Re: Toggle Bluetooth Script

2015-04-22 Thread Tyler Thompson
I’d personally just add the sound effect after you end the tell, that way you’re not waiting on system preferences to close but the sound alerts you to when bluetooth has been toggled. On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I’ve needed to update my toggle

taking photos on the mac

2015-04-22 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
Good day to all, can somebody guide me how to copy the photos iv've taken on photo booth now,. in mavericks there was a box where the photos are, but now i can see that on yosemite, thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Toggle Bluetooth Script

2015-04-22 Thread Barry Hadder
I would put the beep 3 right after the click. If you don’t have a slight delay, then it might not work. Are you trying to toggal bluetooth on and off? If so, I think there may be a problem. You might want to change button 6 to button 3. On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Traci Duncan

Re: problems with aidrop again.

2015-04-22 Thread Alex Hall
There's no OK button. You find the device in the table, route the mouse there with vo-cmd-f5, then click with vo-shift-space to initiate the transfer. On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! I can’t seem to send things via airdrop from my mac to my

RE: taking photos on the mac

2015-04-22 Thread george b
If you have the latest Yosemite look in which is now called photos, use to be iPhoto it is in your doc. They might go rite there by defalt from photo booth -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dionipher Presas

Re: Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hello, You kay want to check energy saver under system preferences. You can set your display and computer through the sliders in this dialog. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email:

Re: Well, I did it, Pre-ordered the Apple watch!

2015-04-22 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
I am still struggling with whether to get the 38mm or 42mm sport model; so I have both sizes on order. But I want to cancel one. I tried both sizes on and didn't notice a huge difference in feel. Some have said the 42mm will have slightly better battery life. I think it depends on what kinds of

Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Christine Grassman
Good day/night all: For the past couple of days, I have noticed that after only the slightest inactivity on my part (no typing or using the MacBook Air for even half a minute or a minute), it seems to go to sleep, and I have to play around for a solid ten to twenty seconds to wake it up. This

Toggle Bluetooth Script

2015-04-22 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, I’ve needed to update my toggle bluetooth script thankfully I found one on the web. My question is, in the below script, where would I add in a sound effect? Beep 3, something like that. tell application System Preferences reveal pane com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth end tell

Re: external mic for iPhone/iPad

2015-04-22 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i do have the apogee mic, it works with both mac and iphone but it cost a lot On 22 Apr 2015, at 3:43 am, Joanne Chua shuang.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm in need of doing some field recording for an audio project that i'm involve in. However, i'm hoping i can uterlise my iphone6+

RE: office preview for mac?

2015-04-22 Thread george b
Google office for mac -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliph Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 04:38 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: office preview for mac? Sorry, joined this thread late. Anyone

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Tim, thanks for this tip! In trying it I haven't had luck so far, however, just wondering if this contacts Apple's servers, does this require internet connectivity? And if nothing is installed, it'd make connecting difficult. If, in fact, that's what's needed. On 4/22/2015 10:37 AM, Tim

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this is found here... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place where you need to select a wireless network probably isn’t accessible since there’s been no real

Re: Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Christine. Try closing the lid of your MacBook Air. What does that do? Does that fix the problem? Shawn Sent from my White MacBook On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Good day/night all: For the past couple of days, I have noticed that

Re: office preview for mac?

2015-04-22 Thread Sadam Ahmed
You can download the preview from: http://products.office.com/en-AU/mac/mac-preview. All the best, Sadam Ahmed On 23/04/2015 1:02 AM, george b wrote: Google office for mac -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
thanks much. this information has been quite helpful. On 4/22/2015 10:59 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this is found here... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place

Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi all, A quick question on clean installing OS X. I wanted to clean install before putting Yosemite on my Macbook Air. I made a bootable drive, booted into the recovery partition by holding down command+R then pressing command+F5 until Voiceover started up and I could format the Macintosh

office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-22 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello, In the latest Office Preview for Mac, I cannot get Option Right Arrow to read word by word. Option Left Arrow does seem to be reading prior words. I'm just wondering if this is specific to my system or has anyone tried this out? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, you likely have affected the Recovery Partition. Try starting with cmd-option-r which should start up from Apple’s servers. It may take a little longer to boot up, but you should be able to install from there. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 22, 2015, at

Re: external mic for iPhone/iPad

2015-04-22 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, I recently bought the ZOOM IQ6 and I’m very hapy of the sound quality. It’s an on top mic connected via lightning. Find here more: http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-iQ6-iOS-Lightning-Microphone/dp/B00MZCEY9O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1429725238sr=8-1keywords=zoom+iq6 All the best Jürgen Am

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Phil Halton
You may have a race the entire hard drive. When I look under disk utilities I can recognize the recovery partition and distinguish it from the regular Macintosh HD system by the text description field off to the far right. The recovery partition occupies about 1.4 GB, and the Macintosh HD

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-22 Thread Grant Hardy
I can’t reproduce this particular issue; reading by word works fine on my machine. That said, it’s entirely possible that this is a focus issue which only occurs in certain situations. Grant On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:44 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you did indeed create a bootable drive, then you may not need the Internet Recovery Partition. That bootable drive could be used as your Startup Disk and Installation device. As Phil mentioned, start your Mac with while the Option key is down, wait about 5 seconds or so after the

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Rachel, to install from a bootable drive you don’t normally start from the recovery partition. The procedure would have been to hold down the OPTION KEY as your Mac restarted to bring up the boot menu, then select your USB drive. I use the TAB KEY to get around the boot menu. It sometimes

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Erik Heil
Hello, Do you wireless information is stored within NV RAM. As such, if you have previously entered security of mission for wireless networks, it is automatically entered. It will automatically connect to a wireless network if it has previously associated it with your iCloud account. For more

Bootcamp and VMware

2015-04-22 Thread The Believer
I am still running Mavericks 10.9.5. I have yet to install Windows 7 on the Mac in either Bootcamp or VMware. Is Windows 7 support in Bootcamp gone now? I will upgrade to Yosemite, do not know when just yet. Should I wait on installing Windows 7 until that time? And would a clean

question about RSS readers

2015-04-22 Thread Juliette Swiler
Hi all, I saved an OPML file to my Mac that I exported from REadKit’s built-in RSS reader. I want to import it into Feed Rangler. How do I do this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: mail notification

2015-04-22 Thread Alex Hall
I've found that Mail does that from time to time. If I close Mail and re-open it, the sound returns. I don't know why this happens, and no other app has this problem. On Apr 22, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Donald Bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Hi all, I’m running an imac with Yosemite 10.3 which

An odd problem with Amadeus Pro

2015-04-22 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hello, all, Over the last few days, I have encountered a persistent problem with Amadeus Pro. When I use shift-M to set a mark without naming it, my Macbook Pro bonks at me and no mark is set. When I use the M key to set a mark that can be named, the mark is set but I am not given the

mail notification

2015-04-22 Thread Donald Bishop
Hi all, I’m running an imac with Yosemite 10.3 which I installed upgrading from 10.2 a couple days ago. Everything is working okay, but I seem to have lost my mail notification sound fro new incoming mail. I looked in system preferences for mail and see that ping is checked as it should be.

received email notification

2015-04-22 Thread Donald Bishop
Hi all, I recently upgraded from yosemite 10.2 to 10.3 and am having an issue wwith email. Before I upgraded I got the ding sound whenever a message was received but after the upgrade, the sound has gone away. I checked in email preferences andd the sound is still selected and when I arow

Re: Toggle Bluetooth Script

2015-04-22 Thread Traci Duncan
I ended up putting beep3 after the line:click button 6 of window 1 It is working like a charm. I think the only thing I would add to improve it, is make it similar to my toggle wifi script. Where Alex actually says, wifi on/wifi off. The 3 beeps work for now. :) Thanks y’all! On

Re: Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Christine Grassman
No; same thing happens. I checked my Energy Saver settings and nothing is screwed up there either. Does anyone think doing a disk permissions and disk repair might help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Christine Grassman
Resetting the PRAM seems to have done the trick. Thank you. :) Christine -- 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 email to

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hello all, I appreciate this information so much! I did what one person from here suggested, held down the option key as the computer was booting, played the “let’s guess which drive the Mac will boot from” game, and landed on my bootable drive! I waited a bit, started Voiceover, and it did

Re: doing a paper in pages, my experience

2015-04-22 Thread Barry Hadder
I had to use Word 97 in a technical writing class at it was a complete nightmare. Things have definitely come a long way from where they were. With Pages, it would have been a breez. As far as I know, images or other objects will not overlap text. You can set them to move with text, or to

is it okay to delete the lost+found folder on my mac?

2015-04-22 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
I have notice a folder on my mac called lost+found. i don't what it is, can i delete it? -- 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 email to

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

2015-04-22 Thread Rebecca A Sabo
Hi all, Is PDF pro free or do you need to pay for it if so where do you get it at ? Sincerely Becky Sabo On Apr 15, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Sadam Ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: PDF pro -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Editing in Word is Weird. When I do Option-Right Arrow, then just Right Arrow alone, it reads each letter of the word I just thought I’d jumped over. Also, Option-Left Arrow apparently takes me to the left of the word before the one I thought I’d jumped over. I also have insertion point

Re: Odd MacBook Air Behavior

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don’t believe that a Repair Permissions will do anything here. I’d first reset the PRAM and if that doesn’t do anything, then reset the SMC. You can reset the PRAM by restarting the computer while holding the command, option r and p keys down. These keys must be pressed either before

Re: Well, I did it, Pre-ordered the Apple watch!

2015-04-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'd like to know if a Braille display will work with the watch. I'm going to try it when I get mine. I thought the 42 Millimetre was heavy because of the stainless steal and the Safire Diamond. Kawal. On 22 Apr 2015, at 14:56, Mika Pyyhkala pyyhk...@gmail.com wrote: I am still struggling

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

2015-04-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
I’m not sure, but I think you are talking about PDF Pen Pro. It is not free. I got it from the app store, but it can also be gotten from their web site. It’s url is www.smilesoftware.com http://www.smilesoftware.com/. Gigi On Apr 22, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Rebecca A Sabo beckyas...@gmail.com

Re: taking photos on the mac

2015-04-22 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
nope, ican't find it there also. On 22 Apr 2015, at 6:32 pm, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: If you have the latest Yosemite look in which is now called photos, use to be iPhoto it is in your doc. They might go rite there by defalt from photo booth -Original Message- From:

Re: is it okay to delete the lost+found folder on my mac?

2015-04-22 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
That is data recovered by the file system check process. Look inside the folder first, and if it’s empty, throw it away; otherwise you may be looking at data that is recovered but for which the file names may not be available. What you do next depends on your willingness to investigate

Re: Well, I did it, Pre-ordered the Apple watch!

2015-04-22 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: With all that has been posted and written, I finally stopped by our city's Apple store to check out the two sizes of Apple watches. The Apple store has installed a table for displaying the various band types and the two watch sizes. There are demo watches kept in a drawer

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-22 Thread Andrew Lamanche
This seems to be an issue at the end of the line. It's been reported by other users on this list. I have tried this and I can reproduce this problem At the end of the line the word reads twice when you land on it and when you vo+arrow to the next line. It makes me feel quite insecure in the

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-22 Thread Sean Murphy
All, this is a bug. Word does not detect styles yet. Log it to MS. On 21 Apr 2015, at 2:15 am, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misra h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jamie, I was successful in adding a heading 1 level in a doc, but what is missing is having VO announce what type of style one has used.

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-22 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Anne, Since you have started using Word, could you - when you have the time - test out using tables in word? As I've already reported here, whilst navigating tables seems very accessible - one doesn't even have to interact with them - writing text into cells doesn't seem to give us any

Re: just discovered ReadKit

2015-04-22 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Juliette. Most feed aggregators support an open standard called OPML. What you'll need to do is export the feeds from feedly to an OPML file, then import that OPML file into your account with the other provider. Both websites should provide for import and export. Jonathan Mosen Mosen

Re: reminder type thing?

2015-04-22 Thread deedra waters
Sorry telling me to use an iphone on a mac list is not acceptable. I dont have an iphone and i refuse to buy one. that’s not the point here however. telling someone to use another device for something i should be able to do on my mac isn’t acceptable. If you dont know of an app for this then

Re: just discovered ReadKit

2015-04-22 Thread Juliette Swiler
Hi, I was under the impression that you could add new feeds from within ReadKit. However, every time I try, the OK button jus keeps saying dimmed, and I for the life of me can’t get anywhere else in the app. I actually have to invoke force quit because it literally will not do anything. I’ve

office preview for mac?

2015-04-22 Thread Kliph
Sorry, joined this thread late. Anyone have the download link for the office preview for mac? Thanks. -- 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 email to

Re: reminder type thing?

2015-04-22 Thread Phil Halton
Or, you could simply ignore their gesture of kindly help. I guess everybody gets to have a bad day once in a while Sent from my IPhone On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:00 AM, deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com wrote: Sorry telling me to use an iphone on a mac list is not acceptable. I dont have

Re: Scrivener: Very very promising!

2015-04-22 Thread Donna Goodin
Just curious, what is it that this app does that makes it so worth while? cheers, Donna On Apr 21, 2015, at 11:06 PM, sadam ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Chris, Glad the above app is meeting you’re needs. It’s certainly a powerful piece of software. Seriously

problems with aidrop again.

2015-04-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I can’t seem to send things via airdrop from my mac to my iphone. I am trying to rout the mouse to the voiceover pointer but thats not working properly. No ok button found. Just cancel. Any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance. /A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to