Re: We better keep this going!

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
The iphone seems nice enough, but lets not go on a converting rampage. I'm personally getting something else, because I don't like the iphone, even if we had service for it where I'm at. On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Jess wrote: Hi folks, Well, I'm getting the IPhone 3 GS today. But more

Re: We better keep this going!

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
, Tyler Littlefield wrote: The iphone seems nice enough, but lets not go on a converting rampage. I'm personally getting something else, because I don't like the iphone, even if we had service for it where I'm at. On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Jess wrote: Hi folks, Well, I'm getting

Re: sharp keys

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
just google sharpkeys download and you'll find it. And you can't use command as insert as far as I know. I just made f1 insert, f2 is delete and f3 is apps. basically what happens is the commands keys becomes windows, options is alt and control is... control. HTH, On Dec 22, 2009, at 1:17 PM,

Re: sharp keys

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
right command key to act as an insert key, while continuing to use her left command key for Command. Cheers, Esther Tyler Littlefield wrote: just google sharpkeys download and you'll find it. And you can't use command as insert as far as I know. I just made f1 insert, f2

Re: activex for mac

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
I don't believe so. activeX is closely coupled with com to provide the interface it does, and tends to not be very secure. On Dec 22, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Mike wrote: Hi list: Is there an activex available for the Mac? I'm trying to access media content and the media can play fine on the

Re: We better keep this going!

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
? On Dec 22, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Sure, but just because it talks out of the box doesn't mean much. Don't get me wrong, I love my VO, but there still are things that it needs help with. On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Scott Howell wrote: ALthough I agree there needs

Re: more sharpkey questions

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
you probably need .net 3 or two. I didn't even know there was a 4. :( On Dec 22, 2009, at 2:35 PM, anouk radix wrote: Hello, I just downloaded and tried to install sharpkeys 3.0. It asked for netframework 2.0. I have just installed and completely updated winxp pro. I thought netframework

Re: We better keep this going!

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
of view on this subject. Smiles. Take care, and have a lovely Christmas everyone! John André On 22. des. 2009, at 22.13, Tyler Littlefield wrote: I believe you should re-read my message. I said VO still needs help, not I still need help. While a computer that talks off-the-shelf

Re: We better keep this going!

2009-12-22 Thread Tyler Littlefield
. So, hey, go enjoy whatever machine/OS/screen reader. Have a great Holiday. On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Again, vo is great. Everyone is making reasons why it is good, which wasn't the point in what I said. All I'm saying is the fact that the mac would work from

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Tyler Littlefield
um, do you really feel the urge to use so much punctuation? pauses in the subject line 5000 times isn't really wwhat I wanted to hear. On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Mark Gilland wrote: Guies, it's a done deal. God? b'l'l'lessid! do I feel smart right about now! Let me tell yall what I was

Re: applescript

2009-12-02 Thread Tyler Littlefield
hello, The voiceover applescript is much different from the jaws script. Mainly you won't be actually controling the reader as much as just sending output back to it. One issue I've noticed with it, is that it seems a bit slower than it shoudl be when running a command that accesses

Re: applescript

2009-12-02 Thread Tyler Littlefield
I don't believe applescript was used before 10.6, and as nick pointed out, voiceover is actually hard coded to work with the system rather than relying on functions and scripts to run the whole thing. If you look at jaws without it's scripts, it's essentially useless because most of the new

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Dogs are lost because of a lack of responsibility or something similar on the part of the owner. You don't just wake up one day and get a knock at the door from some big dude in a suit who says OK, I'm taking your dog. On Dec 1, 2009, at 1:33 PM, John W. Carty wrote: I live in the U.S. and

Re: looking for an editor to be used for programming

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
James On 29 Nov 2009, at 23:35, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Hello all, I'm still looking for a good editor I can use for coding. I was using an editor on a vm in windows, but there are issues reading that with jaws, it notices lins as blank more than they really are, and it's not really reading

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello chris, I haven't followed this thread, but I will put in my two cents where I've had experience. The main thing is the comment about the advantages of blind people from birth; while it may be easier to deal with, I've seen many people go blind at early ages (before teens) and in their

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Mark, Reading your message, I have a lot of respect for you, and those like you. The blind community is littered with people who would've given up, or who make these agencies their life and conform to them. I recently attended the youthslam convention NFB hosted this last summer, in the

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Why are you dependent on agencies to do stuff? Your just as capable as they are of doing the research. More than likely your more capable because you won't just go with the normal and will choose what you like for whatever reasons. The hunt for accessible software is hard at times, but it's not

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
It would, in fact be great to see jaws in the stores, but that'd just give FS a reason to double the costs. That and stocking jaws on shelves that won't ever need it. The stores actually have to pay for it, then pay for the new version when a new one comes out, etc. On Nov 30, 2009, at 1:50 PM,

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
It would figure that it was the NFB. I went to a tech meeting there, and discussed the history of technology. While there they discussed how much the NFB affected technology and used examples, but they forgot to mention other companies; Voiceover, window eyes, speak up, orca, etc. I found it

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
it doesn't bother me really. I just laugh and know that I'm at least helping one person, which is what I care about. If the rest want to throw themselves in with the flock and kneel at the feet of the people in NFB, so be it. More power to them. While that might sound arrogant, it's more of a

Re: A Command line caution

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Terminal is not case insensative. Terminal is just the program that is used to launch bash, application names may be translated differently, but bash is as case sensative as unix, which is what the mac is running on, essentially. case sensativity is a big thing when organizing files. Even

Re: A Command line caution

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello, Only certain bits are. for example, when typing in files in the command line. On Nov 29, 2009, at 3:16 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Tyler, I agreed with you in my post. However, I was not aware that Windows was case sensitive. TC James On 29 Nov 2009, at 21:23, Tyler

Re: Mac and input/output

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
I remember having to work with this when I got a USB headset, try going to sound in the system preferences. It doesn't switch until you tell it to. Bad thing is, you can't actually switch back without the headset on. so if your batteries go dead, your stuck with USB sound as opposed to just

looking for an editor to be used for programming

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello all, I'm still looking for a good editor I can use for coding. I was using an editor on a vm in windows, but there are issues reading that with jaws, it notices lins as blank more than they really are, and it's not really reading like it should. I'd really like to find something that

Re: Mac and input/output

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
what OS are you running? I know I had voiceover running through a usb headset ofr a while at one point. On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:07 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi, I have gone to sound, but I cannot seem to have both. It is either speakers or headset. On 29 Nov 2009, at 22:43, Tyler Littlefield

Re: looking for an editor to be used for programming

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
, 2009, at 5:09 PM, James Nash wrote: What code are you wanting to edit? You can get Mac Vim from Google. TC James On 29 Nov 2009, at 23:35, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Hello all, I'm still looking for a good editor I can use for coding. I was using an editor on a vm in windows

Re: looking for an editor to be used for programming

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
editor for the Mac. On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: I use numerous languages... python,c,c++,php,bash script, etc. depends on what I'm doing really. is mac vim accessible with voiceover? vim is some console thing isn't it? I don't really like vo's interaction

Re: macbook pro, turning off the screen?

2009-11-20 Thread Tyler Littlefield
just hit f1 until it says 0%. On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:51 AM, anouk radix wrote: Hello, I know that it was possible to do with toshiba laptops with fn f5 to turn on/off the screen of the laptop. Is this also possible with macbook pros? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk -- You received this message

Re: mudwalker: open source!!

2009-11-19 Thread Tyler Littlefield
I can possibly take a look, though I've had thoughts of just developing a mud client via carbon; I've not managed to get xCode working, and objective c makes me cry. :) On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: It also lists quite often in various game lists of Mac compatible

Re: mudwalker

2009-11-19 Thread Tyler Littlefield
VO locks up because it needs to be compiled with a new version of cocoa. On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: Ut-oh! Some on the mudwalker list had trouble with it, maybe you won't, more interesting is how VO will work with it in combo with SL. -- You received this

a couple quick mac issues

2009-11-03 Thread Tyler Littlefield
that remains is for me to find an easy way of coding, as that is what I do most. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

Re: eclipse

2009-11-03 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello, I've tried using eclipse with snowleopard, and so far it seems pretty unaccessible. I'm thinking some changes were made to the java engine. I would like to know hoever, if someone finds a way to make it work. On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:51 PM, John W. Carty wrote: Is there anyone out there

Re: attention Lioncourt

2009-10-25 Thread Tyler Littlefield
So we all know what to do. Lets all create a site as successful as josh and force people to click so we can become ritch just like josh. sarcasm On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: I'm sorry you feel that way. I would appreciate it if you would not mis-represent what

using xcode?

2009-10-20 Thread Tyler Littlefield
; is there another way to do this? Is there some sort of accessible documentation for the API around anywhere? Thanks, Tyler Littlefield --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group

Re: a few intro questions re: applications and voiceover

2009-09-30 Thread Tyler Littlefield
I'll try out itunes, thanks. On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: And there's also itunes. On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: well, for audio playing, there is vlc for the mac. On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Hello all, I

a few intro questions re: applications and voiceover

2009-09-29 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello all, I recently got my apple a couple weeks ago, and have been hunting for a few solutions to give me the functionality I had on windows. First, I'm a full-time coder, what time I don't devote to anything I code for a hobby. I'm looking for a good, accessible editor; any ideas? I'd

Re: Location of applescripts used by Voiceover.

2009-09-23 Thread Tyler Littlefield
it's deeply buried, and I can' say I've figured out their structure. go to keyboard help (VO+k), and use that function and it'll tell you the path. HTH, On Sep 23, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know the location

Re: Setting up a Router

2009-09-23 Thread Tyler Littlefield
Hello, I'm going to say that it's b and g compatible, most newer cards are these days. Just a guess, but I haven't seen anything not in a few years On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Stan wrote: Hi All, Can someone please help. I have a mac mini with Airport Extreme wireless card, and I am

Re: Location of applescripts used by Voiceover.

2009-09-23 Thread Tyler Littlefield
it is, they did their best to hide it. hope it helps. On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: Nice one Tyler thanks. It truly is buried isn't it? On 23 Sep 2009, at 23:07, Tyler Littlefield wrote: it's deeply buried, and I can' say I've figured out their structure. go