Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Alex and others, What is the drawer? Where do I find it? And will this method of following people sync across devices or is this something which is specific to one copy of Night Owl? Cheers, Nic On 22/09/2013, at 12:39 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, Twitter removed that

Re: Downcast on the Mac.

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Kawal, Yep, you could just import an OPML file. However, on the main screen of Downcast Mac there should be an iCloud Settings button down near the bottom right as it seems to a VoiceOver user. Press this and then check all the things you want synced. ON Downcast iOS, there's a more tab

Re: Downcast on the Mac.

2013-10-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thank you very much Nic. I fixed all my problems and now Down Cast on the Mac is wonderful and Itunes stays closed to podcasts! Kawal. On 1 Oct 2013, at 08:25 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: HI Kawal, Yep, you could just import an OPML file. However, on the main

Re: downcast on the mac

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Once you get it up and running, Lisette, I'd be interested in how you find Downcast on the Mac. Hi Brian, yes I was talking about you. :) Just a friendly dig – I thought you might be reading but hope you didn't take any offence. Wanted to make sure your voice was heard in case Lisette ran into

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-10-01 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Sandi. I have in fact been looking at the opticbook a300. I think I would like that scanner, but I am a little worried about the price here in Denmark. I would in fact pay the price if I could be sure the scanner works great. Is there any mac drivers for these scanners? Best regards Annie.

Re: Vocalizer Expressive, Was Re: iOS 7, the worse update for norwegians using VoiceOver

2013-10-01 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Terje. I downloaded the norwegian voice yesterday. This is something like the danish voice, I am not good at norwegian, but I can hear that it is just as terrible as the danish voice. Best regards Annie. Den Sep 29, 2013 kl. 11:54 PM skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com: Then we

Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
The drawer is, as I understand it, a slide-out panel with options (follow/unfollow, tweet, followers, and friends counts, and so on). It can be placed on the left or the right in Preferences, but I have mine on the left so I just vo-left until I fond it. Once I do, I interact and I can view

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-10-01 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi annie, i will say it like this , of course there are always errors when we scan something in, but the results are surprisingly good. i will do some googling and you can contact the danish company and see for your self what you think, i have scanned over 400 books on mine so far going from my

Re: USB AMAZON BASICS KEYBOARD: FN KEY EQUIVALENT?

2013-10-01 Thread Chris Blouch
When I use an external full-size USB keyboard I can hit the 'backwards delete' which is below help and F14 and then escape to exit. Usually the Fn key is just to enable some secondary meaning to keys on a compact keyboard that they didn't have room for. So Function+up becomes PageUp and

Re: USB AMAZON BASICS KEYBOARD: FN KEY EQUIVALENT?

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
The only thing is that I wish I could use the f keys for their system control functions with the help of a modifier. Unfortunately, I have never found a way to do this with a non-Apple keyboard. On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: When I use an external full-size

Re: use Mac as Airplay or bluetooth speaker?

2013-10-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmmm. Didn't work for me either. I noticed that it was last update Fall 2011 so I suspect something changed in iOS or OSX that caused it to break over the last two years. Seems like anyone who has figured out how to make this work has created a non-free app to implement it. CB On 9/30/13

Re: use Mac as Airplay or bluetooth speaker?

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
I'm finding the same thing - any app that can do this is apid. That meems to indicate that either there is a license fee a developer has to pay, or the work is terribly complex and difficult. On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Hmmm. Didn't work for me either. I

Crashplan users: here's a link to change your settings!

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I just got this link from Crashplan Support. While you cannot change much on the Mac itself because of the Crashplan UI, this link will let you change your settings on the web. The page needs some labeling work, but it's useable. Enjoy. http://t.co/1vgvNTgnOX Have a great day, Alex

mail settings questionn: checking mail

2013-10-01 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi, I thought there was a setting in mail where you can say how often to check mail? I can't find this now. I have two accounts, one pop and the other is imap. Every time the pop one checks for mail, I'm being prompted for a password. I'd rather just check this account manually instead of

Re: iTunes Match Questions

2013-10-01 Thread Desi Noller
Thanks Jonathan, My music collection isn't quite that big, so no worries there! I look forward to trying it out! Thanks for the encouragement! Desi On Sep 30, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Hi Desi, you should be able to sign up from the Store Menu of iTunes. I

Emptying Google Drive Trash

2013-10-01 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, Has anyone found a viable solution on how to delete trash from the google drive cloud service? Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

iTunes Match questions

2013-10-01 Thread Helena Fehr
Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing i found when I signed up for iTunes match was that it only downloaded my music library, and no audiobooks or movies, or anything else i might have in my iTunes library, and since at the time I listened more to audiobooks than music, I found

Re: iTunes Match questions

2013-10-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you're purchasing these items through the iTunes Store, then they are automatically available to all your devices whether you have iTunes Match or not. Simply go under the iTunes Preferences, select the Store pane and check the box for Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases. When this is

Re: Emptying Google Drive Trash

2013-10-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, To empty your Google Drive Trash, do the following: 1. Open Safari. 2. Go to your Google Drive on the web. 3. Navigate to the Views menu item and Interact with it. It's just to the VO-right of the All folders item. 4. It should now have Shared with Me, Starred, Recent and More to choose

Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-10-01 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. thanks for solving that mystery. Blessings! maria and Joe chapman Email, iMessage fb: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl On 01/10/2013, at 10:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: The drawer is, as I understand it, a slide-out panel with options (follow/unfollow, tweet,

Re: folders on the mac

2013-10-01 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. yep I do the same thing. Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 01/10/2013, at 3:19 PM, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net wrote: I like to use command o or command downn arrow to open the folder i want to put my new sub folder into. Then its alwayse in the right spot.

Re: folders on the mac

2013-10-01 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. yep I do the same thing. Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 01/10/2013, at 3:19 PM, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net wrote: I like to use command o or command downn arrow to open the folder i want to put my new sub folder into. Then its alwayse in the right spot.

keystroke to jump to message body in Apple Mail compose window?

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I feel like I saw this once, but maybe not. Is there a keystroke to jump straight to the message body when you are writing a new message? Often I just want to fill in the first two fields, then start typing, instead of tabbing past the headers, from, and signature options. As I said,

Re: keystroke to jump to message body in Apple Mail compose window?

2013-10-01 Thread Danny Noonan
Can't you just do vo shift end or something? My mac is terminally ill or IDE check. Danny. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Oct 2013, at 12:47 pm, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I feel like I saw this once, but maybe not. Is there a keystroke to jump straight to the message body

Re: keystroke to jump to message body in Apple Mail compose window?

2013-10-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, as far as I know, there is no shortcut. You just have to tab to the body. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I feel like I saw this once, but maybe not. Is

Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Fantastic, thank you, Command-D did the trick. Now for something a little off topic, do people get notified if you stop following them? Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Music App in iOS7

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
When I tap the playback speed button in the iOS7 Music app the speed of playback changes, but the button continues to show the speed as set to normal. I've so far tested this only on an audiobook not purchased from audible or iTunes on my 4S running iOS 7.0.2. Can anyone else reproduce this?

VoiceOver Crashing in Mac Safari

2013-10-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Has anyone else ever had the following experience? You try to go to the next link or heading in Safari on Mac and VoiceOver suddenly turns itself off and back on again and takes you half way back up the page? Do we know what causes this? It can be kinda annoying. -- You received this message

Re: following someone in night owl?

2013-10-01 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Not by default, but there are various services one can sign up to that provide this info. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 2/10/2013, at 5:16 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic, thank you,