Re: Questions About Numbers

2013-06-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
I guess it depends how big your files are and how complicated. I use Numbers all the time quite fine in running my business. It works better for me since I upgraded my memory, but I can see where some people would have trouble. There are some things that can be done if you want to enter text

Re: Questions About Numbers

2013-06-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I had good training at the Apple store, so you want to tell the person there that there is no clicking ever. Tell them to please look up the keyboard commands that Apple sent me. Secondly, I upgraded my memory to 8 GB, and numbers has worked better for me ever since. If you need these

Re: battery packs

2013-06-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have actually used three different ones so far. The first one I got from ATT, and it costed about $50. I found it unsatisfactory because it did not charge up my iPhone all the way. The second one was a battery pack, and I'm sorry to say I can't remember it's name. The third one I

Re: Questions About Numbers

2013-06-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I realize any amount of money is too much if you don't have it, but I paid about $81 to get my extra RAM put it. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Patrick Neazer patricknea...@mac.com wrote: Hello Christopher and all: I do not know what computer you

Re: battery packs

2013-06-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi there I have actually used three different ones so far. The first one I got from ATT, and it costed about $50. I found it unsatisfactory because it did not charge up my iPhone all the way. The second one was a battery pack, and I'm sorry to say I can't remember it's

Re: Questions About Numbers

2013-06-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Chris If I had the choice of adding memory to my computer up to 16 gigabytes, I would do it. In the last keynote that Apple did, they said that they were going to make changes so that applications would make beter use of memory. I mean, if they are going to take your old memory out and put

Bone conduction your phones with iPhone

2013-06-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I bought BlindSquare for my iPhone yesterday. It recommends getting bone conduction your phones, and I found the ones on Amazon for aftershock. The reviews I read seemed somewhat mixed. But these people were using them for different things that I want to use them for. A lot of them were

Re: contacts manager in i phone

2013-06-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
I have had some trouble with this too, but I finally figured out that it works better if you flick left and right from the left-hand side to the right-hand side of the screen and vice versa to get the proper fields come up. I found it very frustrating to run my finger around the screen to find

Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mixed results. My husband got me this box called scan box. He got it from Amazon. Using it, I was able to get almost a perfect stand of a letter I got. True, the printing was very good, but I also read a bill and was able to figure out who

Re: Voice Over expand battery Life?

2013-06-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there If voice over is anything like Jaws, freedom scientific wants told me that running Jaws was not any different than playing music. I had asked the same question you did in regards to jobs. Somebody here can tell me I don't know what I'm talking about if they want to, maybe they're

Re: IOS 7 did I hear something right?

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi folks People keep talking about voices they don't like, etc. That's ok, but my first computer was an Apple 2 E with an Echo 2 voice. I used to hate Votrax, and that was considerably worse than most of the modern voices I have heard. Since I got used to the Echo 2, I can tollerate almost

Re: Voice guided pedestrian app

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have found it works fine. Regards, Gigi On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Navigon does not use data, however, I'm not certain how well it does for voice guided pedestrian travel. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2013, at 8:33

Re: Voice guided pedestrian app

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
cblo...@aol.com wrote: I wonder how good the new iOS 7 walking directions will be: http://www.macworld.com/article/2041306/27-new-ios-7-features-apple-didnt-talk-about.html CB On 6/11/13 11:58 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi there I have found it works fine. Regards, Gigi On Jun 11

Re: Voice guided pedestrian app

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
I went to Houston this past weekend for the American Council of the blind of Texas State conference. I learned some interesting things there, one of which is about the new I blind user group otherwise known as I bugged. Yes, that's what I said. Isn't that a cute name? They need in the

iOS user group

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Sorry guys, but I made a mistake and put this message under the wrong subject before. So, I am resending it with the right subject just in case people want to know about this group. I went to Houston this past weekend for the American Council of the blind of Texas State conference. I learned

Re: a couple questions about IOS 7

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
I can't answer the question you asked concerning your fourth generation device, but I do have a question and I don't know if anybody on this list knows the answer. When we got iOS 6 one of the problems I had until I stopped making the same mistake of time, was constantly calling the

The podcast application

2013-06-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
I got this message from iTunes, and I downloaded the free application from Apple for podcasts. I can't figure out how to delete one. There is a delete button, But I can't make it work for some reason. How do you delete one? Do you have to do it from iTunes? Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone

Re: Question about iPhone battery

2013-06-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
is down or just that the battery warning wasn't much of a warning? CB On 6/8/13 7:09 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: I thought this problem has been solved, but it happened to me again. I have a for S iPhone, and it gave me the 20% warning. I kept them going, just like I did earlier. My iPhone shut

Question about iPhone battery

2013-06-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
I thought this problem has been solved, but it happened to me again. I have a for S iPhone, and it gave me the 20% warning. I kept them going, just like I did earlier. My iPhone shut down almost immediately maybe about 30 seconds after giving me the 20% morning. My question is, what are

Re: aligning text in Text Edit?

2013-06-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: MS Word? Wait a minute! Since when has that been accessible on the mac? Chris. - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:18 PM Subject: Re: aligning text

Re: Navigating the Desktop

2013-06-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it starts working. regards, Gigi On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to

Re: aligning text in Text Edit?

2013-06-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
this time makes sense. Regards, Gigi On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:18 AM, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: MS Word? Wait a minute! Since when has that been accessible on the mac? Chris. - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: download sound on mac

2013-06-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
well, I guess an ending download sound will need to go on our wish list. Gigi On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kerri shalo...@shaw.ca wrote: It's one of the things I miss from windows as well, sad to relate. I'm not much into sounds for everything as I mainly use a Braille display so even

Re: After shocks blue tooth headset.

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys What are you always wanted is a little speaker, preferably blue tooth, that can set up on your shoulder and speak out GPS information. I bought one that I was hoping would do that, but unfortunately it turned out only to work when the phone was acting for the phone call. Does anybody

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
I have both on my computer. The only thing that causes me trouble, and this just may be me, and I haven't figured out a solution yet, is that when I scanned in something with ViewScan, I don't get immediate feedback. That is, I have to go to Abby Fine reader, call up the file, and see how my

Re: 10.8.4 is here

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Anybody figured out yet whether you can edit pdf files, or is this just in reading? I have been messing with it, but I haven't figured that out yet. Gigi On Jun 4, 2013, at 5:25 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I can confirm the single page mode problem. In

Re: aligning text in Text Edit?

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, I think I have an idea here. Whenever I want to change centering, italics, bold, etc., I put a space after the text I am emphasizing. I'm not sure this is necessary, but I select that space and put it back into plain mode or whatever the next thing is I want to be in. I had this trouble

Re: 10.8.4 is here

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys Anybody figured out yet whether you can edit pdf files, or is this just in reading? I have been messing with it, but I haven't figured that out yet

Re: aligning text in Text Edit?

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
for me. I also tried highlighting the text to be aligned left, but that did not help either. This is very odd. On Jun 4, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Yes, I think I have an idea here. Whenever I want to change centering, italics, bold, etc., I put a space after

Re: Really confused about VueScan

2013-06-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys We talked about this a long time ago, but has anybody used iPal? I checked it out at a convention, but it's expensive, and I don't need that type of expense. I would've I do a lot of scanning. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 3, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Right

Question about application for iPhone

2013-05-31 Thread Eugenia Firth
I can't find the answer to this, but a while back I remember that somebody talked about a program for the Mac that will turn it into a keyboard for your iPhone. What is the name of that program? I have a blind friend who needs to know Because she is getting an iPhone 5 on Monday. Since she is

Re: Question about application for iPhone

2013-05-31 Thread Eugenia Firth
. It acts as a keyboard or something when using your Mac but can't quite remember the exact thing. Kawal. On 31 May 2013, at 01:40 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: I can't find the answer to this, but a while back I remember that somebody talked about a program for the Mac

Re: the Calculator app?

2013-05-31 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Have you set voice over two speak characters? When I call up the app, it goes into the place for typing in what you want. So for example, if I type in 2+4, I type in the number two, the plus symbol, and then the four. Then press the enter key. Voiceover should say the answer. Then

Re: the Calculator app?

2013-05-31 Thread Eugenia Firth
to the speech menu. Check the 2 options there to have characters result spoken. HTH, Traci On May 31, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there Have you set voice over two speak characters? When I call up the app, it goes into the place for typing in what you

Re: the Calculator app?

2013-05-31 Thread Eugenia Firth
. Also, there seems to be no way of reviewing a calculation before executing it, or of seeing the whole thing, answer included, once it is done. On May 31, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there what happened when you press the delete key. I can't remember for sure

Re: Wait to crash numbers

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
instead. Good luck with numbers, but you will end up pulling your hair out with voiceover and numbers. On May 29, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys I don't know if this is a voiceover issue, or a Mac issue that has nothing to do with voiceover. However, I am able

Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when I try to find the end key. What I have to do is press the home key, press the phone icon, and then BNP comes up. Have the rest of you been having this problem

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
to hang up. Do you not use that option? Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when I try to find the end key

Re: Problem hanging up my iPhone

2013-05-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
. Do you not use that option? Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when I try to find the end key. What I have

Re: strange problem with VoiceOver

2013-05-29 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Have you looked under the voiceover settings under characters words characters and words? Mine is set to nothing, and you may want to see if yours is check to characters. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 29, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Allison Manzino Vázquez gwennac...@gmail.com

Bards survey

2013-05-25 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey guys Just so all y'all know, NOS is putting out a survey on the Bard website. This survey involves whether or not you want iPhone, android etc. for getting Bard books. Of course I filled mine out and I would have put some exclamation points Afterward if I could have. Regards, GG Sent from

Re: extracting contents of zipped files on the mac

2013-05-23 Thread Eugenia Firth
I did one yesterday. I put my cursor on top of the file name that had the.zip extension, impressed commando. When I press down arrow, my unzipped files were there it took about two seconds. It's a lot easier than unzippering them in Windows. Regards, Gigi On May 23, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Alex

Re: High Traffic List

2013-05-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys personally, I like using the cloud for high-traffic list. That way, I can set the iPhone or the Mac, for that matter, to show message by conversation. Then, it's a simple matter for me to manage list traffic. That way, everything syncs with no trouble at all. Regards, GiGi On May 22,

Re: inaccessible third party program

2013-05-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jean Could you tell us a little more about the program? What program is it? Regards, Gigi On May 22, 2013, at 9:57 AM, jean parker radiofore...@gmail.com wrote: All: This is my first time posting to this list but I have very much enjoyed all the postings thus far. I am a new Mac

Re: inaccessible third party program

2013-05-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again True there's no settings that you can change to make an application work with voiceover, but since you are a new Mac user, you may not have done everything that you can do to make it work. That was why I asked what the program was. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2013,

Re: inaccessible third party program

2013-05-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jean I personally don't use Skype, but several people on this list do, both on the Mac and on the iPhone. Although I know you will want to use this program instead at work, have you thought about putting Skype on your Mac so that you could check it out Since we know it's accessible? That

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
How y'all There is an option for Settings. Once you go into settings, there is a button four-page identification. Apparently, that is turned off by default. That needs to be turned on so that voiceover will tell you to go to the left and play little musical tones, and also tell you the word

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 1:08 AM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the setting located? I looked through all the settings in cannot locate it. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi

Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again y'all I have some questions about the iPad from a totally blind person's perspective. I have a totally blind friend who is debating the issue of an iPad versus an iPhone. I am leaning toward her getting an iPhone, but she has another totally blind friend who got an iPad and adores it.

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
, an iPad would serve your friend's needs better. Both items are equally accessible. The camera on the iPad is not as good as the one on the iPhone. I have never heard of tap tap see on an iPad. Not sure how well it would work. On May 15, 2013, at 7:34 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
to her possibly getting an iPod touch? Its more portable, and has all the hardware functionality of an iPad pretty much. It's also cheaper. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 15, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
with it but this update might help. Kawal. On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know other people of been able to get

Sending a message on the Mac

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Greetings folks I have this message already, and I have the phone number to which I want to send it. How can I tell the Mac to send the thing? I can't even find the option on the menu anywhere for sending messages. Regards, Gigi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Sending a message on the Mac

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Greetings folks I have this message already, and I have the phone number to which I want to send it. How can I tell the Mac to send the thing? I can't even find the option on the menu anywhere for sending messages. Regards, Gigi -- You

Re: Sending a message on the Mac

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
application there. You may have to set it up for yourself first. HtH, teresa On May 14, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Greetings folks I have this message already, and I have the phone number to which I want to send it. How can I tell the Mac to send the thing? I can't

Re: Sending a message on the Mac

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 14, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Greetings folks I have this message already, and I have the phone number to which I want to send it. How can I tell the Mac to send

Re: question to ask all of all of you

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
have a couple of questions to ask all of you? Where would I fine a list of assessable apps for the mackcomputer? Also how do I save a document in a different formate so someone else can read my document if they do not have pages? Becky Sabo On May 14, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Eugenia Firth

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know other people of been able to get it to work without that, but not me. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 4:25 PM,

Re: The prizmo app

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jed It's on the iPhone and there's no scanner. The iPhone takes a picture of the page and the program does the OCR on it. Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Jed Barton j...@jedbarton.com wrote: Hey guys, Forgive me as I haven't been following this too much. Tell me about

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there You need to go into settings and turn on page identification. That way, voice over will tell you things like move to the left etc. It will also use the word away if it doesn't see it. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Jed Barton j...@jedbarton.com wrote:

Re: NLS app Podcast?

2013-05-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey there I agree! I had not heard this until now, and I would rather listen to my books any day on my iPhone then on the player. I like the player okay, but it's a lot bigger than the iPhone. Besides, you can take iPhone anyplace. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2013, at 6:44

Re: Question about Dictation.

2013-05-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey there Who knows. Siri doesn't always understand Louisiana/Texas talk either. It's so funny. On May 5, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hello All. I have set up Dictation using the I Mac and have not used it until now. I could not believe how accurate it was even

question about VueScan

2013-05-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys My question about VueScan is this. I did several scans, and I was asked if I wanted to rewrite the file I had told the program to use. I said yes thinking it would delete the old material and replace it with the new stuff. Not so. I just discovered that I had new stuff added to the

Re: problem with messages going to the Cloud

2013-05-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
or something similar? Cheers, Nic On 03/05/2013, at 5:33 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Nick Yes, I was talking about email messages. I don't have a specific mailbox set to archive. What I have been doing is pasting individual email messages from various mailboxes into my

Re: problem with messages going to the Cloud

2013-05-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
:33 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Nick Yes, I was talking about email messages. I don't have a specific mailbox set to archive. What I have been doing is pasting individual email messages from various mailboxes into my archive folder. It's the same folder, but what I find

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Paul You may have already tried this, but have you gone into Finder to see if you can find the file? The way I understand things, you don't have to know the date it was put on there if it was on your computer say at the last update or maybe you could check a specific date you know for sure

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
, at 4:16 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Paul You may have already tried this, but have you gone into Finder to see if you can find the file? The way I understand things, you don't have to know the date it was put on there if it was on your computer say at the last update

Re: problem with messages going to the Cloud

2013-05-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
and pressing COMMAND-CONTROL-A to archive it. Then check your archive folder on your Mac to see if it appears. If so, then check on your iPhone. Good luck! Let me know how you go with this. Best, Nic On 03/05/2013, at 8:07 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Sorry I forgot to answer

Re: problem with messages going to the Cloud

2013-05-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Nick Yes, I was talking about email messages. I don't have a specific mailbox set to archive. What I have been doing is pasting individual email messages from various mailboxes into my archive folder. It's the same folder, but what I find strange is that when I land on an individual message,

problem with messages going to the Cloud

2013-04-29 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi y'all I have this weird problem which I have just noticed. If I transfer files to my Archive folder on my Mac, they are not going to the IPhone. But, if I send a file to my Archive folder on my iPho, they go to the xMac. I have not had this problem before, so I don't know what can be the

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Apr 2013, at 14:00, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi there I couldn't find the option for disabling plug-ins and Safari preferences. I will look again. No, nobody else but me uses my Mac. If I disable plug-ins, however, is there anything else that will get disabled besides Adobe? Regards, Gigi

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-23 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I couldn't find the option for disabling plug-ins and Safari preferences. I will look again. No, nobody else but me uses my Mac. If I disable plug-ins, however, is there anything else that will get disabled besides Adobe? Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:52 PM,

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
On 2013-04-21, at 5:33 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys Someone may have addressed this somewhere, but I can't remember. If you're in a web site and you want to look at a pdf file, is there a way to tell Safari that you want to use Preview instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader

pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Someone may have addressed this somewhere, but I can't remember. If you're in a web site and you want to look at a pdf file, is there a way to tell Safari that you want to use Preview instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somewhere along the way I got Adobe Reader on my Mac, and I guess I

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 8 Topics

2013-04-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there It's been a while since I bought the 1 terrabyte drive, but I think I paid about $100 at the Apple store. I was told I could go online and get one cheaper, but I didn't. Regards, Gigi On Apr 20, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Chenelle Hancock filmchenelle1...@gmail.com wrote: How much does

iPhone Manual Question

2013-04-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I just downloaded the iPhone User Guide which is for iOS 5. I got it in brf format which was transcribed by the San Francisco Lighthouse. Does anyone know if there is the same thing out yet for iOS 6? I was looking for the gesture for calling up the item chooser. I guess that's an iOS 6

Re: Refresher needed please

2013-04-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Johnny. It sounds like you have the same security settings I have on my Mac, and I chose not to change them. I recently tried to download a Mac program off the Internet. Because I didn't get it from the App Store or an approved developer, I got the same message you did. This didn't used to

Re: Couple iWorks Questions

2013-04-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Anne, is this something new, this floating tables? I never heard of those. What do they do besides let us edit the things? Regards, Gigi On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:34 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, In Pages, you can read tables if you go to the Inspector and, using the

Question about the app store

2013-04-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Good morning guy It's early, but I've already had a rather frustrating experience with the App Store. As anybody else had any trouble when you press command 4 getting your purchases shown to you? It Demanding that I sign in, but voiceover never showed me where the sign in box was. How you get

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Although the cost may be a good justification to rehab, I think the second option of the employer wanting training and use of Apple products is an even better argument in this case. You might want to also get the employer on this as well, if it's possible. What they say means a lot.

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
I'm not sure but I think it needs to be running iOS 6. You might want to find that out first. Then, you might notice there is a switch on the braille inch 40. If the switch is in the position of towards the keyboard, then the Bluetooth is not On that. It has to be in the other position for the

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-08 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Mark I've never had any problems with the Braille Edge 40 with the iPhone. So there's something weird going on here. Hope you can figure it out, because I can't think of anything else to suggest yet. Regards, Gigi On Apr 8, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: Serious question about Mac vs. Windows

2013-04-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
as it's connected to the tv and that is how we watch tv. On 2013-04-03, at 2:59 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there Personally, I like TextEdit and pages better than I like in this word. This is because MS Word offers me more options that I want to deal with. When I made

Re: Mack question:

2013-04-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
and windows screen readers continue to have a definite edge there. I am hopeful that this will not always be the case. VoiceOver is quite powerful as a screen reader and serves its operating system quite adequately, in my opinion. Sent from my iPhone Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com Apr

Re: pairing a Braille EDge 40 with an Ipod 4th gen

2013-04-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Is he running Mountain lion? You have to be running Mountain lion to do a Braille Edge 40. 40. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Can this be done? whenever he goes t accessibility/voiceover/braille, it only sees a

Re: Serious question about Mac vs. Windows

2013-04-05 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Kelly I don't think anybody's told you about this yet, but there is a special accessibility number that Apple set up for blind and/or death customers. When and if you get your Mac, the number for that is 877-204-3930. It is my understanding that you have to have a screen reader for windows

Re: App question

2013-04-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there There is a new one from AFB called access note. It writes and reads text files, which of course could be read by word. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: What about Pages? I have not used it personally, but it has iCloud

Re: Serious question about Mac vs. Windows

2013-04-03 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Personally, I like TextEdit and pages better than I like in this word. This is because MS Word offers me more options that I want to deal with. When I made the switch, I had choices because I am self-employed, and I could call my customer and tell her that I was Changing and therefore,

Faxing from a Mac

2013-04-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi y'all How do you fax from a MacBook Pro? Do you use Pages or TextEdit? Do you use the print option? Do you have to have any special devices hooked up to your Mac to do it? And, last but not least, do you need special software other than TextEdit or Pages? Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone

Re: Faxing from a Mac

2013-04-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ray, when you say you had no luck at all, what happened when you went to set yourself up on EFax? Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Ah, I see. Well, I tried to set myself up over at: www.efax.com and had no luck at all.

Re: Battery.

2013-04-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Another way to turn screen curtain on and off is to turn your trackpad commander on with the video and the worldly twist to the right two fingers. Then you Take three fingers and tap on the trackpad three times quickly this turns it on and off. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On

Re: Battery.

2013-04-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again Well, unless you have a Bluetooth device, you might turn Bluetooth off as well. You do this by doing the oh Inoma twice. Then use the VO keys plus the left and right arrows to go to the Bluetooth menu then press VO the space bar and go down arrow until you hear it say turning on or

Getting one's password in Nava gone

2013-04-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
All folks I am not very happy with the Navigon people right now. Guess what! If you forget your password, there is a field you're supposed input which ask you to put in the characters from the input field. Guess what, I think it's an image. Voiceover won't read it. Does anybody know how you can

Re: Problem with VO.

2013-03-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have not had that exactly, but sometimes voice over overcomes up and the computer is still loading stuff. So then, I have to wait a little while. Have you tried giving it say about 30 seconds? You know, just sit there for a little bit. And then try to do your navigation. Regards,

Re: Strange problem with iPhone 4 S

2013-03-28 Thread Eugenia Firth
. On 27 Mar 2013, at 02:33 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys I have had my iPhone for S do something weird twice, once today and wants yesterday. I had gotten the low battery at 20%, and I ignored it. I figured I was going to go down to 10% and then plug it in. I was lazy, and I

Re: CD Slots.

2013-03-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2013, at 8:06 PM, anita silky...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You alos brought a what as well? Anita - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:23 AM Subject: Re: CD Slots

Re: The Rotor Option.

2013-03-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, the rotor works like it does on the iPhone if you have one. When I can, I'll look it up and tell you more but yes if you turn the trackpad commander own with the control option and then take two fingers and twist them to the right on your trackpad, you were here a little musical tone and

Strange problem with iPhone 4 S

2013-03-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I have had my iPhone for S do something weird twice, once today and wants yesterday. I had gotten the low battery at 20%, and I ignored it. I figured I was going to go down to 10% and then plug it in. I was lazy, and I didn't want to get up out of my chair. However, my iPhone when I got

Re: Wireless Keyboards.

2013-03-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Anita well you need option and command keys on keyboards. I have a Bluetooth keyboard that I got from Apple for close to $100. I'm sure I could've got a cheaper one, but at least the keyboard matched my Mac keyboard. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:04 PM, anita

Re: Getting Started.

2013-03-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Anita Personally I think there about the same. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:23 PM, anita silky...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is Mail better than Windows mail clients I.E., OE? Anita - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

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