RE: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

Hi Sharon, Bootcamp is the service that windows runs within on your mac. It is the thing or application within the mac os that gives you the ability to have the dual boot system. When you are in windows running within bootcamp there is an option on the task bar which allows you to restart

RE: Strange problem with voices in 10.12.3.

I knew it, Apple products are two faced! Could you possibly have one of the voices set to do anouncements? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2017 9:00 AM To:

RE: Cross Posting Ubuntu info

Hi Larry, Thanks and yes had looked at that but felt it wasn’t going to allow me what I needed. I would have preferred other distribs but they although having what I needed didn’t have accessibility Thanks anyway I’ll take another look at vinux From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Apple Watch questions

Hi Donna, Yeah I have the same issue with my original series 1, I've got the series 2 with gps and haven't been able to sell the original, think I'm going to end up giving it to my nephew when he updates his phone. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Apple Watch questions

Yeah took mine off charge at 7am this morning and leaving it off till it dies to see how long I get out of one charge Should be interesting, Approx. 20% over 13 hours, not really a good rate so far. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Off topic; Sonos price increase in UK

Hi Andrew, Thanks for that bad news, I had noticed that a supplier here in NZ has had their products on sale for the passed couple of months. Could they be releasing updated products as well? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew

RE: Cross Posting Ubuntu info

Hi Eric, What is BRLTTY? I’m assuming a brl system although TTY is normally the system earing impaired use is it not? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Erik Burggraaf Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2017 1:11 AM To:

Re: Carrier unlimited data war continues

Whatever carrier you are with if it’s one of the major 4. > On Feb 13, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Kliphton Miller wrote: > > Well, today Verizon offers unlimited data. Of course there are some caveats > read more about it here >

Carrier unlimited data war continues

Well, today Verizon offers unlimited data. Of course there are some caveats read more about it here http://www.redmondpie.com/verizon-launches-new-unlimited-data-plan-here-are-the-details/ This past weekend sprint jumped on the unlimited data band wagon, but theres doubles after a year, and it

Re: Strange problem with voices in 10.12.3.

Jonathan, I have salved the problem. It would appear that I had something set in the voices section in the vo prefs. Not sure how it got set but it is fixed now. Thanks for the help. Matthew > On Feb 13, 2017, at 5:16 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > There are three

Another thought about using VMWAre

Hi again, I had another thought about using VMWare. I noticed that there are two menus for choosing applications. One is for adding applications you want to use, and the other is about default apps. is it possible that I can simply add Windows specific apps, such as individual games and an

Re: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

Thanks for all the tips and explanations everyone. Just so you know, I would have been okay without VMWare, when it comes to choosing the Windows startup disc, as by can go through the motions without voice feedback, but it’s frustrating when I have no feedback as to when to release the key

Re: Strange problem with voices in 10.12.3.

There are three possibilities I can think of: 1. You have VoiceOVer Activities enabled with different voices. (try VO-X and see if any are listed) 2. You have spoken notification announcements enabled in the Speech and Dictation section of System Settings that will use the default voice for the

Re: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

Sharon, There are two ways that one can have Windows on the Macintosh platform and it is possible you have both. If you have VMWare Fusion and a Windows virtual machine in that then you can at least one way of accessing Windows. The other major way of accessing windows is using Bootcamp in order

RE: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

I tried that, but my vm never worked that well. Rhonda -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Hooley Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 4:42 PM To: Mac Visionaries Subject: Re:

Re: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

No, Bootcamp was not installed in Windows, as I previously thought it needed to be. This was not on a PC computer. This was, and is, on a Mac Book Air. As for what I’m trying to do, I’m trying to switch reliably on the fly between Mac and Windows, using VMWare Fusion 8.5 plus,, on my Mac Book

Re: Moving between Mac and Windows, a little help please?

Okay, Here’s the thing about thinking I might need Bootcamp installed on my Mac: Some months ago, I was trying to get help to switch from Windows back to my Mac Book Air, which I now know how to do with a simple keyboard command. But at that time, my sighted helper googled how to make

Strange problem with voices in 10.12.3.

Hi all, I have a very strange problem which is driving me crazy. I switched from Alex to Samantha on my IMAC 21 inch and after switching back to Alex, Samantha and Alex are both specking at the same time. In other words, Alex will start talking for example if in mail and I receive a new

Re: Reading tables in pdf documents with Voiceover

Yes, they are generally much better in Windows. This is one place where Apple has really fallen short. The topic of PDF reading comes up here from time to time, but I have not seen a good solution to this. Simple documents are somewhat manageable, but I too have the issue with statements. >

Reading tables in pdf documents with Voiceover

Hi, I have a real problem reading tables in pdf documents. Various financial institutions including banks provide vital customer related and strictly private info in tables as a pdf download. When I open a pdf document like this in Preview, the information which otherwise one would read in

First impressions of 2nd gen series 1 Apple watch

Hi all, Just thought I'd share my first impressions, in case anyone out there is considering this purchase. First, I'm extremely happy with this upgrade, and highly recommend it. Below is what I've observed so far. The watch is definitely more responsive. No more waiting around for the

Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

Thanks to Ray and Andrew for their posting to this thread. They’ve made a very good case for choosing FineReader! - Bill - "That I have no sight, does not mean I have no vision." - Bill Gallik, Northern Wisconsin Curmudgeon, 1952-20?? (I am NOT delusional)?? -- The following

Re: Cross Posting Ubuntu info

If you don’t already know about it, Vinux may be an option here. I don’t think they use the server version but there’s lots of expertise there to help. I had a system up and running briefly but never learned enough to be really competent with it. http://vinuxproject.org > On Feb 13, 2017,

Re: Is there anyway to verify the model of an Apple Watch from the watch?

Yeah, Tim had it. You have to know the model number. It seems like there should be a more direct way of doing this, like there is with the iPhone. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 13, 2017, at 1:35 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi donna, > > Use the watch app on your phone, > >

Re: Apple Watch questions

Hi Simon, Thanks as always. I thought about the same thing you suggested, but I use the watch for my work-outs, and didn't really want to go a week or two without one. Also, I haven't research sales of first gen watches, but I wasn't sure we could get much more than the $200 we'd pay to fix

Re: Apple Watch questions

Looking forward to seeing what I get with the series 1. Today is my first full day with the watch, so I'll definitely be monitoring the battery life. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:10 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > That battery difference is significant. I get

Re: Apple Watch questions

I just kept the stainless steel band that I used with my old watch. I hate bands with buckles, takes too much fuss to get the watch on and off. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 12, 2017, at 10:42 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > What band did you go with? > > I have that metal

Re: Apple Watch questions

Hi Scott, I didn't know about this distinction either until I was in the Apple store on Saturday. The long and short of it was that they were going to charge me $200 to send my old watch off to Apple to be repaired, and for $270 I could have the second gen series 1. Once I figured out that

Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

I use FineReaderPro a lot, and I feel it's worth the money. You can scan and recognise documents , it has automatic page orientation feature, scans multiple pages, and you can convert to various formats: pdf, dox, rtf, txt, excel, html. It also recognises documents in up to 3 different

Off topic; Sonos price increase in UK

Hi Listers, I know that many of you love Sonos, so I thought I'd share notification of their products price increase from 23rd of February this year. Here is a link to their new pricing: https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4252 Andrew -- The following information is

Re: Cross Posting Ubuntu info

Hi, I would expect to find speak up and brltty both in the command line interface. Best, Erik Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On February 13, 2017 3:08:34 AM Simon Fogarty wrote: Hi Listers, Sorry about the cross posting But I thought there

Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

I have had some success with Abby Fine Reader in this regard. I’d go ahead and get it because many here use it and find it perfectly satisfactory. As for the other, I reckon you should be able to try it and, if it fails to meet your needs, you could ask Apple for a refund. However, before

FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

I’m looking to install an OCR package on my Mac Mini to facilitate scanning paper documents and photocopy generated PDFs. In searching in the MacOS store for “FineReader” I got two results. The first is “FineReader OCR Pro” ($119.95) and “OCR Kit” ($35.95); my question to this list is this;

Re: Calculator for the Mac

Thanks. As far as I know Numbers is not able to draw curves. > Am 13.02.2017 um 08:57 schrieb Simon Fogarty : > > Excel or numbers? > > Just a thought! > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

Cross Posting Ubuntu info

Hi Listers, Sorry about the cross posting But I thought there might be people on both kist that could assist. I'm looking for a system to setup a Secure FTP server and Mac OS is not an option as much as I'd like it to be. So I'm looking at Ubuntu esktop or server. I know Ubuntu desktop has