain the meaning to

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
Thanks for your responses, Backy and Anne. Hot spots are one area I haven't dealt with in Voice Over yet. I've only been using this for about a month so far. I've used Open / Libre Office quite a bit in Linux and I have had Office experience over on that other platform sigh. I just haven't

Re: users guide for IPhone.

2012-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Esther answered a similar question a while back. I will paste her answers below. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info Hi Veronica, I'll paste in excerpts from the answer I gave Paul a few days ago (subject: iOS User Guides):

Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm looking for a single hot key to open a link to a new tab instead of replacing the current window. right now, I use Shift-VO-m to open a context menu and then choose 'open in new tab.' Is there a single key to do this like VO-Space? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Keyboard shortcuts

2012-02-23 Thread Esther
Hello Jürgen, Great to hear you have your custom keyboard shortcuts working. One of the reasons I like to know how to type the ellipsis character with the Option key combination for my input language keyboard is just so that I can type combinations as well as use the VO-Shift-C shortcut to

Re: Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Becky Knaub
I use cmd T to open a new tab and ctrl shift tab to change tabs. HTH Becky On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: I'm looking for a single hot key to open a link to a new tab instead of replacing the current window. right now, I use Shift-VO-m to open a context menu and then

Re: Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think you press command enter or, command shift enter. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi Anne, The only thing is text edit seems to do what pages does when I try to read. I use pages for college primarily and text edit for everything else like notes. When I read I press VO and A to read all and it will stop at the next page. Also I have to make sure I interact with each page.

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Becky! Well I'm not sure if this is what you need! But there is a command to wrap to page! Command+shift+W And you can set this in the textedit pref's Command+comma there is a check box to set wrap to page I think this is maybe what you need! hth Colin On 23 Feb 2012, at 15:04, Becky Knaub

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Becky, In TextEdit, in the Format menu, there's a Wrap to command which toggles between Wrap to page and Wrap to window. For straight reading, you should set it to Wrap to window, whereas should you wish to be able to navigate by page, you should set it to Wrap to page. The shortcut is

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Becky Knaub
Anne, Thanks. Becky On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Becky, In TextEdit, in the Format menu, there's a Wrap to command which toggles between Wrap to page and Wrap to window. For straight reading, you should set it to Wrap to window, whereas should you wish to

RE: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
When I want to change the contents of a particular cell, I position the cursor on the data-entry field. Then, I arrow over to the cell that I want to edit. Next, I press the delete (back-space) key to delete the cell's contents. Finally, I type in the new information that I wish to store in

How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Jennifer Perdue
I downloaded an e-book on my I-phone and I can read the first page but I can't make it go to the next pages. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've never done this before. Thanks for your help in advance. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Emrah
Dean, can you make sure the SSH server admin has both authorized Password and Keyboard Interactive authentication? On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Dean Adams wrote: Hi Esther, I have tried both trial versions of expand drive and webdrive and for some reason I can not login to a server I

iCal Problem. Can anyone duplicate?

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi All. I just tried to make a new event in iCal and something happened. What I did was put in all of the information, and set the date and time. The problem happened when I tried to create a custom repeat time. When I set the days and the frequency and then hit OK, the event disappeared. Has

Re: How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Jennifer Perdue
No, I'm using an app called Deseret Bookshelf. I know it's not an ap that's well known but can I transfer that book to the i-book reader? Thanks, Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Alex Hall wrote: What are you using to read the book? iBooks I assume? If so, just

Re: How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Hall
If you bought it from iTunes, then you should be able to open in with iBooks. I am not very experienced in this, so someone with more knowledge, please step in here. On 2/23/12, Jennifer Perdue jlperd...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm using an app called Deseret Bookshelf. I know it's not an ap

Re: How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
it depends. If the book is DRM free, you can just import it into iBooks via iTunes. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Jennifer Perdue jlperd...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm using an app called Deseret Bookshelf.

Re: whats the advantage of two cursors in amadeus Pro?

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Egbert, actually I can't explain why Martin Hairer decided to do it this way. But I saw it in several other sound editors as well. I'm going to suggest to Martin to make it optional to combine these two cursors in the settings. You could also write to him and make this suggestion. So he

Mac + iOmega Storcenter

2012-02-23 Thread Deamon David
Hi. Hope someone can help me with this. I've searched the internet, but haven't found any good answers... I have a Mac with Lion wich I will use TimeMachine for backing up to my iOmega Storcenter 2-200. The Mac is connected via WiFi to an AirPort Express, wich again are connected to a Linksys

Stop repeating music on Iphone

2012-02-23 Thread Gena Harper
Hi Everyone, For some reason, in my music on my Iphone 4S, it is stuck on repeat. I have tried to look everywhere to figure out how to turn this feature off. Please let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks, Gena - Original Message - From: Jennifer Perdue jlperd...@gmail.com To:

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
OK, that's interesting. I thought you might do it this way. So it is not possible to change just a part of the content of a cell. You have to change the whole content. I opened an excel file with several sheets in Tables and tried to switch between the sheets by pressing CMD + Option + arrow

Re: Keyboard shortcuts

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hallo Esther, you are absolutely right: Option + period is the elipsis on a german keyboard. I can imagine it's hard for you to know all the different keyboard layouts. But as far as I could tell your tipps and tricks are always perfectly right. Where do you live in the world and what keyboard

Re: iCal Problem. Can anyone duplicate?

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello Matthew, I've never experienced such an issue. Did you searched for the event in iCal? The date might have changed accidentally. All the best Jürgen Am 23.02.2012 um 18:57 schrieb Matthew Campbell: Hi All. I just tried to make a new event in iCal and something happened. What I did

Re: iCal Problem. Can anyone duplicate?

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi I found it. It didn't up going anywhere at all at least on my iPad when it synced with iClloud but I'm not entirely sure where it went on iCal. Looks like a little more messing with iCal is in order. I've only started using it today. Thanks. Sent from my iPad On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:59 PM,

Re: How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Jennifer Perdue
I'm sorry but I don't know what that is. All I know is that I downloaded it from an app called Deseret Bookshelf and that is where it sits as far as I know. Voiceover won't read me the list of books that I have on the bookshelf even though I can kind of see that there is something there. Can

Re: How do I read an e-book on the I-phone?

2012-02-23 Thread Jennifer Perdue
No I didn't buy it from iTunes. I bought it from an app I got from the I-phone called Deseret Bookshelf. It is a Latter Day Saint E-book reader. It was free so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try it. I got it to get on the introduction page of the book but now I can't even get it to read the

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Jürgen, Have you tried cutting the info from the cell and pasting it in to text edit and make your edits than paste it back to the same cell? Some times when I am in Pro tools I do this and it is much faster and less frustrating! :) Your mileage May Vary! ;) CHUCK REICHEL 954-742-0019

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Anne. do you mean that I should turn off the tracking with vu=shift+f3 in order to use pages efficiently? On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Steve, I'm about to have a firestorm land on my head for saying this, but Pages works just fine for me, except for

Re: whats the advantage of two cursors in amadeus Pro?

2012-02-23 Thread Egbert
Hi jurgen, could you provide the ailadres of martin to me? I have tried to read the manual, bt was not very successful uptill now. i d like to write him a few things smile. Thx, Egbert Op 23 feb. 2012, om 19:39 heeft Jürgen Fleger het volgende geschreven: Hi Egbert, actually I can't explain

Re: Keyboard shortcuts

2012-02-23 Thread Esther
Hello Jürgen, I live in the US, and use the US English language input keyboard. But I like languages -- not a measure of proficiency, just liking -- so I keep a few different voices and keyboards active on my Mac. In fact, my first expensive software purchase for the Mac was VisioVoice, so I

Re: Found this from Apple on Minis

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah and additionally, I learned on one of these lists that VO won't turn back on automaticdally at login time unless a monitor is connected. My communications with Apple support was all by phone but I did get a phone acknoledgement that their engineers were able to reproduce this problem and

Re: Stop repeating music on Iphone

2012-02-23 Thread Gigi
Hi guys If I remember correctly, right above where the song name is, there should be an option there if you touch it on your iPhone, it says repeat and if you split tap a double tap on it, it should say on shuffle and I think another on their saying repeat all. I had trouble finding it, but

RE: Found this from Apple on Minis

2012-02-23 Thread Bill Holton
My problem is that I am also having finder busy forever problems with a monitor connected. They had me reformat my Mini about 7 times and run scans and send data. They also convinced me to take a day off work and have my wife drive an hour each way to the Apple store to show them there. Haven't

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Gigi
Y hi guys I have had some success with attitude on the end of a sale on what I do to make sure that I don't erase the whole thing, is to press command right arrow on my MacBook Pro, and then I can backspace out on the end and delete text-only in. A few instances have I been able to successfully

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Gigi
Hi guys I know I may be one of the weird folks out there, but I actually like wordprocessors better for inputting data like phone numbers. Dismiss this is because, even in Windows, I have found getting around a spreadsheet with speech to be a pain pain However, if I were going to do that, am

Re: Stop repeating music on Iphone

2012-02-23 Thread Wes Smith
Click on the album art Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Gigi gigifi...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi guys If I remember correctly, right above where the song name is, there should be an option there if you touch it on your iPhone, it says repeat and if you split tap a double tap

Re: Mac + iOmega Storcenter

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Howell
David, You need to get the Mac to pull its IP from the Linksys router. You need to have all the devices on your network pulling their IP from one router and you should not have the Mac pulling an IP from the AirPort. The AirPOrt could be connected to the router via the ethernet connection and

Messages App Not smiling about smile picker

2012-02-23 Thread Eric Caron
Hi listers, In the new messages app for Lyon there is a nice feature that says smile picker and it is a button. When pressed you find many faces to pick from all say button after the description. I press them but nothing happens. They don't appear in the message. Has anyone figured

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
I have not tried Tables in eons so I'm not sure if it will work the same as in for me in Numbers but, in Numbers, if I Interact with the Formula entry field, then arrow (just arrow, no VO keys) right. VO will announce as it goes past characters and you can edit along the way. The only

Re: Messages App Not smiling about smile picker

2012-02-23 Thread Brett C.
I have the same experience, so rather then using the popup button, I go to the menu, go to edit and down arrow to Insert Smile. You can open the list and navigate the choices. Brett On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Eric Caron wrote: Hi listers, In the new messages app for Lyon there is

Re: Office Productivity on the Mac

2012-02-23 Thread CJ Daniel
Steve, Just a mention, but for a little while now, it's been possible to buy the separate components of iWork separately @ reduced prices from the Apple App Store. I.E. Pages for word processing, Numbers for spread sheet activities, Presentation for power point applications. I believe I

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Dean, I probably can't help you much on this. Is the server you're connecting to a Windows machine? I've never tried ExpanDrive on a Windows based server, and don't have a recent version of the software that can be used with Lion to do any testing. Since I've recently set up Lion there's

Re: users guide for IPhone.

2012-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Jessica, Just to add to Ricardo's posts, the iPhone user guides that Apple supplies have a fairly good description of operations with VoiceOver under the Accessibility section. There are also several good podcasts at the VIsion Australia web site on their Adaptive Technology podcasts page:

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Esther, I have had issues with our service provider for our internet connection and out internet went down for 8 hours yesterday I checked today and found that I now can connect to the server I have tried to connect with so I had all the settings correct because I just checked a few

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Esther
Hi Dean, Glad things are working for you. One of the nice features of ExpanDrive is that if you are using a laptop, and close it up and then go to a new location, it should re-establish a connection to the device when you open up your computer at the new location. And I only tried using this

Messages and the Battery

2012-02-23 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. Ever since I installed Messages on here, I've noticed a slight change when it comes to how long my MacBook's battery lasts. Yesterday, I only got 2 hours of battery use and today I got 3 hours of battery use compared to my usual 5 or 6 hours. Has anyone noticed this as well? Shawn

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Greg Aikens
Another way to edit cells in Numbers is to move to the cell you want to change and hit Option+Enter. This will put your cursor in the cell for editing. You can navigate to any point in the cell by using the arrow keys or arrow keys + the option key. Once I discovered this, working with

Re: expand drive or web drive can't login

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
Newbie question here... What do you need for a server to work with Expandrive? Does it merely use something like sshfs or sftp? I have a linux machine sitting at my permanent residence, over $800 miles from where I'm staying right now and the main way I connect to it now is via ssh sessions. and

Re: whats the advantage of two cursors in amadeus Pro?

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello Egbert, here's the address of Martin Hairer. But please be very sure about what you write. We shouldn't scare him away because of wrong issue reports. When you are a newbe to Amadeus please wait a little bit and explore the software first. My experience is that a lot of people don't know

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Chuck, yes, that would work. But actually then Numbers is faster to use. To copy something from one App to another and back is like what my Boss recently did to get a pdf file: He wrote a letter, printed it out, scanned it and saved it as pdf. :-) Worked but there are much easier ways to do

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
You could also try to press VO + Spacebar. There you can interact with the formular area and work with it. All the best Jürgen Am 24.02.2012 um 05:45 schrieb Greg Aikens: Another way to edit cells in Numbers is to move to the cell you want to change and hit Option+Enter. This will put your

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
When focused on the cell you wish to change data in, press F2 key which will put you in the editing mode. Then you should be able to use your cursor keys. Once done, press tab. In the previous version of Tables, this worked very well. The latest update has rendered this important function more

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Jurgen, changing sheets in Tables has always worked for me by pressing command + option + right or left arrow key. The larger the sheet the longer it takes though for Tables to change to the next sheet. In the latest update, again you do not necessarily know that the sheet has been changed so

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello Simon, that workes, thanks. The only issue: VO doesn't anounce the character when using the arrow keys. Is that the issue in the latest version you meant? Could you send me the version you work with? j.fle...@gmx.de Because actually it seems to be a great program. Navigating is much

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Simon, I tried it and after nearly 5 minutes of hearing the message Tables busy I gave up. But as I mentioned before: I use Sheets as a two dimensional note pad and so it might be because of a lot of text in each sheet. Am 24.02.2012 um 07:37 schrieb Simon Cavendish: Jurgen, changing sheets in

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Jurgen, I am afraid I had made the wretched mistake of updating Tables to its latest version as I moved to Lion so I do not have the Tables version where editing cells was easier and worked better. I too like Tables a lot. It has quite a few shortcut keys that seem to work like for

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, I agree. When I had a lot of data in Tables, I had to wait for ever. This is a problem in Tables. I have never discovered a way round it. On 24 Feb 2012, at 06:44, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Simon, I tried it and after nearly 5 minutes of hearing the message Tables busy I gave up. But as I

Re: Opening Tabs in Safari

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, I think you press command enter or, command shift enter. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Yes, it's Command-Enter. I just tried it. Thanks for the suggestion. This is much better. I like tab browsing and use it