finereader pro

2014-04-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I was quite happy with abbyy finereader express but decided to buy pro. Only I am having problems. First of all, I don't see an option to scan to text which is what I often do. Secondly, my scanner runs but I get no pages when it's done and also I notice my scanner is dimmed in the actual scan

Re: How do I get a list of signatures instead of it saying none when doing a message in mail

2014-04-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you make sure you made the signatures with your account selected? If they are under all signatures they won't work. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for

Re: Can't Find the Location of a Converted Calibre eBook

2014-04-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Have you tried opening that directory in finder from terminal, as in: open books Tilde still books really just means it's in your home directory which is what the tilde / stands for. The other possibility is that it isnT tilde books but tilde / dot books which would make it a directory that

Re: Text Editor in Terminal Macports?

2014-04-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I use emacs; not sure if you have to install it with macports or if it is actually already there. But I know people use other editors; emacs just happens to be what I am most comfortable with. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Easter story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the

safely switching away f bluetooth audio on ,mac

2014-04-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I believe there has been discussion of this on this list. Could somebody please refresh my memory as to what one has to do to safely go from bluetooth audio for listening back to the built-in speakers on the Mac. I would rather not accidentally end up with no sound. Thanks. -- Cheryl

Is there a way to print braille from the iPad?

2014-04-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. While neither my print printer or braille printer are wireless, I am able to use printer pro to get my print printer to work from the iPad. So while I didn't think it would work, I decided to try the same with the braille index printer. The connection apparently is actually made and

Re: Listening to APH Interview on the Mac

2014-04-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I haven't really been following this thread. However, just to make it clear: flash player can indeed be downloaded to your Mac and when I clicked the link with the player already installed the interview began to play immediately. It is true that it isn't an Apple product and Apple doesn't

Re: Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am not having this behavior but something very annoying is happening here. I can quit safari with cmd-quite with no problem. But if I try to just close a window, most of the time Safari crashes or quits unexpectedly as the message I receive tells me. This does not happen on my other computer

Re: Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
:19 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I am not having this behavior but something very annoying is happening here. I can quit safari with cmd-quite with no problem. But if I try to just close a window, most of the time Safari crashes or quits unexpectedly as the message I receive

Re: more on the accounts problem with mac air

2014-04-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Were the keychain messages errors or were they just asking for permission? If the latter, you would just do vo-space on allow or always allow or whatever is there. You change your login method in System Preferences in Users and Accounts. First you will have to do vo-space on click the lock to

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, I'm not sure how much they see. I know that one day there was a field to put in a coupon and rumola attempted to solve it as a captcha; I would think that if they saw everything is would have been obvious that this wasn't a captcha. We each have to draw our own lines when it comes to

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, it works fine for me too. Just used it yesterday; have been using it for a little over a year. Once in a while there is a site where it doesn't come up and once I had a site where it was trying to put a captcha solution in where the blank actually wasn't a captcha entry but 99 per cent of

Re: The bug for Messaging on the I phone.

2014-03-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I was wondering why this was such a big deal as well. It hadn't even occurred to me to think about it; I just touch the screen! -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Mar 13,

Re: copying a url to the clipboard

2014-03-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Do cmd-l to bring up the address bar and it should say the url and contents selected. Do cmd-c to copy and then paste it where you want it by doing cmd-v. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm

Re: braille edge and iPad Air

2014-03-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Mar 10, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all. Even though my braille edge pairs via bluetooth with my iphone and Mac running Mountain Lion, it won't pair with my iPad; in fact, in braille, it just says searching and won't find the braille edge. Has anybody had

braille edge and iPad Air

2014-03-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. Even though my braille edge pairs via bluetooth with my iphone and Mac running Mountain Lion, it won't pair with my iPad; in fact, in braille, it just says searching and won't find the braille edge. Has anybody had this problem and if so is there a solution? -- Cheryl I tried and

Re: Serious issue with finder and opening apps

2014-03-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't think this would cause the problem you describe, but is cursor tracking possibly turned off? Ctrl-option-shift-3 toggles this. Or have you changed any setings in voiceover utility? -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown

Issue with logitech k811 bluetooth keyboard

2014-03-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have kind of a strange situation with the Logitech 811 keyboard with my iMac. It switches between devices fine and I find it very comfortable to type on. However, first of all, when pairing I got the unable to identify keyboard dialog one gets with some keyboards and I had to touch the keys

Re: Issue with logitech k811 bluetooth keyboard

2014-03-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
keyboards have the option and the windows key switched over so that causes an issue. I believe there's a setting within the keyboard settings to rearrange the keys back now they should be. Best wishes. Jonathan Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com

Logitech Preferences Manager Solves Function keys Problem: was Re: Issue with logitech k811 bluetooth keyboard

2014-03-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: No, that isn't the problem; at least I don't think so. Voiceover works fine and that wouldn't be the case if option were switched and I don't think it would cause the function keys to be switched but to work fine with the fn key

Re: showing downloads

2014-03-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
When a download is in progress, you either find the downloads button in safari's toolbar or do commandd-option-l in safari or go to show downloads in the menus under view in safari. Any of these methods does the same thing: shows your downloads that are in progress. What were you downloading

Re: Removing an item from the dock

2014-03-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It seems to me that if keep in dock is an option, you haven't actually put it in the dock. The way apps usually work is that they go into the dock when you open them and leave the dock when you quit them. But if you either add the application or item to the dock or check keep in dock then the

Re: Removing an item from the dock

2014-03-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
know how or when it was loaded, but it is now gone. I don't know what to do with Terminal so I must have clicked on the wrong App at sometime. Thanks to everybody. Max On 3 Mar 2014, at 1:13 pm, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: It seems to me that if keep in dock is an option, you

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-02-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If I understand correctly, it's not a matter of being infected. It's a programming mistake that leaves your device vunerable and needs to be patched but it isn't an infection per se unless somebody has capitalized on it and hacked your device. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new

Re: + ATTENTION: Immediately install patch for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. )

2014-02-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
From what I read, the problem with a fix for Mac OS is that the browser isn't the only app made vulnerable by the programming problem. So the fix would have to involve maybe the whole OS or at least a particular component across apps if I understood it rightly. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to

checking frequency setting on airport extreme

2014-02-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am pretty sure that when I first set up my airport extreme there was a place for coices re: handling frequency. But now I can't find this anywhere in airport utility. Can anybody tell me how to find this? Thanks. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of

Re: checking frequency setting on airport extreme

2014-02-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Feb 21, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I am pretty sure that when I first set up my airport extreme

Re: checking frequency setting on airport extreme

2014-02-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
: Hi, When in Airport Utility, go to the Wireless tab, then press on the Wireless Options button. That should give you the info you want. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I am pretty sure that when I

Re: checking frequency setting on airport extreme

2014-02-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Canada On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind. I bought mine in April 2013 so I think it's the newest airport extreme which has simultaneous frequencies. But I could have sworn I saw some kind of setting for that in airport utility at the time

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

2014-02-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have a couple of questions about this. 1. I could leave my gmail account open if I do this and use forwarding through icloud and keep my gmail address as my Apple ID. If I really wanted to eventually get rid of gmail, is there a way to change Apple ID that then would put all of my purchases

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

2014-02-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
folders of stuff. You then can save the messages the same way you did in gmail but it will be saving to your iCloud account. Hope this helps. On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of questions about this. 1. I could leave my gmail account

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

2014-02-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of questions about this. 1. I could leave my gmail account open if I do this and use forwarding through icloud and keep my gmail address as my Apple ID

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

2014-02-20 Thread Cheryl Homiak
being that it can't be an iCloud account as the iCloud account is actually already an Apple ID. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of questions about this. 1. I could leave my gmail

Re: program for mac for typing in braille

2014-02-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I believe it is still in beta. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The

Re: Oh No I HATE Gmail

2014-02-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, please explain how you changed yhour settings though if it has been a couple of years that may not be helpful. I used to be able to go to the website and get into settings with no problem. Now I am totally unable to do this and I've literally spent hours trying! -- Cheryl I tried and

Re: since upgrading to Mavericks I'm being prompted for a password for an inactive Apple ID

2014-02-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi John: The link in your message below brings up can't find the server. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call

Re: A Leopard question: deleting an admin account

2014-02-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
prior to navigating to the Delete button. Yes, you are correct in that you cannot delete the user account that you are logged in as. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 8, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing around

A Leopard question: deleting an admin account

2014-02-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm playing around with an old Leopard computer I gave to a friend a long time ago and got back when she got a Macbook Air. I have created a user for myself and the user has admin status. I have restarted the computer with my user logged in. But in System Preferences Accounts, even though

Getting an iPad set up for a sighted friend

2014-02-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. I want to start a sighted friend up with a new iPad Air. She does not live in my area so communication must be done over the phone or by email. She is definitely not tech savvy! In fact, with the linux system she is now running, I had to give her step-by-step instructions in writing

Re: how to manage VLC as my default video player?

2014-01-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, this is exactly ow it works. I have vlc as my default player for just about everything now so that I only use iTunes when it is my deliberate choice. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new

My experience so far this year with taxact; was: Frustrating accessibility day

2014-01-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Today I sat down to work on my taxes using Taxact just as I did last year. Because of Eugenia's report I did so with some trepidation. I was working om my iMac. I chose to use importing but I don't think this in and of itself affected possible accessibility issues since I still had to go

Re: setting top posting seems to have gone away

2014-01-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, but you can arrow down and put your message anywhere you want. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Yep,

Re: Frustrating accessibility day

2014-01-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Taxact was bad last year? I did it last year and the only major problem I had was the captcha at the end. That crash of safari as I remember maybe had to do with some dialog that might show up in your window chooser but I am afraid I don't remember. I did it on the Mac not the iPhone. But I

Re: Frustrating accessibility day

2014-01-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh yes, also if i remember correctly, I finally called the IRS helpdesk about the braille not being up and shortly thereafter it appeared. I have no idea whether it actually had anything to do with my call or not but you might try that if you haven't already. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to

Replacement keys for iogear keyboard?

2014-01-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I suppose this might be slightly offtopic. I am using a couple of iogear multi-link mini bluetooth keyboards. Last summer during a seminar at church, a key cam off one of them and it was never found. I just wondered if anybody knows whether it is possible to get replacement keys; it's still

Playing Music on my iPhone with VLC

2014-01-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. I downloaded the vlc app (it's the first one (vlc fo iOS) last night and am very happy with it but I have a question. I can easily download music from dropbox and have it open in the vlc player on my iPhone. But in some cases this means I am taking up space with music twice since some

iPad air color

2014-01-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. I'm considering whether to buy an iPad air and pass my iPad 4 to somebody else; even thinking about breaking down and getting wifi plus cellular this time. Not absolutely sure I'll do it. But I was wondering about the color. i've never seen but somehow space gray sounds rather blah to

Re: iPad air color

2014-01-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
from my iPhone On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm considering whether to buy an iPad air and pass my iPad 4 to somebody else; even thinking about breaking down and getting wifi plus cellular this time. Not absolutely sure I'll do it. But I

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't think this is a Mavericks/vo problem per se or at least all by itself; there would apparently seem to be some other variable along with Mavericks and vo that is triggering this since there are many people who are not experiencing the problem along with those who are. I upgraded to

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
That's a good point about clean installls. It would be really hard not to put the problem back in the new install as you added apps on and set up all your preferences. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, what I read is that gmail is seeing it as aa Unix executable file and won't send it. Perhaps other email servers are doing the same. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life:

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, this was a Macworld article I read but maybe that issue was taken care of or there is some other relevant variable. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my

Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The only possibilities from your end I can think of are: (a) make sure all your contacts' phone numbers are correctly identified i.e.: a mobile phone doesn't show as home etc; (b) if you are typing the beginning of the contact you want in messages and then flicking through the choices, make

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm pretty sure you are going to have to switch to the Arabic voice to get the Arabic but I could be wrong. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing

Re: Captcha problem

2014-01-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What usually happens is this: You go to the page where the captcha is needed and by the time you've filled the rest of the page out, or within a minute or two at most, the captcha is filled in for you. There are a few instances where this may not work; for instance, when I was submitting my

Re: using find in textEdit

2014-01-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I also sometimes prefer using ctrl-option-f. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call to mind, and therefore I have

Re: What is this telling me

2014-01-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Usually in the Unix world, a warning does not in and of itself mean you have a problem. As long as you aren't having problems related to this warning, I wouldn't be concerned about it. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the

Re: brltty on mac

2014-01-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You need to use screen-4.0.1 and there are also patches you have to apply which are contained in the brltty source which you must download using subversion. I will really try to update the instructions I wrote several years ago and post them in the next few days. -- Cheryl I tried and tried

Re: brltty on mac

2014-01-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
way there. Chris On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: You need to use screen-4.0.1 and there are also patches you have to apply which are contained in the brltty source which you must download using subversion. I will really try to update the instructions

Re: brltty on mac

2014-01-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
be helpful, but I can't think of any. Aside from the fun of the project itself (no, that's not sarcasm, I can understand enjoying something like this) what is the goal? I'm not trying to discourage anyone, I'm simply curious. On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:22 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I use liblouis to translate from print to braille. It's also actually possible to write in braille on your computer if you know what symbols to use and I've been known to do this for short things and quick corrections. My printer is an Index and so I use the Index driver for actual printing.

Re: Is Amazon Prime not usable through the Amazon iPhone App

2013-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, it might be that you might not be able to sign up for prime on the app. Once you have bought Prime or gotten signed up for the free trial for it, I would think prime would then be one of your options. As I recall the site that comes up with safari on the iPhone isn't the full site or at

Re: Is Amazon Prime not usable through the Amazon iPhone App

2013-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
in not mentioning on the trial sign up page or email how long the trial lasts. I am not using Amazon on safari on the iPhone but rather through their app which I find is the most accessible way to use Amazon. Will have to check if PRime is now an option. On Dec 31, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Cheryl

Re: Is Amazon Prime not usable through the Amazon iPhone App

2013-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
sold by and shipped from Amazon or sold by (seller name) and fulfilled by Amazon. In product searches, you can also filter results so that only prime eligible items are displayed. Respectfully, Aser Tolentino, Esq. On Dec 31, 2013, at 14:28, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Is Amazon Prime not usable through the Amazon iPhone App

2013-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Amazon on the Mac. On Dec 31, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't have trouble using Amazon on the Mac so I've never downloaded the Amazon app but I suppose I should try it; At least when I signed up, it did state how long the trial is and it is always 30

Re: mactubes videos

2013-12-31 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Have you checked to see if there's an update to MacTubes; I think you have to go on the web and look for it. One time when I had MacTubes problems, there was an update I didn't know about. I do notice with the vrsion of MacTubes I have, it will play but then when I close the window I get told

Re: Can't Access Menu Bar in VMWare Fusion 6. Urgent issue!

2013-12-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I wouldn't quit vmware fusion without shutting down Windows first. I haven't used version 6 yet nbut I found in 5 that if I got that menu behavior and did it again (vo-m) it usually opened. But you usually should be able to shut down Windows by the normal procedure within Windows itself and

Re: Using a sig line in mail.

2013-12-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh, this is something I hate! I've had the same problem and a couple of times when I've upgraded all my signatures have gone over to All Signatures! It's extremely irritating! I found a description of how you are supposed to be able to drag and drop the signatures but have never been able to

Re: Amazon Prime is it worth it and are the videos accessible

2013-12-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Same here. I haven't really tried anything with the instant video but to me the free shipping and knowing when the package will come are worth it. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart

Re: Downloading Audible Audiobooks on the Mac

2013-12-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I use dom order in safari and I do not group items within tables, at least not on Audible. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now,

Re: Downloading Audible Audiobooks on the Mac

2013-12-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm just using audible.com not audible for UK but I would think it should be the same: could be wrong of course. Actually I used to have automatic download on but it went off and I'm not sure it is a choice any more. I haven't really gone looking for it. I go to my Library and I usually just

Re: Downloading Audible Audiobooks on the Mac

2013-12-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The directions I sent were for using safari. It appears now that if you hit download on a book the whole book is downloaded; there is probably still a way to download by part but it isn't necessary unless you only want one part. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel

Re: Downloading Audible Audiobooks on the Mac

2013-12-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
to the mac. I used audible managerwith windows which was a real clunk. Do your instructions mean that you can do it all with safari and don't have to use any audible software? If so, that would be great! Don - Original Message - From: Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com

Re: a word in defense of the Apple accessibility team

2013-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Really? The inconvenience outweights the benefits? I scan and ocr books all the time and unless i want perfection very little proofreading is necessary. I haven't noticed the joy being sucked out of my reading by a little effort! Yes, more work needs to be done in this area but meanwhile I will

Re: Importing a CSV Address Book into Alpine in terminal?

2013-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
That is correct. If you put a .addressbook (note the period in front) in your home directory, as long as the information is in the correct format, when you open Alpine the addresses should be imported. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the

Re: Importing a CSV Address Book into Alpine in terminal?

2013-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It works much better with brltty than with just vo. The problem is at this point I'm not sure how to tell you what has to be installed in order for you to be able to compile brltty on your system. I use macports and then compile and install the developer (subversion) installation of brltty but

Re: Importing a CSV Address Book into Alpine in terminal?

2013-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Cheryl Homiak wrote: It works much better with brltty than with just vo. The problem is at this point I'm not sure how to tell you what has to be installed in order for you to be able to compile brltty on your system. I use macports and then compile and install

Re: huge mail problems still

2013-12-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
When what you are used to doing doesn't work for you, it is time to move on and try something else. Vo-j is no longer the best way to handle mail so it's time to adapt in my opinion. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior,

Re: Command Line: How to Upgrade Macports?

2013-12-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, here are the latest instructions I can find. But it's kind of a nightmare in my opinion; you are supposed to uninstall and reinstall all your ports all over again in the process! I haven't yet done this though I may decide I have to at some point. What I've done so far is this: The

Re: Command Line: How to Upgrade Macports?

2013-12-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Barry and Cheryl. I’ll consider tackling this. :) I do have time on my hands. Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Dec 14, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, here

Re: Terminal: VO and Alpine Mail?

2013-12-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It's better if you have a braille display and then use brltty in terminal. But do make sure you have cursor tracking on in Alpine's configuration. Even using vo that may help some. I do pretty much everything in terminal with a braille display and brltty. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas

Re: Command Line: How to Upgrade Macports?

2013-12-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually, I think it's xcode you need to update and make sure the commandline tools are updated. I'm really sorry to dangle this little carrot under your nose and then tell you I don't have time right now to get the info together for you but I'm just doing a very quick email check and dashing

Re: rumola

2013-12-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Are you registered? Did you pay for credits? If so, could they have expired? I had a friend for whom this was not working properly and I think we decided it was the slowness of her Internet connection then though we weren't sure. Could there be anything set in privacy settings that would block

Re: Podcasts in VLC

2013-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You don't need the file menu and you don't activate the menu bar. Choose podcasts from the table, meaning interact with the table and when on podcasts stop interacting. Do vo-right arrow until you come to the subscribe button. Do vo-space on the subscribe button. A dialog comes up telling you

Re: an embarrassing question

2013-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It actually says Macintosh HD, right? And it's on your desktop? Okay, vokeys-arrow over to it and press return. It will say acintosh HD contents selected. Don't start typing or you'll have to type the whole thing because you will be replacing the name instead of adding to it. Left arrow and

Re: Podcasts in VLC

2013-12-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You are welcome! Put your podcast name in the search field and your episodes should appear in the table. Interact with the table, find the episode, and press return to play. I actually closed vlc and reopened it before I searched but I think that probably isn't necessary. -- Cheryl Go beyond

Re: Removing widgets from dashboard

2013-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If you've opened a widget more than once without closing it, you'll have to repeat this procedure until doing cmd-vo-escape just pings at you and brings up no choices. Or you can check to see if you are still in a widget each time you close. It's possible to really accumulate them if you

Re: Trouble with mail

2013-12-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
One thing I've found is this, even though I am using imap: If I find that my inbox is empty even though I know I should have mail, I quit mail and open it again and usually a bunch of mail shows up within a few seconds. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God

Re: safely remove hard ware on mac

2013-12-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Are you making sure you are on the icon for the stream in your desktop before doing cmd-e? Also, I can't remember from when I had a Stream but does the Stream just mount as one item? The reason I ask is that when I attach my mp3 player the player mounts and the sd card mounts separately and I

Re: Adding Applications to the Dock Revisited: Text Edit Isn't Staying Put

2013-12-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It should have been in the dock by default as I rtecall but maybe not. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: I have

Re: finereader pro for mac.

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Can anybody tell me what the difference is between Finereader Express and finereader pro? Since I already paid for the Express version before it was in the app store, I would like to know what added benefits I am getting before I pay for the Pro version. I don't object to paying something; I

Re: Abby Finereder and VuScan

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I did troubleshooting with somebody using vuescan a few weeks ago. The problem was that media was not in text. I suspect you do have a setting wrong somewhere if you are not getting good results when you scan with vuescan but you are with Abbyy; there are several incorrect settings that could

Re: Where To find Address for a Bluetooh Device?

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I know this because I needed it to use brltty on my Mac with bluetooth for my braille edge. Correction: I knew how to find bluetooth addresses on Mountain Lion, and this might just be the last straw if I can't find them with Mavericks! In Mountain Lion, I opened System Preferences Bluetooth

Re: anyone having trouble with column view in mavericks.

2013-12-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I usually change to icon view or at least I often do this. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You shouldn't really be able to navigate with cmd-left and right arrow. What kind of keyboard are you using and/or are you sure you don't have command and option switched somehow? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior,

Re: Option Key Not Working

2013-12-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
, Brandon Olivares programmer2...@gmail.com wrote: Why shouldn't I be able to navigate with that? That is the shortcut for umping to the beginning or end of a line. I figured out this problem, anywya. I accidentally had my keyboard set to unicode hex. On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Cheryl

Re: Scanning as tif files on the mac.

2013-11-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
This seems kind of strange to me. I scan to tiff files all the time with vuescan and have them converted with Abbyy Finereader Express and they are fine. I scan mail and whole books. But I don't know what you would do to get better results. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the

Re: VueScan troubles

2013-11-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Here are some things to check since you don't mention whether you knew about or did anything at these steps. Not trying to insult your intelligence if any of this sounds obvious to you; just didn't know how close to the beginning to start. Did you check to see if you needed to do something in

Re: VueScan troubles

2013-11-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
, at 2:09 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some things to check since you don't mention whether you knew about or did anything at these steps. Not trying to insult your intelligence if any of this sounds obvious to you; just didn't know how close to the beginning

Re: Latest release of Vuescan reprots busy all the time

2013-11-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The old versions are still available. Uninstall the new version and go back for now. Whenever I put on a new version, I name it something different or else rename the former one so that I can go back if necessary. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be

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