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Re: Smart TV

The original question was about auto switching HDMI inputs. If that's all you're missing you might want to consider and external switcher. I got a unit similar to this one from Sewell for our family home entertainment setup:

Re: How iPhone 8 could change the wireless charging landscape - CNET

I can't attest to the quality but Harbor Freight has a 5 watt solar charger for $40. The small cube AC converters are 5 watts (last I checked) so this should give a similar charge time in strong sun. https://www.harborfreight.com/5-watt-foldable-solar-panel-charger-60449.html CB On 8/10/17

Re: How iPhone 8 could change the wireless charging landscape - CNET

. Just amazing we’re even having this discussion. I can’t wait until I have a phone with no ports what so ever. No charging port, no headphone port, nothing but wireless interconnection. On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:22 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>

Re: How iPhone 8 could change the wireless charging landscape - CNET

Of course Tesla also like to talk to pigeons :) I assume the basic idea is that the phone becomes the secondary coil of a basic transformer setup and then needs to have some kind of internal rectifier to change the power back to DC. I always thought transformers and capacitors were heavy bulky

Re: Huawei came really close to selling as many phones as Apple - CNET

wrote: Actually you know more about them than you think probably. They manufactured the Nexus 6P I believe and they make many processors and other components. They have manufactured several phones sold in the uS though and they are quite good. On Aug 4, 2017, at 12:09 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via

Re: Huawei came really close to selling as many phones as Apple - CNET

Huawei may make a fine phone, but I know nothing about it. In the end it's two different markets. I'm sure Nissan sells a whole lot more cars than BMW. Last I heard, roaches outnumber people as well :) CB On 8/3/17 7:50 PM, M. Taylor wrote: CNET News - Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 12:12 AM

Re: iRobot iPhone app

Yup, Gizmodo was one of the sites that covered the privacy issue: https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-your-home-to-t-1797187829 CB On 7/26/17 12:37 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: I just read an article where the manufacture of the rumba wants to sell the data collected

Re: Can i make Mouse left click using my magic trackpad?

While there might be some gesture to do that, holding down the control key and clicking is the same as a right click. CB On 7/24/17 3:09 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Thanks so much Dear, and the right click sorry? On 7/23/17, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Ramy, You can

Re: mac HTML editor suggestion?

If you are just modifying the content then a simple text editor will work fine. In the end, unless there is some complex content management system behind the scenes, HTML files are just text. So you could open up the text file, wade through (and otherwise ignore) all the markup and just modify

Re: Which virtual machine software is accessible?

I have been using Fusion for a long time and, as others have said, copying a virtual machine from one computer to the other has no impact. Now if I have that same virtual machine running concurrently on multiple physical desktops, the Windows license manager might get upset that it sees the

Re: Conversation about Accessibility w/ Tim Cook of Apple | #GAAD

, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Could you use an online tool like https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/mp3-converter and then download the mp3 it generates? CB On 7/9/17 4:30 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, Would someone mind doing me a favor? I believe many here realize I am

Re: Windstream versus Cox?

Sounds like you'll feel right at home with a larger service provider :) Can't speak to Windstream but I've had Cox for years and they have generally been solid. I bought my own cablemodem so I didn't have to pay the rent for that and plugged that into an Apple AirPort. Had hiccups whenever the

Re: Conversation about Accessibility w/ Tim Cook of Apple | #GAAD

Could you use an online tool like https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/mp3-converter and then download the mp3 it generates? CB On 7/9/17 4:30 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, Would someone mind doing me a favor? I believe many here realize I am not fully an apple user for other physical

Re: upload speed very low

What most people have is ADSL and the A stands for Asymmetric because there is greater bandwidth dedicated to stuff coming to you rather than outbound. It's a reasonable thing because most people send a small request like an URL and get back megabytes of data. How fast depends on how much you

Re: HTML Stream in iTunes

Can you open the URL http://direct.sharp-stream.com/original106.mp3 in iTunes to play the same thing? CB On 7/8/17 11:48 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, Yes, an app would do the trick, as the app would be designed to deal with the html streaming, whereas iTunes is designed to use different

Re: Blume Wifi

I have Gb internet at work and the only thing I've found that will fill the pipe is Apple updates. I think it's peaked at 112MB/s download getting an iOS update. Everything else seems to have bottlenecks elsewhere the cap the throughput. CB On 6/11/17 9:53 PM, Scott Granados wrote: It’s hard

Re: deleting old time machine backups

This is somewhat by design. Time Machine assumes it owns whatever volume you point it to and will continue to make incremental backups until the volume is full. At that point it will begin to cull old backups. That's why it's generally not a good idea to try and share space on a volume with

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

My Apple II+ had the shit key mod that hooked a wire from the keyboard into the game controller plug so I could actually type upper and lower case. I also had discovered $C030 was the address of the speaker to make it click. Do that often enough and you get a tone. Turned out $C020 was the

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

Back in the day when I switched from Apple II to Mac I bought a discontinued Mac IIcx which had no hard drive, no monitor and a full megabyte of RAM on four 256K DIMMs. If I recall it was about $1600. I quickly added a hard drive as running from floppy disk was horrible. It was a huge 105MB

Re: So what do we think of the WWDC new hardware?

They added "native core bluetooth" to connect to devices including glucose monitors from dexcom. This was at 19:57 in the presentation. https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/ CB On 6/6/17 11:26 AM, Mary Otten wrote: I did hear something about the gym equipment. But I didn't hear

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 6/5/2017 11:12 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Seems like an external SSD would slow things down to whatever the limit is on your USB. USB 2.0 real-world throughput usually peak

Re: So what do we think of the WWDC new hardware?

@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2017 8:38 AM To: MacVisionaries 'Chris Blouch' via <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: So what do we think of the WWDC new hardware? So what does everyone think of the announcements. Personally, I’m going to

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

imply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 6/4/2017 8:27 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: To figure out exactly which drive fits which computer they have an online upgrade matching page here: https://eshop.macsales.com/upg

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

and later. The 2012 Macbook pro could use the older ssd and they are a lot cheeper. The Cheepest 500 gb ssd goes for 379 and I think that is a drive they tested as well Brandnew is 450. On 6/4/17, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: To figure out exactly

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

fact that this drive on some places is close to $900. On 6/4/17, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: My wife upgraded her MacBook from a 500GB regular drive to a 1TB SSD. I got the Other World Computing bundle which included the special screwdrivers to take

Re: I'm really growing to hate this years crop of laptops

My wife upgraded her MacBook from a 500GB regular drive to a 1TB SSD. I got the Other World Computing bundle which included the special screwdrivers to take her laptop apart, a USB external drive case to put her old drive in and the new 1TB SSD. That kit is currently $389. I probably could

Re: Increasing Internet Speed?

and down. I have a gigabit feed now so a full 1.25 wave up and down which makes for publishing that youtube content so much easier. On May 19, 2017, at 11:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I remember back in the day some satellite pro

Re: Increasing Internet Speed?

I remember back in the day some satellite providers actually had the option to use dialup for outbound traffic. I guess it was faster to send an URL and cookies via telephone modem than up through the satellite. Outbound traffic for most people is very small compared to inbound. I guess that's

Re: Using 1 Hd for 2 Time machine backups, can i?

? On 5/15/17, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: When I do time machine backups to a network drive I create a sparse image on that drive so I can set the max size it will occupy, mount that image and share the mounted image as my time machine backup

Re: Increasing Internet Speed?

Two bits here that are getting mashed together. Satellite internet, like Hughesnet, send and receive data to your location by bouncing off a satellite. So while you can get high throughput for, say, streaming media or downloading apps, it also has high latency. When you put in an URL in your

Re: Using 1 Hd for 2 Time machine backups, can i?

. I don't believe this is of any concern, and I think the primary reason is to maintain User Information and separate encryption availability for each computer. . On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:54 AM 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisio

Re: Using 1 Hd for 2 Time machine backups, can i?

What E. T. said. If you have a VM that takes 30GB and in your VM Windows Notepad you create a new document with a single letter in it, the entire 30GB file is now marked as being changed so TM will try to back it up again. There is an option to have VMWare break up the virtual C drive into

Re: Using 1 Hd for 2 Time machine backups, can i?

With the partitions your single external hard drive should appear on your desktop as two drives. You'll have to decide how much space to give each partition. For example, if you have a 1TB drive you might break it up into two 500GB partitions. The main issue is that TM does incremental backups

Re: Sharing Files Between my mac and the VM ware Fusion

What? When did virtualbox get its UI accessible? I had stopped checking and assumed it would never be, beyond doing everything from terminal. CB On 5/11/17 5:04 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: Hi Anders, By VB I mean virtual box, It's current version is working great with voiceover on sierra.

Re: Sharing Files Between my mac and the VM ware Fusion

that is installed on my mac through the vmware. so, i put my files in the shared folder and i can access them through the vmware shared folder. Thanks so much again for helping On May 10, 2017, at 3:57 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisio

Re: Sharing Files Between my mac and the VM ware Fusion

You can find this in the settings for vmware in the toolbar of the active virtual machine, in the menu under Virtual Machine or just hit Command-E. Sharing should be the second button in settings. Make sure Enable Shared Folders is checked then VO-right twice to the Add button. From there you

Re: Downloading Large Zip Folder

, Sharon Hooley wrote: would a download accelerator for the Mac be helpful? On May 9, 2017, at 12:47 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Internet speed depends on the weakest link. Even if you have super fast internet, if the place you're downloadin

Re: Downloading Large Zip Folder

Internet speed depends on the weakest link. Even if you have super fast internet, if the place you're downloading from does not, or one of the parts of the network between you and them is congested, then it can be slow. Is it a public download that somebody else can try? CB On 5/9/17 2:37

Re: Screen shot

Very odd. If that permission was messed up I wonder if there are others. Might be worth running a disk first aid from the Disk Utility in the Utilities folder (command-shift-u to jump there). CB On 5/7/17 5:39 PM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: Jonathan and all When I went to Desktop in Finder, I

Re: Screen shot

Can't reproduce that here. Command+Shift+3 has been the screenshot combo since MacOS 7 (circa 1996). Normally you only get to menu extras by hitting VO-M twice. Weird. CB On 5/5/17 1:00 AM, Angus MacKinnon wrote: When I do CMD + Shiftt + 3 I get Menu Extras on my OS 10.11.6 imac. Can someone

Re: Default button

Likewise, escape usually cancels whatever popped up a modal dialog. If you empty your trash and it asks "Are you sure…" you can hit enter to make it so or hit escape to cancel that. CB On 4/26/17 11:59 AM, E.T. wrote: Learned something new today. Thanks Alex. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .

Re: And here's an example of why Apple is losing the digital assistant game

lable through an app for my iPhone? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk Sent: Sunday, 23 April 2017 9:47 PM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: And

Re: Accessible web conferencing: zoom.us

At one point I thought it would useful to have a FAQ for MacVisionaries as sometimes the questions rhyme a lot with earlier discussions. Later I was reading a discussion thread on here and thought I'd try to google around and see if I could find an answer. Of course my search results just

Re: Accessible web conferencing: zoom.us

uality results. Like the adage says: garbage in, garbage out. And conversley, quality in and maybe quality out. hth Janina 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries writes: I had always wondered what it was when I would call some people on my iPhone 6 and get surprisingly nice audio while other times it wa

Re: Accessible web conferencing: zoom.us

I had always wondered what it was when I would call some people on my iPhone 6 and get surprisingly nice audio while other times it was just OK. So what triggers the good audio? My wife and I have the same iPhone 6 on Verizon and sometimes we get that amazing sound quality and sometimes it

Re: Sitrix access

The only real JAWS security snag I ran into was a particular anti-keylogger package which tagged JAWS as something which steals keystrokes - which it kind of does. End result was that JAWS couldn't get any keystrokes and so Windows became inaccessible. Had to uninstall the anti-keylogger

Re: Confused about spaces, windows and full screen

Likewise you can hide the current app you're in by hitting command-h. CB On 4/15/17 5:17 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: Every application menu has a "hide others" command. it is command-option-h. On Apr 15, 2017, at 15:23, Paul Hopewell wrote: Hello, I use VoiceOver on

Re: Using Lame encoder in Mac with Audacity

You can also install it via MacPorts, but I've never used audacity. sox is another nice audio encoding package that works from the command line. CB -Original Message- From: Sandi Jazmin Kruse To: macvisionaries Sent: Tue, Apr 11,

Re: Gigabit LTE: Crazy Fast Wireless Speeds, Explained

the capacity than 4G so by then it’s like selling a utility like water. On Apr 6, 2017, at 10:09 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Looking forward to the day when I can use up my entire monthly data plan in two minutes :) CB On 4/5/17 9:06 PM, M.

Re: Gigabit LTE: Crazy Fast Wireless Speeds, Explained

Looking forward to the day when I can use up my entire monthly data plan in two minutes :) CB On 4/5/17 9:06 PM, M. Taylor wrote: Hello Everyone, I hope you find the following cNet article as useful and informative as I. Enjoy, Mark CNET How To - Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 10:27 AM

Re: Deal, free or paid vpn that works with Voiceover on Mac and iOS?

I haven't been following the VPN discussion that closely but I did stumble upon this article talking about fake VPN services: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/04/05/1944213/phony-vpn-services-are-cashing-in-on-americas-war-on-privacy Jump by header once to get to the actual article, which is

Re: accessible scientific graphing calculator?

Might be totally unrelated but Apple used to bundle a graphing calculator created by some folks who snuck into their building to write it. The amusing tale can be found here: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ CB On 3/31/17 7:22 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: I believe desmos on the web might

Re: do i need java.

Just a reminder that Java and JavaScript are two different technologies that, unfortunately, share parts of their name. From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History "The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the

Re: Apple music on android.

, MIT, Associated Press and NEAR Net all are wondering what the hell I’m doing and am I new.;). Yes, that’s right, in 1995 I caused a global outage. That’s what we like to call learning while under fire.:) On Mar 24, 2017, at 12:32 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionar

Re: Apple music on android.

.;) On Mar 24, 2017, at 11:13 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Just the traditional security usability tradeoff. Like door locks, you just want to make sure yours is tough enough to crack that the lazy bad guy moves on to somebody else. It's

Re: Apple music on android.

Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 24 March 2017 3:00 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple music on android. In light of https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/22/apple-responds-to-hack-threats/ two-factor

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017, at 09:54, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: Oh yeah, They like any moving object start dying after a while. -Original Message- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 24 March 2017 2:57 AM To: macvisio

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

degradation as much as I mean file system degradation. On Mar 23, 2017, at 9:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Interesting. I had not heard about spinning disks degrading over time. I've heard of operating systems getting loaded up with goo fr

Re: Apple music on android.

In light of https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/22/apple-responds-to-hack-threats/ two-factor auth seems like a really good idea. CB On 3/23/17 4:30 AM, Scott Granados wrote: Anders, you’re intuition is correct. On native apple devices we get a separate pop up for the 2 factor response in

Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

Interesting. I had not heard about spinning disks degrading over time. I've heard of operating systems getting loaded up with goo from old files left behind and such, but not the drive. There is the stuff about drives remapping bad blocks over time, but I wouldn't expect that to make an impact

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

A similar effect can be had by doing a "paste without formatting" which is command-option-shift-V. This is also handy when you're pasting text from different places into a document and you don't want all the font and other formatting to come along, which usually means your pasted text will

Re: USB Drive Enclosure

. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 3/13/2017 12:45 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: Th

Re: USB Drive Enclosure

These things are dirt cheap so there's piles of them around. My wife upgraded her MacBook with an SSD and we bought the Other World Computing kit which included the special screwdrivers and an external drive case for the old drive. Their USB 2.0 case by itself is $US15.75 and USB 3.0 is

How do I use autocomplete on iOS apps?

I've been fiddling around trying to figure this out. If I'm on an app like mail, itunes, calendar etc. there is a search control. If I double tap that, I get a keyboard to enter some characters. As I'm typing there are search results or autocomplete suggestions being displayed. Two questions.

A bit off topic - DOJ public comments until October 7th

This is a bit off topic, but for those interested the US Department of Justice is asking for public comment on their "supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking" around accessibility for public sector web sites. This set of regulations has had many setbacks and delays since it first was

Apple Design Award goes to djay Pro, accessible djay app

Not sure if this was mentioned before. Found a link to a page showing the Apple Design Awards at the 2016 WWDC. I couldn't figure out how to control the video with voiceover other than stop/start but at around the 54 minute mark they give out the last of the 10 awards to djay Pro. While each

Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini

nd knocked it up to 16 GB of RAM. It runs quite well with El Capitan now. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 11, 2016, at 15:21, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Nothing new here, Apple is just better at keeping consumers out of th

Re: mac book pro, mac book air, or iPad pro?

That's why Apple went to the RISC PowerPC in the not too distant past as it could crank out more work than its Intel brethern. Unfortunatly it eventually lost its lead and Apple had to make another migration to the Intel platform. In some ways, that made things easier with virtual machines and

Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini

Nothing new here, Apple is just better at keeping consumers out of their widgets now then back in the Mac Plus days. They figured out that most people could pick up a long T15 Torx screwdriver without much trouble but getting things unsoldered without burning the board is a different thing.

Re: This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Interesting stats they mention about correlation between braille literacy and employment. I just had an iOS developer reach out to me who said WWDC had a heavy emphasis on accessibility this year. I've never been so I can't compare. I hope that's true. Nothing but good can come from more

Re: Web testing and development software.

Are you testing a lot of pages? If so you might want to check into the various commercial products like WorldSpace from DeQueue Systems or AMP from SSB Bart Group. I've used both and they work well. I'm currently scanning about 200 web sites with AMP each week. For individual pages you can

Re: Dr. Phil, and More. I swear this *is!* on topic entirely.

A good antenna shouldn't cost that much but a lot of it also depends on where you put it. I put a ChannelMaster CM2016 in my attic and it worked quite well. Cost me $44 on Amazon. My wife is a sports nut so she had to have her (US) football and Olympics.

Re: Converting songs to mp3 with latest iTunes and ElCap.

, at 3:41 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote: Hmm. I don't seem to be able to reproduce this. I went to playlist and then to Purchased to make sure I had tracks from iTunes and not ripped from m

Re: A GUI question

Depends on what you mean by "run the Mac GUI". The Mac GUI is just an overlay on top of what's happening under the hood. So if you are SSHed into another Mac, cd to the Desktop folder and rm a file, that file will be gone from the desktop in the GUI as well. CB On 6/25/16 4:43 PM, Angus

Re: remotely controlling a mac

If you can hear the audio from the remote machine across the room, couldn't you use the native screen sharing stuff in OSX? It doesn't transmit audio but if that will do the job then there is no need to buy a BT keyboard. I think the basic process is along the lines of Connect To Server

Re: Converting songs to mp3 with latest iTunes and ElCap.

Hmm. I don't seem to be able to reproduce this. I went to playlist and then to Purchased to make sure I had tracks from iTunes and not ripped from my own CDs. I stopped interacting, did VO-right twice to get past the splitter to the scroll area, interacted with that, did a VO-right to move

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:15 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I used to do enterprise computing stuff back in t

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

. I’ve heard for example that Microsoft has the federal market cornered. On 6/15/16, 12:13 PM, "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I suspect the Mac v. Win population numbers are driven by bulk institutional purchases. While there are a f

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

I suspect the Mac v. Win population numbers are driven by bulk institutional purchases. While there are a few all-Mac shops there are many more all-Windows shops. I was just at a PTA meeting at my kids elementary school last night where they were going to help fund buying 60 computers for the

Re: Subscriptions and All That

I was going to say the same thing, but my fingers were to tired for all that, so I'll just say I agree. Here is the downside scenario. Say somebody puts out a nice app such as an audio cleaner. I rent the app and use it to clean all my cassette and LP record transfers to remove hiss and pops.

Re: Daring Fireball: The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads

build new features into their software, they should be able to charge for them. Then I as the consumer can decide whether those upgrades matter to me or not. If they do I simply pay for the upgrade. Cheers, Donna On Jun 9, 2016, at 10:57 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@

Re: Daring Fireball: The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads

My only concern is that leading software can lead to some developers slacking off if they have their app pretty much working correctly. Back in the day people kept upgrading computers and apps because the new ones were faster and the apps had lots of new features. At some point the computers

When it comes to accessibility Apple continues to lead in awareness and innovation

Found this buried in my inbox. Nice writeup from techcrunch on Apple's accessibility endeavors. http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/when-it-comes-to-accessibility-apple-continues-to-lead-in-awareness-and-innovation/ CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: from VHS to Mac

Because Macs are set up with a "line" level input you should be able to go directly from a standard tape deck into your Mac and record with your favorite tool. Usually this means you'll need a stereo RCA to stereo mini headphone jack cable. Of course you need a real deck, not something meant

Re: from VHS to Mac

Hmm, if the video digitizer device were to show up as just another camera you could use plain old quicktime to record a movie from that source. It's been a long time but I think the old firewire ones did just that. You might find a used Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter somewhere for not a lot.

Re: Using SSH to find a computer

Terminal on osx opens up a full bash environment where you can run commands, write scripts and other things all through text. Apple has some nice documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduction/Introduction.html So

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

eset it from scratch and see what happens theren *From:*'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] *Sent:* Sunday, 8 May 2016 4:29 PM *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple

Re: Viewing Source in Safari

Weird. I can reproduce the issue. I even tried opening the inspector up as a separate window, but that just let me get a bit further down before focus moved away from the source. Seems like a bug. CB On 5/10/16 4:16 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: Hi all, I have the developer menu turned on in

Apple store now stocking accessibility items

Maybe I missed this in another thread but you can now buy braille displays, switch interfaces and eye gaze trackers from the Apple store: http://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories/accessibility Selection is kinda thin at the moment but I'm sure they will keep adding stuff over

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

I suspect you have this right. I have a Mac Mini hooked to a surround sound receiver via the digital optical out and it always takes a moment for the receiver to figure out what kind of signal is being sent before it wakes up and starts putting sound out the speakers. Maybe newer decoders are

Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

This is basically a transformer. Those little wall warts you use power up low voltage devices like radios, phones, CD players usually run on just a few volts (5 to 12), just like batteries. The power coming out of your outlet is usually 120 volts (US) or 220 (Europe). Years ago somebody

Re: Hiding Info in Numbers

You could Hide the column or row that has the data in it using the hide command from the Table menu. I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for it. Once hidden it will still function as data for your formulas and will be visually gone but you will notice the column letter or row number is

Re: benefits of lightning over headphone jack was Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

While a USB-C headphone/power/data jack might allow slimmer devices or more internal space for other stuff, it also means your headphones could do much more than play audio. There have been hacks over the years such as the square credit card reader plugging into the current jack but what if

Re: Two iTunes questions

Interesting. I hunted around for a while and it seems that iTunes won't let you speed up playback. Odd to have such a feature missing. All the things I found said to use an another app by picking the podcast, revealing in the finder and then opening it with quicktime player, which does allow

Re: web arkive files

I don't know much about the downloading portion but a web archive is supposed to be all the stuff needed to load up a web page in Safari without an internet connection. So you can save a page as a web archive and then peruse it when you're offline later.

Re: recovering lost files

Back in the day some studios I knew always had a separate DAT recorder or the like running just in case the big Protools rig went down. It was kind of a safety net so you at least had "something" instead of nothing. Of course the system would always have an issue on the take where the

Apple's 2015 Q4 PC business stats from Gartner

This came up before but I wanted to cite a source in case anyone was curious what the stats were as far as the overall market and Apple. Note that sales/shipments does not equal installed base. There are a couple tables in the report and they are not marked up correctly so you'll have to

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

It's also probably a demographic thing. If your product "just works" and customers expect the access point to be an appliance to be plugged in with minimal fuss or setup than most won't don't care about SNMP or the lack of insight into wired devices. I also miss my Archie and Veronica tools

Re: Excluding iTunes Library

I'm assuming you can just got into the Time Machine Preferences, tab a couple times to Options which will take you to the exclusions table. Tab once to land on the "add items to do not backup list" button. Actioning that button will bring up a standard file picker to select which files/folders

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