Hi,
I think you would find it difficult to get good results with any OCR app since
the camera resolution is so poor on an iPod touch.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com wrote:
Is
Hi,
Wouldn't air drop be a much easier way to go about this?
Ricardo Walker
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Twitter:@apple2thecore
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Eric Caron ecar...@comcast.net wrote:
Hello Listers,
Using the wireless network to share files between
Hi all,
Has anyone else on the list experienced having vo suddenly and regularly jump
focus from the middle of the mailbox message table to the end of the table
without warning? This has happened to me several time in the past few weeks.
Any ideas? It's quite anoying to have to re-search for
Hi Ricardo
Well, since it's free, I guess I'll keep it on here for a while longer and see
what results I get. I did get it to read part of a water bill, which I'm not
sure is a fair test of an application.
Regards
Gigi
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 19, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Ricardo Walker
Thanks Rachel
I put it on my iPhone, and will check it out.
Regards
Gigi
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 19, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it worth getting with an iPod Touch 4Th Gen? Considering it but don't
want to spend the money if I can't get good results.
Jane
Yup.
That's a good idea. I hope you have better success than I did. And its free
so, your not losing anything if you can't get it to work.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com
Hi,
Yes, having a similar experience. Not jumping to end of messages
though. In fact I can't figure out the command to get it to do this at
all if someone could let me know as command + down arrow no longer
seems to work. Instead, focus seems to shift around of its own accord.
I've had to rescue
Good morning all.
Just a quick note to say I have just received my Macbook Pro 13 inch.
Going to set it up from this afternoon. Look out for an e-mail from it ok.
Chris.
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Hi Rachel.
Just bought this product due to your recemmendations. Thank you.
Kawal.
On 20 Aug 2012, at 02:39 AM, Rachel Feinberg walksi...@gmail.com wrote:
Try Text Detective. It's an app that scans automatically without the need to
take a photo of text. Works best with the 4S and is on
I don't know if this is the right way to do things, or if it will work in your
situation, but I recently had to take control of another user's files on my
wife's computer. At any rate, if you open up the folder in Finder, you can
navigate to the file. Do a [vo][shift][m] on the file and
Hi,
I did it in the discribbed way and it works. Unfortunately it works ruffly just
once out of five. So it might be good if Apple tried to make drag and drop via
VO + komma and VO + period reliable.
Jürgen
Am 19.08.2012 um 12:36 schrieb Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com:
Teresa, i
Here Spotlight doesn't work at all since Mountain Lion on my two machines. When
I type a search term Spotlight finds several results but as soon as I move the
cursor down - either with VO + arrow down or just arrow down - all results are
vanished except for the definition from the encyclopedia.
Hi,
be very sure cursor tracking is activated.
The key stroke Option + arro down doesn't work anymore since Lion.
Jürgen
Am 20.08.2012 um 12:15 schrieb Eleanor Southwood eleanorsouthw...@gmail.com:
Hi,
Yes, having a similar experience. Not jumping to end of messages
though. In fact I can't
How exactly do I get to the xml files and does this work with Daisy? Do I just
ipen the zip file with Safari? Mel
On Aug 19, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried seeking the .xml file and opening it in Safari? That's how I
read it on the Mac.
There are a number of ways I have done this:
1. Typically, the titles are partial titles with the extensions, and the
slightest differentiation in spelling will not find them for you, so you could
use spotlight, finder, etc., to search for files with the extension .xml --
typically, the most
Thanks, I'll try this right away. I am still hoping to get it on my Stream
because I love it so.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote:
There are a number of ways I have done this:
1. Typically, the titles are partial titles with the extensions, and
I have been thinking of a new Stream but you are saying that read your books
from your iPhone. I read a huge amount in cars on trips, in bed at night etc.
I love having my little Stream but if the phone can handle it, maybe i'll do
that when I get my phone. I am waiting for the newest phone
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for this tip. I learned about this option on a call to Apple
support a few weeks ago. I tried changing the permissions there rather then in
System Preferences I tried several different times and for the longest time
didn't see any success. I still don't have most of
Sorry, I don't have any sharing turned on at this time. I only learned about
setting the permissions as I needed to get to my wife's email that was
transferred over using Migration Assistant. I still haven't been successful at
completing what I think should be a simple process.
Sorry the tip
I would imagine you should be able to copy and paste the necessary files onto a
data card the same way as with a PC, but haven't done it with my Mac.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Mary Scott bluespru...@comcast.net wrote:
Thanks, I'll try this right away. I am still hoping to get it on my
The Stream's battery lasts longer, but I like having fewer gadgets to carry
around with me. The Read2Go app also costs about twenty dollars, but if you
read a lot, it is so worth it. I also read a newspaper or two each day with my
iPhone from booksahre.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Mary Scott
Hello everyone,
Forgive my slight frustration, but as I am attempting to migrate from Windows
gradually, I know there will be those instances where it will not be likely to
avoid from using JAWS. I am a fan of using Windows and JAWS because when going
blind, this is the first introduction I
OK, then, you're having identically the same problem that I'm having.
How do we both fix this?
Chris.
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From: Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: I'm not exactly getting
it works fine for me but since many people are experiencing trouble with this,
sounds like writing to apple accessibility is in order. At least they should
know about the problem.
Hope you get this fixed.
Best,
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com, on iTunes or most
To go to top or bottom of list use vo shift home or vo shift end.
best,
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com, on iTunes or most online
stores.
Sent from my phone
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
Hi,
be very sure cursor tracking
Hi guys
My only thought about this is whether you guys have tried putting your
computers into and out of fullscreen mode? I found sometimes that makes a
difference as to what I am seeing and not seeing.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Christopher-Mark gilland
Hi there
Have you tried saving out the blank template with the changes that you want?
You have to save it as a template and not as another type of document for that
to work.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Emilio Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello
Joanna might be right. The only hope I see is to write to
accessibil...@apple.com
All the best
Jürgen
Am 20.08.2012 um 17:28 schrieb Christopher-Mark gilland clgillan...@gmail.com:
OK, then, you're having identically the same problem that I'm having.
How do we both fix this?
Chris.
No fullscreen mode here. But I also experienced VO issues using fullscreen mode
in programs.
All the best
Jürgen
Am 20.08.2012 um 18:15 schrieb Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com:
Hi guys
My only thought about this is whether you guys have tried putting your
computers into and out of
how do I put it in and out of full screen mode?
Chris.
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From: Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Cc: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: I'm not exactly getting Spotlight in ML
Hi
I still don't know how to put things in full screen mode. I mean, I know
how to go to full screen mode in one particular application, but not a way
to set it globally across the whole entire system.
Chris.
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From: Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net
To:
In this fairly brief podcast, Robert describes his experience upgrading from
Lion to Mountain Lion.
He describes how to create a bootable Mountain Lion recovery USB drive and
discusses the importance of creating a bootable clone.
The podcast can be gotten from iTunes by searching for Tech
I haven't used Bean but some apps, like TextEdit, have preference
settings for the default font. Also, I thought there used to be a trick
that if you had no documents open but the app was running, changes made
would become the default. I wasn't able to reproduce this with TextEdit
but maybe
Hi, all,
I've gotten WebVisum installed with Firefox. Now I'm trying to figure out the
keyboard defaults for capchas and WebVisum menus, etc. I'm not even sure
whether these keystrokes will work on the Mac.
My biggest problem, however, is that I can't go into the webvisum submenu from
the
Are you using Square Space with Voiceover on a mac? If so, I found it
terribly inaccessible so would love to hear what I did wrong. I can
tell you that GoDaddy's website tonight is mostly inaccessible. For a
blog wordpress is mostly accessible. Good luck
On Aug 16, 1:12 pm, Bill Holton
Hello,
I have done a clean-install of 10.8 on my new air since I had very strange
problems with my air and , I was using in installation of 10.8 with some peaces
of 10.7.x, 10.6.x and 10.5.x from my time-machine backup.
So, a clean install seems a good idea to determine if I had
I solved the problem. It turns out that I can not unzip books downloaded
previous to ML. The books I just downloaded opened just fine, opened, and
transferred to the Stream like a charm. I am so relieved.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote:
There
Welcome to the new listers, and enjoy your new iPhones.
Shawn
Sent from my white Mac Book
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Hi all,
I have to use ABBYY Fine-reader at work. How do I set it so that when I scan
something, I see the text rather than graphics?
TIA,
Donna
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Hey Chris. That's great news. I hope your Mac experience turns out good like
mine has been.
Shawn
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Hello listers,
What is the apple accessibility telephone number?
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877-204-3930
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:00 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: accessibility telephone number
Hello listers,
What is the apple
It is:
1-877-204-3930.
If you need me to, I can send you a VCard.
Chris.
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From: Walter Harper walterharp...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: accessibility telephone number
Hello listers,
What is the
Thanks for that information.
How do you select text in safari?
On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Daniel Miller miller...@gmail.com wrote:
877-204-3930
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent:
You can actually just click an Notifications with the up and down arrow and it
opens the Notification Center where you can turn on Do Not Disturb for 24 hours.
On Aug 19, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Christopher-Mark gilland clgillan...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you didn't know about this, and did like I did
When I launch YoruFukurou, each time I get new tweets in my timeline,
mentions, or for that mind, DM's, it keeps updating with a badge, for lack
of better term alert in my dock. So, recently, when I looked down in my
dock, for example, it said, YoruFukurou 200 something odd items. This
isn't
Hey Mark,
I can confirm that indeed Downcast is working on a app for the mac, as
they responded directly to me a few weeks ago on Twitter you can check
my feed here if you want to find it @blindgator
On Aug 17, 10:15 pm, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote:
Hi Mark,
I use a couple of AppleScripts to
I myself, in mountain Lion never've done it, but apparently starting in
mountain Lion, you can just hit shift with the arrow keys like normal.
Before that though, I think you had to interact first with the item that you
wanted to select, then use your standard selection commands. I don't
Yeah, I noticed that after I played more with it. Now 'em feelin pretty
d*** stupid. LOL!
Chris.
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From: Larry Skutchan blindcoolt...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Cool discovery about
Hi William, , not sure what issues you're exactly having when it comes to
importing VO preferences. To test it, I exported mine, saved the exported file
onto my external Hharddrive, then reset all VO preferences back to defaults,
and then imported the file that I'd saved previously, and it
Hi,
I think he's talking about the inability to import preferences that were
made with previous versions of OS X. For example, you can't import a
preference file you made in Lion into Mountain Lion.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hi.
Just followed you on Twitter - hope that was OK.
I'm @chris28210.
Chris.
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From: Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com
To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Podcast App for Mac
Hey Mark,
I can
Here's the thing:
If you try importing VO settings from a different version of OSX into
another version of OSX, it's not going to work. This is because you're
taking a set configuration from a different version of Voiceover as well
when you do this.
So, if you in theory, had pieces of OSX
Hello everyone,
After drudging through the archives and not finding my answer as quickly as I
would have hoped, I have a simple question.
I already have a flashdisk version of Mountain Lion. What do I need to do
immediately after I reboot my machine to load the install independently using
To simplify things, you can't import VoiceOver Preferences from an earlier
version of Mac OS X with ease. What I did was to copy the VO preference
folders from my user preferences library and copy them in to my library in
Mountain Lion. This maintained settings from all the way back to
You can set fullscreen mode in some applications but not for the whole system.
Jürgen
Am 20.08.2012 um 18:51 schrieb Christopher-Mark gilland clgillan...@gmail.com:
I still don't know how to put things in full screen mode. I mean, I know how
to go to full screen mode in one particular
Hi Chris,
I think the new items refer to unread tweets. And pressing the spacebar will
take you to whatever tweets Night Owl thinks are unread. If you haven't, you
can also try going to accounts in preferences, then the general tab and uncheck
the box that talks about enabling unread
Oh,
You can also boot into it from the Mac OS itself by going to system
preferences/ start up disks
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Emilio Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello everyone,
hello everyone. I seem to be having problems woth clicking buttons on the
keyboard. the command-spacebar nor the enter keys seem to work. any solutions?
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Does anyone know how to use Garage Band on Mountain Lion to record a podcast?
I have been looking through the manual and it says to choose Podcast when
creating a project but I can't seem to find where I would do this. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.
Scott
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HiRachel
I have a question about text detective? It says to use unlock mode when doing
the scan. What if you forget? I just did that and it sounded like it went in to
unlock mode automatically. However, when I checked it, it was still locked. So,
I unlocked it and start over. Do you have to do
Scott,
When you first open it find the crate new project button.
Once you press that you will find the different templates, Podcast is
one of these templates.
Let me know if there is anything else you need. Take care!
Mike
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Scott Rumery
Hi list!
I hope everyone is well!
I was just reading list and saw some people talking about dock badges. (like
how many unread mails you do have, unread tweets in youru fucurou etc). How
ever, I can't see them with voice over. It just reads the name of the app and
thats it. Is something broken
I'm using a SpaceSaver M external USB keyboard on an MBP13 circa 2008 running
Mountain Lion. Occasionally, for no reason I can spot, the keyboard will
switch from using the function keys as hardware keys, the way it's supposed to,
to using the function keys as software keys, what I don't want.
Hi Eugenia,
The tips do say to unlock the orientation, however, since the app goes into
landscape mode, automatically, I think not unlocking it shouldn't set you back
at all. If, for some reason, it does, then you can try to unlock the
orientation and try again. If your scanning experiences
Try vo space to double tap. Or, with quick navigation on, toggled by the left
and right arrow being pressed together, you can press up/down arrow together.
The vo keys are the control and option keys, which are the 2nd and 3rd keys on
the bottom left row. The keys in order from left to right are
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the help. Let me explain to you what it is that I am trying to do.
I am using Audio Highjack Pro to record both my voice and my system sound. The
problem with this is that the program is making 2 separate files and I wanted
to use Garage Band to join these files, but when
Hi all,
I was surprised to get the below response. I normally get the usual we'll
investigate form letter, but this is the first time they have said they
confirmed my findings. Here's to a fix in 10.8.1!
Begin forwarded message:
Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this
Hi Alex.
Using that number, could you also let them know that this issue is present in
other apps such as pages, bean, etc?
Thanks for reporting this to Apple Accessibility.
On 2012-08-20, at 7:38 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was surprised to get the below response. I
Using the number, could you? I am not trying to be difficult, but I make it a
point to not report anything I have not personally experienced. I have only
ever used Textedit and do not have Pages or other exitors, so I cannot comment
on any lack of table support therein. As I said, I'm not
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know of a cool command I just discovered in mail, though
most of you probably know it already. As you arrow through messages, you can
hold shift and the message spoken is selected. When you first press shift and
an arrow key, the message you were on as well as the
Hi
Anyone got any hints on using this app? I have an iPhone 4 and just got rubbish
results when I scanned something. I know the lighting was ok but obviously the
camera on the iPhone 4 is not the best. How close do you hold the camera? I was
holding it still and, I think square on. Does it
Okay.
Subject line about says it all. Any progress on Winamp for Mac yet? IF not,
are there any players that can do ENQ like cueing one track after another and
overlap playback or cross fade? I tried DJ but that doesn't seem to work for
me. I hate the fact that ITunes is so library
If you get gibberish text, the page may be upside down. or, you may be too far,
or too close to the text. the tips say to hold it about a forearm's length
away. Or perhaps 6-8 inches from the page. The 4, you'll just need to keep
practicing to get useable results. :)
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:35
awesome work! You can also press vo+command+space to select each message, and
then press cmd+delete to get rid of them as well. :)
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know of a cool command I just discovered in mail, though
most of you
Scott,
After you are done recording you can actually just copy and paste the
file itself into a Garage Band Project.
You can open a new project and once it is there just go to where your
file is saved in the Finder and copy it. Then go back to Garage Band, press
Enter to move to
VO-cmd-space only gives me the invalid keypress tone when I use it on a
message. I am using Mountain Lion with the standard mail view, not the classic
one, if that makes a difference.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Rachel Feinberg walksi...@gmail.com wrote:
awesome work! You can also press
Hi Alex,
Just to let you know, holding down the shift key and arrowing through is
general way to select (highlight) multiple contiguous items. It works in other
tables, too. You can select multiple files for deletion this way in Finder, or
select multiple tracks in iTunes to use to either
Hi,
Winamp for mac? Lol. Isn't that a bit..oxymoronic? I never even knew there
was such a thing.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:23 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject:
Hi guys
I have had a lot of problems using the VO command space option to select
non-continuously. This is both true in finder and elsewhere. Is anybody else
having this trouble?
Regards
Gigi
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Rachel Feinberg walksi...@gmail.com wrote:
awesome work! You can also
What kind of trouble are you having? Are you going into selection mode
first with VO-Command-space and then doing that command for each item you want
to select?
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
Website,
Hold up though. You forgot something *really!* important about this method.
This only works if cursor tracking is disabled.
1. With cursor tracking enabled, select the first msg you want to begin
selecting noncontiguously from. By the way, also, be sure you're interacting
with the table
See my previous post. There is a reason this isn't working for you.
Chris.
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From: Alex Hall
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: cool discovery in mail
VO-cmd-space only gives me the invalid keypress
Actually, he's not kidding! I did see a version 1.0 for the Mac way way back
in the days, but God Jesus! That had to be like OS8, or 9! This was like, even
before the days of Voiceover, and I don't really think they did much with it.
I don't think Melsoft even did anything past 1.0. It was
Did you remember first to turn off cursor tracking?
Chris.
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From: Eugenia Firth
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: cool discovery in mail
Hi guys
I have had a lot of problems using the VO command
Actually, the method, as of Lion, works with or without cursing tracking on
for non contiguous selecting. You must be interacting, but cursor tracking
can be on.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
Website,
Hi,
Here are a couple of sites you may want to take a look at
http://www.hllf.net/
Contains a detailed list of iOS bluetooth keyboard commands
http://axslab.com/articles/ios-voiceover-gestures-and-keyboard-commands.php
Contains commands for bluetooth keyboard commands, gestures and commands for
Hi both John and Chris
Well John, you say it works without turning cursor tracking off, but when I
used the method Chris suggested, I got to work. I have not a clue why it
doesn't work the way you said. Could it have anything to do with the fact that
I have my mouse following the voiceover
The camera on the iTouch 4 is not going to be good enough to successfully
recognize text.
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From: Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning program for the iPhone I felt
Is it worth
I'm not sure, but it works here with cursor tracking on. Very strange.
However, whatever works, works. So, chalk this up to who knows.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
APPLE
Hello,
I am having a strange problem.
It started with Messages. If I have messages open, and I command tab away from
it, I cannot command tab back to it. I have to go to the application switcher
menu and select it.
Now it is doing the same thing with Safari, which is really annoying.
Does
Hi,
When you export your contacts on the Mac, by default, it creates 1 vcf file
with all of your contacts. If you want to create 1 vcf file for each contact,
you must hold down the option key while dragging and dropping.
It's already been determined that the VoiceOver drag and drop does not
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