confirming amount of storage on a used 6th-en iPod

Hi all, I'm considering purchasing a used 6th-gen iPod that was advertised on Craig's list. I'll be going to see it this morning. I assume that when I turn it on, the configuration screen will come up. Does anyone know if there is any way I can confirm that the iPod actually has the amount

Re: Choosing a Mac, getting started

I have one too, it’s great because it’s so portable and light. Depends on what the original poster wants to o with it. I can run a single VM nicely but multiple not so much. The air is great though. Kicks the butt of any netbook I have or anything else similar. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 6:17

Re: confirming amount of storage on a used 6th-en iPod

You can triple press the home key if the iPod is booting for the first time and activate voiceover. A sited person could verify what’s written on the hardware or if you boot fully could could go to settings, general and about and it lists the capacity as one of the first items. > On Dec 31,

Re: Choosing a Mac, getting started

I have a Mac Book Air, I love it. Peggy and Dixie Marie Sent from my iPhone On Dec 31, 2015, at 5:19 AM, Scott Granados wrote: John, I wouldn’t really go Mini unless you have a specific reason. By the time you add the monitor and keyboard and other items you don’t save

Re: confirming amount of storage on a used 6th-en iPod

Hey Scot, Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. I know you can find out the amount of storage in settings, but am unsure about whether you can bypass the configuration and setup and go directly to a home screen. Is it possible to exit the configuration screen so that I can go to a home

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

I don’t like over the air radio because it’s censored heavily. I prefer my content uncut.:) I do like old radios though. That big box sound is special and as the other poster said Jazz is good but leave the CD and use the turntable. > On Dec 30, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Vaughn Brown

Re: Installing braille embosser

Enabling Technologies is the brand. I have not yet found an OS X driver. I also tried to install this embosser in the Windows VM. Do you have any ideas? I need solutions if there are any. Duxbury for the Mac is vaporware until it is released...if it ever sees the light of day. From

Re: Choosing a Mac, getting started

John, I wouldn’t really go Mini unless you have a specific reason. By the time you add the monitor and keyboard and other items you don’t save much and I’m not sure what you gain but maybe you have a specialized application that requires this so I’m happy to be corrected. I myself like the

Re: Installing braille embosser

Hello there, So you installed it through the printers applet in System Settings? I know there is one manufacturer who does make Mac drivers but the name escapes me at the moment. Supposedly, there is supposed to be a Duxbury for the Mac but I haven’t heard much on it. > On Dec 30, 2015, at

Re: Installing braille embosser

I don’t suppose you’ll get much use out of OS X’s printer subsystem for handling the braille embosser. On the other hand, surely it is only a matter of identifying the parallel or serial device that appears on OS X, assuming that the chipset is one supported by a USB driver. In which case, I

Re: Installing braille embosser

If you do in Terminal: ls /dev/cu* What is returned, apart from your Bluetooth ports? Hopefully the port is just serial-USB so you can simply send embossable text to it in standard ASCII form. Test it out with a braille file, as short as you can of course so as not to waste the paper. --

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

Well, I obviously didn't mean a quadruple double tap but simply four quick taps with three fingers. On Dec 31, 2015, at 12:22 PM, gs wrote: My mistake. There is no gesture that I know of to say selected text. However, there is a gesture to copy selected text to

Re: confirming amount of storage on a used 6th-en iPod

Hi donna, if you have a macbook, you can just plug it in and check in iTunes. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hey Scot, > > Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. I know you can find out the > amount of storage in settings, but am unsure about

Re: Installing braille embosser

Yes I tried setup in System Prefs. I didn't even get to setting it up once I hit the Add button, it just ran a test page or whatever it was. In the printer table it showed the Prolific controller which is the chlpset in the parallel to USB cable. I looked at the information and it shows

Re: Installing braille embosser

Scott, I got curious so opened the Louis braille app. It looks like one can send output to /dev/null. Since documents can be set up on a per basis, the question I have is, how do I know if /dev/null is the embosser? And there is another option in that Send to list which is /test.output.

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

There is a way but I cannot remember the gesture and am not certain whether it is posted in the list of keyboard commands in the manual. So why am I even taking up everyone's time? Well, I suspect this might be a valuable gesture for a lot of people to note. When I get the chance, I will look

Re: Installing braille embosser

Hello there, I would also suggest sending a suggestion to Enabling Technologies at: i...@brailler.com and ask them to make their drivers for the Mac. I also have a FS product but they are as reluctant as hell to do anything like that. I have already asked. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 9:26 AM,

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

My mistake. There is no gesture that I know of to say selected text. However, there is a gesture to copy selected text to clipboard. This is accomplished with a quadruple three-finger double tap. On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:55 AM, gs wrote: There is a way but I cannot

Re: Choosing a Mac, getting started

While 4 GB of memory will work, go with 8 if you can afford it, it can only help you. You will probably find that pages offers better acccessibility than Microsoft Office at this point, I think you will enjoy the mac experience. Original message: I recently joined this group and would like to

Re: Installing braille embosser

FYI, /dev/null is bit heaven. Sending data there simply results in its immediate destruction. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

Whoops! You really did mean iOS; I missed the subject line. OK, in that case I’m afraid I don’t have an answer. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Re: Choosing a Mac, getting started

Hi John, I’ll answer a few of your questions I have experience with, and leave the rest to others. The OS X Terminal is not the best experience. At times it has been better, and at others it has been worse, but it always seems to be perpetually broken. It’s better than nothing, but nothing

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

According to quite a few sources, there is an FM receive capability in most modern smart phones. Obviously, there is no antenna in the iPhone but the capability is supposedly there. There have been quite a few articles posted about this in the past couple of years and I have heard of an app

Re: Installing braille embosser

Ran the command. No ports other than 2 Bluetooth ports. I will wait to hear back from Enabling. And look at new embossers. Which will just be that, a look. No deep pockets here. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if

Re: Installing braille embosser

Firstly, you need to know what port your embosser is on. /dev/null I am thinking just does a .brf file port.. So basically it loops back to itself and creates the .brf file. Now it should tell you how to install the embosser itself. I think I have a copy of Louis Braille here and I’ll take

Re: Installing braille embosser

Hi! THe only embosser i know works for the mac is the index braille embossers. The latest version can even work with your phone i think. /A > 31 dec. 2015 kl. 11:51 skrev Scott Berry : > > Hello there, > > So you installed it through the printers applet in System Settings?

creating a distribution group

Hello there, Can I create a distribution group in Mail or does it all have to be done in Contacts? Also can someone explain to me how this is done please? Thanks much. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: Installing braille embosser

Ok, I looked again and the only output Louis can send to is a Bluetooth device which I do not have. Maybe Anders is on to something here in regard to Index embossers? Just sent email to Enabling, thanks. Might have to put this on the shelf until next week. From E.T.'s Keyboard...

Re: Installing braille embosser

I am assuming this is probably not quite the right way to set it up. Let me do a bit of research and I can get back with you. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 8:49 AM, E.T. wrote: > > Yes I tried setup in System Prefs. I didn't even get to setting it up once > I hit the

Re: radio and iPhone 5S

Problem of acceptance, basically. Technology is only technology until it’s widespread and taken for granted; then it’s whatever, and everybody is in love with it and can’t imagine life without it, even when the replacement is clearly and self-evidently superior. Except DAB radio, of course.

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

I assume you mean the Mac. There’s a menu command, Edit then Speech then Start Speaking. Can you not simply assign a command to that in System Preferences under Keyboard? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

Actually, that gesture, the three finger quadruple tap, copies last spoken text to the clipboard, and not the selected text. A crucial difference. I am investigating the excess ability item that can "speak selected text" which is found under accessibility/speech in settings. But I can't get it

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

I enabled speak selected text, but cannot find speak button. I think it may not work with VoiceOver, as in the process of finding speak button, selected text becomes unselected On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:15 PM Phil Halton wrote: > Actually, that gesture, the three finger

discovered a movie rental with audible narration

Hello all, How do you find out if a movie rental or purchase will contain descriptive/audible narration. we just rented The scorch trials from the apple TV and were surprised that the rental contained audible narration. I would definitely rent or purchase certain movies if I knew they had

Re: Installing braille embosser

Yes that’s correct. But there is no harm in writing Enabling to try to get them to support the Mac. The more people who do the more likely they are to support the Mac. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:21 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Jason, > This appears to be where I am. Still

No sound in vm's after upgrading to VMware 8

Hi, All: I've been happily using VMware 7 with both a Windows 7 and Linux virtual machines. I have recently upgraded to the latest VMware 8 Fusion and no longer get sound in my vm's. My Apple is latest release of El Capitain. The sound devices are showing selected. I know my Linux vm is running

Re: Installing braille embosser

We will just have to see. We need more people who have these printers to write in. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 4:07 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Thanks. If they did, it would be a helluva lot cheaper for me. Hope we do > not have to wait long for an answer. > > From E.T.'s

Re: Installing braille embosser

Yeah probably will. I did the same so there is two of us. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 10:52 AM, E.T. wrote: > > Ok, I looked again and the only output Louis can send to is a Bluetooth > device which I do not have. Maybe Anders is on to something here in regard to >

Re: Having voiceover speak selected text in iOS

That was my experience to Kevin. I can use hey Siri telling it to speak the screen, but when I try to tell it to speak selected text it gets confusing things I want to send a text message. I can't find any Siri command to let me tell it to speak selections. You may be right, it may not work

RE: Why is mail consistently quitting after update to El Capitan?

Hello Christine, Did you manage to get your El Capitan mail application problem resolved? Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christine Grassman Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:40 AM To:

apple watch weirdness with bluetooth

Hello everyone, I’m experiencing some odd behavior with my watch when I connect it to a bluetooth headset. I can hear voiceover just fine but, calls are not routed to the bt headset which is kinda the entire point. lol. I’ve gone into settings/general/accessibility on my iPhone and set call

Re: Installing braille embosser

Anders, Which model do you have of Index? If this is what I need to get for the Mac, then I will have to work it out. One thing that appeals to me is the Basic model is half the weight of my old Juliet. Be so much easier to move around. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com

Re: Installing braille embosser

E.T. wrote: >I finally am doing this on the Mac and as soon as I hit the Add button in > Printer prefs, a test page was run off. The Juliet Classic is connected via > USB. "Use Generic Postscript Printer" was selected. Is this the correct > setup? No. You need to

Re: Installing braille embosser

Jason, This appears to be where I am. Still think in Windows so had expected to do a similar setup in OS X. I want to use Louis and looked at it this morning. I ran the Terminal command offered to me earlier today which did not show me any serial ports. So that must mean that OS X

Re: Installing braille embosser

Thanks. If they did, it would be a helluva lot cheaper for me. Hope we do not have to wait long for an answer. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 12/31/2015 2:57 PM, Scott Berry wrote: Yeah

Re: apple watch weirdness with bluetooth

I just got my pairing done with an Era. I’ll test this and see if I can replicate. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I’m experiencing some odd behavior with my watch when I connect it to a > bluetooth headset. I can hear

Re: apple watch weirdness with bluetooth

Are calls heard through these Bluetooth headsets when connected to iPhone, but are not on Watch? On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:50 PM Scott Granados wrote: > I just got my pairing done with an Era. I’ll test this and see if I can > replicate. > > > On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:29 PM,