Leaving beta

2016-10-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all, I was 1 of the iphone beta testers but i need to leave this, because my time did not allow me to test in a good way. So, how can i install the original version from ios10 and recieve the updates as usual not beta versions! Thanks in advance Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty

Sierra and User Name

2016-10-02 Thread E.T.
When I did the clean install today the user name used for the user folder was changed. How do I change it? Is it safe to just edit the folder name? Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all

Re: Ipod Touch Case

2016-10-02 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. This is the exact one I purchased... https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Black-Heavy-Survivor-touch/dp/B00DKTOPL8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8=1475456566=8-4=ipod+touch+griffin+survivor On 9/27/16, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Here ya go, my friend. > >

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
If you are serious about music, there is no way is fits on these small devices. That's why I just said "screw it" and paid for the streaming service. Sure, it requires an internet connection, but you can get stuff offline if needed and if my connection screws up I've got bigger problems than

Re: Trillion question.

2016-10-02 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, how do you do that? I’ve never had to do that before. > On Oct 1, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hello, > One thing to possibly check is to make sure your status is set to “Online” > in the Status menu, access where all the other status menus like the

Re: Need help with a website. This is utterly ridiculous!

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, Mark, but I wasn't trying to select any of the current results. I was trying to start a brand new conversation topic. Yeah, what you did works just fine. It's when you try creating a brand spanken new topic that things go awri. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training

RE: Need help with a website. This is utterly ridiculous!

2016-10-02 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Chris, I could not reproduce your bug. This is to say, I went to the website, using Sierra, however, and located the "Ask the community" edit field. I typed in several questions, including the string that you provided, and a results list was displayed. I will tell you that in order

Minidisk Recorders, USB, and macs

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So... I wanted to put this in a separet thread, as it didn't seem appropriate putting it with my question about the website. I have a Sony MZ-N505 Gold colored portable minidisk recorder unit that was recently donated to me. Obviously, the menus don't speak, and I can't really get someone

Need help with a website. This is utterly ridiculous!

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, the site is: http://community.sony.com I got my account registered, although I'm not sure how necessary that'll be for you all to see my problem. BTW, I'm doing this with El Capitan 10.11.6. I tried on my macbook running Sierra, however, and the results were no better. Once on this

Re: Dash vs Minus

2016-10-02 Thread E.T.
Ahh just like the alt key in Windows. Thanks for this. I will find the list of those codes This will be useful. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/2/2016 11:53 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Well, UNICODE 2122 is apparently the minus sign.

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Not that this is any sort of a competition, but try about 4 terrabytes! I didn't say, gigga! I said what I said, I have about 4 terra! bytes. So, imagine trying to put all that! on a watch. LOL! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yeah, and the only way to then play it without an iPod, or iPhone is to have a set of bluetooth headphones pared to the watch. Trust me, I learned that the hard way. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. -

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
That's still not a lot. I've got about 40GB on my iPod. Cheers, Donna > On Oct 2, 2016, at 3:45 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > Apparently the speculation is that to facilitate this the Watch will increase > to 8 GB and beyond. Someone posted a link to this discussion

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread David Griffith
Apparently the speculation is that to facilitate this the Watch will increase to 8 GB and beyond. Someone posted a link to this discussion earlier on the thread. David Griffith On 02/10/2016 20:54, David tanner wrote: At this point you can only store up to two gigs of music on an Apple

Re: correction re: google docs:

2016-10-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have used the question mark in Google Mail and Google Groups. So at least in some cases this will work for Google products too. Best wishes, Jonathan > On Oct 2, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Michael Babcock wrote: > > the keystroke to bring keystrokes up is

Re: Installing SSD on my mac mini, the os can not read it

2016-10-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The progress should be in the purchased area near the "pause" button. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Oct 2, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > > Hello Tim and Simon: > > I just wana tell you that I went to the technition and the SSD was

Re: Dash vs Minus

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
Fascinating. You just gave us a new toy. Thank you! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread David tanner
At this point you can only store up to two gigs of music on an Apple Watch that's not a whole lot. Sent from my iPhone 7 > On Oct 2, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > That's interesting. It would absolutely never occur to me to use my Apple > Watch as a music

What's in the box with Hannah's mac

2016-10-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hello everyone. Some of you were asking what’s in the box with Hannah’s mac. Well, thanks to more research, found out the software that’s in the box is OS X El Capitan, and not say one or two updates behind with Sierra. It seems all macs, including the Macbook Air which we are now sleeping on,

hyperlinks in PDF

2016-10-02 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I am running the latest El Capitan on my iMac. I have a pages document which contains hyperlinks which work fine in pages with VoiceOver saying “Link” before each hyperlink. Alas when I export this file to PDF Preview does not seem to recognise the hyperlinks. From web research this

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
That's interesting. It would absolutely never occur to me to use my Apple Watch as a music player. I mean, obviously it has the music app, but as I understand it, all music would be played via connecting to the cloud, or another device like an iPhone. Why bother with that when you could just

Re: Dash vs Minus

2016-10-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, UNICODE 2122 is apparently the minus sign. Not only is there a minus sign but a special one for making negative numbers as opposed to positive numbers. There is some way in the international or keyboard settings to input UNICODE minus as option held down while typing 2212. Also, if you go

Re: Article from Digital trends continues. Only Apple could do this.

2016-10-02 Thread Kevin Chao
W1 Chip still has lag :( Based on below excerpt, latency in w1 chip is less than most Bluetooth, but latency /= 0 ms | /= Wired connection. "... a RemoteTalk headphone cable with 3.5mm headphone jacks ... This, effectively, allows you to turn your Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones into a pair of

Re: AirPods hands-on: They stayed in my ears and sounded awesome

2016-10-02 Thread Kevin Chao
W1 Chip still has lag :( Based on below excerpt, latency in w1 chip is less than most Bluetooth, but latency /= 0 ms | /= Wired connection. "... a RemoteTalk headphone cable with 3.5mm headphone jacks ... This, effectively, allows you to turn your Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones into a pair of

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread David Griffith
You may be wise. Tthe discussions I have seen is that Apple want to shift people away from using iPod to using an Apple Watch. I have no definite knowledge as to whether this is true but there seems speculation that iPod development has ceased in favour of this longer term switch. I went to

Re: Mail and things was Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
No offence taken at all. Just saying. > On 2 Oct 2016, at 09:57, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I hope you didn't take offense to the way I asked that question. I was a > little strong in how I asked, so forgive me if so. > --- > Christopher Gilland > JAWS

Re: correction re: google docs:

2016-10-02 Thread Chris G
Thanks, That is what I thought but wanted to make sure. 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 Join our free announce-only mailing

Re: Installing SSD on my mac mini, the os can not read it

2016-10-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
wow, I used the quick navigation, and I can find, thanks so much for that On 10/2/16, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > Hello tim: > > I'm using Mountain lion now, there is no progress indicator at all. > > > On 10/2/16, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> That's

Re: Installing SSD on my mac mini, the os can not read it

2016-10-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello tim: I'm using Mountain lion now, there is no progress indicator at all. On 10/2/16, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > That's good news. I'm glad that the problem is solved. When in the > AppStore, you can activate the Purchased tab, cmd-4, in the table of > purchased

Re: Installing SSD on my mac mini, the os can not read it

2016-10-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, That's good news. I'm glad that the problem is solved. When in the AppStore, you can activate the Purchased tab, cmd-4, in the table of purchased items, there is a download progress column for each item that is being downloaded. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 2,

correction re: google docs:

2016-10-02 Thread Michael Babcock
the keystroke to bring keystrokes up is command+/ In other web based apps, that i use daily, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Trello, Slack, etc the keystroke to show keystrokes is a question mark, however google products is a command+/ on the mac. That’s what i get for assuming! sorry for the

Re: Google Docs question

2016-10-02 Thread michael babcock
and your right sorry: To open a list of keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs, press Ctrl + / (Windows, Chrome OS) or ⌘ + / (Mac). > On Oct 2, 2016, at 8:11 AM, michael babcock > wrote: > > i’m sorry, you need to move focus out of the editing of the document with >

Re: Google Docs question

2016-10-02 Thread michael babcock
i’m sorry, you need to move focus out of the editing of the document with “VO+Left or VO+Right” then use the question mark to open the keystrokes. or, reference this article for the keystrokes: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/179738?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop=en

Re: Google Docs question

2016-10-02 Thread Chris G
Hi, So if I am editing in a doc for example, wouldn't a question mark put in a question mark? On my Chrome book and Windows machines it is control-slash, but it says it is different on the mac. My 2009 mac mini is too slow to do anything with. Chris Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the

Re: Google Docs question

2016-10-02 Thread michael babcock
type a question mark on any google product. > On Oct 2, 2016, at 7:46 AM, Chris G wrote: > > Hi all, > Using the mac I'm looking for the hot key in google docs to bring up a list > of all hot keys. > The online stuff I have found shows a picture. > Chris > > -- >

Google Docs question

2016-10-02 Thread Chris G
Hi all, Using the mac I'm looking for the hot key in google docs to bring up a list of all hot keys. The online stuff I have found shows a picture. Chris -- Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive

Re: Installing SSD on my mac mini, the os can not read it

2016-10-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello Tim and Simon: I just wana tell you that I went to the technition and the SSD was not fixed will. he fixes it and I installed the Mountain lion, and am now updating to EL capitan. Thanks so much for your help just 1 question. am now downloading the el capitan, but I can not find the

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
I did a search and found that the only discontinued ipods so far seem to be the iPod Classic and Mini ones. All the newer ones should still be supported. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Well, that certainly suggests that BestBuy isn't the only one getting rid of their iPod stock. And I agree about buying an out-dated device, I bought my 5th gen the summer before the 6th Gen came out. Not making that mistake again. :) Cheers, Donna > On Oct 2, 2016, at 8:09 AM, Dolores Myers

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Dolores Myers
I have an iPod 5th gen and was thinking of buying an iPod 6th gen. I had been looking at Amazon but hadn’t;t bought anything yet. After reading this thread, I looked at Amazon and the only units they had were from marketplace orders. They did not seem to have any in stock to sell directly

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Yeah, but you're assuming he doesn't know what he's talking about. That is certainly a possibility, I'd be about the last one to put my faith in what I hear at BestBuy, but sometimes they do know what they're talking about. Just saying. We're all assuming he's wrong, when in actuality no one

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
But remember, that doesn't mean it's not being discontinued. I'm sure, even if it is discontinued, that Apple will sell whatever stock they have left. Cheers, Donna > On Oct 1, 2016, at 11:14 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > www.apple.co.nz > > website shows the touch nano

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Helga, Actually, I don't think it really matters where you buy it from. I could also order it from BestBuy.com, that is an option as long as they still have them in stock, anyway. However, as Simon pointed out, the iPod hasn't been updated since the iPhone 6 came out, which is two years

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Mark, no worries. I know the possibility of this comes as a shock to everyone - it certainly did to me. I was talking with my brother-in-law later yesterday, and he said he had also heard that the iPod was being discontinued. Again, I'm not taking his comment as definitive

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Donna Goodin
I thought the same thing, Simon. those are completely different devices that sell at a much lower price point. It would seem like Apple would keep them around just so people have a lower entry point into the market. Cheers, Donna > On Oct 1, 2016, at 10:56 PM, Simon Fogarty

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I can't actually believe I said that! Who am I to judge? I'm no more perfect than that Best Buy guy, in many ways. Forgive me again. Jerk may a been a little strong of a word. Still though, aside from retracting that one thing, I maintain what I said. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS

Re: Mail and things was Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I hope you didn't take offense to the way I asked that question. I was a little strong in how I asked, so forgive me if so. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "christopher

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Oh yes, maybe the mini has been quietly discontinued as well the same time as the classic, I don’t know. > On 2 Oct 2016, at 04:14, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > All but? > > Are they still stocking the iPod Mini's? I've not seen those since like, > 2004 or

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Yeah, we are, actually. Donna, it’s the jerk(s) at best buy we are criticizing here. Good call here Chris . > On 2 Oct 2016, at 04:11, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Donna, we're not criticizing you! Far from it! If anything, we're > criticizing the jerk at

Mail and things was Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Yeah, I know. Until today, I just relied on the preview pain and focus remained there. Now though, I’m changing tactics. I’ve removed the preview pain, interact with the messages table, navigate the subject column, and if a subject interests me I can just open the message with return. If not, I

RE: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Nano, The shuffle is the small 4 gig or similar sized devices and they still sem to be on the web site for sale. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Sunday, 2 October 2016 4:14 PM