Re: Finder Podcast Part 1

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Holmes
Your link is broken! When I read your message about Part 1 of your Finder podcast, I hit VO-space on the link to your episode and that takes me to Safari but the page never fills. I just get an empty HTML page and interaction is impossible. Any way you might use an rss feed with audio

Re: Finder Podcast Reference Notes

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Holmes
What browser are you guys using to pull down these links? This is another message where the link just puts me into an empty HTML page. Safari Works on other pages so sendspace is a no-go over here. On Nov 23, 2014, at 7:52 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: Below is a link for

Re: Finder Podcast Number 2

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Holmes
This one doesn’t work either. What is wrong with these links that Safari just comes up with an empty HTML areas? I am using latest versions of everything on my Yosemite machine. On Nov 22, 2014, at 9:23 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: Finder Podcast 2 below. This one moves

Re: Finder Podcast Number 2

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Holmes
Never mind. I saw the blank pages in Safari but I later found the files in my downloads folder in Finder so I didn’t realize that a download actually took place. On Nov 22, 2014, at 9:23 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: Finder This one moves on from using the name: command

Re: Mac Developers List

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
acceptance of subscriptions. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 5:49 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac Developers List It seems to be a problem

Re: Mac Developers List

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
be the nature of that particular topic. Of course, anything on that could always be discussed here. On Aug 12, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there are any other lists where blind developers might discuss Mac and iOS development? I still never

Re: Playing flash on the mac in maverick

2014-07-27 Thread Steve Holmes
I might add here concerning flash. Apple has nothing to do with flash. Flash is developed by Adobe and quite frankly, I don't think Adobe cares much at all about accessibility. This is my opinion; yes, Adobe has funded NVDA development but PDF documents are more less accessible on Windows but

Re: so how does one open an attachment in the latest iteration of mail?

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
I think this would be a whole lot easier if mail.app would support external, rather than inline attachments but that is probably more an issue with outgoing mail more so than receiving. But still, I usually prefer to use the main menu bar and select File - Save Attachments and work from there;

Re: Replying to mails in the Apple mail program in Mavericks and onwards?

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
The Mutt Unix command line mail client seems to support private replies pretty well. Even when the list forces the normal reply function to go to the list, Mutt offers you the choice of sending to original sender or to the list. On the opposite side of the coin, Some lists make it nearly

Re: question about apple mail boxes

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
One thing that might make Clifton's solution work is if he has mouse pointer set to follow the VO cursor. I'm sure changes in this option could impact this operation. Personally, I haven't added any mail boxes to the favorites so don't have any additional personal experience to go on. On Jul

Re: using voiceover in terminal?

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Holmes
The one area in Terminal I would really like to be able to do is cursor up and down a column and have it stay in that column and not go back to the beginning of the line each time. An example of what I'm talking about is take the output of 'ls -l' (detailed file listing) and read just the file

Re: What's the best way to create fillable forms on the Mac?

2014-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
I hope this discussion can continue on the list because I have similar questions. I keep hearing sighted people rave about PDF Pen but I thought that was still inaccessible to VO users. I looked around AppleVis for PDF Pen references and could not find a thing. When I used to use Word for

Re: Mac Developers List

2014-07-25 Thread Steve Holmes
: Saturday, July 19, 2014 1:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac Developers List Can you help me please as well since I received absolutely nothing since I tried to join and now I know why. Thanks! On 19/07/2014 17:54, Steve Holmes wrote: Could anyone moderating the Mac

Mac Developers List

2014-07-19 Thread Steve Holmes
Could anyone moderating the Mac Developers list follow up on my pending request to subscribe? I forget the exact name of the list now but it is a developers companion to this Mac ?Visionaries list. Unfortunately, it has been over 3 weeks since I subscribed via the google troups form. I guess that

Re: Amadeus Pro file joining question

2014-07-11 Thread Steve Holmes
Hey thanks for the suggestion. I do have one question about this method though. Say the files being joined are MP3s; will the editor transcode the files to something like wave or aiff to do the work and then go back or will it work on the MP3 format directly? I ask about this because

Re: Brother Printers and Accessibility

2014-06-15 Thread Steve Holmes
, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I've considered buying a Brother 2240 USB printer to use with my Mac Mini. Does anyone know how accessibility the software is for this or other Brother models? I like the fact that this model and a similar but network enabled wireless model (2270

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-14 Thread Steve Holmes
SoloDX is dead. They never charged for anything as far as I know. Zagga did not acquire SoloDX. They are going from the ground up with new service and new app. So Movie Reading is yet another orphaned app! I didn't recall their pricing but I also feel $25 for 6 months isn't bad at all. On Jun

Brother Printers and Accessibility

2014-06-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I've considered buying a Brother 2240 USB printer to use with my Mac Mini. Does anyone know how accessibility the software is for this or other Brother models? I like the fact that this model and a similar but network enabled wireless model (2270) does not have a visual control on the unit so

Re: Challenges with Apple Mail auto-complete

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, I just looked here under both Composing and General and no checkbox for that option. I'm running latest Mavericks. On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, I believe that option has been removed, At least I couldn't find it anymore so I didn't mention it in

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
That's right. they're toast! This other group is picking up the charge but they will use new apps and all so Movie Reading is another orphaned app sigh. On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am confused. I do not follow soloDX on twitter to

Re: Where do I go to read system dialogues?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Sometimes I don't find them there but find it under the window choose (VO-F2 F2). But even then, I had to roll through several apps with Command-Tab before I found a system dialog in the window chooser. It hasn't always been consistent for me over time. On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:47 PM, isaac

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
This used to be easier under Mountain Lion. At least there, I didn't have to go into classic mode and I think I could just use the arrow keys to adjust the slider too. Yes, I fully agree; this should be a simple check item in the View menu as far as I'm concerned. On Jun 6, 2014, at 8:12 AM,

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can close the window of Safari byt then I can’t read the article. I hate auto play. I can’t find

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
for a subscription just to see a descriptive movie. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: That's right. they're toast! This other group is picking up the charge but they will use new apps and all so Movie Reading is another orphaned app sigh

Re: Correction, Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can close the window of Safari

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Plain Text”, then paste in the stuff. You can then read it without all the extraneous garbage. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Format menu and choose “Make Plain Text”, then paste in the stuff. You can then read it without all the extraneous garbage. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build

Re: Non-contiguous events calendar

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Holmes
I wish there was a way to create events that occur every month on a particular week. For example, say the third Wednesday of every month. You can do monthly but that implies a specific date on each month; not a given week. Any way to get around this? Otherwise, I have to build them all manually

Re: recalcitrant Apple keyboard

2014-06-03 Thread Steve Holmes
I use a standard Apple bluetooth keyboard all the time on my Mac Mini. Only time I have keystrokes not getting processed is when I wake the machine out of sleep mode. Then I think VO is more the problem with lack of responsiveness. I may also experience much sluggishness or whatever when Time

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
The Movie Reading app is the one you're looking for. You have already found it though, based on your earlier messages in this thread. Problem now is Solo DX, the original developers of this app have gone belly up. the better news is that apparently another group is going to offer a similar

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
buying the audio description track. It did seem odd there was only one film there which was making me suspicious. Thanks to all who answered my original question. Lisette On 1/06/2014, at 7:31 pm, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: The Movie Reading app is the one you're

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 5, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I tried full screen mode in Safari and I had much better luck. I only tried one site due to limited time but at least focus stayed

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
and windows tab. The option is when a new tab or window is open, make it active. the vault opens in a new tab or window, depending on how you have your Safari set up. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Money Management

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
Checkbook Pro is a nice app too. it can be found in the Mac App store. On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: if you can develop your own spreadsheet banking registers, then Numbers is excellent. I do all my personal accounting on home-grown spreadsheets, bank

Re: iTunes cannot import CDs

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know. I just ripped a CD a week or so ago and it worked OK for me. I encoded into MP3 at 192 KB stereo. I didn't encounter any problems except I had to manually tag the files because this CD was an artist demo and that disc was never submitted to Grace Notes. On Jun 1, 2014, at 4:59

Re: mp3 splitter and mp3 to m4b converter?

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I would go to Rogue Ameba's website and look for Fision. It can split and merge MP3s. Not sure about transcoding. Might have to use Amadeus pro to do that. I need to spend more time with these apps to give better answers in the future. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog

Editing Tables in Pages

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Holmes
I've been working on my resume in Pages and for the most part, all was pretty easy once I learned to interact in the right places. But I did run into an area I can't figure out. I have several tables in this document and I can interact with the tables but when I try to interact with each cell,

Re: Editing Tables in Pages

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Holmes
can find this in keyboard shortcuts under the help menu. On May 29, 2014, at 1:40 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on my resume in Pages and for the most part, all was pretty easy once I learned to interact in the right places. But I did run into an area I

Re: notification center

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Holmes
The hotkey to speak hints on the fly would be VO-Shift-N. On May 25, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Jean, I think somebody answered your question about the image reports of no faces earlier. It's in the VO Utility / speech / help tags. By setting

Re: Refresh a braille 18

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I use a Refreshabraille mostly with my iPad Mini and at work via USB to a yucky windows box. The device is great and has nice crisp Braille output. Unfortunately, the programs to update firmware only come as windows executables. Besides, they haven't released any software updates since 2011 or

Re: waking up macbook pro

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I've been seeing this with my Mac Mini too. I thought it was in conflict with time Machine or something. I have seen more sluggishness lately with Mavericks. Mountain Lion was much more snappy in my opinion. On May 16, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Gary gary.robl...@gmail.com wrote: This is also true on

Re: Sample text that VoiceOver is skipping

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Is there any way to work around this? What if the stuff in triple brackets is necessary and you want VO to speak it? If these are related strictly to speech, what about Braille displays? does that “unspoken text” get shown on the display or is it not shown there either? On May 2, 2014, at

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Holmes
in safari, and LastPass works fine. I suspect it might be an incompatibility issue with VO and LastPass in Safari. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On May 2, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't sure who the culprit was. When I started

Re: Changing mp3 tags

2014-05-04 Thread Steve Holmes
I like to use a program called id3 edit. I don’t remember the original source right off top of my head; they aren’t in the app store. I use that all the time before placing tracks into iTunes. that way iTunes can store them in their proper places in the library. On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:05 PM,

Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, I had a lot of performance issues shortly after a Mavericks update too last month. I wasn’t aware of spotlight index rebuilds or any of that but the only real outstanding issue here now is Mail still seems sluggish at times but over all, the machine is quite workable now. Another thing

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Holmes
CTRL + Command and F. Might help if you write to last pass and tell them the problem. The more that write the better. Max On 2 May 2014, at 10:26 am, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed with some recent changes to Safari and LastPass that now whenever the LastPass plug

Re: Changing mp3 tags

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Holmes
I like to use a program called id3 edit. I don’t remember the original source right off top of my head; they aren’t in the app store. I use that all the time before placing tracks into iTunes. that way iTunes can store them in their proper places in the library. On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:05 PM,

Re: Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Holmes
... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 29, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, I tried these steps several times, in fact, but I still see the folders in reverse alpha order. I guess I'm stuck with a backwards alphabetically ordered list of mail

LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-05-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I noticed with some recent changes to Safari and LastPass that now whenever the LastPass plug-in is active, I can't keep focus from jumping over into the LastPass HTML pane. I never had this problem before. It makes it impossible to spend any time on a given site such as filling forms without

Re: Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-30 Thread Steve Holmes
behind in case things don't work as I planned. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 29, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, I tried these steps several times, in fact, but I still see the folders in reverse alpha order. I guess I'm

Re: Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread Steve Holmes
, if it is a Gmail account, you may need to Quit the Mail app and re-open it again so that the sync works properly. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 27, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks a couple

Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-27 Thread Steve Holmes
I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks a couple weeks ago that all my mail box folders are sorted in reverse alphabetical order under each IMAP account. This always used to be in ascending alpha order and not backwards like it is now. Has anyone else experienced this? Also, is there a way to

Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-26 Thread Steve Holmes
I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks a couple weeks ago that all my mail box folders are sorted in reverse alphabetical order under each IMAP account. This always used to be in ascending alpha order and not backwards like it is now. Has anyone else experienced this? Also, is there a way to

Mail Sending from Wrong Address

2014-04-26 Thread Steve Holmes
I noticed for the first time tonight that when I send messages from my steve.holme...@gmail.com account, mail keeps trying to send them from my other address, st...@holmesgrown.com. I checked both accounts in system and mail preferences to make sure they have the right account hooked to the smtp

Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-26 Thread Steve Holmes
I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks a couple weeks ago that all my mail box folders are sorted in reverse alphabetical order under each IMAP account. This always used to be in ascending alpha order and not backwards like it is now. Has anyone else experienced this? Also, is there a way to

Re: Mail Sending from Wrong Address

2014-04-26 Thread Steve Holmes
. On Apr 26, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed for the first time tonight that when I send messages from my steve.holme...@gmail.com account, mail keeps trying to send them from my other address, st...@holmesgrown.com. I checked both accounts in system

Re: database app for Mac

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Another thing that you can look at is absolutely free on every Mac. From the Terminal app, look at sqlite3 the man page explains how to use it. Yeah, this is on the geeky side and may not really meet your needs but it appears to be a good SQL based system that is freely available. I think I

Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, I've been seeing some unpleasant behavior by Safari. Allow me to explain what I'm getting here. I have Safari open and running with maybe one or two tabs open. I then go into Yorufukurou to read through some tweets; I then hit the letter l to open a link. I

Re: e-mail issues

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
With the 10.9.2 changes, gmail works a lot better now. I just upgraded to Mavericks and after a very long sync, I think Mail.app is working OK for me. I find it to be more sluggish than before but at least workable. On Mar 6, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I can't help

Re: Calendar in iOS

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
If you want to see all events over a longer period of time, You first need to go down to a particular day. It doesn't matter, just open a day view. then double tap the list button. All scheduled and past events will show up in a vertical list. double tap the list button again to turn this off

Re: Opening Safari Pages from other Apps

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Holmes
with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Bad News About iBooks

2014-02-26 Thread Steve Holmes
Yes, with serious bugs like this by all means, contact the a11y folks at Apple. I've had them tell me several times that the more pings they get the higher priority a problem is given. I haven't upgraded to Mavericks yet so cannot report this one yet. The other improvements make it sound like I

Re: How does conversation threading work on the Mac?

2014-02-20 Thread Steve Holmes
I also like this method of quickly going through a series of messages in a thread. Only problem I have from time to time is when people have images attached to their messages. It breaks my rhythm because I then have to interact extra times in order to get back into the message itself. I always get

Re: leaving music in a particular folder for iTunes to pick up

2014-02-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not in front of my Mac just now so I will have to guess the exact path but the folder you are asking about definitely exists and I use it all the time. I believe it is something like Music/iTunes/iTunes media/Add to iTunes. I might not be exact on the path but the folder you want for sure is

Re: Another Way to do Email on the Mac

2014-01-10 Thread Steve Holmes
.--Carl Sagan On Jan 9, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I know some of you had been looking for an alternative to the standard Apple mail client so I would like to offer you all another option. I am running mutt, a popular text based email client on the Linux

Another Way to do Email on the Mac

2014-01-09 Thread Steve Holmes
I know some of you had been looking for an alternative to the standard Apple mail client so I would like to offer you all another option. I am running mutt, a popular text based email client on the Linux platform. I installed homebrew, which is like macports to support the shell environment. I run

Re: huge mail problems still

2014-01-03 Thread Steve Holmes
After having read some 74 messages in this thread, I thought I would chime in here with a further explanation of VO + J and how I personally prefer to use Mail. First off, VO-J jumps VO to the next control at same level. I absolutely love using this key combination in iTunes; it jumpss me from

Re: Bluetooth Issues getting very old

2014-01-03 Thread Steve Holmes
There may be a couple different things going on here. Some bluetooth speakers may automatically go off line when the computer sleeps. I know my Sony speaker doc often shuts itself off if inactive for a period of time. I use the speaker for playing media content but have VO permanently assigned to

Re: Apple submenu message, gets quite annoying...

2014-01-03 Thread Steve Holmes
I had this problem earlier this year and the cause for me was the mouse was following the cursor. I unchecked that and my problem has never come back. I don't remember ever turning that on but I shut it off just the same. In VO, I have everything following everything else except for the mouse.

Re: LinkedIn driving me crazy.

2013-12-08 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah and I just read the other day that Linkedin had actually done some a11y work on their site some time back. Well, what's up. I think their site is absolutely horrid in its present state. On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:52 PM, eric oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: I am still on OS X Lion here and I

Re: muting voice over speech

2013-12-08 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know if you have a keyboard in your Braille display but I know on my Refreshibraille I can hold down the space bar and press the letter m (dots 1, 3, 4) to toggle speech on or off. That seems to work on both Mac and iOS. On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Andrew Head ath...@bigpond.net.au

Re: Help with OS 10.9, VO and Navigating Website with Frames

2013-11-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I have also experienced this but I am not on Mavericks yet. I think it came with the most recent version of Safari regardless of OS version. The main place where I experienced this was on the safeway shopping site and I have to login to demo this. thus, I would have a hard time reporting this to

Re: a showstopper in the latest safari update

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
I have been hearing about so many issues with Mail under Mavericks while using gmail and IMAP. I seem to hear more bad news than good news on this matter so I am obliged to stay back on Mountain Lion till this can be resolved or I find a different mail client. Using POP is a non-starter for me.

Re: voiceover freezing

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
I also find that if Mail is left running then it begins syncing up with my IMAP gmail folders and stuff and this tends to cumber my machine and cause VO to be slugish until all is caught up. On Oct 26, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When your computer goes

Re: Classic Versus Current view in Mail

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
So, does this mean you cannot turn off preview in standard mode with Mavericks Mail now? If this is the case, then another reason for me to stay back on Mountain Lion. On Oct 27, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote: hey, i love modern view it stops a lot of

Re: Mavericks and Gmail

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
Another reason I would never use POP on any mail server is, I like to filter all my inbound email into separate folders like one for each list I'm subscribed to. You *CANNOT* do this under pop. I use gmail's host based rules to do this and this way I get the same folder structure on all my

Re: Pages and dates

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
This sounds exactly like what happened with Final Cut Pro. they dumbed it down to a more consumer grade product, angered a bunch of power users, Apple AFAIK put back some of the features. I wonder if iWork has to go through the same cycle? You'd think Apple would have learned from previous

Re: Macupdate desktop on mavericks.

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
Hi Annie, You might wanna try and contact the developers of Mac Update Desktop and ask them about Mavericks compatibility. Some companies like Rogue Omoeba are working on updates to their apps to be compatible with Mavericks. Hopefully these guys will do likewise. On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:13 PM,

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Holmes
I thought I had read some while back that there could be a way to tell gmail to use standard IMAP behavior instead of their approach. I think it was in Google Labs or some such. Anyone know about this or given it a try? Maybe if that were set, Mail might work better with gmail hosted accounts.

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Holmes
I thought there was a problem installing 64 bit windows. Can you clarify on that matter? I'm considering doing something similar either on my Mac or my 64 bit laptop. So you actually installed 64 bit windows? On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:57 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Georges,

Re: splitting MP3 files

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know if Audacity can work with MP3 files directly or if you have to decode them to something like wave format. Transcoding files from MP3 to wav and back again will ruin the audio and should be avoided at all cost. One program that will work directly with MP3 files without any

Re: yet more regarding youtube

2013-10-19 Thread Steve Holmes
I wonder what it will take to get Google to just get on with implementing HTML5 and dump this fuckin' flash! I refuse to install that parasite on my system under any condition. I may be missing lots of youtube content, but I refuse to compromise my computer with inaccessible flash players and

Re: folders on the mac

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Holmes
One big thing I always do if I have any doubt as to which folder I'm actually in is to review the current window title with VO-F2. This will always identify the current folder; this works with Column and list views. On Oct 1, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com

Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Hey thanks for pointing this out. I used to follow people with the f in front of the user name in a new tweet. I wonder what else the Twitter folks wanna ruin. I guess they are still hell bent on wrecking the experience for 3rd party twitter app developers and users. On Sep 21, 2013, at 7:39

Re: Question about mail in IOS7

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
No, I think you still need to enable deleting by turning off archiving. Otherwise if you just choose Archive, the Inbox flag will be turned off and that message will sit in All Mail forever. You have to move the message to the Trash folder and I'm pretty certain that without Archiving, it will

Re: Accessible FTP clients.

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Another FTP client I really like for the Mac is Transmit. Everything I've seen in that app is accessible. It costs a bit from the Mac App Store but is well worth it. On Sep 22, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, No I haven't yet. So far I've just been

Re: Deleting a book from the Bard mobile app once downloaded and bread.

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Jessica, I don't think iTunes can talk to the BARD app. That's strange about not being authorized to play them as you had to properly sign into the BARD repository with the app in order to download in the first place. I have over 20 books on my app and have had no trouble playing any of them.

Re: ITunes and sequencial track number tagging

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
I have an idea but it is rather geeky and will require some shell scripting and the use of a 3rd party ID3 editor that accepts command line functions. I'm speaking in general terms right now byt what is basically needed is that all your files are consistently named with track numbers in the

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
I haven't tried the hover cam on the Mac but back when I was trying to use it on my Windows laptop with Docuscan plus, I got horrible results. I went out and bought a flat bed scanner; much better results with that. The scanner with Docuscan works great on the Mac too. I just don't have any

Re: 404 error messages on blindcooltech.com

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
The 404 error means the URL is pointing to something that doesn't exist. The current site for Blind Cool Tech is full of broken links. It should be taken down. If it is dead, then the owners should do us all a big favor and shoot it once and for all and get rid of it totally. It is of no value

Re: downcast on the mac

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Downcast on iOS is great and I've been using it for over a year and a half. the Mac version works well as has been mentioned earlier in this thread. There have been some significant issues with the iCloud syncing with earliest versions of Downcast on the Mac but Version 1.3 has just been

Re: Downcast on the Mac.

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Holmes
Make sure the iOS version of Downcast has all iCloud syncing enabled and also check same options in the Mac version. Once done, things should start syncing automatically. At least that happened for me. On Sep 29, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hello. I just bought

Re: File locked or write protected

2013-09-14 Thread Steve Holmes
This was interesting reading indeed. I also found a link in one of the reader comments where OS X FUSE is an open source solution and is being actively developed even up to and including Mavericks. It replaces the old Mac FUSE package which hasn't been worked since 2009 apparently. On Sep 12,

Re: Sharing VO Speech over a Skype or VOIP Call

2013-09-13 Thread Steve Holmes
. This allowed me to mix the levels on the fly a bit between the mic and voiceover. Actually went a step farther and ran Jaws in a VM on the Mac so I could demo stuff on both platforms. Worked well and I liked having the external controls to tweak things. CB On 9/12/13 1:41 AM, Steve Holmes wrote

Sharing VO Speech over a Skype or VOIP Call

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Holmes
I plan to give a demo / teach session over a VOIP or Skype call where I want to allow the participants in the call to hear the output from VoiceOver on my Mac. Is there any way to do this with Mountain Lion? I have Audio Hijack Pro here but am lead to believe that VO can't be shared with Skype

Re: filter Finder list by file type?

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Holmes
Hell, the geek in me says to go into the Terminal app and cd into the Download folder and do whatever with the book files by saying *.epub. Like you could copy all apubs some place by saying cp *.epub books where books is the folder you want to copy them to. If you want to move them instead of

Re: can't seem to edit my bookmarks in safari

2013-09-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Wow, I think the bookmarks view has changed since I was in there last. At least for me, both tables were still showing. There seems to be the HTML view of bookmarks too. I don't recall seeing all this in the past. On my setup, the vertical bar is set to 0% but the horizontal is sitting around

Re: How to download an audio file from safari.

2013-09-07 Thread Steve Holmes
The only time Option Enter might not work is when the site uses some goofy javascript or button to begin playing the file. If this happens to you, go into Safari's preferences and look for the option to Always download for the given file type. I have mine set that way by default here. On Sep

Re: Accessible Music Tagging Software

2013-09-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Look for id3 Edit. I forget the site name right now but I bought it over a year ago. You can edit both V1 and V2 tags and note that iTunes only works with ID3 V2 tags. On Sep 6, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I see where you are coming from now. I tagged all my un-tagged

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