Say Ram Status script

2015-02-24 Thread Agent086b
Hi Alex all. Has it been possible to get the Talking Dashboard Say Ram Status script working again? Thanks Max. -- 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

Help I seemed to have broken toggling between open applications

2015-02-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Not sure what I did as I was playing around in the keyboard shortcuts in system preferences. I did not think I changed anything but now all of the sudden command tab does not cycle through open applications rather it seems like the command key is being ignored and just tab is being recognized

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread The Believer
Alex, I retrieved the script from the zip archive and put it in the proper folder and pointed the commander to it. Still does not work. So now I know its not the script itself. Perhaps a setting somewhere? I did enable commanders. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true?

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-02-24 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Jonathan, it’s a while ago but I hope you’ll support me again. I tried the following script: tell commander perform command move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor delay 1 end tell output mouse summary tell mouse cursor click twice End Tell Unfortunately it didn’t work.

Talking Dashboard Script Broken (was: Permissions)

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
Even if you mistype a keyword, the script itself will run. The only way that could be broken is if you introduced a character that threw it off, like a quotation mark. Can you paste the part of the script you modified so I can have a look? On Feb 24, 2015, at 2:05 PM, The Believer

Creating a slideshow

2015-02-24 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, I looked back in the archives, but didn’t find any answers. I want to create a short slideshow, with 6 photos and a music track. I also want to set the order of the photos. How do y’all do this? Which apps etc.? A couple years ago, I successfully did part of this via iPhoto, however

Re: Help I seemed to have broken toggling between open applications

2015-02-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Ok so restarting my computer got tabbing between apps and accent between windows working again, but curious if this has ever happened to anyone else? Not sure what I did. Very strange behavior. On Feb 24, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Not sure what I did as I was

Re: Say Ram Status script

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't been able to. I looked at it, and as far as I can tell, the output from Mountain Lion is the same as the output from Mavericks and Yosemite, so I can't figure out where it is breaking. My understanding, though, is that 10.9 and later handle ram differently now, and will always show it

Re: KNFB Reader

2015-02-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
What brightness do you need for the screen? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Feliciano Godoy theblindman...@hotmail.com wrote: The fact that I can do this with the app is why I bought it when it came out. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates

Re: KNFB Reader

2015-02-24 Thread Chris G
I did something similar with a Windows phone. I needed to move through a text character by character. I couldn't do it, so I grabbed the iPhone using KNFB Reader and took a picture of the Windows phone screen and was able to get the text and read it character by character. Chris Mystic

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, I recommend doing what it says and make a duplicate. That way you can hammer away on it safely until it does what you want. It’s a good idea to put scripts that you do in ~/Library/scripts. On Feb 23, 2015, at 9:43 PM, The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com wrote: I am attempting to

Re: Notification center on mac.

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
Open the Notifications Center. At the bottom of the window is a Notification Center Preferences button; activate that, and you'll find a table of notification-enabled apps. Simply arrow to the app you want, and vo-right to the options. You can decide the alert style (none, banners, or alerts),

Re: How to extract the attached file to a message

2015-02-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, This part isn’t particularly accessible although doable. If I recall correctly you need to focus on the attachment, bring the mouse to the VO cursor with VO-cmd-f5, then physically click your mouse or trackpad. If that doesn’t quite do it, you may need to move the mouse or your finger on

Notification center on mac.

2015-02-24 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hello, Can someone tell me how to remove and add things to my notification center on my new macbook air? There are several things I’d like to remove. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net --

Re: Audio described movies

2015-02-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
In the app store or in itunes? The app store won't have any content. It's just, well, apps. CB On 2/23/15 8:15 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: I had that option turned on too, but neber figured out what on earth it was supposed to do. I did several searches for dvs, without the quotes, but found

Re: Scraping an Entire Website

2015-02-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I have macports set up on my machine https://www.macports.org so that makes it easy to add additional packages. With that I just do sudo port install wget enter my computer's password and it installs wget. Once you have wget you can crawl/archive an entire site with this command: wget

how to use the home button with my macbook air and vmware fusion?

2015-02-24 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, vmware fusion is working well for me icm its own keymapping for alt and windows and sharpkeys for insert (i use the right shift for that). on the mac i use cmd+up arrow to go to the beginning of a document, i found on a site that you can use fn+left arror to use home

app store on mac

2015-02-24 Thread Rhonda Hornbacher
Hi folks, I am attempting to purchase an app on the iTunes app store. I have the most current iTunes, Mac OS, iPhone 6 with most current software update. I can only occasionally find the iTunes store. Smile. Any suggestions on how to consistently find the store? Once I did find the store and

Re: growl stopped working with the new Skype.

2015-02-24 Thread Eric Oyen
problem is that too many of my friends are there. however, I still maintain an older version of Skype here that I can reinstall. -eric On Feb 23, 2015, at 12:20 AM, BBS wrote: Hi Eric. Actually, they stopped supporting Growl a few months ago. This is why I'm using an older version of Skype

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread The Believer
Well I moved the script to another location, edited it and moved it back. This is one of the Talking Dashboard scripts, date and time. I have gone into VO Utilities, Commanders and pointed to this new script. It is not working but I can go back and point to the default timeofday script

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
What's your new script, at least the first few lines, look like? Also, as others have said, it is generally easier to use ~/library/scripts, or somewhere else in your home folder, so you don't run into these password and other permissions problems. On Feb 24, 2015, at 1:28 PM, The Believer

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread The Believer
Ok I put the script into ~/library/scripts. I see where I went wrong, I used the recents from the Go menu to get to the library folder. Then went into Commanders again and set that, still nothing happens. I am using your date and time script, did not touch anything but the keywords.

Re: app store on mac

2015-02-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Rhonda Are you wanting to get an app for your iPhone or an app for your computer? If it's the iPhone, I have found it easier to go to the app store on the iPhone. If it's your computer, you can go there with your dock by pressing control option d and then typing the letters ap. You can also

Re: Audio described movies

2015-02-24 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, because for some reason, someone said they found something in the app store, which I thought was interesting, but that would explain why I didn't find anything. On Feb 24, 2015, at 10:54 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: In the app store or in

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Good Day, Just so happened I looked at the list today! The problem is that in Tell Commander AppleScript does not know the object you can either wrap the entire script in Tell application “VoiceOver” … End Tell Or at the beginning use the use clause to say you are working with VoiceOver

dock problem in osemite

2015-02-24 Thread Donald Bishop
I downloaded menutab and installed it into the applications folder. I then created an item for it on the dock. I did something to menutab so uninstalled and then reinstalled. Thing is that I can’t seem to delete it from the dock as that entry is apparently pointing to my original install of

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-02-24 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Jonathan, I’m confused because I don’t know Apple Script that good to play around with just single terms and changing lines. I wasn’t able to replace the line because I didn’t know where to put it. So my request was if you could change the following script so that I could just copy an paste

Re: How to extract the attached file to a message

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I have no problems getting to attachments in Mail on 10.10.2 The process is as follows: 1. Move to the bottom of the message text . 2. VO Right until you find the attachment it is almost always near the end. 3. use VO-Space 4. Select Open or Open with. I have had no luck with the command-y in

Re: How to extract the attached file to a message

2015-02-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Jonathan, I believe that the post is referring to an attachment to a text message, not an eMail. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 24, 2015, at 18:25, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: I have no problems getting to attachments in Mail on 10.10.2 The process is

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
I know it works - I use it all the time. Are you sure the change stuck? That is, are you certain the commander points to the new script, and that it didn't somehow revert to the previous (broken) one? On Feb 24, 2015, at 4:12 PM, The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com wrote: Alex, I

Re: app store on mac

2015-02-24 Thread Colin Matthews
Hi! OK when on iTunes on the Mac and lets say your on your music you should find buttons like my music, playlists and then iTunes store! Just VO space on the store button and after it refreshes just press Command+7 and that will put you into the App store part of iTunes! And until you decide to

Re: Help I seemed to have broken toggling between open applications

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I think that preference pane will sometimes override some of the standard keyboard shortcuts while it is active. Try going back to the preference pane and see if the problem starts again. Then quit Preference and see if the problem stops. On Feb 24, 2015, at 15:20, Brian Fischler

Re: Permissions

2015-02-24 Thread The Believer
I do not doubt they work. I did this to see if it was my editing or something else. It apparently is something else which I need to figure out. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/24/2015 2:54 PM, Alex Hall wrote: I know it works - I use

a messages section for Nighowl

2015-02-24 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Say, Is there a way to access the messages section in Nightowl so I can quickly reply to private messages I get sent? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the

Re: Calendar list view gone

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
Just tap a day in the month and it should display the list under the gird of days. If not, tap the List View button on, I believe, the bottom of the screen. Or am I misunderstanding the question? On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:05 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: My calendar on the iPhone

Re: a messages section for Nighowl

2015-02-24 Thread Garth Humphreys
Yes, Command right arrow twice. Command right once will take you to your mentions and and again will take you to your DMs. You can do it again to go to Favorites then lists then search,then you’ll wrap back to your main time line. Obviously you can go back and forwards with left or right arrows

Calendar list view gone

2015-02-24 Thread Phil Halton
My calendar on the iPhone was working fine, giving me a list view of all events. Then yesterday I entered a few calendar dates on the Mac and now the iPhone app has lost the list view and now displays that month view that only says how many events on any given day, and you have to interact to

Re: a messages section for Nighowl

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hall
Control with numbers will also do it. For instance, ctrl-1 is your first tab, or Home; ctrl-2 is Mentions; ctrl-3 is Messages (or DMs, whatever you want to call it); and so forth. On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:03 PM, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Command right arrow twice. Command

Re: a messages section for Nighowl

2015-02-24 Thread BobH.
What is NightOwl? - Original Message - From: Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net To: Mac Visionaries List macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:55 AM Subject: a messages section for Nighowl Say, Is there a way to access the messages section in Nightowl so