Screen Readers: NVDA vs JAWS

2012-12-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
As this is in between Christmas the new year I wanted to give you a laugh. http://sndup.net/10108/d One of the CAVI students did this for her audio editing exercise. Very funny. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Screen Readers: NVDA vs JAWS

2012-12-27 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Kawal, That's great! thanks! Donna On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:28 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: As this is in between Christmas the new year I wanted to give you a laugh. http://sndup.net/10108/d One of the CAVI students did this for her audio editing exercise. Very

Re: Testing with my apple keybboard.

2012-12-27 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi Chris, Yes it is the one I am tal;king about. I love it. matthew Dyer matthewdyer...@msn.com On Dec 26, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Oh, are you talking about the bluetooth aluminum wireless keyboard? I have one a those and absolutely swear by it! Thank you

Re: Screen Readers: NVDA vs JAWS

2012-12-27 Thread Red.Falcon
Well as a Voiceover only user that is funny Cheers! *smile* Colin On 27 Dec 2012, at 14:28, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: As this is in between Christmas the new year I wanted to give you a laugh. http://sndup.net/10108/d One of the CAVI students did this for her audio

iTunes Playlist Question

2012-12-27 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I am trying to add some songs to an already existing playlist, but the commands I'm executing are not working. I already know about smart playlists, playlists by selection, and finally, creating custom playlists, which is what this question is about. Basically, I find the song

iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: An article listing convinent shortcuts for iTunes 11, and the Mac. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57560867-263/convenient-itunes-11-keyboard-shortcuts/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

mac mini

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Is Itunes really difficult to use? I haven't had a chance to use it on the Mac yet until I receive my new device. Kawal. On 27 Dec 2012, at 05:27 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: An article listing convinent shortcuts for iTunes 11, and the Mac.

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread cait furness
Kawal, I don't think it's difficult to use, personally, it just works differently then it did before version 11. I think it works more like it does on the i devices. The one thing I don't find works for me is the search function, so if anyone has any advice on that one I'd love it. For

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread cait furness
thanks Sarai. This should be very useful! Caitlyn On 2012-12-27, at 12:27 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: An article listing convinent shortcuts for iTunes 11, and the Mac.

iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread Kaare Dehard
Hi: An article listing convinent shortcuts for iTunes 11, and the Mac. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57560867-263/convenient-itunes-11-keyboard-shortcuts/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Neil, That clears it up. Thanks a lot for your info. Beautiful. So are the drives inside your Ready nas ultra unit hot swapable as well? That would just seem to good to be true. How come other folks sell similar functionality for twice the price? Best, Paul. On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:10 PM,

monitor for mac mini?

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Does a mac mini require a special type of monitor, i.e. minimum resolution etc? Or are most new monitors likely okay with it? Thanks in advance, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

problems with forwarding mails in osx, help pls

2012-12-27 Thread William Windels
Hello, I use osx 10.8.2 and I have a strange problem when forwarding a mail: The forwarded mail, begins always with a text like you can see below, after pressing command+f: starts with the default text Van: sen...@mail.com Onderwerp: RE: bestelling boek visual basic Datum: 27 december

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Cait! OK when I do a search I get plenty of choices! So for Example I put into the search field the word Close and next to the search field are a selection of songs with close either as a stand alone word or close as part of a word! Also it list only a few songs and a button saying something

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread cait furness
Hi Colin, So, do you type the entire name of the song, or just a part of it and then hit enter? I know that probably sounds weird, but that's what I've been doing, so maybe that's where the problem lies, eh? lol! Cait On 2012-12-27, at 2:08 PM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com

Re: monitor for mac mini?

2012-12-27 Thread Alex Hall
I think any monitor will work. Personally I use a mini display to vga adapter (hooked to the thunderbolt port) and plug my old vga monitor into that. If you have hdmi, you're life will be a bit less cluttered, but older screens should work fine. On Dec 27, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Paul Erkens

Re: problems with forwarding mails in osx, help pls

2012-12-27 Thread Alex Hall
I had the same oddity. It turned out I had selected to show all headers, which for some reason affects forwarding. Go to mail preferences, then viewing, then the show header popup button and choose default instead of all. If you ever need all headers, I think cmd-shift-h will show/hide them. On

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Cait! I've just typed into the search field [Whatever you want] And sure enough arrowed right [with quicknav on] and the first Items were the Albums as that title and after that were songs first in line was the track Whatever you want then other songs from the albums so after typing arrow

Re: iTunes 11 shortcuts

2012-12-27 Thread cait furness
Ok, I'll try that and see what happens. I was hitting enter after typing my search string. that's probably where I was going wrong. Thanks! I don't use quick nag, but it should still work a treat anyway. Cait On 2012-12-27, at 3:28 PM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-27 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Paul, Yes, The NetGear drives are hot swap as well… I would explain here; The DroBo units simply slide the drives in and out, there are no drive trays involved, no screws, no, well anything. You just pull the magnetic cover off the front of the unit and slide a new drive in, or push the lever

Another braille question.

2012-12-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. I have another braille question but this time it may be a little complicated. Some days ago I looked up some information on Safari as I have no computer at the mo at home. The information was in a block and there was no edit field. I wanted to copy the information but I could not

Re: Another braille question.

2012-12-27 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't tried this, but did rotoring to lines and then pressing space-2-5-6 not work? Doing this should select forward, so start at the top and press it to select one line (or whatever rotor item is selected) at a time. Once your selection is in place, press space-c to copy it. On Dec 27,

Re: Another braille question.

2012-12-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
It didn't work. On 27 Dec 2012, at 10:23 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried this, but did rotoring to lines and then pressing space-2-5-6 not work? Doing this should select forward, so start at the top and press it to select one line (or whatever rotor item is selected)

Re: mac mini

2012-12-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you solve this yet? I can tell you how to keep it from happening in the future if you are able to log in. Go into System Preferences Bluetooth. In Advanced are two checkboxes: one opens bluetooth setup assistant if no keybopard is detected; the other opens it if no mouse or trackpad is

Bluetooth Braille Displays

2012-12-27 Thread Les Kriegler
I sent this to the VI Phone list, but meant to send this to Mac Visionaries. Has anybody successfully used a Braille Connect 24 with a Mac? I can pair it and it connects for a short period but drops the connection. I've used the 24 with my iPhone with no difficulty. This is my first attempt

RE: mac mini

2012-12-27 Thread Kliphton
I came across the fix for this by accident. When you get the dialog othentication has no windows. Push vo keys shift and the space bar. That is the mouse down click, and it will land you in the password field. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

air play speaker recommendations?

2012-12-27 Thread Kliphton
Okay, don't like a lot of cords running along the wall. So what seems to be everyone's favorite airplay speaker of choice? Want quality. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Question about Deleting E-mail

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Gilland
I have a question which I really hope one of you can answer. This question pertains both to I O S, as well as to O S X. All of my e-mail accounts are set up via IMap. I don't have any that are pop3. With this said, I am extremely forgetful when it comes to clearing out my sent items folders,

very happy with Max but one question

2012-12-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay, I find myself extremely pleased with the way Max CD riper http://sbooth.org/Max/ Works. Just one little detail I noticed about it. I don't like the way you select the mp3 bit rate. It's a slider, and, all it gives you back is a percentage: but, you can't tell what bit rate you're

Re: very happy with Max but one question

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Gilland
I've been actually meaning to try this thing, so thanks for the link. Chris. On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:52 PM, Ray Foret Jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Okay, I find myself extremely pleased with the way Max CD riper http://sbooth.org/Max/ Works. Just one little detail I noticed about it. I

Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Mary-Jo Lord
Hi, Is there a way to share a link from my public folder in dropbox on my Mac? I've looked through all of the menu options and haven't found anything about sharing links. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: Sharing Shazam

2012-12-27 Thread Jessica Moss
Do you know what the difference is between that and sound hound? I've tried the sound hound app, and like it for the most part, but half the time can't seem to get it to tell me the song title, only the name of the artist, which is very annoying. On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:14 AM, Chris H wrote:

RE: How to get to the toolbar in Mail

2012-12-27 Thread Mary-Jo Lord
Thanks so much! It worked. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Olivares Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to get to the toolbar in Mail Hello,

Re: Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. If you interact with the file or the folder in public, do VO Shift M, go to the dropbox submenu, and there's a share. HTH. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2012-12-27, at 10:28 PM, Mary-Jo Lord mjfingerpri...@comcast.net wrote: Hi, Is there a way to share a link from my public

Re: Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. First things first. Make sure you have the latest version of Drop box. Second, make sure you are running at least 10.8. Now, there's two ways to share a link to a file or folder. Both of them appear in the Drop box submenu which you get to by focusing on the file or folder and then

RE: Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Mary-Jo Lord
Thanks! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dierckens Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:42 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Dropbox and sharing links? Hi. If you interact with the file

Re: air play speaker recommendations?

2012-12-27 Thread David Tanner
My personal choice, and it has bluetooth and Airplay is the Bose SoundLink. Excellent sound, plenty of power, 8 hours plus battery life per charge, and the size is small enough to carry along along with a laptop, and still not break your arm. About the size of a college textbook. Order on

Re: Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Gilland
Absolutely there is! So, make sure that you are interacting with the browser area of your Finder. This won't work if you don't do so. Just make sure that when you bring up your home folder, that you vo+left and right. When you hear it say file browser, then interact. Now go to your Dropbox

Re: Dropbox and sharing links?

2012-12-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That is predicated on the assumption that files in the finder are set to display that way. I have mine set to display acording to the list view. Same steps apply though. I prefer the method I outlined earlier. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and