Re: OT: custom sound works for Mail, not Messages

It looks like the file type should be core audio file I found the Bamboo sound in the Modern directory under: Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Resources/AlertTones Best wishes, Jonathan > On Jul 24, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I just

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

If a braille display is connected to the Mac to be used as a display, it will rely on the Mac for translation. In other words, it matters not how the Focus is set up. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/24/2016 7:49 PM, Jonathan Cohn

Re: Purchasing an iPhone and not having a Sim card

Hi, If your android and the iPhone you are getting use the same sim card then I would think that you could simply put that sim in to your ipHone to use for the setup. Once the setup is done you can remove the sim and use the iphone as an iPod. I'm doing that with an iPhone 5S right now. Gabe

Re: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

Hi, According to my research, this Terminal command is supposed to accomplish what you're wishing for: defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO The problem is, it doesn't appear to stop the Auto Complete action. Using Terminal to read the Safari

To Unified English Braille Readers

Hello All, I just switched my Focus 40 Blue Braille display settings to UEB Contracted Braille. Then, I went into Text Edit and typed in a sentence with one bolded word. What I expected to see, on the display, was the sentence including the bold word type form indicator, preceding the

Re: Purchasing an iPhone and not having a Sim card

You require a cym card on setup but don't once the phone is up and running. Danny Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Jul 2016, at 11:56 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > > I recall seeing somewhere that if you buy an iPhone, such as an iPhone SE, > and you don't get a carriers Sim card

RE: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

Hello E.T., Yeah, after reading Dan's message, that was the only question I had, also. (smile). As for me, I will definitely suggest to Apple that this feature be restored. I find it difficult to believe that such a basic feature would be removed. Some things just don't make sense, not in

Re: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

Mark, I had no luck researching this online so perhaps Apple will even tell us how to do this. There are times we do not need autofill or autocomplete. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/24/2016 6:45 PM, M. Taylor wrote: Hello E.T.,

Re: Purchasing an iPhone and not having a Sim card

Thanks, Danny. That is what I was afraid of. I wonder why you don't need a Sim card with an android phone but you do with an iPhone. Stupid. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 24, 2016, at 8:15 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > > You require a cym card on setup but don't

Re: Searching the yelp app for a location other than your current one

Just guessing here, I do not have that app on my iPhone. But do you have location services turned on for it? If so, turn them off, and see if it then will give you a field to enter a location. Arnold Schmidt Sent from Arnold's iPhone On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Mary Otten

Purchasing an iPhone and not having a Sim card

I recall seeing somewhere that if you buy an iPhone, such as an iPhone SE, and you don't get a carriers Sim card to go with it, you can't use it. Is that true? I have an android phone that I never had a Sim card for, and it has worked just fine as a tablet more or less. I would like to use an

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

Mark, Did you change a setting on the Focus or on the VoiceOVer braille settings? I did find the binary that does braille translation for the Macintosh appears to be based on Duxberry if that makes any difference. FS appears to have moved to LibLouis for their Braille translation in UEB. --

RE: swift playgroupnd

Hi, As I’m running the IOS 10 Beta on my iPad where would I find the Swift Playground beta? Or is it because my iPad is a mini 4 I’m not actually running a ful iPad therefore don’t have the ability to run the swift playground software. Cheer. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Transferring from External Hard Drive Question

Yes if the drive is only being copied from. If you have to write to the drive then you will need it to be fat 32 or xfat By default mac osx wont write to NTFS file systems. But it will read from it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Fill in Numbers

Hi all, Does anybody know how I can fill a column with the same data for a couple hundred rows in a worksheet? Using the latest version of Numbers on El Capitan. Thx, Jeff -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: swift playgroupnd

As I recall, it's a download you can find in the App Store. > On Jul 24, 2016, at 04:25, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi, > > As I’m running the IOS 10 Beta on my iPad where would I find the Swift > Playground beta? > > Or is it because my iPad is a mini 4 I’m not

Re: El Capitan

No such item. The only thing in my app folder is “os 10 El Capitan app store down load” When I click to open it nothing happens. Marie Lyons > On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Marie, > > Have a look in your applications folder for an install OS X

Message tones on the Mac

Hi. How do I change the incoming message tone on the Mac Mini? I have been in to the notification settings and there is nothing there. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list,

Re: El Capitan

This command doesn’t work on my computer. I presume the F1 key is right of the accent key? Marie > On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > It's also possible that the installer finished downloading, but it is not the > application with focus. Try

Re: El Capitan

Where would I look beside the app folder for such an app? It isn’t in the app folder. Marie Lyons > On Jul 22, 2016, at 6:35 PM, E.T. wrote: > > That will happen if there is an Install OS X anywhere on your system. > Disconnect all external drives and delete that

Re: El Capitan

I believe this is the correct item to open. Probably after clicking on the application a dialog box comes up to verify that you are doing something serious to your system. Also, the F1 key is the second key on the top row. The first key is the Escape key. Best wishes, Jonathan > On Jul

Re: El Capitan

And verify the file size and date. The date the file was created might be the date it was downloaded to your system, I am not sure. Version on mine is 1.7.50. You say nothing happens when you open the file. To be sure, press VO f2 f2 to bring up the Window Chooser and see if there is a

Re: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

So do you have a solution to this specific question? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/24/2016 11:39 AM, -dan d. wrote: Often when some feature or function disappears from os10 it is still available to change in terminal. This is often

Re: using caliber

Hi gina, So, if I do it this way, can I specify .rtf instead of pdf? the command line might actually be easier then the very roundabout way I’ve been doing this!! I really want an rtf file in the end, you see, and I couldn’t choose that for the life of me! So, what I eventually did was to

Re: Moving WiFi networks on MacOS El Capitain

yes, the old and true version worked. I find the newer version only works if at the time of the drag command, both the source and target are visible on screen. There is a VO command to drag to a hot-spot, and I have not tried that and perhaps it works better. In terms of doing things the

Re: Message tones on the Mac

If you are talking about the messages application, this is set in the settings area of the messages app under the General tab. I believe there is also the ability to set message tones in the contacts application, I am not sure if messages honors these settings. Best wishes, Jonathan > On

Re: El Capitan

Try VO f1 f1. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/24/2016 2:03 PM, Marie Lyons wrote: This command doesn’t work on my computer. I presume the F1 key is right of the accent key? Marie On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Tim Kilburn

Re: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

Often when some feature or function disappears from os10 it is still available to change in terminal. This is often covered in articles soon after a new os10 comes out and those in the know of how the innards of the os works because they don't like some choice apple has made. Almost all

Re: Listing the contents of folders on my hard drives

Well, there is always the "ls" command in terminal. But it is truly amazing how many files are in a modern Operating System. One "app" might have 1,000 files. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 23, 2016, at 11:26 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > > In Windows, there were

Accessible screen sharingScreen

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Jennifer Sutton > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility user testing > Date: July 19, 2016 at 2:37:51 PM EDT > > For those who may be interested in screen sharing, here's a recent accessible > Webinar software roundup. Though you may find this slightly

Re: Message tones on the Mac

Hi. Thanks. I found them within the messaging app. I’ve been looking for message alerts for the last couple of days. > On 24 Jul 2016, at 22:18, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > If you are talking about the messages application, this is set in the > settings area of the messages

Re: El Capitan

Install OS X El Capitan.app is the file name and should be 6.22gigs. If its not in the Applications folder but you cannot download it, there is either a copy in trash or on a connected external drive. Empty trash and/or disconnect all external drives. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We

Re: El Capitan

Yes, you’re right. I was hitting the correct key. I just tried vo F1s and got the same result. I did not get any dialog box when I clicked on the El Capitan app. Marie Lyons > On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I believe this is the correct item to

Re: Message tones on the Mac

Try preferences inside the messages app. there are probably settings in there regarding changing the sounds associated with the app.. hth, Cait > On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Saqib Hussain wrote: > > Hi. How do I change the incoming message tone on the Mac Mini? I have

OT: custom sound works for Mail, not Messages

Hi all, I just saved an AIFF file for use with audio alerts on my Mac. I've assigned it to Mail with no problem, but I really wanted it for messages. However, it doesn't appear in Messages > Preferences > sound. Is there more I need to do than just adding it to ~/library/sounds, or can I not

Re: El Capitan

I am in the process of emptying the trash. I only have a CD player plugged into my computer. I don’t have an external hard drive. Marie Lyons > On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:40 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Install OS X El Capitan.app is the file name and should be 6.22gigs. If >

Very warm Mac Air and its recharger

Hi, I have a used Mac Air that seems to be working well. I know that a Windows laptop with drives has a fan and it may need to be cleaned out when it's over-heated.But what about my Mac, and even its recharger? Is this normal, or should I take it in for repair? It sort of scares me.

Nanny os, was"Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?"

When choices appear and disappear with no user control, this kind of thing is what I call a nanny os. It means the os developer decides how the user is to encounter applications. This is a product of the graphical user interface. The most obvious form of it is determining for the user the

Re: Fill in Numbers

Hi, Say for example that you have 1234 in Cell D2 and you'd like that same number in D2 through D232. You could enter the number into D@ then hold your shift and arrow down to D232, but that would be painful. If D232 happens to be the bottom of your spreadsheet, then, first make sure that

Re: Latency issues with VMware Fusion

In terms of the VM tools for VM fusion. 1. Make sure that your VM has a CD / DVD defined for it. 2. Start the VM. 3. Go to the Virtual Machine menu and click install VM Tools 4. Go into the Virtual Machine and the CD drive should have the tools as a CD disk. 5. Run the installer (might be

Re: Latency issues with VMware Fusion

In terms of the VM tools for VM fusion. 1. Make sure that your VM has a CD / DVD defined for it. 2. Start the VM. 3. Go to the Virtual Machine menu and click install VM Tools 4. Go into the Virtual Machine and the CD drive should have the tools as a CD disk. 5. Run the installer (might be

Re: Message tones on the Mac

You cannot add custom sounds that ill work with messages or ringtones. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, IOS and Windows Trainer JAWS for windows Certified - 2016 Canadian Phone: 519-962-9140 U.S. phone: 573-401-1018 Personal Email:

Re: Twitter links

Hi. I did use Night Owl but It kept on replying to the wrong user whenever I wanted to reply to a certain tweet in my timeline. I had to repeat the process of replying to the particular tweet around 3 times before the right user name popped up in the edit box. Usually the tweet below was being

Re: Pages template question

Hello Brian, I assume you meant to write Turabian since you mentioned this format in an earlier message. I haven’t been able to find any ready-made template for Pages in this style, but as I said earlier, you can make your own. It isn’t that difficult, it just takes time. Cheers, Anne > On

kinda OT: Have any of you found a way to find images and use them?

Hi all, I have a situation where I'm going to need to write content that includes images. I'm just wondering if any of you have had to do this for blogs, websites etc. If so, how did you go about it? Any sites that you found to be particularly helpful? Since this isn't really a Mac or IOS

RE: remote access

Hi Tim, Thanks for this. I’m going to give it a go during the week and see how I get on. Might have to setup a different user to use for the auto answer. This is kind of scarey really, knowing that they have this available if someone really tries to get in to a machine. Thanks for the info

Notifications

Hi. For some reason I’m not getting my notification sounds anymore on my Mac. I think Do Not Disturb is turned on and I can’t find a way of turning it on as It’s not in the notification centre. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: using caliber

Hello Caitlyn, I’d like to be able to do this too. I thought the only way was to install the command line tools. Preferences, Advanced. then from the command line: ebook-convert myBook.awz .pdf There are many formats and command structures. The above is the most basic and good for most cases