Learning Ally's Read Here software and book downloader work on the mac.
On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Allison Mervis wrote:
Hi Becky.
I believe that RFB (or learning ally as they're now called) has a downloader
and book reading software for the mac. I would double check at they're
website
The text page of the inspector has three tabs. The one with spacing is also
called text.
-Greg
On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Shannon Dyer wrote:
So, I found the inspector, but I can't figure out where double spacing is. I
looked in document, in text, and in layout. It didn't list double
Hi Ezzie,
The header section is where you put anything you want at the top of the page,
especially recurring text such as your last name. This is a great place for
your name and it is where the page number will go. Footers are for things like
footnotes.
Add page numbers by going into
Try a three finger double tap on the track pad with the track pad commander on.
On Aug 24, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
Hi.My cat crawled on my keyboard and turned VO off. I can turn it on again
with command f 5, but it says “Voiceover on, speech off,” and then goes
silent. I
To edit a cell, press option+enter on the cell.
On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:09 AM, Cam wrote:
Hi
Can anyone tell me how I can edit the contents of a cell in Numbers? I
have loaded in an excel spreadsheet, and can read its content, but I
can't add anything else into the sheet and I can't edit
I don't believe Pandora lets you move back a song, so you won't be able to do
that.
As far as picking a new station, make sure to turn off the VO trackpad
commander and then click the trackpad once you have highlighted the new station
name with VO. This assumes that your mouse cursor
Did you check your junk folder? Sometimes this happens to me and I find the
missing messages there.
-Greg
On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Chris Snyder wrote:
Hi all,
For some reason, when I look at the messages from this list, the VIPhone
list, and the ProTools Access list, I am not seeing
I have been able to click with the trackpad. Make sure the trackpad commander
is turned off and that the mouse cursor follows the VO cursor. Also, be sure
to give it a double click.
-Greg
On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Rose Morales wrote:
Hi Brianna,
Your third choice was the correct one.
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On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Greg Aikens wrote:
I have been able to click with the trackpad. Make sure the trackpad
commander is turned off and that the mouse cursor follows the VO cursor.
Also, be sure
Hi Ricardo,
I had this problem as well. For some reason, the update screen for piano pub
seems to be completely inaccessible from within the app. I had to get sighted
assistance to click on the update button and now it works fine again.
Installing the newest version would fix this as well.
Hi all,
Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the
different voiceover rates? If I am reading with VO at 80% how many WPM is
that? How many WPM is 55%, etc.?
Thanks for any help.
-Greg
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For some tasks yes. I generally adjust it between 55 and 80, depending on what
I am doing.
-Greg
On May 3, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
You can follow it at 80? Jeez!
On 3 May 2011, at 20:15, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute
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Subject: creating presentations in keynote
Hello all,
I am attempting to make my first presentation in keynote and I have a
question. When I am editing
I have used it. I had no problems downloading my books.
-Greg
On Apr 19, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi list:
Any of you have experience with RFBD's Download Manager software? Are there
any things I might need to be aware of?
Thanks!
Joseph Norton
Hello all,
I am attempting to make my first presentation in keynote and I have a question.
When I am editing a slide, after typing one or two lines of text, my mac makes
the noise that it makes when I type onto the next page in Pages. It does this
continuously as long as I type or move around
Unarchiver works well with daisy books too. The built-in archive utility does
not work for bookshare books. Someone else could probably explain why but I
don't know. I just know that the unarchiver works great and is free.
-Greg
On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote:
Hi,
Hello all,
This morning I discovered that under preferences you can designate a startup
station. As far as I can tell, doing this and restarting the program is the
only way to change stations with PianoPub. I'm excited to have an accessible
Pandora client but it would be nice to do this
necessary if you have your mouse cursor set
to follow your VO cursor in VO utilities under navigation.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hello all,
This morning I discovered
There is no ok button in the inspector. Just change what you need and close
the inspector and it will be done automatically. You can reopen the inspector
to check and see if the changes stayed.
-Greg
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Ezzy Bueno wrote:
Hello List:
I'm trying to adjust the
The left and right arrows by themselves should move you by character. Another
option is VO+Shift+ left or right arrow.
Hope this helps.
On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Christine,
Editing on a Mac using VoiceOver is different than using Windows and a
windows screen
Many times Safari will open a pdf in its own window. It will be a scroll area.
If the pdf has not been OCR'd it will appear blank. At this point you can go
to the file menu and click save as and it will give you the option to save the
pef to your computer.
Hope this helps.
Greg
On Mar
VO says the word text when I use VO+J to move from the message table to a
message. Is this what you are referring to?
On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Pete Nalda wrote:
Anyone else noticing this? I'm running 10.6.6 on an MBP late '08 model
2.42ghz if that helps anyone. Tia.
Egun On,
Yes, just bought it. Works very fast for me as well.
Greg
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
I saw the discussion, bought it for my IPhone 3GS and tried it on a 1 and 5
dollar bill. It was really fast.
Kev
On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I guess. I'm
Good work with the demo. Just not sure where you got the idea that it only
scans the bills longwise. It seems to work in just about any configuration,
even folded at a weird angle.
-Greg
On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Hey you all I just pot a podcast up on a look at
Hi Jane,
Could you provide more info about Nuntius? The version I found online is 1.0
and looks like it has been around since 2003 or so. It is also shareware with
a 30 day trial. After that it costs $10.
Upon loading this software I also had to install Rosetta, which apparently it
needed
VO + Shift + right arrow does not select the from field for me.
ButCtrl+shift+right arrow does. Once it is Highlighted, the context menu comes
up fine.
Greg
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I did. I vo arrowed to it then routed to it with vo cmd f5 and clicked on it
and
Hi,
I have been using the newest version of blackboard for the last several months.
I'm not an expert but I do feel fairly comfortable with it. The only real
problem I have encountered is downloading pdf's that have been uploaded. I
still haven't solved that.
I would be happy to help
Or after hitting VO+M to get to the menu, hit f for file, e for edit, etc. and
hit down arrow to open the menu. Just start typing the one you want and it
should move you there quickly. Not quite as streamline as alt+f at first, but
its not a major inconvenience.
Greg
On Feb 24, 2011, at
Hello all,
Is there any way to check the progress of a file conversion in Abby Fine Reader
Express? I am converting some large files and it would be helpful to know how
much time is left or if Abby is still really working. I have had it get stuck
before but because I can't get any valuable
Pretty cool. I'm looking forward to this. Hope its worth the $20.
Greg
On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi everyone:
Since we've been talking about bookshare, I thought perhaps some might be
interested in this information I received about this app.
Carolyn H
Hi Maurice,
To do this in pages you need to bring up the inspector using Cmd+Option+I. So,
first select the text you want to change the spacing for, then bring up the
inspector. Make sure the Text radio button is selected in the inspector and
then select the Text tab as well. Spacing is one
Hi Joshua,
The easiest way I have found to make a bulleted list is to first type your list
and then use the inspector to add the bullets.
To do this, select the text you want to be in the list. Press CMD+Option+I for
the inspector. Make sure the text radio button at the top of the dialog is
the speech option...
Cheers,
Nick
On 25 Dec 2010, at 07:15, Oriol Gómez wrote:
Yeah there is a rate slidedr I think, in the same place wehre you set
the speech option.
On 12/25/10, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the tips. Now growl is usable. Is there a way to adjust
Hi all,
I'm looking at getting a new phone because my current one is dying. I love my
ipod touch and think that an iphone would be great, but I'm a stingy student
and need to be able to justify the $200 for the phone and the additional $15 a
month on the phone bill. If there are ways that
Thanks for the tips. Now growl is usable. Is there a way to adjust the rate of
speech for notifications?
Greg
On Dec 24, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
1st, go into VO utilities and under navigation, select mouse cursor moves
voiceover cursor from the pop up menu. Now turn
Yes, definitely keep us updated on this.
Greg
On Dec 20, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
Hi Marlaina,
I received an e-mail last Friday indicating there would be a delay in the
next release until early this week. Nothing yet, I'm thinking after
Christmas, but we'll see.
Les
Hi Chenelle,
To change font options I first select the text I want to work with and then hit
command + T to bring up the fonts menu. This lets you change fonts, style,
size.
Similarly, to change other setting with your text you can select it and then
press command + option + i to bring up
Hi all,
I know that under the free trial I can't export more than the first page of a
document I have converted. Is there still a way to view the other pages in the
document, such as viewing them within Abby Fine Reader?
Thanks for your help.
Greg
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On Nov 30, 8:54 am, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote:
The Last FM page does work. I can't get the interfaces for pandora and
grooveshark to work though. It comes with a 14 day demo but not sure I
would pay the $10 unless I could use all 3 services.
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The Last FM page does work. I can't get the interfaces for pandora and
grooveshark to work though. It comes with a 14 day demo but not sure I would
pay the $10 unless I could use all 3 services.
-Greg
On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
I've been playing with it a bit. The
Hi Brandt,
Check the archives for more suggestions but the method I use right now is to
open the xml version of the book in safari. There is a free daisy player
called Olearia but I couldn't get it to read from one chapter to the next
without manually telling the program to move on. The
The Bible app from youversion.com works well, is free, and has a large variety
of translations and reading plans available.
Greg
On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Jim Barbour wrote:
On the iphone list (subscribe at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone)
several folks have talked about using
I get a lot of studdering in numbers as well. I'm using a mac book pro that is
3 months old. I think it is just the way VO and numbers work together
unfortunately.
Greg
On Nov 10, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Chris McCausland wrote:
Hi everyone.
When using Numbers on a fairly high spec IMac I
Anyone know if RFB and D has a program to download their books for the mac
yet?
Thanks,
Greg
On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
I am sharing this information since some of you might not be aware.
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The Bible app from youversion.com is free and very accessible. I really like it
because it has tons of reading plans you can choose from and you can access it
from a computer as ewll.
Greg
On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Paul Hunt wrote:
Hwello Martin. I don't know about Bible Reader. I can
Hi,
I have only started to work with keyote as well and you're right that it does
seem complicated. To move from slide to slide I hit page up and page down. That
moves you consecutively through the slides. Hittin home or end will take you to
the first and last slide. There must be a way to jump
Hi all,
I feel like this has been covered before but I didn't see it in the archives.
How can I get mail to display all the recipients in a message I have received?
I would like to know who I am sending messages to before hitting reply all.
Right now it will list the first two recipients and
Thanks for your response Martin. When I arrow up to the header section it reads
everything out loud just fine. For some reason mail has abbreviated the list of
recipients so that it only shows the first two and then says something like
and 3 more... I'm not sure how to get mail to display those
Hey people,
I asked this question before but got no response. I'm still trying to figure
out how to make use of the track changes and comment features in pages. I have
a document which my professor has marked up with corrections and I need to
figure out where each correction goes. Any help is
all the time and can only
be successful with the use of MS word on Boot camp side.
I know that this is not the answer that you want to hear but for now, that is
the way it is as far as I know.
On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hey people,
I asked this question before but got
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to do a hanging indent in pages? I can't seem to find the
option in the inspector. I would think it would be on the page marked tabs
under text but don't see the option there.
Thanks for any help.
Greg
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Kevin, thanks for this. This is much better than just hitting tab on each
consecutive line.
-Greg
On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
HI Greg,
the hanging indent feature is in Pages. Unfortunately, it's not labelled as
such, so it's a little hard to find.
You'll want to
Hi all,
In pages, how do I move from a comment or a change into the body of the text?
Is there a way to get VO to announce these things as I am reading the text? I
can see the list of changes and comments, just have no idea where they go in
the document.
Any tips are appreciated.
Greg
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Does anyone know about a way to keep track of time like a stopwatch on the mac?
Any help is appreciated.
Greg
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You mean set the hot spot every time I want to switch windows?
On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I think you have to set a hotspot but other then that I don't know as I have
the same trouble.
S
On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hi everyone
Hi everyone,
Is there something I can set so that I do not lose my place in Preview every
time I shift away from the Priview window? Whenever I CMD+Tab back It takes me
to the top of the page or document. I put Priview in 2 page mode so that at the
worst I'm only 2 pages away from where I want
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if there is a way to generate a text outline from a power point
presentation using keynote. I loved this feature in microsoft office so I can
type notes on the actual slides. It also helps since my prof sends ridiculously
long presentations and navigating through 80+
Hi Robert,
Last time I checked with RFB and D, which was a few weeks ago, there is not a
solution for mac. But they told me that they should have something coming out
in september. I haven't heard anything about it yet though. I would try calling
them.
Greg
On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:23 AM,
I have used this site on a PC and the steps I used were very similar to what
Colin described. I haven't looked at it on the mac yet.
Greg
On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Colin M wrote:
Hi Mary!
I've just had a look at that site from the link in your part of this message!
I do not know where
Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble changing my text attributes in pages. I see a number of pop
up menus when I stop interacting with the scroll area which contains my text
but they are all dimmed and I can't click on them. I have found some of the
same options in the format menu and so could
Great. That helps. I'll have to explore to see if I can get everything I need
in there.
Thanks,
Greg
On Sep 8, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
Hi,
You'll need to use the Inspector to change some attributes. Highlight the
area you want modified, press command-option-I to bring up the
I haven't encountered a flash issue and my school is using blackboard 9.1. When
I said using blackboard was tricky I just meant it takes some getting used to.
Learning to navigate between the different frames and lists and menus can be
somewhat cumbersome. A lot of that is my lack of ability
When I want to call or chat with a contact I hit enter on the contact name in
the list. A window then comes up with the text chat. I then navigate to the
toolbar which has several options. One of them is a call button. When someone
calls I just navigate around until I find the answer button. I
The free Bible app from lifechurch.tv is quite accessible. I really like it
because it has a number of daily reading plans you can choose from. You do have
to connect in order to access most versions of the Bible, although the do have
a handful of them you can download for use when not
Hello all,
I am having trouble reading tables using pages. The tables I am trying to read
are in word documents. When I get to the area where the table is, my cursor
gets sent to the end of the file, skipping the table and everything after it.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
-Greg
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Hi Mike,
Someone correct me if there is a better way to do this. What I do is after mail
correctly inserts the correct email address into the field, I tab away and then
back. Then I interact with the edit field and move the cursor to the end of the
field. I then put a comma and a spac and start
to this thing I
guess...
Thanks for the suggestion.
-Greg
On Aug 25, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hello,
Have you tried pressing option enter on the link that contains the file you
want? This works often for me.
hth
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hello
Hello all,
My school uses the Blackboard platform for accessing course materials such as
power point slides and course assignments. I can access the site and navigate
fine, but I cannot figure out how to download the files I need for my courses.
When I pull up a context menu on the link to try
What is the command to refresh the page? I have had this problem every once and
a while too.
Also, I ran into a page that kept crashing safari but I think it might have
been a voice over thing. I could work with the webpage until I moved the voice
over cursor across a couple of spots on the
Does anyone know of a good resource for learning to work with pages and V/O?
Most of it is coming pretty straight forward but a few things have stumped me
so far. Working with footnotes for example is something I'm struggling to
figure out. Any help is appreciated.
-Greg
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to download some of the podcasts from blind cool tech
about the mac but am having a hard time figuring out how to get the
correct cursor over the link so I can pull up a context menu to choose
to download the file. I tried using V/O + Command + F4 to move the
keyboard
Hello all,
I just got my mac last saturday and I'm really liking it so far. The
learning curve is quite a challenge but I can at least use it.
I'm having trouble setting up skype on my machine. I have downloaded
and opened the software, but when it is running I can't find where to
put my log in
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Hello all,
I just got my mac last saturday and I'm really liking it so far. The
learning curve is quite a challenge but I can at least use it.
I'm having trouble setting up skype on my machine. I have downloaded
and opened the software, but when it is running I can't find
Hi everyone,
I am planning on buying a mac. I wanted to know if there is a minimum
ram requirement to make sure voice over works smoothly. I know this
was the case with windows screen readers last time I purchased a
laptop.
Thanks for the help.
Greg
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, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I don't kow the answer to that. mine comes with 4 gig and it seems to be
more then enough.
S
On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am planning on buying a mac. I wanted to know if there is a minimum
ram requirement to make sure voice over works
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On Jul 21, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Greg Aikens wrote
. Any direction, specific info on one of these topics, or general
info about making the transition would be great.
Thanks for your help.
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