Re: Snappy iPhone 6s, do any other Ios devices compare?

Hi! I will answer that one when i get my iphone in a couple of weeks. /A > 30 sep. 2015 kl. 23:26 skrev Mary Otten : > > I have been quite impressed with the snappiness of my new 6s as compared > with my 5S. Indeed, when I use my iPad mini to, I can really tell the >

Re: El Capitan Is Here

Hi. the bug with the reader is happening to me in Yosemite Maria > On 2 Oct 2015, at 8:01 am, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I wanted to hit a few points I've seen raised in this thread. > > First, I want to address George's comment suggesting that I would do a >

my question to the manager of local apple store yesterday

Well, I asked since apple is such a "green" company. As I was rubbing my hand across the new solid oak tables, and work spaces I asked, " how many trees do you think apple had cut down to do this in all their stors", I got no answer -Original Message- From:

Re: noise gate is broke on garage band

i already reported it. thanks. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 12:00 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Go to: > apple.com/feedback and report this. > Note that the form is a bit tricky. > /A >> 1 okt. 2015 kl. 05:55 skrev Dionipher Presas Herrera : >> >>

Re: 10.11 and braille

Let alone the porn possibilities! :) > On Oct 2, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > > Sure. They could make the home button into a sort of reactive button, where > you would press on the raised metal button, it would click, 3d touch, and > would depress like a regular

RE: Major data breach at Experian impacting T-Mobile customers

Well I would hope so since it has effected 15,000,000, people -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 06:05 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Major data

Re: Latest garage band and automation

you can try to your purchased on apps store if you can find garage band on your purchased. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 2:30 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hi, > If you have ever had them installed before, and you have used the same Apple > ID with a Mac before, and have updated

Re: El Capitan and caps lock

Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood your question. I thought what you meant was you wished just in OSX alone that there was a way to have both. I'm sorry. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Grant" To: "MacVisionaries List"

Re: wwhen

Ow'w'w. I think he's talking about the Nuance voices. Most of them had updates to support El Capitan. they're not new, in the sense of literally new voices. they're just updated. Dang it though, when're we gonna get the Siri voices on OSX? Now that! would be incredible! Chris. -

Re: 10.11 and braille

Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t make them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic. Hey Scott, you

RE: Major data breach at Experian impacting T-Mobile customers

I was given a web site to go to and ifyou want it let me know -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 06:44 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Major data breach

Re: 10.11 and braille

I haven't seen any statistics lately, but I have heard in the past that Europe had a much higher literacy rate for Braille than we do. That is not surprising given the cost of the hardware, and the fact that, at least as far as I understand it, it is subsidized, so that all the blind people

Re: my question to the manager of local apple store yesterday

George, stop being logical, that’s where you went wrong.:) I totally agree. It’s the Al Gorr thing all over again. That fat suit used to love telling us what we should and shouldn’t do all while flying around in a beautiful Gulf Stream and with an average home utility bill 50 times that of

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

Interestingly, it does on some sites still, but not others, going to wait a little while before upgrading to el capitan I think. Original message: That seems to be a bug when running Safari 9 under Yosemite. I’m running El Capitan with Safari 9, and VO announces clickable for me. On Oct 1,

Re: back on yosemite

What advantages do these pieces of software have over Apple’s built in Time Machine? Just wondering. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Don't you just love imaging software? I prefer Superduper frankly over CCC, > but either way, I'm

Re: back on yosemite

I like the fact that they literally take an exact bootable partition snapshot of your drive. Time machine basically only backs up your files and your applications/settings. It doesn't literally make a completely bootable image. there are some things Time machine simply will not easily

Re: Heart Rate Monitor on Apple Watch

Did they happen to compare the fitbit as well? I have one and am just curious. > On Oct 1, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: > > Hi, > > On tv there was a test of several smart watches. Aplle Watch Heart Beat > Monitor was the only one that showed the correct

Re: 10.11 and braille

No, it's not just you. Braille support is still sub-par in many cases on OSX, with bugs I've reported 2 years ago still not fixed. Because I only have one mac, and am heavily dependent on it, I cannot put betas on it or risk upgrading because I'm afraid of the bugs I may encounter. I'm still

Re: 10.11 and braille

For whatever the reason, I simply don't think Apple has higher the expertise they need to get braille right. I think this notion of them doing something special with braille on the screen is nonsense. If I'm wrong and proven wrong, so be it. But I really do believe the problem is they don't

Re: 10.11 and braille

Perhaps they don't really know that a problem exists? But surely braille users have commented, so maybe they just don't know what to do. But Apple has patented that flexible metal, so they could eventually do it. Then again, perhaps they mean for us to just type on the keyboard and use braille

Re: 10.11 and braille

Again, we do this in my state. Blind persons can get what ever adaptive equipment especially for work. This could be radically different state to state though. You don’t need braille displays though to be literate in braille and teach / learn. I imagine it helps but they definitely didn’t

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

i already unenroll my system from beta. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 2:18 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Well, think about it this way. > > What if, like me, you were using the machine for personal use, but then you > got a job, and therefore decided to start using

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

yes, that's what i did on my computer. since i did all best to report all the bugs that i met so i decided to unenroll my apple id to install the official copy of el capitan. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 3:28 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Right, but just unenrolling

Re: 10.11 and braille

One thing I've always hated is that the Mac nor iOS has support for Italics. That really gets on my nerves how they just be lazy and treat every font change like just a separate element and not just show italics. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Scott Davert

Re: Major data breach at Experian impacting T-Mobile customers

They must have been literally swamped with calls. When I called their main customer service, after finding that my local store knew nothing, I was told that hold times were longer than usual, so I left my number and ask to be called back. They never called me back. But I found something online

Re: 10.11 and braille

Sure. They could make the home button into a sort of reactive button, where you would press on the raised metal button, it would click, 3d touch, and would depress like a regular button. Tellephone keys, little keyboard keys for typing, feelable icons, it'd all make sense, especially sense 3d

Re: 10.11 and braille

Lol a phone would be too small for real porn application, maybe the iPad would be better. But this is metal, it couldn't really show too much tactilly. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Let alone the porn possibilities! > >

Re: 10.11 and braille

Maybe not but we don’t lie about it either.:) That whole VW / AUDI / PORSCHE thing cracks me up especially from a country that claims to be so green. I don’t know about the braille literacy thing either to be fair. Now this may have changed, I fully admit when I was in public school we still

Re: Major data breach at Experian impacting T-Mobile customers

When I heard about it I doubt the average customer service rep new anything about it. It has just broken as a leaked report on CNBC last night. Today though I bet they will have an answer. > On Oct 1, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Thanks, Scott. I hope

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

Right, but just unenrolling doesn't put you back to the public build. You have to install it. Chris. - Original Message - From: Dionipher Presas Herrera To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 9:25 AM Subject: Re: OS X El Capitan Available as

Re: 10.11 and braille

I sort of think Apple has something big planned though. I've read that they have their own patent for sort of elastic and shapable metal, so that the metal could form dots and such. I don't know if they'll do that, or just keep supporting braille displays, but the lack of new fixes in braille

Re: 10.11 and braille

I’m not sure about that either because I know they do hire good quality people even for accessibility efforts so I’m not sure it’s that simple. I heard about the patent for the reactive metal but I can’t imagine that being practical unless it has some benefit for the sited as well. > On Oct

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

Well, think about it this way. What if, like me, you were using the machine for personal use, but then you got a job, and therefore decided to start using that system for work as it's more powerful than any of the other systems you have at that time in your posession. OK, so now you got this

Re: Alex choppiness, has any fix been found?

Hi! I don’t have any problems with alex on my mac mini mid 2011. /A > 1 okt. 2015 kl. 14:51 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland : > > Count me as a third. > > Chris. > >> - Original Message - >> From: Scott Granados >> To:

Re: 10.11 and braille

Hi! Oh dear. Soon i will give up on this as they do not seem to prioritize braille at all. If apple was a german or European company there’s no doubt that the braille support will be better. It took us forever to get good braille support for Jaws. Also for window eyes but its there. Nvda has

Re: Latest garage band and automation

Um… You might want to rethink that. Actually, it’s $4.99. However if you already had an earlier version of iLife installed such as iLife 11, then you upgraded for free to the new versions of those apps including Garage Band. The same goes for the iWork suite. Hope this helps, Jeffrey > On Oct 2,

Re: Running windows programs on the mac.

Hi! There are but no accessible way from what i know. /A > 1 okt. 2015 kl. 06:50 skrev Singing Sparrow : > > Is there anyway to run windows programs on the mac with out installing > windows? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: noise gate is broke on garage band

Hi! Go to: apple.com/feedback and report this. Note that the form is a bit tricky. /A > 1 okt. 2015 kl. 05:55 skrev Dionipher Presas Herrera : > > noise gate on garage band on el capitan is broke, i thought that this was > only broke on beta but when i install the stand

Re: 10.11 and braille

BTW, I meant that tongue and cheek, I am in total agreement with you. Apple’s braille support needs a lot of work and it’s inexcusable how bad it is now. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:11 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Oh dear. > Soon i will give up on this as they do not

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

Yes. There is a secondary effect as well: because elements are no longer “Clickable” you often can’t click individual words in an element, which is rather less straightforward to work around. I’m not sure what the situation is like on El Capitan yet, but on Yosemite one could not click an

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

And the logical answer would be like someone in my position who uses their mac for work, and also trains people on the mac with Voiceover. I can't exactly effectively support people when I'm running a beta. What if something breaks or changes in a beta which isn't present in the official

Re: Latest garage band and automation

Hi, If you have ever had them installed before, and you have used the same Apple ID with a Mac before, and have updated them before from the App Store, then, you do not have to buy these newest versions. However, if you haven’t, then you’ll have to buy them, or I’m not sure if this would work

Re: Alex choppiness, has any fix been found?

The audio receiver is n to going to appear in the HDMI chain as a video device. The possible exception to this and I am not sure about this at all but if your audio receiver is doing line doubling and injecting menus and such in to the video stream I don’t know how that appears to the Mac.

Re: Latest garage band and automation

Ok, so i would have to have ilife installed to get the free upgrades then? will ilife 11 work on the upper versions of osx and does this also apply with iworks as well? On 10/2/2015 6:35 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: Um… You might want to rethink that. Actually, it’s $4.99. However if you

Re: Latest garage band and automation

Uh... like, uh, free with anything above minimum of Mountain Lion? Chris. - Original Message - From: Singing Sparrow To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 12:28 AM Subject: Re: Latest garage band and automation how much is garage band anyway?

Re: Latest garage band and automation

Weird, cause I did have ILife 11 installed, yes, but, I also remember Apple very deliberetly telling me that they'd made the apps free. I might a been mistold though. Sorry for the confusion. Chris. - Original Message - From: Jeffrey Shockley To:

Re: 10.11 and braille

If Apple were a european company or especially German company they would have faked it so the braille support only worked in the government agency’s office responsible for certifying braille support. It would have failed in the real world. Sort of the same philosophy as the German Auto

Re: Snappy iPhone 6s, do any other Ios devices compare?

Hi, I went from an iPad mini 2 to an iPad mini 4 and notice it is more snappy. Chris Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com

Re: OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

Then, the next logical question would be, why are you putting, or why would you want to put, beta stuff like that on a machine that you are using to help train and support clients? I mean, I could understand it if it was a personal machine used for personal stuff. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 7:31 AM,

back on yosemite

Hi, Ok last night after my bad experience with OSX 10.11, I formatted my drive and re-installed Yosemite. I used my carbon copy cloaner drive to copy everything back to my blank drive. It all went smoothly! I'm only missing one thing, will have to redownload it. I tried going into recovery mode

Re: back on yosemite

Don't you just love imaging software? I prefer Superduper frankly over CCC, but either way, I'm with ya, my friend! You'd not know how! many times OS images have saved my ass! So for anyone who has neither of these two solutions, I'd highly! highly highly! recommend investing in one or the

Re: 10.11 and braille

Well, obviously none of us knows the reason why braille especially on the Mac is not very good. I actually don't really think the braille on the screen of a device is going to be all that wonderful or practical. The problem isn't the display. It is the support for braille. I wish Apple could

Re: help with start up disk almost full

Hi, The easiest thing would be that I can think of is to boot into Recovery Mode and open Disc Utility from there, and just the partition there. It just might work. :) Hope this helps, Jeffrey > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > hello

Re: 10.11 and braille

All of this speculation is wonderful, but I can’t see it happening unless Apple actually sees any mainstream potential in a tactile display. For right now that leaves us with a subsystem that doesn’t work. I guess that means we’ll continue to use Windows and our favourite screen reader, or

Re: Heart Rate Monitor on Apple Watch

Yes. Good for training. Nothing about the pulse monitor accuracy compared to the professional on the treadmill at the fitness center. They said that the Apple Watch was the only one that was giving correct heart beat monitoring every time. Take care 2. okt. 2015 kl. 14:44 skrev Scott Granados

Re: 10.11 and braille

Out here, you have to really prove that you need a display in order to get one. And of course, if you're not employed, or not a student who can show a definite need for a braille display, as so many or not, then forget it. You can't get help with anything. I think that is not the case in

Re: How do you open an attachment?

What I do is cmd-y on the message, without opening it. That shows a preview of the message's attachment, so you can read it right there. If you need to open it, there's a button in the preview window to open the file in its default application. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 11:11, Jamie Pauls

Re: help with start up disk almost full

i did already tried it but the problem still exist. when i try to expand my hard drive to 500 i wil automatically goes to 143 gb, which i am trying to partition a while ago. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:23 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > ok, i'll try >> On 02 Oct

Re: How do you open an attachment?

Let's assume that the attachment you want to open is a word document. Here is what I do. One. Open the message using the return key. Two. Interact with the text in the message. Three. Navigate to the image of the attached document using the arrow keys. Four. Press VO space to open a menu of

Re: OSX 10.11

There are strings you can put into the text to adjust the speech. I believe you enclose the adjustments in [[rate 30 ]] That is two square brackets. Best wishes, Jonathan > On Oct 1, 2015, at 11:58, Singing Sparrow wrote: > > Well, for what i want to do i need it a

help with start up disk almost full

hello everyone can somebody help me adjust my hard disk i accidentally lower my hard drive to 100 gb now my computer is saying that my start up disk is almost ful. but i do have 512 gb disk. i can't adjust it on my disk utility from el capitan now. thanks for the help -- You received this

Re: help with start up disk almost full

ok, i'll try > On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hi, > The easiest thing would be that I can think of is to boot into Recovery Mode > and open Disc Utility from there, and just the partition there. It just might > work. :) > Hope this helps, >

Re: 10.11 and braille

I have to admit to living in the Stone Age here, but didn't some of that stuff like bold and italics and how it is represented change with the implementation of u e be? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > > Perhaps they don't really

Re: How do you open an attachment?

Now that is a much simpler method in deed. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > What I do is cmd-y on the message, without opening it. That shows a preview > of the message's attachment, so you can read it right there. If you need

Re: help with start up disk almost full

Hi, Here’s what I did. This might work, not sure, since I didn’t change anything. What you need to do is find where it has the name of the device in the table, at the very top, and click Partition in the toolbar. It looks like you can resize and add and remove partitions from there. I hope this

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

Hi! How to back out of a beta then? /A > 2 okt. 2015 kl. 11:44 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu : > > Yes. There is a secondary effect as well: because elements are no longer > “Clickable” you often can’t click individual words in an element, which is > rather less straightforward

Moving to the next cell in Numbers

How do I finish entering data into a Numbers field and move to the next cell? This is a very simple operation but I have not been able to figure it out. “Enter” kicks me out of the entire table. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: 10.11 and braille

Hi! Well maybe you’re right but its very frustrating that braille hasn’t come very far on the mac. /A > 2 okt. 2015 kl. 14:14 skrev Scott Granados : > > If Apple were a european company or especially German company they would have > faked it so the braille support only

Re: 10.11 and braille

Hi! Well if they have an accessible team they should know braille. They for example asked me how some swedish signs were displayed on my braille display when i was complaining. /A > 2 okt. 2015 kl. 15:35 skrev Mary Otten : > > For whatever the reason, I simply don't think

Re: 10.11 and braille

Hi! If the braille support was like in the screenreader cobra which i’ve tested. Then i could stop using windows. Also if we could get drivers for the most used brailleprinters that would be a great step forward. /A > 2 okt. 2015 kl. 16:52 skrev Mary Otten : > > Well,

Re: 10.11 and braille

Aggree braille in OS X is atrocious. This is one of the reasons I still keep around a Windows installation. Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my 13-inch MacBook Pro > On 3 Oct 2015, at 4:50 am, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Well maybe you’re right but its

Re: Moving to the next cell in Numbers

I believe this is the tab key. Also might want to try the arrow keys without QuickNav on. Best wishes, Jonathan > On Oct 2, 2015, at 13:27, Tom Frank wrote: > > How do I finish entering data into a Numbers field and move to the next cell? > This is a very simple

Re: 10.11 and braille

Hello All, As I sit here in the lobby of a hotel and reflect on the vendors I had a chance to visit with, I'm disheartened to know That the braille displays cost are out of my league. The Bum Vario 20 Cell at $2400 and the Smart Beetle at $1300. I gave up quickly after getting my MacBook Air 2

How do I figure out which library iTunes is using?

Hi all, I'm still trying to solve the problem of not having my ringtones synced to my 6S. I seem to have several copies of my iTunes library on my Mac. How do i figure out which one is being used by iTunes? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Issues with my new I phone 6 S plus.

Hi. I also got my new phone today and have a couple of issues. Even though I have removed my I phone 6 Plus from my account in iCloud, it’s showing up in Text messaging Forwarding so I have I Mac twice even though is on and Mac mini twice even though I haven’t put El Capitan on it yet as that

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

The only way I know of to back out of the beta program is to reinstall the Os to stable. Once you've done that, go into system preferences > app store and find the change button next to prerelease updates. Click on that and disable it and then you won't see more beta updates. It will still

Re: help with start up disk almost full

yes i did all that, but there was a thread on mac rumors that on el capitan this is broke. i need a command on terminal. can somebody help. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hi, > Here’s what I did. This might work, not sure, since I didn’t change

What's the best way of reading mail in default view in El Capitan?

Hello. I have just update one of my computers to El Capitan and wondered what was the best way of reading mail in default view please? I do like this new Operating system so far. I do have other issues but will write in another e-mail. All offers of help appreciated. Thank you very much.

Re: Issues with my new I phone 6 S plus.

Hi, Unfortunately, the only way to accomplish this I know of is to change your apple ID password. I wish there was another way, and there probably is, I just haven’t figured it out yet. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi. > > I also got my new

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

I can definitely confirm this, in fact, the first time it happened to me, it really blew my mind! > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Interestingly, it does on some sites still, but not others, going to wait a > little while before upgrading to el capitan I

Re: Option key plus number doesn't bring up websites in Safari.

With the new version of Safari, you have to use command option and the numbers. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > I've been trying to open Facebook by pressing Command plus 1 from the number > row on my Mac. This always used to work. It doesn't anymore.

How to make a bootable OS X El Capitan USB key

Hello Everyone, Well, it's that time of year, again. I hope you find the following information useful. Good Luck, Mark How to make a bootable OS X El Capitan USB key These are instructions on how to make a bootable OS X El Capitan USB key. 1. Download OS X El Capitan 10.11 from the Mac

Re: help with start up disk almost full

Hi, I’ve had this same problem with OS X Yosemite where unallocated space was difficult to manage on my primary volume once I tried to manually repartition the disk. I think it has something to do with Yosemite and up converting disks to core storage

Re: Alex choppiness, has any fix been found?

Could it be that the Mac has a mechanical hd? Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:23 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I don’t have any problems with alex on my mac mini mid 2011. > /A >> 1 okt. 2015 kl. 14:51 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland

Option key plus number doesn't bring up websites in Safari.

I've been trying to open Facebook by pressing Command plus 1 from the number row on my Mac. This always used to work. It doesn't anymore. I'm using Yosemite. No idea why it doesn't work anymore. None of the Command plus number combinations open the pages to which I've had them assigned for