Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

2013-01-06 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Shawn, For the pronounciation, open the voice over utility, go to verbosity, go to the text tab on the right, then in there you will find the setting. As for the crashes, you seem to have quite some add-ons everywhere that might cause the crashing. Depending on the system you have and the

Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-06 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi again, thanks for the side-track feedback on braille. I know it's a rather important and also beneficial skill to have. Don't know how long it will take me to be fully capable but i think i will eventually need to jump into it. I will try what Mark suggested though i'm fully advocating for

Re: mat lab for mac, anyone tried it?

2013-01-06 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Donna, What are you talking about? my signature's just trying to protect your mac's shelf life :) Please do chime in if you get any further clarity on this issue. I've contacted matlab directly and waiting for something of an answer. Best Yuma Light has no value without darkness

Re: pages question

2013-01-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, I never use Pages just for reading documents, TextEdit is much better for that. You can go to a specific page by stopping interacting with the text and using VO-Down arrow or Up arrow to navigate the list of pages. Just interact with the one you want. For the line spacing, you

Re: audio highjack pro

2013-01-06 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Cheryl is quite correct. You're making to much work and worry for yourself. You need only stop a recording by pressing command+r as you did to start a recording. Command+g is only a command to hi jack audio-not to record it. AS for playing the files, any player of your choice will do. If

getting vmware fusion to do what I want?

2013-01-06 Thread Eric Oyen
hello people… I seem to be having a problem with vmware fusion. I can't seem to interact with the session inside the vm in quite the same way as I do with voiceover. some of the keys that would normally work in windows don't either because voiceover captures them or they aren't passed on to

Re: IPhone 5: Is it just me or am I noticing something awesome!

2013-01-06 Thread Chris H
Sounds good and encourages me to look into the iPhone 5 this coming September or October when my contract is due for an upgrade. Christopher Hallsworth On 06/01/2013 03:53, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Is it just all in my head? It sounds to me like from the 4S to the 5, the IPhone 5's

program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread trahern culver
hey all please can some one recommend a good program for the mac that reads pdf's well? your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Baxter
This is a perfect example of something that needs to be brought up with accessibility!apple.com Why not create a voice that has the settings to pronounce all those special symbols and characters? I should think it'd just be a matter of a different dictionary, but maybe it's something you

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

2013-01-06 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Yuma. The punctuation issues aren't happening in Voiceover, they're happening in Chromevox, the screen reader for the Google Chrome browser. Also, my whole computer isn't crashing, it's just Voiceover when people sign in and out of either Facebook or Skype and Growl tells me so when

RE: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

2013-01-06 Thread wayne coles
Hello in chrome vox I think you have to hold down the vo keys and then use the plus or minus keys at the top but don't quote me on that @googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 9:47 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: audio highjack pro

2013-01-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
One tricky thing to note: if you use a recording schedule, use tab and spacebar to check the boxes for the days of the week. Otherwise, VO will not register the state of the checkbox correctly. HtH, Teresa Visualize whirled peas. On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:09 AM, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net

Re: IPhone 5: Is it just me or am I noticing something awesome!

2013-01-06 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You really should look into it, Chris. It's amazing. I actually was just listenning to my Martin Page House of Stone and Light disc this morning on the thing, and I gotta tell ya: the sound is exceptionally good. Granted, if you have a dock, you'd be better off, but if you want to run it

Re: getting vmware fusion to do what I want?

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Eric. Do you want to add me on Skype. I can help you. Skype name cbruin7 Sent from my iPhone On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:10 AM, Eric Oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: hello people… I seem to be having a problem with vmware fusion. I can't seem to interact with the session inside the vm in

RE: getting vmware fusion to do what I want?

2013-01-06 Thread Jeff Bishop
Chris, which version of Fusion are you running by chance? Do you mind if I Skype you to talk about Fusion configurations? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Bruinenberg Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 11:05

vmware questions

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi all. Anybody who wants to add me on Skype can, i am no expert but i can try to help anybody out who needs it. Sorry i believe it was Jeff Bishup who wanted to add me, i misplaced the email. Thanks. Chris Skype: cbruin7 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: audio highjack pro

2013-01-06 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi I'm getting the hang of it now thanks to you all. The only weird thing is that when I press command r I'm given this error message which says audio highjack pro can't highjack itself. This happens when I set it to system audio. I think I'll go ahead and pay for the full version now that I

Good podcasting services

2013-01-06 Thread Matt Dierckens
Good afternoon all. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any good and, acessible podcasting services. Either free or paid, it doesn't matter. Thanks. :) Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group.

Re: IPhone 5: Is it just me or am I noticing something awesome!

2013-01-06 Thread Chris H
Thank you Chris, should I treat myself to the 5th generation iPod Touch, I will definitely include the Lightning to 30 Pin Adaptor in the order, as like you say, you never know! I also have a dock as part of my home stereo, which takes the old iPod Touch and iPhone, so the adaptor would be

Re: program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there. I just tested PDFpen Pro with the iPhone User Guide. You can use it to read straight through a PDF file like I just did. It is supposed to be a great editing program, if you're sighted, of course. We have discussed this issue before on this list. I have kept PDFpen Pro on my

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

2013-01-06 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Shawn, I can't say anything for chromevox as i won't venture into having more than one screen reader on my mac. It guzzles ressources. Second, voice over tends to crash , freeze or get erratic when the system voice talks on top of the default voice. Say for instance you're reading a pdf,

Selecting text on the Mac

2013-01-06 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, I am having a brain fade. Could somebody please tell me how to select text by word and to the end of a page.? I can do line by line and letter by letter, but can't find how to do the rest. If somebody could tell me where I can find it out for myself. that would do Thanks as always

Re: program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread Agent086b
Hello, I haven't followed this thread so this may have already been mentioned. I transfer any PDF to my iPhone and read them there. A bit of a pest but that is the best I can do. Max. On 07/01/2013, at 7:30 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there. I just tested PDFpen Pro with

Re: Selecting text on the Mac

2013-01-06 Thread Rodney Haynie
By word: shift option left or right arrows To End of Line: Shift end (or shift fn right arrow) To Beginning of Line: shift home (or shift fn left arrow) One of the places to find this is in the Getting Started section of VO Help. VO H will get you to the help menu. Take care. Rodney On Jan 6,

handbreak

2013-01-06 Thread May and Noah
Hey there. Ok, can someone please send the dummy instructions for using hand break? I found some instructions via google, but I think I'm missing something. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message

Re: program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Absolutely the iPhone is definitely the best PDF reader around far as I'm concerned. It's even better than Windows computers for doing that. You just love the things and iBooks and go. I have several PDF files in iBooks. I have files like restaurant menus that I got off the web. There is PDFpen

Re: Good podcasting services

2013-01-06 Thread Daniel C
Hello, My name's Daniel. If you're looking for podcast hosting, I run hosting for podcasts. I offer paid packages, starting at $10.60USD monthly. www.firestar-hosting.com If you need to contact me off list, you can do so topdog2...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are

Re: Selecting text on the Mac

2013-01-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there You want to do shift option white arrow to do it my words. I assume you know how to do the others since you mentioned them. Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am having a brain fade. Could somebody please

Re: audio highjack pro

2013-01-06 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Now that is weird. I absolutely garantee that if you contact them about this, they will quickly repsond. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm

need to be contacted by mod

2013-01-06 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I am wondering, will the mod kindly get in touch with me? A new Mac user wishes to join and is having issues. Many thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi This is probably a dumb question, but how do you get your pdfs from your mac into your iphone? Do you email them to yourself or import them somehow? Lisette On 7/01/2013, at 10:13 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Absolutely the iPhone is definitely the best PDF reader around far

Re: program to read pdf's well on the mac?

2013-01-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Lisette, To get a PDF into iBooks on my iPhone, I open the PDF in iTunes where it goes into the Books category, and the next time I sync my iPhone with my Mac, the PDF goes into iBooks. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Selecting text on the Mac

2013-01-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, one small thing, to select from your current position to the beginning or end of a line, you can just press Command left or, right arrow. This is much easier for those using a Macbook or, a Apple BT keyboard that doesn't have dedicated home/end keys. hth Ricardo Walker

Re: IPhone 5: Is it just me or am I noticing something awesome!

2013-01-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, not for nothing, at that point, why bother? The iPhone 5S or 6, whatever Apple decides to call it will be out or, just around the corner. JMO. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 6, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Chris H

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

2013-01-06 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Wayne and Yuma. First, in the order of how my messages were read out to me, Wayne, I did the VO keys and hit plus and minus and nothing happens. I still hear punctuations like hyphens, quotes, and parentheses read out. Then I tried the chromevox keys, which are command and control, followed

Re: Has anyone with an IPhone 5 also had this issue?

2013-01-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Chris. I'm just catching up with all my e-mail using my I phone 5 due to no Mac but that will change tomorrow when every one I get my I Mac 27 inch. I'm so excited. Anyway, I think I have your problem that Siri is very quiet and it doesn't matter when I turn my volume up it changes

Re: Braille Display Questions

2013-01-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
How do you do VO on a braille display when using the Mac? I've not used my braille display very much with a Mac, and because I've not had a computer for over a month, I've not had the opportunity to use my braille display with a Mac. Kawal. On 5 Jan 2013, at 01:34 AM, Eugenia Firth

Re: pages question

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Thanks, i will try this. I've tried this before but it never has seamed to work. Thanks, i will try it right now. On Jan 6, 2013, at 12:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Chris, I never use Pages just for reading documents, TextEdit is much better for that. You can

Re: pages question

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
I just tried it, it says that the line spacing is dimmed. Do you have any suggestions. I think i will take your classes to teach pages. On Jan 6, 2013, at 12:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Chris, I never use Pages just for reading documents, TextEdit is much better

Re: TypeInBraille: Leaves a lot to be desired

2013-01-06 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! I just been hearing about this app on a chat site! I did not hear any of you talk about the settings that it has to change what Braille you use I do not use Braille but the person talking about it said that there was a setting to change! Something like flicking up or something! Might

VMWare Fusion 5 with mapping Capslock to Insert

2013-01-06 Thread Jeff Bishop
Hello, Has anyone gotten the capslock key to function as the insert key when using VMWare Fusion Version 5.02 with Window-Eyes or JAWS? There is an AppleVis article on this but multiple people that I know are having difficulties getting that to function after following the steps exactly. We have

Re: VMWare Fusion 5 with mapping Capslock to Insert

2013-01-06 Thread Bart Bunting
This has been discussed quite a lot on the list if you look through the archives. Multiple aproaches are suggested. keyremap4mac is meant to support this. I've had it working but found it flakey. That's just my experience though, yours may vary and there may have been bug fixes. Personally I

RE: VMWare Fusion 5 with mapping Capslock to Insert

2013-01-06 Thread Jeff Bishop
Sorry, this confused me a bit. So, which screen reader in Windows are you using? Are you saying that you remapped the capslock key to the control key in VMWare's keyboard mappings? If so, you then are mapping what to what in SharpKeys? Are you telling SharpKeys to then map the CapsLock key on the

RE: VMWare Fusion 5 with mapping Capslock to Insert

2013-01-06 Thread Bart Bunting
JEFF, Using mac system prefferences - keyboard to map mac capslock to left control. Then in windows use sharp keys to map control to capslock. I use jaws or nvda but it doesn't really matter which. Cheers Bart Kind regards Jeff Bishop j...@jeffbishop.com writes: Sorry, this confused me a

Strange problem with Do Not Disturb.

2013-01-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. I've had this problem for some weeks. I have a schedule for Do Not Disturb for example, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. However, this is not working and it has not been working for some weeks. It doesn't matter if I switch the phone off or on or I get rid of everything from the Appswitcher.

Re: Strange problem with Do Not Disturb.

2013-01-06 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Kawal, You, I think, are referring to the New year's day do not disturb bug that manifested itself then. Schedules for it don't work, so it either won't shut off, or won't turn on. You say it's been happening for some weeks though, but from what I've read, it appeared on the 1st, and is

Re: pages question

2013-01-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, You need to select the text to which the line-spacing applies. If it's for the whole document, select the whole document with Cmd-a. Cheers, Anne On 7 Jan 2013, at 01:08, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried it, it says that the line spacing is dimmed. Do

Re: pages question

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Thanks i have and it still gives me trouble. I will look more into it Thank you for all of your help. Chris On Jan 6, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Chris, You need to select the text to which the line-spacing applies. If it's for the whole document,