Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Trey Bradley
Where do I go to buy this app? Also how much is it? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I was quite happy with abbyy finereader express but decided to buy pro. Only I am having problems. First of all, I don't see an option to scan to

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Anne Robertson
You get the app from the Appstore. As for the price, I think it costs EURO 89 but if you look for it in the Appstore, you'll see the price for yourself. Cheers, Anne On 30 Apr 2014, at 08:22, Trey Bradley treyma...@gmail.com wrote: Where do I go to buy this app? Also how much is it? --

Re: learning the russian braille code!. hello everyone!

2014-04-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Chenelle, Below you will find the Braille representations of the Russian alphabet. I’ve written each Braille Russian equivalent after the equals sign because this sign has all the 6 dots in Braille and you can easily feel the pattern of the letter that follows against the equals sign for

Re: setting up a commander

2014-04-30 Thread Jessica
I do not have a number pad. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Your message said you do not have a bumped. I'm not sure what that was supposed to be before auto-correct got ahold of it. smile In theory, you can support any commander that

Re: setting up a commander

2014-04-30 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Jessica! A old post here about getting a Num pad on a Macbook or bluetooth keyboard and a link to a podcast showing how to install! Other benefits for people using Windows in a virtual machine as well! Its all there to hear! I'm pasting the text below from my old message to the list.

Re: deleting email on your i phone?.

2014-04-30 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there This is why I put this list on the Cloud. That way, whatever I take off the iPhone comes off my computer. It was the easiest way for me to handle things. Before I did that, I was taking everything off twice, and it was driving me crazy. Regards, Gigi On Apr 30, 2014, at 12:51 AM,

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't see a show all button. But it is helpful to know that I have to press scan; I assummed that when the scanner ran it was scanning. Will try this but wonder where the show all is. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown

Re: setting up a commander

2014-04-30 Thread Zameer Mahomed
Hello, Thanks for the info posted below. It would sure help with my topic the other day about remapping VO keys. Kind Regards - Original Message - From: Red.Falcon To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: setting up a

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cheryl, Show all is the third item on the first screen, just after QUICK CONVERSION. Cheers, Anne On 30 Apr 2014, at 14:13, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I don't see a show all button. But it is helpful to know that I have to press scan; I assummed that when the scanner

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, if I do cmd-so after scanning, then I get more choices for formats, including txt. And yes, I am now getting results (sigh of relief for having spent $99). It seems a bit more complicated than using vuescan and Finereader Express but the scan results are definitely good. -- Cheryl

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Perhaps I am not in what you call the first screen. Let me describe what I see when I open finereader after the close, minimize and zoom buttons. new task (but it isn't a button here), label, image source quick conversion (all of these not actionable buttons in this window); go right (unchecked

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh actually, it's go right not go left. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call to mind, and therefore I

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Okay, I see. I was in the new task window. If I check the go right checkbox it turns into a go left checkbox and now there is a scroll area with a whole bunch of formats from which to choose. You know, all I heard about this application when it came out is how good it is, and that's true. But

Re: Mailbox Sort Order in Mavericks

2014-04-30 Thread Steve Holmes
Sounds like an interesting idea. When I get off work for the day, I will have to give this a try. I am also quite familiar with shell commands so this is plenty clear to me. Long live tab completion too.:) On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:29:47AM -0600, Tim Kilburn wrote: hi, One more option that's

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Phil Halton
we didn't want to ruin the fun for others;-) On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Okay, I see. I was in the new task window. If I check the go right checkbox it turns into a go left checkbox and now there is a scroll area with a whole bunch of formats from

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread Phil Halton
Hi Feliciano, I see that the LS-14 has voice guidance. Can you give us an idea of how much of the units various features are accessible for blind users? Are all the menu functions accessible with the built-in voice guidance? How do you deal with setting levels? thanks On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:25

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
What has this to do with the Mac? On 30 Apr 2014, at 03:31 pm, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Feliciano, I see that the LS-14 has voice guidance. Can you give us an idea of how much of the units various features are accessible for blind users? Are all the menu functions

Re: setting up a commander

2014-04-30 Thread Phil Halton
nice thorough job on the commanders article. On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Just in time. :) I recently posted a guide on Applevis, all about commanders. Here it is: http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-os-x/understanding-and-using-voiceovers-commanders On

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread Emilio
Hello everyone, I have used the Olympus DM 520 with great success. It does use voice guidance. It also does use rechargeable batteries, which takes four hours to recharge when plugged into the computer. At the time of purchase, I was able to buy the recorder for $171 from Amazon several years

Re: finereader pro

2014-04-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cheryl, Because FineReader Pro isn't localised into French, I had to go through it with a fine-tooth comb and write a document explaining all the buttons and other fields so that French users could relabel the important ones. Cheers, Anne On 30 Apr 2014, at 15:01, Cheryl Homiak

Re: accessing documents in pages on other apple devices

2014-04-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
While I haven't tried it, my understanding is if you have the same document open on multiple devices, changes made on one instantly appear on the others. In other words, if you share the icloud document with others you can collaborate together editing a document because everyone will be

Re: Trying to record a song using AudioShare

2014-04-30 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
have you tried the garage band for recording your song? Il giorno 30/apr/2014, alle ore 12:23 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com ha scritto: I am trying to record the song that I wrote for Amy, before our wedding on May 5. I am using the app for iPhone five AudioShare. I am

Re: Anyone can now test betas of OS X!

2014-04-30 Thread Gene Baroni
Could you do a podcast demonstrationg how to download and run the new i o s from an external harddrive, please or failing that, would you provide a link or give directions on how to do this? - Original Message - From: Alex Hall To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent:

Re: Anyone can now test betas of OS X!

2014-04-30 Thread Gene Baroni
I meant Os x not ios. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:32 PM Subject: Anyone can now test betas of OS X! Hi all, I just saw this on Twitter: Apple is now letting anyone test OS X,

Re: Trying to record a song using AudioShare

2014-04-30 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I am not aware of any GarageBand app for iPhone. On my Mac, my microphone is pretty much shot, and I never got GarageBand to do anything useful anyway. Sent from my iPhone http://MarkBurningHawk.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:12 AM,

Re: activity monitor

2014-04-30 Thread Marc
I have Windows Server as the second process listed taking up 30% of my CPU. Does anybody know what this is and can I kill it? I am not running anything Windows on this machine. Thanks On Monday, April 28, 2014 1:25:03 PM UTC-7, Chris Blouch wrote: Sounds about right. Unix processes don't

Re: Anyone can now test betas of OS X!

2014-04-30 Thread Alex Hall
I already put one on Applevis which should help: http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-os-x-voiceover/tips-running-os-x-betas On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Gene Baroni meangene...@cavtel.net wrote: I meant Os x not ios. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Alex Hall To:

Re: Trying to record a song using AudioShare

2014-04-30 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
yes there's a garage band on the iphone, maybe you you should check your apps store, and if your using the iphone 5s i thinks its free like my mac book pro. On 30 Apr 2014, at 07:16 pm, Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: I am not aware of any GarageBand app for iPhone. On my

Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Cheryl and All, Cheryl you have recently been posting regarding FineReader application and you mentioned having a new scanner CanoScan 9000F. Would you mind giving me your opinion on it? How fast is it? What size paper can you scan with it? Maybe others could share their thoughts on

Re: activity monitor

2014-04-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The WindowServer process is what draws the GUI on your screen so it's not Windows from MS but rather a fairly critical part of OSX. That said, it shouldn't be taking up that much CPU. From what I found in other forums, quitting mail and/or Safari and starting them again will often times clear

Re: Where to purchase Amadeous Pro

2014-04-30 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Max, I don't think that will be a problem at all. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 30/04/2014, at 9:37 am, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks Jonathan, I am only going to use the app for converting the

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually I don't have the 9000F but the canon canoscan 110. It's lightweight and portable but seems slower than my lide60 that died. I was wondering about the 9000F myself. Really, although I like portability, there are two other things I would like if I were to buy a new scanner. (1) I would

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Sorry, when I was talking about cameras I meant I'd tried both the iphone and a standalone camera. I've even tried one that has a mat with it that is supposed to help line things up for you; I've read reviews from people who apparently use these quite well, but somehow not for me! Haven't tried

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cheryl, For OCR with my iPhone, I use TextGrabber plus Translator with either my StandScan Pro or my Giraffe Reader. I like the small profile of the Giraffe Reader, but the StandScan Pro does a better job. TextGrabber is really fast, too and I don't need to know in advance what language

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I have a canoscan 9000f that works wonderful directly with finereader pro, I am really surprised that it is doing so fine. The size of the scanning ariea is a little bigger than a4, I do not know if that is what you call legal. I have been playing a lot with my IPhone and taking pictures.

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Kawal, Heres what it has to do with the mac! You take a usb cable and plug it in to your mac and it shows up on your mac desk top. Here you can access the audio files in it and throw them in to itunes change the format if you want! Then you can build a play list of the important notes you

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread Phil Halton
how much of the menu system is accessible via the voice guidance voice? That is, how much of the DM520 feature list can a blind person use with the voice guidance assistance? Are there any functions that we can't access? On Apr 30, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Emilio emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Thank you, Cheryl for this. When you say legal size paper, what size is it? It would help me to understand this because when I read about various scanners, this term often appears. I, too, have my wishes for a scanner, and one of them - totally unreachable - is to have an a3 scanner so that

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread Matt Dierckens
Olympus does not sell the DM520 anymore. The only function it doesn't read is the file system information and the clock. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Apr 30, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Changing mp3 tags

2014-04-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Can you just get info on them in iTunes and put in the correct info? I'm not aware of a utility that just cleans up file meta-data. A lot of that depends on why the files are messed up to begin with. CB On 4/20/14, 8:43 PM, George Cham wrote: I've got movies on the Mac with the description

Re: Combining 2 tracks

2014-04-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you don't mind using MacPorts and terminal, sox will do it. The command to concatenate the audio files would be: sox Afile.mp3 BFile.mp3 OutputFile.mp3 CB On 4/18/14, 6:21 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: Hello all, I open to using either audacity or garage band. The problem is, I can't figure

network printer again

2014-04-30 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
I'm asking this here again since I didn't see a response yet. I'm trying to get a printer on my network. We have a airport extreme that we want to attach an hp printer to. it's supposed to be a network printer. I've already attached the printer to it, but it doesn't show up on the network. We

Re: chromevox on the mac

2014-04-30 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I didn't notice any replies. Main complaint is that it's yet another screen reader but it only works in the browser. So not only do you have to learn another way of doing things, even if it rhymes a lot with Voiceover, but once you leave the browser you have to turn VO back on again to get

Re: olympus recorders

2014-04-30 Thread May
Yes they do still sell that one. Thanks everyone that's answered my question. I think I'm going to go for the olympus 901 which is the latest in the dm series. May, RIP Prince Noah, May 31, 2009 to April 1, 2014 www.canadianlynx.ca On Apr 30, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Matt Dierckens

Safari in Mountain Lion

2014-04-30 Thread Robert C
Last night I took a stab at using Safari in Mountain Lion. It got ocnfusing so hope I can get some pointers. First a basic question. When I load a page VO reads it all non stop. In a nutshell,, what is a typcal way to navigate in Safari? I know I will get used to it eventually. Now

Checkbook by Splasm

2014-04-30 Thread Robert C
I am looking to buy Checkbook by Splasm, or the Pro version. Have any of you used the first then upgraded to the Pro version? Both are paid apps. The first one is a basic version. What I would like to know is, what the Pro version offers over the basic one. Thanks. One reason I want

deleting an email account on mac

2014-04-30 Thread don bishop
I have a fair amount of documentation here, but cannot seem to find how to delete an email account in mavericks. How can you do this? I created something and screwed it up so would like to start over so need to get rid of the old one. Thanks, Don -- You received this message because you

Re: setting up a commander

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Berry
Alex, You did a very awesoe job on this. It was quite explanatory. Thanks for your great work. On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Just in time. :) I recently posted a guide on Applevis, all about commanders. Here it is:

Re: Combining 2 tracks

2014-04-30 Thread Traci Duncan
Interesting. I would just type that into Terminal? I take it those 3 mp3 files are the full address location? If I had 2 files on my desktop, combine then, and the output file would land on my desktop? Traci On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:10 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries

how to enhance the say word count script

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Berry
A couple of questions here. Firstly, is there a way in Apple script to get the name of the program where the word count is coming from and secondly I don't like just the number. I'd like it to say Your word count in program name is. How would I accomplish this? -- You received this

airplay setting on the mac

2014-04-30 Thread don bishop
I've been having a problem the past few days. When I boot up, I get vo speech for a few seconds and then no speech. Also the keyboard appears to be unresponsive. I do have a braille display and I can sometimes get it to respond to the keyboard without speech. After a few minutes I get

Re: airplay setting on the mac

2014-04-30 Thread Jessica
You can find it by doing control option m twice. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2014, at 8:00 PM, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: I've been having a problem the past few days. When I boot up, I get vo speech for a few seconds and then no speech. Also the keyboard appears to be

Re: deleting an email account on mac

2014-04-30 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hello. Go to mail preferences with command comma. Find accounts, VO space. Find the account that you are wanting to delete. Once it is selected, you can either go all the way to the end of the window with VO FN right arrow and find remove account button, or do a VO F and search for remove. If

Re: deleting an email account on mac

2014-04-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Depending on your iCloud setup, either of the following: * Go into the Mail app, into Mail Preferences, select Accounts in the Toolbar, select the account you wish to delete from the table, then navigate down to the Remove Account button. or... * In System Preferences, in the Internet

Re: how to enhance the say word count script

2014-04-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Your first question is tricky. You might be able to get the name of current application or frontmost application and put it in a variable, but I think this is a little difficult. The second question is easy, at least so far as it doesn't depend on the first question. You could just change the

Re: Best scanners for text scanning

2014-04-30 Thread Eileen Misrahi
HELLO All, I was intrigued with something that Annie said in her post. I have an Opticbook 3600 scanner, which only has an old beta driver offered on their website. Can you expain what vuescan is and where to find it? I would like to know which Opticbook model you are using with the Mac?

Password Manager

2014-04-30 Thread Robert C
What is a good password manager for the Mac? And is there also an iPhone vcersion so the two can be synced? Quote of the nanosecond . . . RELIEF: What trees do in the spring Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

2014-04-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I need to access some documents on Google Drive. There is a lot of them. I want to just download them to my Mac so I have easy access to them. Plus, I need to OCR them. Does anyone have an easier way to do this rather than opening each document individually and pressing download? Thanks, Nic

waht was the difference between fine reader pro and tthe abby fine reader?

2014-04-30 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
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Re: Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

2014-04-30 Thread Deb Lewis
Have you tried using Insync? I'm not currently using it but I have used the Mac client in the past when I needed to establish a drive on my Mac for Google docs. Works like dropbox etc. I don't remember if all the functionality was accessible but it certainly did download all the files and give

Re: Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

2014-04-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If these documents are already within the Drive portion of your Google account, then I would use the Google Drive Desktop app for your Mac. Once you install this app, all items within the Drive part of your Google account will be downloaded to your Mac automatically. You can then use