RE: New Mac User

Hi Marie, I find David Woodbridge audio tutorials extremely good. I have immensely benefited from them. Warmly, Hem. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: 01 September 2019 05:55 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New Mac User

RE: Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward, The Verge

No argument whatsoever to the need for listening to speech patterns. In fact that need is all the more reason to both higher individuals for this purpose, and to honestly clearly and with transparency ask users for their help. Kare On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Simon A Fogarty wrote: Like voice

RE: Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward, The Verge

Like voice recognition systems world wide They need to keep listening to speech patterns to keep bettering the product -Original Message- From: 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries Sent: Sunday, 1 September 2019 2:18 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple apologizes for Siri

SIRI Changes on Both Mac and iPhone?

Okay, here’s a fun one. I decided to change my SIRI voice on the Mac to a male voice. All good. Except that it also changed on my iPhone. Do I need to uncheck something in iCloud to allow them to have separate identities? Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and

Re: How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

John, I may have figured it out. In the View menu, selecting message, there’s a pull-out list where one choice is show headers. I selected this and now I’m able to dig down to the headers, including the subject. Thanks for putting a bug in my ear. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar,

Re: How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

Yes, Mojave 10.14.6. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- 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

Re: How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

I have to do some experimenting back in Mojave. You are running Mojave, right? I know it can be slightly different with format types, and you might be able to play with the fields that show from the View panes from Mail preferences. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind

Re: How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

John, What am I doing wrong? I VO-leftarrow to the Message Headers group and Press VO-shift-downarrow. I get 5 items: Mark as VIP, John Panarese, Time/date, JP, and Details Button. Pressing the Details Button does not appear to bring up anything, and it just changes to a Hide button. Using Tab

Re: How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

In theory, you can open a message and navigate to the header fields. If you interact with it, you should be able to read the fields. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE

How to Read the Message Headers for Received Mail

Sometimes I’d like to know if a message was sent to me directly or if it was sent to a list and I was part of the broadcast. How do I get to the TO:, CC:, BCC:, and Subject fields in the header for a message I’m reading? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and

Re: New Mac User

No, I have not forgotten and it would be hard since most podcasts for beginners, encourages new user to go through it at least once. I started it this afternoon and had to interrupt it for now but will probably continue tomorrow. So far, some of the tutorials and podcasts actually do a better

Re: External DVD/CD Drive is not Recognized

Interesting, I’ve been using one of the C to A adaptor with no problems, but I also have one of those multi socket adapters and I might give that a go with my DVD drive to see if I get the same issue. > On 1/09/2019, at 11:18 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Yes, and sorry for not keeping you all

Re: New Mac User

Marie, don’t forget to plow through the getting started guide. You can find it by pressing the help menu keys VO plus h. The getting started guide is down at the bottom of the list. You might find some trouble in browsing at first, but try to bring up the table of contents and you’ll find a

Re: External DVD/CD Drive is not Recognized

Glad to hear all is well now. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 8/31/2019 4:18 PM, Dave Carlson wrote: Yes, and sorry for not keeping you all up to date. My problem seemed to be connectivity

Re: External DVD/CD Drive is not Recognized

Yes, and sorry for not keeping you all up to date. My problem seemed to be connectivity rather than compatibility. My MacBook Pro only has USB C connectors, and I purchased an Apple multi-port adapter with 3 USB 3.0 ports plus a few other goodies in a cumbersome but nonetheless useful

Re: External DVD/CD Drive is not Recognized

Dave, is the drive now working? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 8/30/2019 10:26 PM, Dave Carlson wrote: Where is the “CD/DVD Category” in System Preferences? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar,

Re: Double-Tapping to Send Mail?

Hi Tim, I checked out that link for the internet speed and could not work out how to find our speed? We’ve just changed internet providers this week and I was curious as to how fast it is. It certainly seems faster than our old provider. Petrus > On 1/09/2019, at 7:11 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via

Sound effects in the mail app

Hi all, I’ve worked out how to change the in coming sound in my mail app on the Mac for my emails, but I can only find the sounds that came with the Mac. I do have a few sound effects on my iPhone that I got through the iTunes Store and I was wondering if I can use those on the Mac as well? And

Re: New Mac User

Thanks, but you’ve returned the favour a few times,, I would never have worked out that quick nav tip the other day. Take care, Petrus > On 1/09/2019, at 8:44 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Well, Petrus. For being a new user, you’ve already provided me with some > valuable help, and I

Re: New Mac User

Well, Petrus. For being a new user, you’ve already provided me with some valuable help, and I appreciate the 6-month lead you have in experience. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: New Mac User

I listened to the short introductory videos on the Hadley site, as well as several from David Woodbridge on Applies and some other misc. also from Apple Vis. Today I am going to sit down with the Air and follow the free podcast from John, Introduction to Voiceover on the Mac. I have lots to

Re: New Mac User

Hi Marie and others, Welcome to the list Marie, what are the podcasts you’ve listened to so far? I may have herd some of them already but you never no. I’m also a new user, well I’ve been using a Mac since January but still consider myself a beginner. I only ever used windows machines and never

Re: Copying text from a web site

Leo, Selecting text in SAfari on a Mac computer has always been a bit wearisome. You could try using shift key and arrow keys to see whether you can select the text. If that’s failed, I use copy last phrase to the clipboard method which copies the last chunk of text Voiceover says by pressing

Re: Double-Tapping to Send Mail?

Hi, Tabbing multiple times after the Subject line is normal. The delay in sending would not have anything to do with signature choices. If that message came up then, yes, sending would be temporarily halted, but if that message did not appear, then there's no connection between those items.

Re: New Mac User

I am another new member, but I am a little more experienced than Marie. I joined this group because I have a job with my church editing documents. We are using Pages and I don’t know a whole lot about pages. We are not using the templates, thank heaven. We are just using it the way one would

Re: New Mac User

Thanks for the welcomes by you and John. The Mac for the Blind website is one I have visited and just downloaded the free tutorial from DEC. I also am familiar with Apple Vis since I have been using the IPhone since 2011 and even do a bit of teaching in it’s use for newly vision impaired

Re: New Mac User

Marie, You heard from John already. I recommend you visit his web site at macfortheblind.com and look at his audio tutorials. Many are cost-based, but there are about a half dozen basic tutorials that are free, and are very well done. I learned a lot from John’s

Re: New Mac User

If you give the Mac an honest and complete try, you will find it a pleasure to use. I am an “old dog” who learned new tricks in 2005 to switch over, and though I will never say it was an easy transition, an open mind and persistence paid off. I’d be happy to assist in any way. Take Care

New Mac User

Hi, I am just giving the Mac Book Air a try after many years as a PC user. I currently have a loaner 2013 model running Mojave. I have some podcasts which are helping tremendously but some advice and help from more experienced users will be very much appreciated. I want to disprove the saying,

Re: Endnote, wasTraining for Word

Julie, How do you do footnotes in pages? Also, how do you set up paragraph styles? Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 31, 2019, at 6:48 AM, Julie Rattray wrote: > > Hi, > > I also do research and use pages with endnote - just really getting to grips > with it but would be happy to share as I learn

Re: Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward, The Verge

Is this looking like a circle with no end in sight? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 8/30/2019 10:18 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: granted I was teasing, but still there is nothing in this technology

Re: Training for Word

Hi, I have tried both Zotero and Mendali and agree with Simon neither are particularly VO friendly - as I said in another message I am getting to grips with endnote and finding it fairly user friendly so far - you get a plugin for pages which works well I think - have not tried it with word

Re: Training for Word

Me too I teach education and I find that I prefer to draft stuff in pages etc but if I need to send stuff to colleagues who don’t use Mac then I simply export to word and have not had issues with loosing formatting etc. also pages opens word documents I am sent with no issues so far. > On 30

Re: Endnote, wasTraining for Word

Hi, I also do research and use pages with endnote - just really getting to grips with it but would be happy to share as I learn if that would be of interest. I can enter bibliographic info into endnote and have also tagged references so I can sort my extensive library according to themes. I am

Re: Copying text from a web site

Hi, I'm not Jonathan, but the answer to your question is yes, it works. Just make sure after pressing vo-return, not to stop pressing vo, then you can errow to select as much as you want. Best, Leo. On 8/30/2019 10:55 PM, Hemachandran Karaha wrote: Dear Jonathan, Does this selection

Re: Copying text from a web site

Well, for some reason this doesn't work for me. After interacting with the text, whenever I press vo-return voice over makes that little sound which means no performed action. I don't know why. Best, Leo. On 8/30/2019 7:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: You can sorta do this if the text is in a

Re: External DVD/CD Drive is not Recognized

Hello Dave, If your DVD drive is not recognised, there will be no entry in System Preferences. Did you make sure that the drive is Mac compatible? Cheers, Anne > On 31 Aug 2019, at 07:26, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Where is the “CD/DVD Category” in System Preferences? > > > Dave Carlson >

Re: copying from email on an iPhone

Hi Lorie, Not sure if there is another way, but I do it like this . Once you have your curser in front of the link or text you wish to copy then use your rotor to find text selection, then flick your finger down once to change it to word selection or twice to select line if there is only the