Getting rid of podcasts in the iTunes app on the Mac

I recently subscribed to a few podcasts using the Podcasts app on my iPhone. It is set not to download anything. Therefore, I was quite surprised when I open my Mac today to iTunes and stuff was downloading. It turns out, that several Podcasts had been downloaded. Now I want to get rid of all

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

I’d like to give this a whole hearted +1.:) You’ll gain huge performance (said this the most donald trump like Huge possible haha). Seriously it’s a great upgrade. As for which disk to use again Tim is dead on the mark anything should work. I have personally had great luck with the Crucial

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi Ramy, It all depends on how much data you normally save to your drive. The MacOS will fit fine on a 128 GB SSD with lots of space for regular data. If you start putting lots of media like music, movies etc on it, then 128 may be a little tight. The MacOS normally uses 20 to 40 GB, so you

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Hi Scott, I wanted to correct you on something, the watchOS 3.1 beta is for developers only. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > IOS, Sierra and Watch public betas have been released. Being a .1 release a > lot of these are bug fixes. > > Note for

Re: capitalone app

I know Mark has mentioned he’s a capital one bank user and may be able to provide some info here. I’ve only used the credit card app which has had it’s accessibility issues addressed again thanks to mark and others writing in to raise the concern. Maybe if he catches this thread he can offer

RE: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Hey Scott, Not sure about calling ramy old, but yeah good work to all with helping. Makes things easier for all when we pitch in and assist. Yeah installing macs is great, I was a windows user till a few years ago but now I do more with the mac OS than windows Although I'm still a heavy

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Well, I would have guessed considering how much I’ve seen in reports of over all internet traffic.:) Did you know porn was used to help motivate the adoption of IPV6? There was free porn made available at one point and the only way to access it was to deploy IPV6 in your network.:) > On

Re: How to change the voice over voice without going into the VO utility

Thanks John, I am sorry I hadn't found that before I posted my unnecessary question. At least your answer help someone else too. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2016, at 4:45 PM, John Panarese wrote: > >VO-command-arrows will change voice parameters. > > >

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

The reason it gives you the option of installing a profile on the watch is because the watch is paired with the iPhone. There’s no watch profile for public beta testers, so that article clearly doesn’t know what it’s talking about. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 7:14 PM, Scott Granados

Another way to change right command key?

Hi all, is there another way to change the right command key on my MacBook Air? I am really missing my right control key. Thank you, Traci -- 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

Re: capitalone app

The 360 bank is what I use. It has always worked before. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > I know Mark has mentioned he’s a capital one bank user and may be able to > provide some info here. I’ve only used the credit card app which has had > it’s

Abbyy find reader pro for Mac now supports sierra

I got an update in the Mac App Store today for my Abby fine reader pro, so I'm updating. The note that came with the update sent it supports the Sierra. For those of you who have been waiting, your wait is over. Mary Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Interesting, when I logged in to the public beta site with the iPhone it gave me the option to update both the phone profile and the watch. I did not touch the watch update. I am not a developer to be clear I participate in the public only. Redmond pie also included the watch update in

Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

IOS, Sierra and Watch public betas have been released. Being a .1 release a lot of these are bug fixes. Note for voice over users on installation, when you reboot / restart to install there’s a window that appears, OSX setup with no windows, just wait here about 10 to 20 minutes. Install is

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

So I might be thinking of the orientation differently. With the touch pad facing away from you assuming it’s lying flat on a surface, the buttons oriented with the volume control on the right and the group of 3 on the left, the lightning port would be on the bottom edge facing your chest

RE: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi Ramy, As tim has most likely said Any ssd is fine but it's getting it into the machine that is the hard part. I've taken one mac mini apart and I wont do it again, It was a nightmare trying to get things into the space without breaking things. -Original Message- From:

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi Ramy, 128 GB is a decent amount of space. Some of the Air line for example was in that size. Now, of course, more is better if you can afford it and another qualifier is if you have some means of external storage. In my case I have network attached storage so all my machines store data

RE: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

128 is heaps of space to install mac osx The mac book air has that as a default size The OS installs to approx. 16 gig infact less than 16 gig so you should be fine with the 128gig drive in your mac mini, You could also see if the older sata drive can be left in your mac mini as a

RE: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Ramy, Hi, Great to hear you've got it working, And yes I forgot all about that issue. I have to found that vo wont automatically speak the drive table when it comes up. I had to turn vo off and on to get it to see things correctly. It's an easy fix when you know about it.

Re: Dictation and speech with Sierra?

Hi Kliff. I can't say for sure where the dictation part is, but speech has been moved to accessibility. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Sep 23, 2016, at 3:04

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Yes, HD-DVD, that standard died off for the most part. It was an interesting battle actually. The funny thing is what pushed the blue ray standard over the top. The porn industry adopted blue ray and that was all she wrote. Between Porn and sony putting the blue ray in the play station it

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

It should start it can take 5 minutes on first turn up to start. I believe you can press the center button in the round area 3 times also to start vo but I’m not 100% sure on that so please take with appropriate grains of salt. I gave my 3rd gen to my son if you get stuck I’ll walk over there

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

Jonathan, it’s my considered technical opinion that the verizon router sucks the big one.:) Now there are several types, mine is some sort of Quantum gateway. In my setup I have the router doing the routing and the airport Extreme as the access point. You can use your own router but you have

Re: Getting rid of podcasts in the iTunes app on the Mac

Hi, Haven't done this in a while, but normally, I would just navigate to the podcast episode then press Backspace to delete it. If you wish to Unsubscribe, you should be able to do this from either of two places. In the Podcasts table, not the Episodes table, you can press VO-shift-m to

RE: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Like betta and VHS, Who would have thought the porn industry was that powerfull. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:04 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: How to change the voice over voice without going into the VO utility

John, that’s a fantastic shortcut, thank you for posting. Much appreciated. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 7:45 PM, John Panarese wrote: > >VO-command-arrows will change voice parameters. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631)

Re: My experience with a clean install of the new searia os.

Hi, Yes I am planing on doing so. I just found it strange that it would act that way for some reason. Any how Things are running much better here after doing the clean install. Matthew > On Sep 23, 2016, at 2:18 AM, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Doesn’t

RE: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

Hi Ramy, When the installer goes to start installing, Hit cancel and stop the installation. Then under your applications folder find the osX sierra installer file and copy it on to a usb device to transfer it to your other machine then do the copy and paste in to that machines applications

Re: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Hey Ramy, congratulations on getting squared away. DOn’t hesitate to ask questions here it’s a pleasure to help you out and soon you’ll be an old hand and able to help the next person starting out with the Mac. Good news is here that this whole process is accessible to us. Can’t do this sort

How to change the voice over voice without going into the VO utility

I just upgraded my Mac to Sierra, and everything seems to have gone without a hitch. However, I just know there was a keyboard command involving the use of the arrows and some combination of shift control command etc., but let you change the voice being used by voiceover on the fly, without

Disregard my voice change question

I found an article using Google that was a couple of years old, that had the answer. I thought I had tried all the possible key combinations, but I missed one. The one I needed of course. Voiceover voice Rotor command control option left arrow. Mary Sent from my iPhone -- The following

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

THanks all for your advices, BUt my SSD which I have on my old windows Laptop was 128 GB, is it enough? or I should buy bigger 1? On 9/23/16, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi Ramy, > > As tim has most likely said > Any ssd is fine but it's getting it into the machine that is the

Re: Dictation and speech with Sierra?

Dictation is in the keyboard pane of system preferences. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi Kliff. I can't say for sure where the dictation part is, but speech has > been moved to accessibility. > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook > Facebook

Re: How to change the voice over voice without going into the VO utility

VO-command-arrows will change voice parameters. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

I seen the second one; don’t have phone with me so can’t check the first one. When the second one happens, double tap “return to call” on the status bar and then use that keypad. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 9:22 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi list, > > Not sure if this is

RE: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi, I couldn’t find the return to call button when I went through this process Could only find the number pad and the associated call keypad etc buttons at the bottom. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Babcock Sent: Saturday, 24

to Jeff burwick and anyone else experienceing the alarm and volume discrepancy

Hi all, Earlier this week, a thread came up about iOS alarms not holding to the same volume as the regular phone. I also have experienced this, and what I've found to abliterate the alarm woes is to turn off audio ducking. that will then keep the volume at the same level as everything else.

found IOS 10 bugs

Hi list, Not sure if this is just me on my iPhone 6s+ but I've just found a couple of oddities. Firstly the delete button on the phone keypad says button not delete like it used to, I'm sure in the public beta it said delete but can't be sure of that one. It is still there just not labelled

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

I’ve had to do this when joining conference calls before. hope it helps. > On Sep 23, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > So with the second one, the return to call button, > > You mean tap it even though I’m still in the call and it will give me back > the key

RE: to Jeff burwick and anyone else experienceing the alarm and volume discrepancy

Yes I noticed this on my iPod which I use as my alarm, An older iPod is a lower volume and then the iPod 6 gen with IOS 10 is loud for the alarm and then turning that off it goest to normal volume again. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi Simon, Regarding your first bug with the delete button, I am finding something that says delete that was not identified as a button, to the right of the area where the number is being entered as you enter a phone number. Double tapping on this deletes the last number you entered. I'm not

RE: found IOS 10 bugs

So with the second one, the return to call button, You mean tap it even though I’m still in the call and it will give me back the key pad functionality? Might give that a try now with the thing I was doing earlier. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]

Re: to Jeff burwick and anyone else experienceing the alarm and volume discrepancy

My Audio docking is off and it still happens, the alarm and voice over increases as the alarm goes off. > On 24 Sep 2016, at 04:58, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Earlier this week, a thread came up about iOS alarms not holding to the same > volume as the

RE: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi Mary, Which phone do you have? Interesting that It’s coming up as button to me but no delete with it, Yet your finding it with the delete The location is as it’s been for some time and that is as you say to the right of the edit field for the phone number. Cheers, Simon From:

Reading paragraphs?

HI ALL, I TYPICALLY USE ITEXT EXPRESS FOR CREATING AND READING DOCUMENTS. I NOTICE IN SIERRA, READING VIA PARAGRAPH IS NOT AN OPTION ANYMORE. IS THERE A WAY I CAN CHANGE THIS? I SEE WINDOW SPOTS, CHARACTERS, WORDS, NAVIGATION. THANK YOU, TRACI PS. LOL, FOR SOME REASON I CANNOT CAPITOLIZE

RE: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Yeah ios 10.2 is out and installed but nothing for watch OS, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Miller Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:06 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sierra

Re: mail signatures in siera

Hi Jean, look in settings and in the toolbar under Signatures. Jürgen > Am 23.09.2016 um 05:54 schrieb Jean : > > Hello All: > > I am using Siera and the signatures in the mail program are missing. Can > anyone tell me where to find the signature editor? > > Many

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

Hi, thought the lightning port to charge the remote is on the front? > On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:57, Scott Granados wrote: > > Just to expand on this a little for Vaughn, the 3rd gen as everyone as said > is not rechargeable. The 4th is, on the back of the 4th is a lightning

Re: Update on mac research

Oh wow thank you. See I never used SSD before so have no idea of performance. > On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:40, Scott Granados wrote: > > Chris, sounds like a fine choice. If the user is upgrading from a 500 GB HD > to a 512 SSD she’ll be blown away. That in itself is such a

Re: My experience with a clean install of the new searia os.

Doesn’t sound too bad, you can always set up two-factor authentication later in System Preferences>iCloud and by clicking account details under your name. > On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:40, matthew dyer wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just want to share my experience with doing

Problem with Apple ID details on Macbook Pro. Can anyone advise?

Morning everyone! Please can someone help me out. I've got a Macbook 13 inch. In the security part of my Apple ID in iCloud preferences, where my birthday is located VoiceOver says "Invalid data" Popup button after each item. Please is there any way of sorting this out? Thanks very much, I look

Re: iCloud Keychain

Sorry, do the articles not match up with reality or with each other? I believe their feedback links at the bottom of each article. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:43 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Finally! I found the needed information online but as is

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

You should expect whatever they gave you to be fairly crappy. They are not interested in giving you a good router. They just ship out the cheapest thing they have so it will be easier for tech support and such. Putting the modem in bridge mode and using your own router would be better. I did

Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

Hello all: now, I have my 2 macs, the mini and my MacBook pro. I need to install sierra on both, but don't want to download it twice. so, after downloading from the mac appstore, will I find the installer in the downloads folder? can I upgrade to sierra before taking the installer from downloads?

Re: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Hi, That's good to hear. I hope this next try is less problematic than your first attempt. Please don't feel bad about asking further questions, we're all here to help each other. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 23, 2016, at 07:47, Ramy Moustafa

Re: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Hello all my friends: I think this will be the last message in this long thread. Thanks so much, with your help, my mac mini now has the 10.8 mountain lion which it was shipped with. and am downloading sierra now. Thanks again for your help On 9/22/16, Ramy Moustafa

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hello, The terminal is great. Often it looks really hard but using the tab key to automatically complete a path seriously reduces the amount of typing. Regards, Gena > On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:48, Scott Granados wrote: > > How great is terminal though. The ability to drop

A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hello all: I have my mac mini late 2012 running mountain lion til now. and I have my MacBook pro 2015, but what I observed, that my mac book pro is a little faster, it has the SSD Hard disk, but my mac mini has the original Sata Hd. I have another extra SSD Hard disk from another laptop, your

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

As far as the backup, it depends on the size of the backup drive. If it is large enough to equal the size of the drives on both units, then yes as long as you create a partition on the drive first. But you are better off having a separate back up unit for each. Louis -Original

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

Thanks all. will do this exactly On 9/23/16, lscrivani wrote: > If you do a vo + f3, it will say a percentage of the download. > Louis > > > -Original Message- > From: Ramy Moustafa > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:57 AM > To:

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

If you do a vo + f3, it will say a percentage of the download. Louis -Original Message- From: Ramy Moustafa Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine ok, thanks,

Re: Problem with Apple ID details on Macbook Pro. Can anyone advise?

Gary, For each popup button that has the wrong data, do a VO space and arrow up or down to select the correct data then press enter. Then find the done button and you are finished. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/23/2016 3:52 AM, Gary

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

That depends, Louis. All VO+F3 does is speak what is under the Voiceover cursor. If you're not already focused on the progress, then that won't work. Good suggestion, but just bare that in mind. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

ok, thanks, but now I start downloading Sierra, there is no progress bar or something that indicates weather I'm downloading or not. any ideas? On 9/23/16, lscrivani wrote: > As far as the backup, it depends on the size of the backup drive. If it > is large enough to

Re: Installing sierra on 2 computers, and a question on time machine

Hi, When the Sierra Installer downloads, it actually downloads to the Applications folder, not the Downloads folder. Also, after it downloads, it will automatically open the installer ready for you to start. If you start the process, it will automatically delete the installer after the

capitalone app

Hi: Has anyone figured out how to transfer money between accounts? As soon as I double tap done, the app is completely unaccessible! Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi, Putting an SSD into your Mini would realize huge improvements in access speed for you. An SSD itself is often 60 to 80 times faster than a spinning HD, so you will see big improvements to app loading times and some processing times. For example, when I changed my MacBook Pro from a

Dictation and speech with Sierra?

Hello, on El Capitan and before, in system preferences there was a dictation and speech section. This allowed us to choose a voice that was system wide, or for various things like the time. It seems that this has been removed. Is there a different area where this can be done, or has it just

Re: Problem with Apple ID details on Macbook Pro. Can anyone advise?

Hi Gary Now you’ve explained this, open the pop-up button as usual, and choose the data matching your birthday. Not going to disclose it on here, but yeah. > On 23 Sep 2016, at 11:52, Gary Price wrote: > > Morning everyone! > > Please can someone help me out. > I've

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi, Pretty well any SSD should work. I've yet to get a drive that I couldn't format to work on a Mac. Many of them will say in their specs if they work for both Mac and Windows. They'll often come formatted for Windows, but that's easy to remedy. I've installed Crucial, Kingston and others

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Just i will put it on my mac, command option r, and that is it? Ramy moustafa saber licturer at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Pretty well any SSD should work.

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

Thank you Everyone. I am assuming that once the HDMI port is selected does Voiceover turn on on its own? You said it will be speaking. If not, is there a shortcut to turn it on, like the triple click on the iPhone after taking it out of the box? Thanks, Vaughn On 9/22/16, christopher hallsworth

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Aha Tim, but can I use any SSD? or I must buy something specially for apple machines? On 9/23/16, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Putting an SSD into your Mini would realize huge improvements in access > speed for you. An SSD itself is often 60 to 80 times faster than a spinning

Re: Dictation and speech with Sierra?

I believe the dictation and speech settings have been moved to the keyboard preferences. It's another tab next to the input tab. -- 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, or if

Re: Dictation and speech with Sierra?

That is correct. On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Blee Blat wrote: > I believe the dictation and speech settings have been moved to the > keyboard preferences. It's another tab next to the input tab. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

That should work. Before you do the installation though, you'll need to open Disk Utility and format the SSD as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Once it has been formatted properly, you can install Sierra. If you have access to a wired Internet connection instead of wireless, that may make the