Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, another thing it could also be is using the Vocalizer voices (Samantha, Jill, Tom, etc.) If using these voices, it will cause a slow down potentially, although not always. This is because of the increased CPU usage and maybe RAM usage? Not sure, of VoiceOver and it’s processes. Found this

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Faisal ali
Hi David, Where can clean my mac be found? Is it in the app store? Thanks On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:05 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: I am using an iMac from 2011 and if you have ever listened to any of my Podcasts you should be able to hear that it is a pretty fast machine.

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread David Griffith
It is not in the app store but I found it as the first result when I went into google. David Griffith On 15/01/2015 17:43, Faisal ali wrote: Hi David, Where can clean my mac be found? Is it in the app store? Thanks On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:05 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: I

clean my mac questions

2015-01-15 Thread Faisal ali
Hi all, I just downloaded clean my mac and have couple of questions. when I first load the app, all the buttons such as automatic clean, manually clea are all dimmed. Is there something I do to allow it to clean my machine? I tried navigating around but there are a lot of unlabelled buttons as

RE: Sheet layout area in numbers

2015-01-15 Thread george b
Phill, I think they change on which the last sheet you were working in goes to the first position in that order. Check it and see -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Wednesday, January 14,

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jeff, Where is the option to disable Filevolt? Thanks, Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Jeffrey Shockley jawswiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I completely agree here. I’ve had this iMac here for a while now, and once everything loads up, it’s pretty fast, and it’s one from a couple

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, It’s in System Preferences/Security and Privacy. Once there, select (VO Space) on the FileVolt tab. Once there, Just VO right, and it’s there, and the option will be dimmed until you click where it says “Click here to make changes,” and you’ll have to enter your password to make the options

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Oops, never mind, I just saw the rest of your message. Sorry and thanks! Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Jeffrey Shockley jawswiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I completely agree here. I’ve had this iMac here for a while now, and once everything loads up, it’s pretty fast, and it’s one

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Drat! Filevault is turned off, I was really hoping that was the problem. Cheers, Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Jeffrey Shockley jawswiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I completely agree here. I’ve had this iMac here for a while now, and once everything loads up, it’s pretty fast, and it’s

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Done all this, Tiom. But thanks for the suggestions. :) Cheers, Donna On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, What are the specs on the iMac? I’m guessing that it probably has a spinning HD as opposed to the MBA’s Flash storage. Flash storage has

Re: clean my mac questions

2015-01-15 Thread christopher hallsworth
Press return to begin a scan. When you hear the chime press return again to do a clean. Use the items in the view menu or press command-number to switch to the different modes of operation such as automatic cleaning which is command-1. On 15 Jan 2015, at 18:20, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com

mac mini 2012 model hard drive?

2015-01-15 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
Hello a power surge took out my mac mini the hard drive still spins up what size is the hard drive as far as what it will fit in. I plan on getting a usb drive enclosure for the hard drive. I won't be able to get a mac for quite a while at this point. thanks Hank -- You received this message

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-15 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Nope! No audio captcha. On Jan 12, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Gabe Griffith gabrielgriff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do they have an option for an audio captcha? Gabe On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com mailto:sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Thought

Re: Keeping a journal, both on Mac and iPhone?

2015-01-15 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Mac journal got bad reviews. It is pricy! On Jan 12, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Deedra, Thanks for this info. I have MacJournal. I really wanted to Journal but I have not taken the time to learn it yet. One thing holding me back is that I want to know

Re: clean my mac questions

2015-01-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I don’t know about the unlabeled buttons. I do know that if you use the free version, it doesn’t really clean anything, just supposedly finds stuff that needs to be cleaned. For it to work fully, you need to buy the program. this is why I personally haven’t purchased it. Makes me leary

Re: Learning pages, numbers, and keynote

2015-01-15 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: The iBooks store has some good books. Applevise web site has some good podcasts. On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Antonio Guimaraes freethau...@gmail.com wrote: Where would I find textbooks, or tutorials on using these applications with voice over? Antonio -- You received this

RE: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Scott Erichsen
8gb memory should honestly be fine for an iMac. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent: Friday, 16 January 2015 9:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iMac versus MBA? Yeah, but

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, I agree, 8 GB should be fine. That’s twice the amount that I have in here, because I’ve never upgraded anything internally on here, and it works fine. Just to see what would happen, I switched to one of the Vocalizer voices, and I experienced choppy speech, and it did slow things down quite

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Is it a skinny iMac? If so, the memory can’t be upgraded. It would probably be better to have them switch out the spinning HD for an SSD instead. I think you’d see a good performance improvement. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 15, 2015, at 15:36, Donna Goodin

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, A solid-state drive isn’t particularly expensive, just a bit of work to install into the iMac. Not impossible, just needs someone that knows what they’re doing. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 15, 2015, at 16:11, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Oh, thanks

Re: Keeping a journal, both on Mac and iPhone?

2015-01-15 Thread Christina C.
sign up for their emails to find out about their sales and specials. I got mine at half off. Where did they get bad reviews, the mac store or applevis? Christina On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Mac journal got bad reviews. It is pricy! On

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Yeah, I’d just take it to the Apple store. Since it’s the company’s Mac, I’d rather that Apple make any changes like that. Cheers, Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, A solid-state drive isn’t particularly expensive, just a bit of work to install

Re: Sheet layout area in numbers

2015-01-15 Thread Phil Halton
Why those little apple engineering scamps! Sort of like, whatever gets used the most gets listed first?” a ranking algorithm? Hmmm… I’ll have to watch for that. at 9:47 AM, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: Phill, I think they change on which the last sheet you were working in goes to the

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Using Alex on iMacs as old as 2008 with Mavericks installed and as little as 2 GB of RAM does not yield choppy speech for me. The ones with 2GB of RAM are not particularly quick at loading, but once they are up, even with multiple apps open, VO performs fine. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort

Re: clean my mac questions

2015-01-15 Thread David Griffith
The unlabelled buttons are not an issue for me as basically I run the app almost entirely through the menu bar. This procedure replaces the unlabelled button functions. 1. Go to menu. Press A for actions. 2. Cursor down once for Scan and press return. 2. Go to menu again and A again for

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Yeah, but I’m not going to give that up. lol. I think I’ll try a repair permissions. I also found that I do only have 8 GB of ram, I may see if they’ll upgrade me to 16. Cheers, Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Jeffrey Shockley jawswiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, another thing it could

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, thanks for that! It is a skinny iMac, and I didn't realize that the memory in those wasn't upgradable. I'll think about upgrading to the virtual drive, probably will depend on what it costs. Cheers, Donna On Jan 15, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Is it a

RE: My Apple iPad mini with two waterproof Lifeproof cases for sale...

2015-01-15 Thread george b
How much is it and what info on the ipad mini please. thanks -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Strife Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 17:24 To: macvisionaries Subject: My Apple iPad mini with two

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. I actually had to get rid of all my vocalizer voices because Voiceover was slow even when changing to something else. As a suggestion to people who still want or need multilingual voices, I recommend a few voices from Acapela and a few from Cereproc. The web address to check out the

Re: Two quick Pages questions

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Try pressing command-a to select all and then VO-j to jump to the format inspector. From the styles tab of the format inspector you can adjust the font, style, size, colour and line spacing of the text. This might not work so well if you have different paragraph styles in your document (e.g.

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread christopher hallsworth
Google for it. I use it and like it a lot. I paid for it because of what it could do. You can only clean up to 500 MB in the trial. On 15 Jan 2015, at 17:43, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: Hi David, Where can clean my mac be found? Is it in the app store? Thanks On Jan 15, 2015,

Two quick Pages questions

2015-01-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey I am working on a document in Mavericks in Pages and I have done some copy and pasting in it, and want to make sure the font is all the same for the entire document. I thought the easiest way to do this was a select all and just go to the font menu, but for some reason I am missing it. Also

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread David Griffith
I am using an iMac from 2011 and if you have ever listened to any of my Podcasts you should be able to hear that it is a pretty fast machine. However back in 2011 I invested in a 256GB solid state drive and 16 GB of ram. I have never regretted doing this. If your machine is of an even a more

Re: Tying contacts to calendar events?

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
If the event is at the person’s house or work, you type their name in both the location and invitee fields. If the event is with the person but at some other location, you just type their name in the invitee field. Adding the person as an invitee means that person will receive an invitation to

Re: Sheet layout area in numbers

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yep, I understand. I have seen that happen once, and I think only once, for me, and I use spreadsheets regularly with multiple tables and multiple sheets. I’m not sure of anything you can do to prevent it. You can, however, fix it once it does occur, using the arrangement tab of the format

Re: Sorting Data in Numbers

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
And of course once you open the context menu one of the first few options is “Sort ascending”, and the next is “Sort Descending”. Those are for sorting rather than filtering. You do not need the submenu for the sorting options, only the filtering options. Sorry if that explanation was not

Re: Tying contacts to calendar events?

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Hall
Sounds good, but often, these people (clients I work with) aren't iCloud users, so an invitation wouldn't work. Perhaps just adding them to the location field will work well enough. On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: If the event is at the

Re: iMac versus MBA?

2015-01-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Thanks for all the great advice about the iMac. I have no external drives attached, but I am not using Alex. It's weird, that does seem to mess things up, and I don't get that either. It's not a problem on my MBA. I had meant to check how much RAM it has before I signed out

Re: clean my mac questions

2015-01-15 Thread Faisal ali
Hi, Yes, that is a serious drawback. How can one really test an app if it doesn’t even work without having to pay for it? I think I will stick to dis clean pro for the time being. On Jan 15, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Caitlyn Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don’t know about the

Re: Sorting Data in Numbers

2015-01-15 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Thanks Nic, I always appreciate your explanations. Jürgen Am 15.01.2015 um 12:54 schrieb Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com: And of course once you open the context menu one of the first few options is “Sort ascending”, and the next is “Sort Descending”. Those are for sorting

RE: Tying contacts to calendar events?

2015-01-15 Thread george b
Yes it does the same if they do not use iCloud. I have a client who does this with me using Microsoft exchange and windows from their job. You get a email and just activate the link and it opens a event in the calander and you can edit it and save From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Coast to Coast am. app

2015-01-15 Thread Lorie McCloud
have any of you had exp;eeriness with this app? this is the second version of it that you can’t log in with. I used 2 versions ago until it wouldn’t work with the iOS any more. even though I have an active account, I can’t log in. when I wrote to them about this here’s the response I got:

My Apple iPad mini with two waterproof Lifeproof cases for sale...

2015-01-15 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi all. The iPad mini with charger and two lifeproof waterproof cases is still for sale... I'm writing to the list again because somebody e mailed me and for some reason, this message has totally disappeared from my g mail account. So, to the guy who was interested;Keith or Kevin I think your

Re: Tying contacts to calendar events?

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Alex, They don’t need to be iCloud users to receive an invitation. They just need an email address, or perhaps even just a mobile number. It works with Microsoft Exchange calendars, Outlook, Google Calendar etcetera. But really the purpose of adding them as an invitee is not so the event

Re: Tying contacts to calendar events?

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks guys, I never knew that would work. Ideally, I'd like to suppress these invites, but then again, they might be a good way of auto-confirming appointments with clients. I'll have to try this next time I set one up. On Jan 15, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Nicholas Parsons

Re: some calendar issues on osx 10.10.1 and iOS 8.1.2

2015-01-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I haven’t experienced a loss of entries, but VoiceOver fails to announce some entries for me on certain days. I’m not sure what it is about these entries, but VoiceOver announces some and not others. The way I can tell that they are not lost but that VoiceOver is simply failing to announce them