Restoring iTunes library following clean install of Lion?

2011-07-24 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, I am reposting since someone who might have a suggestion could have easily been overwhelmed by the blizzard of recent traffic, and I'm really out of ideas. While using SnowLeopard, I backed up my iTunes library to an external drive and installed Lion via a DVD (HD was

Solution to xCode 4.1 won't install on Lion.

2011-07-22 Thread Geoff Waaler
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Waaler Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:56 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: xCode 4.1 won't install on Lion. Greetings, I installed Lion from DVD and completely erased my HD

Restoring an iTunes library in Lion and Itunes 10.4?

2011-07-22 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, While using SnowLeopard, I backed up my iTunes library to an external drive and installed Lion via a DVD (HD was completely erased). Upon launching iTunes, it did not prompt for a library. I attempted to copy my backed up folder into /users/userName/music/iTunes/iTunes

Re: updates for Itunes and Iwork

2011-07-22 Thread Geoff Waaler
Mary, Lion installed with iTunes 10.3. 10.4 sadly came in via a system update, so you could be selective. I don't know whether the app store would refresh files so as to quoianside with software updates. Since Lion just came out I doubt they altered the install package to include the iTunes

xCode 4.1 won't install on Lion.

2011-07-21 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I installed Lion from DVD and completely erased my HD in the process. I then acquired xCode 4.1 from the Mac app store. During installation I received a message admonishing me to quit iTunes in order to continue the installation. I have a modicum of trouble following this

Re: Move Addict

2011-07-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Jeff, If you purchased MoveAddict from the App store, the file: moveAddict Preferences.app was probably not included in the package. If you don't have that file you'll need to obtain the installation package supplied at the MoveAddict site and copy that file from the accessibility folder.

Moderating advice - was network problems.

2011-07-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
. [The Gospel According To Mark, Chapter 221.] (Big Smile) Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Waaler Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:38 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Network

Re: Network problems

2011-07-14 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Mark, Other than illustrating your proclivity toward boundless narsisism, what purpose was served by sending this to the list? Best regards. Geoff On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:12 PM, M. Taylor wrote: Hello Ed. Troubleshooting network connectivity issues can be one of the most challenging a

Re: a couple of trackpad commander questions

2011-07-11 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Donna and others, For me the quickest solution is to make extensive use of the preview pane. I also found it helpful to go into VO utility under navigation and uncheck the box labeled: Automatically interact when using tab key. Though I can interact with the preview pane text by placing a

detecting c++ compiler errors in terminal.

2011-07-06 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, Thanks much to Chris, Zack and anyone else who might be willing to spend some time getting me started. I compiled a simple c++ file via the g++ command. Despite receiving no indication of an error, the executable did not reflect my changes. My error may be relevant, so I'll

XCode/C++ integer assignment from console.

2011-07-05 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, I am getting started with C++ using XCode 4.0.2. The following was created as a C++ command line tool. The objective of this main.cpp code was to accept a n integer from the console and display it: #include iostream using namespace std; int main() { int num; cout

Re: XCode/C++ integer assignment from console.

2011-07-05 Thread Geoff Waaler
a different result with such a simple program, and am afraid I'm just learning to use it myself, so know very little about it. Very confused, Zack. On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings all, I am getting started with C++ using XCode 4.0.2. The following was created

Compiling C++ in terminal - wasXCode/C++ integer assignment from console.

2011-07-05 Thread Geoff Waaler
prompt? Again, TIA for any info or documentation you can point me to describing how to get going with terminal. Best regards. Geoff On Jul 5, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Hello Zack, Thanks so much for looking into this. You indirectly answered one of my questions -- it's

Re: Trying to set up growl

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Shannon, Me thinks that either you have an old version, or something got fubared during the install process. As Geoff said, all growlable apps automatically register. On my system this list includes: Adium, Growl, moveAddict, Skype, and Pulsar. The fact that Growl is not on your list is

Re: Contacting a Mod/Owner

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Carolyn already listed the mods, but a more generic answer for GoogleGroups is listname+ow...@googlegroups.com, so you almost had it right except for the missing plus sign between the list name and the word owner. HTH. Geoff On Jun 26, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I have

DVDRemaster is 90% off in the app store this weekend.

2011-06-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, I don't know if this is applicable to all Mac app stores world wide, but in the US, DVD Remaster version 7 which regularly sells for $50 is on sale this weekend for $5. Information in the macvisionaries mail archive indicates that the developer worked with voiceOver users so

Re: Windows opening automatically in Sidebar

2011-06-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hello Michael, If you're not subscribed to MobileMe you may want to go into finder preferences - sidebar and disable your iDisk. HTH. Geoff On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: Hello everyone, I have a problem that is causing some annoyance. Whenever I go to the

My swan song mod note.

2011-06-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, Please forgive the cross post, but my content is applicable to both lists and only has a couple references specific to VIPhone. I will always be grateful to Cara for entrusting me with the task of assisting her to manage these lists over the last year. As I saw it, my

Important mod note -- please read -- need everyone's help to combatting clutter.

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, For those of you on the VIPhone list, this will be an entry from the DORD (department of redundancy department). After having read two posts sent to this list earlier today which I will quote below, I decided that this list might also need a reminder. At this writing,

Re: VizWiz

2011-05-30 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks Ed for bringing this to our attention. Is the app itself slow, or just the answers to your queries. The latter would be expected since it's bound to always involve human intervention (presumably from a volunteer staff). How long does it take on average to get an answer, or does that

Re: itunes and cds

2011-05-30 Thread Geoff Waaler
I suspect Denise was already aware of this prior to posting. The problem is that I have yet to determine how to play an album in it's intended order. This could really matter for instance in the case of a comedy that was broken into tracks. When listing album contents as you and Ricardo

Re: reading threads in mail

2011-05-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Steph, Threads are in a tree view, hence the arrow keys expand them and then you can arrow down to specific messages and tab into the preview pane. Best regards, Geoff On May 26, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Stephanie Mitchell wrote: Hi all. I have just set up my gmail account with my imac. On

Moderator note Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, Sadly it seems that a reminder is in order that the number of subscribers and volume of list traffic is not conducive to off topic chat group messages. The discussion of recordings in computer readable format and/or distribution of media playable on the MacOS and IOS platforms are

VO friendly DTV boxes?

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, To quote Shameless, the subject says it all. I'm considering acquiring a tv receiver box. I got one several years ago before the US switch over to the digital frequencies, but the required companion software was marginally usable with JFW. I therefore thought it wouldn't

Virtual viewer in Safari?

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, When I read code examples from URL: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-iphone-development via JFW and FireFox/MSIE, the lines appear correctly in Jaws's virtual viewer. When I navigate via Safari in OSX 10.6.7, however there is no easy way to

Re: Virtual viewer in Safari?

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
] On Behalf Of Geoff Waaler Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Virtual viewer in Safari? Greetings, When I read code examples from URL: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-ipho ne-development via JFW

Re: Virtual viewer in Safari

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Zack, Thanks for your post. It's reassuring that you use the braille.wunderground.com site daily, but here again perhaps it depends on what you want to read there. How, for example can you quickly ascertain the normal and record temperatures In the JFW virtual viewer I can read the

Re: prismo on the IPhone

2011-05-09 Thread Geoff Waaler
To clarify, Sandy posted to the viphone list. I haven't verified, but don't believe she's subscribed to Macvisionaries. I will copy one of her posts below which should help any interested party to get started. Supplemental to Ann's comments, I have no light perception and can report getting

AppleMail and vo - was the installation, and uninstallation of applications to the Mac

2011-05-06 Thread Geoff Waaler
that using the arrow keys to expand threads is much cleaner than pressing enter and opening windows for all the children, but that's a matter of preference. On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Hi Annie, My suggestion varies greatly from the advice you've been given so far

Re: the installation, and uninstallation of applications to the Mac

2011-05-05 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Shameless, Can't improve on Jes's excellent description of app installation, but in terms of pulling an email address from a header, there are other ways to skin the cat. In fact I seldom interact with anything in e-mail. Instead, I went into vo utility (VO-f8) - navigation and unchecked

Re: My review of Imap Weather Radio

2011-04-29 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, I was going to write Sarai off list to express appreciation for her excellent review and thanksgiving that she got through the recent turbulence that recently reigned supreme here in the SouthEastern United States. I started asking so many follow-up questions, however that I

Re: Accessible Weather Radio App for iOS devices

2011-04-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Sarai and others, Thanks so much for bringing this app to our attention. One last follow-up question if I may. On the other list I mentioned the WeatherAlert app which will wake you up. That's a good thing, but then it repeats identical warnings such as a thunderstorm or tornado watch

Re: Hotspots

2011-03-31 Thread Geoff Waaler
Simon, I'm not clear on how your post varies from what Colin already said? If you are attempting to add new information, you may want to rephrase it. If your intent was to rehashColin's answer, I would suggest that you consider responding privately so as to help minimize the time required

Are two drives alike?

2011-03-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, Recently a friend found a 500 GB Passport at the Apple store for twice what I paid for my 1TB drive last year. It said that it was for MacOS, but since my MBP has no trouble finding or reading my drive, I didn't see this deal as a bargin exactly. This afternoon I searched the

Re: Extremely Frustrated trying to copy and paste . . .

2011-03-23 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Mike, I believe a more objective user might put it differently. The sentence I have in mind is that the JFW virtual viewer handles this infinitely better than VO/Safari. I fear that the all too ubiquitous Pollyannaish attitude often seen on this list that voiceOver can do no wrong will

Re: hot spot expiry?

2011-03-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Yuma, Perhaps you can clarify your requirement? The way I've used hotspots, closing the associated app renders them inapplicable. When I reopen the app my hotspot again becomes active. Only way I know to save them is via the export preferences menu item in the voiceOver utility. Perhaps

CopypastePro.

2011-03-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, I've not been able to get off square one with CopyPaste Pro. VO repeatedly says: system dialog. Interact and no keys have any discernible affect. I turned off all voiceOver verbosity, automatic interaction and cursor/mouse linkage features that I could find, to no avail. It

Reproducible hang reading a web page.

2011-03-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I have the latest Safari update installed on my MBP running 10.6.6. When attempting to read this column via a two finger flick on the trackpad (VO-a on the keyboard), VoiceOver consistently hangs after reading the word: wrangler. I can reproduce this in either group or DOM mode,

Re: Reproducible hang reading a web page.

2011-03-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
wrote: Hi Geoff, It didn't hang for me when reaching the gnarled ol' wrangler reference. Perhaps VO on your Macbook is offended by the term? grin, Like Esther, I too have Click to Flash installed with the latest Safari and OS. HTH, Bryan On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Geoff Waaler

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Geoff Waaler
Like others I cannot reproduce the problem. Some times it happens every couple minutes, or I can go a day with only one or two occurrences. Since I recently reformatted my partition and reinstalled snowLeopard, I doubt that repairing permissions would have any affect. I don't recall this

Is CopyPaste Pro 3.0 accessible?

2011-03-14 Thread Geoff Waaler
The subject says it all. Macupdate has CopyPaste Pro 3.0 on sale. I used a Windows counterpart called Clipmate for years and found it indispensable. I'll probably try this app unless someone already has and advises that it doesn't play nice with voiceOver. Best regards. Geoff -- You

Re: XCode and registering as a developer

2011-03-12 Thread Geoff Waaler
When I registered as a developer a couple months ago, I tried physically clicking the continue button, but that didn't help. The only way I found to move to the next screen was to disable VO and have someone select it for me. Hope they fix this eventually. Geoff On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:00 PM,

Re: radio warning, earthquake, more

2011-03-11 Thread Geoff Waaler
And this is mac related because?!?! On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:56 AM, Cheree Heppe wrote: Cheree Heppe here: I was up late and happened to turn on the BBC . There was an 8.6 or 7 earthquake in the ocean and is causing flooding and damage to Japan. There is a tsunami headed toward the

Reading dictionaries for scriptable apps.

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I suspect I'll be embarrassed when I learn the solution but I've tried all manners of interacting and exploring for context menus and cannot find a way to quickly skip to a dictionary, or a specific command within. For example, while skype.sdef is open, I interact with the table

Mod note Re: housekeping: set-up for replying to list

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, Not to worry Donna -- I believe this subject came up earlier and long before I began assisting Cara as a mod it was decided for many reasons sited earlier in this thread that the list would function as it presently does. Please take up any/all concerns on individual vs list

Re: Registering as an Apple Developer...

2011-02-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi David, When I did this recently, I filled out the form correctly, but it didn't accept the fields until I disabled VO. I reported this but presumibly they've not addressed it yet. Best regards. Geoff On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:11 PM, David Hole wrote: Hi. I try to register as an Apple

Re: Fission selection and play head movement?

2011-02-23 Thread Geoff Waaler
window. Hope this helps someone. Geoff On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:22 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings y'all, I understand how to move the play head in small increments with the arrow keys and select via i and o, but thought I'd ask whether the faster head movement/selection techniques

Re: system dialog

2011-02-21 Thread Geoff Waaler
I too can confirm this. More over, voiceOver is hanging up several times a day and I need to press command-f5 four times to recover. Lastly the Safari busy problem abounds. So, IMHO 10.6.6 is the least stable in my short time running MacOS. Geoff On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Kawal

Fission selection and play head movement?

2011-02-19 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, I understand how to move the play head in small increments with the arrow keys and select via i and o, but thought I'd ask whether the faster head movement/selection techniques are accessible in a manner that I missed. When I select tools - select play head I can not locate an

Re: creating a root in Navigon - was GPS Apps

2011-02-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
to start from, Let's say my house and I select the railway station, I can't seem to get to the next button and it keeps saying that I have to select where I'd like to go from even though my house adress is in there. Kawal. Sent From My I Phone On 14 Feb 2011, at 12:29 AM, Geoff

Pulsar updated.

2011-02-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, RogueAmoeba recently updated AudioHijack and Pulsar. During my preliminary testing it would appear that they did a great job. I can now stream from my XM account once again and the accessibility is great. Sadly with the flash it's probably the only game in town since the

Re: GPS Apps

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, Perhaps those who believe Navigon's interface to be overly abstruse might consider posting which tasks they would like to perform and what steps they tried rather than a general statement lacking specifics that might scare off people who might otherwise find this app very useful.

Re: GPS Apps

2011-02-12 Thread Geoff Waaler
. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:27 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings Scott G, Since you mentioned business location I thought I'd mention the $3.00 app named WhereTo? by future tap. It has

Re: GPS Apps

2011-02-11 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings Scott G, Since you mentioned business location I thought I'd mention the $3.00 app named WhereTo? by future tap. It has a list of categories and results which IMHO absolutely puts geo to shame and more over, the business can be seamlessly passed to either Navigon, TomTom or the

Re: Mod note, off topic posts.

2011-02-10 Thread Geoff Waaler
and marriage counseling discussion board is likel to be so full of drama that a meaning ful rsonse could be impossible to find On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:14 PM, GEOFF WAALER wrote: Greetings y'all, This seems like an apt moment to request everyone's help to please keep posts on topic. Sadly, this list

Mod note, off topic posts.

2011-02-09 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Greetings y'all, This seems like an apt moment to request everyone's help to please keep posts on topic. Sadly, this list has reached the level of subscriber ship (639 at this writing) where we don't have the flexibility to welcome off topic messages. Marking a post as OT does not render it

Re: Screwy VMWare key mapping

2011-02-07 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Lindsay, Not sure if this would also be applicable for VMWare fusion, but if you've not already done so, you might want to go into system preferences - keyboard and check the box labeled: Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. HTH. Geoff On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Lindsay

Re: trouble with xmradio site

2011-02-07 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Karen, The merger is not Germane to the topic being discussed in this thread. Sarah, thanks for your avocation efforts -- if you know of a contact person pperhaps you can share that here if it would help illustrate to management how Sirius's change to a flashed based page renders it

Re: MoveAddict still vaporware.

2011-01-29 Thread Geoff Waaler
! Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Thanks Randy, Esther, and Chuck, I now have it working, though after what amounted to three installs I could have sure done a lot of copying and deleting and saved the five bucks

Re: MoveAddict still vaporware.

2011-01-29 Thread Geoff Waaler
the same .app file instead of the dmg I'm supposed to be getting? I'm still a bit lost. Sorry! Rose On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Hi Rose, The file you should have downloaded is named moveAddict.dmg. It contains an accessibility folder as Esther described earlier

Re: MoveAddict still vaporware.

2011-01-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
they said that the default is the standard mac commands! They could at least make these visible using VoiceOver! Talk soon On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings, Since the moveAddict support group is apparently ignoring my notes, I decided after reading Esther's

Re: scanning

2011-01-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings Ann and others, Okay, so I gather the reason to get both VUEScan and FineReader is that the former will run the scanner and the latter provides a much better OCR result. Does finereader resolve the orientation? There are eight ways to put a page on the scanner and only one is

Safari history no longer updated after Snow leopard reinstall.

2011-01-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, Last week I reinstalled SnowLeopard and immediately updated to 10.6.6. Since then my Safari history is not maintained; the most recent entry is from he day before I reinstalled. I was kind of surprised that all my files were retained. I don't recall seeing an option

Re: Gmail via Pop?

2011-01-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Teresa, Using IMAP and filtering list messages into a label I receive all posts (including my own) I assume POP would be applicable at least in terms of the web interface -- since you're not synchronizing labels (aka folders) with your iPhone and/or other computers, however I'm not sure

Re: Safari history no longer updated after Snow leopard reinstall.

2011-01-28 Thread Geoff Waaler
surfing history will not be saved. HTH CH On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings y'all, Last week I reinstalled SnowLeopard and immediately updated to 10.6.6. Since then my Safari history is not maintained; the most recent entry is from he day before I reinstalled. I

MoveAddict still vaporware.

2011-01-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, Since the moveAddict support group is apparently ignoring my notes, I decided after reading Esther's post to reinstall moveAddict version 2.24. To that end I deleted both files from the apps folder and the prefferences file com.kapeli.moveaddict.plist from directory

Thread/subject agreement - was Re: Solona nearly never available lately

2011-01-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
It's always amusing when people admonish the group while committing the vary offense being b#*ched about :) -- After all, anyone can change a subject line, ya know? On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Colin M wrote: Hi there! The subject heading should be changed on this! Thanks Colin Qapla!

Re: MoveAddict still vaporware.

2011-01-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
items tab in the accounts system preferences. I did not have to change any of the defaults to get moveaddict to work. Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings, Since the moveAddict support group is apparently

Re: scanning

2011-01-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Steph, I too am using tthe tryal version of FineReader express and have never gotten it to work, so this suggestion may be worth every penny you paid for it :). Disclaimer aside, I believe you need to select your scanner in the menu associated with get images from. If your only choice is

Re: Installing a program on the Mac

2011-01-27 Thread Geoff Waaler
Some disk images, however do not include an install program. In such cases, copy the file with an extention of .app to your applications folder. You can then go into finder, press control-shift-c, locate the volume of the disk image and press command-e to eject it. You can then delete the

Re: voiceover interacting when collapsing threads in mail message table

2011-01-26 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings Frank and others, I went into voiceOver utility - navigation and unchecked:automatically interact when using tab key. Now I can use the right and left arrowkeys to expand and contract threads respectivly, and since I retained my preview pane, the tab key usually causes VO to read

Scanning via ABBYY FineReader express.

2011-01-25 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I just installed ABBYY's trial version and reinstalled the software/driver for my HP c7250 AllInOne printer. (Reinstalling cured my insecure startup item problem BTW, but I digress.). I can scan using the HP app, however upon pressing the convert to text button, VO emits the

Re: defaults delete command - was moveAddict kills tracking.

2011-01-25 Thread Geoff Waaler
not impressed -- at least they can reply that they received my emails? TIA and best regards. Geoff On Jan 22, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Interesting, The VO configuration items you referenced match, and I switched to column view. I recently reinstalled the OS and repaired

Re: Solving captures on the Mac

2011-01-25 Thread Geoff Waaler
From what I've seen recently about Soolona's up time I'd advise installing Firefox on a Windows machine so that you can use the Webvisum plug-in. I have the impression that Firefox won't be accessible on the Mac any time soon, but then you probably knew all this before you posted? Geoff On

Re: moveAddict kills tracking.

2011-01-22 Thread Geoff Waaler
cursor tracking on, and my mouse cursor is set to follow my voiceover cursor. I am also using column view in the finder. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 22, 2011, at 12:42 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote

Re: Insecure startup item disabled.

2011-01-21 Thread Geoff Waaler
. Startup items are a good place for this to happen. I suggest trying to run the Repair permissions in the Disk Utility. Let me know if you need some more help. Jon On 20 January 2011 22:25, Geoff Waaler geoff.waa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, After reinstalling SnowLeopard I receive

Re: Insecure startup item disabled.

2011-01-21 Thread Geoff Waaler
Cohn wrote: Yes this is associated with HP printers. I looked at a startup item I had and besides the permissions you need to have the User as system and the group as wheel... On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Thanks John and Carolyn, Repairing permissions had

moveAddict kills tracking.

2011-01-21 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings all, I'm sure I'm overlooking something because up till now moveAddict's only function (on my machine anyway) is to render it impossible to traverse files and folders in finder. I've been through all options in the prefferences app and have not yet found anything applicable. None

Re: Router filtering webkit - wasSafari weirdness.

2011-01-20 Thread Geoff Waaler
it's some sort of application / firewall issue. Just a guess. On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Thanks, Adding the port number results in a connection, but how does this info help me trouble shoot? Apparently my DLink isn't blocking access, yet I can check

Re: Router filtering webkit - wasSafari weirdness.

2011-01-19 Thread Geoff Waaler
Geoff , Check your DNS configuration. Did you set it manually? If so, change it to DHCP and see if it helps. Also, what happens if you do a telnet to the webkit address from the terminal? HTH, André On 18-01-2011 18:23, Geoff Waaler wrote: Okay, I am officially replying to my own

Re: Router filtering webkit - wasSafari weirdness.

2011-01-19 Thread Geoff Waaler
the telnet so something like telnet mycompany.org 80 the 80 gives you the correct port number. On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Thanks much for the suggestion Andre, I reset my DLink 655 to factory defaults and confirmed that it is indeed set to DHCP. When I

Router filtering webkit - wasSafari weirdness.

2011-01-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
the webkit download and update check sites are affected. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Geoff On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings, I'm having varied symptoms browsing on my MBP. Perhaps the two are related -- I'm guessing so. It all started when

Re: Links and urls

2011-01-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, VO+shift+m is equivalent to the right mouse button in windows, and you'll find a copy link option. HTH. Geoff On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:48 PM, AZ wrote: Hi. How can i copy a url of a link on a page? With Windows and Jaws it was not a problem, i just made a right mouse button

Safari weirdness.

2011-01-13 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I'm having varied symptoms browsing on my MBP. Perhaps the two are related -- I'm guessing so. It all started when Webkit randomly hung up. I would press the submit button in a form and then Voiceover would repeatidly announce safari busy and safari ready. Pressing a key did not

Mod note -- expressive language.

2011-01-09 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, Some may be familiar with George Carlon's routine discussing the seven words you can't say on television (at least here in the US). Recent posts have prompted us to remind you that this list conforms to those rules. We have subscribers of all faiths and ages, hence one can

Re: Apple script editor.

2011-01-08 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Yuma, Thanks much for your post, but please forgive a few follow up questions. I understand that I need to locate errors by searching for color changes (vo-command-k), but have not yet determined how to configure colors such that errors will be unique.. The closest applicable VO

Can't update Webkit.

2011-01-08 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I wonder if this problem is unique to me -- I presume so since Googling didn't shed much light on it. For the past several days when I attempt to check for webkit updates, it presents a progress dialog for about 30 seconds and then shows the following: text Update Error! An error

Apple script editor.

2011-01-07 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, The help doc indicates that the Editor can assist with syntax, command selection and pin point errors. I have not yet determined how to exploit these features with VoiceOver. First, I mistakenly thought the command was display prompt, and when it was not recognized, went

Re: Obtaining battery status - was Using a Macbook/MacBook Pro as Primary Computer?

2010-12-23 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Az, You can check the battery status by pressing vo-m twice and then two left arrows will get you to the battery status menu. Alternatively, you can use trackpad commander and double tap twice with two fingers near the top and locate the desired status menu on the upper right side of the

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Yes Benjamin, I was not clear. Obviously control+a control+c are identical with their command key Mac counterparts, however in the Mac world one can not be selective in their selection with the shift+arrow keys while viewing a web page. Carolyn correctly differentiated what I meant from what

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
, and your initial greeting of say what struck me as kind of hostel and perhaps caused me to become overly emotive. I'd sure like to know what configuration is affecting this. Best regards. Geoff On Dec 17, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Geoff

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Okay, but when a page consists of hundreds of items, one must do this Items times N times rather than pressing control-a - control-c in MSIE or FireFox? I attempted to use the technique described below to copy a long oped column and very quickly gave up and booted up the old Netbook. TIA for

The KillAll command

2010-11-24 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings, I meant to reply to one of Nic's recent posts, but deleted it. He suggested that if VO goes silent one could enter terminal into spotlight and then enter -- I forget the exact command but believe it was killallall -9 voiceover. I tried this with and without the extra all and also

Re: The KillAll command

2010-11-24 Thread Geoff Waaler
the V and the O otherwise it will not find the process name. -Eric On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings, I meant to reply to one of Nic's recent posts, but deleted it. He suggested that if VO goes silent one could enter terminal into spotlight and then enter -- I

Re: Fun noises alex makes.

2010-11-19 Thread Geoff Waaler
But in one area Alex is sorely deficient as compared to Eloquence in that he does not gurhrhrhrhr properly. Hum, clearly time for a high priority growl at the mac accessibility group!! Great discovery Andy!! Geoff On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Andy: In fun, I'll

Mod note: the oh boy thread and other chat group messages.

2010-11-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
Greetings y'all, Personally I prefer a moderating style involving minimal intrusion,, hence kept hoping the Oh boy topic would die on its own because by any reasonable analysis, about 90 percent of it consisted of off topic posts which would be more aptly written to a chat group.

Re: ot: maby, digest mode?

2010-11-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Karen, A line is appended to the end of every post. Several actually, but the specific one I have in mind is: For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. HTH. Geoff On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Wondering if there is

Re: Trackpad Hints in Voiceover

2010-11-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Teresa, If you are using the preview pane you can press tab and the message is often read. I should mention that I turned off the option to automatically interact when pressing tab, hence am not interacting with the message table. If the email is not read you can interact via the two

Re: macbook pro and iphone with itunes

2010-11-12 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Denise, You'll find an option under the iTunes store pull down menu to authorize your MBP. Once this is done you can use the context menu for your iPhone (vo-shift-m) and select transfer purchases. Best regards. Geoff On Nov 12, 2010, at 8:46 AM, denise avant wrote: hello all, i have

Re: Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-12 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hello Ray, I have both menu and menu item verbosity set to high. When I arrow to the airport extra menu without simultaneously pressing option vo reports seven items. When I press option-rightArrow to reach this menu, the number of items doubles and there is indeed additional data shown. I

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