Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
Meh, That had nothing to do with your vo+back slash, that I can definitely assure you. I, too have had issues with vo+backslash not working with mail, and regardless people telling me left and right it consistently works, I have news for you and them, on my end, it definitely doesn't work

Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
You're almost correct. It minimizes... notice I didn't say hides, I said minimizes everything except for your currently focused application, in this case, Mail. Chris. - Original Message - From: Timothy Emmons temmo...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday,

Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
What even exactly is the difference in hiding from minimizing? Chris. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 9:14 PM Subject: Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail To my knowledge, that

Re: closing an app that has no windows?

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
hit command option escape, select it in the table, then go to force quit. Chris. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 9:16 PM Subject: closing an app that has no windows? Hi all, I opened Piano Pub

Re: closing an app that has no windows?

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
or, if you're real! real! geeky, and feelin totally stupidly silly, as I feel like being right now kind a over kill silly, go to terminal, and type sudo killall pianopub OK, I've seriously been using Linux for too long today! Sorry, I couldn't resist! Technically yes, that would work, but...

Re: closing an app that has no windows?

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Gilland
It happens to the best of us, don't feel bad. Chris. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 9:39 PM Subject: Re: closing an app that has no windows? Force quit... how did I forget that? Thanks! On Apr

cd burning software.

2013-04-28 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello list. I am looking for an application that will allow me to copy an audio cd to multiple drives at the same time. I have burn, but this app can not do what I am asking. Is there a more full featured program for cds and dvds for the mac? In windows, I used to do this with Nero. I am

Re: Extracting Audio from TV Shows

2013-04-28 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi. You can do this using audio hijack pro, but it is going to be in real time. In other words, you must play the videos and grab the audio at the same time. Nektarios. On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com wrote: I bought three seasons of a TV show and I am downloading

Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, The difference between hide and minimize is, hiding an application that is in the foreground removes it from the screen but, also moves focus to the open application behind it. If you minimize, the app is removed from the screen but, focus is still in that app, and its still in the

virtual windows

2013-04-28 Thread May and Noah
Hi everyone. It's been forever since I had windows on my mac as well and I can't remember how to fix this issue, so any help would be appreciated. How do I get the control key to work so that I can read word by word, copy and things like that? I can't get it right either on the mac keyboard or

Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Jamie Pauls
An alternative to disabling conversation view is to turn off quick nap and use the right and left arrow keys to expand and collapse conversations. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: Meh, That had nothing to do with your vo+back

Voice Dream: Gestures with two fingers

2013-04-28 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Voice Dream users, what a great app I think. Even iBooks could learn from it. ;-) What doesn't work for me are the gestures with two fingers. If I got it right I could swipe with two fingers to the right or left two jump to the beginning or end of a sentence. But when I perform this gestures

Re: Voice Dream: Gestures with two fingers

2013-04-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Yeh, I think they have a bit of work to do yet. For example, I wanted to try the define a word feature. So, I rotated to words and then Flicked to a word. Then I did a doubletap and hold and the menu popped up. Only, it defined the word at the beginning of the sentence and nothing I did

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Eric, Well, the short answer is that we went over his head. We filed a complaint with the state, which resulted in a conference call with the boss of the people who made the decision. the guy was kind of frustrating. Initially he accused me of letting my personal biases interfere with

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi. I will admit i have not followed your case closely Donna, but in case you are ever in the situation again, why not simply stating the obvious? if the mac goes down the blind person can install the os her, or him self, as far as i know of we cant do that with windows. Sometimes i think that

Re: Voice Dream: Gestures with two fingers

2013-04-28 Thread Phil Halton
I use VoiceDream and I agree that it is a great app. To use the two-finger swipe right or left to go to previous or next sentence, you have to turn VO off. That's easy enough, just triple click home and then the gestures are usable. Of course, with VO on, you can rewind or fastforward 30

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Sandi, I made that argument, and many others. Rehab agencies here in the U.S. are often very reticent to purchase Macs. This comes from many factors that I won't go into here, but it's really very hard to get them to look at anything that isn't a Freedom Scientific--and thus

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Kerri
I would like to say congratulations, Donna et al. On 2013-04-28, at 12:03 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Eric, Well, the short answer is that we went over his head. We filed a complaint with the state, which resulted in a conference call with the boss of the people who made

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Kerri
Please feel fortunate, we have almost no agencies here in /canada and the only way you can obtain anything is by attending school/post secondary institutions at which yo have to do extremely well, or be employed. If you want a mac, you buy it yourself around here, which is what I did. On

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Kerri, it was exciting. Best, Donna Sent from my iPad On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Kerri shalo...@shaw.ca wrote: I would like to say congratulations, Donna et al. On 2013-04-28, at 12:03 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Eric, Well, the short answer is that we went over

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Kerri, Wow that surprises me. I would have thought that things in Canada would be pretty similar to things here. I've always bought my own tech, too, but I am glad that these options exist for those who can't. Best, Donna Sent from my iPad On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Kerri

Re: What does command option H do in Apple Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Katey Glass
Thanks for that information as I was having problems reading mail on my Mac, will give that a try. Katey. Sent from my iPad On Apr 28, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: An alternative to disabling conversation view is to turn off quick nap and use the right and

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread eric oyen
hmmm. that much of a fight does indicate that they are going to be resistant to such requests in the future. The other problem is that the person making the spurious arguments about the mac doesn't want to be educated. they are still of the opinion that they know best what the blind client

How to forward delete on mac and other functions

2013-04-28 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hello all: I came across this handy article and thought it might be of use to some. It taught me a thing or 2 I didn't know about the backspace (or delete key) as we call it on the Mac. You can make it forward delete, turn your power key into a physical forward delete key (as on Windows), and

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Scott Berry
Donna, Congrats! You got the Mac. Hopefully it'll be easier next time. On 4/28/13 13:59, Sandi Jazmin Kruse wrote: hi. I will admit i have not followed your case closely Donna, but in case you are ever in the situation again, why not simply stating the obvious? if the mac goes down the

Re: Installing Mountain Lion on Partition (Probably a very basic question)

2013-04-28 Thread Des Delgadillo
Thanks, Chris: I can grab that other external pretty easily. Would there be a way to come by a Lion installer? My Macbook came with Lion pre-installed so I wouldn't know where to get a hold of the installer. Is that a kosher question? Best, --Des -- You received this message because you are

How to be blind episode 45

2013-04-28 Thread Mike
Hi everyone! A handful of us who belong to this list have released the newest How to be Blind podcast! Here is the link to the post where you can listen to the show and read the show notes. Take care! http://htb2.com/2013/04/28/episode-45-the-living-room-scorpion/ Mike -- You received

swiping up and down in radium to change volume

2013-04-28 Thread Noel Romey
Hey guys, ON the iPhone, I can do things like swipe up and down by touching the trackpad and then holding, then performing an option. In Radium, you can theoretically swipe up or down to adjust playback volume. This will be useful because I can set radium's volume lower than that of Voiceover.

read2go

2013-04-28 Thread wayne17a
Hello list I have just got a ipad and have a queston regarding sincing the read2go app between my iphone and ipad if it is possible so could somebody please tell me how to sinc the two devices so my books show up on both devices thanks in advance Wayne c -- You received this message because

Re: Installing Mountain Lion on Partition (Probably a very basic question)

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
No problems asking. I don't recall whether pre-installed Lion on machines came with DVD installers or not. Did your machine come with some disks? If not, I think there are recipes for downloading the installer using the recovery process. CB On 4/28/13 8:38 PM, Des Delgadillo wrote: Thanks,

Re: keyboards

2013-04-28 Thread Paul Mimms
Logitec K811 available at Amazon. On 4/27/2013 7:32 PM, wayne17a wrote: Hello a couple of months ther was a thread about a Logitech wireless keyboard that could be paired with three Bluetooth devices so does anybody please have the link for this keyboards thanks in advance Wayne c -- You

Re: Installing Flashplayer

2013-04-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yep, sounds like everything worked perfectly and you should now have flashplayer on your system. Well done. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Eric, Yeah, I'm sure this fight will play out yet again. But, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. :) Best, donna On Apr 28, 2013, at 5:54 PM, eric oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm. that much of a fight does indicate that they are going to be resistant to such requests in the

Re: We won!!!!! Voc Rehab is buying my student a MacBook Air

2013-04-28 Thread Kerri
Hi, Donna: In other provinces, it is similar to the States but here in BC, it sure is limited. On 2013-04-28, at 2:33 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Kerri, Wow that surprises me. I would have thought that things in Canada would be pretty similar to things here. I've always