Hi everyone,
I have decidded to buy a macbook air in the comin gmonths. At this time i have
a small tv standing in my living room connected to analo g signal. For
everything else i use the computer so i was htinking, why not for tv as well.
Are there any analog tv tuner/radio receivers that
Hi.
I don't have a tivo compatible device. I will se if it will let me see the
interface without one.
Nektarios.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi:
can you see if the Tivo part is accessible?
On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Nektarios Mallas
Hello:
I am working with faces in iPhoto and I have a question, let's see if somebody
can give me a hand.
1. I tagged some faces with the help or somebody sighted.
2. I when to faces in the source list, and in the content area, I selected the
face I wanted it's photos to show.
3. I went to the
Please let me know. I'd appreciate it.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Nektarios Mallas nmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I don't have a tivo compatible device. I will se if it will let me see the
interface without one.
Nektarios.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi,
I'm not sure why this works for me, but pressing command+right arrow gets this
problem resolved for me when it happens.
Robert Carter
On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alex,
When this happens, I unload VO with command F5 and then use the arrow
Hi all,
Of the three major scanning apps for the Mac (Prizmo, Abbyy, and Docuscan), one
does not support books open and laid flat. Which one was it? I don't think it
was Prizmo, as I just scanned part of a manual by placing it flat and open to a
random page and it seemed to work just fine.
Hi Chris, I am also having this problem, and it started yesterday. Never
had a problem before. Now the problem is exactly as you describe. i'm not
using gmail, I'm using a pop3 account but i'm getting the same messages,
hopefully someone can help us both.
Regards Zoe
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Thanks for the hints, everyone. Of course, the problem has since gone away so I
cannot test them now, but I will once it happens again.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:19 AM, ROBERT CARTER nc5rn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure why this works for me, but pressing command+right arrow gets
this
Hello Alex,
When I scan books, I open the book out flat and place it face down in my
scanner. That way, I get two pages at once and can just turn over the page and
repeat. Prizmo does not recognise the text in this situation. At least, it
doesn't for me. Perhaps it was the orientation, but
I don't know how to solve this problem of yours, but the way I read Mail
conversations I don't ever encounter the problem. When I get to a conversation
in the messages table, I just command-O to open it. By default I end up in one
of the messages. To read another message in the conversation I
Well, this is going to sound totally insane, but none the less iTunes
seems to be working ok. At least, I've been able to get in and out of a library
file more than twice, and the gremlin didn't do something to it overnight
either. But here is the weird part. I had created a new library,
Hi, Well, in my search for a tv tuner for my macbook air with which i could
replace my old tv to watch analog cable tv on the mac i came across the elgato
eyetv hybrid. Has anyone used this tv tuner stick before in combination with
voiceover?
Thanks,
greetings, Anouk,
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Hi,
That is odd indeed. Did you have a copy of the iTunes app anywhere else
outside the Applications folder that you are aware of? Applications that you
attempt to run from other places often do cause weird problems that are
inconsistent and difficult to figure out. Just for safety, you may
This problem has been documented by Joe Kissell in some detail in his book Take
Control of Apple Mail on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Basically, it stems
from the fact that gmail and Apple Mail have different ideas about deleting and
archiving. How gmail operates also depends on whether
I'm not aware of any other copies of itunes application, but I didn't look for
any; sounds like a good idea.
Mary
Mary Otten
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Everyone has always had the iWorks tab in iCloud. However, this has only ever
been to add and remove iWorks document from your iCloud. Prior to Mountain Lion
iCloud documents wouldn't sync from iOS to Mac, you had to go to the iCloud
website and drag the documents from the cloud to your Mac.
Mike,
Well thought out comments. Have you considered broaching these ideas with
Apple? They might not listen, but nothing ventured…nothing gained. They stop
listening to the customers they'll find themselves just another tech company,
like Microsoft.
BTB, still using your podcasts for an
Chris, search for Night Owl in the App Store, and the first result is the
Twitter client. SO no. no hours of searching were saved. The English
documentation also makes reference to Night Owl. It is an official name
supported by the developers.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness
Hey Dave,
Not sure if you meant your comments to come across as rude, but you managed it
brilliantly. As far as what list Mike should be on goes, maybe you're unaware
of how much Mike has done over the last four or five years to promote the Mac
in the blind community He was probably one of
I don't know quite how I fixed it, but I have. My temptation is to try breaking
it again so I can then try fixing it again and work out the steps…but life's
too short.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 13/06/2013, at 4:19 AM,
Hi Mary, yes, it stores playlists. In fact I can make a change on my phone, and
see that change reflected on my Mac, Apple TV and iPad.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 13/06/2013, at 12:14 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com
Hey Eric,
Congrats on completing a task that would had stymied many a fellow geek. I
know I was pretty pleased, when I put that one to bed.
Anyway, well done,
CJ
On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:28 PM, eric oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote:
I figured that one out as well. I simply bought a DL burner
gmail's understanding of IMAP and Apple Mail's understanding of IMAP are not
the same, and if you're not careful this can produce funny results. The way
they both work is rather complicated. Thankfully, Joe Kissell has written a
number of great MacWorld and TidBits articles which are free on
Hello, all. I' trying to access the CNIB library in order to download books.
When I click on the download link, rather than download the book, I have part
of the website and the only assistance I received from the BNIB was to download
google chrome. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
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I think once you have a bunch of pictures in a folder in iPhoto you can
pick that folder and then choose New Slideshow from the File menu. That
will make a slideshow out of that bunch of stuff. Then if you go past
most of the UI you'll eventually find the Bottom Toolbar Group.
Interacting with
Hi Brian,
Glad I could help. Yep, I think DocuScan's 7 day trial is worth checking out.
It's relatively a very expensive app, so make sure you like it before you buy.
With that CanoScan software, is the document that opens automatically in
Preview as you say already been OCR-ed? Not sure if I
I could just write the HTML in Mars Edit. I used to just write the HTML on the
WordPress web app. However, it's annoying to proof read stuff you've written in
HTML. The flow of the writing is broken up by p a href=http:// etcetera.
Apart from breaking up the flow of the sentence and paragraph
I'm not sure iText does support footnotes, Rahul. And if it does I'm not sure
they work with VoiceOver. If you're looking for footnotes, I'd recommend Nisus
Writer Pro. Pages might also serve your needs, otherwise you might have to try
Microsoft Word for Windows. I'm no expert on iText Express
Ahh, okay, cool. That makes sense. Can you upgrade from SL straight to ML?
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It would appear that you can upgrade straight from SL to ML. At least, the Mac
store guy said I could, and the application shows up in my Mac app store.
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That's awesome! I'd also echo Ricardo's words that you probably don't really
need to teach yourself all that much. Apple's webpage on Mountain Lion would
probably be a good start, just so you know what new features there are. Also,
as someone else said, David Woodbridge's podcasts are a good
Oh I'm pretty sure. Fanboy trates often lead those afflicted to trample over
facts, rational discussion and argument with empty snark and irrational
assertions. Commonly if it is stated that it would be nice to have some
feature set of the rival product this is taken as a personal attack on
Hi, everyone. I hope this isn't to off topic. I'm planning on working at a
recording studio in Northridge California soon. They produce video descriptions
for TV networks, documentaries, online music videos and have worked on adding
description to educational videos for classrooms. They will
I don't necessarily agree with this assumption totally. I think personally that
not everyone who sticks with one product is nor should be, entitled a fan boy
just as I think that not everyone who is looking at the competition is
disrespecting what they currently use.
Allow me to explain. I
Hi,
I don't remember exactly how but if I understood correctly it should be
possible to use a foreign language with VoiceOver on the iPhone in high
quality. I searched on the internet but couldn't figure out how. My iPhone runs
in german but sometimes I read english texts like e-mails from
Hi list,
I've been helping my university test the accessibility of some of its online
resources. They've been building a whole lot of stuff with AJAX which, as you
probably know, is generally pretty awful for screen readers.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any good resources which would
I'm curious. Is there a difference between command o and enter in this
situation. Pressing enter on a conversation I often don't even have to
interact with messages as they will read as I move between them and I don't
mean message preview either.
Danny.
Sent from my iPhone
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Awesome, glad you found the pod casts helpful. Yes, I have written to
Apple with these suggestions. I think what it comes down to though is
that Apple wants complete control over the operating system and the
user experience. If they were to open up the platform in the ways I
have mentioned,
Hi there, I don't know the answer to your question, since I've only been
using an iphone for one year. However I use my iphone with two different
languages, Greek, and English, and I've been told I can only use the voices
the iphone comes with. I don't know if anyone on this list knows
NOt sure I have any good suggestions for rich text editors but Ajax
shouldn't be an issue. Ajax is just a technique to fetch a blob of HTML
and stuff it into a container on a page (or replace what was in the
container). The usual technique is to then move browser focus to that
container so the
Hi,
What did you press when attempting to start the download? I've found that
sometimes either pressing Return or Option-return works on some sites. Return
simply activates the link whereas Option-return starts to download whatever is
attached to that link.
I haven't used the CNIB site much
I don't recall saying or implying that in any way what so ever. To tell someone
their on the wrong list because someone said it would be nice to have some
feature sets similar to android is however a sign of likely fanboy itas. In my
home we have 2 apple tv's 2 MacBooks 4 iPhones, an AirPort
You know, it's funny that we both should offer exactly the very same solutions
to your problem Kerri. Tim, I can confirm your suspicions that CNIB is pretty
much unfamiluar with the Mac, Voice Over and how we use it. Their only
suggestion was for Kerri to use Crome. How do I know? It's just
Hi,
actually the iPhone uses in your home language a high quality voice. At least
that's what I know from german and english iPhones. I don't know wether this is
correct for all languages.
What I want to do is to use the german high quality voice and the english high
quality voice.
All the
Hello Jürgen,
I'm afraid you can only have one HQ voice on the iPhone. I have the same
problem as you do in that I run my iPhone in English but read a lot of French
on it. I'd love to have an HQ French voice, and I can have one if I set my
iPhone to French, but then I lose my HQ English
Thanks. I read something about curve fixing for books on Prizmo's site, but if
this is not automatic then it may be worthless to blind users.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Alex,
When I scan books, I open the book out flat and place it face
I think they both do the same thing. Yes, I often use that trick as well, but
sometimes I only want the most recent message, or most of the messages are
already read, or for some other reason I want to just expand the conversation.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net
Hi Anne,
thanks Anne for your reply. I tried it out and set my iPhone to British English
but unfortunately it didn't work. My german hq voice stayed but Daniel stayed
in compact mode even though I kept the Phone for an hour in english. Very sad.
Anyway, let's see wether iOS 7 brings the new
Hi,
You have to set your language for voice control as well to the particular
language that you want.
Then connect your IPhone to WIFI, plug it in to your computer, and sync with
ITunes, and wait about an hour or so depending on your internet connection.
On 2013-06-13, at 5:17 PM, Jürgen Fleger
Oh I do the same thing a lot of the time. Both methods work for different
situations.
Danny.
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On 14/06/2013, at 7:09 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
I think they both do the same thing. Yes, I often use that trick as well, but
sometimes I only want the most
Hi.
I am trying to use my Boot Camp Windows installation to create VM fusion
virtual PC. Can someone help me get started?
The only options I see are to migrate a different computer into VMware on the
same network and to install from a disc. If the migration assistant the one I
should use for
Hello. If I may, I'd like to make a correction. The conference call for the
IBUG meetings is every Monday night. The meetings that are face-to-face at the
Apple Store, are once a month usually the fourth Saturday of every month.
Shane
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On Jun 11, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Eugenia
You can see more about this on my guide of installing and setting up
bootcamp without sighted assistance from
www.applevis.com
Chris
On 13/06/2013 22:51, Bill Holton wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to use my Boot Camp Windows installation to create VM fusion
virtual PC. Can someone help me get
Hello, Tim and Ray:
Optiion enter or force download finally cracked the issue for which I thank
you. I never knew this command existed. Yo are right,t eh CNIB barely assists
anyone so I like you, Tim barely use it but when I want to use it, now it does
work.
Ray, yo are correct in your
Hi Jurgen and Zoe. Yes, you can only use the iPhone's voices that are built in
to the iOS and unfortunately, you can only download one HQ voice at a time.
Also, the device needs to be plugged in for a voice to download. So if you want
the English voice, either Daniel, Samantha or Karen, you
Hi Katie,
I think some folks over at the MacVisionaries email list would probably have
more useful information on the subject. Unless somebody here can chime in, I
think that'll be your best bet.
Cheers,
Slau
On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Katie Zodrow wrote:
Hi, everyone. I hope this isn't
hey all a wile ago twitter in there wizdim changed the rules meaning
savrel developers could not develop apps for twitter any more nambu
was amunkst the apps effected by this new ruling how ever it still
continued to work for me up untill yesterday when it stopped working
and hasn't worked since
Hi,
That's probably because changed their API yesterday and there's no update for
it. May I suggest Yorufukourou?
On 2013-06-13, at 7:29 PM, trahern culver tecks-...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
hey all a wile ago twitter in there wizdim changed the rules meaning
savrel developers could not develop
I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mixed results. My husband
got me this box called scan box. He got it from Amazon. Using it, I was able to
get almost a perfect stand of a letter I got. True, the printing was very good,
but I also read a bill and was able to figure out who
Damn straight it's rediculous. A now passed former teacher of mine had a
saying that I try always to bear in mind. What was that saying? It was this:
IF I can't help you, I know someone who can..
I, for my part, am overjoyed that both Tim and I could render some
small
I shall have to give this a look. I had some kind of okay results with Text
Detective and much worswe with Prismo. Seems to me that the problem comes down
to my just not knowing exactly how to hold the phone the right distance from
the page and angle the camera lense just right. Thanks for
Hi Mac Friends,
I have been attempting to use screen sharing on my Mac using Mountain Lion in
the messages application. Unfortunately, I have not been successful.
What do I need to do in order to use screen sharing in messages?
Thanks for any and all assistance,
Rhonda
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My first thought is: is it enabled? Open System Preferences, go to sharing,
then find screen sharing in the table of services and make sure it is checked.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Rhonda Hornbacher rhondahornbac...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Mac Friends,
I have been attempting to use screen
Mike,
Yeah, the pod casts are great they helped a lot. I stand by my comments. I
think that spirit of misplaced loyalty has led to blind-folks not questioning
their adaptive product vendors enough to promote reasonable prices services.
That old argument of it is a small market, hence the
Ok cool, I'll look for that, I never actually looked through IPhoto's options,
so will have a look at those.
It's always driven me nuts, sense it seems to love to just put my photos all
over the place, and I can't figure out what's where half the time, and have had
trouble browsing the whole
Hello all! I check my MacBook Pro into the Apple store on Wednesday and they
took off Skype from my computer how many said they should start the problem of
my voice over being sharpie that when I got it bad it would start up for you
Sombrilla come online and then into words have freezeups
Hello everyone! Position now again I wanted to now what do I do to fix the
choppiness with voice-over every guys to my MacBook Pro and went to the Apple
store on Wednesday and its calf straight from me and when we restarted our
became back iambic van when I was using it earlier today it would
Here is the situation. I have written a review on my blog regarding a
particular company. I do not want this post to be put way down here the bottom
of all of my posts once I start posting more frequently. That will then make
the entry harder for users to find. I won't this post no matter what
hello; i know there is a better way, but easy way would be to create it as a
page instead of a post. maybe create a section for company or product reviews
so all future similar articles are also easy to find. good luck, max
On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Here is the
Hi guys,
I am trying to set up a new mail account, I need to uncheck the use SSL
checkbox and change the port from 25, but the only thing is that voiceover
doesn't see these items. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks
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What is exactly happening? It should work as long as the other person
agrees to it. You shouldn’t have to do anything special, as it does not rely
on the screen sharing option in Sharing Options to be turned on.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Hello, Tim, et al. This is the message Ray made reference too which makes your
help much more appreciated.
From Philip at CNIB
Hi Kerri,
It is of course completely up to you if you want to use a new browser but I
know we have clients using Firefox and Chrome. At this stage if you try out
Creating a sticky post is actually pretty easy. Once you publish the post go to
the post page on WordPress where it shows you the table of everything that you
have published.
Once you find a table of all your posts, click on the title of the one you want
to make sticky. This will take you to a
Max, you know what? that isn't a half bad idea actually, but yeah, we'd
rather keep it on our blog, and not have it as a separate page. Good
thought though!
Chris.
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From: Maxwell Ivey maxwelli...@aol.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June
Hi,
I've never experienced VO not seeing anything within the Mail setup process,
but, then again, if VO didn't see it then neither did I. I suggest that you
finish creating it then use the Accounts pane in Mail Prefs to make those
adjustments.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
Hi,
The ScreenSharing is not supported within the iMessage protocol. So in order
to use that feature, you need to set up a GMail or other supported account in
your Messages app. If that's not the issue, then we may need more info.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On
Hi,
This sort of problem tends to happen when Web-Developers use fancier links that
VO doesn't seem to handle well. I'm guessing that your focus on the link was
fine since when you pressed Option-return, it started the download fine. I'm
not convinced that Chrome or Firefox on the Mac would
Mike,
I use Mars Edit all the time, and swear by it! Thank you for the help.
this is excellent!
Chris.
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From: Mike blinkin4...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: Need help with Wordpress
Creating
thanks for this information, Tim but he, Philip was not to helpful when
suggesting this because he doesn't know my skill level, never ut me in contact
with any other mac user who could have given assistance. I think firefox and
Chrome are great options but they are not as accessible as yet.
On
thanks; and thanks to the fellow who described how to do a sticky post. you
learn something new all the time. now, can someone please tell me how to make
my links section behave like links instead of a drop down menu. i've heard it
could be that i need to pick a different theme maybe one
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