Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Airdrop doesn’t work properly on my mid 2011 IMac either. I have Do not disturb off or rather i have it in scheduled mode so it starts at 9.30 PM CST and goes until 9.00 AM CST but even when do not disturb is off, nothing happens and i can’t even tell my mac to communicate with all or only

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
How do i determine what Bluetooth i have? /Krister 8 nov 2014 kl. 02:44 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: This isn't a replacement for iTunes, at least not completely. I don't know what might happen if you send audio to an iOS device, but I'm not sure that it will be added to your music

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok, i want to send my file from the mac to my ipad. Its a daisy book i want to read. Its zipped so i know i can open it in voice-dream-reader when its sent to the ipad. /A 7 nov 2014 kl. 15:18 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: Remember that you must have an Airdrop window open on the

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, have Airdrop on the iPad enabled, and set to everyone just in case. Now find the zip file on the Mac, vo-shift-m, open the Share menu, and choose Airdrop. As to supported Macs, Google has tons of lists that will tell you if your device can handle Airdrop. On Nov 8, 2014, at 5:36 AM,

does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Scott Berry
Hi there, I was wondering does Firefox work for us? If not what other browsers besides Safari do? I have a college web site I go to crashing out on me when I put discussions in to their edit box and I have notified Apple and also the school. -- You received this message because you

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I know there have been some recent posts about bootcamp and startup so I won’t answer those. If you want or security of FileVault for your Macintosh disk than every time the computer power is turned on, you need to login via File Vault because the encryption key for the disk must be opened.

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sorry, now I remember what else I wanted to say. If you turn off file vault, then the macintosh will start decrypting your files, and once that process is done then the Macintosh will prompt for UserName / Password after the OS is running so that VoiceOve and other services are available on

Re: does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have used both Firefox and Chrome with speech. Sometimes ChomeVOX the chrome screen reader will work better than VoiceOver on a specific page. Also, don’t forget to report your crashes to Apple! Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Could this type of transfer also be done with the new iCloud functionality? Perhaps we could get VoiceStream developers to create a Macintosh version that allows continuity transactions to transition reading from Macintosh to IOS. I have read a bit about the process continuity uses to

latest osx upgrade

2014-11-08 Thread Deedra Waters
I saw some that had problems with the latest osx upgrade What i want to know is how much trouble am i going to have upgrading as a new mac user? My macbook air didn't come with the latest version so i apparrently have to upgrade and i dont want to break things!!! Any suggestions would be

Re: Big news for all Microsoft Office and or iOS fans!

2014-11-08 Thread Grant Hardy
Hello Chris and list, It’s obvious that Microsoft has put some thought into how VO accessibility should be implemented throughout this suite, so I hate to be too picky. Nevertheless, here are my first impressions of the iPhone version of Microsoft Office. I do not currently have access to the

Re: latest osx upgrade

2014-11-08 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Deedra. I have no problems here with Yosemite, just the occasional slow down. It's what you're comfortable to use that matters. People might recommend though that since you're new to the Mac, you shouldn't upgrade and then be learn be forced to learn another operating system. Shawn Sent

Re: latest osx upgrade

2014-11-08 Thread Phil Halton
Deirdre, there's absolutely no need to upgrade to Yosemite yet. I'm using Mavericks and intend to stay with it for a while at least until Yosemite is upgraded and some of the bugs are ironed out. Again, don't bother worrying about upgrading from Mavericks yet. Sent from my IPhone On Nov 8,

Re: does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Scott Berry
Jonothan, Does Firefox bring up a blank window once installed and ran? Usually in Windows, for example, it will bring up a page about Firefox itself. I can certainly try it again. I have reported this error to Apple twice already. I am going to have to do this again. On Nov 8, 2014, at

how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-08 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I have a dangling 100MB partition. I’d like to add it to my Yosemite partition. How does one do this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Marshall
i spoke to a developer in the accessibility Department of Firefox and basically he told me that Windows development has priority at Firefox in terms of accessibility at the moment. Personally I do not think Firefox will ever be accessible on the Mac. Talking of browsers and accessibility has

Re: latest osx upgrade

2014-11-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I upgraded right away and had no issues at all. It’s entirely your choice though. You don’t “have to” upgrade if you prefer to wait. There is nothing other than promotions and such from within the AppStore that suggest you upgrade, but, you decide. I doubt anything would “break” in

Decibel from sbooth.org

2014-11-08 Thread christopher hallsworth
http://sbooth.org/Decibel/#decibel What is Decibel? Decibel is an audio player tailored to the particular needs of audiophiles. Decibel supports all popular lossless and lossy audio formats including FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, Speex, True Audio, Apple Lossless, AAC,

Re: latest osx upgrade

2014-11-08 Thread Devin Prater
Hi. Does osx 10.10.1 fix any VOICEOVER issues? Sent from my iPad On Nov 8, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Deedra. I have no problems here with Yosemite, just the occasional slow down. It's what you're comfortable to use that matters. People might