Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
I have never experienced what you describe. I am running iOS version 7.04, on an iPhone five. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 21 Jan 2014, at 20:57, Mike Busboom mbusb...@gmail.com wrote: No, I haven't reported it yet

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
I’ve found Mail to be much more snappy when I went to the Gmail website and limited the number of messages to 1000. I realize that not everyone is willing or able to do this, but I was, and aside from the occasional delayed syncing issues, things are workable for me in Mail now. Teresa The

help retrieving my mail

2014-01-21 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i dont know what happen to my mail. it seems like my mail are deleted, i check my inbox and deleted folder and there's nothing in there. is this a possible thing that happen to my account? or just somebody just hack my account? i did even go to my gmail account and my mail is already gone. --

Re: please disregard previous message

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Head
Hi Daniel, Normally to play youtube videos, you just press enter on the file. This wasn’t working because my internet was down and once I connected my mac to my IPhone using the phone as a wireless network or personal hotspot, the internet worked again on my mac. :) Hope you have a great day,

Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread Mike Busboom
I have a 4S and this problem occurs whenever I try to send a message to a contact that has more than one phone number in the contact entry. On 21,Jan,2014, at 9:23 AM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote: I have never experienced what you describe. I am running iOS version 7.04, on

Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread Jessica D
me either, i am running an iphone 5 with 7.0.4 as well and have never seen this issue at all. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:23 AM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote: I have never experienced what you describe. I am running iOS version 7.04, on an iPhone five.

just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I decided to take advantage of the three-day weekend to finally upgrade to Mavericks. Overall, I’m happy with the upgrade. Though I haven’t had much time to look at iBooks, I’m looking forward to having it on my Mac, and I’m pleased to see that some commands that didn’t work in ML

MenuTab in Mavericks?

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello again, I find that in Mavericks, Ctrl-F does not activate MenuTab. I’ve looked in System Prefs under keyboard, then Shortcuts, but am not seeing anything pertaining to MenuTab. Can someone tell me what the new shortcut key is, and also where I should have been looking for it? Thanks,

Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The only possibilities from your end I can think of are: (a) make sure all your contacts' phone numbers are correctly identified i.e.: a mobile phone doesn't show as home etc; (b) if you are typing the beginning of the contact you want in messages and then flicking through the choices, make

Re: MenuTab in Mavericks?

2014-01-21 Thread David Taylor
It is whatever you set it to, in the preferences of Menutab. See if you can get into its prefs from menu extras and check that you have it enabled. You might find that the app is not launching at start up in which case control-f won't work until it is launched. You can open it, then check this

Re: just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

2014-01-21 Thread David Taylor
No nuance voices support pitch or intonation changes. Cheers Dave On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:41, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi all, I decided to take advantage of the three-day weekend to finally upgrade to Mavericks. Overall, I’m happy with the upgrade. Though I haven’t had much

question re folder structure

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, As part of my post-Mavericks installation explorations, I’ve come across something that seems rather curious. I appear to have way too many copies of my music folders. I see the first one under users. All of my album folders are there, there is also an iTunes folder which contains

Re: MenuTab in Mavericks?

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Right, thanks. I didn’t change its startup status, so assumed it would open as before. Off to work, now, but will check this later. Thanks. Donna On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:16 AM, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: It is whatever you set it to, in the preferences of Menutab. See if you

Re: just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Ah. I thought I had a vague recollection of seeing some postings to that effect, but couldn’t remember for sure. Thanks for confirming. Cheers, Donna On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:17 AM, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: No nuance voices support pitch or intonation changes. Cheers

never mind folder question, got it sorted out

2014-01-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Subject says it all. Best, Donna -- 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

Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, Just recently, every time I try to save a file in let’s say TextEdit, I get a warning message that files with names longer than 31 characters cannot be saved on this system/volume. It didn’t used to happen. Have I changed some settings without knowing? If yes, where are they? Has

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Gatteys
from what he says it just enlarges the text he is working with but not the menus. Thanks, Jim On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I've not played with it, as I'm a Voiceover user as well, but what about Zoom? I believe you can configure what it enlarges and when,

Re: question re folder structure

2014-01-21 Thread isaac
I don’t think you have to keep both folders. You probably can delete them from the users folder. On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi all, As part of my post-Mavericks installation explorations, I’ve come across something that seems rather curious. I

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nicholas, Bingo I think you hit the problem right on the head, as I just looked at this all mail folder and there are 96,000 messages in it. What the heck is this folder, as I looked and there are emails I deleted years ago. Is there a way to manage this folder in any settings or get some

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Teresa, I assume limiting the messages to 1000 in gmail affects all the messages I have saved in specific folders? Ugh, that would definitely cause me issues as at times I do have to search for old emails for work. Not sure what this all mail folder is and if it was in mac mail in Mountain

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I am too a VO user. But what I heard from others that zoom does not do largeing menues. But if you get zXoomtext that will do the trick. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan

Re: Annoying issue with sending message to certain contacts under iOS7

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I am too running IOS 7.0.4 on a 4s, and I’m not having that problem. I do find that doing a factory restore helps the iphone at times when it get’s buggy. When I Jailbroke my iPhone earlier this month, I crashed it and had to do a factory restore. And that pretty much fixed a lot of problems I

Ftp and Terminal mode

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Emmons
Hi guys, got a question. I haven't had any great luck with any of the free Ftp clients as of yet, filezilla doesn't seem tow irk or maybe I'm missing something on the setup, not sure, cyberduck might work but I can't seem to get the download to work, but I am able to get into ftp using

Re: Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, Are you, by any chance, trying to save to a USB stick or external drive formatted as FAT32? That would explain your problem. Cheers, Anne On 21 Jan 2014, at 14:51, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Listers, Just recently, every time I try to save a file in

Re: can't play youtube videos in safari

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, When installing the stand-alone Flash Player, use the tab key and spacebar, no VO keys. Tab to move and spacebar to activate buttons. HTH. Best. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 20, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Ronald van Rhijn pa...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi, Last time I installed the

Re: Ftp and Terminal mode

2014-01-21 Thread Scott B.
I know that you can do a dir /w for wide i think. You go to the directory by doing cd directoryname. For example, cd Angela. On 01/21/2014 08:31, Tim Emmons wrote: Hi guys, got a question. I haven't had any great luck with any of the free Ftp clients as of yet, filezilla doesn't seem tow irk

Re: Using pages, templates.

2014-01-21 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne and Nic, thank you very much for your help. It worked fine. Interestengly enough it seems to me there are different context menues. The way I knew to open the context menue was to turn trackpad commander off and click with two fingers at the same time. I assumed it's the same context

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Nick, I think that VO is just having a hard time determining what you’ve done. I believe that your merge actually worked. If I merge cells A1 through C1, enter some text in the merged cells, then B1 and C1 will say that they are empty as you’ve noted. But if you navigate right once to

Activity Monitor

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Does anyone have a go to guide on what should be running and what you might be able to quit in the activity monitor to get your mac running better? I noticed my mail was only running at 211MB so that sounds normal, but honestly I have no clue what any of this info means to me in activity

Re: How to Delete a Table in Numbers

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Nick, To delete a Table in Numbers, Interact with the Sheet area, navigate to the Table you wish to remove and press Option-delete on it. You cannot remove the last Table, there must be at least one in your Sheet area. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:15

Re: Ftp and Terminal mode

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Blouch
right. The basics are cd to change directory into the one you want, ls to list the contents of a directory and get Filename to transfer a filename from the remote machine to the directory you were in when you started the ftp command. If you are in a folder but want to move back up to the

Re: RSS syncing with the Newsify iOS app?

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Is Readkit free? I also have NewsIsy, but i am not sure what my sync options are set to. Looks like I’m playing around with it today. Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Robert C
If you delete mail from All Mail, you will delete everything that is in the inbox, deleted, drafts, sent. So if you do not move or archive mail outside the gmail account, its gone. I use message filters (not using Mac Mail yet, still on Windows) but gmail is gmail. Before I dump All

Re: iBooks, Was just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

2014-01-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Donna, Just be aware that iBooks is a bit tricky. When you’re in the library, push the lists radio button to have VO say your book titles. When you open a book, the chapter will be in an HTmL area, which you have to interact with. The shortcut key to switch chapters doesn’t work well with

Advanced wireless settings

2014-01-21 Thread Traci Duncan
A few questions here: Does anyone use a different utility aside from Airport? How do you read the wireless traffic on and around your network? How do you find out which channels are the busiest in your neighborhood? Lastly, when I’m reading through the wireless devices list, VO says airport

Re: How to Delete a Table in Numbers

2014-01-21 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Nic, here it worked this way: Set the VO-Cursor to the table you want to delete, open the context menue by pressing VO + Shift + m and choose Cut. All the best Jürgen Am 21.01.2014 um 07:15 schrieb Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com: Hi all, How do you delete a table in

Pages

2014-01-21 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, what are the forms called in english that I can choose from after I opened Pages? I mean Empty or Modern Letter and so on. Thanks and all the best Jürgen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I was wondering, how do you Archive mail on a Mac, and how to view Archive mail? Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Robert C

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Yes, that is what I thought. Hilarious as now I only get new mail upon quitting mail and restarting mail. Very frustrating, and I would have never upgraded to Mavericks if I knew the gmail issue was still such a problem, so yeah, I am pissed off at Apple for claiming they fixed the gmail

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Robert C
I dont know that yet. Matter of fact, starting Mac training today, much to learn but hope to be able to put all this to use very soon. Quote of the nanosecond . . . So, do you live around here often? Robert Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com On 1/21/2014 10:01 AM,

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Christina C.
I am not having any problems at all with gmail. Despite the suggestion that you not hide the all mail folder…mine is hidden from apple mail. I have no idea why, but this has not caused me any problems whatsoever. I also delete instead of archive any unwanted mail. If it’s an email I want to

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-21 Thread erik burggraaf
Hey guys, Another thing has occurred to me about this. As you know, window-eyes has been under developed for several years. You might not be aware that the personal computer is set to go on the long tail in 2016. Sales of personal computers have been falling by about 30 per sent per year.

VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Dear list, I’m unsure how many of yawl are familiar with arabic, but the solution may apply to any foreign language that uses non Latin alphabets. I have a PDF file with both english and what’s suppose to be arabic writing. VO reads the english fine, but it reads the arabic writing as bazaar

Re: Pages

2014-01-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, Here are the names of the predefined templates in Pages: Under Basic: Blank, Blank Landscape, Note Taking. Under Reports: Essay, Term Paper, School Report, Visual Report, Research Paper, Modern Report, Project Proposal. Under Letters: Classic Letter, Modern Letter, Business Letter,

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm pretty sure you are going to have to switch to the Arabic voice to get the Arabic but I could be wrong. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ibraheem, On the Mac, there is no automatic switching of languages, and in fact, on the iPhone, it only happens in HTML where the appropriate language tags are set. You just have to do it yourself. Cheers, Anne On 21 Jan 2014, at 19:40, Ibraheem Fakir ibayri...@gmail.com wrote: Dear

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Hey, I just tried setting Tarik to my default voice. Tariq can’t read the english, and he reads what’s suppose to be the Arabic the same way Alex did, except with a thick Arabic accent LOL. No fix. Could there be an issue in the composition of the PDF? Why would it appear visually as clear

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Mail is archived by moving it into the archive folder. Even archived mail remains in the all mail folder. There is actually just one folder. Other folders are labels that are placed on each message. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my

Re: Pages

2014-01-21 Thread Jessica D
i have tried most of these templates and they are not in english, the only way i have found to change this is to type your own text into the placeholders. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Jürgen, Here are the names of the

Re: VO Not REcognizing Arabic

2014-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Since switching voices doesn’t fix the problem, is there a way for me to run the PDF through a multilingual OCR? Does such an OCR even exist? Would an OCR even do anything if the arabic words are already written in these jumbled characters and are not represented as an image? Best, Ibraheem

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Blouch
OSX has a general screen magnifier. Turn it on in the System Preferences under Accessibility and then Zoom. Usual thing is to hold down control and do a two-finger stroke up and down to increase/decrease zoom on a trackpad or control+roller-wheel on a mouse with one of those. There are a bunch

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Lol, Windows 3.1 is a little before my time. But in a way Microsoft is trying to catch up, their Windows 8 Pro can do both do the ARM based Windows 8 apps and are cross platforms. Apple are slowly intregrating IOS and Mac. And Google have the Chromebook. As ARM based cpu get more powerful that

Re: Advanced wireless settings

2014-01-21 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Traci, You can see all of what you are looking for in the wifi section in system information. It is in the utilities folder. I’m not sure this is what you’re talking about, but when I read through the connected wireless clients list, I don’t hear vo say “airport utility has new window.”.

RE: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-21 Thread David Tanner
One thing that may be a bit of an issue is that looking at Jaws, NVDA, Window-Eyes and even adding System Access to the list, Window-Eyes is the only one out of the four that apparently has no ability to be used on a Windows 8 tablet. That may be an issue that Microsoft hasn't taken into

Re: Advanced wireless settings

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Airport Utility has new window is telling you just that. In certain situations, when focused on specific items within Airport Utility, new pop-up windows will appear. These windows give you more information about those items, as in Hardware Addresses, specific error messages etc.

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, the all mail folder can be safely hidden. Every email message is given a label. When you change the emails folder, what is actually changed is the label which is assigned to the message. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone

Re: RSS syncing with the Newsify iOS app?

2014-01-21 Thread Alex Hall
I'll try that, thanks. I've never done RSS before last year, and never synced anything until right now. I thought about it, then Google Reader got killed off and put a damper in those plans. :) On Jan 21, 2014, at 12:11 AM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, There are only two

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
That’s an ouch! Whell somebody just wasted $1,000 for a Surface Pro. Wait! NVDA to the rescue! lol. Maybe partnered with MS it will be slipstreamed in Windows 9? Hopfully! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Apple fixed the problems in Gmail for many of their Max. However, after the Mavericks update was released, some users still reported email problems. So, Apple continues trying to figure out what is going on. This is the nature of programming and bugs. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email:

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey David, How do you hide the all mail folder? As I have labels and individual folders that I save the messages I need to save, and have never used the all mail folder, so would love to hide it if that is what is causing my issues. I also noticed that in my inbox when I move over to the

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Gmail has a couple settings which are initially set in a confusing way. One of these settings is archive all mail. This is the default setting. It means, whenever an email is deleted, Gmail places the archive label on the message. For some reason, when Apple mail first sees these old messages,

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Well what makes it even more irksome is for the Apple rep to claim it is not a gmail issue, and walk me through a ton of stuff that unfortunately didn’t fix anything, so after I was off the phone with Apple, I deleted my gmail account from mail, and mail worked perfectly fine. Not sure why

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
In all honesty, I just never open the all mail folder. I prefer not to hide any folders. If I cannot find a message I need, I occasionally search in the all mail folder. In other words, I searched through every email message. My advice is, just do not open the all mail folder. If you delete

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
I think it is in settings but the idiots at Google still can’t make their gmail website work with VO. I just looked at the gmail site, and I think it reverted back to the view that doesn’t work with VO, and I can’t seem to find the damn link for classic view or non html whatever it is called.

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, but it is not just VO. Bye had similar problems when I used Windows systems. Google regularly has problems with screenreader access. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 22 Jan 2014, at 9:21, Brian Fischler

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Look at how much you are struggling with the label concept that Gmail actually uses. It took me a couple years to get my head around the concept. It is difficult to understand because it is so different from any other mail handling protocols I have seen. So, I am not surprised that the tech

Re: Pages

2014-01-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jessica, The strange language you see in templates is fake Latin used as placeholder text. If you highlight this text then type over it, your own text has the same formatting as the placeholder text. Jürgen runs his computer in German, so his version of Pages is in German, what he asked

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for letting me know the Google issues are not just with Apple. I am an Apple loyalist, but assumed the Gmail issues and screen reader were just with Apple. I am noticing that all of my sent emails are also going to this ALL mail folder. I found some instructions on the web on what to do,

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey David, Thanks for taking the time to spell it all out, and yes, it makes much more sense to me now. I guess what I need to do is follow the steps Mac World is suggesting, unless mail continues to work as good as it is now. On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:36 PM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com

Re: Pages

2014-01-21 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne, thank you so much for your efforts. :-) That really helps me very much. All the best Jürgen Am 21.01.2014 um 19:39 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk: Hello Jürgen, Here are the names of the predefined templates in Pages: Under Basic: Blank, Blank Landscape, Note Taking.

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey David, One last question. I left a message for the guy I spoke to at Apple, hopefully he will call me back. Anyway, I just noticed in Mac mail in my sent folder there are 14000 messages. Can I delete all of these, will this help? I assume since I am not deleting anything from the All mail

RE: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi David, If I understand what you have explained with GMAIL, if I go to gmail.com, and to the all-mail folder and delete all the old (thousands of them), then they shouldn't be downloaded once I think about upgrading to Mavericks. Is that correct? The master folder is the all mail folder and

What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. Has anyone used Downcast in the last few days on their Mac? Just that for the last few days, I can’t use it and have to use it on the I phone. I wonder if Downcast is down as my internet connection is fine. Kawal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

RE: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi David, Another question about Gmail. Can one create new label folders on the iPhone or does it need to be created at gmail.com? Also, if you have a folder listed in the account Gmail area on the phone, can the rule be created on the phone or again the rule needs to be created in gmail.com?

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, No, Downcast on OS X works perfect fine here. Try deleting and reinstalling the app. On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hello. Has anyone used Downcast in the last few days on their Mac? Just that for the last few days, I can’t use it and have to use

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, creating a folder in mail under your Gmail account, creates the label for the indexing folder on Gmail. Back out to the outer most list in the mail. Double tap on edit. Find the create mailbox and double tap on it. Navigate to the place where you want the mailbox folder to be. Gmail rules

saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread Jess
Hello, I am having extreme difficulty sending word and/or excel files to people who have older versions of windows. It sends them as .zip files instead of .xls, csv, or .doc. why could this be? Jessica I walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5: 7 -- You received this message because

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, this is correct, as long as you have set your preferences, on the Gmail website, to delete messages rather than permanently archive all messages. If, on the other hand, you have not changed this setting, all messages deleted from the all-male folder Will still remain. Their labels will be

Re: Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello Anne, That is the strange issue: I'm trying to save to the hard drive the way I've always done. And suddenly this message when trying to do it in TextEdit. It threw me completely. Maybe it will settle down. If you don't know what might have gone wrong with your experience, I think it

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, deleting sent messages is deleting the messages that you have written and sent to other people. Again, if your Gmail preferences are set to archive, your sent messages will then be archived rather than deleted. At least, this is how I understand the way sent messages works. This specific

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Oh, by the way, the busy busy issue with Mac Mail indexing all of the Gmail messages is why I do all of my email on my iPhone. After I have cleared out all of the extra email messages, I will try Mac mail again. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread David Chittenden
Actually, Google is an excellent research company. Outside of universities, Google hires more PhD's and researchers then any other private company. The problems are: because they have mainly very geeky people, they are not good at writing basic level user interfaces, and Devices the research

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Blouch
How big are the files you are trying to send? Maybe something is trying to 'help' you along the way by zipping the files. CB On 1/21/14 5:04 PM, Jess wrote: Hello, I am having extreme difficulty sending word and/or excel files to people who have older versions of windows. It sends them as

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread Matt Dierckens
Have your friend open the zip and make sure its a .xls file. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: i have no clue, how would i find out? Sent from my iPhone

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread Jessica D
i have no clue, how would i find out? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: How big are the files you are trying to send? Maybe something is trying to 'help' you along the way by zipping the files. CB On 1/21/14 5:04 PM, Jess wrote:

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi David, Thanks for fielding all these messages about Gmail. You beat me to the punch most of the time and explained everything excellently. Just to comment on this message about the busy, busy stuff in the latest Mail, I’m confident that you could upgrade to this and not be extremely

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, No problems here. I am able to use it just fine. Matthew On Jan 21, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hello. Has anyone used Downcast in the last few days on their Mac? Just that for the last few days, I can’t use it and have to use it on the I phone. I

Re: Advanced wireless settings

2014-01-21 Thread Traci Duncan
Thank you both. I didn’t know about the system settings under utilities. That wireless information is interesting. VO-f2f2 did tell me about the additional pop-over, but it wouldn’t let me interact with it. Each time I entered or VO-spaced on it, the window disappeared from view. Another

Deleting an app

2014-01-21 Thread Scott B.
How does one delete an app on the Mac if you don't like it? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe

Fwd: braille star 80 and osx mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread William Windels
Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: William Windels william.wind...@gmail.com Onderwerp: Antw.: braille star 80 and osx mavericks Datum: 21 januari 2014 23:59:16 CET Aan: Margot von Bedö Kopie: Accessibility Accessibility accessibil...@apple.com Hello Margot from handy tech and apple

Re: saving files in different formats and also how to move them from one location to another under mavericks

2014-01-21 Thread Jessica
she can’t open it. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Have your friend open the zip and make sure its a .xls file. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4

Re: Filenames longer than 31 characters on the mac

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try saving the document to the Desktop. When you do the cmd-s to Save, press cmd-shift-d to set the save location to the Desktop. Try a longer than 31 character title there. I’m wondering if TextEdit is trying to save your document to iCloud,, and if that could cause this sort of error

Re: Advanced wireless settings

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don’t believe that you need to go to that much effort. The newer Airport devices are dual bandwidth and the devices that use N will grab the N signal and the other devices that use G will grab that signal. Your Airport will handle that stuff on its own. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
I take it you aren’t implying all blind people are average, as I have yet to meet a blind person who can fully use google and all of there native apps with VoiceOVer On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:20 PM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, Google is an excellent research company.

Re: Deleting an app

2014-01-21 Thread CJ Daniel
Scott, It’s so much easier than Windows that @ first you’re sure you’re missing something. Anyway, go to the applications folder, by pressing Command-Shift-A. Interact with the list view or whichever display mode you have chosen. Arrow to the app in question. Press Command-Delete answer

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Good luck with that, as I deleted Downcast and have yet to be able to get it to actually open since reinstalling it from the app store, have traded a ton of emails with the developers but still have yet to be able to get Downcast to open on my mac, it just quits as soon as launched. On Jan 21,

Re: Deleting an app

2014-01-21 Thread Alex Hall
You don't need to interact, at least I never do. Deleting works normally, especially for .app files. Some applications, mostly the ones that come with a .pkg installer, will include uninstall tools you should use. These will clear up any folders or files the app created when it was installed.

RE: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Jesus Garcia
Try the following see below. 1) Close Downcast 2) Open Terminal 3) Run this command in Terminal: defaults delete com.jamawkinaw.downcast.mac That will delete your Downcast preferences. The next time you start Downcast you should hit CMD + R after it starts up to refresh all your podcasts.

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Christina C.
There is a setting i use to automatically delete messages in my sent folder/label after 30 days. I am sure this setting is in apple mail but I cannot remember if it is also in gmail. It seems like I remember this setting in gmail. This is how I keep my sent folder from growing so large. :) I do

Switching Between Docs In iText Express On A Mac Air

2014-01-21 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hello Folks, I am hoping someone can assist me in using iTex Express in switching between 2 or more files that are opened on my Air. I am using ML. I am viewing one document and need to make notes for training purposes. This feature I am well-acquainted with on the PC side and I was wondering

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