I haven't compared the two but Superduper looks good. You can if I'm
correct back up for free with nag screens once in a while to register.
Some things are also not available for free.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 26/08/2014 00:37, Janine
Rumola from
www.skipinput.com
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 25/08/2014 23:20, Scott Berry wrote:
I apologize for asking this again but I had thought I saved the message and
apparently I didn't what's the name of the captia program that
is this program used i conjunction with Time machine? or does it replace it?
On 26 Aug 2014, at 4:35 pm, Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com
wrote:
I haven't compared the two but Superduper looks good. You can if I'm correct
back up for free with nag screens once in a while to
Hello,
I am a huge fan and longtime user of Super duper.
It is totally VoiceOver accessible and works with both Maverick and
Yosemite.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Marshall
Sent: Tuesday,
Hello All,
I was just browsing around the system Preferences pane and discovered that I
have an icon located at the very bottom called MacFuse. I did some research
on this and discovered that some applications require it to run properly
but, for the life of me, I cannot remember having ever
How does it differ from time machine?
On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:01 AM, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote:
Hello,
I am a huge fan and longtime user of Super duper.
It is totally VoiceOver accessible and works with both Maverick and
Yosemite.
Mark
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From:
I don't see it on my beta of Yosemite, and my wife's mbp running mavericks
doesn't have it either.
Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick
efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute?
Then come join a list where questions are always
Nope, it don't show up for me under Mavricks either.
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user!
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus!
On Aug 26, 2014, at 3:06 AM, M.
It replicates sector by sector what is on your volume. I don't think
Time Machine does this. It certainly doesn't let you boot into the
backed up image anyway.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 26/08/2014 09:16, Faisal wrote:
How does it
It can be used as an alternative to Time Machine.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 26/08/2014 08:24, Michael Marshall wrote:
is this program used i conjunction with Time machine? or does it replace it?
On 26 Aug 2014, at 4:35 pm, Christopher
Hi all,
I have always been of the opinion that if there is viable software on my device
to accomplish a certain task, then there is no reason to install additional
software that duplicates built-in functionality, unless that additional
software brings some kind of added value. Is there any
Go to mail, calendars and whatnot, pick the email account, flick down to
advanced... sorry open the account setting like you're to hcange them,
then flick down to advanced; it's in there.
- Original Message -
From: Donald Bishop w6...@donbishop.org
To:
You can't boot from the Time Machine backup like you can with Superduper
or Carbon Copy Cloner. I agree with your sentiments however it is one of
these occasions where perhaps using third parties offers benefits set
out from the built in ones.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley
OK, that makes sense. Definitely something to think about. Thanks, Chris.
Donna
On Aug 26, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com
wrote:
You can't boot from the Time Machine backup like you can with Superduper or
Carbon Copy Cloner. I agree with your sentiments
Hi,
Most people who are really in to backing up their data believe that three
backups are the safest approach. I personally use Time Machine to backup
automatically. I use SuperDuper and make a bootable clone of my computer once a
week. I also subscribe to an off sight backup service called
Wow, that's a lot of backups! thanks, Robert, nice explanation. I don't think
I need three, and I don't know if I would want a cloud backup anyway. But I
will give some thought to SuperDuper.
Cheers,
Donna
On Aug 26, 2014, at 7:36 AM, ROBERT CARTER nc5rn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Most
Hi.
I found the command, but it was not the solution.
Best regards Annie.
Den 25/08/2014 kl. 19.24 skrev Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com:
Hi all.
I can not remember how to convert a file with the command line.
I need to convert a PDF file.
I have calibre installed, but I
OT: Yosemite?
So they've dropped the big cat naming convention, and took up national
parks. so how far down the line will osX Yellowstone be?
Ta, R.
- Original Message -
From: Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014
No, nothing on my I Mac either.
On 26 Aug 2014, at 02:04 pm, BobH. long.c...@virgin.net wrote:
OT: Yosemite?
So they've dropped the big cat naming convention, and took up national
parks. so how far down the line will osX Yellowstone be?
Ta, R.
- Original Message -
From:
Hi Mark,
Yip, I have it on my IMac 2012, just after Startup Disk it then says other
and lists Fuse for X
I'am not sure what it does, but I guess I will now have to go spend time and
find out more about it.
Cheers
Stan ZA
amista...@gmail.com
On 26 Aug 2014, at 10:06 AM, M. Taylor
Not sure if there is one but command 1 through command 9 will jump to
the first through 9th item in the bookmark bar. I have my most often
used sites bookmarked that way so I'm always hitting command-# to pull
them up.
CB
On 8/25/14, 5:03 PM, Kliphton Senior wrote:
Can someone remind me
Hi I have it on my MacBook. If you have fusion installed then it puts it on
your Mac. It has something to do with running windows.regards William Mutch
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Hi all:
Now that I'm using activities more, I'm loving the value they have in
increasing my productivity in certain things. This got me to thinking. It's
easy enough for me to tell somebody how to create an activity if i find one
particularly useful, but it would be nice if I could just give
MacFuse was a discontinued drive format reading tool last updated in
2010. You would install MacFuse and then install plugins for, say , NTFS
or FTPFS. I think I had played with it a while back to try and get
read/write access to NTFS and maybe some packages like VMWare included
for a while.
What are activities?
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:19 AM, John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all:
Now that I'm using activities more, I'm loving the value they have in
increasing my productivity in certain things. This got me to thinking. It's
easy enough for
Activities are customized settings for voiceover for a particular application.
You can choose to have a different voice, punctuation or hotspots!
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote:
What are activities?
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On Aug 26,
Hi all, I am looking for the podcast done by David Woodbridge which I think was
on Applevis, but I can't find it there any more. The subject was creating a
bootable dvd in mavericks. I reading the one in which he created one for os10.
but, I am stuck after creating the disk image file in my
I'd use super dooper.
It is a 5.2 gb file which is too big for the dvd unless you have a dual layer
dvd.
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Gerard Doody jerrydood...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am looking for the podcast done by David Woodbridge which I think
was on
So in that case, how it is done, or can it be done?
On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:04 pm, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd use super dooper.
It is a 5.2 gb file which is too big for the dvd unless you have a dual layer
dvd.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:56
Hello Everyone,
OK, this is a very strange one and I am hoping someone can lend some advice
here.
I have a MacBook Pro running Fusion. I use Seil and Karabiner to remap my caps
lock key to the Insert key. I use SharpKeys to flip my alt and window key
mappings and all of this is working as I
I'd make a bootable USB flash drive. You can do it through that program. Good
luck
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Gerard Doody jerrydood...@gmail.com wrote:
So in that case, how it is done, or can it be done?
On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:04 pm, Chris Bruinenberg
Hello, I don't have your original personal email address, and need to
know the best way of doing this. My sam net email address will probably
go temporarily inactive, and I may not have the service for an extended
time. Is there anyway to transfer my subscription over to a new gmail
address?
You could do it like this.
First send a blank message from your old email to
eyes-free+unscr...@googlegroups.com.
Reply to confirm.
Then send a blank email from your new account to
eyes-free+subscr...@googlegroups.com.
Hth.
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-Original Message-
From: Scott
Hello William,
Thank you so much for this info.
You know, I'd completely forgotten about VM Whare Fusion being installed on
my Mac. I haven't used it since 2011 because I just got tired of having to
remember so many extra steps just to get Jaws to work.
Thanks again,
Mark
-Original
Hello Everyone,
I want to uninstall both VM Ware Fusion and MacFuse from my machine.
Is it difficult to uninstall a program on the Mac? Believe it or not, I've
never uninstalled a single app. On the other hand, I've only installed 5
third party apps and use all but VM Ware Fusion. So I guess
Most you just move to the trash but if you want to go deeper then search
for and check out the free Appcleaner and the shareware Clean My Mac 2,
both of these are not in the Mac App Store.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 26/08/2014 19:47, M.
Jeff,
If you're running Seil, you don't need sharp keys. Seil can remap the caps
lock key to the insert key. Carabiner also gives you a numeric keypad which
you can access using the fn plus the keys on the right side (7 8 9 u i o j k l
m / ; p 0).
Chris
On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Jeff
I am not using SharpKeys to remap the capslock key though.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Chris Moore
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:13 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: insert key remapping not working on right
Can anyone recommend a useful way to SetUp a
Calendar-Planner-Organizer using a MacBook PRO? If so, what
programs-applications are easily accessed for a Totally Blind user,
who is fairly new to the Mac OSX VoiceOver (VO)? Any information is
greatly appreciated!
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All you have to do is move it to the trash. The only thing you might want to
do is turn off the thing that adds it to the status menus. I can't remember
off hand what it's called.
The only time you might need an uninstaller for an app is if it installed by
means of an installer package. This
Have you looked into the default Calendar and Reminders apps yet? If you have
an iOS device, they are especially nice because all your reminders and events
sync to all you devices; add an event with Siri and it will show up on your
Mac, for instance, and vice versa. Needless to say, these apps
Hi all, Just anyone have any idea how I can fix the problem above. I can quit
apps. etc from the menu bar. But this command is not working. Command-option-q
does quite but keeps windows open. any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. thanks in advance,
Jerry Doody
jerrydood...@gmail.com
Has anyone had any experience with C cleaner on the Mac?
Pam Francis
On Aug 26, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com wrote:
All you have to do is move it to the trash. The only thing you might want to
do is turn off the thing that adds it to the status menus. I can't remember
I forgot to mention that in the case of something with a preference panel
applet, if there isn't an uninstall package with the app you you will probably
find it in either ~/Library/PreferencePains, or /Library/PreferencePains.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:47 PM, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote:
I just downloaded the blind square app, and love it so far, but can't seem to
find an option to use any gps apps other than google maps, which I don't have,
and maps, which I almost never use, and would like to use scout maps, which I
was under the impression I would be able to, sense the
Hello Again,
Is there a Shortcut key or can one create a shortcut key to open the
Notifications area of Maverick?
I was told, last week, by an Apple employee that a two-finger swipe from
left to right on the TrackPad will open it but, as far as I can tell, this
gesture only works when the
It may not work with that application right now. I know it works with Seeing
eye GPS, Google and apple maps, navigon, TomTom, and others. I don't have this
other app that you do so I can't replicate this problem
Matt Dierckens
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
www.blindaccesstraining.com
Hello,
I would like to buy a has disc.
It should be my first has disc and I don't know that much about the types that
exists at the moment.
I would like to have the following:
- a nas disc with as good as accessible interface (from osx, windows and
iOS);
- accessing the files from
Hi all, I have a friend who wants to use his old dell wireless keyboard
because it is far more tactile than modern keyboards and has a 150 ft range
using radio frequency. He has a question that I don't know the answer to. Can
he program the extra buttons on his keyboard? The media controls
Yes, that gesture, and any other non-VO gestures, only work when Trackpad
Commander is off.
To assign a shortcut to open NotificationCenter:
1. Open System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
2. Choose Mission Control from the first table.
3. In the second table, find Open Notification Center
is there a place in the manual that shows how to use them?
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote:
Activities are customized settings for voiceover for a particular
application. You can choose to have a different voice, punctuation or
It's best to forget about Windows if you are using the Mac. Just move what you
don't want to the trash or use terminal to uninstall uncleanly. If you wish to
use terminal I'm sure some one will advise you what to do as it's a unix
language and I have had help using it.
Kawal.
On 26 Aug 2014,
Have you tried the calendar on the Macbook Pro which comes with OS10? If not,
have a try. However, I prefer to use the calendar on my I Phone.
Just a thought.
Kawal.
On 26 Aug 2014, at 20:29, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote:
Have you looked into the default Calendar and Reminders apps
Try another key like the grave key, just not caps lock.
Kawal.
On 26 Aug 2014, at 20:20, Jeff Bishop j...@jeffbishop.com wrote:
I am not using SharpKeys to remap the capslock key though.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Hello William,
Personally, I do not recommend NAS storage devices as their software
interface is proprietary.
However, if this is what you want then I think the Western Digital MyCloud
series is among the best. I've never had one go bad on me nor have any of
my friends. In fact, I have two
Hi Jeff,
Through some trial and error with JFW in Fusion, I found a couple
interesting things when working on a Mac keyboard with no number pad.
What I found was that when in Windows in Fusion, turn on keyboard help with
Capslock+1 on the number row so you can play.
FN+semicolon, This
ok,found out how to use activities and it's cool. Now, to answer John's initial
question, I think just exporting your voiceover prefs, you'll be able to share
your activities with others. I've not tried this, but I don't see why it
wouldn't work!
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:19
Once you have chosen a business or location, you should have the options start
tracking and plan a route. You want to select plan a route so that you can use
BlindSquare and the third-party application. If the third-party isn't
available on that view, you cannot use the app. Google Maps works
Wow, awesome stuff. Thank you so very much!
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Scott Erichsen
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:14 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: insert key remapping not working on right side of the
Hi there
Somebody may have already said this, but you can pair Blind Square with Apple
Maps as well, which is already on your iPhone. You need to decide whether you
want Blind Square to tell each street you come to. If you are riding in a car,
you may not want that. You can set this in Blind
if you do a backup of the hole system then you change a few files can it back
up incrementally? i wouldn't want to do an entire backup every time. Time
machine allows me to do this.
On 26 Aug 2014, at 9:32 pm, Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com
wrote:
It can be used as an
I did select plan a route, and the only ones that were listed were google
maps, and maps, which surprised me, considering the fact that the web site says
it works with multiple apps, so have no idea why those were the only ones
listed.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Feliciano G
To answer the original poster's question, I have experienced a number of
annoyances in Mail under mavericks, but smart mailboxes are not one. For me
they are working as well as they always have.
I like smart mailboxes a lot, and for business purposes they really help me to
keep track of
It will only recognize apps that are installed on your phone. Do you have other
GPS apps on your phone?
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote:
I did select plan a route, and the only ones that were listed were google
maps, and maps,
Hi Jenine, if you are going to be doing this sort of thing for broadcast
purposes or for anything other than your own archival purposes, I'd highly
recommend using Audio Highjack pro to record your Skype calls.
You can choose the file format you want to use. This is important, because most
file
Yes, have to agree with mark here. I have a my cloud 4 EX from western
digital. 16TB, on my network. This is where I store my 7TB iTunes
library of music, TV shows, and movies. A lot of people who use this one
set it up in rade mode, so they will have a copy of what they have on there.
I am
Hi,
I also use an off site backup called Lastpass and a time machine backup as
well. The off site backup is incase the house is broken into and all equipment
is stolen. Also if the house is burnt down I can still get all of my data.
Max
On 26 Aug 2014, at 10:44 pm, Donna Goodin
Hi Krister, if you have access to sighted assistance for the initial set-up, I
can recommend the Synology products highly. Their iOS apps are wonderful. So
for day to day use, it's really good. Administration is right now a dreadful
business, unless you don't mind the command line. I will paste
Thanks Jonathan.
Actually what you describe doesn't sound that tedious or complex and would be
quite cool if it works, which it obviously does.
Do you need to use another program, Sound Flower I think, to also set this
whole thing up or is that only if you want to record your Mac's audio as
Hi Jenine, I have a mixer, so no need for SoundFlower therefore I have no
knowledge of it.
However for recording calls, Audio Highjack is all you need.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 27/08/2014, at 12:05 pm, Jenine Stanley
I had scout maps installed on my phone, but it didn't pick that up, which I
found interesting.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote:
It will only recognize apps that are installed on your phone. Do you have
other GPS apps on your phone?
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What do you use for your mail? I assume Gmail doesn't do this server-side
rules thing?
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote:
To answer the original poster's question, I have experienced a number of
annoyances in Mail under mavericks, but
Gmail absolutely does do server-side rules. They're called filters, and you can
use them to sort messages just like Jonathan was saying.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you use for your mail? I assume Gmail doesn't do this server-side
rules thing?
Which one do you use? I eventually had to uninstall scout maps and go back to
google maps, which I had a love/hate relationship with, mostly because it
didn't let me know when I'd reached my destination, which was frustrating for
me.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Matt Dierckens
I have an account i'm trying to set up under apple mail. This provider doesn't
use ssl. I can receive mail just fine, but can't locate the port number or
optional login info for the smtp (outgoing) side of things.
Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to get to the smtp settings using
At the moment, I have all my domains hosted with DreamHost and am very happy
with them.
iCloud will also do server side rules.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 27/08/2014, at 12:24 pm, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote:
Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote:
At the moment, I have all my domains hosted with DreamHost and am very happy
with them.
iCloud will also do server side rules.
I've been using Procmail for this for a very long time. One of its advantages
is that you can run shell commands to process
I'll tell you one thing: I wish I could find a client that is more reliable.
When I set up my Droid tablet, for some reason suddenly Mail stopped
downloading Gmail messages, so I tried syncing accounts, reinstalling mail
again, etc.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I use Google maps and most situations, I preferred over Apple maps.
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Which one do you use? I eventually had to uninstall scout maps and go back
to google maps, which I had a love/hate
OK, folks. I purchased season 1 of a television show from iTunes today on my
iPhone. I was only able to download single episodes. I attempted to download
the season onto my computer by going to my account on my MacBook, but it
claimed there were no undownloaded items.
When I selected
I prefer Apple Maps.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 27 Aug 2014, at 12:36, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Which one do you use? I eventually had to uninstall scout maps and go back
to google maps,
Wow, that's a lot of backups! Your data will certainly be well-protected,
though.
Cheers,
Donna
On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote:
Hi,
I also use an off site backup called Lastpass and a time machine backup as
well. The off site backup is incase the house is
Hi Jessica
When it says Maps, I think it means Apple Maps. Blind Square will tell you when
you read your destination if you set it to talk along with the other GPS
program. I think another option to telling Blind Square not to run at the same
time would be to turn off streets first if you were
Hi,
In Mail Preferences, Accounts, select the pertinent account. In the Account
Information tab, navigate to the Outgoing Server area. You should see a pop-up
menu there. Activate it and choose Edit SMTP Server list. In that dialog,
there will be a list of your SMTP Servers along with two
Yes it is.
I have all my wife's photos
and all my music. The music contains many vinyl records that I would have to
go through the process of converting them again.
Max
On 27 Aug 2014, at 12:16 pm, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote:
Wow, that's a lot of backups! Your data will certainly
Hello everyone, this is Chenelle I wanted to know how do you change away file
to an MP3 file? Via your iPhone 5s using your memo voice recording app? I am
taking a class at the Hurtley school for the blind and I have to record my
lessons and I have to send it via an MP3 file and I wanted to
Hi,
On your Mac, make sure that Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases is checked
from within the Store pane of your iTunes Preferences. When this is checked,
you will have the option to download purchases that are stored in iCloud to
your Mac. I find it best to have the TV show in List view.
Hello!
You will find list of all 3rd party navigation apps from here:
http://blindsquare.com/instructions/#tracking-and-route
There are 10 options and 3 of them are free.
Ilkka
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hi Jessica
When it says Maps, I think it
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