Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Maurice, You need to get the update. Go to the Help menu and you’ll find it there. You have to jump through hoops to get the process established. The first thing is an update app which has to be downloaded. Cheers, Anne On 23 Apr 2015, at 19:32, Maurice Mines maurice.mi...@gmail.com

Re: Advice on VO Plist

2015-04-24 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi Colin I had this happen when i first updated to yosemiti and i went to the user library and deleted any of the vo plist files command down arrow to select them all and after that all went back to normal, because there could have been a currupt speech file and as they re generate that should

Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Josh
Hello All, I need help finding an accessible program that will allow me to develop apps. I have never done this so when I Googled the process I received tons of results, but nothing saying whether it was accessible or not. Can anyone direct me to where I would go to either listen to a

RE: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread george b
That is it From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of sadam ahmed Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 06:57 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: PDF Pen reader for the Mac. Hello all, I believe this app was mentioned recently. I

Re: office preview for mac?

2015-04-24 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi. I am wondering why the product is referred to as Office Preview. Is it because it isn’t yet available as a full-fledged functioning program? Does anyone know if Word works on an iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard, or does it just work on the Mac? Best to all, Mike On 22,Apr,2015, at

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Jeff Berwick
I am currently developing my first app using Phonegap/Cordova. Basically, you develop an HTML5 web page using HTML5, CSS and Javascript and then phone gap will turn it into a native app by wrapping your code in a web browser container. You would probably then create a web service on your

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, it is the right web site although you probably don’t need the support section yet if you have already decided to get the program. I think you can download a trial version first. There is PDF Pen and PDF Pen Pro. I got the pro version. With it, you can convert pdf files to text files, Excel

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Sadam If you get the program, please be aware that, to my knowledge, you need to read pages with PDF Pen page by page by interacting with each one individually. You want to make sure you get version 7.1; I say that because if you go to the app store, I’m not sure version is available from

PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread sadam ahmed
Hello all, I believe this app was mentioned recently. I did a quick search on Google and came accross the below link for said app: http://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen/support.html. Just want to make sure it’s the correct one? It costs $124 at least from the website. Is it also available to

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi George, Thanks for the quick response! I've heard some good things about the above app. Because I work with some PDF documents for college it will come in handy for those times when a lecturer sends me a PDF document. What a disappointment Adobe DC for the Mac turned out to be. Thanks

Re: How To Make Your Mac Chime When You Plug It In

2015-04-24 Thread sadam ahmed
Hello Alex, Thanks for sending this through. Just tried it on my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and it works well. Kind regards, Sadam Ahmed Blog: Http://SadamAhmed.com http://sadamahmed.com/ Sent from my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:18 pm, Alex Hall

RE: office preview for mac?

2015-04-24 Thread george b
that is correct it is part of their steps in the testing process -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Busboom Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 06:51 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: office preview

Re: Seeking Recommendations for Check Writing Software

2015-04-24 Thread Mary Jo Partyka
I contacted Premier Technologies a few months agao to see if they had a version of Talking Checkbook for the Mac. They said they don’t even support this piece of software and don’t know of anything for the Mac. If there is something available to write out hecks, I would also be interested in

Re: Seeking Recommendations for Check Writing Software

2015-04-24 Thread The Believer
There is CheckBook by Splasm Software, and they also have a Pro version. Both are fully functional. The Pro costs more but the non Pro is not a limited version, just does not have features most may not need anyway. I have yet to work with this app. Its a checkbook register but likely

Re: Seeking Recommendations for Check Writing Software

2015-04-24 Thread Alex Hall
I'm going to ask a possibly stupid question: how does this work? I assume it has to print onto the check somehow? Or is it something else? On Apr 24, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Mary Jo Partyka choir...@gmail.com wrote: I contacted Premier Technologies a few months agao to see if they had a version

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I don’t think we can do everything there is in the program because this program has some sophisticated things for editing and writing pdf files. You could, however, train a reader that has Mac experience to do some of the things that we can’t do. ONe of the main people there has

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have a question. Where to start if i want to begin programming non web apps. I don’t know any programming but am willing to learn. /A 24 apr 2015 kl. 16:56 skrev Tyler Thompson tktpianostud...@gmail.com: Some clarification is necessary before you can receive any real answers to this

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If you have the watch and the phone, yes you can get started immediately. The user guide is linked from the Apple Watch app if you need it. It is recommended reading. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello, So I'm traveling currently and thus can't look at the user guide that you posted. Can I begin setting up my Apple Watch simply by pairing it with my iPhone? Thanks, Donna Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: The Apple Watch

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
The Apple Watch app allows extensive configuration. This is just as well, because it would be too onerous if done from the watch face. The effect is also very pretty: once configured, it’s ready for you to use immediately. My watch is at last configured, and free from the continued need to

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Alex Hall
The first two questions are: do you have a Mac for this, and do you already know some programming? If you don't have a Mac, you will be hard pressed to do a lot; if you don't know any programming, I'd start learning basic concepts first, then start learning Swift. On Apr 24, 2015, at 8:52 AM,

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I believe that the app mentioned is actually pdfpenpro, and, yes this is available in the MacApp Store. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 24, 2015, at 07:56, sadam ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I believe this app was mentioned recently. I did a

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi Gigi, Thanks for the info regarding this app. It's greatly appreciated. I'll endeavour to purchase from the website in that case. ( And make sure I pick up version 7.1). Best wishes, Sadam Ahmed On 4/25/2015 12:28 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi Sadam If you get the program, please be

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hello Tim, Thanks for the clarification. Have a great day. Sadam Ahmed On 4/25/2015 1:45 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, I believe that the app mentioned is actually pdfpenpro, and, yes this is available in the MacApp Store. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 24, 2015, at

how to use the pdf pen to edit

2015-04-24 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
good day to all, i do have the pdf pen trial version, i would like to fill up some form using pdf pen trial version but how can i do it? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi Gigi, Thanks for that. I'll probably get the Pro version. Did you purchase from the website or directly from the Mac app Store? What about VoiceOver support? I.E. Does the whole program work with VO? Thanks once again! Kind regards, Sadam Ahmed On 4/25/2015 12:19 AM, Eugenia Firth

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread sadamahmed1992
Hello Gigi, Thanks for your comprehensive feedback regarding PDF pen pro. Have yourself a wonderful day! Kind regards, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- On 25 Apr 2015, at 1:06 am, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi again. I forgot to say that it has a very fast image

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Scott Berry
Hi Josh, Do you even have any idea of what language you want to develop in? This might be a good app for a web site where someone can go to a certain link on the web site type their question in and then someone else can go to the web site and answer. Another way might be to do the same with

organising by threaded conversations on Mac

2015-04-24 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, for those who may use threaded conversation view on the mac, are there any tips on how you would use it effectively? For example, I can tell if a thread is unread but am unable to tell how many messages are unread. Once, I've opened it. Just really share with me how you would use this

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-24 Thread Sean Murphy
There are some minor issues with navigation by word. That is if you have a word with a punctuation at the end. VO reads it twice when moving by opt left or right arrow. If the word is at the end of the line. VO will read out the word twice and then the punctuation when using opt left or right

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Good to know. My parents just got fooled. They say that there was some popup that said their flash was out of date and to download an updater. Well, they went ahead and did that but it wasn't the real Flash updater. So now every time they click a link it opens a new browser tab to some other

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-24 Thread Sean Murphy
Hello, There are many people on this list who have got it to work. What version are you using? Make sure you are using the latest before bashing their first beta release. It isn’t bug free but at least MS is stepping up to the plate to address the accessibility issues. The version Version

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread Donna Goodin
He's right, it is very easy to set up. Do most of it from your phone, but you can also do stuff fairly easily from the watch. I haven't had much time tonight, so mostly just focused on getting everything paired up, and doing some tweaking of settings. Looking forward to putting it through

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
This comes up every now and then. Short answer is that the list is what folks make of it. Long answer is that the name is probably a bit of an anachronisim at this point. The list was founded years before iPhone OS became iOS and then became accessible with VoiceOver. So as more and more

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread Tyler Thompson
Some clarification is necessary before you can receive any real answers to this question. First of all it appears to me you want this to be web based. Writing web apps or even websites is immensely different than writing an application that runs on iOS or OS X. App development (both kinds of

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

2015-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again. I forgot to say that it has a very fast image OCR on it. If you have a pdf file that is an image, it automatically OCR’s the thing. The other thing is that Greg told me that a sighted person could, and I forgot exactly how he said to do this, go into an inaccessible file and rename

Re: Developing an App

2015-04-24 Thread 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries
Hi all. I’d like to learn to develop application for Mac OS using Python. Do you know some good guide to start? Thanks. Gabriel. -- 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,

Re: Seeking Recommendations for Check Writing Software

2015-04-24 Thread Mary Jo Partyka
Hi, The way Talking Checkbook worked was that we had to order a box of check forms which contained our account number and other identifying information. After putting one of these fors in the printer, we would go to the talking checkbook program and press control n to write a new check. The

Identifying styles in Word

2015-04-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, Here is how to identify the current style in Word. Cheers, Anne • Make sure you are focused on body text. • Interact with the Home ribbon tab group. • Navigate right to the Styles menu button and click it. • In the pop over, navigate to the Styles Pane checkbox. • Bring the mouse and

Re: how to use the pdf pen to edit

2015-04-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there If you want to practice, you want to get a form that is accessible for us. For sure, you could play around with some of the IRS forms, even if you don’t want to send in any taxes. Go to www.irs.gov http://www.irs.gov/ and find accessibility. One of the choices is pdf forms. To do the

Re: problems with aidrop again.

2015-04-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok, sorry for my stupidness. Thanks. /A 22 apr 2015 kl. 18:17 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: There's no OK button. You find the device in the table, route the mouse there with vo-cmd-f5, then click with vo-shift-space to initiate the transfer. On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Anders

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
So far, I only install software from Apple although when Microsoft Office comes out I'll be getting it. I'll investigate virus anti software in due course. However, I only go to safe websites and touch wood, have not had any problems to date but you don't know what is round the corner. Just

Re: Wow!!!! apple watch is on its way.

2015-04-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I get my Sports model on Monday 27th although I was expecting mine in June so this was a pleasant surprise as I purchased mine on the 15th. Kawal. On 24 Apr 2015, at 01:45, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Enjoy! I'll be anxious to hear about your experiences. I'll post mind as soon as