Re: mac terminal

2014-12-18 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi. does anybody noticed that to accessibil...@apple.com ? 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.co

Re: mac terminal

2014-12-18 Thread Sean Murphy
I agree with the original poster. If you have ssh to a router per say. You have to review the output to ensure you get everything. VO will miss things. If you use screen /dev/ttyusb0 to connect to a router via a serial console. VO chops off the first part of the line and also doesn’t read out th

Re: Best way to Navigate Forum threads on the web

2014-12-18 Thread Sean Murphy
This is why I use Crome and Chromevox. It is far faster and flexible then Safari with VO. I have not checked, but can VO jump to the same element? Sean On 16 Dec 2014, at 3:38 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Do not ever recall this being discussed, and have read a lot about peopl

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't been following this thread very closely, but how are you typing the shortcut? You need only press the shortcut as you want it to be, not actually type the names of the keys. If you wanted ctrl-t, you'd literally press control and t together, not type anything. Hope this makes sense, an

Re: How do I shut down my macbook pro using the keyboard?

2014-12-18 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
press the power button and then you will have the options of shut down restart or sleep, On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Michael Malver wrote: > In mavricks, I could press the power button, and a dialogue appeared asking > if I want to restart. > This functionality seems to have disappeared once I

Re: How do I shut down my macbook pro using the keyboard?

2014-12-18 Thread John Panarese
You can hold the power button down for a second or two to get that dialog or just press control-option-command-escape to shut it down or control-command-escape to restart the machine. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com We

screen of insanity

2014-12-18 Thread Jean
Scott: Well, that got more than a good laugh this morning. That describes it exactly. There was some reason I didn’t book the ticket by phone but I can’t remember what it was. Of course, any savings I might have had by using the web site was offset by the petrol cost and time wastage of going

How do I shut down my macbook pro using the keyboard?

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Malver
In mavricks, I could press the power button, and a dialogue appeared asking if I want to restart. This functionality seems to have disappeared once I installed yosemity. Is thre still a shortcut for this? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "M

Re: CyberDuck FTP Questions

2014-12-18 Thread David Taylor
A friend and I looked at it last year and gave up on it. We found Transmit to be the only thing we liked, despite its price. Cheers Dave On 19 Dec 2014, at 03:31 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: > That is rather bizarre. So I can go to > > https://cyberduck.io/changelog/ > > and

Re: CyberDuck FTP Questions

2014-12-18 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
That is rather bizarre. So I can go to https://cyberduck.io/changelog/ and get the latest 4.6.1 version for free as it's open source or I can go to the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12 and pay $24 for the same thing. Granted I'm all for giving money to

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thank you. I finally got it paid with the paypal app but it wasn't really better. what I finally had to do was first click the link that said something like "How do you want to pay?" Then clicking the payment method I wanted apparently worked. But I'll keep the phone number handy! -- Cheryl

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
PayPal website, is generally very very bad. I hate everything about it now these days. So, yes, give them an earful. Kawal. > On 18 Dec 2014, at 10:22 pm, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > I know what you mean. I saw that myself. I usually pay my bill via the > telephone system. You might want to

Re: Using Google Hangouts?

2014-12-18 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
hi donna; i forgot the best part. when i was doing regular hangouts you had to get a new url every time. they now give each account its own hangout url so once you give it out you don't have to give out a new site address out every time. let me know when you try your first one. you are welcome t

Re: Using Google Hangouts?

2014-12-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Max, Sounds like we're in pretty much the same position. I just took a new job. I'll be working virtually and using google hangouts to connect with other staff. I was expecting the worst, so I'm glad to hear you're finding it accessible. thanks for the info Best, Donna > On Dec 18, 2014,

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Let me double check right now. Okay. call: 866-528-3733 Sorry about the last one. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On Dec 18, 2014, at

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
there should be a number on pay pal's website. and i hope you didn't respond to one of those fishing emails. good luck, max On Dec 18, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Mary Jo Partyka wrote: > Hi, Ray, > > I am also having trouble with paypal and they keep telling me there is a > problem with my account and

Where and how can I find my photos and music

2014-12-18 Thread Bobby Druesedow
Hello: It is very helpful for me to follow this list, and I think everyone for looking at my questions. I have my MacBook Pro connected with my iCloud account.I would like to be able to view the photos that I have on the cloud on my MacBook. When I look under preferences and I cloud, photos doe

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Mary Jo Partyka
Hi, Ray, I am also having trouble with paypal and they keep telling me there is a problem with my account and I already changed my password in response to their email once. When I called the number you gave Cheryl, I was asked to take a survey about vacations even though I declined the cruise.

Re: Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I know what you mean. I saw that myself. I usually pay my bill via the telephone system. You might want to call: 866-528-3833 and give them an ear full while you're paying your bill. Their customer service folks seem pretty nice and I am very interested to know what they tell you. Sincerel

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hmm, still no luck. Not sure why. > On Dec 18, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > There should be no need to interact with the text field or at least I just > tried it now and didn't need to. Do vo-space on "add shortcut" for the item > you want to change. Then just do the combination r

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
There should be no need to interact with the text field or at least I just tried it now and didn't need to. Do vo-space on "add shortcut" for the item you want to change. Then just do the combination right there. If there is already a combination there, of course you won't be able to press "add

installing boot camp drivers

2014-12-18 Thread Juliette Swiler
I know I read somewhere about having to install boot camp drivers in my virtual machine if I wanted to run an Apple superdrive in Windows. The device shows up, but it will not allow me to insert a disc. But in all the instructions, it says insert the Mac dVD. What DVD are they talking about? I t

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarai, Having interacted with the table, place yourself on the second column where it says “Add shortcut, button”. Interact again, do VO-Right arrow then VO-Space. Enter your shortcut at this point. You also need to check the check box in column 1. Cheers, Anne > On 18 Dec 2014, at 21

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hello: I went to keyboard prefs, shortcuts, text, found the one I wanted, chose add. I cannot figure out how to type in the shortcut. I interacted with the text edit field with no luck! > On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Sarai, > > The short cut you are trying is n

Re: using Apple superdrive

2014-12-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I recall helping someone with this sort of issue last Spring but don’t remember exactly what we did. Take a look at: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2458387 It may help, especially the second response. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Dec 18, 2014, at 13:00, Jul

using Apple superdrive

2014-12-18 Thread Juliette Swiler
I have an optical USB superdrive that I purchased as an accessory to my Mac from the Apple store. However, is there anything in the virtual machine menu under Fusion that I can change to have it be able to connect via Windows 7? It connects just fine on the Macintosh side. Thanks for any help wi

Re: CyberDuck FTP Questions

2014-12-18 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
App Store do not allow apps to be open source; they must be obtained from an official website. On 18/12/2014 16:47, Rob wrote: Dear List, Macupdate.com has CyberDuck for free. The App store has it for $23. It is now open source. I dont understand why it is so pricey in the app store. But my qu

Re: App requires Java

2014-12-18 Thread Grant Hardy
While I wouldn’t exactly say it is “unsafe” to have Java installed on your Mac, Java does indeed introduce some possible security risks. In 2012, hundreds of thousands of Macs were infected with the Flashback malware due to vulnerabilities in Java that allowed the malware to download without use

Problem with paying paypal credit

2014-12-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Some of you may know that Bill Me later is now Paypal Credit. The Bill Me Later site worked fine but shortly after the switch of course that site was closed. Last month I did manage to pay my bill but this month I can't click my payment method no matter what I do on the Mac. I very definitely cl

music notation.

2014-12-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Greetings all, I share this because I do not recall the following program mentioned before. its called abc notation, and it allows a completely text based means to compose and in combination with a ton of software play print and translate into midi your work. site is: www.abcnotation.com the

Re: Using Google Hangouts?

2014-12-18 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
hi donna; when i was doing one every week up until a few months ago i was not real happy with it. there were a lot of unlabelled buttons. i didn't feel confident using it by myself. but a few weeks ago i had to communicate with someone who insisted on doing a hangout. since it was their show i s

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Something else I just discovered. I was going through my News Feed and got to an article I wanted to open I hit L thinking it might open the link in a new window or safari, but it actually opened a like dialogue of some kind which I thought was great but unfortunately it caused me to get stuck i

Re: top sites

2014-12-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Great to hear, was afraid it might not come through as well in writing. On Dec 18, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > Hi Brian, > Thanks, this was quite helpful. >> On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but my understandin

Re: top sites

2014-12-18 Thread Faisal ali
Hi Brian, Thanks, this was quite helpful. > On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey, > > Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Top Sites > and Favorites are two different things. Your top sites seem to be a list of > sites you frequent or have vi

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Agreed as I think this program does act differently on a machine running Mavericks and a machine running Yosemite as I have played around with it on both. I think all you need to do is VO space bar to open the messages and so on, and it seems to kick you out of html content in to a new tab with

Re: top sites

2014-12-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Top Sites and Favorites are two different things. Your top sites seem to be a list of sites you frequent or have visited lately. Your favorites which you can assign numbers to and quickly pull up by hitting command and the

keyboard issue on Yosemite, revisited

2014-12-18 Thread Faisal ali
Hi all, Just to report that despite having my trackpad off, my keyboard issue has once again kicked in resulting in a system restart. Like I mentioned before, its less frequent so I think I’ll be able to bare it until a fix is implemented. This is really quite annoying especially if you find you

Using Google Hangouts?

2014-12-18 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has any experience using Google hangouts on the Mac? If so, How well did it work? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

CyberDuck FTP Questions

2014-12-18 Thread Rob
Dear List, Macupdate.com has CyberDuck for free. The App store has it for $23. It is now open source. I dont understand why it is so pricey in the app store. But my question is, is this app worth the trouble of installing Java? I cant remember if this app was talked about on this list in the pa

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarai, The short cut you are trying is not a good one as it’s used everywhere throughout the OS. I recommend Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-t which shouldn’t cause a conflict. Cheers, Anne > On 18 Dec 2014, at 15:57, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Hi Ann: > I cannot get the short cut to add. I inte

Re: Handoff between MBP and iOS

2014-12-18 Thread Deb Lewis
The actual message will be showing ont he doc, it looks different from the app itself. On 12/13/14, Faisal ali wrote: > Hi, > I have messages already in my dock along with 23 other apps. How can I > differentiate between the messages app and the messages instance that I have > started on another

top sites

2014-12-18 Thread Faisal ali
Hi all, I’m wondering how to assign a number to a top site? I figured out that putting a websites in the favourites window adds it to the top sites but I want to assign it a specific number. How can this be done? Also, Top sites doesn’t seem to show as it did near the tool bar in safari. Can it

Re: App requires Java

2014-12-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, it’s perfectly safe to install Java. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Dec 18, 2014, at 06:50, David Griffith wrote: > > I have installed Java 7 and and a legacy version of Java 6 to run Stanza with > an have experienced no ill affects. > David Griffith > > > On 1

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi Ann: I cannot get the short cut to add. I interact with the edit box, try and type in shift n and no luck. > On Dec 18, 2014, at 2:41 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Sarai, > > The “New TextEdit window containing selection” can be found in System > Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcut

Re: Greyhound app

2014-12-18 Thread Todor Fassl
I don't need help with the Greyhound web site. I was just hoping the IOS app would be easier to use. On 12/18/2014 07:58 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hmm, Maybe the canada site is different from the US site. It's not my favourite in the world, but I used to book tickets all the time when I w

Re: Greyhound app

2014-12-18 Thread Todor Fassl
Even sighted people complain about the Greyhound web site. On 12/18/2014 08:06 AM, Scott Berry wrote: It’s a blanket nuisance Eric. I have tried it and you just see this screen of insanity with nothing on it. It’s kinda wild. Goes to show that the company who Greyhound outsourced didn’t hav

Re: Greyhound app

2014-12-18 Thread Scott Berry
It’s a blanket nuisance Eric. I have tried it and you just see this screen of insanity with nothing on it. It’s kinda wild. Goes to show that the company who Greyhound outsourced didn’t have any ideas about accessibility or they simply were not told to make the app accessible. > On Dec 18,

Re: Greyhound app

2014-12-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hmm, Maybe the canada site is different from the US site. It's not my favourite in the world, but I used to book tickets all the time when I was the ebony consultant. Was there a particular spot where people run into trouble, or is it just a blanket nucence? Best, Erik Burggraaf On Dec 1

Re: App requires Java

2014-12-18 Thread David Griffith
/I have installed Java 7 and and a legacy version of Java 6 to run Stanza with an have experienced no ill affects./ David Griffith On 18/12/2014 05:37, Robert Cole wrote: Hi, I tried installing Cyber Duck FTP app and was asked to install Java Runtime. My question is, is it safe to have Java

Re: greyhound app

2014-12-18 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Only problem with calling us that you will pay a lot more for your ticket. Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb Sent from my iPhon

Re: some help recalling one of the Mac keys names

2014-12-18 Thread BobH.
control-option-command-spacebar-command-option-control. - Original Message - From: "Scott Berry" To: "macvisionaries" Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:56 PM Subject: some help recalling one of the Mac keys names Hello there, I am having trouble recalling one of the keys on the bot

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
How do you try to access the messages and inbox windows and so on? I find that if i try to access the separate windows through the menu extentions or the doc, i can’t but if i go into the app and press command+1 i get to the buddy list, command+2 takes me to the inbox and command+3 gets me to th

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I wonder if this is different between computers? I’m running an iMac mid 2011 with Yosemite and as far as i know i don’t see this kind of problem here. I have another somewhat strange issue though, Sometimes my voiceover goes in to what i would call a loop for lack of a better word, it sorta rea

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarai, The “New TextEdit window containing selection” can be found in System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts. Select Services in the first table, then in the second table, you’ll find it under the heading Text. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribe