Re: chm files

2010-11-26 Thread Yvonne Thomson
The one I'm using is called iChm it works pretty well. -- 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: viphone and dropbox

2010-10-26 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 25/10/2010, at 8:59 PM, William Windels wrote: Hello all, I have installed dropbox on my iphone and it seems perfect accessible and works great together wit windows and mac. But, I have discovered that the files on the dropbox on the iphone, are not readable when the iphone has no

Re: Python

2010-07-01 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 01/07/2010, at 7:25 PM, Larry Skutchan wrote: You can write them either for Linux or the Mac GUI. I would sure love to see some of you talented coders at work on some great Mac applications. I am still new to the Mac, but it looks like a pretty easy job to use wx widgets and Python. You

Re: safari 5 skipping large blocks of text. Any work arounds?

2010-06-08 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I haven't experienced this, but there are a couple of other weird things. My theory is that 10.6.4 will fix most of these. That's what happened with the last major Safari release, anyway. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: yorufukurou

2010-06-07 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 07/06/2010, at 8:22 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: I totally agree with this wish. I also would like the same possibility as in Nambu, where you with a universal hot key can bring up a new tweet window wherever you are, that is, you don't need to be in the program to bring up a new tweet.

Re: Mpeg Stream clip and M4v

2010-05-30 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 30/05/2010, at 12:47 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, I was wondering if I could convert M4v files to audio files with Mpeg Stream Clip. I bought a movie from Itunes, and I just want the audio, if I can't use Mpeg Stream clip, is there an alternatie? You certainly can extract the audio

Re: No sound after conversion with Mpeg Stream Clip

2010-05-30 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 31/05/2010, at 12:27 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, I think I might be missing something, because after I convert the movie, there's no sound. Do I just export audio and save it, or are there some preferences I have to fix? Thanks, Courtney All you have to do is export audio. Just

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-29 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 29/05/2010, at 12:19 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, I tried to check the checkbox to remember the password, but it said Access to this item is restricted. It remembers the Id, but not the password. Courtney It sounds like, when you first installed the app, you said no when it asked if

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-28 Thread Yvonne Thomson
You can also use cmd left arrow and cmd-right arrow to switch tabs, which is a bit easier. Another thing, too, is that space goes to the next unread tweet. By default, this seems to jump between tabs, so it should jump you between tweets/dm's/mentions etc. -- You received this message

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-28 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 29/05/2010, at 8:40 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, Is there any way that I wouldn't have to log in every time, that's quite annoying. Thanks, Courtney Umm, I'm not sure. I don't have to log in when I start it, other than the first time. It's supposed to save the details in the

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-28 Thread Yvonne Thomson
, at 9:08 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, That's very odd, it's always asking me to log in. Any ideas? Courtney Not really, no. You could try going into your keychain using the keychain access application. It might be under utilities. See if it's got an entry in the login keychain. If it

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-27 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I am tempted though to ask them if they can disable access to certain images :) This would alleviate the word count for each tweet i read. But that was a great response from these guys I don't know if this helps, but if you mean all the images that are spoken as you're arrowing through

Re: alarm clock?

2010-05-27 Thread Yvonne Thomson
The one I'm using's called timer utility http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30402/timer-utility There are probably others, but this has timers, alarms and stop watches and lets you do different things when they stop, such as running apps. -- You received this message because you are

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-27 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 27/05/2010, at 6:04 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: One thing i don't get though is how do you read the time of posting of a tweet? It's no big show stopper, i guess i'm just used to it from Syrinx that i can read when a message was posted. /Krister About the only way I've been able to do

Re: YoruFukurou twitter client

2010-05-26 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 26/05/2010, at 8:25 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi list, This twitter client has just become totally accessible. Its very clean and i really liked the fact that they replied straight away in terms of accessibility issues and i dont think i caused it but 3 days later they issued

Re: PDF crashes again

2010-05-20 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I have these hassles with PDF files too. There isn't really a way around it. The main thing I've found is to uncheck the continuous option in Skim. You'll have to read it a page at a time, but it's less likely to crash. The other thing I did was install a pdftotext script. If I've got a file

Re: Changing voice at login

2010-05-03 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 03/05/2010, at 10:06 AM, marie Howarth wrote: that often makes me jump too. But I guess I don't worry so much as it isn't on the page for all that long. Not page, window, time for bed i think lol It's not actually the length of time it's there. It's just that if it's been a while between

Re: Changing voice at login

2010-05-02 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I just wish I could work out how to change other stuff at login. It freaks me out when I'm watching an install or something and it's reverted to the default config. Having it go you are on a text element unexpectedly after a few seconds is kind of unnerving. -- You received this message

Re: working with autimator

2010-03-29 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 30/03/2010, at 11:37 AM, Olivia Norman wrote: How do I go about working with it in the first place, though? I get the templates, but am cluless as to how to proceed. Thanks, Olivia It's a bit fiddly, but the basics aren't that hard to work out. Have a listen to Darcys screenless

Re: Scripting with VO

2010-03-28 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi, guys I think my problem with the scripting thing isn't specifically with scripting. It's just that nobody's given me an example where being able to script voiceover itself is useful. I've been doing things like this for more years than I really want to think about. Use applescript or a

Re: New Notational Velocity desktop release has sync support for SimpleNote on iPhone [was Re: Appending text to clipboard]

2010-02-13 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Glad it was helpful. The link to the blog post I wrote about it is at http://yvonnezed.posterous.com/switching-to-notational-velocity-adding-some Not a lot else there, but a couple more ideas. I'm still working out uses for it myself. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: New Notational Velocity desktop release has sync support for SimpleNote on iPhone [was Re: Appending text to clipboard]

2010-02-02 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi. The other interesting thing about Notational Velocity is that you can, as long as you're not using its single database file but configure it to use html or rtf or txt, manipulate its files behind its back and have it notice. What's so great about that? Well, I'm trying to switch from

Re: iTunes as a spoken track: how to increase the speech rate?

2010-01-20 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi. The basic problem is that, for whatever reason, this action doesn't use the system voice, and therefore it uses the default speed, which is awful. The solution *I* came up with was to write my own service, and use the terminal say command to create the track. But then, as I've often said

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-14 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 15/01/2010, at 3:52 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: That doesn't work for me. Once the busy stuff starts, then its all over. The busy messages will stop after a moment, but, as soon as I move the focus, they start again. For me, the only thing that works is to save, close, and re-open the

Re: Automater: Feeling Really Dumb

2010-01-13 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi, guys. In my experience with this and I've had a bit since Snow Leopard and none before, ironically, grin the busy thing can usually be fixed by switching out of automator and back in. In other words, hit cmd-tab twice. I have absolutely no idea *why* this works, but it usually does for

Re: Appending text to clipboard

2010-01-06 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 06/01/2010, at 4:00 PM, Esther wrote: Hi, On Dec 28, 2009, VaShaun Jones wrote: Listers often times I find myself needing to append text to the clipboard and would really benefit from this feature. Does anyone know of a way to do it on the Mac or do you know of a third party who

Re: Appending text to clipboard

2010-01-06 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Ok, this was bugging me, so I think I've come up with a solution that does what you want. It relies on you having snow leopard and it's an automator service. Go into automator and create a new service. Go to the actions/ddescription split view and interact with it. Go to the actions library

Re: Appending text to clipboard

2010-01-06 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 07/01/2010, at 1:59 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: Thanks for this! I will try it out over the weekend and tell you what became of it. I really do appreciate it. As I said, never get a programmer to start thinking about a problem, grin. It gets stuck in the back of your head niggling at you

Re: finding the next text i Safari

2010-01-04 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 05/01/2010, at 2:47 PM, Mary Otten wrote: There is a nice feature in my Windows screen reader that lets me hit a key and move to the next text that is not a link or a form control on a web page. Its great for finding the actual start of an article on sites where you get a bunch of

Re: Quicksilver

2009-12-20 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 20/12/2009, at 6:51 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering has anyone else tried Quicksilver? I have a feeling that it has the potential to be a fantastic app for getting things done quicker. However it's not accessible with VO. Hi. As it happens, it *is* accessible with

Re: Quicksilver

2009-12-20 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Well, the two blog posts are up, complete with some basic comments on the latest b57 version and Snow Leopard. As I said before, I haven't been running it myself for a while, so if I've said anything particularly obscure, point them out in the comments. I'm actually thinking of posting another

Re: Help with MacVim

2009-11-17 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hi Ok, first, I'm not actually sure if what you downloaded is the right version of macvim, since I didn't even *know* it was on sourceforge. The first thing I'd do is go to http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/Snapshot and download the latest snapshot from there. Secondly, I'll paste in an

Re: Starting with Python

2009-11-16 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 17/11/2009, at 7:35 AM, John W. Carty wrote: I'm also interested in getting started with python and I'm looking for a vo accessible editor. When I go out to this link for smultron there's a msg stating that its no longer supported by the developer. Are there other accessible

Adding spoken tracks to iTunes respecting system voice in snow leopard

2009-09-12 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Hey all. Been spending the last week or so, when I'm not working that is, mucking around with services and automator in Snow Leopard. Ironically, even though I'm a programmer, or possibly *because* I'm a programmer, I'd never used automator before, so it's been a bit of a learning

Re: navigating through chm reader

2009-08-30 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 31/08/2009, at 2:46 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hey once again, Has anyone got some idea on how to navigate through what is normally links to pages on the chmos chm reader? I interact with the drawer then go into the contents tab, go through the collapsed rows, expand then then go

Re: Path finder: A nice replacement to Finder

2009-08-23 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Wow, add this to my go back and check if an app is inaccessible list. I had a look at this a while back and couldn't see a thing. I'll have to go give it another try now, at some point when I've got free time, that is. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: vo not seeing all the page

2009-04-06 Thread Yvonne Thomson
On 07/04/2009, at 2:05 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: Hey all. I'm incountering a situation where when trying to navigate a pae voice over will only see around half of it. After a few lines, vo will simply go to the top of the page and let me get up to the exact same point again. Hi. If

Re: extracting audio from .avi files?

2009-03-25 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I've actually done quite a bit of this. What I always use is a free program called MPEG Streamclip It's basically got an export to audio command that's perfect for this --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google