Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-12 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Mike, how do you disable chrome box and then tur it back on again when you want? Thanks, Caitlyn On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > It work well with voice over, but there are a few issues. Voiceover does not > see lists, such as what you might find on some email sites. Also, pres

Re: can't get braillesense plus to pare with mac

2012-02-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I have a bps and got it to work as a display under snow leopard, but had to use the usb connection. Never could get the bluetooth to work. Haven't tried yet under lion. wish they would get off their duffs and write drivers for this stuff! Caitlyn On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:27 AM, erik burggraaf w

Re: Turning Off Google Chrome Vox

2012-01-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Is there a way to do this, really? or do you have to disable chrome box in the preferences or something somehow? I am liking chrome so far, but don't know how to use chrome box yet, so until I know more would like to turn it off and just use voiceover.. Thanks, Caitlyn On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:

Re: remove items on the doc

2012-01-13 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Also you can drag and drop with command comma and command period. Hope I remembered that correctly! Caitlyn On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:48 PM, Joanne Chua wrote: > Hi all > > Thanks very much for the reply. > > It works very well. :) > > > > On 13/01/2012, Red.Falcon wrote: >> Hi again! >> Al

Re: Using control right and left arrows under fusion and windows 7

2012-01-03 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Thanks, as I don't typically use mission control anyway! Caitlyn On Jan 2, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > I'm glad I could help. I forgot to say that this trick of course helps in > both Fusion and all other apps on the Mac which is handy when editing text in > text edit or i

Re: Using control right and left arrows under fusion and windows 7

2012-01-03 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Further to my previous message, I should've clarified by saying that I hit the key combination which are equivalent to control, windows and the right or left or up/down arrow keys. I completely forgot about people maybe swapping the keys, etc! Anyway, some of these other suggestions are wonder

Re: Using control right and left arrows under fusion and windows 7

2012-01-03 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I don't know if this will help you, but you can give it a shot anyway. First off, I am using fusion 3 and win xp running under lion. I am having the same problems with the control and right and left arrow keys. Yesterday, by chance, my husband suggested that I try using control, command,

Re: RSS

2012-01-03 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi Mark, I just use the built in rss reader in apple mail on the mac. I like it since it's just right there in your mail, no muss, no fuss. You just add the feed when you're on the page for it. On the i devices, I use feeder rss reader. It's a bit fiddley, and I use the free version, but it

Re: Read to go bookshare IOS app

2011-10-27 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I haven't tried it, but I use in daisy to read bookshare books. I'm in Canada. hth in some way. I just got impatient waiting for them to get the read to go app out, so got in daisy instead. They are around the same price, for what it's worth. Caitlyn On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Joanne C

Re: Newsstand problems

2011-10-24 Thread Caitlyn Furness
You might be able to get a refund, just use the link on your receipt where it says something like, report a problem.. this might not work, though. Just fyi, as an alternative to the dumb news stand thing, there is an app called zinio. It's another news stand type thing, offering all sorts of m

Re: fusion and lion

2011-10-22 Thread Caitlyn Furness
; > On 2011-10-22, at 2:09 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is anybody still running fusion version 3 under Lion with win xp? If so, is >> it ok? I'm asking because I'm still running snow leopard, but am wanting to >> upgrade to l

fusion and lion

2011-10-22 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Is anybody still running fusion version 3 under Lion with win xp? If so, is it ok? I'm asking because I'm still running snow leopard, but am wanting to upgrade to lion finally, but only if I can still do the fusion 3 with win xp because I need that for school. I have a lion disk my husba

partitioning an external drive for a bootable backup

2011-10-17 Thread Caitlyn Furness
drive with my external drive, just in case something goes wrong. Also, is anyone currently running fusion version 3 with win xp under lion? I heard it doesn't work, so don't want to do this upgrade if that's so, since I need fusion and k1000 for my school.. thanks, Cait

partitioning an external drive for a bootable backup

2011-10-16 Thread Caitlyn Furness
drive with my external drive, just in case something goes wrong. Also, is anyone currently running fusion version 3 with win xp under lion? I heard it doesn't work, so don't want to do this upgrade if that's so, since I need fusion and k1000 for my school.. thanks, Cait

Re: unzip programs

2011-10-07 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Thanks both ofyou, Ezzie and ricardo, for answering my questions about this. Caitlyn Caitlyn Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:49 PM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hi Caitlyn, > > The Unarchiver can handle RAR files, as well as other types. It is VERY > accessible

unzip programs

2011-09-27 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Anybody know if The Unarchiver can handle rar files? I've been using s archiver, but the demo is about to run out. I don't mind paying for it, but I might have to find something else for a little while until the money tree sprouts. Thanks, Caitlyn -- You received this message because you a

googlegroups captcha question

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I was trying to create a group on google groups tonight and couldn't hear the audio captcha. The help feature said that I might need a plug in to hear it. Any idea which plug in that might be? It didn't say. thanks guys, Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: clickable?

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
ok, but in this case, it was the specific nutritional information for the product. There didn't seem to be any other way to get it but to click on what at first appeared to be a link-until I slowed down and listened and heard that "clickable", that is. Cait On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Mark

Re: using the dash board

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
lol, ok. Cait On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Widgets take up negligible drive space... You don't *have* to get rid of it, > just never use it. If you DO want to get rid of it, remember that you will > have saved it along the correct path, so just retrace your

Re: clickable?

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
e text, I usually look at the > bottom of the page. > > Brandon > > www.chrits-light-ministries.org > Preorder my book, Healing Beyond Healing, to learn and master the art of > holistic healing. > > On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >>

clickable?

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, when you come across a place on a web page in safari(or any other web browser on the mac I suppose), and it says "clickable", how do you handle this? I have tried everything I can think of to access the information and nothing has worked. vo space, vo shift space, option enter(I was despe

Re: using the dash board

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
you already have, there will be a button that will let you get more > widgets. There are loads of cool ones! > > HTH, > Ezzie > > > - Original Message - > From: Caitlyn Furness To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Date sent: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:52:31 -0400 >

Re: following/unfollowing people with yorufukurou

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
> On Sep 25, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Does it sometimes show up as an actual tweet for you? It does for me! When >> I used a slash in front of th word follow, it didn't though, but I don't >> know if it took.. >> Weird! >> &g

Re: using the dash board

2011-09-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Ok, fair enough. So, if you download one and find it's not useable/accessable with vo, how do you get rid of it? I mean, we never know this stuff until we experiment a bit and try things out sometimes, within reason.. Thanks for the info, Caitlyn On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Mark BurningHaw

Re: following/unfollowing people with yorufukurou

2011-09-25 Thread Caitlyn Furness
seem question on hte list earlier but then some fooling > around with yoru gave me the answer I needed. I now jus thave my followers > list in one window and the timeline in another and it works great. > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >

Re: using the dash board

2011-09-25 Thread Caitlyn Furness
this is kinda neat.. Can more widgets be gotten from someplace, like the app store? thanks, Caitlyn On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Once you open Dashboard, press VO F2 (or VO Function F2, depending on how > your keyboard is set), and use VO down arrow to get to a

Re: following/unfollowing people with yorufukurou

2011-09-24 Thread Caitlyn Furness
nfollow someone or block someone who is > following you but who you dont want to have as a follower. > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> How do you follow somebody who you have a user name for, but who you don't >> have a

Re: following/unfollowing people with yorufukurou

2011-09-24 Thread Caitlyn Furness
How do you follow somebody who you have a user name for, but who you don't have a tweet from? thanks, Caitlyn On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > just go to the persons tweet in the timeline. Then interact with the drawer. > The drawer is to the left of the tweet ed

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Mary is right. There is Docuscan plus, too, but it doesn't even come close to what k1000 can do, especially if you're already used to k1000. You also need to be aware that you need an internet connection to scan with docuscan, which might be important. On the other hand, if you can get it to

Re: Fusion 4 and Window-Eyes

2011-09-19 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I'm interested in this as well, especially as I'm also "stuck" back in xp days. I have WE 7.5, but if it's not going to play nice with version 4 of fusion, I'm totally happy to stick with version 3. Heck, it took me long enough to get everything there happy together! lol! Thanks, Caitlyn On

Re: Looking for a good unzipping program.

2011-08-22 Thread Caitlyn Furness
The unarchiver or s archiver. I have both and both work great. Caitlyn On Aug 17, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Hi. I know that the mac will unzip zip files, but I'm looking for one that > will also unzip RAR files as well. I know that the win zip people have a > version for the

Re: all these issues

2011-07-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I'm waiting, too. For now, at least. My husband downloaded Lion yesterday. It looks tempting, but I'm still undecided myself. The new voices look nice, some of them, anyway, single letter nav looks nice, too, and some other stuff, but mail seems nightmarish. Think I'll wait til the update m

Re: conversations in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I haven't upgraded yet, but when you want to delete an entire conversation, can you just hit delete on it, even if it's not expanded? Thanks, Caitlyn On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > No no no no no. Hit right arrow and left arrow to expand or collapse. Not > vo+

Re: Inputting with grade two braille on the Mac.

2011-07-22 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Input in grade 2 would be awesome! I've gotten pretty fast at inputting in computer braille out of necisity, but prefer grade 2. Caitlyn On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:46 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > I think it's not likely since the what's new made no mention of it, but that > doesn't stop me from ho

Re: Problem with installing WE under fusion.

2011-07-22 Thread Caitlyn Furness
This is late, but are you guys using the disk, or are you doing it from the web site? Better to use the disk. Caitlyn On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:24 AM, chad baker wrote: > hi i had the same problem bring up narrator if not grab nvda i don't like 7.5 > that's only problem i had with it > wish i ha

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-12 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I'm using my mac full time. I'm running fusion and use nvda on that with win xp. I'm using k 1000 with that, and think you can run open book as well. As an alternative, there is now docuscan plus from the serotek folks. I can't tell you how good it is, though, since every time I've personall

voice over hints question

2011-07-08 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, How do you turn off voice over hints? I get so tired of hearing, "you are currently on a table..blah, blah, blah.. I've looked in the utility, but can't find it. I know I've seen turn hints on somewhere, but can't seem to find it. I just might be getting my mac and i phone mixed up, too

drop box

2011-06-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, What version of drop box is accessable with the mac and which one can we set up without sighted help, please? thanks! Caitlyn Caitlyn Furness laven...@bell.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to

Re: Really annoying problem regarding removable media

2011-06-21 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Just for clarification, do you mean just to empty the normal trash? I have done this, and those annoying files are still there, every time, on my removeable media. They make it so mp3's won't play on my dvd player(which also has a usb port). thanks for the blue harvest link. Caitly

Re: wonder what this is?

2011-06-19 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Late in answering, but thanks for explaining, Eric. Cait Caitlyn Furness laven...@bell.net On May 28, 2011, at 9:31 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, That's an auto webspot. Voiceover picks places on a web page for you > that it thinks are important and lets you navigate to them

Re: All the new features in Lion

2011-06-07 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Personally, I never get things like this when they first come out. I like to sit back and wait a little while. Caitlyn Caitlyn Furness laven...@bell.net On Jun 7, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Shen wrote: > 4gb is such a relative term. Who knows exactly what the size of the > download will

yahoo web site and buttons question

2011-06-06 Thread Caitlyn Furness
never could get my gmail addy entered into the dumb site. Any ideas, or should I just fire up the virtual machine and attack it that way instead with nvda? Should I bring the mouse to it, or what? Totally mystified, Caitlyn ps-thanks, as I've never seen this until now! Caitlyn Furness

Re: RSS on the mac with VO?

2011-06-06 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Can you explain how this works? I'm new to this and would like to know more about this. How do you find feeds, sign up for them, etc? Thanks, especially since I am way behind! Caitlyn Caitlyn Furness laven...@bell.net On May 15, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Ed Worrell wrote: > Hello E

wonder what this is?

2011-05-28 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Can anybody tell me what an "auto web spot" or an "auto red spot" is? I can't tell what voice over is trying to say, and it always says this when I go to a new web page, in addition to the number of links, headers, etc, on the page. thanks, Caitlyn -- You received this message because

Re: copying files in virtual machines

2011-05-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
> Hi. > > Have you got VM tools installed? If not, please install them as then you can > copy window files and vice versa to your Mac. > On 23 May 2011, at 17:20, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a virtual machine on my mac running windows

copying files in virtual machines

2011-05-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi folks, I have a virtual machine on my mac running windows xp home. I am primerily using this for k1000(hoping to get docuscan if they get the wrinkles ironed out). anyway, everything seems to be fine, except I can't copy and paste files from the mac side over to the windows side. I do hav

Re: help! speech is off, but..

2011-05-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
esture on the trackpad, then > doing the three finger double tap doesn't bring VO back, then type F12 to > bring up the volume as it might be muted. F9 is the Toggle to Mute/UnMute > sound by the way. > > On May 23, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Hi,

Re: help! speech is off, but..

2011-05-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
gt; Hi aitlyn, > You can do a vo+ a rotate to turn thetrackpad commander on, then do a > three finger dubble tap and this will unmute the voiceover > Later, > Scott > On May 23, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I hope somebody here

help! speech is off, but..

2011-05-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I hope somebody here can help with this problem. I am trying to get my husband, Mark's mac to talk again. Voiceover is running, but I think the speech is muted. I attached my braille sense to it so I could tell what was going on, and it looks like the check box in the voice over utility

Re: progress indicator in safari

2011-05-02 Thread Caitlyn Furness
You have to interact with the download list, then vo right arrow over to it. My mac makes a sort of clicking noise, too. It also gives a percentage, too. FYI, you must have to set this up someplace, the clicking sound, because my husband's mac doesn't do this when he's downloading something, a

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-05-01 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Well, you can save the file locally, after it's scanned, at least. Caitlyn On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Ashley, I'd like to see the ability to scan/store locally as well as the > cloud perhaps; however, I concur with your comments. I thought it was > possible to scan/stor

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-05-01 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Just have to add my penny's worth, but after adding in the cost of a computer in general, software for speech, scanning, etc, is a mac *really* that extravagantly priced? Also, apps for the mac are sometimes more costly then those for the i phone, dunno, seems like it all evens out in the end,

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-05-01 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Don't forget, too, that if you purchase a liceence, you can use it cross platform, which might be useful for some people(not me, my pc is now a useful door stop-lol!). When I talked to them, they did say they are working on an i phone version, not sure when it'll come out, though. You can also

Re: File handling on the Mac, somewhat techy

2011-04-24 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Thanks. This helps me out as well. I noticed these extra files on an sd card the other day after transferring some files from my mac and then using the files on my braille sense. I deleted them from the braille sense side, but now I can just do it before ejecting the card from now on. Thanks

Re: Voice Over and Pages

2011-04-13 Thread Caitlyn Furness
It does this for me, too, while reading my textbooks. I just press vo a again and it starts reading again. Caitlyn On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi. > This may or may not be a bug. Regardless, I've been meaning to write to > accessibil...@apple.com about this for a wh

help with signatures, please

2011-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Can somebody explain how to set up a signature in mail? I've played around with it and can't figure it out. I'm wanting to eventually have one with my contact info in it, like my skype, msn, etc. thanks, Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Any VO limitations or concerns? Praises?

2011-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Do you get chequebook pro from the ap store, or somewhere else, Sarai? thanks, Caitlyn, who is hopelessly behind! On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > The Mac has accessible email, internet, and calendar programs. As for > checkbook software, I love Checkbook pro. > On

Re: preview for files?

2011-04-02 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Oh, ok, thanks a lot! It was driving me nutty! Cait On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Pressing spacebar will toggle this or command-y will work as well. > > Scott > On Apr 2, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can som

preview for files?

2011-04-02 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Can somebody refresh my memory about how to turn off the feature where you can preview your files as you have them highlighted, please? Somehow, I've managed to turn this on somewhere on my mac, and now I can't figure out how to turn it off! This isn't a big deal, except that when I am go

help with vm

2011-04-01 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Ok, I wasn't sure where to ask this, so I'm asking here. If it's off topic, people can answer me off list, please! I got vm fusion all loaded onto my mac without a hitch, but now am having problems putting stuff, like a screen reader, and k 1000, into the vm. I've already listened to Mik

Re: acapella voices

2011-03-28 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Are the nuance voices available for the mac? I didn't think they were? I'm using my 30 day demo of the acapela British voices right now and they seem pretty responsive to me so far. I do get what you're saying about some languages, though. That would drive me crazy if I had to deal with it al

Re: Read system time with VO

2011-03-28 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Thanks! I'm just learning all about the various commander type things. I'd done all the other stuff associated with this option, *except* for turning on the keyboard commander. Thanks! Caitlyn On Mar 22, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > Go to Voiceover utility, and in the top gene

Re: Read system time with VO

2011-03-28 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Is this from anywhere? I just tried this and I got a "ding" and no time. I just made sure that vo can be controlled by apple scripts. Thanks, Caitlyn On Mar 22, 2011, at 2:16 AM, wes smith wrote: > Right option plus t. Make sure VO can be controlled with apple scripts. > > Sent from my iPh

Re: Hot Spots podcast is available

2011-03-17 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I really found this podcast helpful as well, just listened to it today. Can you use it in any program, like pages, for example? Thanks, Caitlyn On 2011-03-15, at 8:12 PM, Sharon Ballantyne wrote: > Dear Jes and others, > > As a new Mac user, I really found this podcast useful and what a time

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