Re: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-26 Thread Justin Harford
cmd+l takes you to the address bar. On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, AS some of you may know, I'm a guy who doesn't yet own a Mac but wishes to learn as much as I can before buying one. If I open Safari and want to go to a new website using a link

Re: touch screens?

2009-09-26 Thread May McDonald
I actually learned better when I listened to the podcast before I got my IPhone. Then when I actually decided to get one I already knew how to do some thigns. It does make it a little easier to learn the Iphone if you have a little knowledge before. On 25-Sep-09, at 11:05 PM, Victor

Re: load of rubbish!

2009-09-26 Thread william lomas
Yup I do apologize, forgive me, I didn't know that non UK people could hear it, how cool, :) On 25 Sep 2009, at 23:20, Justin Harford wrote: Wow just listened. Well I would have to say that apple made a mistake. They designed their phone for competent blind people. Regards Justin

Re: Download link for Pages

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Thank you Esther, I'll try this. BTW do you use a word processor or just TEXShop? Take care James On 26 Sep 2009, at 17:06, Esther wrote: Hi James, I think you can get the trial at: http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial but I recall there was some slightly tricky interaction required to

Snow Leopard and mail preview pane

2009-09-26 Thread Bob Hill
Hi all, I received and installed my copy of Snow Leopard and now want to turn off the preview pane in mail. Is there a different procedure for doing this in mail now? clicking on the horizontal splitters doesn't seem to work. I have mouse cursor ignores VO cursor set in navigation Any

daisy maker

2009-09-26 Thread william lomas
hi all where do I get the daisy maker, i wish to try and put t.n.a.u.k. newspapers that are in text, into a daisy format Will p.s. I want the maker to keep the daisy book as text though not convert it to mp3

load of rubbish

2009-09-26 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi all, I've listened to the stereotypically high nose sounding reviewer of the iphone on BBC, and there are two things i've noticed: -He praises the web very much, and his experience is to that level because he is low vision, not totally blind. -He also congratulates Apple's efforts for a

Re: daisy maker

2009-09-26 Thread Greg Kearney
You would be far better off using Daisy Pipeline for this. It is still gooing to require a great deal of marking up of the content. Greg On 26/09/2009, at 4:58 PM, william lomas wrote: hi all where do I get the daisy maker, i wish to try and put t.n.a.u.k.

Re: Download link for Pages

2009-09-26 Thread Esther
Hi James, I think you can get the trial at: http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial but I recall there was some slightly tricky interaction required to download (but that was in Safari 3). Cheers, Esther James Nash wrote: Could someone please point me to a link to download an IWork trial? I

Deleting or renaming the Movies, Music and Pictures folders in Mac OS X

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks, I've run into a tiny problem and it's really just a personal preference. I am not a big music fan and i don't watch movies or keep the very small collection of photos that I have on my Mac. I have tried to rename these folders unsuccessfully so I tried to delete them, only to

accessible mobile phones compatible with mac?

2009-09-26 Thread Christina
Greetings list members, I am in the market for an accessible mobile phone. I am very interested in the iphone for several reasons including the cool factor. :) I am hesitant due to the size of iphone as well as the extra $30 a month i will have to pay for the data plan. If I were to go

Re: daisy maker

2009-09-26 Thread will
where can i get documentation for daisy pipeliner - Original Message - From: Greg Kearney gkear...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:06 PM Subject: Re: daisy maker You would be far better off using Daisy Pipeline for this. It is

Re: daisy maker

2009-09-26 Thread Greg Kearney
Go to the project section of www.daisy.org Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696

Download link for Pages

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks Could someone please point me to a link to download an IWork trial? I can't seem to find it on the Apple site. Thanks james --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

RE: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Gibbs
do I have to type VO Command L, or just command L? Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Stegall Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:33 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to go to a

Re: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-26 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Command l. On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: do I have to type VO Command L, or just command L? Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Stegall Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:33

Re: twitter for the mac, what will work with vo?

2009-09-26 Thread Claude Renaud
Anna, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi, I use Syrinx, and one thing I love about it is how easy it is to read tweets in the order they were received. You can set a bookmark on the last tweet you read, then use a Go to Bookmark command and press the Spacebar repeatedly to move the bookmark up

Playing folders with VLC

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks, Has anyone managed to play entire folders with the latest version of VLC Media Player please and if so how? I am told that VLC cannot play my input. It always used to play anything I threw at it including folders. Thanks Take care James

Copying and creating items in the list view

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks, Can someone please explain to me how to create folders and add items to already created folders in the list view as it seems as if VO works best in this view for me at the moment. It is at the very least a little less verbose. Thanks Take care James

Re: Bonjour de Paris

2009-09-26 Thread Claude Renaud
All, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: Hi there, my name is Jean-Philippe Rykiel, I'm a musician and I don't have a Mac yet. Very nice to see some people speaking rench there ! Jean-Philippe, I'm also a musician. I used to be a pianist till few years ago. I still have my beautiful Yamaha

RE: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Gibbs
thanks -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chantel Cuddemi Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:25 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to go to a new website in Safari Command l. On Sep 26,

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
25 sep 2009 kl. 22.28 skrev william lomas: they can soon praise the iPhone yet slam the mac? hyppocrits That's exactly my thought too. Why praise one thing and diss the other? /Krister --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

VO and apple scripts

2009-09-26 Thread louie
Howdy all, Can some one give me a address to check out voice over and apple scripts. Thanks for any help. louie louiem...@wavecable.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Snow Leopard and mail preview pane

2009-09-26 Thread Randy Stegall
You have to click the actual mouse button to do this. Randy On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Bob Hill wrote: Hi all, I received and installed my copy of Snow Leopard and now want to turn off the preview pane in mail. Is there a different procedure for doing this in mail now? clicking on

Re: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-26 Thread Randy Stegall
Command l will take you to the address field where you can type the url. Randy On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, AS some of you may know, I'm a guy who doesn't yet own a Mac but wishes to learn as much as I can before buying one. If I open Safari and

Re: Playing folders with VLC

2009-09-26 Thread Mike Reiser
I've managed to play folders just fine. I select the folder and press ok. Keep in mind I downloaded the intel 32-bit version instead of the universal binary, don't know if that makes a difference. Mike On Sep 26, 2009, at 9:43 AM, James Nash wrote: Hi folks, Has anyone managed to

skype and the mullti tuch pad help

2009-09-26 Thread David Geiger
hey everyone need help with skype i got it installed now and that works but i cant get to my contacts list or anything need help and i mest up vo the outher nite realy bad with useing the mullti tuch pad jesters wow it wouldnt even work so if there is someone on the list that uses the mullti

Re: Playing folders with VLC

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Thanks, I'll see if I can get the 32-bit version in stad On 26 Sep 2009, at 20:13, Mike Reiser wrote: I've managed to play folders just fine. I select the folder and press ok. Keep in mind I downloaded the intel 32-bit version instead of the universal binary, don't know if that makes a

Re: Copying and creating items in the list view

2009-09-26 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi James, When you're in the folder you want to create a subfolder in, press Command-N. To put items in a folder, copy them with Command-C. HTH, anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Copying and creating items in the list view

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Thanks Anna On 26 Sep 2009, at 21:43, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi James, When you're in the folder you want to create a subfolder in, press Command-N. To put items in a folder, copy them with Command-C. HTH, anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Still can't open folders within VLC

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks, Despite a list member's suggestion that I download the 32-bit version of VLC, I still cannot open folders like I could in Leopard. Do I need to install Flip4Mac for VLC to open the MP3 files? Thanks Take care James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I just noticed this afternoon that there are songs in my itunes library that I neither own nor purchased. I first found them on my iphone, but checked and they are also on my Macbook. A couple of the songs in question are: Vince Giraldi Lioness and Lucy Randy Neumann, You have a

Some remaining VO issues with Nisus Writer Pro 1.3.1 beta

2009-09-26 Thread James Nash
Hi folks, There still seem to be at least two big issues in the current beta of the Snow Leopard version of NWP 1.3.1. They re: 1. The Style Sheet is virtually inaccessible 2. Whilst the palettes now seem to be labelled, a portion of the drawers and panels are still inaccessible. I am

RE: Some remaining VO issues with Nisus Writer Pro 1.3.1 beta

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Gibbs
What is this program and what does it do? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Nash Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 4:21 PM To: Mac visionaries Subject: Some remaining VO issues with Nisus Writer Pro

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Donna, Did your husband purchase these songs recently, by any chance? I know itunes 9 can be configured so that whenever one person on a network buys music from the iTunes store, the songs they purchase get copied to other computers on the network; could that be it? Best, Anna

Snow Leopard and mail preview pane

2009-09-26 Thread Bob Hill
Hi all, I received and installed my copy of Snow Leopard and now want to turn off the preview pane in mail. Is there a different procedure for doing this in mail now? clicking on the horizontal splitters doesn't seem to work. I have mouse cursor ignores VO cursor set in navigation Any

Re: Still can't open folders within VLC

2009-09-26 Thread Mike Reiser
I didn't have to install anything extra, I just installed vlc on my snowlepard mac, went to the file menu and chose open, and just pressed return on the folder after brow-zing for it and then hit ok. Really not sure what's happening on your end. Mike On Sep 26, 2009, at 4:01 PM, James

Re: VO and screenwriting software

2009-09-26 Thread Israel
Thank you Justin and James. I've done some early research on your suggestion. Thank you for the reply Israel Antonio Sexy Isra On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:29 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi, Just to add to Justin's post, while you'll have a bit of a learning curve as Justin has pointed out, you

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anna, Nope. My husband doesn't purchase music on the net. I know it wasn't him. Thanks though, Donna On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi Donna, Did your husband purchase these songs recently, by any chance? I know itunes 9 can be configured so that whenever one

To Alex or anyone who can help: Text to speach/audio workflow

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Hi there guys, Just a quick question for Alex or anyone out there that can help. Alex you earlier in the summer put me on to a workflow that opened a textedit document saved on the computer and transformed it into a computer voiced audio file for the iPod. Well it doesn't seem to work with

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Donna, Very strange. Is there anyone else on your network? And these songs are really in iTunes - you're not streaming them from a shared computer? Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

snow leopard installed

2009-09-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I managed to get snow leopard and the x-code tools installed. One thing that slowed the upgrade down though was software update went out looking for software to update before the snow leopard disk was ejected and I forgot to tell software update to delay. Safari and mail did take a few

unzipping password-protected archives

2009-09-26 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I just downloaded a book from Bookshare and tried to unpack it, and I was surprised to find out that the archive program that comes with the Mac doesn't know how to handle password-protected zip files. I was told it couldn't open the file, and that was it. Is there some setting I can

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-09-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I use only four search rules to locate all the spam that comes into my shellworld.net account and these rules also find ham that was sent me too. The shellworld.net account is a free-bsd account with spamassassin on it. The four rules are as follows and there's no way any offender has

Automator

2009-09-26 Thread Justin Harford
Has anyone tried to use automator since upgrading to SL? I find I get an access of busy signals which at times renders the app nearly impossible to use. Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Donna Goodin
No. That's why this is so odd. It almost seems like Itunes installed them diliberately. They were all of different genres, as if they wanted to se what might appeal to me. I guess my next step is to call Apple. Thanks for confirming that this is odd. I guess on one level I was wondering

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-26 Thread hank smith
its about time nfb did some good for a change - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:53 AM Subject: iPhone honored by NFB I didn't notice this mentioned on the list previously. I

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-26 Thread Buddy Brannan
Oh, and this isn't at all inflamatory. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:05 PM, hank smith wrote: its about time nfb did some good for a change - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com To:

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Charlie Doremus
I'm no expert, but I do a lot of things with Itunes. From the way you describe your situation it sounds like you are getting someone Elses wifi and their play list is popping up on you machine. Go into Itunes preferences, click sharing and turn all that stuff off. Hope this helps. On Sat, Sep

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Donna, I've never heard of iTunes randomly giving people songs. Are they the whole song, or just a sample? Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Welcome questions and VoiceOver Tiger Resources [was Re: Two small mail and VO questions]

2009-09-26 Thread Esther
Hi Stan, You wrote: Hi Esther and Anna, I have taken a long time before I replied, as I have been trying and trying to get this to work. I now have it working, and yes I should have said, I am using tiger. The VO H H has no sort option, and yes VO Shift backslash does not work for me. I

Text to audio workflow solved :-)

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Hi all, Just wanted to post that I have my text to audio file workflow problem sorted. Alex was able to help me out so all is grand here. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :-) ~~~*~~~ Best Wishes- Jenny Kennedy (Howard) Olathe, Kansas USA Feel free to stay in contact with me with any of

Re: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Charlie Doremus
If you are in an area with a lot of people using wireless routers you and they can sometimes be getting the same signal. Where I live there are 584 other units in the complex and at any given time there are at least one other wifi network open. If either network are open you and or others will see

RE: songs appearing in iTunes?

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Could these tunes have come with the machine? They sound just generic enough to be something that would demonstrate the variety of music available. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent:

RE: Snow Leopard and mail preview pane

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I thought I saw a response to the question of how to eliminate the preview pane a while back and lost it. Don't own a Mac yet but will want to close preview pane. So, very interested in this problem and the solution. Kevin -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-26 Thread Christina
I am surprised and happy with their response to the iphone with voiceover. I wonder if NFB will benefit somehow from the accessible iphone. On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Yes, but you'd have to turn it on using the iTunes acount to which the iPhone is conected. So, you'd

Re: unzipping password-protected archives

2009-09-26 Thread Esther
Hi Anna, You need to get the Unarchiver from: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html or else use Stuffit Expander. This is actually mentioned on BookShare's FAQ page. I still keep a copy of Stuffit Expander around, though I haven't come across a file that I absolutely had to use this

Re: unzipping password-protected archives

2009-09-26 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy there. You also have the option of using the built in unzip program in the terminal. 1. Open terminal from the utilities folder 2. in the terminal window, type sudo unzip file path. ~/ is a short cut for the home directory, so if I had file.zip in my home folder I would type sudo