Re: using the mouse.

2012-04-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Veronica, In VoiceOver Utility, Verbosity category, select the Announcements tab and check the check box Speak text under mouse after delay. Then set the delay to zero. When you run one finger over the trackpad, VO will speak what is under the mouse. Cheers, Anne On 18 Apr 2012, at

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Don Breda
Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky duck for the mac. Just hold on. Don On 4/18/2012 3:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: I used to love typing braille on y pc with that program

Re: speakers

2012-04-19 Thread Scott Howell
That would not be true surround sound. You have to have audio hardware to send the sound to separate channels to create the surround sound effect. On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Pam Mathers wrote: Hi. Right now I have an audio cable hooked up to the headphone jack of the computer and the

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Whaton God's green earth is Perky Duck!? :) On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Don Breda wrote: Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky duck for the mac. Just hold on. Don

checking to see if something's broken in iTunes?

2012-04-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Has anyone tried importing music into their iTunes library from their Mac lately? It used to be that you could press Command-O, expand the music folder, and see everything that was on your Mac. that seems no longer to be possible. Can someone please confirm this before I write to

never mind: was Re: checking to see if something's broken in iTunes?

2012-04-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Not sure what was different, but it worked this time. Best, Donna On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, Has anyone tried importing music into their iTunes library from their Mac lately? It used to be that you could press Command-O, expand the music folder, and see

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Hunt
What is Perky Duck? On Apr 19, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com wrote: Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky duck for the mac. Just hold on. Don On

Re: checking to see if something's broken in iTunes?

2012-04-19 Thread Scott Howell
This option works for me. On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, Has anyone tried importing music into their iTunes library from their Mac lately? It used to be that you could press Command-O, expand the music folder, and see everything that was on your Mac. that

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
lol, You took the words right out of my mouth. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:49 AM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Whaton God's green earth is Perky Duck!? :) On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Don Breda

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Paul. Perky Duck (runs on Windows these days) i/ a braille writer emulator. It's a free program, and a lot of prospective braille transcribers use it. You can use the computer keyboard--the home rows--to input grade 2 braille. It has some severe limitations, but it's useful for people who

Re: DAISY Reader

2012-04-19 Thread Kevin Chao
That's an iOS app, not Mac OS X On 4/18/12, wayne coles wayne...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard that indaisey is ok but that information was second hand so I cant comment on the app -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
An other very useful thing about P D is that it works for my braille music writing. I get people to dictate music I need and only want an easy way to type Braille without having to bend over backwards typing all the strange symbols required for Braille music on qwerty. Sure best thing would

Re: Disabling the preview pane in Lion mail

2012-04-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, In my case I turned it off to avoid messages I pass through to review with vo in list as read. It made things convusing to keep track of what i read or what I did not yet. I just press enter on a conversation and it opens in new window. I am having problems though with deleting the

Re: DAISY Reader

2012-04-19 Thread William Windels
Indaisy is only for ios i think and read2go is better for ios Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 19-apr.-2012 om 17:02 heeft Kevin Chao kevincha...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: That's an iOS app, not Mac OS X On 4/18/12, wayne coles wayne...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: using the mouse.

2012-04-19 Thread Veronica Elsea
Thanks Anne for saving me again. grin. It's now working very nicely for me. I like being able to snoop around with the mouse. Thanks so much. Veronica At 11:30 PM 4/18/2012, you wrote: Hello Veronica, In VoiceOver Utility, Verbosity category, select the Announcements tab and check the

Re: Olearia

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
From what I see at this website, I know about as much about olearia now as I did before. the link to the documentation is broken and when I open the zip file, I see two files with the same name - olearia.app. I don't know how that was accomplished in the same zip but given there isn't a single

Re: Tactile screen protectors for the iPhone

2012-04-19 Thread Stacey Robinson
Here's the web address. These are great screen protectors. http://www.speeddots.com On Apr 18, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: I didn't even know about these. I may need to find them. got a website address? -eric On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: Hey all, I

Re: drag and drop

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
More specifically, cut/copy and paste take an object (file, mail message, etc.) and stick it into a holding place - namely, the clipboard. Then Paste takes it from the clipboard and puts it where you are wanting to paste it. Dragging and dropping done with the VO-comma and VO-period moves an

Re: speakers

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Blouch
Right, the analog output of your mac is just left/right or a blended version of the 5.1 surround if you're playing a DVD. To get the six separate sound channels out you have to use the digital output of your Mac and run that to the digital input of a home theater receiver. The digital output

Re: Disabling the preview pane in Lion mail

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
What I do with threads generally is to press right arrow to expand the current thread (need to have quick nav turned off) and then the messages can be opened for reading, deleted or whatever on an individual basis. Or if I wish to delete the whole thread, then I close the thread by pressing left

Re: drag and drop

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
thanks for the info. Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: More specifically, cut/copy and paste take an object (file, mail message, etc.) and stick it into a holding place - namely, the clipboard. Then Paste takes it from the clipboard and puts it where you are wanting to

Re: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
This sounds like an interesting technique indeed. However, I have a question or two concerning capitalization. Do you mean that all BRF books are in all upper case? If so, I wonder why. With selecting the entire file as you suggest, you would end up with all lower case which is OK I guess for

Re: Checkbook vs Checkbook Pro?

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
Thanks for the first relevant answer to my thread. Oh and I'm glad I looked at the website because they apparently have a price break until April 23rd or something so I guess I better get it right away. Am I right in assuming you like this program a lot and it is good and accessible too? On

Re: DAISY Reader

2012-04-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
I've not tried it myself but Emerson Reader claims to support Daisy format. You can Google it for the download page. Later... On 2012-04-17, at 9:34 AM, Kevin Chao wrote: What DAISY readers are OS X users using with VoiceOver? Kevin -- You received this message because you are

RE: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Steve, In my original BLOG post on this subject, from which Theresa based her post, using something other than Text Edit, it is not necessary to force lowercase lettering. The following is the original BLOG post: How To Get Web Braille or Braille Formatted Titles Into iBooks Hello

The New Google Groups Site and viewing/changing membership options?

2012-04-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I looked in Google Groups help for this, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm trying to find a single page listing all the groups I belong to and the email options. The help says to go to the gear menu which my sighted husband helped me locate. There are no membership options in this menu

RE: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi all, The uppercase relates to ASCII values and doesn't affect the Braille dot-6 representation of capital letters in the body of the document. When a brf file is translated, the ASCII characters are still uppercase and therefore show up in computer Braille with a dot-7 attached. This seems

RE: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi Mark, My purpose in posting another method of importing was to try something that worked for me successfully and then post it to others. For whatever odd reason, importing to epub format simply is not working for me. I know that pdf does, so now we have other options available. I hope I was

syncing address book with google help please

2012-04-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi al, Tried everything I can think of and cannot sync my address book to gmail contacts. I enabled it in the address book preferences with username and password , etc. I even went to sync menu and pressed sync now. I check in my gmail contacts in safari and no contacts are there. Any ideas?

How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Just got my married name officially changed to Keller. How do I change my identification name so that it will show on my emails. Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: Thanks for the first relevant answer to my thread. Oh and I'm glad I looked at the website because they

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Sean Paul
Afternoon Ms. Keller: Settings, mail contacts calendar, swipe right until you find signature button, tap it, can change save there. - Original Message - From: Jennifer Perdue jlperd...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 17:16 Subject: How to

Re: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi steve. Teresa said this, but i would like to take the explanation a little further. As you know, in grade 2 braille, a capital letter is determined by putting the ot 6, which is a comma in compchter braille, before a letter. If you were to take all the capitalization out the computer could

Re: The New Google Groups Site and viewing/changing membership options?

2012-04-19 Thread Esther
Hi Teresa, You can find a single page listing of all the Google Groups you belong to using the URL: http://groups.google.com/groups/mysubs?hl=en_USpli=1 This page has the entries for Manage My Memberships. There's a link to My Google Account that will let you change your email address,

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
OK, I feel really stupid asking this, but where is settings? thanks. Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Sean Paul wrote: Afternoon Ms. Keller: Settings, mail contacts calendar, swipe right until you find signature button, tap it, can change save there. - Original Message - From:

GarageBand

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel MacDonald
hello list. I am wondering where the record button is in GarageBand. I don't see it anywhere. also, can someone skype me at daniel.angus.macdonald to teach me GarageBand please? thanks, Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Checkbook vs Checkbook Pro?

2012-04-19 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Oh, yeah! I love this program. It is very accessible, and the tech support is awesome. I've beta tested for them before. On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: Thanks for the first relevant answer to my thread. Oh and I'm glad I looked at the website because they apparently have a

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Sean Paul
Jen: If you're talking about on the Mac. Please disregard what I sent earlier. I borrowed a blonde moment from my wife for a moment didn't read the list or the subject line. I thought you were talking about on an I device not a Mac. As I do not yet have my Mac. I can't answer this question.

Re: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm quite new to computer braille as I just bought my Refreshabraille a couple months ago. So I'm still learning. I know what you mean about the dots 7 and 8 in excessive use. Once I looked at an Alva Braille display and it was apparently showing a lot of dots 7 and 8 and I had an awful time

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Thanks, We all have those. Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Sean Paul wrote: Jen: If you're talking about on the Mac. Please disregard what I sent earlier. I borrowed a blonde moment from my wife for a moment didn't read the list or the subject line. I thought you were talking about on

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
Please people, If you are going to change the subject to something completely unrelated to the current thread, *PLEASE* create a new message instead of replying to an existing one. This thread started out talking about Checkbook and Checkbook Pro which are finance packages. Then one of those

OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Macdonald
hello List, OS X Mountain Lion. it is quite like iOS, with a lot of the same apps. one aspect that is different is software update. OS X Mountain Lion. the software update is done through the app store, much like iOS. just want to pass along I am . using -- You received this message because

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
I'm so sorry, I was sure that I changed the subject line on the message, but you have to understand that I am still a new Mac user so I made a mistake. Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: Please people, If you are going to change the subject to something completely

I'm sure I changed the subject line so Please tell me how to change my name on the email client, and also why my emails aren't receiving in the proper order

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
OK, I know I changed this subject line, so as the subject says, I still can't change my name on the email client. Also, I wanted my emails to be from oldest to newest and have tried switching from assending to desending and back and it doesn't seem to matter. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jenny

Re: How to change my name on the email client

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, you did change the subject but what threw me was you were replying to my previous message about Checkbook. It was even quoted. that made me think you hijacked the thread. In fact, most threading mail clients would probably lumped your new subject into that old thread. You should have

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Stacey Robinson
Can you upgrade straight to that from snowleopard or do you have to upgrade to lion first. On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Daniel Macdonald wrote: hello List, OS X Mountain Lion. it is quite like iOS, with a lot of the same apps. one aspect that is different is software update. OS X Mountain

Re: sharing tip for rewinding music in iTunes with keyboard

2012-04-19 Thread Esther
Hi Ioana, Veronica, and Others, The information on Command-Option-Right or Left arrow is actually listed in the keyboard shortcuts for iTunes, under the Help menu on the iTunes menu bar. However, for a more comprehensive summary of different ways to forward and rewind when playing tracks, see

RE: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Miller
Stacey, I'm assuming you can upgrade straight from 10.6.8 if that's the version of snow Leopard you have. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stacey Robinson Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 7:08 PM To:

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Stacey Robinson
Daniel, Thanks, Stacey On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: Stacey, I'm assuming you can upgrade straight from 10.6.8 if that's the version of snow Leopard you have. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Macdonald
hi. you should her able to upgrade from snow leo[ard. I got the file from the pirate bay. it is a torrent site. the install works just as Lion did, taking for me 25 minutes installing to a 500 GB Hard drive. I u[graded from Lionb. On 2012-04-19, at 9:21 PM, Stacey Robinson

RE: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Miller
Daniel, I'd strongly refrain from discussing Mountain Lion in general, and even where you illegally managed to obtain said software. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Macdonald Sent: Thursday, April 19,

Re: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks

2012-04-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Just to make things a bit clearer: by indicajing uncontracted Braille in this importing method, you are not converting the document itself into uncontracted Braille. A brf file is already translated, so it doesn't need VO to translate it yet again. The resulting file displays in what looks like

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Buddy Brannan
I would caution anyone from illegal downloads of OS X Mountain Lion. While you haven't agreed to an NDA, you never know what other goodies got stuck in the download. In any case, be careful out there. But more important to the list, it's just a matter of time before the mods start smacking

How do I change my name on the email client in lion? Is this better?

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
As my subject states, how do I change my name on the email client in Lion. I think it's set as Jenny or Jennifer Perdue, I finally officially got my married name change so I want it to say Jenny Keller. thanks in advance. Jenny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Jennifer Perdue
How much is Mountain Lion from the ap store? thanks in advance, Jenny On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Daniel Macdonald wrote: hi. you should her able to upgrade from snow leo[ard. I got the file from the pirate bay. it is a torrent site. the install works just as Lion did, taking for me 25

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Charlie Doremus
Mountain Lion has not been released therefore cannot be found in the app store. The chatter you are reading about is pirated. Apple will let everyone know when Mountain Lion will be set free... Aloha, Charlie Our new book YOU MIGHT BE A MORON is on sale at www.giantdolphin.com click the off

Re: GarageBand

2012-04-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, you can start recording by just pressing the letter R. I've done a series of podcasts on garageband that can be found in the iTunes store by searching for my name, Ricardo Walker and visiting my site which is provided below my signature. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info

question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hello: Well, this is the first message that I've sent with my MacBook Pro. Can someone tell me If there is a shortcut key to run the mail program? Also, and is there a shortcut key to get new mail? I still have my pc getting mail for now! Thanks for any help! Mickey Quenzer! --

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hey, if you signed on to an NDA, (non disclosure agreement) you WERE, NOT, SUPPOSED, TO, TELL, US, ANYTHING, ABOUT, THAT!!! This is something I take very very seriously, and, so should you!!! Noughty noughty noughty!!! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy

Re: question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Mike Arrigo
There is a short cut for getting mail, it's command shift n, as far as a quick way to launch the mail program, I have a short cut in the doc, so, I press control+f3 to go to the doc, press m for mail, and press enter to launch it, quite fast. On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Mickey Quenzer wrote:

Re: question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Mickey, Go to the voice over utility with V O F8 and then interact with the utility catagories then v o down arrow to commanders then stop interacting with the catagories and v o right arrow to keyboard and press V O Space bar to select the keyboard commanders then V O right arrow to

Re: OS X Mountain Lion

2012-04-19 Thread Daniela Rubio
Many people know that information, because is available in the Apple pages where you can download the beta. Anybody can register for it, so don't worry, there is not a disclosure agreement broken. SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T. MACNETICOS, APPLE Y ACCESIBILIDAD A TU ALCANCE. EN TWITTER: @macneticos

Re: How do I change my name on the email client in lion? Is this better?

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, I didn't see any quoted text below so I assume yhou started a new message from scratch and that's what you should do when starting a new thread. Anyway, I thought I saw a reply to your question earlier this morning. I've never actually changed my name in Apple Mail yet. I know it's

Re: question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hi Mike thanks for much I appreciate it can you tell me how to create the the shortcut? thank you Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: There is a short cut for getting mail, it's command shift n, as far as a quick way to launch the mail

Re: question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Thanks for the information Mike you don't have to send me any information because Dean has lade it out quite nicely for me. I will do my homework thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Dean Adams breezepa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mickey, Go to the voice over utility with

Re: question about Macbook Pro

2012-04-19 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi, When I purchased our iMac, I noticed that by default, right option M launches the Mail Program. Les On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Mickey Quenzer wrote: Thanks for the information Mike you don't have to send me any information because Dean has lade it out quite nicely for me. I will do