Re: iOS browsers

2015-05-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: What browsers can I use on iOS other than Safari? I have a particularly tricky website I need to use that Safari with voiceover just can't handle. Thanks, Sent from my IPhone -- You received this message because you are

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
ncftp will work in the terminal and may have a graphical user interface too. On 6/30/13, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know everyone recommends Transmit when the subject of ftp programs for the mac comes up, but it's over $30! On Windows, Filezilla works great with screen

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi Chris, Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google search on man ci and another one on man co and a third on man rcs as a beginning.

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On 7/1/13, Jude DaShiell jdash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google search on man ci

Re: Apple ID issues on the IPhone.

2012-03-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried filling it out at http://id.apple.com yet?On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Jessica wrote: I've just recently tried to fill in the info for my Apple ID in order to download the Viz Wiz ap, filled in every field I could possibly find on there from my name down to my phone number, and it

Re: Accessible games in the Mac App Store

2011-02-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9] this appears to be a dns lookup error. any suggestions? -Eric On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Many VoiceOver users with Mac's haven't managed to find all of the games you managed

Re: MacMini Without a Screen

2011-02-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suggest you find out what Apple wants to charge you for a usb monitor and compare that to Wal-Mart's prices $89.95 for mono and I think $109.95 for color and buy the least expensive of these options.On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Ian Robinson wrote: Many thanks to everyone who replied. For the past

Re: Accessible games in the Mac App Store

2011-02-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
and you should at least be able to get the frotz games going on your mac. Cut here. #!/bin/bash rsync -rlptDv --bwlimit=0 --timeout=300 --partial --delete \ ibiblio.org::pub/docs/interactive-fiction/ ~/ifarchive cut here. On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Isaac Obie wrote: Zack, Jude Dashiell says

Re: Accessible games in the Mac App Store

2011-02-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Save the following script to a file then run the script. Remember to chmod 755 the file name first to make it executeable. It will make an ifarchive folder tree on your system the first time you run it and expect it to take a while the first time you run

Re: Accessible games in the Mac App Store

2011-02-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
a particular website. Teresa On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Save the following script to a file then run the script. Remember to chmod 755 the file name first to make it executeable. It will make an ifarchive folder tree on your system the first time you run it and expect

Re: Accessible games in the Mac App Store

2011-02-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Obie wrote: Zack, Jude Dashiell says there're games out there. I just don't understand how and where. Perhaps he'll explain it again??? Isaac - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10

Re: deleted something important

2011-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Look in the trash folder that's probably where you'll find it and if you do it quickly you may get it back with all contents intact. You'll need to do a copy command-c when you land on it and move to where it needs to be and do command-v then see how mail reacts.On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Rose

Re: new to mac gaming need help

2011-01-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
It would help if you saved the getgames.sh script from this message. It'll be between the two cut here lines. What it does is to use rsync to download the whole ifarchive game set and keep it up to date when run again. It makes an ifarchive folder tree in your user directory and under the

Re: audible.com mac os and book port authorization

2011-01-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Almost for sure that small file is a hidden file. Unhide all files on the device and see if you come up with some new file names. On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: Hi all. I had to get a new SD card for my book port plus which stopped recognizing the previous card. I am now at a

Re: xm radio

2011-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On the pc, why not select that listen now link then hit shift-f10 and check out the link's properties? One of the things that shows up in the properties is the complete url name. Once you've got that, why not try a direct route to that url using safari on the mac thus bypassing that captia.

Re: reading all in pages

2011-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is there a setting in preferences something like fit to screen or fit to page? It may help to change that to fit to window like what needed to be done with text edit.On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Laura Bratton wrote: Hi All, When I press VO A in pages it will read down to the bottom of that page. How

Re: Antivirus Software: Needed or not?

2011-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't use one now nor do I need one now either. When I do need one, Apple will have installed it on my computer through software update. Apple will also update it as necessary too. This will all happen since Apple has a high interest in keeping its own computer resources malware free as

Re: Antivirus Software: Needed or not?

2011-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
The people that really do need antivirus protection are most of the population of cell phone users who use feature phones. Cell phones are either feature phones or smart phones. The IPhone is a smart phone. There are five sms messages that can be sent at those feature phones to take most

Re: VLC app removed from App Store

2011-01-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Because the programmer is an employee of Nokia and Nokia has litigation going on with Apple. He wanted to show how loyal he is in hopes of getting a promotion or bonus. I predict he'll get fired though as a consequence of the bad publicity for Nokia though.On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Christina

Re: VLC app removed from App Store

2011-01-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
confusing. :) Christina On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Because the programmer is an employee of Nokia and Nokia has litigation going on with Apple. He wanted to show how loyal he is in hopes of getting a promotion or bonus. I predict he'll get fired though as a consequence

Re: winmail.dat files and the Mac

2011-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Probably not going to be useful, but if she exports contacts those can go to a .txt file that shouldn't be difficult to handle. If all those contacts are in the safe senders list just export safe senders list and that's automatically done as a *.txt file.On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Michael Busboom

Re: ot: or maybe not, thunder?

2011-01-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
More and better add-on programs than any other screen reader on or off the market too.On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Karen Lewellen wrote: I say or maybe not due to those here who want to run mac and windows, and the kind nod these folks make to the mac. Its a largely European project with some good

Re: Very strange issue after update to SL, Please help

2011-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not run disk utility and repair permissions and see if this improves your performance?On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, rayna424 wrote: I was hoping to wake up and find a solution here lol! Is everyone as lost as I am? If you've never heard of this or have no idea, do you have any idea of what I might

Mac mini 4 sale (fwd)

2011-01-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:17:51 From: Isaac Obie coac...@verizon.net To: blin...@listserv.uark.edu Subject: Mac mini 4 sale Hi guys: I have a Mac mini for sale. This is the latest model that came out June 15th, 2010. Is is underwarrantry until July 05,

Re: basic financial software

2010-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
see finance may be useful for you.On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Jeffrey Wheatley wrote: Hello All. I am transitioning much of my personal computing work to my new Mac, and am trying to find Mac replacements for my current PC applications. I have used Quicken for years on the PC, but I do not need

Re: another help issue

2010-12-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's called Mercury retrograde.On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, May McDonald wrote: Ok, now I got the wireless problem fixed some other darn problem has come up. Just my unlucky day I think. I haven't received any mail from my gmail account through applemail, is anyone else having this problem? Also, I

Re: locking the iPhone screen in horizontal layout?

2010-12-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm running ios 4.2.1 current version on an IPhone 3GS.On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Cheree wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:50, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What version of IOS are you running on your iPhone? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype,

Re: deleting wireless connection

2010-12-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
See if you can set those connections as inactive. On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, May McDonald wrote: Ok, I need some assistance here. I need to remove some wireless connections but I don't see a remove button. Any suggestions? May On 2010-07-10, at 1:54 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi May, to remove a

Re: saving VO settings

2010-12-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think I know the answer to this mystery. root account voiceover settings override user account voiceover settings. Probably to date, no changes were ever made to the root account voiceover settings, so on reboot voiceover settings revert back to those in the root account. On Mon, 27 Dec

Re: Google Chrome and Mac

2010-12-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suggest you interact with the search box and then try again.On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Kimberly thurman wrote: I just downloaded and installed Chrome. All I see is a search box and a place to enter a URL, but every time I try to type in either of these, I get the bonk sound. What am I doing

Re: best office package for Mac?

2010-12-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Lotus Symphony is also available but actually getting to where you can download that package is likely to be the most difficult aspect of that package. It's got the lotus spreadsheet and lotus domino and lotus notes for email.On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: I don't use this but

Re: New I phone owners, was, Re: differences between I pad and I pod touch?

2010-12-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
If any of those veterans are Civil Servants, they need to point that out too since that's an additional discount. On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Scott Ford wrote: Excelent thank you. I went and got my wife and daughter a iphone 4 for Christmas. I will be getting one from the VA at the end of

Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
soundrts is a competitor to world of warcraft only problem is or maybe was it works on Tiger but not Leopard or Snow Leopard. I just got a refurbished imac which I've been told the most it can do is Tiger so I may have me a gaming platform. I don't know what would happen if soundrts were

Re: SEE Finance, There's Hope for Us

2010-12-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
If see finance offers a budgeting capability where users could set up their own categories and track expenses with tabular text output being available, I'd probably buy it.On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Les Kriegler wrote: Can you tell me more about Money3? What types of accounts can be tracked? I'm

Re: Is there a go to a specific coordinate command in VoiceOver (fwd)

2010-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:36:08 From: Theresa Ford theresa.f...@gmail.com To: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net Cc: louiem...@wavecable.com Subject: Re: Is there a go to a specific coordinate command in VoiceOver (fwd) Jude, I did a simple utility

Re: Which VLC player am I suposed to download?

2010-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
What happened when you ran cvlc in terminal mode followed by a file or url to play?On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Well, if I want to listen to the live stream of: www.wwl.com Silverlight is required. I never had any issues getting it to work. Now, with the flash stopping

Re: accessible internet speed test sites

2010-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well, speedtest.net is accessible if you use lynx. Maybe not safari, but lynx certainly and lynx is available through fink.On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, chad wrote: hi do you guys know of any accessible internet speed test sites? i tried speedtest.net but it wasn't accessible also i tried testmyspeed

Re: re-accessible internet speedtest sites

2010-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
That will not be the way for you to proceed then. You'd first have to install fink and get fink to update available packages then get fink to download and install lynx for you, all of it inside terminal mode and lynx is a terminal mode application itself too.On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, chad wrote:

Re: mudding on the mac

2010-12-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
In terminal mode, try telnet ancientanguish.org and see what happens. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: mac mini should I?

2010-12-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I own a Mac Mini and you need to make it known VoiceOver will be used and have a dvd burner installed in it. It'll be a little more expensive at first but will pay for itself when you start doing things with large volumes of data. When you get the unit, and get it set up needs an ethernet

Re: basic questions

2010-12-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Windows can save email in different formats. Were you to open up your saved email assuming you didn't use save as and just saved email, you could select all of it then would want to make a new folder and enter that folder. move everything in My Documents into that new folder. Then put the

Re: Undownloaded Podcasts

2010-12-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
select each track and hit control-option-shift-m on it to bring up the context menu. Then down arrow into the context menu, I think download track will be one of the choices you're offered. Hit enter on that choice and another track will appear on your disk if enough room is present to store

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another case in point. The navy which is covered by Section 508 uses flash to make all of its mandatory training. Same problem you experience with facebook all screen reader users that use jfw are confronted with for this reason. The alternate form of the training uses powerpoint and

Re: apple tv and voiceover

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may be a good idea for Apple to do for Apple TV what it did for the IPhone inside of ITunes. If a computer detects Apple Tv and VoiceOver is running on the computer, then the computer automatically enables VoiceOver on Apple Tv for the user.On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:

Re: Another way to burn audio CDs

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
ITunes is really strange. At first I had an ITunes library. Then a version upgrade of ITunes didn't like that library so made me a new one and called ITunes1. After that, with each version upgrade ITunes can't figure out which library to use so what I was told in the smmug meeting was to

Re: can I make audio cd's of iTunes purchased music

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried enabling album view?On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: Hurrah I did it! I tried Tim's steps below and they worked; I am now going to try Colin's steps in a previous message. One thing though: I see all my songs, I don't get a list of albums; so I have to scroll

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Events are rapidly overtaking adobe and flash in terms of html 5.0. Very probably once that comes out adobe flash will be able to be put in the junk software museum and left there as a particularly bad relic for the future. Another problem for web petitions is those are often used by spam

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It doesn't matter whether any site dealing in petitions is honorable or not. Most of the times when hackers get that information, the sites themselves don't even know that it's been done let alone profit from any arrangement with criminals. The criminals break into the sites and grab what

RE: trouble creating an account in itunes

2010-12-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
My guess is you need to interact with the password field before typing anything into it. On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, RvR wrote: I have the exact same problem. Wonder if there is a solution. Regards, Ronald -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
a file name I wish to change? Marlaina On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hmmm, my suggestion would be to only attach one usb drive to the computer at first. Then locate it with finder and edit its name to source. Once done leave the source drive in the computer. Next put

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
, which Mail handles very nicely. Teresa On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: Il giorno 02/dic/2010, alle ore 06.34, Jude DaShiell ha scritto: Pine can do nntp if configured properly. So can alpine. Maybe I have to be more specific. What I need and I am looking

Re: can't get voiceover going after an installation

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Might it be that it makes no difference how you insert a DVD into the mac mini it will try an installation with the right side up or down? If that's the case, the label on the top side of the DVD could interfere with the reading and installation and in that way leave you with an unuseable

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, rss feeds are an infant technology as compared to usenet. On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: I believe Usenet has RSS feeds, which Mail handles very nicely. Teresa On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: Il giorno 02/dic/2010, alle ore 06.34, Jude DaShiell ha

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Pine can do nntp if configured properly. So can alpine. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Eric Oyen wrote: hmmm. I thought it had an nntp functionality built in somewhere. I know pine can do nntp, but it gets picky one some groups, especially the binaries groups. -Eric On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Jim

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
A package called gnus which runs under emacs can handle both usenet and email once set up correctly. Mutt never did anything with nntp, mutt only does email.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, erik burggraaf wrote: It's really unfortunate. Older versions of unison were amazing, but they have really broken

Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs on the Mac?

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have a look at http://www.blindbargains.com/ for some details. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, heather kd5cbl wrote: Good luck! Heather - Original Message - From: Michael Thurman kb7...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Recording

Re: Yelp on the IPhone

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
The difference is yelp puts reviews next to those restaurants and stores.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, Yelp lets you look up resturants and stores and stuff, almost like a little directory of sorts, as I understand it. HTH, Courtney Listen to The Wonderful World of Doo-wop

Re: The Resetting of Prams

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sometimes a little scotch tape can help. Tape the command and option keys down first then it's a three finger operation.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Les Kriegler wrote: Hi Ann, A couple of comments/questions here. First, this is a very difficult keystroke to execute. You're talking about typing

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hmmm, my suggestion would be to only attach one usb drive to the computer at first. Then locate it with finder and edit its name to source. Once done leave the source drive in the computer. Next put the other usb drive into the computer and locate that with finder and edit the drive name to

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
up with the keyboard unless one gets a bluetooth one I think. You seem to be a night owl! Isaac - Original Message - From: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:08 AM Subject: Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

Re: selecting to end of document

2010-11-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
wget is your friend.On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi Carolyn and all, You can use the VO-return on web pages, but it doesn't work well when you have a lot of different elements like headings and links. You'd have to interact with each one and that can become tedious. I simply

Re: Doing a put in the land of ftp

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suggest you learn to use curl. It can do uploads and downloads though from terminal mode command line or from a bash script if you know how to build one of those. r A command like: curl -a url/filename should get the job started. On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: I am trying

Re: [macvoiceover] Trying to update firm wear in a APH device, but....

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know if you have a mac computer, but if you do, I suggest you do a which file enter and see if that utility is present. If it is, run file filename where filename is your mystery file and the file utility may be able to tell you what kind of file you have there.On Thu, 11 Nov 2010,

Re: alternative e mail clients

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Others do exist. pine and mutt can both be run from the terminal. Both can be downloaded from a fink repository.On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: Chad, I am not sure if there are any other. email clients. I believe Apple mail is the only one. Someone please correct me if I am

Re: Chat clients: Was Telnet

2010-11-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not download tiny fugue for the mac? I think it's on fink. To start that you run the tf command in the terminal. I don't know how well ichat works, but that's supposed to have irc capabilities. As for telnet, it's poison. Better to use stelnet. On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Michael Thurman

Re: iTunes?

2010-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once vlc is installed, provided you're not afraid of the terminal, it might be worth checking out what happens when you type cvlc followed by a particular site you'd like to hear. That way there's no need messing around with checkboxes for some of vlc's functionality. On Tue, 9 Nov 2010,

Re: GMail filters and Apple Mail

2010-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
This is well-known technology in terms of procmail so my suggestion for you in terminal mode see if there's a procmailex man page, man procmailex and it should show you some example recipes. Also possibly man procmail-lib and man procmail. If nothing comes up on any of that, Apple has

Re: Happy Halloween!!! OT?

2010-10-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ever hear of bobbing for apples?On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi Cara, Am I missing something here? What does Halloween have to do with using a Mac??? OT? Talk soon Chuck On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey All; -Just wanted to send along a quickie note to wish

Re: Spreadsheet Problem

2010-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can't tell you any of that, but I may be able to help you stop the crashing. Check in openoffice calc settings and see if automatic calculation is turned on and if so, turn it off. Then try opening that spreadsheet and moving between columns.On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, David Taylor wrote: Hi

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period

2010-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The huge problem with rehab departments is that many of them spend way under expected percentages on actual rehab. Lots of management ends up going to Conferences in aweful places like Honolulu Hawaii. Texas as an example could only provide slates styluses and braille paper for students

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period

2010-10-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Am I writing to a puzzle freak? Because if you really enjoy puzzles I'll make a couple suggestions which will enable you to stick a fork in that counsellor. The ruby scripting language is available for the mac probably in the development tree. I installed the development tree but the mac

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know what I think would be really neat? If Apple was to do what GwMicro did with Window-Eyes; make the operating system self-healing. This concept for GwMicro involved collecting crash logs from people's machines when they rebooted; the Window-Eyes software phoned home and sent the crash

Re: accessible games for Iphone

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone checked out the gaming center on the iPhone yet for voiceover friendly games and if so what did you find? Also, do any voiceover friendly mud clients exist for the iphone yet? On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: It's really fun!!! I hope you get to play it some time. Donna

RE: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Most of the jaws using population will never have Stevie Wunder's income levels either so Jaws upgrades and Window-Eyes upgrades don't always happen quickly or sometimes at all. People tend to have more important things on which to spend money like mortgage payments or rent. Funding from

Re: Accessible Ulternative browzer?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I believe I installed lynx using fink. On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Mike wrote: Hi all: I'm wondering if there's an alternative accessible web browser? I'm getting tired of Safari crashes and lock ups and then having to use web kit. If this thing is so grate, how come apple doesn't update it weekly

Re: general Mac questions / Captchas

2010-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.solona.net supported Windows before it supported the Mac with no invitations necessary like webvisum.com.On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Ray Foret Jr wrote: For me, the answer is this: www.solona.net There's a handy tool you can install and run via termin.app which will really help wi the

Re: ways of tagging sections in a document

2010-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
The first thing to do is to come up with your own standard way of marking out section headings and stick to that. Then since you know what your own standard is, you'll know how and what to search for. I'm on the treasurescroll list with blindtreasures.com and just above each new product

Re: Noise in the Apple store

2010-10-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
provide so much in the way of correction. Quite honestly, I think it's a lucky break for me that the Apple store team has been so good about working with me in spite of the hearing issues. Carolyn On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Not at all correct. A proper application

RE: Noise in the Apple store

2010-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not at all correct. A proper application of technology can eliminate the background noise and add value to the training sessions. The trainer will need a mask microphone. The trainee will need two sets of headphones one smaller than the other. One of those the trainer speaks on. The other

RE: Can keyboard only navigation ever be...

2010-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Universal keyboard navigation like f1 for help and all the other keystrokes came from I.B.M. among others, Microsoft just complied with an already existing and published standard. Same deal with file formats in Microsoft Office, they're all in the ISO standards.On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Neil

Re: mud clients

2010-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried tiny-fugue yet? That works well on Linux. You can test it once you get it installed with tf ancientanguish.org too.On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, May McDonald wrote: Hi there everyone. I'm not having much luck here and figured I'd ask here on the list again. Is there a client that

Re: I think I may have made a $99 mistake...

2010-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I remember correctly, it's possible to use an Apple computer with VoiceOver turned on to control an Apple TV box. You might send email to accessibil...@apple.com and ask if this is the case or if an iPhone can be used to do that just in case you haven't got an Apple computer. I'm pretty

Re: Hebrew Braille user needed (fwd)

2010-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:08:39 From: Arlene Carol arlene.ca...@gmail.com To: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net Subject: Re: Hebrew Braille user needed (fwd) someone should contact the Library for the Blind in Israel. I believe it's in Netanya

Re: voice over guide

2010-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here's the way things work with bookshare.org and I know since I've used their service already. If a book has daisy format and brf format available, it's still under copyright and you have to have a current password to open it and read it whether you download daisy or brf formats. If the book

Re: Recommendations for FTP blient for the mac?

2010-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The mac already comes with sftp which is part of openssh package and if you're at all concerned about on line security, you'll do well to get acquainted.On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Jenny Wood wrote: Greetings again! So basically, I am wondering what recommendations, if any, might be out there for

Re: Washington Post articles?

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
The link I put in here is broken. To fix it remember the last word in the link is distribution and you'll get there okay.On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Colin M wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html?hpid=distrib ution Hi Jonathan! Here I am in little UK! I opened the

Re: Not able to sign into itunes

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Don't hit enter, hit tab onto okay field then hit space and see if that works. Why itunes should be going into busy mode like that even under these circumstances though for me is a puzzle. If you can get to a local mac users group meeting you may get lots more support there. Have you got a

Re: XCode compile.

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once you install the xcode and the appbuilder packages from your snow leopard disk, start looking inside the /developer/ tree.On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, GEOFF WAALER wrote: Greetings, I wanted to compile a helloWorld program in either objective C or C++ and apparently am not looking in the right

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sarah, Did you get it

Re: Getting applications out of the command-tab order?

2010-09-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone tried enclosing a search string in quotes either single or double to see if a search with spaces in it can be done that way yet?On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Justin, The feature you are looking for would be available if Spaces worked with VoiceOver. Other

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well from a security perspective, one person's unintentional alias might become a hacker's intentional alias in the unfortunate event of unauthorized computer access. For that reason it might prove helpful if Apple in one of its future releases would arrange for an alias cleaning tool which

Re: Apps going inaccessible with Retina 4 updates? -- Speedtest for network connections

2010-09-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Around here, I use http://speedtest.net and as soon as you connect to the page you read down and search for MB and that'll be the first line of your report.On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: I used this one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedtest/id286356274?mt=8 which seems fairly

Re: tracpad question

2010-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did a search in the app store and while a track pal app is available for download, there is no track pad app available for download.On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Carolyn wrote: Ah, Ricardo: Thanks for getting back to me. I found out it's double-tap on the left side of the screen in the middle.

Re: Help forcing Mac to recognize a USB device

2010-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
On some systems, a command called update-usb-ids exists and has to be run by root in terminal mode. That command when run goes out to a web site and gets a current copy of a file that has all industry-standard usb ids information in it. If the manufacturer of the device hasn't got their

Re: What is RSS and Usenet

2010-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
The rss information was a little incomplete because rss can also contain enclosures to podcasts as well as articles. Podcasts people subscribe to with rss as part of their url are actually carried by the rss protocol through enclosures.On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: The site

Re: the unix shell and mac terminal

2010-08-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Even easier, use script. First run script typescript.tmp enter. Next run your job. Next type exit enter. Next type col -bx typescript.tmp typescript enter next type rm typescript.tmp enter finally type less typescript enter and find out what happened in your job. I usually just interact

Re: Need Mac User's advice on which Windows screen reader to purchase and learn

2010-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thunder screen reader may be an option, though it costs rather much less than jaws or window-eyes.On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: I use Victoria as well. Prefer her over Alex. Donna On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Haha! Victoria scares me, man. I actually

Re: Description of the Finder and how to best understand VO method of navigating on the screen

2010-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
What aApple refers to as elements or items are referred to as controls in Windows, but usually only the more technical descriptions of windows interfaces ever mention that term. Everyone both Microsoft and Apple used the set of controls from universal computer interface design which I.B.M.

Re: Is Vo and Mac for everyone!

2010-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
First you got to get windows installed on that PC to use satogo or jfw or window-eyes or nvda. In order to placate sighted friends I'm about to install a legacy sound card on a pc so screen narrator will have a chance to work while installing windows XPSP2 since the computer came equipped

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