Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hey Everybody, I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar names here. I bought a magic track pad and wasn't able to do to much with it. I tried changing some of the settings to adjust the sensitivity but it didn't seem to make any difference. So , I am just getting

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Did you turn the track commander on in VO utility? On 16 Jan 2011, at 08:35, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hey Everybody, I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar names here. I bought a magic track pad and wasn't able to do to much with it. I tried changing some

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Peppel
Yes, I did. Thanks. Chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Did you turn the track commander on in VO utility? On 16 Jan 2011, at 08:35, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hey Everybody, I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar names here. I bought

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm how odd, I have one too and it seems to work fine. What trouble are you having exactly? Had you used the gestures before on say an Macbook or iOS device? Chris On 16 Jan 2011, at 09:18, Christopher Peppel wrote: Yes, I did. Thanks. Chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris

Re: What could make an internal hard drive suddenly decide to die?

2011-01-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, i'll try to answer your questions in their context below: 15 jan 2011 kl. 19.01 skrev Ben Mustill-Rose: Are you sure that the drive is actually spinning down? How functional is the rest of the os? I'm sure because the motor stops and so does the reading/writing apparently. Furthermore

Re: What could make an internal hard drive suddenly decide to die?

2011-01-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
15 jan 2011 kl. 20.51 skrev Eric Oyen: its a driver issue where the drive controller is instructed to park and shut down. the only way I have found to resolve it is a full reboot by a not so friendly unplug and then power on and boot. this forces the on board controller to reset back into

Re: What could make an internal hard drive suddenly decide to die?

2011-01-16 Thread Eric Oyen
I end up hitting the reset button, followed quickly by a power plug removal. then plug it back in and restart. I have an older model iMac (intel) that seems to have this problem in both 10.5 and 10.6 series OS'es. fortunately, its not as common in 10.6. now if I could just get voiceover to stop

Re: New Garageband artist

2011-01-16 Thread joseph
i have few that i am willing to share. is dropbox ok for you? best On 15 Jan 2011, at 18:07, Ricardo Walker wrote: No problem, I will cover sound fonts as soon as I learn how to use them. lol. BTW, do you know where I can get a few free sound fonts to try out the method Chad

Re: Links and urls

2011-01-16 Thread Andre Nuno Soares
Hello Sarah, While in QuickNav, change the rotter to Links and then jump (Up or Down arrow) to the link you want and VO Shift M should show the correct options. Of course, this also works with the TrackPad commander. HTH, André On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: that is if

Re: Searching the Archive

2011-01-16 Thread Andre Nuno Soares
Hello Paul, Besides the Google groups site that was already mentioned, you can also use: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ Personally, I find this site easier. HTH, André On Jan 15, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: Hello everyone. Can someone tell me how to

varifying my payment info on ITouch?

2011-01-16 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi guys, I'm trying to log into the app store with my ITouch and it's asking me to verify my credit card details. So, I checked it out and everything was there except my credit card security code. I filled that in and hit the done button and nothing happens. I've double double checked all

New Group in Address Book

2011-01-16 Thread cougar1...@gmail.com
Hello, I created a new group in my address book and now I want to do 2 things with it. I want to rename it and I want to have my IPhone see it. Thanks for the help Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: varifying my payment info on ITouch?

2011-01-16 Thread brandt
Go do it on the mac, then go back to the touch. I had to do it a while back, and that's the easyest way to go. Regards, Brandt Steenkamp MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 - Original

Re: varifying my payment info on ITouch?

2011-01-16 Thread erik burggraaf
I got it. I had to sign out on the touch and then sign back in on the touch. I'm pretty sure it had to be done from there since the whole thing about it was me logging in from a second device. They would want to make sure that device really was mine. Thanks for the quick suggestion though.

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Caitlyn and Nicky
I finally finished it two nights ago. Personally loved it and can see myself playing it more. I hope they do more games like it and can't wait to see more from these developers. Now I'm on the hunt for more like it and the soul trapper type games. I haven't been lucky so far, though.

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Vinny Pedulla
I finished it as well a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. One question: is the ending a little strange? Without spoiling it for everyone, do both doors give the same outcome? That was the only part of the game that left me wondering, but I may be missing something visual. Need to get sided

two nicecast questions

2011-01-16 Thread f10r14n
Hi, I have two questions about nicecast. I just installed it and i understand most of the interface , but two things: - I see options for streaming to a built-in icecast server. All nice and good, but what if you are like me and have a locked shut router? I want to be able to stream to an

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hi Chris, No, I haven't used any of those devices so far. I went into the track pad settings On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Hmmm how odd, I have one too and it seems to work fine. What trouble are you having exactly? Had you used the gestures before on say an Macbook or

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Please excuse me for putting my 2 cents in but, I think the Original post is still valid. It seems to have been lost in the war of words following though. It seems silly to not be able to just set a default format of your choosing. Especially since Word formats are pretty much what 90%

Re: using vo j in apple mail

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Why not just press tab? If the preview pane is up, which I believe it is by default, just tab and shift tab will do. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: Hi guys.

Re: re-soundfonts in garage band

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Oh Cool! Thanks for this. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 15, 2011, at 9:02 PM, baker420 wrote: hi ricardo there's hammer sound and soundfonts.it i forgot about that sound generator group oops -- You received

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread David Hole
Hi. Is this game blind-friendly? On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:28, Vinny Pedulla vinnypedu...@gmail.com wrote: I finished it as well a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. One question: is the ending a little strange? Without spoiling it for everyone, do both doors give the same outcome? That

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Jane
Yeah, it is. It even tells you when to disabe and re-enable VoiceOver. You don't need ti to play the levels, but you do need to re-enable it to go to the next level, no problem though since the serena tells you when to do so. Jane On Jan 16, 2011, at 12:50 PM, David Hole wrote: Hi. Is this

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh no; very different endings. Listen carefully. I don't know which one is more unsettling ... wonderful game. Teresa On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Vinny Pedulla wrote: I finished it as well a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. One question: is the ending a little strange? Without spoiling

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
I agree, it would be nice but show me a word processor that does this apart from MS Word? Companies would have to probably pay quite high to licence this from Microsoft. When pages 09 came out it was the only word processor on the mac that could read and write to the docx format. Not even

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Ok why not try switching VO keyboard help on by pressing VO+k and then practice using some of the gestures to get a good feel how best to get the magic trackpad to respond. When you are finished practising then hit Esc. You can also ad additional functions to your gestures to in the VO

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
Very. teresa On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:50 AM, David Hole wrote: Hi. Is this game blind-friendly? On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:28, Vinny Pedulla vinnypedu...@gmail.com wrote: I finished it as well a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. One question: is the ending a little strange? Without

Re: New Garageband artist

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, You can e-mail the public link to me privately if you like at my e-mail below. Thanks. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 16, 2011, at 6:07 AM, joseph wrote: i have few that i am willing to share. is dropbox ok

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Refresh my memory? Which of the 2 hyped up GB 6 features is this? Thanks. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 15, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Ed Worrell wrote: Hello I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to use the

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Its one of the 2 hyped up new features which are not accessible Ricardo L( borrowed from Logic 9. I would be happy with basic midi note editing. Man at the moment Reeper and Sonar really do make me drool (and that is not a pretty sight I can assure you). On 16 Jan 2011, at 18:48, Ricardo

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Yuma Decaux
Ricardo, Someone was asking if what i meant was that pages didn't export to word at all, and anne replied saying that no i was complaining quote unquote that it didn't export or gave anoption by default to export to word. Name dropping for the sake of name dropping is not in my coolbook.

Re: assigning samples to different keys in garage band

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Cohn
We could try to guess around the problem a bit... Are these assignments for GB in general, or for a specific project. I suggest perhaps could get 1 key assigned and then see what files have been changed. If there is a modified .plist file, then that type of file is just a XML file that can be

Re: assigning samples to different keys in garage band

2011-01-16 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, Just my two cents here, but i believe that assigning keys to loops is made through a contextual menu of sorts, or anything GUI related. This makes for an interesting probe of the UI elements and appending to an applescrit which will provide the proces via system events. Unfortunately, i

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias for the selected item on the desktop. I wonder if that would work just for file / folders or for other items :-- tell ap First guess: tell Application Finder set a to the selection of the frontmost window set thedeskTop

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Could you not just create a shortcut in VO utility for the keyboard commander? On 16 Jan 2011, at 19:45, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias for the selected item on the desktop. I wonder if that would work just for file / folders or

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
I have noticed that we are now able to have audio tracks follow time and tempo via quantizing. Isn't this what groove matching was? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 16, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Its one of

Tuning Software Instruments in GarageBand

2011-01-16 Thread Austin Seraphin
I've started getting into GarageBand. Thanks Ricardo for your podcasts, they've helped. I'd also welcome any other tutorials people have done. I do have a somewhat weird question, but I want to tackle it right away because I'll need to do it. Normally, instruments tune Middle C to somewhere

Twitter Apps

2011-01-16 Thread Ezzy Bueno
Hi Listers, Which apps do you all use for Twitter, beside Syrinx and Nambu? Any app suggesttions are welcome. Thanks, Ezzy Bueno I sought the Lord, and he answered me. --Ps. 34:4 Sent from my BrailleNote Apex Phone: (512) 553-8553 Skype: SillyEz Facebook: www.facebook.com/sillyezzie --

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Groove matching? nah! it will never catch on *grin On 16 Jan 2011, at 21:00, Ricardo Walker wrote: I have noticed that we are now able to have audio tracks follow time and tempo via quantizing. Isn't this what groove matching was? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
I believe I tried that but it didn't work. S On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Could you not just create a shortcut in VO utility for the keyboard commander? On 16 Jan 2011, at 19:45, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
yeah I loved the game and will do a live podcast on it, not the whole thing as that would take hours and I know my listeners don't have that kind of time. lol! but man what a rush that game was! On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote: I finally finished it two nights ago.

Unbookmarking Tracks

2011-01-16 Thread Jane
I have a book well it's movie, that I want to make unbookmarkable. Having trouble though The script says: The variable loc is not defined. Anyone know how I can fix this? I got it off Dougsscripts Jane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
No I don't think so. the right one was a bit confused but you have to sit through it and listen closly. On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Vinny Pedulla wrote: I finished it as well a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. One question: is the ending a little strange? Without spoiling it for

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hi there, I think I came rather late to this particular thread, but what game is this and is it for the Mac? Thanks. Chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: yeah I loved the game and will do a live podcast on it, not the whole thing as that would take hours and I know my

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
unable to get any further!I'm still at level one and On 16 Jan 2011, at 22:00, Sarah Alawami wrote: yeah I loved the game and will do a live podcast on it, not the whole thing as that would take hours and I know my listeners don't have that kind of time. lol! but man what a rush that game

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
For the I phone and can also play it on the I pad. On 16 Jan 2011, at 22:04, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hi there, I think I came rather late to this particular thread, but what game is this and is it for the Mac? Thanks. Chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: yeah

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
k what about creating an apple script or an automator action to open the download folder? This could then be triggered from the keyboard commander. On 16 Jan 2011, at 21:57, Sarah Alawami wrote: I believe I tried that but it didn't work. S On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Chris Moore wrote:

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Jürgen Fleger
That was my suggestion a few days ago. It works for me quite fine. Here the script again. Just save it as scpt and give it a shortcut in the keyboard commander: tell application Finder open folder Macintosh HD:User:YourUser:Downloads: end tell Just replace YourUser with the user name of

Re: Tuning Software Instruments in GarageBand

2011-01-16 Thread John André Netland
Hi Austin, GB is fixed in 440 Hz, which seems to be a standard in both Europe and the US now. The software instruments will have this tuning no matter what you do, but if you don't use them, and don't use the tuner in GB, you'll still find GB valuable. Of course, you can use drum or percussion

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Caitlyn and Nicky
It's for the i phone and i pad/i pod touch. I don'tknow if there's a version for the mac. If you've got one of the other i devices, though, grab it, it's well worth the price, although personally I didn't think it was that expensive, as far as games go at $6.99 cdn. Cait On 16/01/2011 5:04

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread John André Netland
Hi Ricardo and all, The quantize feature for audio was also accessible in GB5, the difference between audio quantizing and the new groove feature, is that you allocate a track to be followed by other tracks, just like you do with the ducking feature. I've not seen a way to do this with VO yet.

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
do't forget you have taxes now I think mine came to about 7 and some change. On Jan 16, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote: It's for the i phone and i pad/i pod touch. I don'tknow if there's a version for the mac. If you've got one of the other i devices, though, grab it, it's well

Re: varifying my payment info on ITouch?

2011-01-16 Thread Scott Ford
That is what I had to do as well. I would get to the same point that you got, with the same resaults. Scott On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:47 AM, brandt wrote: Go do it on the mac, then go back to the touch. I had to do it a while back, and that's the easyest way to go. Regards, Brandt

Re: SEE Finance Update

2011-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Wheatley
Initial look very good (will drill deeper next time I download transactions). Regards, Jef On Jan 14, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: Yesterday, SEE Finance was updated to better support VoiceOver. According to the change log, most buttons have now been labeled with other enhancements

Daisy readers

2011-01-16 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I've been getting many of my college textbooks in Daisy format and was wondering what programs, if any, are available for reading it on the Mac. Given the topic of this list I'd hope they'd be VoiceOver friendly. Barring this, are their any apps for the IPod Touch or IPhone that might

Re: using vo j in apple mail

2011-01-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
The preview pain is not up on my friend's machine; it was turned off but I think since he is now reading this list, he's got all the instructions he needs to turn it on. I really like preview pane. He was told by another friend that it is easier to turn it off because once focus hits an

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I like this game as well. I do find that I have to keep vo on though to turn successfully, but I think that's more user error than anything; you know, garbage in garbage out, :) Marlaina On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Jane wrote: Yeah, it is. It even tells you when to disabe and re-enable

Re: importing a cd with no song title information available???

2011-01-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
In the Get Info dialog, you can set VO hot spots to the Next button and the Track title field to quickly jump from one track to the next. I don't know if there's a quicker keybaord command for this. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Papa Sangre: Anyone Finish This Game, and What Do You Think?

2011-01-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. I play totally with out vo except to switch levels. On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: I like this game as well. I do find that I have to keep vo on though to turn successfully, but I think that's more user error than anything; you know, garbage in garbage out, :)

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Chris and others: I'm curious now. I just opened a Word attachment. I then saved it in documents, where it stayed a dot doc file. I went into documents and opened it with text edit, made some changes, and then saved it again as a word file. So, I'm not clear what's the issue here?

my display name won't change in adium!! does any one know what's wrong??

2011-01-16 Thread trahern culver
hey all my problem is this i chaingd my display name in adium but when i checked the logs of the conversations i was having at the time it was still the same it hadn't changed does any one know what the problem is and how to solve it? your help with this problem would be most welcome!!! kind

the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-16 Thread trahern culver
hey all does any one know how acsesabel the latest verssion of adium is? in past versions voice over wouldn't read past the first message in conversation logs is this still the case in the latest verssion? your help with this question would be most welcom!! kind regards trahern. -- You

Re: my display name won't change in adium!! does any one know what's wrong??

2011-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Go into accounts, find the account you want to change, click Edit, and look in the Poersonal Tab I think it is and you can change it there. HTH, Jeffrey On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:02 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey all my problem is this i chaingd my display name in adium but when i checked the

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Using latest Adium, works great. HTH, Jeffrey On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:06 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey all does any one know how acsesabel the latest verssion of adium is? in past versions voice over wouldn't read past the first message in conversation logs is this still the case in the

Re: my display name won't change in adium!! does any one know what's wrong??

2011-01-16 Thread May McDonald
When it did that to me I actually had to uninstall twice and start over before it fixed itself. I don't know if it was a bug or not. On 2011-01-16, at 10:02 PM, trahern culver wrote: hey all my problem is this i chaingd my display name in adium but when i checked the logs of the conversations

Re: SEE Finance Update

2011-01-16 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Jeff, I now have a banking account set up for Checking and a credit card account. I've imported transactions in from a Quicken file with a Quicken Interchange Format extension file and there are all there. The only problem I've encountered is that after setting up each account, the