Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Joanne Chua
Hi, I think its not fair to compare Quitter, which is absolutely free, and a pay software like QRead itself. As some of the listers already said, Quitter, is free, and as most of us know, free software got develop from the developer's passion and their voluntry time. They can commit as much as

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! OK just a couple of ideas! 1, do you have both option keys set to use with keyboard commander! 2, Just try switching off keyboard commander with VO+shift+k and see if the option key things like € • and others! I've found if you need to use those items it is best to toggle on or off keyboard

Re: typesetting LaTeX equations in pages

2013-12-04 Thread venky . 92
Hi. Thanks for the very useful tip. This will definitely be a very useful thing when I'm trying to compose documents. However, for this document, I will have to convert LaTeX equations. Thanks once again. Sent from my iPhone On 04-Dec-2013, at 11:23 am, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Creating a separate iTunes library for movies with Voiceover

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear tim, Again many thanks for taking the time to explain the possible options. I’m still doing some research on all of this, especially on the first easy option you had originally suggested - that of subscribing to iTunes match. I thought at first that iTunes match was going to restrict my

Abby Fine Reader Express crashes when trying to convert .tiff file

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, For a mysterious reason, Abbyy Fine Reader Express, which I have successfully been using for years, also since upgrading to Maverick, has decided to go haywire. Every time I try to convert a .tiff file which I had created in vuescan, it crashes. I can’t do the conversion at all. Has

Re: creating a smart play list

2013-12-04 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi Cait, I'm the one who manages the Christmas music playlist n my family, so I have a sure fire way for you to create your smart playlist. Instead of using the Genre field to create the playlist, I use the Grouping field to indicate that the files are christmas songs. YOu can do this easily

Taking notes while reading

2013-12-04 Thread Jon Solitro
What is the best way to set up Voiceover so that I can read a document and take notes without having to switch between applications? Can I be typing in Pages without VO giving me feedback on what I'm typing? Can I have VO stay on the PDF while Im typing in another application? -- You received

Re: Creating a separate iTunes library for movies with Voiceover

2013-12-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Regarding syncing of your various iDevices, as long as you turn iTunes Match on for the given device, there is no specific sync required. All Playlists and music is handled through the Cloud. If you modify a playlist on your Mac, it is modified on your other devices that are connected to

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Brandon Olivares
Nope it doesn't matter if keyboard commander is on or off. On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi! OK just a couple of ideas! 1, do you have both option keys set to use with keyboard commander! 2, Just try switching off keyboard commander with

Creating Borders in Pages

2013-12-04 Thread Timothy Hornik
Anyone have any idea how to create borders in the new Pages with Mavericks? I am writing a newsletter with 2 columns, and wish to either create a border around each column or just one in the center of the page. Thank you for your assistance, Timothy Hornik timothy.hor...@gmail.com M: (785)

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Phil Halton
I'll tell you an old computer axiom - when all else fails, reboot! honestly, it's amazing how many quirky, inexplicable things that will clear up. On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:25 AM, Brandon Olivares programmer2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My option key works technically, as if I press

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Brandon Olivares
Already did that, twice. On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I'll tell you an old computer axiom - when all else fails, reboot! honestly, it's amazing how many quirky, inexplicable things that will clear up. On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:25 AM, Brandon Olivares

Re: Creating Borders in Pages

2013-12-04 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, I think one possibility is to have a text box for each column and have a border around each box. I’m sure there are others. Also, I don’t know if you know about this, but you can insert a line from the insert menu. On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Timothy Hornik timothy.hor...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You shouldn't really be able to navigate with cmd-left and right arrow. What kind of keyboard are you using and/or are you sure you don't have command and option switched somehow? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior,

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Brandon Olivares
Why shouldn't I be able to navigate with that? That is the shortcut for umping to the beginning or end of a line. I figured out this problem, anywya. I accidentally had my keyboard set to unicode hex. On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: You shouldn't really

Re: Taking notes while reading

2013-12-04 Thread Kevin Shaw
Set up your tab order so you can quickly command-tab between Pages and Preview. In Preview: Edit menu, Speech, Start speaking. Command tab to Pages and type away. You can turn off speech while typing. VO-command-V and cycle through until you get to typing feedback and set it to none. The

Re: Creating Borders in Pages

2013-12-04 Thread Charlie Doremus
Did you try using the classic newsletter template? I fooled with it for a few seconds and was able to create a two column page with borders and a center line all before having morning coffee. Good luck. On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think one

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What I meant was that you couldn't do the same navigation with cmd-arrow as you can with option-arrow. Glad you figured it out. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:42 AM,

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Re: creating a smart play list

2013-12-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Kevin, this makes perfect sense, so thanks! doing it this way, though, I’d have to go through my 7,000 plus library by hand and tag each song with the christmas grouping, right? I was trying to avoid that, if possible.. Cait, probably being lazy On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Kevin Shaw

Re: creating a smart play list

2013-12-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
thanks, Tim. Between you and Kevin, I’ll get this figured out! Cait On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Check the exact words for your Genre. Often purchased Christmas Music has the genre “Holiday” instead of Christmas Music. If you use “is” then the

Re: creating a smart play list

2013-12-04 Thread Kevin Shaw
One way around this is to use the search function to grab a batch of Christmas-related songs. the song may have Christmas in the title, the genre, the album name and so on. This is a good way of grabbing most of the content to tag it. You can then do a search for terms like Holiday Seasonal

attempting to get Slacker Radio to repair accessibility

2013-12-04 Thread Christina C.
Greetings all, I love this music/radio app. However, ever since the latest major update to the app for iOS 7 the app is no longer voiceover friendly. If there are some work arounds, I am unaware of them. I I sent them a message through their tech support on their website a week ago and I never

Re: creating a smart play list

2013-12-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Ok, good idea, that should work. and, I didn’t think of that. having a brain dead day, I guess! thanks a bunch! Cait, off to play with i tunes On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Shaw tvsound...@gmail.com wrote: One way around this is to use the search function to grab a batch of

Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. I have been using ibooks on the mac and it’s ok to read with. Yes you have to go to the next chapter but for me that’s fine because if I should happen to doze off then I haven’t missed much. lol Cheers Maria sent from mac mini email, fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com skype bubbygirl1972

Re: attempting to get Slacker Radio to repair accessibility

2013-12-04 Thread Christine Grassman
I have twice contacted them and received nothing beyond auto responses. I will try again. Perhaps we could launch a complaint campaign and flood them with requests for fixxes? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2013, at 14:39, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all, I

Re: attempting to get Slacker Radio to repair accessibility

2013-12-04 Thread Christina C.
How or who got Slacker Radio to fix accessibility in the past? So far, they have ignored me. Thanks for trying again, Christine. I would appreciate it if others who enjoy slacker Radio would also contact them. Thanks, Christina Sent from Christina's iMac :) On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:09 PM,

Re: typesetting LaTeX equations in pages

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Did you try the Latexit package? It's supposed to add integration of MacTex into Keynote, TextEdit etc. http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php?lang=en I was going to fiddle with it a bit but it requires installing MacText which was 2.3GB: http://www.tug.org/mactex/ Even at my

MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Lee Jones
Dear List,I got my macbook air today. I hav found it a very tough learning curve. I can't get control option f8 to bring up the voice over utility no matter how many times I try,, a sighted person has also tried and it does not work. Does the focus have to be somewhere special to make this

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Deb Lewis
Try pressing the FN key alont with control and option. You can change the need for this in preferences later but by default you'll need to press it on the lap top keyboard. so it's going to be fn/control/option/F8 to start the VO utility. On 12/4/13, Lee Jones leejones...@sky.com wrote: Dear

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. ok will try to answer your questions if i can answers below. regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On 5 Dec 2013, at 8:55 am, Lee Jones leejones...@sky.com wrote: Dear List,I got my

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
agh using a mac mini didn’t even think of the fn key. Cheers Maria sent from mac mini email, fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com skype bubbygirl1972 twitter same as skype without the numbers. On 5 Dec 2013, at 8:59 am, Deb Lewis deblewi...@gmail.com wrote: Try pressing the FN key alont with

Re: Virtual Machine/ Bootcamp advice

2013-12-04 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. I am running a vm quite successfully on a mac mini. Granted I have 8 gigs of ram but as far as I know, if you’re not using the vm then your memory stays with the mac os. I have a usb cd rom drive so I used that to install windows from a cd. I think sighted assistance is needed to install

Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Project Gutenberg has about 42,000 books for free. They are archiving all the books which went out of copyright: http://www.gutenberg.org CB On 12/3/13 4:53 PM, Scott Rumery wrote: Not true. There are thousands of free ePub books available on the Internet if you are willing to just look for

Re: attempting to get Slacker Radio to repair accessibility

2013-12-04 Thread Christine Grassman
back in February, I think, I wrote to them, because the app had gone from wonderfully accessible to problematic, and soon after, the app was quite accessible again. Some time back a few months, it became worse than it ever was, and I wrote again. Auto response. I wrote a few weeks ago, and

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Janet Ingber
Hi Lee, There are also some good Mac Tutorials on How To Be Blind. Visit www.htb2.com and search for Mac tutorials. As far as VO and key combinations, bring up the commands help menu with VO-HH. Take your time and don’t try to learn everything in a day. Also, Apple has a tech support number

Re: How To Delete Music From My iPod Touch

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Nice. I don't use iTunes Match so I was going on what the article said. Going back to the article I found that it was published back in November 2011 so I guess it went stale quick. Nice to know that, given a good internet connection, music files need not be duplicated to every device just to

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, I’m a new Mac user but feel it’s worth it. What is happening here is that there are 2 levels of function keys. By default they are hardware controls i.e. volume and brightness. So by pressing Function key + VO + F8 will get you there. The Function is next to the VO keys. Thus you just

Re: auto system checking

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm not having any trouble with the page. What problems are you running into? When I go to the page I just do VO-Command-H twice and I'm at the table of contents. It just talks about the hardware checks and startup chimes of Macs. CB On 12/3/13 12:17 PM, Jessica D wrote: There are problems

Installing Windows 7 on an MBA using the DVD drive from a Macbook Pro

2013-12-04 Thread Kimberly thurman
Is this possible? I don’t have a portable external DVD drive. Seems as though I recall hearing it is possible somewhere. Thanks in advance for any help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Virtual Machine/ Bootcamp advice

2013-12-04 Thread Pete Nalda
What version of Windows are you running with the virtual machine? Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda On Dec 4, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com

Re: Installing Windows 7 on an MBA using the DVD drive from a Macbook Pro

2013-12-04 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hello, I think I remember hearing you could do this too, but the process of setting it up wasn't possible without eye balls so I didn't investigate it much more. There is also a way to install from a USB flash drive on newer Macs. I know that an USB DVD drive works, as I have to use this

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread Phil Halton
one of the first things I did when I got my Mac was to change the way the function keys operate. By default, when you press a function key, it performs a built-in hardware function like brightness, volume etc. to use them for software functions, like opening VoiceOver utility, you have to press

Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Joanne Chua
Again, i can easily read free unprotected ebooks using ibooks, or, if i'm really desperet i can always use pages to read txt file, etc. And, i can always use one of the braille displays to read daisy books, unprotected epub, pdf, and bookshare without needing to turn on the computer at all.

Re: Help From The Community

2013-12-04 Thread Scott Rumery
Lets remember that just because you can’t justify this type of program, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t others out there that would like to have such a solution. These are the types of people that I am looking for. I do however very much appreciate all of your comments on this because it

Re: MBA Help

2013-12-04 Thread AZ
Hi. I got my macbook air today. I hav found it a very tough learning curve. I can't get control option f8 to bring up the voice over utility no matter how many times I try,, a sighted person has also tried and it does not work. Sometimes you have to add the FN-key to this combination, just

Re: typesetting LaTeX equations in pages

2013-12-04 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi. I have tried using LaTeXiT but had no results. I might be doing something wrong here. Could you give me some instructions on how to use it to add equations to pages? I was wondering, will using mathML equations simplify this task? Cheers Venkatesh Potluri On 12/5/13, Chris Blouch

Re: Installing Windows 7 on an MBA using the DVD drive from a Macbook Pro

2013-12-04 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi, you can do just like i have done with my mba and the mac pro, but it is a little complicated. On the other hand if you do as i tell you too, you ought too be un and run in a few hours. First of all you gotta make an image outta your dvddrive, we will use your mac with a dvddrive for this.