Re: dictation question

2014-06-11 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi All. Referring to a iMac27, localized in italian, with Mavericks. I've never been succesful with dictation. I tried both advanced (used offline also) and normal (where you must be connected to the net), the second one gives me some better results but it is absolutely failing compared to

RE: Mac Daily News

2014-06-11 Thread Debbie April Yuille
Who said that it was clutter. I enjoy the posts. Debbie -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Hallsworth Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2014 1:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Mac Daily News

Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays

2014-06-11 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Jonathan. I have tried updating it but I get the message saying failed to update Braille Display. No word from Freedom Scientific yet. Can you help? Write to me off list if you can. Thanks. Kawal. On 11 Jun 2014, at 12:44 am, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Hi Kawal, if your

a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I like watching youtube videos on the mac but i do not like the osmetimes minutes long advertisements before you can go watch your video or the fact that you have to hit the load more button to see all an individuals videos. Are there any other accessible youtube video players for the mac

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread isaac
Yes there is a app called mactubes and you can use that to play videos on the mac. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 11, 2014, at 7:34 AM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I like watching youtube videos on the mac but i do not like the osmetimes minutes

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica D
I used to use you play her. Now I just use the regular YouTube app. This is on iOS. I don't know of any for the Mac. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I like watching youtube videos on the mac but i do not like the osmetimes

Re: Mac Daily News

2014-06-11 Thread Scott Berry
I also enjoyed the post Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Debbie April Yuille debbiey1...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Who said that it was clutter. I enjoy the posts. Debbie -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Bluetooth Barcode Scanners and Digit-Eyes

2014-06-11 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi, Erik, It is great to know that Digit-Eyes developers realised that some people would prefer using a barcode scanner as opposed to the iPhone camera. To your knowledge, can this scanner be successfully used for other purposes, or is it strictly limited to barcode scanning applications?

Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays

2014-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
I have not had problems with my Mac waking from the Braille Edge. The Focus 14, if it turns itself off because it has been too long, it has to be turned back on, and then VoiceOver will connect again automatically. As for updating, the Braille Edge updates on the Mac fine. You just save out to

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, MacTubes will also let you save the video and/or audio, depending on which one you want, to your Mac as well. The link where you can find out more info as well as download this program is http://macapps.sakura.ne.jp/mactubes/index_en.html I'm not sure if this program still works or not, it's

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I have used the youtube app on the iphone but didnt find it all that intuitive to use, i will try it again though. Greetings, Anouk, On 11 Jun 2014, at 14:47, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I used to use you play her. Now I just use the regular YouTube app. This is on iOS. I don't

Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays

2014-06-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm lucky in that respect that my husband uses Windows. I borrow his computer when I need to update my Focus 40 Blue Classic. This is the only thing I truly rely on Windows to do. From what I can gather, the different displays have different firmware versions from Freedom Scientific. The

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, thanks for that info, will i be able to skip ads with this one? This for me is the main reason to want to try something else. Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, On 11 Jun 2014, at 15:30, Jeffrey Shockley jawswiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, MacTubes will also let you save the video and/or audio,

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, I'm really not sure. The last time I used it, videos played just fine without any adds. Hope this helps, Jeffrey On Jun 11, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for that info, will i be able to skip ads with this one? This for me is the main reason to want

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica Moss
I've been noticing lately that the version I have has been doing this weird thing where it likes to play all the videos 1 after the other after I close out of the one I've selected, which gets old fast, and now almost never lets me download any of them. Has anyone else had this issue? On Jun

credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica Moss
I currently run a business where I sell food mixes, which I usually just try to promote through our web site, but I had some leftovers I took somewhere to try to sell one time and was asked if I took creditcards, then was told they make machines that attach to your phone which I'd never heard

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You might want to get AdBlockPlus for Safari, which will block Youtube and many other ads. Cheers Dave On 11 Jun 2014, at 14:32, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for that info, will i be able to skip ads with this one? This for me is the main reason to want to try

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Alex Hall
I used to use Mactubes, but I then discovered Youview, which is far superior. The only thing is that it won't let you save videos until you make a donation to the developer, much like an in-app purchase. You can give only a dollar or two, though, and that should unlock the feature. Aside from

Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays

2014-06-11 Thread Les Kriegler
For Josh users, you cannot beat the focus displays. You can issue all sorts of Joss commands and really try the computer from your display. Of course, this assumes that one is running windows. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I'm

Re: credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread Alex Hall
You are looking for the Square credit card reader. It is free, and Square takes a small percentage of every transaction you make as payment. It connects to your headphone jack, so generally people plug it in, turn VO off, have the customer swipe their card and then sign their name on the

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica Moss
Oh wow, I had no idea there were any such apps, but haven't ever looked for them either. On Jun 11, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: nice little controversy we've got going here. On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:17 PM, Sean Murphy mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: Chris,

Re: credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, the device itself is free, or the software? I'm confused, and where can I find it? On Jun 11, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Y -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Phil Halton
nice little controversy we've got going here. On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:17 PM, Sean Murphy mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, Thanks for the post. Ignore what others say unless the moderator states otherwise. this is very informative. Sean On 11 Jun 2014, at 1:16 am, Christopher

Re: credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread isaac
Here is the link to info about the square reader device and app. https://squareup.com/sell-anywhere isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, the device itself is free, or the software? I'm confused, and

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi, for iOS I like very much Youplayer, which is commercial. Gabriel. -- 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: credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: Would a splitter solve the no earphone access problem? Sent from my IPhone 4S On 11 Jun 2014, at 6:47, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: You are looking for the Square credit card reader. It is free, and Square takes a small percentage of every transaction you make as

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Randy george
I usually don't chime in on these sorts of things but had a few thoughts as I see both sides. 1. Sending multiple emails with short updates does tend to clutter up an in-box and do take time to delete; especially for those of us who travel for work and view/remove our email via our iPhone. 2.

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Robert C
Its a non-issue, these posts are no longer being posted. Quote of the nanosecond . . . The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big

Re: dictation question

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica D
I have used dictation in both ways before. I have done both with success. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2014, at 3:02 AM, Gabriele Battaglia gabriele.battag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. Referring to a iMac27, localized in italian, with Mavericks. I've never been succesful with

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Assuming this is true, this is one of my pet peeves about IOS, Apple decides they no longer want something on their devices, so they remove apps from the store and ask developers to remove functionality from their apps, for no good reason other than, Apple doesn't like it. What about what the

Re: ppt(x) in batch conversion

2014-06-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What process do you currently use to manually convert them? CB On 6/10/14, 11:06 PM, William Windels wrote: O yes, I forgot: I want to convert them to or pdf, or rtf or txt files Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 10-jun.-2014 om 23:29 heeft 'Chris Blouch' via

Re: [New post] Apple removing music downloading apps from App Store

2014-06-11 Thread Robert C
There is reason, tho for us, its not necessarily a good reason. If its true, Apple is not alone in pushing ompetition out so they can push their own products. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly. Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com

Re: [New post] Apple’s Swift is instant hit among top programming languages

2014-06-11 Thread Barry Hadder
One of the things I find fascinating about this is that no one had any clue that this was coming. They’ve obviously been working on this for years and it never leaked. It’s going to be very interesting to see what an impact this has on the programming community as a whole and not just the

Partitioning

2014-06-11 Thread Tristan
Hi, I partitioned my MBA's drive in order to make a partition for betas and testing purposes. Half way through, I decided to simply use an external solidstate drive instead, because partitioning an already small SSD (256 GB) will just hurt my productivity on the main side of things. I removed

Re: credit card devices that work with the IPhone.

2014-06-11 Thread Alex Hall
No. According to several users, it is a rare splitter that works; most don't. Why this is I have no idea. Bluetooth headphones are similarly ineffective, since iOS switches to the headphone jack per bluetooth when a device is connected to the jack. On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Cheree Heppe

Question about VM processor and memory allotment

2014-06-11 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I have a Mac Mini, i7 with six gig of memory until I can upgrade to 16 next month. I have the current memory split 50-50, but what about the four processors? How should I divide them between Windows and Mavericks for optimum performance? Thanks. Bill -- You received this message

Re: ppt(x) in batch conversion

2014-06-11 Thread William Windels
Hi Chris, At the moment I do a export with keynote , file by file from ppt(x) to txt. But this is not very handy. Kind regards, William Windels Op 11-jun.-2014, om 19:45 heeft 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com het volgende geschreven: What process do you

Re: Question about VM processor and memory allotment

2014-06-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Usually the default works fine, but, give Windows half of what you have. So, if you have a quad core processor, set fusion for duel core. If you have a duel core processor, set it for one core. Original message: Hi. I have a Mac Mini, i7 with six gig of memory until I can upgrade to 16

Re: Bluetooth Barcode Scanners and Digit-Eyes

2014-06-11 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi again Mike, The kdc is only for scanning bar codes. It has a laser scanner that is exclusively for that purpose. For OCR applications such as sorting mail, there are three good products, the standscan, the justscan, and the scan doc. I can tell you a bit about some of these in another

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Cheryl, That's a lot of useful information. My Basic was purchased as a used machine and is a V1 blue. They hadn't dreamed of USB ports back in those days. smiles. This is what I got when I attempted to build the standard distribution, which I'm sure came from the official site:

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Tim, I don't know that machine. What do Enabling Technologies say? What have you tried? Gena On 10 Jun 2014, at 22:42, Tim Emmons temmo...@gmail.com wrote: Gena, I have a Romeo Pro 50 a single sided braille printer from Enabling technologies. Can I get that to emboss on the mac side?