Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-24 Thread Eric Oyen
Well, there were a few machines in there I didn’t know about. Honestly, to be a home computer, it had to be affordable and I doubt very much that anyone would bother with a $95000 machine with less than 4 K of ram and an old style magnetic memory core unit (weighing in at almost 1,000 pounds by

Re: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Then i am happy i still have my macbook air from mid 2015. But i have connected my mac mini keyboard to it since i like that better and it has a numpad keyboard. /A > 24 juni 2018 kl. 23:54 skrev Tim Kilburn : > > Hi, > > If everything is in tip-top shape, the butterfly keyboard has less

Re: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If everything is in tip-top shape, the butterfly keyboard has less downward motion to engage each letter as well as taking less effort to depress the key. this should give the user the ability to type quicker and to have less errors. Part of the issue is that many of us are used to using

Re: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! What’s so special about the butterfly keyboard. /A > 24 juni 2018 kl. 01:09 skrev Tim Kilburn : > > Hi Simon, > > I expect that it will have the butterfly keyboard as it's the new way Apple > likes to do things. Yes, there are people who have problems, but it's not > every keyboard, so

more Mac weirdness seemingly involving dictation

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Since I started messing around with dictation yesterday, I've noticed strange behavior with navigating using Option-Arrow keys. Since yesterday, pressing Option+Left/right Arrow no longer moves me back or forward a word. This only happens when I'm in a field where I can enter text.

Re: IOS podcast app: how to mark episodes as played

2018-06-24 Thread mreyes7121
Hi, find the episode you want to mark as played then swipe up until you hear details. When you double tap you should see a play button. It will also tell you the length of the episode. Swipe up until you hear play then double tap. Find the remove button. It will ask you whether you want to

IOS podcast app: how to mark episodes as played

2018-06-24 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I am running the latest IOS on my iPhone 5S. At home I use iTunes on my iMac to download podcasts which I then transfer to my iPod Nano to listen to. But when away from home I use the podcast app on my iPhone. My problem is that the podcast app downloads many episodes which I have

Audio Hijack and iTunes question

2018-06-24 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I want to convert some iTunes music to different formats using audio hijack. My question is how to copy the tags from the existing files. Does audio hijack do this or would I need to use applescript? Chris -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread E.T.
System preferences, keyboard, dictation tab. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.| --Carl Sagan On 6/24/2018 9:49 AM, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries wrote: How doo you enable

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries
How doo you enable enhanced dicktation > On Jun 24, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > How funny. Strange that it would work better when enhanced dictation is off. > I'll give that a shot. > Cheers, > Donna > >> On Jun 24, 2018, at 10:43 AM, E.T. wrote: >> >> Donna, >> Now I

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
How funny. Strange that it would work better when enhanced dictation is off. I'll give that a shot. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 24, 2018, at 10:43 AM, E.T. wrote: > > Donna, > Now I can definitively confirm this behavior. Dictation is more reliable > when enhanced is off. When its on, yes,

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread E.T.
Donna, Now I can definitively confirm this behavior. Dictation is more reliable when enhanced is off. When its on, yes, there is no indication it stopped working. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Tim, Glad to hear that you're having success with dictation in the schools. If I know it's working for someone, I'll keep messing around with it. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 23, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Considering that dictation has been around in the MacOS for as

Re: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey Simon, I've had my MacBook for almost a year now, and I'm still not a fan. I definitely make more typos on this keyboard than I used to make. But as Tim says, until there's new technology, I think that if we want a Mac, we're stuck with the butterfly keyboard. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 24,

Re: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
The new MBPs are so thin, I think they're stuck with some form of the butterfly keyboard. But hopefully, you'll get an improved version of it. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 23, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > This i interesting, > > I’m wondering if the new mac book pro I’ve ordered for

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jessica, I've only played with this a bit, so my experience is limited, but it has seemed to help if I continue to hold down the function key once I hear the dictation chime. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 23, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > I don’t think it’s even so much that, as the

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi ET, I also have enhanced dictation enabled. What I've noticed is it starts off just fine. But then, after a few sentences, it just seems to stop working, and I haven't been able to make it start working again in that document, once it has stopped. It doesn't matter what the app or the

Re: dictation on the Mac

2018-06-24 Thread Donna Goodin
That's too bad. But I'm glad to know that I'm not doing something wrong (or at least that others are having the same experience.) Cheers, Donna > On Jun 23, 2018, at 4:51 PM, Daniel Chavez wrote: > > Good day, > I notice that dictation works when it wants. It’s either hit or miss. So it’s >

RE: Apple's keyboard replacement program

2018-06-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Tim, Yeah, I’m just not a fan at this point, I’ve not yet been able to get use to the feel of it. However my interaction with that KB type so far has been very limited Guess we see what happens with time to come. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sunday,

Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes that was really interesting. I only remember the Comodor 64 but very interesting to read about all these 70’s computers. Especially from 1974 when i was a baby. /A > 23 juni 2018 kl. 14:20 skrev Donna Goodin : > > What a great read, Mark. Thanks for sharing. That was quite a trip down