Re: using Automator?

2012-09-17 Thread Esther
Hi Alex, I haven't tried Auotomator in ML, but the way this has worked in past versions, you can always add a an action to a workflow by pressing return when you're focused on your selection, such as Run Shell Script or Run AppleScript. That works for sighted users, too, to add an action to the

Re: seeing to whom an email was addressed?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
No, those two controls are *all* I see in the headers group, and that plus the text is all I see in the window aside from the standard system buttons and the toolbar. On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When you cycle through the Message Header Group,

Re: using click to flash

2012-09-17 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, Timothy, Steve, Teresa, and Others, Steve is correct that there are reasons for wanting to block flash -- if only because you want to control how your resources are used, and that your memory is not taken up playing flash-based advertisements when you load web pages. In other

Re: using Automator?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, that did work, thanks. There was no default button, so I didn't think to try it. Wow, htere sure is a lot of interacting to be done in that window... On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:17 AM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alex, I haven't tried Auotomator in ML, but the way this has worked in

BRF files of ML manual

2012-09-17 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Is it possible to download these? I went to the Apple Accessibility link posted here a while ago and only see a way to order an embossed copy or access the manual online. The Lighthouse page only seems to offer a buying option. I'd be grateful if anybody knows how to get the .brf files of

Re: BRF files of ML manual

2012-09-17 Thread Thuy
Hi Lisette. I think this link should work: http://images.apple.com/accessibility/pdf/VoiceOver_Mountain_Lion.zip Hope this helps? Cheers Thuy On 17/09/2012, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Is it possible to download these? I went to the Apple Accessibility link posted

Re: BRF files of ML manual

2012-09-17 Thread Thuy
For some reason, activating the link doesn't seem to work. You may need to select the text and paste it into a browser. I know it seems to imply that they are pdf files, but once you download the zip and extract it, you'll find there are brf files in there. Cheers Thuy On 17/09/2012, Thuy

Any MainStage Users On This List?

2012-09-17 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi all, I recently came across MainStage in the app store. Apparently, it will allow me to create all sorts of on-stage setups directly from my computer. I downloaded the app, but when I go to open it, I get one of those lovely MainStage has no windows screens. When I asked for sighted

Re: iTunes libraries

2012-09-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Esther, is there anything you don't know? ;) I'm very impressed with your knowledge and explanations! I know who to ask now for any Mac-related questions. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

VO and Linked In

2012-09-17 Thread Mary Scott
Hi all, I keep getting invitations for Linkedin. I think it would be good for me proffesionally but does it work well with VO? Does anyone here have experience with it? Mel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: VO and Linked In

2012-09-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I use it just fine. It's big and a bit clunky, but as social networking sites go it really is decent. They won't move the furniture on you every 6 months and the layout is actually pretty intuitive. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service,

Re: VO and Linked In

2012-09-17 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; i find it much easier to use than Facebook or google plus if that helps. and if you decide to join please send me an invite to join your network. good luck, max On Sep 17, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Mary Scott wrote: Hi all, I keep getting invitations for Linkedin. I think it would be good

ml mail and attachments?

2012-09-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, trouble shooting with a friend, so I trust I ask this clearly. I am working with someone who is outfitting a computer for another operating system, not a mac. However, they are using a macbook with mountain lion on it for our communications, including when I send him programs to

Re: using click to flash

2012-09-17 Thread Timothy Clark Music
oh don't get me wrong there are points to using such a plugin i just never found the need for it. Timothy Your Friend in the music industry http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Esther wrote: Hi Chris, Timothy, Steve, Teresa, and Others, Steve is

Re: ml mail and attachments?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
How is he saving the attachments? I go to file save attachments and am able to use standard finder commands to get to the folder I want, then press enter. I have not tried to detach a zip file, but I would not expect any problems. On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Karen Lewellen

flash gone?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have recently found that no flash content will play. Not only do gVoice messages and Amazon song previews not play, but my Mactubes app has stopped working. I don't remember changing anything, but is there somehting I can check to see what might be going on? Safari is maddeningly

ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Ring
Hello: I am trying to create some signatures for my messages. I guess I simply don't understand what the Mail software wants me to do. If someone would go over the process for creating signatures, I'd be extremely grateful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
Once in preferences signatures, select the all signatures tab (putting signatures in accounts does not work for some reason). Use the add button, type your signature, and there you go. You can choose how to use them, which is default, and so forth here as well. If you need more details, let me

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
Hi Rich, Try the following. 1. Open Mail Preferences. 2. Make sure you select, signatures, from the buttons. 3. From the signatures list, choose the account to which you want the signature. 4. Navigate passed the names table and edit area to the Add New, button going right. Vo space on

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Ring
I'm gonna try this, it didn't seem to work before. On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:20 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rich, Try the following. 1. Open Mail Preferences. 2. Make sure you select, signatures, from the buttons. 3. From the signatures list, choose the account to which

Re: Any MainStage Users On This List?

2012-09-17 Thread CJ Daniel
Gavin, I, recently, downloaded Main Stage too. I did it for the Apple Jam Packs, which are usable in Garageband as well. I ran in to some of the same problems, but eventually I got to a place where VoiceOver could tell me what was going on. Then, I spent an additional two afternoons

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, I have a siginiture that I woulld like to use. I already createded it so how do I tell my account that I want too use it? Thanks. Matthew On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Once in preferences signatures, select the all signatures tab (putting signatures in accounts does

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
Is it associated with an account already? You need to have it listed with the specific account. It will be available in a popup button when you compose a new message or reply to pick it if it is not the default signature for the outgoing account. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, It is there. I want to assosieate it to my gmail account. Can this be done with vo? Thanks. Matthew On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:32 PM, John Panarese wrote: Is it associated with an account already? You need to have it listed with the specific account. It will be available in a popup

Re: ML mail signatures

2012-09-17 Thread John Panarese
In the signature pane, first copy the text of the signature to the clipboard by selectinginteracting and all with command-a and then command-c to copy it. Then, navigate to your gmail account and then to the, add new, button. Create a new signature and then just paste the text you

Re: ml mail and attachments?

2012-09-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Here are the steps this person is using. OK, I'm on the mac and I opened gmail thru gmail. Your file is located at the bottom of the email thread With a downward facing arrow above it. If I try to drag it directly to the external floppy drive I get a message stating I cannot drag the

Re: BRF files of ML manual

2012-09-17 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Thuy and all Ok thanks so much for this link. Pressing on it does work, even though it appears not to. This is a trap for young players. Having pressed it multiple times and thinking nothing at all was happening, I finally looked in the downloads folder. There are now about 20 copies of the

Re: BRF files of ML manual

2012-09-17 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi, A trick I have learned is to go to the dock and type download which will move focus to your downloads folder. Once there you will hear the progress of any file downloads. Hope this helps, Harry On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Thuy

Re: activating bookmarks

2012-09-17 Thread Roman van Genabith
That has been that way in lion, but I see the same issue under ml now! Neither bookmarks show up in the bookmarks nenu, nore is the Opem command in the safari view still there- actually, its gone since ml. I.m still wondering how to get my bookmarks back for use again! -- You received this

Re: ml mail and attachments?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
I think looking at it is indeed the problem, as Safari downloads zip files with no trouble at all. Also, using the gMail website seems a shame since you can use imap with gMail and the mac's mail app to sync mail across all your devices and the website. I do this and can check mail on my iPod,

getting to most recent message

2012-09-17 Thread Agent086b
Hi, I have several mail boxes that I send messages to from the various email lists I belong to. When I go to a mail box there appears to be no reason as to where I land in that mail box. Is there a way I can land on the first unread message? It is a waist of time going through all the previous

Re: ml mail and attachments?

2012-09-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, I will pass along the ideas to the mac user. as for a shared dropbox, actually it takes me less time, and I can send most anything via shellworld. the issue would remain as to how the mac is trying to unpack tings no matter where he drew the files from. Karen On Mon, 17 Sep 2012,

Chrome Has Become Unusable for Me At Least

2012-09-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi guys. I just launched my Chrome browser after a month and for some reason, it has become inaccessible with VO. Even Chromevox isn't working and because VO isn't working with it, I can't see if it is enabled in extensions. Any help would be appreciated. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book --

Re: flash gone?

2012-09-17 Thread Donovan Osborn
check if your flash player is out of date. I have heard on macs that if you are not using the latest version that the mac will disable all flash content until you update as a security measure. On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have recently found that

Re: seeing to whom an email was addressed?

2012-09-17 Thread Steve Holmes
I decided to take a look around the message headers on my box and I could see to whom the message was sent but I could not see the date nor could I find a way to expand the full header fields like you can in other mail clients. Is this just not available in Apple Mail or am I missing something

creating new users on mac?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Today in the mail we got a 2007 Mac Mini from a friend of mine who graduated to a Macbook Air and had no use for his old machine. It runs, but I'll need to re-install Lion (that's another post). My question is this: we plan to use this as a family machine hooked up to the big screen in

Re: seeing to whom an email was addressed?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
I think I figured it out. I don't know why, but your message sent me into the menus. Apparently, cmd-shift-h shows all headers; interacting a couple times will get you to a text field with an abundance of information, though you must vo-arrow in it even though it is a standard text field. I saw

Re: seeing to whom an email was addressed?

2012-09-17 Thread Steve Holmes
That's good to know. Funny how we discover additional shortcut keys out there. I know for a fact that some of the standard apps do not always list their shortcut keys in the help documentation. On Sep 17, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I think I figured it out. I

Re: flash gone?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, I should now have the latest one, but Mactubes and the Youtube site still do nothing. I have not yet tried Amazon, but I don't expect anything to be different. Is there anything else at all I may have done? Thanks. On Sep 17, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Donovan Osborn donovan303...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: seeing to whom an email was addressed?

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Hall
That's why, when I open a new app or want to find a function, my first stop is the menu bar. Vo always announces a hotkey if one is present, so I learn them that way. On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: That's good to know. Funny how we discover

Re: flash gone?

2012-09-17 Thread Donovan Osborn
Sorry that's all I know. I am still learning myself. Sincerely, Donovan Osborn donovan303...@gmail.com On Sep 17, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I should now have the latest one, but Mactubes and the Youtube site still do nothing. I have not yet tried Amazon,