Re: Trillian - a new kid on the IM block

2011-08-07 Thread Ollie
Yeah, the issues do seem to still be there. I do like it though. It seems that it's cut out a lot of the rubbish from my newsfeed too. There is a button that says comment after I comment on someones post but I'm not sure if that is working. I'll send them an email too after I've had a bit more of

Re: growl?

2011-08-07 Thread joseph
hi try this: Download hthOn 7 Aug 2011, at 04:32, KliphSharrie wrote: Does anyone have the download info for growl? I tried to google it, but every page I go to says this product has been moved to a different developer. Thanks. Kliphton SR (twitterSkype) kliphton72 (Marriage

Re: Where to use VO+Shift+J [Was, Re: What's a Menu Pop-up Link?]

2011-08-07 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, just briefly added: To reach the area with the suggestions for correction you can also just press arrow down after hearing the blip sound. Anter chooses the suggested word. Press arrow up to leave that area and you are back in the text. All the best Jürgen Am 07.08.2011 um 01:54 schrieb

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I can confirm this behaviour and it has been so since Ed posted his first songs, that is i have never managed to get the songs to play. /Krister 6 aug 2011 kl. 19:58 skrev Paul Erkens: Hi Ed Worrel, I'm trying to open your song by clicking the link in your email, but it won't play. Could

Re: Google Chrome Web Browser

2011-08-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Umm, are you saying that Canary now is accessible or only sorta? When i tested it before it wasn't. /Krister 6 aug 2011 kl. 20:30 skrev Bryan Jones: Hello Kevin, I'm currently running Chrome 13.0.782.109 beta on Lion. It has some flaws but is mostly accessible and doesn't suffer from

Re: Trillian - a new kid on the IM block

2011-08-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
That's the strange thing, the comment button seems to work, but i can for the life of me not find the button to send posts i write myself. Other than that, Trillian is really good, and i'm debating whether to switch from Adium to Trillian in the hopes that the Facebook and Twitter issues soon

Re: Question about what I am typing not being spoken in edit boxes

2011-08-07 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello Christine, This was also asked by Selina and Laura, a few days before you. There's a great archive of this list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ Here's Cara Quinn's answer on top of mine to Selina and Laura's question: On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Cara

Re: Google Chrome Web Browser

2011-08-07 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello Scott, Yes, tables now work properly in Chrome. Apparently the main remaining problem regarding VO accessibility is feedback in editable form fields: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=96831 After Brian's message, I installed the latest Chrome 13 beta, but didn't

accessible radio station apps

2011-08-07 Thread chad baker
hi i know there's iTunes for radio is there any alternative or no on the windows side i use tap in radio but no mac version yet thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Krister and Paul! I've just gone to the page using the link in this message and from there pressed the play for [The Suspect] and it started playing straight away! I've also listened to a few of Ed's tracks! So they do work, why you cannot get them I don't know! Colin On 7 Aug 2011, at 10:39,

Re: Question about what I am typing not being spoken in edit boxes

2011-08-07 Thread Christine Grassman
Interacting with the text is not helping me, as stated. Anyone having this completely mute edit box issue? Sent from my iPhone On 07/08/2011, at 6:30, André Nuno Soares andre.nuno.soa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Christine, This was also asked by Selina and Laura, a few days before you.

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Christer, Unlike some on the list, I can go to edz page, but even pressing the play button won't play the tune. Maybe, public dropbox links are an alternative good way of sharing stuff. Still, it would be interesting to find what is causing some macs to play, and some macs refusing it. I

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread Chris Moore
Seems to play fine for me via the Sound Cloud website. *shrugs On 7 Aug 2011, at 14:21, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Christer, Unlike some on the list, I can go to edz page, but even pressing the play button won't play the tune. Maybe, public dropbox links are an alternative good way of sharing

Re: Copying files frone one drive to another.

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
The mac can read ntfs but not write to it, if you want the drive to be read and written to on both platforms, format it as fat32 On Aug 7, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: It appears you can't copy files from a Mac to a passport NTFS drive. It must first be formatted to Mac extended

Re: Making an Install Flash Drive for Lion: Tutorial Link

2011-08-07 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi: Both CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and Super Duper (from Shirt Pocket Software) will handle this for you. I successfully created a bootable flash drive with both my original OS X Snow Leopard disc and the Lion install image. Super Duper worked like a champ. On 8/7/11, Georges Zaynoun

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello, You need to have flash installed to play tracks in SoundCloud. Cheers, André On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Christer, Unlike some on the list, I can go to edz page, but even pressing the play button won't play the tune. Maybe, public dropbox links are an

looking for an sfv checker

2011-08-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I'm disgruntled with checksome plus because since snow leopard it only lets me create one checksome at a time. I have to restart the program for each checksome I want to to create. Evaluating works just fine but i'm frustrated with the creation procedure. So I've tried ISFV, superSFV,

com.apple.dock.extra

2011-08-07 Thread louie
Hi all I check the archives about com.apple.dock.extra and found no resolution for the file coming up at boot. Did anyone find a fix? louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

RE: com.apple.dock.extra

2011-08-07 Thread Missy Hoppe
I haven't found anything, but I sent it on a list of other issues I was having with Lion, and supposedly, it's a VO related problem that apple is aware of. I was informed that it will be fixed in a future update, but unfortunately, I was given no estimated timeframe for when that might happen.

Re: com.apple.dock.extra

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Louie, I think that in time it just goes away. I've also found that if you don't start pressing VO keys until VO finishes saying whatever it has to say upon login, it resolves itself anyway. It doesn't happen to me anymore as far as I can tell. Later… On 2011-08-07, at 10:15 AM, Missy

Re: com.apple.dock.extra

2011-08-07 Thread louie
I sen a e-mail off to accessibility. On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: I haven't found anything, but I sent it on a list of other issues I was having with Lion, and supposedly, it's a VO related problem that apple is aware of. I was informed that it will be fixed in a future

Re: selecting a large block of text?

2011-08-07 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Kliphton! vo+enter at the beginning and end of the text block should do it! Vo will say highlighted and after you've pressed vo+enter on the beginning and as you arrow to the end you'll hear a [for a better name] whooshing sound! hth Colin On 7 Aug 2011, at 14:44, KliphSharrie wrote: So is

double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Some time back, I reported a bug to the Accessibility team at Apple, namely that any time you are using the Safari or webkit reader and encounter text that is a link, vo reads that text twice, once as plain text and the second time announcing the link and reading the same text. This can lead to

Questions about cursoring

2011-08-07 Thread Graham Roby
Hi, Often when I'm reading posts on here on how to do various things, I see the comment, hit vo f5 to route your mouse cursor to your vo cursor and then hit vo space. Now I have my mouse cursor set to track the vo cursor. What I'd like to know is what are the advantages/disadvantages to

A question about ITunes

2011-08-07 Thread Matt Dierckens
Good afternoon all. I hope this email finds you all well. I have a couple of questions about ITunes with lion. It asked me if I wanted to update my IPhone to a new version. I said sure, and it brought the message of you have purchased apps that aren't synced to the library. How would I go about

Re: Question about what I am typing not being spoken in edit boxes

2011-08-07 Thread Shannon Dyer
I updated SL a few days ago, and find this in some edit boxes. Some, it treats normally, but not all. Very strange, this. I would definitely be interested in any insight anyone has to offer. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the

Spellchecker in mail.

2011-08-07 Thread John Chilelli
Hi good folks, Thanks so much to everyone who has replied to all of my questions with friendly helpfulness. You guys are the best! My latest concern has to do with the relentless spellchecker in Lion mail. How do I shut it off? I am conscientious enough to to manually check my spelling if

Re: bible desk top clients?

2011-08-07 Thread John Chilelli
Hi guys, Please be so kind as to publish your help using Eloquent as I am also a minister of the Gospel and in need of a good computer based Bible study program for my MBP. Thank you very much! Johnny On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:23 PM, KliphSharrie wrote: I can't find nothing to download for

Re: Focus jumps to the top of the list in mail

2011-08-07 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
This is Lion's behaviour. Just VO left or VO right arrow if you are in threaded view. On 7 Aug 2011, at 01:53, John Chilelli wrote: Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the following: Your on row 29. You read a post and then you delete the message. Mail moves VO

Re: com.apple.dock.extra

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
Currently there's no way around this that I know of, but it's easy to get around, just press command tab one time. On Aug 7, 2011, at 10:50 AM, louie wrote: Hi all I check the archives about com.apple.dock.extra and found no resolution for the file coming up at boot. Did anyone find a fix?

Re: Questions about cursoring

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
There's usually no reason to move around with just the mouse cursor, the closest thing voiceover offers to that is the way you have it set, to have the mouse follow the voiceover cursor. Usually there is no advantage to this, since the voiceover cursor is able to activate items. The one case

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Scott Howell
Mary can you provide me an example? I need something, which demonstrates the issue consistently. If you have such, and if you have any thoughts you would like to share, please let me know. Thanks, Scott On Aug 7, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Some time back, I reported a bug to the

Re: Question about what I am typing not being spoken in edit boxes

2011-08-07 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Yes I do have this issue. So I turned Voice Over off then turned it back on and I could read what I had typed. On 7 Aug 2011, at 14:21, Christine Grassman wrote: Interacting with the text is not helping me, as stated. Anyone having this completely mute edit box issue? Sent from my

Re: selecting a large block of text?

2011-08-07 Thread KliphSharrie
Will I have to have quick nab off in order for this to work? Kliphton SR (twitterSkype) kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Marriage group) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/committed-married-christians On Aug 7, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Kliphton!

Re: selecting a large block of text?

2011-08-07 Thread david.tanner...@gmail.com
-- Previous Message -- Will I have to have quick nab off in order for this to work? Kliphton SR (twitterSkype) kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Marriage group) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/committed-married-christians On Aug 7, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Red.Falcon

Re: selecting a large block of text?

2011-08-07 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Kliphton! It works fine with quick nav so just down arrow with qn and then maybe right arrow to the last word you wish to highlight and then vo+enter and away you go! hth Colin On 7 Aug 2011, at 22:46, KliphSharrie wrote: Will I have to have quick nab off in order for this to work?

Re: Question about what I am typing not being spoken in edit boxes

2011-08-07 Thread May McDonald
Yes, I'm having this issue as well, rather annoying. May and Prince Noah On 2011-08-07, at 5:34 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Yes I do have this issue. So I turned Voice Over off then turned it back on and I could read what I had typed. On 7 Aug 2011, at 14:21, Christine Grassman wrote:

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello Mary, In Lion Safari reader only speaks each link once, so that bug must have been fixed. One small annoyance that persists is that the reader appends clickable to each section of text you read, so when you're going through an article you're regularly hearing clickable. This also

Earthlink Web Mail

2011-08-07 Thread Linda Adams
Hi, I've run into something that has changed and I can't figure out why. I am using Quick Nav with Snow Leopard, so Lion is not involved. I believe a Safari update was included the last time I did a software update but no other changes have been made. I wanted to see if there is an

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, Here you go. This is from MacWorld. Pretty much any of their newsletter articles will do. Once on this page, activate the reader command shift r, and listen for double text every time a link is encountered. First time, the text is just read out. Second time, the linked text is read

A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, I've been exploring several of the Dashboard widgets and I'm very impressed. I do have one question, however; how does one close a widget other than disabling it from the Widget manager? Thank you, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread John Panarese
Hi Mark, Control-option-command-F2 will do this for an open widget. You'll be asked if you are sure you want to close the widget first. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:08 PM, M. Taylor wrote: Hello All, I've been exploring several of the Dashboard

Re: A question about ITunes

2011-08-07 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Matt, If you plug in your iPhone via your USB port on your Mac, you can go to the File Menu in iTunes and choose transfer purchases in that manner. That;'s exactly what I didn't do before updating my iPhone, and I lost a few of my apps as a result. Les On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Matt

Re: A question about ITunes

2011-08-07 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi, I plugged it in, and I transferred the apps over, or so I thought. Then I went to update and it still wanted me to backup the apps. I updated it anyway, and I don't think I have lost anything. Sent from my macbook pro On 2011-08-07, at 7:17 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: Hi Matt, If you plug

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Randy Stegall
Hi Mary, Are you in groups or dom mode? I have seen this behavior in groups mode however, when I switch to dom mode the links are spoken once. Hth, Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi Scott, Here you go. This is from

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Randy, I'm definitely in dom mode. I never have found a lot of use for groups mode, possibly because I came from Windows and am very use to that way of doing things. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

RE: Trillian - a new kid on the IM block

2011-08-07 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! I've just installed trillian, and it was much easier to set up than adium. The problem is, I've got my accounts set up, but now, I can't figure out how to do anything with them. There are a bunch of unlabled buttons, and I can't figure out how to do anything, especially regarding the

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Mary, I'm not hearing any double links, so trying to reproduce the issue. Is there any specific links? I know you said it was a number of them, but I'm trying to see how I can again, recreate the problem. I'll keep trying and see what I come up with. THanks for the URL. Scott On Aug 7,

RE: A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread M. Taylor
Hello John and thank you ever so much for telling me how to close a widget. I had absolutely no idea. As I write this, I have a Braille copy of the Snow Leopard VoiceOver getting Started manual on my lap. I have just read through the table of contents and see no reference to neither Dashboard

taking the plunge

2011-08-07 Thread May McDonald
Well, while I still have a free moment before classes start, I'm going to take the plunge an update to lion. Now, if I could only remember where I hid that sl cd in case I don't like it, lol. For those that have made the switch, anything important you care to share? I already know about the

RE: taking the plunge

2011-08-07 Thread Missy Hoppe
My only advice is if you have a means of doing so, back up your system as it is now. I used CCC to back it up, and when lion just didn't work out for me, I was able to restore my system. I went ahead and backed up lion too, so plan to try it out once in a while. Once the bugs get worked out, I

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Mary and Scott! So a little input from me! :] Well I've never used the reader before so I went to the site using the link in this message and then used the reader command! Then I had to start vo with vo+A and it did indeed start reading the article! And as it went through it just red the links

Re: A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread John Panarese
Not a problem. I believe Keith Reedy actually was the one who told me how to use and close widgets. It isn't, to my knowledge, in the manual, though it could be in the list of commands in Appendix A. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:34 PM, M. Taylor

Re: A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Hey Mark. It's really easy. When you're on the widget you want to close, hit vo+command+F2. You'll then be asked to hit return to close the widget, or escape to cancel. On that note, does anyone know how to change the city in the weather widget from Cupertino to my city, which is charlotte

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, Maybe the issue is fixed in Lion. I think Andre posted that he thought it had been fixed. It happens in the reader for me on SL with all linked text. I always get the double text, first time just read out loud as text, second time with text preceded by the word link. There were

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Randy Stegall
Hmmm, strange, strange indeed. Groups mode is the only time I get the double reading of links. Oh well. Sorry. Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi Randy, I'm definitely in dom mode. I never have found a lot of use for groups

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Colin, Once in the reader, you should not have to start with vo a. It should just read out to you. That's the cool thing about the reader. It doesn't always find the article, but if it does, it should just read straight through, no vo A or any other intervention required. Mary Mary Otten

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
One thing that could be happening here, sometimes links are labeled with text and also an alt or title tag, if this is the case, voiceover will read both, especially if you have the option to read help tags enabled. This can be a good thing, because on some sites, such as wikipedia, the text of

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
It's really a personal preference, but I always use dom mode too, I find the group mode to be less helpful, and involves much more interacting with things. If I want to get somewhere on a page fast, I use the search feature. On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi Randy, I'm

Re: Upgrading to lion, a litle question.

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
You should not have to reinstall windows, the lion install should not mess with the windows volume. On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Juan Pablo wrote: Hello there, good evening. A few days ago I bought a mbp early 2011. The machine comes with SL pre installed but apple offered me a free

Re: taking the plunge

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
There are a few minor issues, but that's typical any time a new operating system is released, but I have no interest in going to back to SL. Just make sure you have a full backup of your system before upgrading. On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:53 PM, May McDonald wrote: Well, while I still have a free

Re: Upgrading to lion, a litle question.

2011-08-07 Thread Georges Zaynoun
No never, I have same situation like you and windows was never touched. Original message: Hello there, good evening. A few days ago I bought a mbp early 2011. The machine comes with SL pre installed but apple offered me a free upgrade to lion. In the mid time, I installed Windows 7 32 bit

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Mike, Regarding the double reading of text if you have the reading of help tags enabled and there is an alt tag on a link, wouldn't you expect voice over behavior to be the same, whether the reading was done on the page with vo A or from within the reader with vo reading directly after the

Re: A Question About Closing Dashboard Widgets

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Chris, In the Weather Widget, press the Info button at the bottom, I believe, right of the widget. That will flip the widget over where you have the ability to change the city, the Celsius/Farenheit and some other options. Just press the Done button when you have the settings the way you

Re: Copying files frone one drive to another.

2011-08-07 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks, Mike. These are just drives to store things anyway; not a backup drive. On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: The mac can read ntfs but not write to it, if you want the drive to be read and written to on both platforms, format it as fat32 On Aug 7, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Paul

] New Open Office 3.3.0 (fwd)

2011-08-07 Thread Karen Lewellen
For fans of the program here. Karen ... is available for download http://download.openoffice.org/contribute.html?download=mirrorbrainfiles/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Win_x86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group.