Mac mini and SSD ideas/thoughts

Hi all, Has anyone checked out the portable, external Samsung T3 SSD’s from Amazon? Do you think this would be a good idea? I thought it might, as getting it to a shop to get an internal one would be hard, if you bought your mac mini used or like-new from somewhere else. Maybe, just maybe,

RE: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

Yeah my thoughts to but just thought I'd ask, I like the new connection but it doesn't fit in my MBA headphone jack. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret jr Sent: Monday, 26 September 2016 10:07 AM

RE: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

No Ray, These are not the new yet to be released apple ear pods. These are the new apple wired earpods that come out with the iPhone 7 phone range. So like the previous apple earpods with a 3.5mm headphone jack the new headphones have a lightening connector rather than the 3.5mm jack. So my

RE: Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

Hi Hannah and Chris, I did have protection on a phone a couple of years back, When I upgraded from the 5s to the 6 I had to pay a difference in price to bring the protection up to 2 years for the iPhone 6 As I had used 1 year of the protection, Whther that works the same way for the mac

RE: Paring a Blue Tooth Speaker to Mac Mini

Make sure the speaker is in pairing mode and the mac mini is set to Bluetooth on, then once the speaker is in pairing mode it should be seen in a list of bt devices if not prompt you on the screan to add the device. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Word to pages batch converter?

Hi Ann Really Pages doesn't handle RTF? Crazy wht about txt files? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2016 11:42 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

Re: Transferring and reading text files on iOS devices

Hi Jason. I forgot to mention that this dropbox app you can also use it on windows computer as well if you have a windows computer. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks! Helga Schreiber Group Moderator for the IPad help for the blind ipadhelpfortheblind+subscr...@groups.io Member

Re: Transferring and reading text files on iOS devices

Hi Jason. this is Helga. How are you? I use dropbox on my Mac, and my iPhone. The way dropbox app works is that you save the file in dropbox on your mac computer, then you can look at it on your dropbox app on your iPhone. Word files work with dropbox sometimes, but it is mostly

Re: VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

Great! I wait. Nice to get some information though. The Menu Bar Stat app shows me that you need all the ram when converting music files. Faster converting time may be the only benefit, not sure. Downloading files, for example all the mail app archives and emails after backup of the system uses

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Yep no problem, you can run a full fledged TV channel from youtube if you wanted to; i’ve just done hangouts on air. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Joseph Hudson wrote: > > Wow this is good to know Michael I never know they did that. I learn > something new every day. >

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Wow this is good to know Michael I never know they did that. I learn something new every day. Joseph Hudson Group administrator for the following groups chat http://list.ntxability.org/mailman/listinfo/chat_list.ntxability.org

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Youtube does do live streams, and this looks like it is a live stream September 26, 2016 6:00 PM and hears an introduction to youtube live streaming : https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en > On Sep 25, 2016, at 8:29 PM,

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

They might be streaming the thing on their website and then uploading it to YouTube. So you will be able to watch their YouTube channel if you subscribe to it you will get a notification that a new video has been uploaded to their channel and so you will be able to watch it afterwords. YouTube,

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

I did find this stream on Youtube that says it’ll play the presidential debate tomorrow night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855Am6ovK7s Wonder if that will work? > On Sep 25, 2016, at 11:09 PM, Joseph Hudson wrote: > > Fox

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

No, no channels at all. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 10:45 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Can you pull in over the air channels? This one will be on NBC. The last > two debates won't be over the air so I may need to figure how to get those on > the AppleTV. > > From E.T.'s

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Fox doesn't need to have a amplified TV antenna. If wish, I can provide a direct link to their strain. Joseph Hudson Group administrator for the following groups chat http://list.ntxability.org/mailman/listinfo/chat_list.ntxability.org

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Hi ET, CNN, and HLN respectively, Karen Arizona presidential. I believe that FOXNews will as well. Other networks, such as CBS, NBC, in ABC. Only carry with their schedules permit. Joseph Hudson Group administrator for the following groups chat

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Are they all going to carry all 4 debates? One being the v.p. debate. If so that will make it much easier. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/25/2016 7:54 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: CBS, Fox TV, and ABC are all carying them. Can you buy an

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

CBS, Fox TV, and ABC are all carying them. Can you buy an amplied tv antenna somewhere? I'm sure you could get at least one or two of those channels with an amplified antenna. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Hello, you can also go to FOXNews.com I'm pretty sure that they will also have a stream of does well. Joseph Hudson Group administrator for the following groups chat http://list.ntxability.org/mailman/listinfo/chat_list.ntxability.org

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Can you pull in over the air channels? This one will be on NBC. The last two debates won't be over the air so I may need to figure how to get those on the AppleTV. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/25/2016 7:07 PM, Brandon A. Olivares

Re: Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Brandon, While I cannot speak to the tools, may I suggest trying the national public radio website for the stream? www.npr.org. If you live in a town with a member station, it is likely they will stream as well. hTH, Karen On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Brandon A. Olivares wrote: Hi everyone, The

Streaming the Presidential Debate?

Hi everyone, The first presidential debate is tomorrow. Any idea how to stream it live? I don’t have cable. Brandon -- 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

Transferring and reading text files on iOS devices

Dear Macvisionaries subscribers, I am in need of an iOS app that makes it possible to transfer text files from a Mac or from another operating system to an iOS device (e.g., an iPhone), then read them quickly later on. The text files need to be stored on the iPhone or iPad, not on a server

Installing a new SSD Drive. what should i do to transfer my system?

Hello all my friends: TOmorrow, I will take my mac mini to a shop here to put a SSd Drive into my unit. so need to ask you: does the mac mini contains a place to leave my Original Hd inside or not?: and, must I start from scratch and install my OS mountain lion again? or I can take the system

Re: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

Hello all. yes it's indead easy here rather than windows. On 9/23/16, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hey Scott, > > Not sure about calling ramy old, but yeah good work to all with helping. > > Makes things easier for all when we pitch in and assist. > > Yeah installing macs is

Re: scanners and the mac for use with docu scan plus

My own dumb fault, the first thingI should have done was to try another usb cable and that was the problem. The computer recognized the scanner and set it up automatically. Thanks, Louis -Original Message- From: Erik Burggraaf Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2016 7:13 PM To:

Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

It's a problem here as well. Even the compact voices can be slow to respond. -- 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 is inappropriate,

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

2 step uses your phone number, 2 factor uses devices to push notification too. So instead of getting a text message, you will get a notification, you will have to prove it, then it will give you a code to enter on that new device. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Anouk Radix

Re: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

Ah, let me think. Quite right actually. You’d need a male 3.5 to female lighting and I reckon nobody’s got one of those yet. I’d bet that if you wrote the folks at Belkin or maybe Griffin, they’d get on it. Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in

Re: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

He said he has the wired ones. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/25/2016 2:01 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: You don’t need suc a jack connecter. You just connect it wirelessly to your Mac: as they indicated in the demo. Sent from my Mac,

Re: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

You don’t need suc a jack connecter. You just connect it wirelessly to your Mac: as they indicated in the demo. Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and

Re: lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

that would be the Airpods , but not the new EarPods that come with the 7 and 7+ > On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > > You don’t need suc a jack connecter. You just connect it wirelessly to your > Mac: as they indicated in the demo. > > > Sent from my

Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

I've seen this as well, for a few years. I report it every beta cycle, but it hasn't been addressed so far. I was starting to wonder if it wasn't just my machine. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 15:32, Anouk Radix wrote: > > Hi Everyone, I started using Lee and Xander on the mac

Re: Followup to my problem regarding my Apple ID.

Gary, Perhaps you can try and sign out of iCloud, close System prefs. then try the process again. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/25/2016 1:17 PM, Gary Price wrote: Evening everyone! Just a quick message with an update on my

Followup to my problem regarding my Apple ID.

Evening everyone! Just a quick message with an update on my situation regarding my Apple ID and the security tab. I have tried changing the date of the desired items in the popover menu, but it is still saying "Invalid data". Do I perhaps need to delete my whole account and start from scratch?

an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

Hi Everyone, I started using Lee and Xander on the mac today (nuance voices) but I find them more sluggish then alex. Also the command to change speech parameters (thansk for that info John) is really sluggish as well. With sluggish i dont mean just needing a higher rate to get at the seem

Re: Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

I never knew you could renew Apple Care Plus on a Mac or I phone. My I Mac Apple Care is now finished and my Mac Mini has one more year of it. Kawal. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 18:56, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Yes it does, looks like you can renew then. Great

Re: VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

Never had a Voice Over crash since upgrading to Sierra. I have a late 2012 I Mac and a 2014 MacMini and both work wonderful on a clean install of Sierra. I have a 32 Memory on my I Mac and a 16 of Ram on my MacMini. I'm not technical but I may have got the terminology wrong but my I Mac is

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

Hi, I still cant find it, I will just disable and reenable 2step and then i will get it again. For curiositys sake whats the difference between 2-step and 2 factor authentication? Greetings, Anouk, > On 25 Sep 2016, at 19:46, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Sure.

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

Hi Kawal, I thought i might need the key if my phone gets stolen and I need to log into my account without the verification code… I can use my account just fine now I just want to have it in case of emergency. Greetings, Anouk, > On 25 Sep 2016, at 19:45, Kawal Gucukoglu

Re: track pad and is it accessible?

Yes, the single finger double tap, swipes and other gestures all work in the same ways. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer

Commanders pain of VoiceOver Utility

Hannah and all The commanders pain of VoiceOver Utility is the place to go to look up existing commands and add new ones if allowed. For example, in the trackpad tab, clicking assign commands will reveal the existing gestures as well as ones you’ve assigned yourself. So, in answer to whether

Re: VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

Alex does not crash here on my late 2011 Macbook Pro running Sierra. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 10:18, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi Andrew. I have a mid 2010 Mac myself with 4 GB of ram and I've noticed > that Voiceover only crashes if Alex is used. I've seen this in the betas

Re: track pad and is it accessible?

Hi John oh wow how cool . so if i wanted to open aps can i use the track pad instead of the keyboard? On 25/09/2016 18:56, John Panarese wrote: I’m not sure what might have changed, but the trackpad on my Mac Book Pro with Trackpad Commander utilizes the same gesture structure as the

Re: Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

Yes it does, looks like you can renew then. Great stuff. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 14:13, Gerry Cook wrote: > > Hi cris I had to purchase a second apple care protection, so my understanding > is one mac is equal to one lot of apple care protection which i had to get in >

Re: track pad and is it accessible?

I’m not sure what might have changed, but the trackpad on my Mac Book Pro with Trackpad Commander utilizes the same gesture structure as the iDevices. So, you can move around the screen and manipulate items as you do on the iPhone or iPad. You also can customize gestures and there are a few

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

Sure. Go to appleid.apple.com sign in and it is in the security pain of your account. I’ve recently unenrolled from two-step verification and enrolled in two-factor authentication. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:25, Anouk Radix wrote: > > Hi, > I have been using 2-factor

Re: track pad and is it accessible?

Actually, I’d like to know this as well please? My trusty late 2011 Macbook Pro has the good old trackpad where a mechanical click can be heard. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 18:49, Hannah wrote: > > Hi all . > > I was listening to a vidio on youtube this afternoon about the

track pad and is it accessible?

Hi all . I was listening to a vidio on youtube this afternoon about the track pad with voice over it seemdd verry good . Can you get around the screen by useing the track pad with voice over? Crhis said the new macs now have a newer track pad which when you tap on it it taps you or

Re: Paring a Blue Tooth Speaker to Mac Mini

1. Open System Preferences. 2. Open Bluetooth and make sure it is turned on. 3. Your device should appear in the table. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:24, Bill Gallik wrote: > > I’m trying to connect a Blue Tooth speaker to my Mac Mini, but cannot seem to > identify the

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

Sure. Go to appleid.apple.com sign in and it is in the security pain of your account. I’ve recently unenrolled from two-step verification and enrolled in two-factor authentication. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:25, Anouk Radix wrote: > > Hi, > I have been using 2-factor

Re: getting a new apple recovery key

Hello Anouk, If you have 2-factor verification, no need for a key. You use your I Cloud ID if you don't get the verification code right after a number of attempts. If you get the code wrong, you need to wait 8 hours. If it still doesn't work, then you need to call Apple and they will need

Re: Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

ar ok so you keep renewing it . I think it's a good idea as you never know if it may need mending at any point . On 25/09/2016 14:13, Gerry Cook wrote: Hi cris I had to purchase a second apple care protection, so my understanding is one mac is equal to one lot of apple care protection

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

OK, so it is not just a interference issue that the FIOS has, it is just not up to handling the bandwidth. My Apple device is several years old betwfore they had separated the 802.11N from the 802.11(BG) antenna let alone have 802.11AC support I currently have very little traffic that stays on

Re: my experience with os x sierra braille seems worse but finereader seems tow ork

Hello, You can change various voice and its attributes using the shortcut key combination vo+command+right or left arrow to choose the category of either the voice you use, or its speed or pitch etc. Then once you hear the category you wish, in your case voice, use down arrow to choose the

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hi, I have always used vo j to jump[ between the message list and the mail boxes table. Works for me. Matthew > On Sep 24, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > I locate the mailboxes table with VO left and right arrow with no problem. > > I hardly use the tab

Re: Word to pages batch converter?

I don't see a automator library for Pages, but certainly I would expect that the standard save action in AppleScript should work. The question is how would you want your batch processor to work probably the easiest would be to create a folder and then create a folder action AppleScript for that

voices under siera

Hello All: Let’s see if I can explain this coherently. I upgraded to Siera last Thursday. I use the Serena voice but when the upgrade completed, that voice was not installed correctly. We have to redownload it and reinstall it. Now there are two issues: 1. The voice just doesn’t sound like

getting a new apple recovery key

Hi, I have been using 2-factor verification for a while now and I have recovery keys for google andropbox. I wanted to get a new one for apple because I lost the old one. For the life of me though even after reading an article about it I cant locate where you can regenerate one either on the

Paring a Blue Tooth Speaker to Mac Mini

I’m trying to connect a Blue Tooth speaker to my Mac Mini, but cannot seem to identify the appropriate steps to do this. Can anyone on this list advise me as to what steps I must execute to do so? I have opened “System Preferences/Bluetooth” but can’t seem to locate any add or pair

Re: universal copy paste: still not working

Same here. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Anouk Radix" To: Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:31 AM Subject:

Re: universal copy/paste not working

The weird thing is, that *did!* fix my contact issue, however, I still can't get the universal clipboard to work. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To:

Re: Latest new member

welcome Hannah and hope you enjoy this list and knowledge that you’ll get from it. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52 > On 25 Sep. 2016, at 5:27 pm, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Hello

Re: Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

Hi cris I had to purchase a second apple care protection, so my understanding is one mac is equal to one lot of apple care protection which i had to get in 2014 when my sister got my early 2011 mac. Hope this helps. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype:

Re: to Jeff burwick and anyone else experienceing the alarm and volume discrepancy

Thanks Rachel, This seems to have solved my issue over here. :) Jeff > On Sep 23, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Earlier this week, a thread came up about iOS alarms not holding to the same > volume as the regular phone. I also have

universal copy paste: still not working

Hi, I turned icloud keychain on on both my macbook air 2013 and my iphone 6 to no avail. Universal copy and paste is still not working. Both devices are up tod ate where software is concerned and are running with the seem apple id, bluetooth is turned on on both devices. Greetings, Anouk, --

Question about Apple Care Protection Plus for mac

Hello everyone. Together with the upcoming mac, I will also be purchasing Apple Care Protection Plus for mac which will be automatically registered with the new mac. But here's my question. How, if at all possible, do I renew it? Do I simply purchase it again once it has expired? Any

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Hi, I did not know keychain was required? I do. not have that turned on because I dont use it… Greetings, Anouk, > On 24 Sep 2016, at 19:39, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Make sure you have iCloud keychain enabled on both devices as well. > >> On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Anouk

Re: VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

HI Andrew, I did a clean install with my macbook air 2013. I often ha e to restart voiceover when using safari. I also had it happen that vo would not restart with fn+f5 I had to use siri to get it restarted. I repaired disk permissions and now it seems to be a bit better. Greetings, Anouk, > On

Re: Word to pages batch converter?

Pages does not handle RTF, but opening a Word document in Pages and then saving it will convert the document to Pages format. Maybe Automator could be used for batch conversion. Cheers, Anne . > On 25 Sep 2016, at 03:51, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > What about using an

my experience with os x sierra braille seems worse but finereader seems tow ork

Hi everyone, I installed os x sierra yesterday. I was able to install finereader pro and the app does open normally. I have not het done any scans with it but at least I dont get any fatal errors while opening it up. Braille does not seem as good as in el capitain though at least within safari.

Re: VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

Hi Andrew. I have a mid 2010 Mac myself with 4 GB of ram and I've noticed that Voiceover only crashes if Alex is used. I've seen this in the betas and sad that it hasn't been fixed in updates which makes me think that Apple doesn't test their products on older Mac models. I think Sierra might

VoiceOver crashes in Sierra

Hi, Since I’ve upgraded my late 2010 MacBook air with 4 GB RAM to os sierra, voiceover crashes unexpectedly and I can’t restart it with the normal shortcut key combination. I’ve been reporting it all throughout the beta testing but it still happens. Anybody else has had this happen to them?

Re: scanners and the mac for use with docu scan plus

This is probably the case but also it is worth checking whether your Canon Scanner is supported at all with MacOs, a surprisingly large number are not as Canon has not bothered to create Mac support for many of their scanners, including annoyingly my expensive Canon Document Scanner which can

lightening to 3.5 mm adaptors.

Hi List, Crazy question here but good reason for bringing up this situation again. So now with the iPhone 7 you have no 3.5mm headphone jack built in to the device, Apple however have given us the adaptor with the iPhone 7 & 7+ going from the female 3.5mm jack to male lightening connector.

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Weird. I have my sounds turned off and Voiceover's still talking to me. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Sep 24, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Blee Blat

Latest new member

Hello everyone. I would like to thank the guys on this list for approving the latest new member. Her name is Hannah Day, and she is actually my girlfriend as of Friday 29 July 2016. We have been friends for nearly eleven years. Anyway, before this gets too chatty, it was me who recommended

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I have to agree about the operating system on the whole. I didn’t do much testing with it I will admit, but from what I’ve seen from the Golden Master and now the public release is outstanding. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 06:56, Hannah wrote: > > Hi oh wow i wil be getting my