Re: my day for freaky questions

2015-05-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
The Mac firewall really isn’t all that good, and really isn’t necessary anyway, because OS X isn’t a great gaping hole by default. Just make sure only the services you need are on, and you’re set. Firewalls in routers, including the artificial one in AirPort, I’m a good deal less thrilled

Office for Mac 2011 14.5.0 fixes security bugs, but also opens an Outlook bug – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

2015-05-15 Thread christopher hallsworth
Just an FYI. Only posting this because Outlook 2011 for Mac is actually quite accessible. http://macdailynews.com/2015/05/14/office-for-mac-2011-14-5-0-fixes-security-bugs-but-also-opens-an-outlook-bug/

questions about Audio Hijack

2015-05-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
I have a couple questions as I set up to record both Skype and FaceTime calls using Audio Hijack. I want the phone audio to be recorded on a separate channel from my voice, i.e., the caller audio is on one channel and me on the other. If there is an Audio Hijack list somewhere, point me

Re: questions about Audio Hijack

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi, The voice chat preset is set up for you by default to use Skype. You can change the application to FaceTime, and you should be good to go. It will automatically have you on the left and the caller on the right. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh,

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi Gary, I know that Brun will do this. Here is the direct URL to the app download. http://sourceforge.net/projects/burn-osx/files/Burn/2.5.1/burn251.zip/download God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018

Re: questions about Audio Hijack

2015-05-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
Thanks Matt, so I don’t need to add my USB mixer as a device then? I was able to easily change the application to FaceTime. Thanks again Alex for the great instructions there. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On May 15, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com

voiceover delays

2015-05-15 Thread Jean
Hello All: I have voiceover set to both character echo and word echo and have since I began using a mac almost three years ago. Recently, I have noticed a significant lag in voiceover during character echo which is really becoming a problem. I have run repair permissions, rebooted the

Re: my day for freaky questions

2015-05-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I just wonder if there are things maybe under the hood that get ran. Not necessarily daemons, or services, but just init processes in general which could be permanently killed without causing any dammage. I did disable spotlight indexing on one of my macs and now I can't seem to re-enable

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
No problem, and God bless you as well, by the way. Chris. - Original Message - From: Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Creating CD/DVD labels To be honest, I am not sure how it works, as I

Re: spell check in pages

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Press Command Colon to start spellcheck in any application. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com On May 15, 2015, at 20:27, Jean radiofore...@gmail.com wrote:

download command

2015-05-15 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I am just checking to see if the command to download in safari is option-command-l. I was wondering because I pressed this command on a podcast link, and it did not download. so maybe I have it wrong. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: my day for freaky questions

2015-05-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
OS X defaults with everything off. Anything that shares over the network is a service. Check the Sharing section in System Preferences for those in OS X, iTunes Sharing preferences for those in iTunes, Server (if you bought it) for those in OS X Server, Messages Preferences for those in

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
To be honest, I am not sure how it works, as I don't have any cd's here to test out for labels, but I do know that the app is accessible. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email:

spell check in pages

2015-05-15 Thread Jean
Hello All: Am I correct that command semi colon activates spell check in pages? I am doing this but the spell check function is not starting. Is there some box I need to check in order to make this work? Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: download command

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hello, command option L opens the downloads window in finder and safari. To download a file, press option enter. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com On May 15,

Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Gary
Is there an accessible way of creating CD/DVD labels with my Mac? Can anyone recommend software they are using for this? Gary -- 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,

a few cool mac apps

2015-05-15 Thread Jeff Greene
Hi, Just came across a few cool mac apps and thought the list would like to know. Hermes. Very nice pandora client. All buttons are labeled except the play/pause button. Its free, and I found out about it from applevis.com http://applevis.com/. I haven’t yet figured out how to thumbs down a

Re: voiceover delays

2015-05-15 Thread Alex Hall
Good point. To the OP: what voice are you using? Yosemite introduced some serious delays in a lot of tasks when using Nuance voices, at least for some users. In fact, I switched to Ava (I normally use Alex) a few minutes ago, and instead of keeping up with me as Alex does, Ava is slowly reading

Re: voiceover delays

2015-05-15 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i do have the same delay with the italian voices too, but on Alex, nope. On 16 May 2015, at 2:25 am, Jean radiofore...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All: I have voiceover set to both character echo and word echo and have since I began using a mac almost three years ago. Recently, I have noticed

Re: voiceover delays

2015-05-15 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. This is the reason why I use either Acapela's or Cereproc's voices if I'm tired of using Alex and I want a different human sounding voice to blab to me. Both brands of voices don't have the same delay as the Vocalizer voices do. Acapela's voices are pretty cheap and once you download their

Re: a few cool mac apps

2015-05-15 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks for those. Hermes: cmd-l to like (thumbs up); cmd-d to dislike (thumbs down); cmd-e for next. Check the menus for more controls and options, including space to play and pause, and cmd-up/down to control volume. On May 15, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Greene greenebo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Gary
I looked through the documentation, and this is a disk burning application and does not create labels for the disks. Is there anyone on the list that is currently using accessible software to label CD's/DVD ’s on their Mac? Thanks, Gary On May 15, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Matthew Dierckens

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Gary
Okay, thanks. I guess it’s free? I didn’t see a price on the page. The only thing is that the link provided below, automatically downloaded the software on my Mac when I clicked on it. That made me a little nervous. I don’t like links downloading software on my mac. Gary On May 15, 2015,

Re: my day for freaky questions

2015-05-15 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi all So how can I check what services I really need? On 15 May 2015, at 08:49, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: The Mac firewall really isn’t all that good, and really isn’t necessary anyway, because OS X isn’t a great gaping hole by default. Just make sure only the

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi Gay, No worries, it is free, and I gave you the direct download link. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com On May 15, 2015, at 12:28, Gary

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Gary
Thanks for the info, but I couldn’t tell how to create the labels. Is this just for burning disks? How do you use if to make labels. Gary On May 15, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com wrote: Hi Gay, No worries, it is free, and I gave you the direct download link.

RE: my day for freaky questions

2015-05-15 Thread george b
Ok this is day 3 subject change? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:32 To: macvisionaries Subject: Re: my day for freaky questions Hi all So how can I check

New Voiceover commands?

2015-05-15 Thread The Believer
Hi all, Now that I am running Yosemite, I would like to know if there are any new and/or changed Voiceover commands. Thanks. From The Believer. . . By way of the Chariots of the Gods cameth the Aliens who dwelt amongst the humans, and bringeth much knowledge. -- You received this

RE: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread george b
Well gary maybe he sent you the link to download... -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 09:29 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Creating CD/DVD labels Okay, thanks.

Re: Creating CD/DVD labels

2015-05-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, I have a question about this. Is this for burning labels onto lightscribe discs, or is this more for actually printing on to labels, which you then would stick on the CD itself. If this can be done with Lightscribe discs, I very very much am interested! I have an external USB CD/DVD