Re: Renaming Files

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, What you describe of a template file, is supported. You should find a stationary check box in the get info field. Stationary, lets you open up a template document and will force you to save it under a new name without altering the original. I do not run Lion, but I am fairly certain

Re: audible files

2012-03-30 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, No. Audible uses digital rights management (DRM). However, I have a great program called Audio Book Converter, that converts Audible books to MP3 for just this purpose. The first thing I do when I download a new audible book, is to convert it so I can use it where ever and whenever I

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The autolock setting can be found in Settings, General Autolock. If you enable Siri via the Siri Settings, then you'll see (hear) a Dictate icon to the left of the space bar on the standard keyboard. Simple double tap this item, and use a two finger double tap to stop. At which point,

Spell Catcher X

2011-12-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Just a general inquiry to see if anyone has tried using Spell Catcher X with VO and if theyliked it? Thank you. --Scott -- --Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: how do you close a single tab or window in Safari

2011-12-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, If you control click on the link, you'll get a contextual menu with an option to open link in new window. I am not aware of any modifier combination with a click that does this in Safari. The behavior of opening a new window without control clicking is solely under the control of the

Re: adding a printer

2011-12-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, You most likely will need to go to your Apple Menu, then to System Preferences, then to Printers and Fax. There, you'll see a list of printers available in a table. If you don't see your printer, you'll need to add it with he plus button or add printer button. Here's where it gets

RE: Question about making itunes playlists

2011-12-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi Missy, Although your multiple libraries does do what you want, I fear you are missing the conceptual metaphor of the iTunes Library and playlists. Your library is just that, your library of everything you have available to you. It's a single source flat list of all the stuff in iTunes.

bad Arrow Key behavior with VO

2011-08-15 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Here's the situation: 1. Launch TextEdit. 2. Just start typing A B C D. 3. Hit the left arrow key. 4. On my Mac Mini, I hear the insertion point move over the letter D. But on my new Air, VO jumps to the ruler. Why is VO jumping when focus is on the edit area of text edit. This

Re: bad Arrow Key behavior with VO

2011-08-15 Thread Scott Bresnahan
, make sure quick nav is off. Kristyn On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: Hi, Here's the situation: 1. Launch TextEdit. 2. Just start typing A B C D. 3. Hit the left arrow key. 4. On my Mac Mini, I hear the insertion point move over the letter D. But on my new Air

Mac VO friendly banks?

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Good day, I'm soliciting feedback on national US or regional New England banks that have very good online banking sites that work well with Safari and VO on a Mac. In addition, any feedback about matching iOS apps for that bank would be welcome as well. Thank you. -- --Scott -- You

Need your help, looking for irc client for snow

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Greetings, I am seeking advice on an irc client for use with snow. I currently use ircle. My main requirement is that it must speak all text from incoming open channels in the background reliably. Of course, general VO compatibility is a nice thing too, yet Ircle isn't that good, but I rely

Re: iphone cal ending

2009-07-25 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Simon, The easiest thing to do in my opinion is hit the wake/sleep button toend a call. --Scott Hi folks. Can someone please tell me how, while using VO on my iphone, ow do I turn off a call? I can make one not a probl;em but I'm having tourble ending the call when I want.

Re: IPhone accessibility

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Late to reply, but I'm a low vision RP user of the iPHone, but I run it with the screen off to save power. So, I'm low vision, but there's absolutely no screen to see and I think it's the best device I've ever not seen. So, I think your assumption is misplaced. I was in the You've got

Re: does reading on the mac take two hands?

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, In addition to Ester's excellent recommendations, there's a system extension called USB Overdrive that will allow you to set keyboard actions for USB key presses on controllers and mice. Although I don't know what the Braille devices appear as to the USB bus, it may be possible that USB

Re: Buying from Amazon

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I've bought most of my Macs from Amazon.. No sales tax and often cheaper than Apple even with a student or corporate discount once tax is factored in. Amazon also has .mac and applecare savings too. Frankly, not sure why anyone would buy from Apple ever, unless you want to engrave your

Re: Accessibility fix in iTunes 8.2.1

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I know VO has a lot of odd unexplained focus issues, but could it be that you are really jumping to the newly loaded iTunes store html page then as you vo-up arrow, you move to the controls because you have your vo prefs set to move vo cursor to a newly loaded web page? The iTunes store

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I love the iPhone, but I have to disagree. I think both points have some merit. The iPhone is not for everyone.. 1. Multitasking is a short coming. It's like the Finder compared to the Multi-Finder in the Mac Plus days. Some technologies, ssh and irc come to mind, will not work

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, And that's called not irc, that's called a irc proxy hack. --Scott At 12:09 PM -0700 7/14/09, Alex wrote: Hi, You can have a intermediate server push IRC messages to you. Regards, Alex, On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: Hi, I love the iPhone, but I have

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
the battery. Just like there is a custom chip to monitor the communications going to the GSM tower. Maybe someday we'll have enough battery or low power CPU to run background apps at will just like on a desktop computer, but until then some compromises are in order. CB Scott Bresnahan wrote: Hi, I

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
their inefficiency. :) . I can't believe I'm arguing the devils advocate on this. did I mention I love my iPhone? But, it just doesn't do windows, so stop pretending it does. lol --Scott Hi Scott, See my comments inline. :) On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: I love

Re: Mae, iMac, Macbooks and other Apple computers.

2009-07-12 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The difference is about $400 da dump da [drum sound effect]. I would not recommend the air to any user who uses it as their primary computer. The air is a fantastic piece of engineering, but it lacks a lot of key features that most people would want on a computer. Specifically, it's

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-06 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Snow Leopard will work quite nicely on any Intel Mac, including any MacBook, white or Al. And, how quickly we forget. The most powerful Macs out there are the desktop MacPros that don't have the little trackpad thingy. So yes, VO will work via the old stand by, tethered technology of

Re: Can't log on to Macbook Pro

2009-07-05 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, What model macbook do you have? Any chance your numeric pad lock was on and instead on characters on the right side of the keyboard, you're getting numeric values? Try the reset password option but use one that's on the left like only, aka asdf just for fun. Also, try hooking up an

Re: hide and minimize

2009-07-02 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The minimize option from the window's title bar or the windows menu, makes the active window disappear and doc, but you remain in the application you are currently using. Hide, from the Application menu, hides all the application windows and actually leaves the application you are in,

Re: viphone list?

2009-07-02 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hmm. If Cara has limited access to the internet that doesn't speak well of her new iPHone. Maybe it's not as accessible as we've been led to believe [insert evil laugh here] Use case #1: User on vacation. User needs to read email. Looking forward to hearing the real world report upon

Re: macbook fan

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Probably. Macbooks run quite hot especially the white plastic ones, and I've seen the white ones run on full fan throttle with just Safari and Mail open if they are not on a good conductive surface. I've also seen a lot of dust build up in the cooling slots of the white ones, and on

Re: macbook fan

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Bresnahan
. Jenny On 6/28/09, Scott Bresnahan b...@apple2.com wrote: Hi, Probably. Macbooks run quite hot especially the white plastic ones, and I've seen the white ones run on full fan throttle with just Safari and Mail open if they are not on a good conductive surface. I've also seen a lot of dust

Re: ipod touch

2009-06-26 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The only iPhone that supports voiceover is the new iPhone G3 S. If you have an older iPhone G3 or original, it will not be able to use vo regardless of the version of the OS. --Scott At 10:06 AM +0100 6/26/09, william lomas wrote: hi if i put the OS 3.0 software onto a 2g ipod

Re: Voice over and web surfing,

2009-06-24 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Actually, no, it's not a crazy question at all. I agree VO's web navigation leaves us short in several areas. Even before VO, I used the older Universal Access feature of speak selected text when a key is pressed. I actually still use this today. I'll go to a web page, hit my

Re: xcode etitor

2009-06-21 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I think there are a few of us who use x-code on the list. The x-code preferences are under the x-code menu like any other application. However, I suspect that you're missing the core metaphor in x-code of targets. targets are where you set the target preferences for generating say a

Re: xcode editor

2009-06-21 Thread Scott Bresnahan
... just stop interacting with the object. Or just jump to the item chooser. --Scott What I want to do is turn off the auto complete. In the old version this was off. I just downloaded the new version. The down load was big 995 meg. It took about a half hour. On Jun 21, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Scott

Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I bet it may just be the full install disk of Snow Leopard when you buy the upgrade. What you are forgetting is that this is an Intel only version of the OS, so the number of Intel only Macs that shipped with Tiger compared to Leopard is relatively small. Not to mention those owners

Re: IP address allow question...

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Mike, You need to expose your public IP. A private IP, in the form of 192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x is used for your internal NAT'ed network only. This means that every computer on your side of the network, when talking beyond that router, looks like the same machine with the same IP, and

Re: Problems to use xCode with java code

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, I double click on the error item from within the error outline and that takes you to the source file and selects the line number of the error. After you do a build, you should see a failed button clicking on that should get you to the error table window. Alternatively, you can use the

Re: getting rid of Mobileme trial

2009-04-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Brent, I passed along your info to a friend and colleague at Apple who should be contacting you directly. He works directly with .me and should be able to help you. I also had a nice chat about accessibility with him and it's always on their minds. Best, Scott Hi there. I ended

Re: getting rid of Mobileme trial

2009-04-23 Thread Scott Bresnahan
to that account. Best, Scott Cool. I really don't want to end up getting billed for this thing. I guess syncing stuff up to it is usable, but the website isn't yet so maybe once they do get accessibility I'd consider it again. - Original Message - From: Scott Bresnahan b...@apple2.com

Re: installing readiris help

2009-04-22 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Often, applications will require you to scroll all the way down in the license agreement before the continue button will become active. Try scrolling down in that scroll area and see if that enables the button. --Scott Hi out there to the list. Today I received my purchase of readiris

Re: charging PDA's

2009-03-15 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, There is a tidbit of Mac and USB info to share here though. Low voltage in a USB series can cause devices not to charge or function properly. What I mean by a series is a chain of connected USB devices that run off a single USB powered bus. So for example, if you have a power hungry

Re: Re-sizing a window

2009-03-08 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, Gary, Usually, clicking on the zoom button on the top left (the third vo heard item in most windows (close button, minimize button, zoom button) will expand a window to full screen. If the window is already expanded, it will usually return it to the previous size. --Scott -- --Scott

Re: mail problem with voiceover.

2009-03-03 Thread Scott Bresnahan
Hi, The Safari beta installs a core framework for html rendering. This affects all apple applications that share this framework. In fact, one of the biggest issues with Safari 4 beta had to do with Mail.app plugins like rss plugins and password helper plugins. So, it's because of this