logitech k811 keyboard

2014-01-26 Thread Graham
Hi Chanel, I paid £75 for my keyboard via Amazon last August. It feels very well made is is very nice to type on. In profile its a bit like the Apple Bluetooth keyboard but made from some plastic material. Hope that helps. Graham -- You received this message because you are

Re: looking for podcast on the Logitech K811 keyboard

2014-01-26 Thread Jeff Berwick
It would appear that David Woodbridge has changed the name of his podcast to iSee and I can’t find the episode of the logitech solar k760 demo out there. I guess he only transferred over the last 20 episodes. It may be worth looking him up. He works for Vision Austrailia and, as I mentioned,

Re: keynote questions

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, As far as I can tell, nothing has changed in Keynote to cause this. When in non-presentation mode, I interact with the Slide Layout area, VO reads Title rectangles, Body rectangles, identifies images and other elements just as it should. Is this a presentation that you’ve been able to

Replacement keys for iogear keyboard?

2014-01-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I suppose this might be slightly offtopic. I am using a couple of iogear multi-link mini bluetooth keyboards. Last summer during a seminar at church, a key cam off one of them and it was never found. I just wondered if anybody knows whether it is possible to get replacement keys; it's still

how to clear icons off desktop

2014-01-26 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, How do I clear items off my desktop I don’t want? -- 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.

Re: keynote questions

2014-01-26 Thread Jessica D
Yes, i actually figured it out. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As far as I can tell, nothing has changed in Keynote to cause this. When in non-presentation mode, I interact with the Slide Layout area, VO reads Title

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You are. You find exactly the same thing I do. The trick then is to open the backup you really want, then select the stuff you want and cut and paste like normal. Now, I should add that an Apple customer service person advised against this as it might corrupt some files: however, I have

Re: seeing wish list in Library anyone?

2014-01-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Would I be correct in assuming that you are also using the so-called new view? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jan 25, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Tim Kilburn

Re: how to clear icons off desktop

2014-01-26 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can press command-backspace for anything that isn’t a mounted disc. If you want the disc icons to be cleared, go into finder preferences from the desktop, General tab, and choose the items you want shown on your desktop. HtH, teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 26, 2014, at

Re: how to clear icons off desktop

2014-01-26 Thread Jessica D
Select them do command delete. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, How do I clear items off my desktop I don’t want? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Possibly corrupt, eh? Not too comforting, but if you've never run into that, I'm not overly concerned. I have my absolutely vital files stored in a Box account, just in case the worst happens. Well, a final check of my backups, and I'll run the install. See you all on the other side! :) Oh, in

Sharing my laptop iTunes library with eye devices

2014-01-26 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Hello. I have shared my iTunes music library over my Wi-Fi network. This library is on a Mac book Pro 15, and there is no password required. I would like to understand how to get my eye devices, specifically, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5s and iPad three, to understand that they can get music from the

Re: keynote questions

2014-01-26 Thread Justin Mann
Hi there, How do you view slides that are in presentation mode on keynote? So what if I’ve been sent a presentation that I want to view, how do I do this without having to interact with the table of slides and then moving back to the layout area? This seems a bit time consuming. On Jan 26,

Flash player on mac that works with VO

2014-01-26 Thread Hope Paulos
Hi all. Does anyone have any recommendations for an accessible flash player for the mac? Thanks! Hope Paulos -- 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

Re: seeing wish list in Library anyone?

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Yes, you would. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 26, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Would I be correct in assuming that you are also using the so-called new view? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind

Re: Flash player on mac that works with VO

2014-01-26 Thread Buddy Brannan
There ain't one. The closest you're going to get is to install Adobe Flash Player, which you have to sort of work around to install, and then install the click2flash plugin. With this, at least some flash players turn into accessible player toolbars, though not all. Not even most. On Jan 26,

Re: Sharing my laptop iTunes library with eye devices

2014-01-26 Thread Teresa Cochran
Go to the Music app on your device. Double-tap on the more tab. Find the shared section and double-tap that. Your library should show up there. It might take a couple of minutes for it to list everything, depending on how much you have. With 80 gigs, you might have to wait a bit. Hth, Teresa

clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm doing the clean install. When I go to erase my main drive, I have the option of erasing the whole drive, at 500.11 gb or just the Macintosh HD partition, at 499 gb. Which do I do, or does it not matter? Thanks. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are

pop pup blocker in safari doesn't seem to be working.

2014-01-26 Thread Jessica Moss
I've noticed that several bitttorrent sites I download from love to generate poppup sites, some of them being porn sites, which I unfortunately wasn't aware of right away until my 4-year-old saw one one afternoon, tried to describe it to me, and it scared me half to death that she saw it in the

Re: facebook app on the iphone

2014-01-26 Thread Jamie Pauls
To view comments, etc. You need to double tap on the story. I used two finger double tap to like stories. I believe there's a cancel button in that screen to get out of it. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2014, at 10:10 PM, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Sorry for posting this here,

Re: Flash player on mac that works with VO

2014-01-26 Thread Mario Navarro
hi. I am using only HTML5. I dont need flash. on youtube, HTML5 is great. works perfectly. on the other tasks I am using HTML5 to. so far so good. cheers. A ambição é o maior estímulo humano. É com ele que se edifica. Carlos Malheiro Dias Mario Navarro mario@gmail.com No dia

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i do have the new mac, so if i reinstall my mac on the login menu, do my mac go to the os which i bought on the first place which is mavericks? On 26 Jan 2014, at 02:34 am, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: My experience is that you don’t do the time machine backup until after you’ve

Re: Flash player on mac that works with VO

2014-01-26 Thread Daniel McGee
Or you could use Google Crome. It works very well with Voiceover and has the flash player already built in. So you wouldn’t need to install it separately. hth Daniel On 26 Jan 2014, at 19:58, Mario Navarro mario@gmail.com wrote: hi. I am using only HTML5. I dont need flash. on youtube,

Re: seeing wish list in Library anyone?

2014-01-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, I see. Well, when I clicked on the “My List button” I got an alert saying the content was empty. I know this is not true as I have quite a wish list. I made sure I was signed in with my Apple ID. What now? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind

Using vo with Apple Remote desktop?

2014-01-26 Thread Justin Mann
HI listers, I’m curious, has anybody used Apple Remote Desktop to administer any kind of Mac-based server? I’m sure that you can start voiceover on the remote machine, but How would you get the audio to come out on your local machine? I’m assuming that you’d have to stop voiceover on the

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I’d erase the Mac partition. ONce tried to erase the whole drive and it didn’t like that. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Alex

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, thanks. Oddly, erasing it seemed to take not even a second but the OSX installer reports 498.8 gb free, so I guess it must have worked. Have I mentioned how great it is that this whole process is fully accessible? I needed sighted help to boot into my thumb drive with Mavericks on it, but

Macbook Sound

2014-01-26 Thread Lee Jones
Dear List I have noticed that my macbook air doesn’t sound very good when listening to podcasts or youtube videos . System volume is at 60 percent and balance is at fifty percent in sounds system preferences. It sounds very unimpressive. Any ideas?The voice over

My Mac is Back

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I just wanted to say that the re-install seems to have gone as planned. I haven't restored any of my apps or files yet, but I have set up Mail, and of course my mail and contacts and such are here thanks to the magic that is iCloud and IMAP mail. So far things seem to be moving much

Re: My Mac is Back

2014-01-26 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi alex, I noticed that when I did a clean install, the mac was in fact a lot faster than without a clean install. Good luck. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Jan 26, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com

Re: My Mac is Back

2014-01-26 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Congrats Alex! I would suggest, when you install an app, play with your mac then install another app. Maybe then you will find the app that was taxing your system. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro iPhone 4S, 16GB, Jailbroken IOS 7.0.4 iPad 2nd Gen, 32gb iPhone 3gs 8gb, as media

Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Not sure where they moved how to do this as there used to be check box to do this in Mountain Lion. Doesn’t anyone know where they moved this to? Not sure why it wouldn’t be in the save as window somewhere. Not sure why they have to hide stuff like this, really frustrating. Thanks --

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi Brian. You have to go to export as, and chose word. Its silly, but that’s how its done now. HTH. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all,

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Can’t wait to hear if a clean install fixes your issues Alex. Please let us know, as these mail problems have gotten so annoying. Do you use gmail in mac mail, as I know that is the problem. Although today I am having a lot of problems with choppiness in Pages. Ended up getting so annoyed I

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Matt, I guess that will be another thing I hate about Mavericks. Thanks Apple for making more work for me instead of simply checking a check box. On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian. You have to go to export as, and chose word. Its silly,

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Matt, Ok, I found export and to microsoft word, and I move VO and space on it and nothing happens. What else am I supposed to do as I have to send my pages documents as word documents to people. This really sucks. What genius at Apple thought this was better than a checkbox. On Jan 26,

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
I’ll keep you informed. What I can say so far is that mail messages open immediately, like they used to, no more hearing the sender’s name, five clicks, then silence until the text finally decides to show up. Of course, this is early days, but I’ll keep an eye (well, an ear, I guess) on things

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Les Kriegler
Brian, the export feature was around before Mavericks. I'm running Mountain lion and I have to use the same procedure if I want to export a document to word. So while there are problems with Mavericks from everything I've read, this is not one specific to it. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26,

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Alex, Good to hear, no more empty scroll area when you open a message, lucky you. I might have to try a clean install next weekend when I get some time. When Mavericks works it is pretty good but when it doesn't it is bloody awful and a nightmare to deal with On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:35 PM,

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Not sure what you are talking about as I used Pages daily in Mountain Lion and anytime I wanted to save a document as a Pages document all I had to do was open the save dialogue and put a check in the box that said save as a word document, try putting a check in the disclosure box in the save

Re: Read: Logitech keyboard

2014-01-26 Thread Angelo
Hi, some times you can find it on amazon for around $30. normal price is around $60. hth Angelo a.rock...@gmail.com On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Chenelle Hancock filmchenelle1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, it's Chanel! I wanted to know how much was the Logitech keyboard? I'm

Re: Using vo with Apple Remote desktop?

2014-01-26 Thread Keith Watson
Hi, I have not tried this solution yet myself. But if you go check out the show notes for the Nosilla Cast at www.podfeet.com and look at the Jan. 19th show, there are directions for a solution to this problem. It requires jumping through some hoops, but she got it working. Let me know how it

Re: PDF files and taxes

2014-01-26 Thread Keith Watson
HI, You’re welcome. I just wanted to poke my nose in here and say that. You see, I work for the company that contracted to the GPO/IRS to provide accessible forms. We worked really hard at making this possible and I am glad to see all the good feedback. Keith On Jan 25, 2014, at 4:53 PM,

Re: Using vo with Apple Remote desktop?

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, For the most part, there’s no need to use ARD to administer a OS X Server. As long as you have the Server app on your computer, you can mange any other OS X Server computer that you have Admin rights to manage. When you take control of a computer using ARD, I don’t know of any way to

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Les Kriegler
I usually save documents to Rich text format going through the export option. I also see the option to save the pages within that dialogue. I didn't realize you could save the method you describe. I also generally used TextEdit. So my mistake. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:43 PM,

Mail's Preview Pane Must Go

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, after the clean install, of course, Mail’s preview pane seems to be back. I know that, in Mavericks, there is quite a process to closing it, and I can’t find the splitter I used to use for this purpose. So, at the risk of repeating a conversation, how would I go about killing the

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It’s sort of a Mavericks thing but really a newest version of Pages thing. The version of Pages from Mountain Lion was upgraded in Mavericks and this change was made. It’s not actually any more complicated than going under the File menu, down to Export, over and down to Word then

Re: Mail's Preview Pane Must Go

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Alex, Here’s some instructions I sent out back when Mavericks first came out: 1. Go into Mail Prefs and select the Viewing pane. 2. Check to change to Classic View. 3. Close Mail Prefs. 4. Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter after the Messages Table. 5. Press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure

iTunes download and iCloud settings on Mini

2014-01-26 Thread Regina Alvarado
I have nothing on my Mini as I am muddling through still learning rather slowly. However, i would like to sync phone and iPad with iTunes. I am thinking I need to download the new version. Am I going to run into serious problems, and perhaps more importantly, how do I download it? I have iCloud

Re: seeing wish list in Library anyone?

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmmm. Not sure, I was able to see the items in my Wish List in both the older view and the newer view. In the older view, I had to first select the Store in the Sources List, then press VO-space on the My Lists button to activate the pop-over and the songs were listed in there. If I moved

2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Rob
Hi, I need to know that if I start my MacBook with command+R, Will there be speech in Recovery mode? And, if I change the boot drive to a external USB drive and restart, and the drive is not bootable, will I get stuck without speech or will it convert back to the internal harddrive? There is

Re: iTunes download and iCloud settings on Mini

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, For iTunes, it is updated through Software Update, no need to do any outside search. Either go under the Apple menu and choose Software Update or open the AppStore, then press cmd-5 to check for updates. There are no specific iCloud settings for iTunes. All syncing is configured within

Re: PDF files and taxes

2014-01-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Keith I suppose you might not find this out at work, but has anybody said when the 2013 braille copies are coming out? I need it to figure out my credits. I regret to say that the braille copies are 2012 copies. Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Keith Watson

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Don't forget: if export as has no shortcut key, you can assign one yourself. I don't use Pages so am not sure if it does or not, but if not you can easily set one up. On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It's sort of a Mavericks thing but really a newest

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Answers below: Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Rob musicmaker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to know that if I start my MacBook with command+R, Will there be speech in Recovery mode? • Yes, just press cmd-f5 after a while and VO will work. And, if

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Recovery mode does speak, though it uses Ralph or some such voice and sounds bad. Still, it is fully accessible, yes. As to your second question, I’m not sure. If you set the target disk in System Preferences startup Disk, you should be fine. I’m not sure how you would boot an unbootable

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
No big deal was just pointing it out to you. Not sure why they went with the export only option. I finally got it to work, but had to quit pages as the export option wouldn’t come up when clicking on it, wow this is going to take a little getting used to. On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Les

mrnutab questions/problem

2014-01-26 Thread don bishop
Hi all, I am trying to run menutab pro on my imac under Mavericks. The only way I can get it to work is to access it from finder with control f. If I open the application directly, there are no windows open and I can’t figure out how to open one from there. Is there a way to bypass all the

Quotations and apostrophes in Textedit (Mavericks)

2014-01-26 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi all, I don’t know how I did it, or even if it was me, but now when I enter the “” or ‘’ in Textedit Voiceover announces it as left quote and right quote respectively. I am a programmer and I think this is causing problems when I save my PHP files as I am getting errors now and can’t use

Re: Quotations and apostrophes in Textedit (Mavericks)

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, that would be problematic. Go to System Preferences, Keyboard, Text tab, and uncheck “use smart quotes and dashes”. Also, be sure you are saving your php and other code files as plain text, not rich text, but I’m sure you know that already. On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Jeff Berwick

Re: Mail's Preview Pane Must Go

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I did it. I don't know if it will stick or not, but for now it seems to have worked. On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, Here’s some instructions I sent out back when Mavericks first came out: 1. Go into Mail Prefs and select the Viewing

Mac Minis needing monitors: another thing to add to the pile

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I just wanted to add one more thing to the debate about Mac Minis needing monitors. Mine, a mid-2011, still does. That is even after a complete wipe and re-install, with the latest version of 10.9. -- Have a great day, Alex mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you

Re: Mac Minis needing monitors: another thing to add to the pile

2014-01-26 Thread Kliphton -------
I got mine in november of 2012, and don’t need a monitor. On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to add one more thing to the debate about Mac Minis needing monitors. Mine, a mid-2011, still does. That is even after a complete wipe and

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Terje Strømberg
If get into problems, turn off the mac with the physical on switch, then turn it on again, press and hold down the option key when you hear the start up sound, and hit enter after a while. You should now hear VO. This is if you get a black screen. Otherwise vo-command+home and hit enter should

Re: Hebrew voice and hebrew braille for mac

2014-01-26 Thread Greg Aikens
Thanks for the tip. This is better than before. Another question though. If I have brf files in hebrew, what do I need to have set so that VO won’t mess them up in text edit? I have uncontracted braille on, 6 dot braille on, automatic translation off, but something still doesn’t look quite

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Nick, I have came up with the same findings as you regarding the pop-ups. I will submit something to Apple Accessibility in the next little while. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 25, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: HI Tim,

Re: Quotations and apostrophes in Textedit (Mavericks)

2014-01-26 Thread Daniela Rubio
Onder Keyboard, text tab, you can arrange that as you like. Give it a look, but you have the way in which the quotes and apostrophes are written. Cheers! Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 27/01/2014, a las 02:58, Jeff Berwick j...@berwick.name escribió: Hi all, I don't know how I

RE: Hebrew voice and hebrew braille for mac

2014-01-26 Thread Rafi Cohen
I'm afraid I won't be too helpful in this case. I never used brf files in Hebrew so can't coment on the behavior you are describing. I'll ask other people who may have more experience than me with this and if I have any helpful answer I'll get back to you. -Original Message- From:

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Terje Strømberg
Alex, You need to go to Finder. 1. In the sidepanel, find Time Machine backups.Do not open in side panel. 2. vo + j to backups.backup 3. Open backups.backup 4. Open the next folder. 5. Then you should see backups with dates. To see dates more closely hit shift-vo + down arrow to interact with