mac, twitter: help on yorufukurou

2012-04-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hello all, I am here to ask a simple question about the wonderfully accessible twitter client called yorufukurou. I manage to perform all actions, except for following and unfollowing users! Well, knowing the exact username of person you want to follow and unfollow, it's quite simple. just open

Re: mac, twitter: help on yorufukurou

2012-04-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
yes, found now i have another problem...how to search for hashtags if it is sufficient to press ctrl+tab till twitter search is reached then typing the #hashtag -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Infovox Ivox 3 is finally out!

2012-04-12 Thread Elena Brescacin
ivox is an alternative tts system to use with voiceover -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Infovox Ivox 3 is finally out!

2012-04-12 Thread Elena Brescacin
hi, it's not in the app store. Go here: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox/downloads it's for the mac osx, not for iDevices you have to download the program, then as I can understand you have a voice manager where you can download and try what you want bye -- You received this

how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hello, I would like to know: is there any program, utility, which allows me to convert a dvd into avi, or mov, or any other youtube-compatible video format? It's not a copyright protected material, it has no protection it's a personal video When I insert the dvd into my macbook pro's cd-room slot,

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Elena Brescacin
downloaded. I found some unlabelled buttons which I have not pressed it has converted in normal dvd player format, I do not know if it's compatible with youtube I'll find... now I'd try to convert it in a better format, these options were in unlabelled buttons I did not give it a try not to get

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Elena Brescacin
. The second seems to do the same thing as Compress. CB On 4/10/12 10:11 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: downloaded. I found some unlabelled buttons which I have not pressed it has converted in normal dvd player format, I do not know if it's compatible with youtube I'll find... now I'd try

Re: how to rip a DVD on a mac?

2012-04-10 Thread Elena Brescacin
what I am wondering, if RipIt without license, rips the DVD with banners included in the video I hope not! It's the first of 10 documented in RipIt's unregistered features 2012/4/10, Elena Brescacin talks...@gmail.com: thanks for information I'll try to open it with iMovie then upload it via

Re: adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-23 Thread elena brescacin
what a strange thing, then! i changed my mac book's system language to english, and played around with voices, and nothing happened! just alex and the non-scansoft english work! i'll try to find italian infovox, demo at least, and try using them with voiceover, keeping scansoft for instant

Re: adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-23 Thread Elena Brescacin
I think so! I'll write to adium support, accessibility apple support and nuance to see if something figures out 2012/3/23, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com: I wish you lots of luck. It definitely is strange. May and Prince Noah On 2012-03-23, at 3:24 AM, elena brescacin wrote: what

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-22 Thread Elena Brescacin
hi, nothing to do yesterday i tried to use default notifications but adium did not talk at all! to make it talk i must turn voiceover off all the time! Growl is out right now, I uninstalled both app and preference files stored on the system. But nothing changed 2012/3/21, Elena Brescacin talks

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-22 Thread Elena Brescacin
...@gmail.com contatto skype: superirid Il giorno 22/mar/2012, alle ore 13:54, May McDonald ha scritto: Do you have Skype? If so, are you able to meet me there and I can try and walk you through it. May On 2012-03-22, at 6:00 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: hi, nothing to do yesterday i tried to use

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-22 Thread Elena Brescacin
. Easier to talk you through it instead of trying to text back and forth. That way I can hear what's going on. May On 2012-03-22, at 8:01 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: may: i have skype but right now I am at work, so I cannot have voice calls I just have chats 2012/3/22, irid domnori irid.domn

adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-22 Thread elena brescacin
hello, at the end I have performed several tests on my macbook pro, to find a solution for my third-party apps independent tts, which seemed to conflict with voiceover when turned on. my last consideration is: if voiceover talks using a Scansoft voice, independently from language, system

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hello, you mean it talks with voiceover activated? System messages, adium messages, are read by adium voice without problems? To get this result I must turn voiceover off! So, till I solve this annoyance, I just adopted this solution: read also sent messages aloud. then blindly write on keyboard

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
shawn, as I wrote in my other message called someone using adium? growl speaks. But, only with voiceover turned off! that makes me really laugh 2012/3/21, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com: Snip Also, Mark, Growl uses the main system voice so if you wanted to make changes to the

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
yep! I give you the procedure right now. Correct me if something is wrong; well I do not know exact English words because I have adium in my mother language but the concept is the same! 1. opening the preference dialog box 2. interacting with the toolbar and choosing events 3. choosing preferred

Re: someone using adium?

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
if you want to have the name say default copy. Say yes there and then go through the rest of the events you want to change and they will all be under the default copy section. That should work. May On 2012-03-21, at 5:17 AM, Elena Brescacin wrote: yep! I give you the procedure right now

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
Jenny, here's how to solve this trouble. when it says growl is in the background, go through windows by command+tab (i am not sure the voiceover command to switch among applications, ctrl+options+f1+f1, or double-tap with 2 finger to the left with trackpad, works) anyway: when you reach growl, it

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-21 Thread Elena Brescacin
so... are you telling me it works? did you manage figuring it out? If so, then, tell me if you manage to make skype read whole messages with voiceover on! maybe I am the only, poor, unlucky girl to be forced to turn vo off! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
@shawn: here I am with feedback from last experiments of yesterday with skype and growl: negative result, as always. Procedure: - set growl as default notification center in skype 5.6 preferences - set speech as default notification style in growl settings - set speech and enable notification for

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
...@gmail.com: may I ask what version of growl and skype you are using and also your OS version? this is just so I can conduct a test on this. lew On 20 Mar 2012, at 08:57, Elena Brescacin wrote: @shawn: here I am with feedback from last experiments of yesterday with skype and growl

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hi Shawn, I have another doubt about this matter of growl: could it be, that it didn't talk because I was trying to talk to a facebook contact and not a skype contact? I have integrated skype and facebook together; does it confuse the whole system? 2012/3/20, Elena Brescacin talks...@gmail.com

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
in skype's last version, 5.6, you can find it out, on a HTML page called home I suppose you find it from view menu; there you find the way to connect skype and facebook, honestly I find it as a nightmare rather then a comfort. but, everyone his choice! Back in topic, I'd like some more feedback

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
I have this suspicion too! For example: growl has, on its settings - i do not remember where-, a button called preview which makes you listen the voice you are choosing for notifications. With voiceover on, preview does not talk. with voiceover off, preview talks and loops! till I do not close the

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl + Facebook

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
Mark, the guy who made me hear growl in skype, had snow leopard too. And i have Lion. We tried on line to do the same procedure explained by shawn and nothing happens, my correspondant stayed upset as me (now he does not use growl any longer) so i have no one to help *sigh 2012/3/20, Mark

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
maybe growl has some issues in voice support? I'll make some tests next days, then I'll write something to pass to growl support 2012/3/20, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com: In Growl, I can get the Preview button to make a voice, but it's always a voice that sounds very much like

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread Elena Brescacin
I answer you to the matter of growl you find it in growl's settings, applications, then skype. and from skype, preferences, the toolbar, notifications (i do not know the exact english word) and use growl as notification system 2012/3/20, BUCHERIE Volcy volcy.buche...@sfr.fr: HI, I'm with skype

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-20 Thread elena brescacin
hi mike, very strange! Unfortunately i do not know how to help, apps should show automatically. For shawn and others: here is the result of my last test: I turn voiceover on, and skype uses the integrated notification instead of growl. or, it uses growl but its functionality is incomplete...it

someone using adium?

2012-03-20 Thread elena brescacin
hello, maybe most of you saw the thread I had with some people about automatically spoken chats in skype program well, maybe I noticed where's the trouble: when voiceover is activated Growl does not talk, while it reads whole messages when it's off! But, I noticed, it is not a growl problem,

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-19 Thread Elena Brescacin
hello shawn. I performed this Growl procedure months ago, using skype 5.3, another Skype correspondant made me hear his system reading messages by Growl and I was really impressed. But, it did not work to me at all! I used it with 5.5 too, nothing worked I'll try it with last version. I mean, the

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-19 Thread Elena Brescacin
if you are not interested, just create a filter in your gmail address and talks...@gmail.com messages will be deleted automatically so please do not annoy me again 2012/3/19, aashish dhakan aashishdha...@gmail.com: not interested in hearing ur things On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Elena

Re: an update on my ITunes crash issue

2012-03-13 Thread Elena Brescacin
hello, thanks for information even if iTunes does not crash to me, I have a strange problem: while playing a mp3 file saved into my time capsule, that is on the network not physically on the computer, iTunes gives an eternal busy message and stays like so, till I force iTunes's exit using

Re: ITunes crashing all the time now

2012-03-09 Thread Elena Brescacin
I have not crashes and problems at all, too Till now! I did not add anything to my library yet The only trouble I find with iTunes, is while exploring the device. I mean: I go to the second bar, where to interact to find used and available space I do not know the english term. but it's after the

iOS: how to use Siri correctly?

2012-03-07 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hi sorry if I am a bit silly in questions: how does Siri work? I mean: with my old 3GS's voice recognition, I was used to say: call John Doe the voice answered: which phone number should I call? mobile, main, home, iPhone, and so on. I just answered the word. main, iPhone, etc. without doing

Re: Is the I phone 4s worth it?

2012-03-06 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hi, I think you would have a very good machine if you get a 4S; if you switch from 3gs to 4s, as I did, you'll notice how fast the 4s is! Personally, I gave up using some apps with my 3gs, as updating from 4.x firmware to 5.0.x, they became very very slow and slowed the whole iPhone down. Now I am

Re: Is the I phone 4s worth it?

2012-03-06 Thread Elena Brescacin
Hello, and consider the upgrade operation is painless. I mean: you can transfer your life from the 3gs to the 4S in a completely painless way, the only condition is you constantly back your iPhone up, both via iTunes, on the computer, and via iCloud. If last backup was yesterday, and today you

Re: Podcast on amadeus pro

2012-02-29 Thread Elena Brescacin
yes it's helpful for me too! I have a podcast regarding amadeus, in italian language it just explains how to select a portion of sound and how to apply a reverse effect on it, and recording. but amadeus has many many features that would be explored and demonstrated thanks -- You received this

Re: any games in the app store that are accessible?

2012-02-19 Thread elena brescacin
May i suggest a funny game? Bop it, from electronic arts or zany touch they are funny coordination games to play them, it is needed to turn voiceover off. Bopit has an interactive demo tuttorial inside it, that helps you to learn gestures and movement -- You received this message because you

Re: any games in the app store that are accessible?

2012-02-19 Thread elena brescacin
sorry for the misunderstanding these games are for iDevices I do not know any game for macbook, I am looking for them either -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com.

Re: any games in the app store that are accessible?

2012-02-19 Thread elena brescacin
Il giorno 19/feb/2012, alle ore 17:35, Ricardo Walker ha scritto: It would be cool if you could use the trackpad on the Macbooks to play one of these games. Right! audio-games based on trackpad, on multi touch it would be awesome! But I suppose there are not many developers interested! I

for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Elena Brescacin
hi, I have been here joined since last Sunday but did not talk too much. I like to work, not to talk! smiles I just reviewed a music streaming service on applevis community http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/music/soundtracker-radio As last.fm app for iPhone is not distributed in the

Re: for your information: soundtracker radio on apple vis

2012-02-09 Thread Elena Brescacin
guy. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Elena Brescacin talks...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I have been here joined since last Sunday but did not talk too much. I like to work, not to talk! smiles I just reviewed a music streaming service on applevis community http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-07 Thread Elena Brescacin
I think it's a good browser, too but I stopped using it when I found some third-party extensions that were not vo-friendly for example the ones to listen to last.fm radio, and I had a problem also in the home banking service I am using for other sites it's OK 2012/2/7, Larry Skutchan

Re: Mac app store help

2012-02-05 Thread elena brescacin
hello, of course i can help it's the first time i write here but i have a macbook pro since last September well, for your question: first of all, the access key for search field, is command+f to access the updates, just press command+5. you find all keyboard shortcuts by accessing the menu

Re: Mac app store help

2012-02-05 Thread elena brescacin
hello, of course i can help it's the first time i write here but i have a macbook pro since last September well, for your question: first of all, the access key for search field, is command+f to access the updates, just press command+5. you find all keyboard shortcuts by accessing the menu