Re: thoughts about voiceover and its usage of the accessibility API

2015-06-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I wonder if this will change with Swift being open source. From what I hear developers really like it, other than all the usual just outta beta kind of quirks. Seems like there has been this Apple Way of developing even back in the Orca Pascal days. Most of the dev work wasn't writing code in

Re: Building a website, what's the best way?

2015-06-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
First you can play with HTML without buying anything. You can put text edit in plain text mode and start writing your first html file. Then load that in Safari to check your work. You'll just flip back and forth adding stuff and reviewing. Once you've got the hang of HTML then I'd start

Re: Remote Control for Mac?

2015-06-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I just tried this between two Macs I have here at my desk with the latest OSX but got no love. I could bring up the screen sharing just fine and turn on voiceover on the remote mac but none of the audio came through. So I could hear the second machine talking but on the first machine there was

Re: skipping youtube ads on the mac

2015-06-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think most ad blockers work by blocking access to known ad servers on the internet. Most web site ads are not served by the site itself but for YouTube this is not the case. The video you want and the 'pre-roll' ad all come from youtube's own servers so you can't block the ad without also

Re: menus on web pages causing problems

2015-06-17 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
On web pages there are real menus created using the select element and options within that select. Some sites choose to fake this behavior with piles of spans, divs, css and javascript event handlers. There are lots of reasons they do this such as making a consistent look and feel between

Re: Apple watch voices

2015-06-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't have a watch but I wonder if the frequency range of the voices matter? I know it takes more power/bigger speakers to reproduce bass notes so it could be that a male Daniel voice pushes the limits more that a higher pitched Samantha. CB On 6/15/15 5:09 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: Yes,

Re: Piping sound to another device?

2015-06-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I might also point out that if you have a nice receiver you might want to connect it using something other than blue tooth. Your Mac has optical audio outputs so you can use that for very high quality digital audio to most receivers which have optical inputs. Of course that still leaves you in

Re: Google groups.

2015-06-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I didn't see a reply to this and I've never actually changed my email address so I don't know if there is a way. With your login being tied to your email address it seems like it would be difficult to just change your address. I know a number of folks have subscribed with their new address and

Re: Malware

2015-06-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
As a followup on this, my parents came for a visit this past weekend so I had them do the adawaremedic thing and it cleaned up a bunch of goo. My Dad said his machine is now running much faster and Safari doesn't redirect to weird random adware sites anymore. CB On 5/16/15 11:41 AM, Caitlyn

Re: synchronise files/folders privately

2015-06-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
So if your iphone/ipad is synched/backed up to your Mac via iTunes then all the files are local on the Mac, not in icloud. If you could set iTunes to store these backups in a network drive from your NAS, would that not get you where you want to be? CB On 6/10/15 4:43 PM, William Windels

Re: installing windows on a mac questions

2015-06-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
VMWare Fusion, like most virtualization systems, stores all the Windows data on a fake C drive which shows up on the Mac side as a giant multi-GB file which grows as you store more stuff on the Windows side. That package file can be placed anywhere you want, including external drives. VMWare

Re: trying to root my moto G using terminal on the mac

2015-06-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I know nothing about fastboot but usually the $ means a prompt where you type stuff, not part of the actual command to be typed. Anyway, few things I would check. Where is the fastboot executable file located? If it's in /usr/local/bin then just try doing cd /usr/local/bin then you don't

Re: Use FaceTime for phonecalls?

2015-05-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I know for the recipient it rings both phones. Both my parents have iPhones on one AppleID so when I use FaceTime to call them both of their phones ring and I get whichever one answers first. CB On 5/29/15 9:26 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: 2 iPhones on the same wifi network using the same apple

Re: subscribing to the list

2015-05-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Not a big deal. Gary had asked to join on a Friday and that happened to be the Friday I was leading a team of volunteers to work at a thrift store to support some local homeless shelters. Throw in some kid event on the same weekend and I didn't get back to Gary until Monday. It all worked out.

Re: ot: subscribe to group digest

2015-05-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
It's in the My Settings popup which is about nine tab stops from the Search field at the top of the page. Once there hit space to activate the menu then down arrow to Membership and Email Settings. In that dialog the 4th tab stop is email delivery preferences. If you hit space on that you can

Fwd: Deviation Request Form for 26453886 – Christopher Blouch

2015-05-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
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Re: Deviation Request Form for 26453886 – Christopher Blouch

2015-05-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Doh. How did I end up sending it here? Sorry everyone. Was supposed to go to the grandparents. CB On 5/13/15 11:47 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: The post may have been misdirected, but now I want to go on a cruise. Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2015, at 10:11 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries

Re: How Do You Format A USB Drive

2015-05-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You'll want to use Disk Utility which is found in the Utilities folder. You can get there quickly when in the Finder by doing command-option-U. Basically you'll have to navigate to your USB drive then navigate to the Erase tab where you'll find options for what format to use and the name to

Re: changing my subscription to digestMode

2015-05-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
When you are in groups.google.com and have MacVisionaies open, it should take you here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/macvisionaries About 15 tab stops from the top of the page is a button called My Settings. Hit the space bar to pop this open and then down arrow to find My

Re: Open office for the Mac.

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Last I checked it was still pretty weak but, as a free app, you can give it a try. Maybe they fixed things up since I last poked at it. CB On 4/27/15 3:17 PM, sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am wondering how accessible the current Version of open Office is for the Mac? Thanks in

Re: Problems with Safari

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like you got the same infection my parents did. I still haven't rooted it all out but whatever you do, don't call the number or give them your credit card. CB On 4/27/15 2:48 PM, KristeenHughes wrote: Jonathan, I tried your fix, but when I went back into Safari after turning my WIFI

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
and windows? Is McAfee equally slow as in the end of 90’s and start of the year 2000 or so? Is there a «best virus/malware scanner» that work both in osx and virtual windows? Take care 28. apr. 2015 kl. 17:50 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com: For those

Re: Which DVD software is it people are using?

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm, that seems like the correct address: http://cdn.macdvdripperpro.com/MDRP_v504.zip At least it downloaded just fine for me. CDN standards for Content Distribution Network where you pay somebody to distribute your big files by having the DNS lookup serve an IP of a server geographically

VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
For those still on the 6.x version VMWare released an update on April 23. From their web site: Fixed a rare issue where a virtual machine could freeze when reading or writing data to a shared folder. A virtual machine connected to the network with NAT and running many concurrent DNS requests

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
:50 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: For those still on the 6.x version VMWare released an update on April 23. From their web site: Fixed a rare issue where a virtual machine could freeze when reading or writing data to a shared folder. A virtual

Re: VMWare Fusion updated to 6.0.6

2015-04-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
. or do i have to ask someone to click it for me, since the first thing to lick was the timezone i think. On 28 Apr 2015, at 6:15 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Yes, but for many folks version 6 still works just fine. I would assume

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Good to know. My parents just got fooled. They say that there was some popup that said their flash was out of date and to download an updater. Well, they went ahead and did that but it wasn't the real Flash updater. So now every time they click a link it opens a new browser tab to some other

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This comes up every now and then. Short answer is that the list is what folks make of it. Long answer is that the name is probably a bit of an anachronisim at this point. The list was founded years before iPhone OS became iOS and then became accessible with VoiceOver. So as more and more

Re: Maybe a stupid question, but does a web site service like this exist?

2015-04-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
l-mail's prices are here: https://l-mail.com/scripts/static/pricing.php So in the US it's $1.47 for credit and $2.08 for debit cards for a three-page letter. There is also a $3.74 surcharge if you don't open an account with a deposit, which implies that you can use their service without

Re: How to print from my router

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't have one of these but what I could find says that you have to download and install the DLink SharePort Plus software, then set up the printer on your Mac to make sure you have all the drivers for it installed, then plug your printer into the DLink and use the SharePort software to make

Re: App Store Preferences WasRe: Wow! Now how cool is that! of a discovery!

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
That is correct. The App Store app itself has no preference settings. Instead you have to go to System Preferences and then find App Store in there to access the automatic update settings. That's not confusing at all :) Even though I've had automatic updates on for a while it does require

Re: question about power point

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What are you opening it with? MS Office, last I checked, was not accessible but you should be able to read it with Keynote. CB On 4/14/15 7:56 AM, Rebecca A Sabo wrote: Hi all, I am trying to read a power point on my mack using voice over . It just reads the slide and the number but no text

Re: Um... OK, why is my mac running so slow all of a sudden?

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like you hit all the usual suspects. I know my MacBook was sluggish for about three days after I upgraded but I didn't disable spotlight. Now it seems to be pretty much back to normal. I also noticed that my next time machine backup was huge. I think it said 180GB so the update

Re: something to push adobe to make their applications accessible

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm, usually the web lawsuits I've read revolve around lack of access to a particular service or product and not around a particular technology. So if the Target or United Airlines web site was inaccessible because of using Flash, that would put those companies on the hook for choosing their

Re: Thinking of buying Pages

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I thought Pages was now free if you're on OSX 10.10. I actually paid for my copy so I can't be 100% sure. Check the Mac app store and make sure you can't just download them. CB On 4/14/15 11:54 PM, Agent086b wrote: Hello all, I have been using Textedit since I got my Mac. I have a document

Re: something to push adobe to make their applications accessible

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
reader user, you can’t access the updater through it’s application? On 15/04/2015, at 1:41 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Hmm, usually the web lawsuits I've read revolve around lack of access to a particular service or product and not around

iOS 8.3 Accessibility bugfix list

2015-04-14 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In case you haven't taken the plunge yet, here is what Apple says is fixed for accessibility in the iOS 8.3 update: •Fixes an issue where using the back button in Safari causes VoiceOver gestures to not respond •Fixes an issue where VoiceOver focus becomes unreliable in draft

Re: IoS 8.3, strange behavior

2015-04-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In case you're not familiar with some of this philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good Watson-Watt, who developed early warning radar in Britain to counter the rapid growth of the Luftwaffe, propounded a cult of the imperfect, which he stated as Give them the

Re: Need app to shrink DVD's

2015-04-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Do you already have the video files off the DVD onto your computer? If so it seems like the free handbrake video encoder should be able to do what you want. Tricky part will be deciding what you want thrown away. If you're going to burn it to another DVD you'll have to keep the frame rate and

Re: Bying a new mac.

2015-04-07 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I suspect it's the CompuLab Display Emulator which is US$15 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulator/dp/B00FLZXGJ6/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8qid=1428442208sr=8-1-fkmr0keywords=hdmi+headless+devices I haven't tried this myself so I don't know if it makes a Mini

Re: chargers?

2015-04-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Generally all Apple's chargers are will take pretty much any voltage or frequency you'll find in the developed world. The main thing you'll need is an adapter to get the plugs to physically connect. Spain is on the 230v 50hz standard. So if you have one of those adapters you should be all set.

Re: Bying a new mac.

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I know the older minis required a video connection or the machine would bog down. I suspected it was some hardware issue in which the video subsystem was trying to detect the resolution of the attached device. The workaround at the time was various VGA dongle tricks that made the mini think

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
confused if they try bringing up the dashboard like Chris said with F12, and nothing happens. Chris. - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 1:55 PM Subject: Re: weather

Re: how to message someone offsets here not by asking his/her email address here?

2015-04-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think they meant they were trying to recall the actual keys from memory and didn't check them. Gena was close but the key combo is actually command option U to Show Page Source which is also available under the Develop menu in Safari. If you don't have the Develop menu I'm not sure if the

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Are you talking about the weather widget when you hit F12? If so, mine gives a 6-day forecast in a group. When I interact with that I can step though each of the days to get the basic high/low partly cloudy type stuff. CB On 4/3/15 11:21 AM, ted phillips wrote: Hi all. I am wondering if

Re: weather aps for the mac?

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
and how to set it up so I can read it. Thanks On Apr 3, 2015, at 11:55 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Are you talking about the weather widget when you hit F12? If so, mine gives a 6-day forecast in a group. When I interact with that I can step

Re: NAS questions

2015-04-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't know about the NAS part but weird noises isn't always a for sure indicator. My old Mac tower has three hard drives in it and they have made all kinds of weird noises but they keep on going. Depending on your enclosure, it could just be the fan. For internal drives you can check the

Re: Sharing videos, making them smaller

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Handbrake is free and can be downloaded from here: https://handbrake.fr That said, video is just very large. A typical DVD has around 4-9GB of video data, and that's compressed from the source. Even if you compress a video really hard it's probably not going to get below the 10MB cap most

Re: Dlink Modem router

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Not sure what the cost difference is but the DLink DIR-628 I had was nothing but trouble. Couldn't get my devices to stay connected. I finally spent a lot more and got an Apple Airport and all the problems went away. It just works. If it were me I would get a simple DSL to Ethernet router and

Re: Dlink Modem router

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
of there range I think. Was the web interface accessible at that time? Yours was about the time when Dlink had a bad name here. Thanks again. Max On 2 Apr 2015, at 2:31 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Wow, had to dig a bit to figure that out and I

Re: Dlink Modem router

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
modem here. Could you tell me how long ago you had your Dlink? Max On 2 Apr 2015, at 2:01 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Not sure what the cost difference is but the DLink DIR-628 I had was nothing but trouble. Couldn't get my devices to stay

Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
So, what kind of file are you trying to play? CB On 3/31/15 4:54 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Yes, it works on mp3 files. Chris On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Weird. It works on my MacBook. I did afplay ~/Desktop/Peace.mp3

Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8

2015-03-31 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
According to wikipedia Berkeley systems was bought out by Sierra Online in 1997 for $13.8M. Sierra was bought by Vivendi and apparently was then folded into iwin.com. I've met Peter Korn who was one of the primary Windows developers of outspoken. A very smart and gentle person. CB On 3/31/15

Re: Moderation of the list

2015-03-31 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, thanks for the info. If you're still in touch with Cara at all, you might suggest that if she's no longer engaged with this list, she might want to pass the mod hat onto someone else. Cheers, Donna On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:06 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac

2015-03-31 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Weird. It works on my MacBook. I did afplay ~/Desktop/Peace.mp3 and it started playing. Tried the same thing on my ancient MacPro desktop and it also worked. Both boxes are on OSX 10.10.2. Are you sure the audio file was correct? Did it give any messages? Normally there should be no text

Re: Moderation of the list

2015-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
are the ones who were out of line, in my not so humble opinion. Anyway, as I said, thank you for doing this. It is very much appreciated. Chris. --- Check out my web site at: http://www.clgproductions.net - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries

Re: Apple Script: Shut down the Mac

2015-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you can figure out how to get AppleScript to execute shell commands like terminal does you could do afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Frog.aiff to play one of the system sounds, or specify the path to any sound file you want. afplay uses CoreAudio so it should be able to play most common file

Re: Moderation of the list

2015-03-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
and I'm sure that will continue unabated. CB On 3/30/15 11:26 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Thank you! Aah.. The sound of silence! On Mar 29, 2015, at 11:20 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Wanted to let you all know that the account in question

Moderation of the list

2015-03-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Wanted to let you all know that the account in question is now blocked from the list. I should point out a couple things: 1. I'm not the moderator, I just help out with registering new users, as many of you already know. By nature of that role I can also help folks out by fiddling with their

Re: Can anyone recommend any accessible e-mail providers apart from Gmail?

2015-03-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
At some level it doesn't really matter what email provider you use if you're just going to access them through IMAP/SMTP. The user interface will be the same Apple Mail. You could also check into AOL mail as it's also free and fairly reliable. Full disclosure - I do accessibility work for AOL.

Re: is the thermosmart app accessible?

2015-03-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I haven't tried every feature but the iOS app for the Honeywell thermostats seems somewhat accessible. There are things like the temp up/down buttons for heat and for cooling are read across by row instead of as a group but it can be used. Initial setup needs sighted assistance as there is a

Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-03-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
11.0.10 was released December 2014 so I suspect that is not the fixed version. CB On 3/27/15 4:24 AM, David Griffith wrote: Well I have just downloaded and installed version 11.0.10 from Adobe and nothing appears to have changed. None of the text area of the two PDF documents I loaded were

Re: alva bc640 ot question

2015-03-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
According to their specs it's a 5 volt 1.5 Amp power supply. They don't say anything about the shape of the plug and of course say not to use any other power supply. CB On 3/26/15 9:04 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote: Hi All, I have a stupid off topic question. Does anyone have an optelec alva

Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-03-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
On 27/03/2015 15:18, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: 11.0.10 was released December 2014 so I suspect that is not the fixed version. CB On 3/27/15 4:24 AM, David Griffith wrote: Well I have just downloaded and installed version 11.0.10 from Adobe and nothing appears to have changed

Re: best compression utility for the mac

2015-03-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
that neither will do much with a folder full of mp3 files though. On 03/26/2015 11:04 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: Rats cause what I wanna compress is MP3 and off/XLS files in the same folder Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:26 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries

Re: best compression utility for the mac

2015-03-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I compressed my copy of Keynote, which is really made up of thousands of files under the hood totaling 611,951,069 bytes (692.5 MB). To test unix compress I did tar -zcvf test.gz /Applications/Keynote.app/ which generated a compressed file of 428,440,218 bytes (428.4MB) or about 61.9% of the

Re: Sharing Web Page from iPhone

2015-03-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Will a screenshot work? If you simultaneously hold down the power and home button you should hear a noise like the film advance of an SLR camera. That screenshot will show up in your photos library and you can then do what you want with it such as sync it via iCloud and email it to someone

Re: mp3 re-encoder

2015-03-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Depends on the settings. The audio quality will definetly be worse but for spoken material it may be acceptable. On MP3s there is sample rate and bit depth. Bit depth changes how much dynamic range or the range of loudness that can be recorded. CDs are 16-bit but you could drop an mp3 to

Re: Mp3 files and looping.

2015-03-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Where do I find this player? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:23 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Yes

Re: Mp3 files and looping.

2015-03-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases CB On 3/20/15 3:48 PM, 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries wrote: solid answer; so is sound flower accessible or more so than audacity? what does it cost if you know? thanks, max On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:27 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: QT can only

Re: Mp3 files and looping.

2015-03-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
own voice over another audio track? if that is even possible with q t. i've heard i will have to use something more robust like audacity garage band or gold wave. thanks, max On Mar 20, 2015, at 10:34 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Sorry, QT player is the QuickTime player which

Re: Mp3 files and looping.

2015-03-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Yes. Load up the mp3 in QT player and choose Loop from the View menu or command+Option+L. CB On 3/18/15 7:02 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: Hi all, I have an mp3 file that I would like to put in a folder where it will play several times without stopping. Can I do this with Quicktime? Is there

Re: Apple out and not responding

2015-03-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Here's an article about the outage: http://www.macworld.com/article/2895397/outages-plague-app-store-itunes-and-other-apple-services.html CB On 3/11/15 4:38 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: So does this mean that we won't get the public beta for iOS today? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Mar

Re: Apple's keynote yesterday

2015-03-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Interesting that their demos using Siri had no speech. Maybe this is something they haven't worked out yet. All other demos of Siri that I recall always had her speaking back. Of course their tagline was glances so you glance at the watch face to read something quickly. Having Siri babble on

Re: Getting my own messages on lists

2015-03-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think this is the nature of mailing lists. Every message you send to the list gets re-sent to every member. So that means, as a member, you also get a copy back. CB On 3/10/15 9:14 AM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: Hello everyone: I'm not sure why this happens, but no matter what list I am

iOS 8. 2update change list

2015-03-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Here is the list of changes. Buried in there is one line that says improves voiceover reliability. Not sure exactly what that is but it sounds positive. CB iOS 8.2 This release introduces support for Apple Watch, and also includes improvements to the Health app, increased stability and bug

Re: mac mini 2012 model hard drive?

2015-03-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I didn't notice a reply to this one. Most Mac Mini machines use a 2.5 SATA hard drive so you should be able to easily find a case, if you haven't already done so by now. CB On 1/15/15 2:52 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: Hello a power surge took out my mac mini the hard drive

Re: A few questions.

2015-02-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
you don’t want that discussed here. I know how to use google or start page or whatever. (smile) My Youtube Channel: “www.youtube.com/LorieMcCloud On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:34 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: While I'm not sure about

Re: A few questions.

2015-02-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
While I'm not sure about the legal ramifications of breaking DRM, I wouldn't call running the Amazon Kindle app on the Mac using VMWare or Bootcamp as being 'available' on the Mac. Sort of like saying an automobile can be driven just fine on a railroad track by loading and towing it on a

Re: Using Numbers for Simple Multiplication

2015-02-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
So if you know the two cells you want multiplied you should just be able to type in the formula. One tricky bit is if you type anything starting with a letter it assumes you are entering text, not a label. So if the two numbers are in cells A1 and A2 you can type the formula =A1*A2 using an

Re: i photo i tunes question

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
For iPhoto it's in Preferences General Connecting Camera Opens where you can choose what it should launch, including No Application. For iTunes you need to connect your phone then wait for iTunes to launch. Once you're there you need to pull up the summary for your device. At the bottom is

Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
My understanding was that a time machine drive is just an ordinary Mac formatted disk. The main issue is that TimeMachine keeps making incremental backups until the entire volume is filled. So if you copy those movies to the disk first you should be ok but later if you delete one TM might suck

Re: How to see what loads at startup

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
There are piles of things that load at startup. Are you trying to find out about auto-launched apps? That would be in System Preferences Users and Groups under the Login Items tab for each account on the machine. Of course if you have add-ons such as menu bar widgets and such those won't

Re: Notification center on mac.

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
From what I've read there isn't a shortcut in Yosemite but you can make one in System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts and assign something to Show Notification Center. I assigned command-option-shift-M as that seemed as good a combo as any. CB On 2/25/15 4:54 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Me

Re: .ogg to mp3 or aac audio conversion?

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you don't mind fiddling around in the terminal, the Sox package will do it. Once installed you would just type sox something.ogg something.mp3 CB On 1/20/15 3:53 PM, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: Hi list, I have some .ogg files that someone sent me for song production ideas. Needless to say My mac

Re: 'Phorm' Case Adds Morphing Tactile Keyboard to iPad Mini - Mac Rumors

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
From the comments it seems that it just creates raised bumps over the keys, not any arbitrary bump pattern. So it won't work in landscape typing or for adding tactile feedback to any other UI elements. CB On 2/12/15 4:07 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: I thought that some on the list might find the

Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions

2015-02-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
recommend that I just copy the videos onto the drive over top of the time machine backup. So one partition is strictly Mac Journaled format and one is FAT32 so that my Youtube videos were able to be copied. Shawn Sent From My White Macbook - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via

Re: Audio described movies

2015-02-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
nothing related to dvs movies in the app store, which I found interesting, considering the fact that people have told me there was supposed to be stuff there. On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:15 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Scraping an Entire Website

2015-02-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I have macports set up on my machine https://www.macports.org so that makes it easy to add additional packages. With that I just do sudo port install wget enter my computer's password and it installs wget. Once you have wget you can crawl/archive an entire site with this command: wget

Re: Audio described movies

2015-02-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think Apple calls it Descriptive Video Service or DVS. If you search for DVS in iTunes you'll find there are only five video titles, all from Pixar, which carry this. I've never tried it out but the title of one of them is: Finding Nemo (For blind viewers, audio description, DVS®)

Re: Apple Script to mount networked drive

2015-02-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
SMB stands for Server Message Block and is the network protocol Windows uses to share drives over the network and talk to printers. You could do something similar with afp:// which is the Apple Filing Protocol which is how Macs share network drives. OSX can talk to both kinds but you have to

Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions

2015-02-13 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you don't mind a little terminal hacking and your TM volume can be 500GB or less then this article talks about how to create a sparsebundle disk image on an exFAT formatted drive. exFAT means you can read the drive on Mac or Windows and the sparsebundle hack means time machine can mount its

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

2015-02-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, headphones and line-in i believe. Michael On 10 Feb 2015, at 8:10 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Related to this, there are four audio electrical levels. Mic levels are tiny signals that come out of a mic and usually need to go through a pre-amp before

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

2015-02-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Related to this, there are four audio electrical levels. Mic levels are tiny signals that come out of a mic and usually need to go through a pre-amp before they can become usable 'line level' signals. Line level is typically for signal routing such as patching the audio output from a DVD

Re: seeking Suggestions for recording sound from TV to my iMac

2015-02-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, at 8:10 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Related to this, there are four audio electrical levels. Mic levels are tiny signals that come out of a mic and usually need to go through a pre-amp before they can become usable 'line level' signals. Line level

Re: OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

2015-02-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1291668/Give%20Back%20Event%20Flyer%28201512922433987%29.pdf On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:09 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: An iPod touch should operate just like an iPhone without the phone

Re: OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

2015-02-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
An iPod touch should operate just like an iPhone without the phone features. What app are you using at the time? The app launcher doesn't change orientation but many apps do such as Safari. CB On 2/8/15 9:21 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to switch an ipod touch fifth

Re: Sending Emails Delayed Since Adding More Mail Accounts

2015-02-07 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
For some reason three of your messages were held in dry dock because Google thought they were spam. I have no idea why as there was nothing spammy about them. So the delay was the time between when it flagged them and when I happened to check in and mark them all as good. Hopefully whatever

LibreOffice 4.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Downloaded and installed this new version. While I could type text into a document there were lots of things that caused voiceover to crash and restart repeatedly. For example, navigating the toolbar seemed to throw VO over a cliff. I also tried to insert a table (command-F12) which pops a

Re: LibreOffice 4.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I forgot to mention that I was trying this on the latest osx 10.10.2 so maybe it behaves better on other versions. CB On 2/3/15 10:37 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Thanks for that info. Guess i will continue with the version i have then. /A 3 feb 2015 kl. 16:33 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via

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