Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Jürgen, Okay, so maybe there's nothing to be done about it. That would be strange and unfortunate though. I won't waste your time with trying things you've already done, but one last idea – could it have anything to do with the view you're using in Mail? E.g. classic versus modern view?

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
Hi there Mike and others, I find the new way Skype handles chat much more convenient to use. Have not encountered any links as of yet, but will attempt to test soon. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email:

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
My Skype is the same. Is there an update or is this a beta? On 20 May 2013, at 09:30 AM, Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there Mike and others, I find the new way Skype handles chat much more convenient to use. Have not encountered any links as of yet, but will attempt to test

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jurgen, I just tried to drag and drop a mailbox, and got the same message, Mailbox is not drag able, may be hidden. I arrowed over to the messages table and opened one of the messages, then went back to the mailbox and tried again, and that time it worked, using VO-Comma and VO-Period.

deleting mailbox from favorites bar

2013-05-20 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'd like to remove the VIP mailbox from my favorites bar. Anyone know if you can do this? If not, is there a way to move it down so it's the last one in the list? Cheers Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Estelita
Hi Brandt, Can you please explain in steps on how to work on the chat line in the newer Skype version? So I can try on mine, as it has been updated lately. Thank you. Nene - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday,

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
Hi, give me a call. I could explain better that way. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States +(1)760-5140161 Extension 512 Cape Town, South

maximizing windows on the Mac

2013-05-20 Thread shane christenson
Hi listers. I wonder if there's any way to maximize windows, whether they be application or document windows. I know there are ways to do this on a pc, but don't know if the same can be done on Mac. Any thoughts or help on this would be most appreciated. Shane -- You received this message

Re: deleting mailbox from favorites bar

2013-05-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Donna, at first: thanks for your suggestion for dragging a mailbox. I'll try it out and let you know what happens. You can move or even remove a mailbox in the favoritesbar by drag and drop. When I used the feature in Lion most of the time it worked that way. To remove a mailbox completely

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Nic, oh, please feel free to give me more ideas what to do to solve the issue. I tried your suggestions to change the view to the modern view. I actually prefere to use classic layout but just for this it was worth a try. Unfortunately it didn't work. My hope is Apple will develop VO

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Donna, how do you open messages? Just by pressing VO + j to jump to the preview window or do you hit Enter to open? I'm used to press VO + j. All the best Jürgen Am 20.05.2013 um 11:00 schrieb Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com: Hi Jurgen, I just tried to drag and drop a mailbox, and got

Re: deleting mailbox from favorites bar

2013-05-20 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jurgen, Thanks for the explanation of deleting the mailbox. Perfectly logical, but somehow I didn't make the connection. :-) I open messages by pressing Enter. Good luck, I hope it works for you. Best, Donna Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2013, at 8:49 AM, Jürgen Fleger

Re: info about ricardo walker podcast

2013-05-20 Thread Sauro Cesaretti
Hello, Thanks so much, the podcasts are very interesting. Regards,Sauro Il giorno 06/mag/2013, alle ore 15:43, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com ha scritto: when there, do a search for GarageBand (note the spelling). That'll bring up all the GB podcasts. - Original Message - From:

Sound on sound recording on garageband

2013-05-20 Thread Sauro Cesaretti
Hi all, I tried to use garageband to record some melodies that I'd like to print for sax and flute players of our group. for this reason, I'd like to use sound on sound recording instead of overwrite when I record. Do you know if it is possible? should I change some settings on preferences to

Info request about reaper

2013-05-20 Thread Sauro Cesaretti
Hello all again, I read some information and tried to install reaper on my mac and at the first it seems quite accessible even if I'm still not able to use it. I'd like to ask if someone tried it already and could give me some indications about it. Thanks in advance, Regards,Sauro -- You

Re: maximizing windows on the Mac

2013-05-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can use full-screen with command-control F for the native apps. Also, you can go to the Window menu and choose zoom or press the button at the top of the window.. I'm not quite sure what zooming does, but I'm told that it doesn't maximize the window the way Windows does. The window isn't as

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Have you tried using full-screen mode with command-control-f? This works consistently for me. HtH, Teresa On May 20, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote: Hi Donna, how do you open messages? Just by pressing VO + j to jump to the preview window or do you hit

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, usually when you move to the grid, the newest message is automatically spoken now, very nice. Original message: Hi there Mike and others, I find the new way Skype handles chat much more convenient to use. Have not encountered any links as of yet, but will attempt to test soon. Warm

Voice Dream Reader on sale for $4.99 today (May 20, 2013)

2013-05-20 Thread Esther
Hi All, Voice Dream Reader - Text to Speech has gone on sale today for $4.99 for a limited time, down from the regular list price of $9.99. This is an excellent iOS app for reading a variety of document formats (Office, Pages, etc.), eBooks without DRM (including Bookshare books), PDFs, etc.

RE: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please!

2013-05-20 Thread wayne17a
Hi I don't know about apple keyboard but the logitec k760 is a great keyboard and can pair with with three devices and you just switch to the one you want to use -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Estelita

Re: maximizing windows on the Mac

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Gilland
Yeah, I do it all the time. Go to your menu bar, then to the window menu. See if there is an option in there that says Zoom. If so, activate this menu option, and that should do the trick. If it doesn't, let me know as there is another way you manually can do it, but it's ever so slightly

Re: maximizing windows on the Mac

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Gilland
Hitting the zoom button just depends. Usually, it does! actually make it the full maximized size. If it doesn't though, as I said, there is another way to do it which will pretty much guarantee it to be the full maximized size, but I don't like resorting to that option unless necessary, as

Re: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please!

2013-05-20 Thread Estelita
Thanks, I will search on this. - Original Message - From: wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:49 PM Subject: RE: suggestion for best Apple keyboard please! Hi I don't know about apple keyboard but the logitec k760 is a great

Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Babcock
Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that I have currently hired a team of application developers to create the next accessible great game! Now is your opportunity to have your own input, and help create one of the new, and exciting games for the blind, visually impaired, and sided

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, so I just installed Skype and figured I would give it a try, I got logged in through Facebook, and now am getting a bunch of busy busy messages. Has anyone done a podcast or anything like that to getting started with Skype and Voiceover. I have played around with Skype a little before

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Michael: While I am not necessarily looking for recognition or credit, I will actually drop two cents into the hat hear :). I used to play nentendo sports games when I was a teenager. I am totally blind and could compete rather well playing both their version of baseball and double

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Babcock
That is a great idea, I will throw that on my list of ideas that I am currently starting! Thanks. Need a ripple code? Text me, 406-212-8503 visit startmyripple.com Http://empoweringtheblind.com On May 20, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Patrick Neazer patricknea...@mac.com wrote: Hello Michael: While

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh yes, and this reminds me that I see no hockey-related games. I'd love to play such a game. Teresa (go San Jose Sharks :) ) On May 20, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: That is a great idea, I will throw that on my list of ideas that I am currently

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Wow, it blows me away sometimes at the problems I have with Voiceover. I keep getting stuck in busy mode with Skype and having to force quit the program as it is not responding. Not sure how everyone else is able to use Skype, as I think this is why I gave up on Skype the last time,

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Teresa and all: For the purposes of satisfying the moderators, I need to say something like … yes, I would support hockey as well. I used to play the Intelevision version of hockey and it worked quite well. The true agenda of this email is to provide a forum to say … even though they

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
As a big sports fan, and someone who could once see, I really miss all the baseball strategy games. Not sure why none of these games like Strat-o-Matic where you can use any player from any team isn't accessible, as this is a dice based game, and not a graphics game. There should be a fantasy

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, There are lots of holes in the gaming market needing to be filled. How about an accessible pinball game that's so like ordinary pinball as you can get? or a slot machine, yes i know there's accessible fruit machine, but there should be others as well. Sports games like boxing, hockey,

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
I would love some rpg games. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email

Re: maximizing windows on the Mac

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Actually, I think zoom just makes the window large enough to contain all information, this does not mean it will fill the screen. I use voiceover's resize window command, and tell it to resize to the entire screen. Original message: Yeah, I do it all the time. Go to your menu bar, then to the

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Yes I have. Unfortunately without luck. All the best Jürgen Am 20.05.2013 um 16:39 schrieb Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com: Have you tried using full-screen mode with command-control-f? This works consistently for me. HtH, Teresa On May 20, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Jürgen Fleger

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Scott Berry
Same with all sports. My particular sports are Football and Hockey and of course the Broncos and the Avalance. On 5/20/13 11:02, Brian Fischler wrote: As a big sports fan, and someone who could once see, I really miss all the baseball strategy games. Not sure why none of these games like

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, brian, Skype is working beautifully on my Mac Mini 2009 running Mountain Lion, and it is completely accessible. I get very brief busy messages when trying to access the home screen, but these go away within seconds. You might try a Skype reinstall and see if it helps. HtH, Teresa On May

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, I would love to see an accessible version of soccer and also baseball, where you have complete control of all aspects of the game from selecting players, etc. and also that they be as realistic as possible. Thanks! Harry On May 20, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Michael Babcock

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Theresa, Just deleted Skype reinstalled, and still busy busy busy. When I got to Force Quit Skype says it is not responding. Does Skype not work with Facebook, as my account is logged in through Facebook, and I am attempting to send a buddy message to someone on Facebook, and that is when

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hmmm, that could be the case. I haven't used it in conjunction with facebook yet at all. Teresa On May 20, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Theresa, Just deleted Skype reinstalled, and still busy busy busy. When I got to Force Quit Skype says it is not

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Michael. Sounds really great. If you are thinking about multiplayer games, a pack of sports games would be really awesome. If you are thinking about single player games, Angry birds would be amazing. I'm not sure about what those games are about, but they must be very addicting. :) If you

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
I would definitely buy an RPG game that is actually based on true fantasy like LOTR or DND. On 5/20/13, Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk wrote: Hi Michael. Sounds really great. If you are thinking about multiplayer games, a pack of sports games would be really awesome. If you are

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
Hi again, I did some testing on links, and have to say it is a pain in the rear, but they can be managed. Still need to figure the best way to consistently open them. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me:

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
hi there, Something I have not found as of yet, is an accessible poker game. . I know this is not a big deal to most, but there are quite a few card junkies out there. I have to admit that I am one of them. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me:

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
There used to be an online accessible poker game. I can't remember the name off hand. But it used flash and was designed accessibly. On 5/20/13, Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, Something I have not found as of yet, is an accessible poker game. . I know this is not a big

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
Hi there, My Skype is logged in using my Skype account, with facebook connected. I have no issues sending or receiving messages at all. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
I have flash player installed on the macbook pro, but it seems as though flash and Voiceover do not like each other that much. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype:

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
Hi. I am not having any issues with skype either. Just logged in to see if there was a problem. I got busy when skype was trying to load contacts etc but after that it was fine. Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Not sure what I could be doing wrong, as I just got the busy again and Skype isn't responding yet again. Also the few times I was able to send a message to a friend on Facebook they didn't get it yet it appears in history. I even tried doing the test call, hit return on it and nothing yet it

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Chris H
Well my Skype integrated with Facebook wors fine at my end. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 20/05/2013 18:45, Brian Fischler wrote: Hey Theresa, Just

Re: Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Brandt, Macros are not used in Numbers, nor even in Excel for the Mac. So, no, your macro won't work. Cheers, Anne On 19 May 2013, at 14:58, Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there folks, I am wondering if excell macros will work in Numbers? I have an excell chess

Chess clock, was, Re: Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-20 Thread Brandt
Hi there, What this macro does actually would be better served with an external application. It is basically a chess clock. I am involved in two chess email lists that play tournaments over skype. A chess clock is required to time games, but Braille clocks are very rare and ungodly expensive

Re: Chess clock, was, Re: Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Hall
I don't know what a chess clock is compared to a normal clock, but why not simply check the time? If all you are after is a simple clock, would a talking one not work just as well, whether built into the Mac or otherwise? What about a simple stopwatch app (the one on iOS is great if you have an

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Yolanda
On 5/20/2013 11:57 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi Michael. Sounds really great. If you are thinking about multiplayer games, a pack of sports games would be really awesome. If you are thinking about single player games, Angry birds would be amazing. I'm not sure about what those games are about,

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
I'd love some sort of rig. thanks, Caitlyn On 2013-05-20, at 1:28 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Same with all sports. My particular sports are Football and Hockey and of course the Broncos and the Avalance. On 5/20/13 11:02, Brian Fischler wrote: As a big sports fan, and

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Caitlyn! If you mean a Truck! There is a online text game called Truckingsim! HTH Colin On 20 May 2013, at 20:25, Cait and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love some sort of rig. thanks, Caitlyn On 2013-05-20, at 1:28 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Same with

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
lol, stupid auto spell check! I meant role play game! lol thanks, colin! Ugh, some day I'm going to figure out how to conquer the auto check thingie on this thing if it's the last thing I do! Cait On 2013-05-20, at 3:33 PM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi Caitlyn! If

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Randy George
I believe that used to be called allinplay poker. Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Jamie Tachiyama jathlet...@gmail.com wrote: There used to be an online accessible poker game. I can't remember the name off hand. But it used flash and was designed accessibly. On 5/20/13,

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Randy George
If we are venturing down the sports path, I think an accessible bowling or archery game would be also very neat. Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Søren Jensen s...@coolfortheblind.dk wrote: Hi Michael. Sounds really great. If you are thinking about multiplayer games, a

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Randy George
I would love to see some Sort of multiplayer NFL-based game. Go eagles! Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Michael Babcock michael.babcoc...@gmail.com wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that I have currently hired a team of application developers to create

Re: Chess clock, was, Re: Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm not a chess player but I thought a chess clock has two countdown timers and two buttons. Each player gets the same amount of time to make their moves. So once you move your piece you hit the button and the other player's timer starts counting down. When they finish moving they hit their

Re: Chess clock, was, Re: Excell macros in numbers

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Hall
It seems like this is something Automator or Applescript could do on its own, with the advantage that you could assign a hotkey to the script so you would not have to leave the email or chess application. Again, more details from the OP on how exactly this works and is being used would help. On

VMWare Fusion questions

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm thinking of using VMWare Fusion on my business Macbook instead of Bootcamp. Before I do, though, some questions: 1. I have a Windows 7 ISO. Can I use that? Is there a way to pay Microsoft for a valid user license without paying for the actual disk, since I don't need it (this is on

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have no answer for you but i can report that as soon as i click or right click to bring up a menu, the busy busy thing starts here. I wonder if it's strictly a voiceover thing or if it is something that concerns other users as well? /Krister 20 maj 2013 kl. 19:45 skrev Brian Fischler

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Freezing up when vo´shift+m-ing a contact freezes here to so that's confirmed. /Krister 20 maj 2013 kl. 20:49 skrev Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com: Not sure what I could be doing wrong, as I just got the busy again and Skype isn't responding yet again. Also the few times I was able to

Re: Two questions related to iPhone 5

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
There are a bunch of camera timer apps in the store but whether they work with voiceover is unknown. Here are a couple to check into: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-timer/id346475986?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timercam-self-timer-camera/id494952699?mt=8

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
On #4, you can set the virtual drive quite large as it will only expand to what it actually needs. I typically set it to 40GB. Generally the virtual disk will expand as needed but won't shrink back down when you delete stuff. For that you'll want to run the VMWare tools and get it to shrink

Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
In a similar vein, the few times I ever needed root access was in the terminal app to run certain commands. I never needed to log into the system as root. Would be interesting to know what you want to do. CB On 5/19/13 1:40 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: Let's get a few things straight. 1. In the

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
From what I could find, some USB keyboards can be connected through Apple's camera connection kit which includes a 30-pin to USB adapter: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57401068-285/secrets-of-the-ipad-camera-connection-kit/ The article mentions the USB port also works for mics, MIDI gear

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. It mentions commercial entities cannot do this, so I wonder if my one-man operation counts. Also, I tried to create an account, but the text fields are all unlabeled and the website feels very... strangely laid out. On May 20, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: On

Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, Is anyone familiar with how to play text adventure games on OSX under Mountain Lion? I am interested in the Desktop platform rather than the mobile side of things, but either would work. I looked on ifarchive.org and it looks like the interpreters are for much older versions of the

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
Try Zoom. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 16:45, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is anyone familiar with how to play text adventure games on OSX under Mountain Lion? I am interested in the Desktop platform rather than the mobile side of things, but either would

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
Harry, There's froths. I know you said you weren't interested in the iOS side of things. they do have an iOS version of it, but they might do a mac version as well, I think I remember somebody saying there was awhile back. There are tons of games that come with it. hth, Cait On 2013-05-20,

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-20 Thread Karen Lewellen
That is terrific, thanks for letting me know. I was wondering about content transferring as well. Much appreciated, Karen On Mon, 20 May 2013, Chris Blouch wrote: From what I could find, some USB keyboards can be connected through Apple's camera connection kit which includes a 30-pin to USB

iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, is there anyway I can use my iPhone5 as an external speech synthesiser for my iMac? I know i can use a usb sound card and rout VO through it but I don't have the spare cash for that at the moment. I want to be able to play music through our sound system and not hear Vo. Thanks for any

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for confirming that you are getting the busy busy when trying to VO to a menu. I hate to say it but I'm glad I'm not the only one. Gave up playing with Skype for the day, as what I would have thought took a fe minutes turned into hours. On May 20, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Krister Ekstrom

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hmm, good point. the view pane is closed for me, and I'm using standard view. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 20, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jürgen, Okay, so maybe there's

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
I very much doubt you could do something like that. Oh , wait, you want to use the iPhone as a soundcard? You can try WebCamera, an app that lets you do video and sound, routing the sound from computer to iPhone and I believe it can do the other way around too. But using it as a speech

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This depends. Are you using iTunes to play music? If so, you can use Apple's remote app to control iTunes from your IOS device. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 20, 2013, at 6:36 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote:

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Keep in mind, the iPhone 5, iPad mini, 4th generation iPad, and 5th generation iPod touch do not use a 30 pin connector but, the new 8 pin lightning connectors. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 20, 2013, at 6:25 PM,

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
Can this camera thing work with braille displays or flashdrives? Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 17:42, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Keep in mind, the iPhone 5, iPad mini, 4th generation iPad, and 5th generation iPod touch do not use a 30 pin connector but, the new

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
Alex, Setting up the vm is accessible. I think as long as you have the key you can put it on three machines. My vm is 40 gigs, but all I'm using my windows machine for is k1000 and some windows games that don't have mac versions yet so I don't need a big one. Hope somebody else can answer the

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
The frotz version is OK. Zoom for mac is amazingly good though, I recommend it over the other for iOS though. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 16:44, Cait and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Harry, There's froths. I know you said you weren't interested in the iOS side of

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
Can you get this in the app store? Cait On 2013-05-20, at 6:48 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: The frotz version is OK. Zoom for mac is amazingly good though, I recommend it over the other for iOS though. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 16:44, Cait and Maggie

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
I don't think so. Try just searching for it. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 17:51, Cait and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Can you get this in the app store? Cait On 2013-05-20, at 6:48 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: The frotz version is OK. Zoom for mac is

Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Cait and Maggie
ok, thanks, will do. Cait On 2013-05-20, at 6:52 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: I don't think so. Try just searching for it. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 17:51, Cait and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Can you get this in the app store? Cait On 2013-05-20,

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Matt Dierckens
Why not try Airfoil? Its a great little app. On 2013-05-20, at 6:39 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: I very much doubt you could do something like that. Oh , wait, you want to use the iPhone as a soundcard? You can try WebCamera, an app that lets you do video and sound, routing the

MUD clients, was Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Devin Prater
Your welcome, and happy adventuring. And on a sidenote, does anyone know of a better MUD client than Tintin++? That's the terminal MUD client. Sent from my iPod On 20 mai 2013, at 17:54, Cait and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: ok, thanks, will do. Cait On 2013-05-20, at 6:52 PM,

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Agent086b
Thanks, use I do use this app and find it good. Problem is if I am working on my computer I can't play music threw out the house and not also play Vo. Max. On 21/05/2013, at 8:40 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This depends. Are you using iTunes to play music? If so,

Re: MUD clients, was Re: Text Adventure Games on OSX

2013-05-20 Thread Harry Hogue
Thanks much; I'll give this a look, and thanks for the prompt reply. Harry On May 20, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Your welcome, and happy adventuring. And on a sidenote, does anyone know of a better MUD client than Tintin++? That's the terminal MUD client. Sent

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Gilland
I don't think that's possible, however, maybe there is an app that'll do it. I'd almost bet you'd have to jailbreak though in order for it to work. Man would that be cool though if it could be done. Chris. - Original Message - From: Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com To: Mac List

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Matt Dierckens
Well, you could use the voice, just download samantha and samantha compact voices. there you go. On 2013-05-20, at 7:30 PM, Chris Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that's possible, however, maybe there is an app that'll do it. I'd almost bet you'd have to jailbreak though in

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ah! I see what you mean. I don't see a way to get around this without buying some type of external audio device. You can get something for as cheap as $20. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 20, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Agent086b

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Gilland
Yeah, but I'm the same way as the other person that posted initially, I don't want to just switch the voice, that kind of defeats what we're trying to do. If it was that easy, we'd a already done it. I have Samantha already installed, but would love to find a way to avoid software speech.

Re: iPhone as a synth

2013-05-20 Thread Agent086b
Hi, are you talking about an external sound card? If so I have never seen one for that price here. Thanks again. Max. On 21/05/2013, at 11:22 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Ah! I see what you mean. I don't see a way to get around this without buying some type of external

error message when playing videos using mactubes.

2013-05-20 Thread Jessica Moss
I've just tried several times to play a video using mactubes, and just get an error message that tells me error using player, but won't tell me what the error is, so don't know what to make of this. Has anyone else had this issue? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
1. Texas Hold'em Poker. This should be relatively easy to develop, could be completely accessible to both blind and sighted, could be multiplayer and absolutely brilliant. AllInPlay is a fantastic platform but unfortunately non-existant on the Mac or iOS. 2. Monopoly. There are some great

MBP Drive issues.

2013-05-20 Thread Danny Noonan
My 2011 MBP has been taking longer and longer to boot up so on Saturday I booted to safe mode and opened disk utilities and did the tried and true repare disk permissions and repare disk. There were lots of disk permission errors that seemed to rep are properly but when it had all finished, I

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Jessica Moss
I like the Texas Holdem idea as well, and maybe some more card games like Uno, more solitare games, especially something like Spider solitare,, different types of word games where you don't have to have an internet connection in order to play them, but can if you choose to, if you feel that

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Katey Glass
Along the card theme, I'd like to see an accessible Uno game that could be enjoyed by both sighted blind alike. Sort of like the DiceWorld app is accessible by both blind and sighted. katey Sent from my iPad On May 20, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com

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