Re: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Oh Shaw was another good bunch to work with. I peered with with several carriers and they were good to work with as well. I’m sure what’s going on is Amazon and Google and the rest are using geolocation databases that map IP address to location. They can get down to almost what street you’re

Re: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi all. Scott, it's kinda funny that you mension bell, my cell phone provider is Bell. But I doubt it's got anything to do with those guys since the service uses wifi to make calls. For Wifi we're with Shaw. I'll give Hotwire a try though Scott to see if that works. I have tried Google Voice

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Oh man I know. How many headaches do you run in to with NAT whether it’s timers or dealing with SIP, broken SIP ALG implementations, and on and on. (Not to mention port forwarding) Or just create enough addresses that you don’t need it, I like that solution myself. I think If I remember

Re: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
I suspect that even though the development was done up there some regulation in the way. Canada is known to be hard to deal with when it comes to telecommunications. You all are tops when it comes to researching drones:) but telecommunications your government is a bit hard to deal with since

Re: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hey Shawn. How are you? Have you tried this app Text Me. This is an app that you can crate your number. You can find it on the App store. I don't hv eit, but that could work. Let me know if it does? Hope this helps! Or if you hve Whatsapp that could wwrok. But you can use text me as well!

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Simon Fogarty
Exactly, Lets face it, nat has uses currently but howe much simpler without it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 11:21 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

RE: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Karen Lewellen
Well is not that cool...canooks rising! Anyway, Shawn who is your provider? It does not make sense indeed given amazon did the last testing for that service at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Perhaps something from your provider is preventing the work? Just a likely nonsensical

RE: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread David Diamond
You live in Canada? You poor thing. AAA. LOL. For the record, I live in Western Canada, the wet coast. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 4:22 PM To: 'Chris

Re: Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Yeah, use my number and I’ll read you the text.;) Or set up a google voice account that should work. If not that, what about Hotwire? > On May 12, 2017, at 7:22 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hey guys. Now that Amazon has come out with Alexa to Alexa Calling, I am >

Re: Does anyone know how I can link my Twitter and Facebook accounts so I can simultaneously post to both?

2017-05-12 Thread Des Delgadillo
Install the Selective Tweets app through Facebook: https://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/ Enter your Twitter screen name and you’re all done. Any tweets you send out that contain the #FB hashtag will also post to Facebook. HTH, Des Delgadillo

Apps That Will Produce US Phone Numbers for Calls and Texting

2017-05-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. Now that Amazon has come out with Alexa to Alexa Calling, I am eager to try it out. However, I guess because I'm in Canada, the appropriate tabs don't appear so I can enable this feature, which is funny because someone in Australia has enabled it just fine so it doesn't make sense.

Re: Reading emails on iPad?

2017-05-12 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Alex, The short answer is, you can't. It doesn't work on the iPad like it does on the phone and it's a darn shame. Writing to Apple accessibility is all I can suggest. I have done it numerous times to absolutely no avail but maybe will be luckier. Good luck. I hate reading mail on the iPad.

Reading emails on iPad?

2017-05-12 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm teaching someone to use their new iPad with VO. On my phone, I double tap an email, 2-finger swipe up or down, and hear the message. On the iPad, though, I've found it reads every button and header before the message. How can I get the iPad to read messages like the phone does?

Does anyone know how I can link my Twitter and Facebook accounts so I can simultaneously post to both?

2017-05-12 Thread 'Eleanor Roberts' via MacVisionaries
Hi all Apologies for cross-posting, but I'm hoping someone might know the answer to this/be able to help me. I have a Twitter and a Facebook account, and I'd like to be able to link the 2 so that I can simultaneously post to both. I'm using IOS. A friend told me that it was possible, and gave

PayPal question

2017-05-12 Thread Laura Bratton
Hi all, I need help with PayPal. When I am trying to transfer money from my PayPal account to my banking account I am not able to do this with vo. I can get to the place where I need to select the to and from but that part is not accessible. Does anyone have experience with this? Is there any

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Well everything is standardized I mean IPv6 is well defined by RFC. What most carriers are doing is deploying in a dual stack mode. Big parts of the network are converted although your right there’s a lot to go. All your major backbone providers have been exchanging V6 for years now, the

Re: Selecting an application in audio hijack

2017-05-12 Thread Michael Marshall
ahh, thanks for this. > On 12 May 2017, at 11:02 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > > I wrote a complete guide to Audio Hijack for VO users. It will explain > everything far better than I could in an email, and includes links to a > podcast and the official website. Here's the link: >

Re: Slow download speeds with iTunes on a network USB drive

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Tell me about your setup more. What type of Mac, how far is the Mac from the 8500, what sharing protocol are you using are using native iTunes support or the pro share option. If you’re on your Mac connected can you select the WiFi extended options by selecting WiFi while holding down option

Verizon FIOS releases full gigabit service

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
For anyone interested in a Verizon FIOS service area, Verizon just released Gigabit service. Service includes a full gigabit up and down and with the new incentives is about half the price of 500 megabit service. For example my bill just dropped 200 dollars by switching and committing for 2

Slow download speeds with iTunes on a network USB drive

2017-05-12 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, all. I haven't posted to this list before, but thought I'd see if you guys had any ideas. I have a netgear 8500 night hawk router with an 8TB USB 3 drive connected to the USB3 port on the side of the router. I am trying to have a universal network drive which I can access from my Mac and

Getting past registration with Kindle app from Amazon site

2017-05-12 Thread Kat DeNicola
Hi. I found many past threads about using Kindle on mac, but not much on getting past the registration screen which seems to be completely inaccessible--voiceover speaks nothing. According to the KNFB reader, though, it seems to consist of simple fields for user name and password. Has anyone

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel C
I think the security implementation will take a while to get used to, especially when you have consumers who may not understand how it fully works completely. Regardless of what we are called, (System administrator, network administrator, Network engineer), we all have our duties, which are, to

RE: Uber app question

2017-05-12 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Oh, sorry! See where I am going. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 7:12 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Uber app question Hi Sarai: DO you want

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
You make a good point. There’s a lot of security features included now. I do think you’re right, I think some of it is fear or lack of understanding. I always thought Hurricane Electric offering their tunnel broker service ws a brilliant idea especially combined with the online

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel C
Well I certainly hope that providers will start to support IPV6, As it would make security that much better in the long run. My point for even writing, or replying, was just the state for my clients, they prefer IPV4, Meanwhile they don't realize the benefits of the new IP implementation, So I

Re: Selecting an application in audio hijack

2017-05-12 Thread Alex Hall
I wrote a complete guide to Audio Hijack for VO users. It will explain everything far better than I could in an email, and includes links to a podcast and the official website. Here's the link: https://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-apps-voiceover/guide-using-audio-hijack-voiceover Sent from my

Re: Uber app question

2017-05-12 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi Sarai: DO you want someone to see where you are or sharing your trip money? On 5/11/17, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi guys: > I took an Uber trip this morning, and I couldn't figure out how to have > someone follow my trip. I was able to choose the people who I

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
That seems to be the case. IF anything, SIP over IPv6 should be less complicated. No NAT for example. > On May 12, 2017, at 4:37 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > I've not been in a situation to use SIP but did wonder about it for a while, > > Anyway is it not just a case of

Re: Selecting an application in audio hijack

2017-05-12 Thread Michael Marshall
Why does this program have all these recording block things anyway? What is the point of them? Will most likely be buying at some point. > On 12 May 2017, at 8:32 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > > If vo-space on the application recording block does nothing, just interact > with it

Re: Selecting an application in audio hijack

2017-05-12 Thread Alex Hall
If vo-space on the application recording block does nothing, just interact with it and locate the list of apps there. I don't remember which kind of block it is, but any block that has no popover can be interacted with instead. -- Alex Hall > On May 11, 2017, at 21:55, Chris Moore

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Simon Fogarty
I've not been in a situation to use SIP but did wonder about it for a while, Anyway is it not just a case of the SIP providers haven't yet updated to allow for IP V6 intergration or useage? They're going to have to sooner rather than later -Original Message- From: