accessible poker game for mac or iOs

2014-05-14 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi list. I would like to know if there are any accessible poker games for the mac or iOs. I would be happy to play online with my friends but if there is no accessible poker that would allow me to do that, I wouldn't mind playing with the computer. I read about theta poker pro. I am looking for a

Re: Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

2014-05-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Alex, I think command-y opens the attachment in QuickLook, which isn't as good as reading PDFs as Preview, so it's often worth VO-spacing on PDF attachments anyway. But the command-y is a good tip/reminder. Does that one still work in Mavericks? Best, Nic -- You received this message because

Re: accessible poker game for mac or iOs

2014-05-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Theta Poker Pro works well in terms of accessibility and is pretty close to free (ie. very cheap). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support multi player. The computer intelligence is good, but for some reason I'm just not as interested in playing if it's not against real people. -- You

Re: XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-14 Thread Devin Prater
You can always try it and let us know. Also, I heard Louis supports HTML files too. On May 13, 2014, at 20:26, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, Since Louis doesn't specifically transcribe from epub format, I'm wondering if xml is closely related enough that i can rename

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-14 Thread Jessica Moss
Do you use anything equivalent to that? I mostly just want to know how many calories I've burned during a workout. On May 13, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: Used to use it. I don't anymore, I couldn't figure that out either. I'm glad it's free! Sent from my iPhone

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-14 Thread Jessica D
No. I domt Sent from my iPad On May 14, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Do you use anything equivalent to that? I mostly just want to know how many calories I've burned during a workout. On May 13, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
It does, so long as there is only one attachment. I've never had much luck with Preview, but you can open a file from Quicklook if you want to. That way you get an idea of what it has, and can open it to do more with it if necessary. I just wish cmd-y would work on multiple attachments by

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-14 Thread Jim Gatteys
I use an app called Pedometer and it gives calories burned and you can use gps or accelerometer. It is very accessible from my standpoint. On May 14, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Do you use anything equivalent to that? I mostly just want to know how many

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
thanks Il giorno 14/mag/2014, alle ore 01:17 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com ha scritto: Hi, No, not really. What happens is that pictures taken on an iPhone are automatically uploaded to the PhotoStream if you have that enabled on the iPhone. Now, thanks, how about those videos, i

Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Robert C
After creating an iCloud email account, I wanted to use that for my Apple ID instead of another address. Apparently I cannot and found this info below that atates what cannot be used for an Apple ID. The email address is not an iCloud email address, which is already an Apple ID. iCloud

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Videos are not a part of the PhotoStream. Videos need to be transferred over via the USB connection. When you physically connect the iPhone to your Mac, those videos should automatically be transferred over to your Mac. You should not get duplicates either, things are normally checked

Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Robert C
After creating an iCloud email account, I wanted to use that for my Apple ID instead of another address. Apparently I cannot and found this info below that atates what cannot be used for an Apple ID. The email address is not an iCloud email address, which is already an Apple ID. iCloud

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
No unless you have another email address which isn't an iCloud email address. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 16:19, Robert C wrote: After creating an iCloud email account, I wanted to use that for my Apple ID instead of

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
I've wondered about this as well. I'd love to use my iCloud address as my only Apple ID, but my current ID, with all my purchased items and data, is tied to my old Gmail address. I want to combine them, but there seems no way of doing this. On May 14, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Christopher Hallsworth

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread isaac
I have also wonder about this as well. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On May 14, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I've wondered about this as well. I'd love to use my iCloud address as my only Apple ID, but my current ID, with all my purchased items

I received a response from Day One about accessibility

2014-05-14 Thread Christina C.
Hello listers, I put in a request to Day One about their Mac app as well as their iOS app. The Day One app is a journaling app available for both the Mac and iOS that will sync across devices. I asked them if there Mac app is voiceOver accessible. They told me to wait a couple of weeks because

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
When I first got an apple ID, I ditched it so that I could use my me.com address as an apple ID. However, I did lose a few purchases, but not too many. I would dearly wish that we get one ID and we can use the same ID as our email address. On 14 May 2014, at 05:03 pm, isaac

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Feliciano G
When I created my apple ID when I first got my iphone, it used my apple id email for my icloud. That sucks if that has changed. -Original Message- From: Robert C Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:18 AM To: MacVisionaries Subject: Changing Apple ID After creating an iCloud email

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
I can't do that; I probably have a couple hundred dollars, all told, in purchases so far. If I could just merge the two... On May 14, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: When I first got an apple ID, I ditched it so that I could use my me.com address as an apple ID.

Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hay guys. I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if the computer was brand new. What is the easiest and fastest way to get

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver with Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want to open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi. Will it actually download everything from the Internet or is the installer on the recovery partition? On May 14, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Robert C
That is exactly what I had in mind. I may contact Apple and see if this might change in future. The address I am using is not gmail but my provider's so its not a big issue. Just makes little sense. Quote of the nanosecond . . . This isn't an office. It's hell with fluorescent lighting.

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 19:29, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hi. Will it actually download

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Ok. thanks very much. Nektarios. On May 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Currently, there is no way to merge Apple IDs. I believe that you can, though, re-assign a new eMail address to your Apple ID so that you don't lose purchased items. I could be off-base, but I don't expect that there will be any ability to merge Apple IDs. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, you can assign a new address. The problem is that you are not able to assign one whose domain is owned by Apple. So, I could change from Gmail to yahoo or AOL for my Apple ID, but since Apple owns iCloud, I can't use my iCloud address. My Gmail address is tied to one ID, my iCloud address

Re: Changing Apple ID

2014-05-14 Thread Feliciano G
Hi, I haven’t read the whole thread, but if you do a back-up with iTunes, you can transfer purchases from the iDevice to the computer. Not sure if you can combine email addresses once you have added another email to the apple ID. Regards, Feliciano www.twitter.com/theblindman12v From: Alex

Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, sorry if this has been covered before, as I must have missed it. I want to start installing some of these Apple scripts to improve VoiceOver, namely the one from Nicolas Parsons to open flash content in google chrome. I have downloaded the script, but for some reason I am thinking I

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
No installation needed. When you assign that script to a commander, as I imagine you want to do, just browse to where the script is stored. By default, VoiceOver will open library/scripts, I believe, but you can browse to a different folder. A script is not like a Windows program in that it

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Alex. The only thing I am unsure about is you mention as long as you apply the script to a commander? I use keyboard commander, but am not sure what you mean. If I want to use this script to open flash content that I open in safari in chrome do I need to create a commander to do that?

Re: XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-14 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Teresa. You could try toolbox from www.epubsoft.com and convert to rtf. I wish there were a program, that could convert an epub to HTML, but I can not find one. Best regards Annie. Den 14/05/2014 kl. 03.26 skrev Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com: Hi, all, Since Louis doesn't

Re: XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
I was under the impression that Calibre will convert to HTML from epub. I think I remember doing this once. The Calibre command-line tool is quite useful. The only bad aspect of it is that you have to get sighted help to install the command-line tools in the gUI interface. teresa The golden

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
You'd assign one. In the Keyboard Commander commands table, where you set up all your commands, make a new entry with the Add button. In the popup menu, go down to custom commands, choose run Applescript script, and you're in a Finder dialog. Browse to your script, and press enter. On May 14,

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Phil Halton
If you put the script in the library/scripts, and then enable the scripts menu you can access the script from the extras menu bar. You can read about how to enable the scripts menu in the help system for the AppleScript editor. Sent from my IPhone On May 14, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Alex Hall

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks guys, and Alex you make it sound so easy thanks, hopefully it is that easy, going to try this now. Thanks again. On May 14, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: If you put the script in the library/scripts, and then enable the scripts menu you can access the script

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
thanks so much Il giorno 14/mag/2014, alle ore 05:22 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com ha scritto: Hi, Videos are not a part of the PhotoStream. Videos need to be transferred over via the USB connection. When you physically connect the iPhone to your Mac, those videos should

Re: XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Emmons
Teresa can you give me the instructions for doing that, I'm also looking for instructions to convert kindle books to either EPub or HTMl stripping the Drm to be able to do this and I don't have the instructions. can you help me if you have them, if not and someone else does can you let me know?

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey ok did this and by default it put me in the scripts folder so I decided I would like to move the file to this scripts folder instead of my downloads folder, one do I just copy and paste the script in to the scripts folder, and where is this scripts folder actually located. I know it is

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, just paste it in there. In Finder, press cmd-shift-g, and paste this: /library/scripts then press enter. On May 14, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey ok did this and by default it put me in the scripts folder so I decided I would like to move the file to

Mail and Notes and iCloud

2014-05-14 Thread Robert C
While I was setting up the new iCloud email account on the Mac, I got to the dialog wheee I enable or disable services. One was Mail and Notes. Is this Notes the same Notes app on the Mac and iPhone? This could be really nice. While here, is iCloud used as storage for data that is

Re: Mail and Notes and iCloud

2014-05-14 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi robert, yes its the same apps. gotta love iCloud syncing. :) Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On May 14, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Robert C gone.to.da...@gmail.com wrote: While I was setting up the new iCloud email account

Re: Mail and Notes and iCloud

2014-05-14 Thread Robert C
Thanks Matt. This will be handy. Quote of the nanosecond . . . However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. --Nicholas Boileau Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com On 5/14/2014 2:01 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: Hi robert, yes its the same apps.

Downcast on the Mac

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I finally got Downcast working on the mac again for some odd reason I couldn't get it to open for a few months. Anyway, I am noticing that my episodes aren't synching properly and want to make sure I do this correctly as I want my iPhone to be the primary where it syncs from meaning I

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Alex, I copied and pasted what you wrote I think it was library/scripts and I am getting a bing and the message folder can't be found, any ideas? Thanks On May 14, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Yes, just paste it in there. In Finder, press cmd-shift-g, and paste

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, I've been wondering about this too, so am asking another question. So if my photos are on my Mac in photo stream, do I have to import them into iPhoto in order for them not to be deleted when I delete a photo from my phone's camera roll? I've been copying them to another pictures folder I

Calibre, Was Re: XML and Epub files Used for Louis Braille Translation?

2014-05-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
I don't know how to convert Kindle Ebbooks with Calibre, and I don't think it's an allowed topic on this list, since it isn't legal in many countries. In order to enable the command-line tools, you will need sighted help. The calibre interface is not accessible with VO. You will have to go to

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

2014-05-14 Thread Jessica Moss
Oh cool, will have to check that out. On May 14, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Jim Gatteys jgatt...@gmail.com wrote: I use an app called Pedometer and it gives calories burned and you can use gps or accelerometer. It is very accessible from my standpoint. On May 14, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Jessica Moss

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Alex, Ok, I found the folder as I missed the backslash before library, so I got my script pasted in there, but do not think it is working, as I saved it as a keyboard commander to run the script to open flash files from safari in google chrome, but and maybe I am mistaken here as I thought

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you look way down this post, you should see the answers to your questions, but I'll paste them into here anyway. If you're seeing your iCloud/PhotoStream photos when in iPhoto on your Mac, then they're likely already downloading automatically to your Mac. To confirm, go into

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Tim, Thanks for this. I did see some of those earlier posts but still don't understand what you mean by the following: If she deletes them from the PhotoStream, then they will be removed from the PhotoStream Library on your Mac too. How do you delete something from your photo stream on an

Re: how can i transfer all my icloud photos on my mac?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Kilburn
hi, When on the first page of the Photos app on your iPhone, you can choose from your various albums or you can access your PhotoStream. Of course, for users like us, you won't necessarily see the actual picture but it will tell you when the picture was taken and if it's clear/blurry and if

Screen sharing service

2014-05-14 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Is there anyone who offers screen sharing services for blind Mac users? I'm looking to find an off-sighted assistant to help with some tasks which may be inaccessible for me, but that aside a person can do remotely. Thanks for your tips, and suggestions, Antonio -- You received this message

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Hall
Sounds like it is running at least. I don't have this script, or Chrome, so I'll have to turn things over to Nick here. Sorry I can't help more. On May 14, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey Alex, Ok, I found the folder as I missed the backslash before library,

Yahoo! panel for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

2014-05-14 Thread Cara Quinn
Hello All, I just wanted to make a quick mention, for those who may be interested and who are in the Los Angeles area, that I will be part of a panel at Yahoo!'s Santa Monica campus, for Global Accessibility Awareness Day. here is the web site for more info on this event.

Reminder - Zagga Entertainment Indiegogo Campaign

2014-05-14 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi All, I wanted to send along a quick reminder for all of us. The Zagga Entertainment campaign is still going on at Indiegogo and Zagga is still looking for your support. They are currently offering subscriptions at a big discount for those who contribute to their campaign so this is an

Re: Installing Apple Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Alex, not a problem will reach out to Nicholas tomorrow and ask him as I stopped playing with it for the day, thanks again. On May 14, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Sounds like it is running at least. I don't have this script, or Chrome, so I'll have to turn

Reading emails

2014-05-14 Thread Chad Rohr
I just found a trick that helps make reading emails go way faster. When you are inside the message of an email if you flick up with two fingers it starts reading from the beginning of the current message. I figured since I didn't know this someone else probably doesn't as well. Sincerely, Chad