I hadn't heard of it before the Mac Power Users podcast, but it sounds like it
would work well as it is all keyboard oriented. However, I haven't tried it so
I don't know. I'm pretty happy with Apple's Contacts as it is.
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Hi guys
Because of my job, I have several displays now. I still have, and will continue
to have, my Braille Edge 40. It pairs great these days. I use it on Bluetooth
all the time; no problem.
I thought VO would let me pair the Focus 14 without killing off the Braille
Edge in my list of
Hello all,
With mavericks 10.9.2, I want to play a stream from the internet also with the
airplay speakers.
If I open the url in safari, I hear the music in the speakers of my macbook air
but not in my airplay speakers.
When I open the url from inside itunes with command+u, it seems that one
Hi all
Thanks for the suggestions. I saw Radium in the Mac App Store, but wasn't sure
for its accessibility. Also didn't want to waste £6.99 on an app that may or
may not be accessible. Will definitely check this out. Regarding Youtube to MP3
conversion, I will check out
www.youtubetomp3.com
Could you please let us know what the outcome of Apple's answer is if you have
to call them?
On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:35 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hi guys
Because of my job, I have several displays now. I still have, and will
continue to have, my Braille Edge 40. It pairs
If you don't mind using the terminal, look for youtube-dl. It's a command line
utility that can download videos, but it's really powerful if you're willing to
learn it, it beats anything else out there.
On 28 Feb 2014, at 12:55 pm, Apple Boy christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
Thanks for
Sure, but I think it's a given that I will be calling, unless of course the
thing gets fixed when I start over.
The last time I went through problems with my braille display, Apple turned the
problem over to their engineer people.
Regards,
Gigi
On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Scott Berry
Hi April,
Apologies if you've already talked about this separately, I am rarely
up-to-date with list mail. But what resources have you tried for
learning Mac/Voiceover? I found the getting started guide (which is
available both on the Mac and online) helpful. Also David
Woodbridge's podcasts.
Hi,
I'm relatively new to this list and so not yet familiar with what's
tolerated in terms of mentioning Windows. I mention it in my below
message because I think it's relevant to the problems I'm having and
my knowledge/desire of how it might work. If I've gone off topic
please cut me some
First you would have to go to system preferences then go to sound then in the
input and output tabs set the sound to come through the headset. Next go to
voiceover utility then go to sound and then set voiceover to go through the
headset.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Catherine Turner
Hi.
I have tried using PDF pen pro, but I can not get it to work as I wish. Could
anyone give some hints. I have bought the program long ago. Yesterday I thought
I could use it, but no it wouldn't work, but I could use it for copying the
form to textedit and fill it out that way.
Best regards
Hi Jonathan.
The best program for marking up an epub book is in my opinion nisus writer pro.
In this case finereader pro could make the epub files for me, so if there is a
program that will let me open them and edit them, it would help a lot.
Best regards Annie.
Den 23 Feb 2014 kl. 19:20 skrev
If there is an accessible way of filling in PDF's I'm interested.
Kawal.
On 28 Feb 2014, at 03:09 pm, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi.
I have tried using PDF pen pro, but I can not get it to work as I wish. Could
anyone give some hints. I have bought the
Hi April,
I had a web-site years ago that outlined some VoiceOver and Macintosh basics.
Maybe it could be helpful to you. It is no longer live or public but available
from my Server. The caution here, though, is that it was designed back when
10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard were out so there
Hi guys
I called Apple and we reset my computer with command option p r. It didn't
help. It's beginning to look like I may have a damaged display. This is because
everything else works fine on my Mac. I'm going to test, I hope, another Focus
14 on my Mac and see what happens. I hope to be able
Hi all
Thanks for the suggestion. Right now I am concentrating on the GUI as am new to
the Mac full time. Will consider this for the future. Thanks once again.
On 28 Feb 2014, at 13:39, Piotr Machacz piterm...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't mind using the terminal, look for youtube-dl. It's a
Thanks Tim Kilburn,
There is a lot of good information on that site! I appreciate it.
One of the sites I am trying to figure out to use in Safari, the main
document is a list. Figured out that much. Now, to get it to read the
text in the list, and not just the links in between each
Hi Catherine Turner,
I've used a lot of sites. All the blocktext of the Apple sites, I've
listened to the random lists of commands hundreds of times, Even the 30 or
40 page one from I think it was AppleVis. The closet to step by step
instructions is Tech Ease. There examples for a
What I've been doing is running it out from the 3.5 jack. Is there a way to do
that and preserve sound quality?
Donna
On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote:
Regarding sound quality from iPod or iPhone. If you use the lightning output
into a docking
Hello,
I have been working with some files on my windows vm but have now removed them
from within the vm. The size of the vmfile remains the seem though. Is it
possible to make the vmfile smaller, letting it take into account its actual
current size?
Thanks in advance for any info,
Greetings,
Hi all, after updating to Mavericks 10.9.2 and continuing to try out
conversation threading in mail. The next day after and which is still happening
now. No matter hard I try to pen a closed thread I am getting the bong sound
and the thread remains closed. I've even tried using the back slash
Hi,
I'm thoroughly confused. To get a sound to play do we need to do
something in folder actions setup or services preferences? Does
this apply only to the latest osx or earlier versions too?
I have 10.8.4. I was able to find folder actions setup (from the
shortcut menu VO Shift M, not the
Hey Daniel,
Amazingly conversation threading has worked perfectly fine for me in 10.9.2 I
have read that issues with mail still exist and that different people are
having different issues in mail still. What is working fine for many is not
working for some. Are you using gmail or a different
It's actually the widget manager within the dashboard. You get to the dashboard
by pressing f12. It has little applications, or widgets, like world clock and
calculater. You can close them with command-VO-escape, and you can delete them
from within finder if you go into /library/widgets. I
Ok, Tim, I'll keep it in mind. Thanks. had this problem before when waking up
the computer, but never on the initial login screen.
Teresa
On the other hand, there are different fingers.
On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I think that this has
I don't think you can get a sound to play with the default folder action. A
dialog box will pop up when you add an item to the folder and you confirm that
you want to allow it. I don't notice any sound. I'd guess you could add
something with an Apple script, but I am not sure.
Take Care
Which view are you using?
On 28 Feb 2014, at 17:17, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all, after updating to Mavericks 10.9.2 and continuing to try out
conversation threading in mail. The next day after and which is still
happening now. No matter hard I try to pen a
Services preferences are mostly involved with keyboard commands and don't have
anything to do with setting up folder actions. they are just another choice in
the same menu that sometimes got mistakenly invoked. What you want is Folder
actions setup. It doesn't play a sound; it just presents a
This way you will always use the DAC from the iPod. Because the sound that
comes through 3.5» is analog. Unless you have a very expensive hifi upsample
box or something other expensive hifi equipment. But, you never know with
theese apps. It may be one app out there that can improve the signal
Hello All:
I finally updated to Mavericks prompted by the security thing.
So, I have a couple of questions both regarding email.
First of all, the sounds are not working properly. I no longer get a sound
when I am at the top or bottom of the list of messages. I looked in sounds in
system
Hi April,
I am only 6 months out of having purchased my Mac Air. I am not sure if I made
the suggestion to your original thread about the web site called
macfortheblind.com. I know you are probably using Mavericks, but the 3 part
series on the finder was extremely helpful to me in getting
Hello. I am happy to report, that making a bootible drive with disc maker X
version 3.4 waas successful. Steps I used to perform this.
1. Downloaded disc maker x version 3.4
2. Downloaded mavericks 10.92 and exited before it installed so it would
place the installer in my applications
When this occasionally happens to me, restarting Voice Over always fixes it.
Lisette
On 1/03/2014, at 6:17 am, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all, after updating to Mavericks 10.9.2 and continuing to try out
conversation threading in mail. The next day after and which
Many many thanks. This will be very useful to me soon I think. Where'd you
get disk maker from?
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:07
there was a link to it in the article I read. I don't have that article on my
phonel. But if you google disc maker x, I am sure it will be the first result.
Kliphton
~EmailiMessage~ kliphton@outlook.com
~Twitter,Instagram,FoursquareSkype~ kliphton72
(Text only) 914-820-2298
(Personal
Thanks. I'll Bing it right away: considering I don't use Google anymore.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Kliphton ---
I have been toggling between both classic and modern view and both are working
fine
On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:59 PM, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote:
Which view are you using?
On 28 Feb 2014, at 17:17, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all, after updating to
Hello,
So we tried your suggestions but this still doesn't seem to work to do
any of the commands I mentioned. We have it set to laptop layout for the
keyboard but when we do the keys jaws says is for jaws cursor, pc cursor,
etc. none of them seem to work. My wife has also tried turning
Hello all, good news I have finally fixed it.
What I had to do and now that I remember doing before the update was to go into
the view menu and selected collapse all conversations. Strange but there you go.
Actually, I prefer doing this because then for me I don't get confused if a lot
of
Hi.
I have downloaded the Mavericks install app, it is in my apps directory I
Nextel loaded disk maker ex, I have put it into my apps folder as well. When I
try to run disk make her ex, though, I get the files from the Internet message,
then this may correct opens to an empty screen, it stays
Hi Teresa,
I want to thank you so much for telling us about this built in script. I had no
idea having your downloads folder alert you was possible, or had been possible
but was broken until now.
I now get a dialog saying something has downloaded. I also seem to get one when
it initiates the
I believe you need to hard format an 8 GB card or more and that is the step I
believe you skipped.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:58
First, are you running the latest OSX?
Second, make sure you have version 3.4 of DiskmakerX.
If the Mavricks installer is in the apps directory, DiskmakerX should ask you
what version of OSX to make? Either lion, Mountain Lion, or mavericks.
Make sure than an 8GB thumb drive or higher is
Thanks Tim. Next time I fire up the Mac I will see if I can
understand the grid element. I may also run into Mac users during the
enxt 2 weeks and if I do, I will sit with them and learn some things..
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep
On the Macbook Pro, does the SD card slide in flush or is it to
stick uut a bit? Thanks.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both
Dracula AND Superman away.
--Jack Handey
Robert Dreamer Doll ke7nwn
E-mail-
gone.to.da...@gmail.com
First, shut down the VM, then go into the general settings for the VM (command
E and select the general button). arrow right and you'll come to a total size
field with the size of your VM file, followed by a clean up VM button.
to see how much disk space you can reclaim by cleaning, keep right
can i please have step by step directions on how to make this work?
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 28, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Teresa,
I want to thank you so much for telling us about this built in script. I had
no idea having your downloads
With the latest updates to Mavericks, has it become a net gain to upgrade from
ML, or are they on parity still?
ML works great for me with my fusion VM of window7. I don't want to upgrade and
screw things up including my MacMail/Gmail setup , and also have to upgrade
fusion if there's not a net
Yes mavericks is now worth upgrading.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote:
With the latest updates to Mavericks, has it become a net gain to upgrade
from ML, or are they on parity still?
ML works great for me with my fusion VM of window7. I don't want to upgrade
I have always thought it was OK to upgrade to Mavricks. I can tell you that
it's not necessary at all to upgrade VMware Fusion. I didn't and it's just fine
without doing so.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote:
With the latest updates to Mavericks, has it become
You can help this process along by running the disk cleanup and defrag
utilities on the Windows side before doing the VMWare disk shrink.
CB
On 2/28/14 4:22 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
First, shut down the VM, then go into the general settings for the VM (command
E and select the general
Funny, I just tried this for the first time last week and, yes, the card
does stick out about 5mm or so. That makes sense as you would need a
little bit to grab for pulling the thing back out when you're done.
CB
On 2/28/14 4:05 PM, Robert C wrote:
On the Macbook Pro, does the SD card slide
Yep, the card sticks out a bit on my MBP as well.
Jenine Stanley
dragonwalke...@gmail.com
On Feb 28, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote:
Funny, I just tried this for the first time last week and, yes, the card does
stick out about 5mm or so. That makes sense as you would
Every other device I own that uses SD cards require a push both to
seat the card and to remove it. So its never been a problem gettimg
those cards out. Well I wil have to be careful with this so as not to
damage it when the Mac is in transit.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
The devil can
Hello,
To answer your question, that depends on how you created your Vmware disk.
During the VM initial creation process, you can specify how you want space
to be allocated on the host system. i.e. you can either have the total
ammount of allocated space reserved initially, or you can have the
Sounds like they have fixed the voiceover bug that was in 10.9.1 that
prevented it from reading screens in applications that use apple
automator, that's a good thing since this utility is very handy.
Original message:
Hello. I am happy to report, that making a bootible drive with disc
maker
Yes, you need a 8GB thumb drive, or a partition on a external USB formated to
mac extended journaled, and named untitled. also, you do not need to put disc
maker x in the applications folder, I ran it from the downloads folder and it
worked just fine
Kliphton
~EmailiMessage~
I'm not having any difficulty getting the screen reader keys using the caps
lock.
There are a lot of different ways people can be using the virtual machine. Some
of those might make a difference. I use mine as a single window, not full
screen or unity. I run into various key conflicts but
When I do use Windows, I use Window-Eyes and there is a quick command, insert-t
which will give you the current time and date. It just speaks the time and date
and goes away.
Right now I use the dashboard to get this info plus the current local weather
but am I missing something? Is there a
Yes option t.
On 1/03/2014, at 12:51 pm, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote:
When I do use Windows, I use Window-Eyes and there is a quick command,
insert-t which will give you the current time and date. It just speaks the
time and date and goes away.
Right now I use the
Hi Jenine,
It's right option t, but there are a couple of things you may need to do first.
Go into VoiceOver Utility with control option f8, choose Commanders from the
table, and make sure Keyboard Commander is enabled. There you'll be able to
see whether it is set to use right option for
Awesome! Thanks much. I always wondered what keyboard commander was about.
Jenine Stanley
dragonwalke...@gmail.com
On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jenine,
It's right option t, but there are a couple of things you may need to do
first.
Go into
Does anyone have any idea on what I did to make it so that voiceover is not
reading my punctuations write or it's changing them or something it's weird.
For example, the word I'm I write as I apostrophe m, but it changes to I double
quotation marks m.
What is broken?
--
You received this
I'm definitely not sure about upgrading. I did when it first came out, and
disaster struck, and I reverted to Mountain Lion. Apps and Safari loaded
horribly, Mail was screwed up; VO in Safari was awful. A nightmare.
Christine
On Feb 28, 2014, at 4:41 PM, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote:
Go to System Preferences, Keyboard, text tab and disable smart quotes.
htH,
Teresa
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too
dark to read.--Groucho Marx
On Feb 28, 2014, at 4:04 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote:
Does anyone have any idea on
Hello,
Yeah the reason for the reauthorization of jaws every time you
reconfigure vm fusion is because it treats it as a new computer setup,
therefore needig to reauthorize it as you would on a computer you reformat
etc. What are you using for keys then to access the jaws cursor, pc
Hi!
Also when in VO utility under the General heading arrow over to [Allow voice
over to be controlled by apple scripts ] and check that to get the time to read
properly!
Colin
On 1 Mar 2014, at 00:02, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome! Thanks much. I always wondered what
Something to keep in mind.
For your own protection, if you do not choose the maverick upgrade, do get
the security patches for lion and mountain lion that apple recommends for
osx.
the latest maverick from the other day includes this for that edition.
Karen
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Christine
Where do I look for these in the app store? Thanks for the tip.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Something to keep in mind.
For your own protection, if you do not choose the maverick upgrade, do get
the security patches for lion and mountain lion
Oh, *smiles* thanks. I have no idea how that ended up checked.
That seems to have fixed the problem.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote:
Go to System Preferences, Keyboard, text tab and disable smart quotes.
htH,
Teresa
Outside of a dog, a book is a
hmm I am not the person to ask.
My suggestion would be to test your machine at the link for this which
will direct you to the patches.
I am told by others they are actually in the headers in the store
to make it easy.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Christine Grassman wrote:
Where do I look for
Thanks. I'll search around.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
hmm I am not the person to ask.
My suggestion would be to test your machine at the link for this which will
direct you to the patches.
I am told by others they are actually in the headers
Capslock with semicolon and caps lock with apostrophe for the PC and JAWS
cursors. Capslock with left and right brackets for the routing of cursors. They
should be the keys documented for the lap top layout. If none of them are
working then I'm wondering if something is wrong with the
Hello,
It's been some time since I've emailed any of you folks about problems
or strange behavior, but I'm not able to figure out what's going on.
I don't know if it's VoiceOver specific, or something else.
So, could somebody explain maybe what's going on?
My plan was to add somebody to FaceTime
Hi, folks:
I'd thought I'd reach out again before I head off for the evening, and
find out if their are actually people who use TeamTalk with VoiceOver.
Secondly, as part of my subject states, I'm wondering if their's any
tips I need to know to use the application.
All the TeamTalk experience I
can you use the regular facetime or just can't add a new contact? can you call
an existing one?
On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:50 PM, Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
It's been some time since I've emailed any of you folks about problems
or strange behavior, but I'm not able to
hi all.
please someone can tell me if this version of the disc maker x 3.4 is free?
tried to search in the app store but had no results.
I also did a google search but did not find the 3.4 version.
someone send me the link to download this app.
thanks all.
cheers.
A dignidade pessoal e a
HI. I just add contacts with the phone, haven't tried adding them from the mac
for quite a while but last time I did it worked. You should also be able to
face time a phone number if the person has an iPhone. Can you clarify? Are you
saying you can't add any contacts in the contact app on
HI Lisette I get the folder notification twice as well. I'm so glad this is
fixed. It works much better now.
Maria and Joe Chapman
bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
On 1 Mar 2014, at 8:00 am, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Teresa,
I want to thank you so much for telling us
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