Re: Spanish Ñ was Special Characters Question: Math Symbols

2012-12-09 Thread chris bruinenberg
Yes, you have to hit the option key and e. Then type the letter you want. for the n tilde. you type option+n and then n again. this webpage might help. http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/100808/how-to-type-spanish-letters-and-accents-#.UMWJxKV0UzY On Dec 9, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrot

Spanish Ñ was Special Characters Question: Math Symbols

2012-12-09 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hello, On as somewhat related note, is there an easy way to insert the Spanish Ñ in a document? I tried pressing option in but it didn't work. I would like to avoid having to add the Spanish keyboard layout for just one isolated incident. Thanks for your help, Ioana Sent from my iPhone On 20

Where do photos go in iPhoto?

2012-12-09 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, when you import photos from a camera using iPhoto where are they put? Thank you for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscri

Strange error with Messages in Mountain Lion

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Gilland
This is very weird. When I boot my macbook into Mountain Lion, I get an alert that pops up in the form of a dialog box which says Messages internal error: There was a problem with Messages. You need to quit and open Messages again. Has anyone ever seen this happen? I didn't even have messages

Re: should I unauthorize my iTunes account

2012-12-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
I'm not sure what this is based on, if it's hardware of software specific. I prefer to deauthorize the computer and authorize it again after the install, this certainly won't hurt anything. On Dec 9, 2012, at 10:59 AM, "Martin Brown" wrote: > Hello everyone again. > I am giving serious consider

Re: Latest Dropbox on Mountin Lion causes an odd issue with show desktop notifications?

2012-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, I guess the first question is: how do I know if I have the latest version of dropbox? Would I get an update notification? I do have desktop notifications checked and I do get notified of changes on my Mac running Mountain Lion but the notification is just announced and doesn't interfere w

RE: iCloud and iTunes 11?

2012-12-09 Thread Daniel Miller
Dan, You'd be correct. That goes for movies, tv shows, and music. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Roy Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 6:59 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iCloud and iTunes 11? >From what

Re: Tax web sites

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Roy
I wasn't aware that taxact had an app for the iPhone, will investigate this. On Dec 8, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Dan > Thanks for the information. I also downloadedi the app for the iPhone, and > got myself registered owner. I had no trouble with the iPhone app at all, and

Re: iCloud and iTunes 11?

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Roy
>From what I read, with the new itunes, anything you purchase from iTunes >directly is automatically put in the cloud now. The matching service comes in >to play when your trying to use content not purchased on iTunes directly. At >least, that's my understanding of the situation. On Dec 9, 2

Question about new iTunes and manually adding contacts to iPhone

2012-12-09 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Has anyone found a way to manually add content to your iPhone with the new iTunes? If so thanks for helping me out here. All the best, Ioana Hello, Has it Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to thi

Re: Toast titanium

2012-12-09 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I don't have Tyro, nor even know what that is. Sorry. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" To: Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Toast titanium Hi: I'd love a demo, especially of tr

Re: iCloud and iTunes 11?

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It sounds like iTunes Match to me although that should only happen if you've subscribed to iTunes Match. I guess it's possible that even if you don't use iTunes Match, the default dialogs may ask the same questions. I do get that option myself but I am subscribed to iTunes Match so I expe

Re: Dropbox podcast

2012-12-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Am I right that all the stored files and folders are always downloaded on my Macs? And if I change a file Dropbox will upload it? So I can work offline on a file without losing my changes? What if I'm in a train connected to the internetz via the iPhone and have a bad connection? Can I loose st

Re: Itunes 11 Shuffling

2012-12-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Have you checked the shuffle option in the menue bar? Jürgen Am 09.12.2012 um 21:41 schrieb Shawn Krasniuk : > Hy all. I was listening to music in my Itunes Library when I found out that > there's something wrong with the way it shuffles my songs. Instead of playing > random music, it's playing

Checkbook Pro 2, Summaries help appreciated

2012-12-09 Thread John Sanfilippo
Hi, I've been using Splasm Software's checkbook 2 since 2009, and moved up to Pro sometime this year. In neither version have I managed to rap my mind around using splits or using the summaries. I am especially interested in getting better at using the summaries. If anyone can help, please ema

Re: Dropbox podcast

2012-12-09 Thread Phil Halton
I have 100GB dropbox storage that cost me $100 a year. I have dropbox on three computers (two windows and a mac) and an iPhone. It makes it super simple to access all my files from any platform - well worth the money imho. - Original Message - From: Cheryl Homiak To: macvisionaries

iCloud and iTunes 11?

2012-12-09 Thread Kliphton
Okay, when I decided to put my iTunes library in a different location, and went to delete the current media, it said "would you like to delete from the cloud, or leave it in the cloud?" Something along those lines. Now I know you can start watching something in iTunes and pick it up on your I Dev

Itunes 11 Shuffling

2012-12-09 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hy all. I was listening to music in my Itunes Library when I found out that there's something wrong with the way it shuffles my songs. Instead of playing random music, it's playing everything in alphabetical order. I thought the whole point of shuffling songs was for it to play songs in random,

Re: Latest Dropbox on Mountin Lion causes an odd issue with show desktop notifications?

2012-12-09 Thread John Panarese
I've noticed this too. Even though Dropbox is set in the Notification Center as banners, I have to make the alerts go away. I haven't had the chance to investigate the issue in depth yet though. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfort

Re: key configurations on macbook air

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
I have a Macbook Pro and I can't change that either. Christopher Hallsworth On 09/12/2012 18:10, William Windels wrote: Hello, I was wondering if I can reconfigure the on/off power key on the macbook air 11inch from 2012. I would like to have a regular shutdown when I press the power-button.

Re: Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
Thanks! I have light perception too so will have a go. Christopher Hallsworth On 09/12/2012 18:16, Missy Hoppe wrote: No, there is no audio feedback, butI have light perception, and I promise that the fn key and f1 and f2 do the job. I think you can also change it in control panel under displ

Latest Dropbox on Mountin Lion causes an odd issue with show desktop notifications?

2012-12-09 Thread Keith Hinton
Hi, folks: Whenever I use the latest Dropbox version, on the Mac, I find that VoiceOver does something odd whenever any notification comes up. All I've done, is relink my system following a previous group of settings I had, so can't determine as to why this happens. Specificly, what happens is that

Re: Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hello Chris. Nvda will not tell you but the screen is being adjusted. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 9, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Chris H wrote: > Well I can't tell if it is doing that as my screen reader Nvda isn't saying > anything. The help says I can adjust it through either the Bootcamp Control >

RE: Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Missy Hoppe
No, there is no audio feedback, butI have light perception, and I promise that the fn key and f1 and f2 do the job. I think you can also change it in control panel under display or power settings, just like you would on a normal windows machine, but the keys definitely work, and unlike in mac mod

Re: Toast titanium

2012-12-09 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I'd love a demo, especially of transferring shows from tiro to mac. On Dec 8, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > OK, I won't do an audio recording then. I was thinking it would be good for > when you did get a version that worked, then you could follow it, but if you > don'

Re: Special Characters Question: Math Symbols

2012-12-09 Thread Christine Grassman
Thank you. I'll give this a whirl. Christine On Dec 9, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I find it easier just to figure them out myself. They're fairly logical > actually and you can determine them in TextEdit or in any text area within > any app. The Option key is your modifie

Re: Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
Well I can't tell if it is doing that as my screen reader Nvda isn't saying anything. The help says I can adjust it through either the Bootcamp Control Panel and or Power Options. They are in neither. Christopher Hallsworth On 09/12/2012 17:57, Missy Hoppe wrote: Holdingdown the function key

Re: automatically add to iTunes folder?

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
No and best of all any files or folders with incompatible files will be placed in a not added folder in the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. Christopher Hallsworth On 09/12/2012 17:58, Kliphton A M wrote: Do I have to separate movies and music, or does it do that for me too? On Dec 9, 2012

key configurations on macbook air

2012-12-09 Thread William Windels
Hello, I was wondering if I can reconfigure the on/off power key on the macbook air 11inch from 2012. I would like to have a regular shutdown when I press the power-button. It seems I can't change that in the energy settings and I could find other settings in the global preference pane I think.

Re: Special Characters Question: Math Symbols

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I find it easier just to figure them out myself. They're fairly logical actually and you can determine them in TextEdit or in any text area within any app. The Option key is your modifier for this. In the text area, simply hold down the Option key then press a key to determine it's speci

Re: should I unauthorize my iTunes account

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, No need to deauthorize your computer at all. The iTunes store does not care what the name is or even what version of MacOS you're running. The Store uses a unique hardware identifier like your MAC address so software changes are immaterial. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada

Re: automatically add to iTunes folder?

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, No need to separate anything, iTunes will do all that for you as it does the addition to Library. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-12-09, at 10:58 AM, Kliphton A M wrote: > Do I have to separate movies and music, or does it do that for me too? > On Dec 9, 2012, at 11

Re: automatically add to iTunes folder?

2012-12-09 Thread Kliphton A M
Do I have to separate movies and music, or does it do that for me too? On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Chris H wrote: > Correct, that's exactly what the folder is used for. Just put your files and > folders in there, and iTunes will do the rest the next time it is launched. > It is a super, underr

RE: Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Missy Hoppe
Holdingdown the function key and then f1 and f2 should control brightness, just like they do on the mac side of things. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 12:16 PM To: macv

Re: A question about messages?

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Clifton is on the mark here. Check on your iPhone first to make sure that you have both your phone number and iCloud eMail attached to iMessage. This needs to first be done at the iPhone then it should automatically appear on the Mac after that. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Ca

Re: iTunes Library location?

2012-12-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Four drives not including the internal one on my iMac. You should create the Library first then move the media into the new iTunes Library location. 1. Hold down the Option key while starting iTunes. This will force iTunes to bring up a Library chooser dialog. 2. Select "Create New Libr

Re: automatically add to iTunes folder?

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
Correct, that's exactly what the folder is used for. Just put your files and folders in there, and iTunes will do the rest the next time it is launched. It is a super, underrated feature. Christopher Hallsworth On 09/12/2012 17:01, Kliphton wrote: What is this folder and what does it do? If

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Since Before iTunes 11

2012-12-09 Thread Christine Grassman
Thank you. You might be right about that. On Dec 9, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > VO tech support might say iTunes is not VoiceOver and they don't give advice > for iTunes. > But what about Care Protection? Do you have a Care Protection contract? I'm > sure they could help you to s

Re: should I unauthorize my iTunes account

2012-12-09 Thread Daniel C
There's no need honestly to deauthorize just for a clean reinstall of an OS, unless you are planning to change computers, like from Mac to Windows or Windows to Mac, or maybe if you're changing computer names. As long as the computer is the same computer you're reinstalling an OS to, or if the c

Special Characters Question: Math Symbols

2012-12-09 Thread Christine Grassman
I have tried everything which appears patently obvious to find a list of math symbols: I have gone into Text Edit's edit menu, (every edit menu on the Mac I could find, in fact) and tried to select "special characters" but nothing happens. Interacting with any tool bars does not help. I located

Bootcamp

2012-12-09 Thread Chris H
Hello all Well I managed to do it, get Windows 7 installed and working properly via Bootcamp. My thoughts are very good so far! But lol! No where can I adjust the brightness, even though I have the latest Bootcamp Support software as of yesterday, the 8th of December! Lol! So goodness knows ho

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Since Before iTunes 11

2012-12-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
VO tech support might say iTunes is not VoiceOver and they don't give advice for iTunes. But what about Care Protection? Do you have a Care Protection contract? I'm sure they could help you to solve this issue. Or you could write to the iTunes support. You'll find their contact details in the iT

RE: should I unauthorize my iTunes account

2012-12-09 Thread Daniel Miller
I would, since it will ask you to reauthorize your account, and if you do that, you'll lose one out of your 5 authorizations. If you deauthorize, you'll get that number back in case you ever need to authorize up to 5 computers in the future. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisi

automatically add to iTunes folder?

2012-12-09 Thread Kliphton
What is this folder and what does it do? If I put movies and music here, will it put it in the library where it belongs? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To

should I unauthorize my iTunes account

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Brown
Hello everyone again. I am giving serious consideration to doing a clean install of Mountain Lion. I am wondering if it would be best or even necessary to unauthorize my iTunes account before starting the process. Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Accessibility of Astral Garden?

2012-12-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Friends of mine on Facebook are raving on about Astral Garden; I can't figure it out, what with badly tagged objects and misleading labels and so on… anyone got any tips here? Thanks. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com

Re: Dropbox podcast

2012-12-09 Thread Jessica Moss
I'd love to know that as well sense I've tried the instructions I found online to configure it and it's still not working. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 9, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Has anybody done a pretty thorough podcast or tutorial on dropbox? I'm > thinking of paying for sto

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Since Before iTunes 11

2012-12-09 Thread Christine Grassman
Yes, they are. I'm getting a lot of suggestions to call VoiceOver Tech Support, which I may have to do. I tried again last night, and the deletions occurred this time, but not the additions. Very strange, and exceedingly aggravating. On Dec 9, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Thanks f

Re: Dropbox podcast

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Babcock
I use dropbox for a lot of my file storage purposes. For example, I missed placed my NFB newsline information a couple of weeks ago, however yesterday found it lurking around in my dropbox. If I didn't use dropbox, I think I would use my iPhone a lot less. The dropbox iOS app is very accessible,

Re: Blind Square again

2012-12-09 Thread Brian Miller
Does anyone know of a good Blind Square tutorial? I think there is a lot of potential with this app, but I really feel at sea and can't get the hang of it. Thanks, Brian Miller On 12/9/12, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > Yes, that's how to do it. In next version you can also search it in advance > an

Accessible wifi scanner

2012-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Does anybody know if there's a wifi-enabled scanner somewhere that is accessible for setting up the wifi connection or that can be controlled for this by software on the computer? I imagine that if one has to have sighted help to set up the wifi connection, it should be able to continue connecti

Dropbox podcast

2012-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Has anybody done a pretty thorough podcast or tutorial on dropbox? I'm thinking of paying for storage space there because of the variety of files I can store and access vs iCloud. I'm already paying something for sendspace so I'm thinking of dropping that and paying for dropbox. This is a beginn

Re: Blind Square again

2012-12-09 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
Yes, that's how to do it. In next version you can also search it in advance and mark as favorite: Then you find it from your "My Places". Searching by "multi-word-search-term" works okay but best match is not always shown first since they are sorted by distance. This is fixed in soon-to-be-release

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Since Before iTunes 11

2012-12-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Thanks for the clarification. I also was not sure what your problem was, just like Chris. Sounds really strange. Did you check wether your settings are still as you set them? Jürgen Am 09.12.2012 um 03:27 schrieb Christine Grassman : > I manage my songs manually, and have some items checked

Re: iTunes 11 web area

2012-12-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Chris, they removed the feature indeed. I found several forum posts to this topic, sadly enough. Oh yeah, I'm lucky enough to diciplin my self, most of the time. ;-) All the best Jürgen Am 09.12.2012 um 03:22 schrieb Christopher-Mark Gilland : > Jürgen, > > Is it not something that maybe you