Scott MacIntyre's book

2012-08-12 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I realize that this question probably does not strictly follow the guidelines of the list, but I think it's worth giving a try as some of you might be able to help me. So, I wish to read the book called By Faith, not By sight, the autobiography of Scott MacIntyre, who has

Re: iCloud account question

2012-08-12 Thread Garth Humphreys
Yes u can each have your own iCloud accounts If you have created separate apple IDs for iMessages then just sign in to iCloud with those credentials. Sent from my iPhone On 12/08/2012, at 7:31, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The family and I share the iTunes account. Can I

Re: voiceover isn't working anymore on my macbook air (part 2) help pls!

2012-08-12 Thread William Windels
Hello Joseph, Thx for the information, I didn't know that this was the place of the prefferences of voiceover. And idd, i can do what you suggest but, 2 remarks about this: Since this seems a bug for me , I woulud like to see any errors/warnings about the loading of my userprofile. Where could

Re: Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-08-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Because certain repairs or verifications can't be done when you are actually within the start up disk. I don't understand the full programming details. On 12 Aug 2012, at 02:06, Christina C. wrote: Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery partition instead of

IPod Touch for sale for unbeatable price

2012-08-12 Thread Christopher-Mark gilland
HI I realize it's a bit old, but I have an IPod Touch 3GS 32 gig model which I am absolutely just aching! to either sell or trade. I will trade for any Android tablet *I, said, tablet, not? phone!* which is running at least Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwitch. Also am willing to trade for an

Re: IPod Touch for sale for unbeatable price

2012-08-12 Thread Emrah
This is a plain crazy price in my opinion. You can get the latest model for $272, also 32GB. http://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPod-touch-32GB-Generation/dp/B001FA1O18 Price starts at $117 for a used 3rd generation, and that is through Amazon. Sorry pal, but you might have to revise your offer.

Re: Issue with Escape Key in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Melanie Clouser
Having the same issue here with only the same work arounds. On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Gavin Grundlingh g.batw...@gmail.com wrote: I only seem to have this issue in the status menus, or the menu extras as VoiceOver now calls them. It doeswn't happen all the time, but when it does,

Re: Listing all folders

2012-08-12 Thread Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
Thanks Andrew. I was missing the VO| command. Antonio On 8/11/2012 5:13 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: Dear Antonio, Many of us have had a problem with this. Try to interact with the mailboxes list and arrow or vo+arrow down to see your gmail again and then press right arrow or vo+| key

Re: pop-up blocker in Safari gone?

2012-08-12 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Ah; so that's where new kitty hid it. Thanks. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, I don't seem to be able to activate spotlight with the control + tripple m shortcut key in Mountain Lion. Is it gone? What's in its place, please? Thanks a lot. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, What about command spacebar? To be honest, I thought pressing VO triple M was a bit much. JMO. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Listers, I don't

Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Trying to copy some text in safari and have run in to some issues, not sure what I am doing wrong, and it is probably a setting, so wanted to see if anyone knew. It is weird as at first this was working, but it doesn't seem like the cursor is following VO and I have checked my settings

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I don't think your doing anything wrong. I think focus just gets lost sometimes. If you haven't, you might try toggling Voiceover on/off. I have seen this behavior once or twice. For the most part though, its worked pretty well. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Awesome just found the help document. Ah, I believe I was hitting the command key and needed to hit the option key. Here is the help document in case anyone else is having problems http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/English.lproj/_1201.html On Aug 12, 11:49 am, Brian Fischler

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Well, forget about my last post and this selecting and copying working so well. Yet another bug in ML, and yes, I will report it to Apple. Selecting the text on a web page works fine the first time, but if you want to select another part of the text from the same,Voiceover will not regain its

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yikes! Pessimistic much? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 12, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Well, forget about my last post and this selecting and copying working so well. Yet another bug in ML,

Re: iCloud account question

2012-08-12 Thread Christina C.
Hmmm, we did not use separate apple ID's. We just had our e-mail addresses's verified through our main iTunes account because those e-mails are used for iMessage and FaceTime. I don't know if we can log in with those since we did not actually create a new apple ID with a password and such.

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Geez, anytime anyone on this list criticizes Apple, they get attacked personally. it's not being pesimistic it's being a realist. While I do appreciate you responding, calling me pesimistic doesn't really help solve the problem On Aug 12, 11:58 am, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

.me mail settings?

2012-08-12 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I'd like to add my dot me a account to my Outlook 2010, but I can't find anywhere on my Mac where I can find the mail settings. The IMAP settings, server, that sort of information. My dot me account is in Apple Mail, can someone tell me where I can find the actual settings? Bill -- You

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
That's because people like to think they are better and smarter and yes on this list, if you attack Apple, you get a mouth full. Kawal. On 12 Aug 2012, at 05:52 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Geez, anytime anyone on this list criticizes Apple, they get attacked personally.

Re: .me mail settings?

2012-08-12 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Bill, Go in to your Me Account settings, your name, and server settings. There you will find the information you need. Kawal. On 12 Aug 2012, at 05:53 PM, Bill Holton bill32...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'd like to add my dot me a account to my Outlook 2010, but I can't find anywhere on my Mac

Re: Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I know but I can't use command+spacebar because I've assigned it to change my keyboard layouts into other languages which is very important to me. Any other suggestions? Andrew On 12 Aug 2012, at 16:40, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What about command spacebar? To be

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Actually, my comment had nothing to do with a criticism of Apple. it was your social comment, Here is another example of how a blind person has no shot at being as productive of our sighted peers. That comment doesn't really sound like it has anything to do with Apple specifically

RE: .me mail settings?

2012-08-12 Thread Shai
Hi Bill, Pasted below is a link that links to an apple support discussion on this topic. On the site if you keep scrolling down past the initial discussion are the settings that should be used in Outlook. The link is https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3109623?start=225tstart=0 Thanks Shai

Re: .me mail settings?

2012-08-12 Thread Hank Smith
I thought .me email accounts was going to be retired? On 8/12/2012 10:29 AM, Shai wrote: Hi Bill, Pasted below is a link that links to an apple support discussion on this topic. On the site if you keep scrolling down past the initial discussion are the settings that should be used in Outlook.

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Kawal, I think assuming someone disagrees with a persons views because they think they are better are smarter is pretty far out there. I'm sure if you were on a jaws list, windows list, etc, you would find similar opposition to comments criticizing the subject matter the list was meant to

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I was just making a comment, I didn't say you were the one being smarter or better that's your assumption Ricardo. Let's not make an issue of this and move on as this conversation is a waste of time. Kawal. On 12 Aug 2012, at 06:38 PM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kawal,

hot spot shield?

2012-08-12 Thread Kliphton
Has anyone used this app on their iPhone or computer? Checking it out on the iPhone now, seems to be pretty accessible, only thing is you need to toggle it on and off in settings, general, network. If you do it in the app itself, or the icon right next to Wi-Fi on the main screen of settings,

Re: Spotlight keyboard shortcut in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, go into system preferences/keyboard. Now select the keyboard shortcuts tab. In the first table you come to select spotlight. In the 2nd table you can change the shortcut from the default command spacebar to another command of your choosing. hth Ricardo Walker

Re: hot spot shield?

2012-08-12 Thread Hank Smith
what does it do? Hank On 8/12/2012 10:51 AM, Kliphton wrote: Has anyone used this app on their iPhone or computer? Checking it out on the iPhone now, seems to be pretty accessible, only thing is you need to toggle it on and off in settings, general, network. If you do it in the app itself,

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, healthy disagreement here. And yes, Ricardo I do agree with you that technology has come a very very long way in ten years, and I think Apple is one of the companies at the fore front of this. I was just adding that every time I have posted something on this list that goes against the

Web Host and Voice Over

2012-08-12 Thread Grant Hyde
I'm excited to find that I can now create webpages using text edit. The web hosting service I use does not work very well with voice over. Can anyone suggest a hosting plan that does work well with the voice over program.? Thank you, Grant -- You received this message because you are

Help with switching Folders in Mail

2012-08-12 Thread tealgree...@gmail.com
I am hoping for an efficient way to switch folders in Mail (i.e: switching from inbox to sent, to trash, etc). I am hoping for a command to complete this task. So far, I am going the long way about, that is, either by tabbing to the mailbox folder list or going to the item chooser. Any help is

Re: Web Host and Voice Over

2012-08-12 Thread Harry Hogue
I use doteasy.com (they're out of Canada, although I didn't realize that at the time lol). I use Rapid Weaver for the mac, which is completely accessible with VoiceOver. I should really work on my site, though, come to think of it Harry On Aug 12, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Grant Hyde

Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I am now firmly committed to Mountain Lion, and I feel a kind of buzz around me. But one of the problems that I have immediately encountered is multiple copies of messages which get downloaded from macvisionaries group. I seem to remember that this has been discussed here but I

Re: Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Harry Hogue
Andrew, For me, it involved going to Account Settings in my Google Mail on the web and unchecking the labels so they wouldn't' show up in my imap list anymore. This stopped it for me. That settings area can be kind of hard to get to, or at least it was for me, but I've recently discovered

Another mail question, was : .me mail settings?

2012-08-12 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Thanks for the help. Do you know if it's possible to create a note in Outlook 2010 that will also show up in the notes on my Mac? And of course, I'd like to read my Mac notes using Outlook at some point. Thanks. Bill On Aug 12, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Bill,

Re: Web Host and Voice Over

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
With Rapid Weaver do you have to know coding or is it a widget based design? Our website is hosted through GoDaddy and their website tonight is completely inaccessible. Thanks On Aug 12, 2:11 pm, Grant Hyde grant.h...@gmail.com wrote: I'm excited to find that I can now create webpages using text

Macbook

2012-08-12 Thread Chris
Hello all. Here is some good news for you. I have a friend coming over on the weekend of 31 August to 2 September. During this weekend I will have the opportunity to play with his 13 inch Macbook, which will be running Os 10.7 Lion. Keep you posted on how I go, but let me just say that if I get

Re: Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Harry, Thank you. I've just been to my account and removed all labels. I will see how things go from there. I can see what you mean by not easy to get to. Do I need to fiddle with filters as well? Many thanks andrew On 12 Aug 2012, at 21:42, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew,

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Mary Otten
Thanks, Harry. I was wondering if you used Safari. Seems to me that means you can't pick up where you left off in a book, right? That would be a big drawback, I would think. How do you work around that/ Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are

Nisus Writer

2012-08-12 Thread ROD SKENE
Hi folks, I downloaded a 15 day trial of Nisus Writer Pro from their website. It's an awesome app! I have two questions. First, are there any advantages or disadvantages from purchasing from the app store? Or, should I purchase from their website? Second, I think Nisus Writer Express will do

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Greg Aikens
One way to get around this is to set a web spot at the place you left off. I haven't tried this under ML but in Lion it worked inconsistently and often I would forget to set a web spot when I finished reading, but it is better than nothing. -Greg On Aug 12, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Mary Otten

Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

2012-08-12 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi all, I know this has been covered, but I had already accomplished this in Lion and, when I upgraded to ML, it just worked. Now I have purchased a new computer and get get rid of the preview pane. What am I missing? I go to the Mail program and go over to the horizontal bar and interact.

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

2012-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You need to do a physical mouse click on the bar with your trackpad with trackpad commander turned off or, with a mouse. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 12, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote:

Three running applications?

2012-08-12 Thread Veronica Elsea
Hi everyone! When I'm sitting on my desktop, in the finder and I type VO-F1, it used to say two applications running. Then I'd go into the application chooser and the finder would be there. Well, now suddenly I have it saying three applications running. I'm wondering what in the world that

Re: Nisus Writer

2012-08-12 Thread Esther
Hi Rod, According to the developer's site description, the Express version does not have support for features such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Cross References, Bookmarks, Track Changes, Comments, Watermarks, Export to ePub, and Export to .docx (though it can import .docx format Office

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Harry Hogue
I simply would just remember where I had been reading and type a keyword or two. What I would like to know now is how to associate .bks files with The Unarchiver, as the checkbox to Always open with this application, in Other… and selecting the application does not hold, for some reason. Does

Re: Multiple copies of messages from the list

2012-08-12 Thread Harry Hogue
I simply removed the labels and then created a new mailbox called mac Visionaries, and then created a filter to send all messages addressed to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com to be sent to that folder. If you've any other questions, let me know and I'll do what I can to help. Regards, harry

Saving Files in TextEdit

2012-08-12 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi again, Can anybody explain to my why I can't save files in TextEdit? It seems like the only place it wants to allow me to save files in is the iCloud. Any other location I select it dims out the save button. Any thoughts are much appreciated and welcomed! Thx, Jeff -- You received this

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Christine Grassman
I don't know whether this is only true of the newest additions to bookshare (over the last year or so) but lately when I download bookshare books, no unzipping is required. I just seek out the title and the .xml extension, and it opens in Safari when I hit enter. Is no one else experiencing

Re: Question about pages latest update on Mac and Time machine backups

2012-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
Can't answer your question about Pages but as for TimeMachine nothing should change. It should just perk along like no change. After all, the file formats didn't change and your data files like documents and music should continue to be available like always. I would think however, that

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

2012-08-12 Thread Jeff Berwick
Thanks for the tip. However, I'm still not getting anyt=where. The horizontal bar, according to my mother-in-law, controls a pane on the left which has the list of mailboxes. The vertical bar seemingly does nothing. Any other tips? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-12, at 7:43 PM, Ricardo Walker

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Alex Hall
Or you might use terminal to batch rename all the files to .zip. After all, they are really just zip files with the extension changed, so maybe something like: cd ~/books rename *.bks *.zip I don't know if the syntax is right, but that's the idea. On 8/12/12, Christine Grassman

Re: update for speakable items less enthused but working on it

2012-08-12 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Iona and others, I'm so glad you posted this update about speakable items randomly turning off. I had a play with it today and other then it randomly stopping for no apparent reason I was pretty happy with what it was doing for me. I thought I was doing something wrong but

Re: Help with switching Folders in Mail

2012-08-12 Thread Garth Humphreys
You can use commend one command to etc, depending on how your favourites bar is setup. You can also ddrag the mailboxes you wish to have into your favourite bar Garth On 13/08/2012, at 5:28 AM, tealgree...@gmail.com tealgree...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping for an efficient way to switch

Re: Saving Files in TextEdit

2012-08-12 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Jeff, If you want to save files into a different place other than icloud V O space bar when it says icloud and arrow down to say documents then V O left arrow till it says disclosure button unchecked and V O space bar to check it then you have the ability to get to the side bar table

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Brian, Keep on posting please. Like you, I'm a big believer in Apple and what they've done, but Apple currently cannot handle all of our needs. Examples would be reading of tables and reading of pdf documents. I use my Mac virtually all of the time but still use Windows on occasion for

Re: Saving Files in TextEdit

2012-08-12 Thread Veronica Elsea
This is one of two things that drive me crazy using Text Edit in Mountain Lion. Frankly, I'm going to look at a different text editor. I don't have any intention of saving my documents in icloud and since I can't change that default, it's now a royal pain in the you know what. I also don't like

Re: Having Mail not automatically mark a message as read when I move to it

2012-08-12 Thread Steve Holmes
Sorry for such a late reply here but yes, I also use the Command-O to open the message and close with Command-W. For me, VO-J toggles me back and forth between the message table and the list of mailbox folders; that's perfectly fine for me. On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Tim Kilburn