Re: questions about Nicecast

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Berry
Jessica, I am going to have to get some more info on this. There is supposed to be an app for the iPad and iPhone but not sure. I'll post when I know more. But for right now you can use Safari and just click on the link that says Listen with iTunes. Scotthere is an app called On Jan 31,

good stereo computer speakers

2014-02-01 Thread May and Noah
Good morning. I'm looking for recommendations. I'm in need of some really good computer speakers for my iMac. The speakers I did have connected to my windows machine suck when connected to the mac. so it's time for shopping. Yes, I know the iMac has a good built in speaker, but not so much

Re: Text to Audio File Conversion, with Multiple Voices?

2014-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks for the tip. It seems expensive at $40 to $60, and it uses Infovox voices. I'm really hoping for something that uses OS10's built-in speech to keep costs significantly lower. -- Have a great day, Alex mehg...@gmail.com On Feb 1, 2014, at 2:57 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk

Re: urgent help needed with partitions

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Using Disk Utility, you should be able to do the following without losing data: 1. Make sure that you have backed up important data on your drive. 2. Make sure that your second partition is empty. 3. In Disk Utility, in the list of disks, select the second partition, the one you wish to

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, Tim. Thanks for answering all my questions. While I am straight on the email issue, I do not find a home sharing feature on my eye devices, and home sharing is turned on on my Mac from iTunes preferences. This should be distinguished from iTunes match, which I do not wish to pay for. My

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Mark, The HomeSharing feature on your iDevice is located in the Settings/Music panel down at the bottom. It requires you to login with the same Apple ID as you use on your Mac and other iDevices. It will usually use the same Apple ID as entered in the iTunes and AppStore settings pane but

Re: Text to Audio File Conversion, with Multiple Voices?

2014-02-01 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
Good Day: In theory, there is Read4Me, available from the App store. It used to work quite well, costs $3.99, and allows one to switch voices easily with tags in the text file such as [[ALEX]] or [[DANIEL]]. Unfortunately, at least on my computer, it no longer seems to want to load. I

how about in reverse? was Text to Audio File Conversion, with Multiple Voices?

2014-02-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, I am simply pointing this out since others have asked about the reverse, audio to text. Granted I did not dig too deeply, but there is a reference here on this site that might make reaching out to them worth the effort. My sources tend to actually have the audio transcribed, or use

one system dialogue displayed?

2014-02-01 Thread Vivianna
How do i get to this one system dialogue displayed? thanks much. Vivianna -- 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: one system dialogue displayed?

2014-02-01 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. Try hitting CTRL Option f2 twice, and it will bring up the window chooser menu, a d see if its there. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Feb 1, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Vivianna irish...@gmail.com wrote: How do i get to

Re: Text to Audio File Conversion, with Multiple Voices?

2014-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Indeed, that sounds like exactly what I am looking for. Please let the list know if this gets updated to work on Mavericks. Thanks. -- Have a great day, Alex mehg...@gmail.com On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Henry D. Hollithron teetah1...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day: In theory, there is

Getting an iPad set up for a sighted friend

2014-02-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. I want to start a sighted friend up with a new iPad Air. She does not live in my area so communication must be done over the phone or by email. She is definitely not tech savvy! In fact, with the linux system she is now running, I had to give her step-by-step instructions in writing

Re: good stereo computer speakers

2014-02-01 Thread Chris H
Talkin of speakers I asked for the Bose Soundlink Mini for my 30th birthday. This connects either via bluetooth or 3.5 mm cable. Should fit your needs. Cost £170 sterling directly from Apple. Regards Chris On 01/02/2014 14:08, May and Noah wrote: Good morning. I'm looking for

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hello, Tim. I am looking at my MacBook iTunes, and home sharing is turned on under the same Apple ID that all my other devices use. Thanks to your directions, I have found home sharing in music at the bottom as you say. It is signed in as my Apple ID, and the only other button is a sign out

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, OK, we're getting there. Now, when in the Music app on your iOS device, along the bottom should be some tabs, usually the last one to the far right is the More button. In the More pane, there should be an item called Shared, double-tap on that. A new screen should open with your shared

Still can't reliably focus in Windows VM

2014-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm trying to use VMWare Fusion to run Windows. I did this a few months ago, but was never overly concerned since I had Bootcamp. I have now done away with Bootcamp and am relying solely on Fusion to run Windows. It works well enough, when I can use it. The problem is that I can't seem

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, Tim. Thanks for following with me through this. Unfortunately, there is no share heading or button in the more tab. There is artists, compilations, genres and composers. I am not sure where this Shurbet is, but it did not seem to be listed in this panel of the music up. Thank you very much

Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Christine Grassman
At long last, Slacker Radio appears to be as blind user-friendly on the iPhone as it was about a year ago. If fellow Slacker users also find this to be true, please, please take the time to thank Slacker. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, No problem Mar,. Usually, there is about four tabs along the bottom, at least on an iPhone. So, if you slowly move your finger from the bottom right to the bottom left, VO should read those out to you. They are customizable so yours could be different than others. On my iPhone, if the

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Ray Foret Jr
What, yet another radio app? What advantages does it offer? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Christine Grassman

Re: Still can't reliably focus in Windows VM

2014-02-01 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
i turn VO off On 2/1/14, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use VMWare Fusion to run Windows. I did this a few months ago, but was never overly concerned since I had Bootcamp. I have now done away with Bootcamp and am relying solely on Fusion to run Windows. It works

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Christine Grassman
You can download your favorite stations when you cannot, or do not wish, to stream, and the Radio Plus and Premium versions, (paid), allow you to skip songs at will, and in the latter case, compile your own personal stations or have stations devoted to a particular artist or group only. I might

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hi, Kim. In my iPhone 5c music, I have five tabs along the bottom of the screen. They are Radio, playlist, artist, songs, and more. When more is selected, a screen appears in which I have the more heavy, and edit button, and several draggable choices for other category, such as albums,

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread David Chittenden
My music app is the same as Mark's. I cannot find a share button anywhere. In settings, I have gone and activated home sharing. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 2 Feb 2014, at 13:39, Mark BurningHawk Baxter

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm wondering if either of you have any firewalls set up on your routers or computers themselves. HomeSharing requires certain ports to be open and if they are not, you won't see the other computer. I can't recall the ports off the top of my head but can certainly find them out if you

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Matt Dierckens
Finally. They have, in fact fixed accessibility. The price for slacker plus is $3 a month. Which is a lot cheaper than any of the other music services. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Feb 1, 2014, at 7:38 PM,

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Pamela Francis
I am so very grateful slacker has been fixed. I actually have their phone number having looked it up through my Yellow Pages app. I've spoken to them on occasion with reference to accessibility and/or account issues that I could not access via the app or my computer per their accessibility

Re: Creating Recipes In Mac Gourmet Deluxe vs. iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Jim, I am making some headway with this, but I do have some questions. I will first explain what I do and ask my questions. 1. I open Mac Gourmet Deluxe and a recipe TXT file in my documents. 2. I highlight the text in the recipe file and then press CMD-SHIFT-M. This will open up Mac

Re: Questions re iOS

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, One other thing of note for Mark. If the items on the More page are claiming that they're draggable, then you're likely in Edit mode. When you double-tap the Edit button, you are able to drag items from that page down onto the TabBar or Music Dock at the bottom of the screen. The Edit

How to update my email

2014-02-01 Thread Pamela Francis
Is there anyone on this list, that can tell me a clean way to update my email address without disturbing the content I receiv? I thought I had read at one time this list was invitation only. Fortunately, I got into this list before it became invitation. I don't want to disrupt the information I

Re: How to update my email

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Blouch
I help with admin on the account side. As far as I know the list is open to anyone with an interest who stumbles upon it. We just validate folks who sign up to be sure they aren't spammers. That said, email me off list and I should be able to get things arranged for you. CB On 2/1/14 10:38

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Christina C.
Yes, yes, yes! I am so happy accessibility has been restored and I have been happily listening to my favorite music without sighted assistance the last few days and I even discovered some new stations i was unaware of. One thing that I do love about Slacker is that they really do have

Re: urgent help needed with partitions

2014-02-01 Thread Rob
Hi, Thank you for your help. after many tries, I got it to work. at first it gave ne an error could not delete partition because the drive couldn't ve unmounted. Vut everything is OK now. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all the time, All the time

Re: Still can't reliably focus in Windows VM

2014-02-01 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Sometimes when I enter fusion, I have to alt-tab a couple of times to get focus to Windows, but then it stays there unless I press a VO keystroke. Sometimes you have to do control-g to grab focus for windows. Generally if you're in and out it works, it's mainly when you open it or go in

Re: Slacker Radio Has Fixed Accessibility!

2014-02-01 Thread Pamela Francis
Hello Christine, For you, and all who are interested slacker's number is as follows: (858) 943-5000 If you explain to them your visually impaired need to speak to them personally, they will be more than happy to help you. Pam Francis On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:02 PM, Christina C.

Re: How to update my email

2014-02-01 Thread Pamela Francis
Thank you Chris, You will have an email in your email box off list shortly. Pam Francis On Feb 1, 2014, at 9:45 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: I help with admin on the account side. As far as I know the list is open to anyone with an interest who stumbles upon it. We just validate