I wonder if a mod is really on this list or not.

2013-07-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'm just wondering if there is a mod really moderating this list because if there was, there would be no arguments and people would respect each other on this list. In my opinion this list will go down hill if we witness anymore arguments on this list. It would be great if a mod could reply so

Re: multiple mail accounts?

2013-07-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Alex, Apple Mail works really well with multiple accounts. You don't have to add any extra filters or smart mailboxes. I'll try and answer your questions below but let me know if there's any other info you'd like. Also, I'd highly recommend Take Control of Apple Mail which has answers to all

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I'll have a look then, thanks. I know someone had trouble with it a few weeks ago; are there any tips I should know regarding its layout and/or use? On Jul 1, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you might want to give cyberduck a try. For some odd reason, its

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi Alex, There's FileZilla for the mac as well. On 2013-07-01, at 7:48 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I'll have a look then, thanks. I know someone had trouble with it a few weeks ago; are there any tips I should know regarding its layout and/or use? On Jul 1, 2013, at 1:12 AM,

Re: multiple mail accounts?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, that's extremely helpful, thanks! I'll add the account and play with it. The only problem now is that my favorited folder keystrokes will change. smile On Jul 1, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: HI Alex, Apple Mail works really well with multiple

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I know, but it is mostly inaccessible. Most of the UI is just spoken as unknown for some reason. On Jul 1, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, There's FileZilla for the mac as well. On 2013-07-01, at 7:48 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I'll

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, What is your workflow when scanning with vuescan and fineReader express? Do you first scan all pages with vueScan, and then hand them all off to FineReaer to do the OCR? If so, would VueScan store all pages in one big image document such as pdf, or will I get 80 loose files out of

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
ncftp will work in the terminal and may have a graphical user interface too. On 6/30/13, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know everyone recommends Transmit when the subject of ftp programs for the mac comes up, but it's over $30! On Windows, Filezilla works great with screen

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi Chris, Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google search on man ci and another one on man co and a third on man rcs as a beginning.

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On 7/1/13, Jude DaShiell jdash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google search on man ci and

Problems with Cyberduck

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I found Cyberduck for free and downloaded it. However, I can't get it to connect no matter what I try. When I go to terminal to double check my password, I get a no route to host error which I never got until I started playing with Cyberduck. I am now effectively locked out of my

Re: multiple mail accounts?

2013-07-01 Thread Matthew
Alex, Each account has it's own set of folders. So you will have your gmail folders along with your other account and it's folders. I assoom you are using your account as imap. Hth. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: multiple mail accounts?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, I am using IMAP and not POP, thankfully. I set it up this morning and I now understand how it all works - a very neat solution overall, letting you view a unified inbox if you want but also splitting it up by account if you want. I have also figured out how to send mail from one address or

3 queries pertaining to Textedit and Google Spreadsheet

2013-07-01 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I have three queries.. 1. Is it possible to use bullets and numbering in Textedit? If yes, how can it be used? If not, then does iText Express support this feature? 2. Is there any shortcut command for justifying text in Textedit? 3. How can I make an entry in a Google Spreadsheet?

Re: 3 queries pertaining to Textedit and Google Spreadsheet

2013-07-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, 1. Bullets and numbering? Yes. There is a pop-up menu that is titled List Style. It gives you choices of varying bullets and numbering. 2. Justifying text. Doable yes, but no shortcut that I'm aware of. You may be able to use the Keyboard pane in System Prefs to create your own but

Re: 3 queries pertaining to Textedit and Google Spreadsheet

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I have not tried them, but there are list options on the format menu of Text Edit. To jusify, hit cmd-shift-left bracket for left, cmd-shift-right bracket for right, or cmd-shift-baclskash to center. If you do this before typing your text, remember to undo it (such as justifying left to stop

Mouse Keys in abled

2013-07-01 Thread Estelita
Hi, I turned the Mouse Keys in abled in Universal Access preferences, as it says that I can use the keyboard keys to move the mouse pointer. My apple keyboard doesn't have a numeric keypad, so I use the Fn key along the key commands, but the mouse doesn't work when I try the commands like

Hazel Subfolder File Help

2013-07-01 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I hope this Message is finding all of you doing well. For those who use the file management program Hazel, could I get some help? I am attempting to move EPub files from within subfolders into one specific folder, but when creating my rules I am not having any luck. I have looked

iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, listers. Happy July. For some reason, although the iOS weather widget used to have my location correct, as of now, it is unable to find my home city. This does not pertain to weather underground, which knows my home city. It is a reason change, and I can find nothing in settings on the

Re: Talking Dashboard Update: v1.1 Beta

2013-07-01 Thread ROD SKENE
These scripts are awesome Alex! Thank you! Rod On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The reminders script was the big hold-up for this release, but I got it working. It is called say overdue reminders.scpt and works on my machine, but please test it

Re: 3 queries pertaining to Textedit and Google Spreadsheet

2013-07-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, further to my original message, and in addition to Alex's list of commands for Left, Center and RIght justification, it is very easy to create your own shortcut for the Justify command. 1. Open System Preferences. 2. Navigate to the Keyboard pane. 3. Select the Keyboard shortcut tab. 4.

Re: iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Happy July back to you. I'll say Happy Canada Day too, even though you're not likely in Canada, but oh well, it's a happy day anyway. This sort of situation has happened to me in certain WIFI networks as the iPhone seems to get confused between the GPS location and the WIFI

Bento for Mac

2013-07-01 Thread Rhonda Hornbacher
Hi Mac Friends, I am looking for an accessible database program to use with my Mac. Is Bento accessible? If not, what database applications do others use and find accessible? Thank you for your assistance, Rhonda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Bento for Mac

2013-07-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Rhonda, Someone on the list turned me on to Tap Forms, and I purchased it, and it took me a little, but once I got accustomed to using it, it works very well. I think I bought it through the mac app store. Hope this helps. On Jul 1, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Rhonda Hornbacher

Re: iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Greetings, and happy Canada Day to you as well! I have tried your suggestion, e.g. going through the various pages in app switcher (there are four, in my case, including music.) But the weather widget is not located in app switcher. It comes up when I swiped three fingers but I am assuming

Re: iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
What do you mean by it cannot find my hometown? Does it show a different town, like Apple's headquarters, or does it show nothing, or an error, or old weather data, or something else? Have you tried launching the default weather app (do a Spotlight search if you can't find it on any home

Re: iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, Alex. As I clarified with him, the weather widget, which did not appear in any of my application screens or home screens, shows me weather for a town nearby, but not my town. However, shutting off and rebooting the phone did bring back the weather widget to the correct location. As of now,

Mars Edit: I see why you all love it

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I just won a copy of Mars Edit, and I see why you all recommend it for bloggers. I have two blogs and hope to start a third (business-related), and this application is going to make life so much easier! Basically, once you add your blog(s) to the app, you are given two tables. The

RE: Bento for Mac

2013-07-01 Thread harryhogue1
Hello Rhonda, Yes, Tap Forms works very well once you get used to its quirks. It involves a great deal of interacting, and costs about $20.00, but if you're looking for an ability to create forms and have records associated with them and have them be searchable, it should do what you need. I

VM Ware Help Needed

2013-07-01 Thread Scott Rumery
Hello, I have a client who is trying to use VM Ware with a Windows 7 install on their Mac Mini and he has run into a problem. When he tries to use his Virtual install of Windows whenever he presses a key on his keyboard Windows is registering the key press several times. This is making it

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-07-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, I first scan all pages with VueScan which puts all the images into one file. That's why it's so efficient. Cheers, Anne On 1 Jul 2013, at 14:05, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anne, What is your workflow when scanning with vuescan and fineReader express? Do

Re: Mars Edit: I see why you all love it

2013-07-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes. It's how blogging should be. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email

Re: VM Ware Help Needed

2013-07-01 Thread Gabe Vega
Hi, I find it odd that you all from FedoraOutlier come on these free email help lists for simple basic issues, but claim to be this national expert firm of tech people. it sickens me that you all want free help here for what you all are getting paid for. its not right and something should be

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

2013-07-01 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi Anne, How does this auto repeat work? Do i put in scanners and then hit scan in vuescan and it completes the seem workflow every time? Is it then possibl eto append all the files from the different jobs to one tiff file? Thanks! Greetings, Anouk, On Jun 24, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Anne Robertson

Re: VM Ware Help Needed

2013-07-01 Thread Mauricio Almeida
the only issue that may be causing this might actually not have to do with vmware or Windows itself. the issue is that depending on the mac your cliente is utilizing, their processor and virtual memory may not support running vmware and the mac at the same time. i had this problem when i had one

offering help to professionals (was VM Ware Help Needed)

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I don't see where this is coming from, nor do I see the logic. I recently became an assistive technology instructor myself, and I know much of what I do thanks to this and other email lists. Should I not provide any help to any customers of mine because I got the information from a list? By

how to go back a page in safari with vo displaying it right?

2013-07-01 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi Everyone, I often have a big page that i need to go back to after visiting its subpages. I used to use cmd+left arrow, but then often vo does not refresh and i have to manually turn it on and off to have the right page content displayed. Are there any other ocmmands that i can use to go back

Re: how to go back a page in safari with vo displaying it right?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I use cmd-left bracket. Sometimes I, too, have to toggle VO off and on, but that is rare. Some people also like to open a link in a new window or tab, so that ehy can then close it and return to where they were since VO usually goes to the top of even a properly rendered page when one uses the

Re: offering help to professionals (was VM Ware Help Needed)

2013-07-01 Thread Mauricio Almeida
people are hipocritical like that, Alex. They take any oportunity they find to say non sense about people they rarely know. Independently on fedora outlier and what they do, why would someone expert on assistive technology focused on apple need to know everything about the world of virtualization,

Markdown rendering tool?

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I am starting to use Markdown more and more, but I want a way to verify it. At the least, a tool to pass in a text file and get an html file would be good. Ideally, though, a text editor that shows my text (which I can edit) with an html view displaying the translated text would be

Re: offering help to professionals (was VM Ware Help Needed)

2013-07-01 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey alex, just curious, what did you do to get certified for assistive tech instructor? I am interested in this field, and trying to get as many contacts as I can. Cheers. On 2013-07-01, at 8:37 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see where this is coming from, nor do I see the

Re: offering help to professionals (was VM Ware Help Needed)

2013-07-01 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hey all I just sent him an email about that same thing as well. I wonder what is there out there, because I believe a certification could help my case even more down here in brazil. Mauricio On 7/1/13, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hey alex, just curious, what did you do to

Re: offering help to professionals (was VM Ware Help Needed)

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
CSUN offers a course, but I have not taken it. Instead, I simply use my extensive experience in all things assistive tech to continue what I have already been doing for some years: teach people how to use AT devices. The only difference is that I will now be paid for it. I do plan on getting

using dropbox on i phone

2013-07-01 Thread jean parker
All: Thank you so much for the dropbox help. I installed it with problem. Now, I have also put it on my i phone. Where do I find the folder where the documents are? Also, how to I initiate an upload to dropbox from my I phone? I am making more progress each day thanks to all of you. Jean --

Re: using dropbox on i phone

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
The iOS platform does not expose a folder structure. Instead, every app stores documents, and you must use share or open in buttons, if the app provides them, to move files around. So, open the Dropbox app and you will see all your folders and files. To open, say, a Word file in Pages, you'd

mouse key commands

2013-07-01 Thread Estelita
Hi, I turned the Mouse Keys enabled in Universal Access preferences in my Mac, as it says that I can use the keyboard keys to move the mouse pointer etc. My apple keyboard doesn't have a numeric keypad, so I use the Fn key along the key commands, but the mouse doesn't work when I try the key

Re: Audacity help.

2013-07-01 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, how do you find the option to alter the sound of your voice? I thought I'd found the vocode, feature at one point in time, but now that I've made a voice recording, can't find the thing anywhere, which is one of the reasons I downloaded the program in the first place. I've been really

Re: Markdown rendering tool?

2013-07-01 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have heard that a product named after President Grant (starting with a U) is quite good. Tidbits.com reviewed it about 6 months ago. I sent a message to the author and he said it appeared the program would work with VoiceOver. I did not pursue it further as my work got busier. BTW todays

Re: Audacity help.

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
I've never tried that function. Again, you should consider subscribing to the audacity-users list, where people can answer your questions much more accurately. If you mention that you can't see the screen and need key commands, you usually get them instead of mouse instructions. On Jul 1, 2013,

activities section in voiceover utility.

2013-07-01 Thread eric oyen
hello guys, I am curious about the activities menu item in voiceover. I would like to be able to make some nice shortcuts for common activities, but am not sure where to begin. Also, I may need to start using apple scripts for other things. Both of these items are starting to become important

Re: activities section in voiceover utility.

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Hall
Activities are unfortunately named, as they do not do what they sound like. An activity is a way of associating certain settings with certain applications. For instance, you might have an activity called edit, in which vo is set to speak text attribute changes, use phonetics, and echo every

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

2013-07-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Anouk, I'm afraid I haven't got a scanner like yours so can't test how to use it. If you have problems, contact Ed Hamrick, the developer of VueScan and ask him. He's very helpful as long as you provide complete information. cheers, Anne On 2 Jul 2013, at 02:05, Anouk Radix

Re: iOS weather widget losing my location

2013-07-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Mark, Glad that the restart fixed your issue. Just for clarification, items in the App Switcher are cached in your iPhone's memory and thus using up a bit of resources. Depending on the app and it's level of caching, along with how well things get refreshed when the app is reactivated,

A Bluetooth pairing issue

2013-07-01 Thread Ray Foret jr
Hi y'all, I have an interesting problem. Just now, I tried to pair my Iphone 5 to my Mac. According to the dialog box on my Mac, the pairing went just fine. However, although my Iphone 5 could see my Mac, when I tried to make a connection, a dialog on my Iphone 5 kept telling me that my Mac

Re: mouse key commands

2013-07-01 Thread Esther
Hi Estelita, If you are using Mouse Keys on a Mac laptop keyboard or an Apple Wireless Keyboard, then you use the i key as though it were at the central 5 key position in a numeric keypad. So, if Mouse Keys are turned on, to move the mouse cursor one pixel to the left, you press the Fn key

Re: mouse key commands

2013-07-01 Thread Estelita
Hi Esther, Thanks a lot for step by step explanation, I'll try it. I am using an apple wireless keyboard and it has no numeric keypad. Best regards, Estelita - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:11 AM Subject: