Re: Removing an App

2017-06-19 Thread Agent086b
App Delete can’t see it. Max. > On 20 Jun 2017, at 8:32 am, E.T. wrote: > > If you have either Clean My Mac or App Delete you might be able to clear > this one out. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > "God for you is where you sweep away all the > mysteries of the

Re: Removing an App

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, 1. Go to System Preferences. 2. Navigate to the preference you'd like to remove. 3. Press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure the mouse is routed to the VO Cursor. 4. Hold down your ctrl key and click the physical mouse or trackpad. This should bring up the Contextual menu and "Remove Preference

Re: Removing an App

2017-06-19 Thread E.T.
If you have either Clean My Mac or App Delete you might be able to clear this one out. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl

Re: iOS 11 will stop apps like Uber from constantly tracking your location - CNET

2017-06-19 Thread Michael Marshall
What is really confusing is the different dates I am getting for the public release of the first beta. i got late june, early, mid and late july? does anyone know the correct date? i'm guessing july at some point. > On 20 Jun 2017, at 6:27 am, Kevin Chao wrote: > > While

Fwd: Time Machine Backups

2017-06-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Tim Kilburn > Subject: Re: Time Machine Backups > Date: May 8, 2017 at 6:10:19 PM EDT > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Reply-To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > Hi, > > I've pasted

Removing an App

2017-06-19 Thread Agent086b
Hi all, in system preferences I have an App called Printopia. I am unable to find a way to remove it from system preferences. It is not in the Apps folder. Interesting when I log in from my admin account I can not see the App. Can anybody help me remove this App? Thanks as always for any help.

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Agent086b
Hi, I think I read somewhere that facial recognition may not be as secure as we might like. If you show the phone a picture of the owners face that will unlock the phone. I am not sure where I read this, could have been Security Now. Max. > On 19 Jun 2017, at 7:17 pm, Simon Fogarty

Re: Keynote with VoiceOver

2017-06-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Anne, Thank you and thank you again. What would I have done without you all. So generous. Now I can approach Keynote with more confidence. You have saved me from sleepless nights. Best wishes Andrew > On 19 Jun 2017, at 14:52, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello

Re: Keynote with VoiceOver

2017-06-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Tim, Thank you so much. I will create the shortcut combination. Thanks for your support. Andrew > On 19 Jun 2017, at 16:14, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Anne and Andrew, > > I believe that the keyboard shortcut that Anne mentioned is one that was user > created. If I

RE: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread gary-melconian
Actually this wrworks really well on android with android 7.1.2 it actually tell how far you are awa y as faras your face goes, how many ffaces and so on and os that you can takea picture if you really want being blind on android. I don’t know about I os but I know hat this can be done oon

Re: iOS 11 will stop apps like Uber from constantly tracking your location - CNET

2017-06-19 Thread Kevin Chao
While choice and lots of settings sounds great in theory–it falls down in practice. Only power-users, which is a small-subset of the user-base know about these settings and even a smaller set of users that configure them. It’s an engineer approach to stuff in lots of settings, but great UX Design

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
I believe you put the cursor on the view finder and it speaks feedback. When I leave work I’ll do a test run and be more specific. > On Jun 19, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > I try th take a picture using my I phone and voice over says nothing about my >

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I try th take a picture using my I phone and voice over says nothing about my face being in the frame. So how does one do that if one points the phone at one's face as it's never worked for me. > On 19 Jun 2017, at 20:52, Scott Granados wrote: > > Hi Kawal, Voice

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
Oh and one other data point, concerning the signature on your messages. The Mac is not the only computer out there with built in access for the Blind. Chromebooks come with accessibility features, any linux installation can have screen readers, the low cost World books include accessibility

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
Ray, you’re not quite right on this one. Just to clear up a little confusion... You most definitely can work with facial recognition. I do every day for entering some data centers that are highly secure. They used to use palm prints which obviously are very accessible but moved over to

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Ray Foret jr
The answer is that you can’t: period. Either Apple does something about this or I guarantee you there will be a heck of a holler all across the country. But wait a second. Let’s see what the facts of the case really turn out to be before we start chasing after every negative rumor out

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Kawal, Voice Over already has aiming and focusing tips in the camera app that use face detection. Tells you for example “a face near the center of the photo”. The good thing about face detection and recognition is you need be much less precise than with iris scanning. With an iris or

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Scott and others. How the hell is a blind person to use a phone if one has to use face recognition? I for one have no sight, have never seen and can't even hold a phone steady or in the right position for a picture to do its work. I've even tried Tap tap C to aim the phone at something

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
More good info. Thanks Jonathan. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 19, 2017, at 11:33, Jonathan Cohn wrote: I believe the place 1 Password still shines brighter then Apple equivalents is the ability to share Vaults within teams. This functionality

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe the place 1 Password still shines brighter then Apple equivalents is the ability to share Vaults within teams. This functionality seems very well thought out, and allows one to easily control who has access to what services. I also like the multi-word password generator scheme in one

Re: MacBook pro with touch bar.

2017-06-19 Thread Alex Hall
I'll reiterate my response from that thread, in case the OP of this one didn't see that one. I really like the keyboard. It's comfortable after an initial period of adjustment, and I find it easier to press keys. Moving to an older Mac now feels like more work than I'm used to having to put

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, iCloud Keychain does all that as well. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:11, Brandon Olivares wrote: Honestly I like it because I can store more than just passwords in it. I keep my credit card information in 1Password, as

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Brandon Olivares
Honestly I like it because I can store more than just passwords in it. I keep my credit card information in 1Password, as well as banking information, server connection details, my PIN for EFTPS for paying taxes, etc, etc. Plus it can generate secure passwords for me with the criteria I choose.

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! You could also wait for the Nokia 9 if it comes out this year? That seems to be an intresting one. /A > 19 juni 2017 kl. 16:53 skrev Scott Granados : > > Hi Simon, > > The new iPhone is projected to have some sort of facial recognition. > The retinal scanning

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Thanks Scott and ET. For now, I'm not interested in getting an Android, nor do I use Windows other than for AD stuff at work. Sounds like I'm fine with iCloud Keychain. Good info. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 19, 2017, at 09:33, E.T.

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread E.T.
Tim, This is one of those things that falls under those "I don't know what I am missing" categories. I had started with RoboForm under Windows many eons ago so to me it was a natural to install 1Password. 1Password probably duplicates many functions that are built into Apple such as

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
I believe one big area is across non Mac or Apple platforms. SO I you need to wrap windows or android in to your list of platforms you’ll need something other than keychain. > On Jun 19, 2017, at 11:25 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Just because I've never bothered with

Re: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Just because I've never bothered with this sort of service, I have a possibly silly question. What advantage do services like this have over Apple's built-in iCloud Keychain? Do they handle more types of passwords or something? iCloud Keychain syncs across devices, remembers passwords

Re: Keynote with VoiceOver

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Anne and Andrew, I believe that the keyboard shortcut that Anne mentioned is one that was user created. If I recall correctly, my keyboard shortcut is cmd-option-cmd-right or left. Creating this shortcut will greatly improve your ease of navigation within Keynote slides. You can create

Re: So what do we think of the WWDC new hardware?

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
It’s a pretty good bet a 3rd gen model will be out in the Fall though. Do we know for sure, nope you’re right but it’s a reasonable guess. > On Jun 16, 2017, at 3:12 PM, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Hello, honestly? We don't know if and when a new Apple Watch

Re: new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Simon, The new iPhone is projected to have some sort of facial recognition. The retinal scanning it’s been my experience does not work for a blind person. I have tried to use this in data centers instead of palm prints or facial recognition and the systems require the user to focus

Re: MacBook pro with touch bar.

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
Hi there, so others different with me but I don’t like the built in keyboard and the light bar is to sensitive. My fingers trigger things like mute and screen brightness when I’m typing on the top row of keys. The keyboard is also very small and your fingers that tend to rest near the touch

Re: iOS 11 will stop apps like Uber from constantly tracking your location - CNET

2017-06-19 Thread Scott Granados
I agree, more choice is a good thing. Don’t let Uber or anyone else make this choice for me. As long as there’s a knob I can control my self I’m for it. > On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > I agree regarding the validity. The benefit to this

Re: Which iPads run Swift Playground?

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, For the most part, from the iPad Mini 2 and up, the iPad Air, the iPad Pro etc, Swift Playground is usable, it's the regular "iPad" models, those without any special designation that have the limitations. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 18, 2017, at 12:01, 'Jason

Re: iOS 11 will stop apps like Uber from constantly tracking your location - CNET

2017-06-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I agree regarding the validity. The benefit to this feature though is the choice from the user prospective. If the user would rather not these apps do this sort of thing, they can disable it. Improves on security and a user's ability to configure to their own preferences. Later... Tim

Re: Keynote with VoiceOver

2017-06-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, The same principles apply in Keynote as in the other iWork applications. Make sure that Navigator is checked in the View menu so that you can see quickly how many slides are in the document. Interact with the navigator and go to first item (VO-Home) to get to slide 1. Press VO-j

Re: MacBook pro with touch bar.

2017-06-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Alex, That was a really nice review. Great balance between your own subjective reactions and impressions, and info on how things actually work. I hadn't seen it when you first posted it to AppleVis, so thanks for reminding us again. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 18, 2017, at 6:05 PM, Alex Hall

Keynote with VoiceOver

2017-06-19 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, For the first time ever I am in the position of having to use Keynote to read power point presentation which a colleague of mine has chosen as an absolute preference. Needless to say, I'm nervous. I wanted to ask for any tips of how best to proceed with Keynote as regards using it with

new features of iPhone next gen

2017-06-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi List, I thought I'd ask this question and see what people think, I was looking at the new Samsung Galaxy S8 today and must admit it's a bloody nicely designed device, However it's an android device so it will be a very big second choice if I'm to get a new phone. A couple of things I did

RE: MacBook pro with touch bar.

2017-06-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Alex, Thanks for this, Good bit of info, I have been looking at a new machine but they wouldn’t let me customise one with the specs I wanted and not having the touchbar, I only wanted the top of the line for everything without the tb as it wasn’t a friendly thing when I had a play withit

RE: password management / security

2017-06-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
stuff that, a year that’s a rip off, thanks for the info though. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon A. Olivares Sent: Monday, 19 June 2017 5:23 AM To: “Mac Visionaries“ Subject: Re: password

RE: So what do we think of the WWDC new hardware?

2017-06-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
$229.00 new Zealand dollars, And I think it was $129 usa dollars, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Dyer Sent: Monday, 19 June 2017 2:19 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: So what do