Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, since Mavericks I experience a lot of trouble using smart mailboxes. From time to time they loose the rules I set. I use the same smart mailboxes on several Macs and so it could also be an issue caused by this. Does anyone of you experience similar issues with smart mailboxes? Thanks and

Re: Dashboard and VO under Mavericks

2014-08-22 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Andrew, Dashboard is quite accessible but it depends on the widget and how it is programed. So it might happen that some content in a widget is accessible and some may not. To install or deinstall widgets you could just copy them to or delete them from their folder on your HD. All the

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously. In other words, it seems to have shifted from supporting one version prior to two versions. Perhaps that's intentional, perhaps not.

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Ewin.
Q: when they stop working on additional support, do they leave patches available as far as they last fixed them? Pulling the plug entirely wouldn't be very kind! Me. - Original Message - From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday,

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Jason White
Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously. In other words, it seems to have shifted from supporting one version prior to two versions.

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Kliphton Senior
What is the difference between a smart mailbox and just a normal one? Kliphton ~iMessageEmail~ m.kliphton@ mailto:m.kliph...@gmail.comicloud.com ~TwitterSkype~ kliphton72 Personal blog-read at your own risk! http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com/ On Aug 22,

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Kevin Cussick
thanks for asking didn't want to fear of being ridiculed Lol. On 22/08/2014 11:52, Kliphton Senior wrote: What is the difference between a smart mailbox and just a normal one? Kliphton ~iMessageEmail~ m.kliphton@ mailto:m.kliph...@gmail.comicloud.com ~TwitterSkype~ kliphton72 Personal

Ntfs4mac.

2014-08-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Is anyone using ntfs4mac here? I am thinking of bying it but i'm not sure if its vo accessible. So is it or is it not? /A -- 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

Re: Ntfs4mac.

2014-08-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hej. NTFS for mac is fine. Works great. literally install it, and go. It just sits in your system preferences and knows that you have an NTFS drive. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
With a smart mailbox, you can have certain rules set up. I have a smart mailbox for all mac visionaries message to go to the smart mailbox called mac visionaries. The only problem, all the messages still show up in your inbox. So if you delete a message from the inbox, you lose it from the

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Do you think i have to buy a new mac when Yosemite comes out? I have a mac from mid 2011 but i am not sure if it will work well when the new os comes out. Maybe i just have to wait and see. /A 22 aug 2014 kl. 12:09 skrev Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net: Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com

Found another page about voiceover.

2014-08-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Not sure if this has been added or suggested before. Sorry for any duplication. http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~coornaer/Mathematics-in-the-dark/voiceover10.9/voiceover.html It seems quite intresting for newbies. /A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
So does smart box behave like a VIP box? I don't understand why you'd want a smart box. Please explain. Kawal. On 22 Aug 2014, at 01:11 pm, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: With a smart mailbox, you can have certain rules set up. I have a smart mailbox for all mac

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If your Mac was made in 2007 or later and has a discrete GPU, you ought to be alright. It's the poor sods with Intel GMA950 who are in real trouble, because 64-bit drivers were never made for it; that means that Lion, which although it was a 64-bit OS could still start a 32-bit kernel, was the

Voiceover acts strange.

2014-08-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi friends! Voiceover has begun to say things it shouldn't. An example is when i am in mail and go in to the context menu in the inbox for example and go to an item it can say entering context menu when moving in the menu and i have to move up or down to find out what entry i was on. Also when

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
I don't think so. I believe it just groups message together. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:30, Kawal Gucukoglu

Re: Voiceover acts strange.

2014-08-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi, I think you need to uncheck the checkbox that says announce when the VO cursor enters a window. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com On Aug

Re: Searching in a large table with voiceover

2014-08-22 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Bary Tim and others, you are dead right: it worked. Once I had checked the list checkbox, I was able to search for a particular podcast. What a relief. I thought I'd have to spend hours looking among 4 thousand episodes. Thanks again. Andrew On 22 Aug 2014, at 05:27, Barry Hadder

Re: Voiceover acts strange.

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
That, or your verbosity went more medium or low to high. That may not be it, but it is worth checking. Hit vo-v, left or right arrow to verbosity, and up or down arrow to your choice. Enter will save and close the menus. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 22, 2014, at 13:23, Matt Dierckens

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Eric Oyen
Thats entirely the purpose of smart mail boxes. Allows you to organize depending on type (such as email address, subject or any of a number of other things). Because of the number of mailing lists I am on, I simply have a smart mailbox for each one. I also have an unread messages smart mailbox

RE: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
Hi, I'm new to MAC. Are Smart Mailboxes part of MAC Mail, or are they a category of app to download? If the latter, any specific apps you'd recommend? How do you set up a Smart Mailbox for otherwise uncategorized messages, as described below? If the messages are in both Smart Mail and Inbox,

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, thanks for discussing the use of smart mailboxes. But did I get it right, nobody has issues with this type of mailboxes? Jürgen Am 22.08.2014 um 21:37 schrieb Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu: Hi, I'm new to MAC. Are Smart Mailboxes part of MAC Mail, or are they a

video compression and other handbrake stuff

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Halton
Well, I downloaded and read up on handbrake features. I was able to compress a iMovie .produced m4v file with a change of 60mb down to 20mb file size using the .h264 codex and an rf (rate factor) of 20 (60%). I guess that's about all I really need to do with handbrake is compress the file sizes

Re: Smart Mailboxes

2014-08-22 Thread Eric Oyen
as far as I know, smart mailboxes are a feature in apples mail app. How I set up for uncategorized unread messages: 1 create a smart mailbox called unread messages 2. set condition for all of the following: a. messages are in mailbox: inbox b. messages are unread c.

Re: mac giving file can not be written message, when downloading from sendspace.

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I didn't notice any replies to this. Did you get it figured out? Where do you have Safari saving your downloads to? You can set that in preferences. The default is the Downloads folder but I actually like to change it to my desktop since I find it easier to locate the file on my desktop then

Re: iOS safari crashes upon opening PDFs

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you haven't installed the Adobe reader stuff PDF files should just open up in Safari as well. For example, if you go here in Safari on OSX: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf that should just load up a document and then you can interact and

TW blue for mac?

2014-08-22 Thread Kliphton Senior
Hello, someone posted the link for the TW blue beta for mac, think it was Ricardo, could someone post it again? Thanks. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list

Latest Pages Easter Egg

2014-08-22 Thread Barry Hadder
Attention Apple fans. OS X Daily made the following discovery in regards to the latest Pages update. Go into the Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Resources folder and find a file called Apple.txt. This file contains Steve Jobs's entire speech at Stanford in 2005. Have fun. Barry -- You

Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I ran into a slight problem while reading a document with voiceover on the mac. I was reading a document in text edit, and basically used the read all command. I received a telephone call and pressed the control key to stop voiceover. I stopped at about page 5 of the document, but

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-22 Thread gs
I'm thinking about abandoning Fusion and using Bootcamp because I have not found a way around the conflicts with OS X and JAWS laptop keyboard layout. Is there anyone who has found a solution for Fusion that allows *all* the JAWS keys to be sent to JAWS and not captured by OS X? Sure, you can

VoiceOver SayAll Bug?

2014-08-22 Thread Grant Hardy
Hello all, I'm experiencing an odd problem with VoiceOver and wanted to see whether there is any way around it. When I perform the read contents of VoiceOver cursor command with VO+A or via a two-finger swipe down on the trackpad, VoiceOver will begin a say all, but eventually stops due to the

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Halton
I honestly don't know what you're doing that's giving you all this trouble, but I can tell you that I use fusion Windows 7 and Mac without any trouble. I have remapped my grads accent key to be the Jaws modifier key, or the NVDA modifier key if that's what you use. I used the windows

I work updates, did they break anything?

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Halton
Does anyone know if the new numbers, pages, and iMovie updates have done any bad stuff. You know, the weather like the break excess ability with new updates? Sent from my IPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-22 Thread gs
Phil. You are not providing enough information and I may not have done so either. JAWS uses the capslock key as a modifier with the laptop layout. This is slightly different than an Insert key. What exactly have you remapped to the grav accent (`) key? Although I may use NVDA, my preferred

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
Interact with the text before issuing the vo-a command, and you should be fine. What happened was, you did vo-a, and it read the text but was not interacting with it, so vo-a started reading from VO's focus, which was the entire chunk of text in your document. Had it finished that, it would

Re: VoiceOver SayAll Bug?

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
It does indeed feel like a bug, and I'd email accessibil...@apple.com about it, plus submit it to www.apple.com/feedback. In the meantime, I just don't use a screen saver; my screen is set to turn off after a while, but that doesn't interrupt VO's speaking. On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Grant

Podcasts

2014-08-22 Thread Krysti Power
Hey everyone what's a good app for podcasts where you can add a URL to the podcast and have the casts download and is accessible Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: VoiceOver SayAll Bug?

2014-08-22 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Alex, What setting do you use to turn your screen off after a while? On further inspection of my settings I do not believe it is the screensaver that is causing this, since it wasn't set to turn on until 30 minutes of inactivity lapsed. I think it is System PreferencesEnergy SaverTurn

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Kevin Barry
Should work just fine. At 08:26 AM 8/22/2014, you wrote: Hi! Do you think i have to buy a new mac when Yosemite comes out? I have a mac from mid 2011 but i am not sure if it will work well when the new os comes out. Maybe i just have to wait and see. /A 22 aug 2014 kl. 12:09 skrev Jason White

Re: Podcasts

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
Downcast and Overcast are the two most popular, but of course Apple has a free app simply called Podcasts. Apple's offering lacks some nice features, but it is free and is good enough for many users. If you are interested in the other two, www.applevis.com has a nice podcast on the new Overcast

Re: VoiceOver SayAll Bug?

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
You're in the right place. I have mine set to ten minutes on battery, and I think thirty minutes on power. I'll have to check; I don't remember having the problem you do, but maybe I did at one point which is why I extended my screen off time. I don't tend to read things for more than ten

foldeconstantly locking

2014-08-22 Thread alia robinson
am running mavericks, and I have one folder that keeps having the “locked” checked, even when I uncheck it and reopen it it’s still locked. How do I get it to stay unlocked? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: I work updates, did they break anything?

2014-08-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Phil Not that I have found yet. I have just been working in Pages with a file that has two tables. Only thing, dumb me didn't close the program before doing the update and went to Continue. The app store may have closed it like I thought it was going to, but when I came back I had trouble

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-22 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Following discussion in this thread, I have done the following with mine. Firstly, I stopped using Sharp Keys, and remaped all my keys through Fusion itself, using the grave key as have many others. I did remap command to alt and option to Windows in the end, and also mapped option-tab to

Safari and pop up buttons

2014-08-22 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi folks, I've noticed lately that Safari isn't handling pop up buttons well sometimes. Last night, I couldn't change the currency type on the Paypal site. Can somebody else confirm they're having this issue too on that site? I focus on the currency button pop up button. I press vo-space to try

Qcast

2014-08-22 Thread Janine Smith
Hi. I recently tried to download the Qcast application from www.getaccessibleapps.com. I was able to open the disk image file and copy the application to my applications folder. However when I tried to open the application I got a message saying the application could not be opened because

Re: Qcast

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
Do just that - move the app to the trash, then eject the dmg file (it will appear in your drive list, cmd-shift-c in Finder), then delete the original file from your downloads. Try downloading it again - you may have gotten a corrupt download for some reason. This may not help, but then again

Re: eSpeak on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I tried downloading the OSX version of eSpeak but wasn't able to get very far with it. Of course I've never used the tool before. I downloaded it from here: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html but when I typed ./speak The quick brown fox it gave the error: Can't read data file:

Re: eSpeak on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread Jason White
'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: but when I typed ./speak The quick brown fox it gave the error: Can't read data file: '/usr/share/espeak-data/phontab' I didn't have time to fiddle much more and figure out what files were supposed to live in