Re: Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-18 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I'd have a look at the assistiveware site, , or maybe Cepstral would have voices in those languages, if Assistiveware doesn't? On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. An instructor in training here at the Louisiana Center for the Blind is from Kurgistan. She was curious

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Moore
That seems quite odd, as I have a iMac and a 13 inch Macbook Pro, and VM Fusion is fine on the Macbook. I also have the iPal Solo (stand alone version of the iPal). I opted for this as I did not realise at the time they were working on Mac software. On 18 Feb 2011, at 01:40, David Tanner

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Well, there is only one thing that I can say, which is, whatever the case of Steve Jobso's health, he has done a remarkable thing which is bringing accessability in to the main stream so whatever happens, he will be remembered because no other company thus far have done this and I'm not saying

VO will only say safari busy, safari ready on mobile facebook site?

2011-02-18 Thread johns.kary
Hi lister's, For the last week or so every time I try to read comments, event invites or practically anything other then the home page on m.facebook.com, vo just keeps saying safari busy, safari ready. It just keeps looping around and around till I move away from that page. The main page of

Re: apple wireless keyboards

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Howell
Well think you have heard wrong. My wife and I both have these and they both have been dropped at least once or twice and worked just fine. Of course if you drop them from a significant height, well like most things it likely won't survive. Scott On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Sarah Alawami

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Howell
WIth regard to the sound not functioning on the 13-inch MBP while in the Windows VM, I have not had any problems at all. The 13-inch MBP I is maybe a year old and provided by my employer. So, even with all their tweaks and such, I have yet to encounter any failure in sound while in the VM. I am

Re: VO will only say safari busy, safari ready on mobile facebook site?

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Norman
Yes, I am having this too, although I haven't found any way of getting round it, other than to use touch.facebook.com on my iPhone LOL. Sorry I can't help moree. Take care, johns.kary wrote: Hi lister's, For the last week or so every time I try to read comments, event invites or practically

Re: my Mac suddenly cannot see my time machine backup disk

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Norman
Hum... Depending on what your drive is, you can possibly get a utility to do a low level check on it. Failing that, now I notice you've got it fixed, and you're going to format, do a low level format, by having Mac OS X write 0's over th Ray Foret Jr wrote: Okay. This is too weird. I turn my

Re: my Mac suddenly cannot see my time machine backup disk

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Norman
Sorry for my partial post, I managed to hit the send key LOL. Yeah, I was saying... do a low level format. I believe Mac OS X does it when you set security options to write 0's over it. Either that, or I just checked, and OS X does have the dd utility built into it. You can load up the terminal,

Re: Itunes beginner's questions.

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Norman
1. How do you import a song into Itunes using the keyboard? Right now I just click it in its location in the finder (or my external drive) and let Itunes play it, which seems to import it automatically. Needless to say, though, this can get laborious! I have all my music organised by iTunes,

Re: VO will only say safari busy, safari ready on mobile facebook site?

2011-02-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Nope. When I go to: m.facebook.com and read comments posted on other friends walls, (which is what I assume you are doing) I can read everything. Am I correct in my guess? PS. OT I guess, but, how does one make a link to one's facebook page so that if the link is put in to an e-mail

Re: Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-18 Thread Mary Otten
You can get a female Russian voice from infovox that works well with voiceover. assistivewear is the vendor for that. I don't know of anything for Kirghiz. Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post

Re: [Bulk] Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
One problem with your supposition there my friend. Apple INC is in Amerca. Rest easy. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: 18 feb 2011 kl. 01.12 skrev Jes

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Earle M. Harrison
Hi all, I believe that the problem is not loosing sound in the VM, but on the Windows side in a Boot Camp partition. I have set-up several 13 inch Macbook Pro and invariably experienced the problem of loosing sound on the Windows side. Last time, we were thrilled because we got sound to

Re: Itunes beginner's questions.

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Norman
Sorry, I seem to be doing this a lot today. Turned the mouse off now LOL. 1. How do you import a song into Itunes using the keyboard? Right now I just click it in its location in the finder (or my external drive) and let Itunes play it, which seems to import it automatically. Needless to

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Kaare Dehard
Well considering the source and it's legendary journalistic integrety, not much. Accessibility is making them some money and gaining them a lot of loyalty amongst this and other elements of the blind community, and they love that sort of thing. Apple is as much a marketting company as it is a

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Howell
I believe your fears to be unfounded. If APple were to make such a decision, it would have nothing to do with Steve Jobs and instead on a business-based reason. At this point the horse has left the barn as they say, so as others have said and I concur, the probability of accessibility being

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Howell
Earle, That just solves the problem, only go the way of the VM. See the VM is supreme since you can close Windows when it acts poorly. :) Actually I have been very pleased with the entire concept of the VM and now I can actually enjoy only using the things in windows I absolutely must.

track selection

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Hooper
I last posted this message with another subject, but as it seems to have slipped under the radar, here it is again. I am glad to say that the use of Garage Band, although different than other programs with which I am used to working, is fairly simple. My question is in regards to track

Re: track selection

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, To select a portion of a track, you need to split it up into regions. For example, you want measures 4-13 like you mentioned. You would go to the track and press command T to split at the beginning of the 4th measure. Then move ahead to the beginning of measure 14 and press Command T

Re: solona.net — tactile screen protectors

2011-02-18 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Brandon: Works with the iPhone just fine. Sure, not the best for on the go. But, an option. The other thing she may want to try is setting orientation to the landscape mode, to give her more keyboard space, or, use a couple rubber bands to help with orientation. HTH Carolyn On Feb 17,

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi: Ok, where did this info come from? Do we even know if it's true? How can you speculate about the future of accessibility, and not even respect that someone is losing a life? That is, if this is true. And if he is indeed fighting for his life, what a huge loss in so many ways if he loses

Re: VO will only say safari busy, safari ready on mobile facebook site?

2011-02-18 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Kary, I am able to access profile, messages, friends, etc on m.facebook.com and have no problems reading, posting and liking. What's your mac make, model, OS version, browser version? I assume you've rebooted and tried the same thing with no other apps or web pages open? Is anything else

Garage Band newbie

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Gladstone
Hi All, Thinking about getting a Mac Mini to get up to speed with Garage Band. As I know nothing about the system, can anyone comment on their experience with GB and perhaps point me to a tutorial on how to get started with GB? All comments appreciated. Steve -- You received this

ot: descirptive video on the web survey.

2011-02-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Of possible interest, as it gives these folks subjects from many platforms. hope some can take part. Karen Take a Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description of Web-based Video WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is conducting a joint study with

formatting backup disc

2011-02-18 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I hope you are having a wonderful day. I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to format a disc to do TIme Machine backups on. THe hard drive I had the backups on died. I'm thinking I need to reformat it and do the backup again. I have to take my Macbook to Apple as it will not hold a

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Granados
Well, personally, if he only had 6 weeks to live I don't think he would be going out much and he was spotted out last night at a meeting of tech executives and Obama at the home of a venture capitalist. Everyone was there including the founder of facebook, Chambers from Cisco, Steve Jobs and

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Kimberly thurman
I also have a 13 inch MBP running windows under VMWare Fusion with no sound issues whatsoever. I'm running Jaws 12 over there as well. My MBP is 15 months old. On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote: WIth regard to the sound not functioning on the 13-inch MBP while in the Windows

Re: formatting backup disc

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
In disk utility format as hfs journaled. S On 18/02/2011, at 9:50, Allison Manzino gwennac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I hope you are having a wonderful day. I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to format a disc to do TIme Machine backups on. THe hard drive I had the backups on died.

Re: apple wireless keyboards

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
No his power button is now faulty. Take care all. On 18/02/2011, at 2:26, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: Well think you have heard wrong. My wife and I both have these and they both have been dropped at least once or twice and worked just fine. Of course if you drop them from a

FOrmatting backup disc

2011-02-18 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Sarah, Thank you for the helpful hint. I don't see the HSF format you spoke of though. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Hmm, I went under disc utilities and then saw format mac os extended jurnaled, mac journaled. I erased all my data on the disc and I'm now backing up again. It seems

Re: FOrmatting backup disc

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. go to the disk utility choose yoru time machine disk and choose erase. Now choose hfs hournaled from the pop up menu. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Sarah, Thank you for the helpful hint. I don't see the HSF format you spoke of though. Maybe I'm looking in

Recording podcast

2011-02-18 Thread Conrad Bennett
Is there any good way to record a podcast on the Mac. What is the best software to use. Please let me know thanks Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

ecards

2011-02-18 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi: Has anyone had any success getting card s from MSN to read with the mac. I got a card. But, all I get is flash messages. Any help appreciated lest I have to retrieve it with that other unmentionable OS.:) TIA Carolyn H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Kindle

2011-02-18 Thread louie
Hi all, Any one using the Kindle application? louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Recording podcast

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
How about garageband. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Conrad Bennett wrote: Is there any good way to record a podcast on the Mac. What is the best software to use. Please let me know thanks

Re: Recording podcast

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I use amadeus. works like a dream. You will get many answers regarding this btw. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: How about garageband. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:24

VO's response-time to keystrokes slowing down.

2011-02-18 Thread Phantom.Vader
Hi again! Uh, had something weird happen today. I was working in Garage-band today, yes, finally got some of the loop issues figured out, and VO started being *really* slow to respond to keystrokes! As in, like, I'd press a key, including VO navigation keys, and it would take like ten full

Re: VO's response-time to keystrokes slowing down.

2011-02-18 Thread Earle M. Harrison
In the Applications folder you will find a utility called disk utility. You can do a spotlight search for disk utility and probably get it as a top hit. From the first aid tab, do a verify disk and then repair disk permissions to see if that improves the situation. If you are using less than

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread David Tanner
It isn't Fusion that is the problem. The issue is if you try to run Windows without running it as a virtual machine. The sound usually works if you are running Windows through Fusion as a virtual machine. But, if you choose to boot to Windows instead of booting into Snow Leopard and boot

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread David Tanner
I wish I could tell you that it is the older ones. However, we just had the problem again two weeks ago with a brand new one. Again, if I am running Windows as a virtual machine all is well, but if I boot directly into Windows 7 it is a problem. At that point Fusion is not running because I

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread David Tanner
Scott, Usually using Windows through the VM is fine. However, sometimes one might want to be able to dedicate all of the machine's memory and processing power to something they need to do on the Windows machine. In those cases it is nice to be able to boot directly into Windows and not

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
tha'ts odd. I use bootcamp and have no sound issues at all but good luck with yoru scanning solution what e'er it may be. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:14 PM, David Tanner wrote: It isn't Fusion that is the problem. The issue is if you try to run Windows without running it as a virtual machine.

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread David Tanner
Clearly people are not reading the entire message before they say all is well. Never has anything been said about not having sound when running Windows under VM Ware Fusion. The issue is when running Windows by itself without Snow Leopard. So, it really doesn't make any sense to post a

applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Carolyn
Hi everyone: My mac ceased bringing in new mail today. Had to go back to that unmentionable OS just to get my mail:( This after it kept re-asking for password. (and no, I haven't dropped it!:) Anyone else having email issues? TIA for any ideas. Carolyn H -- You received this message

Re: applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Gmail has been acting up for me lately. I hadn't changed my account settings or had any major crashes or anything. It's been fine for the last couple days without any tweaking from me, though. Teresa On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Carolyn wrote: Hi everyone: My mac ceased bringing in new mail

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'm really not haveing any problems running bootcamp and windows. I can do it flawlesly after I install the driver cd. S. On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:45 PM, David Tanner wrote: Clearly people are not reading the entire message before they say all is well. Never has anything been said about not

Re: applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually gmail has been acting a bit funny for me as well. it quit syncing my notes so I've given up on them for now. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Gmail has been acting up for me lately. I hadn't changed my account settings or had any major crashes or anything. It's

Re: applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Eric Oyen
I see these problems periodically on my hotmail account. I simply hit escape (which closes the password dialog) and then shift-command-N to retrieve new mail and it works. -Eric On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Gmail has been acting up for me lately. I hadn't changed my

Problem with the latest version of Audio Hijack Pro

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
hi Guys. This week I updated audio hijack pro. After the update, I was no longer able to record system audio along with my microphone. This was the case for my USB mic, and the Macbook pros internal mic. So in other words, Recording system audio doesn't record the input once it has been

Re: Problem with the latest version of Audio Hijack Pro

2011-02-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
What I reckon you need to do is this. 1. Completely delete Audio Hijack Pro from your system but you can keep the audio Hijack plist pref file. . 2. Download the newest version. 3. Install it. 4. Install the instant highjack component. That should take care of it. On Feb 19, 2011, at

Re: Problem with the latest version of Audio Hijack Pro

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. try hijacking system and the mic but make sure you mic is set to sound flower I think. not your headphone or what not. I just used audio hijack pro the lattest version to record stuff wiht my system and the mic. I think it was the updated version anyway. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:23 PM,

Re: VO's response-time to keystrokes slowing down.

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yeah. This is a RAM issue. I've noticed it happening more of late though. Usually, just pressing command tab to switch from garageband to the finder or another app, and pressing it again to go back to garageband, seems to solve the problem. And of course, cycle VO off and back on with

Re: Problem with the latest version of Audio Hijack Pro

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Thank you and Sarah for your suggestions. I will try them both. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: What I reckon you need to do is this. 1. Completely delete Audio Hijack

Re: Problem with the latest version of Audio Hijack Pro

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Good luck. I can't think straight as I am just a bit out of it but hopefully my directions were a little clearer then mud and readable? lol! Take care and good luck. On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Thank you and Sarah for your suggestions. I will try them both.

Re: VO's response-time to keystrokes slowing down.

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I don't know much about ram and stuff but do youthink you might have a bad stick or something in there? Good luck. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Yeah. This is a RAM issue. I've noticed it happening more of late though. Usually, just pressing command tab to

Re: applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
In my case that doesn't work. mail just sits there and I've tried taking accounts off and bringing them back online. Let's hope these gmail problems are fixed. S On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: I see these problems periodically on my hotmail account. I simply hit escape

Re: applemail gone whacky

2011-02-18 Thread Eric Oyen
h. I haven't seen this issue with gmail (I use IMAP). only hotmail does this to me for some reason. -Eric On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: In my case that doesn't work. mail just sits there and I've tried taking accounts off and bringing them back online. Let's hope

anyone home?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Gladstone
New to the list. Wanted to see if I'm in the loop. Anyone receive this? Thx Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: anyone home?

2011-02-18 Thread Les Kriegler
Steve, you're in. On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:43 AM, Steve Gladstone wrote: New to the list. Wanted to see if I’m in the loop. Anyone receive this? Thx Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

RE: anyone home?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Gladstone
Thanks Les. I'm a JAWS user and looking to get started with Voice Over. Any suggestions where to find a good getting started tutorial? Thx Steve _ From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Saturday, February 19,