Re: Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread David Griffith
The workaround for this is to try using VueScan which can interface between your scanner and Abbey Finereader. Unfortunately even this solution did not work for me as my scanner was not even supported on VueScan. However look at http://www.hamrick.com/ There is a trial version I think which

Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries
Ciao Gena and thanks for your answer. Yes, officially they don't list Mac OS among the supported O.S. It's the first time I face such problem and onestly I don't know how to solve it. Should I search for drivers by using my scanner's name and MAC OSX? How do you fix this issue or, what do

how to message someone offsets here not by asking his/her email address here?

2015-04-02 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
Good morning to all, i would like to ask how would you email offlist by not asking his/her email adress here? -- 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

Re: how to message someone offsets here not by asking his/her email address here?

2015-04-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Kind of a backwards way of doing things, but try this. • When the message from this person is open. • Interact with the Message Header area. • Press cmd-a to select its contents. • open TextEdit. • press cmd-shift-t to change the format to Plain text. • Paste in the results of your copy.

Re: menu tab

2015-04-02 Thread Pablo Sandoval
Faisal, What I’ve done is to click on “main menu”, and then “most recent” and that seems to have the desired result. I hope this is what you were looking for. On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: Has anyone else noticed that it is no longer possible to

best CD burning app

2015-04-02 Thread Joe Quinn
What's’ the best CD/DVD burning app? I mean, there’s gotta be more to life than simply burns, lovely app though it is! -- 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

PDF Pen Pro 7.1

2015-04-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I wanted you guys to know that PDF Pen Pro 7.1 is now out. It advertises improvements for VoiceOver support. It’s supposed to have the check boxes fixed. I haven’t had a chance to try that out yet, but I will soon. Gigi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
gabriele, can you message me again on my skype, i think i deleted your account on my skype, my skype name is dionipher thanks On 02 Apr 2015, at 6:10 pm, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello Gabriel, Most scanners are made to work from a twain driver so check out the twain sane

Re: Really strange popups, please help

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, You need to empty all of your web cache and data. Go into privacy and details. Then remove all. Sounds like you have adware on your system. Probably not from hand break. You can get it just from browsing around the internet with java script turn on. Seems to be unusually bad lately.

Siri not available problem resolved

2015-04-02 Thread Phil Halton
a few days ago I sent a message about a condition where siri and other apps like safari would only work on wifi and wouldn’t use cellular data to connect to the internet. Well, it turned out that I had just replaced the SIM card a few days earlier and ATT accidentally shut off my data plan on

Re: Voice Dream Reader Prob. resolved. This may help others.

2015-04-02 Thread Mary Otten
Mike, When you say you transferred your voice stream files from your old phone to your new one, did you do it via iTunes? If not, how? I have an iPad mini that has a lot of stuff on it invoice stream. But I never use iTunes to back that iPad up. I have always just used the cloud, and over the

Re: best CD burning app

2015-04-02 Thread Scott Berry
Nope that the best you can get. Either that or iTunes. There a few others if you do a Google search on cd burners for Macs. You will find some comparisons. On Apr 2, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: What's’ the best CD/DVD burning app? I mean, there’s gotta be more

Re: best CD burning app

2015-04-02 Thread jeffrey greene
Hi Joe, I always heard that Toast Titanium 12 is the best. I’ve never used it but have read good reviews about it. I believe it costs $99. HTH Jeff On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:17 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Nope that the best you can get. Either that or iTunes. There a few others

Mac keeper

2015-04-02 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, Has anyone heard of a program called mac keeper? Every time I try and do anything online it says my computer isn’t secure. This didn’t happen until after I uninstalled handbrake. I really need help fixing this. Thanks Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk.

Really strange popups, please help

2015-04-02 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hello, Yesterday after I downloaded Handbrake and put it in the trash and emptied my trash I began getting critical alerts when I’d go to search for things in Safari. They would be something like call this number for tech support. How can I sicurley empty my trash and get rid of these popups?

Re: Dlink Modem router

2015-04-02 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i have here a d link but the trouble i am facing was configuring the modem it self because i have to connect it to my mac, but the cable that was included was not compatible to mac. On 02 Apr 2015, at 5:54 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Not

Re: new macbook user making the trancision from windows

2015-04-02 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
Hello, you can start your computer with voice over on by going to system preferences, press control option m then go to system preferences On 01 Apr 2015, at 7:51 pm, ted phillips tedmusi...@gmail.com mailto:tedmusi...@gmail.com users and groups then interact users, groups and log in

reading contractions and things correctly

2015-04-02 Thread May and LD Luna
Good day. I for the life of me can't remember how you fix this and don't have it saved from when this topic came up before. How do you fix it so that voiceover reads isn't instead of like isnít May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message

Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
Ciao Gabriele, i do have an epson dx 4400 and it is supported, i bought this on euronics for 29 euro On 02 Apr 2015, at 12:11 am, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello Gabriel, I just looked and saw a few of your scanner’s range supported. However, that is official support. That

Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries
Dionipher Presas Herrera, alle 14:07 del 02/04/2015, digitò: Ciao Gabriele, i do have an epson dx 4400 and it is supported, i bought this on euronics for 29 euro Thank you.I wrote down the name. Have a great time! Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Gabriel, Most scanners are made to work from a twain driver so check out the twain sane interface. It’s not as nice as the GUI tools but a little of reading might just keep familiar hardware going. From memory it involved installing about 5 little programs within the terminal. But that

Re: new macbook user making the trancision from windows

2015-04-02 Thread Phil Halton
Hi Ted, You should set your function keys to work as software function keys first. The Mac defaults to hardware function. That way you won’t have to keep pressing the FN key along with the function keys to invoke the VoiceOver functions. To do this, go to System Preferences as follows: 1

Voice Dream Reader Prob. resolved. This may help others.

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, A few days ago, I posted a note to this list in which I thought I may have encountered a bug in the latest version of Voice Dream Reader. The problem was that I was unable to look up words in the dictionary. After writing to Voice Dream support, the issue was speedily

Changing Email Account Default Order

2015-04-02 Thread Eileen
Hello List, A few days ago, I needed to delete my Gmail account and reinstall it. I have 2 accounts on my iPhone6 and my personal email account has become the default email address when composing an email. My question is: How does one change the default order of which email account that is

Re: Dlink Modem router

2015-04-02 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Agree with Chris; all this commodity rubbish is no good. If you are using DSL/DSL2/2+, i.e. the vast majority of DSL providers, then I’d recommend you consider a Draytek 120. It passes PPP frames directly through to the Ethernet adaptor, thus allowing any PPPoE client (including AirPort) to

Re: Changing Email Account Default Order

2015-04-02 Thread Feliciano Godoy
Hi, Go to iPhone settings, mail contacts and calendars. There their will be a default account button. Activate it and select the email that you would like to set as default. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates Like my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow

Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, this might sound sort of weird to say but is there any chance of getting VO to stop saying interact with text. when you jump to and from the text area of a message using mail? I was wondering if this could possibly be done through the VO utility, speech and Pronunciation tab. The

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hello Daniel, Even at the lowest verbosity setting, VO will still announce Interact with text. My question is, why not just press enter to open the message? God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Matthew, well when I press enter I find that I get more text spoken than the standard VO J keystroke. To provide an example below on a previous message. Now in Re: Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac — Macvisionaries

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi Daniel. Well, no matter if you set your verbosity to low, medium or high, you're going to hear at least the subject of the email message when you press enter. I have never used VO J for reading emails. I also don't believe there is a way of turning this off in verbosity at all. Interact with

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Bill Gallik
There is a Custom button in the Verbosity category, but remember that if you adjust the Interact with Text to remain silent in the mail client the effect will carry over in to all other apps as well. - Bill Leader Dog Holland - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Matthew, of course that would make sense. Since interact with text is such a global part of how VO interacts with OS X. So am prepared to accept what you say. Thank you though for trying to help. I thought it would be a long shot in asking but as they say, don't ask, don't get. Daniel

Re: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Alex, didn't know this, will certainly try this out in conjunction with VO J and see which method I prefer. Thanks Daniel On 2 Apr 2015, at 19:04, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I use enter too. The way to skip all that extra stuff when doing this is vo-a. So, enter to open the

menu tab

2015-04-02 Thread Faisal ali
Has anyone else noticed that it is no longer possible to sort news feed in menu tab? -- 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: Interact with text

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Hall
I use enter too. The way to skip all that extra stuff when doing this is vo-a. So, enter to open the message, then vo-a to read it. Sometimes Mail will say the sender's name then scroll area first, and sometimes it doesn't. Either way, it will read the message text. On Apr 2, 2015, at 1:20 PM,