Hi Marcia!
I have not used Windows, but you do also get Links as well within a message for
URL's and Emails!
But Data detector goes on dates phone numbers And I think Addresses!
To help you put into either your Callander or Address book!
hth Colin
On 3 May 2012, at 03:19, Marcia Yale wrote:
I
Hi
Is it possible to delete the many compact voices one doesn't use? Do these
compact voices slow the Mac computers down at all? I have downloaded a few of
the premium ones but really can't see a use for most of the pre installed
voices.
I suspect the answer will be no but thought it worth
Id like to know this as well
On 2012-05-03 7:05 AM, Lisette wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to delete the many compact voices one doesn't use? Do these
compact voices slow the Mac computers down at all? I have downloaded a few
of the premium ones but really can't
Hi,
Yes, there is a way you can remove the voices. I'm going to paste in
instructions.
Using Finders great Go to Folder feature of Command+Shift+G enter the
following path:
/System/Library/Speech/Voices/
You'll see a list of voices, but notice they come in two formats: Voice and
Hi alex,
Yes, that is what I thought. But I don't get a choice between speakers and head
phones. I only get ✓ Built-in Output. When I go into sound preferences I get
either head phones or build in speakers.
Any ideas?
Sean
On 03/05/2012, at 3:08 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Yes. Open the vo
Sean, Alex didn't say to go in to system preferences. He said to go in to
Voice Over Utility. Open this via VO+F8.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
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On May 3, 2012, at 6:42
Hey Veronica.
I second that about not giving up. We forget how much trouble it was to learn
Windows and any other technology we aound ourselves learning. I have had to
learn so many new ones that I'm beginning to lose count. I have found that I
have finally gotten to the place where I can say,
I set up Ical alerts and when they pop up, I can't make them go away.
Any suggestions.
I won't be doing that again till I figure it out.
Jenny
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Hi,
Is there any chance the write protect switch has been turned on accidentally?
I've done this a few times and get similar behavior.
Marshall
On May 2, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Richard Ring wrote:
The way you've described it is exactly the way I used to do it. I am
beginning to think there is a
Parallels does the same thing as VMWare Fusion but has chosen to not
make their UI accessible, even in the latest version. So VMWare is
pretty much it. There is also the free VirtualBox software which does
the same thing. It's UI is also not accessible but it does have a
command-line interface
Hello Veronica et al,
I am sorry for the difficulty you are experiencing with mail.
Although you may find this hard to believe, I personally think the mail
application is one of the most powerful I've ever used.
I will be happy to assist you on your path so that you can enjoy the
application
Hello Jenny,
To dismiss an iCal alert, it is necessary to interact with its scroll area and
then locate the dismiss button, if that is what you wish to do.
Mark
On May 3, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Jenny Keller wrote:
I set up Ical alerts and when they pop up, I can't make them go away.
Any
Hi all.
I've got a couple of questions about the book port plus and I'd like to ask
those of you who can answer them to please do so off list. This is not at all
Mac related.
1. Are they're any lists for people who do use the book port plus?
2. I know that on the victor stream, one can search
I reiterate my thanks for such awesome info. If I do go ahead and take the
plunge into the Mac world, this info on Fusion and Parallel's will be very
useful. I'm assuming that either Parallel's or Fusion should allow me to
run things like ZT, JFW, or K1000 alongside the Mac environment?
One
Hi all,
I have it set so when I press enter in the calculator, the system voice reads
out my results. Why do't I get speech while entering numbers? For example,
entering in 900-457, voiceover doesn't read as I type the numbers.
I have VO read out letters as I type this. :)
Thanks,
Traci
In the speech menu select the Speak Button Pressed and Speak Result
options.
CB
On 5/3/12 11:37 AM, Traci wrote:
Hi all,
I have it set so when I press enter in the calculator, the system
voice reads out my results. Why do't I get speech while entering
numbers? For example, entering in
Hello Will,
I'm not a zoom user, but my husband sometimes uses it and he also teaches
low-vision Mac users. He says that there is a random bug that causes focus to
jump to one edge of the screen for no apparent reason. Apple is aware of it but
so far, no fix is forthcoming.
However, many
Hello, I am trying to use Drop Box on the Mac and I am having some trouble with
it. When I launch the Drop Box app, all Voice Over will say is Drop Box has
no Windows. I can go to my home folder and find the Drop Box folder, but
there is nothing there. I have been able to set up a couple of
Hello everyone,
I have looked through the archives, but I have not found a good solution to my
question.
Basically, I want to know what type of web cams do people recommend for use
with the Mac Mini? This will be primarily used for Skype.
Thank you for all of your help and invaluable feedback
:) Wow, thank you for that super simple answer. I should have figured that one
out.
Traci
Sent by Macbook Air Mail
On May 3, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
In the speech menu select the Speak Button Pressed and Speak Result
options.
CB
On 5/3/12 11:37 AM, Traci wrote:
Hi
I have used an old iSight camera from Apple, but I don't think they make
those anymore. Found this thread on another discussion board which says
Macs support the UVC (Universal Video Class) USB cameras so anything
complying with that should work.
Hi all,
Can someone inform me about the step-by-step procedure of using MenuTab?
When I open it, VO mostly says 'MenuTab has no windows'.
How can I fix this?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Rahul
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Of course realize that deleting these voices has no impact on performance and
would not give you back any significant amount of space generally.
On May 3, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
Hi,
Yes, there is a way you can remove the voices. I’m going to paste in
instructions.
Using
Actually, it would. If you downloaded a lot of them.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 12:31 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Deleting voices
Of course realize that
Obviously, but I would hope that folks wouldn't download all the possible
voices unless they speak all the various languages. To tell you the truth I do
not find most the other voices to be of any real improvement over Alex or Vicki.
On May 3, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
Actually,
No no, I completely agree. I stick with alex all of the time, seeing that
there's a bug with the voices anyway when you're reading large blocks of
text. It'll just randomly start sounding like a chipmunk.
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Hello again will.
Maybe I misunderstood something, but I thought you would want to use voiceOver
at least part time for when your eyes get tired. I suppose what you could do is
do what anne said and use Office which its author wrote as inaccessible to
VoiceOver users and then switch to Pages
I think it says link too if it is parsed to be a URL. I appreciate
that it tells you if it is a phone number address or whatever but it
also says that every time you cursor over a word or even individual
letters. Any way to turn this last aspect off?
On 5/3/12, Red.Falcon
Facetime is not on the 3GS. Just confirming what others have said.
Christopher Hallsworth
On 02/05/2012 23:30, Eric Oyen wrote:
hello everyone.
I am having trouble trying to find/install facetime for the iPhone 3GS. the app
store has listings that contain facetime, but not the actual app. I
I use Dropbox on my mac with no problems. I'm trying to remember at
the beginning when I installed it if there was anything to beware of.
Obviously at some point while installing Dropbox on the computer, you
will have to supply user and password. That should have happened when
running the
Hello, this is a frustrating part of MenuTab.
The only way I know how to get out of this no windows thing, is to go to
Activity monitor and force quit the app. When you go back to applications and
hit command-O to open MenuTab, it should say something like MenuTab, quit app
has focus. At
Hi Steve, I didn't have to enter in my user name and password during the
installation which leads me to believe that I might not have it installed
correctly. If you have any suggestions as to how I can resolve this, I would
greatly appreciate it.
Scott
On May 3, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Steve
Hello Steve,
On 3 May 2012, at 20:26, Steve Holmes wrote:
I appreciate
that it tells you if it is a phone number address or whatever but it
also says that every time you cursor over a word or even individual
letters. Any way to turn this last aspect off?
If only! To have the item spelled
I have solved my Drop Box problem. Steve was correct in saying that you need
to install Drop Box outside of the apps folder. What I did was, locate the DMG
file, I opened it and when presented with the .app file, instead of copying it
to the apps folder, I instead opened it and was presented
Hi Daniel,
Can you get extra voices for your mac?
I have the white macbook running snowleopard.
If you can get voices, where do you get them from?
On May 3, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
Hi,
Yes, there is a way you can remove the voices. I’m going to paste in
instructions.
Using
Hi,
The extra voices are only for OS X Lion, unfortunately.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stacey Robinson
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:31 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Getting other voices for your mac.
Hi Scott,
I'll correct this slightly to say that in order to install Drop Box correctly
with VoiceOver, you should just open the .dmg file from the location in which
it is downloaded, and not try to copy or move it to any other location. If you
have set the application to download into your
Oh, I see.
Thanks.
I'm really happy with Alex.
I was just curious.
On May 3, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
Hi,
The extra voices are only for OS X Lion, unfortunately.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stacey Robinson
Hi Stacey,
The new (free) voices in various languages are a feature of Lion. Under Snow
Leopard and earlier, in order to get voices in languages other than English,
you have to purchase them -- typically from Assistiveware or one of their
agents (Origin Instruments in Texas is the group that
Esther,
Thanks for this helpful information.
On May 3, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Stacey,
The new (free) voices in various languages are a feature of Lion. Under Snow
Leopard and earlier, in order to get voices in languages other than English,
you have to purchase them --
Hi all,
I know that control will stop and start reading something, but say I want to
read line by line and then start reading continuously from a point. How do I do
that?
Also, How do I tell vo to start reading at the top of a file and read all the
way through?
Thanks,
Stacey and GEB dog
Web pages are still a mystery to me and I wonder the same thing. For
documents, though, turn off quick nav and just use up and down arrows.
Read from current position is vo-a, and read from top is either vo-r
or vo-w, I can't remember which.
On 5/3/12, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net
I just got an I phone 4S and when I try to give sery a command, sometimes I get
the ding sound and sometimes it just says listen. I have to dismiss serie all
together and then lock the screen several times and then it will work right.
Am I crazy, which is a good possibility, or what am I doing
Are you in system preferences or vo preferences?
On 5/3/12, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net wrote:
Sean, Alex didn't say to go in to system preferences. He said to go in to
Voice Over Utility. Open this via VO+F8.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac
Actually, it is possible to get additional voices for Snow Leopard, but
unfortunately, they're not free. They're the acapella
voices, and are very high quality. You can check them out at the following web
site.
http://www.assistiveware.com
They're a bit pricy, but you can get 30 day trials for
I was told that I would have to reboot the machine and hold the command R to
start the Lion software from the beginning since I have upgraded to it.
Is it true that I won't be able to use voice over?
That's what the mac people say.
Jenny
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What do you mean? What exactly happened? I'm confused with what you're
trying to say.
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I said that I'm in VO preferences. You want to go to the sounds tab off of the
VO preferences window. There, you will find what you are looking for.
Provided, that is, you are using Lion. SL, forget it.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Hello Stacey,
The first thing you have to remember when reading a text file is to interact
with the text, otherwise, the VO commands won't work.
To read from top of document, VO-b;
To read from current position, VO-a;
Read next character, VO-shift-Right Arrow;
Read previous character,
Hello,
In addition to Anne's excellent summary, remember that some web pages with
articles embedded in a page with advertising, images, or other content can be
accessed with Safari Reader (shortcut Command-Shift-R). This will let you read
by line, character, or word in a singe text document.
No, this is not true. You will just have to wait about 3 minutes, and then
push command f5 to turn voice over on. I've done it about 30 times, and
that 3 minute window is all it takes. So whoever told you that you can't
use voice over during this reboot is dead wrong!
-Original
Hi Jenny
No, because I have the same problem. I wrote Apple about it. I think that it
may be some kind of glitch with Siri and voice over. I say that because I
noticed that the Saudi people I know it has Siri, don't seem to have this
problem.
Regards
Gigi
Sent from my iPhone
On May 3, 2012,
Hi,
I think the problem is your not using another sound card. You can not split
the audio from the same sound card.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On May 3, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Sean Murphy mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi alex,
Lol,
The Saudi people???
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On May 3, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Gigi gigifi...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi Jenny
No, because I have the same problem. I wrote Apple about it. I think that it
may be some kind of
Uh, Rick, whether or not you are correct depends upon just one thing. Your
assumption is that Sean is not using any sort of other audio device for
possible sound routing. he can do it if he's using something like the griffin
Imic such as I use. It's a USB device which allows you to rout
Uh,
exactly. I think its more of an educated guess than an assumption. Thats the
only reason why another device wouldn't show up in VO utilities or system
prefs. After all, the same options are shown in the same place. :)
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
Quite true Rick.
PS. been a while. We simply must catch up off list.
My Skype name is the same as it always was; and, of course, I assume you can
reply to me off list if you wish.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
For the original poster: if you don't have a USB sound card for this
purpose, they can be gotten for under $10 (though, of course, the
quality will suffer). Others know more about this than I do, but there
are also virtual options like SoundFlower or Virtual Audio Cable.
On 5/3/12, Ricardo Walker
That weird screen I told you guys about.
The mac folks say it's a software problem not a hardware problem, so I have to
reboot the machine with command R pressed down for Lion to start as if it is
brand new.
they say though, that it's not accessible with VO so, I'm asking the people who
Oh thank GOD, it's impossible to get a sightling when you need one.
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Kliphton wrote:
No, this is not true. You will just have to wait about 3 minutes, and then
push command f5 to turn voice over on. I've done it about 30 times, and
that 3 minute window is
If you mean going into the recovery partition, that's accessible with
voiceover. I had to do that once to reinstall lion after the software update
broke.
Matt
Sent from my mac
Twitter: matt692
msn: matt...@live.com
skype: blindman3221
On 2012-05-03, at 7:59 PM, Jenny Keller wrote:
That weird
So what can you do about it to make it work better, if anything?
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Gigi wrote:
Hi Jenny
No, because I have the same problem. I wrote Apple about it. I think that it
may be some kind of glitch with Siri and voice over. I say that because I
noticed that the
OK, call me stupid, but which is the power button?
the one on the top?
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
Your not doing anything wrong,
I believe this is a voiceover issue. when this happens, just press the power
button 5 times quickly. It will work after
Hi again,
@ Anne: thanks for that bug info. It's unfortunate that Apple doesn't seem
to be doing anything at the moment, because I could see that getting quite
annoying. But ah well...nothing in life is perfect.
@ Eugenia: No, you didn't misunderstand anything. All this information is
great,
Yup.
The one on the top.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On May 3, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Jenny Keller jlperd...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, call me stupid, but which is the power button?
the one on the top?
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 6:10
Thanks alex.
I'll give these a try.
On May 3, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Web pages are still a mystery to me and I wonder the same thing. For
documents, though, turn off quick nav and just use up and down arrows.
Read from current position is vo-a, and read from top is either vo-r
or
So, are you all saying that the dropbox installer now works with VoiceOver as
long as you open the DMG from the place where it was downloaded? Do you have to
stop the current running of DropBox before installing the new one?
Thanks,
Robert Carter
On May 3, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Esther wrote:
Helps a lot.
Thanks much.
On May 3, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Actually, it is possible to get additional voices for Snow Leopard, but
unfortunately, they're not free. They're the acapella voices, and are very
high quality. You can check them out at the following web site.
There's extra voices for Lion? How do I get those?
Sorry if I've missed this answer.
May and Prince Noah
On 2012-05-03, at 8:48 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
Helps a lot.
Thanks much.
On May 3, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Actually, it is possible to get additional voices for Snow
Hi Ann,
I've looked at the vo help, guessed I missed these.
Thanks so much. I'm going to save these and put them in Braille.
On May 3, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Stacey,
The first thing you have to remember when reading a text file is to interact
with the text,
Several years ago, someone posted a way to turn off this
feature. It's probably in the archives. I think it can be done through
terminal. Anyone out there who knows what they are doing?
Tom
On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote:
Hi Steve and everyone!
I too am watching to see if
Yep that is your power button the one on the top right corner of your
iPhone.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Keller
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:08 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: I
Hi Veronica,
I know this may seem a silly question are you using the outgoing mail
server for your service provider for your internet connection for the smtp
outgoing mail server because any mail will not send if you have not set your
outgoing mail server as your internet service
Hi guys my name is alberto I have been on this list for a while, but haven't
contributed much to the list since I don't own a Mac yet. Many of the
members I've seen so far on here probably know me from 3 lists I run myself.
I am going to be a little more active now since I am going to be getting
Dean, I do have the outgoing server set correctly, as verified
mulpitle times. I've walked through the account setup with the
company, repeated the process at the Apple store, and done it
numerous times myself. The weird bit is that it will suddenly start
working fine, and then will stop just
Hi Veronica,
Sometimes wheather its windows or mac mail issues are difficult to
diagnose especially when it works at times but not others don't loose heart.
Regards Dean
On 04/05/2012, at 12:26 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote:
Dean, I do have the outgoing server set correctly, as verified
Thanks a lot, just making sure.
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Yup.
The one on the top.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On May 3, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Jenny Keller jlperd...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, call
Hi,
When I tried to read from a certain spot on a window, and I used the VO A it
read from the top, what did I do wrong.
Did I not maybe interact with it or something? I can't remember off hand.
Jenny
On May 3, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
Thanks alex.
I'll give these a try.
I got a response to my question about deleting an Ical alert, but I don't
really understand it.
What is it I have to find, and interact with to find the delete or whatever it
is.
Sorry, it's been a long day and my mind is a little fried.
Jenny
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