Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread Jessica Moss
I took it into the Sprint store yesterday afternoon, and they did the same things I tried to do and had no luck. So tried taking it to an Apple store and had no idea you had to go on an appointment basis, and it was so late by the time we got there that the only walk in they had available was

Re: Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin on OSX 10.10 Yosemite for Local Development

2014-12-12 Thread Jeff Berwick
Okay, please disregard my previous message. Somehow I managed to paste some info into the plist file twice - all is good now. Jeff On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Jeff Berwick j...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all - specifically those who know Terminal well, I was following the tutorial in the

Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The fact that you tried to change to the computer in the middle of the attempted download and update might possibly have confused things in some way though I think people have done that successfully. Progress bars have been known to stay at a certain point for quite a while without it meaning

Re: my day with yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread alia robinson
Most people I know have had no trouble with upgrading, sorry you have. frankly I love it, have been running it since august in beta. Alia On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: No! Whatever you do do not upgrade. -- You received this message

Re: virtualbox and osx 10.10

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
From what I've read, Clang is slowly replacing GCC so Apple is just jumping in with both feet (as is BSD). An interesting discussion of that is here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebsd-deprecating-gcc-in-favor-of-clang-llvm CB On 12/12/14, 2:28 AM, deedra waters

Re: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
On the left side starting at the hinge is the new style (thinner) MagSafe power connector followed by two thunderbolt 2 connectors, a USB 3 connector and a headphone jack. On the other side, starting at the hinge is another USB3 connector, and HDMI video out and an SDXC card slot. While I

Re: my day with yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread Phil Halton
I just completed an upgrade to Yosemite from Mavericks on both my MacBook Air and iMac. I did not do a clean install on either, and have never done a clean install upgrading all the way from Lion. Both machines are running flawlessly with Yosemite, and the dreaded VO lag that kept me from

Re: my day with yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi guys, I just found out from Allison from the nocillacast podcast that you can’t use trim on yosemite. So, maybe I’ll give it another go! Jeff On Dec 12, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I just completed an upgrade to Yosemite from Mavericks on both my MacBook Air

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If you Google virtualbox command line you'll find lots of stuff. This one for installing Ubuntu seemed good: http://www.howopensource.com/2011/06/how-to-use-virtualbox-in-terminal-commandline/ Once you have virtualbox installed you can always do a man VBoxManage to get all the possible

Re: Should I upgrad? Cannot restore my iPhone 5c: was My day with Yosemite

2014-12-12 Thread Jessica Moss
I unfortunately didn't have a choice but to do that though, which I didn't know could mess things up, considering the fact that once the progress bar just decided to just sit there, my phone just went useless. I lost my whole connection with everything, couldn't exit go back to the home

RE: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread Faisal ali
Hi, I also don't like how they remove the IR blaster so you cannot use a remote with your mac anymore. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: December-12-14 6:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

Re: Help! clean installed of Yosemite major crashed

2014-12-12 Thread David Griffith
There is a lot in your mail but to deal they the first point first, are you using Alex as your voice. On my 2011 iMac the difference between using Alex and Daniel is dramatic. With Daniel my machine is so sluggish it is virtually unusable but with Alex it is quite snappy. If you were using

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
Yeah i figured that out after the fact can’t go the virtual box route because it requires apple-gcc which isn’t available on my version of OS X deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com On Dec 12, 2014, at 6:48 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: If

Re: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hmmm, do you have to buy the dongle? With the Macbook Air I had and one I bought for a friend, a dongle was included and did not have to be purchased in addition to the computer. But I do agree that I would rather have the ethernet port than the dongle if that is what you mean. If you do have

Re: virtualbox and osx 10.10

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
I can set it up under emu i think but unsure going to try it now though since i’m running out of options fast lol… deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com On Dec 12, 2014, at 6:30 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: From what I've read, Clang is

Re: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I just received one of these machines for my church's secretary and it did not include the dongle. I did buy that for another $26. While there is wifi there, it does not provide access to financial systems and such so she has to plug into the wired network. I think the dongle came up as a

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Ummm, why does it require apple-gcc? You just download the Mac installer and you're good to go. Nothing to compile, brew, yum or whatever. I have it running just fine on a generic OSX 10.10 box. CB On 12/12/14, 10:09 AM, deedra waters wrote: Yeah i figured that out after the fact can’t go

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
Err, i didn’t even know there was a mac installer. I went under the assumption that it required macports since that’s what most linux type things need to be built deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com On Dec 12, 2014, at 7:31 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries

Re: i message and face time are not working for me in the latest version of mac os10 yosemite please help!!!!

2014-12-12 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, I had the same problem a while ago with Yosemite. After spending half a day to solve it I discovered that my MAC had lost it's serial number. Can you see a serial number when you open the About my MAC item from the Apple menu? Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014 17:13:26 UTC+1 schrieb Trahern

Re: Physical layout of ports on macbook pro retina

2014-12-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Thanks Chris, Cheryl and Phaisal. That's extremely helpful. I too find the lack of ethernet port disappointing, and I had to spend another £25 on the thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor. Andrew On 12 Dec 2014, at 15:10, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Hmmm, do you have to buy the

synching playlist in itunes 12

2014-12-12 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I have two itunes 12 questions I have created a playlist of songs on my mac and want to select the playlist back to my phone. How do I do this under Itunes 12. I cannot locate the playlist when the phone is connected. I often did this very easily with previous versions. I also want

newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Hi everyone, does anyone who can see alittle know how to find advanced settings on the mac to change background colors of applications or windows, for example I would like my desk top to be a dark blue, my window background for example in notes to be black and the text to be white. If anyone can

Re: Help! clean installed of Yosemite major crashed

2014-12-12 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hello David, I only use Alex voice. I do not like the others. I ended up calling Apple accessibility. Nice people. Carbon copy cloner had some kind of weird file in the start up disk. That was causing some issues. We are working on exporting my mail from a Time Machine backup. It is just taking

A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. When I get an error stating my disk is nearly full, are they referring to the disk the app is on, my OS drive, or the drive the VM file is on, my Data drive? Thanks. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe

Re: A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Probably your virtual drive. When you first set up the virtual machine you tell it how much of your Mac's disk space you will allow it to use. In any case, you can quickly verify this by doing Get Info (command-I) from the finder on your Mac's drive to find out how much is left. If you really

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Deedra, http://virtualbox-mac.en.softonic.com/mac/download Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! On 12 Dec 2014, at 15:35, deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com wrote: Err, i didn’t even know there was a mac installer.

RE: A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. My VM is set to expand automatically. Both of my drives, data and OS, are fairly crowded, so wondering which I should concentrate on pruning. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 1:08 PM To:

Re: first impression experiences from a former linux user

2014-12-12 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Deedra, https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#idp52017744 Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! On 12 Dec 2014, at 15:35, deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com wrote: Err, i didn’t even know there was a mac

Re: A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Right, but there is a limit to the expansion. So if you set up a Windows VM with a 40GB automatically expanding drive Windows will say it's a 40GB drive but on the Mac it might initially only use 10GB. As you add apps and such it will grow but only up to 40GB. I've never run into this but I

Re: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread Pamela Francis
Hi, You have a means to reverse the colors on your screen. I think the keyboard command is option command F5. That takes you to accessibility screen. Close to the bottom of that screen there is a checkbox that says invert colors in the check it run check it. If the command doesn't work or if

Giraf support to do OCR?

2014-12-12 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello all! I am looking for something called Giraf, which was a support to place the iphone if we want to do a OCR. It is plegable and made of plastic, can somebody give me info on if this is still available and how I can get it? Thanks! Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 -- You received

Re: Giraf support to do OCR?

2014-12-12 Thread Janet Ingber
Hi Daniela, Here’s the website: www.giraffe-reader.com Right now the Giraffe Reader does not support the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. I’m using an iPhone 5 and it works very well. Hope this helps. Janet On Dec 12, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Daniela Rubio mabuha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I am looking

RE: A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread Bill Holton
As I recall, if you have the VM sharing, it doesn’t set an upper limit. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 2:48 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A VM Fusion question about disks Right, but

Re: A VM Fusion question about disks

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Right. If you map a drive letter to a folder on the Mac side then it's just a folder that can store up to the available space on your physical hard drive. I don't usually do that as I'm usually running Windows in my VM and don't want it infecting my Mac with whatever it might have picked up

Re: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread Nancy Badger
If memory serves me correctly, you go into system preferences, look for display. I think the color options are in there. However, the person who wrote the other reply is correct, you can also invert colors through excess ability. Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT

RE: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Yes I have done that but it doesn’t give me the right colors in the menus and windows, that’s why I asked if anyone knows more advanced options on the mac From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Badger Sent: December-12-14 6:08 PM To:

Sorting Mail

2014-12-12 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have Apple mail to sort mail by date, and latest message at bottom of mail box. This appears to work in my main inbox: however it doesn’t work in sub mail boxes. For example, the Mac visionaries list has a rule to send all mail from this list to the Macvisionaries mail box. The last

Re: synching playlist in itunes 12

2014-12-12 Thread Colin Matthews
Hi! I’ll answer the second question 1st! When in iTunes just press Command+7 and that will put you straight into Apps, then select the my apps radial button and then arrow across to the apps table, interact and just arrow down or hit the 1st letter of a app, and when you hit a app you wish to

Update on my adventure in to Yosemite Installation

2014-12-12 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hello: Well, if you saw my earlier message, you know my first ever clean install didn’t quite work. My CCC program put a weird file in the Mac startup that was acting weird. Anyway.. Thanks to Dan at Apple Accessibility, we were able to restore my mail from a time machine backup. I believe I

Re: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread David Griffith
It sounds like you are trying to emulate the level of customisation ,that you can get on Windows, on the Mac. On Windows you can fine tune colours for particular elements of windows. including borders, background, menu shades etc. However , although I have no vision and not an expert in

RE: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Thank you so much for trying to give me an option. I don’t know how to open a color profile to see if the one I want might be there however asking apple accessibility to maybe create it sounds wonderful. Thank you again. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

no rrs reader is installed

2014-12-12 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Hi everyone here I am again trying to learn the mac. I went to my favourite recipe site wich happends to be in Greek. I found the link I wanted wich is written in English and it says recent recipes but when I click it safari says it can't open this link something about no rrs reader installed and

Re: no rrs reader is installed

2014-12-12 Thread John Panarese
You willed to get a third party app to handle RSS feeds. There are plenty of them out there, so everyone is going to have opinions as to which ones to use. I use Shrook, but I don't recall if it is free or not. I think it is. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel,

Re: no rrs reader is installed

2014-12-12 Thread Alex Hall
It's trying to open a link to an RSS feed, not a webpage. RSS (really simple syndication) is basically a feed of content to which you can subscribe. Then, whenever something new is added by the website, your RSS reader displays it. The App Store link is so you can find an RSS reader to install,

RE: no rrs reader is installed

2014-12-12 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
As soon as I read your email message and I clicked on the link to go to the app store it gave me one of the first choices to be shrook. I clicked install it asked me to sign in with my apple id wich I did now it says install dimmed, what do I do now? Has it downloaded it does it automatically

Re: Update on my adventure in to Yosemite Installation

2014-12-12 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi were! you using the latest version of carbon copy cloner? cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52 On 13 Dec 2014, at 1:12 pm, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: Well, if you saw my earlier

Face time problems

2014-12-12 Thread Agent086b
Hello all, how can I change the phone number connected to FaceTime and messages on my Mac and iPhone? Somehow when setting up my iPhone6 and transferring my iPhone5 to my wife. Her phone number is set as the number to use in messages and FaceTime. Thanks for any advice. Max -- You received

Changing email address

2014-12-12 Thread Angus MacKinnon
When I type a name like Denise the autocomplete in Apple Mail enters denise-12...@slbwa.org.lc. I wish to change the email to denise-12...@slbwa.org. How do I change the email address in OS 10.9.5 Mail’s auto complete? Thank You. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are

Re: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I'm not sure about window colors and such but in preferences under desktop screensaver under the desktop tab is where you can pick a desktop picture. In that list of folders under Apple is also one item called Solid Colors which you can use to set your desktop color to anything you want.

Re: Changing email address

2014-12-12 Thread Alex Hall
The Previous Recipients item in Mail's Window menu will show you all the auto-complete addresses that aren't in your contacts. I'd delete the one in there now, and simply write the new one once; after that, that new one should be the one hat auto-fills. Again, if this is a contact, you'll need

Re: Changing email address

2014-12-12 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Alex I have denise-12...@slbwa.org in my contacts and type denise-12...@slbwa.org and mail keeps going to denise-12...@slbwa.org.lc. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

How To Get iWork Apps On OS X Yosemite For Free On Older Macs

2014-12-12 Thread Kliph
Here’s how to download iWork apps Pages, Keynote and Numbers absolutely free from Apple on your old Mac running OS X Yosemite. Head past the jump for complete details. Apple’s iWork suite of apps has been around for quite a while, but has been a paid affair until recently. In fact, if you

a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
Well, after realizing /remembering that vmware had a 30 day free trial, i decided to take it and just build a vm with that. I’ll call it the evening from hell, but on the other hand i learned a lot more about how complicated and annoying vmware fusion was but on the other hand i have my linux

vmware fusion eating the caps lock key

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
I need to free up the caps lock key os that i can use the apple keyboard in the vm rather then juggling 2 keyboards…. Does anyone know why and how to free up the caps lock key so that vmware fusion will stop interrupting the keypress deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com -- You received

Re: no rrs reader is installed

2014-12-12 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi all, Once you click install and sign in, the app will automatically download and install. On 13 Dec 2014, at 04:02, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote: As soon as I read your email message and I clicked on the link to go to the app store it gave me one of the first choices to be

RE: newbie any help from members with a little vision

2014-12-12 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Zoe, You are definitely a Windows user, to be sure (smile), as am I. You have gotten some excellent replies on this thread to which I will add the following: The only option of which I am aware that will even come close to allowing you to customize color schemes on the Mac, is AI