Re: this is the mac email list right? for blind users?

2014-10-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I checked you account and it was set to No Mail as opposed to Digest, Abridged or All Mail. I changed it back to All Mail so hopefully that gets things resolved. CB On 10/16/14, 8:33 AM, Jen Wilgus wrote: I am asking, cause I am not receiving any email pertaining to this email list?

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
kind of disappointing, the last time i used fusion it was version 3 on a dual-core i7 with 4gb of ram to share and it seemed faster. Also, my macintosh hd is an ssd, so it really disappoints me. Regards, Jeff On 10/9/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
when windows isn't running. It just seems kind of disappointing, the last time i used fusion it was version 3 on a dual-core i7 with 4gb of ram to share and it seemed faster. Also, my macintosh hd is an ssd, so it really disappoints me. Regards, Jeff On 10/9/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries

Re: Bookmarks on desktop

2014-10-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The only way I could figure out how to make Web locations without using drag and drop was to create one in a text editor. I just open TextEdit, make sure I'm in plain text mode and then paste in the following text: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple//DTD PLIST

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
wrote: Hi Chris, I believe I set the disc space to 80gb. But if i look in the virtual machines library folder it says like 20gb. Tonight I'll take a look at fusion preferences. Thanks, Jeff On 10/10/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Ok, just wanted

Re: Fusion problems and a question

2014-10-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
How much memory and how many CPUs did you allocate to your Win7 Fusion setup? At a minimum I would do 1GB RAM and 2CPU but more will go faster. I haven't used Fusion 7 but under previous version when you insert a USB device Fusion would ask if you want it connected to the Mac or Windows side.

Re: Equalizer for the mac.

2014-10-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Don't know if this is accessible but Boom sounds like what you are looking for. They have a free trial so you can give it a whirl. http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/ CB On 10/6/14, 6:28 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! This might be a dum or odd question but is there an equalizer for the mac

Re: New Mac malware discovered; how to check your Mac for ‘iWorm’ malware

2014-10-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Close, spaces in terminal commands imply separate commands unless you tell it that you really meant a space by putting a backslash \ in front. So the test would be: ls -a /Library/Application\ Support/JavaW The -l also isn't needed. The L means to display the listing in long format so it

Re: splitting large files in to smaller sections

2014-10-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you have sox installed you can do this from terminal: sox filename.flac part1.flac trim 0 05:00 sox filename.flac part2.flac trim 05:00 10:25 This would generate two files from the source FLAC file. The first would contain audio from the beginning to the 5 minute mark. The second would go

Re: Google Docs

2014-10-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Noticed some press about improved accessibility and wondered if anyone had tried it. I tried reading a Google Docs Spreadsheet and ran into an issue where the file had the first couple rows locked (headings

Google Docs

2014-10-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Noticed some press about improved accessibility and wondered if anyone had tried it. I tried reading a Google Docs Spreadsheet and ran into an issue where the file had the first couple rows locked (headings for the columns) and I couldn't get past them to get to the real stuff after the

Re: ripping cd in itunes

2014-09-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you check the archives you'll find lots of lively discussion about this. Short answer is that iTunes does not rip DVDs and commercial ones are encrypted to keep most people from even trying. In the US the mere act of breaking encryption is illegal due to the DMCA laws and they trump fair

Re: Changing email address

2014-09-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just checked and you are subscribed with the name of Angus MacKinnon. You can change this to something else but you can't modify the email address. If you want to switch to another email address let me know and I can manually add the new address to the group and then you can delete the old

Re: Changing email address

2014-09-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Well, I can't do much about the other groups but I attempted to add your new flodabay address with no success. Google says there is already a member of the group with that address but that it might be a secondary or alternate address. Want me to try and remove your gmail.com account and add

Re: Up half the night trying to change my IP address… Help!!!!

2014-09-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What have you tried so far? I assume you tried turning the wifi off and back on again? Did you try and renew DHCP Lease (unter the TCP/IP tab in the advanced settings)? Can you get the IP address, subnet mask, router and DNS address from one of your working devices, turn that device off and

Re: Up half the night trying to change my IP address… Help!!!!

2014-09-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, tried all of these things, as per Apple Communities. On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:18 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: What have you tried so far? I assume you tried turning the wifi off and back on again? Did you try and renew DHCP Lease (unter

Re: File viewing mac on linux and vice versa.

2014-09-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just wanted to point out the both SMB and NFS are built into OSX so you pretty much just have to set it up. SMB is little more than turning on a checkbox is the sharing preferences while NFS is, well, NFS which is just as easy/hard on OSX as on a linux box. Nice thing with SMB is that will

Re: Resolution To My Sox Audio Issue

2014-09-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I have Sox installed via macports and had no issues. I just do a sudo port selfupdate and then a sudo port upgrade outdated. Usually have to do that after I upgrade xCode or the OS. CB On 9/29/14, 9:49 AM, Phil Halton wrote: Thanks for posting your results. I wish more people would do this.

Re: Up half the night trying to change my IP address… Help!!!!

2014-09-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Glad to hear the network problem is solved. Usually running fast RAM slowly is better than trying to make slow RAM go fast (overclocking). If you are getting the RAM at the store and having the Genius folks install it then you should be in good hands although you'll probably be paying a

Re: Library folder access

2014-09-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
At least on Mavericks the columns work like filters starting with Collection then Family and finally Typeface. So if the Collection has something selected then that filters the Family list to just ones in the particular collection such as Engligh, Fun or Modern. So I'd check that in the

Re: Default font and size in TextEdit

2014-09-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
2:10 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: There are two default font settings in Preferences under the New Document tab. One for Plain Text and one for Rich Text. As far as Comic Sans, that's a bit like asking what is the equivalent to the Microsoft Zune. Or at least many paragraphs have

Re: Accessible Morse code tutors

2014-09-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. There are a bunch of training apps for iOS but none of the ones I found were free and I wasn't interested enough to pay to find out. CB On 9/25/14, 4:53 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: I know it's not necessary anymore, but are there any accessible Morse code tuners for either Mac or iOS? Sent

Re: Default font and size in TextEdit

2014-09-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Book. I activated the Restore Defaults button which did nothing for the empty tables. Wish I knew what I hroke in there. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/25/2014 9:41 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hmm. When I tried it I was dropped

Re: Default font and size in TextEdit

2014-09-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
There are two default font settings in Preferences under the New Document tab. One for Plain Text and one for Rich Text. As far as Comic Sans, that's a bit like asking what is the equivalent to the Microsoft Zune. Or at least many paragraphs have been wordsmithed about how the original font

Re: sd reader

2014-09-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
While I haven't tried it, an SD card shows up on the Mac like any other volume that you can read/write files to. So you should be able to get access to it the same way you get access to your Mac files from the VMWare side. CB On 9/21/14, 7:51 PM, wayne17a wrote: Hi I am running vm on a mbp

Re: Getting to know U2

2014-09-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I assume you're referring to this: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/u2-and-apple-plot-new-interactive-digital-music-format-20140918 CB On 9/20/14, 4:13 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: Speaking of U2, I’ve heard that Apple and U2 are working on a new digital music format. Not sure why they

Re: ftp client

2014-09-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
There are a lot of tutorials out there you can google but basically you open terminal and then type ftp server.domain.com where you put in the actual server you want to ftp to. After that it should prompt you for the username and password. Once you're in you can use the ls command to list

Re: ftp client

2014-09-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I also run across sftp as well which is also supported as a terminal command. sftp is the secure version of ftp which works better with firewalls and such. Regular ftp requires a lot of firewall ports to be open before it will function correctly as the protocol predates the need for firewalls.

Re: descriptive video option on iOS 8.

2014-09-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think DVS is the keyword to search on and, unfortunately, only turns up 5 titles - all Pixar movies. CB On 9/21/14, 9:30 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: Monsters Inc., finding Nemo, and up. Or, just go into the iTunes Store and search for DVDs Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Alex

KNFB Reader iPhone App

2014-09-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Apparently the app is $100. CB* * *Baltimore, Maryland (September 18, 2014):* The National Federation of the Blind http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3838qid=615419, the nation's leading advocate for access to print by the blind, has applauded the release of KNFB

Re: Changing email address

2014-09-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Weird. I checked in the admin tools and I couldn't find either address. Want me to add floda...@gmx.com? CB On 9/15/14, 5:41 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: Chris Would you know why the MacVisionaries list is still using thedog...@gmail.com and not floda...@gmx.com? Everytime I send something to

Re: Storage Options and Hard Drives.

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
One advantage of SSD is speed, especially compared to low-power laptop spinning drives. I was once working with a guy who went from launching vmware to working in windows in about 3 seconds on a MacBook Air with SSD. Not sure if that is typical but it was impressive. I think hard drives just

Re: New Member Awaiting Approval

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I do the admin work for the list. Generally every join request gets an email from me just asking a bit about how they found the list and such. It's a basic spam filter to make sure the person wanting to join is a real person. I wait up to 30 days and if I don't hear anything back I reject the

Re: To the Mods, Changing email address

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Easiest way is to subscribe with your new address and, once that's working, unsubscribe the old one. If you get stuck give me a ping. CB On 9/13/14, 11:31 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: How does a subscriber change his email address from thedog...@gmail.com to floda...@gmx.com? Thank you. Angus

Re: To the Mods, Changing email address

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Shouldn't take all that long. I'm generally on email every day although it's a bit spotty on weekends. CB On 9/14/14, 1:15 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: The following is proof of not going the unsubscribe and subscribe route. Your subscription request to macvisionaries

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The trick is that any response tells them the have a live working account, that their message got through the spam filter, that a user actually read the message and took the time to reply. That's like gold in a spammer's list, which they can now sell as a top quality email address to the

Re: is firefox now accessable?

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Can you email me off list? Google Groups is complaining that your email address is bouncing. Tried to contact you off-list but, well, I assume the message bounced :) CB On 8/31/14, 12:14 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey all is firefox now accessable on mac os10? if it is please could some one

Hai Nguyes - Email bouncing

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Tried to contact you off list but, the email bounced. Please drop me an email so I can get this resolved. CB On 2/6/14, 3:30 PM, Hai Nguyen Ly wrote: Good afternoon Helena: Removing the files com.apple.internetaccounts.plist and com.apple.mail-shared.plist from ~/Library/Preferences should

Trahern Culver - Email bouncing

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Tried to contact you off list but the email bounced. Please drop me an email so I can get this resolved. CB On 8/28/14, 8:57 PM, trahern culver wrote: hey all, i have the latest 64gb ipod touch with the latest o s i'm running mavrix on the mac side. i know how itunes works but i'm at my wits

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just a for instance, it wouldn't take too much to embed your gmail address in the link so that clicking on it tells them you read their spam and are willing to click on strange links. That puts you on the A list they sell to other spammers. It's also possible the site will 'help' you fix your

Re: Backup Strategies

2014-09-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I had always wondered how reasonable it would be to do some kind of backup co-op. For example, if I could figure out how to share a drive on the internet for somebody else and they did the same for me, I could backup my stuff to their drive and vice versa. As a co-op neither of us would pay

Re: Backup Strategies

2014-09-11 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Of course another piece to any backup strategy is off-site storage. If your stuff is valuable enough, take one of your drives every so often and leave it with a friend somewhere else. That way if something catastrophic happens like a fire or hurricane, chances are your data on drives in two

Re: Apple - Live - September 2014 Special Event

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like Applepay works only with devices that have Near Field Communications (NFC) chips and iOS8. That means only iPhone 6/6+ or an iPhone 5x upgraded to iOS8 and paired with an AppleWatch (which also has the NFC chip). CB On 9/9/14, 10:44 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: I think not. I

Re: Has anyone got the U2 album?

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I suspect Apple's servers were kinda busy for a while with everybody trying to grab the free stuff. I would guess the mad rush will peter out after today. Sort of like all those issues folks have when trying to upgrade iOS the day of its release. CB On 9/10/14, 10:15 AM, Christine Grassman

Re: Apple - Live - September 2014 Special Event

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think you are correct. Just having a MC, Visa or Amex card alone is not sufficient. It has to be issued by one of the supported banks which they list as including Bank of America, Capital One Bank, Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo. So they imply there are others, just not mentioned. In the press

Re: What a disappointment.

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I just waited until later last night and played the archived version. Worked perfectly fine. That said, the press was full of notes about the live stream failures so it wasn't just a particular ISP or user. I poked at the page and the video stream actually was served from a machine named

Re: having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sometimes holding down the option key (in addition to doing command-shift-delete) will tell it to delete otherwise locked stuff. Give that a whirl and see if it clears anything up. CB On 9/6/14, 2:54 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: yep that was one of the first things I tried

Re: hard drive question

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Does it show up in Disk Utility? If it does you can give it a clean formatting there. CB On 9/10/14, 11:17 AM, jeff `greene wrote: Hi, Ok i had a second hard drive installed in my MBP by the geeksquad. They said everything went well and the drive passed all their tests, but it doesn't show up

Re: mp3 to text?

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Most automated solutions, including Googles, are laughably low accuracy. Best thing is to go with a transcription service. CB On 9/6/14, 1:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, anyone know of a site or application with this ability? I only need to do this once, and am far less concerned

Re: hard drive question

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Does it show up in Disk Utility? If it does you can give it a clean formatting there. CB On 9/10/14, 11:17 AM, jeff `greene wrote: Hi, Ok i had a second hard drive installed in my MBP by the geeksquad. They said everything

Re: Cleaning a apple keyboard.

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Well, you could throw it in the dishwasher, although I haven't tried this myself: http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-a-Keyboard-in-a-Dishwasher CB On 9/6/14, 6:42 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! I have a mac mini and i have noticed that during the 2 latest weeks i have had problems with navigating

Re: Blue-tooth speaker recommendations

2014-09-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
also looked at portable battery powered pa systems. Samsung and behringer both have units that look pretty good for around $200 - more than I really want to spend now though. On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:34 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Just curious

Re: can't find apple sttreaming event for todays keynote

2014-09-09 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Press is full of complaints about the stream and the overlaid multiple language audio. That and the requirement to watch using an Apple device. CB On 9/9/14, 1:33 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Same here. Very frustrating. /A 9 sep 2014 kl. 19:19 skrev Kevin Barry krba...@gmail.com: I find

Re: thunderbolt test?

2014-09-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I'd start with System Information app in your Utilities folder. Launch that and then find the System Report button and action that. In the System Report there are a couple sections, one called Hardware and under Hardware is Thunderbolt. Select that, stop interacting and then VO-right twice to

Re: Blue-tooth speaker recommendations

2014-09-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just curious as to why you don't just plug your iPhone into a regular sound system? Sure blue-tooth would be nice but it might limit your choices quite a bit. Maybe a hybrid of the two would work better. Just get a bluetooth to audio receiver and plug it into your favorite PA system or amp.

Re: Buying VMFusion 7 Pro.

2014-09-08 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Odd, I had never heard this before. I thought you could run Linux on any kind of vmware. Just checked and vmware even provides documentation on how to do it: http://pubs.vmware.com/fusion-6/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.fusion.help.doc/GUID-4919245A-CD5D-4FC7-B5D0-4D90DFAFC7F7.html I haven't

Re: Own a Mac? This retooled Windows virus could cripple it

2014-09-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
While the backdoor does seem to be real, not sure how often it really appears in the wild. Wasn't able to turn up any good analysis of the impact. Here is the source technical article about the back door software everyone is quoting from:

Re: Mediasniffers.

2014-09-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't think there currently is such a tool as media is embedded in so many ways in the browser. Only solution is to comb through the rendered HTML to dig up the URL. Media in Safari is handled by the QuickTime plugins and there are no VLC plugins as of yet. So even if you disabled the QT

Re: Buying VMFusion 7 Pro.

2014-09-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Do you really need a mini server? I haven't found much I couldn't do with a regular mini and some time spent in terminal. CB On 9/5/14, 4:21 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: I'm going to get a Mac Mini with server in due course so I have heard if you want to run windows the server version you need

Re: starting VO at log in screen

2014-09-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Griffith wrote: Thanks Chris I fumbled around a bit before finding the right list item to select and then the check box but it is now set. Gabe On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:35 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Go to System Preferences and then Users

Re: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS

2014-09-04 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
slot and the display port on the left edge of the machine. CB On 9/3/14, 6:39 PM, The Believer wrote: Goodness, so much information there. :) Came up with mdoel 9.2. From The Believer. . . What if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/3/2014 10:38 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries

Re: VMWare Fusion 7 is Out

2014-09-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You can google around but here is one review that actually talks about the changes: http://www.tuaw.com/2014/09/03/vmware-fusion-fusion-pro-7-ready-for-os-x-yosemite/ Sounds to me like there is some performance bump, ability to have more resources dedicated to the VM, ability to use the

Re: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS

2014-09-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hmm. I don't recall any MacBook Pros that had less than two USB ports. On the non-retina models there are two on the left edge. On the newer non-CD Retina models there is one on both the left and right sides. CB On 8/31/14, 6:05 PM, Grant Hardy wrote: Hi Mark, Go

Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet

2014-09-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Odd, whatever works over ethernet should work over wifi, albeit more slowly. Most Macs can do Gigabit ethernet which means they can transfer up to 100MB/second. Even a perfect connection on the latest 802.11N wifi peaks at 300Megabit (.3 Gigabit). I have my laptop and an old Mac tower

Re: starting VO at log in screen

2014-09-03 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Go to System Preferences and then Users Groups. At the very bottom of that you'll find the click the lock to make changes button which will ask for your username and password. Once authenticated you'll be able to make changes to Login Options. In the Login Options you should find a checkbox

Re: iiis

2014-09-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
For a little bit. It watches the change over a two minute span and from there it does a rolling estimate of how much longer your battery will last. Of course if you're burning CDs that estimate is going to be a lot lower than just reading mail. One nice thing in Mavericks is the battery menu

Re: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS

2014-09-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. I don't recall any MacBook Pros that had less than two USB ports. On the non-retina models there are two on the left edge. On the newer non-CD Retina models there is one on both the left and right sides. CB On 8/31/14, 6:05 PM, Grant Hardy wrote: Hi Mark, Go ahead and set up Windows 7

Re: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS

2014-09-02 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
up one of those ports, you’ll be practically restricted to just one USB port and would therefore have to purchase a USB hub if you need more. Grant On Sep 2, 2014, at 7:13 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Hmm

Re: recording Skype calls

2014-08-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
thanks. On 26/08/2014, at 5:29 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: You could also pop the file into iTunes and then convert it to mp3 there with whatever settings you want. Doing the mp3 compression twice seems like it's going to give you either

Re: Help Needed on Uninstalling An Application from my Mac Running Maverick

2014-08-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
VMWare has an article about how to manually uninstall. Generally you put the app in the trash and then check the numerous preference folders/files to delete any lurking leftovers. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1017838 CB On

Re: Trouble downloading/deleting TV show from iTunes store

2014-08-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I have turned off sending any more list mail to Amy so we shouldn't get any more of these. CB On 8/27/14, 3:15 PM, Amy Ruell wrote: Hello Everyone, I will be away and unavailable to answer emails until September 8. If you need immediate assistance, contact David Bradburn at via email at

Re: VOLUME CONTROLS

2014-08-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I have turned off sending any more list mail to Amy so we shouldn't get any more of these. CB On 8/27/14, 5:23 PM, Amy Ruell wrote: Hello Everyone, I will be away and unavailable to answer emails until September 8. If you need immediate assistance, contact David Bradburn at via email at

Re: Service battery?

2014-08-27 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
My wife's ancient 7 year old MacBook gives this as it hardly lasts an hour on battery. I'm hoping the tape continues to hold it together until we can afford to replace it with a new one. That said, from terminal you can find out the stats on your battery by copying and pasting the following

Re: book mark key stroke?

2014-08-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Not sure if there is one but command 1 through command 9 will jump to the first through 9th item in the bookmark bar. I have my most often used sites bookmarked that way so I'm always hitting command-# to pull them up. CB On 8/25/14, 5:03 PM, Kliphton Senior wrote: Can someone remind me

Re: MacFuse, Anyone?

2014-08-26 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
MacFuse was a discontinued drive format reading tool last updated in 2010. You would install MacFuse and then install plugins for, say , NTFS or FTPFS. I think I had played with it a while back to try and get read/write access to NTFS and maybe some packages like VMWare included for a while.

Re: iTunes and option key - solution

2014-08-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This is exactly right. If you hold down option, then tap I and then immediately let go of the option key you should be fine. There is about a second before iTunes is up and running enough to check if you have the option key held down and then run you through the library picker. If you do get

Re: recording Skype calls

2014-08-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
You could also pop the file into iTunes and then convert it to mp3 there with whatever settings you want. Doing the mp3 compression twice seems like it's going to give you either a larger file, lower quality or both. CB On 8/24/14, 11:30 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: Hi Jenine, I just use the

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Usual key to flip between two documents in most Mac apps is command+` (` is the key right above tab). So if you have multiple windows open in Finder, Safari, Pages or any other decent app you can just keep hitting command+` to cycle through all the open windows. CB On 8/25/14, 1:32 PM, becky

Re: mac giving file can not be written message, when downloading from sendspace.

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I didn't notice any replies to this. Did you get it figured out? Where do you have Safari saving your downloads to? You can set that in preferences. The default is the Downloads folder but I actually like to change it to my desktop since I find it easier to locate the file on my desktop then

Re: iOS safari crashes upon opening PDFs

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Pen Pro to OCR image pdf files because it does it very fast and then them just fine. I guess I better check the newest update and see if all of that has changed. I sure hope not. Gigi On Aug 1, 2014, at 2:46 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: eSpeak on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I tried downloading the OSX version of eSpeak but wasn't able to get very far with it. Of course I've never used the tool before. I downloaded it from here: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html but when I typed ./speak The quick brown fox it gave the error: Can't read data file:

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
FLV or Flash Video is a container which can hold any number of video formats. The older ones used the Sorenson or On2 codecs while the newer ones now support h.264 (MPEG4). So FLV in of itself may or may not have the old junky video formats. One quick way to tell is to just rename the .flv to

Re: with some explnations please, how can i share my hard disks with mavericks?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If your windows box is already set up for sharing then you should be able to connect to it from your Mac using Connect to Server (command-K) from the finder. You type in the URL like this: SMB://servername_or_IP_address/share Obviously you need to change what I have above to the actual IP

Re: final cur pro and other programs

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
What spec are you checking? Final Cut and Aperture usually aren't included on a machine unless you made special arrangements. CB On 8/21/14, 6:59 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: i am ust browsing the spec on my computer, it said i do have final cut pro and Aperture, but when i check my

Re: Accessible FLV video converter?

2014-08-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
necessary. I'm not all that concerned about the video graininess etc., but I want the audio to stay high quality. Again, all I want to do is convert from Apple formats to FLV format. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:58 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries

Re: watching u tube videos

2014-08-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
and Joe Chapman wrote: HI. will it revert to flash if it can’t use the html 5 button or will the video just not play? thanks Blessings! maria and Joe chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com mailto:bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 11 Aug 2014, at 1:47 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries

Re: MS Access

2014-08-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
MS Access is a proprietary database which Microsoft has chosen to only support on Windows. While you can do the same thing using any number of Mac-only or cross-platform tools, if they need work done on an existing Access DB your only choice will be to buy and set up both Windows and Access.

Re: icloud mail questions

2014-08-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I believe it's actually 5GB, which is a non-trivial amount of mail. Upgrading from the free level gets you 10, 20 or 50GB. CB On 8/20/14, 4:25 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi there If I remember right, there is a 5 MB limit on iCloud storage, unless you buy more. However, having said that, I

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. Couldn't you put an alias to all the apps you need in a folder and leave that on your desktop? Say you call the folder Go. Then all you have to do is go to the desktop in finder (command-shift-D) then type Go to select the folder, then press command-O to open it, command-A to select all

Re: New Member Approval?

2014-08-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sorry for the delay. For some reason Google never sent me a notice about his join request and of course it lists all the incoming requests as being on 12/31/1969 so I missed that one. Anyway, I sent him an email and should get him set up as soon as he responds. You would think Google could get

Re: watching u tube videos

2014-08-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Have you tried setting the default to html5? It's been a while but I think you go to youtube.com/html5 and find the Request the HTML5 Player button. From then on it will try to use HTML5 video instead of Flash, which usually is more accessible. Not all videos will play this way but many do.

Re: Writing and Reading Mathematics with VO

2014-08-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Nice. Last I played with this was on OSX 10.8 and it failed horribly. That seems to have been fixed in 10.9 at some point. Yay kaizen. CB On 8/5/14, 12:25 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: I think it worth mentioning that Voiceover works with mathML. There are sample equations at

Re: opus audio encoding on osx?

2014-08-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
As was said before, VLC has supported Opus since about 2012: http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/Opus The IETF version is used in WebRTC and I have to wonder why we still have apps to download and install when it can all be done in a WebRTC compliant browser now. Maybe it's easier to monetize an

Re: Screencasting on the Mac?

2014-08-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
After you start recording it says Click to record the full screen. Drag to record part of the screeen. End recording by clicking the stop button in the menu bar. Yes, it records the whole screen so the video file can be pretty big depending on what resolution you are running at and how you

Re: Why are pages documents so large in file size

2014-08-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Show package contents does reveal one clue. If I sort by size the top item is a 200KB preview.jpg which I assume is for the document icon. There is also preview-web.jpg which is 13K and preview-micro.jpg which is 2K. The rest of my 295K test document was made up of index.zip which had about 60

Re: Mac Mini and carry on baggage?

2014-08-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
between a battery and explosives? Gena On 30 Jul 2014, at 03:32, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Now days they seem to just xray everything and don't ask you to turn stuff on. CB On 7/29/14, 5:31 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: I've carried many laptops on airplanes

Re: iOS safari crashes upon opening PDFs

2014-08-01 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Interesting. I went to google, searched on PDF example and then found a link called Parameters for Opening PDF Files - Adobe which I would think is a pretty reasonable test since it's on Adobe's site. After double-tapping it Safari crashed. I'm on the latest iOS 7.1.2. Seems very reproducible.

Re: Mac Mini and carry on baggage?

2014-07-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Now days they seem to just xray everything and don't ask you to turn stuff on. CB On 7/29/14, 5:31 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: I've carried many laptops on airplanes domestic and international and have never once been asked to turn one on. At 05:21 PM 7/29/2014, you wrote: If they do, I hope

Re: Playing flash on the mac in maverick

2014-07-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
My post from 2011 outlines the issues with Flash accessibility if you want to know more. I think it's still pretty much true today: https://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg48622.html CB On 7/27/14, 9:26 PM, David Chittenden wrote: Flash has never ben very

Re: Speaking TV guides -Offcom consultation

2014-07-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
to access the remote feature for example, it acts like it can't find my receiver, so I've pretty much given up trying to use it sense there are other people in the house who watch TV, and can record stuff as well. On Jul 16, 2014, at 5:05 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries

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